"Gray, wake up! Please wake up!" Gray woke up to a panicked and terrified look. It was Lucy. "Lucy, what's going on?" "Just get up hurry!"

Gray sat up and looked around. Lucy shoved some clothes his way and watched him. Gray, confused still, got dressed. (He just through his clothes over his boxers.) Right as he pulled down his shirt, Lucy grabbed his arm and pulled him towards the door. That's when he noticed her clothes.

She wore her usual blue and white outfit with her calf high boots and keys on her hip. Except, he top showed all the way up to just five inches from her chest lone and even then it looked as though she held it above a fire and let it burn. For, it had some holes in it as well. The collar part looked the same except maybe a couple golden ridges on it.

She dragged him down some steps and out the front door. Gray lived in some apartments, a little ways down the road from the guild, and wondered how Lucy found out where he lived until he noticed her skirt and her boots.

Her skirt had black and golden dots all over it and her boots had a gray substance on them. It covered up to her ankle and even then there were some spots where you could see the actual boat. He looked up at her and then noticed something red and orange next to her head. It looked kinda like . . . the magic . . . Natsu-

"Fire!" Gray ran past Lucy and shook his arm free. He stopped in front of the building with a panicked-what-the-hell-happened-here look. Lucy had finally caught up and was panting next to him. After she caught her breath, she covered her mouth.

"Gray this is-"

He ripped off his sleeve and wrapped it around his head to cover his mouth. Thankfully he ripped off the right length. When he felt ready, he ran into the building and looked around. He heard Lucy yelling at him, but ignored her and focused on looking around for anyone that might be stuck under something. He ran to what seemed like the back of the building. Frantically looking around, he spotted someone under a burning post. They didn't look conscious, either.

"Hey, hey!" He started heading that way, but was cut off by another burning post. He went under it and hurried over to the person. The red hair stuck out as he bent down and started to pull them out. "Natsu, come on! Natsu!" He took a deep breathe and dropped the clothe. His hands moved with gracefulness into position. "Ice make, Ax!" An ax formed and he brought it down onto the post breaking it in half. He let the magic go and leaned over picking up Natsu and hauling him up, wrapping one arm around his waist and the other bringing one of Natsu's arms behind his neck.

He took a few gasping breathes and headed towards the door.

"Damn! I forgot the clothe!"

As they walked out the door, Lucy ran over to meet them.

"What the hell were you thinking!" Gray looked at her. Her face showed a mix of irritation and worry, but her eyes showed something else. Right before he figured it out, she turned her attention to Natsu. "I was going in to save whoever else was in there! My question is why was Natsu in there and why did he start this?" Lucy looked back up at him with a crying? look, "I'll explain everything once we get him to the hospital. I called the police and firemen before I came to get you so they should be here any minute." He nodded and they started to walk in the direction of the hospital as the firemen pulled up. He stopped and turned back looking at the building as the firemen started to put the fire out.

"Maybe i should've just put the fire out myself..."

They sat in the other room with a deathly silence hanging over them. Finally the nurse came out to them. "He just woke up; are you two from Fairy Tail?" Lucy and Gray stood up and replied simultaneously, "Yes." The nurse watched them with slight surprise and then turned and headed to the main desk.

Lucy and Gray looked at each other then headed to Natsu's room. They stood outside the door for a few minutes and then took a deep breathe before Lucy opened the door to find Natsu laying still. She walked over as Gray stood at the door. She looked down at him. Suddenly she felt Gray's hand on her shoulder. She put her hand over his and stood there watching him.

"Hey," she started softly, "how are you feeling?" Natsu looked over at her and then at Gray just beyond her. Gray stepped over to the side and dropped his hand from her shoulder. They locked eyes and he responded with a strange tone, "I'm great! What about you guys?" Lucy started getting tears and the memory of first meeting this fire eater flooded in.

"I got some burns, not as bad as yours. And Gray," her voice got choked chuckle, "he was sleeping through the whole thing." Her lips turned up into a small smile as a small tear rolled down her soft cheek. Natsu watched it roll down, then looked over at Gray.

"Sleeping through the whole thing huh?" He gave a tired smile as Gray gave a small irritated loook before it switched to worry and confusion.

"What's that look for?"

"Tch, your injured."

"And you're worried about me? That's something new!" The red head laughed.

Gray looked away with some pink to his cheeks and gave the look of who-could-care-about-a-loudmouth-like-you, but noticed the red head as he put his hand on his side cringing in pain. Lucy reached toward him with more tears in her eyes. That's when Gray really took in and noticed more details about Natsu.

Natsu was topless and all bandaged up. The only skin that was showing was is upper arms, hands, and his left shoulder. Gray wasn't too worried about seeing the lower half. If Natsu needed help walking, he'd let him or
Lucy know.

Again, they sat with the deathly silence above them. Although, this time they had a background noise, Natsu snoring away.

After a few moments of that, Gray stood up and walked over to Natsu's side and watched him carefully.

"I'm going back to that building."

"What?" The blonde perked up and looked at the dark haired boy as if he was speaking jibberish.

"I'm going back."

"You can't."

"Why not?"

Gray turned on Lucy and stared at her with suspicion. Lucy slowly put her head down and he heard her choke up.

"It's all gone by now. There would be nothing there."

"So? I want to see for myself."

"You idiot!" She looked up and once again she had tears rolling down her cheeks.

He was taken back by her sudden emotional burst.

"That building was-"

"Excuse me, but I have to ask you to please leave this room."

Gray turned hid head to where the voice came from as Lucy looked past him and wiping her eyes. There was a doctor standing at the doorway with a nurse.

"Why?" Gray was upset that someone had interrupted their conversation, let alone the fact that Lucy was going to say what building that was.

The doctor eyed him and then walked further into the room and walked past Gray to the other side of Natsu. The nurse had moved over to Lucy and helped her up and had started to walk towards the door as Gray's eyes filled with a strange unknown anger.

The doctor watched him carefully, but Gray saw a strange glint in his eyes.

"What is he thinking?"

They were pulled out of the room, but right before the nurse shut the door, Gray stuck his foot in between to stop the door.

"Natsu, wake up! Come on!"

"Gray, calm down." Lucy started to grab onto him but he shook her off and started to force the door open.

"Natsu, come on! You're stronger then this!"

"Sir, you need to calm down and leave."

"No! Not until he wakes up and tells me whats going on!"

"Gray!"

Suddenly he froze and his vision got blurry. He saw the floor rising up to meet him. Right before he hit the floor, he heard a silent, gentle sorry.