#someone stop him before he starts enjoying pop music and thirsting after men bigger than him--oh no too late.

[fairytail-whathesays]

Natsu x Gajeel x Laxus, Part 2 of ?

In which I basically turned this into an extended fanfic because I couldn't stop myself.

(Peep part 1 here)

GIF by drowning-in-her-thoughts

"Salamander wants you." It's an answer--an answer to the question 'why have you been so hostile to Natsu lately'--that reveals Gajeel's feelings without him being able to say so.

Laxus is of course just the kind of clueless idiot to whom it comes as a surprise that the two dragonslayers are both into him. And what's he gonna even say to that? Look, this whole thing is a problem, may as well get it solved before trying to figure out a love life.

Of course, all the same, he wants to hear more. He prods at Gajeel with more questions, asking him what he means, why it upsets him so much if Natsu likes him, asking if Gajeel wants his attention, etc. Gajeel just clams all the way up.

So Laxus puts him in a bind: he's going to go visit Natsu in the infirmary (nooo) and apologize to him on Gajeel's behalf (NOOOO!). Only way he abstains is if Gajeel either spills the beans on who he likes or if he goes to the infirm to apologize himself. Guess which one Gajeel picks.

Gajeel having the sheer audacity to approach Natsu during bedrest deserves its own punch in the face, or that's how Natsu tells it before he hears Gajeel express enough humility to say 'sorry i did that' and maybe even 'you didn't deserve it you deserved it but i still shouldn't have'.

Natsu being Natsu, his anger and rivalry nonsense vanishes and he's all smiles, cheerfully telling Gajeel that aww, he has a heart after all! Gajeel fucking hates him for it. And also gets a little bit of a heart flutter. Fuck. That didn't just happen. Natsu's smile is so unbearably cute it should be punched clean off his face.

It's a few days of normal-ish interaction between them after this, if you don't count them avoiding the shit out of each other constantly. Right up until Gajeel tries a long shot and fumbles. Basically, he sacs up, but only enough to force the issue, and try and corner Laxus into "choose me, not him". There's a lot of awkward silence. He might've bought flowers. He looks like he tried to dress nice and failed. It's awkward and embarrassing and Laxus gently tells him to go settle his score with Natsu amicably.

So he and Natsu talk over beers and burgers one day, away from everyone else. Natsu is shocked, shocked I tell you, that Gajeel actually has things like crushes and shit. And for Laxus. Shouldn't he be scaring children or something instead? Gajeel, of course, responds that Natsu's so full of hot air he shouldn't even know where to find his own d/ck, let alone find a boyfriend.

So they start shit talking each other....and then they basically start shit talking Laxus. Fuck's he think he is, telling them to talk this out all nice-like, a school councilor? Look at him going on, with that fake mature attitude. All reformed and Catholic, now, ain't he? And believe it or not, they bond over the fact they're both kinda down bad for the asshole who habitually basically saves them.

It is Natsu who finally suggests........maybe..........trying a thing...............where the three of them................

Oh go fuck yourself, Salamander, I ain't sharin' a man, least of all with your basic ass.

Negotiations collapse.

A part 3? Only if no one stops me.