Chapter Seven
AN: GUYS, Big news! I'm getting married and about to become an aunt. Life has been chaotic lately and I know my updates are slow lately. Here's why; I work midnight to five in the morning Sunday-Thursday, three to seven in the afternoon Saturdays, Sundays, and Wednesdays, and I babysit a three year old Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. I clean my house from top to bottom every day, am training a young kitten, and have a work out schedule. I also run a ton of errands and need to sleep. I do write when I can. Please, PLEASE be patient. I am working as much as I can on the stories.
Also, After the publication of my last chapter for this story a lot of you were wondering why the baby changed from the previously stated gender to the other, and yes, in the earlier chapters Wendy's child was said to be male only to suddenly become a female in the chapter recently published. I promise this was no mistake, nor will it be left unexplained. By the end of this chapter, Gajeel and Levy will have become closer and the mystery of the baby's gender swap will be solved.
3 3 3 Thank you all for being such amazing reviewers, readers, and followers of my story. I LOVE HEARING FROM YOU! Even if its just to say you like a character's name, outfit, or style. Even if its just to say hello. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. 3 3 3
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Gajeel sighed as he laid Faye-Marie down for a nap. The small baby reminded him of her tiny, sweet mother. God, did he miss that crazy blue-haired pixie and all her soft ways. Some days were better then others. Some days, he heard the phantom voice of the young teen singing from her room, others he heard the silence of the house without her.
Wendy had passed away giving birth. The doctors were surprised by a second baby just as the birthing process began. As Faye-Marie made her appearance, her umbilical cord wrapped itself around her twin brother's throat, suffocating the poor thing. The trauma of birth and the sudden death of her son took it's toll on the young mother and as the doctors worked to free the lifeless body of her son from her, the blunette began to hemorrhage. The years of leukemia treatments and life in the streets had left her weak and in the end it was just too much for her. With her last breath, Wendy named her children, both living and dead. Doxel Scott and Faye-Marie Sophia. Two beautiful babies. Wendy took her son with her into the afterlife but had left her daughter to share love and happiness with her loved ones she left behind that day.
"Gajeel?" Levy's soft voice rose from the couch in the other room. Cold and robotic, Levy had loss her will to smile when she lost her sister. A small fraction of what she loss came back into her soul when she met her older brother, Jellal, and his fiancee, Erza.
"Yea?" Gajeel swallowed a lump in his throat at the sadness he felt radiate from his beautiful, wild angel. "What is it, Shrimp?"
"Do you know where my brush is?" Levy asked, poking her head around the corner showing off her week old bed head. Distressed and frustrated, the small blunette looked as beautiful as ever to the mountainous beast of a man before her.
"Left hand side of the bathroom sink, top drawer." a smirk tugged at his lips.
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ONE WEEK AGO
"So how are you gonna do it?" Laxus asked as he stared at the ring in Gajeel's hand.
"I'll ask her when Wendy has the baby. That way she'll never forget." Gajeel grinned.
The memory of that day tore through Gajeel as he thought of how he almost asked his gypsy to marry him, only to be interrupted by the worst feeling ever. Sitting in the living room rocking Faye-Marie, the raven-haired man began to think of a new way to ask her to marry him.
Maybe Rogue could watch the baby, he could take her out to eat and make a big scene. Gajeel grinned then scowled. Levy wasn't one for a big display and being put on the spot. Oh! Maybe he could hide the ring in her food? Wait, no, Levy would most likely swallow the ring in her dazed state of mind. Maybe he could just ask? But that wasn't very original.
Growling in frustration, Gajeel looked at the blunette sleeping in the chair beside him. Her tangled bed head slowly forming a nest upon her head. That girl was forever losing her brush. Gajeel swore, the day she found that thing, her beauty would blind him. She was such a gorgeous woman. Her big brown eyes filled him with such an intense wave of emotion every time she looked at him and those blue locks, if ever the gods wanted to punish him all it would take is the softest brush from those silky strands.
Suddenly, it hit him like a ton of bricks. Collecting the ring, her brush, a slip of paper and a pen, Gajeel headed for the sink in the bathroom. Writing as legibly as he could, the man made a note for the beauty asleep in the other room. Placing the ring box and brush in the drawer with care, he placed the not in the drawer with the two other items and left the room to await the moment when the girl would inquire about her brush.
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BACK TO THE PRESENT
A thud came from the bathroom followed by a larger thump. Gajeel made his way toward the door only to be slammed backwards as a pixie with sky colored hair jumped at him. A note lay crumpled in the girl's fist as she clung to him.
Levy,
I know the death of Wendy has taken it's toll on us both,
and that I never answered yer question as to what we are.
Shrimp, I don't know if this is sweet or stupid, but I do know
that yer my heart personified. I was going to ask ya this
the day Faye-Marie was born, now I'm glad I didn't. I want
to spend my life with ya, Levy. I want a family with ya. I
love ya.
Levy, Will ya marry me?
Gajeel
"Gihihi, is that a yes?" Gajeel laughed as the girl hugged him tighter, somewhere between laughing and crying.
"You big lug, of course I'll marry you, Gajeel." Levy laughed as she pulled back to kiss him.
A loud crash came from the doorway. Rogue stood rooted in place, Sting behind him with his jaw on the floor. Laxus sighed as Mira bent to retrieve the now broken casserole dish from the wood. Juvia lay face down on the floor, her butt in the air wiggling as she spoke utter nonsense in a lovey, blubbery tone. Her weirdness not phasing a single one of them.
"Dammit. Can't ya fuckers ever knock?"
"Man, we didn't know you were gonna make a scene like that. I mean you could have sent a text saying you were being Shakespeare up in here. Romeo proposing to his Juliet like a star. Damn, homie." Sting spoke in some weird gibberish as he walked up to them. "Homeboy couldn't live without his sugar bear, puddin' pop."
Levy stared wide eyed at the weirdness she saw in front of her. "What's wrong with Pooh-bear? Why is he talking like that?"
"He watched a special on rappers and now thinks he's the next Eminem. He's started talking like he was raised in the slums of Chicago since." Rogue sighed.
"Oh god, Pooh-bear. I swear to fuck if you keep talking like that I'll castrate you."
"Damn, Levy. Way to ruin my fun." The blonde whined.
"So not cool." Rogue laughed.
Levy smiled as she looked around the apartment at her best friends, her family. She missed her sister, but Levy knew it was time to start looking towards the future. Levy had spent a month mourning her loss, now it was time to stand up and dust off her jeans. Wendy wouldn't want her to be sad like this.
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Mira sat on the couch watching the blunette sort through pictures of wedding dresses as Gajeel and Laxus discussed the music that would be played at the wedding, when suddenly the doorbell rang. Levy laughed as Gajeel suggested Blink 182's All The Small Things and stood to answer the door.
BANG!
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Beep... Beep... Beep...
What was that annoying sound? Levy opened her eyes only to be greeted with an unfamiliar scene. White washed walls and chemical cleaners assaulted her senses as she blinked. What happened?
"Miss McGarden, can you hear me?"
"Where am I?"
"The hospital. Do you remember what happened?"
"No, I- I opened the door-"
"LEVY!" Gajeel came into view, dragging three large orderlies behind him. "IS SHE OKAY? WHAT'S GOING ON?"
"Miss McGarden, do you know this brute of a man?" The nurse spoke with venom in her voice and anger in her eyes.
"Yes, I do. That's my fiance, and I'll thank you not to use that tone when speaking of him or I'll get out of this bed and put you in it."
"Miss McGarden!" The nurse protested, extremely offended.
"Leave us, now!" Laxus commanded. The nurse rushed t obey.
"Laxus?" Levy said trying to focus.
"Levy, do you know what happened?"
"No. Someone please tell me why I'm in a hospital bed."
"Babe, you were shot." Gajeel spoke softly.
"What?!" Levy shrieked.
"Doranbolt's mother was behind the door with a hand gun. Doranbolt passed away Tuesday night. His mother went insane knowing her son was gone and the only living piece of him left was the baby you have sole custody of. She was gonna kill you and take Faye-Marie, but once she shot you, you swung at her face instead of just going down like she thought you would. You knocked her backwards just before I jumped past you to tackle her and Gajeel caught you against him. Mira called the cops and ambulance." Laxus stated the events bluntly. "She barely managed to hit you. You'll be released in a week. They wanna make sure you don't get infected."
"Gajeel, where's Faye-Marie?"
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AN: I know, I know. I'm so mean to Levy in this FanFic. Sorry, Not Sorry. It is a good story and is progressing just the way I want it to. Maybe not as smooth, but it's still good. Let me know what you think.
