A/N- I credit this story first and formost to Mashima-san who owns all rights and credits to the wonderful world of Fairy Tail and it's beloved characters. Figured now was as good a time as any to do that pesky editing!

Chapter 1- Night Terrors

The sheet was wrapped half-hazardly around the tiny bluenette, quilt long lost to the floor as she tossed restlessly in her sleep.

She screamed "Don't hurt them! Why?"

Sitting bolt upright Levy clutched her abdomen, body soaked with sweat.

"Guess I'm up now" She mumbled grumpily, she'd only been asleep just a couple of hours.

"I'd better just get a start on that next translation job"

After setting the coffee, mumbling incoherently she stepped into the shower. The hotter than usual water beating the last dregs of exhaustion from her stiff body while bringing a nice blush to her skin. Levy's mind was fried. "Why does this keep happening? That was forever ago!" She slammed her tiny fist into the tiles next to her head as her gentle sobs joined the sound of the water cascading over her.

"We forgave him,all of us did..."

The coffeemaker beeped ominously for the other room.

Lily had barely managed to leap off the bed in time as the iron spikes shot across the room. He was used to it. He knew Gajeel's past bothered him,but didn't pry. He waited for the slayer to stop flailing about before settling himself back against Gajeel's pained whisper of "I don't want to do this" was all that could be heard in the cottage across town.

"Damn I really should do laundry " Levy threw her flannel Lily pj top on and hastily pulled on her 'tiny but tough' boyshorts. Running her hands through her hair, she sat at her desk to begin the translations.

He left the house early that morning, no real destination in mind, he just wanted to lose the memory and the bad taste it left behind. This was something he would have to deal with sooner or later, hopefully just not today. And from the hill overlooking Magnolia, as the sun rise like the smoke from his cigarette, he wondered what she was doing right then.

Levy couldn't focus, the Atruscan in front of her might as well have been some remote language from Alakatasia. She sighed heavily shoving her books aside. "What the hell is wrong with me today? Normally this would've been done an hour ago!" She barely registered the now rising sun as she pulled her sketchbook and pencils out of the drawer. Coffee long forgotten, she lost herself in the smell of graphite and the soft scratch against the heavy paper.

Gajeel's stomach rumbled loudly, he didn't want to face anyone yet. Not even Lily, he knew he'd freaked in his sleep again and just wanted to be left to himself. But a hungry dragon is a grumpy dragon.

"Might as well go see what Mira made today, need to check the request board anyway."

The guild was peacefully quiet at this hour, much to Gajeel's relief. He was starving and could smell the famous Strauss' cooking before he even got near the cathedral. Thankfully the only one in sight was Laxus, a nod and a non-committal grunt was the only greeting necessary as he slunk to his shadowy corner table.

Never being one to gauge atmosphere correctly Juvia ran up to Gajeel excitedly.

"Gajeel-kun! Can you give this to Levy-chan for me?" Ignoring his usual pointed glare, she dropped a heavy bundle on the table next to him.

He raised an eyebrow." The hell Juv, I'm not her keeper! Why can't you do it?"

"Juvia has a job, and Lucy-chan said only to give it to Levy! But Juvia knew Gajeel wouldn't read it."

Just the damn luck of it, now I have to see her today. He cursed both bunny-girl and Juvia inwardly like they had planned this. Damn meddlesome guildmates! After all, he wasn't actually avoiding her to begin with, but he wasn't chasing and screaming after her either. He finished nursing his beer, smoking another cigarette while debating leaving it behind the bar and going back home. "Must be that damned book" He shook his head starting blankly at the pile. Levy would kill him with her bag if anyone got to it before she did.

He scooped it off the table, "Might as well get this over with. Sooner is better than later I suppose." Gajeel much rather would have preferred the later, and set of toward Fairy Hills.

It was just before lunchtime when the scratching finally ceased. Levy's hair hung around her face as the pencil clattered to the desktop. She had no clue what just poured out of the secret depths of her mind, but once again the exhaustion was back. She refilled her mug, sitting back to see what exactly came out on that piece of paper.

Gasping in absolute shock, starting back at her from the page was none other than the man who haunted her every moment. A lifelike Gajeel smirked in all his nude glory from her bed. " What the hell?" She slammed it shut, throwing it across the room before stomping to her bed and throwing herself on it.

Today was not going well for either of them.

Closing A/N: I figure I'm gunna try to keep these brief, as my word count is already depressingly short.