LUCY'S POV

I ran into the bathroom. I feel disgusting, I thought as I scrambled through the bathroom looking for a rag and some soap. I could feel their hands on me, them pulling my skirt off and telling me nasty awful things.

I finally found what I was looking for when I caught a glimpse of myself in my bathroom mirror. I paused and looked into it, noticing the bruises that covered my body and arms. I lightly touched the large bruise that is residing on my jaw and winced as the pain started and went.

My tears hadn't stopped, the dream was awful.

I tried calming myself down but my heart was beating so fast and it never ceased. I turned towards my tub and turned the water on to start warming it up.

NATSU"S POV

I knocked on the door.

"Luce, please come and talk to me." I pleaded putting my hand on the door. I could hear her crying slightly as I spoke.

"I want to help you get through this." I said letting my hands droop to the side. "Whatever your dream was about it doesn't matter because I'm here! I'm here to protect you!

Her crying stopped.

LUCY"S POV

I stopped crying.

It's not the dream. Its these bruises, my memory. What happened that night? did it have anything to do with that dream? Did that...happen?

The tears once more came. I wet the rag and lifted up my shirt and rubbed as hard as I could to rub of their touch, their kisses and their dirty comments. The dream made me realize that something like that Could have happened.

I whimpered as I rubbed my stomach raw, over the bruises. I think I broke my skin cause I could see a bit of blood starting to mix with the rag, but I didn't care, I just kept going, cause I'm not satisfied yet.

NATSU"S POV

I could hear Lucy as she whimpered.

What the heck is going on in there?

"Lucy! Please open the door." I yelled jiggling the locked door. I paused and realized I could smell blood.

"Lucy i'm coming in whether you like I or not!"

I kicked the door in and saw lucy with a rag that had blood stains on it. I quickly grabbed the rag from her hand and picked her up bridal style. She whimpered as I carried her to her bed. I laid her down and lifted her shirt so I can see what she did.

Her stomach had little skin on it now, she broke open the cuts and the bruises weren't looking to good. She was crying as I examined her stomach.

"Lucy! what did you do?" I exclaimed, grabbing the first aid kit near her bed.

I looked at her in the eyes as realization caught in her gaze and looked down at her stomach. She covered her eyes with her hands.

"I had to get their touch off of me" she cried as she looked down at her stomach.

Anger welled up inside me, to even think she had such dream. I patched up her stomach and pulled her shirt down. She was still whimpering and had her hand covering her face.

I grabbed her wrists and pulled them away from her face. She looked into my eyes with surprise.

"Do you want to talk about it?" I asked gently moving some hair out of her face. Her eyes got wide but she calmed down.

"Alright." she whispered.

I walked over to the couch to grab another blanket for her.

She looked at me and started from the beginning. The story grew and so did her emotions, the tears were slipping out here and there until finally the end of the story came. It was hard to hear a dream that caused Lucy this much distress it made my heart sink with ever word. I just stood near the couch in disbelief.

"Natsu..." Lucy asked looking down at her bruised hands. I looked up at her.

"What if that's what happened to me?..." Her tears welled up and it all made sense. She doesn't know what happened that night.

I new exactly why she was so scared and afraid, and why she tried to clean herself off so much. Its because she doesn't know what happened to her that night whether it was anything as minor as a mugging to as retched as her being molested, raped, violated...

"Lucy... I promise you my life, that whatever happened to you, will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN! I will never leave your side and will protect you till the end! you can't let this take you over because what happened does not define you in the least! you're brave, intelligent, nice and there is nothing that anyone can do to you that will take that away." I finished

I watched Lucy as she got out of bed and ran towards me. She ran into my arms and I hugged her with all my might. We fell to the floor as she cried.

I would never let anyone hurt Lucy, ever again.