Tonight of all the nights Chapter two
It was the early hours of the morning and the storm had just stopped. Mirajane woke to the few bright rays of light shining on her face. Feeling a sudden warmth on her arm she looked over to see blonde hair just under the blankets. The memories of what occurred last night flooded her mind, it wasn't a dream Laxus Dreyar actually turned up at her house at a ridiculous time in the morning.
Speaking of time Mira spared a glance at the clock and realised it was 10 past 7 meaning she needed to get up and cook breakfast for Lisanna and Elfman. Not wanting to wake the sleeping man she slowly and carefully removed his head from her arm and placed his head against the pillows. Wondering if his bandages needed changing she pulled back the blanket and checked, seeing only a drop of blood on his shoulder she decided they would last a couple more hours. Happy that she could leave Laxus to sleep Mira pulled up the blanket and closed the curtain to allow him to sleep some more before having to wake him.
Making her way to her en-suite she didn't dare glance in the mirror dreading her reflection because of the lack of sleep. Surprisingly Mira observed her reflection and could see no major signs of sleep loss, saying that she still needed to wash her hair as it wasn't looking its best. After a quick shower she changed into a dress and proceeded to make her way downstairs. Once she got downstairs she was greeted by two hungry looking siblings.
"Sorry I guess I slept in a little later than usual" Mira quickly apologised for the lateness and decided to make the two pancakes to make up for her being late. She also decided to make Laxus some however she said they were hers to not arouse any suspicion that Laxus was in her bedroom. Small talk was made over breakfast in which Elfman complained how he didn't see the storm because he slept through the entire thing which was received by two death glares by the sisters.
"Hey Mira-nee did you here somebody knock on the door earlier this morning?"
Turning around to hide her wide eyed expression she coolly replied "No I didn't here anything because of the thunder, did you see if somebody did knock?"
"o-of course not, I wasn't gonna go check to see if some random stranger was there"
A loud shout of "That's not manly" was followed by Elfman. Not focusing on the argument taking place between Lisanna and Elfman she looked outside the window to meet with the sun rising. For some reason Mira had the feeling that today was going to be a long but good day.
He couldn't remember exactly how he managed to get to her house. All he could remember was the cold harsh wind battering his tired body and how with each step he took the closer he got to losing consciousness. It took all the strength in him to defeat Raven Tail. Although, the fight was yesterday Laxus had problems remembering just what exactly happened. He remembered picking up a job and all of a sudden he was attacked on route. But, that wasn't what concerned him the most there was a new member of Raven Tail which gave him a run for his money. Darkness that's all he could see when thinking about the mage not even a name to put to the mysterious mage.
Mira entered her bedroom breaking him out of his thoughts.
"Laxus your awake, how do you feel?" Mira nudged Laxus on to the other side of the bed to sit next to him, this emitted an annoyed groan because of how comfortable the lightning mage had gotten whilst she left the bed.
"Better, what time is it as I need to be back at the guild before lunch otherwise the Rajinshuu will start freaking out"
Mira sent him a sympathetic look, since he's been back the thunder tribe haven't let him out of their sights.
Laxus started to pull off the blankets when Mira interrupted him, "why don't you stay here, I'll tell the thunder tribe that you messaged me to say that you had a delay?".
"Won't Lisanna and Elfman find out I'm here, unless you've already told them?" Laxus raised an eyebrow wondering if the white haired mage would be brave enough to tell her siblings that he stayed the night. Then again Laxus knew he would most probably be beaten to a pulp if Elfman knew.
A small huff from the demon told him his answer that his presence was being kept a secret. Mira looked at him and blushed from the eye contact with the dragon slayer.
"What?" Laxus was blatantly clueless with why Mira was blushing from maintaining eye contact. Everybody in the guild knew that Laxus wasn't one to be sociable and at time could be quite awkward and for once he felt awkward and not the other person.
"Laxus...why did you come here of all the places, I mean you could of gone to the guild or the-" Mira was interrupted by Laxus before she could finish her sentence.
"I dunno, I suppose your house was fairly close and all and I knew I wouldn't make it much further so I just came her. Plus you wouldn't freak out or make a fuss so.. yeah".
Take back by his response Mira wordlessly got up and made her way to the bathroom and brought back a clean bowl of water and bandages to change his dressing, along with the medical supplies she now had his clothes which had dried out as well as being washed.
Laxus curiously watched what the elder Strauss was doing, looking to her hands she noticed something strangely familiar, his clothes. He had complete forgot that he was in his underwear, well this will be a good story he thought.
"Your clothes were covered in blood so I cleaned them, speaking of cleaning I need to clean your wound" Making her way other she motioned for Laxus to sit up which he did with a grunt in having to move. Once undoing his bandages she saw that his wound had in fact stopped bleeding a while ago which put a smile on her face knowing Laxus should be fine.
Getting the wash cloth she slowly cleaned the wound, half expecting a groan she was surprised that Laxus hadn't made a noise.
"Laxus doesn't this hurt?"
"Nah, not really it hurt more getting the wound and your really gentle".
Astounded by the words which came out of his mouth the great almighty Laxus Dreyar started to blush, although it wasn't obvious Laxus felt extremely embarrassed. Your going soft on her he thought. Once Mira had finished changing his dressings she held out his clothes to him.
"Umm if you get dressed you could come to the guild with me but you need to hurry as I'm leaving in ten minutes.
With that Mira left the room and closed the door behind her. Unsure whether he wanted to go to the guild Laxus still got dressed as he was feeling rather cold without the blankets providing him warmth. Laxus had to admit it was fairly difficult trying to pull a shirt over your head with one arm refusing to move however, Mira managed to get the shirt off he should be able to put it on. Finally dressed he made his way over to the door and opened it to feel something bump into his chest.
"Huh?" Confused what just happened he saw a rather red faced Mira staring at the ground. Realising Mira was the one who bumped into him and seeing she was embarrassed he quickly adverted the situation by talking.
"I'm gonna come with you to the guild as right now I need the fresh air and still need to speak to the old man about what happened".
"Oh are you sure you don't have to speak to Master if you don't want to, I wont force you as you've handled Raven Tail before".
With a smug grin Laxus replied "nah, plus I can't leave a young lady to walk on her own, someone's gotta escort her".
With that Mira pulled him out of her bedroom quickly scanning if Lisanna and Elfman was about, seeing no sign of them she continued to pull Laxus out of the house before shouting a rushed goodbye to the two.
"Why are we rushing?"
Remembering that Laxus was still injured and it wasn't fair to make Laxus walk at her brake neck speed she slowed down to match Laxus's pace.
"I normally walk this fast so I can see the sunrise over Magnolia".
"Oh, well we can walk faster if you like, I don't mind".
Laxus replied smiling to Mira. She never took notice of how handsome Laxus really was especially when he was smiling which used to be very rare, but now a changed man Laxus was a lot friendlier than before.
Humming whilst walking Mira wished that nothing serious would happen between the family guilds, undoubtedly she no that it was inevitable that something would occur sooner of later, sadly she was hopping that it wouldn't. Unfortunately that was virtually impossible.
Seeing the guild in the distance Laxus increased his pace knowing the takeover mage wanted to hurry but restrained herself from doing so. Arriving at the guild she pushed the door open to be greeted by the Master who was already sat on the counter looking over some papers. Surprised by someone else being with Mira he looked up to see his grandson. Smiling warmly he motioned for Laxus to come take a seat at the bar.
"Boy why are your clothes ripped? And why are you back so soon, I knew you where fast at doing requests but this is a record!" Concern could be seen in Makarovs eyes, worry of what had bestowed his grandson.
"You see-
At this point in time Natsu came bursting in through the guild doors out of breath.
"Gramps Raven Tail are fighting Erza and Gray!"
"WHAT!?"
Okay first cliff hanger. Gomensai (sorry) for being mean just that I wasn't a hundred per cent sure on how to finish this chapter. Really happy with the first response over a 100 views in one day! Thank you for my first review really appreciated it 3. Can't wait to here what you think,
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