Disengaging from his perch, Gray Surge watches his best friend and his girlfriend leave. When the last bit of her flaxen hair disappears through the doorway, he exhales a breath he didn't know he was holding.
"Lucy-san is terrifying." Gray comments with a shudder. His frightened, dark blue eyes calm significantly when they fall on his girlfriend.
However, Juvia Lockser is more interested looking at the space that one of her rivals had previously occupied than anything else. "If that blonde bimbo thinks she can upstage me, she is unaware of how wrong she is." The blue-haired woman mutters darkly.
Gray looks at her with a questioning gaze. "Is something wrong Juvia-chan?"
Said dark blue-eyed woman smiles softly at him. Almost too softly, like she's thinking of something particularly devious. Or erotic considering the way she's looking at him. "No." She says before pulling on his scarf. "There isn't." Closing the distance between them, she kisses him.
"How shameful." Cana comments, Gray giving a slight yelp as she takes a sip of her tea. "Take your vulgar display of affection elsewhere."
Juvia pulls away before smirking. Her eyes glint. "Oh, I plan to."
At the innuendo, Gray's face crimsons. Before he can respond though, Juvia is already dragging him out by his scarf.
"Honestly." Cana says. "You would think they would have better manners."
As her eyes survey the guild hall, her eyes nearly bulge out of their sockets as she sees Wendy making out with Romeo. And the fact that the latter is currently lacking a shirt.
"This is it!" Cana declares, brushing nonexistent debris from her skirt as she stands up. "First Natsu and Lucy, then it was Gray and Juvia, and now it's Romeo and Wendy!" She makes her way to the door, her cup of tea forgotten. "Perhaps Bacchus can provide some well-mannered company!"
Gray has his back pressed against Juvia's bedroom wall as the blue-haired woman kisses him. The affection coaxes a moan from the overdressed male.
"Got to get you out of these clothes." Juvia growls into his mouth before pulling away.
Gray looks at her as if she had just turned into water. "B-but it's cold Juvia-chan." He hugs his arms as much as his clothes would provide for emphasis.
"Don't worry about that.' Juvia smirks. "I'll be sure to warm you up."
At that, Gray blushes. "J-Juvia-chan."
Juvia starts with the scarf wrapped neatly around his neck. Thrusting it off, it falls to the floor.
Next, she starts taking off his various coats until all that is left is a simple, gray long-sleeved shirt.
Gray shivers as he shoves his mittened hands under his arms.
"J-Juvia-chan, can you turn up the heat?" He asks with a clatter of teeth.
He falters at the ardent look within his girlfriend's eyes.
"Oh," She purrs, placing a well-manicured nail on her lover's face before tracing it from his right cheek to his chin before cupping it. The action has the intended effect as Gray shudders, the amorous look in his girlfriend's eyes sparking into a bonfire in his own. "I plan on it."
Gray yelps when she begins taking off his last garment covering his chest. When it's gone, Juvia purses her lips as she runs a finger down the planes of her boyfriend's chest.
Gray opens his mouth to speak, but is silenced by the finger on his lips.
Wordlessly, Juvia takes his hands and strips them of his mittens before leading him over to her bed. Pushing him onto the bed, Juvia regards him with rare, unguarded eyes before she crouches down to wrench off his boots, socks, and various layers of pants until he is wearing only underwear.
Satisfied with a job nearly complete, Juvia leans down to seize Gray's lips with her own.
At first cold, Gray moves his hands to her back as he leans into the kiss. Taking no delay, he shifts their position so he is on top of her.
Peppering her neck and collarbone with kisses, Juvia feels her pulse accelerate and pleasure race through her as her thoughts become indistinct.
"This'll show that blonde." Juvia remarks with a gloating tone, oblivious to the words she had said; how they could be perverted and taken out of context.
And like a switch, Gray ceases his kissing as he looks at his lover.
"Gray, why did you stop?" She asks, the question tinged with ice.
"Juvia-chan." Gray begins and it's in that moment that the blue-haired woman notices the look of hurt on the man's face, his eyes almost brimming with tears. "Is this just about showing you're better than Lucy-san?"
The question feels like a physical slap.
It is it possible I'm somehow using Gray in a competition against Lucy? Juvia ponders.
However, as she stares into Gray's eyes and feels her walled-up heart skip a beat, she finds her answer immediately.
With a exquisitely uncommon tender smile on her countenance, she places a hand on his cheek.
"While I try to be better than Lucy," Juvia starts. "I love you Gray."
"Really?" Gray asks as he looks at her uncertainly.
The blue-haired woman laughs for a moment. "Really."
She leans up close to kiss her love. Doing the same, Gray kisses her with renewed intensity before they break apart.
"Now then," Juvia smirks as her eyes shine with barely restrained lust. "I think it's time to get rid of this underwear."
Fingering the garment, she watches as a grin stretches across Gray's face.
"Couldn't agree with you more."
And the two kiss, slow and passionate before sliding under the covers.
Originally Added: August 8th, 2016.