Day 1 - Memories

A/N: This is my first entrant for Gruvia week 2016! Enjoy! Day 1 - Memory - All aboard the feel train!

Memories. Memories are fickle things, memories are things that are made, never anticipated, every passing second is a memory and for one ex Fairy Tail mage his memories were ones he kept close to his heart.

The rain poured down on the outskirts out Amefurashi Village, the rain it reminded him of her, the only person to ever get close to his heart, the only person to ever hear those three words from his mouth. Even now he couldn't bring himself to think let alone say them. He remembered the first time he met her, it was funny. He had had his fortune read to him not long before he met her. The fortune had said that he would have trouble with water and woman, and little did he know that he was about to meet the rain woman. Juvia Lockser. A water mage. A very attractive water mage. They had fought and he had found himself saving her, the enemy. He had reacted on impulse and that wasn't the last time that he acted to save her without thinking. He saved her from Ultear, he carried her from Achnologia on Tenrou Island, he had given her courage against Lyon, he gave his life for her against the dragons. He protected her from his father in Tartaros. He had told her that he was going to give her his answer when the battle was over the one with Zeref. What he didn't know was that he was going to lose her before he had the chance to tell her properly. To show her how much he cared for her, to show her how grateful he was for always being by his side, he hadn't gotten the chance to live with her not properly, unrestrained. And even now years on as he stood in the pouring rain he was sure he could still feel her, her warmth and her love. He could picture her smile and it broke his heart. It broke his heart to think of all the things that they could've, should've done together. He remembered as he held her on the wasteland of a battlefield that was once Hargeon, he remembered the taste of his tears hot and salty, he remembered the feel of the rain on his bare skin, the feel of her in his arms and he cradled her bloodied body to his chest, the way she stroked his cheek, the way her eyes bored into his straight to his soul, the way she told him that everything was going to be okay but he knew it wasn't. As she had slipped away tears falling down her cheeks, as his fell onto her face to, mixing together like their magic, their unison raids which spoke volumes of their bond, intertwined like their hearts,. He spoke those three words to her, he had spoken them confidently and broken both at the same time. The words 'I love you' she had to hear them and so did he. As she slipped away she told him she loved him, as the tears fell and death gripped her she still smiled like a brilliant ray of sunshine. How could someone so bright be stalked by the rain? When she was gone he had pressed his forehead against her as the regret flooded him, he should've told her how he felt earlier, he should have shown her how much she meant to him, in those six months the best six months of his life he should have let her in and oh he wanted to, but there was that part of him that told him he couldn't, that it wasn't safe to and he regretted it. He thoughts of the things they could've done, they could've gone on those stupid dates she spoke of they all sounded fun, they could've had dinner, gone on more evening walks - he liked those evenings best, they could've spent years of their lives together, they could've gotten married and had children. She would've looked so beautiful in a wedding dress. They could've watched their children grow up and they could've grown old together, died together, like they were supposed to. As they icemage stood in the rain outside their little house in Amefurashi village, the one they brought together, he was sure he could smell her cooking. He looked up to the heavens and screamed "WHYYY!" The tears were falling faster now he felt so cold so empty, no matter how many months and years passed the hole in his heart wouldn't heal. "WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?!" His cry of pain was agonising as he shook.

"Gray-sama…." The wind seemed to whisper as it blew, but Gray would recognise that voice anywhere, even in death Juvia was watching, looking out for him.

A/N: I cried writing this! Enjoy!

CrookedMoonlight