A/N: I am sorry for the long wait, anyways here is the second installation for safe and sound, I think I will finish this for four installments. Just think taht Gray is 23 years old here. Somehow I like Gruvia with big age difference. more yummy treats for you guys.

Safe and Sound.

II

Don't you dare look out your window, darling,

Everything's on fire

The war outside our door keeps raging on

Hold on to this lullaby

Even when music's gone

Gone

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After that he did not touched her for a week. She would be sleeping alone, and wake up with him snooping her. He was solicitous enough to make sure that she was always eating. She could hear him calling the servants to prepare her food and warm baths every night. And she brushed his attitude off, persisting that those were all an act.

The servants were about to assist her into stripping when he entered their room. She felt her heart thundered inside her and she felt everyone and everything in the room tuned smaller in comparison to his height. The blunette stood barely even past his chin.

The servants vowed at him and she scowled. "You all may leave, I want to talk to her." He addressed to everyone but his eyes were trained only on her. With the intensity of his stare, she felt her cheeks pooled with heat, she looked away.

The footsteps of the servants faded as they walked away, and Juvia could hear his heavy steps towards her. When his whole warmth swallowed her body, she raised her eyes to his face, and saw him watching her with expressionless eyes.

"Do you know my name?" he asked carefully, warily, almost afraid on what might happen. She stared at him with boring eyes, "Your name does not interest Juvia." She spat on him, but the truth was she knew his name, all along. She was waiting for him to do something, when he just stood there, he did not even budge.

"Gray. My name is Gray."

She blinked away, she did not understand the sensation that he was bringing to her, she was astounded to the flutter of butterflies inside her tummy. She did not reply and continued looking away. The truth was she did not know what to reply but when she felt his large, warm, and calloused hands on her shoulder, she backed away, trembling in fear.

She kept her gaze on the warm bath in front of her, because of that she was not able to see his pained expression.

He stepped a foot in front of him, he raised his hand in mock defeat, in a way not to scare her some more, he raised his hand to comb his hair in frustration. "It is alright."

She seemed contemplative. "How –"

"I will just wash you."

She would have shouted at him, but she thought that if really wanted to, who was she to deny him? Even if she wanted nothing to do with him, she could not disobey him, she did not want any of what he did to her to happen once more.

The beautiful blunette had her breath held as he slowly walked towards her. When his large hands unclasped her dress, she stood bare before him, but his eyes were trained on her scared ones.

He guided her towards the tub, his eyes did not even wander on her body, and Juvia told herself that she was shivering due to cold and not because of the intensity of his stare.

The water soon calmed Juvia, all the tense muscles relaxed, and she was happy that the pain between her legs had subsided. But sometimes, it still stung and it kept her remembering how he took her innocence.

Juvia felt his calloused hands on her smooth skin, making her flinch and tremble beneath his fingers. When he started to scrub her with the cloth, she almost laughed at how gentle he was. "G-Gray-sama" she whispered. She did not understand why she named him with such respect. "—should scrub Juvia a little harder, she won't get clean if Gray-sama continued that."

Gray almost laughed at how she instructed him. She really was royalty, fit to be in his kingdom. She was used to order people around and talked down on them.

Her eyes widened form hearing what he whispered. His lips still hovered over her ear. "I don't want to hurt you."

Her heart thundered inside her ribs, sudden warmth pooled her body. He sounded so sincere. "AH…It is alright, Juvia will not get clean if Gray-sama continues that"

"okay"

….

He scooped her out of the tub and placed a big cloth around her, then put her on the edge of the bed. He gently dried her, his hands occasionally slipped and touched her mounds and she could not help the shiver she felt. His hands, though gentle, made her cower…made her feel fear.

And then, he stopped; Juvia felt her heart going rampage, when she felt him cup her cheeks. She dared to raise her head and saw him looking at her with intensity that could make her knees buckle up if she were standing.

"G-Gray-sama—" his thumb lightly rubbed her lower lip, her eyes widened when she felt him closing the gap between them. Before his lips sealed hers, the only word she could muster was "No."

His lips were warm, it brushed hers tenderly, she tried to back away, to push him away, but he held her face between his hands. The cloth around her was now on the floor, cold and forgotten. "N-no", her lower lip between his teeth, she tried to look away, but it just gave him enough room to shower her neck with his kisses. She started to feel her eyes stung, and fear engulfed her when he pushed her down the mattress. "No—Gray-sama—N..no" She planted her hands on his now naked chest, tried to push him off her, but his hands that were roaming around her body were making her weak.

"Juvia" he breathed out when he palmed her breast, his tongue circled her pink bud and tremors raked hr body. She cried. "no..stop" but it turned out a plea to continue. Her soft body arched towards his toned body, and she heard him groan in pleasure as he alternately sucked her full ripe mounds. And with a swift motion, he slid completely within her. Her tears continued to fall as he started to roll his hips forward; he kissed her cheeks, licked her tears and breathed out a grunt on her ear. "juvia"

"—I don't want this...stop—"

He continued making friction between their bodies, he continued the pleasure, and she could feel him trembling on top of her, his toned and strong arms around her fragile body. She could not even remember when she wrapped her arms around him. It seemed like her body was not her own. "No…ahh.. ". The sounds that their bodies were making, were so lewd, so erotic that she was having a hard time to comprehend what was happening.

He buried his face on the crook of her neck, her hair blazed like a halo around her. He raised his head and stared at her big baby blue eyes. "You're so beautiful..nghhh" he grunted and captured her lips in a searing kiss that made Juvia believe that she was turning into a woman her mother would not be proud of. Juvia, gasped upon feeling his tongue probed inside her mouth.

Saliva leaked at the corner of her mouth when they parted for air. Their lips inches from each other as he continued his thrusts, their breaths mingled on as they copulated, and suddenly she felt an electrifying jolt that crippled her. When he saw how her face contorted into pleasure and shock or how she screamed his name a little higher, he repeated what he did, and thrust deeper within her tight walls. Seeing her pleasure brought something for him. His manhood was being held by her virginal walls like a vice, every bumps and ridges inside her was engraved in his mind.

She shook her head trying to deny everything, his hands currently kneading her mounds, she felt electrocuted whenever he licked the top of her nipples or whenever he pinched it, the pleasure was inevitable, her feet curled as he continued, a white hot fire seared from the bottom of her stomach, him pivoting inside her became frantic, the slaps of their skin became louder, her moans became higher and his grunts became deeper... "S-stop,s-something—'s coming"

"Just one more" he whispered and traced the column of her neck with the tip of his tongue, and soon she reached bliss for a second, and his hot seed buried deep in her womb.

The aftermath of what they did, made both of them struggling for breath and gasping for air. Gray watched as her tears continued to fall. It seemed like she became aware from what really happened. As much as he wanted to stop the tears, he could not bring himself to pull out of her. They remained like that for a while until he thought it was time to pull out. He kissed the top of her head, breathed in her scent and hesitantly pushed himself off her. "It's over, stop crying."

He reached for a fur and draped it around her sweaty body. "Rest, I will bring you food when I come back."

And with that Juvia was left alone inside their room. Her harsh breathing and the frantic beating of her heart was the only sound she could hear.

"I have heard on what you did, and I am clearly disappointed."

Gray watched as his older sister frown at him. He just continued to watch his people down the kingdom. "It was something bound to happen. A prince, should grow into a king, A king, will conquer Kingdoms, and make what he fit perfect to be his."

"You had once told me that you wanted to take her away from her parents, to show her the world and experience life outside her sheltered life. What you did was something you were not able to share to me, and that was to kill her family, make her people our slaves, and take her against her will just to be your wife." He felt a pang of guilt as his sister spat those words at him. Ultear frowned when she notice that he still did not want to meet her eyes.

He heard her release a sigh. "Tell me why you did that?"

And for the first time they talked about the issue, he met her eyes and Ultear could see how lonely he was. "When I saw her two years ago, I saw what I wanted to have, I saw the happiness and company I was looking for."

He heard her light footsteps towards him, she felt her arms around him, "You are never alone, Gray, you have me, and Lyon, and soon you will be an uncle."

When she caught what she said, Gray's eyes widened with delight. "You are carrying."

She gave him a grin. "It was a blessing, Lyon and I prayed to the gods to give us a child, and after two long years, we are truly thankful that our wished was heard." Everyone had even questioned King Lyon's masculinity, and Queen Ultear's fertility.

"You can become King of Ice Kingdom now, Gray." Ultear ripped herself away from him and smiled. But it was quickly taken away when she noticed her brother's frown. She put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him and tell him that he could confide into her.

He raked his hand on his hair in frustration. "I don't know Ultear, she hates me"

"Why don't you escort her and bring her to our mother's garden, since she will succeed the Queen's throne." She suggested.

Gray entered their room with platter of different kind of meats and a servant was following him with a bottle of fresh milk and wine. Upon seeing Juvia's sleeping figure, the fur draped over her and he could swore that beneath those she was bare and naked. He dismissed the servant with a wave of a hand.

He hated to wake her up, but she had to eat, the servants had told him that she hated meat, she always looked for fish, and he was here to change her mind. Though, fish meat was great, Juvia had to be strong and healthy to bear him children.

When he laid a hand on her white shoulder, Gray could not help but relinquished the magnificent feel of her skin. He knew that she felt great whenever they copulate but this, him touching her simply was far more different when he was touching her due to lust and passion.

She blinked cutely at him, a soft blush on her face. "Wh-what is it?"

He just stared at her and Juvia felt self-conscious all of a sudden. She gripped the fur a little tighter around her breasts and sat up. Upon seeing the platter of food, her stomach grumbled and Gray softly smiled at her.

His smile, she had never witnessed, a face like him was neither something she had never seen in her kingdom nor the streets she snuck out to whenever she seemed fit.

"These are meats that the Ice Kingdom took luxury in" he said as he handed her the platter. His dark blue eyes noticed how she struggled into keeping it to her body. When he put his hands on the fur, she immediately tightened her hold on it. "N-no, Juvia is h-hungry a-and—" her words were cut short when she felt it tightened around her.

He showed her cow meat or which they call beef, lamb meat, pig meat or pork, chicken meat and what Juvia was anticipating was fish meat which was they did not have. She asked him why.

"It takes us weeks to get to the ocean."

"oh."

"go and try this" he said and nudged the beef on her lips. The brown sauce dripped from the slab of meat, Juvia shook her head but Gray insisted. "It was better than fish."

"Juvia does not eat that. And she does not want to." She said stubbornly. She was surprised when Gray took a big bite from the meat and chewed it, but what made her more surprise was when he took her chin and pressed his lips on her. She felt his tongue pushed the food inside her mouth.

When they parted Juvia could not help but blush, she felt her face burn in embarrassment, he was so..so…unrefined.

"So how does that taste?" he asked as he licked his lips. "Do you want me to make you taste all of them?"

"N-no. Juvia will eat it."

She took the meats and took a bite and throughout the dinner, she could feel his burning stare at her. Everything tasted awesome, except the lamb, she hated it and Gray just let her not eat it, what she loved was the chicken. When he handed her a glass of wine she declined once more.

He gave her the fresh milk. "You should drink wine too, you are missing life." He said as he watched her upper lip colored with white. His eyes followed how her pink tongue came out and wiped the white stain clean.

"Father did not want Juvia to drink any of that." The blunette saw how Gray's eyes darken and how his stance became rigid.

"Then he was not showing you what life really is, taking chances and living without anything to set you down." His voice was so mocking, challenging her and she hated the way he was referring to his father or his mother. He was talking about them like they were the worse.

"Juvia had lived her life, because of her parents she knew a lot of things." She spouted at him, her face crinkled into a defiance anger and annoyance.

"Please" he snorted at her. "You?. You are so naïve." somehow she knew what he was directing to. And she hated to admit it but he was right. "And you knew a lot of things? From where? books?"

She felt her cheeks flushed with embarrassment. "W-well…yes."

"Yes, they taught you love, they made you feel love, they are good parents but great parents will teach their children pain, they will tell them the reality that love is not the only thing that exist but pain as well." His answer made her stare at him, he was…different. Was he for real? Only with her parents would she accept defeat, and now she was hearing lectures from a man like him. He was so much smarter than he portrayed to be. "You should do things not because they tell you to but because it was what you wanted to. And then you will be happy."

She looked at the glass of wine that was laid in front of her. A frown settled her features and she snatched it and drank it down with one go. She felt her world reeled in and that was when she heard his voice. "You are not supposed to drink it in one go. You are supposed to drink it slowly, stupid"

And their night was finished with her drinking wine and him telling her things she should know.

The next morning she felt his hard body on her back, his groin between her buttocks, his arm was beneath her head like a pillow and the other one was draped over her waist. She sighed as she noticed that they were both naked underneath the sheets. She had lived 18 years in this world but the feeling that he brought to her was the first time she experienced it.

She was supposed to hate him not love the feeling inside his arms. If this continues she knew that she would be carrying his child. She felt her heart beat faster than usual at that thought and dismissed it for fear of giving him what he wanted.

When she felt him move she closed her eyes shut and pretended to sleep. She was sure that he would make love to her. And she hated the rush of emotions he brought her whenever his lips were on her and gliding on her body or how his body felt great on her.

She was actually anticipating his lips on her skin for that was what he always do, that past week, even though he did not made love to her like he did last night, he would always kiss her wherever he wanted before he leave the bed. But she today, she felt herself became disappointed when she felt him leave.

Back then, she would freeze or shiver from fear but the past days, she started to anticipate it. She could not understand why…why she was feeling this way. And she felt her eyes stung with tears.

She could not understand when the servants or the harlots went into her and Gray's room giggling. They looked at her like she was the most interesting of all. The sun was low and the place was a little warmer and she hoped that was the reason why her cheeks burned.

They dressed her with a long blue gown that dipped down her breasts, showed a lot of her cleavage, and was tied around her neck. It was sleeveless, leaving her creamy shoulders bare, a thin white sash accentuated her small waist and it stopped at her mid thigh and flowing at her back. The gown was so pretty with gold sequins and beads. They brushed her hair shiny and clipped her fringes, her forehead not hidden anymore.

They made her wear a golden bracelets and earrings. They even tinted her lips red with…was that cherry?...that was why it tasted so sweet.

Juvia felt her heart went rampage when they led her out of the room, Gray had ever told her that she could come out, she had never went out of their room. Shivers went down her body when she saw the Kingdom outside their room, it was so beautiful, and nostalgia attacked her and felt her eyes burned from tears, it looked just like her Kingdom. Her lungs expanded with air, her mind filled with memories, Everything was so beautiful…

"Juvia." His voice cut through her musings and when she turned around she saw Gray with a proud black stallion and a beautiful white mare.

Gray passed the mare's lease to a servant as he walked towards Juvia with his stallion. He gave her a smile. "His name is Ater" he caressed Ater's nose. Juvia raised an eyebrow at him. "Black?" he was soo original, she wanted to roll her eyes at him.

"yes" then he turned to the servant and passed Juvia the beautiful mare. Juvia's blue eyes widened with shock, she had never owned a horse despite being a princess. Her parents did not want her to have one for she might get hurt. Little did they know that she snuck away and learn riding lessons with her friend Aries. "W-why?" She croaked, as she eyed the mare, her body white and creamy and her mane was of golden hue. She was the complete contrast of Gray's stallion. Gray's stallion was so mysterious and scary-looking while the mare looked so sweet and lovely.

"She is yours. You should name her too."

She felt her throat closing up and tears gathered around her eyes, no one had ever done this to her. She looked at him and gave him a watery grin, Gray was surprised upon seeing her smile and he was glad that she did not noticed the way his cheeks burned because she had already set her undivided attention to her mare. "Shiro"

"shiro?"

Juvia was currently hugging the mare's nose, she smiled at Gray. "It was a Japanese word for white."

"Japanese?" he asked as he went towards Juvia and caressed her mare's mane. "yes, Juvia has a Japanese friend, his name is Totomaru, he taught Juvia how to speak Japanese."

Gray could see how her eyes shone at the mention of this friend of hers, and despite not meeting the man, he hated him already. With big strides, he went towards Juvia and planted his large hands o her small waist. She squeaked when she felt his warm hands on her, when she turned to face him, he simply told her, "Go and mount her."

"Juvia can do it herself Gray-sama." She whispered. He could not help but caught her scent, "Gray-sama?...was that Japanese as well? What does that mean anyway.?"

Juvia shook her head and leapt away from him, her face redder than before. "It was nothing, i-i-i-i-t was-s-s a-a-"

Seeing her stammer amused him, he had never seen the princess stammer and loose her cool. "I get it"

Juvia mounted her horse like an expert, he cleared his throat to get her attention because she seemed so happy and that made his insides squirm with something. "I was thinking of touring you"

Her smile was the answer he got. And that brightened his day.

….

They went to see a lot of place, Juvia was so happy that she could stroll around without needing to disguise herself or hide herself from the guards. Here, she could freely be who she wanted to.

The sun had starting to set when they got to the palace. She handed Shiro to a servant and was ready to go to their room when Gray's hand reached to grasp her wrists. His hold was so strong yet gentle. "I would like to show you something."

"o-okay" her heart raced inside her ribs, this day was the best she had, she even forgot that she was on an enemy's place.

Gray took her hand and guided her to mount Aster and he did as well. She was painfully aware that Gray's body heat was so close to her. His warm breath made fluttering kisses on her skin, and the fact that she liked being inside his strong arms.

"we're here." Once again, his voice stopped her musings. His breath touched her ears, eliciting delicious shivers down her body.

He went down first and helped her next. She whispered her thanks and gazed around. A big shiny mahogany door greeted her, he opened the door and that was when she felt her heart stopped. Hanging vines with small beautiful flowers covered the entrance hall. Gray pushed the vines on the side to make way for them.

Ducking her head low, Juvia was greeted with vast of green grass that the Ice Kingdom did not have. Torches hanged on the corners every meter away, soothing the ambiance with relaxing air. Bushes and different kinds of flowers decorated the sides. And in the middle was a pond…or was it a spring…and above it hanged fireflies.

When she turned around she noticed that aster was tied at a tree, and Gray was staring at her with a dazed look on his face. Something from within her built up, hot trail of fires surged through her veins.

He somehow loosed his boots along the way and his feet were bare on the tickling grass. "This is my mother's favorite place of the palace." Juvia nodded and looked down her feet. Should she take her shoes off as well?

"it feels good, on your feet." He answered, somehow he read what was going through her mind, he knelt down and released the ties that were around her legs, taking her shoes off. She quietly whispered her thanks at him.

When he stood straight up, he took her hand and guided her towards the pond. "Ice Kingdom rarely have grass, beneath our feet were sands and hard stone, this is my favorite place as well, I still remember seeing my mother spoiling her plants to her heart's delight" Juvia did not know why he was sharing this personal things with her, but a part of her was somewhat glad because he thought of her as trustworthy to know such things.

When he noticed that she was looking at him with wide and teary eyes, he let out a soft smile at her and tugged her forward. "come, the water is nice and warm."

She would have protested but she could not understand herself no more. When his hands tugged her dress down, she stared at his eyes with braveness. Her heart threw tantrums inside her chests and somehow when his lips pressed hers, it felt right.

a/n: MORE DETAILED LEMONS ON THE NEXT UPDATE OF SAFE AND SOUND