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Chapter 4:
He was actually still steaming from the hot water.
"I know clothes are coming!" Lucy says covering her eyes.
"How so?" he asks.
"I ordered them, Virgo will be here in a minute"
"Who's Virgo?"
"My dad's ex courier she still delivers things to me if I need it, she's super-fast" right then there was a knock and Lucy blushing to her roots, went to the door, sure enough Virgo was there with the box she'd ordered.
"Nice to see you princess, you haven't made service of me in a while" Lucy grabbed the box and threw it inside.
"I told you not to call me that and don't say that in such a misleading way!"
"Absolutely princess, so why are you ordering men's clothing? Do you have a boyfriend? Were your clothes ruined too? I should called Aqua-"
"No! I don't have a boyfriend, my clothes are not ruined I'm just buying them for a friends birthday that's all!"
"If you say so princess, Aquarius will be disappointed though" Lucy groaned with the thought, Aquarius was her mums old personal assistant, she always went on about having a boyfriend even when Lucy was young.
'You'll never get a boyfriend with that attitude'
'If you dress like that you'll never find a man'
'Get your nose out of that book and check out the eye candy!'
Aquarius was also Virgo's cousin, she was currently engaged to her long-time boyfriend I think he called himself Scorpion, because of the massive scorpion tattoo on his arm.
"Yeah well poor Aquarius, anyway thanks Virgo I'll call on you again don't worry!" with that she closed the door and turned back to Natsu, who was rifling through the box already, he pulled out a red t-shirt and black pants, he had the decency to change in her room thank gods.
"Thanks Lucy" Natsu says once he's dressed.
"No problem…" she says unpacking the rest of the box's contents and glad that she had correctly guessed his size.
"I'm surprised you even bought me underwear" Lucy blushed.
"I'm…thorough" Natsu chuckled.
"So am I" he says hanging his towel over the back of a dinning chair.
"You don't have to answer me but, do you have a plan Natsu?"
"What do you mean?" he asks looking adorable in his new clothes.
"I mean, you are an escaped prisoner, your face is probably plastered all over the country. What is it you're planning to do now you're free?"
"We're not free yet, not while they hunt us"
"Then what are you going to do?" Lucy implores.
"Don't worry about it, my mates will be here soon enough, we'll plan our next move from there"
"When you say here?"
"I mean your apartment just before we were captured we agreed to meet up at Heartfillia's, if not his place then his closest relative, like I said you're in the phone book, not hard to find at all, I mean seriously you opened your door to me" he says with a little disbelief, Lucy charred with shame, it wasn't like she expected to get mugged!
"Look I really don't want my place to become a wanted man's hostel!"
"Just one's enough?" Natsu teases.
"More than enough!" Lucy says.
"Sorry can't help it, they're on their way" Lucy sighed in defeat and sat on the couch, Natsu took a seat beside her.
"I really am sorry to involve you Lucy"
"I'm already involved, if they really did kill my father we're way passed staying out of it"
"You're braver than you look" Natsu chuckles.
"Shut up!" she argues.
It was surprisingly nerve racking waiting for Natsu's friends to arrive, scenarios kept flicking through her head of them being cornered and captured and forced to tell the authorities where they were going and the army bursting down her door!
"For the only other one in the room not currently a wanted person you're awfully skittish" Natsu comments as Lucy prepares dinner.
"Shut up! I can't help it, I'm a writer there's a thousand scenarios running through my head, leave me alone" Natsu chuckled.
"Don't worry, even separated we're tougher than we look" he assures her.
The door was pounded on in three sharp knocks at nine that night. Natsu and Lucy jumped to their feet from the couch and Lucy cautiously went to the door, Natsu positioned himself behind it.
"Who's there?" Lucy asked her heart beating like a drum.
"Redfox" a gruff voice answered, Lucy looked to Natsu who nodded, Lucy unlocked the door and opened it. Lucy couldn't help but gasp and the five men standing outside her door, wrapped in cloaks, they barged in and Lucy backed out of the way, Natsu practically attacked them with a hug.
"You made it!" he yelled excitedly.
"Course you idiot!"
"Flame brain hasn't changed!"
"Good to see you Natsu!"
"You look well"
"The place wasn't hard to find"
Lucy closed the door robotically, the six of them now in her apartment took up a lot of space, she stared at them as they dived for the kitchen or her bathroom like wolves, Lucy could only stand at the wall watching silently. What do I do now? She couldn't help but wonder.
Lucy stared in disbelief at the five new strange and honestly scary looking people who were now in her apartment all happily chatting and catching up like they were old friends that just hadn't managed to catch up in a few months. Not five years.
"So this Heartfillia's daughter?" one of them asked, they all looked to her if suddenly remembering she was there.
"Yep everyone this is Lucy, Lucy meet Fairy Tail" Natsu introduced.
"Fairy Tail?" she asked confused.
"Yep the name of our squad" Natsu says proudly, the five of them were still in their prison clothes but they'd seemed to have found cloaks and thrown them over, she'd need to get the proper clothes.
"Where's Jude Heartfillia?" the one Lucy recognised as Laxus asked, he was the largest of the men, with very broad shoulders.
"Dead, five years" Natsu says succinctly.
"Damn, we'll have to find our info elsewhere" Sting says, they all nod silently.
Lucy was shocked out of her own thoughts when the wall phone suddenly rang, Natsu must have reconnected it at some point, all eyes watching her she answered it.
"Uh hello?" she asked.
"Ha you sound so unsure! How are you feeling?"
"Levy" Lucy breathed in relief.
"I'm okay thanks, how was class did I miss anything important?"
"Nah same as usual" Levy says casually.
"Levy thanks again for buying me food" Lucy says looking at the ground so she didn't have to make awkward eye contact with the people listening into her conversation.
"Anytime, did you end up eating the spicy food?"
"Yes and I can assure you my mouth turned to ashes and I deeply regret it" Lucy says, she hadn't actually eaten any of it, Natsu had devoured it when the others started eating everything.
"I knew it, I was so strange of you to buy hot food"
"I know I'm sorry, I'm no longer craving strange food"
"So are you better?"
"Not quiet I'm actually a little dizzy at the moment"
"Will you be better tomorrow?" she asks.
"Well see" is all I can say I doubt I'd be able to leave tomorrow but try explaining that to your best friend.
"Okay well do you into know what new stuff I've found out about our jail birds?" my heart entered my throat.
"Levy please tell me you haven't-"
"I know I'm bad I'm sorry but I had to!" I groaned sliding down the wall ignoring the looks I was getting from the confused on lookers.
"Levy they will arrest you!" I growled into the phone.
"Yeah…"
"Gods tell me you weren't caught!" Lucy begged, Levy was two seconds of silence to long.
"Levy!"
"It was only a second they locked me out! I over ran their tracking thing so I'm fine!" Lucy wanted to magically transport to her best friend and strangle her!
"But it's worth it!" her voice called to her.
"How so?!" Lucy demanded.
"I found out more about them!"
"Fantastic" Lucy said in a very thick sarcastic tone.
"Seriously! I found details on their experiments, what the scientist aims were, there no record of any data of any success of what they were doing, but I found about their combat history and something called Wendy"
"Wendy?" Lucy asked, the room suddenly went still, Lucy looked up to the six men who had frozen like they'd been hit with liquid nitrogen, Levy didn't know this and kept talking.
"Yeah Wendy, but there's nothing else I could find, I don't know if it was a person or reference to Wendy of Peter Pan or maybe its code or it could be a mission title or an acronym but I don't what W.E.N.D.Y. could stand for" Lucy barley heard her, watching as the men slowly unfreeze and look to the ground their eyes were enough for Lucy to see whatever Wendy was it had left its mark.
"Lucy? Lu are you okay?"
"Uh Levy yeah I'm fine"
"Sorry if I'm bothering you with this"
"No, no it's fine, I just want you to be careful"
"Always! Anyway don't worry those guys are probably far away from here" Lucy snorted yeah far away from here…like five feet.
"Yeah, anyway goodnight Levy, see you soon"
"Will do night!" Levy hung up and Lucy dragged herself back up the wall to hang up.
"Is your friend alright?" Natsu asks her, Lucy looks up.
"Yeah, she just isn't being careful"
"Says the girl who opens her door to anyone in the middle of the night" Natsu chuckles but Lucy stared, at him.
Even though he was sad a moment ago he was laughing like nothing was wrong. He'd done it before Lucy remembered, when she was sad about her dad he'd say something to lighten the mood, it was oddly considerate of him, he had no reason to be nice to her but he was anyway, even though he was hurting too he laughed.
"Don't do that" Lucy says seriously, Natsu blinked at her surprised.
"Don't laugh when you're not happy! It's not fair on those of us who don't know how to do that" Lucy bit her lip and turned away from him.
"I'm going to bed goodnight" she said closing her door.
Gajeel snorted.
"She's got you figured out"
"That was fast, never pegged you for a lady's man" Sting jokes.
"Has been five years" Rouge says softly.
"Shut up you guys it's not like that" Natsu defends.
"Then in all seriousness what is our plan?" Cobra asks from the kitchen counter.
"I don't know about the rest of you punks but five and a half years of my life were stolen, and we can't get them back so let's get even" Laxus says evenly.
"Exposing what happened won't be easy and there's no guarantee it'll do anything at all" Sting says.
"They're after us already to learn what we can do, and how it will benefit them, if we are caught before we can be protected…" Rouge say solemnly.
"We'll be back where we started being torn apart and put back together, except I doubt we'll be put back together" Sting finishes.
"We can't be allowed to be caught, all the way to the end" Natsu says.
"And out the other side" the five echo.
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