This was a prompt on Tumblr from Silverinklett

"Shit!" What had originally been a red-eye flight for one Levy McGarden was being delayed until the next morning due to some malfunction in the landing gear, leaving her stuck overnight in a nearly deserted airport. Standing at the lone set of vending machines near her gate, Levy was mumbling to herself as she dug through her purse looking for some change, "Of course I don't have anything in here, Lucy must have taken all my quarters when she went to that arcade." Groaning and leaning her head against the machine that was holding all the delicious snacks her stomach was pining for, Levy jumped and nearly screamed when someone tapped her on the shoulder. With a hand over her heart, she immediately turned to the tall, muscular man whom she subsequently deemed to be too beautiful to be human as soon as she laid her eyes upon him.

"Sorry, didn't mean to scare ya, Shorty. Here," as he said that the strange man pushed his hand towards her holding several dollar bills, "noticed ya rummagin' through your purse and I figured ya couldn't find any change goin' by the pout on your face."

Levy wasn't sure how but he had red eyes accentuated by piercings all over his face that she just couldn't pull her gaze away from. She realized she had been staring for far longer than socially acceptable when he averted his eyes and his ears burned red. "I- uh, thanks…" As soon as she accepted the money his eyes were back upon her so she decided to turn and get something from the machine, she simply couldn't handle his eyes boring into hers without feeling like she would faint. "Levy by the way, not Shorty."

"Huh?"

"My name. It's Levy not Shorty." The old machine finally relinquished the bag of chips and she sighed, crouching down to pull them from the dispensing slot. Turning around smiling, a grin became plastered to his face and she quirked an eyebrow at him in question "What?"

"Nothin'. The name's Gajeel." As soon as he saw that smile on her face he knew he was hooked. This woman was going to be the death of him and he just had to know every aspect of her life before he died. "Are ya on flight 456, too?"

"Mhm, I'm trying to get back to Magnolia for my friend's wedding that's this weekend." Grabbing her carry-on that was leaning against the side of the machine, Levy moved to sit in one of the many chairs lined up in rows in the middle of the room. "Thanks again for the chips."

"No problem." Without even asking if she minded, he snatched up his own luggage and followed after her. "Your friend wouldn't happen to be Erza Scarlet, would she?"

"Uhh, yea actually. Do you know her?" Sitting in one of the chairs quietly munching on the chips, Gajeel plopped down in the chair right beside her. Although it seemed a little too intimate for complete strangers to be sitting so closely, Levy sure as hell wasn't going to complain.

"Nah, but Simon is a buddy of mine from high school. So what are ya doin' in Crocus?" While he spoke he pulled a water bottle out of a backpack and started to take a swig from it when Levy spoke again.

"Well I just finished my Master's degree in Linguistics at the university so now I'm heading back home." Gajeel nearly choked on his water and began having a coughing fit. Levy burst into giggles at his expense and Gajeel concluded that never in his life would he experience a sound as beautiful as her pealing laughter.

As soon as his throat was clear he spoke, "Your Master's?! You hardly look old enough to drink let alone have a Master's degree!"

"I'm 23 I'll have you know, so yes I can drink." She threw a chip at him, which he fumbled with when trying to catch it, to punctuate her statement.

"Still that's young, and linguistics? So how many languages can ya speak?"

"Fluently? Somewhere around 20 or 30, I lost count a long time ago. Enough about me though, why are you in Crocus?" During their conversation, both parties had subconsciously begun to lean into the other, leaving little space between them.

"Actually, this is about all I've seen of the place. I landed here this afternoon after a flight from Bosco, was there visitin' my old man."

Based on the slight grimace that touched his face when he spoke of his father, Levy decided they didn't know each other well enough to open up that door so she opted for changing the subject. "What's waiting in Magnolia?"

"Ugh, don't remind me," he groaned, "I live there for one, and I've got dorky siblings that get in way too much shit to be good for my health."

"How many siblings do you have?"

"Seven, even though we're not technically related we just kinda made a family of our own." With that said Gajeel went into story mode and started telling her hilarious stories of things Natsu or Sting had done just so he could hear the laughter that reminded him of tinkling bells which was accompanied by a shine in her eye that took his breath away.

At some point in the night Levy had the genius idea to pull out a laptop from one of her bags so they could watch a movie. While going through her library, neither could agree on a film until they spotted Pacific Rim. Now they were on the floor, leaning against luggage with the laptop set out in front of them.

An hour later and Levy was asleep with her head in Gajeel's lap. Once he realized she had dropped from exhaustion he closed up the laptop and slid it back into her things. Resigning himself to his fatigue, he let his chin fall to his chest while he ran a hand through Levy's hair and was happy to know it was as soft as it looked. In her sleep, Levy nuzzled her head into his touch and Gajeel was definitely ok with their flight delay.

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