Chapter 1

Lucy POV

I turned in my bed and sighed, one more night where I had barley gotten any sleep. I sat up and looked at my alarm clock that stood on my bedside table. 5:43 it read.

Oh, well, might as well get out of bed and get ready for the day. I thought and got up and went in to the bathroom to take a long shower.

~ Time Skip ~ On her way to the guild 2 hours later ~ Nobodys POV

When Lucy arrived at the guild not many were in, it was too early. But Mira was behind the counter and Gajeel was at his usual table, a few others were scattered around as well. She shouted 'good morning' to every one and got the same back. She went up to Mira and asked for a strawberry smoothy and after having paid for it did she walk up to the mission board, looking over her choices.

"Take out a large group of bandits, too hard, protect a caravan, must be more people, take out 3 wyverns, oh, it has two keys as reward, but not by my self, too hard." She muttered to herself. Ever since her team stopped going on missions together had she had trouble finding good missions to go on. Just then did the doors slam open.

"We are back!" Natsu shouted, his arm around Lisanna shoulders. This was the reason her team no longer went on missions together. Natsu had started dating Lisanna. Lucy felt tears prickle in her eyes but turned back to the board before anyone could notice. She decided to take the wyvern mission. But before she could take it had an other hand grabbed it. She looked over her shoulder in irritation. Behind her stood Gajeel, he looked the mission sheet over then nodded.

"Good choice, Bunny girl. Me and Lily can help you if you want." He said, Lucy blinked.

"You want to go on a mission with me?" She asked, he nodded.

"We both need to get away from the guild for the same reason, so me and Lily will take you on this one." He said

"What do you mean 'the same reason'?" She asked him

"Later." He said, Lucy hesitated, then nodded.

"Okay, lets go." She said. They went over to the bar counter and got it stamped by Mira. Then they got Lily and left the guild.

~ On the train ~

Lucy sat looking out the window with Lily opposite her, Gajeel was sprawled out on the floor due to his motion sickness. Lucy sighed at patted her lap.

"Put your head in my lap." She said and when Gajeel hesitated she continued. "Trust me, it will help." He looked at her then crawled over to her and put his head in her lap while still sitting on the floor.

"I be dammed." He sigh and pushes his head closer to her stomach and inhales her sent. Lucy laughed.

"I told you it helps." She said, then she thought about the reason she knew and her smile vanished. She hopped Gajeel wouldn't ask how she knew it helped.

"I won't ask how you know this help, but I suspect it has something to do with Salamander." He said, Lucy flinched.

"I don't want to talk about him, at least not yet." She said

"You don't have to." Gajeel said

"Thanks. Speaking of which, what did you mean earlier?" She asked

"I meant that both of us have had our hearts broken when the one we like chose someone else." He said, and Lucy could hear slight pain in his voice.

"Levy is dating someone?" Lucy asked shocked

"How did you know it was Levy?" Gajeel asked, looking up at her.

"Well, she is the only female in the guild that you are really close to, so she was the only one I could think of." Lucy explained. Gajeel nodded.

"I thought you knew she had started dating, you two are so close after all." He said

"I thought so as well, but now? If she has started dating someone and not telling me, I don't know what to think." Lucy said, feeling slightly betrayed.

"I also thought she would have told you." Lily said, he didn't like seeing his friend and partner so down as he had been lately.

"Who is she dating?" Lucy asked carefully, not wanting to hurt him more then he already is.

"Jet." Gajeel answered, a slight growl in his voice. Lucys eyes widened.

"What?" She asked

"I can smell them all over each other." Gajeel said, Lily nodded. He could smell it as well.

"I never saw that one coming, after all, she has turned him down for years." Lucy said, a slight frown between her eyebrows. Gajeel nodded. Then he pressed his face closer to her stomach and she could feel her shirt getting wet. She hesitated then started to run her fingers thru his hair, hoping it would help him relax. After a few minutes he relaxed.

"Wake me when we are nearly there." He murmured sleepily.

"Of course." Lucy said with a slight smile on her lips. Combing his hair with her fingers while watching the landscape go by outside the window.

"Thank you, Lucy-san." Lily suddenly said, Lucy looked at him surprised.

"For what? And please, drop the 'san'.'" Lucy said

"For letting us come on this mission. Gajeel need something to take his mind of off this whole tuning with Levy. It has hit him harder then he is showing." Lily said

"It will help me as well. So I'm the one who should be thanking you two." Lucy said, looking down at the sleeping slayer in her lap. "Those last few weeks has been hard. I miss my team. But I don't want to hold them back from where they want to go either. The worst part is that he don't even realize how much he has, and still is, hurting me." She bit her lip.

"You really like Natsu-san, don't you?" Lily asked, Lucy nodded.

"But I'm trying to go forward, to not let it control my life." Lucy said and gave him a pained smile.

"You are so strong. I'm glad you want to move forward from this." Lily smiled at her

"I want to make my parents proud of who I am and the road I'm walking." She smiled, Lily smiled back at her.

"I'm sure they are." He said, that made her give him a big smile.

After that they talked about what else had happened in the guild.

Liker Freed and Miras engagement and Canas relationship with Bacchus.

And about master Makarovs latest attempts to show off the girls bodies in Sorcerer Magazine to try to draw more people to the guild.

~ After they have talked to the client ~

The three Fairy Tail mages had been walking in the forest the wyverns were supposed to live in for several hours now.

Lucy looked at a rough sketch of the forest and where the wyverns had been seen.

"According to this, it should take us at least the rest of the day to find the wyverns, if not half the night as well." She said with a slight growl and put the map back in the back pocket of her tight jeans.

"We just have to keep our eyes open as it gets darker, so they don't manage to surprise attack us during the night or while we sleep." Lily said from his place on top of Lucys head, where he had been sitting and watching the map from.

"It will be fine, it's just some..." Gajeel said and looked back at them, but stopped mid sentence. "Watch out!" He screamed. Lucy and Lily turned and Lucy jumped back, just in time to avoid getting swiped aside by the front paw of a huge wyvern.

"Ghaaa!" She screamed, landing to Gajeels left, Lily still on her head. She grabbed Taurus key as Lily jumped of her head and landed in battle mode on her left side. "Is it just one of them, or all three?" Lucy asked, just then the other two wyverns came out from the shadows around them.

"Gihi. Lets do this, you two." Gajeel grinned. Lucy looked up at him, then around them at the wyverns.

"Oh, hell. Lets do it with a bang." She said, grinning back.

"In true Fairy Tail fashion." Lily said with a smirk.

The three mages attacked at the same time.

Gajeel pulled in air too send a huge roar at one of them, Lily drew his sword, Lucy summoned Taurus.

Then, at the same time, they launched their attacks.

They struck at the same time.

Within seconds the three wyverns lay dead on the ground. Lucy sent Taurus back with a thanks.

"Well, that was easy." She said and turned to her guild mates.

"Yea, so, shall we track back thru the forest tonight, or set up camp?" Lily asked

"Lets set up camp, we don't want to hurt ourselves trying to get out of here in the dark." Gajeel said, the others nodded. Lucy touched Virgos key and asked her for some blankets and something to eat. In a puff of light pink smoke the maid appeared with some blankets and food.

"Here, princess. Blankets for all of you. Kiwis for the exceed, steak with metal fries for the slayer and chicken wrap for you." She said and gave Lucy everything.

"Thank you, Virgo." Lucy smiled at her. The spirit bowed and left. Lucy gave the other two a blanket each and their food. They thanked her and sat down and dug in to their food.

Gajeel POV

I took one of the metal fries and put it in my mouth. My eyes widened and I had to fight to hold back a moan.

Holy shit. This is pure iron. I thought, I looked over at Bunny girl and tried to figure out how her spirit could get ahold of it, and how flame brain could be so stupid as to let her go. Not only was she a great mage and fighter, but also a great asset with daily things.

"These are great Lucy, where did she get those?" Lily asked. I looked over at him and had to stifle a laugh. He had kiwi all around his mouth and looked like a kid who had just tasted his favorite desert.

But then again, I could say the same about myself with those iron peaces. I have never, not even when I lived with Metalicana, tasted iron this pure. So, how and where did that maid spirit, Virgo I think Bunny called her, get those? I thought to myself as I took the last of my burger and showed in to my mouth.

"They have food in the celestial world and she once told me that all food and the clothes she gives me is from there." Bunny said, I blinked.

"How can they have iron this pure there? Isn't that a place of spiritual things?" I asked her, she just shrugged.

"I'm not sure how it works or how they make the things they have. I have only been there once and I didn't have time to look around much, since it was a party to celebrate that we had gotten our of the fairy sphere." She said, my eyes widened.

"You have been there?" I asked, she nodded.

"How was it? Lily asked a second before me, she put a finger against her chin while thinking.

"It was beautiful, but very different from here." She said with a smile. "Oh, and one day there is three months here." She finished.

"So, you were gone for three month and no one noticed?" Lily asked just as I was about to open my mouth to ask the same thing.

"Me, my old team, Levy and Juvia were there when we were supposed to train before the GMG." She said,her voice soft.

"Ah, that explains why no one knew you were gone." I said. Bunny nodded. I could see the pain in her eyes.

She must be thinking of flame brain again. I thought

"Everything was so easy back then." She said softly. Me and Lily looked at each other, none of us liking the sight of the bubbly blond this down.

"Sometimes it helps to talk about it and sometimes only time and keeping busy helps." I said, thinking of Levy and how I had been on a lot of missions back to back since I had found out she and Jet had hocked up a few weeks ago.

"Yea, but there isn't much to say about it. He broke my heart, and don't even realize it, that's it." She said, shrugging. I saw Lily roll his eyes.

"He didn't realize because held an idiot. Most people in the guild suspected that you liked him. And we will thought he liked you as well, with how he always was around you." Lily said, walking over to her, sitting down in her lap. She gave him a small smile and petted his head carefully.

"I know, he is probably the densest person in the guild." She said, I nodded. I hesitated then said.

"We worked pretty well together on this mission, what do you say about us going on more missions together, as partners. We could both need the company and this way we can take harder missions to get away from the guild longer." Both Bunny and Lily looked at me in shock. I shrugged. "It will give us something to focus on rather then those two." I said, not knowing if I should have suggested the partnership or not. But Bunny nodded.

"Sure, why not. This way I won't have to stress over my rent as much either." She smiled at me, a real smile. "Thanks, Gajeel. What about you, Lily? Are you okay with me joining you guys?" She said, looking down at him. He smiled up at her and nodded.

"Yea, it will be fun. Since it's as both of you said, you both need the time away from the guild and you need the company and we can go on better missions this way." He said, looking at me and Bunny. She smiled at us.

~ Time Skip ~ Shortly after they lied down to sleep ~ Nobodys POV

Lucy looked up at the sky, unable to sleep once again. She sighed and turned on her side.

"Can't sleep?" Gajeels voice asked her.

"No, I haven't slept well in a while now. I'm sorry if I woke you." Lucy said, she heard Gajeel move.

"You didn't. Why can't you sleep?" He said, Lucy shrugged.

"I don't know. It's been like this since just before the team split up. I can't seem to fall asleep, and if I do, then it's a restless sleep with nightmares." She said, sounding a bit lost. She heard Gajeel get up an move closer. He sat down beside her, his back against the tree.

"Want to talk until you fall asleep then?" He asked

"What about you? Don't you need to sleep?" She asked, sitting up and leaning her back against the same tree.

"I'm fine." He said

"Okay, what do you want to talk about?"

"Why did you run away from home? I never heard the reason for it." Lucy bit her lip then answered.

"My father wanted to marry me of to the son of a duke, just so he could expand his wealth. I was nothing more then a thing he could sell to highest bidder." She looked down at her hands.

"And then he hired Phantom to take you back." It wasn't a question, it was a statement. Lucy nodded. She leaned her head against Gajeels arm, the highest she reached the way they sat. Gajeel moved his arm so it was around her shoulders instead.

"I'm sorry." He whispered, Lucy looked up at him.

"For what?" She asked

"For hurting you and for being such an ass back then." He answered

"I have already forgiven you for that a long time ago." She said, resting her head against his chest. Suddenly she felt really tired, and calm. She didn't understand why, but then she heard the heartbeat just under her eat. "So that's why." She murmured, closing her eyes.

"What is?" Gajeel asked, surprised at how calm he felt, despite how close Lucy was.

"Your heartbeat. I have missed the sound of a heart beating near me." She said, her voice sleepy. Gajeels eyes widened.

"You have become used to always having someone close by." He said, Lucy nodded. Her eyes still closed.

"Can I stay like this for tonight?" She asked

"Sure, sleep tight." He said and closed his own eyes. Hoping Lily wouldn't make a too big a thing out of it in the morning.

***** AN ********

Hi everyone. I hope you like the first chapter. =D

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