A/N: Alright, you guys… Because of how wonderful you all are, and how many people wanted to see more from this story, I'm adding a second and final chapter! So… Yeah! So much for this being a one-shot! HA!

(I don't own Fairy Tail)

Lucy nodded and yawned, then smiled when Laxus pulled her closer and rested her head on his chest while his nose nestled in her hair. "Good to know," she whispered, "I'm curious to see your other side too."

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Laxus inhaled deeply when he slowly drifted back to reality from his dream. It wasn't anything special, just the same old boring nonsense that he didn't really care about and usually hardly remembered. His brow furrowed when he realized that he smelled Lucy all around him—well, Lucy and sex—and when his eyes creaked open he was greeted with a head of long blonde hair resting just under his nose. With an eyebrow now raised, he lifted his head and let his gaze travel across her body. Her face was still nestled on his chest, with her breath lazily puffing across his skin. He was able to admire the tattoos on her shoulders now, and saw that they were identical to the stars on her hips and lower back. I wonder what made her get these in the first place… He continued looking down and realized that his arm was wrapped tightly around her waist and their legs were a tangled mess under the blanket. Slowly lowering his head back to the pillow, Laxus lifted his hand and started mindlessly tracing the little stars while he closed his eyes again.

"Mmm," Lucy mumbled, snuggling closer to the warmth in her bed. She entertained the idea that she would need to kick Natsu or Gray out of her bed for half of a second before she realized that the chest she was lying on was much larger than either of her friends' and wasn't too hot or too cold. She smiled at the light tingling in her shoulder blade while strong and calloused fingers danced lazily across her skin, making lazy swooping circles and sending a shiver down her spine. He's still here, she thought, That's gotta be a good sign. He could have left in the middle of the night if he had changed his mind.

Laxus honestly had no idea what to do. He'd never stayed the night with a woman after sex, never cuddled up with one either, so as far as how things were supposed to work in the morning? He was at a complete loss. Part of him wished he hadn't stayed the night, because then things wouldn't be as confusing as they are; then again, that was also the part that got drowned out by his gut telling him to give Lucy a chance. He hadn't ever let loose like he did with her, and the few times he'd gotten close to really doing that with someone before, they told him it was too much. She kept him surprised the entire night, from the time she started dancing until they fell asleep in each other's arms. I've never even kissed someone like that, he thought as he recalled just how tender some of the kisses they had shared were. Something about Lucy made it seem perfectly natural to do things that he normally wouldn't: soft and gentle kisses, lightly running his hands over her skin, sleeping next to her. It was oddly exhilarating to feel free to do what he secretly wanted, and terrifying at the same time.

"Morning," Lucy whispered with a soft smile, keeping her head on Laxus' chest and tensing her body while she stretched. "Mmm," she mumbled, flopping her arm lazily back around his waist.

Laxus couldn't help but chuckle at how she seemed to wake up, and said, "Morning to you, too." He was just going to have to take her lead when it came to this, since he had decided that he was taking a chance on this whole thing and seeing where it led him.

"This is probably gonna sound weird, but you smell amazing," Lucy muttered sleepily, then dragged her nose across Laxus' chest while she turned to look up into his eyes. "Like woods during a storm." She'd always resigned herself to admiring him from a distance before, so she'd never been allowed the opportunity to see him quite like this. Not even her dreams had come close to just how scrumptious this man was first thing in the morning. The light that spilled from the window across the room—where her bed normally was—hit the hard angles of his face just right to actually soften them and make him look younger, more innocent and carefree. His eyes caught those same morning rays and went from being the usual stormy color she was accustomed to seeing to a piercing, electric blue that somehow made her heart freeze mid-beat and melt at the same time. Never in her life had Lucy really believed she would have a chance with Laxus—even if it was just a single night—so waking up with him in her bed, with his fingers dancing across her skin, and a less-smug-than-usual smirk on his face was quite literally a dream come true.

Laxus blushed and chuckled again. "Don't smell too bad yourself, Blon—" He paused when she glared at him, then rolled his eyes as he continued. "Lucy."

Lucy smiled softly and kissed his chest, then asked, "What do I smell like, Mr. Dragon Slayer?"

"You mean aside from sex?" Laxus asked, his smirk becoming much more lecherous while he tried to get her to blush. Instead, she winked at him as she crawled up his body, then threw one leg over his to straddle him. Her hands glided effortlessly across his chest as she leaned down, and he couldn't help but move his own hands slowly up her thighs to hold onto her hips.

"Yes, I mean aside from sex," Lucy giggled. She pulled her hair off to one side and stretched her slender neck out just over Laxus' lips. "Tell me what I smell like."

Laxus leaned up and ran his nose lightly over her pale skin, finally noticing the small scratches his teeth had left on her the night before, and inhaled. He grinned when she shivered, then moved up to lightly suck on her earlobe. "Aside from sex, and woods during a storm," he whispered, "You smell like coconuts. Reminds me of the beach."

Lucy giggled and shook her head. "I guess you like the beach then?"

Laxus laid his head back on the pillows and looked into her eyes and grinned. "Yep, but I like coconuts even more." When Lucy blushed, he added, "At least you don't use soap that goes against your scent. Probably why you smell so damn edible right now."

Lucy giggled and leaned down to press her lips against his, sighing contentedly when his hands slid from her hips to lightly massage her back. "Well, if you think I'm edible, why don't you have a taste?" she whispered, pulling away just a bit to bite her lip as she looked into Laxus' gorgeous sky-blue eyes.

"I don't know…" His tone was playful, yet filled with promises, and his eyes were darkening with lust by the second. "Where do I get to taste you?"

Lucy gave him an impish grin. "Where would you like to taste me, Laxus?" she asked. Faster than she could have imagined, Laxus had rolled them over and was cradling her head in one of his hands—with his fingers lightly sifting through her hair—while his hips settled between her legs. She hadn't even had time to react, to pull in a breath and squeak out her surprise, but when she caught the hungry gleam in his eyes Lucy's breath stalled in her throat.

Laxus smirked down at Lucy and pressed his lips to hers, brushing his tongue lightly over her lips and diving inside to swirl around hers once her lips parted for him. He propped himself on one elbow while his free hand ghosted down her body. His thumb lightly teased her nipple for the briefest of moments, and the way she wrapped her arms loosely around his neck had him itching to be closer to her. His hand kept its slow path down her body, fully enjoying just how soft and smooth her creamy skin was, and paused at her hip for only a moment before continuing down her leg. He felt Lucy's hands gliding lightly across his shoulder blades while he nipped at her lower lip, teasing the blonde beneath him until she moaned and forced his head back down to crash their lips together. Laxus moved that same hand back up the inside of Lucy's thigh, drawing slow circles as he went with his thumb before finally brushing his fingers through her golden curls. "If I remember correctly," Laxus said, his voice deepening in tandem with his overpowering lust, "That song you danced to said something about me tasting 'the sugar below your waist'."

Lucy blushed again and nodded. "It did."

"Then I think I should take you up on that offer," Laxus whispered while he kissed a searing path from her lips down to her throat, then licked and kissed every inch of her chest and stomach before settling between her legs. He pressed his lips to her navel as he moved downwards, and grinned while he added, "I've tasted everywhere else."

Lucy's blush deepened at the look on Laxus' face when he grabbed her legs and threw them over his broad shoulders. She had expected him to either avoid going down on her altogether, or dive right in and get it over with. Instead, the hulking blond between her legs was tenderly kissing and nipping at her inner thighs while his hands ghosted over her hips and stomach. He was taking his sweet time, teasing her into a nearly feral state of arousal that had Lucy's heart pounding wildly in her chest.

Laxus heard a small mewl of pleasure when his tongue dragged from one thigh across Lucy's pelvis and to the opposite thigh, and he glanced up to see her watching him intently with blood rushing to her cheeks and her lips barely parted. He wanted to take his time for once and thoroughly enjoy himself while he was getting a taste of just how sweet he knew Lucy could be, so Laxus was determined to ramp up her arousal until she was a shuddering mass of sensation that could hardly rasp his name. His hands slid down her stomach and between her legs, barely brushing against her clit before he started massaging her nether lips and laving her opposite thigh with more tender bites.

Lucy's eyes closed slowly, and she took a shuddering breath while getting a good grip on the sheets beneath her. Long, slow strokes of Laxus' fingers over her had Lucy fighting to keep herself still, and the way he added just the smallest bit of pressure with each upward stroke was igniting a fire in her that she'd never really known was possible before.

Laxus groaned softly when he flattened his tongue over her sex and dragged it slowly up towards her sensitive bud. He very intentionally avoided any contact with it, wanting to keep Lucy from getting too worked up too quickly. He felt a swell of pride when he slowly parted her nether lips to reveal a veritable smorgasbord that made his mouth water, and Lucy moaned from that simple action. It was the anticipation of what he would do that she was enjoying, knowing that his mouth would close over her any second. Yet again, Laxus didn't give in to her. Using only the tip of his tongue, he massaged first one side and then the other, moving in an almost lazy circle towards her glistening entrance.

"Oh, Laxus," Lucy moaned when she felt his tongue barely invading her core, gripping the sheets tighter in an effort to keep her hands away from his hair. After the third guy in a row said he didn't want her forcing his face further into her crotch, and that she 'moved too damn much', Lucy figured it must be like that for all guys. She had to keep herself still, otherwise he might stop working all of that gloriously wonderful magic with his mouth.

"Fuck, Lucy," Laxus rasped, pulling his head back just a fraction and letting his hot, shaky breaths dance along her core. Just that small taste of her had him hard as a rock, and the way she'd moaned his name—how it was husky and pleading all at the same time—had shaken something deep inside of him in a way he'd never experienced before. "You taste so goddamn good…" He grinned when she lightly, and almost nervously, nibbled her lower lip as she looked down at him with lust-filled eyes. "Forget having a taste… I'm gonna make a fucking meal outta you."

Lucy's head flew back, but that was the only movement she allowed, and she tensed the rest of her body in response to Laxus' words. Once they had passed his lips, Laxus had lowered his mouth to her core again and speared his tongue into her, curling it upward just slightly as he pulled back. Her hands itched to touch him, but she couldn't bring herself to do it; her whole body was tense with how tightly she had reined in her control, and when he slowed down and pulled away, she nearly whimpered at the loss of contact.

"Relax," Laxus whispered. "You're really tense…" Laxus pulled back and frowned slightly when he looked up to see her knuckles turning white with how tightly she was holding onto her bedding, and her thin eyebrows drawn together. "Do you want me to stop?" he asked.

Lucy shook her head quickly, not willing to look into Laxus' eyes, and said, "Please… Don't stop."

Laxus raised an eyebrow at her and lowered his head again, picking up where he had left off. Slowly, he circled that sensitive bundle with his tongue, lightly suckling it before flicking his tongue against it over and over. He basked in the way that Lucy's moans increased in volume, and when she let out a keening cry of pleasure just from the way he tilted his head, Laxus had to fight with everything he had to keep himself planted between her legs instead of pinning her down and fucking her senseless.

Lucy involuntarily rolled her hips once, and then a second time before she got control of herself, and whispered a soft and timid, "Sorry…"

Laxus pulled back and looked at her again. She looked completely embarrassed by what she'd done, but he couldn't tell why. "Why are you sorry? You didn't do anything wrong."

Lucy blushed and looked away. It was wholly embarrassing that she had moved at all, and really didn't want to explain to Laxus what she was thinking.

Cocking his head to the side, Laxus wiped his mouth discreetly before crawling up Lucy's body to hover over her. She had been tense ever since he'd put her legs over his shoulders, and even though she seemed to be enjoying what he was doing, there was very clearly something wrong. He turned her face back towards his and gently pressed his lips to hers until she relaxed, and when he pulled away to look into her eyes he couldn't have felt more confused. "What's up?" he asked softly, "Why'd you apologize?"

Lucy sighed and shook her head, then tried to smile at him to play it off. Apparently, it didn't do a damn thing, because Laxus was still looking at her expectantly. "I moved," she muttered, wincing at how silly she felt right then.

"So?" he asked, furrowing his brow in confusion. That was probably one of the sexiest things a woman could do in his eyes, because every movement she made let him know just where she wanted him to be to give her more pleasure. Plus, it showed that she was really enjoying herself.

"So… Everyone I've ever been with said they hated it when I moved while they were—" Her explanation was cut off by Laxus' lips moving gently over hers again, and she felt every bit of tension in her washing away when he brought a hand up to cup her cheek.

When he finally pulled away to look into her deep brown eyes, Laxus smirked and said, "Kind of a double standard, dontcha think? I can fuck your mouth, but you can't fuck mine?" When Lucy blushed again, he said, "Just relax, okay?"

Lucy nervously nibbled on her lower lip while she looked up into those beautiful eyes of his.

"Trust me," Laxus whispered, lowering his mouth to her jaw and lightly kissing the column of her throat, "I'll take real good care of you." He moved one hand down to her sex and lightly massaged her, grinning when Lucy gasped and her hands slid around his waist to run across his back. After only a minute of teasing her back into her previous state of arousal, Laxus slowly invaded her core with only one finger and nibbled on her earlobe. "You let me fuck you nice and rough last night," he rasped, chuckling darkly when Lucy shivered and moaned in time with his slow thrusts into her. "Now I'm gonna show you…" He paused, pressing his lips to hers and pulling back to look into her eyes with a wicked grin. "What else you've been missing out on."

Lucy gasped when he added a second finger between thrusts, keeping his pace perfectly tempered as he lowered his head and kissed her senseless. Their tongues glided easily against each other as if they'd done this a thousand times and knew just what the other liked already. She felt his fingers curl just slightly inside and gasped while her nails dug into Laxus back and wave after wave of pleasure washed over her. "L-Laxus," she moaned, planting her feet and angling her hips just slightly so his fingers could brush over the spot she knew would be even more pleasurable.

"Mmm," Laxus hummed softly with a grin. "That's what I wanna see." He started moving just a little faster once he felt the spot that made Lucy cry out and start panting while she clung to him. The noises she made were music to his ears, and soon Laxus found himself softly groaning and panting along with her, his nose running along her flushed skin, and his teeth scraping over her here and there. "I want you to ride my face, Lucy. Show me just what you like."

Lucy let out a long moan and quickly nodded, then watched Laxus move back down between her legs and kiss each and every star on both of her hips before starting back in on her aching core with his tongue. "Oh god… Laxus," Lucy moaned, gripping the sheets again as his tongue replaced his fingers and plunged into her quaking sex over and over. Her eyes went wide when he shifted and repositioned her legs so they were once again draped over the broad expanse of his shoulders, and she whimpered when each ripple of pleasure he pushed into her core sent a series of jolts through the rest of her body.

"Ride me, Lucy," Laxus rasped as he moved up and sucked her sweet pearl into his mouth while his fingers slammed into her again and again.

"OH FUCK!" Lucy cried out, her back arching slightly and her grip on the sheets tightening while she tentatively rolled her hips. "Laxus… Fuck… Right the—YES!" She could feel him scissoring his fingers just inside of her, brushing over the sensitive, spongy patch again and again in time with each pass over her clit with his tongue.

Laxus groaned while his cock twitched at the sound of her screams. He pulled his mouth back just a little and nipped at every inch of her he could reach while he stopped moving his hand back and forth. He grinned when Lucy still forced herself down onto him, watching where his fingers were plunging into her soaking depths. "You're so wet, Lucy," he said when he saw and felt her arousal starting to coat more than just the fingers inside of her. He heard Lucy's breath hitch at his words and added, "Why don't you ride me harder? Come on, really show me what you want."

Lucy moaned again and again, feeling herself reach a plateau in her steady climb towards her release. She whimpered and pushed down faster with her rolling hips in the hopes of continuing her ascension. When Laxus' mouth closed over her and roughly sucked on her clit, Lucy cried out and twisted the sheets in her hands while she writhed and bucked against him.

"There you go," Laxus growled, "Just like that. Fuck, you're so hot like this." He glanced over and saw her hands tangled in the sheets, so he acted on instinct and pulled his free hand from her hip to grab the one closest to it.

Lucy's eyes widened when she looked down at her hand, and she felt a strange clenching in her chest. Laxus' fingers were laced with hers, and his thumb was drawing slow circles over her bright pink guild mark. She looked back to his face, never pausing in the moans she was letting loose, and felt that same clenching in her chest before it warmed and flooded through her body when their eyes met and he winked at her. Lucy smiled down at him, thankful that he'd found a way to get her past something she hadn't even realized was a problem for her, then slowly lifted her other hand and raked her nails lightly over his scalp.

The last of Lucy's tension faded once her hands left the sheets, and Laxus growled his approval before diving back in with renewed vigor. His breath hitched when her fingers tightened in his hair, thinking she was going to pull him away for one reason or another, and Laxus' eyes stayed locked onto her flushed face and heaving chest while she pulled him closer.

"More," Lucy moaned. "I'm so… annnngghhh... So fucking close!" Her eyes went wide when she felt a strange and foreign pulse starting up in time with Laxus' fingers and tongue, sending searing heat washing through her and a residual tingle settling over her skin. Her legs started quivering, her whole body coming to a crashing halt as she tried to remember how to breathe while she climbed the last few feet towards her release. "La-Laxus…" she whimpered, taking small shaking breaths and feeling her fingers and toes curling of their own accord. It was almost as if her core was pulling a string that was connected to each of her limbs, slowly and carefully gathering the energy in each of them and preparing to release it in a wild frenzy of euphoria.

Laxus growled and continued channeling short bursts of his magic into his fingers and tongue. Lucy's body was tensed in a completely different way this time, just how he wanted her. It didn't matter to him that she was surprisingly strong with how she was gripping his hand, or that he could only just breathe with how close she had pulled his face to her body. All that mattered to him in that moment was what he knew would have been a scream that could have ruptured his damn eardrums if Lucy's legs hadn't clamped around his head as she fell into oblivion. He slowed the use of his magic while she continued to spasm around his fingers, languidly licking her engorged bundle and moaning softly.

When Lucy's back finally dropped to the bed in utter exhaustion, she lightly squeezed the hand that was still holding hers with a fully-sated grin. Her eyes slowly opened to look down and see that Laxus was still planted between her legs even though they were now draped limply over him instead of practically suffocating him in an orgasm-induced deathgrip. She mewled softly between heaving breaths when he lowered his head and started gently licking away every trace of her arousal, her body still overly sensitive in the aftermath of her release.

Once he'd lapped up every drop of Lucy's decadent essence—from both her body and his fingers and hand—Laxus couldn't help but grin while he slowly kissed his way back up to her lips. He wasn't worried in the slightest about his own glaring arousal and how it was pressed between them; only with feeling Lucy's supple skin against his own while he rolled to lie next to her. He pulled their intertwined fingers up to his mouth, a much larger part of him than he'd expected thoroughly enjoying how her hand fit in his, and lightly kissed her pink guild mark. "See? Hot as fuck," he whispered. "I want you just as wild as I am."

Lucy blushed and bit her lip, while she tried to avoid his gaze. When she finally looked up into Laxus' eyes, she sounded unsure even to herself as she asked, "Really?"

Laxus nodded with a soft smile and kissed her, pulling her closer to him when her mouth opened for his tongue to dive inside. When they finally pulled away, slightly breathless and staring deeply into each other's eyes, Laxus whispered, "I'm not most guys, Lucy. They can go fuck themselves."

Lucy giggled and said, "That sounds oddly familiar."

Laxus shrugged. "You put it so eloquently before that I figured there wasn't a better way to say it." He laughed when Lucy gaped at him and added, "Hey, I've got more than good looks goin' for me. Thank you very much."

Lucy laughed and rolled her eyes. "You're right, much more than good looks," she agreed.

"Oh yeah?" Laxus asked as he raised his scarred eyebrow in a silent challenge. "Tell me, then. What got you all hot and bothered for me to begin with?"

Lucy smiled as she thought, So he really wants to get to know me. He stayed the night, hasn't mentioned leaving yet, and now he's asking me questions. This is awesome! She paused for a moment, bringing their linked hands up to her mouth and kissing his knuckles, then smiled softly and said, "The first thing I noticed was that cocky, smug, shit-eating grin of yours."

Laxus let out a bark of laughter and rolled over onto his back, pulling her with him. Once she was safely settled on top of him, with her chin on his chest and their legs tangled in the sheets again, he chuckled and said, "I think that's the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me."

Lucy giggled and lightly smacked him in the head, then squawked and ducked into his muscled chest when he smacked her in the back of her head. "Ass," she muttered with a smile on her face.

"Tease," Laxus muttered back. Holy shit, I don't think I've ever really felt this relaxed before, he thought happily. It wasn't often—more like hardly ever in his entire life—that he was comfortable enough around someone to lightheartedly tease them, especially when it came to something as simple as a light and playful smack in the back of the head. If it had been anyone other than Lucy, he wouldn't have stood for even the thought of someone striking him, and would have used his lightning fast reflexes to stop it. Instead, he knew what was coming, and happily let her do it so that he could do it right back. "Alright, aside from that… I wanna know what made you look at me differently."

Lucy kissed his chest lightly and started running her thumb over his hand while she organized what she wanted to say. "Well, you're honest; funny in your own fucked-up-sarcastic-as-hell kind of way; you've got a great smile when you actually let it out; your laugh reminds me of thunder; I can tell you've got a big heart based on how loyal your team is to you." Lucy paused, watching as Laxus' smile slowly faded, but she kept going. "You really changed since I first met you, and I can see how your time away from the guild really opened your eyes to what's important in life. You're kind of mysterious, since you usually keep to yourself or your team. Then there's the whole 'good looks' portion: your eyes, lips, scar, muscles, hair, and your tattoo… Oh, and your ass." Lucy shrugged and smiled at him, then added, "Just a bunch of little things, but the first thing that really caught my attention was how you're downright sexy when you grin like you've got all the answers in life and you're not sharing them with anyone."

Laxus thought over everything Lucy had said. He knew he wasn't smiling anymore, but it was only because he was confused. She really thinks that? I never even gave her a second glance because I was so sure that she wasn't my type… "How long?" he asked, looking away from her big doe eyes.

"Huh?"

"How long have you…"

Lucy sighed and said, "How long have I liked you?" When Laxus nodded, she thought it over while tipping her head back and forth. "Hm, probably… almost two years now. Why?"

"Why didn't you ever say anything?"

Lucy rolled her eyes and laughed, and when he looked back at her, she said, "Because I was positive you'd never be interested in me. I mean, I know everyone sees me as innocent and naïve, and usually a complete ditz—and spending time as Natsu's partner does not help that fact—so I always thought there wasn't a point in putting myself out there just to get shot down. Especially since everyone knows you don't go for innocent chicks." Lucy shrugged. "I didn't want things to be weird in the guild if you rejected me."

"So…" Laxus said slowly, "What about yesterday?"

Lucy dropped her head to his chest and muttered, "I'm assuming you mean the dance?" She peeked up and saw Laxus nod, confusion and concentration lacing his features. "Cana found out that I've been taking pole dancing classes for the past year, and then she weaseled it out of me that I've got the hots for you. So, she decided that the best way to show you my interest was a game of truth-or-dare where I'd strip for you… Then the note she gave you was my idea, and here we are. I figured it was time to just tell you how I felt, and see where it went. If nothing happened, then I would have put on my big-girl panties and gotten over it, I guess. At least if you knew how I felt about you, then I'd have an answer one way or the other on the matter."

Laxus shook his head and sighed. "I'm a royal dick, you know that right?"

"What do you mean?" Lucy asked with a frown.

"I had you pegged as sweet and innocent, just like everyone else," Laxus said with regret swimming in his eyes, "The only thing I ever thought concerning you before was that you were hot, but that's it. And you just threw it all out there, and left it up to me to either accept you or reject you. I just—"

Lucy leaned forward and quickly cut off Laxus' rant with her lips on his. "Mm-mm," she mumbled before pulling away to look at him. "Don't be like that. Just because I like you doesn't mean you need to feel like an asshole for not thinking the same thing before last night. There's plenty I don't know about you, just like there's plenty you don't know about me. I told you: there's no point in really getting to know someone if they suck in bed. Hell, if you had been the worst lay of my life, I would have kicked your ass to the curb."

Laxus chuckled softly and said, "You wouldn't have kicked me to the curb, Lucy. Two whole years just right down the drain?"

"Hey, I could have if I wanted to," Lucy answered petulantly. After a moment, she smirked at Laxus and whispered, "You have no idea how glad I was to find out you're a beast in the sack."

Laxus grinned and gave her a wink, then his smile faltered and he just had to ask her the question that had been plaguing him since she said what she liked about him. "So… you don't like my magic?" he asked softly. She had given a pretty impressive list of things she liked about him, but not once did Lucy mention his magic. It wasn't so much that he wanted her to be after him because of his magic, but it was a part of who he was. Laxus' life had revolved around increasing his power for so long in the hopes of proving that he was worth more than just what his last name afforded him that he didn't really know what to make of her not mentioning it at all.

Lucy smiled gently at him, seeing the hesitance and small bit of insecurity glimmering in Laxus' eyes. I never thought something like that would worry him. "I like your magic just fine, but you asked what made me see you differently. When I first saw you, I thought of you as powerful and a little frightening, and that you had amazing and strangely beautiful magic. That's not what attracted me to you though."

"Really?" Laxus whispered. That's what draws everyone in though. Power. My dad, every chick I've ever been with… But, not her? He'd never heard anyone call his lightning 'beautiful' before. Amazing? Sure, pretty much a constant thing. Never beautiful. The only person that Laxus knew of before that day that considered his lightning—or any lightning in general, really—beautiful was himself.

"Really," Lucy whispered back, raising a hand to trace along his lightning shaped scar. "I couldn't care less about how powerful you are, or the fact that you're Master's grandson. If I wanted power and prestige, I would have stayed with my dad and married some pervy old bastard like he wanted me to. Instead, I came to Fairy Tail to find a family that loves me for who I am, and to fight my way through every day to keep others safe."

Laxus closed his eyes, trying to sort out just what he thought of the blonde woman he'd spent the night with while her fingers glided over his scar. He'd never let anyone come close to touching it before, since he got it from Ivan forcing that damn lacrima into his skull, but Lucy did it the night before and again in the morning and he had no issue with it. I don't get it… Why does she see me that way?

"One step at a time, remember?" Lucy whispered while she laid her head in the crook of his neck, slowly breathing in the deliciously masculine woods-and-storms scent that belonged to Laxus. "Just know that I like you, and if you're willing to do it I'll date you. I told you what I like about you, but you don't need to overthink it."

Laxus' eyes opened in shock and then he sighed. "Guess you're right," he whispered. Don't overthink it, he thought to himself, Seems like some pretty sound advice. "So, what made you get tattoos?" he asked.

Lucy giggled and kissed his neck, noting that she had just found a sensitive spot on him when his breath hitched slightly, then said, "Same reason anyone else gets them, I guess. I like tattoos."

Laxus chuckled and rolled his eyes. "Just because you like tattoos doesn't mean you have to get one… or fifty."

"Actually, it's eighty-eight," Lucy said with a smirk. "One for each of the original constellations that are visible with the naked eye. It was more of me having a way of keeping the stars with me no matter what. I've got my Spirits' keys, and I can see their constellations at night, but there's no guarantee that I'll ever have one of every key out there." Lucy paused, and her smirk turned into a soft smile as she cuddled closer to Laxus. "Most keys don't have the best owners, so I wanted all of them to have a place with me even if I never find them. That way they would always have someone who loved them and cared about them."

Laxus wrapped his arm around her waist, then let his fingers move slowly over where he knew the stars were at on her lower back before moving up to do the same on her shoulder blades. "That's actually pretty awesome," he whispered, "Much better reason than liking tattoos."

"So, what about you?" Lucy asked. "What made you get this?" She slowly lifted her head and moved it over so her nose could trace a small portion of the tattoo on his chest and shoulder.

"I thought it looked cool," Laxus chuckled, "And that it would make me look more like a badass."

Lucy rolled her eyes and giggled when she looked up at him. "Really? The big, strong, and oh-so-powerful Laxus Dreyar thought a tattoo would make him badass? Pfft… Like you need any help."

"Oh, so I'm already a badass?" Laxus asked with a smirk.

"Yep," Lucy grinned. "I'd tell you why, but then we might have to start buttering the doors just to get your big head out if I inflate your ego too much."

"Come on, tell me," Laxus whispered with a grin, "I swear you won't have to butter a single door."

Lucy giggled and kissed his cheek. "Okay, fine. I'll just give you the highlights: Hades, Jura, and Raven Tail. Preeetttty much makes you a badass."

"Two of those were to protect the guild, and one was just for the games," Laxus reasoned.

"Yeah, but all three are insanely strong. And you wiped the floor with them," Lucy countered.

"Hm, I guess I can live with that," Laxus said. When he finally realized that he hadn't let go of Lucy's hand this whole time, Laxus froze for a moment. Why does it feel so natural to hold her hand? He couldn't think too long on it when he caught a new scent growing closer and closer to Lucy's room. "Might wanna cover up," he said while rolling Lucy off of him and pulling his hand from hers to pull the blanket back over them fully, making sure that Lucy's bountiful chest was completely covered.

"Why wo—" Lucy's question was cut off when her window opened and the salmon locks of her best friend popped into view. She put a hand over her mouth to stifle her laughter when Natsu fell from the window to the ground. On his head.

"Luuuuuuce!" Natsu groaned, "Why'd you move your bed?"

Lucy couldn't help it any longer. She leaned into Laxus' side, making sure the blanket stayed over her chest, and fell into a fit of belly-bursting laughter. "N-Natsu! I… I didn't move it on purpose!" she said between laughs.

Natsu slowly sat up and rubbed his head, then asked, "Then why isn't it—what's Laxus doing here?"

"I was helping her move the bed," Laxus said with a chuckle. He looked down at the red and hysterical face of the blonde next to him, and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

"Why did you move it, Luce? I liked where it was at," Natsu asked with a wide grin.

"It wasn't intentional, Natsu," Lucy choked out. "What did you need?"

"Oh! Happy said he wants fish, and that you have some hidden in the back of your freezer from our last fishing trip," Natsu said.

Lucy rolled her eyes and nodded. "Go ahead and get the fish, Natsu. I'll see you at the guild later." Just as he was walking out of her bedroom door, she yelled, "And use the front door for once!"

"Does he always do that?" Laxus asked, still chuckling from the absurdity of the Fire Dragon Slayer's cluelessness sometimes.

"Yeah," Lucy muttered. "Ever since I moved in. Oh man, I'm so glad he didn't sneak in last night while we were asleep…"

Laxus stared down at the top of Lucy's head in confusion and asked, "He sneaks in while you're sleeping?"

Lucy nodded and then shrugged as she said, "Yep, and then falls asleep in my bed no matter how many times I kick him out in the morning. Gray and Erza do pretty much the same thing."

"Doesn't that get annoying when you've got a boyfriend over?"

Lucy sighed and pulled away from Laxus when they heard Natsu call out that he was leaving, then the front door open and close. "I've only officially dated a couple guys, and none of them ever stayed the night over here. I don't usually bring guys back to my place because my whole team tends to come over unannounced, and it's easier to not scare someone away if Erza's not threatening to castrate them." Lucy pulled the blanket off of her as she moved to the edge of the bed, then slowly got up and made her way to the bathroom. Great, just great. No one wants to be with a girl that's got no privacy because her team is too overprotective of her… See you around, Laxus. "I'm gonna go take a shower," she muttered as she left the room.

Laxus frowned as she walked away. He couldn't understand her sudden mood change: they'd been having a halfway decent conversation, then Natsu came over and she was all laughs up until the guy left. She went from giggling to utterly dejected in no time flat, and he couldn't figure out why. He slowly got up and walked over to the still-open window, then shook his head as he closed it. Stupid Natsu… He looked back at the bed and chuckled when he realized that it had actually moved all the way across the room against the wall. Shaking his head, Laxus turned to walk out into the living room to get his clothes while he tried to figure out what had upset Lucy. Easier not to scare someone away, he thought when he paused at the bathroom door. He listened for a moment and heard the shower running, and wondered if Lucy was mad about Natsu stopping by. Maybe because he saw me here…

Lucy sighed as she stepped under the warm spray of the shower, fighting desperately against the sense of defeat she felt. "He won't be here when I'm done," she muttered sadly to herself while she wet her hair. "My team's gonna scare him off like everyone else they meet…" A sense of loneliness threatened to sweep in, bringing buckets of tears and heartache along with it, and she fought it with everything she had. Finally tell the guy you like him, have an amazing night and morning, and then this happens, she thought sadly. "Par for the course, I guess…" she whispered with a long sigh.

"You know only crazy people talk to themselves, right?" Laxus asked softly from the other side of the shower curtain.

Lucy squealed and dropped her bottle of shampoo just before she opened it. "L-Laxus? What are you doing in here?"

Laxus chuckled and said, "Figured I'd join you in the shower."

"O-Oh… Okay," Lucy said lamely, averting her gaze when he moved the curtain to the side so he could step into the shower.

"You alright?" Laxus asked softly, crossing his arms over his chest and leaning against the wall. Why does she think I'll leave because of her team? He had stood outside of the bathroom, debating whether or not he should grab his clothes and leave while she was busy since she had pretty much dismissed him. Just as he had been pushing off of the wall to get dressed, he heard her. "He won't be here when I'm done… My team's gonna scare him off like everyone else they meet… Par for the course, I guess…" She had sounded so defeated, so lonely, and it was then that he realized what was wrong and why she had suddenly gone from being happy and smiling to ignoring him. The girl finally admitted that she wanted to be with him, and she thought he would be weirded out by her team's lack of boundaries.

"Hm?" Lucy hummed while she started washing her hair. "Yeah, why?"

"Because you seemed upset," he said, pushing off the wall when her hair was rinsed and wrapping his arms around her waist from behind. "I'm still here, Lucy." He wasn't going anywhere, and finally understood why it didn't bother him. While Lucy was talking to Natsu, her words about what had changed her view of him from a guild mate to something more had finally clicked into place with what he'd told her that he was looking for the night before. She's not interested in power or who I am because of my family. She definitely knows how to get what she wants. She's sexy as hell. She thinks that the shit I do that pisses most people off is attractive. Everything he said he wanted, that he always thought didn't exist, was right there in front of him the whole time. Those warning bells in his head hadn't gone off all morning, and his gut told him that being around her was the right thing to do. Lucy had let him go wild when they were in bed, and she enjoyed every bit of it. He'd gone out of his way to get her to relax while his face was in her lap, even contentedly holding her hand and soothing her worries as best as he could. Laxus wasn't going anywhere, because he was exactly where he wanted to be.

Lucy sighed and shook her head. "You didn't need to stay to make sure I'm alright, Laxus. I'm a big girl, I'll be fine."

"That's not why I stayed," Laxus whispered, leaning down to press his lips to a cluster of stars that barely touched her shoulder.

"Then why?"

His hand slid up her body until he gently caught her chin and turned her to face him. Once he saw her eyes, Laxus leaned down and pressed his lips to hers while the spray of the shower beat down on his back. "I stayed because I want to get to know you," he said before kissing her again. "So far, everything I've learned about you is amazing. I don't want to let something like that go because of Natsu barging in."

"But you don't date, remember?" Lucy asked while she pulled away again. "It was silly of me to think I'd be any different. Really, it's okay."

"It's not okay," Laxus said while he turned her whole body to face him. He lifted her chin and smirked when she finally met his gaze. "I'm an asshole, and you're a fucking saint in comparison. So, maybe I want to see what I've been missing out on all this time…"

"Well, we already slept together, so that's pretty much it."

Laxus chuckled and shook his head. "I mean dating. Specifically dating you."

Lucy gaped at him, well and truly flustered by what he'd said, and opened and closed her mouth while she tried to find the words to say to him. "Wh-Why?"

"Because you're what I've always wanted," Laxus answered with a small grin, "And you like the noises I make."

"But… My team…" Lucy whispered uncomfortably.

Laxus smiled down at her and whispered, "I seem to remember someone calling me a badass earlier. I think I can handle your team's lack of boundaries. I mean, my team's pretty much the same, so I think I've got this. The only difference is that they don't crawl into my place through windows… And they're definitely not stupid enough to try and sleep in my bed."

Lucy blushed and slowly raised her hands to his face, tracing her thumbs over his cheeks for a moment while she smiled up at him. She slowly pulled him down for a kiss, and moaned lightly when he crushed her to his chest and his hand tangled in her hair. She felt his growing arousal start to press more insistently against her belly while their tongues battled, and moved one hand down to lightly stroke him.

Laxus gasped and thrust into Lucy's warm, petite hand when her fingers closed around him, and he groaned when her tongue shot into his mouth during his distraction. Too soon for his liking, her hand left his shaft with one last long stroke and slid back up his chest until she was gripping his shoulders. He couldn't help but chuckle when he felt her muscles tense just before she jumped up and wrapped her legs around his waist, and his hands instantly went to stabilize her by grabbing onto her perfectly rounded cheeks.

Lucy moaned and rolled her hips against Laxus, and when he roughly pinned her to the wall of the shower she couldn't help but giggle. Her hands left his shoulders, one arm wrapping around his neck while her other hand loosely tangled in his hair, while he slowly ground himself against her moistening center. "Please, Laxus," she whimpered before diving back in to kiss him more urgently.

"Say yes," Laxus rasped. He rocked his hips slowly, letting his full length travel over Lucy's sex, and massaged the supple flesh of her rear in his hands.

"What… do you mean?" she asked, never pulling her lips away from his for too long.

"Say you'll be my girl," Laxus answered. "I'll belong to you, and you to me—just like you said. Say yes…" He groaned when he prodded her entrance, but he quickly adjusted so his shaft was running up and down her slit and getting drenched with her juices while he moved against her.

"Yes," Lucy moaned. "I'll be your girl." She smiled up at him when he pulled back to look into her eyes, and they never broke eye-contact while he slowly pushed himself into her sex.

Laxus slowly leaned back down to capture her lips, but he kept his pace careful and gentle. He pushed into her slippery folds, moaning as he felt each and every inch of his rod being enveloped and gripped so tightly by her, and pulled back just as slowly as he entered. When Lucy's hips pushed down to meet each of his thrusts, rolling slightly once he was fully sheathed inside of her, Laxus fought the urge to move faster. He felt a growl rumbling through his chest, and as Lucy's lips pulled up into a small smile while they kissed, he couldn't help but mirror it.

Lucy's head fell back against the wall when Laxus started pulling her more fully onto him, pushing just a little bit deeper and rolling his hips in time with her. "Laxus," she moaned happily, stretching her neck out for him when he moved down to nip and lick at the tender flesh there. In her experience, no other man came close to what he was doing to her. Fast, slow, rough, gentle; it didn't matter what he did. A shiver went through her when one of his hands started gliding over every inch of her that he could reach, taking his sweet time to map out where she was most sensitive.

"Lucy," Laxus groaned, "God, you're amazing." He nipped at her collar bone, grinning deviously when she jumped a little as he broke the skin. His tongue dragged across the small droplet of blood that leaked out, and she moaned loudly while her sex tightened around him. Lucy's legs changed their position slightly with her feet pressing against his calves so she had the leverage to move herself, and once she started Laxus couldn't help but let both of his hands roam freely across her creamy flesh. He found out that her ribs were ticklish if he touched her too lightly, that his thumbs brushing over her hips with just the right amount of pressure caused her to buck against him—which had his eyes crossing with how wonderful it felt—and finally just how much the noises he made affected her. Every sound that came out of Laxus' mouth, regardless of its ferocity, had Lucy smiling and moaning loudly while she pulled herself closer to him.

By some miracle, Lucy was able to arch her back and push Laxus' head down so his lips could close over her breast. They were taking their time with each other, going back to basics and figuring out just what the other liked when it wasn't frantic and primal need that was raging through them. Her hands slid back to his shoulders while he laved his tongue slowly across her chest, and when he found a particularly sensitive spot and bit down, Lucy screamed out and pushed herself more forcefully onto him. Laxus steadied her hips with his hands, not letting her move too quickly, and groaned against her while his tongue flattened across the place he'd bitten.

Laxus didn't care how long they spent together in that shower; he was much more concerned with pouring everything he had into his time with Lucy, and pulling every moan and whimper of his name he possibly could from her. His body was slowly tightening in tandem with hers, and he carefully moved so her legs were hooked over his forearms, then paused to look into her eyes with a smirk when only the tip of his throbbing manhood was inside of her. "Tell me if it's too much, okay?" he whispered as he pushed her a little higher on the wall.

Lucy nodded and gripped Laxus' shoulders, pressing a soft kiss to his lips while he pushed back in. She winced when he invaded her even further than before, and whimpered lightly while her grip on his shoulders tightened. She sighed when he started to pull back, and a long moan left her while her body tried to force him back into her core. Everything about the position he'd put her in had pleasure coursing through her body and curling her toes in the process.

Laxus carefully pushed back in and laid his head on Lucy's shoulder when he met with a small bit of resistance. "Relax, babe," he whispered softly into her ear. "I'll be careful." He felt Lucy take a deep breath, and he made several short strokes to push further into her tightened sex. "That's it," he moaned when it got easier to push through, "Just like that." He kept going with those same short movements, pushing just a little further each time he moved forward.

"Mmphh!" Lucy whimpered when Laxus brushed against her back wall, the tip of his manhood prodding her cervix as if asking for entrance into a forbidden realm.

Laxus kissed every inch of her neck, nibbled gently on her ear, growled lightly to reassure her while he got closer to breaching that last bit of her. With one final surge, Laxus broke through that final inner barrier and moaned while Lucy tensed around him. He quickly captured her lips and stayed completely still while she adjusted to the new intrusion so deep inside of her, and after a long while when she hadn't relaxed he pulled back from the kiss to look into her pained expression. "Just breathe, Lucy," he said reassuringly. When she nodded, but kept her lips clamped shut, Laxus slowly pulled back and stifled the moan he wanted to let out.

"Wait," Lucy said urgently, her eyes wide as she looked at him. "Keep going, Laxus."

Laxus' brow furrowed, but he carefully pushed back in. Lucy gasped and her sex rippled around him while he continued. In and out, small tender strokes that let Lucy adjust to everything. Eventually she was moaning louder than before, and urging him to move faster, harder; to give her everything he had. A low growl erupted from him and he plunged into her, moaning every time he pushed past that barrier that gripped him tightly as if it didn't want to let him go. "Fuck, Lucy," Laxus grunted. "You feel so good… Oh, God…" Laxus snarled wildly when Lucy's nails dug into his shoulders while she held onto him, and that quick jolt of pain only made him move faster.

"L-Laxus…" she panted, "O-Oh… Right there!" Lucy was hardly able to form words by that point. Just like the night before, Laxus was pouring everything he had into pleasing her, giving her just what she asked for. She suddenly started to feel as though she was being overwhelmed by sensations: the heat of the still-running shower making the air too thick to breathe, the strange jolts of pleasure that shot through her every time Laxus was fully sheathed deep within her, and the way his body vibrated against hers with every noise he made. Lucy couldn't tell if she wanted him to stop, or to keep going and give her even more of what he had to offer, but with the way her whole body was tightening up around the swelling shaft inside of her, Lucy didn't really even need to think about it.

Laxus' hips snapped relentlessly as he pushed them both towards their end, and the smallest part of his mind wondered if Lucy would actually have bruises from how hard he was pistoning into her. The sensual gleam in her eyes let him know that she was currently in the middle of giving zero fucks about being sore later on, and that only appealed to his wilder side even more. Yet again, Lucy was proving to be surprisingly well-matched for him, and he could hardly believe that he'd snagged someone like her in the first place. When her nails dug into his shoulders again, actually breaking the skin, Laxus' eyes rolled back and he slammed himself into her once more.

Lucy wasn't sure what she'd expected when he suddenly froze, but her world seemed to have been completely flipped upside down when the hands that were tightly gripping her tattooed hips started grinding her roughly against him while he rocked his hips. Again and again, Laxus used his own pelvis to tease her sensitive pearl with each movement he made, and the combination of those quick sparks of pleasure combined with how deeply he was nestled in her sex had Lucy's head swimming. Her head dropped to Laxus' shoulder, and her teeth clamped down on one sweeping tendril of his tattoo while she screamed out of pure pleasure.

"Shit, babe," Laxus groaned, "Do that again, and I'm gonna cum." He grinned when Lucy's sex rippled around him, then decided that was exactly what he wanted. He'd scratched her up with his teeth the night before, and now all he wanted was for Lucy to leave a mark on him as well. "Actually… Do it again…"

Lucy whimpered while she teetered on the edge of her release, and let her teeth drag roughly across the broad expanse of Laxus' chest. Her tongue slid out and flattened over the black guild mark that was surrounded by his tattoo, and she jumped when she started feeling a strange vibration running across his skin. "L-Laxus?" she panted questioningly, looking up into his darkened stormy eyes and seeing a feral and mischievous glint to them.

"Do it…" he grunted, pulling himself almost completely from Lucy quivering core before slamming himself back in and breaching her innermost barrier over and over, "And I'll make you cum so fucking hard you'll go blind."

Lucy gasped as his words shot straight to her center, ramping up her libido to an all-time high. The vibrations along his skin had worried her at first, but when his hand shot out to turn off the water of the shower, she was able to figure out just what he was doing. Once the water was gone, lightning crackled over Laxus' skin, teasing every bit of Lucy's flesh that came into contact with it. She shuddered as several arcs of electricity swept over her breasts, teasing her puckered nipples with quick jolts that left her breathless. Lucy's body tensed, a moan-turned-scream barreling out of her when Laxus planted himself as deeply as possible and she felt that same electrical jolt deep within her core.

"Come on, you know you want it." This was probably one of his favorite ways to use his magic, even more so with how responsive Lucy was to what he did. He couldn't completely control the small arcs of lightning that shot off of him and licked across her body, but it didn't seem to matter where it happened because eventually there was a light and almost imperceptible crackling of lightning dancing all across Lucy's body. He watched in amazement as Lucy's eyes went wide and rolled back, and he groaned loudly when she rolled her hips. If lightning itself was beautiful, then he didn't even have the words to describe what she looked like covered in it, especially while she was in the throes of passion.

Lucy's eyes shot open to see that smug, shit-eating, cocky as hell grin she'd fallen for making its presence known. "M-MORE!" she screamed, pleading him with her eyes to do it again.

Laxus growled and slanted his mouth over hers, his tongue diving into her wet cavern and dominating the feisty blonde. He let more of his magic leak out, the electricity running across his skin audibly crackling in the room and increasing the pressure of the air around them. Lucy's sex was clenching him so tightly, he knew he wouldn't be able to hold himself back much longer, and it really didn't help that this was the first time he'd ever gotten a woman to let him push this far into her. With how her walls rippled and gripped him, it wasn't surprising that the barrier he'd broken through would squeeze even tighter.

Lucy ripped her mouth away from Laxus', roughly grabbed his spiky blond locks, and yanked his head to the side. She was mesmerized by the sight of lightning quite literally filling the shower—and probably her whole bathroom—for only a moment before she felt herself preparing to take that leap into pure bliss.

"Oh yeah," Laxus groaned when Lucy got nice and aggressive by forcefully baring his neck to her. He was gritting his teeth and tightening every muscle in his abdomen to hold his release at bay just a little longer as he growled, "Do it, Lu—FUCK!" Laxus' eyes went wide when Lucy finally dropped her head and bit the juncture of his neck and shoulder, her blunt teeth leaving deep impressions that nearly broke the skin. Once her jaw clamped down and he felt her roughly sucking on his flesh, right in time with her sex, he roared loudly and seated himself fully into her core as he spilled over.

As she felt the tell-tale swelling in his shaft, Lucy felt something in the air change. It could have been just how different this experience was in general, but that theory was thrown right out the window when the lightning around them started moving more erratically and the buzzing sensation over her skin increased tenfold. Everything seemed as if it moved in slow motion for Lucy. Something more powerful than she'd ever experienced coursed through Laxus and into her when he plunged into her soaking depths that final time. Lucy's head flew back and slammed into the wall when she felt an earth-shattering charge run through her with the first violent pulse of his shaft. Her entire body tensed, the coil deep within snapping instantly under the new sensation of Laxus' lightning, and she let out a strangled and garbled cry of his name while she shot into the heavens. That same bright light burst behind her eyes, momentarily blinding her as it always did when she had an amazing orgasm, and Lucy clenched her eyes shut and cried out with each shuddering flex of Laxus hips, every subsequent charge that caused her core to tighten over and over, while he shot himself deep within her.

Laxus groaned and carefully lowered the both of them to the shower floor before his legs gave out, panting heavily against Lucy's sweat- and water-slicked body and keeping her settled in his lap. He slowly withdrew himself from that deeper eden, little by little, and listened to Lucy moan softly when her hips involuntarily bucked against him. Laxus shuddered out an answering moan and lightly nipped at her collar bone with a grin, letting his lightning settle back into place within himself. Her whole body was shaking as she clung onto him for dear life, and all Laxus could do was rub slow circles over her back and smooth her hair from her face.

"Okay," Lucy panted as she slowly opened her eyes to find out that Laxus had kept true to his word. Not only was her entire body deliciously limp and spent right then, but she could feel the pounding of her heart and the rushing of blood behind her eyes… And, of course, the smug bastard hadn't lied when he said she'd go blind. Lucy's vision was almost completely dark at that point, but she could at least make out a blur that she knew was Laxus. As she waited for her vision to clear, which it was doing extraordinarily slowly, she continued. "I've changed… my mind… about your magic…"

Laxus chuckled and pressed his lips to the tip of one star on Lucy's shoulder. "Yeah? How so?"

Lucy grinned lazily and turned her head to the side, lightly nibbling on his earlobe. "It's amazing, beautiful, and sexy as hell… It just got added to the list of attractive things about you."

Laxus lifted his head and raised an eyebrow at her, taking in her flushed face before he saw that her eyes were not only half-lidded and fully-sated, but also entirely unfocused while she tried to follow his movements. With a wicked grin, Laxus said, "Really. Why might that be?"

"Because I just got fucked by a damn lightning storm," Lucy retorted with a soft giggle, nibbling her lower lip and closing her eyes contentedly. "I had no idea you could do that."

"I had no idea you'd like it so much," Laxus whispered as he leaned in to press a soft kiss to Lucy's jaw. "You doin' alright though?"

Lucy smiled and nodded slowly. "Peachy. As soon as my eyes start working again, I'll be good to go." She lifted her head from his shoulder after a few minutes of comfortable silence and looked deeply into his eyes now that she was actually able to see them, then leaned in to press her lips to his in a gentle kiss. "Best sex I've ever had," she said with a grin.

Laxus chuckled and ran his nose along hers, then said, "You're not the only one."

Lucy smirked and said, "So, I have the honor of the number one spot on your impressive sex-capades list?"

"Damn right you do," Laxus said with a matching smirk, "That's part of the reason you're my girl." He kissed Lucy again when she blushed, and carefully withdrew himself from her before standing up and setting her on her feet. He chuckled when she wobbled a little and leaned against him, then raised an eyebrow in a silent question at her.

"My legs don't want to work just yet," Lucy giggled, "I think someone broke me."

"I could kiss it and make it better," Laxus said with a lecherous grin.

"Maybe after we actually eat breakfast," Lucy retorted with a sweet smile, then leaned over and turned the shower back on so they could actually clean themselves up this time. "It can be your dessert!"

Laxus leaned down and kissed her again, then rested his forehead on hers while he shook his head. "What am I gonna do with you, Lucy?" he whispered.

Lucy looked innocently up into those beautiful blue eyes, and kept a straight face while she said, "Probably fuck me so hard my brain falls right out of my head…" She paused and watched his jaw drop, then put a finger to her chin in thought, "Honestly, if you did that it would only add to the 'dumb blonde' schtick I've got going…" She stopped and grinned at him. "Let's do it!"

"WHAT?!" Laxus laughed, the sound booming and echoing through the small bathroom. Not a moment later, he was joined by Lucy's own hysterical laughter.

Lucy walked happily to the guild holding Plue in her arms. She and Laxus had parted once they left her apartment so he could head home to change his clothes, and he said he'd see her later on at the guild. "It's a great day, Plue," Lucy said with a grin.

"Punn Punnn?"

"The sun is shining, birds are singing, and I've had a wonderful day so far," Lucy answered while she hopped off of the canal wall to stand just in front of her second home. The weather had finally warmed up enough that Lucy was able to wear her skimpy skirts and tops, so she had instantly gone for a pair of black short-shorts that rested low on her hips to show off her stars, and a white halter-top that ended just above her belly button with a pressed collar that accentuated her bountiful chest with its deep V-cut. She finished the outfit off with her black combat boots, white belt for her keys and whip, and her usual pigtails. "Thanks for walking with me." She smiled down at her Spirit when he nodded and disappeared, then looked up at the guild doors and took a deep breath. She walked inside with a bright smile, and quickly sat down at the bar to wait for her usual strawberry smoothie from Mira.

"So, Lucy," Cana said with a drunken and sloppy grin, "How was your night?"

"It was pretty damn good," Lucy answered with a giggle.

"Well, you're getting in pretty late," Cana chuckled as she glanced at the clock and took a swig from her barrel. "It's already past lunch, and you're usually in for breakfast."

"Oh, well…" Lucy blushed and bashfully looked down at her hands.

"So, how was your morning?" Mira asked sweetly.

When Lucy's blush deepened, Cana laughed loudly and patted her on the back. "Hell yeah! That's what I'm talking about! Our little Lucy was probably too sore to even move!"

Lucy balked at how much attention their little group was garnering from Cana's loud ass mouth, so she leaned over and roughly pulled on the Card mage's ear. "Shut the hell up, Cana," she hissed, "Or I'll be telling Mira all about how you and Elfman hooked up on Christmas Eve." She pulled back to give Cana a hard glare to make her point, and saw the brunette pale and nod quickly.

"Too sore?" Mira prodded when she set the smoothie down in front of the blonde.

Lucy rolled her eyes and one corner of her mouth turned up as she said. "No, I wasn't too sore, Mira. Cana's being ridiculous."

"Really?" Mira asked, leaning her elbows on the counter with her trademark matchmaking smile in place. "Natsu said something about you rearranging your room with Laxus."

Lucy froze, then turned to look at Natsu who was in the middle of innocently chatting with Lisanna. "What else did he say?"

Cana smirked and said, "Oh, just that you and Laxus were in bed, and it wasn't under the window like it was supposed to be, but all the way across the room."

"And something about you being naked, and then a fish," Mira added.

"Yeah," she said absently as she glared at her best friend. I'm gonna kill him…

"So, come on," Cana whispered, fully intending on keeping that fling with Elfman under wraps for as long as humanly possible since neither of them were entirely sober at the time… and Elfman doesn't want to incur Gildarts' wrath for 'sullying his daughter's virtue' or something like that. "What's up? I need details..."

Lucy sighed and kept her narrowed gaze on Natsu while she said, "I'll tell you in a minute… Be right back."

Cana and Mira watched with amusement and a little bit of horror as Lucy ran over and tackled Natsu to the floor and punched him in the head. The doors to the guild opened to reveal Laxus walking in, and then he paused when he saw the petite blonde wailing on the Fire Dragon Slayer. Everyone's attention was so focused on Lucy—except for the Card and Take Over mages—that it was surprising to see Laxus stride over to them and pick Lucy up around the waist before throwing her over his shoulder.

"Put me down, Sparky!" Lucy yelled as she squirmed in his grasp.

Once they were back at the bar, Laxus carefully lowered the feisty blonde to her feet and swooped down to claim her lips with his. He smirked when she melted into him with a soft moan, and he ignored the catcalls of the guild when he pulled her flush against his chest, with one hand gently cupping the back of her neck and the other smoothing over the stars on her lower back. When he finally let her lips go, Lucy was completely dazed out and smiling lazily up at him. "Blondie, don't call me Sparky," he whispered with a smirk.

"I thought I told you not to call me Blondie," she retorted.

Before he could say anything back, Makarov's voice boomed across the guild from the second floor. "LAXUS!" Makarov bellowed, looking down at the bar where his grandson was pinning Lucy with a devious grin on his face. He watched as both of the blondes sheepishly turned to look up at him, and raised an eyebrow at Laxus in question.

Laxus rolled his eyes at his grandfather and started to pull away, but Mira frowned and turned to glare up at Makarov. "Master, you leave them alone this instant!"

"But—"

"Yeah, pretty sure Lucy's got a handle on the situation," Cana interjected. "I mean, she handled herself pretty well on that pole last night."

"CANA!" Lucy screeched.

Mira giggled and added, "From what I can tell, it was more than one pole."

"Mira, not you too!"

Makarov stared at the blushing Celestial mage, then his eyes shot over to the stage where an iron pole had been left from the night before. His eyes widened, and he looked back over to Laxus who was fighting to hold back his laughter. Their eyes met and he saw Laxus' grin widen in a way that meant only one thing… The women were telling the truth.

"This morning, too," Laxus interjected, chuckling when Lucy froze in place and gaped at him. "Okay, and this afternoon…"

Mira paused in her standard polishing of glasses with the tell-tale twinkle in her eyes that everyone knew would lead to one thing…

"LUCE!" Natsu bellowed, "The hell was that for?!"

Lucy shook herself from her stupor and leaned around Laxus without trying to break from his grasp, and frowned. "That was for telling these two chatty Cathy's that you saw me and Laxus in bed, and that it was pushed all the way across the room!" she shouted back, not even realizing the conversation wasn't private in the slightest, or that the guild went completely silent.

"I still don't get why you moved it," Natsu replied. "Or why your room smelled weird… Besides, why would you only move the bed if you were going to rearrange your room?"

"YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!" Lucy screeched.

"What?" Natsu asked, grinning widely and throwing a hand behind his head to discreetly rub the knot that was forming there. "Laxus said he helped you move it, and—"

"Oh my god… kill me now," Lucy muttered, her agitation at how clueless her best friend could be reaching an all-time high. "WE HAD SEX, NATSU!" she yelled, "Laxus here fucked me so hard that he pushed the bed ac—" Lucy stopped mid-sentence and blushed an unnatural shade of red when she remembered that they were in the guild…

Mira's mind was whirling with image after image of all the wonderfully dirty things that could have happened while hearts starting pounding in her eyes. She grinned and started swaying back and forth while clasping her hands together and bringing them to her chest. "OH MAVIS!" she squealed, "LITTLE BROWN-EYED LIGHTNING BABIES!"

Mira's outburst brought the rest of the guild back to their senses, and the noise level greatly increased since they all had some new gossip to talk about. Although, there were several members—like Macao, Gildarts, Freed, and Makarov—that were frantically searching for tissues to quell their raging nosebleeds from the mental picture Lucy had given them.

"Strike that… Kill me five minutes ago," Lucy whispered, visibly shuddering at the crazed look Mira was giving her that seemed to say 'You'll have those babies regardless of how little sense it makes… Or I'll steal your ovaries and do it myself'.

When Lucy's eyes widened more than he'd thought humanly possible, Laxus couldn't help but let out a loud, booming laugh while he pulled her into his chest.

"Hey, don't you laugh at me!" Lucy yelled, smacking Laxus in the back of the head. Yet again, she squawked when he instantly returned to favor before smirking down at her. "Ass."

"Tease," Laxus answered with a soft smile. He leaned down and whispered in her ear, his smile becoming a full-on grin when she shivered at the contact, "And you're all mine."

"Damn right," Lucy said happily while her arms wrapped lightly around his neck. "And don't you forget it."

THE END.

And that's all there is to it! This OFFICIALLY the end of this story. Two chapters, and nothing more! I swear! I have no intention of continuing this. IT IS COMPLETE!

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