rmadhumita378. Ok. Just a little medicine though.
CelticHeart13, twizt312, LevyLoveGaLe. Thanks guys!
dlynncherry. Bix has like... three more threads before he snaps. But I'll have mercy on him. Just a little. Maybe.
Stargazer013. Drunk Lucy is fun. We've got more in this chapter!
R3iga1004. Thanks! I'll give you guys a little rompyness. Not much though. I'm evil that way. Besides I have a plan.
Carolyn12. Deal. A fox plushy sounds like a Pupu kind of thing.
RosesMcKellar. Thanks! The Cobra thing kinda snuck up on me. Prep for CoLu week leaking I guess.
you so much! I love working with the babies. A preschooler type view always makes for good fun. Pacing these two is a serious struggle, but I can't let them just leap into bed. It's just... not them.
I don't own Fairy Tail. I never will.
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Drunk Lucy was affectionate. Bickslow had seen it before. If she drank to much she got touchy. Actually he had seen her a lot worse on the drunk scale, and he was thankfull she wasn't at the point where she was demanding he purr like a cat, which was apparently her go to thing when she hit off-her-ass on said drunk scale. He just hadn't thought about how different watching her from across the guildhall was proving to be from dealing with her directly now that they were dating. Especially when she wouldn't keep her hands out of his damn shirt!
They were only a block away from the Thunder House when he couldn't handle it anymore. He pulled her into a dark corner, all but slammed her against the wall, and kissed the ever loving shit out of her. Just before his brain melted out of his ears he pulled back, having managed to pin her hands against the wall. He loved her hands, but damn if feeling her fingers on his chest didn't sent a go-time message strait to his dick.
"Cosplayer, unless you wanna lose your virginity against a wall in a back alley next to a rat infested garbage can you need to fucking stop. For real babe. Shit!" The little minx threw one of her legs up to wrap it around him and rolled her hips.
"But I want you, Bixy." Fuck! He was so screwed! "For so long. I was watching you work out this morning, and I just wanted so bad to just eat you up, because you are so yummy!" He shifted so that both of her wrists were in one hand and used his free hand to peel her leg off of him. That just changed the kind of torture though because now he had her smooth bare skin warm against the palms of both his hands. He had to get her of him or her red panties would be adorning a street sign when the sun came up.
"Lucy, getting laid was not on the list of things you had planned for tonight before you started drinking. You trusted me to take care of you remember? If you can't behave I'll have to have the babies or Virgo take you home to your appartment. I won't get my cuddles and neither will you." She whined and wiggled her hips one more time, causing him to clench his teeth. "I mean it. I promised you I wouldn't let you do anything humiliating. I'm pretty sure drunk sex is on Sober Lucy's humiliating things list." She wilted.
"Ok." He let her go and backed away. She tucked her hand into his elbow and they slowly walked the last block to the house. "If I can't remember in the morning I want you to promise to tell me something."
"What's that?"
"Tell Sober Lucy she is a cockblocking bitch and I really wanted you to fuck me tonight." Bickslow sent praises to the liquor gods that he got to hear her say that.
"Oh I'm absolutely never letting you forget you said that. I'm making it my new goal to get you to say that sober."
"Huh?"
"Believe me babe. You look me in the eyes when you are sober and ask me to fuck you and it will absolutely happen."
"Promise?"
"Yes. So unless you wanna be more of an exhibitionist than Gray you had better be real careful where you say it." Not that he would really do that to her, but the threat might keep her from making his life difficult. No. Who the hell was he kidding? She was going to make his life difficult anyway. He was just hoping to avoid that particular difficulty.
"Oooh. Kinky. So asking you to fuck me tonight won't work huh?" He looked up at the sky and groaned. How was this fair? It wasn't, that's how.
"That's what I'm sayin." Though if she pushed him much further... "You drink enough to tell me what your dressing as for your party?"
"Nope. It's not my party though. It's Laxus's's." She was just drunk enough she couldn't say his best friend's name with fewer than four syllables. It was cute. She blinked for a moment, seemingly confused as to why that hadn't sounded quite right. Then shrugged. "Don't tell him that though. He will think it's a good thing. It's a surprise. Virgo is really excited." Virgo and Lucy had planned an entire party for Laxus in a not good way? He was probably going to love whatever secret these girls were keeping. "I'm tired, Doc."
"Good thing we are here." He let them in the house. "Go change into sleep cloths babe." Hopefully something that covered more skin than that dress. Like, maybe all of her skin.
She placed a hand on his shoulder as leverage and hopped up to plant a kiss on his cheek before skipping down the hall. When had her shoes come off and how had he not noticed? Those strappy gold things had been sexy as hell and expensive looking. He hoped Virgo had been stalking them enough to save them. Honestly he would love to swap those missing shoes for her little night sky dress and... He needed a cold shower before bed.
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Lucy felt lousy when she woke up. Her head hurt, but there were no hammers or pickaxes involved. She didn't feel like dieing, so Bickslow must have been right about those little sandwiches last night. Last night was fun. She had been drunk enough to dance, but not to drunk to remember how sexy it made her feel.
Well, shit. She was suddenly wishing she had been a little more drunk so she didn't have to remember all the things she had said to her boyfriend on the way home. Not that she hadn't met them, it was just that... how could she say that out loud? Bickslow was an angel for putting up with her, and for not doing everything she would have let him done in her inebriated state.
She still wanted him, at least she would once she got rid of this moldy fuzz feeling in her head. He was very right though when he had said drunk sex was on Sober Lucy's humiliating things list. She had passed out after three kisses once they made it to bed so she expected it would have been extremely disappointing drunk sex too. He deserved a really intense kiss for last night. At least.
Despite how lousy she felt she couldn't help but smile when she opened her eyes. Papa and Popo were hovering right by her head with a painkiller potion and a glass of water on their cute little flat heads. Bickslow must have asked them to take care of her when he went out back to start his morning workout. Speaking of which, she really wanted to get up and see that.
"Hey guys. How it the responsibility crew this morning?" Papa snorted.
"Responsibility crew?" Popo floated closer so she could easily reach the potion.
"Yeah. You two. Can you see Pepe and Pupu having the patience to wait for me to wake up? And we all know Pipi can't stay quiet to save her tiny little existence." She tossed back the swirly purple potion and wrinkled her nose at the taste, taking the water from Papa to wash it down.
"I like it. Daddy should call us that."
"You like it that much I will use it even if your Daddy doesn't. The others out back with him?"
"Pipi is in the kitchen." She raised an eyebrow at that.
"Alone?"
"With the nerd." Well. Small, silent, and pouty speaks. She must have really earned herself brownie points with that 'responsibility crew's thing.
"Do you know if Freed has coffee in there? I know Bixy doesn't drink it at home..." She really hoped there was coffee. She took Papa's grunt as a yes. "Can you take this glass back to the kitchen? I'll be out in a minute." She had to pee so bad it wasn't funny. That must have been what woke her up.
She didn't bother to change out of the big 'Yo Momma' T-shirt she had stolen from Bickslow the night before, but she did brush her teeth before heading to the kitchen to find herself coffee. Freed and Pipi were having some sort of discussion about the color green when she walked in. She wasn't awake enough to make sense of it before she was noticed and the conversation ended. Bickslow's 'baby baby' had managed to coax a smile from the man and she wished for a moment that the totem had hands, so she could high five her.
"Cosplayer, Cosplayer!" Pipi was shushed by the responsibility crew and dropped her shrill voice down to a dramatic whisuper. "Good morning, Cosplayer. Pipi was sad she couldn't go with Cosplayer and Daddy to the party, but Daddy promised all the babies could go to the next one. Daddy says Cosplayer has a surprise for us today. What is the surprise?" Surprise? Did he mean the new bodies for the babies to use at the party?
"It won't be a surprise if I tell you. Now I need coffee. Could you open the curtains for me while I fix myself a cup? I don't have a link to your Daddy and want to be able to see what he is doing." Freed chuckled lightly at her very obvious to mature adults truth twisting. "Morning, Freed."
"Good morning, Miss Lucy. You are awake earlier than Bickslow anticipated."
"I don't think I was quite as drunk as he thinks I was then. About this Miss Lucy business. I'm dating Bickslow now so I'm pretty sure that makes us in-laws by Fairy Tail standards. Unless Bixy suddenly became Mr Bickslow overnight can I just be Lucy? Our relationship allows for less formality even by high society standards."
For a millisecond Lucy caught a glimpse of Freed's internal reaction to the idea of granting such a title to Bickslow. Evergreen would have shelled out good jewel for a picture of the stoic man's face screwed up like he had just swallowed sour milk. Either he hadn't had enough coffee yet to function at his usual level or being in his own home helped him relax just a little.
"Agreed. However it may take some time for me to become accustomed to using such a casual form of address." He gestured for her to take the seat across the table from him. From there she could both easily carry on a conversation with her fellow high society reject and watch her boyfriend do yummy things through the window.
"Understood, but just so you know, every time I'm Miss Lucy you get to be Mr Freed." He smirked at her. It was a very tiny smirk but it was there.
"Babies, how about you go join your Daddy for a minute. I'm going to relax and enjoy my coffee. I will come out when I'm finished waking up." *Daddy, Daddy, Play! She let them out the back door.
She watched Bickslow throygh the window as he played on these weird ring things that hung from chains. She didn't know what he would call what he was doing, but it made the muscles in his chest look ridiculously lickable. She had caught something in Freed's eyes though that needed to be delt with, so she deliberately turned away from the reason she had originally come to the kitchen.
"How are you doing, Freed?" An eyebrow rose by just a hair.
"I'm fine, Lucy."
"Don't do that. I might not act it most of the time, but you know how I grew up. I can see through that lie a mile away. Something is bothering you. You can try to deny it if you want, but I know it's true. We can talk about it now, or I can go get back up and come back. You team cares about you. Bickslow and Evergreen will gang up on you faster than Laxus can call lightning if I tell them something is wrong. I'll get Cobra involved if I have to. He likes me and Bickslow is the only one with the magic to hide from that crazy one eyed snake."
He blinked at her in silence for a moment. If she had to guess she would say he was probably trying to find a way out of this conversation without her following through with her threat. He knew she didn't bluff. She was a Fairy Tail wizard after all. He wasn't going to find that loophole though. It didn't exist, and when he seemed to realize that he dropped just a tad in his chair.
"Did you do this to Bickslow?"
"Not exactly. There was candy involved and cuddles. I don't think either one of those things would work on you seeing as how you aren't sweets deprived and my boobs aren't going affect your ability to function." He blushed a little, then shifted uncomfortably in his seat.
"What did he tell you?"
"Why does everyone think everybody else is telling me their life stories? First Cobra now you. Granted Bixy did tell me some stuff, like the fact that your father is a bigger jerk than mine, but mostly I just have eyes and use them. He was really upset when he realized I knew the bikini beatdown on Tenrou was a big fake." He grew a shade paler than was healthy.
"Who else knows..." She placed a hand to her chin and pretended to think.
"Well Bickslow knows, and Laxus. I assume Evergreen does. Cobra knows all sorts of things he shouldn't, but he keeps secrets really well. Other than that just me I think." She gave him a small but genuine smile as he stared at her with wide eyes. "Even if people did know I don't think they would care. Accept Mira, and only because she would have to change her whole matchmaking strategy for you."
"This isn't high society, Freed. Fairy Tail is family, and we all want eachother happy. Hiding who you are doesn't make you happy. You've seen Evergreen and Bickslow the past couple days. You tell me. Were they happier hiding than they have been since they started trying to let people in?"
"You really think it won't bother people if they know?"
"I'm pretty much one hundred percent sure. And our teams will kick the asses of anyone who does have a problem with it."
"Our teams? Yours too?"
"Yeah. I volunteer Natsu for ass kicking duty whenever I'm not personally available." He smiled at her. A real smile. "That's not what is bothering you though is it?" He sighed.
"No. I... I was in a relationship. At least I thought I was. Almost four months we were together. I was going to tell my team... introduce them. Then I found out they... I ment it. I thought we were going somewhere. None of my feelings or intentions were returned. It was just physical for them." She reached over and linked their guildmarked hands.
"I'm happy for you and Bickslow, and for Evergreen and Elfman. If Laxus ever figures out what he is doing I will be happy for him too." He blushed, but there was a sly twinkle on his eye when he spoke about that weird love tri-tangle. "It's just... maybe I'm jealous. Just a little. You all make it look so easy. I tried, I really did, and I'm still... alone."
"Freed." She held his hand in both of hers. "Somewhere out there is the perfect person for you. They will fit all your curves and edges just like a puzzle peice. You wont even have to try with them because just like they fit you, you will fit out there is the perfect person for you. They will fit all your curves and edges just like a puzzle peice. You wont even have to try with them because just like they fit you, you will fit them. I beleive that just as strongly as I believe that the sky is blue. Untill they find you I just want you to remember that we are here for you, and if you ever need a hug I've got tons to share." He squeezed her hand back.
"Thanks, Lucy." He stood. "Shall I refill your coffee for you?"
"Well, I'm training with Bickslow today so I need all the caffeine I can get." He chuckled as he topped off her mug and splashed creamer into it just as she had earlier.
"Yes, you will. I recommend you don't try to keep up with him. That is dangerous."
"Agreed. The man is a cat. I mean look at him!" Bickslow was standing on top of the very high bar he had been swinging from the previous morning, talking to his babies as though he was on solid ground.
"How did he get up there?"
"I have no idea."
"Do you think the babies helped him?"
"Somehow I doubt it."
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