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Neither of them were particularly dependent on each other or worried when a few missions had them going in opposite directions. And this time was no different.
There was no impending dark forces that hinted to war.
No missing limbs, not even so much as a paper cut from the mission flyer.
But when she got back from her mission and he had yet to return from his, it found her waiting in his apartment until the late hours….just like Natsu.
Lucy hadn't let her go without practically shouting the embarrassing comparison from the rooftops.
Her humiliation was alleviated somewhat when Gajeel stumbled back into his house in the predawn and only just managed to rasp out her name before she was trapped in his arms and tangled in the blankets tucked into the couch to keep her warm.
In her mind's eye, they were bruises blooming as he found her hairline, her temple, her cheekbones and jaw and mouth and the side of her neck down to her shoulder and on to her collarbone, but in reality, the touches held the force of a butterfly's wingbeat.
Her own reciprocation jolted his hollow insides with electric shocks that left a buzz in the deepest parts of his ribcage and eardrums.
They would have been laughed right out of the guild and off the face of the planet for their sheer drive that tasted too much of a weird and new kind of desperation, but they couldn't find it in themselves to particularly care.
They willed the ghost emotion into ash, to be carried out on the next spring breeze.
#21; all over kiss
originally posted: 10-27-13
A/N: Sometimes they need to be grounded and make sure the other is really there.