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"Shrimp I got bad news?" hearing Gajeel of all people call while she was relaxing at home and say that he had bad news to share was a surefire way for Levy's day to go sour.

"What is it? Is Wendy okay? Are you okay?" Levy asked, afraid the bad news was that one of the Mavell-Redfox siblings was hurt.

"Nothing like that Shrimp, we're fine calm down," Gajeel answered before saying what the news was. "I have to cancel our date tomorrow."

"What? Why?" Levy asked. They hardly ever canceled the dates they had planned, they always carefully planned them to make sure nothing would come up and interrupt them, but something clearly came up for Gajeel for him to cancel, the question though was what.

"Lily got called in on a case and Shagotte had to go out of town for something work related so they can't watch Wendy tomorrow night. Juvia is on duty and our cousins already have plans so I have no one to watch Wendy," Gajeel explained.

"Oh, I see. Guess it can't be helped then," Levy bit back a sigh, trying to hide her disappointment. Both of them had been so busy lately that they haven't seen each other in a couple of weeks, this date was suppose to finally allow them to spend some time with each other.

'But Wendy can't and shouldn't be left alone just because I want to have some time with her brother. I would call Lily if she was ever left alone, not that Gajeel would even think of doing that.'

"Sorry Shrimp, I know you were looking forward to tomorrow," Gajeel started to apologize but Levy cut in.

"There's no need to apologize Gajeel really. It's not your fault and besides, we can reschedule," Levy assured him. She was thrown off when she heard Gajeel muttered 'screw it' and spoke again and proposed an idea.

"Forget that, how about we just meet at my place instead." It took a few seconds to understand what he was trying to say.

"You want to have our date at your home?" Levy had been to his shop before but had she never gone upstairs to the apartment where Gajeel and Wendy lived. Hearing him inviting her to his home and safe haven for his baby sister understandingly surprised her.

"Why not? I can whip something up and we can finally see each other in person instead of talking on the phone. That is if you don't mind having Wendy there to join?"

"No! Of course not! It's a great idea." Levy quickly reassured.

"Alright! So we're back on for tomorrow then. Come over around 6 and I'll let you in."

"Sure. I'll see you tomorrow then Gajeel."

"Yep. See ya then Shrimp." With that Gajeel hanged up and Levy took a moment to process and understand the fact that she'll be going over to his apartment and spending the evening there.

'Oh boy. What did I just get myself into?'


The next evening Levy found herself standing outside Gajeel's shop. She looked up at the windows at the upper levels, knowing that Gajeel was up there.

'He said to come around 6 and he'll let me in, does that mean he'll let me in the apartment or the building itself?... I should probably check to see if the door is lock.' With that in mind Levy reached for the door handle. She met empty air inside when the door opened from the other side.

"Natsu?" Levy looked at said man, bemused by his sudden appearance.

"Hey Levy. Metal Head said you were coming over for dinner," Natsu said with his trademark grin.

"Are you staying?" Levy had thought it was suppose to be just her and Gajeel, and Wendy and didn't he say that their cousins had plans already?

"Nope, I'm heading out to see Lucy. I was just closing up the shop for him." Natsu answered, his grin never leaving his face.

"Oh right, you work here as a glassblower."

"Yep. So you coming in or what?" Natsu suddenly asked, reminding Levy why she was here.

"Oh right!" Natsu stepped aside to let her in. Once in Levy looked around the small lobby, it was small and had a few chairs but had a large, glass cabinet with the guy's creations of glass and metal locked inside, rest of the floor that made up the shop laid behind a counter, where they interact with the customers, was the work area and all the equipment needed to work with metal and glass for Natsu.

"So how do I get up to the apartment?" sure she's been to the shop plenty of times, Gajeel even gave her tour of the work area, but she never could find anything that would lead to the upper floors.

"Follow me." Natsu waved his hand in the 'follow me' motion and made his way through the work area. Levy followed him, careful not to bump into anything. When they made it to the other side Natsu led Levy to a couple of doors.

"Isn't this where you guys store all the metal, ores, and materials?"

"These ones yes, but this one," Natsu opened one of the doors, took a couple of steps, he then suddenly turned to the side and pulled open the wall that was actually a door. "Leads right to the apartment."

Levy was astonished at the fact that there was a secret door in this building and that it was the way to the apartment. "How's that always been there?"

"Yeah but it used to be more in the open, but when we helped Gajeel renovated the building when he bought he turned the doorway into a hidden door. Said that if someone was stupid enough to try and rob the shop they wouldn't or at least have a harder time making it to the apartment because they couldn't figure out how to get up there. Personally I think he's paranoid, but then again I know he just think about Wendy's safety."

Natsu's eyes soften at the mention of his youngest cousin. Like Gajeel he also loved the little girl almost to fault to the point where he'd pick a fight a little kid if they were picking on her.

Levy was about to thank him when Natsu suddenly stuck his head through the doorway, looked up the staircase and yelled.

"Hey Metal Head! Levy's here!" they heard a muffled yell from somewhere above but were able to hear.

"Just send her up then instead of yelling in my home and business Salamander!" Natsu ignored him and turned back to Levy.

"You heard him, just head up those stairs and you'll reach the apartment."

"Thanks, and have a good time with Lucy." Levy thanked him as she started to make her way up the spiral staircase.

"Is that a question or an order? Because it's always good to spend time with Lucy, except for certain times of the month."

"Don't make me tell Lucy what you just said." Levy warned him. Natsu eeped and dashed out. Levy laughed as she continued her way up till she reached another door. "That explains why his voice was muffled." Levy reached towards the handle but stopped, unsure if she should knock or go right in. 'Gajeel knows I'm here thanks to Natsu, but that's not exactly permission to into someone's home.' Before Levy could figure out what to do the door once more was opened for her from the other side.

"Hi Levy!" Wendy greeted before hugging her legs.

"Hello Wendy." Levy greeted back as she returned the hug. It only lasted a second before Wendy started pulling her in.

"You're just in time, dinner's almost ready." As they stepped in Levy looked around their home. It was more spacious and open then she thought it'd be, it was basically a loft. Most of the room was like a large living room, Levy saw a large, worn but comfy looking couch against one side of the room, a bookshelf next to it which Levy planned on browsing later, a guitar on the other side, various examples of Gajeel's work decorated the place, there was a large TV mounted on a custom-made TV stand no doubt by him since it was made of metal, and placed between the TV and the couch was a…

"Is that a kotatsu?" Levy had read about the low table frames with heavy blankets placed between the table and heat source but had never seen one before, especially since they're not common in this part of the world.

"Built it myself Shrimp. It was cheaper than having one shipped here, freaking trying to rip me off." Levy turned to other side of the room to see a decent size kitchen and a large bar counter and bar chairs on the side facing towards the room that divided it from rest of the room, and at the stove was Gajeel. "Too hot to use its heater right now since it's still summer but it's great in the winter. Wendy also loves it. Usually find her napping in the blanket."

"It's warm and comfy," Wendy added as she led Levy to the kitchen area.

"No argument there Baby Blue. Anyway hope you're hungry Shrimp, but if not more for me then," Gajeel picked up a large heatproof bowl and set it on the bar counter. Levy and Wendy came to other side, climbing up the bar chairs to actually get a look, and peered inside the bowel. It was some sort of pasta dish but had bits of meat in it instead of sausages, the noodles were fettuccine, and sprinkled all over were grated cheese and basil leaves. Whatever this dish was it looked and smelled great.

"What is this?" Levy finally just asked.

"Beef and tomato ragu, but without the red wine since Wendy's eating it."

"Well it looks great none the less."

"We usually have pizza on Fridays but Gajeel really wanted to impress you with his cooking," Wendy suddenly said.

"Oi, oi! Keep that up and no dessert for you Wen," Gajeel warned as he turned away to hide the blush that was forming and grabbed a bowl full of crusty bread.

"No fair! You can't do that!" Wendy protested.

"I can and I will if you keep that up." Wendy pouted but didn't say anymore. Levy was struggling to hold back the laugh that was building up from that exchange. She coughed to get rid of the laugh that was lodged in her throat before speaking.

"Did you make the bread too?"

"Hell no. I can cook just about anything but when it comes to baking I can't bake for sh-crap," he stumbled over the last words in a attempt to keep his language somewhat clean around his baby sister, something Levy curiously noted.

'So he can filter that mouth of his… Sort of.'

"But you mentioned dessert?" Levy pointed out.

"Just some ice cream in the freezer, nothing fancy," he answered as he set a plate and fork in front of her. "Help yourself." Levy then realized there was a pasta ladle next to the bowl.

"Thank you." She went ahead and filled her plate, once she did Gajeel then filled two more plates and setting one of them in front of Wendy before coming around the counter and taking a seat next to Levy. Only then did it occur to her that there wasn't a dining table in the apartment. "No dining table?"

Gajeel just shrugged his shoulders. "No point in having one since it's just me and Baby Blue and no one comes up to the apartment but our cousins, Juvia, Lily and his girls but never for meals."

"I get that." She really did since she lived by herself she mostly either ate on the way out or on her coffee table or desk. "So how are things? How's Wendy first weeks at first grade going?"

They all fell into conversation that went from Wendy's school, to Gajeel and Levy's work projects from the last couple of weeks, and just random topics that came to mind.

Eventually they all finished, with Gajeel helping himself to seconds and Levy sneaking a little more herself, and were moving on to dessert.

"Dinner was delicious. You should have opened a restaurant instead," Levy complimented as Gajeel opened the fridge's freezer.

"I don't enjoy cooking that much, if I did I would've taken Mira's job offer at her restaurant when I retired from the force," Gajeel answered, taking several ice cream containers out. "Plus cooking for just myself or for a bunch of people is a pain the a-butt."

As he set the containers down Levy suddenly realized that she didn't know what was going to happen after dessert. Gajeel invited her for dinner for their date but did he have something else planned or was she supposed to leave after this? She didn't want to overstay her welcome, especially since it was her first time in his apartment.

Levy decided to just ask. "Hey Gajeel, what's the plan after ice cream?" Gajeel looked surprised by the question, then thoughtful. "You didn't have plan."

"Nope." He admitted. "Well I-" a large clap of thunder suddenly rang out, it was so loud and unexpected that everyone jumped. "The hell!"

Another thunderclap followed seconds after the first one. Wendy let out a frighten whine and Levy instinctively hugged the little girl to her as Gajeel went to the window.

"Shit, it's a summer storm."

"What?" Levy hopped down from her seat, picked up Wendy from hers and carried her as she made her way over to Gajeel. She headed Wendy over to her big brother before looking out the window and sure enough it was pouring rain and in the distances she saw a lighting bolt streak across the sky with another loud thunder clap following seconds later. "The weather report said it was suppose to be just a shower."

"Showers don't rain sideways or having chances of lighting accompanying them?" Gajeel grumbled as he hugged Wendy, trying to comfort her as she buried her head against his neck and hair. "At least this answers your question."

"It does?" Levy looked at him, her confusion clear on her face.

"Yep, you're staying the night."

"What?!" she wasn't suppose to stay the night, they're still dating and only for a few months at that, it was too soon for her to be staying the night over. "Gajeel there's no need for that, the drive to my apartment isn't that far." Gajeel looked at her as if she was crazy.

"You insane Shrimp? Do you not see the lighting storm outside?" he pointed out the window to the worsening storm. "I don't care if you lived across the street there is no way I'm letting you go out in that. This is how people die."

Levy knew he was right, it was not safe to be driving out in this storm but the thought of staying the night was spending her brain into overdrive.

"But I don't have anything to sleep in, or a place to sleep," Levy tried to counter with excuses she knew were pathetic.

"I have clothes you can wear for the night and I can take couch while you take my bed." The thought of sleeping in his bed didn't help her at all.

"I don't want to take your bed," she protested. Another thunderclap rang out following a distressed cry from Wendy bringing both their attentions to her, breaking their argument.

"We'll figure out sleeping arrangements later but you are staying here, that is not up to debate," Gajeel was so adamant about it that Levy finally agreed, she honestly didn't feel safe going out in that storm anyway.

'But's what's going to happen now?'


Several hours have past since the storm started. The first half-hour was spent calming Wendy down, once she was Gajeel left Levy in charge of her while he made sure the apartment and the shop was locked up and secured. The rest of the time was spent just passing the time; Gajeel played his guitar that helped to drown out the thunder, it cheered Wendy up and gave Levy a chance to hear his guitar play which was pretty good as long as he didn't try to sing at the same time, browsed through the TV channels to see if anything good was on, and they even got back to the ice cream they were originally going to eat.

Now they sat at the kotatsu, Gajeel and Wendy on side facing the couch and Levy on the side, watching a movie they found playing. Well Levy and Gajeel were watching, Wendy fell asleep and was now sleeping under the heavy, star-patterned blanket.

Levy was getting into the movie when Gajeel suddenly asked her.

"Why didn't you want to stay?" Levy was still for a second as she realized that Gajeel had just asked her a question, one she didn't know how to explain.

"I just didn't want to overstay my welcome," she said, hoping that would be enough. The stare she got said otherwise.

"Levy even I can tell that there's more to it than just worrying about being a good guest. Spill." Levy sighed when she realized Gajeel was not going to let this go.

"Okay. I'm guess I'm just… nervous about staying the night since we're been dating for only a few months now. I mean we've known each other longer than that but again we only started dating almost three months ago and I'm not sure that's long enough to be spending the night together." She tried to explain the best she could.

"Why? You'd think I'd try and do something to you? Especially with Wendy here?" Gajeel asked, his face calm but Levy saw the quick flash of hurt before he hid it.

'He thinks that I'm afraid he'd try something like that? I wasn't trying to say that at all! I know he would never do or make me do something I wasn't comfortable with or ready for!'

"No, no! That's not what I meant!" Levy waved her arms in a panic manner, trying to reassure Gajeel that she wasn't afraid or uncomfortable around him. "I meant to say that I never spent the night at a guy's house before, not once even when I dated other guys before. Well with Jet and Droy I have stayed over but we grew up together, they're like my brothers so it's not the same. You're different, but in a good way if that make sense. I was nervous but not because of you but because…" she tried off, not sure how to continue.

"You never spent the night with someone you're involved with before and have no ideal what to do," Gajeel said in understanding, the blank face gone and a reassuring smirk took its place.

"Exactly." Levy couldn't help but smile that he understood what she was trying to say.

"Well remember it was suppose to be just a dinner, didn't plan on that storm. Shitty weather reports are never right."

"That's true, for both." Gajeel let out a short laugh. He opened his mouth to say something then closed it just as quickly, when Levy looked at him curiously though he seemed to change his mind again.

"If it makes you feel better Shrimp you're the first… to stay over, for dinner and the night. First girl that wasn't Juvia or Carla anyway."

"Really? You never invited over any of the girls you've dated?"

He shrugged nonchalantly. "Never really had an interest in dating. Living under a fake identity for a living made it easier not to and when Wendy came along I had to be careful more than ever with who I involved in my life. Have been forced on a few blind dates, thanks to Mira, but none of them stayed or lasted long enough for me to ever introduce Wendy to them let alone invite them over to where we live."

Levy was genuinely surprised by this admission, she knew he was he wasn't the most approachable man but she also know how much the 'bad boy' image can attract women too. Then again most women who tend to go for that aren't seeking a long-term relationship and if Gajeel was ever interested in someone he had to be sure they were right for not just him but for Wendy as well.

It suddenly hit Levy that she wasn't just the first girl to be invited over, she was also the first to still be dating him long enough to have meet Wendy, the most important person in the world to him and who's safety he put above all others even his own. Being invited over was a huge step for not just her but to Gajeel as well for it showed just how much he trusts her now.

Levy stood up suddenly, Gajeel watched her wondering what she was up too but his eyes grew wide the next second when she sat next to him, tucked herself under the blanket, and leaned against him while holding his arm.

"Thank you." She didn't say what exactly she was thanking him for but he had a feeling it was for more than one thing. His eyes soften as he wrapped his arm around her and drew her even closer to him.

"What are you thanking me for? I just wanted an excuse to see ya."

"And what exactly was the excuse?" a pause. Then a curse when he realized he unwitting admitted that he just wanted to see her, even inviting her over was his idea in the first place not hers.

"Well despite whatever excuse you'll eventually come up with," Gajeel opened his mouth to retort but stopped when she said. "I'm glad we did this. I missed you."

Gajeel smiled despite himself and hugged her.

"Same here Lev."


Levy didn't want to get up; she was so comfy and still at the point where she could go back into deep sleep, but the sun was shining directly into her face and preventing her from doing so. She made to turn over away from the light but something was keeping her pinned down on her side. She groggy opened her eyes, managing to free a hand to block the sun and as she looked around she realized several things at once; she wasn't in her bedroom or a bed, a large arm with several piercings in the forearm was wrapped around her, and the same arm was pinning her not just on her side but against the chest of a sleeping Gajeel.

'We fell asleep here?' sure enough they were still in the loft area, sleeping in the kotatsu blanket. 'Glad Gajeel brought out the cushions or else my back would be killing me right now.'

She tried to wiggle when she felt something moved against her. She paused, fearing what it could be, before looking down. Somehow when they feel asleep in each others arms, Wendy had made her way between them was sleeping on her back with one hand holding on to Levy's shirt and her head buried into Gajeel's stomach.

Levy couldn't help but internally coo at the sight. Levy laid there for a few seconds, trying to figure out if she should stay in this embrace and try to go back to sleep or get up-

'Was that a camera flash?'

Levy looked up over the table and saw Natsu and Lucy with their phones out taking pictures of the scene in front of them.

"What are you guys doing here?" Levy demanded, she forget to keep her voice down however and awoke the man that was sleeping besides her.

"Huh?" Gajeel mumbled, looking around with barely opened eyes. But the second he saw Natsu with his phone out he was wide-awake. "Salamander. If you value your life you'll give me that phone. Right. Now."

"No way! I got some great pics. Plus Lucy got some too," Natsu said with a smirk which fell when Gajeel let go of Levy, sprung to his on his feet and leapt over the kotatsu. "AH! Run Luc!"

The two made a break down the stairs with Gajeel hot on their heels but Levy heard Lucy yell. "You are so giving me details later Levy!"

Levy stared at the door for a good ten seconds before she felt a tug on her shirt. She looked down to see Wendy looking up at her, rubbing one eye while the other was half opened.

"Where'd Big Brother go?"

"He went after Natsu. Something about shoving his head and cell phone into the furnace."

"Oh. Okay." Then she just fell against Levy, fast asleep with a hand still gripping her shirt. Levy, seeing as how she had no idea when Gajeel would be back, followed her lead. She lay back down, pulled the blanket over them and fell back asleep.

A short time later Gajeel came back up and when he saw Wendy sleeping in Levy's arms he'd never been more envious of his baby sister then he was right now.

"Wendy, that's suppose to be me."


First official prompt of Gajevy Week! Yeah! As mentioned in Differences the following prompts are going to take place during the time Levy and Gajeel were dating and the months after Levy moves in and officially become a couple, but they will be out of order. Example, this prompt takes place a few months after they started dating while Council will take place around a month after she moves and Song will take place back to when they were dating. Wanted to make that clear now to avoid future confusion. Details in each prompt will have help to tell when they take place but I also plan to put up a list that shows when they all take place in chronological order if you guys want. Anyway hope you enjoy this one and you'll enjoy what's to come for the rest of the week.