5/29/17

Hello my lovely readers! I have redone this chapter since some of it was rushed and didn't make much sense. It's been edited and some parts have been deleted, some have been replaced. I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. Remember to favorite, follow and review! Please check out my other stories as well.

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Here's a sketch I did of Natsu's character in this story: art/Natsu-Dragneel-Au-682636662

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." ― Albert Einstein

Aimi~Sato


5/30/17

Hello everyone I was thinking about starting up a Gratsu fanfiction sometime soon. If you like the idea PM me or put it in the review for this story. Thanks!

Aimi Sato


"You're alive?"

Natsu's eyes bored into the cocoa orbs leaking fresh tears down her bruised cheeks. His face was pale and he felt like an elephant sat on his chest, the air in his chest vanquished by the woman in front of him. She pushed back a strand of hair and smiled brokenly at him. Parting her lips to speak Natsu blinked back blurriness in his eyes.

"Y-yes, I'm here. I'm here. I-I-" her sentence was caught off though by the sound of the toddler in the car wailing for her mother. Lucy glanced over and tugged the car door open. Natsu watched cautiously as she pulled the child from the seat. The small child's fawn coloured locks were matted and stringy, going down to her ribs where he could see lacerations. The baby's mahogany eyes looked exactly like Lucy's, indicating it was her's. Lucy cradled the baby in one arm. Natsu felt a burning sensation in his throat as his lips began to dry. Licking over the brittle skin he shuddered and stumbled back.

This can't be real. It has to be a dream...

Lucy, confused, shot a questioning look at Natsu as he began retreating. His lungs felt on fire as his head pounded with each beat of his marred heart.

"Natsu?" She asked, placing her hand on his larger one. He froze in place at the gesture. Her hand was so soft and petite, just like Lucy's hand felt. He relaxed slightly and parted his blistered lips to speak.

"You're dead" he whispers as he squeezes her left hand. She shakes her head in negative affirmation and steps closer to him. His breathing quickened as she grasps him in a hug. Natsu stood there frozen as he feels her tears leak into his white low v neck t shirt. Warily he wrapped his arms around her and the pint-sized infant. The rug rat quieting her whimpering. Lucy looked up at him, her eyes filled with joyous droplets running down her pinched face.

"I thought I'd never see you again!" Lucy gushed as she pulled away. Natsu's arms came down to his sides, his gazing orbs staring straight ahead.


"She can't be dead! She… she just can't be. That's not her!" he hollers at his father. She couldn't be, she just couldn't be dead. It had to be somebody else. They were mistaken. Grandeeney held his shaking body as he caterwauled in his bed, fighting her tightened grip.

"Lucy is NOT dead"

I..I love her.


For two years he didn't believe she was dead, until they finally showed him her necklace that was at the bottom of the car in the river where the burned body the police found years ago. He had bought her that necklace for her birthday that year. It wasn't worth much, maybe $40 at the most, but she wore it everyday rather than all her other jewelry that was worth thousands of dollars a piece. When that was shown to him, he cracked completely. He finally believed she was dead, and it only made his grief worse.

Now, looking at what was his best friend, malnourished, ghostly pale, blonde hair cut in an unnatural position with a long bare dress covering her, he almost wanted her to be dead. She didn't deserve the life she had been living. She didn't deserve the way she looked.

For the first time since Lucy went missing, he wanted her to be dead.

The fair coloured woman, sensing some distress, positioned her bony hand on his once tanned cheek. Instead of the gesture being comforting to him, his pupils dilated as he began to become aggravated.

"Lucy is fuckin' dead. She died in a fire" he voiced in a weak utterance. The blonde shook her head again.

"I'm alive. Natsu, I'm alive. I'm right here, with you" she repeats hesitantly. His eyes bore into hers as his rage begins to rise.

"Lucy is dead" he insisted, reality slipping away from him more and more as his focus ebbed. Soon the woman in front of him looked less like Lucy, and more like a demented angel. Taking a step back he grits his teeth as his eyelids flutter.

Disturbed, Lucy began to put the infant in the car. Realizing his current state she could see the heavy bags under his glaucous eyes which looked sore. His clothing was grimy and he smelled of perspire and rum. The way he behaved told her he'd been off his meds for a while. Gulping Lucy took a step forward and takes his hands. All movement and sound stopped as he locked his eyes on her hands. Before she knew it he ripped his hands away and with a disturbed look on his face.

"Get away from me! Get the fuck away from me! She's dead and you're fuckin' playing a joke!" He screeched, causing the people around the street to stare. His hand raised into a fist as he gnashed his teeth together in a livid manner. He hit the front of her car with his mitt and the lift became mangled.

A passerbyer shrieked and alerted security from across the street. The police officer sprinted across the street from the strip mall and over to Lucy and Natsu. Natsu was screaming as his fist beat against the car's lift. The officer grabbed onto his wrists making the man more provoked than before.

"Sir, sir I need you to calm down" the officer said as Natsu continued to trash around in the officers grip.

"She's dead! She's dead!" he continued to cry out as the officer tried to restrain him. Lucy looked on in horror at the wrestling male. As Natsu continued to struggle bystanders began watching the appalling sight.

Without another choice the officer tased Natsu in his spinal column. Unbeknownst to the officer it triggered a reaction in his body.

Natsu fell atop the cars lift as his arms were thrust behind his back. Finally his fight passed as he felt tremors take over his body.

"Ma'am what happened?" the officer asked as Lucy reacted to the gruesome scene in front of her. Terrified Lucy mumbled incoherently making the officer think the worst. "Ma'am are you okay?" he asked as he let his sight drift off the suspect.

"Y-yes… what did you do to him?" she asked as her voice trembled. Onlookers began to spread out and began going on with their everyday life.

"I tased him. He was aggravated and seemed to be assaulting you and destroying your property" the officer replied as he began to cuff the trembling Natsu.

"Officer can you please release him, it's a misunderstanding" Lucy susserated. Questioningly the officer looked at the girl. She was malnourished, beaten, and thinly dressed. He could only assume that domestic abuse was the situation.

"Don't worry Ms., he can't hurt you anymore. We can have you record the events leading up to this and he won't touch you anymore" the officer affirmed as he began to drag the fumbling body of Natsu away.

"Mister please, you have it all wrong! It's a misunderstanding. He has mental illness. He didn't mean any harm" Lucy assured the officer. He looked at her and shook his head.

"Ma'am he's clearly beaten and assaulted you, and has also caused a public disturbance. It's also clear by the stench of him he is intoxicated" the security officer explained as he dragged Natsu into another officer's car. It was a female officer, and she looked grimly at Lucy. Disgusted she hopped out of the car and forced Natsu's head up as his pink locks were tugged on. He groaned, which was reputed by a kick to the knee. He unconsciously slumped back as his body began to still.

"Let me talk with the girl while you drive him over to the station" the female officer asserted as the male closed the door on Natsu's side.

"Please Ms, it's a huge misunderstanding. I haven't seen him in years and he was having a episode" Lucy pleaded as the male officer hopped into the car.

"Ma'am, it's clear you were assaulted by him. I need a statement from you so that we can lock him up" the female officer stated as she got out her clipboard. Peering back at Lucy she recognized something out of the corner of her eye.

"Ma'am, can I ask what your name is?" the female officer asked as the male officer drove off with her best friend.

"Lucy, Lucy Heartfilia. I was kidnapped four… five years ago. I-I left with my daughter. The guy you arrested was my best friend. His name is Natsu Dragneel. He was shot trying to save me. Please, you have to release him. He's not well. I think I made him scared. Please…" Lucy pleaded desperately to the female police officer. Recognizing the names immediately she took out her walkie talkie.

"Hello this is officer Mikazuchi I have a kidnapping victim perceived dead along with a young child she claims is her daughter. They arrived and was met by Natsu Dragneel who had rampaging episode. He is headed to station 124 right now, if you could please send social services out to that station and meet us there. Please let the Heartfilia and Dragneel family know and release Mister Dragneel at once" the female officer reported to her fellow officers.

"Miss Heartfilia, i'm officer Kagura Mikazuchi. I was one of the new officers when your case was out. Is this your car?" officer Mikazuchi asks Lucy. She nods reluctantly at the car.

"Do you mind driving down to the station?" Kagura asks. Lucy nods and gets into the rickety car her "husband" owned. The officer climbed into the passenger seat and was met with an equally beaten baby in the backseat.


Ten minutes before the female officer and presumed dead Heartfilia reached the station.


The male officer drove the young man to the station, the pinkette still unconscious and unsettlingly motionless. The officer looked back a couple of times, noticing the static body of the gent. The sirens were blaring in his ears so he was unsure if the man was breathing. Speeding up more the male officer drove faster to the station. Natsu's body was slumped and his skin began turning blue. His muscles quivered and his tongue was bitten between his teeth. Unsure of what to to he called on the line.

"Hello this is officer Vastia and I have a suspect in the backseat that's turned blue and stopped breathing. His body also seems to be contracting slightly" the male officer commented over the radio.

"Hello officer Vastia this is Sergeant. Jura. Where is your location?"

"33 and Strawberry"

"Stop the car and preform CPR. We are sending paramedics your way" Srg. Jura says as the line goes dead. Officer Vastia stopped the car on on the street and hopped out of the vehicle. He opened the car door where Natsu was seated and dragged him onto the ground below. He searched for a pulse before beginning to pump his chest.

"Is anyone a doctor?!" The copper shouts out to the people across the street. None of them step forward and instead gather around to watch.

"Oh my god that's Natsu Dragneel!" one of the girls in the group says as she takes a photo of officer Vastia performing CPR. Recognizing the name he ripped the shirt open and looked for a tag. He quickly searched and found Natsu's medical tag in his pocket.

"Shit. Shit shit shit" Vastia says as he continues pumping Natsu's chest.

"Stay with me Natsu" Vastia says as he breathes air into Natsu's chest. By now his muscles have stopped retracting and he had gone completely lax, and his lips and fingers turning a darker blue. The tattoo over Natsu's scarred chest read END in artistic calligraphy with a black inked dragons going down his torso. Vastia recognized it fast and began panicking. It was his brother's best friend. Jura was sure to call his brother out to the scene.

For his brother's sake he covered the young man's chest up and put his winter lid on the twenty two year old's head covering up his wildly pink hair.

Sirens could be heard in the distance besides his own and the patroler quickly waved down the ambulance. A black haired paramedic leaped out of the vehicle along with a platinum haired girl officer Vastia didn't quite know.

"Lyon, who is this?" the black haired paramedic said as he kneeled on the ground checking Natsu for a pulse.

"A young man I picked up who was causing public disturbance and is suspected of abusing a young woman around twenty one years old. He is thought to be in his early twenties and is intoxicated" Vastia briefly explained as the paramedic started chest compressions. The woman paramedic had a stretcher and other equipment pulled out.

The female officer began doing a small exam as they bagged the young man onto the stretcher.

"Does he have any id?" the paramedic asks as he loads Natsu up onto the truck. Officer Lyon Vastia nodded. He handed the medical ID over to the paramedic.

"It's Natsu, Gray" Lyon replies in a hushed tone. The paramedics eyes widen as he looks at the tag.

Natsu Dragneel

D.o.b 6/20/1994

Disabled

Mentally Ill

Allergies Penicillin (any class)

Diabetic

Epileplic

Call 866-740-4531 or 911

Breathing in deeply the paramedic known as Gray locks the truck's doors with a nod. Natsu was still handcuffed and would require a police officer in his room at all times. Starting up the ambulance the female paramedic drove forth, leaving officer Vastia alone with his car. The officer opened his car door and slid in, driving off to the hospital while putting a message out to the station.

His only reply was a message stating Natsu was free to go.


At the station, twenty minutes later.


Lucy was sitting with a social worker and her daughter while cops investigated the young woman. Her father came in and identified her as Lucy Heartfilia, hugging his daughter as he wept with joy. It was unbeknownst to the reunited Heartfilia's that Natsu's family was freaking out in the other room.

"Where is my brother?!" Zeref bellows to one of the cops on duty. It was a young female officer who looked brand new and overwhelmed.

"Sir, we are not sure at this moment. Officer Vastia did not come back with him, and we think he's been transported to a different station" the young girl explained once more. Pissed off Zeref flipped her the bird and turned towards his father.

"Dad, you're a lawyer. Can't you fucking get them to locate him or something?" Zeref seethed through his teeth.

"Zeref, we have to wait for about and hour. If push comes to shove I can bring up a lawsuit against the police, but I can't do anything at the moment" Igneel implied as he sat back in his chair. Wendy and Larcade were still at school and Mavis was at home making dinner. Grandeeney was with the social worker trying to get information about what was going on.

"Why was he even arrested?!" Zeref sighs as he sits in his chair. He was supposed to be at work making business deals with his fucking associates. Not in a police station wondering where the hell was his little brother.

"He was accused of assaulting a woman and caused a public disturbance" the female officer repeated.

"Natsu doesn't assault women. Who do they say was even assaulted?!" Zeref asked. The woman shook her head.

"I can't give you that information. However the abuse and assault charges are dropped" the girl answered as she sat at her table with coffee. Suddenly Grandeeney stepped in with tears dripping down her face.

"Honey what's wrong?" Igneel asked as she walked over to him.

"I saw the Heartfilia's in the other room with the social worker. Lucy Heartfilia is alive!" she cries out happily. "Natsu will be so happy!"

"Lucy's alive?!" Zeref inquired, astonished. Lucy Heartfilia was his brother's best friend, and his crush. He tried to save her life when he was 17 and ended up shot in the head and chest. It was a miracle he survived. He went downhill though when he found out about Lucy's dead body turning up. It was why he was the way he was now.

Just then officer Mikazuchi walked in. Her face was grim.

"We have some news to tell you"


Hello! I just want to tell you the number I put is not an actual phone number. It is the "I am Groot" number because I don't want to block out the number but I don't want to put somebody else's number on their. That would be creepy. Anyway I wonder what will happen to Natsu? Is he okay? And what is the news Kagura gives to the Dragneel family?

Find out in the next chapter: I'm Sorry