Title: The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword?
Fandom: Fairy Tail
Characters: Gajeel/Gazille Redfox/Reitfox, Levy/Levi McGarden, Jet, Droy
Rating: T (for a certain Iron Dragon Slayer's mouth~)
Pairings: Gajlev (slight one-sided jetlev and droylev… because their crushes on her are just too cute~)
Warning: First time writing this fandom, so there might be some ooc-ness…
Author's Note: I didn't use their names, 'cuz there's so many different spellings, and I didn't know which one to use…. Also, the timeline comes post-Festival, pre-Edolas. So no Pantherlily, sadly….
Disclaimer: As happy as I am with the latest progress Gajeel and Levy have been making as a possibly couple, alas, I do not own Fairy Tail… Didn't get it for Christmas.
He was approaching the request board when he saw a petite form already standing there. Sure, he was pretty sure she wasn't scared of him anymore, but still, he had a feeling her two guard dogs hadn't forgiven him as easily as she had. If to confirm this, he noticed the two males glaring at him when he didn't stop to let her leave first.
A smirk crossed his lips, not helping the situation, but still kinder than the looks they were shooting him. When would they learn that he was simply trying to make his living, not make their beloved leader suffer? Oh well, there was nothing he could do about it for now. He was going to go choose a job, and those two fashion disasters weren't going to stop him.
He easily dwarfed the girl, standing right behind her as if to emphasize the foot of difference in their heights. Not even making any sign that he noticed that she was there, he focused his attention on the pieces of paper on the board. Finally selecting one, he reached out to grab it, just as she did. And, as chances would have it, it was the same job.
"Excuse me," the girl said, politely but still firmly. "But I want that job."
She did? Well, that was obvious. "No shit shortstuff, but I got it. 'Sides, do you really think those two could handle it?" Nothing against her abilities, not after the festival, and he saw some of what she could really do. Hell, he couldn't even understand what she had done, but she got him and the Salamander out of the trap they were in faster than they would've been able themselves.
Brown eyes met red for a moment. "I believe in Jet and Droy. And I've got a team, you'd just be on your own." She would know that he could handle it, from personal experience. That memory almost made him cringe, not that he'd ever let anyone know that he regretted ever hurting her. "Now, if you would just let go please, I'd like to be able to pay the rent this month." A light tug on the paper, hard enough that he'd feel it, but not so hard that it'd rip the paper.
Now that was an argument he had heard a few times before, more from the bunny-girl, but still, probably a common one. A few months ago, it wouldn't have changed anything, but then again, no one would've had dared to try and take a job he wanted. In Phantom Lord, he had been feared as the strongest, but here in Fairy Tail, he was just…. Just himself. And that was all he needed to be special. It was weird to him, but not necessarily bad.
"Tch, whatever. Take it if you need it that badly." Part of him wanted to fight it, but he had a feeling that in a straight-up fight, he may not do as well as he wanted. Besides, the smile on her face was worth it.