"Okay, so first off, I want to be the one to name the baby."
"You're kidding, right?"
"Why is that something to kid about, Mirajane?" Laxus asked as he stood there, in the middle of his living room, glaring over at her. "I'm being very serious."
"And I'm being very serious too," she kept up as, seated on his couch, she held a pen over a notebook, waiting to write down some rules that she actually planned on following. Because that was not one of them. "You don't get to name the baby."
Another two weeks had passed in which Laxus had left on a job and Mirajane considered just what the future might hold for them. While he spent his time keeping his mind off things, Mira got inundated with Lisanna and Lucy's concerns and complaints over the whole thing as well as all their awe and mystique over Laxus Dreyar actually seriously considering having a baby with her and it was just a busy two week for Mirajane.
A very two busy week.
Then Laxus got back to town and came to the guild to inform her that he wanted her to come over to her house on her off day, so that they could get to discussing things on a more serious note. So Mira was then forced to take an off day (they were actually rare for her) and headed on over.
Laxus' apartment was...nice, to say the least, but also rather sterile. She had to imagine this was more due to him not being around often to enjoy it, but still, it just felt off. Nice still, though, which wasn't a surprise considering she more or less knew the amount of jewels he was pulling in, considering she'd taken to filing most of the jobs up all the hall in those days.
As they sat down to the write the rules and stipulations down, however, Mira and Laxus found themselves hitting a snag right out of the gate.
"I'm the father," Laxus reminded her as if that, for some reason, had anything to do with it. "I should be able to name him. Or her. It. Whatever you want to say."
"I want to say whatever name I pick out."
"Mirajane-"
"Laxus, I'm going to be the one raising this kid, remember?" she asked as she clicked the pen a few times in annoyance. "Saying that name? Constantly? For the rest of forever? And you, what? Even if you're going to be in the baby's life, still will only see it every month? Every two? In what world would you have a bigger affect from a name you don't like than I would?"
He only stared, for a long moment, trying to think up something to combat this, but he was coming up blank. What she said made sense. It made perfect sense. And he hated it.
Deflating a bit, the man said, "Well…don't I get some kind of say? If I'm claiming this kid?'
"Should I put that down then?" she asked. "That you're definitely claiming the baby? Or is there some other stipulation with that?"
"What kind of stipulation could there be?" he asked knowing damn well, back at that restaurant, he'd decided that if it looked anything like Mira's doofus brother… "Mirajane?"
"I don't know," she said slowly as, thinking, she came up with a few. "I mean, if it doesn't look like you, like at all, would that bother you?"
"Is it still mine?"
"Obviously."
"Well, then that's a stupid thing to ask."
"What if it, like, decides it doesn't like magic? Later? When it grows up? Would that bother you?"
"I thought the point of me and you coming together was for it to be a powerful-"
"But if it rejected that?"
Kicking some at the floor, he only grumbled out, "I'm not some sorta dictator, you know. I'm not...Ivan. If I had a kid and it didn't… That's part of life. You don't get to control the way someone else thinks."
"Well, unless your Bickslow."
Right, because Laxus really wanted to think about him at the moment…
"Yeah," he said with a bit of a frown. "Unless you're Bickslow."
"Okay, so," Mira hummed as she thought some more. "Oh! What if it was a girl?"
"What if what was a girl?" he asked as he looked up at her. "Bickslow?"
"No, Laxus. The baby."
"Huh?"
"You said," she reminded slowly as she locked eyes with him, "That you were doing this to further your name, right? If we had a daughter, that wouldn't exactly help you any in that. So should I write down that if we do-"
"Fuck, Mira, make me sound like more of an asshole."
"You said-"
"I've been saying this whole time that if it were a boy or a girl that would be fine with me," he complained. "Or at least I've been talking about them both. So that's a pretty shitty question."
"Well, I was just wondering."
"A girl can add to a legacy, she just can't carry it," Laxus told her simply. "So whatever happens after she's here and has my last name is her problem. I've done my Dreyar civic duty. She-"
"About that-"
"You can name the damn kid whatever you want," he told her in a deadpan sorta way. "But it's getting my last name."
They glared hard at one another for a few moments over that one before, with a sigh, Mirajane moved to write it down. Before, yes, she'd had the idea to dupe him on that one, but they'd discussed beforehand that anything that gotten written on that notebook was binding and they were both going to agree to it.
"What if I cross my fingers?" Mira had asked when he present her with the notebook.
"Then I'm thinking you're too immature to have a baby in the first place."
He had her there.
And in the current moment as, early in the game, Mirajane was giving up and conceding the last name issue to Laxus.
She won on the actual name thing though so, really, they were still pretty even.
"What other things do you think we need to discuss then?" Mirajane asked after, in that pretty print of hers, she wrote down the last name rule. "Hmmm?"
"Well… I guess we should talk about pay."
Making a face, Mirajane stuck out her tongue some as she said, "You're not a...stud, Laxus. I'm not going to pay you for your-"
"What? No." And he tried not to choke. "Mirajane, I meant once the kid gets here. Paying for, you know, incidentals and life in general and-"
"Oh."
"Oh? That's all you're gonna say? Gosh, Mira."
Humming some then, she said, "Well, I guess I hadn't thought about it. You know? I planned to be the one to care for the baby. I have a lot of savings. It's not like I'm not prepared."
"Yeah, but… I mean, I could help out," he said then. "Not that I want to be, like, in the kid's life daily or anything, I'll probably be off on jobs a lot, but when I'm home… I'd bring it gifts, at least, probably. That's what I always wanted Ivan to do for me. When he went far away. And my kid can't be running around, poor as a church mouse."
"Poor as a what?"
"They'll need shoes and shirts and, I mean, I wouldn't wanna spoil the brat, but-"
"You're kinda getting ahead of yourself."
Yeah. He had that tendency.
"I'm just saying," he told her then with a frown, "that I don't want it to be an issue if I want to slide you some jewels. For taking care of my kid. Will it be?"
"So long as you don't make it an issue."
"Why don't you just write it down then?" he asked. "An amount? Can we figure one out? And I'll give it to you every-"
"Laxus-"
"I just don't want," he told her tensely then, "for this to get all mangled and twisted. If we're going to do this, let's get anything that might be a bump in the road out of the way so we don't have to cross any unknown bridges. That's what this meeting was for, right?"
She gazed at him for a long few seconds before saying, "I mean, I don't think I'll be in the position to turn down jewels, you know. When the time comes."
Nodding his own head, Laxus agreed, "When the time comes."
It was only once that was written down that Mirajane found a new thing to bring up.
"You won't throw some sort of weird fit, will you?" she asked him. "When the baby gets here and you don't, like, like the way I parent it? Or something?"
"I mean, you're not going to shove a lacrima in it because it's sickly and hope it does soon so that you can harvest it, are you?"
"Mmmm….nope."
"Alright then."
"And," Mirajane kept up, "I also was concerned about...um… You know."
"I know?"
Nodding, she said, "If… When I find someone that I...actually want to be with...romantically…after the baby is-"
"Oh, uh," Laxus stammered as he coughed into his hand a bit. "I'm not, you know, anything to you, Mira."
"Other than hopefully the father of my child."
"Right. Right," he agreed with a nod of his head. "Other than that. So…as long as they don't try to shove a lacrima down my kid's sickly throat to harvest it-"
"Laxus, if you want to talk about it-"
"It'll always be my baby though," he said then before, staring across the room at her, he asked, "Right?"
Mira didn't break his gaze as she nodded along. "Right. If that's what you want."
"And whatever...relationships I'm in-"
"I'm not in love with you, Laxus," she assured him. "And I don't plan to be."
"Well, make sure you never are, okay?" he ordered then. "This is just what it sounds like. Two people who want a baby, getting a baby."
"You're preaching to the choir."
Again, their eyes met, but that time it was Laxus who changed the subject as he asked, "So about..."
"About..."
He nodded towards a door on the other side of the room and, though Mirajane didn't know for certain what was on the other side of it, she had a good inkling.
"Oh." Finally, Mira blushed a bit and looked off before saying, "I, uh, I know when I'm… Around when we should… And I've heard of a potion you can take that makes you even more… So it shouldn't take us very long to-"
"Then there's no sorta...spell or something we can say that-"
"That magically puts a baby in my stomach? Seriously, Laxus?'
He shrugged a bit before saying, "I wanted to make sure I'm getting, you know, the full ride here."
"The full ride, huh?"
"The full ride, Mirajane."
It was such a tense moment.
Before Mirajane ruined it was giggles.
Laxus only rolled his eyes.
As he came over finally, to join her on the couch, Mirajane only sobered a bit before asking, 'Should I start finding out about any buried secrets in your family that might pop up?"
"What do you mean?"
"Like… I know that you were sick as a kid, but-"
"Not hereditary." He patted at his chest. "Dreyars are a good breed."
"And your mother?"
That got him to frown, shifting on the couch as he was already uncomfortable there. "Excuse me?"
"Is she alive?" Mira didn't look to comfortable asking. "Or-"
"No. She's not."
"Then-"
"And she won't have any affect on-"
"But she didn't die of some sort of crazy illness, did she? That the baby might-"
"No."
"So-"
"Let's move on."
"Okay," Mirajane hummed again, as to keep them both in a good place. "Well, you mentioned something about...diseases when I first asked you about-"
"I'm clean."
"But-"
"Would I have let us get this far without it?"
"I was going to say will you be between today and when we-"
"I think I can keep it in my pants till then, yeah, Mira."
"Good." Grinning over at him, she reiterated, "So no diseases or anything. Now, about your Dreyar attitude-"
"My what?"
"Do you feel like that's because of your upbringing? Both you and your grandfather? Or perhaps something subconsciously that-"
"My up- Mirajane-"
"I'm prying for a good reason this time," she insisted. "Not just to be nosy. This is for the future of my child."
Laxus considered her silently before saying simply, "I'm my own person, nothing like my father or grandfather, and my genes will only bring your child god-like qualities. Anything wrong with him would come from the stock that you bring."
It was Mira's turn, finally to say, "Excuse me?"
"You're from the boonies, aren't ya? And I've seen your brother. You, even. There's something off there. So upbringing or genetics, Mirajane?"
Making a face at him, she retorted, "Fine. I won't ask those sort of questions anymore."
"Thank you."
They both sat there then, for a few moments, before eventually Mriajane got to her feet.
"Are we done here then?" she asked, the one lording over him then. Laxus only blinked up at her though.
With a curt nod, he said, "I'll hang around until it's, you know, time for us to-"
"Good. And then, hopefully, we can go another nine months without talking?"
"Yeah," Laxus sighed as she headed to the door then. "Hopefully."
I want mashima to make arc to my dear Juvia i want to see something about her without Gray hiro make everything about her life is gray and that make me get bored I need something new about her:her past,Was her family rich? Cuz when i saw her Cupboard clothes were like rich clothes and this is sketch :( I can't remove from my mind so please mashima siensi make an arc about her your managa will end and I didnt see special arc about her *crying*
Here’s some more drawings I did a while back ago, I’m honestly probably gonna re-draw them as well. I’ll be posting some of what’s in my sketchbook here soon as well.
AHHH OKAY I DONT RAVE ABOUT MY ART OFTEN.....BUUUUUTTTTT I JUST MADE THIS A FREAKING PHONE CASE !! It looks insanely awesome in the mockup and in the final product i will be sure to post pictures when I get it in!! I am soon excited I can't wait to get it!! I am also thinking about doing a whole series of these and see what people think!!
Fairy Tail is awesome and I super sad and happy that it is ending soon!! Hiro is amazing!
The original artwork belongs to Hiro haha I just take credit for the collage tell mw what you guys think should I continue this as a series?? If so any suggestions??
