A/N: Thank you for liking the story! xD It's truly a shocker. I thought I would get zero reads and would have to abandon this story :/ Nonetheless, thank you to matsuky1407 for reviewing! I hoped for it to be a little sad, and I'm glad I accomplished that goal. This one is also a (hopefully) sad one, with Gray being all one-sided and Erza liking Jellal :/ Poor thing. Anyways! I know I'll seem like the one who likes GrayZa sadness and all, but in all honesty I don't. I'm a huge fluff fan but the GrayZa Week prompts are mostly all sadness. That is why I'll probably put up another update including fluff (not for GrayZa Week, for this story) but the thing is... as much as I love the idea of it, I can't exactly write happy stuff :/ Do I sound like a sadist?

Ah well, on with the story!

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail is not owned by me.

He had promised to himself that he'd protect those tears from falling. That he'd keep her always smiling and so happy that her eyes wouldn't even begin to water up. But here he was, watching as she fell on the floor, crying like there was no tomorrow.

It pained him to see her in pain. He clutched his fist in anger, but he knew he couldn't do anything now. Now that the tears had begun to fall, they wouldn't stop.

Lucy was beside her, trying to get her to calm down while Natsu ran off in anger, with Happy trailing right behind. And he? He just stood there, emotionless. That was because he was disappointed with himself, and it killed him as another drop of her tears fell. She wasn't stopping, not now.

The person who was the root of all her problems, the one who caused her so much pain, was now gone. Natsu, Lucy, and Happy came around later at the scene, and Natsu chased off after him right there and then. Happy went along since he wouldn't be able to control his anger.

But he felt like it was his entire fault, since he was there when her tears fell. He was there when he came, and when she saw him. He didn't think that just a simple meeting could cause her to break down, and he had hoped that she'd not let her tears fall because of loving him.

But that didn't happen.

Her tears never stopped, they were like continuously falling. And he kept watching every one of them, in pain, and in anger.

At one moment he questioned himself if he was just another replacement for him. At another he questioned if she ever even loved him. And at one he reached a conclusion that he could never stop her tears, because in order to stop them, she would have to be with him.

Was she crying because she was with him and not the one she loved? Was he the main root of her problems instead?

A new thought popped in with each of her tears, until they finally died down. When she was done, and Lucy was wiping her tears, he abruptly left.

He knew what he had to do; and if getting out of her life was the solution, then so be it.

At least that will stop her tears.