"Shrimp what the hell are ya doin'?" Gajeel asked looking across from his own cell into Levy's. She was currently fiddling with the lock of her cell, most likely picking it.
"What does it look like I am doing? Now stop talking to me the guards might hear you." Levy snapped back at him in some strange yell whisper. Gajeel stood up from the hard stone floor he was sitting on and moved to the front of the cell.
"Shrimp, we are going to be out in less than 12 hours, why are you trying to add more time to your sentence? Besides those locks aren't meant to be picked, there is no way in hell you are going to get it opened." Gajeel said to her. Levy turned her head back up to look at the longhaired man with a look that said "Stop fucking talking to me."
"Listen," she said as she continued to mess with the lock "I don't know about you but being the leader of my guild isn't the only thing that I do. If any of those other people see me in here I am going to be fucked. So please, I am begging you, stop talking to me-" Levy stopped midsentence as she heard her jail cell unlock and open. "Yes!" she said in her yell whisper again. She got down into a crouch and walked over to Gajeel's cell. He couldn't believe it; she got the damned lock opened without even breaking a sweat.
"That was amazing," Gajeel let slip out of his mouth. Levy slowly walked over to his cell on the other side.
"Thanks, I'm going to look around and see if I can find another lock pick. There is a latch that is in my cell I think we can get out of." Levy said moving around to the other tables and bags that were around.
"Wait, we?" Gajeel asked trying to push his head in between the bars so that he could see if Levy was having any luck. After she searched through about the 3rd bag she was able to find another 2 lock picks. She grabbed it and shot her hand up into the air in a victor pose.
"Well yeah," she started moving over to his cell "You helped calm me down on the carriage ride here, this is the less I can do for you…Unless you don't want me to get you out." She asked smirking at him. Gajeel thought for a moment, was it really worth breaking out over a small 12 hours? But it would make for a better story if he broke out.
With that thought, he pulled a lock pick out of his pocket, handing it to Levy.
"Fine Shrimp, get me out of here. I'll buy ya a drink when we get out of this town." He told her with a devilish smile on his face. Levy happily took the pick in her hands and started working on Gajeel's door.
"You got yourself a deal Black Steel," She told him, and with that the lock popped and the door swung on. "Okay come on, there is a latch in my cell that I think leads under the city." The two walked over into Levy's soon to be old cell, Levy began to work on the lock on the latch that was on the ground of her cell. Gajeel took note that she was sticking her tongue out in a very funny way as she worked on lock.
"So when you said that you do other things then just lead your guild, what did you mean? What else do you do?" Gajeel asked the small girl in front of him. Levy didn't say a word and just continued to work on the lock. Gajeel just assumed that she was having issues with the lock so she just decided to turn him out. After about 2 or 3 minutes of dead silence, Levy was able to pop on the latch.
"Ha! Told you I could get it opened." The two of them jumped down into what seemed to be a sewer of some kind, or maybe it was an underground tunnel network. Gajeel took note of the dead rotting smell that seemed to be coming from every corner of the damned room. The walked down two or three tunnels before Gajeel stopped the two.
"I think I can see a chest up there, that may be where the stored all of our things, let's check it out," Gajeel said pointing up to a staircase. The pair walked up to the chest that was barred offed and locked up.
"All of these locks, oh well. This one doesn't look too hard." Levy only needed to fiddle with this lock for a second or two before it unlocked itself. "Let's see if you were right," She said opening up the chest to reveal the two's weapons, portions, books, armor, and everything else the two brought with them to jail.
"See I told ya," Gajeel told the small girl grabbing at his armor and weapons. Levy did the same pulling out her Thieves Guild armor, dagger, bow, arrows, and books. Gajeel turned around trying to give Levy some privacy to change. Now Gajeel is the last person that you would call a gentleman that was for knights and kings, which he was either. But, he wasn't a wild animal; he knew when to let a woman have her time.
"How sweet of you." Levy said to his back "What are you afraid you might see my breasts?" she said with a small giggle. Gajeel made a low growling sound from deep in his throat.
"I am not afraid of ya, I just thought you would like to have some privacy," Gajeel told the smaller girl as he finished changing into his own armor. He heard Levy laugh again; he really wish she would stop doing that. For some reason whenever she laughed it made him break into a very large smile. He loved the sound of her voice, even when she only gave quick one-word answers he loved every syllable, every single sound that was in that one word, he cherished it.
"Okay you big softy, you can turn around now; I'm all done." Gajeel turned back around to see Levy was back in her normal wear, her dagger was at her side, and her bow and arrows were slung over her back. Gajeel hitched his sword and dagger to his side and walked forward to the smaller girl
"Alright then, you ready to go?" he asked. Levy gave him a small nod and began to walk on. Seeing a drop down back into the tunnels the pair takes it and finds that it leads to the guard barracks. As quiet as they can make themselves they walk through the social area of the barracks to find that no guards were around "Looks like it's our lucky day, Shrimp." Gajeel told her as they opened the door that lead to the Whiterun city edge. As soon as the door closed behind them the pair made a run for it, not stopping until they were far past the stables and until they both ran out of breath.
They stopped under a small tree and sat down on the ground, and began to laugh. Either of them knew what brought this on, maybe it was nerves, maybe it was the adrenaline pumping through their bodies, or maybe it was from just plain old happiest that they got out with their lives. "I can not believe that worked," Levy said through giggles and short breaths of air.
"Yeah I know," Gajeel answered back. "You earned that drink for sure, Shrimp." Levy pulled out her map and opened it in front of them. She placed it on the ground and started to look over it to see where the two were. As she was leaning over however Gajeel saw a very large amulet dangling from around her neck, he knew that amulet far too well; it was the amulet of Mara. "You lookin' to get married?" he asked the small girl. Gajeel saw a small blush go across Levy's face as she grabbed onto the amulet.
"I-I um…Yeah, I guess I am. I've gotten a couple of people in the guild to ask me to marry them, but they just aren't right. Guess I'm just doomed to wear this thing forever." She answered with a small giggle.
"Don't worry," Gajeel said looking through his bag "I got the same issue." He finished pulling out his own amulet of Mara. Levy's eye grew big, and then she looked away very quickly. ]
"I wouldn't have placed you for someone who would want to marry," She said to him. As if to avoid talking about the subject any more she moved to talking about where they were going "Okay I think if we walk to Rorikstead that should be far enough away for us to relax. You can buy me that drink you owe me, and we can get a couple of rooms to get some sleep in." Levy said smiling over at him
"Gee-hee, sure thing Levy. And maybe we can talk more about of love issues."" Gajeel said smiling back at her. The pair stood up and started to walk in the decoration of Rorikstead.
"Yeah, I would like that."
A/N: Thank you for all of your kind words! I am really happy that everyone is loving this story. I had a lot of fun writing this and I hope you guys love it as much as I do. Part 3 coming soon!
