Erlu Oneshots

Hail Mary

Classic quarterback x cheerleader fluff thingy

Sweat dripped down my face as I stood in the middle of the field. I was breathing heavy and the cheers of the crowd on the stands all around me rang like alarms. I shifted my mouthpiece and stared at the ball held by my center, Loke, that was waiting for me to call out a signal. Then it'd be in my hands and all hell would break loose. We were in the fourth quarter, playing against Phantom Lord, Fairy Tail's rival school. We were down 14-20 with barely a minute left in the game. The last game of the season. This was it.

I took a deep breath and called out. "HUT" Chaos began as the ball was chucked into my hands. The line of scrimmage collided and the clanking of protective gear roared. I made a handoff to my running back, Gray, and he ran straight into the line. We moved up 5 yards.

32 seconds. I had been tackled to the ground. My opponent got off of me and I took my tight end, Natsu's, hand, getting up. My chest tightened with stress. I could vaguely hear coach Makarov yelling from the bench and I looked around at my team. I regarded the rest of my team members. We were tired and bruised, phantom played rough, rougher than what was allowed, but the referees didn't seem to notice.

My linemen, Elfman, Laxus, Bickslow, Droy and Loke and our fullback, Mest, had been getting brutally battered all night, Phantom's defense had been tight so I had barely gotten any chances to throw to our wide receivers Jet and Romeo. the crowd was a distant roar and my head felt fuzzy. Natsu grabbed my shoulder and I saw him ask if I was okay but I couldn't quite make out his words. I was exhausted and ready to drop. We all were.

"ERZA!!" My ears automatically tuned into the familiar voice yelling my name. I turned my head to look at Fairy Tail's head cheerleader, Lucy Heartfilia, my girlfriend. I lightly smiled as I see the glinting of a silver necklace bouncing around her neck. My mind flashed back to when I gave it to her.

"Erza! Stop it!" squealed Lucy as her girlfriend smeared some flour onto her face. They had just been cooking cookies together which quickly turned into an all-out flour war. Erza won but it was close. Erza wrapped her arms around Lucy's waist and Lucy laid her head on Erza's shoulder. They remained in the embrace for a while. It'd been a very stressful day for both of them. Lucy had a physics test that she'd lost too much sleep over and Erza had a game in the morning against Oracion Seis, an out-of-city team. They had gotten absolutely destroyed.

However, Erza could feel the stress slowly disappearing, along with the rest of her worries while she held Lucy. She loved everything about the blonde. Her passion for writing and animals and anything she believed in, her cute laugh where she threw her head back and shut her eyes, the way she somehow knew exactly what to say when Erza was angry or sad, the way she wasn't afraid to express herself, her fierceness and fire, the way she blushed when Erza whispered into her ear, the way she clutched at Erza's shoulders when she had a nightmare to steady her, her kisses, her pouts,her tears, her vain that stuck out when she was angry, her fucking gorgeous smile. Erza thought about all this and took a deep breath.

"I'm in love with you."

Lucy sucked in a breath and tensed up. Of all the things that Erza could have said at that moment, that was one of the most unexpected. In their almost two years of dating, Erza had never said anything about love. And Lucy was fine with that. She knew about Erza's past abusive-relationships and understood the difficulty she would have with talking about it. She was perfectly comfortable with the 'I adore you's and the 'you're all I need's. Although she was longing for the day that Erza could say it, she would be patient and wait. ANd she had. And now the day was here. She slowly brought her head back to tearfully stare up into Erza's eyes. Erza smiled at her.

"Lucy Heartfilia, I'm in love with you. I love you." Erza said. The tears in Lucy's eyes fell. The way Erza said it. God, she loved it. She loved her. Lucy beamed.

"God I love you, Erza Scarlet."

Erza abruptly let go of Lucy and walked out of the kitchen. Lucy stood in shock. Had she done something wrong? Was she not supposed to say it back? Before her thoughts could take over too much, Erza rushed back into the room holding a small box. She gave it to Lucy and kissed her on the forehead. "I was saving it for your birthday but I think this is a better time."

Lucy opened it and gasped. It was a beautiful necklace in the shape of a silver key, just like her tattoo in memory of her mother, and on it was engraved 'I love you, Lucy, forever.' Tears fell over Lucy's cheeks. She looked up at Erza, speechless.

"I'm sorry that I didn't say it earlier. You deserve someone who will tell you every day. And now, I will. I love you."

They kissed and repeated the phrase to each other many times that night. Erza couldn't remember ever being so happy.

"You got this Erza! You can do it! Goooo Fairy Tail!" I watched as Lucy screamed from the sidelines, maintaining eye contact with me. 'I love you.' she mouthed and my heart filled. My confidence came back and I felt pride bring my aches to the back of my mind. We could do this. I clapped my hands together. "Alright, guys! Let's show these fuckers what we're made of!" I yelled. I could see the surprise on my teammate's faces of me swearing but it wiped off and was replaced with a grin as they built their confidence on my own. We gathered and I explained the plan. I could tell they were nervous but in the end, they trusted me and we prepared for our final play. We lined up and when it was time, I called out, "HUT!"

The lines crashed and our defense came back strong, surprising Phantom and holding them off well. Jet and Romeo dashed to me. I turned and they reached their arms out, both acting to grab the football then dashing off towards the end zone. Phantom's cornerback's rushed after the two wide receivers, not really knowing which one had the ball. They closed in on them quickly. I started to mutter under my breath.

"Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen."

Both got tackled down and I saw the referee raise his whistle to blow before stopping as I raised my right arm which still held the pigskin.

I vaulted it down the middle of the field and made a perfect throw into the arms of Natsu who had been sprinting straight down the field the whole time. He passed the four still on the ground and pushed it right into the end zone.

The crowd went wild.

My team hugged and jumped and ran around the field as Natsu did a victory dance and did a handshake with Gray. Phantom's mouths had all dropped wide open and I smiled at the angry shouts of their Coach, Jose. Laxus pat me on the back and laughed. "Nice hail mary there, Titania." I smiled, took off my helmet, spit out my mouthguard and thanked him before turning around at hearing my name being shouted.

A blur of blue and yellow jumped on me and we tumbled to the ground. Lucy r slammed her lips against mine and gripped the back of my head. I heard my team do whistles and catcalls and I lifted my middle finger into the air. There was a chorus of laughs and we separated, breathing heavily. Lucy smiled at me. I smiled back.

"Babe, you need to get off the field. We still need to get that extra point." I said, noticing the referees coming towards us.

Lucy smirked and pecked my lips once more before getting up and offering me a hand. I took it and she pulled me up and into her, kissing me fiercely. She parted before I could reciprocate and whispered into my ear "Sneak peek for tonight." and then she walked away, leaving me blushing and getting lots of comments from my teammates. I blushed heavier and ordered us into position to score the winning point.

We won, obviously and were bombarded with lots of congratulations, hugs, and girls asking to have their breasts signed. Gray and Loke got most of those.

Lucy walked up to me and I brought my hand up to cup her cheek as we lovingly kissed, this one much less fierce as the one on the field but no less passionate.

"I love you." I said when we parted. She smiled and pulled me in closer. "You're gonna love me a lot more after tonight." she said, sensually. I blushed and she did her laugh where she throws her head back and closes her eyes. I smiled. She looked at me and winked.

"And I love you too by the way."

A/N: Okay, so I don't really know a lot about football but I tried. I also didn't edit so if there are mistakes, sorry! Hope you enjoyed!