A/N: Also the fastest I've updated! I'm on fire this week! Please review!
Review Response:
Musicbooks.2011: Huehuehuehuehuehue...
Ihasbadgrammer: (No kidding) I'm not sure, excluding this one, at least a few more. They still have to bang out anymore problems they might have. ;)
FairyWhereAreYouGoing: Nice name, man. Thanks for the positive review! Feisty Levy is the best Levy!
Lexie and the anime: EEEEEEEXXXACTLY!
CsBuns: I know, right? :D
Disclaimer: I don't own Gajeel or Levy. Sadly.
A week later, Levy was sitting at her desk, ruffling through different papers. "Shit…" Levy She had long since given up trying to reconfigure the bills and money to compensate for the price and new equipment for the new building.
Mira stuck her head into the office. "Levy? Levy are you ok?"
Levy face palmed against her desk and groaned. Mira giggled and entered the office.
Levy lifted her face off the desk. "We can't do it Mira, we can't move. Taking into account the repairs to the damaged equipment, the new equipment we have to buy, not to mention hiring more artists and/or desk workers, the numbers don't add up, we don't have enough." Levy face palmed her desk again, a string of curses inaudible and muffled by the wood.
"Levy, it's ok. We're all just fine here. Our shops doing fine, everyone is happy with their salary, and we're already looking for new and cheap equipment to replace the ones that asshole broke."
Levy sighed at Mira's reassurance. "But… but that means I have to concede. To Gajeel. Sign me up for hell a million times over."
The two managers had been figuratively dancing around each other for the past week, baiting the other, seeing who would break first and make a deal with Freed.
"Oh come on, it won't be that bad." Mira raised an eyebrow.
"Mira, you don't know him. Well, I don't really either, but I know him well enough to know he's going to gloat. He's going to gloat and make fun and it will be awful." Levy explained, throwing her arms up in the air for dramatic effect.
"You won't know until you tell him. Besides, your cute." Levy looked up in confusion.
"What's that got to do with anything?"
Mira winked as she made her way to the exit. "Because, I've seen him around, he's hot. And he owns a candy store. It's obvious cute is his thing. Good luck~" Levy blushed at Mira's implication that Gajeel would be interested in her, and she smacked her head on the desk once more.
Next door, Gajeel was doing something quite similar. His head was in his hands and he was sighing heavily. A knock on the office door didn't even phase him.
"Gajeel? It's time for lunch, are you coming?" Romeo asked from the other side of the closed door. Gajeel grunted in response. Romeo opened the door, and stuck his head inside.
"Gajeel? Are you ok?" With another mute response, Romeo entered the office fully and slowly crept up to Gajeel's desk. "Are you dead?"
"No, I'm not dead, you punk." Gajeel snapped up. Romeo jumped away from the desk and held his hands up in defense.
"Sorry, sorry. Is everything ok? You've seemed kinda… Depressed these last few days."
"Thanks for the concern kid, but I'm fine." Gajeel attempted a weak smile that looked more like a snarling pit bull than anything, but it was an attempt, so that was nice.
"O-ok?"
Gajeel sighed once again. "Look kid, we to expand within the week or we're toast. Dead meat. Gonners. To-"
"Yeah, I get it, we're out." Romeo cut him off.
"I can't lose this shop. It's too important…" He said, almost to himself.
"Then why don't you buy the building?" Romeo asked.
Gajeel snarled, this time it was definitely a pit bull snarl. "That witch might make a better offer and leave us in the dust."
"Ok…?" Romeo didn't quite understand, but he figured it was good for him to talk about it. "Why don't you just explain the situation? She might understand."
"But that means I'd have to beg. To Levy. I'd consider throwing myself into a chasm of man eating sharks before I'd beg for anything from that woman." Gajeel glared at his desk, considering throwing it through the wall. It was too stuffy in his office.
"What's the worst that could happen?"
"You don't know her." Gajeel paused. "Well, I don't really know her either, but I know her well enough to know she'll revel in the embarrassment of begging. She'll get joy from it."
"You won't know until you ask her. Now, are you coming to lunch with Wendy and I or not?"
Levy stared at the entrance of Candy Kingdom for a good five minutes before shaking her head and walking away. She came back a few minutes later and stared some more. "Damn it." Levy took a deep breath to strengthen her resolve and entered the store, almost running into a pair of kids headed out.
"Oh I'm so sorry!" The girl apologized. Levy chuckled inwardly at their mutually strange blue hair colors.
"No need to apologize. I was looking for Gajeel, do you know where I might find him?" The blue haired girl smiled and pointed to the back of the store, where a door lay closed.
"He's in there." Levy smiled at the two and thanked them,
"Don't expect much, he's in a weird mood." The boy warned her. She nodded and headed back to the door.
"Nice hair by the way!" She winked at the girl who blushed and thanked her. Levy knocked on the door, not sure what to expect.
"Go away Romeo. I already said I didn't want to go to lunch." ...This was not what she was expecting.
"Gajeel, it's Levy. I'm coming in." She turned the knob and opened the door. Gajeel was sitting at a desk in the small room, looking curiously at her. The look morphed into suspicion and skepticism as she closed the door and stood in front of his desk.
'Come on, Levy, you can do it… Just say it. You can't afford the building anymore. Simple as that.' Levy berated herself silently as she bit her lip and stared at Gajeel.
"I give up."
"I need the building."
…
Gajeel stood and spoke as soon as the words escaped her mouth. The two stared at each other for a while. Levy opened and closed her mouth like a fish. Gajeel was the first to speak.
"What?"
Levy blinked and swallowed the lump in her throat. "I said I give up. I… I don't want the building."
Gajeel walked around his desk to the front and sat on the edge, looking at the floor. He didn't know whether to cry or laugh. Maybe both.
"So…" Levy began. "You need the building?" She inquired. Gajeel looked up from the floor and nodded.
"This is so weird."
Levy nodded slowly. "What are the odds?"
"Why… Why don't you want the building?"
Levy shifted uncomfortably under his gaze. "There was an incident last week. Some stuff was damaged, and my shop doesn't have the budget to move anymore. So, the buildings yours." Levy shrugged.
Gajeel suddenly had to fight the urge to kiss the woman in front of him. Shaking the thought, he settled for the next best thing. He, quite easily, swooped up the woman into a giant bear hug.
Levy was uber confused before hearing him laugh, a deep, rumbling laugh echoing from his very being. She started giggling too.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Gajeel laughed and spun the small woman around his office. Levy giggled and smiled, liking the feeling of hearing his chest rumble against hers when he spoke.
When Gajeel finally stopped spinning and put Levy down, they were both pretty dizzy. Levy almost fell over, but Gajeel caught her by the shoulders and looked into her brown eyes, grinning.
He couldn't help it.
Gajeel wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her.
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And Levy kissed him.
A/N: Yus! Finally a kiss from our favorite couple! Please review your thoughts, comments, angry or happy! (preferably happy!)
Please please review! Feel free to PM me any ideas you might have, I'm always craving more!
~Marshy