Guild Leverage

Ch 1

"There is no way in hell that I'm going to sit through an hour long meeting with a group of old ass men who are just going to complain about how my guild needs to control itself!" Laxus grumbles into his mug of ale, ignoring the snickers that it gained from Mirajane's daughter who was currently sitting next to him. Laxus growls at her in annoyance. "What the hell is so funny kid?"

"Oh, nothing master. Just that you haven't already figured out the loophole to getting out of this," she says with a smirk, her mischevious look mirroring the one her mother usually had on perfectly.

"What the hell are you talking about, Haven?" he asks as he slowly turns to face her, willing to listen to anything she had to say if it meant that he might be able to get out of it.

"Well, you've got two options." Haven turns to him with a seemingly innocent smile, though he could almost see the demon horns coming out of her head. She was a carbon copy of her mother, from the eyes, the shape of their nose and lips, and most noticeably her attitude and magic. The only part of Freed in her you could see was when she stepped into the sun and her hair took on a mint green hue. "Either you can ask Lucy to have Gemini to go in your form, though that's unlikely because I think it's their off weekend, plus she wouldn't want them to have to deal with the lecture you would have to endure. Or, you could have Lucy go for you since she's basically just another guild master, the council likes her more anyways."

"Haven...you're a damn genius!" Laxus says with a smirk ignoring the comment about them liking her more. Downing the rest of his ale before walking to the office where he knew Lucy would be working on paperwork from Team Natsu's last mission. With Erza out on a forced pregnancy leave, Lucy staying around the guild to help out for a bit until she had her own baby, and Wendy taking jobs with Romeo, there was only so much the boys could get done together before they burned down a city or turned half of the landscape into an iceberg.

"So..Lucy, you know I love you right?" Laxus asks with a smile as he looks past the several stacks of paper that were blocking his from seeing his wife.

Lucy immediately recognized it as the look he got when he wanted something and mentally prepared herself for whatever idiotic thing he wanted now.

"What do you need not Laxus?" She asks with a slight laugh, wanting to take a picture of his face when he realized that he would have a hard time sweet talking her.

"Wow, I'm that predictable now huh?" he asks with a laugh as he moves to walk behind Lucy, his hands moving down to run along her large belly.

"Yep, any time you say 'I love you' with that look on your face I know you want me to do something for you. So what is it this time?" she asks with a smile as she rests her head on his chest.

"I've got a Magic Council meeting in 2 days and I don't want to go. I was wondering if you would have Gemini go in my place," he asks, a pleading whine making itself evident in his voice.

"As much as I love to try to help with Gemini, I can't use my magic, remember?"

Laxus groans in annoyance when he remembered how Lucy's pregnancy was affecting her. They had found out early on that the baby would have Laxus's magic. Lucy had tried to summon Loke one day to help out with something and she had ended up getting shocked, now that she was even farther through her pregnancy she couldn't even touch her keys without receiving a fairly rough shock from the baby.

"I don't know what you're groaning about, this is your fault," Lucy says as she tries to scowl at him, though she was unable to keep it for more than a few seconds. He had given her the greatest gift in her life other than being able to join Fairy Tail, she could never be mad about that.

Laxus laughs quietly. "Damn right it is," he says before kissing her cheek. " Well since you can't use Gemini, do you think you could go for me?"

"YES!" Lucy yells excitedly. " I can't sit in here any longer. I've been doing absolutely nothing all week and if I have to sit on my ass any longer I'll go insane," she says excitedly as she stands up so that she can put the stack of papers she finished on the top of a pile.

Lucy groans as she puts her hand on her lower back, the increasing size of her belly and her large chest size wreaking havoc on her back. Eight months along and she still hadn't learned that she couldn't stand up quickly.

Laxus shakes his head before forcing her to sit back in the chair. "I'll make sure you have a carriage to get you around, you can't stand for too long, let alone walk from the train station to the magic council. "

Lucy smiles at him before remembering something. "Oh, you're gonna need to do the paperwork if I'm going, so far we owe...140,000 Jewels in damages to about 3 different cities and that's not the end of the paperwork, so have fun with that," she says with a smirk.

"Oh there's no way in hell I'm doing that," Laxus says with a shake of his head as he moves to sit in the other chair in the room.

"Yes you will, if you want me to go I need you to do this for me," she says with a shrug before standing up slowly and waddling to the door. "I'm gonna go get a smoothie, I'll be back, " she says with a smile before moving to open the door. As soon as she opens the door a chair flies by her into the room, smashing against the back wall, just narrowly missing her stomach.

A loud gasp passes through the room as they all stare at Lucy who was staring wide eyed at her stomach. Laxus stands up and walks silently into the guild hall, lightning crackling dangerously around his form.

"Who..." he asks slowly, leaving no room for discussion or excuses.

Gray and Natsu slowly look up at Laxus, still stuck in their tangle of limbs as they start babbling, pointing to one another as they try to get out of the impending merciless beating.

"Outside! I'm not cleaning the guild again!" Mirajane yells from across the room. Laxus growls angrily before dragging them both by their collars out of the guild, both of the boys begging for mercy as they do.