"Why can't you ever just lay still?"
"I'm sorry, but I need to find the most comfortable spot."
"Well then find it quick. I wanna sleep at some point tonight."
Emi continued to toss and squirm when Laxus finally stood up from his side, walked over to the other side of the bed, pushed Emi over to his side by the door, and laid down on the side by the wall. He turned so he was facing the door and pulled Emi under him. She hummed in content.
"I found it!"
"Shut up."
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"It's gonna be your birthday soon, which means that we need to cook something special."
"When is your birthday?" Natsu asked.
Emi rushed over to Natsu and yelled, "You don't know when his birthday is? Does this mean you never celebrated his birthday?"
"I didn't like celebrating," Laxus spoke up.
"So what do you want to eat? You can have whatever you want!"
Laxus continued to tie his shoes and only looked up when he felt her jump on his back.
"Can't you see I'm busy? Get off."
Emi stood in front of Laxus and crossed her arms. She gave him a serious look and repeated her question.
"Can we talk about this when I get back?" Laxus grunted. "I have to get to a job."
Emi rolled her eyes and waved him off. She decided to busy herself by reading, as she always did. A book on Ice Make magic lay opened on the couch, so she decided to continue reading it. She looked at the spell guide and decided to try to cast one herself.
"Ice Make: Dragon!"
Absolutely nothing happened and Emi hung her head. She looked back to the book and saw that that particular spell was one of the higher ranking ones.
"Oh, duh. I should start off with a simple one. Let's see..."
Emi took the stance and closed her eyes.
"Ice Make: Shield!"
Emi screamed in frustration and flopped down on the couch. She threw the book to the side and huffed.
"I just want to be able to do just one spell. Is that so much to ask?"
She looked over at the different books that she had littered all around the first floor and sighed as she started to clean. She took the stack of books to the stairs and tried to carry them all up at once, but she couldn't see over the pile. Instead, she made a couple trips.
"I'm exhausted. Jeez I'm out of shape."
Emi decided to take a quick nap before she started to make dinner. She was woken up when she felt herself being picked up. Laxus came into view as she opened her eyes.
"You're back," she groggily stated.
Laxus hummed before bringing her upstairs and laying her on her bed.
"What do you want for dinner?"
Laxus laughed quietly before pointing out the window, showing her that it was completely dark outside.
"It's ten o'clock."
"How did that happen?" Emi asked, confusion lacing her voice.
"You fell asleep. If you're hungry, I brought you something home."
Emi smiled weakly before drifting back off to sleep. About an hour later, Emi was screaming at the top of her lungs. Laxus immediately burst through the door and looked around before his eyes landed on Emi and how she was twisting and screaming. He went to look for his coat and panicked when he couldn't find it. He knelt down next to the bed and shook her.
"Hey brat, wake up."
Emi jolted awake, immediately running to the bathroom and vomiting. She coughed a couple times before weakly standing up and walking back to the bedroom where Laxus stood confused. She shyly looked to the ground and squeaked out a small "sorry" before walking back over to her bed. Laxus could see that she seemed frightened, but she wouldn't talk about what.
"Do you remember what it was about?"
"Everyone was burning. I was burning them. And I couldn't stop."
"Who were you burning?"
"I couldn't recognize anyone, but they were all gathered behind me. I was standing in front of them and somehow I set them on fire."
Laxus gently picked Emi up and walked her to his room before laying her on the bed.
"You can sleep here until you feel better."
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"Are you going on a date with that girl ever again?"
Laxus raised an eyebrow at the white haired woman before looking back down to his paper.
"I don't think a relationship is what I need right now."
"What, why? She seemed really nice!"
Laxus flashed her the front page of the paper: 'Dark Guild Serpent Tail Annihilated Overnight as Strange Lightning Strikes.'
"That means nothing. Besides, you're getting grumpy again."
"He's always grumpy," Mira pleasantly said.
"I don't really think I remember a time when he wasn't," Erza added.
"I'm not grumpy."
"Oh yeah?" Emi smirked before walking out of the room. "Then stop staring at my ass."
A deep blush made its way on the lightning mage's face.
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"Hi there! My name is Emi. It's nice to meet you!"
"Uh, yeah. You too. Is--"
"You bet. He's upstairs. You can just go up."
"Why are you greeting me at the door?"
"Because I wanted to welcome you in," Emi innocently stated.
Everyone looked at the woman with curly white hair and yellow eyes and back to the cheery Emi as they spoke at the door. They kept looking between the two.
Emi eventually got the woman to smile and pushed her upstairs.
"This isn't like, some weird threesome foreplay, right?"
"Oh god no. Believe me. I'm leaving right now."
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"We should play a game."
"Can't we just go to sleep?"
Emi crawled so that her head was hovering over his and she poked his shoulder.
"But a game would be fun."
Laxus sighed and sat up before he glared at her.
"Can it be a quick game please? I'm tired."
Emi giggled and pointed out that he wasn't even fully awake.
"You look like you're sleep talking."
"Who says I'm not?"
Emi shook her head before saying that they should play the secret game.
"I'll go first. My secret is that I've been going on secret jobs to get you a birthday present. Now it's your turn."
She heard Laxus snoring softly, so she shook his shoulder and woke him up.
"What?"
"It's your turn."
"For what?"
Emi huffed and reminded him that they were sharing secrets. He started to drift off to sleep when Emi poked his face and forced him to stay awake.
"If I tell you a secret, you'll let me sleep?"
"That's how the game works. I already told mine so it's your turn."
"Wait what was yours?"
"Really? Were you not listening?"
"Em, I just want to sleep."
"Secret first!"
"I'm in love with you."
They all looked towards Sting who was still bent over in pain. He slowly raised his head and growled.
"Wait--"
"Relax brat. I'm kidding. Now let me sleep."
"But you need to tell me the secret!"
She didn't get a response other than snoring.