Manga
If ever asked, Mira would claim to be the best matchmaker in Fairy Tail, hell she'd claim to be the best in Fiore. She would proudly announce that all of her pairs - yes even the pairings that others claimed were "crack" pairings - would one day get together and have beautiful hordes of babies together. She'd tell you all about the babies she imagined - blue haired babies with brown eyes, pink haired babies with blue eyes, brown haired babies with red eyes just to name a few - and tell you every detail about their wedding. She knew that it was somewhat unlikely that all - or many - of her pairing would ever end up together and have beautiful hordes of children that she could fawn over. After all many of her guildmates were idiots that would rather die than admit their romantic affection for someone they really liked, i.e. Lucy, Laxus, her own brother, Evergreen, pretty much EVERYONE ELSE.
Really, it pissed her off beyond belief.
However, one of Mira's pairing might about to come true and she wasn't quite sure how she felt about it. It certainly wasn't a favorite pairing of her's, in fact both of them had also been shipped with a magnitude of other people at various points of time, but it was one that she used to support with a vigor.
LaLu, Laxus and Lucy.
Before, when Lucy had still new to guild and was an uncertain but still cheerful and loyal mage, Mira had begun to plan Laxus's and Lucy's romantic life. How they would meet, when they'd start dating, where they'd get married, how many beautiful little babies they'd have. Every little detail had been planned out and Mira, at the time, had been so excited for when Laxus would come home so she could introduce them.
Mira honestly had a good reason for pairing those two together, she had only been thinking about what would be best for them both. Growing up in the guild, Mira had gotten to know and grow up beside a good portion of her guildmates: Laxus, Erza, Team Shadowgear, Natsu, Grey, Happy, Cana, and so many more. So Mira knew that Laxus could be a good, she remembered how he had been when they were kids and how kind and selfless he had been then. She knew that how Laxus was during Fantasia, how he was still today - so closed off everyone, still so suspicious of people -, was because of the pain that Ivan put him through. She knew it wasn't entirely his fault, though it was still his fault a little bit because no one made him shut them out, but still seeing that little child become that angry adult hurt her and the others.
And so when Lucy came to guild with her optimistic smile and never ending cheerful attitude, Mira thought she had found the perfect girl for Laxus. She thought that the two blondes could balance each other out in a way that no one else would be able to. She hoped that Lucy's cheerful out look on life and kind nature would dull Laxus's rough and mean edges, that Lucy's light could take away the darkness Ivan instilled in Laxus. She thought that Laxus's strong nature - attitude wise - and the way he pushed people would help Lucy with her insecurity and her meek demeanor.
But that was before everything, that was before Phantom Lord and Lucy being tortured and LaLu just fell apart.
That was before Laxus refused to help unless Lucy dated him and - Mavis, Mira hoped this wasn't an actual stipulation, but there were rumors around the guild - sleep with him. He hadn't mentioned that when they had called him for help during Phantom Lord, however rumors went around the guild that that was what he really wanted from Lucy.
After that, despite Mira still caring about and loving Laxus, she didn't quite trust him around Lucy. Lucy was like a little sister to her and Mira, just like many other people in the guild, had this desire to protect Lucy from everything and everyone. Lucy just had this, this thing about her, this light - hence her guild nickname The Light of Fairy Tail - about her that just made everyone want to protect and care for her.
And now Mira was staring at a mission flyer for an S-Class mission that Laxus would be taking with Lucy.
And she wasn't sure how she felt about this new development.
As Mira thought over this new progression, she left Kinana in charge of the bar while she went to the back room where her office was. No one, not even the Master, ever went into her office, no one ever really had a reason to. Afterall, there wasn't anything in her office that anyone ever need, all she "officially" stored in her office was guild member files, completed mission paperwork, and all the team paperwork. Unofficially though, Mira kept certain books back there that she had commissioned from a manga artist that she scared to keep silent about these books.
As Mira walked into her office, she shut and locked the door behind her and then activated a set of ruins which made her office sound proof. Slowly she made her way over to one of the filing cabinets in the far corner of her office and pulled out her guild key ring, going through the keys until she hit the one that opened the special filing cabinet. Mira skipped the first drawer, already knowing that the specific manga she was looking for wouldn't be in there. Instead she unlocked the second drawer, opening it and rifling through the dividers until she hit the sections marked L's.
"Lories, Lyredy, Larl, Lory, Leed, LoLu, Luen, Lyvia, Lavia." Mira mummered out loud, tsk-ing herself for arranging them in the order of which she ranked them - her OTPs being in the forefront and the ones which were just okay being in the back - and not in alphabetical order. At the very back of the L's section was the manga she was looking for LaLu: The Story of Laxus Dreyar and Lucy Heartfilia.
Flipping through the manga, she skipped past the beginning pages all about how Laxus and Lucy would meet, how Laxus would ask her out on a magical date, how their first kiss went. Mira only stopped flipping so fast once she reached the page that read TWO YEARS LATER; FAIRY TAIL. She then began to slowly flip through the next pages, her eyes darting across the beautiful wedding decorations that adorned the guild, the girls all dressed up in the most gorgeous dresses, the men in dashing tuxes, Lucy in her wedding dress, Laxus in his tux, Master marrying them, and . . . Ah ha!
Mira stared at the panel she had been looking for, her fingers gliding over the picture with a curious look on her face. The Manga Artist - Hiro Mashima was his pen name - had done this scene perfectly and Mira wondered if, in a few years, this specific picture would be - unknowingly - recreated.
It was a picture of Laxus and Lucy exiting the chapel, hand-in-hand, as everyone posed around them with huge grins on their face. Master stood off to the side with a large smile and tears pouring out of his along with a few of the older members of the guild. All of Lucy's spirits were there as well, each of them laughing happily as stood with the group for the picture.
Mira closed the manga, a thoughtful look on her face as she placed it back into the cabinet. This time though, the manga sat snuggly between Lories and Lyredy.
Maybe Mira would give this ship another chance.