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Disclaimer- I do not own anything it all go to the creator Hiro Mashima sadly

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Lucy Pov 33333

I could feel them it was like they were trying to bore a hole into my skin and I wanted them to find something else to look at cause I wasn't in the mood right now with this heat wave and my pink- excuse me salmon- haired idiot of a partner sticking to me like glue until I finally Lucy kicked him off of me. Only thing was I didn't know who was looking at me because there were too many guildmates in from not taking a job or to just be in the guilds air condition, but I always felt those eyes on me if only I could find out who it was

With a sigh I walked away from Natsu before he could get up and cling to me again just so he could talk to Levy when she came to talk to me funny how he likes her and she likes him yet their not together at least not yet, but hey i'm working on it I just need to get everyone to leave me alone and let me do my own thing from now on they were the ones that left me when I needed them most and I had to pick up the pieces and try to put them all back together and hope it was right.

They couldn't find me for two years after they came back together cause I didn't want to be found and those that knew me helped to keep them off my trail until I wanted to go back and really it was sad how I keep track of all of them, but they couldn't to the same for me only shows a little of the harsh reality but there was one person that looked for me relentlessly and never let anyone know I wonder why he did that I wonder why he looked for me when he didn't have to he didn't really all that much about me to begin with and I knew it wasn't for Levy when they treated each other like siblings, but the rest of them that couldn't find me showed me that I should only get stronger and not lean on them as much as I did in the past.

And that's what I did but how I got stronger is no one else's business, but mine and my spirits and I wish they would stop bugging me to take someone on the jobs that I take even if I no longer needed the money for rent since I got my own place but I could handle 15 jobs on my own now without any help, but they just couldn't the dam hit and when everyone thought I had started drinking and got more worried although I guess that is my fault for having the scent of alcohol but I wasn't drinking so there was nothing to worry about and with another deep sigh I plopped down on a stool.

" Mira a strawberry milkshake please"

"Sure thing Lucy" and then she disappeared behind the door that lead to the kitchen to make my order only to appear a few minutes latter to place it in front of me

"Thanks Mira" I said placing the jewels on the bar and hoping to enjoy my milkshake in peace but that must have been too much to ask for with my kind of luck

" So Lucy what seems to be the problem you've been sighing a lot recently, is it guy problems if it is I can set you up with someone and just think of the babies you'll make" and that's when I knew I had to stop her before she really went into the baby thing when and try to set me up with every guy she could that was singel

"Whoa stop right there Mira, it's not guy problems I'm just thinking about the jobs I was looking at earlie"

"Will you be taking someone else with you on your jobs this time, you know how we worry when you take the amount of jobs that you do no one else takes 15 at onces" and there goes another sigh

" Mira we've been over this before there is only one person that I am willing to take on these missions and no I will not tell you who it is because you do not need to know at least not yet" and now I must pray to whatever god exist that she doesn't kill me for telling her off like that, but it was true he was the only one that I was willing accept as my partner for the jobs that I would take and I didn't need Mira going baby crazy or start planning our wedding when we weren't even dating

"Alright Lucy I'll let this go just this once, now go get the jobs that you want so I can write them down"

I narrowed my eyes after she said that something was up because the Mira that I know would never allow something like that to just slide like it never happened, but I wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth even if this gift horse has something suspicious up their sleeves.

I walked over to the mission board only to find that every. Singile. Mission. I could take were gone and the only ones left were for teams and that's when it clicked Mira wanted me to go on a mission with another person or people per see I looked around the guild for anyone that had an unusual amount of papers in front of them and that's when I spotted him in a dark corner like normal only no Levy so this was the plane I got rid of all of the other candidates so now they went to the one person that I haven't talked to yet since the guild came back and since I came back to it as well.

Well it looks like their really determined to find out why I smell like alcohol so much now, this is going to be really fun it looks like I'm going to be getting a partner for to take with me from now on well if they wanted to force Gajeel on me then he was going to need to learn the consciences of my mage since I had become stronger with all mage there is a price to be coming more powerful some are good and some can be deadly.

Sadly for me my price was a deadly one and Gajeel would have to know all of this if he was to work with me for the 20 or so missions that he had on his table. I took another glance around the guild looking for my team that still didn't get the hint that I was slowly trying to quiet and was putting levy-chan or Lis in my place on most of the missions that I couldn't take with them.

And with the assurance that they weren't here I walked over to Gajeel's and plopped myself in the set across from him

"Well how do you want this to go cause form the way I see it you either give me 15 of those missions for you and I take all of them and tell Mira that you're my partner for all of them"I think I put him in shock with that statement

"Ya seriously want to take all of these missions, shit bunny there's at least 20 here and some of them are good fightin ones ya sure ya can handle it"

"If there's one thing you should never do Gajeel it is to doubt my abilities now because you of all people should know there is a price that comes with more power I don't just fight with my spirits anymore I can do many more things but you'll only know about those if you go on all of these jobs with me"

His mouth opened and closed a few times from the shock I had never asked anyone to accompany me on the missions that I took and Gajeel was the first one I had willing come to ask well almost willing to ask to join me on these missions. Then I saw him smirk as if he just got the greatest idea ever in his head, well this could be every every fun for the both of us if it was going where I thought it was and I now would have someone to share my screret with as to way I had a very strong scent of alcohol on me when I came back from my 15 missions and someone would finally know more about my magic.

Now my only problem is how I can convince Gajeel to become my partner if everything works out well and I have this strange feeling it will work out because for some reason I always feet this strange type of pull to him

"Alright bunny lets go tell the Demon about this but I have a few

conditions first"

"Of course"

"First from every every job I want 50 percent of the reward since I know you don't really need the money" "hey how did you-"

"I ain't done yet bunny and if there's anythin extra ya can have it all I want is the money that's all I need and I need to know yer strengths and weakness for when we go into a fight"

" alright then we have deal Gajeel"

"Yeah we have a deal"

And with that I took up all of the missions and walked to the bar to tell Mira about the missions I was taking and my new Partner