Hello this is my second story and of course it is a Meredy X Rogue story. I will continue the other story, this is just another story I thought of. It has been nagging in the back of my mind ever since I finished the other chapter of my other story. Hope you like it. Enjoy

Summary: Rogue's mission was simple enough, his mission was to pretend to be a Crime Sorciere Member, and lead the magic council towards them, but why is he suddenly having doubts about his mission. Does it have to do with the family atmosphere around him? Or does it have to do with a certain pink haired mage who slowly made her way into his heart? A Rogue X Meredy fic.

Chapter 1: The Mission

Rogue tried to go to sleep for his tenth time. How had he gotten himself into this position, he didn't know, all he was doing was following orders. Orders that made themselves clear. Oh how he missed Frosch, and everybody back at Sabertooth. He felt so awkward around the other two mages, but for some reason, they seemed to be in very good terms with Fairy tail. He sighed and tried to go to sleep for his eleventh time. This mission has surely taken over half of his sleep for the last week. He remembered when they had given him the task.

Flashback

The doors of the guild opened, two guys, one with glasses and the other one with a scar, came inside.

"We would like to talk with the guild master?" the man with glasses said. Sting stood up and motioned them to enter his office. Both men walked towards the office, the guild, for the first time he remembered, was dead quiet. Around thirty minutes later Sting came out of the office, he looked around the guild and spotted Rogue sitting by the pool.

"Rogue, come here." he called out. Rogue stood up and followed him, he told the exceeds to stay there, which they did. He walked towards Sting who motioned him to come in. He went inside and saw both men looking at him.

"Rogue, they came here to offer us a job. I have suggested that you take it." Sting said as he sat down behind his desk.

"What is this mission about?" Rogue asked as he eyed the men who where standing beside Sting.

"This is sort of an undercover mission, but first let us introduce ourselves. My name is Lahar and he is Doranbolt. This mission is very important. It involves two criminals who have been free for over seven years. They have been free for way too long, and they have allies who do cover them. That is why we came here, one of the guilds who don't have any contact with them. I'm going to start with some background information," he said as he gave him a couple of folders, he opened one of them it revealed a blue haired man with a red tattoo across his right eye, "this man is Jellal Fernandez, we managed to arrest him seven years ago, but was broken out of jail by his teammates. He was arrested for pretending to be a council member, and trying to resurrect the black mage Zeref using the R-system. He uses magic called Heavenly body magic, he is very powerful. He used to be considered one of the ten wizard saints." he layed down another folder and opened it to reveal a pink haired girl around his age, "This girl is Meredy, she was a former member of Grimoire Heart, she was one of the ten kin of purgatory at just the age of twelve, her magic is unknown, but like the rest of the kin, she uses a type of lost magic. Now the mission is very simple, you simply have to pretend to be a member of their guild and give us information of their location. We at least need to capture one member. We trust you are very quiet about things, that is why you master has said you would be perfect for the mission." he finished. Rogue looked at the information once again, he could do this as a redemption for what his future self did, it is the least he could do. He nodded.

"I accept the mission, anything else you need to tell me?" he said. The man with the scar, Doranbolt, handed him a seal.

"Here, you're going to use this seal to send us messages on their locations. Oh and one more thing. This guild is called Crime Sorciere, they are willing to accept anyone who wants redemption, they fight dark guilds. Well, that is all, your mission is going to start in two days. It's a one man mission, so no one else is allowed to go on this mission," he said, "we need to leave, hopefully everything goes well." they exited out of the office.

End of Flashback

Now that he thinked about it, the mission seemed ideal at the time and he slightly felt bad for tricking them. Although it has only been a week, even he could tell they really regretted their mistakes, but for some reason they both seemed sad. He looked at the (temporary) guild mark on his wrist. It looked like an upside down J, a side M, and an U along with a little witch. Obviously the J was for Jellal, the M was for Meredy, but what was the U. He heard a small hiccup and he turned around to see Meredy stand up and go outside. He stood up and went after her. He saw her sit down on top of a rock. He approached her.

"Can't sleep?" he asked. She turned around and looked at him, she shook her head.
"You?" she asked, she scooted over and pat her seat next to her, inviting him to sit down. He accepted and sat down next to her. "How do you like it?" she asked. He looked at her kind of confused. "The guild, I mean." she finished.

"It is a nice guild," he said, what else was he supposed to say, he liked it so much he was sad it wasn't going to last for much longer. She nodded and looked at the water in front of them.

"You know, it was not always just Jellal and I, " she said, he looked at her confused, "there was another member," she looked up to him, their eyes meeting, "her name was Ultear, she was like a mother to me, her magic failed during the dragon attack. She's gone." Rogue looked away, he felt a pang of guilt pass over him, he was, in other terms, sort of responsible for her death. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw tears streaming down her face. The next thing she did shocked him. She hugged him and sobbed onto his chest. He never ever comforted a girl before, what was he supposed to do, it was his, well future self, fault that her mother figure had died. He slowly put his arms around her and let her sob into him. He looked down to see that she had fallen asleep, he carried her and went back into the cave. He saw Jellal looking at him, he set her down gently on her bedroll. Jellal motioned him to come outside. He followed him.

"You know, Meredy is an orphan," he started, "she lost her family when she was little, her entire town was destroyed, she was the only survivor. She was taken in by Ultear and Grimoire Heart." He looked up to the sky. "Ultear used to tell me how she had made her goal to kill Gray Fullbuster, even if it meant taking her own life. She made that goal because she believed he was the one who cause Ultear to suffer. She really loved Ultear from the bottom of her heart, and she still does. Ever since that day, I haven't seen her smile, and most of the nights she couldn't even sleep. I noticed that after you came here, she started sleeping more and slowly returning to her usual self. I want to thank you for that. Please take care of Meredy if something happens to me." he finished. Rogue looked at him, he thought Jellal was going to scream at him or say something about how he didn't want him near her, he didn't actually think he was going to entrust him with her. Jellal went back inside and Rogue sat down in the same rock he and Meredy had sat at. I noticed that after you came here, she started sleeping more and slowly returning to her usual self. I want to thank you for that. His words kept on repeating in his mind over and over again. He felt something strange, some sort of protectiveness. He thought back of them sitting in the rock and his heart pounded.

Boom. Boom.

No, he thought, this is a mission, you are not supposed to feel bad for criminals.

Ever since that day, I haven't seen her smile...

This mission is important, he can't afford to fail it.

I noticed that after you came here, she started sleeping more and slowly returning to her usual self.

These people are criminals, they need to be imprisoned. He remembered her pink eyes meeting his.

I want to thank you for that.

But deep down, he knew, he was starting to have doubts about this mission.

Hope you enjoyed it.