Disclaimer: Fairy Tail is not mine nor will it ever be

A/N: hi ummmmmmmmmm sorry my expertise seems to be sad stories *sweat drop* please review

Silence so loud that it echoes.

My tears slid down my cheeks as silent sobs wracked my body. He had broken his promise, he wasn't coming back… ever. He let the war take him; I knew when he made the promise it was impossible but it still planted that ever so lethal seed of hope inside my heart. The silence was consuming my being echoing off by heart and soul, eating me from the inside out. All because of a stupid promise.

I promised myself I wouldn't, well I more or less begged myself not to let that evil seed grow yet here it was roots entangling my heart. My stupid pink haired pyro wasn't coming back to me and the greatest thing I could to is cry. Not even Lucy's attempts to comfort me worked.

"Natsu!" I yelled in our small room, it reverberated off the walls.

"Gray why are you yelling" it sounded like Natsu, but he was dead, I sliced my wrist, "GRAY FULLBUSTER PUT THAT KNIFE DOWN NOW!"

Natsu was sitting front of me, crying…

I blacked out