The Impossible Love

Chapter 7

The Harbour – Lucy

I walked away from Levy, this is probably the last time I'll ever see her. The thought did upset me, I never really had to deal with goodbyes until my mother died.

But this isn't the time to be focusing on the past. I'm about to start my future! Now I just need to find that run down harbour house.

I looked at my watch. Oh crap! I spent too much time with Levy! I only have a few minutes to reach the house. I ran along the sea line until I saw the house. Relief filled my body, however with it, came exhaustion. I didn't have time to eat breakfast in the morning. Nether the less, I still sprinted to the front door of the, what seemed, abandoned house. There was a sign on the door saying 'Keep out'.

As I knocked the door, it just opened. It had been unlocked already.

"Natsu?"

"I'm in the living room Lucy!" He replied.

I walked through the house to the living room. This place was even worse than my prison cell. Damp, cold, falling apart.

Every time I took a step an unnecessarily load creaking would sound. There were many holes in the floor. And parts of the roof were missing too. I entered the living room and saw Natsu standing there. He was wearing the same old sleeveless, gold trimmed, black waist coat, with white, baggy trousers.

Even though he was wearing the same old attire, his face had completely changed. It was happy, excited, thrilled and pretty mush any other positive emotion you could think of. But the thing I noticed most about Natsu's face was the fact he was emanating with love.

I'd like to hope I was doing the same to him, however I probably had a stupid face on.

"We've both ran away from home, together. We finally did it!" I told him, whilst using the last part of my energy to smile.

His smile, then got brighter and he opened his arms for me.

I staggered into them. We stayed like that for a good 10 seconds.

"Lucy it was only because of you that I managed to get to this point. I thank you. I promise my daughter will be named after you."

"I wasn't all me, it was mostly you." I looked up, straight to his handsome face. I finally got my first kiss.

I loved every second of it.

A gun cocked. I looked to my left. Lisanna!

It was too late. The warmth of lead had already hit my brain.

Natsu let go of me. As I fell to my right, I looked at the smoking gun that had just killed me.

I had expected Lisanna to be holding it. I was wrong.

Natsu had the gun.

Fairy Tail HQ in the master's office – 7 days ago, on the day of the fire- Levy

I had ran to the Master's office.

"Master! Master! Natsu! He's planning to leave the guild with Lucy!" I had ratted them out to the master.

"Is that so?" Master Happy had a puzzling expression on his face. As if he had expected this to happen.

"Master what shall we do?" I inquired.

"Do? We'll do nothing. I like Natsu and his… strange ways of getting what he wants."

"Strange ways?"

"Let's just say, even though he never utters a lie, he is one of the most devious member of Fairy Tail. It was bound to happen sometime."

"So you're going to just let him go? He's one of our strongest members." My anger rose that day. I, who never even wanted to join Fairy Tail, was bound by it. Yet Natsu, he can leave?

"Like you said, Natsu is one of our stronger members. So even if I wanted to stop him, he would just blow this place up. Anyway, I like this way better, I'm curious of how he will leave." Happy then dismissed himself to finish eating his fish.

Present day - The Harbour house – Levy

I had followed Lucy to the house. I didn't dare go in, so I hid outside next to a window.

A gunshot.

I looked into the window to see, the one who saved me just a few minutes ago, fall to the ground. Her lifeless body just laid there, bathing in its own blood.

The tears streamed down my eyes. . Twice, I had been near Lucy when she was in a life or death situation and both times, I idly stood by. Not once trying to save her.

I couldn't go in. Natsu won't let me live if he knew I had just witnessed this.

"Lucy… (Laughs) thank you!" Natsu looked down at Lucy's body. I wasn't sure, but I think, a tear had rolled down his cheek. "You've helped me way more than I expected. I played you completely." He wiped the tear off.

Lisanna then jumped on top of Natsu. "I can't believe your plan worked Natsu! I love you. We are free now!"

"I got our freedom without uttering a single lie." He looked at Lucy's bloody corpse. I promised I would protect you from other people and I did. I never said that I wouldn't hurt you. As well as that I promised that we would run away together. And we did, you even admitted it. I even said that I would be by your side till you died. You are now dead. Lucy, I truly am sorry for using you, but you assume too much. I never once said that I loved you nor did I say that Lisanna and I broke up. I just said that we would never fight in the gang again."

Natsu took the money Lucy had brought. As the two of them were leaving the room, Lisanna did say one more thing "I and Natsu did fight very often but that was only because we wanted out of the guild and couldn't find a means to do that. I never really hated you Lucy, you were never really my rival." They left the house. Natsu had set a weak bomb in it. The moment they were a safe distance away, he set it off.

Luckily, I was too shocked about what I had just witnessed to enter the building. I was however in the blast radius, and was blown a few meters forward.

The blast pulled me back into reality.

I spent hours trying to retrieve Lucy's body. I couldn't just leave it there. Although I tried my best, I simply couldn't free her by myself.

A few days later the police came and removed the rubble and found the body. Lucy was so… grossly disfigured they couldn't identify her. After many DNA tests, they finally linked it back to Lucy Heartfilia. I couldn't tell them myself, since I was still a wanted criminal.

They gave her a proper burial, I did attend it, but within the shadows. Her father, however, didn't attend the funeral. I don't think it was from spite, but for the fact his daughter had died before he had. It was too painful.

I left Magnolia shortly after. Lucy gave me a second chance at life, I wasn't going to waste it.

In a way Lucy's love story ended the same way mine had. She lost everything because of the thing in our chest.

I never returned to Magnolia nor did I ever see anyone in Fairy Tail again.

3 years later – Somewhere in the East

"Lucy, come here!"

"Papa." A little pink haired girl said. She ran into Natsu's arms.

There was a knock on the door. Lisanna opened it.

"Erza?" Lisanna couldn't believe her eyes.

"Don't worry I'm not here to bring you back. I just wanted to see Mr and Mrs Dragneel." Lucy then ran to the front door and hid behind her mother's leg.

"And I guess baby Dragneel too." Erza was pretty shocked when she saw the little one.

"Come in Erza."

Natsu and Lisanna were living deep in the woods. Their identities weren't well known, however being ex-criminals, they couldn't be too careless. As well as that, they didn't want their daughter to know about their shameful past.

Lisanna led Erza into the living room.

"Lucy go say hi. She is mommy and daddy's old friend." Natsu prompted. He was sitting on the floor, to meet Lucy's height.

"Lucy? You named her…"

"Yes, Natsu promised that he would name her after Lucy. And you know him, never breaking a promise or lying." Lisanna told Erza.

Natsu got up. "I never got to say this but thank you Erza."

"What are you talking about? I just felt bad for you is all. It was the same with Levy. Natsu you were forced into the guild through your step father, Igneel, and Lisanna, your sister forced you into Fairy Tail. You guys never wanted to become criminals, really." Erza admitted. "I do feel bad though. For Lucy, I mean. She was sacrificed for your freedom. Honestly, I kind of liked her."

"I know what you mean. I didn't want to hurt her but it was all for the sake of fooling her and everyone else." Lisanna looked down. "But seriously Natsu, you didn't have to kiss her right at the end!"

"You're on about that again? I told you to think of it as a thank you present. I gave her the thing she wanted most in her last few moments. It was the least I could do." Natsu defended his actions.

"It doesn't matter now Lisanna. Just live. Your past is now behind you. You have started afresh. Enjoy life and look forward."

That night after Erza left and Lisanna had fallen asleep with Lucy, Natsu stood in the bathroom. He held a picture in his hand. A tear rolled down his cheek and fell on the picture. It was Lucy Heartfilia.

"I'm sorry Lucy."