Phoenix

Spy

"What are you scared of?" Emi asked the next day.

Laxus grumbled and shifted on the bed so he was turned away from her. Emi sat up and leaned over to him, tapping him on the shoulder.

"I'm not supposed to be doing this with you."

"You've mentioned that before, but you never actually tell me why."

"It's...complicated."

"You act like whatever you're trying to do is forbidden or something," Emi laughed.

"It basically is," Laxus mumbled.

"Hm? Well whatever it is," Emi threw back the covers and jumped off the bed, "I still think you need to get laid."

"Wait, what?" Lucy questioned, shocked when she saw that Emi was still in her dress.

"Yeah yeah. That's not gonna happen," Laxus scoffed before rolling out of bed and standing up. "Now out. I wanna change."

"Are you forgetting that you're in my bedroom?" Emi teased.

"Wait wait wait," Cana cautioned, "You guys didn't do anything?"

"Uh, no?" Emi answered, confused.

"You know, I do have some dignity," Laxus defended.

Makarov seemed to let out a breath, relieved that his grandson didn't do something stupid.

Gray reminded, "Good thing Sting was knocked out. Could you imagine what he would've done if he thought the same thing as us?"

Everyone looked down at Sting and shivered.

Laxus looked around confused before landing his eyes on Emi and admitting, "I guess I'm just so used to you barging into mine."

"Hey! I don't barge in. I knock every night."

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"I'm telling you it was right here."

"I don't see anything."

"I swear," Emi defended, "I put a cup over it and everything."

Laxus rolled his eyes and countered, "Well I don't see any cups."

Suddenly something scurried across the floor, causing Emi to screech and jump on Laxus's back.

"What was that?" Laxus wondered.

"I told you," Emi whimpered from his back, "it's a giant cockroach."

"Well then where's the cup?"

They both scanned the room and saw that the cup was turned over.

"This thing is a mutant. It has to be. That's like, the heaviest cup we have."

Laxus set Emi on the couch before walking over to the cup and picking it up.

"Why are you wasting time on the cup? The thing scurried towards the kitchen."

"Because I don't think it's a normal cockroach."

"Obviously! It's freakin' huge!"

"That's not what I meant. Just stay there."

Laxus left to go into the kitchen, so Emi sat on the couch with her feet crossed under her. She heard Laxus pushing things around. She was, of course, terrified of the bug, and she would scan the room frantically. She suddenly looked down and saw that the cockroach was sitting right in front of her and staring at her. She gasped and stood on the couch.