Gray was on his hands and knees on Juvia's bed, with her in between him. He was already half naked and so was Juvia, but there was something, off. "Uh, Gray darling. I'm sorry, I can't do this." "Huh, why not?" "Because of what happened, earlier." Gray had entirely forgotten about that. Of course she wouldn't be able to do this now, he'll just have to wait. Idiot! Gray thought to himself. How could you forget about that?! God Gray, you're so selfish!
"Oh, right! I forgot about that! Sorry Juvia." He climbed off of her and back into his chair.
"No, you don't have to get off the bed, I don't want to do...it but," Juvia started blushing again
"I want to, cuddle." Juvia had steam coming out of her ears. Crap, Juvia! Juvia scolded herself. He's never going to do that! Why would you even ask? "Uh, sure." What? He got back into bed with her and hugged her into his chest.
Juvia was so relaxed in his arms that she fell right asleep, and Gray did the same.

"Gray?" Juvia woke up in a small, dark room "Where am I? Gray?" Suddenly, some lights turned on in the room. "Well, hello there pretty lady." No. That voice sounded all to familiar. "Remember me? The one who stripped
you of your pride, and your clothes." He chuckled "I might, just do that again." "No! Leave me alone! Gray! Gray!" "Juvia? Juvia? Juvia!" Juvia woke up crying "Gray." She started crying some more. Gray quickly hugged her and comforted her. He couldn't imagine what she must be going through, first she gets severely injured,
then he makes her feel bad by blaming himself, then she gets raped. And who knows what could happen next. And all he could do was sit there and comfort her, as if it was doing something.

"Juvia?" Lisana walked into Juvia's house and saw her cuddled up with Gray, him cradling her in his arms. Juvia opened one eye, once Lisana knew she was awake she said "Didn't mean to intrude carry on." "Stop right there Strauss. What do you need?" "I just came to check in on you, and it looks like your doing fine." Just then, Gray woke up from the noise "She's not doing fine at all Lis, and you know it."
"I know Gray but, I had hopes." "Huh?" Gray looked down at Juvia and sighed. She realized what he meant, yesterday, the incident. The rape.
"Oh." Juvia said quietly. There was a long silence. "Hey!" Lisana said, breaking the silence "You get to go back to work tomorrow!" Hearing Lisana say that word, work. Gray cringed. Juvia, going back to work, if she did, she could very well die this time, she got lucky last time. But, if he didn't go with her, she wouldn't push herself this time, after all, it was his fault the first time. And he still felt guilty.
"Oh yeah!" Juvia exclaimed, she looked at Gray, who looked like he just witnessed a murder. "Hey, you ok Gray?" Lisana asked. Juvia looked a Lisana and shook her head. She knew that he still felt guilty. "Gray, stop it." "Stop what? "Feeling guilty, it's not your fault, no matter how much you want it to be, it's not." She put her forehead against his "Please, just, stop." Gray saw the tears that started to build up in her eyes. "I can't" he said "I can't stop feeling like I did this to you, or that, I could've done something to prevent this, and I was just being lazy."
"Loving this little moment you guys are having, but there's another reason I'm here." Lisana said "You see, you got a couple people worried when you didn't come to the guild yesterday, and they weren't happy with my explanation." Juvia and Gray looked out th window. "Oh my god!" Juvia exclaimed. The whole guild was waiting outside for Juvia. "Uh, should we go down there?" Gray asked "I kinda wanna stay her for a while." Juvia said, laying back into bed. "Ok." Gray said "But-" "I said 'ok'" Gray said to Lisana.