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Disclaimer: Forever and always, Hiro Mashima owns Fairy Tail.

Chapter 2

Lucy misses his warmth.

She misses his smile, his face, his smell, basically everything about him. But now he's gone. Gone from the world and gone from Lucy. Keith is forever gone and he's never coming back.

She sobbed quietly near the small fire, that her and the Unlucky created. She shouldn't call him an Unlucky anymore since now she is one as well… The tiny fire lit the room of the demented resting stop a little so the Unluckies can see each other.

"What did I tell ya? She's going for the dead boy" Fushima's voice echoed in her head. Natsu forcefully kissed her and that thought made the blonde remember the last words of the green haired boy. 'Going for the dead boy' No, it's not true...

"Quit moping around, your boyfriend is dead. Get over it" Natsu said harshly, tired from the long silence. Lucy flinches at his new behavior and she suddenly feels a certain hatred toward the man. What happened to the comforting demeanor from before?

"We need to get back home, that's our top priority" He says and he abruptly scoots away from the blonde. He sat in a corner far away.

Lucy looks up at him with tears still in her eyes, she gave him a look of confusion despite her new found of dislike to the pink haired man.

"From all the people in the bus, why do I have to be stuck with you?" She wiped her tears with her jacket sleeve. That's the only thing that was keeping her warm from all the coldness, physically and emotionally.

"Are you saying that you would like me dead instead?" Natsu smirked like he knew that was obvious. His smirk turned into a smile that appeared almost like a demon. His gold eyes flashing from the flames of the fire which made him look more devilish.

Lucy stared at him and didn't answer. Natsu knew it was true...

The small fire was almost dying and the room was getting colder. At first Lucy imagined it but she saw the last remaining embers of the fire casts moving pictures in the shadows. Probably from the lack of sleep that makes her hallucinate these things but it felt real. Few minutes later, the final gleam of red disappeared into the ashes. Lucy's tears was dried out as well. Without Keith, she was alone...again.

Natsu immediately stood up and walked out the room without a word, leaving Lucy alone in the barren room. The blonde knew the man would go and leave her and she wouldn't be surprise if he ditched her to go find a way to get home by himself. She's used to this kind of treatment... Lucy felt the cold was sneaking back to her and soon enough she was shivering. Yep she's alone and she's cold... Great day...

Against her expectations, Natsu came back and he had more firewood. He knelt down onto his knees and took two branches from the bundle. He began to rub his hands up and down on one stick to another. Soon enough, the fire started and erupted into a bright flame, lighting the room again in its faint glow. Even though Lucy saw him do this before, she still found it fascinating for someone to create a fire so quick.

"This is the last firewood I can find in this place so we have enough to last quite awhile before it stops again" Natsu mutters to the blonde as she recovered from her fascination. He walked back to his spot that was away from Lucy, again, and sat down. The blonde felt herself pout by how strange that he sat far from the warmth of the fire...and from her.

"Aren't you cold?" Lucy finally asked.

Natsu raised his eyebrow, when did she start to care about him?

"I have my reasons" He said as he laid on the wall of misshapen resting shop, and closed his gold eyes. It was quiet except for the crackling fire. The blonde felt sleepy and her eyes felt drowsy. She hugged her legs together as she stared at the comforting fire, not knowing what would happen. Then she felt a flash of her past memories. Someone's laughter echoed in her mind which made her feel sick to her stomach. She calms herself down by firming closing her eyes and breathed normally. She opened her brown eyes and saw something move.

She sees the shadows again. And this time, they look like they're dancing... The people in the shadows held hands and seemed like they were smiling. It was a happy picture... One particular shadow figure was depict-able than the rest, it danced the highest and shined the brightest. Now she knew she was hallucinating. She watched at the flame lit shadows dance a few more times making Lucy feel warm inside. But then the fire swallowed up the everyone of the shadow figure. Except for the figure that outshines the rest... The figure didn't move anymore, didn't jump high anymore, didn't gleam anymore. Its light started to flicker and Lucy felt scared as if she was the figure. The shadow's head looked around as if its friends are hiding but it already knows the truth. It finally became a small gleam of light. The blonde watches the small fire shadow stumble and drops to the ground. Its faintly lit arms reached out and tries to crawl a little as if its not done with its purpose yet. But its arms fell slack until it moved no more and its light disappears forever.

Lucy eyes opens wide. But all she saw was the the burnt out fire. Lucy's mind tried to remember the things that happened before.

She fell asleep. Of course she had...

The story of the fire shadow was a figment of her weird imagination. The little fire wasn't real, the shadow people weren't eaten by the fire and the fire shadow didn't die. But she felt as if it was telling her something. It felt real...

Lucy's brown eyes turned to find the man in the corner. The fire was gone, Natsu didn't seem to notice. She kept thinking of the strange story she had dreamt. Why does it feel so real?! She felt the cold started to envelope her again and this time there were no fire. Lucy rubbed the sides of her arms to create heat from the friction but once she did, more cold filled its place.

She shifted uncomfortably. She was getting colder and colder. She stared at the sleeping boy who's breathing lightly. She knew she was going to regret this but she had no choice. She started to scoot closer to the sleeping pink haired boy as her face turned a light shade of pink. Yep she was going to regret it... As she came a few inches from Natsu, his body radiated heat that made Lucy warm just a little. Before her cold body touched the man's he spoke:

"What are you doing?" Natsu said with his eyes still closed. Lucy flinched. Lucy was ashamed and embarassed. Natsu opened his eyes, revealing his gold eyes again. He stared at her when she didn't answer, waiting for an answer.

"I-I was cold…" Lucy said with a slight blush applied her cheeks from her embarrassment. But Natsu had a hard look on his face like he doesn't care if she was cold or not.

"You're not afraid..." Natsu murmured quietly that Lucy thought she didn't hear him. "...of getting killed are you?" He finished with no sarcasm in his voice. The blonde stayed quiet, she remembered the horrific stories that her late boyfriend had told her, they seemed so fictional to be actually true. But when the pink haired man asked her personally, she started thinking, was it real?

But he touched her before, so why didn't she die with the rest?

"No" she said unsure. Natsu eyed her wearily for a while which is a little too long since she continued to shiver even more. The man's gold eyes picked up her trembling movement up and sighed loudly. He unzipped his red flame designed jacket and pulled her until the side of her right leg touched his left's. He wrapped his jacket around the blonde until Lucy was tucked with warmth. But she caught a glimpse of him taking something from his pocket. She felt her hand touched his , slightly, underneath his red jacket. This doesn't make things awkwarder... He was very warm, hot even. So almost instantly, she was warmed up. A small smile accidentally appeared on her face.

"This doesn't change anything" Natsu abruptly said but in a nicer tone. Lucy looked up to see his firm jaw line. His gold eyes stared down at her, the demon eyes greeted her in a friendly way.

"I still don't like you" He grinned. Instead of glaring, she felt her cheeks go warm and she stick out her tongue to him, making him chuckle. His behavior changed again... Before the pink haired man's smile disappeared. Lucy noticed he had pointy teeth like a canine, when he smiled. When the blonde thought about it, Natsu looked a regular teen, someone who would have many friends, someone who everyone would like. All this would be possible if he wasn't a Un-!... That's right...Those things are harder in reality.

Lucy pouted and hesitantly laid on his shoulder. Natsu flinches from this movement but he stayed still.

"Ne Natsu?" she asked quietly, trying to not get too comfortable.

"Hmm?" Natsu murmured closing his eyes again. The strands of pink hair that always spiked up on his left side, had fell down to his forehead that formed a complete bangs.

"Aren't you cold?" She poked him at his side. He shrugged and looked at his short sleeve t-shirt.

"I don't get cold easily" He murmured. Lucy's eyebrows creased.

"Well that's strange."

He laughs. "I am a strange guy" He admits.

"Would you say, you're strange in a bad way?" Natsu then shifts uncomfortably. Lucy immediately knew she had hit a critical topic since his lips made a small frown. The blonde realized that he misinterpreted her question.

"I don't know…" Natsu answered uneasily. Lucy stared at him, knowing that he's wasn't finished.

"…but I know none of massacres are by accident"

Lucy's eyes opened wide slightly. "What do you mean?"

But the man was quiet this time. She can see his jaw clench as if he was trying not to say anything. She can see his gold eyes flash with unfamiliar emotions.

"I'm sorry. Please forget this conversation" Lucy apologized genuinely for the first time to the man.

"You don't know about me. You can't even possibly understand me. This is why I'm not needed in this world." Lucy watched him in shock. Her arm moved unconsciously until the back of her hand came in hard contact of the pink haired man.

There was an awkward silence between them. Natsu turned his head slightly at her. His aura of death occurred again. As he faced Lucy, Natsu's gold eyes looked at her like 'Why the hell did you just slap me?'

But to surprise the death man, Lucy glared at him with tears that were forming in her wavering brown eyes. Her mind flashed back and the horrible laughter echoed in her head.

"N-never!" Lucy started, her lips trembling. "Never say that again! Don't you ever take your life for granted! If you ever say that again, I will never forgive you!" Lucy shrieked at him whose face looked astonished. But his expression suddenly changed again. He started to laugh uncontrollably.

Lucy's hand fell slack and she looked at it as if she didn't remember what she done before. All she remembered was the abrupt surge of anger in the pit of her stomach and made everything flash before her eyes. The man was so confusing. How can he suddenly be laughing after her slap?

"You're the first" He starts, his laughter stops. The girl stares at him, still in her shocked trance.

"Huh?"

"The first person I ever told my thoughts to" he looks to the ceiling. "I feel like I can tell you anything..." He murmurs. Lucy felt herself feel moved by his kind, genuine words.

"You aren't the closed-box type of person, I thought you would be" Lucy confesses.

He chuckled half-halfheartedly. "This is the only one of the few times I can be social."

This caught her attention.

"What do you mean?"

"...I have a disability" He says after a while. The blonde was taken back by his confession.

"You don't have to look surprised" He says, suddenly harsh. The blonde remembered his strange sparks of emotions of anger and child-like attributes. She understood what he meant.

"So you are-"

"I'm Bipolar" He finishes. "From time to time, my mind reacts to everything like an impulse. I can feel pissed, happy, kind, sad anything at random moments. So don't blame me for being harsh to you."

Lucy still felt confused. "But you can only get bipolar when you can't sleep or you're depressed for a long time"

"...That's right" He replies. There was no sense of emotion in his voice. Lucy felt like she crossed an un-passable line.

They stopped their conversation and began another long period of silence. The blonde still felt the warmth that radiated from the pink haired man. The heat from Natsu had made Lucy sleepy until her eyes started to droop and the last thought she had before she fell asleep, was about the little dancing shadow. The poor shadow who can never dance happily again.

As Lucy went to dreamland, Natsu felt her slow breathing on his shoulder. His hand still grasped the object that he had taken out from his jacket. It was his phone. He added his passcode in.

7-7-7-7

Natsu opened his contacts and placed his thumb over the name he dreaded. But with some built-up courage, he pressed down and brought the cell to his ear.

"Hey, don't laugh but... I need some help"

End of chapter 2

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