This particular one-shot would definitely be a different AU were Natsu finds out who Lucy really is. :3

Sorry for not uploading yesterday! I'm on a limited schedule so I'ma have to go right after uploading this!

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"I'm not who you think I am!" She screamed with frustration.

"Then who are you!" I yelled back.

She dug her hands through her hair then began to speak. "I'm selfish, and conceded. I always want things my way, and I'm super competitive. I'm blunt, way too blunt that I don't care if I hurt their feelings. I hurt people, and I get hurt too easily. I'm being pulled by one magnet, while also being pushed away from another. I'm constantly on the verge of crying, screaming, and losing my patients."

She gripped her head. "I tried, so hard! To change... But I always find myself back where I started. No friends, alone, angry. I had made myself someone I didn't want to be! Some that was so cheerful it hurt to smile! Someone so concerned it hurt to care! Someone so stupid it hurt to be smart! And think! Just for one second... That maybe I was doing it all for nothing. That no matter what I could never escape my past. I was stuck there, like a boulder on a bird. Grounded together against my past life, friends, and feelings... I could never change. So I should stop trying."

Her hand lifted from her face and for a second I could see her tear-streaked eyes before she turned around and ran off.

I followed after her, grabbing her hand she struggled against my grasp and I pulled her into a hug. I slid to the ground and she slid with me.

"Go away!" She pounded against my chest. "I-I don't want anyone to see me like this!"

She stopped hitting me and gripped the fabric of my shirt and buried her face in my chest.

"I accept you. Not for who you made yourself out to be, but for the real you. I accept you!"

I felt so relieved, that now I can see her for who she truly is, and also that I was the first to see her like this. The first one to comfort her like this.

But then she cried. And not soft sniffles, they were hard, heart retching sobs that shook her body. Then all my thoughts disappeared and I cried with her.

This girl, was so lost for so long. She has just begun to cry after keeping her eyes dried for her whole life. Her will power is amazing. But her cries pained me to no end and I began to cry with her. Not because I felt pity and weakness for her, but because I could feel the all the pain she had locked up inside her. And all that pain was coming out at once.

So we cried, together. I cried her tears, although I was sure some were mine. And we stayed like that. Until I could look at her and she smiled.

She didn't smile like she used to. It was a real smile, it was her smile. And it showed just how grateful, just how beautiful and desirable she really was. So, I smiled back at her with pink-stained cheeks. And we laughed until the sun fell beneath the horizon.

I could actually feel the pressure in the air.

"Thank you."

And in that moment, it was perfectly peaceful.

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