When Erza and Cana walked into Fairy Tail the next day they were greeted by the usual 'hi's from everyone. They stopped together at the end of the bar, Cana getting a class of wine and Erza getting a piece of cake. Everyone had long since stopped paying the two girls an mind, and went about their own business. Once they were both finished they both nodded to each other, got up, at walked confidently in separate directions.
Erza strutted over to where Loke sat, with Lucy and Juvia. To everyone at the table's surprise, she took up a very confident conversation with them.
Cana walked over to where Romeo sat at the bar and picked him up, apparently the small boy had stayed at with Mira and Elfman overnight, because he was upset with his father. She took the unsuspecting boy into her arms and carried him over to the table where Macao sat with Wakaba. He looked up at her surprised.
"Can we talk?" She said confidently. Macao gulped and Wakaba giggled, and got up.
"I think I have something I need to do over there." He said before walking off.
"Cana sat down across from Macao and placed Romeo in her lap, who wiggled uncomfortably at the site of his father.
"Obviously there are some things going on in your house that Romeo is uncomfortable with, and that a problem, so either get your act together and take care of your kid, or loss him forever. "
Macao nodded looking down in his lap. "Romeo, I feel really bad about what I have been putting you through, I'm sorry. I was so wrapped up in my own troubles I never thought about how it would affect you. Please forgive me."
Romeo looked up at Cana who nodded. "Okay. But next time something like this happens, I'm moving in with Cana!" He jumped up and ran over to give his father a quick hug before running off to find Natsu. Cana blushed and began to stand up but Macao stopped her with a hand on her wrist.
"Cana. I'm really sorry this got so out of hand that you had to step in. Thank you." He said gratefully, then he pulled her into a hug.
Cana's blush intensified as the older man held her. After a moment she hugged him back, "Just remember that Romeo has feelings too, remember to communicate with him as much as possible. Trust me, I know what its like to have bad communication with your dad." Cana said sadly, looking across the room to where Gildarts, Natsu and Romeo where laughing about something.
Macao pulled back from the hug and gave her a questioning look, but didn't press it.
"Well see you later." He said, before walking off.
Cana sighed and walked over to the bar. She had helped Macao and Romeo's relationship a lot, but it had done nothing to help her own relationship with the man. "This is hopeless." She muttered under her breath.
She downed her beer and then went to go look at the request board. As she lazily looked over all the requests, which all seemed to be very boring and poor paying, Romeo came running up and hugged her around the waist.
"Thank you Cana." He mumbled as he buried his head in her stomach in embarrassment.
Cana smiled at the small boy around her waist. She removed his arms from her midsection then got down on her knees so as to look at Romeo from the same level. "You're welcome. Feel free to come to me if you have anything you want to talk about, okay?" Romeo nodded gave her another quick hug and ran off in true Romeo style.
Cana smiled after the son of the man she loved. At least she had a good relationship with Romeo. It would be way harder to be in a relationship with Macao if Romeo didn't like her.