Juvia was sitting on a chair in one of the gest rooms of the palace where Gray was laying, patiently waiting for him to wake up. The tears she had shed where now dry on her sorrowful face. Outside, the sun was raising, putting an end to this horrible night.

"My love?" She said to the one who the probably didn't hear a thing, his right hand between both of hers. "Juvia simply wants Gray to know that she is here. Even though Gray probably knows it already, Juvia also wanted to say that she is in love with him since the first day. Since he had brought sunlight in Juvia's cloudy heart".

Her hands began to tremble while her tears started to flow again.

"Please…" she whispered. "Gray has to wake up…"

She finally gave in to her tiredness and placed her head on her crossed arms on Gray's bed. She barely had time to lay down before she heard a murmur. Lifting her eyes on its source, she saw Gray's gorgeous grey-blue gaze on her.

"My love…" she said, barely hearing her own voice while approaching her face to his.

"Don't w…"

He tried to say something, but had to stop and painfully swallow before resuming.

"Don't worry… I already know you love me".

Then he did that beautiful smile, the one that convinced Juvia since their meeting that she would always have a place for Gray in her heart. A huge weight left her shoulders while tears flowed freely, expressing how her relief was great.

"Stop crying" complained the young man with a still weak voice. "It feels like it's raining in the castle…"

"Sorry!" Exclaimed Juvia realising that the torrent of tear was now running on Gray face under hers.

Her reaction made Gray smile once more. No mater what hardship she encountered, Juvia was still Juvia. Was she intense? Yes. Did she do too much most of the time? Certainly! But if that was the price for Juvia to be Juvia, Gray wouldn't want her to change one bit.

After a moment, he could sit a little with Juvia's help, allowing the young woman to take place next to him.

"So? I held my promise, I hope you held yours."

"José was defeated by Juvia and Gajeel" she confirmed.

"And the king?"

"In the palace's dungeons".

Gray let out a sigh of relief realising that everything was now over. Then his cheeks reddened. The idea that had touched his mind before the battle was now possible. Taking a deep breath, he turned once more to the young woman.

"Eum…Juvia?"

"Yes my love?" She answered, a little worried by the serious tone he was using.

"You…eum… did you have some plans for the future?"

"No!" mentally panicked Juvia, "now that it's over, Gray wants Juvia to go away?". But before Juvia could get lost in her messy thoughts, he added with embarrassment.

"Cause… If you want to… you could come live with me."

This time, Juvia froze, looking agape at the young man.

"You don't have to, you know. It's just that you don't have a house anymore and…

"Ah!" Yelled the young woman, getting out of her frozen state, clenching at Gray's neck".

"Hey! Be careful!" He complained.

"Yes! Juvia wants to live with Gray with all her heart!"

The young man however couldn't answer before Gajeel busted in the room, alerted by Juvia's screaming. Seeing that nothing was wrong, he grumbled.

"What the hell's your problem?"

Then he saw Gray awake.

"Welcome to the living, Fullbuster… Ah seriously, what's your problem?" he added while Juvia threw herself at him.

"Juvia will live with Gray!"

"That was your death scream? You almost gave an hart attack to half of the people in the palace!"

"Juvia is happy!" She exclaimed, totally ignoring Gajeel's words, planting a kiss on his cheek before running back to Gray.

"I hate it when you do that!" Complained Gajeel once more despite the fact that she was still ignoring him".

"Really?" Asked a small voice behind him. "You didn't complain when I kissed your cheek the other day" said Levy with a grin while entering the room.

"Gihi! You, shrimp, can kiss ever part of my body if you want to."

"Pervert!" She said while hitting him, her cheeks on fire.

Then they left, deciding to leave so intimacy to Juvia and Gray. Gajeel took advantage of the moment to annoy her a little more while they were walking randomly in the castle. But when they reached the throne room, Levy stopped answering to his provocations, a sad look on her face. Gajeel hated seeing her like this. But he knew it had to be tough on her to see the room in which she almost lost her life, despite the fact that all trace of the battle had already been removed.

Laying her back on the wall, Levy let herself slide until she was sitting on the ground. Gajeel sighed to his girlfriend's sudden change of mood and sat beside her. Then he lifted her by the collar of her dress to lay her on his crossed legs. Her lack of reaction worried him even more.

"Shrimp?"

"I'm not home here" she whispered. "I don't want any of it…"

"So what do you want?" he asked, serious for once.

"I want to go back home in Fairy Tail. I want to continue doing the job I love. And I… I want to live peacefully with the man I love.

This time, it was Gajeel turn to blush.

"Is that really what you want, shrimp?" He asked with one of the rare hesitations he ever had.

"Yes…"

"So there's no reason not to have it."

"But…"

"What's the freaking point of being a queen if you can't even choose for your own life?" he lost patience.

"But what about the kingdom? I promise to dethrone August and…"

"And to put someone worthy and competent on the throne" he cut her off. "I don't doubt a second you could be that person, but if you don't want the job, just choose someone else to do it!"

"Everything always seems so easy with you" she whispered.

"You're the one that sees it the complicated way."

The young woman seemed to think about it for a moment. An idea just stated to grow in her mind.

** One week later **`

Levy opened the door of her home, their home, she remembered with joy, while they came back from the palace. After a lot of thinking and Gajeel's encouragements, she finally decided to accept the crown long enough to choose herself her successor. In the beginning, the said person vigorously refused. But who would be better to govern than the one who led the rebellion's army, the one that had received a military training, who had one of the biggest hart she knew… Who better than Erza?

It's with her face as red as her hair that the young woman finally accepted the role Levy was entrusting her. The later didn't have a single doubt that the kingdom couldn't be in better hands that Erza's. And that, not considering the loyal and honest Jellal who would be by her side to help her.

Levy however had to focus back on reality when solid arms lifted her from the ground.

"Not again!" she complained.

She wiggled to get out of his grip without any effect until he decided to place her on the couch, quickly taking place next to her.

"I hate you" she pouted.

"Gihi! Really doubt that" he laughed before being silenced by the girl's lips on his. "Gihi" he said once he was freed. "That's what I thought".

Then they kissed once more.

"I love you" said Levy.

"I know" he mockingly answered.

She replied with that adorable pout of hers.

"You could've answer something else than that" she complained.

"Something like what?" he teased her, taking advantage of that pout to nibble on her lower lip.

"Sobething like I lobe you" she said with difficulty as her lip was still held between Gajeel's teeth.

"I didn't get it" he teased her more.

"You…"

"I love you shrimp" he cut her off before placing once more his mouth on hers.

His words triggered a pleasant heat in the pit of Levy's stomach and, combined with Gajeel's burning hand on her tights, the young woman felt like her heart was going to melt.

In those last weeks, three persons had been hunted by the ghosts of their pasts. In those last weeks, four persons had seen their life change in a drastic way and lived thing no one ever want to experience. However, neither of them would change a thing, hardships having led them where they were. Now, every one of them knew that the best was yet to come and that the past could now on remain behind them.

So that was the last chapter of this adventure I was so glad to share with wonderful readers! I however still have an epilogue in store for you even though the main plot has reach its conclusion :)

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