Hey guys sorry for the longer wait for this chapter, I will explain at the end. Also sorry this is short compared to the other chapters.

I do not own any of these characters and they all belong to their rightful owners. I'm just using them to play out a story.

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Chapter 4 Motion Sickness

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The train just began to move and Gajeel was already feeling the effects. He was currently slumped down in his seat trying desperately to keep his food down, while an amused Levy sat across from him in the train compartment.

"Serves you right you know! This is karma for making fun of me all the time."

"Ughhh not now Shrimp I- GUHH…" Gajeel bent over and held a hand firmly to his mouth, his face already was a deep shade of lime. Even if Levy did enjoy the pay back, she couldn't help but feel sorry for the dragon. To her it as still quiet weird to see the strong, fearless Kurogane completely crippled by simple motion sickness. Lily however found the whole idea of it priceless.

"Ahhaha, don't be such a wimp Gajeel it's just a 6 hour train ride you'll be fine!" Lily was seated next to Levy, his arms crossed and his grin wide as he watched his partner struggle and fail to regain control of his sickness. Levy let out a pout and looked down at the cat sitting next to her, she knew the two would often pick on and bicker with each as a sign of their friendship. However it wasn't her style to watch as her friends suffered, so Levy stood up from her seat and sat back down next to Gajeel.

The said man watched the small mage as she moved to sit closer to him, he was about to ask until the train violently lurched and caused him to be jerked around. His mind was spinning at the sudden movement and he became disorientated. By the time he came back to his senses he noticed his head was resting in Levy's lap. She had somehow managed to pull him down into a laying position with his head resting in her lap as his body faced the still, if not more, amused looking cat. At this moment Gajeel was more than happy that his motion sickness was acting up, because it hid his blush under the pale green tint and clammy look he now adorned from it.

Levy just smiled down at Gajeel as his eyes looked up with confusion to her.

"Lu-chan once told me that Natsu's sickness gets better when he lies down so I thought this might help you. I figured if it could work on him maybe it should help you."

Lily couldn't help himself as he spoke up at this.

"Then why do you have him across your lap Levy?"

Lily's grin only got bigger as both Gajeel and her bushed profusely at his statement. Levy just looked off to the side as she rest one of her hands in Gajeel's wild hair, trying to comb out the tangles that rested within.

"W-well I knew he wouldn't have lain down if I just told him! Gajeel is too stubborn to listen to advice, especially if it also helps out Natsu right Gajeel?"

Levy looked back down at the man in her lap, her eyes begging him to help her out of this now very awkward situation. Gajeel saw her embarrassment and grinned as he noticed that she was as nervous about the situation as he. Of course he would never allow himself to be the worse off in any situation.

"Don't lie to yourself Shrimp! If yah wanted to touch me all yah had to do was ask, can't blame yah after all! I mean what girl wouldn't want the chance to put their hands on a stud like me, Gihihi."

The blush on the girls face flared up at his comment as her mind ran wild at the thought of touching him, in more intimate places of course. She was mortified with herself for thinking of such perverted thoughts as her crush was so close to her. Levy violently stood up causing Gajeel to roll off the seat, face first onto the floor. Before he could pick himself up and respond with his normal string of cuss words, Levy cut him off.

"STUPID GAJEEL!"

Levy stomped down onto the man's back and walked over him to the door as she tore it open and walked out of the compartment. Gajeel just laid there on the floor for a few more minutes after the small fairy had left. He was confused at her sudden outburst not only that but the heel of her shoe had violently dug into his lower back leaving him in too much pain to sit back up. He craned his neck upward and looked at his cat for the answer to his questions. Lily just looked back dryly at the pathetic looking slayer sprawled out on the floor.

"Smooth move idiot, you just can't let a good thing happen can you?"

Gajeel let out an annoyed grunt and lifted himself from the floor slowly before laying back down on his seat.

"Shaddup you stupid cat," Gajeel ignored the look of annoyance that flashed across Lily's face.

"I'm not the one making an ass out of myself Gajeel! Here was your one chance of being close to Levy, hell you practically sprawled across her, without any questions asked! But you just had to open your damn mouth didn't you!? What's the point in bringing her along to get closer to her if you're just going to piss her off and push her away!?"

"Hey I didn't mean it ok!? I just... I don't know... I was freaking out ok and I just started to talk! I thought it would help calm my nerves if I told a little joke!"

"Yah well I hope you are calm because Levy left looking like she as absolutely frazzled at your statement!"

"…"

Gajeel stopped himself and turned so he lay facing the ceiling. Lily let out a sigh as he saw their conversation was now over. Now bored with nothing to do Lily pulled out the mission slip from his bag and went back over the job listed.

Help Wanted:

Sir Isaac Greenwald of Gaeldon is in need of capable mage to translate an old parchment that is said to give the location of a lost family heirloom. Sir Greenwald is looking for at least three strong mages to find and return the item or items listed on the parchment. It is rumored that the location of heirloom is located in a forest east of the town of Gaeldon that was once infested with dark mages. Responders must be capable of translating the parchment as well as being able to handle possible the dark mages that remain in area.

Reward: 700,000 Jewels

To Lily the reward seemed to be a bit high for the type of job listed. However the mention of dark mages would explain the high jewel count. Lily folded the paper back up and placed it back in his pack before looking up at his partner. Gajeel had already fallen asleep, his motion sickness seemed to die down a bit.

"Huh maybe Levy was right…"

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Levy didn't return till much later and kept quiet to not wake up the sleeping dragon and also now sleeping Lily. She didn't mean to react as she did, and after a long time thinking about it she really was out of line. Gajeel was just trying to lighten the mood as he always did in their awkward situations. With that in mind she made sure to make a mental note in her head to apologize to the two for her actions. Feeling a little bit better Levy dug around in her pack to take inventory on what Gajeel had packed her. She was missing a few important pieces of clothing that she will now need to buy but beside the missing bras he did surprisingly well. She also noticed he packed the book on iron as well.

'Maybe it's a sign,' she mused to herself. A sign of what she couldn't be sure of, so she cracked open the book and began to pick apart the information inside. A few times throughout her reading she would catch herself staring at the sleeping dragon across from her, of course always correcting herself shortly after. Not noticing the small pair of cat eyes watching from the sidelines.

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Ok! Sorry for the longer wait for this chapter! I know I had made a habit of updating this story at least once every day or so with the other chapters. However this story might end up going to be updated once every week or two. The main delay with this story was me writing Baby Blue, (also a big part to my comp being shut down in the middle of writing this chapter (THANKS CAT) ) the idea refused to leave me alone till I wrote it and now the same thing is happening again with another story. However this next one won't be a one shot. The first chapter should be out later today or tomorrow and my mind wants to focus on that instead of this story. Don't worry I will still crank out a few chapters here and there it will just be a slightly longer wait. This was going to be a slow development of a romance between Gajeel and Levy after all and my mind just wants to write fluffy dovey shit with them at the moment. So a new story just was beggin to be written! So sorry again for putting this on simmer instead of a full boil but I will still update it as much as I can.

Thanks again to everyone who reads my stories as well as reviews, favs and follows. Yal get me all gitty when I see that you're enjoying my work! So have a great day and I hoped you enjoyed yourself!

-Paint