#withachanceoflaxus

[icehaloed]

‘ ‘ ultear’s not here,  right now. ’ ’

she could have let him keep looking around for her daughter a bit longer,  she supposed,  but ur knew painfully well that life was much too short to waste any time at all.  it may have taken the blond half a minute at best,  but the things she could have done with half a minute more to live.  the i love yous she could have said before becoming a cold case.

sighing quietly,  she closed the book she had been browsing to scrutinise him for a moment,  then she mentioned at the other seat in the nook she had chosen for her little research project.  ‘ ‘ i hope she’s not too harsh on you, ’ ’  she added thoughtfully.

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@withachanceoflaxus  /  laxus.

‘ ‘ it was my alma mater,  you know. ’ ’

she did not turn to look at her grandson,  was too preoccupied with her own thoughts.  it had been a hone away from home  . . .  before it had become the one place she had avoided with every shred of her being.  it felt wrong to be here without ultear,  without any of the old familiar faces . . .  aside from her best friend’s father who seemed hardly changed at all.

her face twisted up as she continued to speak because she was not happy to be back at all,  but that was easily hid as she dove into another box to retrieve even more books for the shelves in her new office.  ‘ ‘ and professor gaebolg had been asking me to fill this teaching spot for a while, ’ ’  she added.  ‘ ‘ i’m not here to chaperone,  laxus. ’ ’  just to make sure you don’t get killed. 

[verticordiia]

the press might have their own, hilariously wrong ideas, but --- laxus was her friend. and this meant that she could ask him a question that should possibly have nagged her far sooner but that did never quite register until more recently. or maybe she had never thought about the most glaring differences between his guild and hers, before.

‘‘ laxus? ’’ she asked, calmly. ‘‘ how come you are your guild’s second strongest mage? at --- twenty-five? no offense to you, but --- is there no . . . generation, i suppose, between you and clive? ’’

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[koibitoaii]

laxus raised an eyebrow at lisanna. "i'm telling you, lisanna. i'm fine." he understood why she was ... worrying so much and he felt bad. but there was nothing he could do to change the past. he rubbed a hand over his face, he was frustrated with everyone's reactions lately around him. he wasn't fragile. (not anymore). "the checkups with ... porlyusica are just that. check ups. to make sure because she's a thorough healer. there's nothing amiss with my health."

“It’s not that I don’t believe you,” lisanna started softly, kicking the dirt in front of her feet. she wasn’t entirely confident that porlyusica would share if there was something severely wrong - but lisanna trusted her instincts enough to feel like she’d pick up on that kind of atmosphere. 

“It’s just that you’re such a sneak when anything is wrong!” she accused, a touch playful, a touch reproaching. “How am I ever going to know anything besides ‘it’s fine, lisanna’ if I don’t pester you relentlessly.” 

she could sense his growing frustration, see the tension in the line of his back when the subject was brought up. she’d seen the relentless way mirajane prodded at him when she found out, fearless & fearful all at once. so lisanna extended her arms, hanging off his shoulders from behind in a way she was very aware was too reminiscent of their childhoods for him to get too upset with her. 

“As a little sister, relentlessly pestering people is one of my most valued strengths, Laxus.” she muttered into his shoulder. it was probably a bit too much to say, i’m worried about you. or so many people I’ve loved I’ve lost please don’t be one of them or even in edolas I saw a pictures of a man with your face && had to hear about how he died. 

so instead, she let a grin seep into her voice “It’s practically my right. so be ready - because if it’s not about your health, it’ll be about your love life next.” 

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     The slurred complaints he got in return of his intervention made Jellal’s eyebrow ( arch ); if Laxus meant to get him to SYMPATHIZE, it failed royally. In fact, the masked wizard felt his choice only validated further.

     “If you drink ANY MORE, you will REGRET it tomorrow”, the lost prince merely ( quietly ) replied, shrugging his shoulders.

     When the Lightning Mage’s head pressed against his thigh, Jellal sucked in a breath, feeling warmth spread in his chest. It wasn’t that this was unusual, far from it --- they’d been far more intimate during countless past encounters. Yet this still got to him... the more innocent, gentle contacts; the type of closeness he’d resolved himself to shove away when he’d left Edolas to save this parallel one.

     Still, the drunken stupor of his fellow guildmate made the ( entire experience ) much less ENDEARING.

     “Oh, quit it. You’ll thank me in the morning.”

                          ( not that he’d be there still; the thought was pondered sadly. )

     The gesture was hesitant, but he raised a gloved hand to the top of Laxus’ head and let his fingers thread through the golden locks, in a manner he hoped was pleasing.

                             “I think…. I think it’s sleepy time for Laxus.” 

     --- Jellal snorted lightly, quietly.

                                “I wish i remembered… lullaby. D’you have one?” 

                                                               ( ... )

     “A lullaby?”

     He hesitated, fingers halting their movements in the blond hair of the man. What a strange request. What a strange feeling it gave him as well, knotting his stomach so tightly.

     ( But the lyrics came to him, softly, and the Prince of Edolas ended up lulling his ‘friend’ to sleep, with nothing short of the song his mother used to sing to him. ) 

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[verticordiia]

they had occasionally seen each other when she had visited blue pegasus' guild hall, but that had been a while ago. after breaking up with ren, she had not been there as often --- for obvious reasons --- and then, a war had come and gone. they were still rebuilding, everywhere. powerful wards had shielded lamia scale's buildings from the worst of it, but there was still damage they could only see now.

rebuilding took time, she knew that, but she wished that she could throw herself into this important task instead of having to deal with all the questions others had for her, questions that were truly unimportant in comparison to the fact that a whole quarter in zinnia was still in ruins. still, right now, she was out shopping and this was important sometimes, too, even if she was seeing unexpected faces.

‘‘ out of all the mages i could run into at this store, you are someone i did  not  expect at all, ’’ she said slowly, resting most of her weight on her shopping cart, the shopping cart she had filled with everything she would need to winter-proof her guild's garden.

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