Wow guys ~ sorry for the delay again. Thanks a bunch for all the reviews and love you guys have given this story despite my horrible habit of disappearing for months at a time haha

~So without further adieu, I present to you Chapter 14~

!~Enjoy~!

Chapter 14:

With quiet breaths she pressed her body against the wall. She'd heard the sound of a body falling to the floor and the phantomlike sounds of Laxus' voice coming from farther down the hallway. Evergreen was hiding around the corner of two crossing hallways, keeping her hand over her mouth to keep her breathing muffled. Her eyes cringed when she heard the unmistakable sound of someone being kicked – because while she wouldn't deny that she was a bully, physical violence hadn't ever been her thing.

There was suddenly a scraping sound in the hallway and the click of a door being closed. More sounds echoed down to her, but after a metallic jangle from a doorknob and a wooden thud, the only sound that remained was that of footsteps. She knew they belonged to Laxus by how oddly quiet and graceful they were. They were getting quieter as they continued. Evergreen let her hand fall slowly from her mouth, no longer feeling a need to muffle her breaths so much now that she knew Laxus was getting farther away from her. She carefully peeked around the corner to see Laxus' dark outline stopped at the end of the hallway, standing idly just outside the double doors of the library.

Evergreen watched silently as Laxus opened both doors. He stepped forward in a smooth motion and pushed the doors closed after him without so much as a glance backwards. Ever was left alone in the darkened school building with nothing for company but the echo made by the closing of the heavy library doors.

She flattened her body against the wall once again.

At the moment, her mind was on the edge of a cliff, caught between the decision to either jump off or turn and go back the way she'd come. It would be so easy for her to simply turn around and walk away from the cliff's edge she'd suddenly found herself on, but it would take a lot of willpower – more than she thought she had – to jump off into the void below. She knew what would await her if she chose to turn away from the problem, but in front of her was a mystery. There was no telling what would happen if she decided to dive into the issue and that frightened her.

But the real question was if she could live with herself if she decided to run away from the cliff and the serious decision she needed to make. If she didn't move forward and jump, what would happen if she did nothing? Could she live with herself if she made that choice?

She wasn't sure. Evergreen stared vacantly forward, her insides battling it out. Run or stay? Continue on with the way things were, or let it end?

The library doors closed with a lingering thud, the softened sound of wood against wood. Levy stared at her blonde assailant, helpless against the feelings of fear and anticipation that immediately rose up inside of her. She'd previously been keeping herself calm by repeating what she needed to do:

Get him talking, make sure he's close enough to the library's phone, and wait until he says enough to be used as proof. Once that's done it's all over – Gajeel will have been listening the whole time, and will burst into the room to keep me safe.

The repeating words in her mind had a calming effect on her – but that was rendered utterly useless the moment Laxus appeared. Her heart was pounding at an alarming pace and she felt frozen to her seat behind the librarian's desk.

"Hello Levy," Laxus said easily as he leaned against the doors with his hands behind his back. "Find something good to read."

Levy swallowed loudly and set down the book she'd been pretending to read. Her voice was stuck in her throat. She was supposed to act startled that he'd found her, but she could do nothing but watch with fearful eyes as he stood at the door.

And there it was – that frightening smile finally graced his lips. The one that haunted her sleeping hours. "Actually," he spoke pointedly, "I'm pretty sure you were expecting me…"

Levy's heart stopped.

Her voice managed to unstuck itself long enough for a shocked, "What?..."

Laxus stayed stationary at the door, locking his cold blue eyes onto Levy's fear-stricken ones. "It's quite funny really. I just-so-happened to be told that you were here in the main building all alone and was told to come and find you with a message from Makarov. He doesn't need your help for dinner…meaning that not only are you here all alone, but no one is expecting to see you for a good length of time…"

Levy slowly felt all the warmth from her body being drained away.

"Seems a little weird to me, since you've managed to keep yourself in places either heavily populated or within shouting distances of others for a good two years now."

Did he figure it out? Nononono, Levy thought frantically. What's happening?!

"Did you give up?" he asked as he started moving – slowly wading into the room. "Did you think that if you made this too easy for me that I'd give up?"

Levy's body felt like ice. She knew she had to move – to get out from behind the L-shaped desk that kept her trapped against the wall – but her legs felt as if they'd become grafted to the rolling desk chair. Get up! She commanded her legs, get up right now!

Her legs wobbled but she managed to thaw her body enough for the simple movement of standing up. She felt a little dizzy but she figured that was the fear. Get out from behind the desk – keep him away from the phone. Her portion of the plan wasn't too complicated, but if she was trapped behind the desk everything could be ruined. If Laxus noticed that the phone on the librarian's desk was sitting ever so slightly off the receiver everything could be over.

There would be no back-up plan except for whatever Gajeel could do to interrupt.

Levy didn't want it to come to that.

"Just leave me alone," Levy said in a shaky voice. She edged towards the opening of the edge of the desk, keeping her eyes on Laxus the entire time.

"Sorry, but I can't do that," Laxus said with a hungry smile, "I've been waiting much too long for this." He took a few long strides and met Levy right at the edge of the desk.

She hadn't moved fast enough.

His large hands came to her shoulders and shoved her back. Levy staggered and fell back hard on her butt. Laxus stood over her, looking down with cruel thoughts visible in his bright blue eyes. He gave a quick glance at the desk and let out a deep laugh that doused Levy's entire being in ice water.

"So that's what your plan was…I knew you two had some sort of scheme planned."

Laxus looked back to Levy and smiled at how wide her eyes had gotten.

"I forgot to tell you earlier – I ran into Gajeel on my way up here."

"No…" Levy whispered in a hopeless voice. Her hands shook as she scooted her body backwards and away from the towering blonde.

Laxus smiled fiendishly, "I don't know what you thought he could do to help you – but Gajeel won't be bothering us."

"Wha-What did you do?"

"A little payback," Laxus said as he continued forward. His hand shot out and pushed the phone down until he heard the soft click of it hitting the receiver. "So now we don't have to worry about anyone listening in to our alone time, right? Was that what you'd come up with to stop me?"

"Stop it," Levy whimpered. He was getting closer.

He ignored her. "Were you going to use it as blackmail – or maybe you thought you could take it to Makarov or something. You really are very interesting Levy – but that won't matter anymore…at least, not after we finish things up here." He bent to the floor and suddenly grabbed her wrists. He yanked her upright and pushed her against the wall, keeping her trapped there with his body as he leaned into her.

Laxus tilted her head upwards and immediately covered her lips with his own. His lips moved with such ferocity that Levy thought he was trying to suck her soul out of her body with his mouth. His large hand on her jaw squeezed hard enough to force her mouth open. Laxus ran his tongue along the inside of her lip.

Levy could do nothing but cringe at the taste of his breath mingling with hers. His hand slid down her neck and pulled down on the collar of her green sweater. The pale skin of her shoulder was revealed and Laxus' lips finally released their hold on her mouth and started trailing down to her newly available skin. She felt his teeth as he nipped at the tender part of her inner shoulder.

Footsteps echoed through the darkened hallways of the school, but they were getting farther and farther away from the library. Evergreen was panting as she ran, her feet slapping the ground.

She'd made her decision.

Her hope of escape was becoming weaker and weaker by the moment. Her body was pinned against the wall with his own, and even if that wasn't a problem, her muscles felt too weak to be able to put up much of a fight. Levy glanced over the top of Laxus' head at the door. If she could just manage to get herself over the librarian's desk and through that door, she might have a chance. She could hopefully get to Gajeel and maybe…

No, Levy stopped herself, Laxus already hurt him because of me and made sure that he wouldn't be able to stop him…if I manage to get away from here, my only option is to keep running until I get back to the main building…and I know already that I'll never be able to make it that far.

She felt stupid now for choosing such a useless location. The library was pretty far from the dormitories and dining hall.

Levy was forced out of her thoughts when Laxus' hands were suddenly around her waist and slipping up beneath her sweater. His soft hands sent chills cascading down her entire body as they moved up her cold skin. His fingers came to the underside of her bra and at that moment her body seemed to move on its own.

She pushed her whole body forward, using a leg to push off the wall and get enough weight behind her movement to at least force Laxus to take a step back. Levy scrambled forward and hopped up onto the librarian's desk. She was trying to move fast but she felt as if her body was layered in wet cement. She crawled across the wooden surface, pushing random clutter out of the way. Her arm pushed into the bulky computer monitor and sent it tumbling off of the desk. It crashed loudly on the floor, causing Levy to let out a startled cry at the harsh sound.

She was just about to stumble off the desk and make a mad dash for the door when a cold hand clamped down around her ankle.

"No!" she yelled desperately. Levy tried to kick her leg enough to make Laxus let go, but in her attempt at loosening his hold, her whole body started thrashing about. She lost her balance and felt her body fall head first from the desk. The dark room seemed to spin around her as time slowed down.

The short few seconds that it took for Levy to fall to the floor were very clear to her. She was very aware that this was going to hurt, but there was no way to move in time to protect her head. Laxus' hand had left go of her, and she could hear him slowly walking around the desk, his feet making close to no sound at all. Levy could see his shadow growing taller on the wall behind the desk.

The small burst of hope for an escape that she'd had was gone now. Levy came to a grim understanding of what was going to happen – and all she had left to hope for was that the fall would knock her out completely and she could just be unconscious through everything.

The floor of the library was carpeted, but beneath the thin layer of ugly brown was nothing but hard concrete. Levy heard the muffled thud as the left side of her head hit the library floor – and then she felt it. Pin-pricks of light dotted her field of vision and that dark room went darker. A constant static sound filled her ears and her head was throbbing with such a fierce pain that sent her entire body rigid. There was so much pain that her throat couldn't even manage to scream – it was as if her brain had suddenly forgotten how to send the right command to her voice box.

Through the steady static she could hear a cold voice talking to her, but the words sounded foreign to her ears, like an alien language. A tall figure topped with light yellow loomed over her. She could do nothing. Levy's body wouldn't move – her brain couldn't seem to function right. Pain seemed to branch out from the point of impact through her entire head, causing even her eyes to hurt and sting as they stared towards the left of the room – stuck staring in that direction because that happened to be the way her head had lolled after the fall.

But while her body was stuck in place, this didn't mean she'd gone numb. Levy could still feel everything – the sting from cuts she'd gotten from falling onto shards of broken computer monitor, the feeling of blood rushing from one of her feet as one of them had gotten caught on the edge of the librarian's desk, the cold air on her exposed stomach where her sweater remained bunched beneath her bra from when Laxus had her against the wall.

Levy realized that the tall outline was gone from her sight, and that a new heaviness had appeared on her thighs. She could feel something trapping her legs now that both were placed firmly on the ground. Her head was forcibly turned to look towards the right side of the room, sending fresh branches of pain through her skull.

More words spoke above the static, but her mind was struggling with new bouts of pain – too preoccupied to attempt to figure out what they meant. Laxus allowed her head to face straight up now. Levy could see Laxus' blurry face leaning over her. He looked so high up – as if he would bump the ceiling if he straightened his head. Levy understood that the heaviness she'd suddenly felt was the blonde sitting on top of her, with his legs running alongside the outside of hers, keeping her down and still as if her body weren't already paralyzed.

He was blurred, but she could still make out his smile.

Levy's body was now a semi-lifeless toy in Laxus' hands. She felt his cold hands on the open skin of her stomach and the tug as he eventually pulled her green sweater over her head. He yanked her pale arms out of the fabric and let them fall back to the floor. She could hear him talking again, but the words still didn't make sense – the only thing she could make out was the sound of his smile written into the tiny vibrations of his voice.

His large hands were now fumbling with the metal button of her jeans. It only took a few seconds for him to get them unbuttoned and unzipped. Laxus hooked his fingers around the waist of her pants and tugged them about halfway down her legs.

There was a pressure on her entire body now as Laxus flattened his chest against her exposed body while still using his legs to keep hers still. She felt his hot breath on her neck, sending goosebumps rippling down all of her flesh. Stinging tears fell down the sides of her face.

Please let this be over soon, she pleaded to no one inside of her mind. This must have been the only way to get out of Laxus' sights from the very beginning. I was stupid for believing that there would be another option – that Gajeel and Mira and Lily could actually help me escape my fate. This must be my punishment - for what, I'm not sure, but I must have done something wrong. I must be so damaged beyond repair that this is the only suitable punishment for me…

More tears streamed down her face as Levy felt Laxus sit straight up again. She could hear him messing with what could only be a belt buckle. The resigned blue-haired bookworm shut her eyes as tight as they would go and managed to turn her face away.

Three sets of footsteps echoed through the darkened hallways, accompanied by three sets of harsh breaths.

"Tell me what's going on!" Master panted as he brought up the rear. He wanted to slow down, but the two girls leading him forward had him in a panic. They'd both been vague as they talked over each other trying to explain what was going on, but the most he could make out was that there was some kind of trouble that involved both Levy and Laxus.

"Gajeel's unconscious in there," Evergreen said urgently as she nodded to a half-open door to their left.

Mirajane sent a quick look at Ever before coming to a stop at the door and disappearing inside. But as quickly as she disappeared, she came back into view quickly followed by an off-balance Gajeel.

He quickly looked up at the others and let his eyes stop on Evergreen, "The fuck are you doing here?" He rubbed at the back of his head where Laxus had hit him with something hard.

"Shut the hell up and go!" The brunette yelled back at him."You've been out for a good fifteen minutes." She pointed up the hallway where the library doors loomed up ahead.

Gajeel's dark eyes widened and his head whipped around to face the doors. He let out one of his most frequent swearwords and took off at a stumbling run, quickly followed by Mirajane and a very confused Makarov.

Evergreen stood still in the hallway watching them all rush forward.

She'd run as fast as she could to find the headmaster, but even after all of that there was no telling if it had been enough. It had taken her a bit more time than she'd anticipated, finding Mirajane and the headmaster and getting them to follow her. It might be too late now.

She stared with hard eyes at the double library doors and forced her legs to go the rest of the way.

One second, all Levy could hear was the cold static hum of a silent library, and the next there was something close to an explosion. A loud wooden thud and a cacophony of voices all suddenly bursting through the silence. Levy's eyes were shut so tight that she had trouble finding a way to release them.

The voices sounded familiar, but the words were still incomprehensible to her muddled mind. They floated around inside her pain-filled head where only a few of them were able to be deciphered.

A lot of them turned out to be swears and curses.

The weight of Laxus' body was suddenly lifted, and she felt her heart cry out in relief.

She felt a thud on the ground nearby, but that wasn't of any concern to her – instead, Levy was more concerned with the warm wave that had settled over her shaking body. A blanket or something similar had been spread out over her exposed self, and a hand quickly wound itself into hers. It was warm and small.

Mirajane, she thought weakly.

A gentle voice was speaking very close to her, but the static was growing louder. Levy knew that she was finally going to pass out now. Her unconsciousness came right when she no longer needed it.

She was safe now.

A/N: Sorry for the delay - it's been a while haha but fear not! I still have a chapter (maybe two depending on how long it turns out) left to go before this story ends.

Hope you liked this chapter! Pretty sure it stayed within the T rating but if you think it's questionable tell me and I'll do something about it lol