█▐ ❆ ࿐ᐤ  GELID EYES softened as he considered their time together. She’d always put him first. It was about time he did the same for her. She was his comrade, his guild-mate. He liked Juvia. Watching her GROW into the woman she was now had been well worth the barrage of confessions. He owed his father this much ; he owed her more than that ( more than he can EVER give ). She’d done what he could never have hoped to         what he never wanted to. 

    Placing a hand on her head, his taunt lips sloped in sentiment ; candid &&. heartfelt.

        ❝ —And yet I still feel a need
          to do more, ya know?  ❞ 

    Then, appraising his thoughts, Gray’s oculars rolled upward &&. careened into the sky. It was cloudless, pale icy blue– and the sun, a yellow inferno, glistened impeccably in the eternal horizon. He wondered how long she’d suffered under that heavy PATTER of rain.

       ❝ … ❞

                 ❝ Thanks for bein’ around. ❞