It's two hours later that the Kinana comes in and disrupts Lucy and Cobras optical death match. Lucy's face flares with heat but she forces her eyes to stay connected with his this time, even though her mind is screaming about how suggestive this must look. As time went by they managed to end up sitting cross-legged across from each other, and the foot of distance is doing nothing to calm her fluster. How the poison slayer manages to stay so calm is beyond her, but he does an amazing job of keeping his cool.

"Are you two okay..?" Kinana asks softly as she closes the door behind herself. No, of course she isn't okay. She's been sitting here for Mavis knows how long! Her legs ache, her ass is numb, and she's hungry! Yet every time she thinks about backing out she sees that same damned look on his face.. That smug 'I'm better than you' smirk that pulls at the edges of his mouth. It's infuriating. Lucy was never much of a violent person, yet that look in his eyes never fails to make her want to Lucy Kick him right in the dick.

"He's deciding to fill his time with meaningless games. He wanted to have a staring contest so I'm just entertaining him." Lucy says in a matter-of-fact tone and shifts to a kneel for what much be the millionth time. It's impossible to get comfortable when Mr 'I'm a fucking robot with no perception of discomfort' is constantly judging her, jumping at any chance to be a cocky asshole. Honestly, all slayers really are just taller, slightly more intelligent children.

"Oh, that's..." Kinana trails off as her ever present happiness falters. "Sweet" She finishes as she takes a seat on the bed with the two, not that far from cobra. Cobra tenses as soon as she sits down. It's barely noticeable, but the blonde still catches it. She can't imagine what's so wrong with the girl that he had gotten uneasy enough to tense. She's sweet, no way in hell she did anything to him. Perhaps...

Lucy's eyes narrow when she barely sees from her peripheral vision how much closer she's sitting at the side of the bed. The girls shoulder is almost touching his back. A smile twitches at her lips at the thought of asking the girl to help her win. Cobras eyes narrow as well, no doubt hearing her inner schemes. So he really does have quite the issue with personal space huh?

"Why are you both blinking then?" Kinana asks queitly, a little innocent pig in the tense pasture that is their situation. His in particular it seems. Kinana crawls forward next to him, peering over at his eye most likely to check if he's blinking. He indeed has been blinking as well. Not blinking isn't the objective here, that should be obvious enough. Thanks to her curious crawl, her shoulder brushed his, lighting a fuse of unknown length to his breaking point. She can see the flick of the flame in his eyes as it lights the metaphorical wick. The smaller girl sits on her knees next to the man and watches the two with confused eyes.

"We're not seeing who blinks the quickest, it's just a game to see who looks away first." Lucy fills the girl in with a voice no louder than a whisper. As if saying it any louder will break her concentration, which very well may be the case. Their eyes continue to bore into each other's, the presence of the girl easily being put on the backburner. At least, it's easy enough for Lucy. Cobra, however, seems to be fairing much worse with the closeness of the visitor.

"Don't." Cobra's sharp growl suddenly cuts through the silence. Lucy's eyebrows furrow at the aggression behind the word just as much as why it was said. It only makes the blond very curious as to what Kinana could have possibly thought to elicit it. As far as she can tell he hasn't been all that aggressive. At least not towards her. She can't help but thing, perhaps hope, she may be a special case. That out of all the two other people she knows of him meeting, he likes her the most. Even so, he's still can be quite the cock to Lucy as well. Though.. Shes not quiet sure why she would want special treatment from an ex criminal.

"I'm sorry" Kinana mutters and stares down at her lap.

"I don't know who the hell your talking about" Cobra mutters, his eyes set into hard, nearly violet orbs. Yea, definitely very tense. And what does he mean he doesn't know who she's talking about? She isn't even talking, for one. For two, why the hell is Kinana so friendly with him?

"Jeez she's in here for five minutes and she already got you pissy? Your really not a fan of people invading your personal space huh?" Lucy says with feigned lightheartedness. She should know it's hard to pretend around someone who can hear your soul. She still tries to pretend she isn't suspecting the girl has some type of connection with him, and he remembers that connection. She can't very well picture the small purplette annoying him in some way, but with the unreasonable way he's acting towards her.. Okay, now that she thinks further into it there are several reasons he could be on edge. She is in fact sitting close enough to touch him if she scoots just a bit, and he's proven to have a strong dislike for this place. So really, him remembering a connection to someone is just wishful thinking on Lucy's part.

"I'm not a fan of her in particular." Cobra says, barely more than a grumble. His response only feeds into her hopeful suspicions. Lucy, from the corner of her eye, can see the said girl sigh and fold her hands on her lap. A sad smile is still played across her lips as she stares down at her lap. Her eyes soon after lift to stare at his face again, her expression soft and unchanging. Lucy can oh so clearly see the annoyance in his eye as the girl stares at him. As long as Kinanas here, there's a high chance he'll loose his cool. Oh the ways Lucy is going to rub it in his face.. She can't wait to see shock slip past the 'i don't give two shits about anything' mask he tends to have.

'It's about time he's ego gets knocked down a couple inches.. No, a couple miles would be nice.' Lucy mentally muses, uncaring if he can hear here. Judging by his expression, he isn't paying much attention to her. His eyes have that glossed-over look again, making it look as if he's looking through her eyes rather than at them.

Lucy smiles widely when Cobras eyes tear away from hers. He pushes himself up off the bed and roughly grabs the smaller girls arm. The girl is reduced to a glorified ragdoll in his hold, stumbling to keep on her feet as he drags her across the room. Her glory fades to confusion and worry as she watches him open the door and all but throw the petite girl out of it. Her mouth is left hung open as he slams the door in her face when she so much as tries to talk.

'W... What the fuck...?' Her mind draws a blank. The girl could very well come back in, but she doesn't. But the way cobra handled his anger was... Much more peaceful than expected. In fact, it was almost comical. Not at all a criminal-like thing to do. He wordlessly sits back down on the bed exactly how he was before, resuming to stare at her.

"I won.." Lucy points out, only to beam with a smile when she truly realizes it herself. She won. He cracked! Although it was such an odd way to crack, he had done it. He looked away from her just to through a girl out a door he couldn't even lock. The realization makes her snicker.

"Good for you" His unamused voice breaks her mental celebration. Good for you? Two fucking hours of waiting and all she gets is a good for you? It must be the annoyance, it has to be. He's probably just too annoyed to care. 'No way he sat here for hours on in just be fine with not winning!' Lucy mentally whines.

"Never considered this a game, sugar tits" He shrugs.

"Then why the fuck are you staring at me?!" Lucy leans in, resting her weight on her palms at she shoves her face right up to his. Their noses are nearly touching as she glares.

"Because it's easier to hear you" His expression doesn't change, and Lucy quickly realizes how odd that is. He quickly lost his shit when Kinana sat near him. 'Maybe I really am special..'

"Oh yea your 'special' all right." He scoffs, yet doesn't budge. Lucy leans in and bumps her nose against his, her eyes narrowing in suspicion. His eye widens a fraction, but other than that he makes no moves to pull away. "Yea you might wanna back up."

Lucy raises her eyebrows and mental questions why. Cobra only grins. She doesn't have a moment to question his smile before a certain pink fireball comes barreling through the door. Lucy squeaks and shoves herself back just in time to avoid any contact with the fist that makes contact with the side of Cobras head. It's obvious the poison slayer heard it coming, yet he made no attempt to dodge it.

"NATSU!" Lucy shrieks as Cobras body flops down against the bed. Lucy has to grab his arm just to keep the overly pissed fire slayer from pummeling the semi-defenseless man. "You punch pretty good for a guy with pink hair" Cobra muses as he shifts to a sit, rubbing his head where his fist hit.

"Why are you STILL defending him?!" Natsu points dramatically to the older slayer and yells.

"Would you quite down!" Lucy yells and slaps his hand down.

"Your yelling too!"

"Shhh!" Lucy shoves both hands over her mouth and cranes her neck to see the door he left wide open. His noise hasn't attracted any unwanted attention yet. Yet.

"Why?!" Natsu yells through her hand, the sound hardly even muffled.

"I'll be happy to shut em up for ya" Cobra mutters, his eyes taking on that same violet Kinana had elicited minutes prior.

"Bring it on Snake Boy!" Natsu growls and climbs on Cobras bed.

"Don't provoke him!" Lucy hisses and pulls at his arm again. He grabs a fist full of Cobras shirt and pulls his forehead to his, glaring at him.

"You and pinky here got a thing goin or somethin? He's awfully jealous of how much you've been up here" Cobra teases, tipping his head to avoid a punch to his nose. Lucy blinks several times as her face beams red. 'Jealous..?'

"She's spending her time with a CRIMINAL. I'm just lookin out for her" Natsu growls.

"Looks like i hit a soft spot." Cobra chuckles and brings his hands up to pull Natsu's off his shirt. "But I suggest you scoot your ass back." Lucy runs a hand over her face as she gets up. They've made enough noise for her to assume that's not a threat, but a warning. She drags her feet as she makes her way over to the door. So much for keep things under control..

She steps to the door just in time to meet Makarov at it, as well as Erza, Mira, Lissanna, and Levy.

"I hope there is a good explanation for all this racket, brat!" Master steps around her legs to address Natsu, who abruptly pulls back from the one eyed slayer. "Yes, I believe I forbade you from coming up here" Erza narrows her eyes and cracks her knuckles. The boy squeaks and quickly removed himself from Cobras vicinity as fast as the pink haired Mage can possibly manage. Before Lucy can even begin to protest everyone files into the room, along with the exceeds, Gajeel, and Gray. The room quickly gains a small audience, and Lucy shares Cobras discomfort on the matter. Lucy can only sigh as the room fills with argue and chatter. She's trying to get him to loosen up to everyone, starting with her.. Having all these people that hate him around him isn't helping in the slightest.

"Hey he's still technically recovering so how about we keep the 'harassing cobra' stuff down to a minimum?" Lucy suggests with a nervous laugh as Erza pulls a large hammer from her magical armory when the said man refuses to take any of her questions seriously.

"I simply asked if he remembers anything. If he's incapable of answering something so simple he must be lying!" Lucy sweat drops at her red headed friends logic. Yea he could be lying, or you know.. Intimidated, annoyed, or a million other various emotions mixed with a number of varous other reasons. Erza seems all too eager to overlook every possibility that makes him innocent, though.

'Cobra, please just go with it okay?' Lucy's thought are specifically directed at him, hopping he will hear here over everyone else. Cobras eyes come to lock with hers not a second later, so she takes that as a sign he had. 'Please, cobra. They're not bad people, they're just not on good terms with the old you' This whole mentally addressing thing feels weird, but it's well worth it judging by how he rolls his eyes and actually responds to the several questions Erza has spewed in the last 30 seconds.

"No I can't remember shit, no I didn't hurt blondie, and no I'm not trying to fucking infiltrate your god damned guild and fuck with any of you" Cobra mutters his answers. Lucy smiles proudly and crosses her arms as she watches the poison slayer play somewhat nice.

"So you really don't remember not a single thing of your own memory? No names or faces?" Master asks with a worried frown.

"Not a thing"

"That's impossible! Then how do you remember how to talk!" Natsu points dramatically again.

"I just know"

"That makes no sense"

"Yea I know."

"So you retained everything except your personal memories and information. That's odd.."

"Yep"

"So you don't remember not one person here?"

"Nope"

"Or what you did?"

"Nope"

"And you have no desires to harm any of us?"

"Well.."

"Outside of Natsu"

"Nope"

"I see..." Master speaks up after everyone had finished their questions. He rubs his chin thoughtfully and everyone falls silent.

"I dare say I believe you.. And I can't very easily convince the council to contain you when you have already been legally released, not to mention the amnesia.." Makarov muses and paces the foot of the bed. Lucy watched with a hopeful expression, the only one with any kind of positive response in the room.

"That's not fair he attacked me first!" Natsu says with more dramatic pointing.

"No he didn't, shush!" Lucy hisses at the fire slayer, making him pout and fall to a sit on the floor. Such a child..

"Lucy my child, you've spent quiet the number of hours in here yes?" Lucy perks up as Makarov turns to her as well as everyone else. Her face burns wit embaressment as she remembers just what she spent all those hours doing.

"Yes that's right!" She confirms with a sigh. Even if the majority of the time spent in here had just been her keeping his gaze like a stubborn child, she had indeed spent the most time with the man.

"And has he tried to hurt you or anyone else in any way?" Lucy quickly shakes her head.

"No of course not. In fact, it's Mira and Kinana that have been putting him on edge, and even then he's been calm despite the downright rude behavior on are part. Actually, I've been meaning to suggest removing the cuffs.." Lucy adds hesitantly, poking the ends of her fingers together as a distraction from her nervousness. She isn't surprised with the small master shakes his head.

"No, the cuffs will have to stay. But I will take your word and allow him a bit a freedom. But i will be sure to place you in a much more restricting situation if you do anything to harm anyone" Makarov turns to glare at cobra.

"I'm so scared" Cobra couldn't sound more unamused.

"What kind of freedom?" Levy is actually the first to ask.

"I see no reason why he should stay cooped up in this guild when he's healed. Besides, him staying here at night doesn't sit well with me"

"So.. Where's he gonna stay?" A brilliant question from Levy once again, one Lucy dreads the answer to.

"Lucy." With masters confident words comes an uproar of angry protests from her friends.

Lucy slumps at the masters confidence. Having one slayer constantly at her apartment is enough, she does NOT need another one messing things up.

"But..." Lucy mutters but everyone is already off stating their arguments, filling the room with an obnoxious amount of noise. "Why me.." Lucy huffs as she watches the onslaught of people defend her, saying how he'll make her suffer. Oh he probably will, but not in the ways they claim he will. Jeez.. 'Why can't they be a little more optimistic?' It's certainly not a thought she would have ever thought she needed to think.

"Children!" Makarovs a voice booms. "Have a little faith. If I see anything amiss or by some means he remembers anything, I assure you he will be properly contained. Until then, the only thing we can do is wait"

Lucy gulps thickly as reality finally catches up with her.

She's going to be living with a criminal.

A dragon slayer criminal.

Oh the jewel she's going to have to waste on food..

Lucy mentally whimpers as she thinks of all the expenses, the whimper turning into a full on cry when she realizes she wont even have the small amount of privacy she had at home anymore.

'Mavis have mercy...

A/N: Ahh I feel like the chapters are getting shorter and shorter TvT. I hope it isn't too terrible though, or feels rushed. I actually hadn't planed for Cobra to be moving in with Lucy this fast.. But whatever, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and thanks for reading. (And thank you for the lovely follows and favorites! I'm glad to know there's people out there enjoying this mess lol)