Thank You Juvia

In The Morning

Earlier That Day - After Gray's Arrival

"LYON! This is wrong!" Sherry exclaimed as she watched Lyon sneak into Fairy Hills after seeing that Gray had just left.

"No it isn't. I'm going to protect my Juvia-chan from Gray!" he whispered before finding his way to Juvia's room and seeing the package outside of it.

"Lyon, this isn't love." she whispered angrily. "Chelia is going to be so pissed she might just kill both Gray and Juvia!"

"It'll be fine." he whispered before opening the package to see what Gray had left for Juvia.

Gajeel was still in shock. Had Levy always been this bold? He wondered. He pulled back and looked into her eyes before noticing the bit of red on her cheeks. She was still a little drunk. Gajeel sighed.

"Levy. Lets go back to sleep, okay? You need to be sober before I kiss you again." he said, trying to tease her and trying his best not to disappoint her with his rejection of her advances. Levy pouted, clearly disappointed.

"I don't think I'm drunk..." she said before rolling off of him.

"Doesn't matter. You need more sleep anyway." Gajeel insisted.

Levy was clearly upset, which was exactly the reaction Gajeel had wanted to avoid. He stared up at the ceiling for a few minutes until he realized that Levy had finally fallen back asleep. He turned his head and saw that it was four in the morning. Might as well get up... he thought to himself before moving as slowly as possible out of bed. He leaned over and kissed Levy's forehead before leaving the room.

The dragon slayer went into his living room, he needed time to think. More than that, he needed advice. The only problem was that he didn't know who to ask. Typically he would ask Lily, but they'd discussed Levy several times to the point where Gajeel could go through the whole conversation they would likely have on his own.

He wasn't extremely close to a lot of his guild mates. He and Juvia had known each other for years, he felt comfortable talking to the rain woman. But she didn't seem like the right person to ask for realistic love advice. There were people he knew he couldn't ask, Jet, Droy, Natsu, Gray, Elfman, the whole Raijinshu Tribe and Laxus. Maybe Erza? Gajeel shivered at the thought. Okay, not Erza. He thought. Gildarts wasn't around. Cana...well he didn't know her that well. He knew that there were other people, but he wasn't close enough to hold a normal conversation with them to begin with.

"Maybe I should just ask Wendy." he said to himself with a sigh. He didn't like the idea of asking the squirt for love advice, but she was a girl and she knew Levy just as well as he did.

"Or I could ask Bunny Girl..." Gajeel groaned. He didn't want to go around asking all of these little girls for advice. But he didn't know what to do. It was clear after tonight that Levy had some feelings for him, ones that he definitely returned. But he wasn't a typical guy. He was a dragon slayer. He wasn't one to be romantic. And he was the one who beat her and her best friends up without mercy when they first met.

Juvia moved as fast as she could. She couldn't wait to get back to Fairy Hills and see what Gray had left her!

"OUT OF MY WAY!" she screamed as she entered the apartments and pushed past some of her friends down the hallway and ran up the stairs to her room on the top floor. She squealed with delight as she saw a small package sitting outside of her door.

The water mage slid the rest of the way, landing on her knees in front of the present. All of a sudden she stopped, just staring at the package. She caught her breath as she nervously began guessing what could possibly be inside.

Levy woke up suddenly, sitting up with wide terrified eyes. She looked around panicked, not knowing where she was for a few seconds. As soon as she remembered where she was, the girl let out a deep breath. "Must've been a bad dream..." she whispered before turning and looking at the time. It was seven in the morning. Time to get up.

Levy got up and looked around, finding her clothes and putting them on. She left the shirt she'd borrowed on Gajeel's bed and for the first time that morning wondered where he'd gone.

She searched the house, only finding a sleeping Lily. "I guess he left..." she said to herself, saddened that he hadn't told her that he was leaving or anything like that.

Just as she went to open the front door, the handle turned. She jumped back startled at the movement as Gajeel came inside.

"Good morning." she said shyly. Gajeel blushed a little, not knowing why he was feeling like this.

"Oh uh, good morning." he responded.

The two stood there for almost a minute before saying anything.

"Thank you for letting me stay at your house." Levy said, breaking the silence.

"Anytime." he answered, letting that hang in the air.

"So uh, the concert is supposed to happen tonight now. Would you still like to go?" he asked.

"I'd love to!" Levy said, suddenly very happy. Gajeel couldn't help but smile a little.

"Gihi. So same time and place?" he asked.

"Sounds great!" Levy said before getting on her toes and trying to kiss Gajeel's cheek, but just barely making it. She smiled at him before running off back to Fairy Hills.

She arrived and was approaching her room when she saw Juvia sitting outside of it.

"Juvia?" she asked as she stood right in front of her.

"LEVY! Levy, Juvia needs your help! Gray-sama asked me on a date for tonight!" she said quickly.

"Why do you need my help?" Levy asked as she opened the door to her room and let Juvia inside.

"Juvia needs help picking out a dress and doing her hair and make up."

Levy nodded and closed the door. "Okay, I'll do what I can. And uh, thank you for setting up that date for me and Gajeel..."

Juvia smiled before hugging the book worm. "Juvia wants to be best friends with Levy." she said. Levy smiled widely and hugged her back.

"I'd like that too Juvia."