AN: First let me tell you this: I was overwhelmed with such great responses from you guys. I honestly believed this was going to flop, but I had to write it anyway and you proved myself wrong. Thank you. It means a lot.

A bit of a time-skip from their first year to the third/fourth, after all, they are grown up in canon so it's easier to go down that path.

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I Put A Spell On You

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Fourth Year

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The looks started when she returned to Hogwarts for her third year there and she thought it was strange: she was the same Juvia as always. Ever since she and her friends started to be tutored by Professor Porla, their skills got so much better in such a small amount of time, their little group became known as Element Four, since each of them had a very distinctive magic signature.

Hers, was water.

After trying very hard to ignore it, Juvia embraced herself. She was the best with water-related charms and spells. Professor Porla told her she should be proud of it, proud of being powerful enough to have such a strong connection with an element. The other three, Totomaru, Sol and Aria were also her year and they connected strongly with fire, earth and air; hence their nickname.

Gajeel, though, Gajeel built a name for himself in a way neither ever thought was possible. He was ruthless while battling, even her. In his mind, to have people's respect, he'd have to be the best, the strongest, to make sure people knew his "dirty" blood didn't make him any less of a wizard. Juvia suspected he had problems about his heritage while growing up and that was why he was so keen into showing his skills; she never askes, though. He'd tell her when he was ready.

He was letting his hair grow, though, it was already on his shoulders and it somehow made him look even scarier to others, to Juvia, he was still her Gajeel-kun.

The looks, though, became different from admiration the first and second years students threw at them; the older students were aware if hem and she was confused until Gajeel, during one late night at the Slytherin Common Room said: "It's your boobs. Guys are looking, girls are jealous. That's why the looks changed."

"What?" She put her arms over her chest even though she was perfectly clothed.

"You've got big boobs now." Gajeel shrugged, not an ounce of delicacy in his body. "Last year they were regular, but now they are big."

"And you noticed that?" Juvia was appalled.

"Men notice boobs, Juvia, no matter whose. Trust me, I wish I didn't notice yours." He made a disgusted face. "You are... you. You are a guy to me, a buddy."

"A guy with boobs." She tried to understand.

"It's complicated. You are you, but you do have all the developing or whatever going on and guys notice, no matter how much we tried not to."

She looked down to her covered chest. "So... the looks are..."

"Guys filled with hormones having nasty thoughts." Gajeel shrugged. "Some girls have them too, others get jealous."

"Gajeel-kun!" She pulled her robe closer to herself, surprised, even though it was already closed.

"What? I don't have them about you, go yell at them." He snorted. "You do have a nice rack, though."

"Oh, thank you. That's good to know." Juvia rolled her eyes. "Are all men perverts like that? Enjoying big breasts?"

"Nah." Gajeel told her with a shrug. "Everyone has a preference, but honestly? Men are pretty simple: we like boobs in general. Small, medium, large. If he's allowed to touch it, he's going to like it."

The blunette groaned. "Men are disgusting."

"Pretty much." Gajeel laughed. "Oh, and I think some of the guys are finally getting enough confidence to ask you out. We can go to Hogsmeade this year, so people will start dating schemes and all that crap." He looked her way. "Just don't date a shitty guy and come to cry to me about it."

"Juvia isn't interested in dating at all." She sighed. "All she wants to do is be a good student and afterwards, get a job at the Ministry."

"Sure." She had no idea why he didn't sound convinced.

The moment Juvia got back into her dorm room, she made sure to use her wand to make her shirts larger at the breast area just to not draw more attention to them, and for good measure, she always wore her Hogwarts robe closed up to her neck, unlike most. She hated feeling exposed

At the beginning of her fourth year, she met Bora.

Her fourteenth birthday had just passed when he approached her, all smiles and charm. He was in his sixth year and for some reason, he started hitting on her.

At first, she didn't give him any attention, the same she had made with all the other boys who tried to ask her to Hogsmeade. She thought some of them were cute, sure, but they all seemed afraid of her even after asking her out and she would not go out with someone who would look at her as if she was going to drown them.

But she was so charmed by Bora, by his advances that yes, she accepted going to Hogsmeade with him the next weekend. Gajeel rolled his eyes during the whole time, whenever she freaked out and was always a few steps behind whenever Bora and Juvia met on the hallway to go to their other class.

Juvia asked her friend if he liked Bora, Gajeel just shrugged and told her it was her boyfriend, not his.

At the end of their first date when they were on their way back to Hogwarts, Juvia was kissed for the first time. There were some butterflies inside her stomach, but the kiss was a bit strange, a bit too wet. She knew that could happen and just enjoyed the moment.

Blushing, she accepted when he asked her out again.

Thankfully the kissing turned out to be good after a few weeks so she was finally able to enjoy it. When she was young, she wanted a family and friends but in her innocent mind, she never thought of boyfriends.

She liked having a boyfriend, especially a handsome one like Bora. It seemed people looked at her as if she were more human than a dueling machine.

Everything was fine between them until Bora started to put his hands on her butt or trying to slid his hand up her skirt. Juvia didn't feel right to have that done yet, she didn't feel like doing that at all. She liked kissing him and his hands were insistent until she got upset and a small cloud appeared over them and made it rain, startling him.

It sure would make it stop at the moment but a few days later he'd try again and the rain would appear over them one more time. He was getting really frustrated, even when she explained why: she wasn't ready for him to touch her that way yet; the magic was involuntary when she was upset, always had been.

The relationship lasted three months.

One day after classes were done, they were making out in a somewhat secluded area of the castle when Bora's hand slid from her thigh to underneath her skirt and Juvia pushed it away. He tried it again and as usual, it started raining on top of them.

"I can't do this anymore." Bora released her way too roughly and took a few steps away from the small cloud atop of Juvia. "I can't touch you anywhere because it starts to rain!" He got his wand and dried his clothes with a spell. "And I would like to touch my girlfriend."

"And you can!" She said, desperately trying to calm him down, she liked him and she liked to be liked back. "Kissing is fine, it's just that Juvia isn't prepared to go any further than that and-"

"Well, I am." He told her. "And if you are not, then we are not on the same page about this. We should break up."

Being left behind while the other kids played outside flashed in her mind, all the time she was rejected because they were sure she was going to make it rain any time and now... he was rejecting her for that same reason.

"No." She whispered. She hated rejection, she would do anything not to- "Please, no. We... We could try again to-"

"No." His tone was decisive. "Nothing I planned with you worked out. Everyone knows whoever Professor Porla picks, is elite and I knew it was a long-shot but you weren't even able to suggest me getting into the Duel Team, but at least you were hot. You couldn't give me even that."

Juvia could hear her heart shattering. Not that she thought she'd grow up and marry him, but she still liked him, liked to spend time with him and he was saying he used her...?

"What?" She whispered.

"We are breaking up. Good luck finding a guy who won't mind getting soaked to the bone while touching you." He started to walk away. "Good-bye, Juvia."

The witch just stood in place for a few moments the little cloud making rain very hard around her. Hearing footsteps coming her way, Juvia saw a male's restroom close by and without even asking, she got inside: she didn't need anyone asking her what happened. Thankfully it was empty, so she locked herself in one of the stalls, pulled the toilet lid down, sat and just cried.

Professor Porla said she was going to be happy there, that she would find people who liked her power, who'd appreciate her and besides her little group, everyone was afraid was of her, and her boy- well, her ex-boyfriend just broke up with her for being too powerful and couldn't control her magic, since his schemes didn't work.

She was lied to.

Juvia sobbed more and more, rain falling inside the stall and as weird as it sound, it comforted her a bit, it was what she was familiar with.

"Uh... is everything alright in there?" She heard a deep male voice and she almost jumped from her seat from outside her stall. "There's a trail of water coming this way and now I can see why." The cloud stood higher.

"I'm fine." She sniffled.

"Oh." He sounded surprised. "You... you are a girl. At first I thought someone had wet himself and had come this way but then I heard crying and saw the cloud and I knew it wasn't that."

"I'm fine. I'll... be gone soon and clean the water up too." She sniffled again. "Don't worry."

"Okay." The boy sounded hesitant and Juvia actually heard he take a few steps away before he returned to the front of her stall. "I'm sorry, I can't leave you like this. My foster mother would kill me and so would my friends and I wouldn't be too happy with myself either."

"That's sweet but you can go. Juvia is fine." She sobbed the last word.

"Sure you are." He was clearly uncomfortable. "So what was it? Failed a class?" She didn't answer so he kept going every time he didn't get a reaction from her. "Fought with a friend? Made a Professor angry? Lost too many points for your House? Boyfriend issues?" She sobbed. "Oh, so it was the boyfriend."

"He broke up with me." She sobbed and the rain poured harder. "Because every time he wanted to go further, I got upset and it rained."

The boy stayed in silence for a moment. "Then he is a bloody moron! Be glad you got yourself ridden of him!" He almost growled. "Everyone knows there's time for everything, including... you know." She felt her own cheeks get warmer Man, when my female friends said all boys were idiots I didn't believe. Now I do."

Juvia actually chuckled at that and the rain became lighter. "Not every boy. You seem nice."

He actually chuckled. "Give it time. I'll be an idiot too, just in a different subject. I'll probably fight my best friend over the last piece of whatever's on the menu for dinner tonight."

"You know they refill those, right?" She was feeling slightly better.

"I know that, that's what makes me an idiot." Juvia laughed and the rain stopped altogether. "Oh! There you go! It stopped."

"It did." She blinked in surprise. Juvia always had trouble stopping the rain, and she was still upset but somehow that unknown boy had made it stop with just a couple of jokes with her, taking her mind out of it. "Thank you for that."

"Sure." His voice was already far away – he was heading out, apparently. "Now that you are feeling better, I'll leave you alone to recompose yourself. Just remember to check when you leave the stall. This is a boy's restroom after all. Bye."

Juvia opened the door to try to try to catch who had helped her and all she could see was a glimpse of a very messy dark hair. Finding out who that was could be a challenge, all the boys changed voices because of puberty and she hadn't figured out them all out yet, but she knew the voice, just wasn't sure of where. But she would find him and thank him properly.

She returned to the stall to dry herself, thinking about the nice boy with dark hair.

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Thankfully it had happened in a Friday afternoon and she had the weekend to cry a few more times after her break up with Bora, but every time a cloud started to form, she thought about that moment with the boy in the bathroom and she'd smile, her Teru Teru Bozu doll floating around her in her section of the bedroom, trying to cheer her up. She had put a spell on it so while in Hogwarts, it would be her pet, since she couldn't bring anything to the Orphanage while on vacation. She even made it have the same kind of personality as her.

"Yes, yes, Boz." Juvia chuckled when her doll floated around, her rags moving and it rubbed her head on Juvia's cheek. "Juvia has you."

Bora, even though her heart still ached with how thing ended, was on her past. It would hurt for a while but he wasn't worthy of her, Gajeel said (Juvia was almost sure he hexed Bora with a body full of furunculous that night, though, since Juvia asked for him not to duel with Bora because her ex would pretty much die) and she focused again on her training, on her skills and she returned so ruthless, Professor Porla actually praised her. She was a proud Slytherin, she would become even more powerful now that she was focused.

Her side mission, though, was now to find the boy. Two days after the break up, she started her mission.

First, she thought Hufflepuff. It had to be, right? They were kind. Of course, she couldn't assume they were on the same year, but she listened closely in class the time Slytherin and Hufflepuff had a class together.

As fate would have it, she and Gajeel were leaving a Charms' class they shared with Ravenclaw when Juvia started to put her book inside her bag, just outside the classroom when she heard it:

"-he jumped three feet in the air! Like a bloody cat!" A laughter – a laughter she knew, just louder – and her whole body froze. She looked up, searching for whom had spoken and her heart stopped when she saw a trio pass by, a girl with medium blonde hair she recognized as Lucy Heartfilia, a boy with pink hair, who was replying to whatever and the third person, the boy with dark hair she had just recognized the voice from.

Gray Fullbuster, a Gryffindor her year.

Everyone knew Gray Fullbuster, he was best friends with Natsu Dragneel, The Boy Who Lived. Thirteen years before, when He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named tried to kill him while he was still a baby, somehow he managed to survive with just a scar on his neck. Then, no one knew how, but The Dark Wizard He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named vanished and the war was over.

So that was the friend he was going to fight for food.

"Oh." She breathed and watched as the trio went on their way, laughing. Even though they were on the same year, the Gryffindors and Slytherins barely had any conflicts or interactions, choosing each to be on good terms for a while.

"What is it?" Gajeel asked, looking the direction she saw her looking to see what made her stop.

"Nothing." She told him with a smile. "Let's go or we will be late."

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"They say she's half-mermaid."

"No one can be half-mermaid, moron!"

"Well, tell me why she goes to the Lake, then!"

She heard them say and Juvia wanted to laugh at that every time. She became known as "Juvia of the Deep" or "Juvia of the Black Lake" because she was constantly going in there to visit the merpeople colony there. Everyone else was terrified of the Lake while Juvia loved it.

Since her first year, she had met the merperson who retrieved her wand from it a few times before finding a plant that allowed her to breathe underwater and a spell of an air bubble. So she put a warming charming around her (one round of hypothermia was enough for her, thank you very much).

Sassa, that was the merperson whom she befriended, was surprised to see her breathing and speaking but wasn't too mad about it. She had such a pretty voice while singing, Juvia always felt enchanted. Sassa even introduced Juvia to the Giant Squid that lived there and one of its tentacles gently bumped Juvia before it went on its way.

It became their routine that every Sunday afternoon the would meet and explore, Sassa wasn't much older than her, she discovered, and had a harsh sense of humor, just like Gajeel. After a couple of months of exploring the Black Lake, Sassa took her to the colony after speaking to the chief. Not many humans were allowed there and neither was she, but she could swim around it and it was fascinating, some other merpeople went to talk and greet her. She was even picking up some mermish and she found a book at the library that taught her just a tiny bit, but with Sassa's help, she was going well.

"Juvia is strong, like our people." Sassa would say proudly to her friends. "Only the strong ones become our friends." And it made Juvia smile.

It was weird how she felt happier underwater with beings from other species than at the castle where she was supposed to be, with her own kind.

Hogwarts was amazing, but her only friend had been Gajeel for four years. The other three from the club were alright but they didn't spend much time apart from Professor Porla's training and now people were too afraid to talk to her, seeing she was one of his protégées and everyone knew what that meant: she was skilled.

That Sunday, though, when she came out of the water and saw the four men there, waiting for her, she knew something was going to happen and soon.

With her wand still in hand, like she always had when going into the late, Juvia muttered a spell to dry herself and then to change into her regular clothes and she walked to where Professor Porla, Gajeel, Totomaru, Aria and Sol waited for her.

"How was your swim, my dear?" Porla asked, nicely, but Juvia knew it was just for show.

"Lovely as always." Juvia glanced at Gajeel who shrugged, knowing she had a lot of questions and he probably didn't know as well.

"Wonderful." Jose got up from the stone he was seated while the others were already up. "I think this is the best place for us to talk." His smile was evil. "I have a mission for you and since you are my best students..."

"A mission?" Totomaru, asked, confused.

"I need to take a girl to her father." Porla said. "But she's always surrounded by her friends. What I need is for you to get her to me."

Juvia frowned. "Why don't you ask her to go to your office, then?"

Jose's black eyes focused on Juvia and she felt a shiver down her spine. "Because, my dear, it can't be connected to me at all."

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"It's kidnapping." Juvia whispered to Gajeel as they went back to the castle.

"Professor Jose asked. I don't think he's going to do anything bad to her. It's her father." Gajeel told her, face impassive.

"Really? That doesn't scream 'shady' to you at all?" Juvia asked and they fell behind once they reached the main doors. ""Juvia knows he said it was her father who wanted her back, but that whole story is just crazy! He wants to take a close friend of Natsu Dragneel, which I hear is enamored with her, and this doesn't seem strange? He was a Death Eater!" She whispered the last words.

"He is the guy who has protect and taught us more than any other teacher in this place, Juvia!" Gajeel argued. "Her father asked him to bring his daughter home for some reason and there's that! There are no more Death Eaters, the war is over and I am going to do this. If you are not, it's your choice." Gajeel turned around and his now longer hair moved behind him.

She spent a long time deciding if she was going to help or nor. Should she tell? But like Gajeel said, the war was over, maybe... maybe it wasn't anything like that at all. Maybe it was about her father after all? The Heartfilias were an old pure-blood family and had some pretty crazy traditions she didn't know about.

Yes, that must be it.

Juvia didn't know the blonde woman too well, she just saw her hand get up a lot whenever a teacher asked a question, and she was always with her cluster of friends, Gray Fullbuster included.

For the past few months, she had observed him a lot and she could see he was a nice guy, even got into the Quidditch team that year, and he was very protective of his friends. The green-eyed monster inside her, though, got into rage mode whenever he was with Lucy and she didn't know why.

Juvia took a deep breath, trying to keep the bad thoughts away. She looked towards where Gajeel had left and she sighed. If she didn't do it, someone else would and it would be much worse.

Her decision made, Juvia entered Hogwarts.

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Taking the blonde was easy enough. A Stupefy spell when she was leaving the library late and she was unconscious. She and Sol were quietly taking her outside the Castle when their friends noticed something was wrong and all hell broke loose. Jose had put a silent spell around the castle so no one inside could hear a thing. There were many separated fights around it.

And, of course, she ended up facing Gray Fullbuster. The moment she saw him, it started to rain around them; she didn't want to fight him.

"To think that you could defeat two of us." She told him, wand ready, pose perfect to duel. "However, Juvia and Aria are not to be taken lightly." She raised her voice so he could hear her over the heavy rain.

He scowled. "Sorry, but it doesn't matter if you're a woman or even a child; I don't go easy on anybody who hurt my friends."

She hurt more than she thought it could with those words. Who did she have to fight for her like that? Who would care if someone took her? If someone just hurt her right there and then? No one.

Juvia only had herself.

At that moment, she felt so much jealousy of Lucy Heartfilia, she had it all while Juvia had nothing that a something began to bloom in her.

It was a dark, ugly feeling inside her chest she absolutely hated it, but she embraced it. She wanted to be mean once in her lifetime, she wanted to let out her pain in some way, so when she screamed Stupefy and he yelled Protego (which was surprising, it could be a difficult charm) so their duel began.

It went on for a little while and to her surprise, even with his lack of proper form, he was matching her, so it was time for her signature move.

"Aguamenti!" She yelled and a huge amount of water came out of her wand. That spell was very high up and she wasn't supposed to know it, so his surprise was genuine when he saw it and he was barely out of its way when it hit the spot he once were.

"Wow." He breathed and his attention returned to her. "Petrificus Totalus!"

Juvia was too fast and ran, so he missed, and she yelled again: "Aguamenti!" And a huge amount of water came off her wand again.

To her surprise, Gray yelled: "Glacius!" and the water became ice, falling on the muddy ground.

They held on that way for a while, water against ice until she gave up and before she could say anything else, Gray yelled in succession: "Expelliarmus! Stupefy!" Juvia felt her wand come off of her hand and then her world blackened.

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She woke up later that night, at the infirmary, confused. She sat on her bed and heard people talking outside.

"He will come back! He is not dead!" The voice sounded like Professor Porla, but it made no sense; he was always controlled and the tone he was using was almost hysterical.

Juvia's feet became cold when she walked over to the door, noticing by her peripherical vision that some others bays were occupied. She opened the door and saw Professor Gildarts, Head of Gryffindor and Master Bob Head of Hufflepuff holding Professor Jose plus Headmaster Makarov and Polyuska.

"He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is returning. I was creating his army." Porla said and Juvia stepped outside the infirmary. Jose's attention turned to her. "Juvia! Don't let them turn you!"

Every pair of eyes went to her and Polyuska intervened. "You should be in bed-"

"You were creating an army?" Juvia asked, confused and not letting herself be handled by Polyuska. "We were an army?"

"The five of you were my best and I was preparing you to Him!" Professor Jose was hysterical. "You have so much potential..."

"Shut it." Professor Gildarts said, rough. He was their teacher of Charms and was always in a good rough mood of his, but not that night.

"You said... you said you wanted us to be better, you said you were teaching us so we could show the world...." She didn't even realize she was tearing up until she had to clean her cheeks. "So we could show the world we are powerful and just as much of wizards and witches as any pure-blood!"

"I was making you better to Him!"

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was Zeref, the Dark Wizard. So bad and awful people still feared to say his name and many of the current students of Hogwarts became orphans during the war.

There was no way she was going into any army He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named could make, even if he was dead. She would never act in his name.

"Juvia would never had joined you. Never!" Juvia said and turned to Headmaster Makarov. "We didn't know. None of us. We thought he was teaching us because we were the best, so we could reach our full potential, we didn't-"

"My child." Makarov said, gently taking her hand. "Go back to bed. We will talk tomorrow."

"But-"

"Tomorrow." His voice was soothing and for a moment, she felt safe with his hand on hers like that. She felt two hands on her shoulders and she felt a powder being blown to her face and suddenly she felt very sleep. "Go on now. We'll speak tomorrow."

"Tomorrow, alright." Juvia nodded and she could vaguely hear Jose's voice, but she was more interested in going to bed, the hands on her shoulders tightly pushing her towards her bay. She recognized Gajeel on the bay next to her (he was unconscious) before Polyuska pulled the curtain.

"Lie down." Juvia did as told and felt covers being pulled on top of her. "Now sleep." The old woman left.

Juvia didn't know exactly why, but she felt tears coming and she sobbed for a few minutes, not caring who heard, before whatever they had blown on her make effect and she fell into a dreamless sleep.

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Being such a good student, Juvia never needed to go to the Headmaster's office, but there she was, nervous and afraid she was going to be expelled. Makarov was on his desk when she arrived and pointed to a chair in front of his desk for her to seat.

She was so nervous she didn't look around much, and just did what was told.

"Professor Jose Porla no longer works in Hogwarts. After last night's attempt of kidnapping, we handed him to the Ministry, and they will try to get as much information about whatever nonsense he was saying about Zeref." She was surprised to hear him say his name. "Now, Miss Lockser-"

"Is she alright?" Makarov frowned. "Lucy-san. Is she... we didn't-?"

"Succeed? No. We intervened in time." Makarov said gently and Juvia felt slightly better. At least she could go home knowing she didn't help the kidnap go through and the girl was missing. "Now Miss Lockser, I've spoken with three others of your little group. They all said the same thing you did last night when you walked out of the infirmary. He never spoke about Zeref, just trained." Juvia nodded, her curls bounced. "And no prohibited spells?"

"Never."

"I see." Makarov stared at her for a moment. "How about Gajeel? Did he-?"

"If he knew anything, was minor." Juvia said, quick. "Gajeel-kun has a good heart and he was being misguided by Professor Jose. He is... lost. Juvia is helping him. Please, don't let the Ministry take him away if he knew something. Please, I beg you."

Makarov was clearly surprised. "No one is going to tell anything to the Ministry, my dear. No major crimes were actually committed and I don't see bad intentions in any of you. You were just clueless, like we were. Don't worry about being expelling either." Juvia felt like she could breathe again; they weren't taking Hogwarts from her. Oh, thank Merlin. "I just need to know if we are going to have any problems with the Gryffindor students that were there last night. And you'll understand that we will be keeping a closer eye on you because of what happened, just for a while."

"Not at all." Juvia was quick to answer. "And yes, of course."

"Good." Makarov smiled. "Then you should go, Miss Lockser."

"Thank you, sir." She got up and she turned around to leave but returned. "Please, don't be too harsh on Gajeel-kun. It takes a while for him to open up, even to me. Let me take care of him."

"We'll see." It was Makarov's answer to her and she nodded, leaving the Headmaster office. Once she was outside, she went towards the stairs when she heard someone call her name.

It was Gray Fullbuster himself, his Gryffindor tie loose as usual and not wearing his cape, just the standard pants and shirt, even if it was a bit chilly.

"Hey."

"Hello." Juvia looked away in shame. "Juvia is sorry for-"

"Don't sweat it." Gray told her. "We know you weren't aware you were kidnapping Lucy. You thought it was her father?"

"It was what we were told, and it ended up being..." She sighed and she felt a headache coming. "It ended up being what it was. This is a mess."

"Yeah." He scratched the back of his head. "I just wanted for you to know that there's no hard feelings, it was a good duel. I was impressed."

Juvia smiled for the first time in hours. "Juvia was too."

"Good. Maybe we should do it again some other time." He winked. "See you around."

Juvia's heart was beating so strong inside her chest, she felt her stomach get crazy with butterflies, her hands were sweating and her breathing was shallow.

Oh, boy. That was not good.

Or perhaps it was?

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Gajeel opened his eyes and the moment he looked her direction, she asked how he was and he grunted.

"The old man was here. Apparently we get to stay." Juvia stayed in silence, just looking at him, expressionless. "I know you told us to not get involved and I didn't listen-"

"That was not us." Juvia told him. "We are not those people, we were like that last night but never again, do you understand me? He was trying to do something to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named." And Gajeel cringed, it was the man who had killed his parents. "We choose the right side from now on. We become us again." Juvia gulped. "We know who we are, and we weren't us last night."

"I'm a lost case, Juvia." He sighed. "I've always tried to tell you that I am."

"No." She said, vehement. "You are not a lost case because I found you. You and I are going to be there for each other. You are not lost, not if you let me help you."

Gajeel scoffed. "You don't even know where you are going."

"At least if we get lost, we have each other to lean on to." She reached for his hand and squeezed it. "You became Juvia's only family." She said the words she wanted to say for a while. "So Juvia knows who we are. Do you?"

He looked away, probably embarrassed, but squeezed her hand back and Juvia could weep in happiness. "Yeah, I know who we are. And what to, so stop being all touchy feely with me."

Juvia laughed and dried the couple of stray tears she let fall. "Hey, do you want to hear about how Juvia is almost certain she has fallen in love with Gray Fullbuster?"

That made Gajeel look her way: "The Gryffindor? He was there last night."

"Yeap." Juvia smiled.

"Bloody hell, Juvia." Gajeel sighed. "Only you would bring this mess into your life." Juvia smiled and started to tell the story since her break up with Bora.