AN: I haven't posted anything in a while, and I really want to get something up for you guys. Writer's block has been a pain. More specifically, I have been wanting to write some song fics. So, hey! A collection of Gruvia ones! How about that?
Ratings will vary, but mainly T. If I decide to write smut, I'll raise the rating.
Genres will also vary. I'm a horror junkie. Just saying. Expect a few horror ones in this. I have seen way too many movies to save my life. I regret nothing! I seriously have a list. It's over 100. Oh well! It's unrelatated, but the main genre will be romance. I'll mix others in with it, horror, tragedy, angst, family. Whatever comes to mind.
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It don't matter. I'll take every part of you.
All you have to do is let me in your room.
- In Your Room by Halestorm
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Gray liked to be alone. That was no secret.
When he started to live with Juvia, we would need his space, and she understood why. He would need time to himself when the memory of his brief reunion with his father resurfaced. It was a guilt that she knew she would forever carry with her.
Gray had grown fond of the water mage's presence. She wasn't throwing herself at him constantly like she used to. Gray could see it in her eyes, and she had even told him. She didn't think she had the right to love him anymore. Even after he had forgiven her, after he had held onto her and cried, even after he had thanked her, Juvia still believed that she didn't deserve him.
If she didn't deserve him, then he sure as hell didn't deserve her.
The ice mage was surprised by her loyalty. Even though he had pushed her away countless times, she was always by her side. He had even rejected her after the Grand Magic Games, and Juvia was still there. That was when he knew she would always be there. Their relationship had not changed a bit after that.
Juvia had spent the day in their small house. He had spent the day training alone.
When he returned home, he found her busy in the kitchen. She always was the one to do their cooking. Gray had tried once to give her a break, but in the end, they settled on traveling the short distance to the nearest town to dine. He hadn't tried to cook a thing sense. Juvia wouldn't let him.
The last time they had went into town, Juvia had bought food to cook their meals. After Gray admitted that he liked her cooking, Juvia was always offering, and he wouldnt turn down her offer.
"Welcome home, Gray-sama!" The blunette greeted him with a smile.
"Hey." Gray smiled back at her, and then he looked at the pot on the stove. "What are you making?"
"Juvia made a stew. Does that sound okay?"
Gray walked past her. "Anything sounds good right now. I'm starving." He continued to walk to his room to clean up, discarding his shirt as he did so.
Juvia sighed. "Gray-sama! Don't leave your clothes laying around!"
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"Does Gray-sama like it?"
"I tell you I like your cooking almost every night. Of course I do." He looked at her and raised and eyebrow. "You haven't touched your's yet. You didn't sneak something into mine did you?"
Juvia's dark blue eyes widened. "You still think Juvia would do something like that?"
Gray chuckled. "I'm messing with you, you had when we first met I wouldn't have been surprised."
Juvia playfully pouted and started to eat her stew. Gray caught himself glancing at her for a while. While he was training earlier, he realized something. There was so much about the blue haired woman that he didn't know about, yet she knew so much about him. Hell, he knew quite a bit about other member's of Fairy Tail. But not Juvia.
Eventually, she caught him staring at her and she felt her cheeks grow warm. "Gray-sama, you're staring."
He blinked. "Sorry."
"Is something wrong?"
Gray shook his head. "Just wondering... well... why dont you ever talk about your family?"
Juvia froze at his question. She hadn't seen any of her family members in years, and if she had anymore family out there, she had no clue. She spent a good portion of her childhood in an orphanage, and then she was asked to join Phantom Lord as one of its elite members. After that, Fairy Tail had become her new family.
After a long moment of silence, Gray gave up. If it were a sensitive subject, he wouldn't pesture her. "Sorry. I didn't mean to-"
"No. It just caught Juvia off guard. That's all." The blunette showed him a small smile, but then she looked at him with curiousity. "What made Gray-sama think of it all of a sudden?"
Gray could feel warmth spreading to his cheeks and looked away from her. "Pretty much wanting to know more about you..."
"Oh." Her smile returned, and her eyes lit up, and he could have sworn he could see hearts in her eyes. "Is Gray-sama starting to return Juvia's feelings?"
"No. Not like that." He saw her frown, and he went on to explain his reasoning.
"Juvia will tell Gray-sama since he wants to know."
"You don't have to."
"Juvia doesn't mind." She looked down. "It's just... Juvia doesn't remember much about her parents. She lost them along time ago..."
"I'm sorry..." He leaned back in his chair.
"Gray-sama doesn't have to apologize." The blunette folded her hands in her lap. "At least Juvia had a place to stay after they had passed. She lived with her uncle for a while."
Juvia told Gray about the few years she had spent living with her uncle. They moved from the table to sit on the couch. Her story was long, and the couch was a much more comfortable place to sit than the wooden chairs. Gray found out that quite a few of her family members had been water mages. Her uncle had taught her almost everything she knew. However, the man had disappeared before he could teach her about her rain.
"So he just disappeared?" Gray asked her.
Juvia nodded. She sat with her knees hugged to her chest. "Juvia was sad that she had been abandoned, so she was... gloomy all the time, and so it rained every where she went. Juvia didn't know that her magic was tied to her emotions. Water is a very emotional type of magic." She smiled. "She is glad she knows that now. Gray-sama showed her that when he took the rain away. Thank you."
He avoided her eyes again. "You don't have to thank me..."
Juvia sighed. "Juvia misses them... No one could find her uncle, so she was placed in an orphanage. The other children were so cruel to her..."
As she kept talking, Gray thought he heard the soft sound of a light rain outside. He looked over his shoulder, and he could see that it was indeed raining, so he looked back at Juvia. It wasn't suppose to rain, so he felt bad for bringing the subject up, but Juvia kept going on.
"Did you know Juvia had a boyfriend? He didn't like her rain..." Juvia frowned. "The relationship didn't last very long... Juvia doesn't even think it lasted more than a month..."
"What an asshole." Gray commented.
"Juvia joined Phantom Lord after that."
And with that, her story was finished. Gray knew the rest. She joined Phantom Lord as one of the members of the elite Element Four. He knew that her title was well deserved. She was a very strong mage, and if she put her heart into it, she could easily best her opponent.
"I'm sorry," he told her after a while. "All of them were jerks. And I'm a jerk to you, too."
"Juvia forgives Gray-sama."
"But why?"
Juvia looked at him, and when her eyes met his, she smiled. "Juvia understands the reasons behind Gray-sama's behviour..."
The water mage didn't say anything else. She moved forward, and wrapped her arms around the male, holding him tightly. "Now you know about Juvia. And if Gray-sama ever needs to tell Juvia anything else, she will listen. Juvia doesn't care what it is. She will always love Gray-sama."
Gray returned her gentle embrace, wrapping his arms around her waist. "Let's agree that we can talk to each other if something is bothering us..."
Juvia nodded, and again, he knew she was there to stay.
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AN: This song always reminds me of Gruvia, but more on Juvia's side. So this was originally going to be Gray telling Juvia about his past, but then I got thinking, we know about him, but we don't know about Juvia. And thus, the roles were reversed.
Thank you for reading!
