When You Sleep
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Levy's POV
Standing here waiting for the battle to start is slowly wearing on me. As I look around at my fellow guild mates, I realize how statistically low it is for me to survive. The Strauss siblings all have powerful forms of take-over magic. Pantherlily can transform into his battle form and has extensive knowledge on battle strategies and combat styles. And Gajeel… well he's too awe-inspiring to even begin to describe how powerful to discuss. He's just stands there and you can you feel the power ripple off of him. It's terrifying for his opponents and even his comrades sometimes, but right now it's more of a comfort right now.
He stands at attentions sniffing the air while tilting his head, His intense burgundy eyes are sweeping around the surrounding territory using his enhanced sense to gage the position of the enemy. I always feel a little guilty watching him worried he thinks that I am some sort of closet pervert.
Knowing now that I probably won't survive, I decide that I will stare him as long as I can, to remember as much as I can, so that when I die I can reflect on him, remember him as he was, and know as much I want to tell him I love him.
I did not know when she realized that Gajeel meant more to her than a comrade. She knew when she had feared him when after he crucified Jet, Droy, and her to the tree and painted her stomach with the emblem of Phantom Lord. She remembers the exact moment when she accepted him into the guild, the moment when he protected her from Laxus' lightning bolt. She remembers the moment she knew he wanted to change during the Battle of Fairy Tail, when he helped her try to break Freed's runes.
She could feel a tentative friendship being built with him when they returned from Edolas and Pantherlily becoming his friend. Anytime she watched those two interact it made her think of how proud Gajeel was to find Lily. Every once and a while, when Gajeel and Lily would pass by her, they would briefly talk to her even though Jet and Droy would glare at him the whole time. It was probably in those moments, when she forgave him.
It was probably during the S-class trials that changed everything. Picking her, literally, he picked her and claimed that he could make her big, much to Jet's and Droy's dismay. Although for most of it he constantly complained or picked on her for her height with such creative names like, "Shrimp, Shorty, Chibi," and so on.
No! It was the moment when they were attacked and he looked at me and told me, "It is really hard looking for someone so small, so don't leave my side please." That was it! Fighting together, him protecting me, and the silly heart in the iron I made him, even my magic knew before I realized it.
I have to smile over that because it was so obvious. The Grand Magic Games and fighting the dragons was intense, watching him fight, then watching him run off to battle dragons was when I knew I could say it to him and mean it.
Then Tartarus and the Council happened. Even though we worked together, he was training or in the middle of missions and I was infiltrating Avatar, and we became closer, but I knew I couldn't tell him because he didn't feel the same way and the Council has no fraternization rules.
Fairy Tail's rebirth, I thought I could do it and Lucy and the rest of the girls said I should, but I kept chickening out. I was scared to lose my friendship with him. He even let me come over and sleep at his house before the battle. The two things I can never tell him is the way I gave him air and how much I love him.