Worth the Wait

October 15, X784

"And then Loke went all cool and glowy and there was a golden lion made all of light, and then Bickslow went flying and it was over, and then Loke's ring lit up and it said 'I love Lucy' and it looked real pretty. Dekiteirrrrrru!"

Gray listened to Happy's account of the fight between Lucy and Loke versus Bickslow. Everyone had wondered how someone like her could defeat a guy powerful enough to be a bodyguard of Laxus, but hearing that it was mostly Loke made sense. Gray remembered watching Loke fight ten mountain bandits, and that had been when he was severely weakened and dying. He was glad to hear his friend was better and had regained his full strength.

He was not so glad to hear that Loke had declared his love to Lucy.

With bitterness boiling in the pit of his stomach, he began to turn away when he discovered Juvia standing so close that he almost ran into her.

"Ummm..." She pressed her fingers together in nervousness. "For the Fantasia parade, Juvia was wondering if Gray-sama might want to help Juvia on the float. Juvia has an idea and costumes, but Gray-sama would make the perfect prince."

Gray sighed in annoyance, ready to tell her to get lost once and for all. Then he looked over to Lucy and saw her gold and silver keys dangling on her belt. His eyes landed on the one carved with a lion's head. Loke was hers now. He had to accept that.

"Sure," he said, forcing a fake smile to the rain woman. "I'll help you out."

Juvia turned pink and looked stunned that he had agreed. She covered her mouth, and her eyes began to water. "Juvia is so happy!"

Gray sighed inwardly but tried to keep looking normal. After all, he should feel happy for his friends... right?

That night, Gray moaned in a heated dream. He was getting chased over a grassy plain, a snarling beast behind him, but he was running too hard to be able to look around. Then the beast pounced on him and knocked him down. It shredded his clothes, and then Gray felt himself pinned down by strong hands. Instead of a beast, it was a man on top of him.

"Caught you, little snow bunny," a sadistic voice taunted.

He struggled to break free, but the man-beast began to do things Gray had only briefly seen in Erza's secret stash of yaoi magazines (briefly because she almost killed him for snooping). Gray could feel the touches, the hot kisses, and he instinctively knew what was coming next. His heart pounded as the beast handled him like a rag doll, placing him in his lap but facing outward so Gray never saw the face. He felt himself sitting on something hard and a little wet, something that began to press into him as the assailant pulled Gray down into his lap.

"I'm gonna make you squeal, little snow bunny," the beast threatened.

"Nooooo!"

Suddenly, Gray jolted upright in bed, panting, sweating, and hard as a rock. He looked around, saw the familiar shadows of his bedroom, and then looked down at the stiff pole poking at his blankets.

"Damn," he grumbled. He knew these sorts of dreams too well. Going back to sleep while hard and aching like this was impossible. He had to jerk off if he wanted a peaceful night. "Of all nights... and the day before Fantasia too! Fuck!'

There was no use lamenting. He just had to make it fast. He dug a box of tissues and a bottle of lotion out from under the bed, and hidden underneath them was a magazine. Gray slept naked, so he just pulled back the sheets, rubbed some lotion over his hard cock, and turned on a lamp so he could look at the massive-breasted women in the magazine. He looked at their seductive poses and began to stroke himself. It felt good, and the naked ladies were all his favorite types. However, it wasn't women he had been fantasizing over in his sleep. He paused mid-stroke as he realized, if he wanted to make this fast so he could wake up in time to help Juvia on her float, there was one way that would work for certain.