Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
As Gajeel opened the door that led to the gym he looked around briefly to see if anyone they knew was close by, luckily there was no one. He proceeded stepping out of the way so Levy could pass. He looked at Levy waiting for her to look at him but she was too busy looking around her trying to avoid anybody she knew. He sighed and wrapped his arm around her shoulder making her jump and squeal a little but he placed his free hand on her lips lightly to stop her from yelling at him, the loud music also helped out a little.
"It's ok, I'm not going to do anything." He stopped imagining what had possibly happened to the small girl while in the bathroom that made her be so jumpy with only the slightest contact. He tensed a bit but sighed in attempt to relax himself. "I'm just going to do this while we leave because if I don't people will see the marks on your neck." He said while nodding his head in her direction.
Her eyes widened, were they that noticeable? Her hands fell on her neck trying to hide from embarrassment; she wanted the ground to swallow her whole that very moment. He saw how her eyes filled with tears threatening to fall and tightened his grip around her trying to comfort her.
His intention didn't go unnoticed, she raised her head to look at him and give him her best smile but she failed miserably with her thoughts going back to the bathroom. He growled to himself cursing the man, no not man a man wouldn't do such a thing to a young innocent girl, the scum that had taken Levy's precious smile away from him.
Gajeel shook all thoughts from his head trying to make it through the crowd while avoiding as much people as possible and trying not to lose Levy from his side. Unexpectedly he made it through the huge crowd without seeing anyone and successfully got to the door and left the gym.
He sighed in relief not believing how easily he did that. Then he looked at Levy which was still under his arm. She seemed lost in thought, he shook her a little to bring her back to reality.
"You think too much Shrimp." He said releasing his grip on the girl.
She stared at him with blank eyes that seemed to never end. He winced, he had never seen her so sad before she was always so happy and cheerful, and sad didn't look good on her at all.
"Let's just go." She said coldly while walking ahead of him. He only looked at her back as she walked. His fists tightened at his sides while his anger grew rapidly inside him. All he could think about was getting the punk that had done this to poor little Levy, they changed her completely she didn't even look like herself anymore. She just dragged herself along as if waiting or wanting to die any moment now. His train of thought soon broke as she turned around to look at him.
"You coming?" She said coldly.
"Yeah." He grumbled while crossing his hands over his chest.
The walk to their room was quiet. Neither of them even bothered to look let alone talk to each other as they were both busy deep in thoughts with their dark depressing thoughts kept to themselves.
They arrived at their room faster than either of them expected and thanks to the party they didn't run any risks of finding anybody on the way here. As Gajeel opened the door and stepped aside to let Levy in first he looked both ways down the hallway making sure no one was following them. After he was sure he entered and closed the door behind him.
He looked at Levy that was looking for cloths. He walked to his bed and plopped himself down while still looking at Levy, he was trying to find any more damage that the punk might have made. He noticed that her neck had a slight bruise in form of a hand he could tell his intentions weren't to choke her but to keep her still. Gajeel tensed all his muscles on his body trying to control himself from commanding her to tell him the guy's name and throwing a riot until he found the guy and beat him to ground after he had done to her.
The door of the bathroom slammed shut making Gajeel break loose from his thoughts to then see Lily sitting in front of him as if waiting for an explanation. Gajeel sighed in defeat and let his head fall in his hands.
"Somebody tried to…" He stopped not being able to say it. "hurt Levy." He continued whispering soft enough so the girl wouldn't hear him talking.
Lily tilted his head looking at his owner noticing, hardly, the concerned tone in his voice. Lily's mouth seemed to have looked like a soft smile directed to his owner, he then brushed himself against his leg and started purring trying to comfort him.
"What should I do?" Gajeel asked with clear desperation in his voice, he wasn't good at stuff like this but he wanted to help as much as he could.
Lily sat in front of his owner once again and looked at him intensely. He started to purr and nodded his head towards the bathroom door.
Gajeel sighed in frustration. "I'm no good at comforting people." He said snorting to the side and crossing his arms over his chest.
The feline leaped on his lap and sat down in attempt to come to eye level with Gajeel. Lily stared him down trying to break him.
"Fine." Gajeel sighed in defeat. His cat knew how to convince him despite not being able to talk, and being a cat.
The cat purred in satisfaction with his owner and made his way towards Levy's bed and threw himself there while waiting for Levy to come out and do what he could to help her feel better knowing Gajeel, despite his effort, wouldn't do such a good job.
Levy was taking a much needed hot shower. While she just stood there letting the water take what it could of her worries, but soon enough memories came flooding in her mind. She grabbed her head as if trying to stop the memories from coming back but it was in vain. She started sobbing and fell to her knees letting the water soak her hair entirely.
Gajeel sat on his bed trying to think about something else other than the sobs coming from the bathroom. She had been at it for at least 15 minutes none stop. He sighed; he couldn't just knock on the door and command her to come out, could he? He shook the thought from his head that would only make her grow scared of him. He sighed in defeat he knew he couldn't really do anything except wait until she cried out most of her sadness.
The door from the bathroom opened making Gajeel sit straight up to look at the small girl in her shorts and tank top, she didn't really need to hide anything and it was pretty hot after her long shower. Gajeel's eyes fell on the girl's thighs, they had dark purple bruises in form of more hands as if trying to hold her legs… he growled to himself looking somewhere else.
She noticed his action and let her eyes fall on where he was looking but soon regretted doing so. She saw the bruises and tears pooled in her eyes, how long would that take to go away? She wiped away her tears trying to seem strong in front of Gajeel. He snorted at her action.
"You don't have to pretend." He said plainly laying back on his bed crossing his arms behind his head to look at the ceiling.
"Aren't you going to ask?" She almost whispered while crawling on her bed next to Lily.
"We can talk about it when you're alright with talking about it." He said closing his eyes trying to fall asleep.
She lay on her bed cuddling with Lily. "Thank you." She said warmly while closing her eyes.
"Whatever." He said trying to make it sound cool but he couldn't hide the warm smile tugging at his lips as he fell asleep.
Levy was in the back seat of the car while her parents occupied both of the front seats. They seemed to be having a wonderful time as they were all laughing and smiling together treasuring every second they spent in each other company.
Levy was dressed in her former school's uniform while her parents were both dressed professionally and it seemed to be early in the morning. Soon her dad made a left turn and they found themselves in front of a huge building that looked like a school. He then stopped in front of the building to let his daughter out of the car.
The blue haired kissed both of her parents goodbye. When she got off she quickly found her with one of her friends and greeted her. Her friend returned her warm smile and started a conversation.
Levy looked over her shoulder with a warm smile towards her parents car thinking to herself about how lucky she was to have such great parents.
She was soon broken away from her thought as her eyes widened in the scene unrolling in front of her own eyes. A van that was trying to escape from the police was headed straight towards her parents' car. She released her back pack from her grip and completely ignored her friends pleads for her to stay put. Levy began running desperately while tears started streaming down her face.
Then she witnessed their car be brutally crushed by the huge black van to then be flying to the side rolling as if it were a ball to then stop on it's wheels once more.
Suddenly her ears were filled with sounds of screams of fear and of people calling out to other to call an ambulance. She could also hear cars screeching to stop before the scene, sirens from the police cars, the police's radio and the man trying to clear up space for when the ambulance arrived.
She then started running even faster towards her parents praying that they would be ok, praying that she would be able to soon hear their voices once more.
As she ran next to her father's side her tears only started falling more at the sight of her parents filled with blood and… no, she wouldn't say it yet, she still had hoped that they would be ok or she would wake up soon from her bad dream. But it was real.
She cried and cried grabbing her dad's hand pleading for him to wake up. And then she almost dragged herself to her mother's grabbing her face softly crying, begging for her to wake up.
After a few moments the paramedics arrived along with firefighter ready to pry open car doors to get to the victims.
One of the firefighters tried to get Levy to move but she refused to budge until her parents woke up. He had no choice but to move her himself. She kicked, punched, screamed and begged him to let her stay by their side but he rejected her and sat her on the back of an ambulance where a paramedic held her down while wrapping her in a blanket to calm her shaking figure down.
Soon enough Levy's friend made her way to Levy's side and embraced her trying to comfort her friend in her time of need.
The firemen pried the doors to their car wide open while the paramedics swiftly made their way towards Levy's parents inspecting them. After a few moments both of the paramedics looked at each other with sad faces and both shook their head.
One of the paramedics found Levy and approached her. She saw him and quickly stood up on her feet eager to hear about her parents. But her eyes soon filled with tears at the sight of the look on his face told her everything.
He apologized to the young blue haired girl. She could only cry as she fell to her knees from the sudden loss of strength. She cried and cried on her knees while her friend also kneeled beside her embracing her warmly trying to soothe her pain.
"O…" She heard from a far as she struggled in her bed.
"O…Oy…" she heard again she could almost recognize the voice.
"Oye Shrimp!" Gajeel yelled while shaking her violently.
She opened her eyes wide as she sat up straight. She was out of breath and felt her cheeks wet. Her hands wiped her cheeks to see what it was. Tears, she was crying?
"You ok Levy?" Gajeel asked with a sleepy voice that had traces of concern.
Suddenly she remembered the dream she was having. She was dreaming about the day her parents died she remembered. Her eye's instantly filled with tears that fell down her cheeks once more.
Gajeel raised a brow at the girl trying to figure out what she had dreamed of but was soon dragged away from his thoughts as he felt Levy squeeze him tightly, she was stronger than she looked.
Levy buried her face in Gajeel's chest as she sobbed at the memories of her parents. She squeezed him very hard doubting he would even feel it one bit. She took in his scent which strangely calmed her down and she felt the warmth of his body wrap itself around hers. It was nothing like Laxus' cold touch, and she was glad it was nothing like that. It comforted her.
Gajeel winced at her sudden embrace but found himself enjoying it, it felt nice to be useful. He let his hands wrap around her small body bringing her closer to his, not wanting to let her go. His head rested on hers that smelled like strawberries and that only made him want to hold her in his arms together, her sweet scent, her small body that was so easy to pick up, her warm smooth skin. He just wanted her for himself, he didn't care if it sounded greedy.
Levy soon found herself not wanting to leave his arms. He made her feel safe from anything. And he had managed to calm her down completely without even saying anything but just holding her.
Suddenly he felt Levy stop crying and was breathing calmly. He decided to glance down and saw that she had fallen asleep. He mumbled under his breath but couldn't help but smile at her innocent sleeping form.
Lily looked up at his owner catching his eye and sending him some sort of devilish grin.
"Shut up cat." He said but couldn't help the chuckle that escaped his lips.
A/N: I hope this answers a few questions! :D
and I hoped you liked it Sakuramcgarden and thanks for the suggestion! I was originally going to write something like this but decided this was better xD