Fate Decides

Chapter 10

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Gajeel glared at Lily who could do little more than shrug at him. "I'm sorry, she said she was going stir crazy Gajeel, to be fair you took longer to get home than expected and Wendy did tell everyone you and Laxus might stay away an extra week because the season could run longer if you were stressed. Lucy had every reason to believe you would be gone another week."

"Fuck." The Dragon Slayer spun and went to the bar, getting himself a beer before sitting heavily in front of Lily and glaring at the table.

He wasn't insane with longing anymore, that had finally passed by Sunday and he had awakened that day for the first time without a painful erection screaming Lucys name.

Still, arriving home Monday night to learn Lucy had left on a job that would last at least 5 days had done nothing to improve his mood. He needed to talk to her, find out if she was serious about him or not.

If she wasn't, he would unhappily walk away from the woman and give her a wide berth for a while until he could re-adjust his own feelings about her. If she was, he'd planned to make sure she was happy about it. God how he hoped she was.

He could tell glancing over to the table where the Raijinshuu were sitting with Laxus that his fellow Dragon Slayer was suffering as much as he was. It made him feel a little better, misery loved company.

The Lightning slayer was glowering at Bickslow who had apparently hooked up with Levy shortly after he had left, the two were dating now and just about ridiculous to be around.

Watching Bickslow sitting happily with his girlfriend did nothing to improve the mood of either Dragon Slayer.

When the guild doors slammed open and Cana swept in grinning "I'm back bitches!" Gajeel watched in amazement as Laxus stood immediately. "Oh, yeah, apparently Laxus and Cana." Lily told him and got no more out before Cana had dropped her pack and was running across the hall, throwing herself into the arms of the Lightning slayer who, two seconds later, sent the guild lights flickered and Gajeel winced in pain as a clap of thunder was the only goodbye left by the pair when Laxus teleported them out.

"Great, now I'm the only fucking slob missing anyone." Gajeel snarled. "Well, you could take a job up by where Lucy went and see if you could find her. It would be a nice hunting trip for you." Lily suggested.

Gajeel fixed a hard look at his friend "You're kidding, right? I'm not a stalker, I won't go chasing her across Fiore."

"Why not? Even if you don't find her at least you wont be sitting around here miserable for 5 days or more." Lily pointed out. Gajeel glared at him, the cat got real smug when he knew he was right.

"I don't know where she went." He said, it was weak, it would be easy to ask Mira, but Gajeel was in the sort of mood where he just was getting a small bit of enjoyment out of being contrary and he needed every bit her could get right now.

"Panseda, she took a job to find an abandoned relic near Panseda...see, I thought you might want to head in Lucy direction when you got home so I made sure to ask Lucy herself where she was going before she left. She's been missing you a lot you know." Now Lily was so smug Gajeel wanted to smack him just so they could have a good fight and he could wipe the smugness of his face.

It was saying a lot that instead of doing just that, the Iron Dragon rose and stalked to the request board, he smirked darkly when he found something he just couldn't pass up.

Poacher killing local wildlife without permission or permits, also endangering farmers and their families with his habits, please help apprehend poacher for local authorities. 300,000 Jewel