A much delayed hello to everyone! Tis a little late thanks school and, but I'm grateful for whoever is out there waiting for my next update. My best friend is moving away on Tuesday so I probably won't get the chance to write again until after then. Thank you for everyone who has followed, favorited or reviewed, it means the world to me!

It had been an hour since their planned meeting time. Now Gajeel was starting to get worried.

Levy is a stickler for being on time, he remembered, worrying more and more by the minute. She'd never be this late, even if she was doing girly things like makeup and picking an outfit.

Unless something happened. Even if his assumption was just an assumption after all, Gajeel had to find Levy and check on her.

With one last nervous glance back at the clock on the wall, Gajeel got up from his chair and left the five-star restaurant without notice.

Gajeel trailed the most predictable path Levy took from her house to get the restaurant. After only a few steps, Gajeel found himself madly smelling her scent in instantaneously. Thanking his extremely trustworthy sense of smell, he followed his nose to where he would eventually discover his Shrimp waiting before him.

Levy hated every moment of it and there was only one solution: She had to run.

At first, she gradually and slyly slid herself against the brick wall and began to take the longest strides her snug dress and short legs would allow. Then, she little by little picked up her pace, which got her about three yards away from where the streetlights touched the street.

Levy made out a mumble coming from one of the men stalking her, followed by the unmistakable clicking of a gun being reloaded.

I love you Gajeel, Levy thought, trying to send the message to him telepathically. Tears prickled at the sides of her eyes as she poured her heart and soul into those four words.

Apparently, her message was received, because just as all hope had vanished from her, leaving her empty and distraught, she heard something. Someone.

A voice that she had could recognize from miles away, one that she dreamed of waking up to.

The one voice that was rough like sandpaper, yet somehow seemed to sooth her. Levy peaked out her head to meet her eyes with Gajeel's.

"Oi, nobody touches my Shrimp but me," Gajeel growled, scowling at his new enemy with bloodshot eyes. Levy felt her heart leap in her chest as soon as she got a glimpse of her knight in shining iron armor.

The Following Man (as Levy began to call the evil stalker) started to retort something, but was violently interrupted. Gajeel ripped the weapon out of the man's clutch, and chucked it far from his reach. So far that it landed right at Levy's feet.

Then, Gajeel rapidly slammed the shady character to the wall, brutally clutching his head in one large hand and crashing it into the bricks behind his skull. After only one blow, the man crumpled to the ashen pavement, except now, it wasn't gray.

It was painted in a pool of murky blood.

Gajeel slowly took a step back, with enraged eyes still thirsty for bloodshed. Then, as if nothing had happened at all, the Iron Dragon Slayer shoved his gory hands into his suit and strolled away, towards Levy.

She could believe her eyes. Yes, she had known he had always been a violent person, but had she ever seen him this enraged, she'd had always made a distance of at least ten yards between them. Maybe.

As Gajeel made his way towards her, Levy began to shake. She shook in fear of the man she had now seen the pitiless side to, but she also shook with overwhelming joy since he had saved her from an awful termination.

With mixed emotions, all Levy could do was cry. At first, her lower lip started to pout and a muffled whimper escaped her. Before she knew it, tears gushed down her cheeks and mascara escaped with them. Gajeel heard her divulged sobs and hurried to her. Gathering her petite body into his enormous arms, he lightly started to rub her back.

Even with makeup streaks striping her face, Gajeel thought after she had finally calmed down, she's still cute as ever.

"Gajeel?" Levy sniffled, still wiping her eyes in an attempt to stop the teardrops from smearing her makeup even more.

"Yeah?"

"Our date is canceled now, isn't it?"

Gajeel raised a single iron studded eyebrow and smirked slightly.

"Not if I have a say," and with that, he scooped her up with ease and carried her to his house.

What his intentions were, Levy had no idea.

And that's a wrap! I hoped you liked this new chapter. Took me a little longer than usual and I'm really sorry about that. Loved it? Despised it? I had fun adding a little more action in this one, but I don't know if it was just as much fun to read. Leave a review about it why don't you! Thank you all so much for reading!