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"How about…" Levy thoughtfully drew her words out as she twirled the band of cloth around on her finger, considering the gruff man standing before her. "You wear it without any guff and we go about the day peacefully?"

Gajeel rolled his eyes, shaking his head and crossing his arms. "'m not wearin' that, so you can just forget it."

The script mage cocked her head to the right, fabric still circling up and down the trim appendage she held up. "Hm…Don't think so."

The dragon slayer scoffed and crossed his arms, smirking down at the smaller woman. "Well, you can't very well tackle me and wrangle it over my neck, now can you?"

She returned his smirk with one of her own and tossed her prize into the air, catching it easily. "You're right. But I can easily wrangle Lily into the equation and then, you'd be down for the count."

A studded brow rose at her calm threat. "You forget Lil' and I are pretty evenly matched, shrimp."

"Nah, we have our ways."

Gajeel snorted, "Can't believe you've turned my own cat against me. You're a perfect manipulator in sheep's clothing."

Levy winked at him. "I have my ways."

The dragon slayer narrowed his eyes and frowned. "More like hidden stock of kiwi juice."

"Call it what you want, I suppose."

"I will, and it's plain dirty. And I'm still not wearin' that."

Levy stepped up to him, quietly regarding him for a moment. Her eyes ticked this way and that; she studied him like one of her books and suddenly turned serious, albeit a faint blush appeared on her cheeks. "W-What if I told you I like the way it looks?" Her bottom lip drew between her teeth, slowly turning white from the pressure. "And because I won't have to worry about your dumb hair getting in your face and obscuring your vision again."

He nodded his head gently and pried her fingers from the headband, angling his head to tie it behind his hair. Gajeel smirked at Levy's own shyer smile and ruffled her hair.

"All right, Levy."

#6; proposition

originally posted: 12-9-13

A/N: I'll be moving all of the prompts I had answered on tumblr here, though it'll be a slow process. There will be separate stories for the nalu and gruvia ones, so keep an eye out for that.