Summary: Inspired by a scene in Muppets Most Wanted because while I was watching it this weekend, I came to the startling revelation that Kermit and Miss Piggy remind me a great deal of Gray and Juvia….Hmm… anyway! Juvia gets too carried away with planning her wedding.
Pairings: Gray/Juvia and lots of friendship feels.
YouTube Prompt: Natsu/Lucy (or Gray/Juvia) video to 'I'm With You' by Avril Lavigne.
Gray's peaceful, quiet, lunch was interrupted not by Natsu demanding a fight or someone stupid (Natsu) starting another brawl, or Erza bossing him about, but by Juvia slamming a giant scrap book on the table and uncharacteristically glowering at him. "Gray-sama, we have to discuss our wedding now!" Juvia snapped as Gray choked on his sandwich. "There is a lot of organising that needs doing and Juvia needs Gray-sama's opinion."
"Juvia, I-"
"These are the colour schemes, Juvia quite likes the idea of blue and white, but Juvia is unsure of the flowers, blue roses look terrible, and there aren't many blue flowers that aren't weeds, but then there are very few colours that compliment both Juvia and Gray-sama, though Gray-sama looks very sexy in red, red washes out Juvia, and yellow has never been either Juvia's or Gray-sama's colour, though Juvia is certain Gray-sama could look good in any colour he wishes to wear because Gray-sama is the most handsome man in the world!"
"Juvia, shouldn't we-"
"And then there are the bridesmaids, all of Juvia's lovely friends want to be one, but it's finding the right one to be Maid of Honour, Erza is quite scary about it, as is Mirajane-san, Juvia would quite like it to be Love Rival but Love Rival is a Love Rival, and Juvia cannot trust her to not run off with Gray-sama on the day."
Gray pinched the bridge of his nose in an attempt to get rid of the already steadily growing headache. "Juvia, for the last time Lucy is not a Love Rival, she's just my-"
"Then there are the seating arrangements which are very difficult because Juvia cannot think of anyone that Natsu-san won't start a fight with and ruin the reception, and Juvia refuses to have her reception ruined by Natsu-san's fire-"
"JUVIA!" Gray yelled which managed to silence the blue haired water mage. "I haven't even proposed yet," he pointed out to his girlfriend of about a year and a half (he couldn't remember exactly how long it had been but Juvia could tell you right down to the very last second though for some reason she got the day they had met and the day they actually started dating incredibly muddled up). "So isn't a little too early to start worrying what that flaming moron may or may not do at our reception?"
"Oh that doesn't matter," Juvia said giddily, "Gray-sama can propose on our honeymoon!" What?! "Now then, for Juvia's and Gray-sama's first dance as man and wife, Juvia was thinking-"
"Juvia!" Gray growled, now completely frustrated and fed up. "I'm not having this discussion with you. It's mental! We're not even engaged and at this point….well… I'm not sure I even want to!"
Juvia gasped and immediately her beautiful, wide, blue eyes filled with tears which made Gray feel like a complete dick. He could stand Juvia's melodramatic wails and tears that flood the entire guild (the guild was now stocked with floating devices for those days and the wooden floors replaced with stone slabs so they didn't have to deal with rotting floors), those were normal, daily, recurrences, but what he couldn't stand, never in a million years, was for Juvia's eyes to fill up with silent, anguished filled, tears, and for her to actually shut up, and turn away from him so he wouldn't actually see how much he had actually hurt her.
"Juvia," he tried to reach for her but she pulled away. "Juvia, please-"
"No," Juvia turned back and gave him a watery smile, "Gray-sama is right. As always. Juvia was getting carried away again."
"Juvia-"
Juvia stood up abruptly. "Juvia shall leave Gray-sama to enjoy his lunch in peace now," she said formally, and then began to walk away, with her head held up high in typical Fairy Tail fashion.
It really bruised Gray's heart to see her like that, and really shamed him.
He turned round to see Gajeel cracking his knuckles and glowering at him, Erza suddenly polishing one of her swords, and Mira, Lucy, and Cana all shot him really disgusted looks.
Seeing Juvia so upset, and seeing the potential death threats, forced Gray into action as he rushed after his girlfriend and caught her from behind. "No!" Juvia cried out. As she tried to wiggle out of his arms her own swung back and almost hit him which allowed him to capture her hands instead and turn her round to face him. "Let Juvia go! Juvia should be alone forever for being so pushy and irritating again, Juvia-"
"Should be with her Gray-sama forever, right?" Gray finished. He couldn't help but smirk at the stunned expression on Juvia's face. He pressed his lips against her left hand and mumbled, "Ice Make Ring," which caused a small blue glow that faded to reveal a beautifully carved ring that could pass as a ghost of one of those expensive diamond rings that he had seen in shops sparkling on her finger.
"Oh Gray-sama!" Juvia squealed delightedly before she tackled Gray to the ground and covered his face with kisses ("Juvia!" he yelped in protest which was promptly ignored in favour of more kissing). "Yes! Yes! A million times yes!"
There was a moment of silence in the guild as everyone watched Juvia kiss Gray, and then….
"Dibs on being the Best Man!"
"What?!" Elfman roared. "That is totally unmanly and unfair, Natsu! What if I wanted to be Best Man?"
"Neither of you should be Best Man," Loke declared as he appeared out of thin air, "after all I'm his actual best friend, not you two morons."
And it was then when Gray realised he had just proposed way before he was actually ready to do so…..
Ah, fuck.
