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Morning came, and with it the awakening of a certain Slayer.

Gah, what the hell am I sleeping on?

Slowly cracking an eye open, he saw a head of bright blue hair, not before noticing the warm shape that seeming to be snuggled comfortably on him.

The fuck?!

Then he remembered the events of the day before, and turned slightly red at the thought. Gajeel didn't really know why he'd picked up the petite Script mage instead of moving. Well, he had a few ideas, only one of which put it down to being too tired to get up. The others that nagged at the back of his mind he refused point-blank to think about. There was still the problem at hand though. As much as he'd be perfectly content (although he'd deny it under torture and starvation) staying there with the Shrimp on his lap, people should be back soon. Heck, it was a miracle that no one had returned already. And he could just imagine the look on Lily's face, or that demon barmaid's. He shuddered at the thought. Although it would be fun to get a rise out of those guard dogs of hers. But two pissed-off weaklings were outweighed by a giggling Mira and jeers from Lily, so he had to move. Actually getting up was another matter. *déjà-vu, anyone?* Besides the fact that Levy was nestled quite contentedly against him, her book was about on the edge of the seat and looked about ready to fall off. If he reached forwards to grab it, it might fall and wake her. If he didn't do anything about it, as soon as he started to get up it would definitely fall off and wake her. Electing to try the safer option, he started to slowly reach forward. As his arm inched closer to the novel, Levy's head fell inwards, burying his face in her wild locks. His nose was suddenly filled with her scent, ink and parchment and lemongrass. Concentrate Gajeel! Vision still blocked by tangled curls, he made a blind grab for the tome. Miscalculating the force behind it, Gajeel suddenly found himself sprawled on the floor with a headache, Levy curled up in a ball underneath him. And then, just because apparently kami hadn't mocked him enough, the chair fell onto his head.


Sorting things out was easier after that, with Levy still blissfully asleep (her head had landed on the soft-cover book) and an empty guild. After righting the chair and propping her up on it, it looked just like she had been reading and fell asleep. Slightly relieved, he headed out of the building to get home. Hopefully Lily hadn't gotten back yet.


Levy awoke to the sounds of a bustling guild. Slightly disoriented, she opened her eyes to see that almost all of the guild members had returned from their missions, bringing with them the noise and energy that she had learned to love.

"Levy-chan!"

Looking around, Levy saw Lucy waving over to her. Her friend was sitting by herself at the bar. She walked over to the front of the room with a marginally dazed expression on her face.

"Hi Lu-chan, how did the mission go?"

Lucy sighed. "Well, everything was going perfectly fine until Natsu and Gray started arguing who had defeated more bandits. They destroyed half of the town before Happy said that they had both defeated the same amount. Then Gray said Happy was biased because he was Natsu's cat, and they started fighting again. It probably would have gotten even worse if they hadn't destroyed the cake shop Erza was eating in. We each only got 10,000 jewels reward, so we're going back out as soon as possible to pay my rent."

Levy sweatdropped. "Wow Lu-chan, your team certainly is…energetic."

"Well, I just wish they could put more of that energy into actually doing something useful. What did you do yesterday?"

Levy tried to remember the events of the day before. "Well, I picked up the new Kiara Thomas book from the bookstore, and then I came back to the guild to read it and-" She suddenly stopped, her face turning brighter than it had the day before. She had come back to the guild to read it and found Gajeel sitting in her chair, and eventually ended up reading. On. His. Lap. And then had fallen asleep there! If it was possible, her face turned redder. How had she forgotten? Why had she been alone this morning? Had anyone seen them? Oh, she hoped no one had seen them. That would not be good, not good at all. What would she do? More importantly, what would he do? Oh kamiohkamiohkamiohkami-

"Levy, are you alright?"

Abruptly snapped out of her thoughts, Levy tried to force some of the blood out of her face. "E-everything is fine Lu-chan, just fine," she stuttered, waving her hands in front of her friend's face.

"You don't look fine." Lucy grinned mischievously. "Did something ha~pen?"

"N-no!" Levy squeaked, sneaking a quick glance at the Slayer who occupied her thoughts. Unfortunately, this was not missed by her friend.

"O~h, so it was him? What was it?"

"N-nothing!"

"Doesn't sound like nothing."

"Lucy! We're heading off!" Natsu called from across the room. Lucy cursed silently before turning back to Levy.

"When I get back, you are telling me every. Little. Thing." she said determinedly, jabbing her finger. "Coming Natsu!"

Levy collapsed against her chair in relief. Ever since finding out about her crush on the Iron Slayer, Lucy had wanted to know every small detail that happened. She's turning into Mira, she thought. She couldn't even tease Lucy about her love life anymore now that she and Natsu were official. Sighing, she called over Mira to order a late breakfast.


Hours later, darkness had fallen once again, but festivities were only beginning. People laughed, and sang, and the occasional brawl was taken in stride. Jet and Droy had returned a few hours before, and since then had almost been attached to their third team member, giving her no time to herself. Levy didn't mind that much though, it was good to have her friends back. She was happy to talk with them. Soon however she felt fatigue overtaking her senses. Pushing aside her friends' offers to walk her home, she exited the guild to begin going to Fairy Hills.

The night air was cool and refreshing on her bare skin as Levy meandered slowly towards her apartment, taking her time. There was no need to rush. Her mind was relatively empty, so when she passed by Magnolia Park Levy did not notice the dark pair of eyes watching her from the shadows of the large central tree. She did not perceive the silent figure creeping up slowly at her back. Not until a rough hand grabbed her head from behind and turned her around did she see them, and she was too lost in terror to scream.

"Well hello little girl."


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