A/N:
New Gajevy story!
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"Lucy please, I'm actually thinking I shouldn't go after all."
Levy tried to get out of her upcoming interview scheduled in an hours' time. She pleaded with her blonde friend to stop fussing over her.
"What are you talking about? This is such a huge opportunity! You said it yourself."
Lucy tried reassuring her knowing it was just her nerves trying to talk her out of what would be a huge notch under her belt if accomplished. She couldn't pass up on such a chance and as her best friend, she couldn't have her back out without even trying.
"I believe in you Lev, you'll do amazing."
After hearing her pep talk, the petite blunette gained a bit of confidence she was losing through talking herself out of it. Lucy completed adding the finishing touches on her outfit.
Levy had recently purchased a very professional dark blue blazer she wore over a white dress shirt. A pencil skirt matched her blazer and hugged her curvaceous hips despite her petite upper body.
The blonde took a step back to look at the blunette who was pulling up her azure locks into a bun sliding on a black headband. No matter the circumstances, Levy had to be herself and wear one of her many colorful headbands to match her outfit.
She mentally cursed her friend for looking still beautiful even without the pounds of make-up she wrongly believed she needed.
"And you're almost ready."
Lucy brought out a pair of plain four inch black pumps to finish off the look.
"No no Lu, I can't…You know I can't."
"Of course you can!"
The blonde stepped into the heels walking around the living room to prove her point of how easy they were to walk in. She strutted effortlessly in them appearing like a model before stepping out.
"See, it's no big deal."
Levy was about to ignore her and step into her trusty, comfortable, and 100% fall proof black flats but Lucy picked them up preventing her from doing so.
"Lu!"
"Levy Mcgarden!"
Lucy stood her ground ultimately forcing the blunette to wear the black pumps. For the first few steps, she was wobbly on her feet to say it in a nice way. She was as graceful as a baby giraffe talking its first steps into the world.
"Come on Lev."
Lucy gave her the quickest run down on walking in heels before sending her off into the world.
"Good luck!"
The blonde waved at her watching her steps slowly improve as she continued walking towards the subway.
-Steps…no…
She grabbed onto the railing for dear life crossing only the beginning of her hurdles to come as she reached the bottom surprisingly not falling. Some confidence was gained from this achievement.
-Maybe I'm just over reacting.
Once off of the subway, the blunette made her way a few blocks down. From a far she took note of her destination, a large extravagant sky scrapper. "Fairy Tail" was in large letters signaling that was the right building. Now up close, she pushed open the large glass doors of the main entrance.
"…it's…amazing."
Levy was at a loss for words once she entered. The large lobby was much more lavish than she was expecting. Two large waterfall walls were on either side of the main entrance with dragon carving in the back of the water. Busy bodies made their way in and out of offices located in the main floor to being seated on large black leather couches as they waited for their next client to arrive.
"Can I help you?"
A sweet voice called out from the front reception desk. The blunette timidly made her way up to speak to the beautiful white haired woman who was working up front.
"Umm…I have an interview for an internship?"
She timidly said almost as if asking. The woman up front looked the petite blunette up and down noticing she was much different than the women she let pass before her.
"Of course, please go down the hall behind me and it will be the third door to your left."
The woman sweetly smiled as she wished her good luck.
A rough voice suddenly chimed in on the white haired woman's ear piece.
"Oi Mira, who was that?"
"The blunette? I didn't get her name…"
"Well get it."
"She's going for the internship, ask Juvia."
After a few moments the voice didn't reply back.
"Gajeel? Come back!"
Mira demanded gaining the attention of Levy making her turn around.
"Me?"
The blunette questioned if she already messed something up.
"O-Oh no! Sorry about that."
Mira gestured to her ear piece before Levy sighed in relief continuing to walk towards the door.
-Come on Levy, you can do this.
She tried to prepare herself at the last moment while making her way down the corridor.
-Third door…left…or was it right? Levy how could you forget!? S-Stop talking to yourself and make a decision already. Well rights always right…right? UGH!
Levy forcefully pushed the third door on the right open walking inside without much thought. She was greeted by a bunch of men hiding when they were startled by the cute woman almost forcing herself inside. Looking around she noticed she had barged into the men's bathroom.
"I-I…umm…"
The blunette was at a loss for words as her face lit up bright red from a mixture of embarrassment and the sight she had just unfortunately witnessed. She couldn't have gotten out of there quick enough and darted forward opening the door on the left hoping she was going to walk into the correct place.
Now Levy was greeted by about 20 beautiful women waiting for what at first she assumed was a casting call for a beauty completion.
"I'm sorry, am I in the right place? I have an interview for an internship."
Levy asked the woman at the front desk who had the same azure hair as she did.
"Yes, just please sign in then take a seat and wait for your name to be called."
"Thank you."
The blunettes exchanged smiles while she signed in then took a seat in the only empty spot.
-Between two models, Lu would have been better for this.
Levy sighed taking closer look at who was essentially her completion. All the women were stunning like the two receptionists she encountered earlier. Large busts and long legs –walking eye candy. They were all more dressed down in a simple tight skirt with a camisole accentuating their assets. Apparently everyone received a different memo.
She mentally cursed herself for even having an interest in the ad in the first place that brought her to this awful moment.
-1 month earlier.
"Last day to sign up for an internship at Fairy Tail."
The sign in the universities' bulletin board read. It was the one all the females were flocking to and writing down the information on where to immediately send their resumes to.
"Hey Lev, you should send yours! Just imagine how great it would be to get it!"
Lucy tried to encourage her friend to give it a shot.
"I don't know Lu…"
"Come on, I mean you'll have to pick something soon. I would but I already chose one."
Lucy had been invited to intern with a famous romantic novel writer – Loke. He had spotted her at a local coffee shop a few months before and just had to have her – as an intern, well maybe more.
"You're right but shouldn't I chose something more medical? I mean I'm studying medicine and not technology."
"It's good to be a jack-of-all-trait! Besides, you encounter many times of machines as a doctor so It'll further your career!"
Her encouragement continued trying to rationalize it from any angle possible.
"Here, just think about it when we get home."
Lucy plucked the ad from the board handing it to the blunette.
"There, now that it's off of the board I just helped you by getting rid of a few potential rivals."
Once home in her and Lucy's shared apartment, Levy pulled out her trusty seven year old laptop. It lagged a few times but as long as she could still type on it then there wasn't much need for a replacement.
She pulled up the document that contained her resume.
"Lev! I found it!"
Lucy walked out of her room holding a few magazines in her hands. She brought them over and on each cover was the wildly famous Gajeel Redfox. He was known worldwide as the founder of the enormous technology enterprise – Fairy Tail. Cellphones, televisions, computers, anything technology wise was dominated by this brand. Yes he was well known but Levy never really tracked his personal life like others did.
On the front covers were headlines about him being caught with a new woman every few days. Even the weekly magazine couldn't keep up with his flings. Each headline added to his image of a playboy living the bachelor lifestyle.
Levy looked upon the pictures with slight disgust yet trying not to completely judge before Lucy butted in.
"Oh no I didn't want to show you that but this."
Lucy flipped the pages landing on a spread of Gajeel at a party alongside a cherry blossom haired man.
"Look at how cute he is!"
The blonde pointed at the man on the page identified as Natsu.
"R-Really Lu? This is what you want to show me?"
"Yeah I mean look at him."
Lucy held the magazine to her chest before going back into her room leaving behind a magazine with a lone picture of Gajeel on the front. The more she stared, the more attractive he became. His cocky gin bore into her making her have the slightest split second crush on him just solely based on his looks.
She placed in underneath her laptop hiding his face.
Levy stared at her email trying to decide whether or not to send it. The cursor flashed giving her a slight head ache from over thinking it. She stared at the flyer taking note of the deadline, 11:59 PM.
-I'll take a nap and sleep on it, it's only 7, I have time.
The blunette closed her laptop before going to the couch for a nap.
- 11:54 PM.
"Hey Lev, wake up and come to bed. You'll hurt your neck if you stay here."
Levy slowly woke rubbing the sleepiness out of her eyes.
"I can't wait for when you have your interview! I'm so excited for you!"
Lucy cheerfully spoke walking towards their room making Levy stop in her tracks.
"You sent it right?"
"N-No…what time is it?"
"11:56…HURRY!"
Levy ran back towards her laptop frantically trying to turn it on.
"Turn on damnit, turn on."
She begged her laptop until it finally turned on only after desperately doing everything she could think of. This included raising and shaking it, as if motion would help. While she raised her laptop, she looked down at the magazine sighing.
"Don't worry, unfortunately I really doubt you'll actually meet him."
Lucy reassured her taking note of her hesitation.
"You're right I mean statistics say I won't even get chosen and…"
"Levy!"
With thirty seconds left to the deadline, she hit 'send.' The lag of her computer came once more sending the document extremely slowly.
"I-I think it went though."
-A little over two weeks later.
All those days, Levy almost religiously checked on her email for a sign until an email from 'Fairy Tail' came in.
'Your interview is scheduled for Monday at 3:30 PM. Directions are as followed…'
"Lucy!"
-Present day.
She sighed rethinking the past months events. Through all the trouble she put herself through, she decided just to go along with the interview and get it over with. The worst thing is they just wouldn't contact her, right?
"Levy Mcgarden."
The blunette at the front desk said gaining her attention.
"Small blunette? Yeah she just checked in, her name is Levy Mcgarden."
Juvia said replying to the voice speaking to her in her ear piece.
"Send her my way."
The voice spoke before cutting off leaving Juvia to question herself.
Levy began walking up after hearing her name repeating to herself over and over
-Just get it over with.
On her way up, she passed another candidate who was just exiting her interview. The red head spoke to her friend who was waiting for her.
"Aww, I was hoping Gajeel would be the one interviewing."
"He's not? I wanted to meet him."
The pair spoke before leaving disappointed.
-Good.
The blunette smiled with a bit of confidence hearing she wouldn't have to meet him. The nervous feelings washed away when a tinge of disappointment now came over her.
"This way please."
The bustier blunette personally escorted her down a path she didn't see any of the other girl's go down. In fact, they were being interviewed a few doors behind where she was being taken.
Juvia knocked on the grand wooden door before them.
"Go in."