"Lucy? Sting-kun?"

Sting turned his head around to see Yukino in a white short dress, with a curious and shocked expression.

Sting widened his eyes not believing it was Yukino, his mouth dropped a little which made Yukino blush at his stare.

Lucy grabbed the photo from Natsu and hid it in her purse as quickly as she can. "Yukinooo!" She ran to Yukino's side and hugged her as if they haven't met for so long. She whispered "pretend we haven't seen each other for years."

Yukino smiled and winked at her as the retracted their arms. "It's been so long Lucy I've missed you so!" She then looked at Sting "Sting, it's been awhile as well!" She gave out a warm smile that made Sting come closer to the two of them and asked "how have you been?" he maintained a stern expression, his hands in his pockets.

Yukino smiled at his serious face "I've been really well! Are you out on a date?" She smiled but was hesitant to ask.

"No!" "Yes."

Both Lucy and Sting spoke in chorus. Lucy looked at him with a questioning look but Natsu barged into the conversation as soon as he heard Sting's agreement that it was a date.

Natsu marched to the three of them and stared at Sting, examining his expression.

Mockingly, Sting wrapped his arm around Lucy "why such a face? It's bound to happen anyway".He smirked at Natsu, but he heard a silent "oh" to his right and saw Yukino feeling down. He felt a short sting of sadness. Then suddenly he felt Lucy was snatched away from his arm.

He looked back and saw Natsu holding Lucy's arm with a tightened grip. Natsu spoke with great stress "Oi Sting...Lucy's mine" he said. Lucy looked at the both of them filled with confusion.

"What the hell are you both saying?! I'm not dating any of you!" she exclaimed in frustration.

Natsu quickly dragged Lucy with him out of the area. She tried to free herself but seeing Natsu's grasps so tight she gave up and looked back to see a confused Yukino with a sighing Sting

"Sting-kun! I'm sorry! I had a great time!" She shouted which made Natsu more irritated as ever. Sting turned his back and walked to the other way of the exit. Just before Yukino followed after him she turned her sight back to Lucy and mouthed "what's going on?".

She replied to her, mouthing the words "I'm not with him! Now run to him!" Gesturing her hands as if holding a phone she told Yukino she'd call her later to explain everything. Natsu noticed Lucy squirming and trying to set herself free so he pulled her as if she were a sack of rice and placed her on top of his shoulder.

Lucy tried to set free but the roller coaster ride made her feel sickly. She had no strength to fight with Natsu especially a thick headed man like him. She tried to kick him but his arms were holding her legs. She decided to give up and stopped squirming.

As they arrived at the car Natsu placed Lucy unto the front seat and buckled her seat belt. He slammed the door loudly which was a sign to Lucy that he was still angry. Lucy followed Natsu's movements as he sat on the driver's seat. He placed his hands on the wheel and suddenly looked at Lucy before inserting his key into the ignition.

"You-!" Lucy flinched at Natsu's voice. He gritted his teeth and went back to starting the engines. He sighed and bumped his forehead on the wheel while the engines reeved their noise.

Lucy sighed as well, thinking she didn't do anything wrong "so how is this my fault?" She thought. She rested her elbow on the window's seat and used her hand to cover her forehead.

Natsu peeked at the side mirror and saw Lucy's tired face. He had no time to play with her he gently rose his head , which made Lucy once again flinched at his sudden action as he continued

drive. Lucy stayed quiet and didn't say a word that may mislead to his ears. Then she recalled the scene awhile ago.

Flash back

"Oi Sting. Lucy's mine!"

End of Flash back

She thought to herself "what do you mean "mine",stupid". She blushed furiously and leaned on the window lazily, Trying to suppress her embarrassment.

Meanwhile at the park..

Sting walked fast to the exit while Yukino tried to keep up with his pace.

"Sting-kun!"

He turned around to see a flustered Yukino. "What? Did you forget something?"

She straightened her self and said courageously "I-I know you did that on purpose!"

"Huh?" Sting looked at her with a questioning look.

"I know you agitated Natsu-kun on purpose for Lucy."

Sting showed an annoyed expression and said "Tsk. You should go Yukino."

"Wait!" Sting turned his back around and was about to walk away when Yukino hugged him tightly from behind.

"After all this years I still do, Sting."

Sting stiffened in shocked then softened his expression at Yukino's touch. As he was about to touch her hands which were wrapped around his torso he began to recall the days when he and Yukino were a tandem. It was a short moment, reliving on the past, just before he spotted rogue coming out of a black car.

He forcefully grasped Yukino's hands and turned around and looked at her with an arrogant and fearful expression. Yukino felt frightened seeing the sharp look at Sting's eyes. "Don't touch me so casually again! I am not the Sting you used to know." He let go of her with a minimum force and said "it's better if you won't go near me and Lucy anymore. Our world is different from yours."

Yukino furrowed her eyebrows thinking that Sting still doesn't know that Lucy was part of the FBI as her.

She opened her satchel and went through her stuff and pulled out her FBI ID. She shoved it in front of his face and shouted.

"I'm not weak anymore nor am I going to run away." Sting grabbed the ID and shoved it in Yukino's bag immediately.

"You idiot! Hide it quickly!"

"Why? Are you scared? Sting, I-"

"Is there a problem here?" Yukino looked behind and saw a man in a suit with his hair messed up covering half of his face.

"No, this lady helped me get back my handkerchief, it seems I dropped it on my way out." Sting showed a calm expression unlike awhile ago. He secretly took out the blue handkerchief inside Yukino's satchel. He smiled softly but Yukino wasn't scared of Rogue. She was about to speak when Sting butted in a "thank you" he turned around and waved his hand while placing the handkerchief in his pocket.

"Rogue let's go." Sting shouted from afar.

Yukino stared at Rogue seeing there was something going on. Rogue stared at her with a blank expression. After their staring contest he soon turned around and followed Sting. They both went into the car and rushed off.

It was silent in the car when Rogue decided to speak up. "Sting, I think you should know that I-"

"Yeah, yeah I knew you were following us."

Rogue sighed "then there was no need to hide anything fishy from awhile back"

"I wasn't sure that you were the one following us. It could've been anyone."

"Hmmm, but you still chose to hide it."

"Sorry Rogue... it's complicated."

Silence was in the air.

"Sting, we can still escape."

"No, we can't disobey their orders."

"Sting-"

"I'm sorry, Rogue this is my only option left." Rogue accepted defeat and decided to leave the topic. He then spoke with sternness "they'll be asking the information as soon as we get there."

Sting grunted and Rogue shifted his gear while his phone buzzed an incoming call from sabertooth.

"Yes?"

Sting looked at the streets recalling Yukino's angelic face. He looked into his pockets and saw the handkerchief.. He recalled the night they broke up.

This was his handkerchief that he used to wipe Yukino's tears. He smiled gently at his thought "so you've kept this all along".

Guilt went over him, feeling sorry for leaving her but this was his only choice left.

To not let others hurt.

"What?!" Rogue shouted in the vehicle which startled Sting from his deep thought.

"Orga did what?!"

"What happened, rogue?" Sting asked.

Rogue looked at Sting with a worried look.

Meanwhile at Natsu's car, Lucy stared at the street lights in a daze. Trying to remove any thought of what happened awhile ago.

Natsu tried to busy himself with driving, it was obvious that the mood in the car was really off and dead silence was creeping inside.

He tried to think of what to say but Lucy remained staring at the window.

"The fuck is going on! I just blew up there awhile ago! This wasn't your plan!? Wait.. What was my plan.." He stared at Lucy while having those thoughts. " does she hate me that much?"

Lucy as well was having a hard thought about awhile ago. As soon as she caught Natsu looking at her just a moment ago she started to feel uncomfortable. "Why..why put me in this position..stupid Natsu! Ugh I was never weak for men!"

Natsu's ringtone suddenly filled the vehicle..

"Yeah Erza?"

"Natsu, are you with Lucy?" Erza said with a worrying tone.

Natsu looked at Lucy which made her give in a questioning look.

"Yeah she's here. Why did Sting come home already?"

"Thank God! No, it looks like a few of his men came to take his stuff. We were worried when Lucy wasn't brought back yet. We thought she were abducted."

"She's fine I took her before anything happened." Natsu said with a tinge of responsiblity.

Lucy crossed her arms and legs and made a "hmph"

Natsu peeked in a smile at her childishness.

Erza was interrupted by Jellal as he came from the corridor. "Is that Natsu?" Erza nodded.

He asked for the phone and spoke with Natsu in a solemn manner.

"Natsu, don't come here yet. It seems Lucy is being targeted by Saber."

"What?" Natsu asked frantically.

Erza on the other line whispered "why what happened?"

Jellal responded "Jude Heartfilia has been under the surveillance of Saber, when they found out he visited Fairy Tail they assumed he had business here with us. If they find Lucy staying here they'd find evidence."

"what's this all about?" Natsu asked angrily. "How is she involved with this?"

"Just give her the phone Natsu."

"No shit that's gonna happen. Explain to me first Jellal!"

"Natsu! I think someone's following us" Lucy noticed the black car behind them was following their pathway.

"Shit! I think they tracked us down. We'll call you later."

"Natsu-" Jellal was cut off immediately.

"What did Natsu say?" Erza asked.

"It was unclear, seems like they're being followed. According to the Don we should stay calm and prevent any show of aggressiveness without further instructions... but don't keep your guards down." Jellal looked at them seriously.

Gajeel spoke out of nowhere "so you're saying were not allowed to get outta here for the mean time?"

Jellal nodded. "It seems we're in a twist with Saber. I don't know why but the master not fully being transparent with us. What we could do now is just observe them, Laxus says we should prepare ourselves if anything happens."

"But Natsu and Lucy? Levy asked.

"They'll be fine" Jellal said calmly. "What I'm more worried about is Jude Heartfilia."