I don't own Fairy Tail. The amazing Hiro Mashima(真島 ヒロ) does. ^_^

Lucy's Choice

A pretty blonde named Lucy sat in her usual stool by the bar in the immense hall of Fairy Tail, the greatest guild in the whole of Earthland. She had just arrived back from a mission with Team Natsu. When they had arrived at their destination, they found out their job had already been completed and that their two partners had been taking a holiday! While they were heading back from the mission Natsu and Gray started fighting over which one of them had actually knocked the beast out and while they were in the middle of their argument, they accidentally, punched Erza's face without realizing until they saw the red haired mage falling back.

Since the team arrived back to the guild, Erza had made the two mages buy her a piece of cake each and placed them in opposite corners of the guild facing the wall as their punishment..(Even though she beat the life out of them seconds after the accident). Once they were released from their corners, the guild turned back into its normal cheery self rather than the gloomy aura that had been there since they arrived back.

A week had past since their mission, yet, Lucy had been in a daze ever since she had arrived back and only came to the guild once, Mira noticed this straight away and decided to try and pull Lucy out of her daze.

"Hi Lucy, what can i get you?" The celestial mage turned her head to face white haired bar maid, who had her normal happy smile and that twinkle in eye as always. Lucy simply replied with a weak smile as she asked with an unhappy tone, "Lemonade/ vodka mix please Mira." The take over mage was taken back a little at her request, it was only 2 pm, the only person normally drinking alcohol at this time would be Cana.

As she made the blondes drink, she gave her a worried look as she asked, "Is everything okay? You seem a little troubled." Lucy just gazed at her hands while she twiddled her thumbs, not hearing the bar maids inquiry. Mira grabbed her hands before she gave Lucy her drink while looking directly into her eyes, as the white haired mage once again tried to get through to the gloomy girl in front of her, "Lucy, if somethings worrying you, i'm always here." This action caught Lucy off guard, she looked away for a minute to then return her eyes to the bar maid in front of her. With a bright smile only leading up to her mouth, not making its way to her eyes, Lucy answered, "Thank you, Mira." squeezing her hands tightly, before grabbing her drink and gulping it down in one go, then gesturing for Mira to make her another, the white haired beauty just sighed as she took Lucy's glass to refill it.

At this moment in time Lucy wasn't in the best of moods, she had started to realize that her little 'crush' on Natsu wasn't going away any time soon. She had tried to deny that she had feelings for the flame head, yet the more she tried to distance herself from him, the more they seemed to glue together. The blonde mage had first realized her feelings for Natsu when the Hanami festival was ending.

She had weird feeling in her chest and stomach whenever Natsu was around. The celestial mage didn't hate the feeling in the pit of her stomach, however, she still knew letting this feeling grow would only cause her more grief than happiness. The flame head would probably end up dodging her if he found out how she felt and that would be the end of their job partnership and friendship in one go. Lucy just let out a deep sigh and started her second drink, little did the poor blonde beauty know what was coming her way.

"Hey Luce!" A voice called out with in a rhapsody tone, while making loud steps towards the blonde. The celestial mage didn't need to turn around to find out who was calling her, she didn't even have to think for a second before trying to figure out whose the voice belonged to. Before worry could fill her mind, She shut her eyes to breathed in and put on the most amazing imitation of her usually smile on as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

An arm landed around her right shoulder as she turned to face her pink haired boy who put it there, with the blue exceed who was hovering above them. "Hi Natsu, what's up?" the blonde said with calmness, trying to keep up the fake smile she had fabricated to hide the fact that she wasn't feeling her best at this moment in time.

"Erza just told me you quit our team." Lucy's eyes went down to the ground before she replied, "Y-Yeah, i wanted to try going on solo missions for a little while." The normally happy blue cat Landed on the bar stool next to the celestial mage looking at her with intensive eyes that looked like they were about to cry a river, "Did we do something wrong? You've been avoiding us since we got back, don't you like us anymore Lucy." The celestial mage just looked at the little exceed before pulling him in for a hug while replying, "Of course I like you still, i just need some time on my own for a little while is that okay?" Happy nodded while hugging her tightly, she had never intended to hurt either one of them, she was just trying to look out for her team mates.

Lucy lifted her head to face Natsu to look at him, trying to cover up the doleful look she had on her face while saying, "I'm sorry if hurt your feelings to Natsu." This caught the dragon slayer off guard, it was rare for Lucy to apologize and he didn't like it. He felt a wave of guilt covering himself for coming over to question her.

Of course she wanted some time a part, they'd just gotten back from a mission, he couldn't expect to be around her 24-7, plus he had gone on solo missions and she hadn't questioned him. He just lifted one of his hands started to scratch the back of his head while putting on his signature grin, "Don't be silly Luce! It was just Happy here who was getting worked up about it." Happy let go of Lucy, then turned to face the dragon slayer as an angry look covered the little blue exceeds face and a dark aura surrounded him. Before happy could even say anything Natsu quickly shouted,

"Is that a big fish with legs!"

"Wah! where's the fish!" the blue cat completely forgot what they were talking about and flew straight through the guild doors to try and find the 'fish' with legs Natsu stated was outside.

A few chuckles from Lucy and Natsu came back down to reality. He turned to her with an intense look in his eyes before asking, "Luce are you sure going on a mission by yourself is the best choice?" She faced the flame head with a gut-wrenching look as she answered back with annoyance in her voice, " Why would me going on a mission by myself be a problem? Are you trying to state i'm not strong enough to defend myself?!." Natsu realized how his words came off, but he never meant it like that, "No, I just think it wou-" Lucy interrupted before he could finish "Would be better to have a big strong man protect me since i'm so vulnerable, so frail? What Nats-" He grabbed her right shoulder and covered the blondes gob with his other hand, while continuing his unfinished sentence, " I just think it would be more fun with all of the team together, but if you want some time alone i get it. You're not weak Luce, I've never once thought you were." Lucy just stood there as her cheeks began to blush, she turned her head so he wouldn't see how her once porcelain cheeks had changed their colour to a deep cherry, She just stuttered back while still looking away " T-Thank you, Natsu." He answered back with a smile on his face, "No problem! The rest of the team are going on a job that'll take a week, are you sure you don't wanna join?" She just nodded her head as a reply, Natsu lowered his in defeat smacking her back, before walking away to go find happy and pack for his next mission as he yelled, "See you in a week, Luce!"

As Natsu left through the guilds doors, the celestial mage closed her eyes, took a deep breath and let it out, to then open them to a jolly Mira staring at her with narrowed eyes and a devilish grin from ear to ear. The take over mage casually asked, "Did something happen between you and Natsu?" Lucy just sighed and replied to her without denying her question, "If I were a bit tiddly, there could be a chance of me answering truthfully." Before Lucy could even blink twice her hand was filled with another lemonade and vodka mix, she knew then that is was going to be a long night, let alone week.

If I've made any errors please tell me, also please review, not sure if i should keep writing or not.