I'm so happy you guys liked it and secretly I was really hoping you wanted a story. I already wrote Chapter 2 yesterday.

Natsu always came to her room when he had that dream. She liked to think it made him feel better to confide in someone. And she just happened to be the only one here he felt he could trust.

She just wished she could hear his voice. They went to the same high school, but they never once met. She was always in the library, no friends, just books. She didn't even have a lab partner in chemistry, not that she needed one.

It had been her experiment that exploded; a combination of gunpowder, calcium carbide, and water. In hindsight, the gunpowder might have been overkill. Yea, definitely overkill.

Anyway, when the panic of the fire spread through the room, another student knocked over her beaker of water into the whole container of calcium carbide. That mixed with the already present fire created a boom so loud her ears weren't even able to ring anymore.

The nurses told her that the blast not only made her deaf, but that the explosion itself damaged her ears to the point they weren't able to fix her eardrums. She would be deaf forever.

At first she had held a small grudge towards the idiot that did this to her, but being sent here was actually a blessing. She had made so many friends she found it in her heart to forgive him. She had never had friends.

Speaking of friends, she felt Gray walk into her room and turned to catch him in greeting. "Hey Lucy," He said, "How're you feeling today?" He signed as he said it, getting a few motions wrong here and there, but she could always check his lips for reference.

"Better than yesterday," She signed. Almost everyone here knew, or was being taught, ASL for those who couldn't speak. She thankful she didn't have to have a translator or something like that.

"Good. Erza's calling us all down. She has some project or something and told me to come and get you."

She nodded and satisfied with her answer Gray turned to leave, almost running into Natsu on his way out. Luckily, Natsu stopped in time, his sixth sense working perfectly. Everyone with a faulty sense like hearing or sight had one, even Lucy.

"Whoa, Ice-face," Natsu said as he reached for Gray's shoulders and maneuvered around him. Natsu and Gray were what Lucy liked to call frienemies. They hit it off – literally – the day Natsu arrived. His vision faded slowly so he wasn't admitted till a little while after the incident, a month give or take.

"It freaks me out how you guys do that." Gray said, causing a puzzled expression to alight on the faces of both.

Natsu was the first to ask, "What does?"

"The way you two just know stuff," He responded, struggling for a logical answer. "Like how Lucy knows you're coming even when you're still halfway down the hall or you just know when someone is in your way or when something is coming towards you. How do you do it?"

Gray was facing away from her so she couldn't read his lips. Understanding her silence, Natsu signed it for her. She nodded as she stood from her bed, pulling on a shirt over her tank top and switching out her shorts for a pair of jeans. "Hard to explain, Gray." She spoke as she signed, "It's a sixth sense kind of thing like the other senses are making up for the gap."

She grasped Natsu's hand in hers, pulling him out the door. "Erza wants us, Natsu." She said. Stiffening at the name, Natsu let her tug him, Gray falling in line behind them.

Gray was admitted for his condition of stripping to his boxers – and sometimes worse – at the most inopportune times. Erza had a major case of OCD, crazy bossy but she couldn't help it. She was one of Lucy's closest friends here. Levy, a mute, was her other. Both could spend hours signing about the books they'd read. Levy's boyfriend, Gajeel, had a condition of trying to eat metal so Levy had to watch him at all times, something neither minded to badly.

Levy waved at Lucy when the three entered the board room, signing furiously. 'Lu-chan,' she said, 'you're never going to believe this! The book you've been waiting for comes out next week!' Lucy squealed at the good news and jumped up and down.

Gray regarded the two with a look meant for an alien species as he took his seat next to Erza. Natsu sat between him and Lucy.

"I now call this meeting to attention." Erza bellowed, gaining the undivided attention of all. "I have called you all here today to say one thing. We are welcoming to Fairy's Home for Damaged Teens, the only survivor of a recent shipwreck that left her, well, a wreck. With a fear of water and deep set depression, she is truly a worthy Dam-ed. Please welcome, Juvia Lockser."

A woman opened the door timidly. She wore a dark blue pill-box hat over deep blue hair. Her blue eyes were wide and her lashes were thick on the bottom. Her dark blue Stoll was fur lined and a white doll was fixed to her chest. She wore a dark blue, long sleeved dress that buttoned over her right breast and was held by a brown belt at her waist. Her cuffs were the same fur that lined her Stoll. Black tights covered her legs as well as black boots on her feet. Her most striking accessory was the pink, heart umbrella she sported above her head as if it were raining.

"Hello, everyone," She said, her voice emotionless and smooth. "Juvia is glad to meet you all."

"Hello, Juvia." Erza said, her voice soothing but still commandingly clear. "My name is Erza and I have been diagnosed with OCD. We feel it helpful to alert you to our conditions so that you are aware of what to expect."

Gray was next. "Gray." He said, short and sweet. "Habitual and Unconsciated Stripping." Juvia cocked her head at that one and a small blush brushed across her cheeks.

"Natsu," Natsu said. "Resident Blind man and Pyromaniac"

"Lucy, Deaf." She motioned to Levy. "And this is Levy, she's mute."

"I thought deaf people couldn't talk." Juvia said. Lucy just smiled. "I prefer not to, but I am able to. It must sound weird but of course, I can't tell. Most here know sign language and can translate for me but I figured this would be faster."

Juvia nodded in understanding and smiled at the mute bluenette.

"Gajeel, I eat metal." Juvia recoiled slightly. "Is that safe?" She asked, her voice betraying the obvious sense of horror she felt at the statement. Gajeel just shrugged, "Depends on who you ask."

Cana, the resident drunk, pushed herself up from her spot on the floor, most likely she was passed out for a time. "Cana. And there ain't nuthin' wrong with me."

"Besides teenage Alcoholism." Gray coughed from his seat.

"Did you say something, Gray?" Erza narrowed her eyes at the boy and he squirmed, shaking his head. Satisfied, she returned her attention to Juvia. "Welcome to the Den of the Dam-ed, Juvia. You're going to love it here."

Juvia smiled.