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It wasn't late. However the time he didn't know. Gajeel and Levy were out on another special request mission. A lot of people had been asking for these two Mages specifically due to a special in Sorcerer Weekly about them both. Jason did an unbelievable job talking them up.
Gajeel lays in the hotel room, alone. He only wore his black sweat pants. Levy in the room beside his. He stares at the ceiling, sleep alluding him. The man was thinking about the mission they had just accomplished. He snuck into (meaning ran in screaming) a black market museum and retrieved a missing artifact that was stolen during transport, then Levy deciphered the contains. They really did make an amazing team. However, being in such a small town the train only came once a day. Forcing them to go to a rundown inn, where no one else was staying. Only two teens were working at the counter. Gajeel decided to catch up on so much needed sleep and call it in early. Levy agreeing to do the same. Gajeel's eyes start to become heavy, and sleep finally takes him.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Gajeel shoots up in his bed, violent screaming pulling him from his deep slumber.
'Levy.' He knew her scream anywhere. Hell, he caused that scream once. He jumps from the bed and out the door. The sound never subsiding. He kicks down Levy's door. Not even bothering to knock. Who could blame him?
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Levy lays in a tight ball on the bed. Her hands gripping her hair, threatening to rip out her blue locks. Her small body trembling, squeezing out tears through her tightly held eyelids. The sound never stopping, as if she didn't need to breathe at all.
Gajeel rushes to the bed, sitting the small girl up, shaking her tense body, back and forth and back and forth. "Wake up! Wake up!" He calls but gets no response. Her being suddenly seems to explode, she throws her leg into the Dragon Slayers chest, pushing off with great force. Her body falling off the bed and onto the floor on the other side. Her screaming stops as soon as her physique crashes onto the floor with a thud!
"Shrimp!" Gajeel bellows, he climbs onto the bed to peer down at the girl. She lays on her back, her body still quaking. Her eyes distant and afraid, like she was staring into the heavens but only found hell. He looks at her lip as it quivers, waiting for words or another scream just anything, that's when he realizes that she isn't breathing! He knows that he needs to act but before he can move her body flies from the floor. Levy races to the bathroom, slamming the door. Gajeel fallows, reopening the wooden barricade to see her body hunched over the toilet, viciously throwing out her stomach contents. Praying to the Porcelain Princess. He only watches in shock, not knowing what brought this on or what to do, he only watches in shock. He only watches.
She finally empties everything she once contained. Looking over at Gajeel, she smiles.
My Mavis did she just smile? She woke up violently screaming, throws up, then smiles at him in the orange shorts and gray tee-shirt she borrowed from the small teen at the front desk. God she was a mess. A hot mess but a mess none the less.
"What...?" The Iron Dragon Slayer, is speechless. How could she smile?
"I'm sorry I woke you up Gajeel. It was only a nightmare. Thank you for checking on me but, you can go back to sleep now it won't happen again." The Solid Script Mage exits the bathroom, flipping on all the lights in her room. As if the illumination could drive out all evil. She sits down at a large desk and pulls out a book. Gajeel looks over at the clock on the wall, it was only eleven at night, what can she possible be doing now?
All he can muster is, "Go back to sleep." The girl turns back around, she glares at him hard. As if she was trying to comprehend his words.
"I can sleep later, right now you need sleep." She says before turning back to her book.
He's noticed Levy's extreme lack of sleep lately. Her eyes always decorated with large dark circles. The girl's subconscious always threatening to take over. Her mind never quite grasping the full conversation. Levy's body never seeming to be quick enough to do...well anything. He tried to talk her into sleeping on the train between his own sickness, but she always declined.
"Yer sleeping now!" Gajeel demands. His deep voice echoing through the room. Shocking the small girl, she looks up at him, her eyes showing that she was only half able to understand.
"I'm sorry I woke you up Gajeel. It was only a nightmare. Thank you for checking on me but, you can go back to sleep now it won't happen again." Levy repeats, as if she has rehearsed saying this. Gajeel, walks towards Levy, picking her up, she didn't seem to realize what was happening.
"I ain't going back to bed until you fall asleep." Gajeel mumbles as he lays Levy onto the sea of blankets. However, the girl gets right back up and tries to walk back to her desk. Gajeel grabs her arm and whips her back around to face him. That's when he sees it. Her eyes. They look afraid. Not of him, not even close, they look afraid of the world.
"I can't go back to sleep, please don't make me go back to sleep." The small Mage cries.
"Why?" Gajeel asks.
"If I go back to sleep, then I'll have that nightmare again! I don't want to have that nightmare again!" She cries. Her body collapsing to the floor.
"Will ya tell me about it?" Gajeel asks.
"No!" Levy screams, she quickly crawls away from him like he was threatening her.
"Oi okay! Okay! Calm down!" Gajeel begs. "Look I know yer scared." He starts to help Levy to her feet. "However, if ya don't sleep ya don't live. Now it's time to go to bed. I'll be right next door. There is no need to be afraid."
"Gajeel! I'm not tired I swear!" Levy calls as Gajeel leads her to the bed by her hand.
"I don't care, yer going to sleep." The menacing man demands. He helps the bluenette into the tall bed. Then goes and turns off the lights. He was like a living breathing contradiction. He was tall, dark and scary. Yet extremely kind to this girl before him.
"Gajeel? Will you stay with me till I fall asleep?" Levy whispers.
"Of course Shrimp." He says. He sits beside the bed, waiting until his partner falls asleep. Watching the moon light shine in onto her blue hair. He remembers a time when he wouldn't have even thought of preforming such an act. However he would do anything for Levy.
Levy wasn't his, but man did he love her. Her eyes when she reads an exciting part in her book, the way she bites her bottom lip at a cliff hanger. Her smile when she greets him at the guild hall. The bitter facial expression she would make when someone tricks her into drinking beer, a feat that happens more than most would think. It looked as if she was a child drinking black coffee. Most of all, he loved her personality, she has the most unbelievable way with people, changing even horrible beast like himself Not to mention, her ass! Mavis blessed that girl with the best butt in the guild! The way her hips sway when she walks drives Gajeel up the walls!
Despite all of this. Why? Why did he end up falling for a girl he swore never to fall for? The girl he crucified on a tree. The girl he hurt beyond belief. His theory, was from being sealed away on Tenrou. Moments before they were robbed of seven years of their lives, Gajeel grabbed Levey to protect her. Absorbing her into his arms, cradling her into his chest. She instinctively pushing her face into his neck. Her tiny hands pressed against his chest, feeling his heart beat. His lungs being filled with her scent. Her blue hair the last thing he saw. Staining his eyelids. This is show they stayed for those seven years. Gajeel being a dragon slayer, his subconscious formed an unbreakable with the small girl. Remembering her fragrance as his home. Her blue hair as a keepsake. Marking her as his and labeling her as his treasure. His mate for life. However all this, is something he would never dream of telling Levy.
Once she was in a deep sleep Gajeel leaves back to his room. He lies down in his bed, but he couldn't fall asleep. Gajeel's mind was littered with ideas of what Levy's nightmare could have been. He laid sleeplessly, consumed by his thoughts.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" The scream broke through his thinking. Gajeel sprints from his hotel room and into Levy's.
Levy's hands covering her ears, her body was pushed against the headboard. Her hands clasping her ears, trying to dive out whatever noise was sounding in her nightmare. She was shivering and sweating at the same time. Tears flowing from her closed eyes. Her scream growing louder with every moment. Gajeel could hear her heart beat racing.
"Levy! Levy!" Gajeel shouts. He grabs her small body, and pulls her into his chest. Hugging her tightly, rocking her back and forth. Still calling her name.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" Levy shrieks. Her hands fly into his chest pushing her back slightly, followed by her foot flying into the Dragon Slayers face and her body smacks against the head board. Snapping her body awake with the large wave of pain. Her eyes fearful, appearing to look through Gajeel. Like he was nothing but a window with a murderer on the other side. Her breathing was insanely quick, as if she was hyperventilating. Like she was still living the dream.
"You're okay now! Calm down! Deep breaths!" Gajeel rants trying to calm her down. It took several minutes for the small mage's body to stop shaking, and her breathing rate to go back to normal.
"I'm sorry I-woke you up Gajeel. It was only a night-mare. Thank you for checking on me but, you can-go back to sleep now it won't happen again." Levy says. Her words interrupted with short shaky breaths. She tries to get up from the bed, however Gajeel wouldn't let her.
"Oh no you don't!" He grabs the girl and pulls her back down onto the bed with him. "You are going to sit right here and tell me what the hell is going on!"
"I'm sorry I woke you up Gajeel. It was only a nightmare. Thank you for checking on me but, you can go back to sleep now it won't happen again." She quotes.
"Levy!" He screams. Seemingly snapping her out of her daze.
"Gajeel?" She questions, like she was seeing him for the first time.
"Start talking! What was this nightmare about!?" He snorts.
"I-I don't want to talk about it." Levy says shallowly.
"How many people have you talked to about this dream?" Gajeel asks.
"No one." She says tearing up.
"You clearly haven't been sleeping because of this. It looks like it's eating you alive this nightmare! It's time to talk about it."
"Gajeel, you don't understand!" Levy shrieks.
"I don't understand!? I don't understand!? Levy shortly after I joined Fairy Tail I endlessly had nightmares about those things I did to you! I fucking crucified you!"
"Gajeel I've forgiven you for that!" Levy shouts hugging the man. However Gajeel pulls her back off.
"You, you can forgive me, for the rest of my miserable life, but I will never forgive myself for those things! I hurt the kindest person in the world, for the hell of it!" Gajeel calls.
"Gajeel you know that's not true!" Levy shouts. "Quit feeling sorry for yourself, you didn't do that! Black Steel Gajeel from Phantom Lord did! You are Gajeel from Fairy Tail now!"
"You see Levy, your words made my nightmares go away. I always thought that those nightmares were caused because I was afraid of myself. However, after the first time you said that you forgave me, they just disappeared, and I realized, I was having nightmares because I thought that I you were afraid of me." Gajeel says looking away from Levy's glair.
"Gajeel. My nightmare, it's the same every time. I-I'm standing... In this black void, and I'm all alone. I scream...I always scream the same thing. I scream 'Why don't you just kill me already?'" Gajeel visibly flinches. "Then there is this voice, it comes from right behind me, and it...it says 'I don't want to kill you, I want to make you suffer.' It always comes from right behind me, so I turn around. I try so hard not to but I always turn around! The same thing, every time. It's everyone, all my friends. The whole guild. They are hanging on crosses. They're all on large wooden crosses, all of them are dead. Everyone's dead!" Levy begins to sob. "Everyone except you and Natsu. You two are still alive. Natsu always screams the same thing! He screams 'Lucy! Lucy! Why didn't you save Lucy! You could have saved Lucy! You could have saved us all!' Then, then you look up, and you-you just whisper, 'I should have left you on that tree.'" Gajeel grabs Levy and pulls her into a hug. "Then all I can do is hear everyone's disembodied screams! Their wordless screams echoing in the void endlessly!" Levy cries harder, Gajeel tightening his grip. "The scariest part, is that I feel like I know that voice, but I can't remember who's it is."
"Levy, I would never say something like that." Gajeel says sternly.
"God I'm just happy you're alive to say anything." Levy retorts.
"Levy you have to understand!" Gajeel says pulling her back to look him in the eyes. "Putting you on that tree was the worst thing I've ever done!"
"After you put me on that tree, the nightmares disappeared Gajeel." Levy says, smiling through her tears. "I've had this dream since I joined Fairy Tail, but after you put me on the tree they disappeared for a while. It made me believe that I would be the one on the cross, and that I didn't have to watch my family suffer. However they did comeback. In time you and Natsu would say those things to me, but I'm okay with those thing because I know that you were both alive!"
"Levy, I'm so sorry." Gajeel mumbles into her hair, as he pulls her into another hug. "How often do you have that dream?" Gajeel asks.
"I don't go back to sleep after the third time. It's normally like three in the morning anyway." Levy says.
"You have that dream three times a night!" Gajeel yells, he looks at her in disbelief. Hugging her tighter.
"Well, it could be more if I don't stay awake." Levy says awkwardly.
"My Mavis, I'd do anything to make it go away." Gajeel mumbles.
"Well I'm not that lucky, this thing doesn't just go away, that's only not happened once." Levy answers.
"When was that?"
"Back when I would only get the dream once a night. I was getting in late from a mission, and I saw Wendy in the lobby. She was crying from a bad dream. So I let her sleep in my bed with me. That was the only night I didn't have it in over a year." Levy answers.
"Don't you always share a bed with bunny girl?"
"No, I've never slept over with Lucy." Her eyes growing tired.
"Well then that's the answer!" Gajeel says.
"What?" Levy asks back in her half-conscious state.
"You gotta sleep with someone!" Gajeel answers.
"Wh-what!?" Levy says snapping fully awake.
"The only time ya' didn't have the dream is when you sleep with someone. So you probably can feel that person breathin' or som' so you know that they ain't dead." Gajeel says.
"So I have to find someone to start sleeping with?" Levy asks. A deep blush forming on her face.
"I think you already have." Gajeel says laughing loudly. Not because they had a 'thing' or anything like that. It was because he was the only one who knew.
"Yeah I think that guy at the front desk would like to." Levy says sarcastically.
"Fine! If that's what you want!" Gajeel says as he stands up beside the bed.
"No wait!" Levy yells. She wraps her arms around his waist, still kneeling on the bed. "Please Gajeel, you are the only one who knows about my dream, please, make this nightmare go away." She begs. "Just this once."
"Oi, calm down Shrimp! I was just kidding!" Gajeel says. He turns back around and climbs onto the bed. Motioning to his blue haired companion to lay beside him. Levy crawls to the top of the large bed, laying down beside him. "How did you and Wendy sleep?" Gajeel says awkwardly.
"Well, I was holding her head against my chest, so she could hear my heart beat." Levy answers looking away.
Before Levy knew what was happening, Gajeel grabs her and pulls her into his chest, cuddling her close.
"Good night Gajeel." Levy whispers, her breath tickling his chest.
"Night Shrimp." Gajeel mumbles into her blue mane. Both quickly fell asleep.
I have Chapter Two done, if anyone wants it early just say so.
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