So I was trying to hold out posting this chapter but I'm weak. I don't you all to get too use to updates every 5 days because well I know me and this quick turn around probably won't last long. I will try my hardest though.

I DO NOT OWN Fairy Tail.


Lucy was eager to leave but was not sure where she was going. She decided to go ahead and pack then head down to the train station. 'Maybe I will find some inspiration there.' Her travel bag was packed and she was walking out her door in under 15 minutes. She knew it would be a quick walk but decided to call on Plue to keep her company. "Open gate of Canis Minor: Nikora!" she called out with a slight flourish of his silver key.

There was a puff of smoke and then, "Pu-Puun."

"Well what do you think Plue? Where should we go?" Lucy asked as the duo walked into the train station 5 minutes later. She pulled the request paper out as she settled on a bench with Plue in her lap. She quickly read over the request again, hoping she had missed something. Finding nothing she started to fold the page when she noticed some writing on the back. Flipping the page over, she read the one word written there. It turned out to actually be a place, Crocus. "Well I guess now we know where we are going." Lucy spoke to Plue as she folded the paper into a square. Standing she shoved the square in a rear pocket, then, carrying Plue on a hip; she picked up her bag and proceeded to the ticket counter.

"Where to?" asked the lady behind the counter.

That is when Lucy remembered she was broke. 'How am I going to even get to this job? I can't afford a train ticket, what if I need to spend the night at an Inn? I cannot afford that!' She face palmed at her stupidity and started to turn away. 'How did I let it get this bad? I am so broke I can't even afford to go on a mission so that I can keep living.'

The lady, noticing Lucy's guild mark, asked "are you going on a request?"

"I was going to," replied and distressed Lucy, "but I'm broke."

"Where were you headed?"

"Crocus."

"It just so happens that I have a prepaid ticket for Crocus here; with a note saying that it is for a Fairy Tail mage. Maybe it is meant for you." Sliding the ticket across the counter to Lucy she smiles. "Have a pleasant trip and good luck," she adds pleasantly.

Lucy was dumbfounded and would have stood there all day just staring at the ticket if at that moment an announcement had not gone out to board the Southwest bound train to Crocus. Hearing that it would be leaving in 5 minutes she quickly snatched up the ticket, gave a little wave, and hurried off to catch her train.

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He quickly made his way to his house to grab his small pack. Even with the detour he made it to her street in time to watch her call out her little dog spirit. He followed her, keeping a slight distance between them, and watched her balance on the ledge of the canal wall. Men in boats out on the canal would call out to her to be careful that she not fall in, but no one noticed him. It was like he was invisible, and he liked it that way. It made it easier for him to watch the blonde.

Once he reached the station he heard her talking to the trembling spirit, and then to the woman at the ticket counter. The conversations did not matter to him. He just needed to know where she was going so that he could buy his ticket. When he heard how broke she was he could not help the slight smirk that pulled at a corner of his mouth. It was too perfect -for him- that she was in such desperate straits. It would make it that much easier to take advantage of her. 'Soon,' he thought, 'soon you will be mine and you will know fear and pain and, oh yes, even pleasure unlike any you have ever known before.'

With no time to spare he bought his ticket and boarded the train just as it was leaving the station. He settled into an empty seat and relaxed. He knew that the ride to Crocus would be a long one and unless she jumped from the moving train –but then, why would she- she could not escape from him.


The happy face is cause it wouldn't leave my spacer and I wouldn't allow just an extra space.

I know that this is another short chapter but that just happens to be where the chapter ended. Plus I'm updating quicker. YAY! Haven't had very many responses to the story yet but the ones I did get are positive… I think.

Natto'n'aliens: I'm glad you didn't let a little thing like being unable to login keep you from commenting. Okay so maybe hate is a strong word choice and the better choice would be annoys. You know the way a bug bite decides to become itchy in the middle of the night when you are trying to sleep or the way a fresh sunburn or tattoo itches but as soon as you try to scratch it all you feel is a burning pain. The (fictional) boy has got a smoken bod I'll give him that but he's just so stupid and he is always causing Lucy problems. He's her best friend and a brother like figure, at least that's how I see him, -I don't really get the stories where they are more than that- so that is the role he will play in this story –if he makes it in at all.

JessJess3377: It kills the story for me too. I mean how am I suppose to be all romance and support when I'm reading what (in my mind) is basically incest. I just can't do it.

Does that incest bit seem a bit much? Oh well, it is how I feel. Enjoy and Review. Favorite and Follow.