I do not own Fairy Tail

A/N Hey guys, sorry for the delay in this chapter, I have been in the process of moving and will be starting school again here shortly. From this chapter forward I hope to post at least every 30 days, If not more often. If you are also a reader of my other Fanfiction this rule will also apply to that one as well. Also I hopefully will be finishing the first Chapter of my Third one. Hope you guys enjoy.

The train came into the station at Hargeon. Gajeel hadn't noticed he had stood out on the deck for the rest of the trip. He didn't know he could get entangled in his thoughts like he did. Gajeel shook his head and walked back into the car and into chaos. The car looked like it had been through hell, at one point one of Wendy's troia spells had worked on Natsu and he decided to get in a fight with Gray. In the process Lucy had got nearly fried and Juvia got frozen again. Then Erza got into it. There was ice everywhere, a burnt booth on the other end of the car and a gouge in the ceiling from a sword. After Juvia thawed and Natsu got sick again, Juvia had begun to bother Gray again with her love. He felt for his friend but he knew Gray would realize reality soon enough. Jet and Droy were nowhere to be seen and Levy was backed into the corner of their booth. Gajeel looked around trying to figure out why he didn't hear any of it, he also noticed all their luggage was gone. He sat down next to Levy.

"You okay?" Gajeel questioned concerned.

"Yeah fine, they mostly kept to that side of the car." Levy smiled up at him, showing that she was perfectly fine and attempting to wash away his concern.

Gajeel grunted and looked away towards the others. The trained had finally stopped and everyone scrambled off before an attendant could catch them in the car and see the mess they had cause. The group headed out of the station and started to head out of town. The exceeds were flying ahead towards the beach. Gray and Natsu started to buttheads again. Juvia started to glare at Lucy as well. Gajeel took at deep breath and sighed.

"How did I end up dealing with these idiots?"

"Hmm?" Levy hummed.

Gajeel stopped in the path and looked around. "Where the fuck is Jet and Droy?"

Levy turned and looked up at him. "I think they took all the bags and headed off ahead of us."

"I was wondering where my bag went." Gajeel grunted.

"And yet you never asked about it." Levy huffed.

Gajeel started walking again and ignored her statement. They continued in silence aside from Natsu and Gray fighting and Erza yelling at them. And finally made it to the Beach House that they reserved. It was outside of Akane but it was still part of their property.

The house had 5 rooms with a meeting room and a Split Bathhouse. It was also all to them. Jet and Droy stepped outside as they approached the entrance. Jet handed everyone their keys, then everyone, except Gajeel, quickly scrambled inside to get there stuff unpacked.

Gajeel was rocking back in a chair on the porch. He was happy that he got a room to himself. Lily decided to stay with Carla and Happy in Wendy's and Erza's room. But it kinda put him on edge for the same reason. He was enjoying the silence other than the occasional creak from the chair. He opened his eyes when he heard the door unlatch.

Levy poked her head out. She cleared her throat, "Everyone's getting ready to head to the beach, want to join?"

Gajeel raised a studded brow at her, she knew he hated being near water, especially salt water. But without saying anything he got up from the chair and slipped past her heading to his room to change.

Levy watched him head upstairs. She looked down at herself at her new bikini, the top was a black scoopneck trimmed in sky blue fishnet on top, showing the little bit of cleavage she had, then it went into orange strings to go around her neck. The bottoms were the same with strings on the hips, they really showed off her ass to all its potential. Cana had talked her into buying it cause it was sexy but modest enough that she didn't feel naked. Levy sighed shaking her head, maybe he didn't see it. She walked back up to her room to grab her towel. Lucy and Juvia looked intently at her when she entered the room.

"So did he like it?" Juvia pressed.

"I'm not sure if he saw it…" Levy paused. "I did kinda hide behind the door and he did rush upstairs without saying anything."

Lucy sighed and puffed out her cheeks. "Well you being naked in front of him didn't work either so I'm lost for ideas."

"Well it kinda worked…" Levy shrugged.

The three girls laughed. Lucy and Juvia headed for the door. "We're heading down, want us to wait."

"Nah, I'll only be a bit so I'll catch up." Levy answered.

Once the other two were gone Levy went to her bag and looked for a her blue tank that was too long, she had brought as one of her pajamas, but she for some reason felt like she needing to be covered. She sighed and walked back into the hallway.

Gajeel had hurried up the stairs and found his bag, quickly finding his trunks and changed. He also grabbed one of his sleeveless shirts so he wouldn't get mugged on the way there, he hoped that the women here weren't the same as the ones in magnolia. He cringed at the memories. Once he had left the training field and forgot his shirt on the field and he was nearly trampled by 3 girls. Luckily Levy wasn't with him when it happened but it was still overly embarrassing. He had hoped it was only a one time deal and that it only happened to Laxus and Loke regularly but he was wrong to the point he didn't want to go back to the training field anymore.

Gajeel also grabbed a hair tie from his bag to pull his hair back. He quickly realized that there wasn't a bathroom attached to his room and reminded himself that he wasn't in a hotel. He walked back out of his room in hunt for the bathroom but something then ran into him.

Levy's head was down when she walked out of her room and ran into something hard. She quickly looked up and saw Gajeel staring down at her. She smiled up at him and quickly apologize. She looked down at Gajeel's hand and saw him holding one of his black ties. Levy held her hand out to him.

Gajeel sighed deeply, nearly groaning and handed the tie over. He knew he couldn't escape her since she always seemed to want to mess with his hair. They walked down stairs together and Gajeel went to sit on the top step of the porch so Levy could at least reach his head.

Levy hummed as she went to work and started to gently pull Gajeel's long mane back. She lost herself in his thick black mane, she did tie it back but continued to play with it. She had lost all track of time until Gajeel finally pulled away from her. She pouted, looking down at her hands.

Gajeel pulled away from Levy, feeling his heart breaking at the effort but he started to get weirded out that someone might have been watching them even though he couldn't sense anyone near them. He looked down at Levy, her still in the shock of him moving away. Gajeel sighed and lowered his hand to her. She stared at it for a second and then looked up at Gajeel, looking even more shocked then she was a second ago. Gajeel wiggled his fingers, wordlessly telling her to take his hand.

Levy slowly took it. Gajeel lifted her to her feet, she expected him to release it once she was on her feet. Gajeel pulled her after him and Levy fell in step with him heading towards the beach. Gajeel held her hand firmly.

Levy began to hum again as they walked. After a few steps, Gajeel started humming to her song. Levy stopped in her tracks and stared at him.

"Hmmm?" Gajeel added before he stopped himself.

"I miss you singing." Levy mused.

Gajeel smirked at her. He pulled her back into step as he turned back towards the beach, he continued to hum but he wasn't going to sing right now. They crested the beach dunn, they others were just on the other side of it. Gajeel dropped Levy's hand, stopped humming and took an unnoticeable half step away from her.

Levy took a huge sigh and looked over to Lucy. Lucy smiled largely in amazement. Levy shook her head at her, silently answering her question. Lucy huffed and handed 50 Jewels to Natsu who was standing next to her. Levy froze, her mouth dropped and she stomped towards Lucy, she couldn't believe they made a bet on what had happened in the last 5 minutes.

Gajeel ignored what he saw. He instead walked to a good distance away from the surf laid down his oversized black beach towel, removed his shirt and laid down in the sun, acting like he was ignoring the world.

Levy made it to Lucy and glared at her. Lucy giggled and waved her hand in front of her like nothing happened. Levy sighed shaking her head, there was always bets going on in Fairy Tail but usually Mira was the one running them. Levy threw her stuff on the picnic table that the girls were occupying. Levy looked down at herself feeling nervous again about her bathing suit.

"Oh come on Levy, you know you look good in it." Lucy pointed out.

Levy looked over her shoulder towards Gajeel. She sighed when she saw his eyes were closed. Levy took a deep breath and pulled her oversized tank top off.

Erza Whistled. "That is cute, Levy."

Levy blushed as Erza gawked at her.

Lucy started laughing, "And it shows off her ass nicely." Lucy winked at Levy with her tongue sticking out.

"You mimicking Bickslow now?" Gray said from behind Lucy.

Lucy jumped and started to go into an argument but was stopped when Gray waved his hand in front of her. Gray then cupped his hands over Juvia's ears. "Levy your swim suit is nice."

Levy heard a deep growl come from far behind her. She thought she imagined it but it seemed too real.

Levy smiled up at Gray, "Thanks." Gray then winked at her spun Juvia around. Gave her a big grin and then ran off after Natsu who was swimming out to the surf.

Levy realized that Juvia hadn't heard anything that Gray had said, or she was just so lost in the fact that Gray had touched her. Juvia then seemed to have melted right there.

"Come on guys let's have some fun." Lucy said excitedly and grabbed one of the water guns laying on the table and headed towards the water, Juvia and Erza quickly after her.

Levy looked at Wendy, "Aren't you going to play with us."

"Nah, We're going to build a sand castle." Wendy pointed at the exceeds that were just approaching them.

Levy smiled at her she picked up her own water gun and ran after the others.

Gajeel had been watching Levy since he growled. He didn't realize that he did it so loud but he could tell Levy had heard it. Gajeel was having a hard time making himself stay where he was. He watched Levy run after the other girls and he thought he was going to die right there. What Lucy had said was very right. Gajeel fought to pull his eyes away from her and lay his head back down, trying to relax. He did continued to listened to the girls play their little water war.

The rest of the afternoon was pretty uneventful aside from Gray turning Natsu and half the beach into an iceberg, which Natsu shortly melted.

Levy suddenly stopped, she had been laughing so hard the last few hours that she was tired. Lucy bumped up next to her and they started walking back to the table.

"Why don't you asked Gajeel to come play with us." Lucy probed.

"He doesn't like the water, especially salt water."

"WHAT? Why?"

"Rust." Erza added in, making Lucy jump, she hadn't noticed that she was behind her, Lucy nodded once she was out of her shock.

The 3 girls grabbed a refreshment from the cooler. Erza left them heading towards Wendy and the exceeds. Levy and Lucy leaned against the table sipping at their juice.

"So why don't we devise a plan?" Lucy started.

"For what?"

"To get you and Gajeel together in the water. I mean we could gang up on him with the water guns, then he would have to come into the water."

"You know he can hear you." Levy grinned at Lucy.

Lucy jumped in her spot and slowly turned to look behind her. Gajeel was laying there, glaring at her. Lucy made a squeak as Gajeel got up and walked towards them. Lucy jumped again and hid behind Levy.

"What were you saying now blondie?"

"Ummm. Nothing." Lucy nervously giggled.

"Mmmhmm." Gajeel grunted, crossing his arms across his chest. Lucy finally stopped attempting to hide behind Levy and stood next to her.

Natsu suddenly came stomping up looking angry. "Why are you scaring Lucy."

"Shut up Flamebrain, She's not scared."

Natsu started to Growl at Gajeel. "She was just hiding from you." Natsu continued angrily."

"What The Fuck, Are you in your season right now?"

"No he's not." Lucy answered casually.

Gajeel looked at her for a second, and back to Natsu. "Then stop being so territorial, Fire breath."

Natsu took finally took a step back, realizing that he did actually just over reacted.

"Wait, You didn't question that Lucy's answer." Levy was shocked.

"Why would I. The Flame Brain…." Gajeel was suddenly hit by Natsu in the Jaw.

"Metal Head, Don't tell them that."

Gajeel came back with his fist cased in his Iron Scales and hit him back in the Jaw. Natsu went flying about 10 feet and landed knocked out. Lucy Squealed and ran to Natsu. Gajeel started to walk back to the house.

"Gajeel?" Levy said softly as he turned away from them. He paused for a second but didn't stop.

Levy watched him walk way. She walked to Lucy and Natsu. "You know he deserved that."

Lucy huffed. "I know. Why don't you follow him."

"I think he needs a minute, then I'll go find him."

Gajeel walked around the back of the house. He sat on the step of the back porch. He put his head in his hands. He attempted to take deep breaths but it wasn't helping. 'Shit,' he thought to himself. He would get into normal brawls with Natsu and the others but he's never broke out his iron scales to knock someone out. He was feeling more on edge as the day went by. 'I thought I would have had at least the rest of the week.' Gajeel sighed for maybe the 50th time. Gajeel then froze cause he could smell her.

"Gajeel?" Levy started as she approached him. Gajeel looked up at her, answering her wordlessly. "Are you okay. You look very tired." Levy continued as she sat next to him on the step.

"I'll be fine." Gajeel grunted.

Levy looked at Gajeel thoughtfully. "I think you're lying." Gajeel looked over at her. "I know what Natsu told you, it was pretty obvious that you know what I know."

Gajeel sighed. "I thought I would have at least a week before it came but I'm more irritable than usual. I guess I'm out of time."

"Are you going to leave then?" Levy sounded hurt.

Gajeel looked inter her amber eyes. He sighed heavily again, "I'll try to stay longer but with my season here I shouldn't be around Natsu." Gajeel paused.

"Or me." Levy added in.

Gajeel felt his heart ache, "Yeah." He groaned.

Levy took his arm, hugged it to her body and put her head on his shoulder. "You know Lucy has told me everything that happened to her during his last season. She said it was easier that they were together before it came but she did make a point that I knew how bad the lust was." Gajeel leaned over and put his head on hers, listening to her as she continued. "I understand it all and I am prepared for it. I want to be with you Gajeel, isn't that enough."

Gajeel bit his lip. "Levy, I can't, you know that."

Levy pulled away from him. "Well you told me to never leave your side." She whispered as she got up from the step. She took a step away from him, "And I won't give up on you, on us." She added before walking away.

Gajeel watched her walk away. "She's going to be the death of me." He groaned again.