Disclaimer - I do not own Fairy Tail, it is owned by Hiro Mashima

Gajeel walked into the guild later than normal, the sun starting to set in the sky behind him, and looked around for the shock of blue hair that he had fallen asleep next to last night. Well, when he said last night what he really meant was earlier this morning. He had come back late from a job, and collapsed onto the bed next to his Shrimp, too tired to even talk to her. Not that she would be annoyed at him, she always understood that sometimes a job took everything out of him, and he would struggle to stay awake when he got back to the house.

When he had woken up about an hour ago, Levy had left him a note to tell her that she was going to head over to the guild to hand in some jobs and pick up some more and that she would meet him there. A quick shower later, he found himself walking through the tall wooden doors that were his second home. He scanned around the hall, eyes falling on many people that had been drinking since before even Levy had woken up, had been through the raucous drunk stage and were now in the beginnings of falling asleep where they sat. He saw a couple of heads of blue hair, but none were the one that he wanted to see. When his sense of sight failed him, he moved to his second option. His sense of smell.

He followed his nose down the dimly lit stairs to the guild's library, a place that even without using any sense he probably could have guessed that she would have been down there. As he entered the room, ignoring the stares from the newer guild members who still held a fear for him, who he just growled at, he weaved his way through the bookshelves to where he knew was Levy's favourite spot, the dictionaries and encyclopedias concealed in the corner. Even though even she admitted that they weren't the most interesting of books, they were the ones she found most useful in her day to day role as a translator, one that she had seemed to pick up when the word got out that she was one of the best in the country. If not the best. Gajeel giggled to himself as he remembered when she had taken a lead role in the renovations of the large room beneath the guild, and had hidden the books that she used the most often as far away from the door as possible. She always used to tell him that it wasn't because she was antisocial, in fact she loves being a part of such a loud and lively guild, it was just when she wanted to work, she needed silence. And silence was very hard to come by in Fairy Tail.

He sniffed slightly, and found a sort of fort in the corner, what he could tell were a few chairs with a blanket stretched between them. It covered a couple of meters squared, a space more than large enough for a small Shrimp and her translation work. She had learned from years of translating in a tent with her fellow members of Shadow Gear to utilise small spaces, something that it was easy for Gajeel to forget when he found her work overflowing the office at home and invading his space in the workshop. The blanket was a dark blue, covered in runes and emanated magic. The magic assaulted his senses, the magic glowed out from the fabric and almost burnt his nose. Strong magic had a very odd smell, like burnt sugar and uncooked lamb. The runes were embroidered in what looked to be a gold thread, and pulsed in a slightly brighter colour than the rest of the fabric. No matter how hard he had tried to learn the runes, to find out a little more about Levy's magic, he had never got very far. He guessed his brain just wasn't wired that way. He tried to gently tug at one of the corners, but it wouldn't budge.

"Shrimp, are you in there?"

No answer. He tugged all the way around the edge of the fabric, but to no avail. He tried pulling harder, tried making a crowbar out of his arm to wrench it up, but nothing happened. The blanket had some serious magic woven into it, and it was not going to be broken by brute strength. In fact, there was no way he was going to be getting into the fort without Levy's permission. Or…

Gajeel bounded his way back up to the main guild hall, taking two of the stone steps at a time and made his way over to the bar. His eyes flitted around for a second, not seeing exactly who he wanted so settling for the next best thing.

"Demon. Where's the nerd at?"

Mira turned around, looking at Gajeel in confusion. He had many different names for members of the guild, and usually they made sense, but she just couldn't figure this one out. She couldn't remember Gajeel ever using it before, and the only person she would think of as a nerd was Levy, and she was Shrimp so it obviously wasn't her… Gajeel sensed her difficulty and elaborated as much as he could without giving away that he didn't know his actual name. As much as he didn't like to admit it, he was awful at remembering names and tried to cover it up by using amusing nick names all the time.

"You know, green hair, carries a sword, I'm pretty sure that you're fucking him."

Mira blushed, and nearly dropped the mug she was drying. She had thought that her and Freed had been pretty subtle about it, but previous conversations with Wendy had let her know that a Dragonslayers nose could figure out if you had been spending a lot of time around someone else. She hoped that Natsu and Gajeel would just think that they had been spending time together on missions, or on him teaching her runes, but although Natsu still seemed pretty naive, she seemed to have been naive all on her own to think that Gajeel would be.

"Oh, you mean Freed." She tried to hide the embarrassment from her voice, but Gajeel could tell it all the same. Even worse, Mira knew that he could tell from the grin that spread across his face. "He's out on a mission with the rest of the Raijinshuu, he should be back tomorrow though."

Gajeel growled in frustration. Levy would have been out of her hidey-hole by then anyway so that knowledge was useless to him. With Freed gone, and with him the only other person that would ever stand a chance of getting through Levy's shield, there was no way that he would get out of just having to wait for Levy to re-emerge. Slamming a fist down on the bar in frustration, he looked up at Mira.

"Alright. Bring me a sandwich and some iron down to the library. Oh, and a tankard of beer."

With that he turned away to head down to where he knew he would be camping for a while. Mira chuckled to herself, everyone had thought that Gajeel would have learned some manners when he started dating Levy, but he was still just as direct as before.

Mira found Gajeel sat next to the dictionaries, both long legs up on the table in front of him, a book about human soul magic resting on his lap. Mira chuckled about his choice of book, volumes available on the topic were unavailable anywhere else and if anyone asked they were unavailable at the guild as well.

"You reading up on Bickslows magic? Never thought you would be interested."

Gajeel grunted, taking one of the large pieces of scrap out of Mira's hand and taking a bite out of it, chewing on it absentmindedly. It was obvious by the way his irises stayed in one place that he wasn't actually reading the book at all, instead just staring at it so people wouldn't disturb him.

"You know, I have some more Draconic translation stuff upstairs, it came in after Levy came down here. You can have a look at that if you would like?"

Gajeel shrugged, but nodded in affirmation all the same. It would be something to pass the time, and it wasn't as if he was really taking Jewel's away from Levy anyway. They all got pooled together as soon as they came into the house, and they would discuss with each other what was going to be spent.

Mira disappeared back upstairs, and Gajeel took a bite into his sandwich. Knowing his Shrimp, he was going to be in for a long wait.

Not that Gajeel would know, but the sun had far set behind the horizon when he felt a shift in the magic blanket in front of him. He was three essays and a couple of kilos of iron down by that time, and starting to lag in concentration. He didn't know that the job the previous day had taken so much out of him, and he could feel his eyelids drooping shut second by second. It was only the faint rustle of fabric, and the wave of magic that washed across him that alerted him to the fact that Levy was on the move. A small hole opened up in the corner closest to him, and the first thing that he saw was a shock of blue hair, followed by a small body in an orange sun dress.

"Gajeel!" Levy exclaimed, her eyes sparkling with recognition. She bounced over to him, and jumped onto his lap as his arms wrapped their way around her waist.

"How long have you been here?"

Gajeel kissed her forehead softly, enjoying the concentrated smell of… her that overwhelmed him.

"Hours, days, weeks, who knows with you and your books."

Levy blushed, and started to play with the top of the fabric of Gajeel's shirt. She suddenly plunged forward, and buried her face in his chest to hide the shame that she was feeling.

"I'm sorry" she mumbled, and Gajeel knew that if it wasn't for his sensitive hearing there was no chance he would have been able to make out the words. "I didn't think I had been down there that long."

Gajeel stood up, picking her up with ease as he did. He had always enjoyed the way that he could move her around like a child, and the way Levy automatically wrapped her legs around him made him feel that she did too.

"What is this thing, anyway? I feel like the entire hall could have fallen down and you wouldn't have noticed."

Levy jumped her way off of Gajeel's body, and picked up a corner of the blanket.

"It's a blanket that Freed helped me make. The runes mean that it's both sound proof, and no one can come in or out without my permission. I would have set the permission to you, but you have to be here to do it, and…"

Gajeel chuckled, and pulled Levy into an embrace.

"Well, you had better do it right now, Shrimp."

Levy looked up at Gajeel, before waving a hand over the blanket and muttering a few words.

"It's done, but why are you so excited about it?"

Gajeel bent over so he was looking Levy in the eye.

"Shrimp. You are the only person I know who, when given a blanket that can literally shut out the entire world, would use it to get some peace and quiet to read. We are going back in there, and I am going to show you the correct way to use that blanket."

Levy stood in confusion for a while, before realisation dawned over her face. She didn't have time to protest, before Gajeel had swept her away into the blanket, to show her exactly what naughty things his mind had come up with.

A/N - I still have not decided how to spell Freed/Fried. So if it changes, that's why.

Also, who doesn't love Blanket Forts?

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