Hello hello! If you are still down for requests how about a cute little story about Erza and Lucy having a tea party!
After a long day, and a long job with Natsu and Happy that had ended… about as well as jobs with the pair normally did, Lucy was ready to take a long soak in her bath with her favorite perfumed bubbles (and maybe a book for company) and just call it a day. Her muscles ached and she had a throbbing headache.
When she arrived at her apartment, however, she discovered that the door was already unlocked. Meaning someone had decided to invade her home while she was out.
Which… okay, she could deal with whichever member of the guild it was quickly. It wasn’t as if she didn’t have plenty of practice in that department, and at this point coming home to find someone else already occupying it was more common an occurrence these days than finding it empty was.
“Hello?” she called out, stepping into the apartment. “Who’s there?”
“Lucy!” came the cheerful voice of Erza, who beamed at her from Lucy’s kitchen. She was wearing an apron with more frills than function, but Lucy had to admit that it was pretty cute on the redhead. “Welcome back. How was your job with Natsu and Happy?”
“Uh… it went okay.” Lucy peered at her teammate suspiciously. Something was different about her apartment, aside from Erza’s presence within it. But what was it?
“Excellent.” Erza nodded, pleased with Lucy’s response. “Can you help me carry these to the table?” She gestured at the tiered plates sitting on Lucy’s counter, heaping with scones and tiny sandwiches.
Giving up her plans as dead, Lucy shrugged and picked up the tiered plates. “Sure thing.” It was only at that point that she realized there was a medium-sized table sitting in the middle of her apartment, and that it was a much nicer one than hers. It was set very prettily, with doilies and flowers and… teacups? “What is all this?”
“High tea,” Erza stated, bringing a steaming teakettle to the table and setting it on a holder to keep it from scorching the wood. “I was thinking earlier, and it’s been awhile since you and I’ve spent any one-on-one time. And holding a tea party has always been something I’ve wanted to do.”
“But why my apartment?” Lucy asked, placing her burden down.
“I just went through a bit of cleaning at my dorm in Fairy Hills,” explained Erza, sitting down at one of the chairs that she must have brought with the table. “So there’s no room.”
“Doesn’t cleaning normally free up space?” Lucy sat down as well, amused by all of this. It was just like Erza to set something elaborate like this up on a whim. “And how did you even get this table in here? It’s not like my apartment is very… large…” She paused. “Erza? Um… where is my furniture?”
She couldn’t believe it had taken her this long to notice, but indeed - it was all gone. Her bed, her couch, her armchair, her own table… all nowhere to be seen.
“When you have as much stuff as I do, sometimes it must be shuffled around in order to clean where it was,” Erza informed her. She held up the teapot. “Tea?”
Lucy held up her teacup to be filled. “Yes, thank you. And that makes sense, but you still haven’t answered my question?”
Once the tea was poured, Erza passed her the sugar bowl. “I found this table and chair set while I was cleaning, actually. The tea set as well. I’m not sure when I bought them, to be honest. But they are adorable, aren’t they?”
“Yeah, they really are,” Lucy agreed. “But Erza… where is my furniture?”
“Oh, I moved it to make room. Scone? I baked them myself.”
The scones were still warm from the oven, and very delicious. “These are tasty.”
Erza beamed at her. “Thank you, Lucy. I worked very hard on them. Isn’t this a lot of fun?”
She had to admit, it kind of was. But the issue of her furniture, and Erza’s evasiveness about it, were raising alarm bells in Lucy’s head. “Yes, but Erza, where did you move my furniture to?”
“We should do this regularly,” Erza concluded, satisfied with herself.