Midnight Snacks:

Clank!

Juvia picked her head up off the pillow as she heard something or someone knocking around in the kitchen. She frowned as she listened to the rumbling from down the hall. Gray still hadn't come back from the Dragneels yet. She'd been waiting for him, holding Juven and rocking him asleep. The little baby was still asleep against her, sucking softly on his tiny fist.

Juvia ran a finger over the back of his head, smoothing his dark navy hair that was the same color as his oldest brother before putting him in his bassinet and tiptoeing to the kitchen. She conjured up an orb of water, ready to attack if need be. She didn't find an intruder in the kitchen, though, but instead her husband.

"Gray, what are you doing?" she asked as sent the water away and approached the ice wizard.

"Making chocolate pudding," Gray answered.

Juvia frowned as she glanced up at the clock on the wall. "It's four o'clock in the morning. Why on earth are you making chocolate pudding?"

"Because I've lost control of my life," Gray answered as he reached into the cabinet and pulled out two bowls and spooned some pudding into each of them. He stuck a spoon in either bowl and passed one to Juvia.

"Here," he said gruffly.

Juvia took it from him and took a spoonful. As she ate the pudding Gray turned around and grabbed her by the waist. She squeaked in surprise a he set her on the cupboard and then leaned against the wall next to her. Juvia ate another spoonful and kicked her legs underneath her as watched her husband. He was in a gloomy mood, that much was certain.

"So what happened?" she asked.

"Hmph," Gray said before shovelling another spoonful into his mouth. The two ate their treat in silence for a few moments more before Gray finally answered:

"Long story short, Luna got cursed so to save her I turned her into a demon slayer."

"Huh?" Juvia asked, confused.

Gray then went into explaining in full detail what had happened.

"Oh, well," Juvia stated, not really sure how to respond to that.

"Yeah," Gray said, shovelling another spoonful of pudding into his mouth.

"Well, it's a good thing you were there," Juvia said.

"Is it?" Gray asked. "I'm not so sure I did the right thing."

"She was cursed," Juvia reminded him. "There's no telling what would have happened to her if you hadn't given her your magic."

"There's no telling what will happen to her now," Gray said. "You don't know what demon slayer magic can do to your head if you can't handle it."

"But you handled it," Juvia replied.

"Only because I had Porlyusica helping me."

"And Luna will have both Porlyusica and you to help her," Juvia said as she reached out and set a hand on her husband's shoulder. "It might be a bit of a rough road for her, but she'll have her Uncle Gray to help her."

"Hm," Gray sighed.

Juvia leaned down and kissed him on the cheek. "You did the right thing and probably saved her life."

It was only when she leaned back she realized she had a bit of the pudding on her hands and mouth, and she had left them on Gray.

"Oh, no! I'm so sorry!" Juvia squealed.

"Huh?" Gray asked, oblivious to the situation.

"I got pudding on you."

"Oh," Gray turned and looked at his reflection in the kitchen window.

"Sorry, I didn't-hey!" Juvia recoiled as Gray dipped hi finger in his bowl and smeared a bit of pudding on her nose.

"Got you back," he grinned.

"Oh, you," Juvia playfully frowned as she flung a spoonful of pudding at his chest. Gray then flung a spoonful of pudding at her, and then the two got into a full blown pudding fight. At some point they just gave up using the spoons and began chucking handfuls of pudding at each other. Of course, with that tactic, they ran out of pudding fairly quickly, so Gray grabbed Juvia by the waist and playfully wrestled her to the ground.

"Gray!" Juvia squealed as he pinned her to the ground and began peppering her face and neck with kisses. He chuckled as he set a finger under her chin and tilted her face towards his. Their lips softly brushed against each other. Juvia tried to run her finger through his hair, but found it to be matted with pudding.

"Oh, what a mess!" she giggled. Gray also laughed as he stood up and helped her to her feet.

"Yeah, guess we should probably get cleaned up," he smiled as he took her by the hand and led her to the bathroom to run a bath.