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XOXOX

"Mmm," Lucy pleasantly moaned, snuggling into the warmth that she was laying against.

"Lucy?" a voice asked, sending vibrations against her pillow. "You awake?"

"Kindaaa," she purred as she relished in the feel of a gentle hand rubbing up and down her arm.

"Thank God!" the voice rumbled, "This position is so uncomfortableee!"

"Heh?" Lucy's eyes popped open and she was met with darkness. She blinked around as her eyes began to adjust. She didn't notice anything out of ordinary so she shrugged, still in her sleepy daze and turned to lay back down on her pillow. The smell of fire and warmth comforted her and that's when her blood ran cold. "NATSU?!"

She jumped backwards, realizing her pillow was, in fact, not a pillow. It was Natsu's chest—She had snuggled against Natsu's chest.

She wanted to die from the embarrassment.

"GAHH!" His hands slapped over his ears as he scooted away from her as far as he could go in the tiny room. "Do you have to be so loud? I'm right here!"

"Why was I laying against your chest?!" she cried.

"You wouldn't get off me."

She blinked, "Why wouldn't I get off you?"

"The hell would I know?" he scoffed, tugging at the hem of his shirt. He looked away from her and asked, "So uhh how do you feel?"

"How do I feel?" she thoughtfully repeated his question. Well her head was no longer pounding—in fact, her head felt clear, like the nap she had taken cured her of all pain and even her slight anxiety. A grin broke out onto her lips, "I feel really good."

As though her grin was contagious, Natsu grinned back.

"Say, where are we?" she curiously asked, noticing how they were both sitting on the floor of a very small room that smelt a bit musty.

"Errr…" Natsu sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck.

"Hmm?" She looked around, noticing some cleaning supplies along with some classroom supplies, such as chalk, erasers, torn up textbooks…

"A closet?" She mused and then she froze. Wait a second! She choked on her spit, "DON'T TELL ME WE ARE IN CLOSET 17B AGAIN!"

Natsu flinched with a scowl plain on his face, "What'd I say 'bout yelling? I'm literally right next to you!" He waved his hands to point out the limited space they had between them.

"WHY AM I IN THIS CLOSET WITH YOU AGAIN?!" she continued her wailing with her hands smacking the hard floor, like a small child having a temper tantrum.

"I needed to find a dark place 'cuz of your migraine," he glowered. "And this was the only dark place I could think of!"

"Seriously?!" She asked with bewilderment. "This was the only place you could think of?!"

"That's what I said," he continued his glowering, while twiddling his fingers.

"So like a classroom with the blinds closed and the lights off hadn't crossed your mind?"

He held his pointer finger up and opened his mouth to speak, but then closed it, his finger slowly lowered. "Heh, I didn't think of that!" A cheeky smile ghosted his features.

"IDIOT!" and she lunged at him, tackling him onto his back as she straddled his hips. He let out a quick gasp just as she grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him back and forth causing him to bang into the floor with each shake, "QUIT DRAGGING ME INTO THIS STUPID CLOSET WITH YOU!"

"GAHH," he moaned with each shake.

She finally let go, feeling mildly pleased with herself as Natsu's eyes rolled to the back of his head.

She was just about to pull herself off him, when suddenly, she smacked the back of her head on a foreign object that was sticking out of the shelf.

"OWW!" she yelped as she fell flat against Natsu, who in return, let out an "Oofff!"

Her face was at the crook of his neck, her chest was flushed against his and her legs still straddled him. She hastily pulled herself up the best she could, which was only about a couple of inches.

She got a clear view of his face, which looked very annoyed.

With gritted teeth, Natsu said, "Get off!" But she only titled her head to the side, giving him a quizzical look.

Their faces were dangerously close.

Her breathing stopped at the realization and was it her imagination or did Natsu suck in a breath as well?

He stared up at her with a clear look of surprise and wonder, but what was he wondering about exactly?

Before she could dwell any further, the door banged open, "I heard noises in here…"

"Gray!" Levy gasped. "Don't just barge in on them! They might be…you know…"

"What?" the boy asked. "It's Natsu and Lucy we are talking about. Do you really think they would be—THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS DOING?!"

"NOTHING!" Lucy clambered off Natsu and stood up. She ran a hand down her body smooth out her clothes.

"Didn't look like nothing!" Gray looked horrified as did Levy.

Natsu sat up, crossing his arms over his chest and announced, "Lucy's a pervert."

"WHATT?!" she exclaimed, her face turned bright red as she shot Natsu a look of disbelief. Natsu had his head turned slightly with his nose up in the air.

Levy's warm, brown eyes widened as she let out a gasp, "Lucy, what did you do to him?"

Throwing her arms up in the air, Lucy yelled, "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!"

"Let's just get out of here," Gray's face scrunched up with disgust. "This place is just nasty."

"Fine by me," Lucy said with clenched teeth as she stormed out of the closet.

She could hear Gray snigger from behind, "Wonder how long it will be before she talks to you after this closet trip."

"Shut it," Natsu growled back.

"Glad to see you're feeling better, Lucy," Levy sounded relieved. "I was so scared…"

Lucy smiled softly, "Well don't be! I feel good as new."

"Really?" Levy eyed her carefully and Lucy happily nodded. A smile broke out onto the small girl's face as she tackled Lucy into a hug.

"WAH!" Lucy cried out, surprised by the sudden assault and then she burst out laughing as Levy hugged her to death.

Natsu watched with a grin of his own surfacing his face.

Maybe taking her into the closet wasn't one of the best ideas he has had, but it still did the trick; her migraine was gone.

Though he hadn't expected her to fall asleep on him. And he hadn't expected her to attack him…and he tried not to blush at the memory of their position or the way her breasts pressed into his chest…

"You know when we said to go find a dark place," Gray said, "we didn't mean take her into the closet, perv."

"She's the perv!" Natsu insisted. "She wouldn't stop touching me."

"THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED!" Lucy screeched, struggling to get Levy off of her, but Levy only tightened her hug.

Gray shivered, "I don't want to know what you two were doing."

"WE WEREN'T DOING ANYTHING!" the blonde sobbed while Natsu let out a musical stream of laughter.

XOXOX

"50 MISSED CALLS?!" Lucy ogled at her cellphone. "I'm so dead," she tumbled backwards onto the sofa that was in the video game club room.

"You didn't call your dad?" Levy inquired.

"That's really irresponsible," Erza chided, leaning against the back wall.

"I forgot!" she gushed. "And it's hard to remember considering none of you have parents…"

In union, the lot replied, "Good point."

"So call him back now—OI! THAT'S A CHEAP SHOT, BOLTS FOR BRAINS!" Natsu growled.

"Ghihi," Gajeel grinned, keeping his eyes focused on the screen. "Oi, Bunny Girl, make sure we're in the room when you call. I wanna hear him yell at you!"

"Mean!" Lucy gasped with slight hurt.

"Gajeel!" Levy snapped. "Don't be mean to Lucy!"

"What?" he turned his head away from the video game and looked at Levy. "You know it would be funny!"

Levy shook her head.

"He's going to kill me…" Lucy gloomily sulked as she exited the room.

"Poor thing," Erza frowned, as she watched the door slowly close.

Gray lightly tapped Natsu's shoulder to get his attention. Natsu paused the game and looked up at the droopy-eyed boy, "She's gonna need you."

Natsu silently blushed as he nodded his head and handed Gray the game controller before getting up to wait by the door.

Lucy came back into the room after about five minutes. Natsu tried to decipher her mood by scrutinizing her face, but her brown eyes were void and her lips were expressionless.

"How did it go?" Levy timidly asked.

Lucy nervously tugged on her blonde hair, "Well he wasn't too happy about the detention…"

"You never told him?" Erza sounded surprised.

"No, I told him I was volunteering in some kind of school cleanup project," Lucy blushed, dropping her head. "Anyway, he heard about the quarantine at the school and he was worried. I think he was nearly in tears…"

Natsu pursed his lips. He knew Lucy's father could be pretty stern and wasn't quick to show emotion.

"He's angry at the lack of information," she continued. "He called up anyone he could think of trying to get answers, but alas, nothing…And they won't let anyone near the school."

"Damn," Gray muttered, twisting a hand into his black hair.

"How can they not have any information yet?! It's been an entire day!" Gajeel growled. "This is so fucked up."

"My dad hasn't given up yet," Lucy stated. "He's getting his lawyers ready, but still…" her head hung.

A bandaged arm wrapped around her shoulder.

Lucy glanced up to see Natsu grinning at everyone in the room, "Heh," he chuckled. "This makes me feel a lot better."

Everyone blinked curiously at the pink haired boy.

"'Cuz nothin' can stop an angry, old rich dude from getting what he wants." He looked down at Lucy and said softly, "So don't you worry, Lucy."

"Thanks, Natsu," she smiled.

XOXOX

They set up sleeping bags in the school gym, since no one could civilly decide who would get the couch in the game room or the three beds in the Nurse's Office.

They were spread out pretty far apart though, since the gym was so big and there really wasn't a reason to sleep so closely.

Lucy preferred it this way, since she loved personal space, but she couldn't sleep—more like she didn't want to sleep.

She had too many questions and not enough answers about Zeref and his strange book…

It was haunting her.

"You should rest, Lucy," Levy said, noticing Lucy was on her phone.

"Yeah," Gajeel mumbled. "Your phone light is annoying."

"Sorry," her face heated. "I was just looking stuff up on that Zeref guy…"

"Find anything interesting?" Erza inquired, sitting up from her sleeping bag.

"Well it says here that all those diseases in that book were actually created by him."

"What?" Gray was sitting up now.

"So he's like some sorta mad scientist?" Natsu asked, laying on his stomach now with his face in his hands.

"What a sick bastard," Gray murmured.

"Well I feel kind of bad for him," Lucy confided. "It says that he created those diseases in the hopes to find a way to bring his younger brother back from the dead."

"Aww," Levy cooed. "That's so sad."

"What a way to do it though," Natsu muttered. "Creating all those deadly diseases…So dumb. The dead should stay dead…"

Lucy shot him a curious look, but Natsu was too busy looking at his hands to notice.

Gray rhetorically asked, "So he made all those diseases for his own selfish reasons and now we are left to deal with the aftermath?" Then he drily added, "Awesome."

"Oh my god!" Lucy's eyes lit up as she skimmed the next few lines of the website she was on.

"What?" Erza asked.

"It says here that there's been rumors that Zeref had created a universal cure for all the demons—I mean diseases, but this website calls them demons."

"WHAT?!"

Everyone was now gathered around Lucy, with anxious looking expressions.

She nervously swallowed, "The cure was written in another book."

"Where is this book?" Erza quickly asked, grasping Lucy's arm. "Why aren't they using it to get us out of here?"

"I-I don't know," Lucy stuttered as she continued to read more, "It says the book was never found."

"Damn it," Gajeel growled.

"What's the book called?" Natsu asked.

"The Book of E.N.D."

XOXOX


Eep! Lucy's feeling better—but for how long? ;)

And wahhh a possible cure?!

Hehe hope you all liked this chapter!

Thank you all so much for reading!