This is an old draft from my Gruvia-shipping days. It contains UST, romance, angst and graphic lemon - don't like, don't read.
Divided into parts. Modern AU.
Read parts 1-3 first.
Originally posted on Tumblr (FlipSideofC)
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They have been friends for ages, part of a big gang that have been hanging out on/off together since middle school. She has had a slight crush on him for years, but has never done anything about it, as he's never shown any sign of liking her back in that way - and she doesn't want to lose his friendship either. They have both been dating others during the years. Their friendship has actually been getting stronger year after year. Even though she doesn't get to date him, he has always been there for her, in his own half-detached way. She knows he'd do anything for her and she knows he's beaten both of her ex-boyfriends up, for cheating on her/hitting her and making her cry. The others helped of course, but she learned it was his idea from the start. She finds him very attractive and nice and she trusts him completely. He finds her emotional outbursts and weird leaps of logic adorably quirky, at least most of the time. She's a very loyal friend and would do anything to help people, unfortunately even idiots that don't deserve her. She is fast to tears and fast to laughter. She loves all her friends dearly and can be surprisingly merciless to enemies. Some might think her shatterbrained, but she's really very intelligent. They always have fun when they are together. He finds her figure very very attractive - very feminine, curvy and tempting. Had she not been his friend, they'd probably be dating, but he is too fond of her to play with her. He is aware that she's attracted to him, but then he's attracted to her as well - and neither of them are willing to risk their friendship for a fling. Basically they both find the other way too important to just date.
One evening out with the gang, Juvia is dared to kiss the guy she likes most in the bar. She is very nervous about it, but boosted by liquid courage and her friends, she walks over to the guys, who are currently watching Elfman and Laxus armwrestle. Gray is concentrating on watching, so he's very surprised when Juvia suddently is on his lap. His normally cool and detached expression is turned into complete bewilderment. Juvia finds it so adorable that she gets more courage than she had before - she puts her hands on his cheeks and gives him a very sweet and long kiss, instead of just a quick peck to win the bet. Gray is too surprised to react or kiss back and he's still staring at her when she leaves to go back to the girls, blushing like mad. After the kiss, Gray swears he can still feel Juvia's lovely thighs on his knees, her full breasts pressed against his chest and her soft lips against his. He is very distracted for the rest of the night. He finds out it was a dare, but she did choose to kiss him. Juvia is not someone you can just date casually or sleep with however. He has been thinking about her in a more-than-friends-way for quite some time, but either she had begun dating someone else, or he had, or he had decided that he wasn't quite ready for a serious relationship. He knows that if he decides to date Juvia, it's going to be serious. Neither of them will want anything else.
So why did she have to kiss him? It just complicates things. He can't stop thinking about it, can't stop staring at her, can't stop having way too many wet dreams about her - and he had enough before, thank you. Even her more extreme emotional outbursts are just adorable right now and he is mesmerized by her every smile. He must be nuts. Not that he's showing a lot of this, but even Juvia has noticed him looking at her a few times, probably because she is looking at him. He is also very distracted.
When they are both entering the house at the same time, early a Friday night, Gray suggests she drop by his place to watch a movie. Normally, they would be joining the rest of the gang in the bar. Juvia is a bit surprised but agrees. They have a great time eating pizza and watching a movie and they both fall asleep on the coach, leaning on each other. When he wakes up a bit later and looks down on her sweet sleeping face, Gray sighs in defeat. He might as well face the facts and stop fighting it - he is in love with her - and he has been for a very long time and his feelings just keep growing. He wants to wake up to this view every morning and is dying to kiss her again. Also, if he's dumb enough to put this off any longer she'll just start dating some idiot that doesn't appreciate her - again. Telling her they are all idiots won't work in the long run. Hopefully, she's interested enough to try this.
Juvia wakes up, blushes a bit and starts to stand up talking about going home or to the bar, when Gray pulls her back onto his lap. Juvia is looking just as surprised as he was when she jumped onto his lap earlier, although a bit redder in the face. Gray is looking slightly nervous, for him anyway, but determined.
"You can stop me anytime, ok?"
"Eh?" She blinks.
He leans in and kisses her. Juvia soon relaxes and starts to kiss him back. Gray sighs in relief. They spend some time just kissing each other. When they come up for air, Juvia suddenly asks, "is this a dare?"
"No", Gray answers dryly.
"Oh my god, does this mean you're in love with me? Are we dating now? Are you my boyfriend? Oh my god, oh my god."
Juvia is blushing like mad and Gray can see she is about to launch into some weird fantasy. It's so very her. Gray gives her a lop-sided smile and goes back to kissing her, pausing only to say "yes" "yes" "and yes".
Once Juvia has processed that, she squeals and hugs him so hard they fall onto the floor. Gray doesn't mind much though, especially when she kisses him again and again, while chanting "I love you love you love you."
They end up kissing and talking on Gray's bed for a long time. Gray gets a call from Natsu, but ignores it. He skims over his notifications.
"Juvia did you update facebook already?"
Juvia blushes. "Well… I was happy, so….."
"You are so silly". Gray grins.
"Do you mind?"
"Of course not."
He can see lots of comments after Juvia's changed relationship status. 'Whaaaaaat? When did this happen?' 'Juvia, this guy better be good or I'll clobber him!' 'Where are you?! Bring him to the bar NOW so we can take a look.'
"So…" Gray says, "Juvia Lockser is in a relationship. Gray Fullbuster *definitely* likes that, this time." he says, doing that - and notes 'Gajeel - don't you worry, this guy has passed the Gray screening with flying colors :)'
Gray then updates his status. "There we go, Juvia Lockser is in a relationship with Gray Fullbuster." Needless to say, there are a lot of comments after that. 'It's about time!' 'Get your asses out of bed and come down to the bar now!' 'But we like it here, it's cosy :)'
People from the outside might look at them and think that Gray is cold and detached and doesn't care much, while Juvia is warm, overly affectionate and slightly ditzy - and that she loves him way more than he loves her. They couldn't be more wrong. Gray is just as nuts about her as she is about him. He is happy to wake up next to her every morning and considers himself a very very lucky guy.