Previously on Stipper Love...

"Why did he let me live?! There's nothing to liv...(SLAP!)

Lucy's Dream continued...

Italic=Lucy

Bold="Boy"

"You..you hit me"

"I'm sorry Luce but you made me do it!"

"Don't be such a baka!"

"You're parents wanted you to be saved!"

"They begged my dad to save you"

"I'm sorry you lost your parents and no I don't know the pain of losing your parents but if I were to lose them"

"I would live my life to the fullest because I know thats what they would have wanted!"

"I know you say you hate my guts but I don't care!"

"There's something about you that urges me to protect you and be by your side"

"I know I barely know you but I feel like you were left alive because we were meant to be together"

"So don't you EVER say you have no one because Luce you have...ME"

The pinkette says with tears in his eyes.

The blond hair girl is speechless.

"Luce I like you...ALOT!"

The pinkette says as he pulls the blond into a hug. She hestiates at first but then hugs back.

"Thank you"

"No problem Luce"

They smile at each other and spend the rest of their day learning more about each other.

The sun was starting to set and Natsu needed to head home.

The boy pulls out a small box and hands it to the blond

"Here Luce"

"What is it?"

"Its a gift to symbolize our friendship"

"Open it"

Lucy opens the small box to reveal a necklace that has gold dragons shaped as a heart with their tails wrapped together.

"I love it!"

"I'm glad you do Luce"

"Here let me put it on for you"

"Okay"

The boy puts the necklace around her neck.

"Luce?"

"Yes"

"I really do like you"

"I like you too"

"Will you promise me something?"

"Of course"

"Promise me you'll always live your life to the fullest and also when we grow up will you marry me?"

The pinkette asks with a blush

Lucy looks shocked but she says

"yes" with a slight blush.

The boy smiles a toothy grin and kisses her forehead.

"Bye Luce"

"I'll be back tomorrow"

"Bye I'll be waiting for you"

The boy smiles and leaves.

Unfortunately, the pinkette NEVER returns.

Lucy waited and waited but he NEVER came back!

End Flashback*

3rd POV:

Lucy awakens being surrounded by a worried Natsu and Wendy.

"Luce!"

"Lucy san!"

"You're okay!" They say in unison

Lucy shows no emotion as she turns to look at Natsu with hazy eyes.

Natsu gulps at her glare.

"Umm Luce listen about...(Lucy interrupts)

"Natsu"

(Gulp)

" Yes Luce"

"Have you and I met before?"

Natsu's POV:

"Luce what do you mean?"

"I mean Natsu call me crazy but I feel as though we've met before"

"I thought I was the only one that felt that way" I said to myself.

Lucy's POV:

I continue to stare at Natsu looking into his onyx eyes for a sign that he feels the same thing.

My mother used to say that the eyes are the windows to the soul.

"I really don't know Luce" he says but his eyes tell me different

I then remember the necklace the little boy gave me.

"Natsu"

"Hmm.."

"Do you remember this?"

I stick my hand down my hospital gown

Natsu blushes while Wendy tries to hide her flushed face.

I pull out the necklace that hung around my neck that I always hid.

It was the exact necklace from my dream

Natsu gasps at the necklace

Natsu's POV:

I see Luce put her hand down her hospital gown and I immediately start to blush.

She pulls out this necklace with two dragons gold & silver shaped into a heart with their tails wrapped together.

I gasp when I start to remember a memory I had forgotten

"Luce where did you get that necklace?"

"There was a boy who saved me from committing suicide.

"He told me to live my life to the fullest!"

"He gave me this necklace to symbolize our friendship"

Each word brings me back to that forgotten memory

"He told me he would come back but he never returned."

"Even after I was released from the hospital I left my information where to find me but I NEVER saw that boy again! She sobbed.

"That's it!"

"I knew there was something about Lucy from the moment I first saw her at Fairy Tail that there was something that drew me to her and I knew it wasn't just her hot body" I thought to myself.

I slowly walk up to her and pull her into a hug and she sobs on my shoulder.

"Luce I WAS that little boy!"

She looks up at me and smiles.

"I knew it Natsu"

"I just knew it!"

"I can't believe all this time you were that little girl!"

I hug her even tighter not ever wanting to let her go again!

Lucy/Natsu's POV:

"I thought I never would see you again!"

"All this time you were her/him"

"I finally found you!"

3rd POV:

Lucy and Natsu continue to embrace one another sobbing into each others arms.

Wendy smiles at her brother and his girlfriend in awe.

"Well I'll leave you two love birds alone then" she says before she leaves she turns over her shoulder and says "You're being released tomorrow as long as you don't go into another cardiac arrest.

She leaves the room before Lucy could respond.

"I'm glad you found a girl better than that mean bitch Lisanna Onii-san" she says to herself.

Natsu/Lucy's POV:

"I love you"

We press our lips together and share a passionate kiss.

End Chapter 13

Originally written/published: 4/16/16