AN: Yay! It's Gruvia Week time again, my peeps! I hope you like the stories and let's love our babies!

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Day 01 – Promise

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Gray finally finished with his backpack and sighed – it would be a long mission and the timing wasn't perfect, but they needed the money.

His wife was not a happy camper at the moment, pouting at their living room while he got ready and even though he hated leaving for two weeks, it was necessary, and it needed to be done before it was too late.

"I'm done packing." Gray told his wife when he stepped on their living room and he almost laughed at her pouting lips, arms crossed over the swell of her belly, her hair falling over her shoulders in a mess of curls.

"You promised you wouldn't take a long mission until after the baby was born when Juvia got into her third trimester." She pouted.

"That was before a mission appeared that will allow me to stay home for two extra months without worrying about working while we have a newborn." Gray told her, with calm.

"But two weeks is too long." Juvia whined and he chuckled.

"It will be over before you know it." He sat next to his wife, who looked away, still pouting and he found it adorable again.

"No, it won't. You know the baby get restless when you are not around." She sighed.

"You mean you get restless when I'm not around." One corner of Gray's lips lifted.

Juvia shrugged. "The baby is living inside Juvia, so there's that."

"I guess." Gray agreed. "Come on, look at me." Never able to deny him, the blunette looked at her husband. "I'll be back in two weeks and then I will stay and once the baby is here, we will be fine on money."

"We are already fine on money."

"We'll be finer, then." The Ice Mage told her. "I could stay home even longer than we first thought."

The Water Mage asked after a moment. "Do you promise this is the last one?"

"I promise." Gray nodded.

"Promise to him." She said, narrowed her eyes.

"Uh?" He was confused.

"Promise to him" she pointed to her stomach "you won't leave for this long again until after he is born."

Gray sighed and rolled his eyes. "Do I really have to?"

"You don't have to but it would be nice. To the baby, of course." She shrugged, trying to be nonchalant about it.

"Alright." He already broke the promise he made to his wife, he'd rather not piss her off any more than necessary at that point, so he leaned, after caressing her stomach for a moment. "Hey there, little guy." Gray felt a wave of love hit him when he felt a light movement underneath his hands. "So, your mother is a little bit angry with me because I am going away for a few days-"

"Two weeks." Juvia supplied.

"Two weeks." Gray rolled his eyes and kept talking to the bump. "You see, I promised not to take long missions with you this close of being born but I am going so when the time comes, and you are out here, I can stay longer." He said. "I think your mother will be actually happy I am here in the middle of the night and you are screaming because you need a diaper change."

"Does that mean you are on diaper duty 24/7?" Juvia asked, amused.

"Excuse me, I am talking to my son." Gray looked up. "We are having a man to man conversation here, thank you very much."

"Sorry." The blunette's lips were finally curling up.

"And we will share diaper duty, by the way." He returned his attention back to the swell of her belly. "Sorry, your mom was being nosy." Juvia scoffed and pulled his hair lightly and Gray had to hide his smirk – he was doing fine, then. Good. "As I was saying, even though I hate to do this, I'd rather stay here with you two, you know, I will miss you both all the time and I will be worried all the time, but then I will be here and you two will get sick of me."

"We will never get sick of you." Juvia told her husband, a hand caressing his hair.

"I certainly hope so." He kissed the swell of her stomach. "Now you behave for your mama while I am gone, okay? You need to stay inside for two more months and in two weeks I'll be back and then we will get bored out of our minds to wait for you."

"You'll still be allowed to take local missions, you know?" The Water Mage told him.

"I know. You are the one who must be completely bored."

"So, so, sooooooo bored." Juvia whined. "Juvia loves feeling our baby grow inside her, she likes staying at Fairy Tail with the others, it's better than staying at home gestating, but gods, do I miss a mission. And I miss having my powers without any glitches."

"I promise I'll stay here, bored, with you, when I return, okay?" Gray gave her a light kiss on the lips."

"You better be." She pulled him for a deeper kiss and for a moment, Gray considerate staying at home with his wife and stop her from being bored – with that kiss, he certainly had many ideas on how to entertain her. Her hands were in his hair and then one of them went to his chest and when things were about to get interesting, Juvia pushed him away. "Off you go, then."

"Wha-" Gray blinked. "I… I can take the next train, you know…" He said, suggestively.

"Nope." Juvia grinned. "This is your punishment."

Gray groaned in frustration but grudgingly agreed and got up from the couch, kissing her cheek. "See you in two weeks."

"Promise?" She knew what he had said to their child, but she need the assurance.

"I promise."

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AN: Happy Day One of Gruvia Week, guys!

04/01/2018 ~ BonneyQ