LUCY'S P.O.V.

"What are you doing bunny-girl?" Gajeel hissed.

"What are you doing?" I challenged.

"Taking out the trash." Gajeel replied. "Now what are you doing?"

"I'm making sure that you don't do anything reckless and destroy more things."

"By protecting him?!"

"Gajeel stop. What has he done to us?"

"He's in Magnolia. Isn't his guild all the way across Fiore?"

"Has he destroyed anything? Has he hurt any of us?"

Gajeel opened his mouth to say something.

"Grand Magic Games don't count and Sting is free to go where he wants when he wants." I interuppted.

I turned to Sting.

"You! Leave Fairy Tail. I don't want to see you back here." I said getting my face into his face.

I mouthed 'Go to my apartment' and stood up straight.

"Tch. Whatever blondie. I don't need you to tell me." Sting replied.

Out of habit I hit him on the head.

"Stupid girl. What the hell was that for?" Sting growled rubbing his head.

"For calling me blondie. Now get out." I replied.

Sting got up and left through the window. I checked my arms. Bruises were already starting to form.

Sting better thank me for that. I thought rubbing my arms.

"Luce! Are you ok?!" Natsu asked.

"I'm fine Natsu." I replied.

"Lucy, that was too reckless. You need to be more careful." Erza scolded.

"Sorry. I'm going back to my apartment." I said.

As soon as I was out the guld, I ran as quickly as possible to my apartment. Sting was already there sitting on my couch.

"Sting!" I said.

He turned around. I launched myself at him wrapping my arms around him.

"I'm so glad you're safe." I murmured.

"Yeah yeah. Now let me go. My injuries hurt." Sting said.

I quickly let go of him and began treating his injuries. The worst injury was the one I gave him earlier. There were bruises forming around it and it was still bleeding.

"You're really stupid you know that?" Sting said.

"Wha-? You call me stupid after I just treated your wounds?" I said.

"Yes. How could you just jump in front of an iron pillar like that?!" Sting shouted.

"Well if I didn't than you would probably have one or two ribs broken." I replied.

I wrapped my arms in bandages.

"You can stay here while you recover." I said putting away my first aid kit.

I heard a light snore. Sting was curled up slightly on my couch sleeping like a little kid. I stiffled a laugh and placed a blanket over him. I left him a quick note and went back to the guild.

"Hey bunny-girl!" Gajeel shouted.

I turned and faced him.

"I'm sorry for injuring you." Gajeel said looking away.

"It's fine. I'm ok." I replied.

Gajeel visiably relaxed. Behind him Erza and Mira were glaring daggers at him.

"Lucy, how did you manage to block Gajeel's iron pillar?" Gray asked.

"Uhh... I've benn training?" I replied.

"With who?"

"Ummm...Loke! I've been training with Loke." I replied.

Gray nodded and left to fight with Natsu. I let out a small sigh of relief and ordered a milkshake. A bunch of my guild mates kept asking if I was ok. At around dinner time, I went back to my apartment. In my apartment, Sting was looking in the fridge for more food. I wasn't surprised.

"Sting... What are you doing?" I asked.

"Eatig your food. Can you buy more? I'm hungry." Sting said.

"No! I need more money for that and that would mean going on a job."

"Than go on a job."

"Even if I did, I would've lost most of the money for repairs for the things my team destroyed."

"Than I'll take a job with you next week."

"No."

"Why not?"

"You'll probably destroy a bunch of things and your guild will get worried about you."

"Than I'll go back now and come back next week."

"How will you explain the injuries?"

"I'll say that I got injured on a job. Any more questions Blondie?"

I narrowed my eyes.

"You put up a good argument. Stay for the night. It's dark already. And you will sleep on the couch. Got it?" I said.


ONE WEEK LATER...

"Let's see... Which job should I take?" I wondered.

"You're going on a job alone?" Levy asked. "Are you sure?"

I'm not going to be alone. I thought.

"Yeah. I need to buy more food and pay my rent. I'll be fine." I replied.

I looked a bit more. Catching bandits, killing a monster, cleaning up a mansion...

"This one!" I exclaimed grabbing a job.

I wet over to Mira.

"Mira! I'm going on this job!" I said happily.

"Are you going alone?" Mira asked.

"Yeah. I'll be fine. Don't worry." I replied.

Mira stamped the job.

"Are you going on a job?" Gray asked.

"Yeah." I replied.

"Do you want me to come with you? The job could be dangerous."

"Gray, I'm going to be fine. You don't need to worry."

I walked out the guild and to the train station. Sting was already waiting looking sick.

"You look awful." I said.

"Shut up... I just took the train to Sabertooth and back here. Now I have to take a train to who knows where." Sting gasped out.

"Stop being such a baby. You can sleep on te train. Let's go." I said pulling Sting onto the train.

Sting clutched his stomach and turned almost as green as Natsu. I giggled.

"What's the job?" Sting asked.

"It's an escort job. We need to escort a princess from Cloverville to her kingdom in Boarsville. The reward is 100,000 jewels." I replied.

"Couldn't you have taken a job with more action? The job sounds like a lot of transportation."

"It's not. We have to walk the princess to her kingdom.

"That's not so bad than."

It didn't sound so bad. Too bad it was much worse than we thought.


Hey guys. I'm SO sorry for the short chapter. Next one will be longer. Please inform me of any mistakes, grammar or spelling. I DO NOT own Fairy Tail.