Here's the new chapter, I hope someone is still interested...I haven't really kept my promise but I thought I would have less work to do for my Masters. Rate and Review. I don't own anything, Fairy Tail and all its characters belong to Hiro Mashima.

Note: Peoples thoughts are in Italics

The morning started out like any other. Birds were chirping, the sun was shinning and books could be heard falling to the floor as she stirred. Yes today looked just like any other day but it wasn't. Today was probably the most important day in Levy McGarden's life. Today her dream of opening a publishing house and filling young children's minds with knowledge and instilling in them the same love she held for literature would finally become a reality. If only she didn't have to work with a certain someone to achieve this then everything would be perfect. But alas life is never fair, especially not to her when it comes to matters regarding he who shall not be named.

"No! I will not let that ass ruin my day! Not today! I will just ignore him!"- and with that plan in mind Levy got up to finally start this almost perfect day.


Meanwhile somewhere else across Magnolia Gajeel Redfox was pacing around in his room. He didn't know if he should be happy or sad about his latest predicament. He was going to work with Levy, LEVY! He was going to spend most of his days with her, share an office, talk to her about literature which always kept her happy and he was going to be able to keep those stupid suitors of her away.

"Maybe I can start a rumour about the two of us. That should keep them at bay! NO no no no! What the hell are you thinking Redfox she already hates your guts! Do you wanna make this worse? And now I am talking to myself! Great! See what she does to me!"

These thoughts had been through his had since a week ago when his father had told him about the project and how he was going to have to work with Levy. Gajeel was ecstatic at first. He thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to apologise and maybe straighten things out. So with that in mind he was more that eager to get started. The next couple of days following that he made some plans about expenses, and how much investment they would need. How much time it would take for them to actually start to make some profit to send to the schools and so on. So when Thursday came and his father told him they were going to the McGardens for dinner Gajeel felt more than ready to fix things with Levy. And it blew up in his face!

When they arrived Levy was still upstairs in her room and his sister decided to join her until dinner was ready. Traitor! So he kept making small talk to her parents until the two ladies finally decided to show up. His sister went and followed Mrs Benson to the kitchen probably to try and steal some cookies or something, while Levy came to greet his father and as expected completely ignored him. So being the brave man he is Gajeel obviously decided to approach her first.

"Good evening Levy. How are you today? I heard from my sister that you were not well these past few days."

Giving him a side glare Levy simply responded with "Fine Mr Redfox. You?"

Taken aback by her tone and sudden formality Gajeel could only muster a "fine" under his breath.

"Will you excuse me now Mr Redfox I shall go spend some time with Wendy after all I am not mature enough to hang around you!"

"I didn't mean it like that. Look Levy I'm s.."

"I know very well what you meant and the only reason I am talking to you is because I do not want your sister and your father to be upset! So from now on please refer to me as Miss McGarden and try not to talk to me unless absolutely necessary. Understood! Oh and Mr Redfox I know what I am and how I look like but that does not mean that I appreciate to be spoken to like that!"

As he watched her walk away he kept thinking- Dammit! She cannot believe that! I am an idiot, not only she's never going to forgive me but she actually fucking believed my words. I really don't deserve her. Okay, okay Gajeel think, there's gotta be a way to make her understand how beautiful she is. She's never going to believe you saying it. Dammit! I have to figure something out! I hope this work thing at least gets her to talk to me like normal! Sigh!

A throat clearing shook Gajeel out of his musing and he started to follow his father into the dinning room. Great! They sat her right in front of me, now she's going to be even more pissed!

"So Gajeel, your father told me about how well you did with the Crocus office. I remember that place was close to bankruptcy."- said Levy's father.

"Thank you sir. Yes it was difficult but I had a lot of experienced people helping me and that made it a lot easier."

"I'm sure you are just being modest Gajeel! Right Metallicana? You told us he has great instincts."- Levy's mother winked at him. She was always so supportive and nice. I wonder if she would be still be nice to me if she knew what I said to her daughter!

"Mary don't say things like that it will go straight to the boys head!"

"Well I think, everyone needs some praise every once in a while! Besides this is going to be perfect. Gajeel is definitely going to get the publishing house up and running in no time!"

That got Levy's attention "Excuse me! What did you say mother?"

"Oh I forgot we hadn't told you yet honey. Gajeel is going to be your partner in this venture."

"I thought you were going to shadow your father?" - she hissed at him.

"Well, he decided this would be a good thing for me."

"I hope you are not going to do this only as a hobby Mr Redfox, because to me this is extremely important!"

"I can assure you I won't Miss McGarden, after all the publishing house is going to be named after my mother so it is very dear to me too."

"My god you too! Why the sudden formality?" - Mary McGarden and everyone else in the room were thoroughly confused at this point. As much as, Gajeel and Levy fought they had always been close no formalities, even in high society gatherings so why now? Something is going on here!

"Well mother I um...I have to think of something quick...I decided to accept Mr Justine as a formal suitor so I thought it wouldn't be appropriate to refer to Mr Redfox by his first name anymore, since it might be misunderstood."

"Oh, you hadn't notified me of this Levy. And I don't think it's necessary to be so formal with Gajeel. I'm sure Mr Justine understands that."

"Well, I only decided today. And he kept asking about my relationship with Gajeel and I wouldn't want him to back down so I thought I'd start practising being formal."

"Oh, well in that case it's your choice dear! Although if he is to be your husband he should not have a problem with your friends. " - And if you think I believe you for a second you are mistaken!

Across the table Gajeel was shocked. He couldn't believe blondie had actually told him the truth for once. A part of him had hoped she was making things up as usual. But wait she said she decided today, maybe this is just an excuse?

After dinner they all gathered in the main living room to chat before the Redfoxes returned home for the night. So, Gajeel decided to try his luck once more.

"Ahem...Le...I mean Miss McGarden I know you do not wish to speak to me right now, but I wanted to ask. Is what you said tonight true?"

"Why do you care? Or do you want to make fun of me again? According to you no one will ever love me so I might as well go with one of those suitors of mine." What am I saying? I keep putting myself deeper into this mess! Oh well might as well allow Mr Justine to court me a bit more and then I can always say we weren't a match.

"Now if you will excuse me I am quite tired and I would like to retire to my room. I will see you on Monday at the office. We'll discuss how we're going to do this there."


Back to now. Gajeel kept wondering what she meant by those last words she told him that night. Maybe she just wants to discuss the business plan. As he made his way into the building he noticed a large queue outside what was supposed to be his office.

"You're late."

"Miss McGarden. Good morning. I'm not late."

"Yes you are! Working hours start at 8 not 9!"- she glared at him.

God she's cute when she's angry! "No they don't. I was told we start at 9 but lets not fight. I will be here at 8 every morning if that is what you want!"

"Fine! Now excuse me I have work to do."

"What's with the line of people outside my office?"

"You mean outside MY office, and they're our applicants."

"No that's my office. Look it has my name on the door. Also what applicants we haven't discussed anything yet."

"Well my name is on the door too so that means we have to share!" Great! Just what I need! "And I decided to make the announcement that we're looking for jobs."

"Without consulting me?"

"I didn't want to waste time!"

"You...I...Argh...Okay. Everybody OUT! We are not hiring at the moment?"

"What are you doing?"

"We need to discuss this. And whether you like me or not has nothing to do with the business. We're not going to discuss that night. We're going to pretend we don't know each other outside of work. I will only talk to you about business related things like you wanted. But we are going to talk and make decisions together, UNDERSTOOD?"

"Mind your tone. And fine come into my office!" Shit I yelled at her!

"You mean our office."

"So what do you have in mind?"

"Well first, we need to look at the books. See how much investment we have, I have already made some preliminary calculations. Removing the costs of the machineries and the building.. "

"Machineries?"

"Oh yeah I ordered some three printing machines and one binding one for now. They should arrive in two weeks. Until then we can look to hire people to handle them but for now we cannot afford more than four. And you're going to need to look for a writer willing to take a chance with us bookworm."

"Bookworm?"

"Oh sorry! Habit...where was I? Um yeah so you need to look for authors and we can try and print a few copies first and see how they sell. We should be able to break even by five months if things go as I expect. I'm going to use some of my connections to get the word out whenever we print something, so we should sell more. And then we should be able to hire more people and maybe get more machines and then make some profits for the donations."

"But what about editors?"

"We can't afford them right now. And they would demand a higher pay then normal workers, so for now we're going to have to do their job. I know you're good at literature...and I'll try my best with mine."

"Um...sure I mean I hope I can do a good job" Wow he's really put a lot of thought into this. Maybe I was a bit too mean to him...NO. Levy what are you thinking? You hate him!

"I'm sure you will so let's get started with organizing this place shall we...we can't afford cleaners either for now"

"You want to clean yourself?"

"Sure why now? Or are you afraid to get your dress dirty Milady...Gihi"

"Of course not! Let's get started!"

After an exhausting cleaning day Levy returned home wishing to just get a hot bath and go to bed. As she entered her room she spotted something on her bed. It was a present? There was an orange calla lily (her favourite) attached to a letter and a neatly wrapped package. It's probably from father!

To Miss Levy McGarden

I hope you enjoy your present and that I chose right. I wish I could see the smile

on your face when you open it but I guess my imagination will do.

Yours

A.

Who is A? Oh well lets open it! As she opened it she saw an intricate pattern on a book cover. Slowly she recognised it. OH MY GOD! It's a first edition of the Grimm's fairy tales! This is my favourite and so valuable! And these illustrations are so beautiful! Who is this person? It's not father...or mother...hmm...who could it be? That night Levy slept with the biggest smile on her face.

Here it is...I hope you like it. Also if you wanna know what a the lily looks like here's a link to a photo.