Gray's face was getting closer and closer. "Gray stop, get off me!" Our faces were about to touch, we were about 1cm away from each other.

He pulled back and gave me a smirk. "Hahaha, you are so weak Layla, you are lucky that I'm not a real bad guy or you'll would been dead or worse. Now let's go for a run." Gray got off me and he start to run, I followed a bit behind. After the run he taught me how to hold a sword and how to swing it so I wouldn't hurt myself. It was coming close to the end of the day, I could barely stand or walk anymore. My legs gave out and I collapsed onto the ground.

"That's it, I can't do anymore..." I cried to Gray trying to get back up.

"Sorry I wasn't paying attention to you that will all for today, same time tomorrow."

I got back on to my feet and started to walk about and I turned to see Gray, but he was still standing there "Hey Gray, you are coming back with me?"

Gray looked back at me with a sad look on his face and replied with "No I am going to stay for a bit."

"Ok I'll see you when you get back." I left Gray there and went back to Fairy Tail.

Gray's Pov

Why? I thought to myself for a while. I told myself I would never love anyone ever again but why she always on my mind… I better get back to Fairy Tail before they start to worry about me. When I got back to Fairy Tail I went to bed without talking to anyone else. When I get to my room Layla was standing next to my door.

"Layla, why are you outside my room?"

"I need to talk to you can we go into your room?"

"Sure." We walked into my room and sat on my bed. "So, what were you going to talk to me about Layla?"

"It was about today, why were you crying?"

"It's nothing."

"It's about Juvia isn't it?"

"How do you know about her!?"

"Gajeel told me." She put her hand on my shoulder, I felt better with her being here but I also don't want her. I don't want her to see the weak me.

"Oh..."

"Are you feeling okay, you don't look so good? I should leave." As she got up to leave I grabbed her hand and pulled her back on the bed. "Can you stay with me tonight Layla? I don't care if you do not talk to me after this. I just... I want to spend the night with you… I love you Layla." Before she said anything, I pulled her into a tight embrace, so she could not escape. Then I hear her quietly say okay.

3:00 am

"Ahh!" I woke up panting; I had that same nightmare again. Layla's still here, she looks so cute when she is asleep. Maybe I'll give her a little kiss on the lips, she would never know. I moved closer to Layla's face and gave her a quick kiss. She smiled in her sleep after I gave her that kiss. I couldn't fall asleep after that.

4:30am

She's was still sleeping; I had better wake her up for training. "Hey Layla, wake up you need to get ready for training, I'm leaving soon so you better hurry up."

Lucy/ Layla's Pov

(Dreaming)

"Ahh mum don't die, please don't die, I need you; I don't want to lose you."

(Out of dream)

"Ahh!"

"Layla? I'm sorry I didn't mean scare you…"

"It was about my past…"

"Your past?"

I look to Gray and said, "I saw my mother die…"

I started to cry but Gray pulled me into a hug and didn't let go and said, "it's okay Layla I'll make sure no one will ever hurt you…"

Thank you, Gray."

"No worries, I'll I do anything to protect you."

"Thank you again Gray, we should go and get ready for training." I got up and started to walk out but I fell over something on the ground.

"Layla are you ok? I'm sorry, my room's so messy."

"It's okay. Hey what's this Gray?" I picked up an old photo book

"Oh? That's old photos of people who used or still in Fairy Tail."

I opened the book and went through it and I saw a photo with a pretty girl who had blue and she was next Gray. "Is that Juvia?"

"Yes, that her." I could hear the sadness come his voice, maybe I shouldn't of said anything.

"She's so pretty!" I looked at the photo again and saw there was someone next to Gray. "And who's the guy with the pink hair."

"That's Natsu, he was my best friend… He's got to live in the castle and protect the princess, unfortunately, after the castle got attacked we have not heard from him. I hope he is okay."

"I'm sorry to hear that…" We went though all of the photos and then we went to training.

Time skip 14 weeks

Lucy/Layla's Pov

"Hey Layla, did you want to come on a mission with me, Levy and Gajeel?" asked Gray

"Sure, I'd love to come, what are we going to do?"

"We are just going to get some more weapons; it's going to be a 4-day trip."

So, I got ready for this mission and after we all are ready. We headed off.

2 days later

"Yay we get to finally go home! I can't wait to sleep in a nice, warm bed! But we still have walk another 2 days though."

They all looked at me and laughed. "Hey, it's not funny, I bet you can't wait to get back either!" We started to walk back to Fairy Tail. We've been walking for about 4 hours and we finally got to a town, so we could finally rest for a while. While walking through the town I accidently bumped into someone, she had long red hair.

"Hey, watch it Blondie!" She looked at me with a creepy face, she glanced down at my right hand and smirked at me and walked away from us. After an hour of resting, we got ready to leave the town. We were about 10 minutes away from the town when I heard someone yell out Blondie. I looked over to where the sound came from and saw it was the girl I bumped into, at the town and there were others with her too. I had a bad feeling about this.

"Isn't our Lucy day today, we get to kill some Fairies! Rogue you got the one with long black hair, Rufus you go after the one with dark blue hair, Yukino you get the one with blue hair and I got Blondie here!"