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Chapter 5:
"What about this Levy friend of Heartfillia? Could she be useful?" Gajeel asks, they were discussing what to do next. Natsu muses the thought, he knew Levy was good with computers, even enough to hack into classified information, but from Lucy's conversation it seemed she had been discovered.
"I really don't want to involve Lucy into this anymore, and not her best friend, who she's had to lie to for the past day, cause I broke in"
"How considerate" Laxus observes.
"Shut up, Lucy just found out her father was murdered, has six of the most wanted criminals in Fiore in her apartment and has done nothing but try to be courteous, she hasn't tried to escape once, or warn her friend when she's called or when she came over and went out and bought food for her after I ate it all, cut her some slack guys" Natsu says seriously.
"Fair enough" Sting says casually.
"Guess we should thank her, she is being far more courteous to us than anyone else has in a long time" Rouge says, they nod in agreement.
"I think blondies got the right idea let's get some shut eye" Gajeel says, they all agree, Natsu dives for the couch before the others can, they were about to argue about where the others would sleep when there was a knock on the door, the six men warily looked at it, Lucy walked out of her room and answered it without asking who it was.
"Thanks Virgo"
"Anytime Princess" they heard, Lucy closed the door and dropped four boxes in front of them then returned to her room shutting the door. Natsu opened one of them and pulled out the blankets stuffed inside, the other had men's clothes of varying sizes, another had toiletries, toothbrushes for all of them, a variety of deodorant, two hair brushes, dozens of razors and shaving creaming and the last was stuffed full of pillows, enough for all of them, Natsu smiled.
"Yeah she's pretty cool right" he says, Sting, Rouge and Cobra nod, while Lacus and Gajeel try and find fitting clothes.
In the end they all grabbed new clothes, they'd have to have a shower tomorrow since they couldn't file through Lucy's room to the bathroom tonight. Natsu got the couch again, Sting and Rouge slept on laid out deck chairs pulled inside from the balcony. Laxus slept on the second carpet in front of the TV, Cobra under the kitchen counter on the living room side, and Gajeel slept between him and Natsu on the couch, they all had a pillow and all had a blanket, they slept much better than they had in five years.
Lucy was up first the next day and made French Toast for them all, they all woke to the delicious smell.
"Oh Lucy you're awesome!" Natsu said gratefully bolting over to the kitchen, she held up a hand and he stopped like he hit a wall.
"Its fine, but all of you need a shower, so take turns" she gives him a smile which he returns.
"No breakfast until then" she adds.
You would never see grown men run faster for the door than those six.
After they were fresh and clean in nice clothes, some freshly shaved they got to eat. The apartment stinking of French Toast, maple syrup and men's deodorant, Lucy opened the balcony door so air would come in along with all the windows, the balcony's curtain was still drawn so the men in her house couldn't be seen. Lucy went around after them feeling like a maid, cleaning the dishes, picking up the used towels, folding their blankets, putting their pillows in a pile in the corner with the blankets, putting their old prison uniforms in a trash bag, and putting the wash on for the towels, before putting the dishes away, throwing the trash bags in the incinerator and ordering more food on her laptop to be home delivered. What did the most wanted criminals in Fiore do while she did all this? Watched the Cricket! They all happily watched Cricket on her TV, Natsu, Sting and Rouge on the couch, Cobra on the floor, leaning against the couch beside Rouge, Laxus and Gajeel were sitting in the dining table chairs, also facing the screen.
Lucy tried to ignore her irk and cleaned up the kitchen, fixed up her room since it was now a rail link of men to get to the bathroom. She also cleaned the bathroom so it looked better again. She was in there when someone knocked on the front door so she didn't hear it, Natsu ran to her scaring her when he suddenly appeared, causing her to hit her head against the towel rack.
"Ouch!" she cried.
"Lucy someone's at the door!" he whispered urgently, Lucy groaned and headed out, rubbing her sore head, the guys had muted the TV and stayed out of sight of the front door.
"Hello?" she asked before opening the door, knowing better after the past few days.
"It's Yukino!" a chipper voice answered. Lucy partially opened the door so she could see her friend.
"Hey Yukino how are you?" Lucy said still rubbing her sore head.
"I'm good how about you?" she asks seeing her.
"I hit my head cleaning the bathroom, sorry"
"Hah you're supposed to be sick! That means staying in bed silly" Lucy smiles.
"Yeah I know I was bored so I started cleaning"
"Of course you did, well Levy told me you weren't feeling well so I thought I'd pop by"
"Thanks Yukino, I'm fine just a touch of the flu, I'll be fine in no time"
"Okay, do you need anything?"
"Nah I'm good I ordered some food online so I don't have to go out or get Levy to get me some"
"Well that's good…by the way Lucy why do you smell like men's cologne?" Lucy froze.
"Um…do I? I didn't notice, Levy came by with Jet and Droy yesterday, must be theirs you know Jet he's always got too much deodorant on" Lucy said with a stained laugh, Yukino chuckles.
"Yeah you're right, well get better soon Mira misses you" inside the apartment Laxus froze.
"Yeah I miss her coffees, I'll come visit in the next couple days for sure, I need my coffee fix!"
"Yeah I think she might need to company too" Yukino says a little solemnly.
"Why? Is she okay?" Lucy asks.
"Well I talked to Lisanna and Kinana and Mira's been a little quiet the past few days, you know not her usual happy self which is really weird, I'd ask Erza to talk to her but she's hiking the Alps with Jellal without any technology so they won't be back for a few months"
"Yeah well any idea what could be bothering her?" Yukino shakes her head.
"She denies she's upset but then spaces out, Kinana says she's broken five glasses in the past two days" Lucy's eyes bulged, Mira was an expert waitress she'd never seen Mira drop anything.
"Actually-" Yukino says.
"Kinana did say she's been sad since you and Levy where there the other morning, what did you guys talk about?"
"Just the…prison break" Lucy says softly.
"Oh! Do you think she's worried?! I mean a lot of them where really far away, I know it's all over the news and its annoying they don't even seem to know their names or what they did but I'm sure we're safe, I'll go tell her-"
"No Yukino I don't think that's the problem"
"Then what is?" she asks worried, Lucy chose her words carefully.
"I think, one of them looked familiar to her and maybe she just got a little sad over that" Lucy decides.
"That's funny, Lisanna said something similar she said she could have sworn she'd seen the big blond one before but she can't place him" Lucy bit her lip.
"I'm sure Mira will be fine, I promise I'll go see her soon okay?" Yukino nods.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you, see you later!"
"Bye!" Lucy waves and shuts the door, she walks back to where they were and turns right to the big blond one.
"You know Mira!" they yelled at each other.
"Yes" they answered together.
"How?" Lucy asks, Laxus uncomfortably looks away, Lucy folds her arms and gives him a cold stare.
"I knew her in High School, we dated, we broke up, I joined the army" he says stiffly, Lucy's jaw dropped.
"You dated Mira?!" she almost screamed.
"How did Elfman not kill you?!" Laxus snorted but he had a smile.
"He tried, I won, he said I was 'manly' so I could date his sister" Lucy shook her head that sounded exactly what Elfman would do.
"But how do you know her?" he asks.
"I knew her sister Lisanna in High School, Erza was a year above me, Mira had graduated before I transferred into the school, so met her later" Lucy said then sighed.
"Small world" she muttered, Laxus nodded in agreement.
There was silence until Sting mentioned the Cricket and they returned to it. The groceries arrived shortly after that and Lucy put them away.
It was around three when there was another knock on the door and Lucy answered it, the boys barely tried to get out of the way still focused on the game.
"Hello?" she asked, already opening it before thinking better of it.
"Lucy! Yukino called me and told me she came over, and she mentioned how I was apparently over with Jet and Droy? But they're away with their parents on a cruise, so what's this about-" Levy couldn't finish, in her attempt to step forward her foot got caught on the small step into Lucy's apartment and she flailed, Lucy opened the door to get it out of the way so she could catch her but they both went sprawling backwards, Levy on top of her.
"Ow" Levy mumbled, looking up and seeing the six guys who were staring down at them.
"Oh" she breathed.
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