Hi guys! Here's the next chapter witch, I think, will please as much Miraxus and Gale fans!

Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did!

Lily xx

Laxus sat on the "bed" Mirajane had prepared for him out of the couch. Just like Levy did for Gajeel, Mira had offered Laxus to sleep at her place until his apartment his usable again. The young man knew for a thing he could easily stay at an hotel, but the idea of staying too far away from her, while his father could attack any moment again was just sickening to him. They could not keep on avoiding the attacks and getting out of it alive for long. At one time or another, Mira, him or even one of the two other would end up dead.

If it would only be about him, he could easily have left, becoming invisible. He didn't really have any strings... that last thought let him uneasy. If a couple of weeks earlier he could've sworn it was the case, now, he simply didn't have the desire to abandon the others. And that, not considering he was the source of all this shit. "What's happening with you Dreyar" he reprimanded himself. "You're for sure becoming the weakling your father tried to prevent you to be!". A sad smile draw itself on his lips while thinking it wasn't a bad thing after all to go against his father's will, and that even it he was contradicting what he always believed in until now.

- Laxus? Asked Mira while getting out of her shower, drying her hair with her towel, only wearing her sublime night gown.

Laxus couldn't get his eyes off of her. It wasn't surprising most of their male costumers were passing way more time then needed in the lobby. Laxus had, of course, himself noticed she could easily be chosen as a model. He was a man after all. But since the past few weeks, she seemed even more stunning than usual.

- Laxus? She repeated.

- What?

- Are you alright? You seem...distracted.

"Yeah... Well my problem is that, normally, I would have left with no trace, abandoning all of you to your fate without any remorse, but now, even if it's dangerous, I'm staying" he thought, much to his annoyance.

- It's noting, he however said.

She looked at him then sat beside Laxus.

- Someone wise, at least he was at that moment, once told me it was useless to hide our feelings.

He stared at her, wide eyes. Maybe one day, she'll stop surprising him like that, or maybe not. She seemed so full of resources, to have so much sides of her he hasn't discovered yet, that she only showed when she was her own self. Then again, it may be due to the fact that he was only giving her attention since a couple of weeks. He smiled briefly, then diverted the mater once again.

- Why are you always the one worrying for others when you're the one in the worst shape?

- I'm f... she started, but she stopped to his accusing stare. Okay, it burns a little, but the bullet wound was many times worst, she smiled.

- We have some progress here I guess, he simply said.

She hit his shoulder without strength in response to his teasing. Then she wrinkled her nose.

- You smell like smoke, she complained.

- All the shirts we were able to save from my apartment smell the same thing, he said before taking it of and throwing it on the floor.

- No way! You wont turn my apartment in a dump like yours! She exclaimed before throwing his shirt back to his face.

- It's going in the washing machine anyway! Folding it beforehand would be a waste of time!

On that, he threw it to Mira's face. She sent it back to him with a little more strength this time, both of them repeating their childish game a few more exchanges. "Don't look at his muscles, don't look at his muscles..." repeated Mira in her head while trying to keep on an angry frown even if her eyes were always drawn to his biceps each time he was moving them. Then he rose from the couch, starting to wrestle gently with her, both passing on the shirt to the other. Did she really saw a smile pass on his face? Though Mira surprised. Then they finally stopped, a little out of breath, gazing in each other's eyes. Without any warning, the same impulse they got at the gym took over them and neither tried to stop it.

Mira knew at that instant how much she wanted to kiss Laxus again. Apparently, from his response to it, it was the same for him. Some butterflies started to fly in Mira's stomach at that thought and they let themselves fall on the couch to deepen the kiss with passion.

***

Laxus woke up early the next morning. The first thing he could sense was a fruity smell, that special smell close to citrus he associated to Mira. Then, sensing something pressing against his numb arm, he realised she fell asleep in the crook of his shoulder.

"Oh!" He thought realising she spent the night in his arms. He blushed a little, to his annoyance. It wasn't the first time he had spent the night with a girl and he did much more then "sleep" with them. But something was different with Mira. He was at ease with her presence, which was not the case with most of people. She just did something to him he could understand.

The young man looked at the clock on the wall. Seven o'clock. His grandfather would probably already be in his office and the hostel would still be calm at that early hour. He slipped his arm from under Mira, trying not to wake her up. He felt guilty leaving without telling her, but he had to talk to Makarov. And he had to do it on his own. He took a scrap of paper to note: Gone to talk to the old man. Okay, it wasn't the most elaborate note, but at least she wouldn't wonder where he was. "That's it!" He thought discouraged of himself "I'll soon start to cook some damn cake or something!" On that thought, he placed the note on the table next to the couch and left.

When his grandfather told him to come in after he knocked, the small man almost spat his coffee from surprise.

- Laxus, he said after gaining back his senses. How can I help you?

- Talking about Ivan. I know he killed Mira's sister and that he was arrested for it, he said straight on.

His grandfather whitened a bit but Laxus continued.

- I know he broke out of jail.

- I knew that day would come.

- Why didn't you say anything to me! Yelled the younger Dreyar, hitting his fist on the desk.

- Are you feeling happiness now that you know the truth? Some release? Will you try to find him?

- What ever were your reasons... Yes, I tried to see him again. I found him. He almost killed Mira! I... he hit again the desk.

He never should have look after his father.

- Only Mira and you are concerned? Asked the man that kept his calm despite his pale face.

- Redfox and his little touristic guide either.

The little color still on his face vanished. Never he thought he would have put Levy and Gajeel in such a dangerous situation. Then Laxus explained with more details what was happening. Each and every word said by his grandson was shredding his hart to pieces. Four members of Fairy Tail, his own children, had their life endangered by his own son.

- Tell the others I want to speak with them this afternoon.

Laxus rose without a word. When he was about to open the door, a voice added something in his back.

- Laxus?

- Hummm... He said without facing him.

- I'm sorry I kept the truth from you. Nothing of that would've happen if I've told you...

***

Gajeel was walking next to Levy on his way back from the hospital. He only stayed there one night and he had been discharged as soon as the sun rose that morning. The metal shred had thankfully not damaged any vital organs. As for his burns, even thought it was painful as hell, they were only second degree. He wouldn't keep any permanent damages... at least, that was what Levy had translated to him from the doctor's gibberish. He took a few more steps, but throbbing on his side reminded him he had to slow his pace.

- Gajeel? Asked Levy who wasn't used to not only maintain Gajeel's pace but also surpass it.

- It's nothing.

- We should've take a cab, regretted Levy.

- Stop worrying shrimp! We are at most 15 minutes from your house!

- Just let me worry a little for you, she sulked.

Then, seeing that Gajeel, stubborn as he was, was still trying to speed up, she passed his arm on her shoulder... or more like slid under his arm due to her height.

- I don't need your help shrimp, he growled.

- Tell that to your body, she retorted, not getting anywhere.

Even though she heard him complain a little more, he didn't try to get away from her, simply following Levy to her house.

- Okay! Now we'll have to install you a set up!

- You don't have to bother so much! Anyway, your bed is large enough for both of us right?

Red tinted instantly Levy's cheeks. "Knowing him, that idiot probably didn't even understood what he just said" She thought. A few instants later, blood also rose to Gajeel's cheeks. "And he just understood!"

- Hey! Don't get twisted ideas! He said realising what he unintentionally implied. I just figured you'd be scared like last time... He added barley audible.

Levy's face had hardly regained her normal color when his comment brought them back to a reddish shade. How was that idiot able to make her loose her grip that way? Then she saw him bent to the coffee table. He just saw something. When she realised what it was, she tried to reach the piece of paper before him but, even in his state, he was quicker than her and read it.

He wont always be there to save you

He got a sad expression before crumpling it.

- Don't believe one of these words.

Levy's heart skipped a beat. She felt tears forming in her eyes. Why was she crying again? She knew the risk of loosing him was still there, but it was such a release to hear him say it. Struggling against a knew burst of tears, the young woman tried to focus on something else.

- And you?

- What me?

- Your note?

Gajeel tensed. Obviously, he didn't want to talk about it.

- You'll lose everything, he let out.

- What?

- My note. That what it said.

Levy couldn't help but taking him in her arms. How could Ivan be so cruel?

- I'm so sorry! He burnt down your apartment! You could not save a thing, she started to say in a low tone in his neck, her voice full of pain.

- I...I haven't loose everything, he said to reassure her.

She backend to look at him, her look asking for answers, then though she found out.

- That's true! I'm so glad you were able to save Lily!

- Not only Lily, he said a few seconds before realising he should've take advantage of her assumptions and keep quiet.

- They found something else?

- No.

- So what is it?

- It's not important.

- I want to know, she insisted.

- No!

- Why? She said not backing down. Why wont you tell me?

- IT'S YOU! He yelled.

He got carried away, he knew it, yelling against his will to the one person that didn't deserved it. As for Levy, she was staring at him dumbfounded. Then the information finally got to her brain. Her? He just said the she was practically all he had left in the world? She looked at him a little longer but couldn't hold it back anymore. No mater how much he got on her nerves. No mater how much he was hard to live with. She just couldn't imagine her leaving his side. Focussing on what Lucy told her to put on some courage, she did what she never taught she'd be able to do and kissed him. He froze. Levy got away. She knew it. He didn't share her feelings. She just ruined everything.

- S...sorry...

- Stop, he said softly.

- I... never should... I'm truly sor...

- Would you stop talking for once? He burst before closing the space between them.

Levy felt her heart melt. After being herself frozen by surprise, she responded to his kiss. They stayed like that a while before hearing a knock on the door. Gajeel left Levy on the couch, obviously annoyed from the interruption and opened the door on Laxus.

- Makarov wants to see us in his deck at two, he simply said before turning back.

Levy's blood froze. No doubt, he was about to talk about Ivan. With regret, she knew that just ended their wonderful, albeit too short lull.