Chapter 19
"Lucy!"
"Do you hear me?!"
"If you do please! listen to me!"
What? Natsu? Why is he here...
"Lucy! Listen to me!"
Don't listen to him! the thoughts threatened with an anxious tone
Stop! He's lying! He wants you to suffer!
He's like everyone else!
Liers! He's too good to be true!
Do you really think he cares for the likes of you?!
"Tell it to go away!"
"Break away from the chains, Lucy!"
"Don't lose yourself!"
"Why should I Natsu?! I'm done with everything! No one gives a damn about me!"
"What am I saying... You can't even hear me!"
"You are a wonderful person Lucy!"
"You tried soo hard to keep up! You tried to live! And that alone is a reason for you to not die"
"Never look at your life as something insignificant! Never forget the people you love!"
"You are not alone Lucy! Don't ever think that nobody loves you!"
Lies! Lies! Lies! the voice said
You have no need to listen to him!
Let go of it! You don't need it anymore!
You've faced enough!
Let's go home, Lucy! You need to see your mom and dad! Do you want to leave them with pain?!
Let's go home!
Lucy's emotions and heart, her humanity, and soul were slowly being eaten inside and out as the voice sucked it out of her
Her head lay on its shoulder as the voice patted her hair combing the golden threads with its fingers
Besides, It's too late it snickered with a grin on its face
She's already-
Stop it...
What are you saying!
Stop it right now... she managed to say weakly
You... You! You have been filling my heart with pain!
Yes it was also Michelle
Yes it was also my loneliness
And yes! It was also my family situation!
But you amplified it with more pain!
Instead of filling it with the comfort I needed you made it worse!
Made me feel like I was alone and worthless!
It's true that...
Pain will prolong in my life but because of you I was a coward to face it
I don't want to die as a coward!
You!
Go away from me right now!
I don't need your crap!
Let me be the happy little girl I used to be...
I... I need to go home
Then something snapped free
And then like ice it melted
Blackness
Meanwhile Lucy was fighting with the voice, Natsu had taken the initiative to carry her home
"Huff! Huff! Huff!" smoky tendrils of air streamed out his mouth
The snow was like quicksand to Natsu's feet
it pulled him down and stuck to him like slime
But even though it was pulling him down he managed to get the girl who was also bundled up in his jacket, hat, and scarf; home.
He didn't know where her house was so he had to take her to his house
As he neared his neighborhood he looked at her face to observe her condition
She looked like a fragile, worn out and stitched up paper doll
She was laying in his arms like an antique china doll who had suffered too much pain and too many times
Her fair skin looked soft as snow but was cold like ice
She needed help, and fast
He fiercely knocked on the door and screamed for his mother
"Mom! Open the door! Please!"
He didn't have to wait for long
"Natsu!" she looked at him angrily but then stopped when she noticed the girl who was in his arms
"Oh my goodness! What in the world-"
"No time to talk!" he spoke aggressively, Natsu had only minutes before he would break down
immediately took them in and took them both downstairs to her office
You see, Natsu's mother was no ordinary housewife.
She was a Naturopathic Doctor who had her office in their basement.
Natsu was shivering uncontrollably but was still conscious
Rose stormed downstairs and said
"Natsu! Give the girl to me!"
Natsu didn't need to be told twice he gave Lucy to his mother and with the last bit of strength managed to collapse on a cot nearby
Rose, quickly took action and placed Lucy on a soft bed, pressed some buttons and it started whirr to life
Next to Lucy was Natsu who had rugged breathing and had a very weak pulse
She immediately stripped him down and constantly warmed with several items
She then clothed both of them and constantly checked their body heat
"Hypothermia...Hope they're alright...CPR" she mumbled as she quickly raised the heat in that room.
After a few hours
Rose who was exhausted from taking care of them for several hours she sat down on an office chair next them
Putting her feet up she said "Natsu is slowly progressing but.." she looked at Lucy "That girl... I don't know if she can make it'
She walked up to her and checked Lucy's pulse "...hmm... she's still there but.."
Rose removed the cloth that was covering her chest and listened to her heart
"It's beating but just barely" she sighed "She needs her rest"
Checking everything, she sat back down on the chair and slowly fell into deep slumber.
She woke up to the sound of sirens and a thunderous knock on the door
She got up and walked to the door, her eyes widening at the sight of police officers with gruff expressions
"Look, madam, we are sorry to interrupt you but" the officer pulled out a picture of the girl who was currently resting downstairs
"This girl named Lucy has been missing for several hours" then continued "Do you have any lead of where she is?"
Slowly waking up from her trance she said cooly "Yes sir, please, follow me but also come in quietly"
"I ask you kindly to please remove your shoes before you come in"
With a nod, they followed Natsu's mother silently with their shoes on the porch
She stopped and then said "She is inside the room and she needs some rest"
"It's alright ma'am but in the meanwhile, we would like to interrogate you with some questions," an officer said
"Alright," she said and led them to her living room.
While Natsu's mother was upstairs facing the cops and their demanding questions
Natsu was slowly waking up, he knew had recovered because his unusually hot temperature had returned
Both of them were clothed in a robe; sort of a bathrobe but not quite
He looked at the cot beside him to see Lucy resting peacefully
Why is Lucy- Oh... Oh! Oh! Oh! he thought as his memory played the series of events
He jumped out of his cot and knelt near Lucy wishing he had been there a little earlier
Lucy's breathing suddenly came short and tough as if she was on her last breath her eyebrows furrowed in some unknown pain
She breathed hard and looked like she was in some kind of discomfort and pain
"I'm with you Lucy don't be afraid" he whispered in her ear "Keep on fighting cause your not alone"
He grabbed her hand and let his heat transfer to her hands which might seem like nothing to Natsu
But it was a different story for Lucy
Lucy
Ah...It seems that your unconscious now
What do you mean...
Oh? Well, that's a miracle! Your subconscious is still strong and going!
Interesting...
What are you talking about?! Explain!
When someone's unconscious is out like a light...Such as your condition
Their subconscious is not as aware, like you. However...
Some slight movements maybe? I don't know, I'm your thoughts it seemed to chuckle
Actually, this might be the perfect time to pay your debt... it said; the tone of its voice growing more and more vicious at the second
Wait! No! What are you doing! Help!
She was whooshed away to a place which was dark and dreary
It was worse than the dark clouds that hung over her apartment when her mother was in the hospital
It was dead.
'The eyes are the window to your soul' definitely can be seen in Lucy
She was being restrained to the filthy blackened wall with chains and a table full of torturing weapons just laying across it.
'The Voice' (the thoughts) were in a human-like shape but inside it was just void
Let's have some fun, shall we? Hmm.. which one shall I use
Its hands of darkness skimmed through the array of dangerous tools
Lucy's teeth chattered in fear and goosebumps pricked her skin like tiny soldiers bracing for impact
The hands stopped at a whip and 'The Voice' picked it up Hnn...Perfect it said and then it happened
Her skin zinging from the impact of its burning hot and fiery tips
Lucy squirmed, wriggled and screamed in pain
But just after a few moments of whips and slashes
Out of nowhere, fire started to catch onto the chains and slowly spread, burning them down and disintegrating them into plums of melted metal
They dripped down her ankles, making her free of the chains that bound her
The heat burned 'The Voice' and it screamed in agony but it comforted Lucy
Like a warm summer or a cuddle from a fond teddy bear
She smiled
She felt a sense of home from its blazing embers and hot but loving graze
It came upon her and covered her body so she looked like she was smoldering in a cocoon of fire but it didn't burn her and so she was not afraid
Then they morphed into wings and took her up and out of that place and she soared through the pitch black thing
As she got farther and farther away from that wretched place and she saw a light, bright as the morning star
And she got closer and closer until-
Snap
It was as if a thick black cover or a blindfold had been removed with no warning and the world around her had turned pixelated
She had awoken
She blinked harshly a few times it improved slightly but her full sight wouldn't return
Then that's when it hit her My glasses...
She groaned as she repeated "Glasses...give me my glasses"
Natsu immediately reacted and rose quickly to his feet searching for them
Scanning the room, he saw them on top of the cabinet and handed it to Lucy
She groaned weak thanks as she put them on
Her vision had returned!
She stared at Natsu
"I was scared I didn't make it in time..." he said, she looked deep into his eyes and they said the exact same thing
He hid his face by burying it in the covers the bed "I thought..." he choked as he tried not to cry "I thought I was too late!"
He looked back at Lucy a tear sliding of his cheek
Lucy bit her lip trying not to cry but she sobbed "It was you... wasn't it?" her lips parted into a smile, her head cocked to the side
"The person who had set me free?"
"Thank you, Natsu" she managed to smile even though her eyes wouldn't stop dripping with tears
"Thank you so... so... much"
A/N: Wowie! A large chapter if I say so myself... But anyways I hoped this chapter was entertaining as always!
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