OKAY much as I dislike starting off with AN's, I will this time so your not all "What?" and brick me :3
I don't get this prompt. At all. In the slightest. Not even a tiny- okay, you get it. SOOO, in another effort to get something out of the way, I decided to apply my powers as the authoress and completely ignore the first three words XD Which leaves us with "Cigarette", which is much more workable with then a phrase I've never heard of strikeand is too lazy to look up/strike.
So without further a due, the missing #18! …Not that any of you were aware it was missing, or that this series was numbered at all. -_-"
Hanging like a cigarette
[Gray/Erza]
"Smoking is bad for you, you know."
Gray blinked at the Titania owlishly, wondering if that was sole reason for her dragging him to a remote corner of the guild.
Realizing she was probably waiting for an answer, or maybe a heartfelt apology and declaration he would never touch a cigarette again, he replied, "...Yeah."
"Then stop."
He didn't bother explaining that he couldn't, because there wasn't much of an alternative to relieve the stress he built up with this job and harassing and being harassed by Natsu all the time, and-
But then he realized he just did, because he was speaking out loud the whole time. Flushing slightly, he was glad he stopped when he did, because his next thought should never reach her ears, no matter what.
And wanting you.
"Really?" Gray swallowed nervously; was her voice just a bit more breathless then usual, or was he just imagining things? "I think there's something else you can do..."
That was all the warning he got before suddenly being pinned to the wall, a pair of slightly warm lips pressed again his own. All coherent thought went out then window after that, and all his brain could process was that Erza Scarlet was kissing him, and he was kissing back.
And neither of them seemed to mind in the slightest.
After the resulting war for dominance (because even if it was Erza, Gray would not stand to be submissive so easily), the parted after it was decided air was a necessity for survival.
"I guess that works too," he muttered after catching his breath, his tone slightly husky.
In the end, she got what she wanted; he never really needed a cigarette again. And if the two got something else out of that, well, neither of them would complain.
Word count: 307
BLEH even after taking liberties with the prompt, I still fail at making this half decent D: Don't get me wrong, I love Grayza, I really do, as much as I adore NaLu, but somehow I absolutely FAIL at keeping Gray and Erza in character...
In short, both this prompt and Grayza in general hate me.
ANOTHER thing I just remembered XD. Gray smoked in the very beginnings of the manga, though it was dropped later on. Its not really a well know fact, since it was only for the first chapter or so and not that many people notice something like that, so congrats if you knew what I was talking about. I wouldn't even know if I wasn't randomly looking at his info page on the Fairy Tail Wiki XD
Edit: 8/23/11
Moved to number 18~