Hey guy's I know I'm still working on a few other stories at this current moment in time but my real life is a little hectic right now trying to balance my work and social life, so I'm bringing to you this WHOLE! Brand new story! That me and my fiancé have been talking about and I just can't get the idea out of my head, so this story is brought to you by CureDream90 and Articdragonslayer!

WARNING SLIGHT LEMON IN THIS CHAPTER

Chapter 6

South Dakota – Univille Diner

Lucy finished downing a glass of water sitting back patting her slender stomach, "2 burgers, chilli dog and fries really hit the spot! Damn I totally missed this food" She looked up to see her mate grinning at her, "What?" "oh I just didn't realise that my girl could eat so much, mind you, now that you're a slayer now, I suppose it makes sense" a light blush dusted across her cheeks turning her head away slightly, "Well I was hungry, we haven't had a decent meal two days since we left North Dakota but now that we are here and fuelled up, we can head to Leena's B&B, I just hope everyone I knew is still there."

"What did you exactly do while being here Blondie? Why wouldn't everyone still be there?" his questions was simple, but she had a hard time trying to think of answers "I was the Technician support on the team, fixing the computers, keeping the security system running and all that, but I sometimes did field work as an agent. So we was always on the move, last time I checked two of the agents was dating each other, I don't know If they've left to start a family or if they are still working here." Her voice was soft but it held guilt, "I never kept in contact with them when I came to Fairy Tail"

He nodded trying to understand, all this technology that the humans had here in America was so confusing to him. She placed a couple of dollars on the table standing up, "Let's get out of here, I'm getting a bad feeling all of a sudden" he nodded following her, unaware that they was being watched by a male in the distance.

'Finally! I caught up to you two….i swear this heat's going to be the death of me….' Was all he thought, before getting up to follow them, making sure to keep some distance, knowing full well that the taller blonde had sensitive hearing and smell.

20 minutes later Leena's B&B

Shutting off the engine to Lucy's Prius, she sank slightly into the car seat, her mate could smell the nerves coming off her. She was also trembling slightly, "Are you ok?" taking a small gulp of air, she nodded "Yeah….it's just been a long time that I've seen them….are they mad at me? Worried? Was they glad that they got rid of the all mighty Wonder girl?"

Slightly taken back he raised an eye brow at that nickname, "There's something I should tell you before we go in….. Todd mentioned a girl named Claudia Donovan right?" her brown eye's danced over to see him motioning for her to carry on, "when I came to America, I had to take up a false identity so my father couldn't find me…."

"So you took up the name of Claudia Donovan? Strange name blondie." He rolled up the window before taking her hand, "but that doesn't matter to me, I was going to find out anyway, what matters is that I'm here, I'm not going to judge you because you had to use a false identity to run away from someone who left you alone." a smile edged onto her face, "You're so sweet Laxus, Alright let's do this, we are here to see Jinksy if he hasn't gotten himself into too much trouble." With a small chuckle Laxus couldn't wait to meet this Jinksy, she spoke saying he was like a brother to her, well Lucy's kin was his Kin-in-Law, Meaning he had to protect him also.

They got out of the Prius and walked up the stony path up to the brown wooden doors of the B&B, they was lightly polished meaning that the Inn keeper kept the place tidy. Lucy was about to reach for her keys, but decided against it, she was blonde now and had filled out in a lot of different ways since last being here, they would thing that she was an intruder, She didn't know if the old man screwed with the alarm system either.

She let out a small 'Tch' knowing that if the old man did screw with her system, there would be hell to pay, so she made a fist in her left hand and did a sequence of 5 knocks before waiting.

One minute passed…

Two minutes passed…..

Three minutes passed….

Her patients was wearing thin, she had travelled for almost 10 days and no one was in? raising her hand to knock again, just before it reached the wood, the door swung open revealing a tall brunette woman with curly hair, bags under her eye's "oh hello, I'm sorry it took so long" she looked over the two blondes slightly confused, but stood cautious of Laxus, "Can I help you? Are you here to rent a room? The inn Keepe-" she was cut off by the smaller blonde throwing herself into her arms hugging her.

Then the words stunned the poor woman to bits, it was only a whisper but she heard every word, "I'm home Myka…."

The woman stood stunned, looking up to Laxus who held a grin on his face, he had heard the words of his mate and just stood there crossing his arms, "C..claudia?" feeling a small nod against her shoulder, and water filling up her brown eye's she wrapped her arms around the slender teenager, "Oh my god Claudia! What…how? …. You've had us all worried sick! Come in! um…."

Laxus grinned, "We'll explain everything, come on blondie, if you don't let the poor woman go then how do you expect to make it through the door?"

"it's ok, she's welcome to cling to me but she has a lot of explaining to do" he nodded and watched as Myka slowly walked Lucy into the place, he sighed he knew this trip would get emotional for the blonde, she was an emotional person when wanted to be. Walking into the house, due to his size he had to duck his head under the door frame before closing the door.

Looking around the hallway, he saw a set of stairs leading up to where he could guess the rooms were, the walls hung many pictures of different inn keepers, also with different men and women, some in black and white. "how about we sit you on the couch sweetie and I'll go make us some Tea, still de-caff right?" Lucy sighed shaking her head, "coffee black please."

The woman raised an eye brow, if Laxus knew any better they held concern for his mate, "Alright um sir…" "Laxus, and I'll have the same as Blondie here," with a nod, she sat Lucy onto the couch and smiled, "I'll be right back"

With that she left, meaning he could make his way over and knelt down in front of his golden goddess, he felt a wave of sadness in his heart, knowing it was coming from her, he knelt down taking her hand "Lucy?" quickly she rubbed her eye's with her left hand and smiled, "I'm ok…. I wasn't expecting any water works so soon…. That was Myka, one of the older agents…" he rubbed his thumb over her knuckles, "babes, you don't have to explain it to me, I gathered that the people here will mean a lot to you."

"they do, they was the first people where I could call family before Fairy Tail, Even the old fart was a better father to me." He couldn't help but smile, her vocabulary was loosening up by the day. "Hey Laxus?" he gave a slight hum to her, "Since we've got here, shouldn't we contact gramps and let him know so he doesn't worry in his old age?" Slapping a hand to his forehead, he had been through so much in the past week he had forgot about keeping in contact with the guild. His grandfather probably thought he was molesting the celestial mage.

"How about we do that after you've spoken to your friend?" "That's a good idea but you can give him a call if you want, So Claudia? This fine young man your boyfriend?" they looked up to see Myka holding a tray with 3 cups on it, closing her eye's Lucy could smell the rich Italian roasted coffee, it brought a smile to her face, "Yes he is, This is Laxus Dreyer, Laxus meet Myka She's a special agent of the secret service that protects the president of this country." Lucy had informed him of the history on America and how the president acts like a king or queen should, any laws came from him/her, whether its creating new ones or cancelling out old ones. "It's a pleasure to meet you Laxus, I hope Claudia's not been causing too much trouble, Always gave poor Artie a hard time staying out late, breaking rules….."

The dragon's slayers mouth dropped and turned straight to his mate, she was rubbing the back of her head slightly, "I wasn't that bad Myks, he's still alive and kicking isn't he? I can smell his awful aftershave. An old wooden books" both women laughed until he cut in, "Wait….THE! all so innocent, cheerful ….. princess perfect! At that was a trouble maker?!" he exclaimed.

"Well I've never seen the innocent side of Claudia, but yeah she even taught me on how to hack into computers while I taught her a few moves to defend herself." Myka spoke taking her cup and sipping on the earls grey tea. Raising an eye brow he looked down to the blonde questioning, "I'll explain later, hey Myka? Where's everyone else? Where's…..Jinksy?"

The moment his name left her lips, Myka's eye's lowered to the ground. "Claudia…" Taking a deep breath, she gave the blonde sad eye's, "Steve's been missing for almost two weeks, he was on a mission and the last message we received was that he was on his way back from London. No one's seen him since, We've been looking for him but found no trace."

That was it…. Lucy's world came crashing down, "W..what? he's missing!" she shot up off the sofa like it burned and began pacing the room, rubbing her temples, "Damn! So no one knows if he's been kidnapped or hurt?" Myka shook her head and watched as the blonde began to make a hole in the carpet, "Claudia please calm down,"

"Calm down? Myka! He's!" she suddenly felt a familiar hand on her shoulder and looked into the stormy eyes of her mate, "We'll find him blondie, now that were here, we have better chances than your friends do, no offense Mika but…" "It's Myka, but Claudia, no offense but why are you here? You just up and disappeared 8 years ago, only to suddenly come back when Steve's gone missing?"

Sitting back down on the sofa, running a hand through her blonde locks, "I didn't mean to, I just had to go…. But that doesn't matter at the moment, we need to find Jinksy, he's hurt I can feel it!"

"The metronome downside? But I thought you and Steve beat that artefact?" spoke the curly brunette, only to receive a shake, "I thought so too, but I felt like my ribs were shattered…. It hurt to move or breath, no one had injured me so I knew I had to come back, I knew something had happened to my best friend, then 2 days ago…I felt my jaw break… so I know he's injured… he's hurt Myka and I can't let it happen again…. Not like when I found him in that hanger…"

Once them words left her mouth, the room became silent, no one had dared say a word, Myka remembered that day, they was trying to stop a man from destroying the world and they had found Steve Jinks in a hanger lifeless. Lucy had fought tooth and nail to use a special Artefacts powers to bring her friend back from the dead, unfortunately the downside was that if he was hurt, she felt his pain, if he was stabbed, she was stabbed, and lastly if someone killed him…he would live but she would die.

They had broken the effects of the metronome or so they thought they had, she had stopped feeling his injuries until two weeks ago when her ribs was shattered unexpectedly inside the fairy tail guild.

"Since the bond between you and Steve was so strong, it must have made a permenant connection between you too, he did come home sometimes feeling bruised and ached but he put it down to Pete, then one time around 8 years ago, he was screaming in pain for 2 hours, something about being in the ribs with a metal pole over and over again."

Both blondes winced at that, "So… it's not only connected his pain to me….but mine to his…." Before Myka could question that, the doors flew open. "MYKA! I have coo- oh we have guests? Cool scare dude!"

Laxus growled trying not to punch the man, but Lucy stood up, the smell of salt water hitting the dragons slayers nose all over again, "Pete? Oh my god! PETE!" he was quickly tackled to the floor by the blonde female, he gave a small 'oof' before looking over to Myka for help, but heard a dangerous growl, "Well looks like you've still got your rugby tackle Claud.."

The mans eye's widened and looked down to the blonde who gave him a nod, "Claudia? CLAUDIA! Oh god! You're here!" he stood up and span her round in circles "You have a lot of explaining to do young lady but your BACK! Oh Artie's going to be so happy and pissed at the same time…. And your BLONDE!"

"Whoa dude calm down from your overdrive, yes I'm back but only for a while….. gosh your still stuffing your face with this junk?" she spoke, before giving him a last hug and let go, "But of course Claud! I'm not Pete Latimer without my cookies! So who's this big fella?"

"That would be my …" she was suddenly cut off by an older gentlemen's voice, "What's all this commotion in here? I could hear the shouts from my car!" turning around, Lucy saw the one person she never thought she'd see again, sure there was a few more grey hairs since the last time she saw him, large round the waist wearing an old brown jacket, small glasses on his face with scruffy facial hair. "….Artie….."

Scrunching up his overly grown eye brows he looked to the girl, "Who are you?"

She just gave a smile then grinned cockly…. "Knock…Knock…."

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I know it seems like a rushed chapter but I really wanted to get this bit out of the way, Who has kidnapped Jinksy?

Will Pete, Myka and Artie find out about why Lucy/Claudia ran away from them?

Who growled?

Curedream90! Over and out!