Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail! Only thing i do own is my character Vivian and that is it.


I honestly wished I could say that my first week living with the guild was uneventful but sadly it wasn't. With the earthquake that had hit and damaged the guilds headquarters Mirajane and Master. Who I eventually learned name was Makarov; had put me right to work. For the first 3 days I had been working nonstop to help rebuild the right side of the guild. Being the 'fresh meat' seemed to have made me a popular person, everyone in the guild knew who I was, where as I barley even knew their faces. Let alone their names. So there were a lot of very awkward conversations.

I sighed, sitting down at the bar as I gulped down a cold glass of water that Mirajane had set down in front of me; she smiled warmly watching me with her blue eyes, "So have you found a place to stay yet?" she asked sliding another glass of water forward, I snagged it quickly gulping down the cold liquid before I shook my head, I had no money nor a way to get money so why would I have a place? Out of everyone in the Guild Mirajane and her brother Elfman were the main two i spoke with or hung around. Both were very open and caring, although Elfman was a bit...weird from time to time with his 'man' stuff.

"No, to be honest I haven't even bothered looking." I mumbled glancing up, Mirajane blinked shock evident on her face as she tried to find her tongue again and let mind catch up. I learned quickly that she was a very caring person trying to look out for everyone in the guild. I could also tell that whoever it was that had passed during the earthquake was upsetting her greatly but she never let it show. You could see it from time to time, something akin to grief flashing through her eyes. She was tough though, not letting it stop her.

"Where have you been sleeping?" she asked cautiously, almost as if she was afraid of the answer.

I shrugged my shoulders; I knew very well where I had sleeping. In the forest like I normally did with the tribe. It just felt like home to me, even though this forest was very much different from the one i had grown up in. Mirajane frowned, obviously not liking my lack of answer. As she glanced up and around the guild before her eyes landed on a blonde girl. The stellar spirit mage if i wasn't wrong, i had unfortunately heard a lot of things about her, just like i had unfortunately seen more of Gray the ice mage than i did ever care to see. Which also resulted in the water mage Juvia glaring at me calling me her love rival.

"Lucy, can you come here for a moment?" She yelled over the construction and banging of hammers, the girl looked back confused but nodded as she jogged over away from the small group of people she had been with. Which contained a nude Gray and his wife fainting. She glanced curiously between Mirajane and myself before sitting in the stool beside me.

"What's up?" She asked her brown eyes open and questioning. Mirajane smiled and came to the other side of the bar leaning down on her hands. "Vivian here needs a place to stay do you know anywhere that's renting?" she asked kindly, I guess Lucy was the person to go for rentals then?

Lucy smiled looking over to me with a large smile, "You're the new girl right? Nice to meet you I'm Lucy." She held out her hand as I reached out and shook it. She seemed like a nice friendly girl; Lucy then turned back to Mirajane and sighed leaning back into her seat slightly, her skirt riding up a bit.

"To be honest, there is a small apartment by my place that's come open for rent. I could talk to the landlord for you if you want?" She asked glancing over at me again. I paused but slowly nodded my head. If having a house was the human thing to do then i wanted to have my own place.

"There is one problem." I found myself saying, Both Lucy and Mirajane looked over their eyes puzzled, "I got no income how can I pay this rent that everyone keeps freaking out about?" Lucy laughed and nodded her head before patting my shoulder gently.

"Don't worry, before Natsu and I got married I was in the same boat. You need to just join a team and go on some jobs. Each job will give you rent money; it's fairly easy." Lucy replied before pushing herself free from the bar stool as I heard a baby behind us start to wail loudly followed soon after by Natsu one of the dragon slayers trying to unsuccessfully calm the little girl down. Lucy sighed and waved goodbye to Mirajane and I before taking off to save her husband. I watched her go for a moment, before I turned back to where Mirajane was still perched, "So how do I join a team?" I asked openly, this was the first time i heard anything about there even being teams.

This caused Mirajane to frown and I almost regretted asking, she sighed glancing over my head around the bar, "Well, You could probably join Gajeel and Lily however I haven't seen him since the earthquake. His wife, Levy she died leaving him with their 5 year old daughter." She paused sucking in a deep breath; I could see the tears brimming her eyes. Let's just say if I was a wolf; my ears would have been flat against my head in sadness.

"I'm worried about Gajeel to be honest but I can't go over to their place and check on him. If I were to give you a basket of food could you possibly take it over to him?" she asked hesitantly, some kind of look flashing before her eyes but gone a second later before i could process it. I hesitated but slowly nodded my head; I wasn't really a social person. No let me rephrase that, I was a social person I just didn't know proper social protocol, "Yeah I guess I could. I would need his address."

Mirajane beamed, smiling brightly. "Okay just wait here." She hurried off then quickly getting together a basket of food, and desserts and god knows what else. Once she was done she came back over setting the basket down on the bar with a slight clunk and pulled out a bunch of pieces of paper, "This is a job from the board I've been meaning to give to Gajeel, He needs to get out of that house it's not healthy for him to be there."

I nodded taking the piece of paper from her and quickly tucking it into my pocket, "Makes sense it's been what like two weeks since the earthquake?"

"Yeah and I've only seen him at the funeral. Tell him I'm sending you to join him team and this job needs to be done… He umm well he may seem a little rude, just don't let him push you around okay?" Mirajane looked worried for a moment, uncertainty floating in her eyes.

"Yeah sure no problem, Gajeel…isn't he the other dragon slayer I've heard about? I met Wendy and I've seen Natsu." I questioned raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah he's the last. He's the Iron dragon slayer, Lily is his exceed like Happy over there." Mirajane pointed out, I couldn't help but glance over at the blue cat that was floating around Natsu's head at the moment. I nodded my head glancing back at Mirajane who slid over a small map and a note.

"Just follow this map and it will lead you to his place. Remember get him out of the house." She said smiling. I just nodded my head pulling the basket off the bar and the map and note before turning leaving the guild.

Finding this man's house was a bit harder than I expected, i didn't know this city all too well and i found myself more than once walking in the opposite direction. The map Mirajane had given me looked more like a child's drawing than a real map but it wasn't too hard in the end. So this guy, Gajeel was mourning his dead wife, okay that's not so bad. Getting him out of the house should be fairly easy. Natsu and Wendy were both really easy going people, perhaps this Gajeel would be the same.

I paused outside looking up at a house about 15 minutes later and back down on the map. Looked like I was in the right place but then again... it was a simple large red bricked house. Much like a lot of others in the neighborhood, I sighed gulping in a deep breath before walking up the stairs and knocking on the thick wooden door. Nothing. I paused listening, I couldn't hear anything, but then again the street was fairly noisy. I knocked again this time harder, that's when I heard the soft pad of a feet and locks click as the door was pulled open by...another floating cat.

"Yes?" The small cat asked in a deep rumbling voice, an eyebrow raised curiously. I hesitated my mind totally blanking for a moment as I looked down at the basket.

"Sorry, Umm Mirajane sent me over? This is for Gajeel? she said I was to join his uhhhh Team?" I sounded like a goddamn child but then again I was nervous. This cat was looking at me as I was insane for a moment before he looked down at the note and map in my hand.

"Can I see that for a moment?" He asked gesturing to the note. I nodded handing it over, still not totally getting that I was talking to a cat. A cat of all things! I shouldn't have been to surprised the wolves from my tribe spoke English, its how i learned so why not cats. Lily, or who I was assuming as Lily, nodded his head before he opened the door for me allowing me to walk into the dark hallway.

"Sorry, this is really a bad time but I know how Mirajane gets. What's your name? I haven't seen you around the guild before." Lily asked kindly glancing up at me as he dropped down standing on the floor in front of me.

"Yeah I heard about his wife, I'm sorry. I just joined about a week ago; my name is Vivian." I said smiling, it felt better to introduce myself. That's when I heard it a dark deadly growl echo from my right; Lily rolled his eyes as I looked up slightly startled by the noise. Before me leaning against a doorframe stood a very tall and well muscular man, I probably only came up to his chest, height wise and i stood at about 5'6. He was fairly tanned with red eyes, dark hair and multiple piercings decorated his face and bare arms.

"You're NOT replacing her." He snarled, glaring at me with a malice I didn't even think was possible. I couldn't stop the responding growl that echoed throughout my chest, he raised a pierced eyebrow slightly obviously hearing my warning growl. Surprise flickering through his eyes for a moment before that malice once again took hold.

"Gajeel, she isn't trying to replace Levy. Look Mirajane sent her over with a note will you at least read it?" Lily argued glaring back at the man, hell he even flew over arms crossed angrily, "You have been pouting and moping around for like 2 weeks of course people are going to worry. Hell I'm worried." he just about yelled at the mans face.

Gajeel didn't once take his eyes off mine as Lily argued in his face, I didn't like this man. He was rude and unlike the other Slayers he obviously wasn't a too social person. I could hear his heart beating heavily in his chest and hear the slightly rumble in his throat as he tried to suppress a growl, but what was catching the most was the grief that was glowing just behind the malice in this man's eyes. Gajeel was the first to break eye contact snatching the note from Lily and quickly scanning it over before tossing it off to the side, "I'm not interested. Get out."

This was the man I was supposed to team up with? This rude arrogant asshole? I got his wife had just died but if this was how he treated people it was no wonder why no one came to check on him sooner.

"Look, I get your wife just died and I'm sorry and all for your loss and all, But Mirajane sent me over here to check on you and to join your stupid ass team so I could perhaps pay rent. You know what if you're going to be this much of an asshole, fuck it. I don't need your help I`m fine sleeping in the forest." I snarled turning ripping the door open slamming it behind me. Next thing I knew I was running, I always ran when I was upset or anger and right now for some reason I was both. I knew when I came here that someone was going to reject me. I knew it would happen, but I still wasn't mentally prepared for it. The anger that was pumping through my body made my skin itch wanting to shift into my wolf form but I couldn't here, I didn't trust myself. I knew how I would act around other wolves but around humans this was something totally knew. I don't know how long I ran for, pretty much till my legs started burning and by then I was already fairly deep in the forest, I sighed breathing in a deep breath. The smell of tree's, soil and animals filled my senses.

'you need to go back' that little voice in the back of my mind said. I knew it was right I had to go back, but what I would tell them? 'The truth.' It spoke it again. I sighed again grumbling, turning back towards town and slowly made my way back. It took a lot longer to get back than it did to get out there, then again i wasn't really trying. The sun was now setting as I made my way through the doors to the guild. That's when it hit me, that scent of wood fire and iron. The same scent that Gajeel had. I looked up sharply seeing him watching me, his red eyes watching me before he turned his attention back at Mirajane who was waving me over.

Ah hell, great I should have known better. I walked over my feet aching slightly as I pulled out the stool beside Gajeel avoiding his gaze. Mirajane frowned but looked over at me with concern, "You okay? You've been gone a long time. " She asked kindly.

I nodded my head, scratching the back of my head, "Yeah sorry I had to go for a run."

Mirajane nodded her head as she glanced at Gajeel, "I'll leave you two to it." She said before she gathered a small platter of drinks and started to do her rounds. Silenced filled the small bubble around us before Gajeel growled again looking over, "So you want to go on that job?" he grumbled reluctantly.

I blinked looking up, he didn't look too pleased with this but I had a feeling if he didn't agree to what Mirajane was asked she would have done something to him. I heard stories about Mira being the Demon. Never seen it but heard a few people within the guild to know it wasn't just stories people made up. Apparently this one time Natsu refused to something she asked and she ended up pining him to the very top flag on the Guilds headquarters.

"What about your daughter?" i asked, still not amused with his attitude.

Gajeel shrugged his large shoulders, "Mirajane and Juvia said they can watch her, plus she has the whole guild here." I hesitated watching him, he knew nothing about me and I knew nothing about him and we were supposed to go on a 5 day trip? What the fuck had I gotten myself into.

"Sure."


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