Summary: A series of inter-related drabble-length one-shots featuring Wendy growing up and an overprotective Laxus. AU, Laxus/Mirajane pairing, Laxus/Wendy broship. Possibly slight-crack-fics.

A/N: Hmmm... does anyone else living in California feel like melting in this random heat wave? It. Is. So. Hot. And not in the 'omg that guy is absolutely good looking' kinda hot. I feel like I'm melting (like the wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz)... and for some odd reason half my classes have been cancelled (in advance, I might add. This is what I'm paying for... sigh.) and since my mom and sisters are coming home tomorrow from their mini-vacation in Asia, I decided I might as well skip my political science class to pick them up from the airport. (And to open the prezzies they bought me!) ANYWAYS. This chapter is definitely more Wendy-centric than the previous chapters. Laxus finally gets a break for once! (Kind of.) Oh, and Wendy's love interest finally makes his debut! (Sort of.)

Consanguinity

Summary: Wendy loves her big brother, but now she has more brothers and sisters than she can keep track of, and she loves all of them.

v. Oh brother, oh sister

Wendy always wanted to have a big sister.

And now she was going to have not one, but a whole bunch!

She glanced around the room at all of the people mingling, nothing but smiles and happiness and murmurs of congratulations filling the air.

Her almost-family.

Laxus had finally asked Mira to marry him (after asking if Wendy was okay with it first) after four years of dating. Wendy was fourteen now (soon to be fifteen). Laxus was twenty-three and Mira was a couple months behind him.

And Mira asked her to be one of the bridesmaids!

There were three of them – Lisanna, the maid of honor and Mira's younger sister; Erza, Mira's best friend; and her, Wendy, future sister-in-law.

Lisanna was really nice and Erza was super cool. Erza actually spent one summer teaching Wendy self-defense, and sternly warned the younger girl to go to her if any boys were giving her problems. When Laxus found out, he sulked about it for a couple of days before finally telling Wendy that if any boys were giving her problems, that she was to tell both he and Erza and they'd take care of the boy.

Elfman was nice too. He was Mira's middle (and only) brother and sometimes he and Lisanna would come over and play videogames with her while Laxus and Mira went on a date. He and Laxus seemed to get along, especially on the topic of "manly" men and relationships. She had a feeling that things were only going to get more and more interesting when (if!) she finally (ever) dated (She and Romeo were officially friends, but he had started hinting that he liked her and she still hadn't had the guts to tell him that she liked him too, why were boys so silly?).

But looking around at all the people she'd met over the years, she couldn't help but beam happily.

Because in a couple of days, she was going to gain more brothers and sisters than she could ever possibly hope to dream of, and she loved them all.

tbc.