The Valley of Fears

TAKEN

Levy moaned softly as she felt her dreams fading and consciousness coming back to her. She was waking up. Levy didn't feel like waking up just yet. She felt warm and safe. Levy snuggled closer to her source of warmth, but her mind only cleared when that source of warmth's arms wrapped tighter around her, pulling her closer to him.

"For the love of Mavis..." levy whispered softly into Gajeel's chest.

She must have turned in her sleep because she was now snuggled in Gajeel's chest while his head rested on hers.

"Good morning Levy." Lily said grinning from the foot of the bed.

"You! This is your fault." Levy hissed at an amused Panther Lily.

"I know and I'm not apologising." Lily shrugged walking away.

"Stupid cat." Levy hissed as she tried to free herself from Gajeel's grip while trying not to wake him up.

Which proved nearly impossible. Even when he slept he had a firm grip plus he wasn't as a heavy sleeper as she thought him to be.

"Stop squirming Shrimp." Gajeel said sleepily making levy scowl.

"You need to wake up Gajeel." Levy said bluntly.

She was not amused with her situation at all, but Lily was amused to no end while Gajeel was just too sleepy to care.

"Do I?" Gajeel asked not sounding like he was planning on getting up anytime soon.

"Yes, I want to get up." Levy said.

"Then get up." Gajeel said annoyed.

"I can't because you're holding me down." Levy replied annoyed

"Oh, too bad for you then." Gajeel said nonchalantly as he continued sleeping.

"We still have a job to do Gajeel." Levy commented.

"And we'll get to that as soon as I wake up at a reasonable time." Gajeel mumbled.

"It's already 8 o'clock." Levy replied bluntly.

"Exactly, now shut up." Gajeel said annoyed.

"Stupid dragon slayer." Levy mumbled under her breath.

"I heard that." Gajeel said half asleep making levy roll her eyes.

There was no point in arguing with a stubborn, tired dragon slayer so with a sigh levy gave up.

"Lily, pass me my book please." Levy asked as she turned on her other side making Gajeel pull her closer which made Levy roll her eyes again.

Lily hopped onto the bedside table and handed levy her book. She opened it and read until Gajeel decided it was a reasonable time to get up. Levy read for two hours before she started nagging him again to get up.

"Okay Gajeel time to get up now. It's already 10 o'clock." Levy said putting her book down while poking him, but he didn't budge.

Until Lily came along.

"Gajeel is usually up at this time, my guess is he doesn't want to get up. It's like the train all over again." Lily said grinning cheekily while Levy chuckled at his teasing.

"Shut up Lily!" Gajeel exclaimed angrily as he jumped up and off the bed while glaring at Lily.

"Stupid cat." Gajeel grumbled as he locked himself in the bathroom and took a shower.

Great... now the stupid dragon slayer is hoarding the bathroom. Levy sighed as she sat up.

"Lily bring the map, then we can examine it while Gajeel's in the shower." Levy said as Lily complied.