Lucy stood in the middle of the guild hall glaring at the dragonslayer in front of her. He had just gotten back from a job, and hadn't seen Lucy for a full year and six months.

"You! You freaking idiot!"

Lucy had been so depressed when he left, leaving only a note, but that depression turned to anger, bottled up for a year.

"No need to yell."

Natsu had left, with only a note to Lucy. He knew she'd be sad, but she'd get over it, and he's tell the guild it was all for them and they would all have a party. That was how he pictured it. But natsu was painfully oblivious to everything, and didn't bother to think too much about Lucy on July 7th. Except Lucy lost her mother on that day too, not that he knew.

"You just left! For a friggin' year!"

He had, but Natsu didn't see the issue, being Natsu.

"I Don't see why you're angry."

Natsu sent a questioning glance at Levy, who glared at him.

"My god, Natsu! I have a perfectly good reason to

be angry at you!"

In his mind, she didn't, but he wouldn't of known.

A usually happy celestial mage, was angry, no,

livid.

The whole guild was focused on the arguing pair in the middle of the hall.

"Well, Igneel had just died, and I needed time!"

Natsu responded to her rage with his own.

Levy could tell her best friend would snap. She could see it, and she knew exactly why The guild had expected the dragon slayer to start a fight, but not one nearly as serious as this.

"How about every other Dragon Slayer, huh?! Wendy stayed! Heck, Gajeel stayed! Everyone lost something, and yet, they all stayed!"

"And how would you know?"

"Like you would any better!"

The guild hall was silent, the atmosphere tense.

"Can we just forget this?" Natsu said finally.

"No! No, Natsu. We can't. Because ya know what happened right after you left? The guild disbanded! And everyone left again! I stayed even though I had just lost everything and I still stayed!"

She didn't even give the dragon slayer a chance to talk, and she wasn't done yet.

"You can't just prance off for a year, and only leave a note! Oh, I'm Natsu! I'll just leave this super stupidly vague note, that totally doesn't lead people to think that there is something happened to me!"

"I didn't want anyone hurting my friends like that again!"

Lucy gritted her teeth at that statement. If she hadn't been angry before, she definitely was now.

"You asshole!"

Lucy had never cursed in the time Natsu had known her, ever.

"I needed to mourn!"

"You have no idea what it feels like to be the weakest person on the strongest team, knowing that all you do is drag the team down! Wendy may not think it, but her offensive magic is extremely strong, and even without it, at least she's useful! If I lose my keys, I'm helpless, and the rest of the team has to come save me! You'll never understand!"

"Says who?"

"Me! I just did! You're always swooping in to save me, but every time you weren't there, I won!'

I'm tired of being the god damned damsel in distress, damnit!"

"I-"

"Save it. I'm tired of my friends getting hurt on my behalf! Phantom Lord was my fault! The dragons came because I couldn't close the gate! I destroyed both my mother's and ancestors honor by destroying that gate!"

"I never said anyone else wouldn't like to see their friends hurt!"

"If you didn't want to hurt us, then you shouldn't of left!"

"I needed time alone to mourn!"

"What did I do when my father died?! The last time I saw him was an argument!"

"I hadn't seen my father in over ten years! He finally comes back and dies before my eyes!"

"Losing someone you've known your whole life is harder! How about being the one doing the killing!"

Gray froze, eyes wide. Juvia, sitting next to him, scooted towards him and this time he didn't pull away.

"How would you know?" Natsu challenged, unaware to how many people he was upsetting.

Lucy glared, eyes bordered with tears, but they held a fierce determination.

Lucy wiped her tears and reached into her key pouch, standing straight. Natsu hadn't planned to make this physical, but got into a fighting stance, ready to call upon his magic at the moment's notice.

Erza's eyes widened. She knew the two mages had to let it out and go at each other, but she didn't think it would go this far.

"Lucy! Natsu! I think we can settle this without magic!" She shouted urgently.

However, she was completely ignored even though the hall was silent.

What Lucy pulled out made his eyes widen, everyone's eyes widen because right there, seven feet in front of him, stood Lucy holding up the broken key of the water bearer. Her face was emotionless now.

"This. This is how."

Her mouth was firm, and her eyes fierce.

"I'm sor-sorry, Luce."

Natsu choked on his own words.

"Don't start with that damn pity, now."

The pinkette was silent. Lucy's expression remained static.

Natsu was worried he'd just made her angrier, but all his worries disappeared when she half smiled at him. A smile he'd been missing for the last year and a half.

"You have one year to make up to me, so I suppose you start now."

"Can do!"

That was hard to write. Some background info. Lucy got the guild back together befor Natsu came back and Natsu took 1 year and 4 months to come back. Natsu went on a job and didn't tell Lucy that he came back and Lucy was told by Levy. The next part though, was even harder. It'll come out soon, though it might be shorter. This is my first work, and if you find any mistakes or anything, please tell me. Honest critisism, please! Hope you enjoyed!

-3t0