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About something:
Most of you must have heard about it, that someone tried to use a Twilight story, the same story that had inspired 'Reality Vs Fiction' as their own.
I don't understand why someone would do that. We are here cause we love to write and we are fans. And that's it. It's not about who gets the most reviews (though it makes the author very happy) or the favorites. It's not a competition.
It just for fun.
That story 'When fiction becomes reality' isn't finish and the author wasn't writing any more. And they are hundreds more good unfinished stories like this. But that doesn't mean we can steal or in better words 'plagiarism' just by changing the name of the characters and a few words. That's not fair. Not to you or the readers and definitely not to the author who actually came up with the idea.
If you like the idea, ask them if you can use it. I did for this story.
And take that idea and mold it into your idea.
'When fiction became reality' was the inspiration for 'Reality Vs Fiction' but they are not the same story. Not the same character. It's not even the same plot. I took that idea and made it into my own.
And I'm not ashamed to say it.
They are so many people writing this days. We are bound to get inspired by others. But that doesn't mean we can take the whole thing and think that we can get away with it.
That's.. just stupid.
Anyway...
Someone PM me asking where did I got the idea for the weird Batman conversation. Well, that actually kinda happen. It was a short & sane part of the real conversation I had with a friend of mine. I hope all you liked that.
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Reality Vs Fiction
Chapter 9
Who knows?
Dec 25th 2015
It was Christmas tradition that Lucy would spend Christmas Eve at the Dragneel's and Natsu would have Christmas dinner with the Heartfilia's. That was the only way anyone could get Lucy out of the Dragneel household during the holiday season.
So it wasn't a surprise when Lucy called at 7 am, not telling him why, but asking him to be ready before 6:30 that night.
Natsu was ready an hour ahead.
"It's like prom." Aries muttered from the living room. Her eyes fixed on the TV. "Even then it was Lucy who picked him up."
"It was always Lucy." Zeref said, not looking up from his phone, typing furiously.
Aries nodded, eyes still on the screen. She was watching a Korean Drama. She was into them now. "I understand why it was Lucy always driving. I mean, the only time he ever drove was when he crashed dad's car into the school's flag pole." She laughed at the memory. "How old was he when that happened?"
"Sixteen." Zeref chuckled.
"And we all know about the famous accident."
"You guys know that I'm still here, right?" Natsu huffed from the top of the stairs.
No one took any notice
"I wonder what'll happen when Lucy finds about 'Angel & Dragon'. He hid the book, but how do you hide a movie? When she finds out, I'm sure she will probably run him over." Aries was laughing so hard she fell off the couch. Zeref did a fist bump with her.
Natsu shook his head. Sometimes, most of the time, he can't believe that his family was related.
A minute later, the girl of topic pulled into the driveway. Aries looked out the window. "Natsu!" She yelled, "Your Rushi" she fake coughed "I mean Lucy is here!"
Natsu gave her a dirty look as he limped his way to the door. "Shut up."
"Yeah but we all know you wish she was." Zeref responded with a smirk.
Natsu narrowed his eyes. "Jerk" he muttered under his breath.
Just then Lucy came inside, her keys to the house in hand and she closed the door behind her. "Knock knock." She called out in her cheery voice.
She smiled when she saw them in the living room. "Sup Dragneel's."
"Lucy!" Aries waved from the couch.
Lucy waved back. "What ya watching?"
Aries grinned. She placed her index finger in her lip and shss.
Lucy turned away, huffing and laughing. The other girl was laughing too.
Zeref just shook his head. "Kids" he kvetch.
Natsu stopped listening to the girl's conversation. He looked at Lucy. She looked good. A little different from the last time he saw her.
Last night he could barely see. Aries was with her like glue.
Her hair was longer. It now just came down to the bottom of her waist. She looked tanner. She had a dark peach scarf with matching colored jeans on. A light blue tank top and navy blue flats.
She pushed her hair behind her ear. And he noticed the familiar black bracelet on her left hand.
She kept it. Natsu smiled, turning away.
Suddenly someone pulled his hand. He turned to look. Lucy was had an eyebrow raised at him. He shook his head.
"Okay people we need to go. Tell Igneel to bring another pie for me." The blonde pulled Natsu with her. When they were out of the living room, she wiggled her eyebrows at him. He raised one of his.
Lucy laughed. "You look nice."
Natsu shrugged trying to act as if his always looking nice, it's not a big deal. Though he would admit, he did look good. He made sure of it. A dark blue jean jacket with hood, a white t-shirt under the jacket, black jeans and brown sneakers. With his scarf around his neck of course.
Aries and Zeref, of course, made fun of him when they saw him. Saying he was putting a little too much effort on his dressing. Lucy already knows him.
"Thanks." Natsu mumbled. Than he looked at her, "You look beautiful" That was the truth. Lucy smiled smugly. Natsu can't let that happen. "Princess"
"Gah!" she yelled in frustration. "God I hate when people calls me that." Natsu smirked. "Don't call me that"
"But you live in a castle-"
"It's a Mansion-"
"-and you got those big fluffy dresses -"
"I hate those things-"
"And you're rich!"
Lucy smacked him on the back.
"Score one." Aries yelled from the living room. "Big brother you owe me 5 bucks!"
Lucy laughed opening the door but then stopped. Her eyes taking in the family photo at the top of the stairs. "She looked so pretty that day" Lucy murmur.
Natsu took a breath, already knowing who the blonde was talking about. All humor in the air disappeared. Even the living room suddenly became quite.
He turned to look at the photo.
It was taken on the night of Zeref's prom. He was wearing a tux with bright yellow tie anyone could fin. His date was a black haired girl no one knew, wearing the most brightest yellow dress ever. Gray named her The Canary.
Anna was in her usual, a midnight blue dress – that was looked like sack on her bony body, she was losing a lot weights back then–with pink socks. Her hair in a messy bun. The under of her eyes were darken and her skin had an unhealthy yellow hue to it. Yet the smile on her face was the brightest of them all. Igneel stood next to her. He had flour on his hair. And she was laughing because of it.
Aries was hiding behind her knee. Only two messy pink pig tail could be seen.
Lucy was next to Natsu, doing an over enthusiastic victory sign. Gray showing of his teeth's. For some reason he wasn't wearing a t-shirt. Natsu stood awkwardly next to them. Like he would rather be in his room reading a book then doing this.
He rather would had, given any chance.
Though Natsu would never say it, he was glad that Lucy forced him to take that photo that night.
It was their last photo together. It was the last photo they had of her smiling.
"Yeah" he mumbled, his voice cracking slightly. "she did."
Lucy laughed than. It was light and bubbly. She looked at the living room, then back at him. "If we don't leave, I'll start watching K-drama with Aries again." She shook her head at the direction of the TV. "We don't want to repeat last night. Do we?"
Natsu shook his head, welcoming her change of conversation. "I don't think I can handle that one more time. My ears are still hurting from those screaming you guys did."
"We weren't screaming" Lucy helped him get out of the door. "We were squealing. There is a difference. You are a writer, you are supposed to know that!"
Natsu laughed.
"Bring him back before 10!" Aries yelled from behind. "And use protection!"
The ride was rather silent. Both of them still thinking. Lucy rubbed her hand more than once.
"She would be proud, you know" she said, breaking the silence.
Natsu turned towards her. "What?"
"Anna. She would had been proud of us."
"Yeah?"
Lucy nod her head. And a picture of 16 year old Lucy flashed between his eyes. Natsu blinked. "I know. Look at us! You're a world famous writer. I'm an A-class superstar" she threw her hair behind with some sash. Natsu laughed.
"Zeref is the director of the Cube. Aries is graduating this spring from college with a degree in directing. Gray is you agent. Probably making more money that you"
Natsu nod. "He does make more money."
"See! And his married. Of all of us, his the one married. The bakery is doing good. Igneel is doing good, dad told me. And…" she stopped, turned to look at the pinket next to her, "so she would had been proud. But she was wrong about one thing you know. We all miss her" her voice was thicker now as if she can't swallow. "We all still love her. She was wrong, we couldn't forget her."
Then she laughed. It was thing of Lucy. Every time things get to intense she would laugh it off. "God, I sound like some of from a melodrama."
Natsu just smiled, looking back at the window.
Jude Heartfilia opened the door for them.
"Squinty eyes!" his thick blond mustache twitch in mischievous.
Natsu groaned. He really hates the name calling. He smiled. "Jude. How are you?"
"Alive. How's your leg?"
"Still there."
"You dad didn't came today?" Jude and Igneel are polo buddies.
"Christmas sale at the bakery." He answered.
Jude nod.
"What is wrong with you guys?" Lucy asking pushing them away to get inside. "Who talks like that?"
"Men" her father answered. Natsu shrugged.
Lucy rolled her eyes.
"Come on" she grabbed Natsu by his hood, dragging him with her. It was harder than she thought it would be.
The crutches were the main problem.
When they reached the living room, Layla Heartfilia was sitting in one of the chairs. A glass of wine in her hand and a book in another looking as sophisticated as ever. But Natsu's eye was on the book in her hand. It had a red hard cover. Natsu narrowed his eye at it. It looked familiar.
The woman smiled.
"Natsu" the way she says his name… Natsu looked at her. "I heard you were in an accident?" Layla, always polite. Always direct.
She was so different from his own mother, that sometime he didn't seems to understand the woman. He never saw her in a messy bun. No, her hair always in a French hair roll Updo. Layla never wear sweat pants. She was always in her designer dresses and high heels.
But to Natsu she seemed…cold. Apparently Lucy agrees.
Maybe it was the reason why she was so close with his mother rather than her own.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
"How are you now?" Layla stood up. Perfect posture.
Natsu gulped.
"I'm, I'm fine"
"Well that's wonderful to hear" she clapped her hands together, looked at all of them. "Shall we have dinner?"
It was common for the Heartfilia's to go overboard in this type of dinners. So Natsu wasn't surprised when he sat down the chair.
Crab stuffed lobster tail as starters. The main course was lamb chops with balsamic reduction. An all green salad side. And then dissert. The only thing in this whole menu that Layla probably did on her own. Tangerine sorbet.
In Natsu's home it was always roast chicken and mashed potatoes and pecan pie with vanilla ice cream on top. Though the pie doesn't taste the same. It was something they couldn't let go.
They didn't wanted to.
Lucy sat next to him.
"So, Natsu" Layla took a bite of lamb chop. "How is your writing going? I heard you are going to do another romance novel."
Natsu bite into the lamb a little too hard. He chew it slowly, buying his time. He could feel Layla's eye on him. Even Lucy's.
Jude was reading something on his tablet.
Bless him.
"Um how" he shook his head. It wasn't important how she knew. "It's not official" he looked at the older blonde woman.
She was looking at him. A glass of red wine in one hand. Her head tilted a little- just a little- to right. And she was smiling.
It was look that Natsu had seen on Lucy's face so many time.
He saw it when she was manipulating him and Gray to walk down naked on the street. Thank god Zeref found them before they could.
He saw it when she told him that he can drive without a license. He crashed the car into the school pole.
He saw it when she found his story writing diary under his bed.
He saw that same look on her when she printed those stories in the school newspaper.
It was look that meant, she knew what she was doing. That she knew it was bad. And she's loving it.
Funny how gene works.
Natsu placed his knife down. He nod to himself. "I'm thinking. 'Fire breath' was good. I enjoyed writing about Mage's and wizards. Fiction and fantasy always works so great together. But my readers want me to write something that is less…action packed, less made up. They want something sweet, something real, something with a little more drama."
"I thought writers write what they want. Not what the readers want."
"It's true. But if no one reads what you write than you aren't a writer. I wrote five stories for myself. One of them got more love than the others. But that doesn't matter. What matters as long as I feel like writing it. Don't like it don't write it. That's my motto. Plus, I been writing fiction for too long." He turned at Lucy. She smiled, he smiled back. "It's time to be back in reality. The battle between reality vs fiction is over. Reality won."
"Good" Layla was done with the polite talk.
Lucy placed her hand on Natsu. He turned to look at her. "How was your interview? One you did at cube?"
"You know about that?" Layla asked, from across the table.
Lucy nod. "I meet him the day before."
"Do you know what it was for?" Layla asked again.
Natsu looked at Lucy. The girl kept her eyes on her mother. "It was because of 'Angel & Dragon' Natsu's first book. It's still in the top five as a best seller."
"Have you read it?"
Natsu choked on his water. Lucy turned at him, padding him on the back. "It's okay. Slow breath." But he kept on choking.
Layla leaned on her chair, wine in her hand, smiling.
Natsu was terrified.
Layla was about to say something else when Lucy's phone ringed. Natsu took a breath of relief.
She excused herself. Took the phone with her. It was from Aquarius. Lucy had to take it.
"So Natsu…" when Natsu looked at Layla and saw that same insane smile on her again.
Suddenly everything clicked.
The red hardcover book was 'Angel & Dragon'. How can only now he notice his own book which was on Layla's hand before.
She read the book. She knew.
He was sure. He was 100 percent sure that she knew.
He just knew it. How could she not? Layla was the smartest and wisest women he knew. If anyone could've figured it out, it would be her.
Rushi was Lucy. They had the same hair, same smile, and same habits. They were same.
Lucy came back a minute later. The table was quite. Jude was still reading something on his tablet. Layla was finishing her sorbet.
Natsu was still as a rock.
He forced a smile when he saw her face. She didn't looked that happy.
"What happen?"
Lucy took a big bite of her sorbet. "Aquarius found a movie for me. And she…I think she already promised them that I'm gonna do it. Uh! She didn't even read the script. Just said that it's gonna be good. She has a felling." She huffed at the end. "I'm gonna get the script at 6th January." She smiled at him. "I can't wait!" she said sarcastically, taking another bite.
Jan 6th 2016
She dropped the script on the couch. And brought out the book of the bag. Red hard cover with words in golden.
Chapter one. The crazy girl.
'The first time I meet her I was 13. Young and naïve and very cute. Which isn't relevant to the story but I just wanted to say it. Anyway the first time I saw her, was in the beautiful town of Heargeon. I was abandon by my brother as he went to meet with his friends.
Typical.
I was walking in the park when I heard a giant boy – he was close to 7 feet tall with spikes in his head – threating a little girl. She had her back on me. So I couldn't see her face. But I could see her hair. Molten gold strands. They were tied in pigtails.
The boy was asking her for money. Threating her that if she does not give it to him, he will tell her parents. What he will tell he didn't say.
The girl scoffed at him. I took a step back. He was big enough that even 10 of her mixed together won't size up to him. And yet as she stood there, hands in her hip, straight. Looking him at the eyes. Defiant as ever.
I was impressed by that. I didn't knew what it was called. Confidence? Over confidence? Or stupidity? I didn't knew. I didn't cared. I just knew, I liked the fact that she didn't cowered away. Something I knew I would had done myself.
I was a sissy.
The boy however wasn't impressed by that. He took a threating step at her.
I had this sudden sense to protect her. I licked my lips, pushed my glasses between the bridge of my nose.
I felt like Clark Kent before he would turn into superman.
I felt powerful.
I took a step toward them.
It didn't end up the way I planned it would.
She didn't needed me. Even though she was a foot shorter than me, 4 than the boy in front of her.
Yet she didn't needed me.
My mom once said that, "Height, weight and appearances doesn't make us. It's what we make of them."
She was right. Because the girl in front of me didn't need height to defend her. She didn't need weight either. She needed courage. A little bit of insanity too. And I don't think she was in lack of that. Both of that.
It happen fast. So my eyes couldn't take the whole scene properly. But at the same time I saw it in slow motion. It was weird in that sense.
She pushed the boy then kicked in his sensitive part. And threw some punches that would had made Superman proud.
I was a little terrified by her at that moment. So when she turned to me, I took a step back.
Her brown eyes bored in my onex blue. I felt as if the world stood still. Nothing mattered at that moment. Only her eyes meeting mine.
She had the prettiest eyes. And the most beautiful smile I had ever seen. It was a different smile on its own. Her left side of the lip twitched up. Making it more mischievous, more innocent at the same time.
I didn't even knew her name. But I think, I think I was falling for her. I was falling for the crazy girl.'
Lucy closed the book with a thud. Her hands in a tight fist.
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