If you follow me on tumblr you already know what's happening somewhere in this chapter lol. For those who don't enjoy the surprise.
Gajeel couldn't help but feel both lucky and unlucky that his latest bodyguard decided to quit, he never hid the fact that he hated having a bodyguard, since the age of ten he whined about being too old for a baby sitter and that he could take care of himself. Not all of them were bad, it was just a matter of Gajeel hating the fact he always had a shadow there, but this last one seemed to be missing a brain completely. As a kid it was well known that Gajeel loved giving his bodyguards a hard time, he could never deny that he was a brat back then, but he would like to think he matured over the years. By the time he was sixteen he had gone through so many of them that he stopped bothering to learn their names. "Hey, you." Was one of the milder ways he addressed them, but he lost count of how many times his mother washed his mouth out with soap for the more vulgar nick names he used. It took Gajeel almost a full minute to put two and two together when his mother so summoned him to her room to announce that someone named Krov quit. His mom used to throw a fit every time she had to go through the process of finding him a new bodyguard. But over the years it had become such a normal occurrence that she ran out of ways to punish him, she didn't even yell anymore, she just dismissed him and a new one would show up at his door in the morning.
Gajeel was sure the only reason people still applied for the position was because his mother offered a small fortune to anyone who could last a month, not may people did, but it was enough to make people want to try. Everyone who quit was offered an extra weeks pay and a decent severance package for their time, which Gajeel thought was way too generous because he didn't think he was that terrible anymore. Gajeel didn't go out of his way to make their jobs harder now that he was older, but he refused to wait around for them all day and be treated like a child. Gajeel was a pretty busy guy, so if he walked too fast, or they didn't know his schedule and lost him it was their own damn fault. For some reason they seemed to grow dumber by the day, the bodyguard he had before the one named Krov who's name he didn't remember freaked out because he lost Gajeel in a crowded market and practically ran back to the palace to tell his mother about it. Gajeel thought the guy was nice and all, but he had to be pretty stupid to run to your boss and admit that you pretty much suck at your job. Most of his bodyguards were smart enough to follow his schedule and just show up at the next place listed, wait for him and pretend like nothing happened. When Gajeel got home later that day he had a fun time explaining to everyone that he ate some bad food and was stranded in the bathroom for an amount of time he really didn't want to admit. If it wasn't for a picture that came out the next day of his feet under the stall, his mom would have never believed him. Gajeel reminded himself to find whatever leech took the photo and to choke him out when he had the chance.
Gajeel rarely bothered to say more than two words to the man named Krov, but the last conversation he had with him wasn't exactly pleasant, but he was still surprised that he bothered to quit. Even though Gajeel ignored Krov that didn't stop the man from boring Gajeel with any and everything he could think of. Gajeel wasn't usually one to give a shit about someone else's appearance, but the duo of the mans over sized eyebrows and teeth even made Gajeel stare. He never said anything about it, but Gajeel was always a little caught off guard by the mans appearance. It would be a lie if Gajeel said he actually enjoyed the mans company, for some reason Krov took it upon himself to firmly plant his lips to Gajeel's ass and it definitely rubbed him the wrong way. He didn't know what was more annoying the fact that Krov refused to call him anything but "Prince Gajeel" or the frequency he actually said it. Gajeel didn't exactly need the reminder that he was a prince every time his name was called, but most people did it anyway. Honestly he was sure that he had been called "prince" rather than his real name his whole life and Gajeel found it absolutely annoying. It was even worse when him and his three bothers were in the same room together. Every time the word was said all four of their heads would lift up and by the end of the night they would all end up ignoring the word entirely unless one of their names followed. After the second time of telling the man named Krov that it was "just Gajeel" he gave up and decided the guy was an idiot, anything short of beating it into his head wasn't going to work, and Gajeel really didn't want to deal with the repercussions of beating up one of his body guards.
Even though he found Krov annoying the man wasn't all that terrible to be around, Gajeel wasn't the only one who was creeped out by him. It was pretty amusing to see the girls who tried to approach Gajeel flipping their hair and batting their eyelashes practically run in the other direction when Krov got to them. It was funny to see the shock on their faces when Krov would stop the women in their path and throw out pick up lines that were almost crude enough to make Gajeel blush, so at least he was good for something. Gajeel was somewhere between chocking on his water, and wanting to climb across the table to choke him when he mentioned how "Smoking" he thought Gajeel's mom was. "Of course you wouldn't notice since she's your mom and all, but she looks great for her age and I'm sure she has another couple good years in her. Who knows, maybe she'll fall for my charm and I can be your new daddy." Gajeel had to tell him to shut it before he killed him or threw up, or both.
Usually a well placed glare and a scowl or two was enough to shut someone up, Krov on the other hand was usually unfazed by Gajeel's bad attitude and made it a point to try to cheer him up despite the fact it usually put him in a worse mood. If that wasn't annoying enough, Krov made it a point to constantly mention and give him advice about his future wife. "Come on Prince Gajeel, don't be modest, is she hot?" Gajeel rolled his eyes and ignored the question for the dozenth time, just because Krov was his body guard didn't mean he was entitled to know everything about his personal life and everyone else was smart enough to figure out that the subject of his engagement was off limits. "You can't keep it a secret forever you know, and even if she's a dog she's still from the north so at least she won't be a pain in your ass." Gajeel refused to take the bait on that one, he was either trying to piss him off or make him curious but he was more annoyed than anything.
"Everyone knows women of the north are great wives, its pretty much all they know how to do! A buddy of mine married a girl from there a few years ago, and she's a dream come true. I'm jealous! She cooks, she cleans, she never complains, she takes care of the brats and she never asks for help. He comes home every night to a home cooked meal and she doesn't even ask him to help her with anything." Krov ran his fingers through his hair and rolled his eyes, Gajeel could feel the envy rolling off of him, but he didn't care enough to ask about details about his friend. "That's the route I should have took, the minute I married my old lady she made my life a living hell. I fell for a pretty face when I was young and we got pregnant, so I thought I was doing the right thing by marrying her. But its been five years and we actually hate each other, I work all day, every day so she doesn't have to. But the minute I get home she's throwing a fit because I didn't help with the dishes or left the toilet seat up or something like that, all she does is bitch and moan and cry. I can't help but envy you're still young, you're single, you have the rest of your life ahead of you, i don't know why you would be bothering to get married now, unless she's guaranteed to be perfect."
Gajeel definitely thought Krov was a pig, he didn't actually care that he was one, but what kind of man with a wife ran around town chasing skirts the way that he did. They had this conversation at least once a day, and Gajeel would ignore him. Gajeel didn't want to hear why virgins were so much better, or how Krov thought the best way to lay down the law was. But Gajeel could actually feel his blood boiling, when Krov mentioned his father. "Why the hell do you think your dad married your mom? He wanted a good wife that would look good twenty years down the line, and believe me, she certainly does." Gajeel inhaled and held his breathe and tried to count to ten, but his rage didn't even fade a little bit when he finally got to the number, but he knew he was probably going to regret this.
"You don't even know what they fuck yer talking about. My dad didn't marry my mom because she was a pretty face and all the other bull shit yer spoutin. My mother was the last heir to the throne and she married her fucking bodyguard, but don't get any idea's over there you're definitely not my type. My mom has never been a fucking trophy wife, if anything my old man was her trophy husband and he even took her last name because of it. Maybe if you stopped talking about women like they're shit your wife wouldn't hate you so much, and what kind of animal doesn't put the fucking toilet seat down? Go ahead and fall in balls first and you'll see why she's bitching so much. I'm sure she would love to hear about what you fucking do here all day, because you work so hard with me you don't you? Go ahead and switch places with her for a day, because I'm positive running after a brat, and cooking and cleaning for your ass is a hell of a lot harder than watching my back in a fucking fortress." Gajeel knew that the last conversation with him wasn't exactly pleasant, but a few years ago it would have been way worse. Gajeel was lucky he didn't have to face Krov after that. He didn't exactly feel guilty about what he said, but Gajeel didn't want to have to deal with that hurt puppy look he gave him for the rest of that day.
Gajeel was pretty skeptical when he found out that his newest bodyguard was actually recommended by Pantherlily, as much as he loved and respected Lily he knew that meant either the guy was a total hard ass, or it was going to be somebody Gajeel knew. It was just Gajeel's luck that the guy just happened to be both, they had only been working together a week and Gajeel had already been threatened to be "punched in the dick" if he even thought about trying to run off and ditch him. Even though Gajeel originally laughed at the threat, the thought alone was enough to make any man cringe."Really Redfox? This is what you do?" The man in question was standing at the edge of his bed blocking his view of the movie he just turned on, and giving him a look Gajeel could only describe as disappointed. "It's not even eight on a Friday night, and you're sitting here eating ice cream in fucking bunny slippers with your hair up?" Gajeel rolled his eyes at his outrage, who the hell was this ass hole to be judging him. So what if he wanted to unwind a little, he had a rough week and Gajeel currently pillow hugging this early meant his new bodyguard could go out and do whatever the fuck he wanted. "Gajeel you're fucking twenty, either your going to get out of bed and come have a drink with me willingly, or I'm gonna drag you to the bar by that terrible fucking bun you have on the top of your head."
Some things never change, even when Laxus was trying to be nice, he was still kind of a dick. Gajeel scoffed and rolled his eyes, all he wanted to do was go to bed early and mind his own business. But he was probably going to end up doing something that he didn't want to do, he knew from experience that Laxus was too much of a sadist to take no for an answer, but Gajeel wasn't one to be bossed around so he was going to at least pretend to put up a fight. Gajeel took another bite of his ice cream and sunk farther into his bed. He could tell by the way Laxus was glaring at him that he losing his patience and that just made Gajeel want to irk him more, he pulled off one of his slippers that were definitely foxes and not bunny's and threw it at his head, it was a pretty satisfying to watch it bounce off Laxus's forehead before watching his attitude go from annoyed to pissed. "Fuck off Dreyar! This is my me time, and stop judging me for it." Gajeel knew he was playing a dangerous game right now since Laxus had a worse temper than him, but he wasn't in the mood to go drinking with a bunch of people who Gajeel knew didn't like him.
Gajeel was aware of the tradition, anytime a group of soldiers returned home everyone would buy them drinks to celebrate their safe return and to mourn anyone who didn't make it back. Gajeel ended up tagging along with Lily from time to time if he was bored enough, but Gajeel never felt welcomed and he didn't see a point in ruining their celebration by showing up to a place he already didn't want to go. When he got home from his trip with Lily he ended up taking advantage of all of the free drinks and getting so drunk that he Laxus and Lily had to carry him home and he was in bed for days. He tried to tell himself that he was drinking that night in celebration, rather than trying to forget the fact he just found out he would be marrying some strange girl before the year was over. Gajeel had trained with Laxus a hundred times over the past year, but he never thought that he would be fast enough to jump on him and pin his hands over his head before Gajeel could knew what was happening. "Get the fuck off!" Gajeel was trying and failing to squirm free, he was usually pretty good at getting out of holds like this, but he was at a pretty big disadvantage since Laxus was the one who did most of his training, and it was pretty hard to get far with two hundred pounds of idiot sitting on top of you.
"Look here princess, you're either going to get up, walk into that fancy closet over there, and put on a decent shirt willingly. Or I'm gonna actually stick your dick in this ice cream right here, and find out if that rumor going around about your it being pierced is true. Either way you're going to pay your fucking respects to the team that just got home." Gajeel couldn't hold back the growl that escaped his throat, he didn't want to give Laxus the satisfaction of letting him know just how pissed he was. Every time Gajeel tried to move, Laxus would tighten his grip on his wrists and the weight of Laxus alone was enough to make moving his lower half close to impossible. Gajeel couldn't remember the last time he had been pinned like this, when he first started training with Laxus, Gajeel would just have to tap out to survive. But it was a year later Gajeel's pride wouldn't let him do it now." Fine. If you wanna stay in bed so bad, we can just...do this instead."
Even though this wasn't Gajeel's first time, he wasn't the most experienced kisser in the world. If he knew a little more about romance, he might have noticed the signs. Shock would be an understatement if Gajeel were to describe how he felt when Laxus started kissing him, the thought of being kissed by another man never even crossed his mind. If somebody told him that Laxus's constant teasing was his way of flirting with him, Gajeel would have called them a fucking liar. The more Gajeel thought about it, the more it made sense now that it was happening. He always thought it was a little weird that he would catch Laxus staring at his lips from time to time, but Gajeel just wrote it off as Laxus being curious about his piercings. Even though it had been a couple years since the last time he had been kissed romantically the sensation was pretty much the same, Gajeel copied what he did a few years ago when a girl got a little too brave and turned his head to break the kiss. Gajeel unlaced his fingers that at some point become tangled with Laxus's and chalked it up to Laxus's fucked up way of messing with him. Gajeel refused to meet his gaze, he didn't want Laxus to know that he actually got to him, but punching him felt pretty good.
Okay so nobody guessed that it would be a Gajaxus kiss in this chapter lol, but I still will be posting the next chapter early. Also I'm switching my tumblr account from Chesxca to Chesxca-c at the end of the month. Thanks as always for reading. -Love Chesxca
