Chapter fourteen:

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Erza had been defeated. The likes of this had never happened before. The enemy had made use of her weakness. Lucy.

The moment she appeared where the lacrima brought her, she was chained and imprisoned. Most likely they had predicted when she would come. On top of that, she saw Lucy. The girl was bruised and chained to a wall, a knife on her throat.

The lacrima had consumed her magic – magic that still was upset from the invading power yesterday. There was no way to tell how it would react if she used it. Nonetheless, she tried. She tried her best and fought hard, but it was no use. It seemed like it was cut off.

Like someone had cut it off. But she didn't want to think of that right now. She was sitting on a bed, in a one-person's cell. She didn't know who did this or why, but she didn't really care. She needed to get Lucy to safety.

Looking at the door, she noticed it was made of solid steel. Even so, maybe she could get through. But guards and other obstacles would be there. She had to find out where Lucy was first.

Far away, she could hear a cell being opened and closed after a while. Then again, again and again. Three more times, each time closer. They were probably coming to interrogate them. Finally some answers to her questions.

The door next to her opened, and it stayed like that for almost twenty minutes. The voices steadily grew louder and louder, and eventually she heard someone scream something, but she couldn't make out the words. A few minutes later, it was dead silent.

The door closed. Her door opened. A man, a normal man in civilian clothes and a black eye stepped in.

"Welcome to the Camp, Miss Scarlet." He said in a deep voice.

"Where is Lucy?" was the first thing she asked. The man frowned, this wasn't something they were supposed to ask.

"Lucy Heartfilia?" he chuckled. "Beats me."

"Tell me where she is." She was getting in her dangerous mode. But the truth was, she couldn't do anything. And that frightened the hell out of her. She was powerless.

"No." the man flatly refused. He seemed to be careful with her, however, and gave a hint. "She's in the same building as you, don't worry. This is a prison, built to keep mages in. Don't you like it?" he smiled.

"Why are you keeping me here?"

"Isn't it obvious? Because of what you are. We know you can't help it, and we'll be sure to cure that disease. We're here to help you on the right path." He said it almost convincingly.

"Of what I am? You're going to un-mage me, or what?"

"No, no. There's nothing wrong with being a mage. Just think about it. I'll come back later and I expect you to have the answer then. Alright?"

Erza said nothing anymore. She already knew the answer. This was a conversion camp.

They thought she and Lucy and others were sick. But how did they know about them? They were a couple since yesterday, officially. Nobody knew. Unless you count Mira and Jellal in. That was wrong. There was one other person who knew about his and must've heard about Aaron's death.

Jude Heartfilia.

That was impossible. But after all that Lucy told her and what she'd seen herself, she corrected herself. It was possible.

She heard some mumbling outside. Her ear pressed against the door, she could barely understand it.

"…blonde and redhead…most trouble…"

"…powerful…Black eye, damn it!..."

"…Method to… Heartfilia?"

"Not yet… week? It'll…redhead, too. Ha!"

"Why…next to each…"

"No clue…bound to be irksome…Let's…company, huh?"

"Hahaha….need permission?"

"Haha. We'll… without. Tonight."

The conversation died out when the cell next to her was opened. Erza sank to the floor. If she got anything of that conversation, Lucy was next to her in the cell and delivered a black eye to one of the guards. And there was going to happen something tonight.

She leaned against the stone cold wall next to her, noticing the poor quality and holes in the wall. One was big enough so she could put a hand through!

"Lucy?" she whispered into the gap.

"Erza? Is that you?" she heard someone respond. It was Lucy alright!

"Yes, it's me. How are you?" Erza asked.

"Fine. I got some information from the guy that came in."

"Spill. We don't have time to waste."

"We're in "The Camp". It's a lesbian conversion camp. My own father funded this. This prison, it's made out of magical seal stones, so we can't use magic. That's about it, I think."

"Hiro, Lucy. We have to escape."

"How? We can't simply get out. Erza, did you send a note to Mira?"

"I did. How do you know?"

"They thought it was mine, so showed it and burned it. Nobody knows we're here."

Erza sighed. Her trump card was burned.

"Lucy, you can get out if you're straight, right?"

"I suppose."

"So become straight. There's still part of you that wants that, am I right? To be like the majority. So do it. Escape and get help. It's our only chance." Erza pleaded. At least Lucy would be out of here.

"What? No! I could never do that."

"It's our only chance." Erza repeated. She stuck her hand indeed through the hole. Lucy quickly found it and kissed it.

"Erza, I can't simply deny that I am in love with you. I won't deny it, no matter what!"

"Lucy, please. How else are we going to get out of here?"

"I don't know. Give me a while, okay? I need to think."

"Okay." Erza said. Maybe Lucy could get a better plan. It was beyond her. She kept holding Lucy's hand through the small gap, cherishing the warmth and closeness of Lucy.

After a while, Lucy squeezed her hand. "I got something. Loke knows what's going on, so he'll tell Fairy Tail where we are. We can make it that way."

Erza mumbled, unsatisfied. They didn't know where they were, or when Fairy Tail would come.

"Alright. In the meanwhile, let's be careful, okay? Escape and run at any chance you see." She could feel Lucy nod.

A bell rung. The cell doors were opened. Erza loosened unwillingly he hand and stepped out of the cell. She looked around, confused. Other girls were just as confused as she was, walking out and looking around.

Lucy appeared next to her. Erza could barely restrain herself. Lucy's lip was bleeding, an obvious sign someone had hit her. She walked over to Lucy and touched her lip gently.

"Did they hurt you?" Erza asked softly, her eyes scanning the rest of her body.

"Yeah, that was because I hit one of them." Lucy smiled. Erza smiled back and looked into those warm brown eyes, then, before she knew what she was doing, softly kissed Lucy. The blonde kissed back for the sweetest of seconds, before she quickly shoved Erza away.

"Guard is coming to us." She said a little nervous. "It's the one I hit." Erza could see the black eye from far and stood protectively in front of Lucy.

"Hey!" the tall man shouted. "Such sick activities are prohibited! Now, because I'm a nice guy, I won't-"

"Nice guy?" Erza asked furious. "Don't you dare touch my girlfriend again!" then she punched the man in his bad eye, hard. He was lifted from the ground and flew a few metres further. The other guards had spotted this and surrounded the two of them. Lucy and Erza were standing back to back now.

The looked a little insecure and afraid. Not knowing what to do, until the man crawled back and gestured to the two girls. Everyone was looking.

"We'll get these two to the director. Lead the rest to their sessions." He said, and chained the two to himself. He brought them through a few hallways, until they reached a mahogany door. He unchained himself and pushed them through.

The man in the desk was the one Erza expected, and Lucy feared to see. Jude Heartfilia.

"Ah, Lucy, Scarlet-san. I already heard you two were brought in an hour ago. Lready causing trouble?" he asked, cold and hard.

"Father." Lucy's voice was just as cold as Jude's. "Why did you do this?"

"I heard from the growing members of gay people coming out, and it disgusted me. It was even more painful when I heard it from my own daughter. So I realized, I should do something for all those poor parents and our society. That's why I funded this institute. I personally ordered you two to come here." His eyes were now filled with hatred and venom.

He wanted revenge on Erza for what happened at the mansion and his daughter back. But he couldn't win this.

"Now, I see you broke some rules here. I think one of you should be punished, and the other can feel guilty about it. Yes, Scarlet-san, you will be punished. No food for a week and you will follow method number thirty-six."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Erza quirked an eyebrow, unimpressed.

"Method number thirty-six of the fifty methods we found to cure the disease. The higher the number, the more painful it is. You will be tortured, I believe."

"You can't do that! you can't!"

Jude's eyes were harder and colder than stone. "I was planning to let you go, but now I realize my own daughter should be cured even faster. Method number fifty will suffice. Have a nice day." He went back to his papers and ignored them completely. The guard that brought them there led them back. His eye was enormously swollen and already various tints of green, yellow, blue and black. Part of it was bleeding.

"I heard that. it's a shame to lose you both so soon. Me and my buddies were planning on sneaking in at night, you know." Hi sighed and didn't notice the utter disgust in their faces. "Ah well, pity. Maybe if you're still alive after it?" he laughed and brought them in a room where a circle of people were talking. Group therapy?

"This is method number five. Confrontation." He explained and pushed them inside.

The leading mean quickly welcomed them both and invited them to sit down.

"So, as I was saying, this is a therapy, meaning you should share something about why you don't like men or like girls. I will show you the right path to get out of here."

Lucy and Erza looked at each other. Here spoke a man who honestly thought he was doing a good thing and trying to help. What could they do against such a person?

Someone put her hand up.

"Sir, I am religious. My religion says love can overcome anything. That must include origin, time and genders too, right?

The man smiled kindly. "Well, they don't mean genders, Alicia. If so, God would have made one gender instead of two."

"Sir, if men can love women, why can't women love women too? Is that some men logic?"

"No, no. it's just wrong-"

"But sir, you taught us we are all free. Why aren't we free to choose who we love?"

"And you said it yourself you can't help who you fall in love with, so we can't help it we're like this, right?"

"And, sir-"

"STOP!" the man's patience was finally over. "it's wrong what you feel, because it isn't meant to be. You're all sick, and I'm trying to help you, but if you reject my help, there's nothing I can do for you. Look at those two girls here. They're here for a day, but have already admitted of being in love with each other. They fought and now they're getting torture and that. Is that what you want too?"

"So it's okay if someone hits your friend?"

"They didn't hit her because they were friends. They're girlfriends. That's why you're all here. You can get out of this hell if you just cooperate." He sighed with deep pity. "The session is over. You can all go on with method number six. Good luck."

The man called for the guards. They were brought in their cells again, left to think about the session. Lucy and Erza grabbed each other's hand once again.

"That was some session, huh?" Lucy said.

"Yes, I never expected them to put up so much fight." Erza said.

"Erza, I'm afraid of what'll happen next. What are they going to do? If I do change-"

"You won't. You can get through this. I know you can."

"But I want to say – "

"Don't." Erza cut in. "Save it for when we're out of here. Alright?"

"Alright. I want to see you once more before they're taking me."

Erza sighed. Lucy really was frightened. Maybe she should blast a hole through the wall. "Lucy, stand back."

With a pen she stole from Jude's office, she found a weak point in the corner of the wall and stuck it in. With one kick, cracks appeared. A second kick, and a hole, where she could get through was open. With plenty of luck, nobody would notice.

Erza crawled through. But she was slammed against a wall again when someone hugged her with all her might.

"Lucy, it's going to be okay."

"I never thought my father would really do this. And I think I know what they're going to do to me." She said in Erza's shoulder.

"They're going to brainwash me, Erza. After that, I'll hate you or everyone I knew."

"Shhh." Erza comforted her. She herself was scared, too, but she couldn't let it show. Not now.

"I'll get us out of here. Or Fairy Tail will. It'll be over soon." She said. But being this powerless and insecure, she didn't even know. Their lines had been cut off. Fairy Tail, magic power, anything, it was no use.

Not knowing what would come next, this was possibly their last moment alone. Erza lifted Lucy's head to look into her eyes. She loved her so much.

Lucy pressed Erza harder against the wall. She kissed her hard, and it was desperate and needy, wild and uncontrolled, and Erza let it happen. The only thought in her was; this could be our last moment together.

But after a while, Lucy stopped on her own. "Sorry. I'm just…"

"I know." Erza said. She smiled sadly at Lucy and crawled back to her own cell. They sat there for a long time, looking at each other, smiling and still being sad, holding hands and every now and then sharing a sweet, long kiss.

Until the guards came to get Lucy. She didn't put up a fight, but left the cell with her head held high and Erza was proud of her. After this, Lucy might not know her anymore. And the last look the blonde gave her, broke her heart. She was asking forgiveness for what was yet to come, but before Erza could do something back, she was gone.

Until Lucy came back, she had to wait patiently. Her mind was plotting ways to escape, but they all depended on something. She could probably get out on her own, but wouldn't leave Lucy for anything. Either Lucy came back unharmed and they could escape together and destroy the fort later, or they had to wait for Fairy Tail.

There was nothing she could do for now.

End of chapter fourteen!

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