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Lucy was relaxing in her apartment, water up to her nose in the bath as she tried to ease her aching muscles. Plue was dancing around on the edge of the tub, long since learnt his lesson that he melted away in the hot water. She sighed as she washed down her legs, fingers lingering over the skin at her hips for longer than they strictly needed too. Her hair was piled up with shampoo on the top of her head and she had a clay mask covering her face and neck. It was always good to recuperate after a mission, especially one with Natsu. She was still so torn between hating his constant annoying immaturity, and being madly in love with him. She knew that everyone moaned at Gajeel and Levy being so oblivious, but she was sure that when she and Natsu weren't around they said exactly the same thing about the two of them. She had even seen that they had their own page in the betting pool before Mirajane saw her peeking and chased her away in her Satan Soul. She had made a decision never to try and look in any of Mira's notebooks ever again.

She heard a gentle, rhythmic tapping on her window, and tried desperately to ignore it. Why couldn't anyone use her door? Not that she would have gotten out of the bath any quicker if they had knocked on the door rather than the window. Although it was unusual for someone to knock…

She really did try to ignore it, but as it became more urgent and to the point that Plue had ran to hide shivering in the corner, she was angry and ready to destroy whoever had disturbed her peace. She hastily washed the mask from her face, and the suds from her hair before wrapping a towel around both her body and her hair, picking up a shaking Plue and making her way into her living room.

Levy was sat on what looked like a large "R" outside her apartment, wearing a green halter-neck dress that Lucy had never seen before, and she waved as Lucy came into view. Lucy's anger evaporated to be replaced with confusion, and she made her way over to the window to let her friend in. As soon as the window was open, Levy jumped in and Lucy looked outside just in time to see the word "TOWER" shrinking down as Levy withdrew her magic, until there was nothing visible left outside. She heard Levy's upbeat voice behind her, although she thought she could hear a hint of something underneath…

"Hi, Lu-Chan! Sorry if I disturbed your bath!"

Lucy shut the window to the cold wind outside, and turning back towards her friend, motioned for Levy to take a seat on her sofa. She disappeared back off to the bathroom to throw on a dressing gown, shouting to Levy back in the living room as she did.

"Why does everyone forget that I have a door to my apartment?!"

Levy looked down at her hands in embarrassment before Plue jumped up onto her lap for a cuddle. She took the small dog into her arms, even if she was embarrassed she didn't have the heart to deny him. She didn't think that Lucy would get so annoyed with her entering through the window, it's not like no one else did, anyway.

"I'm sorry, Lu-chan. I just didn't want people to know that I was coming to visit you…"

Lucy walked back into the room, looking at Levy in astonishment. The younger girl was cuddling her Celestial Spirit, looking impossibly small tucked into the corner of the white sofa that took up most of her living room. She took the matching armchair opposite her, it was better for holding conversations if they didn't have to crane their necks to look at each other, and stared right into the bluenette's eyes.

"Levy. What's the matter?"

Levy held back a gasp, inspecting a spot on the back of Plue's head until she had memorised every white hair that lay there. She wasn't stupid enough to think that she would be able to hide her nervousness at the events of the last couple of days from Lucy for that long, but she didn't think that she would bring it up so quickly. Maybe if she just feigned ignorance for a little longer…

"Lu-chan, what makes you think that something is the matter?"

Lucy looked at her friend, almost offended that Levy thought her so stupid that she wouldn't notice that something was up, but she simply attributed it to the way Levy's thoughts were obviously somewhere else. She leaned forward in her chair, resting her head on her hands and her elbows on her knees.

"Because, Levy, you are the most intelligent person I know, quite possibly the most intelligent person on the entire continent, no, the entire planet, and you thought that making a literal tower outside of my room was less noticeable than coming in my door like a normal person. So, throw me a bone here and tell me what has happened. You know that you can trust me, Levy."

Levy sighed, cuddling Plue closer as he shivered in her arms. She never knew what made Plue shiver, was he cold or simply nervous around everything? She would have to ask Lucy some time.

"It's Gajeel."

Lucy was on her feet in seconds, ignoring the fact that her dressing gown fell open at the top and revealed her breasts to Levy. It wasn't like she had never seen them before. Plus, there were more pressing matters at hand. Gajeel had hurt her best friend, muddled up her mind so much that she couldn't think straight. She had seen Gajeel fight before, and it was a terrifying thing, but if he had hurt Levy then he must die, even if she killed herself while she was at it.

"What has he done to you, Levy?"

Levy unwrapped her hands from around Plue and threw them up at Lucy to try and show that there had been some misunderstanding. Plue shivered even more at Lucy's outburst and buried himself in Levy's cleavage.

"He hasn't done anything, Lu-chan. Nothing bad at least. Please calm down!"

Lucy breathed heavily, before wrapping the dressing gown back around herself and sitting daintily on her chair. She leaned forward in her chair, looking at Levy expectantly. It had got to be something good for Levy to have to be so out of sorts. She got up and offered her some tea, and Levy followed her into her apartment's small kitchen.

"Well, where do you want me to start?" Levy asked, leaning against the side of the door as Lucy pottered around to put some boiling water on to heat.

"The beginning is usually the best place to start. Breakfast or Herbal?"

"I think I fancy normal breakfast if you have any. Well, it all started about a year ago, well eight years technically, I was walking down the road with Jet and Droy…"

Her story got interrupted by Lucy throwing a tea bag at her head, and she squealed more from surprise than pain.

"I know that bit, Levy. You're spending too much time around that stupid comedian."

Levy scowled mockingly at Lucy, who threw another couple of tea bags into a teapot, grabbing a couple of cups and saucers from the cupboard. Tea was always such an event at Lucy's, like she never grew out of her posh upbringing.

"Ok, well it all started two days ago. You know that Gajeel has agreed to help me learn how to fight after the whole 'dragons are going to take over the world' thing at the Grand Magic Games?" She waited until Lucy nodded before carrying on. "Well, we were up on the hill training when my shield gave out and Gajeel got me with one of his swords."

Lucy looked at Levy in surprise, stopping what she was doing to stare at her friend.

"Oh my Gosh, Levy, are you OK?"

Levy waved her hand dismissively to tell Lucy to stop worrying and carried on with her story as Lucy turned back to pouring the tea.

"I'm fine, it was a clean cut and it wasn't as deep as we thought it was at first. Anyway, he took me back to his place to clean it up cause I realised that it was going to be in a really awkward place for me to sort it out, and obviously Wendy was out on a job with you guys. Anyway, I had to take my top off for him to take a good luck at it, and then we figured out that the cut had gone under my bra, so that had to come off too…"

Levy stopped speaking as Lucy walked through to the living room, nearly dropping the tray when she found out that Levy had been entirely topless in front of Gajeel. Levy helped her friend to set the tray down on the table, and took a seat on the other end of the sofa to Lucy.

"So you were completely topless in front of him? What did he do? Did he notice the piercing?!"

Lucy winked at her over her tea cup, and Levy knew that it was a mistake thinking that she would be able to glaze over that part quickly. She pulled her legs up onto the sofa in front of her, resting her back against the arm, and let Plue rest in her lap. Lucy didn't tend to mind her stealing her spirit, but she knew that she missed cuddling her mutt sometimes.

"Well, he patched up my wound like he promised to do, then he kind of… licked my piercing. I was freaking out, I thought that he was finally going to admit something, or make a move, but instead he kinda ran away and hid in the kitchen, yelled at me to grab one of his shirts and then I gave up and just left."

Lucy visibly deflated, annoyed at the anti-climactic end to the first part of Levy's story. But she knew that Levy wasn't finished, she wasn't in the depressed mood that something like that would have left her in, so something else must have happened afterwards to bring her mood back up to the level it was at now.

"Go on, Levy. I want to know all of the juicy details."

Levy readjusted her position, letting Plue run across to settle himself on Lucy's lap, obviously preferring the bigger breasts that lay on her torso as a pillow.

"Well, yesterday I just spent a day alone, doing some translation work and all that jazz. I was being really skanky and still wearing Gajeel's shirt, both cause I was being lazy and because pretty depressed and it smelt like him and made me feel better. So, something starts tapping on my window, and after a while, he calls out to me so I know it's him. I start to freak out, because if he walked in while I was wearing his shirt he would think that I am weird. So I threw it across the room and tried to stay as quiet as possible so he didn't think I was there. I thought that I had gotten away with it, but then he did a Natsu and broke into my apartment."

Lucy nearly choked on her tea at the mention of Gajeel breaking into Levy's room. She knew that it was something that Natsu and Wendy did, the number of times she had been woken up by Wendy needing to ask her some girly advice was too many to count on her fingers alone, but she could never have imagined someone as seemingly emotionally distant as Gajeel doing it too.

"Anyway, so I was sitting there at my desk in nothing but my knickers, and he sneaks around the bookshelf and starts talking to me. I started screaming at him and covered myself up, but he just stood in front of me like nothing was out of the ordinary and held a conversation with me while I was sat almost naked at my desk. And then, he told me that he had a present for me…"

"What was it, what was it?" Lucy asked, jumping up and down at the other end of the sofa, almost knocking her tea onto the floor and scaring Plue so much that he disappeared back into the spirit world and left the two girls alone. Levy blushed again, she was hoping that she could just mention that Gajeel had brought her a gift and wouldn't have to explicitly tell Lucy what it was. Instead of trying to explain to her, she simply undid the halter neck of her dress and pulled it down to show her. Lucy almost zoomed forward to look at the piercing going through Levy's nipple and brushed the metal gently.

"Oh my Gosh, Levy it's beautiful! Where did he buy it from?"

Levy blushed at both the compliment and the proximity of Lucy's face to her breast. It was one thing bathing together and seeing each other naked, but another for them to be so close to one another.

"He didn't buy it, he made it for me."

Lucy sat back up, and Levy recovered her chest. Lucy gave her a pointed look, and Levy knew what was going to come next.

"And you are still too nervous to confess your attraction to him? He made you a nipple piercing out of his own iron! That's almost like him making it out of his own body! You are wearing Gajeel's body in your nipple!"

Both of the girls cringed as they realised the implications of what Lucy said. It sounded so weird when she worded it like that.

"Anyway…" Levy said, trying to get her mind off what Lucy had implied. "So I offered to make him some tea, and while I was gone he found the book that I was using to research Dragon Slayers."

Lucy giggled, knowing exactly the book that Levy was talking about. She was planning on borrowing it after Levy had finished.

"So did you tell him that you were researching to see if Dragon Slayers mated like humans or more like Dragons?!"

Levy waved her hands in front of her face again, trying to hide the blush that was recovering her face.

"No no no, I didn't tell him the truth. He didn't even ask why I was reading it, he just told me that it was full of lies and invited me back to his place for dinner and to have a look at some of his books." She ignored the 'Ooo' coming from Lucy as she mentioned dinner and carried on. "So, I went to get changed into normal clothes, and put on those thigh-high boots with those denim shorts I bought last summer, and I was still riding on the high of him walking in on me naked so I put his piercing in, and dropped my old piercing on the table right next to his head."

At the end of the tale, Levy had her hands covering her eyes, not wanting to see Lucy's reaction to the bold movement she had made.

"Go Levy!" she heard Lucy shout and peered through her fingers to see her with both fists raised in the air. "I never knew you were such a little minx!"

Levy grabbed a pillow to hide behind and shoved her head into it, turning her whole body so she was facing away from Lucy. She knelt on her knees and leaned over the side of the chair. Lucy tugged on the hemline of her dress, trying to get her to return and tell the rest of her story. She hated just how cute Levy was when she was embarrassed, how any guy could turn her down she would never know. Finally, she managed to get Levy to turn around. The blush still covered her face, and she cuddled the cushion to her chest but at least she was back up to talking.

"So I ended up at his place, and he found all of his books out for me, but I didn't know the language so he gave me a dictionary that he had made when he was younger and learning Fiorian. So I started trying to learn enough to read some of his books when he snuck up on me again and trapped me next to the desk. I asked him to speak some Draconic to me, and it was so beautiful, Lucy, I can't even explain. Just the cadence, and the way the words flowed from each other, just that alone would be enough for me to fall in love with Gajeel all over again. But then, just as I thought it couldn't get any better, he turned me around in his chair and he went to kiss me! He leaned forward and closed his eyes, and we were the closest we have ever been Lucy!"

At this point Lucy was leaning so far forward she was nearly on Levy's lap. She had said that she wanted all of the juicy gossip, but she had never thought that Levy would actually have gone ahead and kissed Gajeel. At some point in the tail, Levy had grabbed onto her hands and was now shaking them in the pure excitement her memories brought her.

"So, did you kiss him? What did you do?!"

Levy looked disappointed, and Lucy almost wished that she didn't ask, obviously something went wrong.

"I really wanted to, Lucy, I promise you I did, but then Lily called us downstairs for dinner and it kind of ruined the moment."

Lucy threw her hands up in the air, falling back onto the arm of the sofa in annoyance. She wasn't even there, and she could sense the sexual tension that must have been in the air while they were having dinner. Levy looked at the blonde, close to yelling at her that she had no grounds to be so frustrated.

"Anyway, moving on from the major disappointment thanks to Lily, Gajeel offered to read some of the Dragonslayer books to me, and after I settled down on the couch he started reading me some of the old stories that he was read as a child. And then the next thing I knew, I was tucked up in Gajeel's bed."

Lucy screamed in excitement, and Levy was confused for a second before figuring out how it must have sounded when she said she was in Gajeel's bed.

"No Lu-Chan! That's not what I meant! I was in Gajeel's bed, but he wasn't in there with me! He slept in Lily's bed!"

Lucy couldn't help but laugh at the bluenette's rushed explanation as she became more and more flustered at the thought of her and Gajeel sleeping in the same bed. How could this be the same woman who teased Gajeel with her nipple piercing now she was so embarrassed at any thought of sex?

"Levy, I am going to ask you a kind of personal question. Have you got any experience in the bedroom?"

Levy gasped at Lucy's forwardness, not knowing how to answer the question. She squirmed further towards her end of the sofa, redness returning to her cheeks as she thought of the implications of her question. She knew that some of the other girls in the guild were a lot more experienced than she was, but she had always kept her secrets close to her chest when it came to her sexual exploits.

"I've never gone, you know, all the way…"

Lucy shifted her entire body further along the sofa towards Levy, knowing that an interesting tale was coming along. Levy looked down at her fingers in her lap, not wanting to look Lucy in the eye while she told her story. She knew that she could trust Lucy and that she wouldn't tell anyone else without permission from Levy herself.

"Before you came to the guild, Jet and I got really drunk and things kind of… happened. I didn't have sex with him, we just kind of fumbled around a bit in his flat. The next morning we both kinda promised that we would never talk about it again. I never really felt anything for him, it was nothing more than two drunk kids messing around."

Lucy looked at her in shock, amazed at what Levy had just told her. She had never imagined Levy doing anything with Jet or Droy, not even kissing them. She had always thought that the adoration that the two male members of Shadowgear showered Levy with was unrequited. Still, she couldn't help opening her mouth and saying the first thing that came into her mind.

"You fucked Jet?!"

Levy pushed Lucy backwards, puffing her cheeks out in irritation.

"I literally just said that I didn't fuck him. Were you not listening? I just tossed him off and he fingered me, we didn't go any further than that."

Lucy stared a Levy in silence, before bursting out into laughter at Levy's course words. Levy stared back at her for a few seconds, before she couldn't help it anymore and started laughing back. They sat and giggled for a moment, Lucy still lying on her back, before Levy stopped laughing and looked at her.

"Something else happened this morning. When we left the house this morning, Gajeel put his arm around me. He didn't say anything, just put it there. Then he held my hand. When I asked him what was going on, he said he didn't know what we were, but we could find out together."

Lucy looked at Levy, the bluenettes face the most concerned she had seen it since she came through her window. Levy's very analytical mind obviously didn't like not knowing exactly what was happening between her and Gajeel. She sat back up and took the younger girls hand in hers.

"Gajeel isn't the kind of person to tell you categorically how he feels about you. He's not a man of many words, you of all people know that. He's showing you how he feels through his actions rather than through his words."

Levy nodded, she knew that anyway but hearing it coming from someone else's mouth made it sink in further.

"I just don't know how to respond to him. I want him to notice me properly, I want to be more than just a friend to him. But no matter how much I try and flirt with him, it never works. I expected him to jump me when he found my piercing, but that didn't work. I showed him that I had put his own piercing in, and he still didn't respond. What do I have to do to make him lose control and just take me?"

Lucy sat in thought for a moment, tapping her finger impatiently against her chin. After a few taps, she jumped up and made her way to the kitchen.

"Lu-chan! Where are you going?"

Lucy walked back in, communication lacrima in hand. She shot Levy an evil grin.

"I'm calling in the reinforcements."


Gajeel sat opposite Cana, slowly realizing that he hadn't seen her drink a drop of alcohol that morning. It was most definitely the longest time he had seen her go without intaking any alcohol at all. Now he realised it, the normal overwhelming smell of alcohol had receded slightly, and he could detect a hint of cinnamon underneath.

"Why are you not drinking, drunkard?"

Cana shrugged, kicking one of the barrels off to the side casually.

"I was too worried about Levy to drink too much this morning and too distracted by you and her coming in earlier to get any then either. I could probably do with some now, though…"

Gajeel watched her from his chair as she picked up a barrel from behind her, inspecting the label for a few seconds before popping off the cork and taking a swig. She looked at Gajeel to see if he wanted any but he waved his hands in dismissal.

"Suit yourself." She sat back down in her chair and placed her feet up on the table, taking a few swigs from her barrel before looking at Gajeel.

"So, when are you going to take the next step?"

Gajeel glared at her, not really wanting to discuss his sex life this early in the morning. Before Levy, he wouldn't mind telling anyone and everyone that would listen about his conquests (and people would listen, if he told him to. No one was stupid enough to deny Gajeel back then) but there was something special about her. Something told him that the relationship that existed between him and Levy was something that he couldn't share, couldn't even put into words.

But he knew something that no one else in the guild knew, not even Lily. He knew that Wendy wouldn't have noticed it yet, and he was pretty sure that Natsu hadn't experienced it either.

"Cana, can I tell you something? I need some advice from someone who knows Levy well."

Cana looked up at him, wondering what he wanted to know from her. She knew that she was one of the best advice givers in the Guild, but she also definitely knew that Gajeel wasn't someone to admit that he needed help.

"I really do want to take things further with Levy, but I'm scared."

Cana looked up at him, almost dropping her barrel in the process, amazed that Gajeel had admitted that he was actually scared of something.

"Gajeel, what can you be scared of? You know she likes you, everyone in the guild knows that."

Gajeel played with a splinter on the table, pushing it around in front of him in meaningless circles. The dragon had never affected him in this way before, any other girl he went after he didn't care if the dragon came out, didn't care if he hurt them. Why would he? He just fucked them and threw them to the side the next morning. They meant less than nothing to him.

"You see, when you become a dragon slayer, a part of your soul splits off and becomes it's own entity. You become both human and dragon at the same time, two souls existing in the same body. The dragon soul only really comes into affect at times of extreme emotion; anger, sadness and lust. It helps us when we fight, you've seen the dragon force, but it also comes out when we want to fuck. It makes us more animalistic, and makes gentle sex an impossibility. If I want to have sex with anyone, it has to be rough and painful. Well, painful for them anyway. I don't want to hurt Levy anymore. Not again."

Cana looked at him through his explanation, not even taking a break to sip from her drink. Gajeel's face went through it's normal blank expression, through concern and finally to pain. She could see how much it had been bothering him, and from previous drunken conversations, she knew the guilt he still felt at the Phantom Lord incident which now seemed so long ago.

"Have you ever tried to have gentle sex? How do you know you can't do it?"

Gajeel shook his head, still staring down at where he was making splinters in the table with his nails. Even though they weren't metal, they were strong enough to tear up the wood anyway.

"It takes over before we even get to the sex part. I can be kissing them, not even with my hands in her pants, before the dragon takes over. There's no choice for my human soul."

They sat in silence for a little longer, both contemplating what he had just said. Gajeel lamented all the times he had wanted to go to the next stage with Levy his dragon had started to take over, and he had run away from the situation as soon as possible. Cana was still debating the fact that Wendy had two souls shoved into her tiny body, and made a mental note to ask Bickslow about the situation later on in the day. Could he see both of them or only the one in charge?

"I don't know, Gajeel. I don't have any advice to give you. All I can suggest is telling Levy, talking it over with her so she can make her own decision. You never know, she might like that kind of thing."

Gajeel gave Cana an annoyed look, there was no way the sweet and innocent Levy would be a sadist. He knew that she was a virgin, he could smell it. He didn't want her first time to be any more painful that it needed to be. He was about to open his mouth to Cana before he heard a beep coming from Cana's bag, and she rummaged around in it before she pulled out a card.

"Huh. Lucy's calling me."

Cana stared at the words that quickly flashed across the card, and a smile spread across her face.

"Well, Gajeel, it's been nice talking to you, but I have to offer some girly help to your girlfriend."

She stood up from her chair and went to make her way out of the room to head back upstairs when Gajeel grabbed her arm. Suppressing a gasp, she turned around to see that Gajeel was still staring at the table.

"Cana Alberona. If you dare mention anything said in this room to anyone else, I will track you down and make you experience such unimaginable pain you will pray for death. And don't think your Daddy will save you either. I know how to hide a body so well that it will never be found."

If the use of her full name didn't tip her off, Gajeel's tone told her that he was serious. Even the bonds that held Fairy Tail together wouldn't stop Gajeel for tearing her limb from limb.

"You have my word, Gajeel Redfox."

They stood in silence for a couple more seconds, the bonds of the spoken promise strengthening, before Gajeel let go of Cana and she continued her journey to get the details from Levy.


Gajeel emerged from the cellar about ten minutes later, after having wallowed in his thoughts in the silence that it afforded him. As soon as he emerged into the light, blinking while his pupils adjusted.

"Gajeel! We have been looking for you everywhere!"

He whipped his head around to the source of the noise and found Lily making his way towards him, with a dejected looking Jet and Droy following slightly behind him. Lily flew himself up onto the bar to even the height difference between them, before staring down Jet and Droy so they wouldn't leave.

"Me and these two decided to go on a mission together, we'll be gone for about a week. I'm gonna swing back home for some clothes and we'll head off straight after that."

Gajeel looked between the three of them, figuring out straight away that it was neither Jet or Droy's decision to go out on a mission. The realisation that Lily had done this to help Gajeel get together with Levy came soon after. But, while it was in front of him, he couldn't pass up the opportunity to mess around with Levy's two lapdogs.

"So, Speedy and friend, are you looking forward to the mission?"

They shared a look between them, and Gajeel was sure he could hear them gulp, before both turning and nodding.

"Come on, Jet, we had better go and pack for the mission. Uh, see you later, I guess."

Gajeel could sense the nervousness in his voice, and he had never seen Droy move so quickly as he made his way out of the guild. Lily simply gave Gajeel a wink, before following his new teammates.


A/N - This one is a little bit longer, due to having more time to type it out. This week was a lot more hectic than I thought it would be, so I didn't get anything else done but this. This was a bit of a filler, so was pretty difficult for me to write.

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