SUDDEN THOUGHTS
CHAPTER FOUR
Three days living in his house, Levy realized she had not eaten. She had not see the other mates or slayers, other than Wendy in days. As Levy translated she would give it to Wendy to cast it at the guild. When Wendy came she and Mest would bring pizza. Nothing was better than Antonio's pizza. The first day they were gone was the first day that Levy realized their place needed to be cleaned. When she needed a break she worked on cleaning. The third, she went shopping. Mostly because there was no human food. Woman could not live off kiwis or pizza alone. Off she went to go get groceries for when her boys got back.
The pages had gotten easier to work with after she had food. The contents made her worry. She was seeing a trend after each spell. A personal note to the short beloved one. Last entry was about the spell. This time it was talking about it the spells is not broken. He would be locked at that age. He would be forever fifteen. More disturbing was this note had a date on it.
Gajeel had said he remembered when his father wrote the book. The date on the page was almost seventy years ago. Gajeel's appearance made him look half that. It proved that the first gen slayers aged slower. If that was the case Levy knew she would die centuries before Gajeel did. Remembering how that nearly killed her father could she put Gajeel through that? Would he care? Did he care now?
She was not blind to the changes she had help bring out in him. Would the pain of losing his three closes friends drive revert him back to his Phantom Lord days? The idea of leaving him alone was even more frightening than staying with him while being an old woman and he look thirty still. Gajeel would have to watch her, Juvia and Lily waste away to nothing.
That was what she was thinking about on the third day. On the way back with her loot. Levy planned make them the biggest, best welcome home supper ever. At the same time she was concern about Gajeel. How would he react loosing Lily? Would he react at all for loosing Levy to death?
Without realizing it Gajeel blocked her path. He took the bags from her. To the ground they went. As he picked her up. "Damn you are fine." He said kissing her. It was not the kiss of an awkward teen. This was the kiss if a man that knew what he wanted. His hormones were driving him to revealing how he felt or was he just needing to be laid?
"Gajeel?"
"I left so I could clear my mind. You haunted it anyway." Inspite of herself Levy smiled. "When I am bigger I will show you what the dreams were about." She blushed at his voice become deeper. All of her dreams would come true. What about their nightmares?
"I have the next part of the spell done." He smiled placing his hand on her ass. Levy pulled the pages from her bag. As she read them Gajeel climbed the stairs to the bedroom designed for her. Lil' was on the first floor. Gajeel had moved his next to his office, while she had been out. On the third floor was a room filled with every dragon book he could find on walls lined with bookshelves. In the center of the room a canopy princess bed made of steel. Polished so it sparkled like she did with deep blues and browns bedding.
"So mate and be happy." To be honest he wasn't even listening to it. He felt his body fill out when Levy had to readjust the way she was in his arms.
"That is exactly what I want to do." Levy's jaw dropped. "Why so surprised?"
"I'm so small-" He kissed her to silence the negative thoughts.
"There is no one else in the world I want to be with more than my short Levy." He whispered into her lips. "Right now I want my short beloved Shrimp."
"What about Lil?" Gajeel checked there was no movement downstairs. "Why me?"
"Your my other half. Everything I love about you is everything I lack." He said love. "Yes, Shrimp I love you. I want to make mad love to you before making us dragon bound. Would you like that?" Levy pushed away from him. He let her fall to the ground. Looking around the room she saw he had made a cave for her. Just as the book described. He was doing all the steps of mating courtship.
Track the mates scent. Gajeel did it every time she was out of sight. Draw blood. He had done that while in Phantom Lord. Protect the mate's life. She looked back at him. There were more times than she could count. Build a cave for the mate and it was so gorgeous. Mate the mate. During the intercourse mark each other.
Dragons mate for life. Even if her life was shorter than his could she love him the way she wanted? "Levy?" Her eyes watering. As much as she wanted this, Levy had to leave him for his own good before they did something they couldn't change.
"Please Gajeel-" He thought she was saying yes. Using his speed he captured her, kissing her. She started pushing as him while crying. "As much as I want to I can't, Gajeel. I can't cause you that kind of pain." She ran from the room. "I do love you though."
He read the words in the letter to the beloved one. If she didn't finish the translation he would stay twenty five. He found her in his office. "I could stay with you this age. We could grow old together."
"No, you can't." She pulled away putting the chair between them.
"Why not shrimp?" Looking back at him, he saw the tears in her eyes. "Levy?"
"You are a dragon slayer. You will age slowly. I will be a bitter old woman of 98 and you will look like when we met. That is why I am enjoying having you around while I can. When the spell is fully reverse I am leaving." Gajeel stood shocked as she went back to her books to translate the next part.
"What if I am okay with you growing old?"
"I'm not." Her voice cracked. Gajeel fell to his knees next to her. To have a full life, kids and adventures only to leave him alone when her time was done.
"You said you wanted a miniature me to stay on your lap. I took that as you want to be with me as my mate. It would be our son on your lap." Levy's eyes closed. Water rolled down her face. "What has changed?"
"I have. This book showed me all I didn't realize. There is one more sections here. You are currently 75 years old. At minimum you are robbing the cradle. When I am that age I will be grey, wrinkled. I will look like your mother not your mate."
"Levy-"
"You are old enough to take care of yourself now. I will do the rest of the translations at home. I will have it done for the guild tomorrow." Gajeel grabbed her wrist. He couldn't let her leave. Having Levy in his daily life had given him more pleasure than he ever thought he deserved. Now she was taking that away.
"No."
"Gajeel-"
"You are not leaving."
"I can't stay anymore." Why was he making this so hard for her? He never showed affection before this why the 180 turn?
"I still need you. I probably will my whole life."
"Except we can't. You won't have me your whole life." She pulled herself away. Gajeel just watched her pack her bag. Before she left she kissed his cheek. "I will see you tomorrow." What was he going to do? Levy, his light, his heart was leaving him because of a mistake he made. Had he not read that book she wouldn't have figured out what he already knew.
"Gajeel?" He hadn't even noticed his best friend was even enter the room.
"I don't think I can fix this Lil. She has a point and it is causing her pain." Lily shifted forms and embraced his friend. "My father saw this coming. He told her what she didn't know. I have waited for her my whole life. Now she is gone."
Gajeel stared at her bed from the floor as the moon rose. The silver light reflected off the frame. He imagined she would run her hand down the rails. The gentle way she had touched it that afternoon as if it would shatter from her touch. Then she would move to the bookshelves. Tilting down the ones that she was going to read next. Just like he had seen at her apartment.
"Thank you for making this for me. I love this room, Gajeel." The ghostly version said. She knelt down between his legs. The short black nighty brushing against his skin. "This is the last thing I am going to do as a Fairy Tail member."
"Why are you back? You were so set on breaking my heart."
"I'm here to take payment from you for the work I was doing." He smiled. Dresses in a silk nighty and her hair unbound she was more likely here as part of his sexual fantasies. She kissed him. This Levy was real. His Shrimp was soft, gentle as well as spilling pheromones all over the room. No other woman could take her place. Gajeel doubted another other woman would set foot in this room ever again. "Let me make love to you, lokaata gein."
"Yes Gajeel." Nothing was music to his ears like that. She stood up while he got to his knees. He kissed her belly through the silk. Up she went as he stood. Squealing in delight as her slayer gihied.
"I have waited years to make love to you, Levy."
"You shouldn't of. The only reason I wore that dress at the Grand Magic Games was so that you would force me to change." He groaned. "The night before I went on the mission to Avatar I stayed up all night and you threatened to take me to bed. I wanted you to make love to me before I might not come back."
"Now I am going to." She was everything he wanted. Then hearing her moan in pleasure Gajeel lost it. Slowly he slid home only to find her ready. No barrier to cause her pain. Over and over he thrust. Over and over Levy's walls gripped him beyond pleasure. During her last climb Levy bit into his shoulder. Gajeel began to thrust harder into her. "That's right Levy harder." She broke skin as she cried out in pleasure. "Just a little more my love." As she peaked for the last time he bit down on her shoulder sealing their bond.
