It's back!
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"Ughhh!" Levy groaned, stomping down the flight of stairs to Gajeel's kitchen.
The man was sure as hell stubborn, that she knew for certain. All she needed him to do was take some dang pain medicine. "But no…" She whined.
"Hey shorty, where'd you go?!" Gajeel shouted from his bedroom.
Levy rolled her eyes, take that back; the man was infuriating.
"To get the hell away from you…" Levy whispered, knowing he couldn't hear her.
"I heard that!" Gajeel groaned.
Levy's face turned red, what did he have super human ears or something?
Levy sighed and grabbed a bottled water from the fridge, the least the man could do was keep hydrated.
"You leave or somethin?" Gajeel said, she could have sworn she could heard his eyes roll.
"I'm coming…yeesh.." Levy sighed.
Levy walked back up the stairs and squealed as she took in a picture of Gajeel in only is boxers.
"Uh, sorry!" She squeaked, ducking her head in embarrassment.
"Gajeel looked at her blushed expression and smirked. "Like what you see shrimp?" He chuckled.
"It's not like that…" Levy's blush spread.
"Sure, for all I know you could be taking care of me just to see me naked." He chuckled again.
"I am not!" Levy protested.
"Sure!" Gajeel couldn't contain his laughter, although soon regretted it when he winced in pain. "Shit!" He sat back down on his bed.
"Here, let me see." Levy rushed over to him, even though she felt oddly awkward as he was still almost naked. She placed an ice pack on the bruised area, hoping it would calm his muscles and help with the pain. "Since you won't take pain medicine…" She sighed.
"Yeah Yeah…" Gajeel groaned, he heard this lecture from her at least twice a day; he didn't need the stupid pills.
"Why won't you take any?" She asked.
"Because…I don't wanna!" Gajeel huffed.
"You sound like a little boy." She giggled.
"I do not!" He argued.
"Sure.." Levy giggled.
"Hmph…whatever!" Gajeel crossed his arms, although the feeling of her hands on his body was helping him calm down a bit; he liked the feel of her fingers…so soft.
Levy could have swore she saw him blush, then it seemed to disappear; as if he saw her looking at him.
"Sorry…again…" Levy said.
"For?" Gajeel looked at her confused.
"For this." Levy gently touched his side.
"Eh, don't worry about it." Gajeel smirked. "It would have hurt a lot more if I didn't even try to fight him." He turned his head away quickly after his sentence. "You're worth it…" He whispered, not noticing Levy's smile; since his whisper wasn't much of one.
"Ok." Levy said, she felt warm from his words; he had that odd way of making her feel special.
Lucy knew Levy was an adult and could take of herself, yet she had a feeling that she wasn't even fully capable of that as she watched her friend pour syrup all over her French fries.
"Umm...you could have asked for sweet potato fries if you wanted…" Lucy said, followed by a low giggle.
"Huh?" Levy said, a dazed look on her face; then looked down at her plate to the now syrup soaked fries. "Oh fiddlesticks!" Levy sighed and tried to soak up the syrup with her napkin, which wasn't working out as well as she planned.
"So, how's life?" Lucy said, seeming a little sarcastic as the question had then escaped her lips.
Levy looked up at her through tired eyes. "Very funny."
"What, can't a friend ask a question?" Lucy shrugged her shoulders, then took a sip of her coffee; since she had decided to order breakfast for lunch.
"Well to answer your question; life is just peachy!" Levy faked a happy voice; then rolled her eyes.
"I can tell…" Lucy groaned, knowing she wasn't going to get very far in this conversation. "You need to stop working so many hours at the hospital." Lucy added.
Levy looked at her friend, oh how she wished the reason for her late nights and dazed expressions were because of the hospital; if only it were that simple. She had lied continuously to her friend about working double time at the hospital, she didn't want Lucy getting the wrong impression of being at Gajeel's every night for the last few weeks. She had done such a great job at hiding it that she was afraid her lies could topple over at any minute; the look on Lucy's face made her aware that she was hiding something for sure.
Lucy could tell her friend was hiding something, yet she couldn't pinpoint what exactly; it was time to dig.
"So, I went into the ER the other day to bring you coffee; yet they said you weren't working that shift." Lucy raised an eyebrow at her blue haired friend that was now squirming in her seat; quit uncomfortably she had noticed.
"Oh, I umm…well I.." Levy scanned her surroundings, thinking of a way out of this mess. "I felt sick..yeah..so I decided to leave early!" Levy nodded, agreeing herself into the lie she had dumped on her friend; rather poorly at that.
"Sick huh?" Lucy wasn't buying it.
"Yup! The cold snuck up on me!" Levy faked a cough.
"Wow, seems like a quick recovery considering your voice sounds fine." Lucy crossed her arms. "I mean considering all that coughing you must have endured."
Levy felt very uneasy at this point, Lucy was doing her best to make her squeal.
"Yeah, it's a miracle; really!" Levy sat up straight, taking a sip of water.
"Uhuh.." Lucy couldn't believe her best friend was really trying to lie to her right now.
"Yup." Levy smiled. "All better now though."
"What's his name?" Lucy deadpanned.
Levy almost spit out her water as she took another sip. "What?!"
"You heard me, who is he?" Lucy asked again.
"It's not like that!" Levy said, her voice breaking and her hands waving around defensively.
"I knew it!" Lucy shouted, as everyone in the restaurant turned to look in their direction. "So, what's his name?"
"Lucy, it's really not like that…I promise!" Levy said, she didn't want to get into detail about the fighter she was secretly nursing back to health.
Lucy groaned. "Oh just tell me already!"
Levy sighed, she obviously wasn't going to let it go. "Gajeel…"
Lucy's eyes widened, then an evil grin spread across her face. "So, what else is pierced?" Lucy giggled.
"Lucy!" Levy growled. "I told you it's not like that!"
"Yeah, whatever…that's what they all say." Lucy said, wanting to know every detail about her friend's relationship with the iron studded fighter.
Gajeel stepped out of the shower, towel hanging off his hip. He ruffled another towel through his hair, feeling the towel soak up the droplets. The steam still clung to his body, he looked into his mirror above the bathroom vanity. The bruising around his left hip was still slightly purple, with tinges of green peeking through. He took that as a good sign, the bruising was almost gone; yet the pain was still there. That man Bacchus sure put up a fight, but Gajeel had finally beaten him.
He didn't quite understand why his anger had gone to such great levels during that fight. He had certainly fought bigger assholes than him; was it that bluenettes fault? He had wanted to save her that day, every hungry gaze Bacchus gave her made Gajeel surge with uncontrollable rage; he had never felt that strongly about anyone in his life. Gajeel must have been losing his mind slowly with all the blows to the head he had taken over his years of fighting.
"Get your shit together Gajeel. Remember, one man team over here." Gajeel said to himself.
Although having that woman helping him with his injuries was quite nice, he couldn't help the way he would look at her when she would bend over to grab an ice pack from her bag; or when she would go on her tip toes to reach something from the top shelf for him. The view of her behind was quite nice, he could have gotten things if he wanted to; just the fact of her stretching a little further while sitting on a chair gave him just the right view of whatever color underwear she was wearing that day.
Did thinking about her in those ways make him feel like a pervert? Most definelty, yet something inside of him didn't care; he could never tire of that view.
Gajeel shook his head, what was he thinking?
"Shit!" Gajeel said, he needed to start fighting again; get his mind off of her.
Levy was just too sweet of a girl to get mixed up with, he didn't deserve someone like her; quite frankly he didn't even think she thought of him in that way. She had always managed to voice her opinion on how annoying he could be, whether he made a crude remark, gave her a new nickname or refused to corporate. The way she would puff her cheeks in annoyance, or the cherry red shade her face would develop; even the way she would ruffle her hair in annoyance.
"Heh, shrimps kinda cute.." Shit, there he went again. Gajeel rolled his eyes at himself and managed to get boxers and shorts on before he heard his doorbell ring.
"Yeah yeah, I'm comin!" He shouted, stomping down his stairs, grabbing at his side from the sharp shots of pain he felt.
Levy walked to her front door, digging in her purse for her house keys; sighing when it took a little longer than usual to locate them.
She needed to get some decent sleep, she wasn't scheduled to work in the ER tomorrow and she didn't think Gajeel needed any assistance since he was able to move around a bit more on his own; although the thought of not seeing him made her feel somewhat empty. "He can handle it on his own tomorrow." She thought to herself, sighing with contentment.
As she turned the lock with her key and stepped one foot inside the door she heard the sound of yelling and shouts of excitement coming from her living room. Walking over to see what the noise was, noticing it was her father watching football; a beer in his hand.
Levy didn't know if she should say anything, she was still upset with the fact that he had disappeared on her at Quatro Cerberus; when she was only trying to help him. Then as soon as the floor creaked from her movement her father turned his head to her direction.
"Hey.." Her father said curtly.
"Hey…" Levy mimicked, same tone of voice. "How many tonight?" She said, eyeing the beer in his hand.
"Don't worry about it." Was his answer.
"Whatever." Levy answered, not wanting to even get involved with that sort of conversation/argument tonight. "Night." Was all she said before walking up the stairs to her room.
"Night." He replied.
She loved her dad, she really did. "Hey dad…" She said, halfway up the stairs. She waited for his reply.
"Yeah?" She heard him say.
"I love you." Levy said, a tear running down her cheek.
"I love you too kiddo." He answered, sincerity in his voice.
She knew he loved her, no doubt about it; she only wished she could do more to help.
Levy walked into her room, sighing in relief; stripping her clothes off and grabbing a pair of sweat pants and an old black t shirt. Sleep was definitely something she needed, yet the ringing of her phone made her moan in annoyance.
Seeing that it was Lucy, she picked up; wondering what she could possibly say to even count as important at this moment.
"Yes?" Levy huffed.
"Well hello to you too!" Lucy whined.
"Sorry..so, what's up?" Levy asked.
"Turn on channel 2." Lucy said.
Levy did as she asked, fishing for the remote in her blankets on her bed. Once she located the device, she pushed the button and selected channel 2; what she was hearing made her as pale as a ghost.
Hey everyone, I'm Sherry Blendy with Lamia Scale World News with some interesting gossip on our hunk of a fighter Gajeel Redfox; it looks like the once iron hearted man himself has finally fallen in LOVE!
Sources have reported pictures of him and a blue haired little cutie together at his estate home in uptown Magnolia. Sources are also saying the couple look to be awfully close, seeing as these pictures were shown with her rubbing him down in his home! We have yet to get a name for the woman, but will update when more news is revealed.
"Son of a b-!" Levy growled, tossing the remote on her bed.
"So, still nothing huh?" Lucy inquired.
"I told you, I was only helping him recover from his injuries, I promise!" Levy sighed. "We aren't dating!"
"Those pictures say something different." Lucy sang.
"It's not what it looks like, his back was knotted; I was only trying to help!" Levy shouted into the phone.
"Well, whether the news is true or not…" Lucy sighed. "You're going to have some pissed off fan girls!" Lucy giggled.
"Sorry..I have to go!" Levy said briefly before clicking the END button on her phone. She laid on her back, looking at the ceiling. "This is not good!"
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Gajeel looked at the tabloid his manager Jose was holding in his hand. "Iron fighter and blue haired cutie?" Gajeel scratched his head. "What the fuck?!" Gajeel lowered his hand until it was pressed up against the back of his neck. "Shit!"
What had just happened, or better yet; what was about to happen? I