Summary: Inspired by an episode of Some Girls, Juvia takes a dream potion to show her who her future husband is. It does not end well…

Pairings: Gajeel/Juvia friendship, Gajeel/Lily friendship, Lily/Juvia friendship, Gray/Juvia, some implied (must squint hard) Gajeel/Levy, and some other implied feels.

YouTube Prompt: A Lucy tribute to 'Lucky' by Britney Spears.

When they accepted the job request for magical guards at a musical festival, Gajeel knew it wasn't going to be easy.

And he wasn't talking about the actual job.

Ensuring the wards were up, preventing any crime, and making sure nothing got trashed was the easy part, and they got to enjoy liberal amounts of free time watching bands and relaxing with a cold beer.

No, the hard bits were dealing with his teammates. Salamander and the Snowflake were just as bad as the drunk and high people he had to stop trashing the place, Erza was no help, Juvia kept going into floods of tears whenever she saw a scantily clad woman go anywhere near Gray, and trying to preserve Wendy's innocence with all the stripping, sexual exploits, drugs, and alcohol was becoming herculean task.

(Why the hell did they even bring Wendy to one of these things anyway?!)

So when it was his break, which coincided with Juvia's, Gajeel was more than happy to wander round the festival and look at junk that was being sold at the stalls for rude t-shirts and awesome CDs.

He needed the effing break.

"Oh Gajeel-kun!" Juvia gasped. "Look at that! It's a love charm stall!"

And before Gajeel could even blink Juvia zoomed up to the stall so quickly that she had been a literal blur in the wind. "Isn't Juvia banned from love charms?" Lily asked dryly. "I recall three hundred and seventy eight incidences AFTER I joined the guild and apparently there had been more."

"….fuck," Gajeel grunted. He can just see the tears and chaos that could be caused by whatever crap Juvia brought, and it would be made a million times worse because they were surrounded by drunken drugged up idiots. "I'll go and stop her."

"Gajeel-kun!" Juvia greeted him ecstatically as she held up a fat, square, glass bottle filled to the brim with dark, pink, liquid. "Look at this potion! It apparently makes you dream of your future husband! If Juvia drinks this she can finally have the confirmation that Gray-sama is destined to be Juvia's husband."

"Don't go wasting your money," Gajeel growled, "you don't need some highly expensive hallucination probably caused by drugs than actual magic to confirm the fact that that icicle will be husband."

"Oh Gajeel-kun!" Juvia's eyes shined with tears of joy. "Do you really think that Gray-sama would marry Juvia?"

"Of course," Gajeel said solemnly, "whether he wants to or not, I have no doubt you'll get him to say I do. Probably with help of a shotgun."

"…..Juvia doesn't like the sound of that," Juvia said miserably, "she would much rather Gray-sama married her of his own free will and not because someone held a gun to his head. Juvia will buy the potion!" Juvia said with a sudden flash of determination. "Juvia will find out the truth once and for all!"

"Fine," Gajeel rolled his eyes, "waste your money. See if I care. Just don't buy anything that'll drug anyone else."

"Juvia promises not to," Juvia said seriously, "after all his charm store doesn't have any good love potions that Juvia hasn't tried before."

Gajeel didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing, he didn't really care, and after he waited impatiently for Juvia to throw her money down the drain, he dragged her off before she ended up changing her mind about the love potions, reassured Lily nothing disastrous was going to happen, and proceeded to spend his own money of five really rude t-shirts that told people in a variety of different ways to fuck themselves.

("And how is that not a waste of your money?" Lily raised an eyebrow.)

Eventually they went back to work and had to deal with fifty five drunk people unable to find the bathroom, a hundred and twenty nine people coming down from their highs and freaking out, and tell eighty seven couples to go back to their tents and stop showing their naked behinds to the world.

Gajeel was very glad to be able to crawl into his tent and crash for the night, leaving Salamander and Bunny girl to deal with the rowdy crowds instead.

Juvia, his tent mate, also looked happy to finally go to bed, and snuggled in deeply into her sleeping bag before she pulled out the pink potion from earlier. "Okay, show Juvia her future husband," she murmured to the bottle, "…..and it better be Gray-sama!" she threatened the damn thing before she gulped it down in one go.

Gajeel rolled his eyes at his best friend's stupidity and then rolled over himself to go to sleep.

He had been in the middle of an amazing dream where he was on stage at the musical festival, doing an epic guitar jam, having crowds of people screaming his name, and a familiar set of hazel eyes could be seen under her blue fringe gazing at him adoringly…..

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Gajeel shot up as Juvia's scream ripped through his dream and woken him up. He leaped up to attack whatever pervert that had broken into their tent to molest Juvia when he got his feet tangled in his own sleeping bag, tripped over, and sent the tent flying….not that Juvia noticed. She was crying too hard and was coming dangerously close to flooding their tent.

"JUVIA DOESN'T WANT TO MARRY A GIANT TEDDY BEAR!"

"What," Gajeel growled, "the fuck are you talking about?!"

"Juvia," Lily said calmly, "please, stop crying and make sense. It's not late for any nonsense."

"Ju-Ju-Juvia dreamt of her wedding!" Juvia sniffled pathetically. "Juvia was wearing a very pretty white dress and veil. Juvia looked really pretty."

"I'm sure you did," Lily said kindly, "and then what happened."

"Juvia turned to Juvia's groom and- and- and it was a giant teddy bear!" Juvia wailed. "In a top hat. Staring at Juvia with a blank, loveless, express – STOP LAUGHING GAJEEL-KUN!"

"Gihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihi," Gajeel sniggered, "I'm sorry," he said very unconvincingly as he was still laughing, "But I told you so. I told you it would be a waste of money."

"It is not a waste of money!" Juvia said indignantly. "It is obvious that Juvia will cross the species barrier and betray Gray-sama with a teddy bear!"

"If it's a teddy bear," Lily said uncomfortably, "then you aren't crossing the species barrier as its not alive."

"THAT'S EVEN WORSE!" Juvia screamed as tears sprang out of her eyes. "WHAT SORT OF PERVERT DOES JUVIA BECOME?!"

"You're not crossing any species barriers or becoming some weirdo pervert," Gajeel rolled his eyes, "you were obviously having a hallucination from all the drugs that stupid thing had inside it. Now calm-"

"Or worse!" Juvia suddenly grabbed Gajeel by the collar of his t-shirt. "What if it was someone inside a teddy bear suit?"

"Erm…." Gajeel blinked and exchanged a look with Lily who only shrugged, unhelpfully, in reply. "That's a good thing?" he asked.

"NO IT IS NOT!" Juvia shook Gajeel furiously. "BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON IN THE ENTIRE WORLD WHO IS CHILDISH ENOUGH TO TURN UP AT HIS OWN WEDDING IN A TEDDY BEAR SUIT. THERE IS ONLY ONE CONCLUSION AND IT ISN'T GRAY-SAMA!"

"Very true," Lily agreed, "Gray would turn up naked."

"Yeah," Gajeel said, "but that doesn't mean there's only one conclusion. I can see a lot of people being that childish, Salamander for one-"

"Juvia is going to end up marrying Bickslow-san!" Juvia wailed, no longer even paying attention to Gajeel and Lily. Tears poured down her cheek and Gajeel's knees were becoming increasingly soaked from their flooding affect. "Juvia cannot marry Bickslow-san! He is rude and childish and sticks his tongue out all the time and has weird babies and a weird infatuation for Laxus-san, and, more importantly, HE'S NOT GRAY-SAMA!" Juvia sobbed loudly. "Juvia will become Mrs Juvia No Surnamed because Bickslow-san is so weird that he doesn't even have one!"

(Somewhere, across the country, Bickslow suddenly sits up as a giant sneeze overcomes his senses. He then shudders as he has a horrible feeling that someone crazy was talking about him.)

"Right," Gajeel stood up, "that's it! I'm outta of here. Lily you take care of Juvia and try to calm her down."

"What?!" Lily cried out, horrified. "What am I going to do?!"

"Eh," Gajeel shrugged, "find her Gray-sama doll. That tends to help."

"And just what," Lily narrowed his eyes, "are you going to be doing while I try and calm your friend down."

"I'm," Gajeel transformed his knuckles into a cold, unmerciful, iron, "going to hunt down the fucking bastard that sold her the potion and beat the shit out of him for drugging my best friend."

….strangely enough they were asked not to continue doing the security for the musical festival the next day, or to ever come back again.

Someone people glared very pointedly at Gajeel for this but he would like to point out that Salamander, Erza, Gray, and Bunny Girl all had a help in hand in causing that decision to be made.

Apparently they tried some dream potions too.

Idiots, the lot of them.