Phoenix

Scarred

"Do you think there's some type of way to force my memories to come back?"

Emi was sitting on one of the counters as she waited for Laxus to hand her the bad food that he found in the fridge. He handed her a fully bruised banana and Emi stuck her tongue out in concentration before trying to toss it in the trash from the counter. She cheered when she was able to successfully do it.

"You're gonna miss eventually and then you'll be responsible for cleaning up rotten food off the floor."

"How could you possibly say that?" Emi asked, offended. "I haven't missed once!"

Laxus rolled his eyes and continued to hand over bad food. He groaned.

"Why do we even have so much food that we throw away?"

"Because you push everything to the back of the fridge and then we both forget about things."

Laxus grumbled before giving her a container with apple slices in them. Emi furrowed her eyebrows as she looked at the apple.

"This isn't even bad. You were really gonna have me throw away a perfectly good apple?"

"No," Laxus corrected as he took out an orange, "I was giving it to you as a snack."

"Oh!" Emi beamed as she opened the container. "Thanks!"

She swung her legs as she continued to sit on the counter while she happily ate the apple slices.

"Get down from there. You're gonna dirty the counters. I just cleaned those."

"I don't think I would ever even think about Laxus doing chores," Lucy mused.

"No kidding," Cana agreed.

"I'm standing right here."

Emi giggled before hopping off the counter.

"How much food do we have left?"

"We have to go to the market."

They both grabbed their cloaks and strolled through the forest.

"What kind of tree do you think this is?" Emi quizzed.

"I have no idea. I'm not the flower expert here."

"Good question, Laxus!" Emi playfully exclaimed. "It's a tabunoki tree."

Laxus ignored her as he started to speed up.

"I want to get this over with as soon as possible."

"Does little Laxus need a nap?" Emi teased.

Laxus scoffed before continuing to walk through the forest. They had arrived at the market, Emi immediately going to the produce section and picking out some apples. Laxus was in charge of getting the meats and fish while Emi was tasked with the produce and grains. They met in the middle of the market and started to return to the forest when they heard a loud scream.

"What was that?" Emi asked shocked.

Laxus guided Emi out of the market and pushed her towards the forest.

"Go back to the house. I have to check something out."

Emi hesitantly retreated into the forest with whatever bags she could carry. She saw Laxus put down the remaining bags inside a food cart after asking the man who owned it. He then navigated through the crowd and disappeared. Emi nervously stepped through the forest and made it back to the house. In order to distract herself, Emi grabbed a book off her very full bookcase and sat down on the couch to start reading.