Chapter 2: Something's going on
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Juvia did not go to the guild for the next three days, afraid to see Gray again. When she finally dared to go, she met him before she really had hoped to. In the guild's entrance she literally ran into him. "Good morning Juvia, it's been some time since you were at the guild.", Erza smiled at her, while Gray only ignored her presence completely. "Juvia... has not been feeling well, the past days...", the bluenette quickly made up. "You, too? When you rescued", at this word Gray scoffed "Lucy from the river, you both must have caught a cold. Lucy's having a fever.",Erza explained. "Lucy-san is ill?", Juvia asked, and Gray murmured "And guess whose fault that is...", but Juvia heard it nonetheless. "That reminds me... we're on our way to a job, do you want to join us?", Erza asked but Juvia declined. "Juvia's sorry, she's really not feeling well at the moment. She thinks she'll just grab something to eat and then retreat back to her room in Fairy Hills."
She quickly bid Team Natsu goodbye and went into the guild. Looking around she saw that, except for Mirajane, only new members of the guild were there. Without paying them a piece of attention she went to sit down at the bar, ordering a meal and a drink. She wanted to ignore a certain team consisting of four blondes. Ironically their team name was Team Blonde, and they decided to talk to Juvia. Their leader, a tall girl named Lori took Juvia's glass from the bluenette. Mirajane had not seen that, as she was just dealing with some new male members that decided to hit on her.
"Look at that girls, isn't she just pathetic. It's quite sad that she still hasn't achieved her goal of killing Lucy. I'm sure Gray isn't proud of you failing.", her shrill voice was dripping with sarcasm, and Juvia could not help but feel ashamed. "Leave Juvia alone, Lori-san. She really has no time for that crap. Mira-san could you wrap some food for Juvia? She wants to bring it over to Lucy-san's place." and without listening to Lori's comment about poisoned food Juvia went to Lucy's apartment.
When the door opened a very pale Lucy stood, clad in a for the season surprisingly thick pajama. "Hello Juvia, how are y-", she sneezed "Sorry about that, I seem to have caught a cold.", she coughed. "Good afternoon, Lucy-san. Juvia heard that you fell ill, and since the others are on a mission, she decided to bring you some food form the guild. Juvia needs to talk to you anyway.", Juvia tried to smile, and Lucy nodded asking Juvia to go inside. Together the two went to the small table that stood inside the living area.
When Lucy had begun to eat, Juvia decided it was time to talk. "Juvia is terribly sorry. It's her fault, that Lucy-san fell into that river, and only because Juvia was so terribly jealous.", Juvia sniffed suppressing the tears that began to flood her eyes. Lucy looked at her in confusion "What are you talking about? Okay maybe you made the floor that I walked on wet on several occasions so I would fall. But you couldn't have known I would walk so close to the edge. If I hadn't walked there, I wouldn't have fallen into the water. Look Juvia, I know about your feelings for Gray, I know about his crush about me, but I really have no interest in him, and you know that. And I know that you never wanted to hurt me. And Gray should know that two. You're never seriously using your magic.", the blonde smiled and Juvia's tears spilled. She let them go freely.
She could not believe it, from the moment they met Juvia had been anything but nice to Lucy. Not that she did not care for the blonde, which she really did, but she was not used to showing it. She grew up in isolation, when she had ever made a friend they would push her awake due to her causing heavy rain. The only one who seemed to for her, even though he would neveer admit that, had always been Gajeel. He had been the one to beat Bora into a pulp, after he broke up with Juvia. He had been the one to follow her to Fairy Tail. At first she knew it was to keep her company. Neither of them had expected them to become friends with the guild, or that he would fall in love with Levy. Not that anyone had expected to fall in love with Gajeel, as well.
This was the day when Juvia decided to be more friendly to Lucy. She was at the blonde's side until Lucy had become healthy again. Even after the week Lucy needed to be normal again, Juvia spend most of her time at Lucy's apartment. Team Natsu had not come back from their mission yet. This was in no way upsetting, as the job requirements had said it the job would take about 3 weeks.
Neither the two females, nor Team Natsu noticed the change in the guild, due to their absence. More and more new members entered the guild, not all of them were content with the 'old' members. No one of said old members noticed the new members sitting together, plotting something.