Gazille x Levi prequel

Levi sat at the counter her finger stuffed between the pages of her book as it rested over her arm on the counter. She was starring to the far corner of the guild at the dark haired dragon slayer, who was sitting with his cat eating dinner.

"You've been starring at Gazille for a while now Levi." Mira Jane said walking over and placing another cup of orange juice in front of her. "Why don't you go sit with him?"

Levi blushed turning her attention to Mira. "I'm not sure he'd appreciate that. He seems to like sitting with Lily"

"Now you don't know that." Mira Jane poured a beer and handed it to Levi. "Here's something he'll appreciate. A cute girl bringing him a cold drink." Levi gave her a soft smile but didn't move from her seat. "You like him right?"

"Yes, but, I don't think he likes me." Levi said blushing. "He still just, for the most part ignores me." Levi stated solemnly and tilting her head down.

"He likes you; he wouldn't keep saving you if he didn't. Or be keeping an eye on you." Mira said nodding her head at the dragon slayer. Levi turned to catch Gazille turning back to his food. Levi blushed looking back to Mira Jane. "He's just shy. You have to put the first move." She put her had on Levi's arm. "And I'm sure he still feels guilty. Let him know how you feel." Mira placed the beer in Levi's free hand. Levi smiled and Mira gave her a little nudge before returning to her work. Levi got up from her seat and slowly and quietly made her way over to Gazille.

"Gazille, I do believe we are getting some company." Lily sad with a smile.

"What are you talking about cat?" Gazille said his mouth full of food. But before Lily could reply a timid voice interrupted them.

"Um… hi… Gazille… um…" he stared at her his mouth gaping open. "I… I brought you, um a drink." Levi said holding the cup out to Gazille. He continued to stare at her.

"Takes the cup idiot!" Lily mumbled in a low growling tone that only Gazille would make out.

Gazille quickly snatched the cup from her roughly. Spilling a little on Levi's hand. Lily smacked a paw to his head.

"Sorry," Gazille mumbled handing Levi a napkin. "Thanks Shorty." He looked away from her. Lily raised an eyebrow at him and glanced over at Levi and back to Gazille.

"Um can I sit with you?" Levi said tugging at the hem of her shirt.

Gazille turned back at her, her face pink she looked away but didn't move from her spot. "Why?" he asked bluntly.

"Levi of coarse you can sit with us. Ignore this idiot." Lily aid giving Gazille a 'are you stupid?' look.

Levi carefully took a seat on the bench next to Gazille. Placing her book on the table. "Thank you Lily." She glanced at Gazille. "It's alright with you though, Gazille?"

He almost choked on his food. He took a swig of the beer Levi had brought him to clear his throat. "Yeah, sure." Gazille said not meeting her gaze. Lily tried to catch Gazille's attention to inform him he wasn't going about this correctly at all. Especially since Lily knew Gazille cared for Levi very much. But before he could catch the boys attention Levi spoke up again.

"Um can I ask something of you Gazille?" once again he turned to face the book worm, her face becoming a darker shade of pink.

"Uh…I guess." He barely managed to get out. He took another swig of beer.

"Would you go for a walk with me? In the park tonight? Um if you aren't busy or anything?" she asked not meeting his eyes, her cheeks glowing.

Lily beamed a smile as Gazille choked on his beer, pounding on his chest. Levi glanced up quickly before looking back down at her hands, a small smile on his face.

After a moment of staring at her his jaw slightly dropped, Gazille stood from the table and started to walk away. The smile quickly fell from Levi's face; she glanced over to Lily, "I'm sorry for ruining your evening Lily." Levi had water pooling at the corner of her eyes.

"You did no such thing Levi." Lily said climbing down from the bench. "Stay here please. I'll be right back."

Lily flew after Gazille and grabbed his hair just outside the door. "What the hell do you think you are doing?" Gazille yelled to Lily.

"What am I doing? I'm trying to stop your sorry ass from making the biggest mistake of your life! What the hell do you think you are doing?" Lily yelled back at Gazille before smacking him in the back of the head. "Levi, the girl you have strong feelings for and care about just asked you out on a date. And you answer her by walking away without as much as a word?"

"Well what do you expect me to do?" Gazille yelled back at Lily.

"You could do what another sane human being with half a brain would do and tell her yes!" Lily said getting in Gazille's face and sticking his paw in it. "You like her! So act like it! Why are you behaving this way?" Lily yelled rubbing his head in frustration.

"Because I don't want to hurt her!" Gazille yelled back rubbing his hands roughly across his face. "I can't… I can't hurt her again. I'm not the right kind of guy for her. I'd just end up hurting her and making her cry. I can't do that."

If you don't want to hurt her Gazille, you had better go back in there and apologies to her. Cause walking out with out so much as a word." Lily lowered his tone. "That hurt her very deeply I'd say. She put herself out there for you Gazille. And you just knocked her down."

Gazille's anger and seemly permanent scowl dropped form his face and was replaced by sadness and pain. "I wasn't trying to do that. I… I never want to that to her again."

"She put her self out there for you Gazille. She trusts you not to hurt her. That alone should give you the confidence to believe you won't hurt her. She thinks you are right for her. And don't you think she knows what she wants or needs better than anyone else?" Lily said quietly seeing the pain on his friend's face.

"How could a cute little bookworm like her, want anything to do with a monster like me?" Gazille asked.

"You will have to ask her. Now go and fix this." Lily said pointing back at the guild hall.

Gazille walked back into the guild hall and looked at his and Lily's table. It was empty. He walked up to Mira Jane at the bar. "Hey where'd the shrimp go?"

"What do you care?" Mira said wiping off some of the dishes not looking at the dragon slayer.

"Just tell me where she went." Gazille said growling.

Mira turned giving Gazille a death glare. He stiffened a little. "I sent Levi over to you in hopes of her being very happy, instead she leaves in tears." Her tone dark and menacing. "So if you want to know where she went. You tell me why."

Gazille looked away from Mira. "I… I need to tell her I'm sorry." He said barely glancing at Mira. "I didn't mean to hurt her."

Mira's glare softened a little but not much. "She said she was going home for the night." Gazille headed back for the door. "She also said she was fine." Mira said after.

He paused for a minute for stepping out the door.

"What happened?" Lily asked when Gazille came back out.

"Levi left. She's out walking around. Alone." Gazille said sniffing the air.

"What? It's getting dark already." Lily said. A worried looking falling on his face.

"Yeah and she's distracted." Gazille added. "Come on I have to find her."