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Hiro Mashima owns Fairytail
"ERZA NO!" Gray yelled horrified.
"AAHHH!" Natsu yelled crying.
"You dare leave your teammate behind...!" Erza was oozing dark aura.. she had them tied together by a metal chain.. back to back..
"I didn't mean to! I promise it was an accident!" Natsu paled.. "No.. NO.. NOOOO!"
"Please.. anything but that..." Gray cried..
"Because Lucy wouldn't have taken that mission IF YOU HAD NOT LEFT HER BEHIND!" Erza yelled at them.
"Open up Gray-sama! Juvia will feed you!" Juvia said holding up a spoon of SUPER SPICY HOT SOUP.
"NOO!" Gray was forced to eat it. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
"Open up Natsu..." Lisanna said apologizing.. Erza was forcing her to take part since she had caused part of the problem as well..
"NEVER!" Natsu shut his mouth shut.
"Happy.. "Lisanna said.
Happy came over and began to tickle Natsu.
"Hey! Stop! HAhaha - mmmppphphhhh.." Lisanna gave Natsu a large spoonful of shaved ice with extra ice cream.
"KYAAAAA! BRAIN FREEZE!" Natsu squirmed.
"Do not stop feeding them until their entire bowls are gone. And then..." Erza smirked.. "There is MORE.." she grinned with a red glint in her eyes. In Lisanna and Juvia's hands were huge bowls of soup and shaved ice with ice cream. Lisanna and Erza both shivered from Erza's rage.. Natsu and Gray kept crying..
"SOMEONE! SAVE US!"both cried..
Everyone in the guild watched the two boys laughing, smiling.. when would they learn.
Upstairs.. Lucy was smiling as she heard them.. she stifled a giggle..
Laxus gave her a look of annoyance.. Lucy noticed his gaze and calmed herself down to work again..
He rolled his eyes.. "Idiots.."
She was sitting in the office alone now.. Master Makarov had gone out into the guild hall to drink and mingle with the members.. Laxus was downstairs as well with the Raijinshuu.. she had been working on the paperwork for hours now… and impressively.. she was almost done.
Paperwork from the magic council was stacked high and completed.. mostly property damages.. mostly about her own team.. but it was funny to read about all the property damages of all the other mages in the guild.. she read every mission report and could visualize each and every member in their mission… fighting and helping people..
Her body was aching and she felt very sluggish.. slightly dizzy.. Lucy looked at the time. It was almost 8PM now.
"Where did the time go.." Lucy got up and left the office. She peeked over the railing and saw everyone having fun. She smiled. This was her family. Levy sitting next to Gajeel with Lily. Wendy sitting with Erza at the bar. Raijinshuu in the corner. The Cornell family at a table. Macao and Wakaba talking to Master Makarov. Lisanna Elfman and Mira sitting together…..poor Natsu and Gray passed out... Everyone..
Her vision wavered slightly.. she took a step back from the railing and shook her head.. leaning against the wall.. she tried to steady herself.
She walked around the corner and decided to find a back door.. putting a hand up to her head.. she found her own forehead hot.. her hands were cold… and her body was trembling slightly..
Flash.. "Lucy…." Loke put his arms around her.
"Hey Loke.." she smiled.
His eyes widened.. "Lucy… you're burning up.."...
"No.. I'm fine.. I just need a bath and some sleep.. then I'll be good as new" She smiled.
"Cmon let's get you to Wendy.. she can—"
"No… not wendy.. She's already starting to get suspicious." Lucy said with pained eyes.
"How do you know?"
"I just know… she's a healer.. there's no way she couldn't have found something odd when she healed me yesterday… I know my magic is unstable right now.. She out of all people will be able to find out first."
"Lucy…." Loke pleaded..
"Please.. I just want to go home.." Lucy asked.
He looked hestitant.. but how could he disobey her.. he would follow her to the end. Loke lifted her bridal style and began to walk towards the back exit.
"Sleep princess.. I'll get you home safe and sound.. Did you at least have dinner Princess?"Loke said softly.
"Mm….. I really wish I could eat some of that soup again…" Lucy mumbled shivering..
"What soup? Let me make it for you."
"His soup..."
"Who's.. Natsu's.. Gray's?"
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"Gajeel's.."Lucy whispered softly.. and dozed off..
Loke froze for a second… he held onto her more tightly.. and continued to walk.
He watched Laxus walk up to the office and open the door. Laxus went in with the door open and came right back out.. he looked around the guild and started looking around the second floor…
"When did she leave?" Gajeel muttered to himself.
"I think about 30 minutes ago." Lily said munching on a kiwi.
"You saw her leave?" Gajeel looked wide-eyed at Lily.
"Yes.. she left through the back of the second floor."
"So you want to hide? Going home without letting anyone know." Gajeel thought to himself. "What are you hiding from…. Or from who?" he scanned the guild hall..
Then something caught his eye… orange spiky hair.. he smelled the celestial spirit.. and he was headed right for them.
"Hello Gajeel.. Lily.. Levy.." Loke said smiling.. he looked at each of them and smiled wider at Levy.. who was too busy in her book to notice Loke.
"She still gets lost in her books huh?" Loke said warmly.
"Yes. She does that a lot." Lily replied.
"What do you want." Gajeel asked gruffly.
"On nothing from you Gajeel… Lily?"Loke said facing Lily.
"Me?" Lily said shocked.
"Yes.. would you please do me a favor? I would like to speak to you in private." Loke asked politely.
"Lily is going nowhere without me Lion."Gajeel growled.
"I just need to ask Lily a small favor. It won't take too long." Loke said with a sudden serious face. Lily and Gajeel noticed the change..
"Okay. I'll be back Gajeel." Lily said getting up.
"Lily!" Gajeel said angry.
"He said it won't take too long. I'll be back soon.. if not see you at home." Lily flew up in the air and followed Loke.
Gajeel was crossing his arms.. pissed off that his exceed was so willing to leave without him.. but then.. the thought occurred to him.. what would Loke need with Lily? He needed to know.
Irritated and frustrated.. Gajeel got up from his seat and patted Levy's head. She broke from her reading and was about to yell at Gajeel when she saw him leaving. "Bye Gajeel!" she yelled. He lifted a hand up in reply.
"Hey wasn't that Loke just now?" Lisanna asked as she saw Loke walk away with Lily flying next to him.
"Yea.. what's he doing with Lily?" Elfman asked confused as well.
"Probably planning some scheme to get girls again."Mira said smiling.
"With Lily?.. Oh like how some guys go around with puppies and kittens?" Lisanna asked.
"That's a man!" Elfman said happily.
"Elf-niiii~" Lisanna said sweatdropping.
Mira smiled at her siblings.. then walked away to serve the rest of the guild members.
Natsu and Gray were knocked out from their torture.. happy was trying to wake up Natsu so they could go home. But Natsu and Gray were out cold.
Lisanna smiled at the two of them.. but her smile was a half-hearted smile.. she looked towards Juvia... Juvia's eyes never left Gray.
She turned her gaze back to Natsu…
Lily asked confused. "You want me to cook you soup?"
"Yes. I heard that Gajeel cooks some sort of soup and I was wondering if you could cook it for me."
"Hm.. if you're talking about a soup.. then it must be his special soup.. Sorry Loke-san.. I dont know how to make it. Gajeel's the only one who knows how to."
"That's such a shame..." Loke said looking away with a torn look.
Lily felt really bad for not being able to help.
"I can ask Gajeel for you?" Lily said.
"Could you please!?" Loke's face lit up.
"Sure. I'll get him to make it. Don't worry Loke-san" Lily said smiling.
"I'm making it for nobody." Gajeel said appearing around the corner.. face serious and eyes glaring..
"Gajeel.." Lily said frowning.
Loke looked at him with a troubled look.
"You heard me. I'm not going to. No one knows about that soup except me and Lily. How did you find out about it?" Gajeel said with narrowed eyes.
Lily looked over at Loke with shock as well.
"..."
"Well.. he didn't particularly know about that soup Gajeel.. I just think that's the soup he's talking about." Lily said backing Loke up. "I was the one that brought it up."
"Tell me.. why would you want Lily to make you soup. You can go buy your own restaurant soup.. but why bring him out here.. alone.. to ask a stupid question like that?" Gajeel said in a low voice.
"It's none of your business Gajeel.. I asked Lily for a favor.. not you.." Loke seethed.
Gajeel growled. "Well.. you're definitely getting nothing now. C'mon Lily." He turned around to leave.
"Sorry Loke-san..Wish I could help.. " Lily said turning to go with Gajeel.
"WAIT!"
Gajeel and Lily turned around.. Loke was clenching his fists..
"Please... I need it..." Loke said with his bangs covering his eyes..
Gajeel's glared at Loke... "And why is that?"
"Please... just.. I need it." Loke said softly..
"No. Why should I?"
He entered through the doorway.. her room was so pink.. he looked around and saw that her apartment was pretty clean and fairly large for one person to live in. Then his eyes followed Loke..
Loke went up and sat next to a bundle on the bed.. He checked the wet towel on her forehead..
"Is Lucy okay?" Lily came and landed on the bed.. putting his paw on her cheek.. his eyes widened.. "She's burning.."
"I know... i think it's from running around in the rain last night."Loke said softly.
"Why don't you ask Wendy to heal her?" Lily asked..
"She doesn't want to bother Wendy.. its just a minor fever.."
"Loke-san.. this isn't minor.."
"I know... I know... but I can't go against her." Loke looked down and clenched his fists..
Lily looked at Gajeel with a pleading look...
Gajeel gave a look of annoyance..
And with that.. Gajeel went down to the kitchen.. he washed his hands and began to look for the necessary ingredients.
Laxus was sitting on his couch.. the fireplace was lit.. his cloak in his hands.. he lifted it up to his face.. irritation hit his face.. he brought the cloak back down.. and brought a hand up to his face..
He had felt bad for leaving her to do all the work.. but when he went to check up on her.. to his surprise, she wasn't there.. all the paper work was done.. all the finances.. perfectly recorded and analyzed.. reports all completed and filed.. EVERYTHING.. was done..
without a goodbye.. without a sound.. she had left..
and with that in mind.. and her smiling face in the rain.. her conversation with Natsu..
he couldn't get help but have this nagging feeling..
"What am I doing..."
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"What are you doing to me..."
He brought the bowl and the spoon up to her bedroom.. he looked inside and found Loke gone.. Lily was changing her towel again.. Lily looked up at Gajeel..
"Her fever is slowly going down.."
Gajeel sat on the bed next to her. "Bunnygirl.. hey"
"mmm..." Lucy mummbled.
"Get up." Gajeel said shaking her gently.
"Gajeel she is sleeping!" Lily scolded Gajeel.
"Hey.. I went through the trouble to make this soup so she better get up and eat it. Hey! Get up!"
Lucy's eyes fluttered open.. she saw Gajeel and Lily looking down at her..
"C'mon get up. Before it gets cold." Gajeel said.
The smell of the soup hit her.
She struggled to get up and Lily helped her get into a half sitting position.
"Gajeel..." she said softly. "You came..." she smiled.
Gajeel and Lily looked at her like she had gone crazy.
"Yea.. what?.. were you expecting me?" Gajeel asked.
"I didn't believe you would... but you did.." She said with half open eyes.. smiling softly
"Well... I wanted to know what made Loke so desperate like that.. he really did BEG for me to make it.." Gajeel looked away.. trying to look irritated.
"Hmmmm..." Lucy smiled as she was falling back asleep again.. her breathing was labored..
"Here. Eat up." Gajeel put the bowl in her hands. She opened her eyes slightly and tried to feed herself.
Lily looked at Gajeel with a frown and gave him a reprimanded look. Gajeel clenched his jaw in irritation.. and then just let everything go.. he sighed..
He picked up the bowl and took the spoon from her.
He moved closer to her and took a spoonful of the soup, brought it to her lips, and tipped the soup into her mouth.
Lucy squirmed from how hot the soup was. Gajeel cringed as he forgot how hot the soup was.. he had probably just burned her mouth..
Letting out another frustrated sigh.. he looked towards Lily.. who was looking back at him with a frown.
"You better not say a word to anyone about this..." Gajeel growled..
Lily lifted up a paw up in reply.. a smile on his face.
Looking back at her again.. Gajeel was surprised.. she was watching him with warm eyes.. a soft smile graced her face..
He brought up another spoonful of the soup.. blew it gently to cool it.. and fed her again. To his well-hidden relief.. she didn't react from how hot it was..
"What did you expect was going to happen after going around town in the rain like that. Tch." Gajeel muttered to himself.
"It seemed like it would be fun... and it was." Lucy said, having heard his little muttering of irritation. She smiled at his frustration with her.
"More like stupid.." Gajeel said as he fed her again.
"mm... you should try it sometime.. you'll see..."
"Tch.. i don't do such girly clumsy things like you." Feeding her one more time.
"It's the little things.. that make life worth living.." Lucy smiled..
"Like making soup... for a sick friend.." Lucy said slurring as she fell asleep...
Gajeel brought the spoon back to the bowl. He watched her sleep with a frown.. her chest rising up and down as she slept. He set the bowl aside and Lily flew over to help change her towel on her forehead.
He then looked towards her hand.. her gloved hand... after checking to see if she was really asleep.. Gajeel hesitantly took her hand in his.. her hands were so small... he noticed the shiny iron plates on her gloves.. strategically placed on her knuckles to give more damage.. the quality of the iron.. the leather gloves.. they were all very similar.. to the very gloves he was wearing... Whoever made her the gloves... he had to hand it to them.. they were good..
He noticed the bracelet on her left wrist... his eyes narrowed as he recognized the familiar cross charm... he looked away from it finding it offensive that she had such a thing on.. he looked up at her face.. her hair.. the red ribbon in her hair.. he brought a hand over to it and felt the fabric.. it felt of small scales.. reminding him of Natsu's own white dragon scale scarf..
The ribbon.. the bracelet... Lucy having gloves that looked oddly similar to his... and her knowing about his soup.. his special soup... the medicinal soup only he knew how to make... the soup that saved him countless times through all kinds of illnesses since Metallicana left him..
"Blondie.. I don't know what happened to you out there.. or how you found out about my soup.." Gajeel said leaning in closer to her face.. "But I'm onto you... You can't hide anything in the dark from me."
Lily.. watched Gajeel and Lucy.. wondering what exactly was going to happen between the two.. and how exactly Lucy had come across to know about it.. to know to seek Gajeel... to make Loke.. let down his lion pride.. and beg... for a mere bowl of soup.