AN: This song is the reason this fic is named that way. It's awesome! I hope you enjoy the chapter!

WARNING: It's going to be a tough one, I tried to make it as light as I could.

This chapter was betaed by the amazing Ratiqu! Thank you!

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Far Longer Than Forever

Chapter Two – A Blue Fairy

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"If I could break this spell

I'd run to him today

And somehow I know he's on his way to me

Derek, you and I were meant to be"

The Swan Princess – Far Longer Than Forever

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The door closed behind Juvia. She stood still with her chin raised and her body straightened. The man who'd come to get her was a big guy with a horrible thick beard. He had taken her to an office and she tried her best to remember the layout of the place.

She had passed by four doors before Big Guy stopped and knocked on the fifth.

There were three guys already inside, two standing and the third sitting behind a desk. He seemed to be the boss.

His eyes scanned Juvia from head to toe, dark eyes in contrast with his light blonde hair. He had a very angled face and was too skinny. She remembered Master Jose for a moment.

Of the other two guys, Juvia recognized one; he was one of the men who'd grabbed her and she assumed that the other was also there when she was taken.

Juvia was humming a random song while she walked down the quiet road. She had taken the train, a 2-hour ride, and she still had to walk thirty more minutes –besides the forty she'd already come– to get to the small village she was supposed to go to, Flores.

She could only hear her own humming and a few bird chirps; nothing seemed out of the ordinary. She let her guard down. She wasn't paying enough attention.

At the very moment she stepped inside the runes, she went alert but it was too late. Her body wasn't turning into water, no matter how much she tried. She felt a sting on the side of her neck and when she reached for it, she found a small dart.

"Poison?" She mumbled to herself, looking around and bumping into the invisible walls of the runes. She had to get out somehow but her mind was getting fuzzy.

When she saw a man come down from a tree, she tried to fight the dizziness as much as she could. Oh, it was bad.

"Holy shit, Sinuil." He said and she frowned. What was he saying? "She's still standing!"

"Not for long." A voice came from behind her and before she could turn, Juvia felt pain on the back of her head and everything went black.

"What Guild are you from, girl?" The Boss asked, snapping Juvia from her thoughts. He was still staring at her with clinical eyes.

"Fairy Tail." She said and neither stuttered nor shifted her gaze from his.

"BLOODY IDIOTS!" The Boss yelled and slammed his hands down on the desk, getting up. "There's only one rule, one! 'Don't you ever get a mage from the Big Guilds' and Fairy Tail is the biggest! They won this year's Games, morons!" The Boss pointed at Juvia. "And now we can't let her go, can we? She knows too much." Juvia saw the two guys shrink in fear, but she didn't. It would take more than a yelling guy to make her feel afraid. "You were supposed to send this mission to Fair Vale, not Fairy Tail, idiots!"

The guys' mouths shaped a perfect 'o' as they realized their mistake.

"Boss, the names are very simil…"

"Shut. Up!" Boss' face was getting red with anger. "Why would I jeopardize this operation by taking a mage from a high profile Guild?"

While they argued, Juvia noticed that all three of the remaining guys were afraid of the Boss and since he was a small man compared to the others and a little scrawny, she had to assume that he had some skill. He wasn't a mage, she guessed, but something caused the men to be wary.

"Fine, fine." The Boss calmed himself down and sat back on his chair. "Let's make the best of it." His eyes returned to measure Juvia. "She's pretty." He squinted his eyes. "I recognize her… Those Fairy Tail girls are always on the magazines…"

"I think… I think that she was at the Games, Boss." Big Guy, the one who brought her from the cell, said. "She was one of the five who fought the last battle."

Recognition passed though the Boss' face. "The Water Mage! You fought that Stellar Spirit… Pisces? No…" He frowned. "Aquarius! You were giving it a run for its money! And then there was Chelia Blendy, the Godslayer, and the second strongest guy in Lamia Scale, Lyon Vastia." Happiness spread through his expression as he rested his chin on his hands, looking almost innocent. "Pretty, from Fairy Tail and showed her strength during the games! Boys, your mistake will make us rich! The buyers will be thrilled once they know that we caught a Fairy!" He smiled wickedly. "Imagine: have your own Fairy as a pet! Oh, the money we will gain…" The guys who were being scolded smiled at each other, but it soon vanished when the Boss' dark eyes snapped towards them and said in an icy voice: "You two will be punished later for being idiots, Martov and Sinuil." They nodded. "Now… what does one do when he's caught a Fairy?

"We can't just treat her like we treat those small fish." The Boss said with a silky voice; his eyes sparkled with insanity and Juvia narrowed her own deep blue ones. The man was an absolute sadist, she could tell. "No, you are too valuable to break you that way. Your new master will want to do it." He sighed like he was disappointed. "Look at these eyes… there's a fighter in her, we all saw it during the games." He let out a dark giggle. "You were a bit silly at the beginning, but once you got a hold of it, girl…" His eyes closed as if he was remembering something. "It was beautiful, I remember. The way you and Titania stood all dirty and bleeding while the Dragon Slayer surrendered because of the look in your eyes… The same look you are giving to me right now."

Juvia didn't say a thing. She had to collect as much information as she could, even though he wasn't giving any besides the fact that he was a psychopath.

"Maybe…" He purred. "Maybe I need to tame you a little bit before the auction. If you can intimidate a Dragon Slayer, what would you do to one of my buyers?" Juvia didn't point it out the fact that she was not alone when facing Sting Eucliff. It was better if he thought that she was tougher than she looked. "No… you need taming. It'll be fun."

"But Boss, you said that we can't have her like the others, so… What will we do?" Big Guy asked.

"Oh, you won't do a thing." He waved his hand dismissively. "I'll tame her. I bet she's a hell of a fighter." He smiled. "Put her in The Room, I'll be there in a moment. I need to write a few lords about our newest acquisition."

Big Guy pulled Juvia roughly out of the Boss' room and took her to the next one, where she was shoved inside. It was, like the other places (excepting the Boss' chambers), dirty, and had a hook hanging from the ceiling.

The man made her raise her hands over her head while he hung her there by the handcuffs, though thankfully her feet could touch the ground.

After he was done, Big Guy approached, his ugly face close to hers, and said, "Don't be so relieved, Fairy. The Boss' the worse of us." She didn't bat an eyelash as he laughed his way out of the room.

When he was gone, Juvia scanned the place and saw no way out besides the door she just came in from. As she realized it, as she waited for the man behind the whole operation, she let out a sigh.

She let herself feel afraid. Just for a few minutes, she could. No one was there to see her, especially not one of the girls; not when she spoke so high of Fairy Tail and how they could rescue her. It wasn't like she didn't trust her friends; it was exactly the opposite. She was certain that they would try their best to rescue her.

But she could let herself panic for a few moments. It was a natural reaction and she needed to do it while no one saw her, not the girls and not the guards, much less the 'Boss.'

So, while she was alone in the room, waiting for whatever, she had to pass through all of the phases of grief because once that man stepped inside the room, she was going to be brave again; she wasn't allowed to be afraid anymore.

She had to fight.

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The Boss entered the room about twenty minutes later, she guessed. His wicked smile was still in place while Juvia glared daggers. He took his dark coat off and neatly folded it, putting it on a chair that was in a corner.

"Juvia Lockser." He said, turning to face her. "I found a magazine with your photograph from when you were participating on the Games." Since the blunette said nothing, he continued. "You have quite a body, don't you? I don't know why you wear these clothes that only make you look like a nun." The blonde man stepped closer to her and ran his fingers over the long sleeve of her usual dark blue dress. To her credit, Juvia only flinched a little at his touch. "Only your hands appear with this dress. And the boots don't exactly help." His hand started to go south on her arm, until it reached the base of her neck. "Such white skin." He whispered. "And no marks or scars as far as I can tell. But I can't see much. Not with all these clothes on." He reached for the buttons of her dress and started undoing them, one by one, and she still had her eyes locked on him.

"How's that? Your fever gone down a little?" The dark haired man asked while looking down at her with a small smile, almost a smirk, but for the first during that fight, she didn't pay much attention to him. No, not when she could see something light blue appear in the usually gray sky.

"Huh…?" She said to herself. "The rain… has stopped…" Juvia couldn't understand what was happening until the dark haired man spoke.

"Ah! It finally cleared up." He said and she finally understood. She was seeing the blue sky. And in all her life she never saw anything so beautiful.

Her mind returned to the man when he said, "So… You still want more?" He was smirking and the blue sky was now the second most beautiful thing she ever saw.

Her dress was now open and the Boss licked his lips. "Not a single scar indeed." He sighed in mock sadness. "Too bad that I can't let you stay that way; the other girls might get jealous of you and we know how jealous women can be." His hand was on her bare stomach as she let another happy memory flood her mind.

She couldn't control her body and she hated attacking Lucy. It was true that she was her rival in love, but that was just cruel. Juvia was crying inside and somehow, Lucy knew.

"Someone who shed tears for the sake of her friends could never be rejected by Fairy Tail!" Lucy said and now Juvia's tears weren't of sadness. As the blonde girl made her move –a very clever one, Juvia had to admit, by summoning Aquarius using Juvia's body– she snapped out of it and her body was her own again. There was too much water and when Lucy called her name, Juvia reached for the other girl with equal eagerness. The blunette knew that somehow if they were together, Vivaldo would fall. They just had to…

Their hands got together and started glowing. And then Juvia knew that they were sharing magic. It was one of the almost legendary Unison Raid. Somehow she was in sync with Lucy.

And when they defeated the formerly long haired man, they hugged in celebration. And for the first time in her life, Juvia felt like she had a girlfriend.

The Boss chuckled happily when he saw Juvia's stern face. "I've been groping you and you haven't begged me to stop yet. The other girls were no fun. Even before I started, they were whimpering. You flinched lightly once or twice." He leaned towards her and whispered close to her ear. "Too bad for you: I enjoy the whimpering." Suddenly, there was a pain on her left side, right under her ribs.

Natsu was running after Lucy, trying to make her fight him. The poor girl would lose in a moment if they fought for real. Juvia respected Lucy as a mage, but Natsu was a monster, much like Gajeel.

The blunette looked towards the oldest and only friend she ever had before joining Fairy Tail. He was staring at the exchange with a curious look on his face.

"What's wrong, Gajeel-kun?" She asked, worried. They were new there.

"Nothing…" He said, not looking away from the other girl and Natsu as they laughed together.

Juvia understood, then. He was confused; in Phantom Lord such a thing would be considered a weakness and they couldn't be seen as weak. They were the strongest.

"This Guild is a lot of fun, isn't it?" She asked softly and Gajeel's red eyes moved to a random place.

"They're fuckin' crazy." He muttered and Juvia giggled softly. She felt like she could really be a friend to Gajeel now that they were at Fairy Tail. In Phantom, they bonded because they were strong and outcasts. People would be either scared or unwilling to speak to them.

So, against all odds, an Iron Dragon Slayer and a Water Mage became somewhat friends.

And because of Fairy Tail, Juvia could show her affection for her friend without being called weak; she could be nice for no reason at all but that she wanted to. Yes, going to Fairy Tail was the best decision she could have made. And she was glad she talked to Master Makarov about Gajeel and his kind heart beneath the iron façade.

It was her right side that was in pain now and she couldn't hold a small noise and while he kept punching and kicking her stomach and legs, she tried her best to not make a sound.

"Right, left. Right, right, left!" The Boss said gleefully.

There was nothing more painful to a Water Mage than being electrocuted while in their water form and when Juvia did attack the electric lachryma, the pain was unbelievably intense; it seemed like forever but she knew that it didn't last more than a few seconds.

She hated what Freed Justine was doing: make comrades fight each other? That wasn't the Fairy Tail that she knew and loved. And Juvia would die before attacking a guild mate just because.

When she fell on the ground, her back hurt a lot, but she was happy that she didn't have to attack Cana. She was a good friend, even though they hadn't known each other for much time. The brunette was kneeling beside her.

"Th… that should… take care of… the enchantment…" Juvia said weakly.

"What on earth were you thinking?" Cana yelled at her and Juvia frowned a bit. Wasn't she clear?

"Juvia just… wanted to…" Her throat was a little bit dry. "…make you all… accept her… as a true member… of Fairy Tail." Some of the Mages there still were afraid of her or suspicious and that hurt Juvia. "Juvia loves you guys…"

Cana's brown eyes watered and she yelled again: "Of Course you're one of us! There was never any question about that! You're a brilliant Mage of Fairy Tail!"

"Juvia is glad." She said before letting herself fall into unconsciousness. She faintly heard Cana call her name. She could rest then. It was nice to know that at least someone felt that she was worthy of being with Fairy Tail. From that day on, Cana was forever in Juvia's heart.

He moved to her face once he got frustrated. She was punched a few times and she could taste the blood inside her mouth. She knew that her eye would get nasty. But just like during the rest of the beating, she tried her best to not make noise.

The Boss cleaned his forehead with the back of his hand. "I was right. You are a fighter." He said angrily, an opposite of the happy tone he had before. "Usually by now the girls are begging for me to stop." He pointed to the small cut on her lower lip. "Why don't you fight back? I know you can if you want."

Juvia just stared at him and after a moment, he let out a growl and punched her again with much more force than the other ones and she couldn't hold the whimper that came out from her.

"That's it for today!" The Boss said angrily. He grabbed her face roughly. "Do you see what you made me do?" He said squeezing her face. "But you look prettier now. I bet that whoever buys you will like my work." The blonde man crashed his lips on hers. Juvia closed her mouth as much as she could so he couldn't properly invade her mouth (no way that it was going to be a kiss). Once he separated himself from her, he smiled. "We still have a few days together, sweetheart. I look forward to it. And I hope I can control myself and let your buyer do the rest with you."

He let go of her face and started to walk towards the chair to get his coat. As he put it on, he turned to look at her, smiling wickedly at her now bruised body. "So beautiful. I wish I didn't have a meeting. But you know… final preparations for the auction. Don't worry, though; tomorrow I'll make sure to meet you again. Your eyes are still too strong." He opened the door. "Come in, Holar. Take our Fairy to the cell."

"Yes, Boss." Big Guy, Holar as the Boss called him, waited for the blonde man to be gone before stepping in and looking at Juvia. She knew that she still had her dress open and she should be feeling self-conscious, but now that the Boss was gone, she could only feel pain. She needed to lie down for a bit.

Juvia barely registered Holar taking her handcuffs away from the hook. As soon as she could, she closed the dress. They left The Room and Juvia was never so happy to return to a cell in her life.

She was shoved inside it and when the guy was gone, Laura was by her side.

"Your face…" She said, touching it tenderly. "They don't usually bruise the face. The Boss says that we need to be pretty for the auction." Juvia was trying to do the buttons of her dress again, but her hands were trembling too much, so Laura helped. "You fought back, didn't you?"

"Yes."

Laura shook her head in disapproval. She had warned the the water mage! "Did they…?"

"No." Juvia whispered. "The Boss said…"

"Wait, The Boss did this to you?" Laura asked, surprised and when the blunette nodded, the blonde girl became even more worried. "I heard the guards saying that he can't 'handle' the girls because he is too rough…"

Juvia tried to smile, but her face muscles were hurting too much. "This? Piece of cake, Laura-san."

"You don't need to wear a mask here, Juvia." The blonde girl finished with Juvia's buttons. "We all were beaten at some point, so…" Laura looked towards the girls.

"Don't worry." Juvia said. "It's nothing Juvia can't handle." She said loud enough so the girls could hear, but then lowered her voice to talk to Laura. "Juvia has a plan."

"What?" Laura looked around and then scooted as close as she could to Juvia. "What plan?"

"Later." Juvia whispered. "It's safer if they don't know. Besides, Juvia needs more information. And she'll probably need you."

"I…" Laura didn't know what to say. No one ever broke out.

"Help me?" Juvia asked, trying to get closer to a wall so she could lean on. Laura nodded and helped the blunette. "Thank you." She murmured. And for a minute, there was silence, and then a girl started to sob in the other cell and Juvia's heart sunk inside her chest. If these girls lost hope, they would be lost. She had to do something.

She had to remind them about the world outside.

"So, Laura… May Juvia tell you about the time when Juvia dressed up as a princess for a carnival?" Laura looked puzzled. "It is a Fairy Tail thing. In Magnolia, every year we have sort of a Carnival. Seven years ago, Juvia dressed up as a princess for it." She sighed. "But the best part of course was the prince…"

"A prince?" Juvia heard a small voice ask and she couldn't identify who asked the question, but she answered looking towards the general direction. "Was he handsome?"

"Oh yes. The most handsome man in the world! But he's all Juvia's, so don't get any ideas!" A giggle or two from the girls. "What's a princess without her prince?" She said, remembering that day fondly.

So, Juvia started to tell them all she could remember about it. The fireworks, the way people looked at them with smiles on their faces. And for a few moments, they were all with her being princess that day.

She just hoped that her plan worked.

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Gray was returning home for the night. A good fight with Natsu and Gajeel was all he needed to keep his mind out of his problems. He stopped by the canal and stared at the water. It was strange that now the first thing that came to his mind when he saw water was Juvia, instead of Ur and how she was still living out there.

It was a clue about himself that he wasn't ready to face just yet. He would never forget Ur and her sacrifice, but she did ask him to keep living and in his gut, he was sure that his life was tangled with Juvia's in some way.

Some strong way.

He just didn't know what to do about it. He'd never had those feelings for anyone before. When he was younger, he'd had a crush on Erza; she was the coolest girl he'd ever met. But as they grew up, he got over it and was well aware that she was in love with a certain blue-haired man. She was like an older sister now.

He thought Cana was hot when he hit his early teen years, but it was probably because she walked around half naked all the time. He also got over that; she was just a close friend.

Lucy was another one that when he met, he thought was very pretty and nice. If he wasn't so closed to feelings, he might've liked her more than just as a nakama. But he knew now that even though he could've felt something for her, it wasn't meant to last either. She was wonderful, but she wasn't for him.

And when Juvia appeared, it was obvious to him that she was a pretty girl. So, the feeling was back and just like the others, he waited for it to fade away.

Except it didn't.

In fact, he grew fonder and fonder of her. She was gloomy for others, while she sparkled for him. She was kind, fierce, sweet and a little bit crazy, if he was honest with himself. And a growing feeling was foreign for him. He usually dealt with the fading one. So he postponed whatever decision he had to make.

It was one of those times that he wanted someone to make a bloody decision for him so he didn't have to do it himself.

Gray realized that he shuddered when a breeze passed and he thought it was strange; he didn't feel cold. Yet, somehow, he knew it wasn't related to the breeze.

He was feeling all sorts of bad feelings every time he thought of Juvia and that wasn't right. He knew something wasn't right. He passed a hand through his hair as he started to walk back to his place.

It wasn't normal and he knew it. She needed him; he felt it.

He had no idea how he knew, but he did. In the morning he was going to ask Mirajane about Juvia's mission. Gray hoped he was wrong. Gray prayed he was wrong.

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"Laura-san…" Juvia whispered to the woman that was dozing off. "Please, don't sleep yet. Could you tell Juvia what you know about this place?"

Laura nodded and yawned. "Yes. You said you had a plan?"

"Yes." The blunette nodded. "But first you have to tell Juvia everything." Laura nodded again. "We'll need a third person, though. A person on the outside." Juvia hissed in pain when she tried to move but her ribs hurt. "That… will be… difficult." She took small breaths to try to ease the pain.

"I've been here longer than anyone else, Juvia." Laura said with confidence. "If your plan sounds plausible, I'll introduce you to someone. I don't know if it'll work, though."

"Tell me what you know and we can think together." Juvia smiled softly. "Let's have hope and faith. If we unite, we will survive this."

The blonde nodded and started telling everything she knew to the strange blue haired girl, who could took a beating from the sadist Boss and still tell a wonderful story about the carnival she dressed as a princess with the guy she was in love with as a prince to entertain the girls for a few minutes.

Laura Birdsong may need to have faith once again. And maybe her faith had returned to her as the strange blue fairy in front of her.

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AN: Quick update! This week college will crush me, so I am updating already. As soon as I am done with the next chapter, I'll update as fast as I can!

Sorry about not answering your reviews back, but I really have to return my attention back to my college projects!

And the flashbacks were about not only Gray because even though Gray is a big part of her life, so is the rest of Fairy Tail. I just wanted to show this other side of her. I hope it's not too OOC or Mary Sue-ish. I mean, this is the story about Juvia.

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