Hello! This is somehow a songfic and the song I used is "Someone like you" by Adele. Please listen to it when the song appears, not now.
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail nor Adele's song :)
Special thanks to Rakora for being my Beta reader for this story. GURL, YOU'RE AWESOME!
Note: Recently, the author DarkSkye264 used this same song to write a fic about Lisanna. I wanted to tell him/her, if she reads this, that I didn't use the song just because I read her story. I had started this fic a while before reading it and it made me feel guilty when to know I would be using the same one as him/her, so, sorry.
Someone like you.
"Lucy?"
Yeah, there was no mistake that that had been her voice. "Erza?"
"It really is you! Long time no see!" the beautiful red haired woman told her. She looked so different; so much more mature than the last time they had met! Team Natsu's members had parted ways and hadn't seen each ago for years. The blond and the red-head had kept in contact, though, just like it had happened with Levy, and they would unexpectedly meet somewhere by coincidence and talk about how it would be nice to see each other again just to hang out for a while, but it had taken them a long time to finally reunite as promised. "At last, we did it! I have missed you a lot!" the Titania said hugging the blond, who wasn't as surprised by Erza's sincerity or carefree actions as she would have been around two decades ago. 'Yes, she really has changed,' Lucy thought smiling.
The Stellar Spirit mage giggled, hugging her back. "Yes, we can finally have some friends time," she agreed with the older woman, "let's go, Levy must be waiting."
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Twenty years had passed. It wasn't like everyone had taken different routes in their lives at the same time or there had been something that led them to do it... it had been so natural for each of them to decide they needed or wanted to do some things...
Team Natsu disolved with no words of termination or goodbye said out loud but a casual parting of ways. None of them had been bothered by it.
Natsu started his search for Igneel alone and Happy went with him. A while after, Lucy started travelling around the world and writing stories that finally got published. This made her into a famous and respected author.
Gray and Erza stayed in the guild but did fewer missions together. Three years later Erza went away not, giving a real motive, but it could be easily related to a certain "dangerous" criminal who was close to being set free due to good conduct.
Gray became stronger and stronger as the years went by and started going on longer and longer missions, returning victiorious every time.
Some guild members had left the guild and never returned while some had never left.
The master have sadly passed away four years after Erza's departure. His funeral was the first time the team saw each other again, they didn't have the heart to chat much about anything and, once again, walked down their paths separately.
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"There she is, Erza!" Lucy shouted in glee as she spotted a blue, long haired woman sitting up straight on one of the park benches, where they had agreed to meet.
"Are you sure it's her?" Erza asked, eyeing the blunette as they continued walking closer.
"One hundred percent sure," the blonde answered smiling sweetly, "I would even bet on this," she said confidently, surprising Erza for a moment. Lucy never bets on anything, but, well, it didn't sound that strange. She was betting on her best friend, Levy, afterall.
Erza smiled, acknowledging their friendship and then shouted, "Levy!" Lucy giggled beside her and started waving her hand, grinning widely.
The blue haired woman turned to look their way just to feel her own eyes widen and become watery as an ecstatic shriek escaped her mouth. She ran up to them and entrapped the blonde in a crushing hug. Screaming excitedly, she then let go of the blonde and entrapped The Titania with her arms as the first tears started to slip down her face. The blonde grinned next to them and crushed both in a big group hug.
"I have missed you two so, so much!" the woman in her late-thirties cried out as her blue hair tickled Lucy's nose.
"Same here," the other woman of same age sniffled away a sneeze and laughed.
"I have also missed you two," the third woman, already in her early-fourties, said calmly and the blue haired one's head snapped up to stare at the woman in her arms.
She smiled warm heartedly as tears flowed down her face faster. "You've changed a lot, Erza," she murmured, burying her head in the older woman's unarmoured chest.
Lucy stayed quiet and enjoyed the warmth and sweetness of the two women that she hadn't seen for such long time, as the red-head patted Levy on the head.
It had been twenty years. They barely knew about what each other had been doing during that long time, appart from the things the three had written about through letters. Natsu's life was barely known to them and Gray's was also a mystery.
Supposedly, Natsu had come back from his journey seven years ago and was once again living in his old, messy house. Levy had told them some other things that were new but... nothing neccesarily important. Gray was taking missions so long, guild members would barely see him once or twice a year.
Levy would explane it to them when they asked. She was one of those who had never walked too far away from the guild and had her life blossoming in Magnolia. Contrary to the way Erza and Lucy had decided to keep loyal to Fairy Tail; accepting missions to complete during their travels.
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The day team Natsu annouced to master Makarov that they were all going to be gone for a while, there had been a big approar as they rejected to let him erase the guild's mark.
"We are not leaving the guild. We just have things to do but we won't stop being members and doing the missions. We refuse to stop being mages under this guild's name. We can, and will, only belong here," Erza had stated firmly.
It's true they were the first ones to accept requests from so far away, but master had smiled happily and sincerely for the first time that afternoon when they showed their resolution to keep true to their adoptive family.
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"So, how have you been? I think you have a lot to tell me, I can feel it! I, too, have a lot to share, but first," Levy started animately while they walked around town, "YOU!" she shouted, "I won't let you escape until you tell me what's gonna happen to Jane and Rick in the story!"
Levy was a big fan of Lucy's -recently longer- novels, if not the number one fan that had the luck of knowing the author and being able to stalk her for previews or hints on the storyline. But, hell, that Lucy was a hard bone to break. She just wouldn't tell anything via letters, so now it was the blunette's opportunity to get some information out of the silent blonde.
Lucy, on her part, was determined to keep quiet and threatened to lie and surprise her in two months when she reads the third book of the series.
None of the three really needed to say they were glad to see each other again and have the chance to just wander around and talk, and laugh, and scream like they used to –sometimes- before.
Would you have guessed Erza had been the one to recieve the former prisoner Jellal when he was freed from prison? Probably, eh~. Those two just loved each other more than what the events of their past may show. Now, they were happily married, living in a nice city, pretty far away from Magnolia.
Another good love detail was Levy's marriage to the mage she had fallen in love with even when he was a bit rough around the edges. 'He cares and loves me and little Hannha a lot,' Levy had said some time ago through a letter, and she also said something along those same lines that day when Erza asked about their relationship.
Yes, they were happily married and lived their lives filled with love.
Lucy, on the other hand, had stayed single.
A big grin occupied the blonde woman's face as she waved goodbye to her lifelong friends.
"Remember! At seven at my house for dinner or you're dead!" Levy shouted with a big smile.
"Don't worry, I won't take too long!" the blonde assured her as she turned to walk away.
Levy and Erza gazed at her as she moved farther away and they couldn't stop their smiles from falling. Maybe they had changed, but the blonde sure had, too...
"She's going there...right?" the older woman asked, already expecting the answer.
"Yes, one hundred percent sure," Levy replied, a sad frown on her sweet face.
Lucy took a big, deep breath before plucking up the courage to knock on the not so big, wooden door before her. She continued to breath normally after that, but happiness, nervousness and uneasiness concentrated inside her body as she waited. Few seconds later, some steps were heard as a muffled, masculine voice shouted "I'll get it!" and the steps came closer. A rough laugh she remembered perfectly bumped against the door as the man took the knob on the other side of the door, making a small sound that alerted the blonde of his next movement...
But he didn't open the door after starting to ask "who's th-" interrupting himself suddenly and silence invading the space for a few seconds. It was after that that the door shot open with amazing speed... and there he was; a fire dragon slayer with wide eyes and gaping mouth. The woman smiled almost immediately, recognising disbelief in his face.
"L-Luce...?" he asked hesitantly. He recognised her scent, there was no mistake, but twenty years... twenty years had passed and they had met only once and in a sad situation. Could she really be there, standing in front of him? Did anybody know she was coming? Why hadn't they told him?
His worries and questions were cut and thrown away as that, oh, so sweet smile appeared on Lucy's face as she replied, "Long time no see, Natsu." He unexpectedly found himself smiling so sincerely his teeth showed. Forming his Natsu-like grin, he hugged the defenseless woman.
He was pretty sure he was crushing her, and even though her breathing was abnormal, she lifted her arms slowly and wrapped them around his back. She pushed even nearer to his body and her scent seemed to intoxicate him, but he shrugged it off and pushed her away, still holding her shoulders.
"It's really been a long time!" he started, "How have you been?" Another big grin formed in his face and she giggled and smiled along with him.
"Ah, I've been pretty much okay, I'm an author now, did yo-"
"Yes, yes! I know! Sheesh, when I started reading the books I was sure you had written it because I had to use a dictionary," the dragon slayer said, interrupting her.
Lucy laughed whole-heartedly at his comment. So Natsu had been reading her books; such a wonderful and surprising thing to happen.
"You know, I never expected to not find you when I came back," Natsu said suddenly, directing her a sweet gaze that warmed the depths of her soul.
"I thought I could use my time wisely, too," she replied smiling along with soft eyes.
She heard the dragon slayer mumble something like "yeah" as he smiled, touching his chin. "So?" the blonde asked then, "Did you find your father?"
He exhaled a breath of hot air that hit Lucy's face as a smile formed on his face. "Nah, I didn't even get near," he replied. The blonde woman stared at him for some moments before smiling mildly.
"So you found him, I see," was what she said, making the man's eyes widen in shock.
"I di-" he started to retort but was interrupted by the blonde.
"I get it. Nobody knows, right?"
They both stayed silent, the woman's smile never quivering.
Then he smiled and messed his hair while saying, "You see through me, Luce," in a low rough voice; almost like a whisper.
Lucy looked to the ground for a second, feeling happiness bubbling inside her. She lifted her head to ask a 'how are you doing' back at him, but a high pitched shout interrupted her and she found herself looking to the ground again. She found a smaller version of the dragon slayer tugging at Natsu's leg. The child was shouting something along the lines of 'Happy says he's gonna hurt me!'
The man looked down and laughed at his smaller version. Then he ducked and wrapped his arms around the boy to lift him up and looked back at Lucy.
Natsu smiled at her without noticing that her face had changed and her eyes weren't shining as before, or, maybe, ignoring this fact. "Lyan, I want you to meet Lucy," he said to the little boy. The boy quickly directed his gaze to the blond woman before him and, for a moment, even he, little as he was, thought she was a beauty.
"Who are you?" he asked –direct like his father- while tugging at the man's clothes. Lucy smiled once more for the first time and fixed her gaze on the boy.
"Hello, I'm an old friend of your father, we used to be team mates in Fairy Tail," she explained, delighted at how the boy's eyes widened and shined.
"W-wa! Dad! Dad! Why didn't you bring her before? She's your team mate?" the little boy asked excitedly, punching his left fist to his father's chest.
"Yes, this is Lucy, Lyan," the dragon slayer grinned. The little boy was awestruck and wouldn't stop staring at Lucy, finally making her chuckle. The woman's beauty made the kid blush.
"Am I sick, dad? I feel hotter than usual," he asked confused and both Lucy and Natsu looked at each other and started laughing, making the poor boy blush more and ask them to state their problem out loud or he would take them on.
"Hey, what's happening here, boys?" a femenine voice called from the inside of the house and Lucy didn't need to look to know who it was. No, she hadn't gone there completely clueless of what she would find. Levy had told her a long time ago; she knew.
Lisanna appeared in the backgroung, wearing a frilly apron and holding a pan with her left hand as she mixed the sizzling food in it with a wooden spoon. When she directed her gaze to the woman outside, her eyes widened and she stopped her cooking suddenly. "W-wha-... is that... Lucy? L-L-Lucy Heartfillia?" she stuttered out, doubting her own eyes.
The white haired woman rushed her way to the door with the pan and stared at the blonde openly.
"Hi," Lucy said as she held a giggle in her throat.
A big smile took over Lisanna's lips as she shouted in glee. "Long time no see! Your books are awesome Lucy!" she complemented, continuing to talk and bring trivial stuff up. Instead, she observed how Natsu put his right hand under the pan and lit it on fire, with his left arm still holding their son. Lisanna thanked him with a beautiful smile as she continued her cooking and Lucy looked at Natsu to see him smiling with... such love and sweetness...
She sighed inwardly. "So, how have you been?" Lisanna asked her gently.
Lucy looked straight at her eyes as if she was asking that question to herself. Confusion and sadness flashed her eyes for a couple of seconds before she diverted her eyes to the floor and smiled, letting a breath out in something similar to a laugh.
"Lu-?" Lisanna asked quietly, but was interrupted by the blond. "I have been fine!" she said with a big grin, leaving the other woman speechless.
The blonde's grin gradually came back to a smile and her eyes looked a bit tired as she let her gaze wander from the woman to the man in front of her, ending on the little boy in his arms. She sighed inwardly once again and the air came out through her nostrills.
"I think I'll be leaving now, I promised someone for dinner and stuff so..." she directed her gaze back to Natsu, "...good bye." Never before had she said those two words to that man... and she had wished to never have to.
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"Lucy?" the pink haired man asked while looking at the blonde's retreating figure.
She stopped slowly and then turned her upper body in his direction. "Yes?" she said, smiling.
No words came out of the dragon slayer's mouth and Lucy blinked twice before giggling. "Sheesh, if you're gonna forget what you want to say, don't call me! I'm going now!"
She turned again and waved her hand up when the man called her once more, not able to act like nothing was wrong if she turned around a second time.
The streets were silent. After all, it was night time and not many people come out so late. She did, it seemed, but it was more like an unconscious action, product of sadness and the need to be alone.
Hours felt like just few minutes. The blonde woman walked around, sat on the park benches and stared at the lights which would blind her momentarily from time to time.
Her steps suddenly felt too heavy to continue walking when the street's clock started loudly announcing 8 o'clock. Not minding the way Levy might be cursing her, she sat on the edge of Magnolia's river and heaved a sigh before glancing behind her at the flowing water she knew from her teenage days.
"Lucy?" a man's hoarse voice interrupted her blank thoughts, making her turn around. A black haired, half naked mage was intently staring at her, waiting for an answer and she immediately recognised the man and smiled sweetly at him. "Hey, Gray." His eyes shot wider before he relaxed and smiled back, "Hey."
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It felt like neither of them were eager to maintain a conversation as the silence embraced them in the chilly night. The woman enjoyed looking at the stars and wouldn't stop doing it, while the man seemed to find something interesting in looking from her to the floor and back to her.
"So," Gray started, breaking the silence and calling her attention, "did you see him?"
Her eyes opened widely. All she had been hearing lately was 'how have you been?' This was completely different and straight to the point.
She smiled, acknowledging the man's eye to see throught her. "Yes, I just came from there," she admitted, not looking at him.
"I see..." the man murmured, immediately losing himself to his thoughts and then looking at her again with a determinated glint in his eyes. "So you saw them," he stated more than asked.
Looking at him and smiling, she admitted, "Yes. Lisanna has grown a lot... and Lyan is beautiful-"
"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?" the man suddenly shouted. Lucy just patiently stared at him as he continued full of rage. "HOW CAN YOU VOLUNTARILY DECIDE TO GO SEE THE MAN YOU LOVE, HAPPILY MARRIED TO ANOTHER WOMAN?"
Lucy waited until he had panted at least five times, seeing him calmer when he had, and only then did she talk.
"Gray," her firm but sweet, femenine voice boomed in his ears, but what really surprised him was her overly sweet and beautiful smile. "Don't you want to see Erza again?" she asked and he immediately blushed furiously, not being able to retort.
They were both quite similar in this matter after all; two enamored fools that can't forget their teenage crushes... even when they are already married to other people.
"Well, it's the same feeling," Lucy said, looking at the stars again. "I just wanted to see him..."
Gray stared at her sweet and peaceful expression.
How could she... be so strong?
He had never been able to understand it. If he saw Erza right now, he would break into pieces and put her in an awkward situation, trying to make her change her mind about... her husband... and... look at him... How could Lucy not do that? Look at the one she has loved for twenty years be happy with someone else...? How could she be so calm about never being able to have him love her back...?
"Lucy..."
She moved her head slowly and smiled while looking at him. "What, Gray?"
He smiled as he had never smiled for so many years and he felt like crying right there, as if a big weight had been lifted off his shoulders just by seing the blonde's attitude to the matter. "You're so strong, Lucy," he said before standing up and kissing her head, taking his sack and walking away, feeling the warm tears fall peacefully along with his newlyfound smile.
"And I told you you were dead if you came late," Levy protested while pouting. She had still let Lucy in, but her mood wasn't the best one.
"I told you, I'm sorry Levy, please don't be mad," Lucy apologised for the fourth time as they went upstairs.
Levy sighed as they entered the kitchen, where a big table stood before them and sat in one of the chairs was an almost shaved, dark haired man. "Be thankful Gajeel predicted this would happen and made sure I made something that wouldn't get too cold and could be easily heated," Levy said, putting a kitchen glove on and going over to the fire to lit it.
Lucy looked around amused. Nice place, lots of books, silence and the man. "Hey Gajeel," she greeted and he looked at her with his serious and severe disapproving glare but still greeted her back. "Hey."
As a new smell invaded the room, Lucy felt –and heard- her stomach growl. She hadn't realised how hungry she was until then, but, now that she knew, she was dying for food.
"Levy! That smells yummy!" she said excited and, in response, heard Gajeel chuckle and Levy's head turned her way with happiness.
"That's good! I wasn't sure if you were going to like the stew," she noted.
Lucy grinned sheepishly, "But of course I do!"
Gajeel smiled at her and surprised clamed her body immediately. "You're a lot like the firebrain," he suddenly said and she stayed quiet, staring at him as his smile faded. They both knew he was implying a different thing. Lucy hadn't seen Natsu for years but it was clear she still remembered everything about him to extent of adopting some of his antics.
She sighed inwardly while diverting her gaze and letting a sad smile appear on her face. "Maybe you're right," she agreed, sitting down in the chair in front of him. "After all, he is my best, best friend, right?" she said, grinning widely, to what Gajeel couldn't even smile.
Clunk.
"Hehe," Levy grinned after putting the big pot she had been cooking in on the table. And, once more, Lucy's stomach growled excitedly, more reason for the blunette to be grinning triumphantly.
Cli-clink.
"Let's not forget the booze," said a smirking Gajeel while putting four bottles of beer on the table, not to mention he was more than capable of drinking them all by himself but was strangely (to Lucy) aeger to share them. 'There might be more somewhere,' Lucy thought to herself with a giggle.
"Well, well, let's start then, 'kay?" Levy said animated and the other two agreed with pleading stomachs.
"Don't... Hannha..." a sleeping Levy mumbled from the couch. It was nearly 1:30 a.m. so it was to be expected for the woman to be tired. And, really, the couple's appartment had such a homey feeling to it that it made others feel like staying and sleeping too. Not to mention Levy had already suggested for Lucy to stay overnight.
Lucy once again looked around her, like many other times already. Four bookshelves completely full of neatly organised books, the not too big but not too small wooden table and six comfortable chairs, two comfy dark red couches, the television in front of them to the right, and, to the left, a wood and marble cooking table separating the living room from the kitchen, leaving the sight open to appreciate the cabinets and fridge. And, in front of her, behind the dark haired man, was a medium sized window with a great view of the night sky because of the angle.
Maybe they had been the ones to ask for it to be done that way. Levy had once mentioned looking at the stars made her feel like she was looking after her.
Even if this was one of the saddest days of her life, she couldn't stop smiling at every detail she saw in the room; proof of the happy couple and their little daughter Hannha.
Both, Gajeel and Lucy remained silent for the most part, but it wasn't uncomfortable. The two have never been too talkative with each other but they had learnt to enjoy the peace they gave one another in their teenage days. They didn't mind sitting together just for the sake of being quiet and calm. Seems like some things haven't changed... Thank God...
"You look happy..." Lucy said suddenly in a soft voice while looking at the stars. Gajeel lifted his gaze to look at her and she lowered her's to return his for a second. As a melacholic smile occupied her face, she looked at her glass and played with her fingers around it. "'You look happy,' is what I couldn't tell him..." she said. Gajeel only stared, feeling how his drink wasn't tempting anymore.
Silence invaded the room again.
"Gajeel," Lucy called, "do you still like music?" The dragon slayer looked at her like he had been doing until then, studying her face and then answered, "Yes, I'll never stop liking it, you know?" He replied with less energy than expected.
"Yes," she acknowledged, "then... would you hear me sing a song?" Gajeel didn't answer but continued staring at her. "I didn't write it but I think it's full of feelings. I heard it many years ago, but I still remember it well..." An apologetic smile formed on the girl's face, "though, if you don't want to hear me, it's-"
"I'm waiting," Gajeel cut her short and she smiled and giggled at his rudeness, so familiar to her.
Lucy straightened her back and fell serious while starting to sing, her voice like that of an angel...
"I heard that you settled down,
that you found a girl and you're married now.
I heard that your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you..."
Gajeel found himself frowning. He couldn't even tell himself she was horrible at singing. It was her soft, feminine voice that kept him silent and attentive to the words, but... those lyrics specifically... were something nobody should be strong and brave enough to sing aloud... and her watery eyes proved it to be true.
"Old friend, why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light."
For a moment, the woman stopped trying to prevent her tears from falling she took in a big breath. She continued singing, her eyes closed tightly, and two tears escaped her efforts and rolled down her cheeks.
"I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited
but I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it
I'd hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded that for me..."
"It isn't over..." she sang in no more than a whisper and pink extended through her face as more tears fell. But then she furrowed her eyebrows in a determined manner to continue, lifting her head up and looking at the stars.
"Nevermind, I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you, too
'Don't forget me,' I begged, I remember you said..."
"'Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead.'"
"'Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead.'"
The lyrics itself destroyed the blonde's determination when she tried to feign ignorance to her own feelings. Twenty years and numerous guys and countries hadn't been able to make her forget about the pink haired man, her only love, because noone, nowhere, in the whole world... would be like Natsu. Noone would be able to replace him in her heart.
"You know how the time flies.
Only yesterday was the time of our lives.
We were born and raised in the summer haze,
bound by the surprise of our glory days..."
Gajeel noticed how she didn't stop the tears anymore as she repeated that part from before, the one that described her true wishes; the ones that would never be fulfilled.
"I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited,
but I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded that for me
it isn't over, yet."
"Nevermind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you, too.
'Don't forget me,' I begged, I remember you said,
'Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead'"
"Nothing compares, no worries or cares,
regrets or mistakes, they're memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?"
"Nevermind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you, too.
'Don't forget me,' I begged, I remember you said,
'Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead'
'Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead'"
Silence filled the room once more, heavy and sad as it had never been.
"Why, then?" Gajeel asked in a murmur; his voice laced with sadness.
Lucy shook her head and wiped her tears, trying to stop others from falling and failing at it with a smile on her face. "I won't destroy his happiness. His family was always the most important thing to him..." She stopped for a moment, remembering the man's comment on her not being there when he came back, which, even though he had smiled, she knew it had been a reprimand, and she shook the thoughts out of her head. "I don't want to think about what could have happened if I hadn't gone away... Maybe I'm the one that made this future," she explained, regaining her composure a little.
Afterall, there was nothing to do to it. Things were that way and nothing could be done about it without destroying things impotant to others. But, at least, there was something good about it.
"It's alright," Lucy said looking at Gajeel straight to the eyes, "because he is happy!"
Her face lit up as a big, sincere grin spread through her face.
Because she loves him.
Levy turned and then softly yawned before sitting up groggily while rubbing her eyes.
"Um... Honey, where's Lu?" she asked after looking around a bit.
"She left some time ago," Gajeel answered, turning her way and smiling.
Levy's gaze became sadder and she sighed as she let herself slump over the sofa again. "What a pity," she murmured, "why didn't she stay?"
Gazeel looked outside the window as he thought of the blonde's words. Then, he chuckled. "She said she is capable of looking after herself and finding a hotel in her 'hometown' will be no problem," he answered as he brought the glass of beer to his mouth and sipped from it.
Levy giggled, "Of course she is, she totally misses the point of staying in a friend's house." She messed her hair and smiled, enjoying the silence she shared with Gajeel as the dragon slayer looked at the night sky.
"Say," the blunette started after a while as she rested her hands over her stomach, "Lucy has changed... her smile doesn't seem so bright anymore." She made a pause and then continued talking. "Don't you think?" was her question.
Gajeel placed his glass down on the table slowly and looked at the floor distracted as he thought his words through carefully. He then looked up at the window again and at the stars that could be seen from it and smiled. "I think bunny girl is the strongest woman in all Fairy Tail," he stated with ease and Levy stayed silent thinking his words through. When a certain sweet topic, written of within many books and places named 'love' came to mind, she immediately understood. A sad but sweet smile formed on her face. "Yeah, she is," the woman said finally and gazed at her husband again as he did the same.
After some seconds and comforting smiles, their eyes parted; Levi's going to the roof and Gajeel's travelling back to the window as silence filled the room once more in that calm atmosphere.
The silence was interrupted to let the last comment on the topic emerge and die out for them to go to sleep some minutes later.
"'I would never be able to be like you,' is what I couldn't bring myself to tell her," Gajeel had said softly, admiration tainting his voice.
Well, I wish you're crying now :D hahaha.
One thing; Do you want to know what Natsu felt when all this happened?
Please tell me, so I can decide on making a small continuation or not.