This is a thought bunny I have been working on in my head. What do you guys think? Based after episode 160, Bad Omen.

Relation

The crowd is going wild with laughter over the latest match. Mystogun aka Jellal Fernandes, had just lost to Jura. Now Gajeel prides himself on saying what needs to be said, but that loss just felt ridiculous and it put them behind.

It was then and there that Jellal decided he needs to leave and meet back up with his guild. Mira suggested Gajeel walk him out to make it look more natural. As they made their way up a flight of stairs, Gajeel closed his eyes in annoyance.

"I don't see why you don't go to her, even if she doesn't remember you."

Jellal only chuckles as he looks ahead of them with a sad smile. "Its too painful but at least I know she is safe in Fairy Tail. That incident concerning Tenrou Island nearly gave me a heart attack. The woman I love and my baby sister almost lost to me forever, you cannot imagine my nightmares."

"I have a good idea. Sometimes when I get too warm, I am reminded of the heat and pressure of Acnologia's attack from that day. Crazy stuff, man."

They walk a little longer in silence. "I never thanked you for looking out for her."

"Its nothin'. She's a fighter in her own way."

Jellal narrowed his eyes at the Dragon Slayer. "Do you like her?"

Shit. He walked right into that one. Gajeel smirked but stuffed his hands into his pockets to hide his shaking fingers. "As nakama, yeah."

"I understand you guys are friends but if anything like Phantom Lord happens again, Redfox. I will kill you."

He looked away, tasting the guilt that sentence brought. "You said that already."

"And I'll keep saying it because I'm still pissed my sister got brutalized and pinned to a tree."

Grinding his teeth, Gajeel snarls at the disguised fugitive. "No one will ever regret that anymore than me. Hell I feel it in my gut every time I look at her, but she just smiles at me!"

As they reach the top of the stairs and head towards the exit, Gajeel hangs back. Turning back to him, Jellal lifts up his hood to hide his face from view.

"It chafes me to say this but killing you will only make Levy sad. Not to mention Erza would have my hide if I acted in such a fashion. I'm trying to prove I'm not all about murdering innocent people anymore, just the bad ones."

Meeting those brown eyes that are a darker version of hers, Gajeel narrows his own feral looking red ones. "Then we are in agreement."

Jellal raises a brow silently in question to his remark.

"We want to better ourselves for the women we respect most."

For a few moments they just glared at each other, then Jellal turned away.

"So you do like her."

This is getting worse with every brief conversation they have ever had, starting with the one where Jellal slammed him into the wall not long after pleading Makarov's permission to temporarily join their guild for the Games. To find out Jellal is Levy's elder brother was a shock to say the least, especially whent the man casually threatened to kill him should his baby sister ever come to harm. Sadly Levy has amnesia concerning the tragic night her village of Blupine was attacked and her brother stolen.

"Dammit, I didn't say that!" Gajeel yelled as he fought a blush but the other man is already walking away.

"You're lucky I'm so busy or I'd use Sema on you instead of Jura-san. My sister derserves better."

"Are you even listening to me?! Oi!"

Until the next one! Review please! HUGGLES~