Summary: Gray is good at hiding emotions. One day Lucy notices one odd little thing and is a little concerned but brushes it off until Lyon visits the guild. Now Lucy, Natsu, and Lyon are all worried.

Disclaimer: I do not and never will own Fairy Tail or the characters

Note: Well I have another Lyon and Gray brother fic now and it is still in the same timeline as the other one. Now I have actually gotten a lot further in the manga than the Orion Seis time, I am actually around where Gray vs. Silver and all that. However, this time area works for my purposes best, at least I think. All mistakes are my own. I believe that's all I got for now, so on with the story, enjoy!

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Lucy let out a yawn as she pushed open the guild doors. She was greeted with the sight of surprising peace and few guild members as she was up way earlier than she would have liked. The guild hadn't been opened too long either. With another yawn, she sat down at the bar in front of Mirajane; who was wiping down a glass. Mirajane giggled at Lucy's yawning and asked her if she wanted something to drink, possibly coffee. Lucy gave the demon take-over mage a pleading look and sighed "please." With another giggle, Mira poured Lucy a fresh cup of coffee. The celestial mage grabbed the coffee mug with both hands holding it close to her chest like it was her favorite book. After Lucy downed about half the mug, she took a look around the guild noticing that a few more members had trickled in by now. Cana was at a table already drinking from her barrel of alcohol. Macao and Wakaba were sitting near Cana, talking. Bisca and Alzack were in a corner together, making eyes at each other. Reedus was drawing and Warren and Max were around somewhere. "Thank goodness the loudest of our members haven't drop in yet," thought Lucy, "I don't think I could take that this early in the morning." Right after that thought Gray came flying in, took one look at the job bulletin, grab a paper from it and came over to Mira telling her what job he was taking and then left without even seeming to have seen Lucy or anyone else for that matter. Lucy looked to Mira in confusion and asked "Mira, what was that?"

Mira, confused, wondered "What do you mean Lucy?"

Lucy replied "What was with Gray, why did he leave so quickly and he took a job by himself, I didn't think he has done that since we formed team Natsu?"

Mira replied, thoughtfully, "I believe he always takes a mission by himself this day and he usually leaves very early, I'm not sure of the exact reason. He also isn't usually back for a while, doesn't matter if the mission is a day long or not, he probably won't be back for a couple days at least."

Lucy, thinking out loud, "That's kind of odd, isn't it?"

Mira shrugged "All Fairy Tail members have quirks."

Lucy nodded in agreement but still thought that it was very odd thing for Gray to do, but she had not known him as long as someone like Mira and she was probably overthinking it as it was. However, she couldn't quite let go of a pin prick of worry she had ever since what went down on Galuna Island, though that had been a while and they had just defeated the Orion Seis group not too long ago now and she hadn't seen Gray acting in a worrisome manner. Her thoughts were interrupted as a flying bottle hitting her in the back of the head, knocking her into the counter. Groaning, as she rubbed the back of her head, she looked over to see a brawl with Natsu, Elfman, Gajeel and some others was taking place. She had to wonder how she had been that lost in thought to have not heard them come in and decided that she really needed to focus more if she was to survive this guild.

The guild continued on as normally as they were for a few more hours when Lyon entered the guild. He didn't say anything to anyone and seemed to be looking for someone, who he apparently didn't find as he turned back around and was about to head out without a word when Natsu called out "What are you doing here silver ice-block, you want to fight?"

Lyon turned back with an icy reply, "No, not with you. And I was looking for Gray but I can see he's not here. However, he wasn't at his place either."

Hearing that Lucy spoke up, "I saw him take a job earlier this morning, he seemed in a hurry, he didn't even notice me."

Lucy noticed a flash of worry in Lyon's eyes when she finished speaking but it was there and gone so fast that she couldn't be sure of what she saw. Lyon replied, blank faced, "Oh, well that's a shame, I missed him. Do you know where he went?"

Lucy shook her head no and then Mira spoke up "I know where the job he took is at, but I believe he wants to go alone since he came so early and didn't ask anyone else to join, so is there a reason you want to know?"

Lyon stiffly replied, "Can't I just want to catch up with an old friend? I don't get much time away from Lamia Scale and so I don't really want to go back without getting to see Gray."

Lucy thought that sounded kind of normal but there was just something off about his reply and Mira seemed to feel that too as she said, "No, not a good enough answer."

Lyon bit his lip and stared at the ground like it held all the answers, for a long while, in thought and the feeling Lucy had earlier was coming back tenfold as she waited for his answer. Natsu was getting impatient and a little worried (though he would never admit it) and he was just about to grab Lyon by the collar and demand an answer when Lyon spoke, "Well today is the anniversary of Ur's death." Natsu and Lucy froze for a moment remembering the story from Galuna Island, then Natsu's hands turned into fireballs as he growled "That bastard! Never said anything!"

~tbc~