[Natsu POV]

Lucy had been acting weird all day. She was moody and had an extremely hurt look on her face. But every time I brought it up she would reply "It's nothing really." But that didn't dust off my suspicions.

I looked around the small lunch room for the familiar blonde. But she was nowhere to be found. I sat down with the other members of our group. "Have you guys seen Lucy?" I asked still searching around the room. "No she hasn't shown up to lunch today." Erza responded. She took a small fork and pecked at the strawberry cake in front of her. I hummed trying to think of where she could be.

"Do you guys think she has been acting weird today?" I asked. "Yeah she's been all emotional. It's kinda freaking me out." Levy sighed. "Yeah, she asked me earlier where the stairs to the roof were. I gave her the directions and asked her why, but she said she has an egg drop in science. Who in the world has an egg drop in this weather?" Gajeel muttered. I thought for a moment.

Why would she want to know where the stairs to the... "Oh no." I mumbled. I jumped out of my seat and sprinted to the hallway that held the stairs. That's why she's been acting weird! She's going to kill herself! She had seemed down for the longest time, and she would always try to put a smile on her face, but I could see right through it. Something just wasn't right, and this was my last piece of evidence.

My chest heaved. My heart raced. My muscles burned, but I didn't stop running. I had to reach her before she killed herself. I burst through the roof doors to find Lucy standing on the edge of the building.

"Luce!" I yelled out. I couldn't lose her not now, not ever. "Natsu! What are you doing here?" She yelled as she stared straight into my soul.

"You're not supposed to be here. You weren't supposed to know...how did you find me?" She cried. Her figure was shaking violently in the freezing weather. Snow had began to fall and wasn't helping the fight for warmth.

"Lucy," I pleaded, "please don't do this! I need you... we need you!" She was the only thing that distracted me from my father's disappearance. She was the person who introduced me to her friends. Then her friends became my friends. It was as if I had a second family, or a real one for that matter. And she was the one who made it all possible for me.

"I'm sorry, Natsu. I don't want to leave, but it's the only way in which I can be safe from... him." She choked out, tears streaming down her soft face. She turned around, ready to fall to her doom.

I couldn't take it. I darted towards her and gripped her waist as hard as I could. I yanked her back into my arms. She screamed and kicked but I didn't loosen my grip. "Let go of me! Natsu!" She yelled over and over. I set her on the ground securing my arms around her shoulders to make sure she wouldn't get away.

She turned around and pushed me away from her. "Why did you do that? You're ruining my chance of being free!" She screamed attempting to run back to the edge.

"Because if I let you jump, I would never be able to forgive myself!" I yelled back, grabbing her hand and pulling her back to me. Tears had began to fall from my eyes as I stared at her. I pulled her to me holding her as close as I could. "I can't just let you go!" I whispered. "No! No! No! No!"She screamed beating my back with every sound she made. I took the punches, knowing that this pain would be better than any pain I would feel from her had stopped hitting my back and had now sunk down into my lap, but I never let go.

The snow fell softly around us, completely opposing the madness we just went through. Lucy had stopped crying and now lay limp in my lap. She was sleeping. I pulled off my jacket and wrapped it around her. Carefully making sure she didn't awake. I then lifted her up and hugged her in my arms securing her head in the crook of my neck and wrapping her legs around my waist.

I then noticed a note in the back pocket on her skinny jeans. I tensed up noticing that was probably the note she was going to leave to us. I pulled it out of her pocket and shoved it into my own to read later.

With that I carried her down the stairs where my friends waited wondering what the hell just happened.