Lucy rubs at her head as we meld into the crowd. Juvia and Grey immediately start dancing. Lucy and I might have a great relationship but Juvia and Grey make everyone around them clear the floor. Part from people just wanting to admire them and partly because who wants to dance next to people like Juvia and Grey? There's just no way to look good next to them.

"We're gonna come over this way." I lead Lucy a few steps into the crowd and leave Juvia and Grey to their spotlight.

"definitely." Lucy agrees, she rubs at her head again.

"You okay?" I ask her.

She nods. "mmhhmm." She wraps her arms around my neck and starts to sway "completely okay."

"Are you sure?" I ask again.

"Yep, one hundred percent I'm okay." She says but her eyes are tight.

"Lucy…" I say.

"Fine…" she sighs "It's just a little baby headache." She smiles at me and the smile is genuine "It's nothing, really."

"You're sure, because we can go outside or I can go grab some Advil or something." I sway with her, her smile softens.

"I took some already, I'm just waiting for it to kick in." She rests her head on my chest. "Everything is okay." She says, "I promise."

She sways completely out of tune with the music. She rubs her forehead against my shoulder and her hands tighten around my neck.

"You're not singing." I note.

"just…" she trails off "just enjoying… time… you." She says. I must have missed some words, the music is loud.

"head ache gone yet?" I ask pulling her more tightly against me. I feel her head nodding against my chest.

"Good, I'm glad… I'd hate for you to be sick on our honey moon." I joke with her. she chuckles and kiss the top of her head.

Time passes in a strange way with Lucy. It's lie time isn't passing and it's like spending a beautiful lifetime with her. She leans heavily into me, she' practically hanging on me now. She gave up on dancing a little bit ago.

"Tired?" I ask her.

"Um… I…" she trails off again. she's usually a little more coherent but she had a headache before too.

"Sit." She say "I need to sit." She hangs on me.

"What's wrong?" I as pulling her against my side as I lead her toward the door.

"My head." her face is contorted into a mas of pain, her hand buried in her hair.

"I thought you said it was better." I help her outside and sit her on the curb. She grabs her head and drops it into her lap.

"I'm sorry." She pants "I'm so sorry, I—" she winces and curls into a ball.

"No, Lucy." I sit beside her "it's okay."

"my head." she whimpers leaning into me.

"Here, I'll get us am Uber home." I take my phone out and open app.

"No, no—" She winces again, her fingers pressing into her head so hard they're turning white.

"hospital." She pants "hospital now."

"Do you want an ambulance?" I rub circles into her back.

"Uber is fine." She forces out.

"Are you sure?" I ask her. She nods and whimpers. I search for the nearest hospital. Lucy is trembling in my hands.

"It's fifteen minutes away." I growl at my phone.

"It's okay." She forces the words out. Her face is hidden from me but her body is so tense she feels more like a statue than Lucy.

"Forget it." I cancel the Uber "I'm calling an ambulance."

"Okay." Her voice is small and stiff and something is wrong, something is really wrong.

"Nine-one-one what is your emergency?"

"Hello." I don't remember dialing the number.

"Hi, yeah my name is Natsu and my girl-wife needs an ambulance." I feel Lucy's hand squeezing mine. I squeeze hers back.

"What's the problem?" The operator asks.

"She has a headache." I say stupidly.

"A headache sir?" the operator asks.

"Yes, a severe headache that is crippling her." I snap "please, I need an ambulance, I think something is seriously wrong with her."

"Alright sir, can you tell me your address?" The operator asks

"A club downtown called The Ball." I tell her, Lucy's hand relaxes.

"Lucy?" I give her hand a squeeze

"We have an ambulance dispatched for you now, sir, they'll be there in a few minutes." The operators voice sounds far away.

"Lucy?" I say again when she doesn't squeeze back. I grab her shoulder and try to pull her up.

"Lucy!" I yell louder than I mean to. Her face is no longer contorted in pain.

"Lucy!" I scream at her so loud my voice breaks. I can hear the sirens somewhere near by.

"Lucy!" her body is no longer tense. I shake her "Lucy, wake up!"

the red and white lights flash and someone grabs me.

"Lucy!" Hands yank me back and white gloves pull her away from me.

"Lucy!" I scream "get off, get off me, Lucy!" I grab at the hands on me, I can hear a voice right next to me but I can't make the words out.

"Lucy!" the white gloves take her. her eyes are closed, she's not stiff but she's still.

"Lucy!" I scream again.

"Sir!" A voice finally break through "She's not stable, you can't ride with her, you can ride with me but you have to calms down." He doesn't look much older than me.

"Okay." I nod and the paramedic pulls me up and ushers me into the car.

"Natsu!" Grey calls to me.

"What's going on?" Juvia finishes.

"Hospital." I say before shutting the door. this paramedic chases the first as it whips through traffic,

"What's wrong with her?" I ask gripping the sides of the car to stay upright.

"Did she fall?" he asks me as he takes a hard right.

"no, we were dancing, she had a headache." People talk about their heart pounding in their chest. They talk about how they see everything or how it passes by in a blur. I feel still and cold. With Lucy, it's always moving and right now everything is still and really cold.

"What your name sir?" the paramedic asks.

"Natsu." I tell him, my eyes on the ambulance Lucy is in.

"is that you wife?" he asks. I nod

"how long have you two been married?" he asks. I glance at the time eleven fifty

100 hours seventeen minutes.

"four days." I tell him "tonight was our honey moon."

He's silent, I don't take my eyes off the ambulance in front of us.

I leap out of the door and chase after Lucy inside but a group of paramedics stops me. I run straight into them, they grab me and push me back. they're talking.

"That's my wife!" I yell "she's my wife, Lucy!" I scream after her "I'm here Lucy, I'm right here!"

"I got it." The paramedic who drove me here leads me through the others and into the building but he steers me away from Lucy.

"What are you doing?" I demand trying to yank free but he's solid should've worked out more with Grey I could kick myself for it now.

"Listen to me." The paramedic grabs me by the shoulders "you can't do anything for her, you wait here and let people do their jobs."

"but she—"

"No." He snaps, interrupting me. "you can't do anything, all the men and woman back there with her, they are doing everything in their power to fix whatever happened, got it, you let them do their jobs and you do yours."

"I'm supposed to protect her!" I yell at him.

"You are." He lets me go "you're here for her, you got her help, now let them help, if you can't do that they're going to kick you out and you don't want to be that far from her." his eyes are stern on me.

I nod. "Okay." I keep nodding.

"Alright, your other friends will probably be here soon." He pats my shoulder "take care, Natsu."

I'm still nodding.

The doctor comes out of the room and walks toward me.

"Can I see her now?" I run up to him "She's okay now, right?" I ask.

"Ms. Culpepper—"

"Dragneel." I correct him "her last name is Dragneel, we just… we just got married a few days ago, we were having a kind of honeymoon celebration" I don't know why I just told him all of that.

"Mrs. Dragneel." His voice seems to thicken at that. "she had been diagnosed with an unruptured brain aneurism when she was ten." He begins.

"A what?" I can hear the words this time but that can't be right, Lucy is healthy, she's always active and doing things.

"A brain aneurysm is a weakness in a blood vessel that fills with blood." The doctor explains.

I shake my head "okay, well, can I see her now?" I ask.

The doctor sighs and places a hand on my shoulder

"When her kind of brain aneurysm erupts it's… fatal." The doctor is watching me. I can't quite understand him.

"Can I see her now?" I ask again "is she awake so I can talk to her about this." My heart is pounding in my chest. My throat is so tight I can barely breathe.

"Mr. Dragneel." The doctor places his hands on my shoulders. "she won't be waking up."

The world must shift off its axis because the oxygen is gone from the room, the doctor's words don't make sense.

"No…" I shake my head "no you're wrong. you made a mistake." My knees give out and the doctor is lowering me to the ground. "I'm sorry, Mr. Dragneel." The doctor crouches on the ground with me. The tile is cold under my hands.

"You're wrong." I say, "you have to go check again, there's a mistake." I'm shaking my head. I heard him wrong, Lucy is okay, she's always okay. She'll wake up tomorrow. She's just tired.

"She was gone before she even got to us." The doctor whispers patting me on the back.

"No…"

"Natsu!" Juvia and Grey run and they're around me. The doctor gives them a grave look before leaving me with them.

"No…" Juvia is shaking her head. I don't have to say anything, she knows it too. Something is really wrong.

"Lucy!" Juvia runs to the ER doors. "Lucy!" she screams bursting into the room. "LUCY!" Juvia's voice echoes through the halls. Grey lets her scream. He kneels beside me.

"She okay?" his voice is tight. I shake my head and fold myself forward because I feel like I'm breaking. My chest aches, my lungs have forgotten how to work. I squeeze my eyes closed and drop my head to the ground. Grey falls back on his butt beside me and we're just sitting there and Juvia is screaming and crying and Lucy…Lucy is sleeping.

I glance at the clock on the wall.

One hundred and three hours and twenty-eight minutes.


Dear Natsu,

I have a brain aneurism

Dear Natsu,

I need to tell you something

Dear Natsu,

I'm sorry I lied

Dear Natsu,

I'm sorry I tricked you into loving me

Dear Natsu,

I love you but I'm a time bomb

Dear Lucy,

Stop being a chicken and tell him before it's too late.