AN: Sup guys. Been a while eh, I'm a bit out of practise writing gruvia lol, so forgive the crappiness.

This is set an undetermined amount of months/years after the last chapter because i wasn't sure what amount of time would be appropriate exactly...

Bonus Chapter 5- Cold Feet

They were snuggling in bed. Juvia was tucked up along Gray's side; his arm was curved around her as they caught their breaths after their latest 'playtime.' A contented smile curved Gray's lips and he reached over her to grab the blanket and haphazardly pull it over their cooling bodies.

He sometimes had trouble believing that Juvia was still with him and that they were actually a couple, even after all this time. He often worried that he wasn't paying her enough attention or that she would realise he wasn't good enough for her.

She, for the most part, was worry free, her only concern being that she must remember to try control her urges to spontaneously declare her love for him in public. She nuzzled against Gray and sighed happily as she caught sight of the engagement ring on her finger.

"Gray-sama?" she said thoughtfully.

He grunted in response, too lazy to bother speaking.

"Jellal-kun hasn't proposed to Erza-san yet."

Gray sighed, "So?"

Juvia was silent for a moment and the ice mage knew that signalled trouble.

"Maybe Juvia and Mira-chan should help out aga-"

"No!" Gray quickly interrupted, "I think you've both done enough, Jellal will propose when he's ready…or else Erza will do it."

He glanced down and could see Juvia pouting a little as she rested against him.

"But Erza-san and Mira-chan helped get Gray-sama to propose to Juvia," the water mage said.

"What?" asked Gray, "No they didn't."

Juvia chuckled to herself but didn't reply, causing Gray to frown and try to think back to the days before the big proposal…

He remembered he had been increasingly annoyed by strange men always asking out Juvia and pointing out that she was practically available as long as she had no ring on her hand.

He also recalled he had seen a lot of wedding things around, especially in the guild and, when he had talked to the bartender about his thought about proposing to Juvia, the bartender had said 'Just do it already, idiot. You love her and it doesn't mean you have to get married immediately, you're just making a claim for later or something.'

Gray remembered snorting at that thought and agreeing.

Now, he raised his hand up and looked at the simple band around his finger, smiling at how Juvia, not long after he had proposed, had decided that her Gray-sama needed a ring to ward away admirers and to show commitment too.

"It was all my idea," he told her, feeling the need to explain, "I wasn't influenced at all…but if I was, I'm okay with that."

Juvia lifted her head to smile softly at him, then she settled back down and said, "That's great, Gray-sama."

A comfortable silence painted the room and began to make Gray's eyelids grow heavy with the need to sleep, it had been a long day after all.

"Gray-sama?" Juvia whispered.

"Mm?"

She was hesitant as she voiced her thoughts, "J-juvia is getting cold feet."

"What?" Gray bolted upright, prompting Juvia to bounce a little as she fell back onto the mattress. He stared at her with panic barely hidden in his eyes.

"Juvia is getting cold feet," she repeated shyly.

Gray shook his head, "No, you're gonna marry me no matter what, Juvia, alright? You can't just change your mind-"

Juvia tilted her head and listened with fondness warming her chest as Gray continued his speech about how they were going to be a happily married couple and how he would just have to convince her it was the right thing.

After several minutes, she sighed and sat up, putting a finger to his lips to silence him. She held his gaze with her own, smiled and then deliberately moved her eyes down her legs as she used her other hand to adjust the blanket and tuck it around her feet.

"Oh," mumbled Gray, a blush spreading over his face.

Juvia giggled, "You must be spending too much time with Juvia, Gray-sama, your imagination is growing a little crazy."

He rolled his eyes and nipped at the finger she still had pressed to his mouth. She giggled again and pulled her hand away as he smirked.

"You don't have a problem with my imagination though, do you, Juvia?" he asked, in a low, heated tone, "Or should I show you just how…imaginative I can be?"

Juvia's grin became a smirk to match his as her eyes darkened with hunger, "Yes, Gray-sama might just have to demonstrate for Juvia."

He leaned in close, so their lips were almost touching. The heat was rising up in Juvia, she wanted to just grab Gray and pull him close, but she would control herself for now and wait for him to act, she loved his playful side.

He could see the way her eyes devoured him and the way her hands clenched in the blanket as an excited flush pinkened her skin. They were so close, just a breath apart. He captured her gaze and held it intensely for a moment.

Then he moved away and flopped back on the bed.

"Maybe tomorrow," he said casually, closing his eyes, "Goodnight, Juvia."

He rolled away so she wouldn't see his smile; he could just imagine her expression of disbelief and confusion.

Serves her right after she made me freak out like that with her little trick, he thought a little mischievously, I'm just getting a little payback.

"G-gray-sama?"

"Mm?"

"B-but, J-juvia thought…no, never mind, goodnight, Gray-sama."

He listened closely for the sounds of her shuffling herself back into a comfortable position. As soon as she stopped moving, he rolled over and grabbed her, pulling her tight up against him. She gasped in surprise and then let out a little moan as he began to stroke her naked flesh.

"Gotcha," he whispered in her ear teasingly.

AN:...yeah that was a ridiculously short chapter...sorry. I just wanted to tell you all some sorta important stuff and i didn't want to come completely empty handed, so to speak.

If i update this fic again, it'll be because;

1. i've found time to write something about Gray's actual proposal to Juvia XDD or

2. I've started a fic for the bartender and thought some of you might like to know about it

(Also, some of you might be interested in hearing that the bartender got a chapter in my jerza fic, yay for him XD)

For a while now i've had the urge to make an ask/advice/rp blog so then i just thought 'well okay, i'll make one and help people out as the bartender'...so basically there is a link on my profile and you can go on tumblr and interact with the bartender if you really want to XD