A/N: Hello little fairies this is my first fanfiction. Helpful fiction is much appreciated but mostly I hope you enjoy this short nalu story. Thanks for reading. XD

Lucy POV

It's been 5 months since I last told him I loved him. 5 months since he rejected me and asked Lisanna to become part of team Natsu. I had tried everything to get him to love me or at least give me a chance to show him how much I loved him. I tried so many different things.

~ Flashback third person POV~

Candlelight flickered against the wall, the room smelling of miso soup and - along with the smell of a vanilla cake cooking in the oven. A blonde and a pinkette sat in the chairs talking about nothing important.

"Did you see me at the guild today Luce? I kicked Grays' butt. " an overly excited voice asked, his pink hair bobbing in time with the speed he talked at.

Chocolate brown eyes looked at him as Lucy nodded absentmindedly. Her mind only focused on what she had to tell him.

"Maybe we should go on a –," Natsu stopped suddenly, noticing the faraway look in her brown eyes and the way she would only nod at his questions. "Luce? You okay?"

"What? I'm fine, but there's something I gotta tell you," Lucy looked down at her dinner, hardly feeling hungry anymore. "Natsu, I love you."

"I love you to Luce"

"No Natsu. I mean I LOVE you, as more than a friend"

His eyes widened for a second, before taking a deep breath and….

Bursting into laughter.

"HAHAHA good one Luce. I almost thought you were serious." His laughter carried on, turning into breathless gasps as he lost all his air. Meanwhile, Lucy's eyes were filling with tears as she watched Natsu laugh at her feelings, mocking what she had finally admitted to him.

"I don't get it. I don't get why you're laughing. I just told you I loved you." She whispered, hair covering her eyes.

Natsu's laughter stopped as he realised she wasn't joking.

"Luce, I'm sorry," He said, guilt weighing down his heart "but, I don't love you back."

Lucy's resolve fell and tears began to make way down her face as her body shook violently. After a few minutes her tears stopped and she looked up, straight into his eyes of obsidian.

"I won't stop trying to get you to love me."

~Flashback end~

Lucy POV

After that I continued to try. But the more I tried the more I pushed him away. It was only the little things first that normally a person wouldn't notice. He stopped calling me Luce, then he stopped sneaking into my bed, he would only go on missions with me if Erza and Gray were there with us. He wouldn't even go if Happy offered to come. So I stopped trying to get him to love me and, now, at the guild conversations were rarely heard between us. When the others asked what was wrong he brushed it off, like nothing had happened, like it was nothing. That was until Erza and Gray dragged me into a room.

3rd person POV

Erza and Gray slowly moved toward the quivering blonde, pushing her toward the wall. Their eyes glinting with a hint of evil as they reached forward and began to tickle Lucy.

"N-no p-please stop, it hurts" Lucy squealed rolling around on the floor, tears of laughter dribbling out of her eyes.

"Not until you tell us what's going on between you and Natsu."

"What do you mean? Nothing's going on?" Lucy replied between gasps of laughter.

Gray looked at Lucy as Erza looked at Gray. Lucy (after finally stopping laughing) turned her head away from the two, regret flashing in her deep, brown eyes.

"I told him I loved him," Erza and Grays eyes widened, gasps echoing from their mouths "he told me he didn't love me back, but I kept pushing him. I told him I wouldn't stop trying to get him to love me. And that pushed him away from me."

And with that Lucy broke down, releasing all her pain and sadness on the people in front of her. Erza kneeled next to Lucy and gently wrapped her arms round Lucy's quivering shoulders before pulling into the armoured chest.

~ 2 months later Lucy POV ~

I was walking towards the request board, already late on rent for the month. None of the jobs recently had been appealing or they were ones I couldn't Handle by myself. The ones I did take left me battered and bruised. My magic was low all the time and it was effecting my jobs and my spirits, Loke especially, kept telling me to 'take a break and slow down' and to 'stop destroying myself'. It wasn't that I wanted to carry on destroying myself but I couldn't stop doing jobs. Not because of this illness. It took my mother but I won't let it take me. So I'll put on a brave face and smile through.

Suddenly, a piece of paper was dangled in front of my eyes by a hand covered in armour.

"Lucy come on, it's been far too long since team Natsu went on a mission together." The cool and collected voice of Erza made me turn away from the board and face her, before she moved out of the way and revealed Gray, Happy and Natsu. Wait, Natsu was there, he's coming with us.

"Yeah come on Luigi. Need to pay your rent don't cha?" and there was something resembling the Natsu that I pushed away in that one simple sentence

"Yeah, let's go get some dark guild members" I soon forgot about my worries and ran to join my friends with the biggest smile I've had for a long time.