Prompt: 'I'm your tutor, and I don't care how much you struggle you will learn this shit and pass because I've never had any others fail or do help me' au + Natsu/Levy?

The Good Tutor

Natsu groaned in defeat and dropped his head to the library table with a loud thud. "I just don't get it," he complained. "Why is this so hard?"

Levy rolled her eyes and had to take a deep breath to calm herself. "Natsu, it's really not that hard," she told him. "Now come on, try it again. You have the formula right there. All you have to do is follow the steps one at a time and remember your basic rules."

"I know…"

With a sigh, Natsu lifted his head and his pencil from the table and turned to a new page in his notebook to begin working on the equation again. Levy wasn't quite sure how she'd been roped into tutoring Natsu, but after having him fail to come to the correct answer for a high school level algebra equation, she was wondering why she was sticking with it. The man was an environmental science major, yet despite the high school grades that had rivalled her own, he seemed to be having a lot of trouble with his linear algebra unit - so much that it was actually his third time repeating it, and failing that time around would lead to him being excluded from his course.

Natsu presented his book to Levy sitting opposite him once he'd finished working on the equation, and he waited with a dull look in his eyes for her to tell him that he was wrong once again. Instead, Levy only nodded as she looked over all of his working out, checked it all against her own working out that she'd done the night before in preparation for their session that morning, and smiled before handing the notebook back to him. "That looks good!" she said. "Sometimes it's worth taking your time with things, isn't it?"

"I suppose…" Natsu grumbled. He didn't like taking his time with anything. He liked getting on with things. And the compulsory maths unit was just another thing he wanted to just hurry up and get on with.

"Now how about the next one." Levy pointed to another question in Natsu's textbook. "It's almost the same as the last ones. Let's see if you can get it first go."

And so off Natsu went, scribbling down the equation on the paper, breaking it down and constantly going back and forth between the paper and his calculator until he was writing down the final answer.

"Close," Levy sighed once he presented his work to her again. He'd almost gotten it the first try, but he'd skipped a crucial step in his working out, probably just from rushing and not reading it carefully enough.

Natsu could only groan and drop his head to the desk again. "I give up. It's too hard! None of it makes any sense," he whined. He was probably just going to flunk out and then go sell fireworks on the side of the road or something. That sounded good - though Gray would probably disagree…

That was the final straw for Levy, though. She'd known Natsu since high school; knew what he was capable of. And he was sure as hell capable of passing his goddamn linear algebra unit, even if it killed him.

She got up so quickly that her chair tipped back onto the carpeted floor, and slammed her hands down onto the library table so hard that it drew the attention of people outside their reserved study room. "I'm your tutor, and I don't care how much you struggle. You will learn this shit because I've never had any others fail or so help me."

Natsu swallowed the lump in his throat and stared up at the small woman in terror. "Yes, ma'am," he squeaked.

"Good." Levy cleared her throat before picking up her chair to sit back down on it. "Now try it again, and slowly this time. Remember to read the question properly."