I own nothing.
Winter break with her father had sucked as much as Lucy had thought it would. She wasn't taking enough business classes and the few that she did weren't up to his standards. Crying into Cristoff's chest and the realization that nothing she'd want to eat was available, she grudgingly ended up going home.
Luckily, her friends, in anticipation of knowing that she barely got along with her father, had spent many days there. It had been a long time since she'd spent that kind of quality time with Natsu. College and Lisanna being his mate, he didn't need her around as much. And Lucy suspected that Lisanna didn't like her as much as her sister did. That being his mate hadn't changed the one-sided rivalry that Lisanna seemed to have.
Now, she was back and immensely grateful for that except for one thing. The island had undergone a transformation from school to death trap. Without anyone to salt the sidewalks, the snow had melted and refroze, so everything was practically a sheet of ice. Trying to get to class, she kind of hated both Natsu and Grey for their ease of dealing with the ice.
"Fuck," she cursed as she slipped for the third time, but someone caught her before she could land.
"You asking?" the deep, Boscan voice asked. She looked up into purple and gold-flecked eyes.
Worse than before, her face turned bright red as she moved away from Zen.
"Gods, I love you."
Hearing his accent, she could definitely place her lover as Boscan, but the memory was still so hazy that she struggled to differentiate it between Zen or Kaleb.
"I- um… Bye."
She darted into the closest building despite it being the technical science department building to get away.