Close to me
Chapter 41: Chapter 41
Close to me
Category : Anime Fairy Tail
Author : MisZ Anarchy
Language : English
Rating : M
Disclaim – Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima.
Chapter 41
"I don't know why this has happened, but I probably deserve it, I tried to do my best, but you know that I'm not perfect " Powfu – Death bed
I sigh as I walk to the back office, not to sure who would be there or if I would only find the door closed. It has been a busy week and my focus was all over. We have been doing strange hours all week and it was like we never got a chance to get to the office because we worked outside.
The back office is silent as I approach it and it almost seems that there is no one there but to my surprise both Captain Cana and Lucy's door is still open. I walk to Cana's office first and as I knock, I pop my head into the room as I see her busy typing on her laptop. She looks to me and she smiles. "Hey Natsu," she says with a smile as she turns to me.
"Hey Cana. How are you?" I greet as I move more into the office and sit on the chair opposite to the door, looking into Lucy's office. It almost seems eerie and vacant.
"I'm good and how are you, you guys have been so quiet lately." Cana says as she looks to me and I finally face her. I sign knowing what she said was completely true but there was nothing we could do about that.
"Work. You know…" I reply and to this she gives out a soft giggle and nod her head.
"Of course. I wanted to tell you about some stuff you guys need to look at…" Cana goes quiet as she turns to her laptop, she scrolls on her mouse as she looks through her documents. I notice a stir in Lucy's office and turn my attention back to the doorway. I hear a nose and then steps and then I see her. She was looking at the ground as she went, earphones plugged in as she silently moves forward and then turns, not once looking up to see me or anything in front of her. I furrow my brows and turn back to Cana who is still busy on her laptop, looking for whatever it is that she is looking for. It takes a while and soon I hear steps making their way back again and I just see the silhouette of Lucy as she walks into her office. Not even a words.
"Cana, I'll be right back." I say as I rise to my feet and I watch and see Cana just nod her head and she continues to scroll. I walk slowly towards Lucy's office and I knock once before stepping in but I know for a fact that she wouldn't hear me because she was listening to her music, I take another step into the office and turn to where she is seated. She is whole heartedly typing away on her computer and does not even notice that I am there. I look to her face as her eyes focusses on her keyboard and I take another step forward.
I make my way over to her and stand next to her, watching thee words that she is typing on the screen, she seemed so zoned in that I almost felt bad for disrupting her because when I placed my hand on her shoulder she calmly looks up and her eyes meet mine as she blinks and then her hands stops moving over the keyboard and she slowly moves to remove her earphones. Her eyes lock with mine.
Once her earphones are out she places them on the table she takes a breath. "Hey…" Her reply held no emotion as the word left her mouth, and her eyes held no shine as she looks to me. I take a step closer and I place my arm around her sitting form in a half ass attempt to hug her.
"Hey Luce, how are you?" I ask as I look down her, she makes no effort to return the hug and this makes me feel uneasy, like something happened to her and things has finally changed. I feel my resolve slipping and I find myself nervous.
"I'm okay and you?" she asks as I finally remove my arm from her as it looked like she didn't like it that I was embracing her. I take a step back and I really look at her. There was no smile on her lips, no sparkle in those eyes.
"Why don't I believe you?" I say as I raise an eyebrow and I feel awkward as I stand there looking at her. But there is a hint of a smile to her lip as I say thing and she shakes her head from side to side. "What's going on?" I find myself asking and I give her a more serious look.
She sighs as she sits back in her seat and she looks forward as she sighs again. There is a humourless laugh that leaves her lips. "It's just stupid shit." She says, blowing out another breath of air. I could see that something was weighing heavily on her but it also seemed like she was having an inner battle on whether or not to talk or not.
We hear footsteps and I furrow my eyes but I take this as a hint and walk towards Aries table and take a seat at her desk and soon the footsteps approaches us and Laxus enters the office. He looks to me then to Lucy who gives him a smile and he just nods his head. "Yes, what are you two up too?" he asks walking over to Erza's table and taking a seat.
"I was actually talking to Cana when I saw Lucy and wanted to greet her." I say as I pull out my phone and I scan over the screen to see if I have any new messages. "I haven't seen her since the barbeque." I say and I glance to Lucy as she looks to me and she smiles. "So what's up?" I ask and I look to Laxus who seems nonchalant as he smiles over to Lucy.
"Not much. Just had to take care of something." Lucy replies and I frown as I still don't know why they left in such a hurry that night and where she had been for the previous week. "But it is somewhat sorted now." She replies and I raise an eyebrow.
"What was the problem?" I asks as I see Laxus recline in Erza's chair as he looks to me then Lucy.
Lucy sits completely still for a moment as it looks like she is mulling it over in her head what she was going to say. But I could see that she didn't want to talk at all about this. It was exactly like that one day when I found her crying. But yet today she wasn't crying, she was just not showing emotion at all.
"Don't sweat it, just a family problem." She says as she gives a smile and yet again I can see that it's not a real smile but Laxus doesn't notice this. He accepts this fake ass smile and just nods his head. Maybe he already knew what the problem was. "But it is sorted now." She says and I don't know Lucy was just being Lucy and she was being extra mysterious.