What If...

Chapter 7

Lucy woke up the most refreshed she had ever been. She opened her eyes to see the ceiling of the tent she and Rogue had set up the day before. She turned to her left and saw that Rogue's sleeping bag was empty. All of a sudden she was met with the amazing smell of bacon. She jumped and unzipped the tent. What she saw when she stepped out surprised her. It was Rogue standing in front of a small grill, with a spatula in hand pushing cooked bacon around.

She stood there for a minute and watched as he took the bacon off the grill and placed it on two plates. She finally decided to announce herself, "Hey Rogue. I didnt know you could cook."

The dragon slayer jumped at the sudden appearance of a voice and quickly turned around. He sighed in relief that it was Lucy and said, "Never sneak up on a man while he's cooking. You could get hit with something."

The blonde rose a brow at that and inquired, "Has it happened before?"

Rogue turned back to the two plates and grabbed them. He walked closer to Lucy and handed her one as he said, "Yes actually. On many occasions. Sting would always come out of no where if I cooked breakfast and scream. 'WHAT SMELLS SO GOOD?!' Scared the living shit out of me every time. Sometimes he would be too close to me and I'd end up hitting him with whatever was in my hand. Whether it was a plate, spatula, frying pan, anything. Even my hand a couple times."

Lucy laughed at the image of present Rogue hitting Sting in the face with a frying pan that popped into her mind. They went into silence as they began to eat. Lucy took the first bite and exclaimed happily, "These are amazing! I didn't know you could cook this well Rogue."

Said man just shrugged and said, "You never asked so I kept it to myself."

Lucy just smiled and said, "Well I'm glad I know now. I won't have to make food all the time."

Rogue rolled his eyes and said sarcastically, "Yay me."

They both finished their breakfast and packed up the camp, Virgo coming out to collect everything. They traveled back into town to collect their reward, the Mayor was surprised they finished the mission in one night. He gave them an extra 20,000 jewel for it, to Lucy's happiness.

On their way to the train station, Lucy saw all the different shops and remembered she promised Rogue they would go shopping for clothes for him. She quickly grabbed his arm and pulled him away from the train station. He looked at her questionably and asked, "Where are we going the train station is that way?"

Lucy looked up at the dragon slayer and smiled brightly, "Well, I promised I'd take you clothes shopping. And if we did that in Magnolia we'd risk someone from Fairy Tail seeing us. So I thought why not do it here?"

He nodded, he had not thought about the dangers off being spotted when shopping in Magnolia.

They went into lots of different shops. Rogue chose mostly black, red, and gray color schemes. He bought a few different capes/cloaks. Lucy never knew what to call them, but she bought a couple of her own. She had found a midnight blue one with gold specks that looked like stars adorning it. The second was just black with gold trimmings.

They happened upon another magic shop and walked inside. The shop keeper was a woman in her early forties. She greeted them with a smile, "Hello and welcome to my magic shop. Is there anything specific I could help you find?"

Lucy walked up to the counter while Rogue walked around the shop, "Yes do you have any celestial spirit keys in today?"

The woman thought before she said, "I can go check if we have any but I'm not entirely sure."

The blonde nodded and watched the woman go into a back room behind the counter. It was five minutes before she came back with a golden box in her hands. She approached Lucy and said, "I found this. I don't know a lot about celestial magic so I don't know if it's a good key or not."