Hey! Sorry this update was sooooo slow! I was working on it for agessss, i just didnt know when to stop and end the chapter and just erghhhh!

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Hopefully when she went back up she'd get her chance to talk to him.

... She didn't have to wait till she went back upstairs. She was reaching for something on the top shelf of a cupboard. She'd brought one knee up onto the counter, ready to climb up when she heard a low gruff voice behind her. "Need help there shrimp?" The voice asked followed by a low chuckle.

Levy looked around, twisting her knee at an odd angle. She gasped, half because the person speaking was the guy in dark clothes and half because twisting around had caused her to become unbalanced and she had started to topple.

She squeezed her eyes shut and braced for the impact... But it didn't come. She peeked opened her eyes and then soon widened when she found herself in the arms of him. "O-oh... H-hi there."

"Hey there shrimp." He smirked down at the clumsy girl in his arms. "I'm Gajeel."

"L-Levy. My name is Levy." she blushed. "C-could you put me down please?"

"Sure shrimp." He turned her upright and set her on her feet. "Yer shouldn't climb 'bout, yer coulda gotten hurt."

"I couldn't reach the tea box... It's at the back of the top shelf!" She huffed slightly, crossing her arms over her chest.

"relax shorty." He chuckled reaching past her and easily getting down the box. "Yer tall saviour is 'ere."

She frowned at him. "I said my name is Levy! Not shorty!" She said, then she lowered her eyes. "Sorry... I mean... Thanks." She sighed.

"Yer welcome shrimp, anything else yer need my height and/or muscles for while I'm here?" He asked with a small chuckle.

"Well..." He glanced at the trolley with the water heater and trays of mugs and tea spoons that were there, then back up at the cupboard where she needed to get down the biscuits that were store there. "The biscuits are kinda out of my reach too..." She mumbled.

"Gihi." He chuckled "I got it shrimp." He chuckled reaching up and starting to bring down several packets of various biscuits and cookies, while she organised the trolley a little better to make space for them. "Geez how many packets of biscuits does one library need?" He asked as he piled then onto the trolley.

"On slow days there's not much for us to do but drink tea and eat biscuits..." Levy chuckled "That and read of course."

"Sure. Yer a little bookworm eh shrimp?" Gajeel chuckled.

"I do work in a library Gajeel..." She pointed out as she pushed the trolley out of the little kitchen. "Anyway, thank god the storm hasn't cut the electricity... Or there'd be no hot drinks for anyone."

He grunted in agreement and switched back to silent as he followed her back to the reading room. As Levy set up the water heater Gajeel moved silently back to the corner where he had been sat before he'd followed Levy to the kitchen, completely on an uncontrolled impulse to talk to the blue haired girl who seemed shy at first glance but had had the guts to not judge him on appearances and had helped him even when others were wary. He thought her stupidly trusting, almost too nice and selfless to those around her, and found himself wondering when she had last done something simply for herself and not for someone else. He frowned a little to himself, barely noticing the people around him shift away at his rather scary face. What was he doing, thinking these things about a girl he'd barely met, he'd only just learnt her name goddammit. He sighed a little under his breath as he found himself watching her across the room again, like he had before when she had been writing in some kind of notebook, a diary maybe. Now she was happy handing out teas and coffees to people and offering biscuits for people to eat. Selfless. He found himself thinking again as she tirelessly catered for everyone's needs, he was still quite damp and cold thanks to his heavy and thick clothes and would love a hot tea at that point, however he didn't want to scare anyone else away from the hot drinks and he wanted Levy so be able to get her own drink as soon as she could.

He forced himself to look away and close his eyes, maybe he could get some sleep. Not half an hour later he was roused from his light sleep by an angel calling his name. "Gajeel... Hey Gajeel..." He forced his eyes open and realised it wasn't an angel, or it was... He wasn't sure, but what he was sure was the apparent angles name, Levy. She was smiling at him and holding a hot cup of tea out to him. "Hi." She smiled "Sorry I didn't realise you were asleep... But you were still shivering a bit, so I brought you some tea."

He gave her a small smile. "Thanks shrimp." He took the cup and took a sip of the sweet tea, feeling the warmth seep through his chilled body.

She smiled back at him and slowly got to her feet from her crouched position. He raised a hand unconsciously to stop her. She gave him a small questionable look. "Erm... W-would you like to sit with me a while?" He asked quietly. A lot of people in the room were staring to doze off as it was pretty late and now they had drunk some warm drink and eaten a little, they were comfortable and sleepy.

She smiled. "I'd love to." She nodded. "Just let me finish packing away and I'll come back ok?" She gave him and small smile.

"Sure." He nodded.

She stood and went back to her makeshift tea station. she turned off the water heater and organised everything neatly before collecting her bag and blanket and making her way over to Gajeel with her own cute of tea.

"Welcome back shrimp." He chuckled as she sat down against the wall right next to him and draped the blanket over her lap.

She sighed "I did tell you my name Gajeel... You can call me Levy you know."

"Yeah but shrimp suits you better." He chuckled flashing her his slightly sharp teeth in the flickering firelight.

She sighed again. "I guess there's no helping it." she shook her head. "So tell me Gajeel, what course are you taking here at the university?"

"Art." He mumbled under his breath.

Levy's eyes widened. "Really you're an art student?"

"Yeah... I make sculptures mostly, out of iron and stuff... But I draw too... Y'know to plan out my work." He shrugged.

"Wow that's so cool!" Levy smiled at him. "I wish I could make things like that, but my little hands were made to hold a pen." He held her hands out and spread her fingers, to emphases their small size.

"Literature?" He asked holding out his hands beside hers, they were large and rough, next to her soft and delicate hands.

She giggled at the different before lowering her hands. "Yeah, I was offered a scholarship by Professor Freed when we happened to meet in my hometown." She yawned "And he saw some of my work thanks to my pushy teacher, Mira. I think they're actually dating now..."

"Your old teacher is dating your current professor?" He asked with a small chuckle.

"Well, Mira keeps coming down to the university... She's days to see me and her little sister Lisanna, but neither of us actually see her when she's here. We think she's dating Freed." She smiled nodding slowly as her eyes drooped. "We're happy for her though..."

"You're tired shrimp... Why don't you sleep a little..." Gajeel gently moved her head to his shoulder and slowly, so not to scare her, wrapped on arm around her to hold her in place.

"But gotta... Look after everyone..." She yawned nuzzling into his shoulder.

"Shut up and sleep shrimp." He mumbled awkwardly patting her hair.

"Rude..." She mumbled before quickly falling asleep. After all it had been a long, confusing and stressful day.

So yeah thats this chapter sorry for any grammar mistakes and such my old editor is busy and I'm rubbish at proof reading my own stuff.

Hopefully in chapter to come we'll see these two outside of the library and see some of Gajeel work! Yay!