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JUVIA POV

"Thanks for putting me up for a little while." I said walking into Sting's condo.

"No sweat but why do you need me to put you up, are you being convicted?" Sting asked taking off his coat.

I shook my head. "You remember Gray?"

Sting thought for a second. "Oh Gray Fullbuster!"

I nodded. "He's been staying with me for awhile and he has this new girlfriend who is a total bitch but I don't want to be a bitch and kick them out."

Sting leaned against the counter across from me. He rubbed his chin and nodded his head.

"You must still like him then." Sting teased.

"No." I said turning away so he can't see the little blush forming on my cheeks.

"Were you guys dating before?" he asked.

I scoffed. "More like friends with benefits."

Sting laughed. "That almost never works."

"Yeah I know, I don't know why I even bothered to try it with him." I sighed.

I felt Sting's arms wrap around me tightly so I wrapped mine around him.

"If you ever need to get away from the stress in your life or what not, just give me a call and I'll be there to get you." Sting said rubbing my back.

I eased into his body." Why are you being so nice to me?"

"I have every right to be, I know we dated and all but who cares we didn't do each other wrong." Sting pulled away.

"That's a good way of looking at things." I said giving him a small smile.

He clapped his hands. "So what's for dinner Lockser, I heard the stories about how amazing your cooking is so don't even try to lie."

I laughed." I'll see what I can whip up."

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THIRD PERSON POV

Sting closed his condo door while kicking off his shoes after a long day of work. He owned his own bar and also worked as a carpenter because their was always somebody looking for one of those. He could smell cooked dinner as soon as he walked in. Sting walked pass the couch to only spot a sleeping Juvia.

He hung up his coat and let out a breath of fresh air. It's been three weeks since Juvia first showed up here and it seemed like she was slowly slumping into a big ball of sadness. A few days after she got here, she called Lyon and took a few weeks off work. Juvia contacted Lucy once to let her know that she was safe. Sting would go to work so she would get up, shower, cook dinner and sleep. It was surprising that she hasn't gained any weight because Juvia has been pretty much a rock.

Sting was all there for helping Juvia and over the past few weeks, he's noticed that maybe she could use a little boost. He was going to try and convince her to go home. Juvia had bills to pay on that condo and she needed to make things right with Gray rather than hiding away in the shadows where nobody can find her.

He slowly shook her shoulder back and fourth trying to wake her up.

"Juvia, Juvia."

She slowly opened her eyes and looked at Sting. Juvia sat up and sighed, she had fell asleep again.

"Are you alright?" Sting asked with a worried expression.

Juvia gave him a smile. "Kinda."

"How about we slowly ease you into moving back to your own condo again?" Sting asked.

"Oh I'm sorry if I'm intruding." Juvia said sadly.

Sting shook his head. "It's not that Juvia, I'm worried about you because you've been acting like a rock here lately."

Juvia cocked an eyebrow. "A rock?"

"Yes you wake up every morning and get a shower,cook dinner and fall asleep, that ain't healthy so I want to help ease you back into getting yourself back up and running."

Juvia nodded. "Thanks for being so kind to me and helping me."

"No worries, I'm sure you'd do the same for me." Sting smiled.

Juvia cupped his cheeks and crashed her lips onto his. She felt him respond to her actions. The kiss lasted for about two minutes until she pulled away.

"What was that about?" Sting asked smirking.

"Just checking for that spark people say you have with somebody." she blushed.

"I didn't feel any spark, did you?" Sting asked.

Juvia shook her head.

"You ever wondered why we didn't work out? I mean we both get along so well and we do care about one another." Juvia asked stretching out her legs.

"We were just too random of people to be together and were both searching for different things, we're just better off being friends." Sting exclaimed.

"Yeah I remember now." Juvia smiled.

"So how about tomorrow I'll help you out in moving back to your own condo?" Sting asked.

Juvia nodded and hugged him. "I'd like that a lot."

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JUVIA POV

That following day, Sting kept his word and helped me move back in. I didn't have a lot with me but he still came with me to help me with whatever I needed help with. I opened the door to find it very cold, almost like nobody's been here for awhile.

I walked over and turned on the heat as I proceeded to turn on all the lights. The whole place looked brand new, there was nothing out of place.

"Looks like Gray took good care of this place while you were away." Sting said looking around.

I walked in and checked all rooms, he wasn't there at all. When I walked back out, Sting and I both made eye contact.

"Gray isn't here." I said with a confused look.

Their was still quite a lot of stuff left in his room but everything here just looked like it hasn't been used in awhile. I took my phone out and called Lucy.

"Juvia?" Lucy asked sounding hopeful.

"Hey Luce, it's me." I said smiling.

"How are you?" she asked quietly.

"I'm good, Sting is helping me get settled away back at my condo. Um you haven't seen Gray lately have you?" I asked.

The line went silent.

"Gray actually went up north."

"Why?" I asked.

"I don't know, he wouldn't tell us." Lucy sighed.

"Okay thanks, I'll call you later."

"Talk to you later."

I hung up and shoved the phone in my jacket pocket. Sting looked at me with sad eyes as if he knew exactly what was said during that conversation.

"He's gone isn't he?" Sting asked.

I rubbed my temples. "Yeah, he's gone up north."

Sting bought me into a warm caring hug. "He'll be back."

"Can you stay just this night? I'm not use to being alone anymore." I asked him.

Sting nodded. "Anything for a good friend."

I smiled.

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THIRD PERSON POV

Sting stayed all afternoon with Juvia, talking and hearing her out. They both cooked dinner, sat and ate than decided to get showers and maybe watch a movie or just go to bed. Juvia said that she would go get a shower first so Sting sat on the couch and flicked through the channels. He took his shirt off eventually due to the massive amount of heat flowing through the house and he had to shower anyways. He heard the shower stop so he stood up and went to make his way to the bathroom until the doorbell rang. Sting turned on his heels and made his way too the door.

"Who is that?" Juvia asked walking out in a tiny white towel while shaking the water out of her hair with another one.

Sting opened the door to only come face to face with Gray. He looked in to see that Juvia was wearing only a towel and Sting was shirtless. A boiling anger rose within Gray and he did the worse thing he ever could.

Gray threw back his fist and forward it at Sting right in the face with all his might. Juvia screamed running towards Sting but he stood back up and punched Gray back.

"What the fuck man?!" Sting shouted clenching his right eye.

Gray clenched his left eye than shoved Sting up against the wall.

"What the hell do you think you're doing with my girl huh?!" Gray shouted in frustration.

Juvia ran over and tried to pull Gray off of Sting. She tried to ignore what Gray had just said.

"I'm not doing anything expect helping her out." Sting said sternly.

"I'm sure you were helping her out, putting her legs to good use!" Gray said clenching his teeth.

"Gray it's not like that, he was helping move back in and I asked him to stay the night." Juvia sighed attending to Sting's wound.

Gray scoffed. "Yeah, to rechristian the house I bet."

"Will you just shut the fuck up for once? I came back here so I could get my life back together, you weren't even here when I got back because apparently you went to the fucking north?!" Juvia said in disbelief.

"You just left me without telling me!" Gray argued.

"Because you had that dumb bitch with you!" Juvia shouted.

Gray rolled his eyes. "Well I'm back now!"

"I asked Sting to stay the night because I wasn't use to being alone in the night time, thats it there is nothing going on between us." Juvia said as she dabbed water on Sting's eye.

"Well he can go home now because I'm here." Gray said still pissed.

"I'm not sleeping with a crazy man." Juvia sighed.

"That's funny coming from the same person who couldn't get enough when it came to sleeping with me and you're one to talk about being fucking crazy!" Gray yelled.

Sting sighed and said he was gone to get a shower but he doubts Juvia heard him over the shouting.

"I'm not crazy, your the one who started all this by asking me to be fucking friends with benefits with you!" Juvia defended.

"You started this by agreeing to it!" Gray pointed back.

"Maybe if you had moved in here and didn't start making moves on me and giving me all this bullshit that you care for me and being a jealous fucking horn dog the whole time you were here!" Juvia said tightening her towel.

"I do care about you! I'm not a fucking horn dog!"

Juvia laughed. "I was hoping that when I got back here you would be more of a man. A man who actually goes to his job and doesn't spend all his time drinking with his perverted buddies!"

Gray scoffed. "And I was hoping that you would be the type of woman who wasn't such a tease and actually knew what she wanted instead of fucking around."

"If I'm not what you wanted than why did you even come back?" Juvia asked folded her arms.

Gray rolled his eyes. "As if it isn't obvious enough."

Juvia shook her head. " If I'm not what you wanted than why the fuck did you come back?"

"I'm starting to wonder." Gray said grinding his teeth.

"You didn't even call me while I was gone Gray! So what makes you think that you can suddenly walk back into my life?!" Juvia shouted.

"You're constantly showing up in mine." Gray argued.

"What are you talking about?" Juvia asked confused.

"I can't stop thinking about you!" Gray shouted exhaustedly.

To Be Continued ...

A/N: I finished this super early and seeing how wonderful you all are I thought I'd post it early! Love you all!

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