Ice can heal a broken heart

A/N: sorry I took so long guys, but these updates will be rather sporadic because there's a lot of effort going into turning this from a role play (that me and my friends are partaking in) into a literate fanfiction for your guys' enjoyment

Disclaimer: I do not own fairy tail.

Lucy's POV

I woke up to the feeling of a gentle pressure on my hand, and when I looked over I saw Gray's raven hair splayed across the bedspread as he slumbered. When I saw him the images from the previous night hit me. I sat trembling and trying to hold my tears back but it was no good. Why did he save me? Why didn't he let me die like I had wanted? I just wanted to stop everything….. The hurt….. The pain. But now I was stuck in the cycle again… because Gray saved me…

Through the pain and shock at being alive, a small voice could be heard at the back of my mind. One I had ignored since this whole debacle began. See. There are people who care for you. I was shocked into stillness, halting all crying and actions as Gray's head lifted up and looked at me, before he smiled in relief.

"Gray… why… why did you save me? I wanted to die…" I averted my gaze and mumbled quietly, sure he could hear. He didn't reply and instead just frowned. I was sure that meant he didn't know and went to withdraw my presence from his when he spoke up.

"You… you're important Luce…" I cringed at the use of THAT nickname "I didn't want to lose you, no matter how bad you think the world is. I'm staying by your side…" at his words I froze as more tears came to my eyes at the realisation that I was going to kill myself… because of him. The one person who had always given me sideways glances of disgust and self-satisfaction at having ruined me. Natsu, right? The small voice came and I hid my face in my hands, startling Gray as he didn't know why.

I couldn't bear to think of the person who had once been my friend and betrayed my trust so I shook myself to rid the dreadful thoughts from it and directed my attention back to Gray. "Gray….." I looked down at my hands sadly, when I realised that my guild mark was gone. "Where's my guild mark?!" I was starting to panic at its sudden disappearance but Gray just held my hand tight in a reassuring way. I looked at him confused, and he just smiled kindly.

"I'm smart enough to realise that someone at the guild hurt you Lucy. I had Lamia Scale's guild master hide our mark temporarily, so that we can have leave from our own guild." He sighed. "It was necessary if I was to help you…" I just looked at him with no emotions, trying to put into words what I felt I wanted to say.

"I wanted to die! Why couldn't you just leave it be and let me die!" I didn't want to think about anything, especially what he was saying. He'd only make me want to stay…. I couldn't. Not after Natsu… he ruined everything. He ruined me. "So what if someone at the guild hurt me, no one would miss me that much. After all, I'm just a distraction used to take the pain from lisanna dying away. And now that she's back I'm not good for anything!"

"Lucy!" when I heard him shout like that, like he never had before, I looked up in shock and stopped crying completely "I just said I didn't care about that. I… you don't have to tell me why you want to die, I just want to help you get over it…" the honest concern that I saw I his eyes made me do a double take, and so I sighed and hung my head so that it rested on my bent knees.

"Fine. I won't tell you anything. I just want to get away…" I kept my head hung so that he couldn't see the reluctance I was feeling. I didn't know whether not telling him was a smart thing, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Instead I stood up shakily, with him supporting me, as we made our way out of Lamia Scale. "Where do we go Gray?" I didn't know where we were going to go now that we didn't have a guild

"I….. Ordered us both some train tickets to Snide. There's a low profile guild there called Crimson Forest. But after the daimatou enbu… people would recognize us and then the guild would be able to locate us… I also spent all my money on the tickets.." I looked at him shocked that he would spend all the reward money from our latest mission to get us away from the known guilds.

I then remembered about my stash I had hidden, and summoned Virgo. "Gate of the Maiden, Virgo" I said it quietly so that nobody else could hear. She appeared with a small pink suitcase, and a larger one at the same time. She handed them both to me and disappeared back into the celestial spirit realm without the usual 'Punishment Hime' due to her spirits already knowing what had been going off in my life.

I opened the smaller suitcase and showed it to Gray, "I've been saving up… from the missions we've been on… this is how much I managed to get…" I tilted it so he could see the wads of jewel notes packed tightly together. I had been saving for just this situation. The one where I could escape from the torture he brought with him.

Gray's eyes opened wide as he looked at the amount of notes in the suitcase. It was enough for a small house or apartment, plus any food or living expenses for about a month. Blinking a couple of times, he zipped the suitcase back up and took it from her. "I'll look after it. I'm guessing Virgo brought you clothes in that other suitcase and the train leaves in half an hour so… ill leave you to get dressed" he smiled sadly when he had finished talking to me, and walked out of the room, waiting outside the door for me.

I looked through the clothes Virgo had brought, most of them being my usual revealing clothes but… I couldn't bear to wear them anymore, so instead I rummaged at the bottom of the bag and pulled out more conservative clothing, consisting of: a pair of baby blue skinny jeans, a long sleeved navy shirt and a denim jacket to go over the top. Once I had gotten dressed, I closed the suitcase and lugged it to the door, where Gray took it from me with ease, and started carrying them for me.

But what Gray had said about people recognising us was bugging me. I had pushed all thoughts of my actions the previous night away, so that I wasn't a wreck in front of Gray the whole time. I had to think of something to hide our appearance, even if it meant seeing a dark mage to do so. However I had had an idea, but thought it better to wait until we were on the train to tell Gray.

A short while later we arrived at the train station, and Gray led me into the cabin he had bought for us. At that moment, when the train began to pull out of the station, I began to tell him of my idea. "Cancer, He can change hair colour, length and style, but his magic can also alter our appearances slightly depending on what it is we want changing, Like eye colour for instance."

He nodded considering it, and he was about to speak when we heard something just outside the door to our cabin. In case of it being someone we knew we stopped talking, and looked at the thin screen that acted as a door. There, we could see the silhouette of someone with their ear obviously pressed against the door attempting to eavesdrop on us,

I sat still and looked to Gray, who was slowly moving towards the door, and when he opened it suddenly, a girl with bright red hair fell into our cabin. With her hair colour, she looked like Erza, but her soft features resembled those of a kinder person. When she stood up I looked at her, nd I felt a feint feeling that I somehow knew this girl.

Gray sat down at the side of me, as he signalled the girl to sit across from us after she had closed the door. She squirmed a little whilst she was sat there, but all I could think about was the fact that I knew her from somewhere, and yet I couldn't remember ever seeing her. She looked like one of the types that would be rebellious, with her red hair and obvious gothic appearance. She wore a shirt adorned with miniature skulls, and black skinny jeans. She had on a black jacket with some heavy metal band's logo inscribed on it and fingerless gloves of black lace. Not only that but she had two lip rings, a nose ring and multiple ear piercings to one ear. She was very pretty, but the few piercing she had suited her and gave her that extra factor of rebelliousness.

All of a sudden I could remember was a name, and so I spoke it aloud, in case it was hers, "Daire…" She looked up and smiled proudly, with a huge grin on her face and she spoke. "What's up Onee-san? I haven't seen you in years!" The creepiest thing was, she spoke with the same voice as me. What else is life going to throw at me to make me try to regret my suicide attempt? I didn't even know I had a sister, so I sat quietly just looking at her as if she had gone insane

"I'm sorry but you may be mistaking me for someone else. May I ask your name?" I didn't believe that I had got it right by coincidence so I wanted to make sure that it was a hundred percent legitimate. She just sat there smiling at me non-stop. It was starting to seem as though her face was frozen that way, was a wry thought that crossed my mind before she answered.

"I'm Daire. Daire Heartfilia. And I've finally found my twin sister…"

A/N: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and as I said at the beginning It will be irregular updates! After this chapter, if you want any questions answering, I will be posting the answers to them in these author notes at the end. Hope you all come back for more, until next time! 3