Hey! I'm back again! This shot is a sequel to I'm Sorry Natsu, because I'm too lazy to add a chapter 2 to it. I send my thanks to the user Oceanewave, who reviewed the one shot and asked for a part two. I'd highly recommend reading I'm Sorry Natsu, but beware. It has rape in it. By the way, this takes place one month after the events in the previous part.
Warnings: Mentions of Rape, Probably some Swearing, Bad Writing.
Setting: Modern Day AU
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail. Oh well.
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"I'm home!" Gray let the door slam behind him, as he surveyed the room. There was no sign of his hot-headed boyfriend anywhere in sight, neither was Lucy. Of course, she was at work. She had been living with the boys ever since the incident, because she dubbed Gray's way of helping Natsu too 'violent'.
"Natsu?" He stilled his breathing to see if he could hear the familiar thud of the pinkette's feet, but the only sound was a soft cry. He let out the breath he had been holding as it dawned on him. "Natsu!"
Panic attacks had been a common occurrence with the younger boy, ever since the events that happened at the bar a month ago. That fact made Gray feel stupid. It happened even more when the boy was left alone, but once again, the raven haired boy happened to forget it. He just wasn't used to having Natsu be so different. But of course that was his fault too.
"But, why the club of all things? Couldn't we maybe… stay home and order pizza, play some board games with the girls?" Natsu was wringing his hands together, biting down on his lip as he looked nervously at his boyfriend. Gray only sighed. The two were getting ready to go pick up the girls, and Natsu wouldn't let up in his quest to change Gray's mind.
"For the last time, no! The girls have been looking forward to going with us since… forever! And put on that shirt I gave you." The sound that escaped the smaller male's lips made the corners of Gray's lips perk up. Natsu's laugh was always the cutest thing to him.
"Look who's talking, stripper!" Gray chucked a shoe in Natsu's direction before standing up, and tackling him while the pinkette was distracted. The boy shrieked, before Gray pressed a kiss to his neck. The kisses trailed up against his jawline and soon up to his ear before Gray pulled back.
"If you come, we can continue once we get home," he whispered. Natsu nodded and stood up, followed by his boyfriend. "Relax. Nothing bad will happen. It's just a night out." Natsu let his shoulders drop as he started to pull on the black button-up.
"Fine."
Oh how wrong Gray was. Rape had almost happened. Which is exactly how he had gotten into this situation. He was halfway up the stairs when he heard the opposite of his favorite sound. Instead of Natsu's laughter, it was a yell. "STAY AWAY!" The haunting scream reminded Gray of what happened that night.
He couldn't find Natsu, and neither could the girls, and Gray was becoming hysteric. "Oh god. What if someone roofied his drink?" He didn't mean to take so long, but Erza had gotten drunk and wanted him to dance. Despite how he protested, he had loosened up and forgotten all about the pinkette he left at the bar. Soon after, he realised his mistake and rushed to the bar to find… not a single sign of his boyfriend.
"Gray, chill. He might've just gone outside to get some air. Come on." Lucy took him by the wrist and dragged him to the door, Erza wobbling behind them. The redhead had found another drink, and had already gone through half of it. Thankfully, the blonde hadn't been drinking as much as the two others.
Once they were outside, Gray still couldn't see the younger boy. "Where the hell is he?! What if some dude took him home? What if he drank too much and let some chick drag him to some hotel somewhere? What if-" He was cut of by a familiar voice yelling out a pathetic protest.
"-please don't!" Whines and guilty moans were heard soon after.
"Natsu! That's Natsu!" Before Lucy could reply, Gray had already dashed on towards the corner. Erza took a second to gather herself, before she too ran. By the time Gray turned the corner, the sight that he was met with made his blood boil. A crimson-purple haired male had a half naked Natsu pinned to the wall, his eyes narrowing onto the raven haired boy.
"The fu-" Gray slammed his fist into the man, before turning to Natsu and scooping him into his arms. The girls focused on attacking the man, so Gray couldn't think about landing another punch for him.
"It's okay Natsu, I'm here now."
Gray slammed open the door to their bedroom, cringing as a whimper came as response. After a quick scan, he moved over to the pinkette, who was curled up in between the bed and the nightstand. Carefully, he reached out his hands to grasp Natsu's, only for them to be thrown away.
"Natsu. It's Gray. Not Cobra." Natsu pressed his hands closer to his head- if it was possible- at the name. Gray forcefully pulled them away and grasped at his wrists. He didn't know how to help him, Lucy was better at that. "Natsu! Look at me! It's Gray! Your boyfriend!"
"No, no, no, no! Stay away from me!" Natsu didn't open his eyes, so without thinking, Gray smashed his lips against the smaller boy's. Natsu's eyes flew open with a smothered scream, green orbs hazy with fear and panic. He struggled to pull away, only for Gray to pull away instead. They gasped for air, the pinkette once again trying to escape his grip.
"DAMMIT! JUST SNAP OUT OF IT!" In a split second, a smack flew through the air and Natsu had frozen in place. A red handprint had appeared on his cheek, Gray's hand hanging in the air.
"Fuck-"
A watery scream broke the silence.
-FT-
"Gray, what the hell?!"
Lucy had been screaming at Gray for the past hour and a half, outside of course, while Natsu peacefully slept away. The raven haired male couldn't of felt more guilty, self-hate eating him away. He had his head in his hands, trying to block out the blonde, but of course, she was just that loud.
"You probably just made everything worse! We finally get somewhere and you slap him?! Seriously, what the fuck?!" Gray didn't have an answer and Lucy was annoying him to no end. "I mean, what he went through was enough to scare the unscareable Natsu Dragneel! But hey, who cares about fear? Especially when it comes to Natsu! Crist, Gray. I can't believe you-"
"SHUT UP!" Lucy promptly shut her mouth in fear, watching Gray shoot up from his spot on the porch. "I know what I did was stupid! I just, I don't know how to help him, dammit! He fears me, just because I'm a guy like that bastard! No one has asked how I feel about this whole thing, and he's my own boyfriend-"
"Gray, Natsu hasn't once made any of us worry intentionally. Every time he's broke down is because of nightmares and stuff like what just happened. Not by his own will, but by his mind's sick games. He's tried to ignore it to make sure you're okay. 'Hey Natsu, how are you feeling?' And with his answer of 'I'm fine' comes that stupid fake smile he's been using since the incident! Get your head out of your ass and use it to think! If you aren't okay, then pull me aside. We can talk! You know how hard this is on me, too? But our pain doesn't even compare to his. Alright?!"
By the end of her rant, tears were streaming down her face along with Gray's. "Lucy… I need to talk to Natsu!" With that, he dashed around the blonde and up the stairs, throwing open the door for the second time that day. Natsu jolted up from his spot in bed, relaxing as his green orbs were met by Gray's dark blue ones.
He spoke hesitantly, "Gray? Are you okay? You look upset.."
"Shush. Don't talk. I'm really sorry for earlier," Gray's arms went around Natsu's waist, his head going into the crook of the pinkette's neck, "I'm really, really sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you or anything like that, it's just so hard seeing you like this and I wish I hadn't been such a fucking douche and had just let us stay home and play games. Cuz then you wouldn't be going through this. Then you wouldn't be so… broken!"
Natsu's hand started running through Gray's spiked locks as the raven haired male started to sob. Tears started to stain the younger male's shirt, and soon, Gray had stopped all together. "Hey, Gray. Look at me," he did so, "we're going to be okay. You're going to be okay. And I don't like seeing you blame yourself. Nothing is your fault. The only thing that's your fault is how perfect you are." And nothing in Gray's whole mind could counter it.
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I hope that was good enough. Have a great whatever today is. Bye bye now.
