Strange Bits of Happiness

Title- Attachment

Pairing- Natsu x Lucy

Summary- Who knew that Lucy was- well- so attached to everything?

A/N- Aaaand we're back onto the NaLu track.I had this idea when I was reading The Hunger Games for the, well, 20th time. Anyways, happy reading! :D

Standard disclaimers apply.

-X-

It was a bright sunny day, and a salmon-haired man was fishing with a blue cat, and a blonde woman was lying on her tummy on a stretch of grass nearby, reading.

Oops.

Said blonde woman had just hurled her book away and was now slapping herself. She kept muttering repeatedly, "No-no, NO! This can't be! Noooooo!"

The salmon-haired man and the blue cat, who had just been arguing about whose fish was larger in size, noticed their friend's strange behaviour. She was curled up into a ball. They approached her warily, and then jumped as she suddenly shrieked.

"What's wrong Luce?" asked the salmon-haired man.

"Yeah, why are you acting so weird Lucy? Weirder than normal, you know," chirped the blue cat.

The girl, Lucy, raised her head and looked at the two of them with a murderous glint in her eyes. They took a step back fearfully. Then she just sighed, "Nothing, Natsu. I just…need to be alone for some time."

With that she got up, brushed the soil off her skirt and stalked off, towards her apartment.

The man, Natsu, frowned and looked at the blue cat, "Wonder what's wrong with her."

"Aye!"

-X-

He leaped into the window and then immediately ducked. Years of experience had taught him that Lucy just loved to aim her kicks at his face whenever he entered her apartment uninvited. He then looked up, grinning, happy that he had dodged her kick but then realized that he hadn't dodged her kick at all.

Because she hadn't tried to kick him at all.

She was sitting at her desk. Her notebook was open and she had a pen in her hand, but she wasn't writing at all. In fact, she wasn't doing anything. She was just staring into space, eyes half-dead.

"Umm….Luce?"

She blinked at him, as if noticing for the first time that he was present. "Oh, hey Natsu."

"What's wrong?"

She inhaled deeply and replied, "Nothing." She put her head down onto the table surface.

Natsu scowled. He normally wasn't the type who would get angry at his nakama, but there was obviously something wrong that Lucy was hiding from him. He didn't like seeing Lucy sad. It made him sad.

"Spill the beans Lucy. There is something wrong. I'll beat the living daylights out of the person who made you sad."

A laugh emanated from Lucy and she looked up at him. He was surprised to see tears in her eyes.

"L-Lucy?"

That was when she lost it.

She began yelling something about her book, and a girl, and balloons, and knives and then something about unfairness and death and candy and…

….Natsu couldn't make heads or tails out of it.

"….and then he kissed her!" she was shrieking.

"H-he did?"

She whipped around and glared at him, and her eyes had reduced to narrow brown slits. Then she began bawling again.

"…and then she was just about to reach it..."

"Reach what, Lucy?"

"….but then it just exploded!"

"B-but what was she trying to reach?"

"IT!"

"It what?"

"But then she fell…."

"….eh?"

"…and then he stabbed her!"

"L-Lucy?"

"AND THEN SHE DIED!"

"She d-did?"

Lucy shook him, hard, and screeched, "She died dammit! She died!" Then she collapsed onto the floor, whimpering.

"B-but Lucy," he asked, now thoroughly confused. "Who died?"

"She did!" cried Lucy, and pointed towards the book that was lying on her bed.

Suddenly everything made sense, and Natsu stopped himself from slapping his forehead.

Of course. Her favourite character in that book died, he realized. But why does Lucy always attach herself to characters that are going to die?

Shaking his head at his team-mate's folly, he picked her up and gently put her down on the couch, before wandering into the kitchen, hoping to stumble across some ice-cream.

-X-

This happened to me when I first read about Rue's death :'( *sob*

Reviews are nice. Just letting you know.