One Night in the Forest: Gray and Juvia

Juvia walked behind Gray as he angrily slashed away tree branches with a sword he made out of ice.
"Dammit how did we get lost?" He muttered to himself as he continued walking.
Hey, you alright?" he called to Juvia.
She blushed as her eyes grew wide. "Y…Yes. I'm fine." She answered attentively.
She clutched her chest, afraid of what could be in the forest as she walked closer to Gray. She looked around, not noticing that Gray had stopped walking ahead of her. She bumped him and fell to the ground.
"Ow." She rubbed her bottom and looked up. Her face grew red as an apple, as she saw Gray's open hand in her face.
"You alright?" he asked her, his hand still extended. Thoroughly embarrassed Juvia quickly rose on her own and nodded her head.
"Yes, I'm alright. Don't worry about it." She laughed nervously as Gray recalled his arm to his side, he then motioned his head to a small clearing, signaling to move.
"Come on, we can stop here for now. I bet you're tired of walking around."
Juvia shook her head, and looked at him with a doleful look on her face. "I'm fine, really…I don't want to be a bother."
Gray sighed, "Stop looking so sad and come on." He grabbed her hand making her blush harder as he led her to the clearing. He found a patch of grass and let go of Juvia's hand as he sat.
Seeing a rock a few feet away, Juvia anxiously sat upon it.
This is the longest time I've been alone with Gray. She looked at over at him as he lied down in the grass, staring up at the sky. He's so handsome. 
She sat in silence for a few moments, but finally she thought of a talking point to start with.
"So…" She began nervously "Where did you learn Ice Make Magic?" she thought it was a dumb question but she had to start somewhere.
Gray closed his eyes and thought to himself for a bit before answering her.
"My master Ur taught it to me, before she died."
Juvia grew wide eyed as Grays words fell upon her ears. He continued to speak, revealing his past to Juvia.
"My parents were killed by a monster named Deliora when I was a kid."
"I'm sorry." Juvia replied with an empathetic look.
"Don't worry about it." Gray said.
"What happened after?"
"I had nowhere to go so I began wandering around, looking for a way to kill Deliora. That's when i heard about Ur. I heard she knew a spell that could kill Deliora so I began searching for her. I walked for what seemed like forever looking for her. Eventually I wound in a country covered in snow, that's where Ur and Lyon found me."
"Lyon? Lyon Vastia? The Ice wizard from Lamia Scale?" Juvia asked intrigued.
"Yeah, we both trained under Ur but for totally different reasons." He opened his eyes and once again looked to the sky.
"What do you mean?" Juvia asked him as she steadily moved closer to him.
"I trained so I could get revenge on the monster that took my parents, but Lyon was training so he could one day surpass Ur." He smiled weakly as he began to reminisce on his time as Ur's apprentice, then as he thought of his final days with her a glum look crossed his face.
Juvia nervously asked him her next question, "How…how did she die?"
His glum look turned to one of absolute shame. "She died because of me."
"What? But you would never…"
"Look it was my fault alright!" He yelled angrily clenching his fist tight as he remembered. Juvia shirked back, slightly frightened.
Gray calmed himself down "Sorry." he apologized to Juvia and finished his story. "One day I found out that Deliora was attacking a nearby village. Even though I knew I wasn't ready to face him I ran there anyway against Ur's wishes, revenge was the only thing on my mind. Then…" He placed his hand over his face as he went back to the day Ur died.
"I was outclassed and I knew it." He sat up and clasped his fists tightly together. He could still hear the roars of Deliora in his mind, he could remember the smell of burning flesh and wood as the monster raged through the town; but somehow he managed to get through the rest of his tale.
"Things were bad there was death everywhere. I was scared out of my mind, I wanted to run, but my legs wouldn't move. Then Ur…came to save me."
"Did the monster kill her?"
Gray looked at her, then looked back up in the sky. "No, but it might as well have. She sealed Deliora using an ancient spell called Iced Shell that uses one's body as a shell of ice, sealing the target…but killing the caster. Ur sacrificed herself to protect me…and Lyon never forgave me for it."
Juvia's eyes once again opened in shock, as she covered her open mouth with her hand. Hearing Gray's story saddened her greatly. Oh my darling Gray, I had no idea you had gone through so much. Just then a small smile appeared on Gray's face.
"I found myself looking for a way to free her, and that's how I ended up in Fairy Tail. I was told that Master Makarov knew how to release the Ice Shell, but that wasn't the case. So I decided to stay."
He sighed, "Ur always wanted me an Lyon to join a guild and meet other strong wizards, so at least I could keep her memory alive by doing that. Eventually Erza, Natsu, Lucy, and the others helped me to forget my problems, and I could move on." He smiled softy to himself.
Juvia held on to her pendant and smiled softly as well, she felt the same way about Fairy Tail.
She then moved a bit closer to Gray. "I know how it feels to be alone as well."
He shifted his eyes to her for a few seconds before looking back up. "What are you talking about?"
Juvia smiled weakly, "When I was a little girl I couldn't control my magic very well, and I was always teased because no matter where I went it started to rain." She looked up as she continued to reminisce.
"As I got older, people began to talk about how gloomy the rain around me was…and it made me sadder. My boyfriend back then also left me because he couldn't stand the rain. I was all alone…until Master Jose invited me to join Phantom Lord."
Gray listened to Juvia's tale but said nothing, instead he opted to let her get it all off of her chest.
"I was happy that someone had finally accepted me, but I wasn't happy in Phantom. My only friend in the entire guild was Gajeel."
"Then why didn't you leave?" Gray asked her suddenly, "No use staying in a place that doesn't make you happy."
She smiled weakly, happy that Gray was actually listening to her. "I was afraid that if I left I would be alone again, and I couldn't bear that thought."
"Then we had the battle against Fairy Tail." She looked at Gray and blushed "And I met y…" she then blushed more when she realized what she was saying; she caught herself. "Someone."
"After the battle was over I begged Master Makarov to let me join the guild…I also begged for Gajeel to join as well." She smiled wider, "Now I feel like I'm part of a family. I love being in Fairy Tail."
Gray smirked "Well that's how it is, so you don't have to worry. As long as you're part of Fairy Tail you'll always have a family."
She smiled softly and moved closer to Gray, soon she was right next to him as he lied down. Her head began to grow light from being so close to Gray. Her body grew hot and her heart began to race.
"Gray?"
"Yeah?"
"I…
"AHHHHH!" a loud scream echoed through the forest.
Gray suddenly stood up, startling Juvia. She soon stood up next to him.
"Who was that?" She asked.
"That sounded like Wendy, come on!" He grabbed her arm and Juvia almost fainted from happiness.
Gray looked at her irritably, "What's wrong with you? We have to go find her."
Juvia quickly regained her senses, "You're right, let's go." She smiled with a look of determination
Gray, still holding to Juvia's arm ran back into the forest, "Stay close to me."
"Okay." She then made a sound decision in her mind.
Gray I'll do my best…for you. Hopefully one day I can tell you how I truly feel.