Chapter 3: Epilogue
Lucy awoke to the sound of yelling coming from her kitchen. Quickly sneaking to the entry of the kitchen, she dreaded looking in. Covering one eye, she peaked around the corner.
"Natsu! What are you doing?" Opening her eyes slowly, she gasped at what she saw. Natsu and Happy, though messy, had made her breakfast.
'Sure,' She thought to herself. 'Half my kitchen may have gotten destroyed, but...' her thought ended as Natsu and Happy cried at her.
"Lucy! What are you doing up? We still have to go and get fish for your fish pancakes!" Happy's eyes began brimming with tears as the blue cat turned and ran from her. "Lucy! You're so mean!"
No words came to her as she blinked after the blue cat, her mind derailed completely. Turning to the sound of her name, she met with a bright-eyed Natsu.
"Morning Luce! I made you breakfast!" Setting two plates on the table, Natsu quickly picked up the blonde and spun her around. "I'm so glad your awake! Now let's go do stuff!" Slapping his shoulders, Lucy huffed at him.
"What do you think we're going to do? I promised Levy I'd take her out after she got back from her mission. So I'm going out to lunch with her." Seeing his face drop, she gave a soft kiss to Natsu's nose. "How bout I go out to lunch with Levy, you go train at the guild, and we'll take a mission in the afternoon." She gulped as Natsu picked her up again and tossed her on to the bed.
"Mmhm... Lucy has the best ideas ever." He cooed as he began nuzzling her exposed neck. Pushing him back, she found her lips captured by his own, and with a lot of effort, she pushed him back, his hands moving across her body.
"Na-Natsu. Stop, there's the kitchen to clean, Happy will be back soon from where ever he's gone, we still have to eat and..." She was cut off as he pressed more against her, effectively rendering any thought she had to mush in her brain. "Natsu..." She moaned as his actions began taking over, and withing seconds, Lucy and Natsu had forgotten all about the breakfast that was on the table.
The sun was already high in the sky as Gajeel opened his eyes. His body was sore in places he hadn't felt before, but it was a good sore, so it was okay. Laying an arm over his face, he inhaled slowly, and to his surprise, he didn't smell the book-worm.
'The fuck?' Sitting up quickly, he looked around, the bluenette nowhere to be seen. Sniffing the air again, he followed her scent to the door. Quickly changing in to his pants and boots, Gajeel opened the door, and quickly went in search of the book-worm.
"Thanks again Lily. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't helped me out." The black Exceed smiled at Levy, his arms caring a large, heavy duffel bag.
"No problem. I'm just glad you and Gajeel, uh, worked things out." His cheeks blushed slightly as she laughed, her own arms filled with another bag and more books.
"Well, thanks for getting me back to the dorms in one piece. I'm not sure what would have happened if you hadn't shown up."
Lily smiled up at the girl, the image of her trying to sneak out of the house this morning had been a funny one. Draped in the sheet from the bed, he had spied her when she was slinking behind some trees. After confession about the night before, Levy had realised that Gajeel had in fact destroyed her clothes from the day earlier, a few pieces of fabric were all that remained.
Levy had laughed hard at that point, and with mirth, he quickly flew the bluenette back to the Fairy Dorm. After breaking into her room and changing, Levy gathered up almost half of her book collection.
"Alright, time to pack!" Casting solid script; shrink, she reduced her collection of books to a quarter of their size. "There we go!" dumping half of the books into one bag, she handed it to Lily, who was also instructed with a smaller bag filled with quills and ink. Rushing around, Levy quickly gathered a few outfits, and her bath stuff, and casting shrink again, packed everything in to the same bag.
"Alright, let's get back to Gajeel Lily!" The Exceed smiled up at her and with a nod, the two began walking back.
Gajeel stood by the side of the road, his eyes staring off in to the distance. suddenly, two figures appeared, and to his delight, Levy and Lily were walking towards him. Walking towards them, Gajeel felt his heart beat wildly in his chest as he saw what they were carrying.
Approaching him finally, Lily placed the bag he was carrying at his friend's feet.
"You're turn to carry this, Gajeel. It's really heavy though. All she packed was books." Gajeel smirked at his cat, and with little effort, his swung her bag over his shoulder, and with his free arm, pulled Levy in to a hug.
"Had me worried, shrimp. Didn't know where you ran off too." Giggling at Gajeel, she quickly kissed his cheek.
"I just ran home quick for my stuff. Can't just be naked at your house now can I?" The silence that reached her ears, prompted the bluenette to look up at Gajeel, whose face had gone blank again at the idea of Levy prancing around his house in the nude.
"I don't see anything wrong with that..." He muttered to himself.
"Gajeel!" She cried playfully as she hit him in his chest. He chuckled darkly at her and pulled her in, and with little effort, placed his lips against hers in a soft kiss.
"Now, if other people were to see you, I guess we would have to have clothes for that..." Continuing their walk, Gajeel went into deep thought for a minute, and then with a smile he pulled Levy in tight again.
"I got it, you can just borrow my clothes."
The silence between them was punctuated by Levy's face of disbelief. As she blankly looked at him ,the image of her in his clothes in any situation besides "just with him" seemed un-likely.
"No. Your clothes ain't cute." Pushing away, she skipped ahead of him slightly, before turning back.
"I guess I'll just have to leave this stuff at your place, since there's nothing for me there now." Sticking out her tongue, Gajeel smiled as she winked at him. "Now how bout we get home so I can drop off my things before it gets dark? You don't have a speck of food in your place."
Walking next to her, Gajeel objected, saying that iron was a great source of food. As she countered ("Well, not all of us can eat metal!") followed by his repute ("Well, start now, then you can get stronger!") The couple smiled at each other, their free hands inter twining as they walked, their laughter soaring into the sky.
'Yes,' Gajeel thought to himself. 'This was defiantly a good week.'
Two months later;
The sky was clear as Lucy and Levy walked along the cobbled streets of Magnolia. They had grown closer after Gajeel had made his claim, and the two laughed as they talked about the experience.
"Oh man, let me tell you, Natsu was so clueless on what he was supposed to do. I ended up having to show him the first time." Levy laughed as her friend licked at her rapidly melting ice cream. "But he has a good heart adn I do love the idiot. He did make me this as a token of his love, so I'm not complaining much." Taking out a red tear drop that hung from a gold chain around her neck, Levy gazed at it, her mouth wide.
"Oh my, it looks like a live flame!" Smiling, Lucy replaced it in between her breasts.
"It is. Its one of Natsu's flames that I was able to transfer into some Lacrima that I found on our last job. It keeps him close you know?" Smiling she glanced at Levy's neck, red marks running up and down her pail skin. "Those look fresh. Have a good night last night?"
Levy dropped her head on to the table, a loud "thunk" ringing up.
"I tried so hard, Lucy. I've told him a million, million times, to not leave his mark in such open places. But he just doesn't listen." Turning her head to look at her friend, she cried in desperation. "How do you get Natsu to stop?"
Lucy laughed, and pulling up her skirt slightly, Levy gasped as she saw the claw marks.
"I don't. He just puts them in a different spot." The two laughed at their predicament. Being a dragon's mate was a little tiring, and very sore, but they loved their idiots to death and as they ate their ice cream in silence, Lucy asked the solid script mage how things were going with Gajeel.
"Well, after my piercing healed fully, Gajeel brought me this home." Sticking out her tongue, Lucy blinked at the small metal heart that rested in the center of her tongue. "He made it for me!" With a happy squeal, Lucy jumped across the table to her friend and hugged her.
"Ohhh, you two are so cute together!" The two girls lost themselves in their giddiness, before they saw two shadows fall across their table. Turning to look , they were greeted by two creepy guys, their hair slicked back, their auras sending creepy shivers down the girl's spines.
"Hello, lovelies. Why don't you two babes come and join us for some lunch and wine?" One offered his arm to Lucy, the other pulled out Levy's seat for her.
"Um, thanks, but we're not interested... Lucy stammered out, a sweat drop appearing on her head.
"Yeah, you should probably leave. Thank you for the invitation though." Levy went to move her seat back, when the man behind her grabbed her wrist.
"That wasn't an invitation you can refuse, girly. You're coming with us."
"Oy oy. What do you think these guys are doing, Salamander?"
"I think their trying to take advantage of Lucy and Levy. What should we do, Rusty?" Gajeel glared at him.
"Rusty? You're going to call me 'Rusty'? You must be a bigger moron then I thought!" With a quick punch, he sent the man near Levy flying to the sky, his body disappearing as it flew into the clouds. "rust happens after iron is corroded."
"Don't call me a moron because all you could come up with was 'Salamander'." Sending his own punch into the guy nearest Lucy, Natsu sent him crashing into the brick wall behind them. "I mean, you use that all the time, come up with something original..."
As the two dragons glared at each other, Lucy sighed.
"Well, it was great catching up again Levy. We'll see you in a week when we get back from our mission." Hugging each other, Lucy grabbed Natsu's scarf and pulled him away from the iron dragon. "Come on you, let's get a move on. Don't want to miss the train."
"Why do we need a train?! Can't we walk?" His cries disappeared as they walked away, the iron dragon chuckling to himself. Turning on him, Levy huffed out her cheeks.
"I was looking for you earlier! Where did you go?" Patting her on the head, he laughed.
"I was fighting up at the guild! Had match stick on the ropes too." Pulling her close, he wrapped one arm around her waist. "Then, I got the urge to be by your side." Placing a kiss on her forehead, he breathed in her scent. "And here I am." Pulling her towards home, she held up a poster from the guild.
"Well, Lucy brought this for me, and I thought that maybe we could do it together?" Looking down at the paper, he sighed.
"Another book? You realise that this is the third "book request" we've done in the last three weeks?"
"I know! But, there's a reward, and you can fight bad guys, and..." Her voice trailed off as she blushed a deep red. "We would be alone in the woods for at least two weeks looking for it, and I thought that..."
Gajeel felt his face break into a wide grin. This Levy was a very naughty Levy indeed. Scooping her up, he kissed her cheek.
"Alright, for you and your stupid book." Her squeal of joy was only punctuated by her arms wrapping around his shoulders.
"Gajeel, you're the best!"
"Yeah, I kind of am."
Kissing him, she whispered in his ear.
"I'll show you how much I appreciate it if you get us home quickly." His face turned red, and with little effort, ran the rest of the way to their home.
End
a/n: woo baby. This story has been bouncing around in my head the last few days and I finally finished it. A shorty, but a goodie. Comments, critiques and concerns are welcomed. Hope you enjoyed