Summary: Erza is ready to have a baby with her husband Jellal. Too bad Jellal seems to be confused.
Pairings: Jellal/Erza, Mentions of Erza/Lucy friendship and Erza/Mira friendship.
Erza was ready.
They had been discussing this after being married for the past two years.
With the threats of Zeref, Acnologia and END finally gone for good, Jellal and Erza were ready to have a child.
It was a very important discussion, between them. Jellal despite finally being able to atone, was still skeptical of having a child. He was worried about the dangers his children would face, especially if they were recognized as HIS offspring.
Erza had of course jumped in with reassurances that he was okay and that how being worried was normal. She promised that they'd both do everything they could to make their kids grew up loved and protected.
It took some convincing, but Jellal finally agreed to having a child.
As Erza stood outside their bedroom door, wearing nothing a red, flowing night gown, that covered a black, sexy piece of lingerie. She had help from Mira and Lucy in buying this.
This would also be the night they had sex for the first time. The didn't have their wedding night on account of them being too tired (Don't ask, some leftover demons attacked) and these past two years, they had tons of missions and jobs to do, so they never had time.
Now though, tonight was the night, there was nothing to stop them.
Erza opened the door, a giddy look on her face, as well as a small blush as she was ready for her husband to ravish her.
Unfortunately when she stepped inside she was not met with Jellal's naked and gorgeous body sprawled on the bed, with strawberry cheesecake on his chest for her to eat.
No, instead Jellal was full clothed (Damnit!), not even on the bed, but hunched over their desk as he appeared to be writing a letter.
Erza could deduce that, due to the fact that there were hundreds of letters in a pile next to him.
"Uh….Jellal?" Erza called out.
Jellal turned around, beaming at her, "Hey Erza! Are you ready for bed? I'll be there in a minute. I just have to finish writing this."
She slowly walked over to him, "Dear, who are you writing too?"
"The storks of course." He said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Erza's mouth opened and then closed, the word repeating in her mind, "….Why are you writing to the storks?"
Jellal turned to her confused, "For the baby, obviously."
She studied his face, praying to the gods that he was joking, this was all some elaborate prank. Perhaps Natsu was the one behind this.
"If you don't mind me asking…..how exactly are storks going to help us with the baby?" Erza asked.
Jellal was looking at her like she was the silly one here, "Well, you write them a letter detailing the gender of the baby, then you describe the baby's features, then you send the letter and then nine months later the stork brings the baby to your doorstep."
Oh shit he's serious.
Jellal genuinely believed storks delivered babies. Erza knew that parents used to tell that to their children (Master had told her this, too bad she found one of his dirty magazines that same day), but usually when they become adults they learnt where babies really come from.
Jellal clearly didn't.
She torn, this was oddly adorable for her husband, the childlike innocence was warming her heart, especially considering the things he went through. Then another part of her was exasperated cause she was really looking forward to sex.
"Jellal," She said slowly, "you do know what sex is right?"
He raised an eyebrow, "Of course I do. We do it every night."
"Huh?"
"Yeah, we cuddle and kiss each other, that's what sex is." He said with a certainty.
Erza resisted the urge to face palm, she felt more like a mother teaching her child about the 'birds and the bees' than a wife about to make a child with her husband.
"No Jellal….that's not sex. Sex is how babies are made." She told him.
Jellal looked surprised at that, "That can't be, my mother told me that storks were the ones who brought babies."
Erza sighed, she really couldn't blame him. While they were both in the Tower of Heaven, she managed to escape and grow up in a normal (As normal as Fairy Tail can be) environment.
Meanwhile Jellal spent years being brainwashed, then getting amnesia, then being on the run, then dealing with the guilt of what he did, losing his eyes, dying and going to hell, coming back, almost going to hell again and then finally being able to say he atoned.
Wow, she really should've gotten him therapy before they were married.
Shaking her head Erza looked to him, "Jellal, babies come from someplace else."
He tilted his head rather cutely, "Where?"
Erza's face turned bright red, she really didn't think she'd be having this conversation with him, "Um….well you see….when a man and a woman come together…..they do something….that creates the baby."
Jellal raised an eyebrow, "Like magic?"
"No…." She cringed, god she faced down, monsters, psychopaths and dragons. Yet this was the most challenging thing she's ever done.
She blames Ultear and Meredy for this. Why didn't they teach him in those seven years?!
He looked so innocent and cute too! Fuck! She couldn't explain this to him!
"Jellal, love…" She began, "Let Mira talk to you about this."
Mira was basically the mother figure of the guild and this was a mother's job.
Plus, Mira was way more of a pervert than her.
"Mira?" Jellal questioned and Erza nodded her head.
He then sighed and looked down, "I'm sorry Erza, I know this must be really exhausting having to explain these things to me."
She smiled and cupped his cheeks, forcing him to look at her, "Hey, it's okay. You and I didn't have the best childhood, it's only natural you don't know about some things normal children would."
"Besides, nothing is going to stop me from loving you." She gave him a small peck on his lips, which he responded with a deep kiss.
Then spent the rest of the night snuggling together.
Erza could wait just a bit more to have a baby.