Author: I was waiting for my beta-reader to edit the second chapter but after all the alerts that this fanfic got I can't wait anymore so…here it is! The third chapter and I have good news for all of you who read this: I haven't got a writer's block yet! So wish me good luck! As you all know this isn't mine, Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima. If they were mine NaLu would never be so popular. However, thank you, minna-san, for waiting, for the reviews and for the alerts… Thank you all for making me so happy.

Chapter III – Give them up

The next morning was full of surprise. Firstly she woke up with Gajeel as pillow. How have they ended that way? How could Lucy give up so easily? She had said she was going to forget about them and their little night together and… when Gajeel came to give Lucy her book, Lucy couldn't stand the urge to kiss him and to sleep with him… She was a slut!

The key user looked at Gajeel chest, he was strong and handsome and somehow he had been careful with her. He wasn't a monster or something like that so it was normal for her to fall for him.

"What are you looking at?" His red gaze was sparkling with joy and amusement "There is something you like?"

"Why did I sleep with you again?" Her question was stupid, they hadn't slept together, they just caressed each other "I mean…Why I fall again?"

"You started this time and there wasn't alcohol to blame."

"I just…when I saw you I felt funny inside of my chest." It was true; there was a shot within her chest that forced Lucy to kiss Gajeel.

"Well, if you don't want to admit that you want this to happen it's ok for me…"

"Wait!" The dragon slayer was trying to get up but Lucy's hand held his forearm "I…Don't leave me yet…"

"Why do you want me to leave? You don't know why you slept with me."

"Then leave and don't come back!" She shouted with her pink cheeks and Gajeel laughed amused because of her split behaviour.

Lucy sat between his legs and sighed with relief because Gajeel was going to stay with her even if she didn't know why would her want him to stay. They kept silence until a knock in the door made the blonde to get up and open the door…there wasn't anyone, just a letter on the floor. She recognized the symbol… She ripped it without open it. She didn't need that right now.

"Who was it?" Gajeel asked.

"Nobody, don't worry." Lucy threw the pieces and jumped again in Gajeel's arms. "I'm going to have a shower"

And that is all Gajeel needed to get up and took the pieces of the letter. It was just three words and a symbol very well-known. It was the Magic Council. "Give them up". Give up what? They could be anything… But what want the magic council with Lucy? She wasn't any special nor her magic was strong enough to be an exceptional mage…she was just Lucy and she was always the damsel in distress in Fairy Tail! Last time, Natsu had saved her from him…this time was Gajeel's turn to save the girl.

"Lucy!" Like usually the fire dragon slayer got into Lucy's flat without permission but he didn't know that he was going to meet Gajeel in her bed…and he was naked "What are you doing here? Are you a stalker stripper like that sick Popsicle?"

"Can't you read the air?" Gajeel used the bed sheets so Natsu couldn't see more that he would "Or you're too dense to notice what happened?"

"How you dare?" To complete destiny's prank, Lucy came out with a towel over her body "Lucy! What is he doing here?"

"He slept with me, it's quite obvious" At least she didn't try to hide the fact that they had slept together.

"You never let me sleep with you!" Gajeel growled and took Natsu by his scarf.

"If you try to sleep with my woman, I'm going to kill you so painfully that you're going to shit on your pants!" Whoa, Natsu shouldn't touch Lucy again because Gajeel's face supported his affirmation.

"You two…stop it right now. Blood is difficult to clean." She tried to convince them to stop their stupid dispute.

They didn't stop and Lucy grew tired of them and went to the guild, she wasn't sure if they was going to destroy her room while they were fighting. Sometimes guys could be so difficult. What she didn't expect to see was a Magic Council carriage in front of the guild's door. What were they doing there? She prayed that they weren't there for Erza again. The ex-quip woman hadn't done anything and her relationship with Jellal wasn't known for anyone but their teams.

"Miss Heartfilia" A frog-looking woman approached to her and did a light bow "We are here to talk to you about…your keys"

"My keys are mine and I'm not going to give them up even if you order me to." Lucy said and entered the guild where all gaze came to her.

"Are you ok, Lucy-chan?" Master was sitting on the bar with Mira and his grandson Laxus who smirked to her "Are they troubling you?"

"They're been sending me letters so it was obvious they were going to show up sometime" She smiled and asked for a drink while the doors opened again "And they don't accepted a "no" as answer"

"Please, Miss Heartfilia, reconsider our need to have them well guarded" This time it wasn't the frog woman, it was a man with blond hair and grey eyes "Ten golden keys are too many for a mage like you"

They were whispering but Laxus had a great hearing and he could know what was going on with his woman and that jerk from the Magic Council. He didn't know that ten golden keys were too many; there were plenty of keys around the world, right?

"I had said no. They're my friends and I'm not giving them away to you" The blonde hissed very angry with the guy.

"What's going on here, mister…?" Makarov looked to the council guy with happy eyes "What business do you have with our Lucy?"

"This is a private business, Master Makarov. I'm Nero and I'm here to convince Miss Heartfilia to give up her golden keys or at least five of them."

"Why? They're only keys, stupid and weak keys" The blond dragon slayer just was defending his grandpa not that weak stellar spirit mage "I'm sure there're a lot of them to everyone"

"Excuse me, Mister Dreyar, but I'm sure you don't have enough brain to understand what is going on. There're only twelve golden keys and Miss Heartfilia has already ten." Nero shook his head and looked again to Lucy who was trying to escape from Laxus gaze "After all the Tenroujima affair, the Magic Council was very worried because your keys were disappeared as well as you and your spirits didn't want to accept others masters."

"Maybe is because I wasn't dead and they have a contract with me as long as I'm alive. You couldn't expect they broke their promises"

"We just want five of them... you don't have to give up all of them…just…five. Leo, Taurus, Scorpio, Capricorn and Virgo would be perfect." Lucy gasped and reached her keys, she wasn't going to accept that "Or maybe Leo, Taurus, Scorpio, Capricorn and Aquarius…you can choose freely."

"Like hell! No! I'm not going to let you have my keys and Loke is a member of this guild!" Nero tried to take Lucy by her arm, but soon he was knocked down by Laxus because he didn't like the way Nero's eyes spoke about his intention.

"Blondie had said she wasn't going to give you her keys, so leave now or I will kick your shitty ass out of this guild" He hadn't protect her, he hadn't defended her, he just wanted to fight with that Nero guy because he didn't let them drink peacefully. "And if I see you again, it won't be a punch."

Nero got up with his hand upon his nose, his eyes fuming while he went back a bit.

"This isn't over. You can't have so many golden keys because you're too weak to have even two keys and you…" He pointed to Laxus "You're going to pay for this too."

Makarov was just looking at his grandson and Lucy with interested eyes, Laxus hadn't protected anyone so fast and with such passion, not for something like the Magic Council trying to take away anything.

"Well done, Laxus. That is how you have to protect your guild and your family. Lucy, are you alright?" Lucy was a bit pale but alright and she nodded grabbing her keys strongly. "They're not going to take away your keys, don't worry. If they try, Laxus is going to protect you, right, Laxus?"

"Of course not, geezer! I just punched him because he was disturbing me!" Laxus walked away from them while Makarov was smirking because of his grandson reaction; maybe Lucy was his opportunity to be a good man again.

"Take good care of him, Lucy." But Lucy wasn't there. She was following Laxus outside the guild.