I live for the reviews i hear from you guys! MirandaLoveBug be prepared for a lot more blindsideing. I think these two keep a lot deep inside that they can bring out of eachother.
I do not, and never shall, own Fairy Tail.
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Bickslow woke suddenly, from what he could have sworn was an awesome dream with lots of warm skin, to the sound of a scream. Not the good kind he would have been hunting in said awesome dream, but the bad kind. Being a battle trained wizard who regularly went on S-class missions, in addition to a huge playboy, he knew the difference. This was a bad scream, and his babies told him it was coming from Lucy's room. He and the babies had lit the room green and were halfway to blowing a hole in their shared wall when the scream changed to words shrieked in a rage.
"Loke, I swear by Stache Face if I ever wake up with your stupid ugly self that close to my face again I will send you back to the spirit world in need of a doctor to reattach limbs!" Whatever the lion said in reply wasn't loud enough to make out, but the very apologetic whine in his voice made it apparent that her threat held weight. Bickslow collapsed back onto the bed with a groan.
"Cosplayer safe?"
"Yeah Pipi. Stupid lion cub just decided scaring the shit out of the whole hotel would be a good idea."
"Pipi go to Cosplayer?" Bickslow took a minute to think.
"I'll open the door for you and leave it cracked while I get ready to go. You may knock on her door and ask for permission to hang with her till we leave, but if she says no you come back here and close the door behind you. Anybody else goin with her?" The other totems settled themselves back onto the bed. "Ok then." Bickslow let his baby out before taking his bag to the bathroom and locking himself in. 'Well,' he thought to himself. 'That's one way to start the day.'
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"I really am sorry, Princess. It's just... after Virgo told me you were traveling with that...Fiend I became extremely concerned for your welfare."
"Don't you dare call him such things, Loke. He is a Fairy Tail wizard and our friend."
"My apologies, it's just... He is a pervert and a playboy in the worst way."
"Oh and you are a virgin with chaste eyes and a clean mouth is what you are saying?"
"Lucy! How could you demean me so?"
"By saying you are worse than Bix or by suggesting you weren't?" A knock on the door saved Loke from falling face first into the mud at the bottom of that verbal pitfall. Lucy looked through the peephole only to see very brief glimpses of what she guessed was one of the babies. She opened the door and watched as Pipi took big tumbling loops in the hallway.
"Cosplayer ok? If the stupid lion hurt Cosplayer, Pipi will hurt the stupid lion." Lucy smiled.
"I'm fine sweetie. Loke just startled me. Did Bickslow send you to check on me?"
"No. Pipi asked to go to Cosplayer. Daddy is getting ready for The mission. Pipi come in? Please? Pipi wants to stay with Cosplayer."
"Sure baby." Pipi zipped into the room and hung in front of Loke's face, tipping from side to side.
"You know he can spy on you with those things right?"
"Loke! What is with you today! Pipi happens to be a dear friend of mine and you will be nice to her or I will send you home and refuse to let you help me on this mission." Loke blinked.
"You are a lion?"
"Uhh. Yeah."
"Cosplayer, are lions cats?"
"Really big cats. Loke is my most faithful and loyal spirit, and a very good friend."
"Is he Cosplayer's Slippery Monster Kitty Secret that daddy told us not to talk about?" Loke made a high pitched strangling noise and turned wide eyes to Lucy, who for her part tried desperately to keep a strait face.
"Honey, if Bickslow told you not to talk about it then I fully support him on that front. However, today Loke is absolutely being a slippery kitty."
"Lucy! Princess how could you!"
"Because it's true! And Pipi you can tell your daddy that I said that too, I bet it will make his day."
"Lucy!" Pipi started to giggle, which was very shortly echoed by high pitched giggles and shrieks from the shared wall.
"Daddy says..." Pipi paused, as if listening. "Daddy says not to tell you what he said, and to tell Loke daddy will pet him if he feels sad." Loke wailed and Lucy started laughing aloud.
"I can't do this anymore! I'm going back. Do me a huge favor and as long as you are traveling with that..." Loke obviously ran through a long list of words in his head he knew Lucy would have his limbs for saying aloud. "...wizard only call me in an emergency."
"I didn't call you in the first place!" Lucy shouted as he disappeared. She started digging through her bag for the days cloths. "Wow. Here's to hoping the rest of the day isn't going to be like this. I don't think I could take it without causing someone harm."
"Daddy says 'Tell Cosplayer she has 5 minutes before I barge in on her ass, ready or not.'"
"Of course he does. Will you be ok to wait here while I take a quick shower?" Pipi dove into Lucy's bag and started digging herself as deep as possible.
"Pipi waits here."
"Ok then. Be right back."
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When Lucy returned, dressed with hair still dripping, to her room she had to stop and stare for a long moment. Apparently Pipi had found a way to let Bickslow into her room because he was there. The mutiny he had mentioned the night before was very much looking like a reality at the moment, because he was chasing his babies around the room as they giggled and played keep away with two objects she knew they were very much not supposed to have.
One was the stupid visor he wore strapped to his face 98% of the time. She wouldn't mind that so much since it was weird not to be able to look him in the eyes when he spoke. She knew his eyes weren't dangerous unless he wanted them to be, because she had seen him laughing and playing with his team in nothing but swim trunks. It was actually a favorite memory of hers. After her first guildwide pool party she had been completely befuddled as to why he would cover himself in that ridiculous get up of his and just as completely no longer confused as to why he had a reputation rivaling Laxus and Loke's with the nonguild ladies.
It was the second keep away object that distressed her. Greatly. If she found out this was Bickslow's doing she was going to end his ability to procreate. Though given the distress she could finally see on his face without his visor she had a feeling this was all his babies doing. Pepe maybe, but her money was on little Pipi since she was the one currently flying around in happy circles with a pair of her very red, very lacy, very small, very inappropriate for public observation panties. She saw no reason for Virgo to have placed that particular pair in her bag, nor the matching bra she had seen last night.
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Bickslow was about 8 seconds from deactivating his babies. They were trying to get him killed. When Pipi had told him that Lucy was still in the shower he hadn't bothered strapping on his visor before going to collect the little soul, because truthfully he hated wearing the thing. That proved to be a poor decision when the door opened to reveal the totem sporting red lace and the rest of his babies had taken off to swoop around Lucy's room, visor in tow. Lucy was going to murder him because his babies had decided to play with her underwear. Death due to red lacey underwear would at least be holding with his reputation, so there was that to be thankful for he guessed.
Just then Pipi swooped low enough for him to reach and he went to lunge for her only to freeze in horror. Shit. He was at least 9 seconds to slow. Lucy was standing in the bathroom doorway, damp hair messy arroung her wide brown eyes. It was sexy as hell and he wanted nothing more in that instant than to let his fingers dive into her hair and bury his nose in what he was sure was the most beautiful, fresh scent ever, but he was about to die so that would never happen.
"Bickslow...please tell me you were not the one who came up with this game." He flinched at the chill in her softly spoken words.
"I swear it wasn't my idea." A thought occurred to him. "Please don't be mad at them! They really have no ethical compass aside from what is fun right in the moment! They didn't mean to upset you!" Lucy closed her eyes and took a deep breath. He braced himself. The death he expected never came.
"Pipi, baby, come here." 'Please don't yell at her, Cosplayer.' He thought as the happy totem floated in front of her face. "Please tell me you aren't playing ninja." What on earthland did ninjas have to do with anything?
"Not ninja."
"Good. I have two to many underwear ninjas as it is." What the fuck? "Now listen very closely babies. I'm not mad this time, however...my cloths are not to be played with. Do you understand?" *understand, Cosplayer's cloths, no playing. Lucy smiled softly as she plucked the red garment from Pipi. Bickslow felt a shudder run through him as he couldn't help but picture the blond in scraps of lace. Sue him. Cosplayer was hot as fuck and it was red lace. Red, and tiny, and lace.
"You packed, Bix?" He nodded and waved a hand to indicate the bag he had dropped by the door the first time he lunged for Pipi. "Good." She pulled out a golden gate key. "Open! Gate of the Giant Crab! Cancer!"
"What can I do for you today, Baby!"
"Something practical, Cancer. I've got a lot of walking to do today."
"Punishment Princess?" Bickslow squealed like a little girl when the bag stealing maid spirit appeared practically in his lap, and gawked when she bowed to Lucy, flipping her short skirt up and leaving him with a perfect view if the white frills she kept underneath. Her spirits were trying to either trick him into attacking them out of ingrained battle reflexes so their master would kill him herself, or give him a heart attack and kill him off without her help. Why, he didn't know, but it was becoming apparent.
"Could you pack up my room and hold our bags in the spirit world for the day?" Lucy spoke while Cancer flew around her head in a blur of scissors.
"It would be my pleasure Princess. Will the man staring at my panties be sharing your tent tonight or shall I prepare a secondary sleeping area?" Bickslow jerked his gaze to the ceiling.
"You practically shoved your panties in the poor man's face, Virgo, you can't blame him."
"All done, Baby." Cancer stood back to reveal Lucy with her dry, golden hair pulled back in a ponytail.
"Aww. Virgo, you broke Bickslow! I didn't know it was possible to make him blush! Mavis, Bix, that's so cute." His visor! He had forgotten that the babies still had it. He took a flying dive over Lucy's bed in an attempt to snatch it from atop Pepe who managed to evade by a hairsbreadth. He twisted to land on his feet in a crouch. As he turned he readied his magic to force the babies to cooperate only to let if flow free when he realized the blond his baby was now hiding behind would be able to see the green glow if he forced his will on them, because he didn't have his damn visor!
He sighed in defeat, and fell back onto the bed, throwing his arm over his eyes. He cursed at his mutinous souls through their link, informing them that he made rules for a reason. If he survived this mission Mira was getting a piece of his mind. If he ended up dead he was haunting her matchmaking ass hardcore. This is why he never went on missions without his team. The one time he let Cana send him with Wendy he got a whole herd of cows dropped on his head.
"Bickslow why do you even wear that thing anyway? Isn't it annoying? I mean I think it's annoying and I'm not even the one wearing it." He picked his arm up to stare at her incredulously. Was she serious? She looked serious. People were terrified of his eyes. His team knew he was in full control and wouldn't hurt them and they still got jumpy when he went without his visor for long. His eyes could tear your soul from your body and enslave it to his will, and here she was, one hand on his chest the other holding the visor she had somehow snatched from Pepe, and she was leaning over to stare right into his eyes. She was serious. And smiling.
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To be continued