A/N: Not entirely sure what this is but thought I'd post it here anyway. Mainly because I'm terrified, and excited, for what chapter 418 may or may not hold!
Natsu,
I still don't fully understand why you felt the need to leave, to travel the vast world on your own two feet, but I trust you are well. I have always had faith in your ability, since the moment I met you, and nothing will ever sway that opinion. Even now, with not even a single word of goodbye, I will believe in you until the end.
The world is a far more vast a place than you or I could even begin to imagine. All the adventures that we've been on together feel as though they would, in some way, amount to a considerable whole. The reality is that we are but pawns in the endless space that we call our Earth. I hope one day, once you have returned, we can once again find new paths to tread. I want to explore the mystery of the aeon and the cosmos by your side. If I need to wait a year to do that then so be it, I will not waste the freedom you have granted me.
I came to the realisation that I have been content to walk in your shadow. Too blinded by the radiance of your personality, too dazzled by your smile, to see that our paces didn't align. I let you escape, a fault solely my own. But every path trodden must one day be walked again. One day you will return to Magnolia and I will not need another chance. I will spend this year getting stronger too. I will follow my dreams; I'll write; I'll train; I'll grow. So that when you do finally return, battered and bruised; like I know you will, I'll no longer have to walk behind you. For the first time I will walk beside you; Natsu.
That's where I belong, where I want to be.
From now until the end of time.
Love
Lucy