Juvy ✎ Gajevy AU

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[Beginning Notes:] Hi everyone!

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Enjoy Chapter 9 (-:

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Weeks passed by.

As school inevitably started getting harder and more demanding, Levy found herself drowning in both its requirements, and her visits to Phantom.

Upon hearing the fact that their blunette friend was going every week to the juvenile prison, Levy's group of friends practically gaped.

"Wow, are you serious? I thought you'd be the last person to go back there," Gray said, face painted with confusion.

Levy couldn't help but agree. "I know, it's weird. I just feel like I need to."

"We're here to support you every step of the way, Lev!" Lucy cheered, giving her best friend a shining grin.

"Thanks you guys," the blunette smiled back.

Although their reactions were border-lining between supportive and unsure, Mirajane's was definitely not.

"Oh, Levy!" she squealed one night when the blunette dropped by her settlement. "That's wonderful! When Lisanna gets back, she'll be thrilled! She loves going to see those kids, but I think sometimes she feels like the only one who cares. This news will definitely excite her!"

And so Levy began visiting the prison weekly on a high note. She chatted more with Sting and Rogue, but still lacked the information of their own crimes. Knowing how sensitive the subject must've been, she didn't press on the matter.

She also met the man Juvia had talked to, Aria, briefly and Laxus as well. Both were mostly solitary and told her nothing more than 'hello' and 'goodbye.' The blunette didn't mind completely, though. They were both brutes that could probably step on her without realizing it.

When Lucy accompanied her one week, she also met the red-haired girl who had snapped at them both. Her name was Flare, and, unlike the other men, she shared her sentence with the two seniors during their first conversation.

"I always got into trouble with people, even as a kid," she explained, shrugging. "When I turned sixteen, it only got worse. I started seeing more possibilities to be independent and it went downhill. I hung out with the wrong people, didn't listen to my gut, and ended up here."

The rest of the cell room 5 inhabitants weren't so apt to talking with Levy. They avoided eye contact and stayed in the shadow of their cell, completely uninterested in her presence.

That was, until the blunette convinced her friends to come with her one day.

Natsu had laughed during her pleading session. "I never thought I'd see the day when Miss Student Council would beg us to do something dangerous."

"It's not dangerous," Levy reasoned.

"Not seemingly. You never know what could happen," Juvia said.

Nevertheless, the five seniors agreed to go and ended up proving Levy's point right. It wasn't a necessarily happy place to be, or cheerful, and the juveniles were anything but friendly. But it made them feel proud, knowing they were helping other people in need.

And after a few more weeks, the presence of all six teenagers was a normality. Gray had bonded quite well with the silver-haired boy in cell M - his name was Lyon Bastia -, Juvia spoke with both Flare and Aria, and Yukino stayed by Sting and Rogue's cells for the majority of the time.