A/N: Hello! I adopted this story from Rangiku9815, sory for taking so long to post the first chapter. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail


Chapter 1: Come Back to Me

This story starts near one of Magnolia's water canals; in a two-story apartment house with red walls and a dark-brown roof with two chimneys and two windows. Currently, there is a figure gazing out the window of this apartment.

The interior of this apartment has pink walls, with a large amount of storage space. The biggest room in this apartment is the main room; which includes a bed, desk, bookcase, and dresser, a table with three chairs, a coffee table and an armchair. Also seen scattered throughout the room is a vast amount of literature that varies in both shape and size. At the other end of said room are the entrances to both the bathroom and kitchen.

The figure sat at the window is not the current mage living in this apartment but rather the mages partner. The mage living in this apartment is a woman called Lucy Heartfilia; Lucy has brown eyes and shoulder length blonde hair, which is tied back by ribbons to the right side of her head, the mark which identifies her as a mage of Fairy Tail is located at the back of her right hand in pink.

Yet this mage inside of her home was definitely not her; for he has lean muscular build of a young man of average height. His hair is spiky and pink colored. The mark in which identifies him as a comrade of Lucy Heartfilia and any mage of Fairy Tail is located just below his right shoulder. His name is Natsu Dragneel.

Natsu Dragneel sat alone on the bed of Lucy Heartfilia looking out the window onto the streets of Magnolia, with tears streaming out of his eyes "Why did this happen? Why does it hurt so much?" Motioning a hand over his heart; Natsu remembers a lesson that has come and broken his heart.

"Once a dragon loses its mate, it's alone forever" Only when this dragon lost his mate, he also lost his heart and soul.

Every waking moment since that day he spends inside her apartment. This became so much of an obsession that everyone in the guild was starting to worry about their pink haired friend. But no one knew that this was Natsu's way of coping with what had happened. The only time Natsu would leave the apartment was when Lucy's rent was due; as he would have to take a mission, so he could make sure no one else got Lucy's home.

"Lucy wouldn't want you to be here, upset for something that wasn't your fault." Natsu turned to two fellow guild members and his partner a feline friend behind him. The first to walk across the main room was another male mage about the same age; only this mage has spiky black colored hair and dark blue eyes, and the woman accompanying him looks to probably be a few years older than them. She had who has long, scarlet hair and brown eyes; they were called Gray Fullbuster and Erza Scarlet.

Gray walked across the pink room, up to Natsu, and put his hand on his shoulder by means of showing that even through the toughest of times Fairy Tail always sticks together. Sadly this was a rare moment in which proves that not even a long-time friend and rival can break him of his depression.

In retaliation Natsu grabbed Gray's arm and forced him into the wall, and then by holding him by the scruff of the neck Natsu had him full pinned against the wall.

"You don't know anything! You don't know the pure agony I have to live through every day! And to think there's this hole in my heart and I can't even fill that because it's my fault it's there! I keep trying to get free from it but it's suffocating me, I just can't do this anymore!"

The sudden outburst from Natsu had shocked everyone. Silence filled the room, "Get out." Erza walked forwards closer to Natsu, but flinched when she saw the look in his eyes. Pure fury.

This time louder Natsu screamed "Get out!" begrudgingly they listened and left Natsu to his thoughts. "Lucy."

-Flashback-

Lucy was stood in a white towel that barely covered her body; as she had just emerged from the bathroom, and placed her clothes on the bed, ready to get changed. When Natsu came through the window, like he always does. As soon as he saw Lucy the dragon inside him took over. Lucy was very embarrassed to be seen in just a small towel, and was about to run to the bathroom when a hand stopped her.

Lucy felt a pair of strong arms circle around his waist and pull her deeper into a muscular chest. With warm breath tickling the back of her neck; Lucy was frozen in place but she soon relaxed into his hold, Natsu was stroking Lucy's hair gently, letting his fingers explore the silky blonde locks and eventually pushing them both to the bed together.

"Lucy I want you forever."

Natsu turned so he could look her in the eyes; into the eyes that bore his very soul. Natsu was looking at Lucy with such intensity and passion that she had never seen before, she knew he was serious. Lucy looked him straight in the eyes and without hesitation said "I'm here aren't I? Just reach out and make me yours."

"Lucy you know that if you say yes, then you're my mate for life, a dragon can only have one mate. And I want that to be you."

Lucy didn't speak for a moment; which began to worry Natsu but all these worries were thrown out of his head, when Lucy kissed Natsu with everything she had as an answer. "What do you think?"

Natsu lit a small flame on the end of his finger, just above Lucy's heart Natsu marked his initials. Slowly but delicately Natsu stared with the "N" this made Lucy let out a small scream as the flame glided over her skin but she knew it was almost over and they would be mates forever. When Natsu had finished the "D"; he pulled back his jacket and marked "L.H." on himself, but this didn't hurt him as flames can't hurt him. Now that the marking process was done, they can be the each other's forever, until the day one of them died.

Which could be sooner than they thought possible.

-End Flashback-

Natsu was still stood in the same place as before with that same distant look in his eyes, until he murmured "Mine forever." Then he scoffed. Subconsciously Natsu's hand gently swiped over the initials on his heart. They hadn't told anyone yet and now they would never get the chance to tell anyone. Even with all of the people at the guild trying to support him Natsu was more alone than ever.

"Alone"

That's was what Luc was now even if.

Natsu released an animalistic growl; he was the only one with Lucy on that last mission. But he never told anyone what happened, only that Lucy was gone and it was his fault. At first no one believed him, no one wanted to, so Mirajane, Erza, Happy, Gray, Juvia, Wendy, Carla and Levi went rushing over to her apartment looking for her; but they were only all to be disappointed. When they returned they had to break to the guild the news; as expected by Fairy Tail they had a funeral for her, as well as making a memorial for her in the guild hall; so that everyone could see who she was until she disappeared and who she will always be.

Natsu clenched his hand and turned around, and then he snapped and punched a hole through the wall. Sighing to himself he turned around and saw a Fairy Tail mage; with long, spiky black hair and he has red eyes with silted dark pupils, he has three studs above each of his eyes, thee on each side of his nose and two on his chin.

"What do you want Gajeel?"

A growl ripped itself from Gajeel's throat; as he walked straight up to Natsu, and then grabbed him by the neck.

"Lucy."

Natsu narrowed his eyes. "What about her?"

"Tell me what happened to her." Natsu was going to speak but was quickly cut off by Gajeel. "I thought Fairy Tail was supposed to be comrades, aren't comrades supposed to fight together? How can we ever fight if we don't trust each other? Answer me!" Gajeel quickly slammed Natsu into the wall; as Natsu thought about what Gajeel said, responded.

"Okay."

-Flashback-

Lucy and Natsu had just finished a job, and they were in their hotel room for the night. Natsu was walking down the corridor with a necklace for Lucy when he heard a loud ear piercing scream. His instincts immediately told him to protect Lucy; he ran at full speed to their room, when he got there Natsu saw a hooded figure dragging Lucy into the shadows with her screaming for help, screaming for him. Just screaming.

When Natsu finally tried to run after them, they had disappeared out of sight, out of smell, out of detection.

-End Flashback-

Natsu looked at Gajeel his eyes were starting to swell up but he was not going to let Gajeel see him cry, he would never hear the end of it.

"And that's how Lucy disappeared."

Gajeel punched Natsu's cheek; hard enough that he hit the wall with a thud, and Gajeel whispered in his ear. "Get the hell out of this damn apartment and do something about your mate."

This made Natsu pause to think. "Lucy, I am going to find you and bring you home." Both the dragon slayers left through the window and started to walk to the Fairy Tail guild.

They didn't know what was about to happen at that guild; if they did then these events could have ended differently and happily.


A/N: I am Thatgayrainbow on archiveofourown, and this will also be posted there.