Hellllllllllo! My fellow fan-fictioners! Today i give you the second chapter of Coached. I love this story and may update it again this week...i'm not sure.

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Juvia quickly packed her clothes and smiled greatly at the Job request sitting on her dresser. She knew she had to do her best to make sure, everything was going to go right on this job. All the times she wanted to be alone with Gray, this was the perfect time to get him to fall in love.

She threw her bag over her shoulder and smiled at the many Gray's surrounding her. "I'll come back, not needing to wish you were the real thing anymore." she whispered into one of their ears. She grinned brightly at him and closed the door to her Fairy Hills room.

She stepped down into the hallway and trotted on down the stairs. She was a few minutes early so she had enough time to calm herself down before she came face to face with the love of her life. She walked the streets of Magnolia, her back bouncing as she walked. Her happy mood couldn't be taken away from her. In fact it brightened the moment she caught the sight of spiked blonde hair and broad shoulders. She ran up and launched herself onto those shoulders.

The movement caught the man off guard, making him stumble a little and quickly clamp his Hands around her arms that were wrapped around his neck. "Laxus-san~" a voice sweetly cooed into his ear. He relaxed recognizing that voice and sighed. Juvia's legs kicked behind him as she tried her best to hang on, noticing she was actually a good bit off the ground. She stopped struggling after a moment. Laxus looked over his shoulder at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Stuck?" When she nodded, Laxus let out a belly laugh. "Okay, hold on." Laxus took her arms and slowly peeled her off. Juvia's feet slowly planted themselves onto the concrete.

"Thank you." She mumbled. Laxus turned around and took her bag out of her hands.

"On your way to the mission with Gray?" he asked. Juvia nodded as he started walking that way with her. "I walk you there." he said. In all honesty, he didn't know why he wanted to walk with her, but he knew that being around this woman made him feel possessive in a way that was a little unsettling. To want to protect that small body, to want to see a cheerful smile on her face in a way that he would have cared less about had she not been in front of the guild the day before.

Today Juvia's hair was again in the ponytail she had yesterday and a white sun hat on her head that she had to fix a few times. Her legs were covered in a long white dress with pink flowers printed on it. The dress had high slits on either side starting right at her thighs. Her feet were covered in cute little sandals with little bows on them. Her makeup was as innocent as it was the day before, but they were nicely done with a thin line of eyeliner and a bit of mascara. Her lips the same nude pick color.

Laxus walked with her the whole way to the station for the most part, quiet. He asked her was she able to get some sleep last night from all the excitement which she reply to with a grin and a bold "Nope!" Laxus laughed at that, realizing he was being enchanted by this woman. He was laughing at almost everything she said and he smiled when she did. It slightly creeped him out.

Before the made it completely to the station, Laxus stooped shortly and dug into his pocket and pulled out a communication lacrima. He handed it to her and smiled. "If you need anything, just call me. It's only voice chat, but that should be enough." Juvia opened her hands for Laxus to plant the small blue lacrima into her hands.

She smiled wide and hugged him again. "Thank you Laxus-san!" He sighed and patted her head.

"You're welcome."

When they made it to the station, Gray was already there, his back pushed to the side of the ticket booth, waiting for Juvia to show up. His head slowly rose and their eyes connected. He gave her a slight smile then noticed the larger man standing beside her. His face flashed for a moment, a bit of confusion in his eyes before he pushed off the wall and walked over. Juvia turned to Laxus and thanked him once more as she went to go meet halfway with Gray. At some point, Laxus couldn't remember, she had taken her bag back and was now on her way. Laxus watched as Gray took the bag out of her hands and they boarded the train.

Laxus, now seeing Juvia was fine, turned on his heel and went to walk away when he suddenly got the feeling to turn right back around. He frozen in his spot as his body moved on his own and turned just in time to see Juvia's face in the window. Her eyes were closed and her lips were pulled into a tight smile. She was waving, her small hand swaying Laxus' way. He stared at her for a moment as her eyes opened and their stare connected. Laxus let go of a soft breath and raised a hand waving her off. The train let off a loud whale and before he would have liked it to, it surged on pulling Juvia with it. He watched it completely leave this time, not taking his eyes off it until it was completely out of his line of vison.

Juvia sat down in her seat smiled to herself. She was grateful to Laxus for helping her have this wonderful opportunity with Gray and would have a hard time expressing her gratitude. She had a big debt to repay for this.

Gray looked over to her from his place in front of her. "You okay?" He asked after a moment. Juvia snapped her head up and nodded.

"Ju- I'm okay. Gray-sama did you pack enough for a week?" Gray nodded this time.

"Yeah, I actually packed extra." Juvia cocked her head to the side giving him a slight confused expression. Gray just smirked. "I strip." he fed her. Juvia's cheeks lite up immediately.

"Oh, yeah! Right. Gray-sama must lose a lot of clothes because of his habit?" Gray thought about it for a moment. Most of the time it was just shirts that he could never keep up with, so he supposed she was right. He went through shirts pretty fast, yet it really didn't bother him.

"Well, yeah" he said, turning to the window. The scene of Juvia brightly waving at Laxus flashed in his head. It made him wonder what their relationship was, the said dragon slayer even walked her to the train station. "Are you and Laxus friends?" his curiosity got the better of him and his lips couldn't help forming the words. Before yesterday, he hadn't seen Juvia anywhere close to him other than a few times during the Grand Magic Games.

Juvia tipped her finger under her chin and tilted her head back. "I would hope so." She mumbled. Gray frowned a little.

"Really, why so?"

"Laxus helped ju- me when I was sad Gray said he didn't want to go on a mission with me." Gray mentally slapped himself. He cringed a little and kept his head to the window between the two of them.

"Right, so you want him to be friends with you because of that?" Juvia nodded and gave Gray a bright smile that kind of pissed him off.

Juvia's face fell a little though as she looked away. "I'm not sure if I'd be able to befriend Laxus-san. He seems like a very isolated person, I couldn't possibly become someone to him like his teammates."

Gray clicked his tongue to the roof of his mouth and turned completely to her. "Then why don't you just ask him." he snapped a little harsher than he intended. When he realized what he did his face tightened and so did his chest. What the heck was this? Juvia noticed the tone in his voice change and she smiled even brighter looking at him.

"Is Gray-sama Jealous?" Gray's face lite up at her words and he snapped his head away from her.

"What the hell! No I'm not jealous, do whatever you want. I don't care!" Juvia smirked and leaned in, planting her dainty hands on his legs, not realizing how this affected Gray, making him blush deeper.

"Evergreen-san said men aren't honest with their feelings" Gray huffed a little, keeping his arms locked, crossed on his chest and his head turned away from the tempting woman in front of him.

"Well I'd like for you to tell Evergreen-san to shut it." Juvia just hummed a little and leaned back in her seat. She knew better.

Laxus tugged himself to the guild and planted himself at his normal table. Freed, today was talking lightly with Evergreen when he came to sit with them and Bickslow was yet to make it. Evergreen turned to him and smiled. She went to open her mouth then she let out a loud sneeze. Laxus watched as she lifted her head up and wiped under her nose.

"What the heck was that." she said. Laxus sighed and turned away from her.

"It's probably from wearing such little clothes." Evergreen frowned at him and grabbed him by the shirt.

"You..." she bristled roughly. Laxus just stared away as Evergreen shook him violently, slurring obscenities at him. Freed was sitting in front of him and was giving him an odd look. When Laxus took notice and lightly set Evergreen back in her seat, he raised an eyebrow at him as a way to ask why he was giving him such a look.

"I was just wondering why you didn't say anything to Evergreen when she grabbed you. Normally you would have glared or at least growl at her to get her to let go. Instead you let her do whatever. Are you not feeling well this morning?" Laxus shrugged one good time before leaning back a little.

"Don't worry about it." he mumbled. Freed decided to drop the subject and instead ask about the blue haired water mage that he knew was on his mind.

"Did you manage to safely walk her to her destination?" Evergreen snapped her head towards Laxus and pushed her glasses on to her face, an amused smirk playing across her lips.

"Oh," she mumbled. "You walked Juvia to the train station?" Laxus's face didn't change as he stared into god knows whatever.

"Yes, I did and yes she made it safely. She should be making it to her job site in a little while." he tone came out irritated, but it only added on to Freed and Evergreen's amusement. Before the conversation could carry on, Master appeared on top of the second floor, catching Laxus' glance. When he nodded his head back towards his office, Laxus stood and dismissed himself. "Old man's calling. I'll be back." he mumbled.

Juvia and Gray were let off at the front of the station in east clover town. Juvia turned to him and smiled. "We should get going" she said, taking out the job request. "The request says we need to meet at house close by to the station. The description say is a tall cottage with large herds of hay around it." Gray nodded and started a steady pace down the hill the station was planted on.

"Alright, let's go." He said. Juvia suppressed a squeal and followed after him. She couldn't help the feeling of completion Gray gave her. She grinned and latched on to his arm as they made it down the steady slope. Gray let her hang on wondering why all of a sudden he was fine with her clinginess. It made his head ache anytime he pictured her cling like this to someone else. More specifically, her hanging on to Laxus like this. It burned into his brain and it made him want to go ape shit.

Juvia looked up to Gray to see the harsh stare in his eyes. She noticed that he was acting a little aggravated since they left. She thought maybe it was because she was hanging on to him too much. She didn't want to be so clingy, but she couldn't suppress instinct. She let go of his arm, much his dismay and gave him a bright smile instead. Gray sighed and crossed his now empty arms over his chest.

The cottage stood out pretty badly. At the end of the slope, there it was surrounded by maybe hundreds of rolls of hay. It was pretty far from all the other houses and it was quite a surprise anyone would know it was out here. Gray cringed as Juvia pulled his arm towards an old shack that looked as if it was just about to fall apart anytime soon. This really couldn't be the client? Could it?

When Juvia walked up to the shack she knocked upon the door, the whole house shook vigorously. Gray flinched back as the door was swung open and an old woman stood in the door way. Juvia smiled at the old woman and crouched to her level. "Hello, we're mages from Fairy Tail. You sent a request?" The old woman's face twisted into a scowl and she retch up and slapped a hand onto Juvia's head. It happened to fast, Gray didn't have time to react. Juvia grabbed her head in slight plain and lost her balance, tumbling back off her feet. Gray quickly grabbed her, holding her back in his arms. He frowned up to the client. The old woman was clenching onto a crane as she frowned back at them

"Don't mock my height dear." she scolded. Juvia nodded and snapped back onto her feet, standing beside Gray. Behind the old woman was a lot of young children ranging from two years of age to about eight.

"Oh! Granma! No, don't answer the door please! Come back inside let me handle it!" A young woman hurried to the door pressing her hands onto the old woman's shoulders. She franticly guided her back into the room asking her to prepare some tea. When she turned back to Juvia and Gray she sighed. Juvia could tell the woman wasn't too far in age from her and Gray. Probably in her mid-twenties. "I'm so sorry for whatever she did. Please, come in, come in." Juvia bowed excusing herself for intruding. Gray did the same and cautiously stepped inside, looking out for little baby hands and toes.

The children were all scattered around the floor, staring their doe eyes up at them. Juvia wondered why there were all so many children. They all ranged in appearances so it was hard to tell if they were all siblings. She doubted it though. There was at least twelve of them.

The woman from before closed the door and led them to a few chairs crowding around a small area. "Please, take a seat. I'll be right back." she said, bowing and walking out the room. When she left, Juvia turned her attention back to Gray.

"I didn't think the request paper specified what kind of object we are to guard-" Juvia stared at Gray as he already had his own attention occupied. She blinked a few times to make sure what she was real but every time her eyes opened, the sight was still in front of her. Gray was sitting with his arms crossed over his chest, children climbing all over his legs and the back of the seat. There was a few children pulling at his hair and others pulling his cheeks or sitting in his lap. Juvia couldn't help the laugh that escaped from her lips. Although normally she'd be jealous of the little children, however Gray's condition was too funny to get mad over.

The woman from before panicked the moment she stepped into the door. "Oh my, I'm so sorry they're all over you! Yuki, Bella, Kian, please stop pulling the kind man's hair!" she set down a saucer filled with cups of tea and rushed over to Gray, pulling the little kids one by one off of him. Gray just waved her off patting the head of a young girl in his lap.

"Its fine." he said through pulled cheeks, "they're not hurting anything." The woman took a hesitant step back, a worried look still on her face.

"Yes but-" Gray smiled up at her.

"Its fine, could you tell us about the mission though?" The woman gave him a long look before she sighed and walked over to an empty chair, taking a seat. A small child walked over to Juvia and threw his arms up. Juvia tilted her head to the side before placing her hands under his arms and lifted him off the floor. This seemed to please the young boy which placed a smile upon Juvia's face. She sat him in her lap and immediately he went to grab at her hat. The woman watched him with a small smile.

"I'm surprised." She said. "The children here have all lost their parents at some point in time. I was expecting for them to be shy around new people but they seem to like you two a lot. Excuse me for my rudeness, my name is Silaice. Nice to meet you." Juvia smiled over at her.

"Juvia, and this is my partner Gray Fullbuster." She said. She had always wanted to say those words and did a cheerful dance within her head. The woman bowed at them and thanked them. The children watched her with confused eyes. This must have been the first time they've seen her like this. Juvia felt her heart ache out to them. It must be terrible not having a mother and a father. Juvia wouldn't know, she didn't remember too much of her parents.

Silaice lifted her head and took a stand. "If you would follow me, I will show you to the reason behind this request." Juvia stood up with the young boy in her hands softly placing him on the ground. Gray did the same, just having to set more kids down than Juvia. It made her chuckle again, making Gray blush and look away.

They followed Silaice into a small room at the back of the shack. "We recently have found a young child placed on our door step." she said as she slowly opened the door to a small room with the tiniest baby Juvia had ever seen. Silaice walked over and soothed his small kicking legs and arms back to their places on the futon he was laying on. "Though we'd like to keep him, we have no room for another child here. We're already low on money and the children we have here now, have a rough enough time as it is here. I believe it's best to just send him off to another shelter who would be able to take care of him."

Juvia nodded understanding where this was all going. "So Silaice-san wants J- Gray and me to take this baby safely to the shelter." The older woman nodded her head and picked the small child up.

"If it isn't too much to handle." Gray smiled and placed a hand on Juvia's shoulder.

"We can handle it. Taking care of a child shouldn't be any harder than taking care of Natsu." Juvia chuckled at this, making the woman tilt her head in confusion.

"Well then, I'll be leaving him in your care." Silaice said, handing the baby into Juvia's arms. The water mage fumbled a bit, not know exactly how to hold a young child. Gray grabbed her from behind and fixed her arms a bit.

"Here, you have to support his head with the crook in your arm your elbow makes." Juvia blinks away her confusion as Gray fixes her arms to hold the small child. Juvia looks down at him with a warm smile. Gray smiles down at them before turning to Silaice. "We'll take good care of him."

The young woman escorts them out to the front door and hands them both a bag. "This has everything in it you'll need. Dippers, a change of clothes, and three bottles for him to fed off of. Thank you so much again." Juvia smiles up at her.

"It's never a problem."

For a while they had just stood outside the train station, unsure of where to go. Tucked into one of the pockets of the bag Silaice gave them, was a map showing them where to go. Neither of them could read the map, and for the most part they could only just sit around, bouncing the baby and making sure he didn't start fussing.

Juvia couldn't help, but sigh. If all they did was just sit around all day, she wouldn't have a lot of time to charm her Gray-sama. She looked over at him peering over the map for maybe the thousand time. "I'm sorry," she mumbled. "I should have talked it over with Silaice-san on where we had to go." Gray didn't look up.

"Then I'm sorry too. I didn't either." Juvia went to reply, but the baby interrupted them. She began to bounce him again to sooth his cries.

Gray stood up suddenly. "I'll go ask around. Maybe someone would know something about a shelter on the other side of Bosco." Juvia nodded and watched him walk off. Juvia sighed, looking back to the small child in her arms. She had been feeling something poking her in side for a while. She shifted the baby to the side and dug into her pocket, pulling out a lacrima. Her eyes widen.

"Laxus-san." She grinned and began to power it up. Within seconds Laxus replied.

"Juvia? Everything alright?" He asked.

"Everything is fine. Gray-sama and I are just a little lost at the moment. Do you know anything about a shelter on the northern side of Bosco?"

"A Shelter?" He repeated. There was a moment of silence before Laxus replied, "I think so. Melton's Shelter. If you take the train to the mountains, about a mile from there should a large Shelter with Melton's written in big green letters. Did that help?" Juvia smiled just as Gray was coming back, scratching his head.

"Thank you Laxus-san! That helped greatly." Gray planted next to her and frowned. Juvia went to disconnect before Laxus cut in.

"Juvia, I may not be home when you get back." Juvia's arms drooped. "How long do you think your mission will last?" Juvia looked up to Gray. He had turned his back to her, looking in the opposite direction.

"Maybe just the rest of the day."

"Well if you get back tonight, you'd might make it in time. Master has a mission for me in Minstrel." Juvia started to bounce her knee when the baby began to make a few fussing noises.

"Why so far away?" Laxus sighed.

"I don't know. I don't have much details on the mission myself. Just be prepared to not see me when you get back." Juvia frowned, looking down to her sandals.

"Okay, Laxus-san."

Laxus could hear the disappointment in her voice, and he hated it. It made him angry that he was upsetting her even if it couldn't be helped. He didn't want Juvia to ever be upset because of him and late alone was enough to confuse him even more. Freed was looking over with and raised eyebrow. Laxus cleared his throat and looked away from him. "Look if you get back in time, you might be able to go on the mission with me."

"OH HO!" Freed yelled from behind him. Laxus shot him a glare.

Juvia immediately perked up. "Really!? Ju- I'll make sure I make it back in time!" Gray snapped his head over and went to cut in.

"Hold on-"

"Thank you Laxus-san!" Laxus laughed and bid her good-bye.

Juvia snapped up and looked down at Gray. "Let's go!" Gray stared at her as she gathered everything and took off to the ticket booth. He jumped up and ran after her.

"We don't even know where to go!" When Juvia spun around Gray's whole face fell.

"Laxus-san told me!" She was beaming. Glowing.

All because of him.