Chapter 2 now up, R&R please.


Gajeel looked over his shoulder at Levy; her she was sprawled out on her back in a way that looked so painful, and she was not moving. He ran to her and hovered his face over hers, trying to detect her breath; he then pressed two fingers to her neck, trying to find her pulse. When he found nothing, he started performing CPR on her; pressing down on her chest, and trying to help her breathe,

When Levy's eyes snapped open and she coughed, Gajeel's heart sank back to his chest, and he was able to breathe himself. "Gajeel," she whispered,

"Try not to talk Shrimp," he said; he gently lifted her head off of the ground so she could breathe easier, and inspected the burns on her chest; he moved his eyes over all the skin that was burned off by that blast, and she was starting to lose a lot of blood.

"Is she okay?" Laxus asked,

"She's hurt, badly," Gajeel snapped,

"I'm sorry," Laxus said, "I didn't mean to hurt her like that,"

"It's not your fault," Lucy said, "Right Gajeel?"

"Yeah, but I'm going to beat the shit out of his old man." Gajeel growled,

"I wouldn't mind if you did," Laxus said, bending down to look at Levy's wounds, "Let's get her out of here."

Gajeel picked Levy up bridal style and took her to the nearest hospital,

"You did a good thing bringing her here," the doctor said, "We'll take good care of her."

"Whatever," he grumbled.

That night, Pantherlily made dinner; a kiwi salad for himself, and steak for Gajeel with extra iron bits. "Gajeel," he called, "Dinner's on." When he didn't hear the iron dragon slayer's footsteps coming into the kitchen to get food, he padded up to his room, eating his dinner on the way up, "Gajeel," he said, peering into the door, "Are you okay?" he looked at the man sleeping in his bed, his eyes almost looking as if he had been crying for sometime. "Gajeel," Lily said, climbing onto his chest, "Wake up,"

"What?" Gajeel yawned,

"Dinner's on," he said, "I made your favorite."

"Not hungry," Gajeel said, "Now go away. I want to be left alone,"

"Well, I'll be back with it later, so don't wait too long." Lily said.

Dumb Cat, Gajeel thought, turning over in his bed so he was staring at a wall, He knows so much, but yet, so little. he fell asleep, once again feeling a sharp pain in his chest, right in his heart.


He stood there in the pouring rain, the rain cool against his skin; he stood on the grave to the only girl that ever forgave him for...anything. He fell to his knees and dug his palms into the fresh mud in front of the headstone, "No," he sobbed, tears rolling down his face, "LEVY!"

"NO!" Gajeel sat upright in his bed, a hand over his heart as he waited for it to stop beating to fast; when it did, he got up and went to the kitchen for some food, making sure not to wake Pantherlily as he slid out of the bed. Why did I have that dream? he asked himself as he poured a cup of coffee and got some iron from one of the boxes in the kitchen, I can't be falling in love with her, he sat down on the couch and looked out at the moon as he munched on a piece of iron, I just can't. He swallowed the iron in his mouth, and it landed in his stomach like a rock; he then took a sip of the bitter coffee and sighed, his mind asking over a hundred questions in five seconds.

"You're up early," Pantherlily yawned, "Everything okay?"

"Everything's fine," Gajeel snapped, "I just had some trouble sleeping,"

"You didn't seem to have any problems last night, you slept through dinner." Pantherlily said, hopping up to the window sill, "So what's going on?"

Gajeel looked down at the black exceed, he knew nothing will get past Pantherlily, not unless you bribe him with a kiwi or two. "I-" he sighed before taking another sip of coffee, "It's nothing," he lied,

"Seriously?" Pantherlily said, getting his own cup of coffee and putting sugar in it, "You say you have sleeping problems, you're not wolfing down your breakfast like you do every morning; what's going on?"

"It's nothing," Gajeel barked, "Jesus, can't you stay out of business? And take it easy on the sugar,"

Pantherlily looked at his coffee cup and the mound of white sugar starting to form on the surface of the dark brown liquid, "Oh well," he said; he got a spoon out and stirred in the sugar before taking a sip, only to spit it out onto Gajeel,

"This is why I drink mine plain," he said, taking another sip of his coffee,

Pantherlily took another sip and spat it out again, "Ugh," he groaned, "Too sweet!"

"Then don't drink it," Gajeel said,

"But it's so good," Pantherlily whined, taking several small sips before spitting it all over the wall,

"I'll be going out," Gajeel said getting up, "Please don't make a mess." he watched as Pantherlily spat out the sickeningly sweet coffee and went up to his room; he got dressed into his usual clothes and headed off to the hospital.


Please R&R, and I'll try to update soon.