Hello everyone! Thank you for clicking on this story! This is my first fanfiction. These characters are not mine, they belong to Hiro Mashima. Thank you very much! Enjoy!

Levy never regretted her decision to forgive him. Even after what he had done to her team and herself. She still bore the scars of it, but had somehow come to see them as a hurdle that she had overcome by forgiving him. Sure, he was scary, conceited, stubborn, and had violent tendencies, but beneath that scarred skin and a multitude of shiny piercings, there was an incredibly soft heart that cared. It had taken a while before she had come to be comfortable in his presence. From the first time he had come to Fairy Tail as a member, where she hid behind a table in fear and trembled like a freezing deer, to now, where she could openly speak and joke with him without any remaining fear.

Levy had no idea she was being spoken to until a small and familiar hand was laid on her shoulder. She jumped in surprise and looked up only to see Lu-chan behind her. She smiled brightly at the blonde.

Lucy smiled back knowingly, "You know, if you keep on staring at him like that, people will begin to think you like Gajeel." She leaned forward and whispered this in her ear, knowing full well that the Iron Dragon Slayer had extremely good hearing.

The man in question was sitting at the bar, looking surly as always. He was most likely drinking something strong to settle himself down from the recent job he had just come back from.

Levy sighed, "I don't know what's wrong with me lately Lucy. I've been having strange feelings in the pit of my stomach, and I feel dizzy if he comes too close, my heart goes crazy when I look at him for to long."

"Levy…come on, you read all of those novels, you have to at least suspect what's going on." Lucy gave her a wide, knowing grin while the cerulean haired mage thought long and hard. When it finally dawned on her, she let out a gasp of surprise.

"Y-you don't think…I don't…oh god." Her pale cheeks went impossibly red, "I have a crush on Gajeel…"

"And by the looks of things, it's bad." Lucy giggled, covering her mouth.

Levy laid her head on the table, trying to hide her blush.

"Oi shrimp, are you running a fever?" Gajeel's rough voice boomed above her. His large hand descended on the back of her head and lifted it up, ruffling her already wild hair even further.

Levy let out a squeak and fell backwards onto the floor, "I-I'm fine!" she stuttered, scrambling to her feet, "I have to…I have to do things!" she gasped out and nearly sprinted out of the guild as fast as her short legs could carry her. Tears sprang unbidden to her eyes as she ran back to her dorm room in Fairy Hills. She opened the door to her room quickly and went inside, shutting and locking the door behind her.

'Great! Just great!' she said in her head, 'he would laugh in my face if he knew. Why does my heart have to be so weird?!' she tugged at her light blue locks, furiously biting her lip until she broke the soft skin. She winced slightly and sucked on the sensitive tissue, crawling into bed, surrounded by her mountains of books. She laid there until three in the morning and then she dragged herself out of bed and into a hot shower. She stood under the nearly scalding spray and scrubbed herself until she was pink skinned. She blushed again as she washed her hair, remembering his light touch on her scalp. She shook off the feeling and got out, staring at herself in a mirror. Small breasts and wide hips…that's what she had to offer. She briefly wondered if Gajeel preferred bigger breasts to smaller. She shook her head quickly and ran a hand through her locks, "I'm being silly…snap out of it Levy." She crossed her room to her dresser and grabbed a pair of panties, pink and white striped with a little pink bow on the front. She pulled on a long gray t-shirt that served a mini dress of sorts because of her short stature and promptly crawled back into bed and passed out.