As always Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima

Chapter 5

Tell Her

~~ Time skip ~~ two days ~~

Erza was sitting at the bar enjoying a piece of strawberry cake and chatting to a pregnant Mira, when she heard squeals from the second floor. She turned and saw three little girls come flying down the staircase. The oldest one had light brown hair and blue eyes, Elfman and Evergreen's oldest daughter, Isabell. The one right behind Isabell was a little shorter with blue hair and brown eyes, her own daughter, Rose. The youngest was a head shorter than Rose with black hair and red eyes, Gajeel and Levy's daughter, Nami.

"Mommy!" She heard Rose yell as she got closer, "Laxus is awake and he's very grumpy. He says if you don't go up there and let him out of bed he was gonna fry you." The girls looked worried and Erza glanced at Mira then back at the girls.

"Tell you what. Rose, you can finish my cake and Isabell and Nami can get a snack from Mira, okay?" Rose's eyes went wide as Erza got off the stool, picked her up and set her in front of the cake.

"Really Mommy?" Erza smiled as she placed Nami on the stool next to Rose.

"Really. Hurry and dig in before I change my mind," as she pretended to go after the cake, Rose giggled and pulled the cake closer to her. Erza turned away from the giggling girls and made her way to the infirmary, signaling Freed to follow her. She walked into the room to a string of curses. She glared over at Laxus, who was trying his best to get out of bed, only to have the runes light up and push him back into bed.

"I'll pretend I didn't hear what you just said... and you need to calm down and listen to us if you want to get out of that bed." Erza sat down on the bed next to him, crossed her arms and legs and waited. Freed closed the door and moved a chair to the foot of the bed and sat down. They both glared at Laxus until he gave in.

"Okay. Fine. You guys win. I'll listen to what you have to say." He sat up and leaned against the headboard.

Erza relaxed a bit and sighed. "You need to tell her soon, Laxus." She saw his eyes stray over to the bed next to him, at the bandaged and sleeping form of Lucy. He sighed and looked back to them.

"Haven't I told you already, I'm waiting for her to come to me. I'm not go-" There was a crash as Freed stood up, knocking over his chair.

"That, Laxus, is crap and you know it. Remember during the first GMG we were in and she fought Flare. How you almost destroyed the hotel room because you weren't the one to notice the threat. How, after the incident with Minerva, you actually did destroy the hotel room. How about all the jobs you took near Lucy just to keep an eye on her?"

Erza watched Freed yell in stunned silence. He was starting to turn red and he looked to be on the edge of angry tears. Laxus looked stunned, she guessed Freed had never let his anger out on him before.

Freed continued to yell at Laxus. "How many times did Bix, Ever, and I tell you to man up and tell her how you feel? Do you know how many times we had to watch you sulk in the Guild hall like a lost puppy, watching her as she was surrounded by friends? What about when she started to date Natsu? You went on countless jobs just to be away from the Guild, only to return after they had already broken up. What about-"

"Enough, Freed. We don't want to wake her just yet." Erza nodded towards Lucy, who had started to stir a little. They watched as she mumbled something about 'That sparky bastard' and then went silent. She saw Laxus grin a little and Freed settled on the bed beside her.

"I believe what Freed is trying to say is no matter what you do you can't run from your feelings. Believe me, Laxus, I've tried to run and hide from my feelings for Jellal, but that didn't work. Look at me now. I'm married with two beautiful children, but most important of all I'm happy. What will you do, Laxus, when Lucy moves on and gets married, but not to you? Will you move on, too, or will you live alone forever?"

"I only want what's best for her, Erza. I want her to be happy. She's had enough sadness for a lifetime."

"Did you ever stop to think that you might be a good match for her? That you could make her happy, probably even happier than Natsu did? Listen to me Laxus. I'm going to have Freed remove these runes, and I'm going to give you two weeks from the day she wakes up."

"Two weeks to do what?"

Erza grinned, a slightly dark aura coming off of her, causing Freed to inch down the bed away from her. "You will have two weeks from the day she wakes up to tell her how you feel, or I might just let slip to Mira how you feel, maybe even Cana." She watched him pale, everyone knew Mira and Cana loved gossip, especially love life gossip.

"Okay. Can we change topic now?" Laxus asked as some of the color returned to his face.

"Alright, there is something else I wanted to talk to you about. The train accident. Based off the reports that came in there was about two hundred and fifty people on the train. While there were no deaths reported there were one hundred and eighty six injured, counting you and Lucy.

Oddly enough the worst injuries were Lucy's, and based off of them it looked like she was dragged through the glass instead of just going through the window. We sent out four people in case the monster showed, and all six of Wendy's trainees. Gray was with them and looked around the area and found something disturbing.

The 'monster' was and illusion, as there were no tracks, just a few human tracks along the edge of the forest. We think it might have been mages, but we aren't one hundred percent sure. Did you happen to notice anything strange when you came to?"

Laxus was silent for a moment. "Well when I came to I was alone. It didn't seem strange at the time, but now that I think about it, it does seem a little odd. You would think that the people who brought Lucy out would have brought me out too. I know I'm big, but there were people bigger than me who had been carried out. There was also the fact that Lucy was separated from the others, almost hidden, like they were hoping no one would find her. Hell, I almost didn't find her, I had to rely on my sense of smell to find her. When you put all that together it seems like she was the target of the wreck." They all exchanged looks of concern and glanced at Lucy.

"We are the only ones who will hear of this right now, well I guess I should also inform Master and Gray." They all nodded in agreement and Erza nodded at Freed, "You can release him from the runes now."

Once Freed was finished Laxus stood and walked to where one of the Guild members had piled their bags. She watched as he dug out his bag, but then he picked up something else, Lucy's belt. Erza grimaced at the sight of it. The glass had cut the leather in many places and it was stained in the owner's blood. Laxus took the fleuve d'etoiles off of it and walked over to the end table next to Lucy, throwing the belt in the trash along the way. Instead of placing the whip down he picked up her keys and started to flip through them.

"What the hell do you think you are doing," Erza roared.

"Relax, I'm leaving her one of them. I need to pick a few things up at a shop, and I want to have a friendly chat with Leo. I'm going to leave her a note." He then opened the drawer on the table and looked though it.

"If you want to talk to Leo just take his key, not all of them."

"How else am I going to get her to come find me?" He grinned and began to write the note. When he was finished he left it under the key he had taken off and started to walk out.

"Remember, Laxus, two weeks or the whole Guild might know," Erza called after him. He lifted his hand, signaling that he had heard her, and continued walking.

Freed glanced over at her, "So do you think he'll do it?"

Erza grinned, "He better. If he doesn't I'll personally make sure Mira and Cana spread it around the Guild."

Freed chuckled and left, leaving Erza there to care for Lucy. She sat there for a while just watching her old teammate sleep. Once she was sure Lucy was doing fine she started towards the door. She stopped to listen as she heard Lucy mumbling again.

"Damn it, Sparky, don't yell at my keys!" Erza laughed as she left the room.

This is going to be an interesting relationship to watch.