Okay, here's a nice little one-shot for you guys in wich a lot happens in a very small amount of writing.

This is mostly about Gajeel and Juvia's friendship (I can't resist) but it also contains some Gruvia and a lot of Gale, especially near the end :)

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail is owned by the ever-so-amazing Hiro Mashima, and not me (sobs)

Let's Calm Down and Talk

I need to talk to you. Meet me at Magnolia Park. Now. Please.

Juvia stared down at her glowing text lacrima in the darkness. And stared for a few more seconds before shaking her head and thinking. The whole text itself sounded unusually urgent, but the word please stuck out to her like a sore thumb. Gajeel never said please to anyone, ever. If he was texting it to her at 3 in the morning, then something happened, and she really did need to meet him right away. Juvia glanced over at her sleeping Gray-sama before rolling out of their bed as silently as she could.

"Cmm beck ta bedd Juviuh..." Gray mumbled, half-asleep. Juvia slipped on a coat and walked back over to him.

"Juvia needs to go for a moment, Gray-sama, but she promises everything is fine. She'll be back soon." Juvia leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "Love you."

Gray responded with snores and Juvia left the room.

Outside, Magnolia was covered with snow. It was March, a little late for snow, but Juvia had no qualms with it. Snow was just ice after all, and ice was Gray-sama, but she wasn't really thinking about that right now. Instead her head was running in circles over what could possibly be wrong with her oldest friend. Was he hurt? No, Lilly would have taken him to the guild's infirmary if it was really that bad. Maybe Gajeel had gotten in a really bad fight with Levy? No, he couldn't have been back from his latest mission for more than a few minutes and at 3am, that wasn't really enough time for a full-blown argument.

Just as Juvia's imagination ran wild and she started to panic, she arrived at Magnolia park. There was Gajeel, sitting on a bench under the giant tree, not wearing a coat. Juvia momentarily forgot that he had texted her and and she trudged over to her friend, leaving a trail through the snow behind her.

"Gajeel-kun!" She exclaimed. "Why aren't you wearing a coat? It's not even 30 degrees out here, you're going to freeze!" Juvia scolded. "Juvia has told you a million times, that if Gajeel-kun is going to put himself in death's way on every mission he takes, the least he can do for Juvia is take better care of himself on normal days!" Juvia plopped down next to the Dragonslayer. "Honestly, Gajeel-kun, Juvia doesn't…" Juvia trailed off, because it was then that Juvia noticed exactly how Gajeel was sitting. He was slumped forward with his elbows on his knees, and instead of his usual glare, his face was blank.

"Gajeel-kun?" Juvia asked seriously. "Gajeel-kun. Are you-"

"Levy's pregnant." He said. His voice lacked any emotion whatsoever. He sounded dead. Juvia's eyes widened. Oh. Oh. It took a second for it to sink in, but once it did, Juvia didn't really see the problem. Even if Gajeel would never admit it, Juvia was pretty sure he'd eventually want some kid to be proud of. She was aware that Gajeel and Levy weren't married; that might cause some talk, but not for the people that actually mattered, and Gajeel and Levy had been together for years. Juvia was kind of sheepish to admit it, but she (and everyone else) kind of figured that Gajeel and Levy's first child would be an accident. Cana actually had a betting pool on it.

Juvia bit the inside of her lip to hold back her smile at the thought of little children running around the guild. She would be an aunt. "So…" She started solemnly. "Who's the Father?"

Gajeel's head snapped up at this, and his expression was absolutely livid. "Damnit Juvia, this isn't the time to be joking around!"

Juvia placed a delicate hand over her lips. "Of course. Juvia is sorry." She took a deep breath. "So what's the problem?" She asked calmly.

"I just told you, Rainwoman! Shrimp. Is. Pregnant. As in, there's a kid inside her! My kid. What the hell am I gonna do?"

Juvia sighed and put her arms around Gajeel, letting his head rest on her shoulder. He let out a shaking breath and she put a soothing hand on the back of his neck. She didn't like seeing him this weak. "I'm fucked." he growled out.

"No you're not." Juvia said. "Everything is going to be fine, Gajeel-kun is just upset because it was a shock." They sat like that in the snow for a few minutes until Juvia felt Gajeel had calmed down.

"What does Levy-chan think about this whole thing?" Juvia asked quietly, angling her head so that it was towards his ear. Not that she had to, he would have heard her anyway. But the Dragonslayer did not respond. "Gajeel-kun?"

"I kinda don't know." he said. He kept his head on her shoulder, avoiding her face.

Juvia's eyes narrowed. "What do you mean you don't know?" Juvia asked. "Didn't you talk to her?"

He didn't reply. "Gajeel-kun!" The water-mage said sharply, pulling up her friend's head so he was at eye level with her. "What. Do you mean. 'You don't know?'"

"I kind of freaked out when she told me." he said. Apparently he was going to give her the smallest amount of information possible. She glared at him, and he flinched marginally. "I didn't really talk to her about it." He let out. "I...might have just...leftwithoutsayinganything." He said the last part all in a rush, but Juvia heard it perfectly fine, even without Dragon-slayer ears. "Gajeel" Juvia growled. "What were you thinking!?" Gajeel tried to look away, but Juvia grabbed his chin between her fingers and thumb and forced his to meet her gaze. When Juvia dropped the honorific, he knew she meant business. "Levy-chan is probably terrified! You just left without saying anything!?" Juvia's eye twitched as she tried to contain her boiling rage. "She's so vulnerable right now, and she was probably already worried about your reaction, and you left without saying anything? What is wrong with you? Levy probably thinks that you're leaving her! Because of the pregnancy! Or is Gajeel-kun too dense to even consider what she must be going through?"

"Levy knows better than that." Gajeel told her.

"Not when she's like this she doesn't! Gajeel-kun doesn't understand how cold he can seem sometimes does he? What else is she going to think in this situation?"

Gajeel's face fell. He looked genuinely hurt. "I'd never leave her." He said.

"Then go talk to her about it before she has an emotional breakdown!" Juvia let go of his face and pushed him to his feet." He started walking forward before breaking into a run towards the house he shared with his girlfriend. "And wear a coat next time!" Juvia called angrily after him. She couldn't believe what Gajeel had done. He really was an idiot sometimes. The rain-woman sighed and leaned back against the bench. Being angry always exhausted her, and it didn't help that is was almost four in the morning. It took a few minutes for her to notice just how cold she was getting. Her nose seemed frozen and she was sure her cheeks were rosy with the weather. Juvia yawned and stood up to walk back to her apartment and her Gray-sama. She really was excited for Levy's pregnancy. (not to mention she was pleased that Gajeel had chosen to talk to her about it.) She'd keep it a secret for as long as Gajeel and Levy wanted it so, but she was sure that the whole thing would make everyone happy once they both calmed down. After all, since when did babies fail to make anyone smile?

As she turned around a corner smiling at the thoughts of snow and babies, Juvia almost ran into none other than Gray Fullbuster, shirtless. What was it with the men in her life and their obsession with freezing to death?

"Gray-sama." Juvia said, surprised.

"Juvia. You didn't leave a note." Gray said, catching his breath. Apparently he'd been running. "I didn't know where you'd gone." His gaze hardened. "You always leave a note."

Juvia's eyes widened. "Ahh, Juvia is sorry, Gray-sama, but there was an emergency and Juvia had to go. She thought she told you she was leaving."

"If my eyes aren't open, then I'm not awake, and I'm not gonna hear you."

Juvia smiled slightly. "Juvia is sorry for worrying Gray-sama, but everything's fine now. Juvia's just kind of tired at this point. Does Gray-sama mind if we go home now and talk about this later?" she asked hopefully.

Gray sighed and turned to walk home. "Leave a note next time. Please. I get freaked out when you up and leave without saying anything, like you were hurt or something." That's how Levy-chan probably felt. Juvia thought. She was momentarily reminded of the idiocy of her friend but then she smiled. She knew that in her fiance's case, it was just his way of saying he cared.

"Gray-samaaa!" Juvia called and she ran to catch up with him. "Wait for Juvia! She's cold and she needs you to warm her up!"

"What am I supposed to do?" he asked irritably. He didn't like being woken up in the middle of the night, especially without a good reason.

"Juvia want's you to hold her." Juvia said simply, skipping up in front of Gray and standing in front of him.

"What?" The ice mage questioned.

Juvia smiled and threw her arms around Gray, kissing him briefly before pulling back. "Warm Juvia up, Gray-sama." she murmured, before running off home ahead of him. Gray stood there for a second before sprinting after her.

"Wait, Juvia!" He called and she sped up. "You better not fall asleep when we get home!"

Juvia laughed and ran through the falling snow, her one true love behind her and her friends on her mind. Her life was perfect, and she was happy.

Gajeel stood in front of his door. He hadn't really thought about what he was going to say. Did he even want the kid? He didn't need to think about the answer to that. Of course he wanted it, it was shrimp's kid. But what exactly were they gonna do about it? Even if he wanted it, he wasn't ready to be a dad. He'd probably be the worst dad ever and then Levy would leave him. That thought sent him back to his girlfriend, and Juvia's words.

Levy probably thinks that you're leaving her!

Gajeel opened the door and glanced around the living room. Levy was sitting on the couch, crying.

Damnit he made her cry.

"Levy." he said. She jumped just slightly when she heard his voice, resulting in a hiccup (that was absolutely NOT adorable because the Iron Dragonslayer did not notice adorable things) and she turned to face him. Her big brown eyes were overflowing with tears and her face was red from sobbing.

Why did he always manage to screw things up. If Juvia drowned him for this, he'd probably deserve it.

"Gajeel," she gasped, hurriedly wiping the tears from her eyes, as if that would make him think that she hadn't been crying. "I didn't see you come back." There was piercing silence for a few minutes, as Gajeel stood over her curled up on the couch with a box of tissues. "Sorry." Levy whispered. Gajeel's eye twitched.

"For what?" He let out, as calmly as possible.

"For- For all of this." Levy mumbled weakly. She looked as if she was about to cry again. "For letting this happen. I should have been more careful. I shouldn't be putting you through this when-"

"Stop." Levy looked up at the Dragonslayer with wide eyes. "Just STOP okay? Why the hell are you going on about this like it's all your fucking fault?" He yelled.

"I...I just.."

"It's not your fault? Okay? It's both of ours. It's our problem now to, and we're gonna have to deal with it! So don't try to take all the damn blame your-self!" Gajeel was breathing heavily through his nose now. Odd, how he could fight dragons without breaking a sweat but yelling at his girlfriend for 30 seconds left him winded.

"But...you don't like kids…" the bookworm said.

Gajeel breathed out. "No, I don't. But this is our kid. It's gonna be able to kick flame-brain's ass by the time it's three."

"You...ran off. When I told you." The solid-script mage murmured.

Gajeel ran a hand through his untamed black hair and plopped down next to her on the couch. "I freaked out, okay? Sorry. But you shoulda known not to drop a bombshell like that when I've been on a mission for the past goddamn week." It was quite, as it was before, if only slightly less painful. "How long have you known?"

"The night before you left for the mission. Lilly knew to."

"What?"

"He wasn't supposed to." Levy said quickly. "He came home before you and saw the test."

"Well, I'll give it to that damn exceed, he's good at keeping a secret. How far along?"

"Three weeks"

Gajeel sighed and covered his eyes with one hand. "Who else knows?"

"Umm...well...Lucy. So uh, probably Natsu too. And Happy...so…" Levy trailed off.

"Everyone."

"Probably, yeah."

"Tch. And Rain-woman thought she was gonna have to keep it a secret." Gajeel scoffed.

"Is that where you went earlier? To go see Juvia?" the smaller blunette asked curiously.

"Yeah. I needed to talk to someone who was… neutral, I guess, and she was the closest I could get. Plus she seems to know too much about all that kid stuff, not that she actually told me anything useful."

"What do you mean?"

"All she really did was calm me down just so she could yell at me and send me back here." The dragonslayer said.

"She yelled at you?" Levy asked, wide-eyed. She knew that it took a lot for the water mage to get angry at the people she cared about. She also knew that Juvia was very scary when she did yell.

"Yeah. She was pissed that I 'left while you were feelin all vulnerable' or somethin like that" The dragonslayer drawled.

Levy snuggled closer to Gajeel. "See, that's why I like her." Levy hesitated. "So, we're

okay?"

"Don't ask stupid questions." he said. Levy took that as a yes.

They sat the on the couch for a very long time, slowly drifting to sleep in each others arms. When Levy was almost out, she was shaken by a deep voice and a comforting rumbling in the chest that she lay against.

"I'm not gonna leave you, by the way. Ever. I can't believe you'd even think that. I thought you had more faith in me."

"I was freaking out to." Levy mumbled, still half-asleep. "Sorry"

"Yeah, that I'll let you be sorry for, Shrimp."

"I love you to Gajeel."

This is my second GajeelxJuvia bro fic, and in since in the first one Gajeel was the one to comfort Juvia, I decided to switch it up a bit. That's right, I live on the wild side.

This takes place in March, despite the snow, because I want Gajeel and Levy's babies to be born in December, so that was the latest I could push it. And they're having twins, a boy and a girl.

So yeah. I hope you enjoyed! It seems kind of rushed to me but please let me know what you think with some reviews, or if you have any suggestions on how I could improve :)

-Rain&Snow