Title:- Boy Meets Girl
Pairings:- Gralu (Gray X Lucy) and Gale (Gajeel X Levy) ; AU
Author Note:-Sorry for updating for so long! My finals are finally over! This is a series inspired by Fairy Tail and Meg Cabot's novel "Boy Meets Girl". As I was reading the novel, I really thought that the lead characters fit Lucy and Gray perfectly! So, I set about the task and here is the result. For those who have read the novel, the main plot will be the same; however, the subplots are going to be a bit different. Please do review to tell me how it was. Now, here's chapter 2 !
Chapter 2
New York Journal Employee Incident Report
Name/Title of Reporter: Carl Hopkins, Security Officer
Date/Time of Incident: Wednesday, 1:30 p.m.
Place of Incident: Magnolia Journal Senior Staff Dining Room
Persons Involved in Incident: Midnight Fullbuster, legal counsel to the Magnolia Journal, 35
Ida Lopez, Craft Food Services dessert cart operator, Magnolia Journal, 64
Nature of Incident:
M. Fullbuster asked I. Lopez for more pie.
I. Lopez said No more pie.
M. Fullbuster said But I see the pie right there, give me some.
I. Lopez said No more pie for you.
M. Fullbuster said Why not?
I. Lopez said You know good and well why.
M. Fullbuster summoned Security.
Security gave him pie.
Follow-up: Incident recorded, sent to A. McHenry in Human Resources.
To: Lucy Heartfilia
Fr: Angel McHenry
Re: Ida Lopez
Lucy—
We've had another complaint about Ida Lopez, the dessert-cart operator in the senior-staff dining room. It appears the situation is getting worse. Today she categorically refused to give Midnight Fullbuster, of Fullbuster and Doyle, the paper's legal counsel, a piece of key lime pie. As you know, desserts in the senior-staff dining room are supposed to be unlimited. When questioned as to her reason behind refusing pie to Mr. Hertzog, Ms. Lopez replied, "He knows good and well." Mr. Hertzog, of course, hasn't got the slightest idea what she is talking about. He has never set eyes on the woman before today.
As Ms. Lopez is currently on disciplinary probation from her last, similar violation, I believe we can begin moving forward with termination paperwork. Therefore, please discontinue work on her disciplinary warning letter for last week's infraction and begin termination proceedings. Ms. Lopez should be informed no later than today at five o'clock that her services will no longer be required here at the Journal . Please see that Security escorts her to her locker and that she cleans it out thoroughly. Security is not to allow her out of their sight until her keys and employee ID have been confiscated, and she has left the building.
I have been informed by Food Craft Services management that Ida Lopez is inexplicably popular with junior members of the staff. Therefore it would be best if this case were not discussed outside the confines of the department. Please remember that personnel matters are confidential.
I will expect Ms. Lopez's termination paperwork on my desk no later than 3 p.m. today.
Angel McHenry
Director
Human Resources
The Magnolia Journal
To: Lucy Heartfilia
Fr: Droy Grabowksi
Re: Ida Lopez
Hey, Lucy, Ida's one of yours, right? If so, you've got to do whatever you can to get this pie thing with Hertzog straightened out. Ida is the lifeblood of the Magnolia Journal. Without her and her dessert cart, I for one will not be able to go on. And I think I speak for a lot of people here when I say if there's anybody who does not deserve pie, it is Midnight Fullbuster.
Counting on you, as the only human in Human Resources (not including Levy, of course) to Do the Right Thing—
D.
To: Lucy Heartfilia
Fr: Erika
Re: Ida Lopez
Say it isn't so! The rumor mill has it that Angel McHenry is asking for the head of our best baker on a silver platter. DON'T GIVE IT TO HER! WE NEED IDA'S CARROT CAKE! If possible, hooked into an IV and attached to my arm.
I mean it, Lucy, don't let them fire her.
Erika ;-)
To: Lucy Heartfilia
Fr: Erza Scarlet-Fernandez
Re: Ida Lopez
Dear Lucy,
I was in the senior staff room today when Ida Lopez refused to serve pie to Midnight Fullbuster, the paper's legal counsel. All I can say is, Mr. Fullbuster really was unforgivably rude to Mrs. Lopez, even before she refused to serve him—I mean, he acted like he had some kind of inalienable right to pie—and if you need me to make a sworn statement to that effect or anything, I would be willing to. Only please don't let them fire Mrs. Lopez . . . her strawberry cheesecakes are out of this world.
Sincerely,
Erza Scarlet-Fernandez
Features
The Magnolia Journal
To: Lucy Heartfilia
Fr: Laxus Dreyar
Re: Cookie Lady
Don't fire her. I mean it. Her gingersnaps is the only thing that keeps me sane around here. Besides Mountain Dew.
Laxus Dreyar
Managing Editor
The Magnolia Journal
To: Lucy Heartfilia
Fr: Jenny Realight
Re: That cafeteria lady
Darling, you simply can't let them get rid of that little dessert-cart person. Her low-fat yogurt muffins are to DIE FOR. I myself have had her cater numerous events, and have received nothing but compliments . . . her carrot cake is simply DIVINE (if not exactly easy for those of us doing the low-carb thing to resist).
And really, if you get rid of her, who are you going to get to replace her? Good help doesn't grow on trees, you know.
XXXOOO
Jenny
P.S. Thanks for helping to bail me out of that nasty little thing with Bacchus. Isn't it the pits when they go all John Hinckley on you? So glad he took that job with Newsweek, I can't even tell you! XXOO—C
To: Lucy Heartfilia
Fr: Levy Redfox
Re: Dessert Cart Lady
It is all over the building that the T.O.D. is going to give the Dessert Cart Lady the heave ho for not handing over a piece of pie to Fullbuster at lunch today.
Is this true?
L
To: Levy Redfox
Fr: Lucy Heartfilia
Re: Ida Lopez
It's true. The T.O.D. says *I* have got to fire her. Today. Levy, how am I supposed to fire that sweet old lady? This has to be a mistake. English isn't her first language. Maybe there was a misunderstanding. I mean, she always calls me dearie when she sees me in the hallway, and sneaks me chocolate chip cookies, even though as a new hire I am not even allowed in the senior staff dining room. Plus everyone—EVERYONE—at the paper loves her.
Everyone except Midnight Fullbuster, apparently.
But he's a lawyer. A LAWYER. What does that tell you about his abilities as a judge of character? Hmmm ?
Oh my God, I wish I had called in sick today.
Lucy
To: Lucy Heartfilia
Fr: Levy Redfox
Re: Dessert Cart Lady
Angel is such a bitch. You know she's totally in love with Fullbuster, right? Droy up in Computers says he saw them at Gardenia's last Saturday, with their tongues down each other's throats. I mean, she's all but picked out the china pattern. That's the only reason she gives a crap about Ida.
I wonder if she'll change her name when the time comes. If anyone deserves to be Mrs. Midnight Fullbuster, it's the T.O.D.
You know what I heard? Fullbuster has a cigar-store Indian in his office. He thinks just because he's a big shot in his daddy's firm—like his father before him, and his father before him, and so on—nobody's going to say anything about how un PC it is, or the fact that he's such a pedantic phony.
Maybe that's why Ida wouldn't give him pie.
All I have to say is, that suit he had on today had to cost three grand, easy. It was Armani.
But it doesn't matter how well he dresses, he'll still always look like Barney from The Flintstones.
Have you tried reasoning with the T.O.D.? I realize it probably won't work, but you can be pretty persuasive, when you bat those dark-brown eyes of yours.
L
To: Angel McHenry
Fr: Lucy Heartfilia
Re: Ida Lopez
Angel, are you really sure terminating Mrs. Lopez is the best idea? I mean, like you said, she is extremely popular with the staff. I have been inundated with e-mails from members of the staff—some of them senior members—asking that she not be let go.
It is possible that Mrs. Lopez might benefit from going through customer-service training again. Maybe if we go ahead with the written warning from last week's infraction, she'll straighten up.
Like you yourself said at last month's Staff Relations Committee meeting, termination represents not just a failure on the employee's part, but a failure on the part of her supervisor, as well!
Lucy
To: Lucy
Fr: Angel McHenry
Re: Ida Lopez
I sincerely hope you are not questioning my authority in this matter, Lucy. As someone who has less than a year of work here at the Journal under her belt, I would think the last thing you would want to do is question the actions of your direct supervisor—especially while you are still on employment probation. Ida Lopez has been a continuous problem at this company since the day she was hired.
My predecessor was not successful in getting rid of her, but I will be. This time, Ida's gone too far. I want to see a complete written transcript of your interaction with her this afternoon before you leave the office for the day.
Angel McHenry
Director
Human Resources
The Magnolia Journal
To: Levy Redfox
Fr: Lucy Heartfilia
Re: Ida Lopez
It's no good, the T.O.D. won't go for it. Oh, God, Levy. Poor Mrs. Lopez is coming down in ten minutes! What am I going to say to her? WHY did I have to be assigned the LZs? WHY?
Lucy
To: Lucy Heartfilia
Fr: Levy Redfox
Re: Dessert Cart Lady
That's it. We're going to Fairy Tail's for mojitos after work. Damn the hormones, I need a drink.
L
So, how do you think when Ms. Lopez will react when Lucy tells her about her being fired? To know, please wait for the next chapter. The email addresses of the employees will not be displayed(due to its rules).Don't forget to review! Every review is greatly appreciated. Flames will be ignored.
Signing off,
fairytailcelestialmage