AN: I would like to apologize in advance about the tardiness of this fic, and what is sure to be horrible grammar, OOC-ness and all around horribleness. It's been years since I've written anything, and I've never written anything for Fairytail before. Gray was especially hard to write. This said I couldn't resist when I saw Gruvia week was starting. Anyways thanks for taking the time to read this.

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-Straight A Procrastinator

'Stupid Lyon' Gray sat at the guild, downing a whiskey on the rocks. By now he was on his third, but the event that occurred earlier that day still roamed his mind. It had started off as an ordinary day, he ran into Juvia on his way to the guild, whether that was a coincidence or not he's not sure; but he wouldn't put it passed her to have set it up. However now that he thought about it, it's been awhile since he actually spent time with her. Then the morning had taken a turn for the worst. Along the way they had the unfortunate displeasure of meeting Lyon. He went on and on about how he adored his "lovely Juvia-chan". Gray scoffed, pulled her alongside him, and told his adoptive brother to 'stuff it and go back to his own guild'. Of course the petty arguments and ice fight had formed from there. Juvia was left standing on the sidelines waiting for them to finish. While Juvia adored her Gray-sama, she was slightly annoyed. Since they ran into Lyon, neither ice mage had even listened to her, much less even acknowledged the fact that she was there and perfectly able to speak. Glancing at the time her eyes widened, and took off. She was late. She promised to take a mission with Gajeel-kun. She excused herself and left the two boys not that either of them had noticed at that point.

"Don't you have other girls to torture?!" Gray countered to Lyon.

"What other girls?! Juvia-chan is the only girl for me!"

"I thought you said you gave up on that?!"

"But then I figured 'why should I?!' you obviously don't have the stones to tell her how you feel, but I do!"

" I already told her how I felt at the ball! We're just friends! Besides you don't know anything about her!"

Lyon suddenly lowered his stance. The glare he gave Gray was serious, he was suddenly reminded of a time when Lyon and him where in a real fight with lives on the line. "Gray, you and I both know you're full of shit. Otherwise we wouldn't be bickering over her. Besides…you and her may be nakama, but I seriously doubt yourself centered ass knows anything more about her either." Gray froze for a moment before he scoffed at his words. He wasn't bickering over her; he was…wait…what was he doing exactly? " Dumbass…" and with that Lyon looked around before grumbling "later ass hat, by the way I think Juvia-chan left us." Lyon disappeared again. Looking around Gray realized that he was in fact alone now.

So now here he was, at the bar in the guild asking Mira for a fourth round of drinks. I was one of those rare days when flame-brain took Lucy and Happy on a mission and Erza had a solo mission. When he got his second drink he nonchalantly inquired about Juvia to the Demon behind the bar. With a knowing smirk that sent him on edge she explained that she had a mission with Gajeel. Mira left him at that point to take care of other orders. By the third he replayed that stupid conversation through his head ten times over. And on his current round he realized that he really didn't know much about her. He made a mental check list in his head of things he did know about her. She was totally in love with him. She grew up in an orphanage. Juvia was oddly friends with Gajeel. She had her first chamarade frank with him. Rain makes her sad…or was she only sad when she caused it? Wait…she only caused rain when she was sad, yeah that was it. And She can be… really weird. Suddenly it hit Gray. This pathetic list was just that. Pathetic. He really didn't know much about her. What he did know about her, was what everyone who read her page in Sorcerer Weekly knew.

He was very ready for another round then. It wasn't until his 7th or 8th drink did he start feeling loose of tongue. He was no Cana Alberona, but he wasn't a light weight. Still eight straight whiskeys did have him feeling a little flushed. Mira made her way over to him again, about to refill his order when he finally blurted out a question to her. For her part she was a little surprised, he had barely contributed to anything in conversation all day, and now he was starting one. "What do you know about Juvia?" Mira paused, collecting her thoughts on the girl.

"Well other than the obvious, she's also pretty good friends with Lisanna, and I know that on days when she doesn't have a mission and when you're gone, she can usually be found volunteering at the orphanage with Cana and Wendy. I'm sure there's more I know… Why?"

Gray's eyes widened in surprised. He didn't know that. He didn't know any of that. "No Reason…" he grumbled. He needed a stronger drink. He stopped her before she refilled his glass. "The Alberona special…Please." He was going to regret it in the morning that much he knew.

"Wh-what?! Are you sure?!" Surely something must have happened if he was ordering that.

"Yes…I need it…" Gray sighed. He had no doubt that Mira would worm out everything. In truth he needed to speak to someone, maybe that was his inebriated mind, but he did. He just needed something strong enough to get him to talk. Mira smiled and fulfilled his order, she could just tell something romantic was going down. Finally she could cross another couple off her list soon.

After finishing half of the poison known as the Alberona special, the ice mage was starting to talk. He was however totally and beyond drunk. "An' then, tha' stupid jerk had the gull'gaul… what ev' the stones ta say I di'nt know 'er either!" Mira made non-committal sounds to encourage him to keep talking. The guild was almost empty by now. It was almost time for closing. Taking another swig of his drink he stared for a moment before resting his head on the bar. "worst par' was tha' he was right. I don' know jack shit 'bout 'er. Not really." Mira paused. She's seen guilty Gray quite a few times over the years. This seemed different though.

"Why does that bother you?"

" 'Cause! She's like super in love wit me! I wouldn't be surprised if she could write a whole book 'bout me! And she's 'possed to be my friend too! I should know stuff 'bout 'er, but I don't!"

"So it bugs you because even though you're her friend you don't actually feel like her friend?" Mira was having a hard time to piecing this together. The mind of a drunk was certainly confusing.

"Nah…it's not that" another swig of his drink. "Its jus' tha' she knows tons 'bout me, but I spen' so much time tryin to…to…" Gray narrowed his eyes at this point trying to think of the proper word in his hazy mind.

"To…" Mira prompted, this was gold to her! She could see it now. This little epiphany that's forming is going to be the gate to a new couple!

"to…AVOID! Tha's the word I'm lookin' for! Avoid! Anyways…I try avoiding her and her feelings! Gah…especially after what happened at the ball…"

"The Ball?! What happened at the ball?!" Mira had her eyes narrowed, anger looming. If he did something stupid…

"Ya mean ya didn't know?" Gray was about a third way done with his drink now. Mira watched him steadily, apparently in his drunken haze he didn't notice the danger brewing. "She tol' me she loved me. Just flat out said it wit all the sincerity and feelings she could muster! Even said it wit out referin' to erself in third person!" Mira gaped at him. Extremely worried about how this story was going to end.

"And what did you say?" the tone in her voice would have scared a sober Laxus much less Gray. Drunk Gray, however, didn't even noticed, he even chuckled. "I tol' 'er 'I don't' and then I called her weird!" Gray let out another chuckle she was about to punch him in the face, but held back. His chuckle then turned into dry sobs. No tears where evident, but there did seem to be a certain level of disgust and self loathing in there. "Heh.. what kind of asshole am I that I can just say tha' to 'er an then avoid 'er like 'er friendship di'nt mean nutin. "

"Does it mean something?" Mira inquired. He was going to fix this whether he knew it or not.

"Course it does, tis is Fairytail, we're all nakama 'ere."

"No you idiot, do you cherish her as a friend?"

"pfft..obviously not if I could treat her like tha." He put his head back on the bar self loathing at its peak. "When she's not bein' weird though, I do enjoy speakin to 'er. She's kinda sweet then…" Gray slowly drifted off to sleep at the bar. Mira was in between thoughts and feelings. On one hand she wanted to throttle him. How dare he do that to her! On the other hand though she wanted to relieve him of his self loathing. He seemed genuinely disgusted with himself at the moment. By now they were the only ones left. She got a blanket from the back and draped it over him. Tomorrow she was going to set him straight, regardless of whether or not he remembered. For now she will just be content at the thought of the massive hang over he was going to have in the morning. With a plan starting to form, Mira had no doubt that by the end of this week; this couple will finally be together.