Title: Letting Go

Genre: Angst

He had been here too many times. The familiar white walls and pristine environment. He even knew nurses by name. The amount of times he had fallen asleep at her bedside and forced to go home. He was losing patience.

Natsu gently took Lucy's hand into his own. It was so cold. He encircled her limp hand in his much larger ones and gazed at her pale face. His throat tightened and chest ached though he did not cry. He would beg to see her beautiful brown eyes open, he would throw fits of anger and laugh at how pitiful he was, but he would never cry.

Even when the police knocked on his door and told him that his fiancée was in the hospital. He didn't shed a tear. Not even when he finally saw her body lying under white sheets with a pale face that just didn't look like his Lucy anymore.

Natsu sighed and the pain in his chest relieved but only slightly. He couldn't even manage a smile for her today. It had just been so long. So many days at her side hoping that she would wake up. Natsu didn't know how to keep pretending that he had faith that she would speak his name again.

He closed his eyes, another sigh escaping his lips. It was getting too much. The emptiness in their apartment, looking at her stuck in bed all day and just the lack of her in his life. He needed her and he knew that it was her who really needed him right now, but how could he? How could he be there when without her he was nothing. A broken mess with messy hair and bloodshot eyes that stung with all the tears he wouldn't dare shed.

"Lucy."

His grip on her hand tightened and he let out a shaky breath. His dark eyes flickered to her face. How was he meant to do this?

"Lucy, please come back."

The room seemed to grow darker and Natsu felt like he was confined. As if the walls were closing in on him and all the pressure that had piled up was coming down on him in this very instant. He couldn't understand. He needed her back.

"You mean everything to me, Luce. I need you," he whispered. Natsu could hear the constant beep of the machine and the footsteps of nurses rushing around in the halls. Not her voice though. Not the thing that he needed to pull him out of this loneliness that he was so afraid of.

"We have so many things to do. We're going to get married remember? It's what you always wanted. What you never shut up about so just wake up!" his voice was raising as everything was beginning to boil within him, coming together in his mind.

He rested his head on her bed, heart breaking in his chest. Natsu knew he was losing her. That soon they would start asking him about turning off the machine. He knew.

The sigh that left him then seemed to contain the last thread of hope that he had. It was nearly time to say goodbye for the very last time and this thought was the final blow. All of the hurt, all of his worries spilled and Natsu sobbed. His tears never seemed to end as he held onto her and told her not to go.

"You… You we're meant to stay by my side. We-We had so many things to do and I just… I just can't lose you! You're everything to me, Luce… Everything."

He could barely breathe as he poured out all of things that had been building up inside of him. The sound of a broken man's cries filled the room as he let go of his bride to be, the love of his life and his partner. Natsu had caved.

sup dudes? I have been writing like crazy lately and am doing so many fic plans! I hope I actually get to produce something worthy for you lovely readers this time :)

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