Welcome to my very late submissions for Graylu Angst Week 2017. I'll get them all posted as I edit.

I do NOT own Fairy Tail. If I did I would already know the ending to this wonderful series instead of having to wait 10 chapters like everyone else.

Warning: These are Angst week submissions, so I guess... Expect everything and anything? If anything that can cause Angst trigger's you, this is the warning to proceed if you think you'll be okay.

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Day 1: Nightmare

"Lucy!"

Gray desperately shouted her name, praying for any sign that she was conscious enough to answer him. They needed to get out of there. The building was going to collapse any minute. He was out of magic power. He couldn't use his ice to hold the crumbling structure up.

He continued to shout her name, his voice growing more panicked by the second. He couldn't lose her, not her, not his Lucy. She was the light at the end of the tunnel. She was the glue that held their team together. He would be lost without her. The darkness that always threatened to overtake would have succeeded long ago without her in his life.

Gray jumped when an armor clad hand grabbed his shoulder. "Gray, we need to leave."

He shook his head. "We can't! Lucy's still in here somewhere. We need to find her! Where's Natsu!"

Erza's eyes were sad as she replied. "He's still out from the last fight. Happy flew him away. We won't find her in time."

Gray denied this vehemently. He wasn't leaving without Lucy. "You can leave." He turned, watching a pillar crash not far ahead. "She's in here somewhere. I won't leave without her."

Renewed determination coursing through him, Gray stalked forward. He was ready when Erza reached over and grabbed him, but his magic was still depleted and so he stood no chance as she dragged him away. He cried, railing at her that she needed to let him go. She needed to help him find Lucy.

The building didn't last another five minutes after they'd exited. It shuddered and collapsed, taking Gray's light with it. He knew in his heart, somewhere in the rubble of the destroyed building, that his blonde haired girlfriend's body was now waiting to be found. Her magic had been near gone as well, and the only three Celestial Spirit's that could come out on their own had already done so, and had left severely injured.

Grief, the like of which he hadn't felt since Ur had died, struck him. He let out a wail full of pain, and mourning. His legs had no strength left, leaving him kneeling on the ground.

He didn't care that Erza was sobbing behind him, regret in her voice as she asked Lucy to forgive her. He didn't care that they were both bleeding from various wounds. He didn't speak as a barely conscious Natsu flew over with Happy, shouting questions at them. He didn't move when Natsu started tearing through the rubble.

All he could feel was pain, and then a numbness that spread through every part of his body. His heart, his light, was gone and now there was only darkness.

Gray gasped as he shot up in bed, gripping his covers tightly, breathing through the pain that squeezed his heart. He wasn't in that building. He was home, safe, with a very much alive blonde sleeping next to him.

It had all been a nightmare.

Laughing slightly in relief, Gray turned to spoon Lucy, but then stopped short as reality caught up with him. Her side of the bed was empty, had been empty for months now. Her scent no longer lingered on her pillow. His nightmare hadn't been a dream, but a memory. For a brief moment after he'd woken up, he'd been free of the constant pain that gripped his heart.

The dreams weren't always like this. Sometimes, he actually found Lucy and they'd make it out just in time, just like he and Erza had done. More often than not, Gray dreamed of dying right alongside her, curled around her protectively, like he could give her that last bit a protection. Gray wished things had gone that way. Dying with Lucy was better than the hell he was living now.

His life was his worst nightmare come to life, and Gray longed for the day he could be with his light again, never to be separated again.

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