**Chapter Eight**

Lucy sent a glare at Gray. "Gray Fullbuster," Lucy said sternly. "You need to man up and go ask her. She wouldn't reject you! And if you don't hurry up, she may go for Lyon. Go on now." The man inched towards the blunette Juvia. He talked nervously to her for a moment before she threw her arms around him, nodding excitedly.

"Nice one Lucy," Mira giggled. The blonde turned to smile at the silver haired bartender and grabbed a tray of food to deliver to tables. "I'd been trying to get that couple for forever. I thought that Gray would be less dense than Natsu." The woman laughed with Lucy as the waitress began walking away. For the past few months, Lucy had been working at the guild when she wasn't on missions, which became more frequent since she didn't have rent to pay. Moving into Natsu's house was the best economic decision she had made in a long time. Erza stormed into the guild looking absolutely miserable. Mira and Lucy busied themselves trying to find some strawberry cake and Mira decided to use the emergency cake, the one on display.

Mira quickly began making a bunch of cake while Lucy got Erza a slice of cake. "What happened Erza?" Lucy asked, leaning on the counter in front of the scarlet haired requip mage.

"I ran into you-know-who," Erza said. Lucy hopped up on the counter in her new dress. The white material that made up the dress was decorated with little pink sakura blossoms around the hem that ended above her knees and around the tube top that had two strings forming a halter neckline. Erza smiled at her friend.

Lucy peered at Erza as she nibbled on her cake. "I wouldn't worry about it, though Mystogan came by looking for you today." The redhead blushed lightly making Lucy grin like Mira. "Erza, you're so cute when you blush!" The redhead recovered quickly and continued eating. Gajeel came over and sat down by Lucy. Everyone had noticed that the dragonslayers seemed drawn to her when something bad was about to happen.

"Get down, bunny girl," Gajeel hissed. Lucy hopped down and ducked under the counter as the guild doors opened. "The hell are you doing here?! You aren't welcome here!" Jude Heartfilia rolled his eyes and walked into the guild. As he grew closer to the bar, Wendy stood up on the counter and narrowed her brown eyes at him, though he didn't pay attention as he walked upstairs. Laxus stood up and stood by the banister, ready to jump on the man if he made a move, though he ignored the guild and went into the master's office.

Lucy sighed and stood up, her knee-high white high heeled boots clicking on the wooden floor. "I'm tired of this. He keeps coming by and I keep hiding in fear. Why can't he just give up?" She sat gloomily on the bar again, pouting like an eight year old. Tears filled her eyes, though none escaped. For the past few months, he's come to the guild several times and each time his voice has hurt her even further. It was her breaking point.

She stood up on the bar and cupped her hands around her mouth. "Go away!" she yelled making everyone freeze. The door opened and Jude looked down at his daughter. She glared at him angrily, a glare that could make Erza and Natsu cower. "Haven't you ruined my life enough? I'm finally happy and you can't let that happen! No, Lucy's happy again, time to hunt her down!"

Laxus stepped in front of Jude as he moved to step towards the banister. "I wouldn't unless you want fire breath to hunt you down," Laxus said. Jude sighed and walked down the stairs, stopping at the last step.

"Lucy Heartfilia, you'd be lucky if anyone married you now. You're broke. You can still come home and marry that Dan Straight and we'll leave all of this in the past," Jude said. Mira stepped forwards menacingly. Gajeel stood up and Wendy jumped in front of Lucy.

Lucy stepped around Wendy and walked in front of everyone. "I may be lucky if anyone would marry me now, being broke," Lucy said, hopping off of the counter and landing with relative ease. "But, I will marry someone who loves me for me, and not for my money. Maybe then I will be happy." Jude sent her a final glare before leaving.

"You'll know where to find me," Jude called. As the door closed, worry struck Lucy. Her head whipped back and forth, looking for the one thing that could calm her down. It wasn't there. She ran out of the guild, people screaming after her as she raced through Magnolia, tripping more than once. Blood dripped down her arm, but she didn't care as she got back up. She ran through the woods, her breath coming out sharply and shakily. It pained her lungs that burned for air, but that didn't make the girl stop. Even when she could barely jog, she moved as quickly as she could until she reached the little house.

She looked at the surroundings and didn't see anything abnormal, so she went inside. "Natsu! Happy!" she called as loud as she could. She heard a thump and could tell that she'd just woken Natsu up, which meant Happy was waking up too. The pinkette looked up from the floor until he spotted the panicked blonde.

He ran over and hugged her as she crumpled to the ground. "Lucy, what's going on?" Natsu asked, panic taking over his foggy haze. Lucy sobbed in his arms for a while as the guild surrounded the house, anxious to see what was going on.

"I thought that they were taking you away," Lucy said, choked by sobs. Natsu stroked her hair comfortingly, making Mira fangirl over their kawaii NaLu moments.

"No one is taking me away from you, Luce," he promised her.


Hey. Chapter eight of my story! Whoop! I don't own fairy tail.

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