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I have a vague start to the next part of this, which is another flashback chapter - this time to when Jellal first became a member of the Council. It’s also the first time he has to deal with Fairy Tail being Fairy Tail... guess who they send as their representative?
Is this an excuse for me to write desk smut? Of course it is!
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       Jellal was nervous.
       It was ridiculous, really.  He wasn’t the one that had destroyed half a mountain and an irreplaceable historical monument, after all.
       But… he had been assigned to talking with the representative from Fairy Tail about their actions – and how they needed to stop.  Given that such lectures had never worked in the past, Jellal doubted it would now. But as the Magic Council’s newest member, he had been assigned to the job no one else wanted.
       He had been looking forward to seeing someone from back home… until he had woken that morning overcome with nerves at the realization that he wouldn’t be greeting them as family, but rather Councillor to Wizard.
       He didn’t know who Makarov would send. He doubted the Master would come himself.  Perhaps Gildarts was around?  Or maybe Mirajane.  She had become the most diplomatic of the Guild since… well, since.
       Jellal shook off the mournful mood that threatened to drag him down and tapped his fingers on the spines of the books that he had filled his shelves with.  They had been the work of all the years since he and the others had escaped the Tower of Heaven.
       Many had been gifts from Fairy Tail mages – Levy in particular.
       And dammit. Jellal clenched his teeth and turned his back to the bookshelf. He needed to calm himself. No one from Fairy Tail would be angry at him for doing his job, unless…
       Oh, Heavens, don’t let it be Laxus that showed up. The Council Headquarters wouldn’t survive it.
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