DISCLAIMER: I don't own fairy tail
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you
When Laxus cancelled their weekly movie/date night Lucy was confused but didn't think much of it, master probably gave him extra paperwork to do as a sick idea of a Christmas present. Instead Lucy went to the shops and bought some ingredients to make some desserts for the guilds Christmas day feast. However, when she saw Mira and Laxus walk in to a jewellery store together, smiling and laughing, she was upset but figured he had a good reason and she would just ask when she saw him at the guild the following day.
When she asked and he told her, unfazed by his lie, that he was catching up on paperwork she had to stop herself from crying and left early, with the excuse that with Christmas 3 days away she still had too much to do.
The rest of the day Lucy absently made gingerbread dough as she wondered over what she had seen. Perhaps Laxus had been doing paperwork and had forgotten about seeing Mira, but, he seemed to be quite happy and relaxed and he knew what he was doing, and any break from paperwork wouldn't be something he would forget less than 24 hours later.
The following day she awake after a fitful night as thoughts of Laxus and Mira plagued her. Mira was beautiful, everyone knew that, and Lucy knew that Laxus did appreciate good looks in his past, while he may have changed, especially once they got together, it was very likely he still appreciated them.
Lucy had been dating laxus since February, it had been almost a year and she had told him she wanted to wait until marriage – sure they made out and shared a bed and maybe a shower or two but they hadn't done the deed yet. Lucy knew Laxus wanted to have sex with her but as much as she loved him she wanted to wait, her mum had always told her that sex was something you saved for your soul mate so Lucy decided to wait until marriage, like her mother had.
Lucy wondered if he had grown bored, decided that she wasn't worth not having sex and decided to go find someone else, and what hurt Lucy even more was that it was Mira, her friend, her sister, the one she had gone to when she realised she had a crush on Laxus, she had confided in Mira everything about their relationship and here she was, sneaking around with Laxus.
Getting out of bed Lucy had a quick shower and sent a message on the communications lacrima to Mira that she wouldn't be coming in until Christmas eve to drop off the deserts, since she had too much cooking to do still.
Lucy was able to keep her mind off of Laxus and Mira as she pieced together a large gingerbread house filled with sweets and smaller gingerbread cookies. Putting the house together and decorating it took the whole day and by the end she was exhausted, she had to ask Virgo help her shower and get ready for bed since she couldn't do it herself. (an: I know it seems a bit extreme but I have spent a whole day baking and decorating multiple times before and it really does drain you, especially since you have to stand up for the whole time)
The following day, Christmas eve, Lucy asked Virgo and Gemini to help her decorate the Christmas cake and make the little pudding balls while she finished the gingerbread house (she had made it look like their guild hall) and made the vanilla meringue cupcakes and chocolate strawberries, considering the size of the guild it took 9 batches of 12 to make enough cupcakes and she had to quadruple the meringue recipe. By 9:30 Christmas eve night Lucy and her spirits had finished and Virgo safely stored the food in the spirit world to save Lucy from having to carry it to the guild.
Upon reaching the guild Lucy saw that only the master and a few other guild members were there, Erza was directing Gray to create ice patterns all around the guild for decorations and Natsu and Happy were stocking up the firewood and keeping the fire going. Macao, Wakaba and the master were stringing fairy lights and other Christmas decorations up while Gildarts, Cana and Levy were moving a bunch of table together for the food and drinks and Gajeel was carting all the presents to sit under the tree. Hearing laughter Lucy looked up and saw Her boyfriend and Mira walk in with decorations for the tree and seeing this all of Lucy's fears came back. Shaking the fears to the back of her mind Lucy looked away from the tree and towards the bar and food table.
"Mira, I bought the deserts I promised, where do you want them?" Lucy summoned Virgo as she waited for Mira to come over and direct her, When Mira saw the food, especially the gingerbread house her eyes bulged out in shock, before she smiled and showed the celestial mage where to store everything.
Levy then approached Lucy and told her that Wendy had just called for help and so the two friends set off for fairy hills. Levy, Wendy, Evergreen and Lisanna had all spent the past week cooking the rest of the deserts and preparing and cooking the food as well, the only thing cooking tomorrow would be the multiple turkeys they had. So the five girls spent the next hour carrying the food to the guild, Lucy asking Virgo to Transport the presents that the girls in fairy hills had yet to take to the guild.
By the time the food had been taken and everything was organised it was nearing midnight so Lucy waved goodnight and headed home.
The following day Lucy woke up early and got dressed, wearing her ugly Christmas sweater with jeans and ugg boots, and she walked to the guild with Plue, all her spirits had been invited to the party and the king was giving them the permission to use their own magic so they didn't drain Lucy, they were all going to appear later but she wanted some company on her way to the guild.
The party was like all fairy tail parties – crazy. After lunch they all gathered around the tree while Mira and the master handed out the presents. Once everyone had unwrapped everything Mira popped up in front of Lucy.
"There is one more for you Lucy" she shoved a small square present at the celestial mage "open it."
Lucy opened the present and read the note that was on top to herself
Dear Blondie,
I know I'm not the most romantic guy and you really do deserve someone better but I have on thing to say….
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you…..
Will you marry me?
Lucy gasped and looked down at the ring, it had a white gold band with a diamond in the middle beside the diamond were two blue Opals and connected to those were pure yellow Topaz's is the shape of a lightning bolt. Looking up Lucy saw Laxus staring at her, hope and fear in his eyes.
She understood now, that Laxus would have asked Mira for help, while he most likely designed the ring, Mira would have fine tuned the design and helped him orchestrate the proposal. When she saw Laxus start to look worried she realised she was crying.
"Yes" she whispered to Laxus, smiling and going in to kiss him "yes I will marry you!"
This time the whole guild heard her response and cheered and congratulated the happy couple before declaring that they should celebrate their engagement as well as Christmas. Laxus and Lucy helped Mira bring out desert and the partying continued into the night.
"so, you and me huh? Married, together forever? Won't this be fun?" Laxus asked Lucy as they watched the sun rise from the guild outdoor balcony.
"Yeah, it will be"
THE IDEA OF LAXUS DOING SOMETHING ROMANTIC FOR LUCY IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITES BUT I THINK HE WOULD NEED A LOT OF HELP TO PULL IT OFF. I WAS GOING TO HAVE HIM EXPLAIN TO LUCY HOW MUCH MIRA HELPED BUT DECIDED TO LEAVE IT BE AND LET IT JUST BE IMPLIED THAT SHE DID MOST OF THE WORK.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! I HOPE YOUR DAY IS FILLED WITH LOVE, LAUGHTER, HAPPINESS, FAMILY, JOY, PEACE AND HOPE!