Welcome to the first day of Thunder Lucy week you guys! I truly hope that you all enjoy what I have in store for you guys! I can definitely say I've had a lot of fun with these prompts too! Major thanks to my friend who was both a serious distraction and a proofreader for me to make sure I didn't go off on any weird tangents. (Even though she was mainly a distraction...) Because my head has been seriously messed up and wacky in the idea department _'

I don't own Fairy Tail sadly, that amazing creativeness goes to Hiro Mashima. And the Pradesh family (With the exception of Bickslow) belongs to the fantabulous DESNA!

So with that please enjoy!~

Sitting at the guild, there is always something weird going on. Most of the time it involves the Flame Tards group. Looking at them now it's clear to see that Natsu's done something to piss off the blonde of the group... again.

"I'm telling you right now Natsu! If you don't stop destroying everything when we are out on missions, you won't have an apartment to sneak into! Or food to eat!" I flinched as I listen to her yell at the fire dragon slayer who was obviously not paying attention to her words at all.

"Yeah yeah Luce. We'll just take another job to make up for what we lost on this one!" he grinned at Lucy who just shook her head in disbelief.

"How does she put up with him?" I hear Evergreen ask and I look over at her to see her watching Natsu and Lucy's interaction as well. "She doesn't get to spend anything for herself because shes always having to replace furniture in her apartment and for groceries and rent. I don't think I've ever seen her take a proper spa day either! The fairy mage huffed.

"I've offered to put barrier runes around her apartment, but she declines my offer every time." Freed sighed and looked up from his book to watch the interaction between the two mages as well. "It's extremely vexing to know what she's going through and not be able to help her because she doesn't want the help."

"Cosplayer's strong willed you guys!" Bickslow chuckled. "You realize she's been putting up with that crazy team for years now! I'm pretty sure she'd have to be severely injured by one of her teammates for her to finally leave that team." I growled at that. Taking the sweet blonde in as kin has made me more protective of her. And the thought of anyone hurting her makes me so angry that I sometimes forget my surroundings.

Exhibit A: I just broke my beer mug and didn't realize it until I heard a gasp from next to me. "Laxus! I get that she's kin and you don't want to see her hurt, but that's no reason to go breaking mugs!" Ever scolded. "Besides, remember what Mira said would happen the last time you broke one of her mugs." I shivered at that, not wanting to piss off the demon bar maid I quickly cleaned up the evidence of the broken glass while listening to the rest of the conversation.

"It's indubitable that Laxus be this way though Ever. He can't help it most of the time." Freed provided and I sighed. "His dragon wouldn't want his kin hurt and he'd react the same way to the thought of any of us getting hurt."

"It's true" I sighed and leaned my head back as I sat back down in my seat. "The thought of any of you guys getting hurt really pisses me off. But it's a bit different with Blondie there because of how she is. She's the light of Fairy Tail, if anything happened to her I know I wouldn't be the only one rampaging a town to find her."

"Damn straight, you and the other dragon slayers would be on the front line to get her back followed by her crazy team then the rest of the guild!" Bickslow chuckled. "That girl has everyone wrapped around her little finger and I wont deny that that includes me too." I looked over at him with a shocked look on my face. I knew they had been hanging out a lot more often but it's still weird to hear Bix even say that he's got a soft spot for the resident celestial spirit mage.

"I hate to say this since I know it's just going to go to his head, but Bix has a point. You have her claimed as kin, so we all know you would do anything for her anyways. Freed doesn't just offer to put runes up for anyone. Her and Bix have become quite the pranksters when they're together now. And she's become my favorite shopping buddy now. We've all grown close to her over this past year more than we would have thought possible." Ever spoke up looking over at me.

We all look back over at the Blonde to see her fuming as she walks over to the bar where we see Mira immediately placing a strawberry smoothie in front of the blonde. "I will never fully understand her fascination with that drink. She gets at least one every damn day she's here." Bix laughed with his tongue rolling out of his mouth.

"She says it's the sweetest fruit to her. Not to mention it apparently relieves her of stress which she obviously has plenty of with working with Natsu." Freed spoke as he went back to his book. "Judging by how she just yelled at Natsu, their last mission did not go very well in terms of jewels. So she definitely needs to de-stress. Ever, I would recommend taking her to that spa place you always go on and on about."

"That would be an amazing idea if it weren't for the fact she wouldn't let me pay for her to go last time. Remember how independent she is. She doesn't like borrowing money unless absolutely necessary and even then she pays you back right afterwards!" the woman sighed. "The girl needs a full spa day but the only issue is jewels. And to repeat your earlier statement, it looks like that last mission did not go very well."

"Hey Bossman, why don't we take her out on a mission?" I looked over at Bix with an incredulous look before he continued " It shouldn't be a problem, and she can take my portion of the reward this way she can get to saving. I would also pick a longer mission this way she can get a break from her crazy team."

Thinking on it, it would be a good idea. I get to spend time with my kin, I don't have to worry about her getting recklessly injured by her own team and we would be helping her out at the same time. Not a very difficult decision, the only problem would be having to convince her. "Alright, I'll talk to her about it when we go to work on paperwork later."

The only downside to being a guild master is having to do all the paperwork, paperwork that is mainly caused by team Natsu. But thanks to Lucy, I've been able to actually go out on a few jobs occasionally with my team since she's been helping keep all of it in check. I thank Mavis every single day for bringing Lucy to us. She may cause a lot of trouble, but that's mainly because of the magic she has and her upbringing as a Heartfilia. But since the first day she walked in through those doors with Natsu, everyone has definitely been happier.

As I'm completely lost in my thoughts I didn't even realize someone had walked up to the table until they were already sitting down next to me and poking my face. I scowl as I look down into the big brown doe eyes of the exact Blonde we were all just talking about. "What's got you thinking so hard to where you have that goofy face Spark Plug?"

Sighing I look over at the busty blonde and scowl. "Blondie, why the hell are you poking my face?"

"You're blonde to ya'know!" She scowled and stared back at me. A few minutes pass of us staring at each other before we both start laughing. "I was about to ask if you needed help with any paperwork before I head home for the day." She smiled softly.

"Ironically enough, he was just about to go and ask you before he went quiet and got that goofy face you were talking about!" Bickslow laughed at Laxus' expression and lolled his tongue out. "Don't give me that look Bossman, you know it's true!"

Laughing, Lucy looked over at Bix "Aw Bixy! Cut him some slack! He was probably just thinking about how he would ever finish all that paperwork without my help!"

Shaking my head I look over at the two laughing mages and scowl. "Okay you two, whenever you're both done laughing, Lucy meet me up in my office." I stand up and head over to the stairs that lead to the upper level of the guild to my office.

I open the door to my office and leave it open behind me knowing Lucy will follow me in shortly. I go straight to my desk and pull out all the new S-Class requests that I still have to approve and look them over to see which would be a good fit for our hopefully new makeshift team. 'Take down a Dark Guild that's been causing trouble for the merchants in this town? Decent reward, enough for each member of a S-class team. Approved. Grab an item from some ancient temple?' I stopped on this one as soon as I saw the reward and couldn't help but smile. This is going to be the request we'll take if I can talk Blondie into going with us.

I continue going through the rest of the requests until Lucy makes her way into the office and closes the door behind her before making her way into one of the chairs in front of my desk. "Soooo... besides the obvious paperwork from my teams last mission, what other paperwork did you need help with Laxus?" She asked innocently while looking up at me.

"Well there is that paperwork" I deadpanned while looking at her across the desk. "But besides that, if you wouldn't mind helping with the guilds bank accounts that would be awesome before we head out for a job."

"No problem Spark Plug, wanna hand me the paperwork so I can take it over to my desk and get started?" She pointed to the other desk in the office and I scowled looking over at it. I've never fought over something so pointless in my life, but that desk Lucy was so insistent on having in MY office. I offered her, her own office to do paperwork in, but the woman was so damn insistent on it being in my office.

"Here ya go Blondie. And when you're done with that, I need to talk to you about something else that's pretty important." She looked over at me with obvious concern as I hand her the statements and before she could ask I held up a hand to stop her. "It's nothing bad, just me trying to get thoughts together and shit."

"Okay Spark Plug. I'll go get to work on these statements and then we can talk." She said and walked to her desk and got to work. I listened to her sigh softly and the sound of her heartbeat steady as she relaxed into her work. I smiled softly looking over at her as I continued my own work.

We sat in complete silence working on our designated paperwork for the next hour with the occasional small talk. Found out Natsu ruined yet another one of Lucy's outfits due to him not watching where he aimed a dragons roar as well as taking out half of a small village near the requests location. I swear we may have to find a way to narrow down what requests he can take to lower the damage payments we have to make. I look over at the stack of papers that are all because of team Natsu and sigh then look back over at Lucy.

"Blondie, why don't you take a mission with me and my team?" I inhale quickly as she snaps her head over to look at me with wide eyes. "You don't have to! I'm just worried about you, especially with Natsu being even more destructive than normal with his attacks. The rest of the team and I were talking about it downstairs when you guys were yelling earlier. And we just got a new set of S-class requests in that we could take one."

She was still staring at me with a look of shock on her face, making me feel both uncomfortable and thinking I said something wrong. "You'd really want to take me out on a job?" I nodded my head to tell her yes. "Is there some sort of catch?" I scowl at her and she giggles. "Sorry can't help it, since that's what normally happens."

"I don't even want to know what that means." I sigh, rubbing a hand over my face. "This one request I found seems pretty well up your and Freed's path in the knowledge department. We'd have to get some artifact from a temple for some professor as well as mark it on a map for future references. The only reason I would say we take this one instead of any of the others is because of this." I get up from my desk and hand the request over to Lucy for her to look over it. I smirk as I see her eyes widen at the reward. "You in on this one?"

"Is that even a question? Hell yes I'm in!" She looked up at me with the brightest smile on her face and I chuckled. "I'll have figure out what languages to study up on too this way I can help Freed with directions. Then pack-" she stopped mid sentence before scowling. "I'm going to have to go shopping before this mission." She stated firmly before mumbling under her breath about Natsu being stupid.

"How about this. As your awesome older brother now. I will give you some Jewels to go shopping with Evergreen later." Before she could say anything else I held up a hand to stop her. "We can leave in a couple of days to go on this mission. That should give you plenty of time to go shopping for more clothes as well as get anything else you need to do done."

I've never seen the Blonde move so fast as she did when she pushed away from her desk and threw herself into my arms and hugged me tightly. "Thank you SO much Laxus! I promise I'll pay you back the jewels too!"

I sniffed and could smell the salt from her tears and sighed while my inner dragon was in a state of conflict between purring at the touch and growling at her tears. "No need to cry over this Blondie and you don't have to pay me back either. I'll let the team know when we go back downstairs alright? And how about Dinner on me tonight, I'm feeling nice so I'll even pay for the rest of the team too." I chuckled as I watched her smile and nod.

"I wish you'd show the rest of the guild the nice side of you, maybe then it'd be easier for you to find your mate." She stuck her tongue out before giggling as I started tickling her sides at that comment. "Ok! Ok!" She laughed out. "I won't bring it up again for now!" I give her a specific look and she huffs stubbornly "Fine, I promise not to bring it up unless you start talking about it first."

"Thank you" I shake my head and chuckle. "Okay, lets go round up some kids and go eat dinner and discuss this job." She giggled as we walked out of my office and down the stairs to my teams table where everyone still was smiling and talking. I looked at everyone and couldn't help but smile watching them and Lucy interact together. This is a scene I could easily live happily off of for the rest of my life.

Aaaaaaaand that is chapter one for this wonderful week!~ I do hope you all enjoyed this! I had a lot of fun writing it! (When I actually was able to anyways. I get distracted easily and life has been especially crappy to me this entire year...) But I look forward to seeing all of you tomorrow!!