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My father slammed me against the wall, which was normal for me. This time was a bit different though. This time, I twisted my leg and fell. To help pull myself upright, I put my hand on the wall and pulled myself up. Moments after placing my hand on the wall, there was a sharp pain going through my right hand.

My eyes widened and I opened my mouth, but no noise came out. Tears rolled down my face. I was just about to grab the knife that was holding my hand in place, when my father grabbed it and yanked it back out of my hand. I held my right hand in my left hand, as the blood pooled up in my palm.

The time changed in my dream. The first part, I was fifteen. Now, I was seventeen.

I was in the basement of my old home. My father's friend, Zancrow, was there holding a baseball bat, while my father was probably upstairs. My back was pressed against the wall, and I had tears rolling down my face, along with blood dripping off the edges of my face.

"Get the hell away from me..." my voice was shaky.

Zancrow just simply smiled and swung the baseball bat at me, knocking me on the ground. I let out a slight scream, and pulled myself back to my feet, only to get knocked down again.

Quickly sitting up in bed, I woke up screaming. It was midnight, so only a few nurses and the other patients would hear me. My heart rate was high, and the machine was beeping rapidly. I clutched the bed sheets tightly in my hands. Tears poured down my face, and I roughly wiped them away.

Nurses came rushing into the room, trying to calm me down. Instead of calming down, I became more panicked, and I didn't know why.

"Wait, everyone back up!" one of the nurses ordered.

The others did as told, but glared at her.

"We have to calm her down, or we could lose her!" another nurse snapped.

"Yeah, but she could easily injure us badly." the first nurse replied.

"Get the hell away from me!" I shouted, repeating what I had said to Zancrow in my dream. I began to whimper, but my voice gradually became loud again, "Get away... Get away... Get away!" my arm lashed out, and I knocked over one of the machines.

My mind went back to when Ultear had been in my hospital room.

'How's Jellal doing?'

'He's fine, and worried about you.'

I froze, then eventually laid back down. My breathing gradually became even again, and my heart rate went back to normal. Quietly, I stared up at the ceiling, while nurses were still trying to take in what had just happened. They slowly began to pick up the mess I had made, and some of them stood up off the ground. Turns out, I had knocked over more than one machine, and a couple of nurses onto the ground. Whoops.

The nurses began to quietly talk amongst one another, while I just laid there and listened. I couldn't make out the words that they were saying, it just sounded how it sounds when there's a lot of people in one space and they're all talking at one time. That's how it sounded to me, at least. I could hear one voice clearly though. The voice was quiet, and near. I was whispering to no one at all. Just whispering.

"I don't want to be here... I want to go home..." I repeated.

After a while, the nurses gradually left. I didn't fall back to sleep though. I couldn't. Suddenly I heard an all too familiar voice. One I never wanted to hear again.

You deserve this.

"I know that, you asshole!" I looked down at my shaky hands. One of the machines started beeping faster, but I was too distracted to care.

You're weak, Erza.

"Shut up! I know that!" I retorted loudly, a couple of tears rolling down my face.

You prove that to yourself every day, don't you?

I buried my face in my hands, "Yes! Now shut up!"

Suddenly, the door opened, and I noticed Ultear coming to see what was wrong. She must have heard the machines blaring a warning, and came to see if I was okay.

"Erza?" Ultear came to my side, "Stop panicking, or Jellal will worry, and he's annoying when he worries about you."

I shook my head and whimpered, "Make them stop..."

"Make who-" Ultear stopped mid-sentence, her face changing, and she only muttered, "Oh,"

I glanced up at her, and opened my mouth to respond, but couldn't find a response.

"So…" Ultear mumbled awkwardly before continuing, "Are you going to calm down? For Jellal?"

"For Jellal...?" I whispered, sounding confused.

"Do you want him to worry about you?" Ultear asked me.

I hesitated, then shook my head, "No, Jellal can't worry... He can't."

"He won't, as long as you stay calm. I can stay here with you, if that helps," Ultear offered.

I nodded, "Please."

Just as Ultear was about to lay down nearby, her phone started ringing. She sighed, pressing a button on the phone and fully laying down.

"Meredy will call again if she-" Ultear was cut off by her phone ringing once more.

With a sigh, Ultear answered her phone, "Yeah, Meredy?"

There was a long pause and I could only faintly hear Meredy, not able to make out any words.

"What!" Ultear yelled, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

I looked to Ultear, concerned. What was so frightening that not only Meredy would call twice, but Ultear would yell at her? I stared at Ultear, silently trying to force her to tell me. She looked over, and likely saw panic in my eyes.

"I did not ignore the call!" Ultear lied, shaking her head at me. Why wouldn't she tell me? After a few more brief sentences, Ultear hung up.

"What is it?" I asked, seeing panic in Ultears eyes'. Was somebody hurt?

"N-Nothing." Ultear stammered, "I have to go,"

"If it's nothing, why do you need to go?" I pointed out, "Also I might have a panic attack if you leave without telling me…"

"T-Too bad!" she turned around, almost running out the door. I yelled after her, and when she didn't stop, I started to tug on the machines. What was going on?

(Ultear's POV)

I went to lay down on the small couch of the hospital room. Suddenly, my phone went off and with a glance I noticed it was Meredy. Why would she call me now? I simply hit ignore, wanting rest.

"Meredy will call again if she-" I started to mutter, but my phone started ringing again. Meredy again? What, did someone die?

Sighing, I answered my phone, "Yeah, Meredy?"

"I overheard some doctors nearby and-" Meredy paused to breathe, "Jellal is missing. He isn't in his hospital room, and nobody remembers seeing him. To make things worse, the security cameras' are broken!"

"What!" I yelled at her, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

Hearing movement nearby, I turned to see Erza, panic in her round eyes.

"You ignored the call!" Meredy complained.

"I did not ignore the call!" I lied while shaking my head at Erza. Telling her that her beloved Jellal was missing might give her a heart attack or something. Let alone a panic attack!

"Hurry up, okay?" Meredy commanded, "Go to F.T.B.I, or something!"

"Okay," I sighed, "Thanks for telling me, Meredy."

"What is it?" Erza asked right after I hung up, not caring that I just shook my head.

"N-Nothing." I stammered, "I have to go,"

"If it's nothing why do you need to go?" She rightfully pointed out, "Also I might have a panic attack if you leave without telling me…"

"T-Too bad!" I stuttered, not wanting her to panic, but not able to avoid it. Just great. I turned around quickly and fled, not waiting to hear Erza's reply.

Crap! She better not panic too much… Damn it!

(Erza's POV)

What the hell was going on? Not once have I ever heard Ultear yell at Meredy, that is until now. Ultear refused to give me information, and risked giving me another panic attack, which I was close to having. The only way I haven't had a panic attack yet, is because if something really bad happened, I was certain that Jellal would at least let me know that I'd be okay. Right?

Nope. He'd tell me anyways. No matter how bad it was.

I felt my body start to slightly shake. One of the machines started beeping faster as panic soaked its way into my soul. Although, I didn't want anymore nurses or doctors to come into the room. Not at all.

Quickly, I had to calm myself down. I had to. Maybe Jellal was sleeping, and Meredy and Ultear didn't want to disturb him. Yeah, that's what it was.

The beeping machine gradually began beeping at an even rate again, and my shaking body slowly slipped into a slight tremble.

Jellal was fine. He was just sleeping. Yes, he was sleeping. Ultear and Meredy were overreacting too.

I nodded to myself.

Yup. That's what it was. Everything was an overreaction, and Jellal was sleeping.

'Someone's in denial,' a voice from my past sneered.

"No I'm not," I argued, folding my arms across my chest.

'You deny everything,'

"Do not," I retorted, "I just don't like facing reality sometimes…"

'Sounds like denial to me,'

I started to hallucinate, and saw an apparition of one of the girls that had bullied me in High School. She had light blonde hair that was pulled to the side into a braid, green eyes, and was dressed how I remembered her from school.

"Well, what do you know?" I replied, sticking my tongue out at the apparition.

'I know more than you do,' she retorted.

"Nuh-uh! You do not," I responded.

She smirked, 'Denial… Again,'

"I am not in denial, so shut up," I muttered.

She chanted, 'Denial… Denial… Denial...'

"You're really annoying..." I groaned.

'Says the annoying one,' she retorted.

"I'm not annoying, you are," I muttered.

'Denial. Again,' she replied.

"It's not denial, it's the truth," I mumbled, "Why are you here anyways?"

She let out a slight laugh, 'Idiot,'

"Shut up..." I groaned.

'I don't think so!' she responded.

"Yes, you're annoying..." I grumbled.

She only let out a small laugh, 'I wonder why your friend left you here...'

"You should go find out," I replied.

'I'd ask Jellal, but he's hurt...' she muttered.

"No he isn't, he's sleeping," I retorted.

'Or is he? You don't know...' she taunted.

"Too bad, I do now," I retorted.

'Ha! No you don't!' she laughed.

"Shut up, I do!" I shouted.

Her apparition suddenly disappeared without a response.

"What the hell?" I asked, "Don't just leave!"

That's when I noticed that the door to my room was closing. I looked to the side, and saw Meredy.

"Who were you talking to?" she asked, curiosity shining in her eyes.

"Uh... I don't remember her name," I answered, "And why do you get to walk around too? You were in the fire for a long time..."

"Um... The doctors don't know I'm walking around, but I heard you shout so I decided to come check on you," she mumbled, then spoke a little louder, "So... The person you were talking to, what did she look like?"

"A bitch," I answered.

Meredy laughed, "You didn't like her?"

"Not at all. She was being mean, and saying Jellal was hurt. He isn't. Nope, not at all," I muttered.

"Nope!" Meredy nodded, looking away, "He's fine... I just checked on him too! He, uhh, said he misses you. Yeah... That."

I smiled, "I miss him too... This place is really boring..."

"It is," she agreed, "Well, I should go... People might notice I'm gone... Yeah..."

"Okay... Tell Ultear not to completely ditch me next time," I mumbled.

"Oh..." she nodded starting to walk away, "I will? Bye!"

"Bye!" I waved to her.

Back to boringness. Me, in a hospital room, alone. Boring. Boring, boring, boring.

(Ultear's POV)

Currently, I was at FTBI. Sadly, Jellal wasn't there. Shit. Where else would he be? This whole time, I've been hoping he wasn't in danger. I suddenly saw Mira.

"Mira! Have you seen Jellal?" I asked quickly.

"Isn't he supposed to be at the hospital?" she asked, "Wait... Aren't you supposed to be at the hospital?"

"Yes, but Meredy found out Jellal wasn't there, so I decided to look for him," I explained quickly, "So? Have you seen him, or not?"

"Well if I thought he was in the hospital, I obviously haven't seen him," Mira pointed out.

"True... I hate you now. You suck," I replied.

Mira just simply smiled, "Does Erza know yet?"

"No, she doesn't, and she won't find out because we will find Jellal and take him back to the hospital!" I answered loudly, and quickly.

"Okay, calm down. Let's go upstairs, and see if we can force... I mean... Get some of the others to help us look for Jellal." Mira replied, grabbing my arm, and dragging me towards the elevator.

When we got to the top floor, we were surprised to see that only Lucy, Natsu, and Gray were there.

"Where is everybody?" Mira asked.

Gray, Natsu, and Lucy looked back at us.

"You're supposed to be in the hospital," Gray scolded.

"That's not important. Jellal is missing, he's not in the hospital, and the cameras at the hospital are all broken." I quickly explained.

"Still, you could've just called," he pointed out, "But anyways, you're here why? I mean... I'm sure you've realized that you and Mira are the only other ones here..."

"To force- I mean make- I mean ask you to help us find Jellal. We can't have Erza find out he's missing," I responded.

"First of all... You don't mean ask, you mean force. Second of all, it's a good idea to not let Erza find out," Gray agreed.

"It's a hospital... Surely somebody would've seen him leaving," Lucy commented.

"Well nobody did," I snapped, then forced myself to calm down, "I'm sorry... Jellal is a really good friend of mine, and it's strange when I don't know where he is."

Lucy nodded in understanding, "So... Who's making sure Erza doesn't kill anyone?"

"Uh... Meredy was... Now, nobody..." I mumbled.

Mira sighed, "Gray, go to the hospital, and keep her company."

"Why me?" he asked.

Mira and I glared at him, "Do it, now!"

"Okay... Okay... What I meant to say is, I barely know her, yet you expect me to keep her from killing someone?" Gray corrected himself.

"Well with our luck, I'd probably get sent back to my hospital room, she wouldn't listen to Lucy or Natsu, and Mira can't go because she needs to help me," I replied.

"Fine, I'll go..." he mumbled, then went to the elevator.

My attention snapped to Natsu, "You can't leave Lucy's side at all, got it?"

"Got it...?" he sounded confused.

"Good-" I started, but got interrupted by my phone ringing. It was Gray. I answered my phone, "What do you want?"

"What's my excuse for why I'm visiting her?" he asked.

"Seriously? You aren't creative enough to come up with one on your own?" I asked, annoyance ringing in my voice, "Say I forced you to because you were annoying me, or that you're just being a good friend!"

I hung up before he could respond.

"Well then..." Mira mumbled.

I shrugged, "He was acting like an idiot..."

"Okay, so where do we start?" Mira asked, changing the subject.

"Well..." I started.

(Erza's POV)

Obviously, I was already quite a bit out of it, but I could have sworn I had gone crazy when Gray showed up. He looked a bit hesitant to be at the hospital, and I almost thought I was hallucinating again.

"W-what are you doing here?" I stammered in surprise while sitting up.

"Um... Ultear thought I was being too annoying, so she sent me here," he very obviously lied.

"What are you actually doing here?" I asked, folding my arms across my chest.

"Um... Uh..." he hesitated.

"Well?" I looked at him expectantly.

"Um... Ultear wanted to make sure you were okay," he decided.

"The actual reason," my gaze hardened.

Gray took a step back, "U-um..."

I rolled my eyes, "Whatever."

We sat there in an awkward silence for a while. Then I let out a slight laugh.

"I'm surprised you haven't stripped yet," I commented.

"Well... We're at a hospital..." he mumbled.

"So your logic says you can't strip at a hospital, but you can strip at F.T.B.I?" I quizzed.

"Apparently," he nodded.

"Well, I'm going to sleep... You're boring," I mumbled, rolling on my side, pulling at some of the machines, and closing my eyes.

After a long time of silence, I still hadn't fallen asleep. Damn.

"Erza," Gray started, finally coming up with something to say.

"I'm sleeping," I muttered.

"You just responded to me though," he pointed out.

"Nope. I'm sleeping," I shook my head.

"But-"

"I'm still sleeping," I interrupted.

Gray sighed, and gave up on talking to me. I heard the door to my room open.

"Erza!" Wendy exclaimed.

Opening my eyes, I saw Wendy running over to my side.

I smiled, "Hi Wendy."

"Those burns look really painful," she commented.

"They don't hurt too badly..." I responded, not wanting her to worry.

"Oh. What about your cuts?" she asked.

"I barely notice them," I lied. I did notice them. I'm surprised it wasn't obvious that they were really painful. I mean, I got stitches for the one on my face.

She nodded, "Were you trying to sleep when I came in here? I can come back later..."

"No, I was trying to ignore Gray," I replied.

"Mission accomplished," Gray nodded.

"Good, now shush, I'm talking to Wendy," I responded, making Wendy laugh.

Wendy and I talked for a while, but then Wendy's mom came in and said they had to leave.

"Bye," Wendy waved as she left the room.

I turned to Gray, "So what were you going to say before Wendy came in here?"

He gave me a blank look.

"What?" I asked, "I don't feel like ignoring you at the moment."

"It's nothing. Ultear would kill me if I told you, anyways," Gray sighed.

"That's not nice, now I really want to know," I complained.

"No you don't," he replied, "You really don't want to know."

"But I do want to know," I retorted.

"But you don't," he responded.

"I do," I argued.

"You don't," he corrected.

"Yes, I do," I retorted.

"No. I'm positive that you don't want to know," he replied.

"Are you sure you're positive?" I asked, forcing myself not to laugh.

"Yes...?" he responded.

"Congratulations! Now which one are you: a female anything living that isn't a seahorse, or a male seahorse?" I asked.

"Thats not what I meant!" he exclaimed.

"Well that's what I meant when I asked if you were sure you were positive," I commented.

"Why did Ultear make me come here?" Gray muttered, "I highly doubt you'd be this mean to anyone else... Especially judging by your reaction to when Wendy came."

"Why'd Ultear make you come here?" I asked.

"To make sure you don't harm anyone, or yourself," he answered.

I smiled victoriously, "Yes! I finally got a truthful answer out of you!"

"Yes, you did. Now it might be best if you don't ask anymore questions, or I might answer too many of them truthfully, and Ultear could end up killing me," Gray replied.

"Did you know, that you're really boring?" I asked.

"That's not rude..." Gray mumbled.

"But it's the truth," I pointed out.

"Still rude," he corrected.

"I never said it wasn't. I just said it was the truth," I replied.

"Okay then," Gray sighed, "I'll be right back."

He stepped out of the room, and into the hall leaving me in the room alone, whereas the only sound was the steady beeping of the machines.

I groaned, "I wish I could talk to Jellal..."

Gray didn't come back in the room, so I ended up sleeping again.

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