(Bonus chapter)What could have been…
Author's note:
This is the first of the one shots I talked about in the last chapter and as you can see. It's an Erza and Jellal one. It takes place between The oracion seis and tenrou island. When Jellal is still slowly regaining his memories. He's not fully back yet.
Jellal was used to the silence. Prison was very boring in contrast to what the movies would have you believe. He got the occasional book to read but he never did and nobody ever talked to him.
He hated the silence, when bad memories began to surface and sometimes the images and pain would be so great he felt like he would go insane. Nobody was there to pull him from the horror. He was stuck with the memories of his mistakes.
So he was very surprised and relieved when he heard the soft pats, of boots on the rock floor. He was even more surprised when he heard a soft voice speak to him.
"Jellal?" He looked up surprised.
"Erza?" The wizard smiled at him."Hi."
Jellal took the second of silence to study her. She was dressed in her normal outfit save for her armour. She had her arms crossed under her breasts and there seemed to be something in her hand but he couldn't see what it was.
"Why are you here?" He asked finally. She brushed a strand of red, no Scarlet, hair behind her ear before she held out a small package wrapped in coloured paper.
"Happy Birthday." Jellal blinked.
"Birthday?" He said slowly.
Erza smiled. "Yes, today. June, 10th. Your birthday."
Jellal racked his brains for a second before an old memory resurfaced. The day he and his friends told their birthday.
"Yours is May 19th," He said eventually.
"Correct." Erza said smiling.
"I take it some of your memories are returning."
"Little bits." Jellal answered rubbing his forehead wearily.
"I know I must remember what I have done. I have to remember to feel whole again, but sometimes I wish…" Erza was looking at him with sad curious eyes.
"...Sometimes I wish I could forget."
He stared at her.
"But even if I did. I would be unhappy. Because I would be missing the part of my heart you and my friends stole." Erza pondered what he had said. Then she said.
"Why do you need to forget? You can still remember your pain and regents and be happy." She slipped her present between the bars. Jellal looked at the tiny parcel. When he picked it up, it felt light and flexible like paper.
Curious he unwrapped the present and gasped at its contents.
Staring up at him was Wally, Sho and Millianna. They were smiling with a large beach in the background. He turned it over and found a small message scribbled on the back.
"Hello form Longbeach Erzy Werzy!"
Jellal looked up at Erza who was smiling.
"Why are you giving me this?"
"Because I thought you would like to know that are friends are happy." She said quietly. Jellal's eyes turned sad as he looked at the picture.
"Not all of them." "Do you think Simon would want you to spend your whole life regretting? Moping around in a cell." Erza yelled. She was done being patient. She'd slap the sense into him if she had to.
"Stop, blaming yourself for what happened. The guards say you just sit here all day. You don't read the books the give you. You barely eat. It wasn't your fault!" She grabbed the bars of the cell and the metal creaked under her strength.
"Now stop being a coward and face your future instead of worrying about your past." Jellal hung his head. Erza had enough. She stood up and was about to march out when, Jellal whispered.
"They are happy."
Erza stopped and turned her head. He was looking at the picture again and gently traced over it with his fingers.
"Are you happy Erza?" Erza stayed silent for a time. Eventually she whispered. "I am." Then Jellal sat back and glanced up at her.
"Then I shall try to be happy too." He said with a small smile on his face. Erza felt her eyes water slightly but she blinked away the tears.
On the way back to the guild all she could think was.
"In another place, at another time. That foolish boy would have stolen my heart right out from under me."
Then she glanced back and whispered.
"What am I thinking? He already stole it long ago."
Author's note:
I know it's short but I hope you like it.
Tell me if you want to see more like this. Also I checked the wiki's and Jellal and Erza's birthday's aren't there as far as I can tell. So I too the position of the first letter of their name and surname to get the numbers. So don't be harsh. If you know their actually birthdays tell me and link the source.
Until next time!
Ninja-Cat sif.