Juvia woke up to the metallic noise. It took a bit of concentration on her side to shift from the dream where her long date friend Gajeel was awkwardly munching forks and knives and was proclaiming to be something like a dragon killer or a lizard slayer and was all dressed up in a white suit embracing a guitar, yelling at a bunny dressed short girl to Keep dancing.. "What the hell?" She thought first thing when she opened her eyes and found herself in her real house and not in that kind of tavern she was in her dream, a place with wooden tables, fairies decorations, and even a pool. Who the hell has a pool in a tavern?
However when she opened her eyes and saw her humid wall of her humid flat it took her another bit of consciousness to understand that the metallic sound was still there and because she lived alone it was hella strange.

She stood up and being the brave girl she was she decided to take a look thinking that probably it was just another thing that was going in pieces in that house and maybe, this time, she could take a picture and show her landlord, aka the worst bastard alive, aka Jose Porla that she was not living in the royal castle he proclaimed his condo was, and so her 8000 jewel rent was totally a robbery.

She walked, barefoot, crumpled oversize Metallica shirt, white pants, with an eye still closed, putting her blue hair in a messy bun on her head.

The metallic noise was louder.

She got closer.

Then she saw it. Them.

Two hooded strangers kneeled on the floor of her bathroom.

Fear wrapped her gut and she couldn't even scream. Nor move.

"Keep quiet idiot or she'll wake up" she heard one of the two say while the other was rumbling in a toolbox. Her toolbox.

She was sure at this point they were thieves and that they were looking in her toolbox for something to murder her in her sleep.

She had to think fast but her mind seemed closed and she should run but her feet were glued to the spot.
Think. Think. Think.
She acted instead and decided to take something to hit the strangers, yeah she could trim her toothbrush and stab the thief. In Prison Break, it worked. She quietly took the toothbrush taking advantage of the noise and distraction made by the bickering of the burglars. They really had to work on their "keep quiet" mode if they really wanted to do this job.
She advanced, inch by inch. She was close. Soo closes when one of the two decided to take off his shirt.

She gasped and squealed.
Who. In his right mind. can think. In a moment like this. That her "enemy" looks hot?
She did.
It all happened in an instant. He stripped. She gasped looking at the most beautiful,perfect, muscular back she had ever seen, every nook and cranny seemed sculpted by the hand of an Italian Master and she knew because she had a test about classical art in two days.
He turned.
She took in his face: dark hair falling on his forehead in the sexiest way possible, deep mysterious eyes, greek nose, hard jaw, cheekbones to die for and his damn lips. He was probably saying something but she was too concerned about looking at the way those lips were moving rather that at what he was saying. Oh and obviously his front has to be even better than his fucking perfect back with those pectorals and abs.
"please don't get scared, we don't wanna hurt you," he said
She barely heard the words but when "hurt you" reached her ears the gravity of the situation hit her. He was a robber and she was in danger.
"You pervert" she screamed, "get away from my house". She tried to hit him but he dodged.
"hey don't call me pervert!" the hot burglar said while his accomplice started to laugh uncontrollably with his hands on his stomach.
"My God Gray Told ya you are a pervert!" he said among hysterical giggles.
"Am not" He said quite offended
"Well the first impression is the one that counts and she said you are a pervert so you are!" the second guy stood and lowering his hood he grinned at her. He seemed sort of nice for a burglar.
"Actually, it is very wrong to judge people from the first impression" the dark haired guy retorted and Juvia found herself nodding
"but in this case she is right." the second guy said and they were bickering again
Juvia used this to sprint next to her bath furniture and throw them whatever she could reach. Hairbrush, creams, towels, the hair dryer made a nice shot.
"wait wait wait" the dark haired guy tried to reach for her hand and stop her but he pulled, she pulled and they both slipped on her shitty humid floor and fell.
Now it should not be nice to have a thief all spread on your body, but Juvia was there on the floor with his weight (nicely) all over her and she couldn't find the heart to knee his balls. She was staring instead in his dark (she saw they were dark blue actually) eyes while he too seemed quite lost and was staring right back. Then she felt an unfamiliar squeeze and them both looked down at his very hand placed upon her very right breast. They shocked and parted instantly while burglar number two was bend in a half chuckling the words "pervert pervert, told ya"

"I'm not a pervert and then.." the guy looked at Juvia, he stared at her exposed, perfect, well shaped, endless legs "I'm not the one in wearing only pants here!"

"Actually, you are too," Juvia said and the guy blushed at his exposed boxers and cursed wondering where exactly he had left his jeans.

During the searching, he may or may not stare again at her legs.

"Don't think about doing bad things to Juvia" she said " She never fell in love and she wants her first time to be special" she cried

"what?" dark blue eyes said shaking nervously his hands before his face "No look I will never!" "I swear"

Juvia eyed him, he seemed sincere. "Juvia will call the police"

"Noo" he screamed reaching for her hand again. "look, Juvia" he said and her name on his tongue sounded soo nice that she almost blushed "it is not what it seems"

"Sure," she said, "so you did not intrude Juvia's flat, did you?"

"yeah well. We did"

he said and she made a move toward her phone but the guy squeezed her hand "but we are not burglars"

Again he seemed honest. It was his eyes, they were gentiles.
Juvia looked at the other guy too. he smiled and nodded and his smile too was warm.

"Juvia will give you five seconds to explain then," Juvia said hoping she was not making the big mistake of her life

"My name is Gray, Gray Fullbuster, he is my friend Natsu Dragneel, we were on the roof and I heard a loud noise, I figured out it was a broken water pipe and so I followed the sound and came in. To fix it," he said and Juvia threw him a strange look.

"you came in to fix it? why?" and how could you be on the roof? this condo has no flight of stairs to the roof."

"Parkour," the other guy said smugly "we were challenging and I totally burned his ass"

"in your dreams hothead"

"no in your dreams Ice prick"

"what does this even means,idiot?"

"however," the dark haired guy said "I have a bit of experience with this things and I am kinda good with my hands"

"Silly, this is not the water pipe, this is Juvia's curse." the blue haired girl explained

From the very first day in this apartment Juvia had felt it. The drip drip drop that followed her in every place she was, the constant sound of fallen drops. Obviously, she had told the landlord but he said everything was fine with the tubes, that he had checked and it should be her imagination. So she started to think that the house was haunted and the sound came from the sad tears of a lonely figure. She could not concentrate, sometimes she could not sleep and she was constantly afraid. No one would ever come to her house because people said it was annoying to constantly hear that sound, so she gave up in trying to invite people and while the others made group works she was always left as the +1 in the end. So she did it always by herself. Then one night after a very bad dream she woke up screaming and saw that the ceiling had started to cry. From time to time every time she was sad the ceiling would cry.

"Well I think you have a shitty landlord" Gray said "why don't you leave this place? You can come with us to the dorm, a friend of mine, Erza, rules the girls one and I can ask her.."

Juvia shook her head no "Juvia would like it but she can't leave"

"why not?"

"because Jose wants six moths of closure if I go away and he wants all the money in one shot and Juvia has not 24000 jewels"

"What?" Gray shouted "what a jerk!"

"I'll fight him!" Natsu said

"why would you do it? Juvia asked

"Because we are friends now!" he grinned wide and Juvia's stomach knotted

This was the very first time in her life someone had said out loud (Gajeel doesn't count because he would cut his tongue rather that admit it) that was her friend.

She felt her eyes burnt and Gray smiled
"However" he said " I fixed it, look!" he said pointing to the ceiling.

Juvia looked up following his advice. The sun was rising and coming in from her curtain and she felt nothing else than the warmth of its rays. No drops. No tears.
"You, you took the rain away!" she looked at him with hearts in her eyes and clung to his arm.
He squeaked "W..What do you think you are doing?"
"Juvia will do anything for Gray sama!" she said dreamily.

*Bonus*:

"say Gray, if looking at her bedroom window you saw someone like, dunno Elfman sleeping would you go fix his tube too?"

"the hell of a question is this and don't say I was looking her sleeping, you kinda make me seem a pervert"

"coz you are and you were totally looking"

"am not"

"are too"

"am not"

"You liiiiiiike her"

"shut up"

"Gray, don't you think I sounded like a flying blue cat?"

"the hell am I supposed to know how a flying blue cat sounds, idiot. They don't even exists.

I think.