Chapter Ten

A few days had passed since Kira's wound had healed. They had gone out shopping to get formal wear for the mission and had a few dates around town. It was now time to actually do some work. Laxus couldn't help but stare at the scars still on Kira's neck. He knew that meant she was his, but it still pained him that he had hurt her. His eyes wandered down her open backed black dress over her round behind. 'She looks fucking amazing in everything'. This mission was way too simple. The only reason he was requested was because the date of this arsehat was a big fan. There was no danger, no fighting. He just had to stand there.

Kira turned and smiled up at a frowning Laxus. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," he grumbled, "Just don't like this mission".

"You don't like being at a party with me?" she smirked up at him.

"You know that's not what I meant," he growled at her. He loved that Kira was here. "I just want to fight something!" He punched his fist into his hand "I'm going to go get a beer." He began to walk off towards the bar.

Kira took in a deep breath as she watch Laxus leave towards the bar. 'He's just over there, not far at all.' She felt a fear over come her body as more and more different people arrived at the party. Her breathing became more laboured when someone bumped into her, making her trip. Her chest tightened when someone grabbed her arm to help her maintain her balance. Her body felt heavy and her mind went black. She fell to the floor and began to scream. Suddenly warm arms wrapped themselves around her body bringing her mind back to light. 'Laxus?' She could hear him talking but she had no idea what he was saying. "Get me out of here!" she screamed.

Days had passed since the party. Laxus had taken her back to the hotel and asked many times since what happen. Kira just wasn't talking. He had gone back and apologised for leaving the party. He also refused to take the reward. They had taken a train back and were just about to walk back into their home. "You still won't tell me what happened?" Laxus sighed before opening the front door for Kira. She had no life in her eyes anymore. She simply shook her head and moved past Laxus heading past the other occupants of the household straight to her room.

"What did you do!?" Lucy pointed at Laxus from across the room.

"I did nothing!" He yelled back, throwing his bag to the floor. "She freaked out on the mission and won't tell me why."

"Did you leave her alone?" Lucy signed. Laxus eyes shot up to the other blonde. "You don't see it because you're always with her. But when you are not here, she has nightmares every night".

"No, she hasn't had one since the first night?" Laxus shook his head.

"When you're here!" Lucy stood up and made her way over to the larger blonde. "When you're not, she has them every night. Once when you were on a mission we went out into the town and some guys bumped into us and she started to scream, it took me two days to get her back out of her room after that…Laxus" She signed "She is fine when she's with you and she is fine with the others in Fairy Tail now. But she still is not healed in her heart from everything that has happened to her."

"Why wouldn't she tell me?" His voice became shaken.

"She mostly feels weak because of it, maybe feels that you would treat her like she was broken." Bickslow said coming over to the blondes.

Laxus shook his head. Picking up his bag he made his way down to his room. Kira was lying face down on the bed with her head in his pillow. "Why didn't you tell me you have nightmares still?" He threw down his bags once more and moved over to sit on the edge of the bed. "You think I'd be mad or something?"

"Did Lucy tell you?" she mumbled into the pillow.

"Yeah, but you should have."

"I didn't want you to feel like you couldn't leave on any missions." Laxus was about to reply when she sat up and looked him in the eyes. "And don't say that I could have just gone with you because we've just seen how that turned out…I don't want to be treated like a doll!"

Laxus arms came around her, pulling her into his chest. "From the first moment you kicked me in the face, I have thought you were the strongest women in the world. But you should have told me. You should have talked to me about it, so I could help you though it. You have a communication lacrima so you should have called me every time you had one. Anytime something happens. I might be new to having a relationship, and I might not be good about talking about my feelings, but I will always listen to what you have to say to me. I love you more than I have ever loved anyone." He placed a kiss on the top of her head and she slowly began to cry.

Laxus had left Kira to shower after she had settled down. He joined Bickslow in the kitchen as they both cooked dinner for the girls. Freed and Ever had gone over to have dinner at the Strauss house, so it was just the four of them. A sudden knock at the door had Laxus groan. "Don't answer it."

But it was too later Lucy was already at the door. "Master?"

The smaller mage smiled up at the blonde, before placing his hand on her ever-growing belly. "Good evening, Lucy. How are you fairing?"

"Tired, but we are both good." she smiled rubbing her belly.

"What do you want old man?" Laxus grunted coming up behind Lucy.

"I wanted to see if Kira was ok? The requester contacted me to deliver your reward even after you refused it". The older mage slowly walked over to his grandson. "Is she ok, my boy?"

"I'm fine, Master." Kira said, coming from the hallway. "Would you like to stay for dinner? I'm sure there will be enough for you."

The five all sat down for dinner together, laughing and swapping stories the whole night. Laxus looked over at Kira, still staring at the small scars on her neck. Not even twenty minutes ago he felt like his whole world was going to fall apart. But there was his family, laughing. His grandfather telling a horrible story to the love of this life about Laxus getting lost in town and crying like a baby for hours. While Bickslow, his best mate, laughs and tells an equal horrible story about him getting so drunk he got lost and started crying for his grandfather. Everyone was laughing. Everyone but Laxus. But he was smiling at the happy faces around him.