3rd Person POV
Loud dance music was booming through the club as the ladies on the stage were showered with dollars and surrounded by men who were whistling and shouting for more.
Besides the crowd of men around the stage, the club was pretty empty considering it was only around 1:00 PM and a club such as this one gets rowdy in the evening and night.
There were two distinct hallways that each had four double doors, two on the right and two on the left. The doors were customised to be black leather and had a much more unique designed purpose than the other wooden ones.
A man in a black suit, a distinguishable scar on his nose, and black hair that covered his right eye, stood by the side of one of these rooms. The sound of slurping could be heard and subtle groans came from a certain young man. He held onto the hair of the young woman as she moved her lips up and down his shaft, his groans went from silent, little gasps to expressive muttering.
"That's it~! Keep that mouth of yours full," The young man groaned as he threw his back onto the couch.
The woman continued to bop her head up and down, driving the young man to pleasure.
"Enjoying yourself a little much there, aren't you, Loki?" Another young man who sat in front of Loki said. He yanked at the leash within his hands and pulled the young woman away from the orange-haired man.
"Fuck me, how many times are you going to do this?!" Loki barked at him as he sprawled his arms across the headrest of the couch he was chilling on, "I need this fucking release before I head back to work!"
"As long as you can keep paying for my services, Loki, you may enjoy yourself as much as you like. However, you haven't stopped by in 6 months, I was starting to think you had forgotten our deal," The man said with a large grin on his face.
"Of course not! Last time, I brought you more than the actual amount that I usually get you, I just needed 6 months to get more for you. You know, it's hard to find good merchandise around my parts," Loki explained with a drop of sweat rolling down the side of his head.
"Is that so..." The man said as he let go of the leash and the woman stood up this time and lifted her skirt, revealing her crimson-red thong, "... so how many have you collected this time around?"
"Oh! Uhhhh..." Loki trailed off as he got distracted by the woman who was currently stripping for him right now, "About 3 or 4, but there's a particular one I'm trying to get for you that I haven't quite got my hands on,"
"Hmmm, a special gift. Just for me or...?" The young man said as he leaned back into the couch he was on.
"Once you see it, you wouldn't want to just keep it for yourself," Loki nervously laughed and groaned at the same time as the woman put his throbbing rod inside of her, "This one is special! Like Goooolddddd,"
"Like Gold, you say," The man repeated, he rested his face on his fist, "I like the sound of that. How long till I can see it?"
"Oh! UGH! That, you're going to have to give me a bit more time to- AH FUCK!... wrap it up for you," Loki groaned as the woman began riding him. He admired the sight of how beautiful their synchronisation was right now.
The man was grinning at what he heard, he let go of the leash and stood up from the couch he was sitting on, "Bring the ones you've gathered tonight and focus on reeling in this Gold one you speak of."
"G-Got it!" Loki replied.
The young man dropped a black bag on the diamond-encrusted table in front of him and left the room immediately. The man who stood outside quickly rushed to his side and walked slightly behind him.
"So?" He asked his boss, "How did it go?"
His boss had a black fur coat and wore a gold embroidered dress suit underneath, he had shiny black shoes and wore cologne that was strong enough to smell him from an entrance and the back entrance of a Deli.
"We might be seeing a promising shipment very soon." The boss responded with a cunning, toothy grin.
10 minutes later...
Loki fastened his black belt, tucked his shirt into his trousers, and fixed his trousers. He let out a satisfied sigh, wearing the cheesiest grin on his face.
"That was amazing, I needed that more than anything," Loki said as he picked up the black bag from the table.
The woman also fixed herself up and bowed before Loki. He nodded at her before she left the room, the redhead opened the bag and took a long whiff of it, plunging his nose deep into the contents within the bag.
He pulled out a small blue bag from the black bag and sighed heavily, "It costs too much to get my hands on these, I don't know where I put the last one, but I hope I didn't drop it in the office,"
He put the small blue bag back into the black bag, tied it up and put it at the bottom of his backpack that was lying beside the door.
He threw on his backpack and looked down at his watch, his eyes widened, "Shoot! I got to get back to work!"
It took him 20 minutes to get back to the office via an Uber, he had managed to pick up boxes of pizza before riding the Uber just so he can make it up to Erza for his tardiness.
He darted into the elevator and made his way up to the 3rd floor of the office where he mostly works in, he looked in the mirror behind him and began fixing his shirt and hair.
He heard the ring of the bell for the elevator and turned right around to find Erza standing in front of him with the most intimidating, angriest look he had seen.
He jumped back at her sudden appearance and held his chest, "Good grief Erza, you scared me. Hehe, sorry for the wait... I got pizza,"
Erza remained quiet as she slipped a hand into one of the pizza boxes, pulled out a slice and slowly began eating it.
Loki looked at her with a blank face as he thought, "Someone is going to die today, aren't they?"
"Don't mind her, she's in a mood with the changes that are occurring," Gray appeared from the side and waltzed into the elevator alongside Erza, "We apologise for our leave but we are leaving the office to attend to a few matters that have come up at one of the warehouses. Do you mind overlooking the work for today?"
Loki stepped out from the elevator and turned around to them, "Yeah sure, you can count on me,"
Gray nodded as the elevator doors shut, leaving Loki staring at the steel doors in relief. He shook his head with a smile on his face.
"Welp, looks like I can just watch a couple of movies in the meeting room for today, I should invite Lucy and decide what movie we should watch," Loki says with his eyes closed as he walks down the hallway, he then remembers, "Oh shit, she went with Lisanna to Dragneel's place, didn't she? Man..."
Loki scratched the back of his head as he stopped in place, "That leaves only me, Levy and the rest of these hooligans, how am I supposed to have fun now?"
"Hey Loki, what's up dude?" One of the guys from the group of colleagues who were a part of the Sales Team arrived, they saw the boxes of pizzas in his hands and their eyes immediately sparkled, "What's with the boxes?"
Loki grins up at them, "Pizza party,"
As the group of colleagues got excited, Loki turns his head to the right and looks into Office 1C, there, he finds Natsu, Lucy, Lisanna and Levy conversing with each other alongside three others who worked within the Analytics Team.
He clears his throat and knocks on the door.
He waited for a second before he heard Levy's voice, "You may enter,"
He pushed the door open with one hand and held the boxes of pizza with another, "Hey-Ho! I got pizza! Oh, Dragneel! You're here, ol' buddy,"
Natsu glared at the redhead before turning away with a scoff.
"Hello Loki, it seems your break was surely eventful," Levy said with a cheerful smile on her face.
"Well when your adventures into town consist of fighting ninja-fighting, mutant-looking turtles, things can get hectic from time to time!" Loki grinned as he opened up the boxes of pizza and placed them on the table, he gestured towards his other colleagues, pushing them to some, "Have a slice, Levy! I know you do after getting that little bugger out of you,"
Levy laughed lightly, "It sure has been a long time,"
Loki turned to his other three colleagues with a giant smile on his face, "Come on guys, I know you want some! Erza and Gray have put me in charge for the day so you already know that Captain Loki of the Fun Brigade is not taking no for an answer,"
Natsu sighed, "We should be focusing on our wor-."
"PIZZA!" Lisanna exclaimed as she pushed Natsu to the side and darted straight at the boxes.
"She just had four burgers, how can her belly contain so much?" Lucy said with a drop of sweat coming down her forehead.
"Well when you've been hanging around the biggest dope all your life, they tend to rub off on you a little too much, right Dragneel," Loki turned to the pinkette who tutted and looked up at his computer.
Loki took a slice and brought it to Lucy's face, "I'm not taking no for an answer, Lucy! You either eat this pizza or you're on timeout for the rest of the day!"
"You can't do that!?" Lucy raised a brow.
"He can! He's the Captain!" Lisanna fist-pumped the air with a mouthful of pizza.
"Uhh... Mrs McGarden?" Lucy looked over at Levy who was silently enjoying her pizza a little too much, she was already on the second slice. She looked up at Lucy and shrugged her shoulders.
"He is the Captain," Levy hummed.
"You heard them, Lucy! Eat it! Join the Fun Brigade and dance with your colleagues till the night ends," Loki raised his fists in the air.
"KICK BACK AND HAVE FUN, LUCY, OUR GODDESS!!!!"
Natsu kissed his teeth and tried to speak up, "I believe we have work to do, you guys-.
"NOT ANOTHER WORD FROM YOU, YOU SLITHERING PIECE OF SHIT! YOU AREN'T GOING TO RUIN OUR PIZZA PARTY LIKE YOU RUINED THE SURPRISE PARTY YESTERDAY, BASTARD!" The group of colleagues surrounded Natsu before returning to surrounding Lucy who they chanted on to eat the pizza.
They haven't really seen Lucy eat junk food like this, not even cake as she took both pieces home for a friend. They wanted to see if Lucy could get down with the crowd and if her beauty wasn't a waste for her to be stuck up like Natsu.
"EAT IT! EAT IT! EAT IT! EAT IT! WE KNOW YOU WANT TO EAT IT, EAT IT!" Loki said as he imitated the Beat It song by Michael Jackson.
The three others colleagues along with Levy and Lisanna fist-pumped the air in unison, "YEAHHHH!"
Lucy shrugged her shoulders and took a bite from the pizza, she chewed it slowly before swallowing. And with a big glow of red on her cheeks, she said, "It tastes really good!"
"YEAHHHHH!" They all cheered as they danced around excitingly.
Levy remained silent as she felt a little guilty for letting things get wild like this but whenever Loki is in the office, things are destined to get wild. Not to mention...
She was really enjoying the pizza.
Lucy laughed at the stupid dance that Loki and Lisanna were doing with the pizza in hand. She looked behind her and found the pinkette's seat was empty.
She looked forward again at Loki who was laughing endlessly with his colleagues.
In the Meeting Room...
Natsu sat at the end of the room's giant table with documents sat down in front of him. He clicked his pen and began circling the piles of data that he had to decipher considering he doesn't have a personal laptop of his own and his desktop computer at work is surrounded by his dancing colleagues.
He put his hand to his head, "I should've known things would turn out like this, I need to buy my own computer,"
He clicked his pen over at over, "I can't afford to fail..."
"I can't, I just can't,"
His mind began to drift as dark patches began to show the things beneath it, ropes becoming loose, and guilt beginning to settle in.
Natsu...
Natsu…
"Natsu!"
The sky boomed as lightning struck across the sky. Natsu, 12-years-old stood beside his father, Igneel Dragneel who took long swings from his brown bag that contained a bottle. He and Natsu were wearing black suits, and standing in the rain as they stood before two graves.
"Are you deaf!? Do you not hear me calling you?!"
Natsu remained quiet, his young mind still couldn't comprehend what had happened, what was going on and what was to come. His eyes were blank and his lips were dry, constantly being rehydrated by the rain that was pouring down.
Natsu cut out of his trance once he felt a hard object hit the side of his head which made him fall to the muddy grass, ruining his suit.
"Next time I call you, you fucking answer! It's your fault we are out here to begin with!"
Natsu remained with his face in the mud, but began to get up but was forced back into the mud by his father. Igneel held the pinkette's head in the mud, making sure his face was painted with the icky soil.
"It's all your fault! It's your fault that your mother and brother are dead! All your fault! I've told you time and time again to stop hanging with those hoodlums, I raised you to be better and you throw this in my face!!! HUH?! What did I do to deserve, Natsu?! Tell me!?"
Igneel stood up and stumbled back, dropping the remains of his bottle that shattered on the ground beneath me. He roared aloud as he held his chest and dropped to his knees, the sound of teeth gnashing together and subtle could be heard coming from him.
Natsu remained in the soil for a moment but managed to stand up.
His bangs covered his eyes as he slowly walked over to his father who just pushed him away and looked up at him with anger, sadness, grief, and blood pouring from his mouth like a slow river.
"Get off of me! I'm not a fucking weakling! You've fucked me, Natsu! You've fucked up my life!!! YOU BETTER TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!!! DO YOU HEAR ME?! NATSU!!! NATSU!"
"NATSU!!!"
"NATSU!"
"Mr Natsu Dragneel?" A voice made Natsu snap back to reality. He looked up at the door where Lucy stood with a plate that had something on it but was covered by some tissues.
Natsu quickly rubbed his eyes and wore his neutral expression, cleaning his throat, he spoke, "Mrs Heartfilia, what is it?"
Lucy wore a gentle smile as she entered the slightly dark room that had the blinds down for both the main windows and the windows that covered the view to the hallway.
She walked into the room, shutting the door properly behind her, "I just wanted to see if I could be of any use to your analysis,"
"Oh. That won't be necessary, I've got it all under control," Natsu replied to her as he looked back down at the sheets he had sprawled out across the table.
"I see," Lucy said as she sat down beside him, she pushed the plate towards him.
He raised a brow which soon returned to normal, "I don't really-."
"Eat stuff like candy and junk food, I know," Lucy said as she lifted the tissue off the food and revealed an apple that was cut perfectly into 6 equal pieces, "I figured you need something to power that meaty brain of yours,"
"Thanks," Natsu responded calmly as he took a piece and took a bite out of it. He didn't think too much of it and returned to work, circling info that had to be picked out among the others.
Lucy rested her face in her hands as she stared at the pinkette with a slight blush on her face.
Natsu glanced at her once then back at his paper.
Natsu's POV
If we are being honest, I came here to smash something. I needed to!
Loki pisses me off so damn much, I need to make money but I can't if these fuckers always let him have his way.
It's like this place of work is just a dumping ground for childish behaviour, especially with the way Mrs Scarlet runs it, not to mention these bastards get paid for it! They get paid more to fuck up and act like kids, whilst I slave away at my desk trying to get mine and other people's work done.
I should just fucking quit and find a more suitable place for me.
Buuuuuut that would've worked if I had the damn skill set for it. Death would be better than whatever the hell I was working on back in the day.
It's not like I have many choices anyways, this is the biggest gig I've got and I need it to pay off my fucking debts so I can't just leave and find something else, fuck me!
Fuck me! Fuck me! FUCK ME!!!
Man, what do I fucking do?! With a team like this, we are destined to not achieve anything and by instinct, I'm going to get told off by Erza and I HATE that shit!
I felt the pen in my hand change shape as I clutched it.
I hate being the one to use as a scapegoat! The one they can all shout at and throw books at my desks, while that damn, lazy, good-for-nothing Loki gets paid for doing fuck all IN A PLACE THAT IS FOR FUCKING WORK!
"Natsu, please," I heard Mrs Heartfilia's voice as she placed her hand over mine, "Just put the pen down,"
"Huh? Why? I'm working on-."
"You're stressed out, so please just put the pen down," Mrs Heartfilia said as she slowly tried to pull the pen from my hand.
I yanked my hand from her, "I'm fine. You don't have to worry about me."
She remained silent as she stared up at me with these sort of begging eyes.
Does she also think I'm some sort of weakling? A pet like Loki???
No, no stop, she's nothing like these jerks here. I'm just mad and need to cool down is all, I need to break something or else I might just take it all out on Loki… and damn it, god knows I can't do that.
"But I do worry," Mrs Heartfilia said. I slowly turned to her where she wore a saddened expression, "As a colleague, I can't just watch you kill yourself for nothing. You don't have to prove anything,"
I turned from her and looked down at the pen that was pretty much crushed in my hand, ink running down my palm, "You wouldn't understand-."
"I do understand," She said softly, turning her head to the tissue beside the plate and using it to clear up the ink that was on my palm, "We work hard and keep to ourselves, telling ourselves that they will notice your hard work when really they don't, but you WISH they did. We carry a weight of responsibility for ourselves; to provide for ourselves, protect ourselves, and love ourselves,"
For the first time, my eyebrows flew up and my mouth was apart, I was in awe. She was talking like she has lived in my shoes but it's just a little similar.
She continued, "But how can we put ourselves first when we put others before us for their acknowledgement? You aren't loving yourself, Natsu, you need to give yourself your all before you give that to someone else,"
I just stared back at her.
Is that what it looks like?
Do I hate myself that much?
This was all hitting me like a train. I thought I was doing the right thing by sticking to myself and working hard, but these guys want more, what more do they want from me?
I held my face with my other hand and was so caught up in both rage and awareness of what I was doing wrong, I still wanted to smash something to get all of it out but not now at least.
I let out a heavy sigh.
"Thanks, Mrs Heartfilia," I said with a small smile, "I owe you one,"
"Oh no, it's okay, I just wanted to help," Mrs Heartfilia waved her hands frantically in front of her.
"I'm not taking no for an answer," I told her as I looked forward away from her, "How about you come over to mine for dinner?"
"Mmm, that sounds wonderful," She said as she leaned in towards me, which was kind of a surprised, by then I didn't hesitate at all and remained where I was with her nose touching mine, "I'll accept if you tidy up your home this time,"
"Ugh, I've just been busy. But don't worry, it'll be super tidy," I slightly rolled my eyes a bit.
"Promise?" She said with a more stern look in her eyes.
"Promise." I responded.
I shook my head with a little grin on my face. Well, at least I feel a little bit better.
Just then I felt my face being held and a soft pair of lips on my own. My eyes widened in response to this but before I could even question it, she already moved away with this excited grin.
She left me... shocked as she stood up and walked towards the door and looked over her shoulder at me.
"I look forward to lunch tomorrow!" She said as she shut the door behind her.
I gently touched my lips a bit.
Hm...
Haven't felt something like that in awhile, but what was up with that?
Lucy's POV
As I walked back to Office 1C, I couldn't help smiling to myself but also cursing myself in the head. I just wanted to give him some friendly advice and tell him to take it easy, of course, he's going to be confused now.
But I just couldn't stand seeing his face twisted up and angry like that, it hurts me to see him stressed out from work, but now he has to be stressed out because of his colleagues.
I just wanted to cheer him up, but I can't take it anymore.
I held my hand to my chest and could feel my heart pacing.
I want you now, Natsu.
But I have to follow everything naturally,
For our sake.
But I promise when we are together, things will be easier and better.
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To Be Continued