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POV: Narrator
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, but read if you so dare...
Midnight blue eyes stare in wonder at the dubious teenager sitting in the infirmary bed across from him. Obsidian eyes that are usually filled in an unexplainable fire are blank and clouded. Thoughts and unseen images swim across the dull irises causing the younger teen to worry for his usually dim-witted friend. He knew the pink haired teen long enough to know that something was bothering him, whether it was the scene he caused earlier or something completely different.
Porlyusica, the ill-tempered nurse that hates just about anyone who walks through her door, shuffles around the small infirmary muttering things about 'humans' and 'troublesome' under her breath every once in a while. Her mahogany eyes scan the various containers of medicine in one of the nearby cabinets before taking some aspirin and two ice packs from the nearby fridge.
"Here," comes her brusque words as she shoves both teenage boys the ice packs nearly slapping both of their faces with the cold bags, "Put this on your face and take these," she says while also handing out two pills of aspirin to both boys, "It will help with the swelling," she mutters before heading towards the exit.
"Aren't you going to get us water to take with the pills," Gray can't help ask sounding surprised at the old nurse's cruelty.
No words come from the empty doorway signaling that Gray would indeed have to take the pills dry or search around the small room for some water. He opts to just take the pills as they are feeling the small medicine slide down his throat with little difficulty leaving his mouth dry. He looks over to find that his friend has yet to take his medicine while only holding his icepack to his swollen cheek which has already begun to bruise like his own.
The small room is silent other than the slight squeaking of the overhead fan and occasional rustling of the curtain from the nearby open window. The sound of birds chirping filters into the room slightly relieving the rooms thick silence, but it does little to calm the raven haired teen. Silence like this would have already irked the pink haired teen making him demand to be released back to class so that he can resume his nap. Instead he just sits there staring at his open palm where the two pills remain untaken.
"What's wrong," Gray finally asks unable to take another second of the boy's erratic behavior, "You've been acting weird all day and it's seriously starting to worry me."
Obsidian eyes look up to meet midnight blue and the concern showering back at him says that he's doing it again. He's spacing out and making everyone around him worry when he doesn't even know what's going on. I mean, what is he supposed to tell Gray, his dreams? Surely if he were to tell Gray what's been haunting his head for endless nights would surely worry him even more.
"Look man, I don't know what's going on but you're scaring people," Gray's voice breaks through Natsu's thoughts causing him to flinch at the words being said to him, "That little scene you just pulled was not something you'd usually do so I know that there's something wrong, so spit it out." Gray Fullbuster, not one to beat around the bush when it comes to his friends.
"I don't know," Natsu whispers loud enough for the raven haired male to hear him. The boy's expression shows that he's not going to let it go causing Natsu to sigh heavily before his eyes shift up towards the white tiled ceiling, "I've been having these weird nightmares," he finally admits with a defeated tone, "They're very frequent ones and usually I can handle them, but lately they've been… different."
"Different how?" Gray asks while picking up his icepack and gently placing it on his throbbing cheek. Ur was going to kill him when he got home.
"Usually in the dreams I'm walking alone through dark corridors or running away from an unseen force," he explains while continuing to look up at the ceiling, his voice slightly hoarse and heart picking up speed, "But last night was completely unlike any of the dreams I've ever had. There were things… dolls, chasing after me when there's usually nothing but darkness behind me. Their laughter was dark and creepy and no matter how fast I ran I couldn't shake them off. I eventually tripped on a chair and fell and if it weren't for the girl I would have probably been caught by those weird looking dolls."
"Girl?" Gray perks up at the thought of his usually dense friend ever having dreams with any female he might or might not know, "What girl?"
Broad shoulders lift and fall so quickly Gray almost misses the gesture, "I didn't get to see who she was, but she saved my life," Natsu says in a low whisper that Gray almost misses his words, "And today I had another dream, which is why I woke up screaming," Natsu admits almost shamefully, "I thought you were the monster from my dream so that's why I punched you, but I guess you're so ugly that I couldn't tell you two apart," comes his mocking comment showing the male that his friend was starting to slightly recover.
"You wish you were as good looking as me," Gray retorts while throwing his pillow at the teenager who surprisingly doesn't fight back. Instead he lets the pillow hit him as he closes his eyes and falls onto his back with a small 'oof' leaving his mouth, "Do you think it was the girl from my story," Gray then asks after a few beats of silence causing onyx eyes to open and look at him with a questioning look.
"What story," he asks sounding completely oblivious to the fact that Gray had told a scary story this morning to both Cana and Lisanna before class started.
Really, this guy was an idiot.
"Never mind," Gray mutters with the roll of his eyes before staring off at the several informational posters hanging on the walls to the infirmary.
A few personal pictures hang on the walls in frames or just simply taped up. Some of the pictures hold familiar faces while others have strangers staring back at him with happy eyes and wide smiles. There are even a few pictures where the usually glowering nurse is giving back a small smile. It looks so natural on her that he'd almost mistaken her for somebody else.
"You both are still here," a harsh voice asks causing both boys to sit up and look at the doorway, "I thought you'd both have left by now," Porlyusica says while carrying in a box of probably new supplies for her to restock on.
"You haven't told us that it's fine to leave," Natsu mutters while glaring at the woman already heading out of the door again.
"It's fine for you to go," she grunts over her shoulder, "Now get out and don't come back unless you're dying," and with that she's out the door again without so much as a glance back at the bruised boys.
"Let's go," Gray says while jumping off of his bed before looking back towards Natsu who has gone back to staring at his pills contemplating on taking them or not, "Hey man," Gray says in a tone that has Natsu cringing away from what he really doesn't want to hear, "You do know it was only a dream, right? None of that was real, so don't think about it too much."
But it was real, in its own special way and that's what had Natsu on edge. As he sits on the infirmary bed he can feel the cold hands of the dolls clawing at his back and hear their high-pitched laughter fill his ears. The icepack in his hand feels as heavy as the flashlight or candelabra that he's held and somehow his heart just won't calm down. His muscles feel tense as if he's getting ready for a big race and the tingling sensation on his other hand reminds him of the strange blonde girl, but only the pills remain in that hand.
How could he ever make Gray or any of his other friends understand what he was going through?
"I know," he sighs, once again in defeat, as he throws the two pills in his mouth and swallows hard before jumping off the bed and following his friend out of the door without another word.
So because I'm running late on this story why not a midnight Bonus chapter to bring forth the monsters from under your bed?