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Title: Love At First Sight

Secret Title: Pirate Love

Summary: Wendy is a princess forced to be married at the age of 18. It wouldn't be a problem for her if she had fallen in love with her fiance, but alas fate is not too kind. Determined to runaway to chose her own love, she runs into a nice man who rescues her from her guards. Thinking this man is her one true love, she decides to escape with him. She had no idea that her true love was a no good pirate.


Chapter Thirty-Four

Forgiveness


"Wendy?"

Wendy moans and curls up into a tighter ball, not wanting to wake up yet. She hears a handsome voice chuckle and then she's being shaken again.

"Wife, wake up. You have to wake up now."

She hums in defiance. Mest sighs and leans down, pressing a small kiss against the side of her head. He lays another one on her cheek, and Wendy tilts her head up slightly, so he could lay one on her lips now.

"The water is going to get cold if you don't get up."

She moans as she opens her eyes, seeing her husband smiling down at her. She raises a hand to rub her eyes, moaning out again as she leans up. Mest has his hand on her back as he helps her to a sitting position. The blanket falls off her chest and she feels bare, but she's too tired to cover herself back up.

"What?" Wendy asks rubbing both her eyes now, "I'm tired Mest. Let me sleep some more."

"I'm sorry love, but we have to get you all cleaned up. Come on."

He holds his hands out for her and Wendy pouts as she climbs into them. Mest picks her up from the bed and walks over to the brass tub in the corner of the room. He made a couple of trips to the kitchens to fill it with warm water, knowing she needed to wash off once she woke up. It was a tight squeeze, but they fit. Mest put one leg in, letting the warm water relax his muscles, and then the other leg, sinking down into it and positioning Wendy so she could fit. Her eyes open up wide when she feels warm water against her skin and she sighs out, leaning back against Mest chest, enjoying how his arms wrap around her and how their legs intertwine with each other.

"I'm still tired," she mumbles.

She feels the chuckle deep in his chest, "I'm sorry. Would you prefer a cold bath instead?"

Wendy snuggles closer against him, "not really."

They're silent as Mest runs his hands across her body, rubbing his fingers against her stomach, brushing against her breast, hearing her voice hitch as he teases her clitoris. They'll be time for more fun later though, right now the two of them just need to relax and talk.

"Are you okay?" Mest asks, keeping his hands on her stomach now.

Wendy hums and nods her head, "I hardly feel any pain now, just a little soreness."

"I'm glad, but I was actually referring to before... when you ran from me... I'm sorry Wendy. I never meant to make you feel any of those things, I never meant to make you feel as if I didn't love you."

A scowl settles on her face, "Mest, I don't want to ruin this right now-"

"But we need to talk about it."

Wendy closes her eyes and frowns, "I just don't understand why you did it. Why you kept yourself from me? Why you punished me like that? I didn't understand, it was so cruel. I never would have done such a thing to you, and you left me alone for so long."

Her voice cracks and she's moving away from him, splashing the water as she pulls her knees to her chest and hides her face in them. Mest sighs and runs a hand through his hair.

"You know why Wendy-"

"No, I don't Mest!" She screams looking back at him with tear-stained eyes, "I just wanted to help you! You had such a problem the first time, I didn't want you to carry all the burden! I wanted to try and help you feel good! I didn't know how to exactly, so yes I asked for help, and if that bothered you I'm sorry, but we had fun! You kissed me, you found your release, and then you just tossed me aside and left me wanting! You left me alone after sharing something intimate with you!"

Mest stares down at the water, "well what about you? What we do in our room is our business and our business alone. I don't want you talking about it to other people, only to me. You didn't have to worry about anything Wendy! I would have taken care of you! I just needed to wrap my head around things! You deserved to be punish, but it wasn't a punishment at all! You went out and had the time of your life disobeying everything I've ever told you not to do to get back at me!"

"Because you left me and made me feel like I was nothing!"

His eyes widen, "you are never nothing Wendy! I didn't stop loving you, you know that! I didn't divorce you, I just gave us space!"

"And I was just trying to forget the hole you made in my heart by denying me your love!"

"It wasn't like I wanted to! I was suffering as well!"

"Then why didn't you punish me some other way?! Make me scrub the deck with the rest of the girls?! Not let me have desserts for a week?! Why did you have to choose the cruelest thing to do?!"

"Because I was scared of what I would do to you if I touched you again!"

Wendy sniffs, rubbing the tears away from her eyes as she stares at him, "excuse me?"

"You," Mest groans out and splashes his face with water, "I worked so hard to keep my desire for you dormant. I got used to just being able to hold you and kiss you, I didn't need anything else. But then you... you reawaken it and I just..." he growls, "I couldn't stop it. I wanted you, I wanted you there and now, my desire came back at full force and I just didn't want to take you like that. I didn't want to be with you on my ship, being reckless and not thinking, having you scream my name for the whole crew to hear. No, I didn't want that. I was afraid that if I touched you again, if you kissed me, I would just attack you in front of everybody... so I stayed away. I did something terrible to you because I didn't... I didn't want our first time to be like that."

"But that... that doesn't make any sense. The night before that, you were willing to try it on the ship in that same situation."

"I was level headed that night; I was going to make you feel wonderful, but keep you quiet so no one would know. When you tied me up though I realized that wasn't going to happen. I was going to bury myself in you and get lost, I didn't have self-control. I didn't have any last night, why do you think I made you scream my name so much? I wanted you to. I wanted everyone to know who you belonged to and who was making you cry out like that."

"You should have told me, you made me believe-"

"I know, I'm sorry Wendy. All I can say is that I'm sorry and I won't ever do such a thing to you again."

He hurt her so much. She still feels the pain right now, that vast feeling of emptiness where love should have been. He's reaching out for her, but she doesn't want to go. It may have been for her, but she never wanted that. If he would have only told her she would have tried to work with him.

"Wendy, please," he begs.

"This is what I wanted for days, but you ignored me." She whimpers, shaking her head.

A part of her wants to throw himself at him, but another part is still hurting. Still remembering how she cried every night wishing he was there for her. Remembering how she dreamed about sleeping in his arms, only to wake up and find herself alone.

"Don't do the same then, be better than me Wendy."

Wendy takes a shaky breath and scoots back over. Mest's arms are around her in an instant and he's holding onto her tightly, afraid she'll disappear from him. He buries his face in her hair and kisses the top of her head over and over again.

"I'll make it up to you; I swear I'll never do such a thing again. I'm sorry, thank you Wendy." He promises her.

Wendy lets his hold fill that void with warmth and love. She lets go of that anger and loneliness and lets his being consume her.

"I love you Mest," she whispers, because she does. So much.

Mest holds her tighter, "I love you too Wendy."


Everyone is silent when their captain and doctor walk into the dinning room hand and hand. There are smiles on both of their faces and a sigh of relief spreads across everyone.

"All better?" Erza asks.

Mest looks down at Wendy, sees her nod her head, and then looks back over to her, "yup, all better."

There are a couple of cheers and Wendy blushes while Mest scratches the back of his head; he didn't know so many people noticed the way they were acting around each other (in fact every single one of them knew something was up).

"Does this mean the girls and I no longer have to scrub the decks?" Lucy calls out.

Mest glares over at them, "absolutely not."

Lucy flinches, Juvia nudging her gently and shaking her head while other people laugh. The chattering picks up again at the good news and Erza walks over, punching his shoulder.

"You had us all worried, don't fucking do whatever you did to her again."

"I don't know about that Erza, I think Wendy liked what I did to her just a little bit," Mest says giving her a teasing grin.

Wendy's face flusters and she pushes him away, wandering off to get breakfast and join her friends. Mest chuckles as he watches her escape, casting his eyes back on Erza who has an unreadable expression on her face.

"Erza-"

"I don't want to know. Just don't make our doctor that depressed again."

"I won't. You have my full permission to beat my ass if I ever do that again."

"Good, that's what I like to hear, come on then." She grins slapping his back.

"Thanks; so, what happened after we left?"

"Finished unpacking and settling the ship in port. Natsu and I went to the nearest supply store; if you want to settle here for a while we can start the reconstruction on the Vermillion now. Prices were pretty fair, but if there's another place you wanted to sail to first."

"No, this place is fine. Start on construction as soon as possible. I know we're good for a while, but I rather not risk sinking in the middle of nowhere. Vermillion deserves more than that."

Erza smiles and nods her head, "you said it. I guess I'll tell everyone to settle in; it'll be our new home for the next month or so. Sure you can handle being in one place for so long?"

"There's something freeing about not having thirty of your friends all at a close perimeter. I'm sure we'll all enjoy our privacy for a while. I know I will be."

She snorts, "whatever you say Captain. Excuse me."

Yeah, this place will be good. Any place would be good to be with Wendy. She's missed land, so to send her back into the ocean for another week or so would be unfair. Besides... Mest isn't quite finished having fun with her yet. He doesn't think he'll ever be finished, but he does need to teach her how to keep her voice quiet whenever they do it... although he loves hearing her cry out his name. They'll have time to learn, they have plenty of time.

Wendy looks back and Mest catches his eyes. He smirks and a blush appears on her face before she turns back around in her seat.

Yeah, he wants to have a lot more fun with this.