(A/N: Answering Stormy_Skies_74 's request! Here's your fluffy Gajevy!)

It was raining that day. Juvia was probably crying somewhere. He'd have to kill a certain ice wizard later.

"ACHOO!" He sneezed again.

"Cover your mouth, Gajeel. You're spreading germs." Pantherlily handed him another tissue.

"How the hell does someone like me get sick?" Gajeel blew his nose.

"You already forgot?" Pantherlily sighed, rolling his eyes.

"Don't roll your eyes at me, cat. Of course, I didn't forget already. I ain't Salamander, ya know." Gajeel scoffs, turning his eyes to the window.

He only went out yesterday to get groceries, since Lily shouted at him for eating all the food and for trying to eat the pots.

He sighed as the rain hit him.

"For all the days for ice prick to be... Well, an ice prick, it had to be today?" He shouted.

As soon as he reached the grocer in town, he has him get what he needed and shoved him off as quickly as he could.

"Are they still afraid of me?" He thought.

They had every right to. After all, it was him that had destroyed the guild and terrorized the town all those years ago.

"Levy..." He blushed after realizing that he said her name.

Why was he thinking of her? Out of everyone that should be afraid, she should've been the most. He was the one that hurt her and her idiot companions. It was all him after all.

She was at first, he didn't forget that. It was about the time that he saved her from Laxus's blast. It must've been around then.

She somehow looked his way without fear and eventually, she smiled around him.

It wasn't just her either. He seemed to be noticing how he looked at her too.

Well, until Lily and Mira show up giggling.

"Gajeel?" He heard her little voice behind him.

He saw her standing in the middle of the rain, her shoulders soaked with water, clutching the book tightly to her chest.

"Shrimp?! What are you doing out here in the rain?!" He shouts and she starts to stutter.

"I-I wanted to exchange my book but, the library closed early." She flushed.

Ba-bump.

What was that? Did that look on her face make his heart sound like that?

No! No way! This iron heart isn't falling for anyone! Feeling a little dizzy, he stumbles a bit but regains his stance. Levy steadies him and places her hand on his forehead.

"Nevermind, Gajeel! You're soaked to the bone! Let's get you home!" She shouts, grabbing a few of his bags and dragging him by the wrist.

"O-Oi, shrimp!" Gajeel shouts as she used all her strength to pull him to his apartment.

By the time they got home, he and Levy were soaked, water dripping from everywhere.

"What good did that do?" He asks as Levy goes to pick up the heavy bags and drag them to the kitchen.

"Shri-"

"Sit down." She gives an Erza stare and he quickly sits down on a chair.

"Shrimp, what are you-gah!" She shoves a thermometer in his mouth and his face burns red at how he could see through her shirt was.

"Just as I thought. You have a fever." she sighs as she pulls the thermometer from his mouth and goes to the kitchen.

"Where's Lily?" She asks.

"He said that he was going on a job alone," he says, standing up and taking off his jacket.

"Go change into dry clothes." She orders.

He looks at her as his vision flickers a bit.

"What happens if I can't?" He asks.

She blushes harder, "If you stay in those clothes, your fever will get higher. Now, go change!"

He nods and stumbles upstairs and into a fresh pair of PJs.

"Gajeel! I have some soup for you!" He hears her voice from down the hall.

"Let me check your temperature again." she places the thermometer in his mouth again and he notices that the shirt was still see-through.

He shoves a dry shirt at her and he says, "You don't want to get sick either so, you go change too."

She smiles and grabs the shirt. As he eats his soup, he hears her coming back, wearing the AC-DC shirt and holding her wet clothes.

"Where do you keep the medicine in your house?" She asks.

"Lily might know. Could be in the bathroom. I dunno." Gajeel yawns and she quickly notices his flushed face.

"I'm going to find you some medicine!" She runs to the end of the apartment and searches the room.

She eventually finds it and forces him to drink it, even though it tasted like shit according to him. Once administered, she sits and the couch and blushes furiously before telling him to lay his head on her lap.

He also blushes, shouting, "The hell? No!"

"Just shut up and don't ask questions!" She shouts back.

He gives up and lays on her lap, the two becoming more and more like strawberry-covered faces.

He yawned and Levy smiled. She began to him a little tune, and once again, his heart began to make that strange noise.

Ba-bump

As he began to fall asleep, a thought came to him,

"Do I like Levy?"

Blood gushes from Gajeel's nose as his face continued to turn red.

"Gajeel!" Lily began to freak as frantically began to look for the thermometer and bandages.

"Do I?" He blushes some more before fainting from blood loss in nosebleeds.

(A/N: I tried. *cries*)