"Just shut up, Natsu!" I yelled. "You're the reason I'm leaving. I know you only thought of me as a replacement of Lisanna! I'm so done with you!" I approached him, one step with every word. I could see him cower in fear. The magic I had tried so hard to hide was coming out. Lightning cracked in the background. I had a ball of sparking light in my palm.

"Lucy! Stop!" Erza yelled. "That isn't worth it."

Still holding the ball of light. "So what?" I looked at her stern face, and sighed, releasing the ball of lightning. "I'm sorry." I ran out the doors and to my apartment. I turned the key in the lock and took a deep breath and opened the door. I stepped inside and closed the door behind me. I leaned against the now closed door, and slid against it until my butt hit the floor.

I felt a presence in the room with me but I really didn't care all that much. I just wanted to sleep in my bed, the one I worked hard for. I slowly got up from the floor and shuffled over to my bed. I nearly collapsed on it, curling up in the blankets I looked around the semi-darkness. I noticed the tall dark figure in my door way and smiled slightly. "Blankets are in the closet over there." I pointed to the closet.

"Thanks," came the male's reply. He laid on the floor by my bed and I threw a pillow down at him. For a brief moment, the moon light from the window illuminated his face. The lightning shaped scar was unmistakable.

"Laxus," I breathed. "Why did Master send you?"

"We use the same kind of magic, except somehow you taught yourself Lightning Dragon Slayer Magic." He said simply.

I stared at him as he slept. I knew I had Lightning Magic but Dragon Slayer Magic? No that's not possible. I never met a dragon before in my life. "I don't understand!" I whispered at his sleeping figure. His eyes suddenly opened. He sat up and turned his head towards me.

"Lucy, tell me have you seen me before you joined Fairy Tail?"

I blinked at him. "I don't think so." I've never really left the Heartfilia Konzern before. "Unless you came inside my house growing up, no."

"Do you remember falling asleep on a train bound for Hargeon and waking up because some man shook you awake?" He asked with his eyes glinting in the moon's vibrant rays of light.

"Yeah, but what does that-"

"What did he look like?"

"He had blonde hair and light orange-yellow eyes." I thought aloud. "He had bandage over the right side of his face."

Laxus smiled. "That was me. Freed told me a Lightning Dragon Slayer was on board and pointed to you. You didn't look like one so I disregarded it. I thought I'd be kind to a cute girl and wake her up before she was off to the western side of Fiore." He laid on his back grinning up at me. I've been watching you carefully, Lucy. You've really gotten stronger. So don't listen to Natsu. He doesn't know what he's missing."

He couldn't have possibly just called me cute. He's been watching me? And to think about it, he wanted me to be his girlfriend during the Phantom Lord incident. I almost said yes when Mira answered no for me. She told him his motives were impure. "Laxus?"

"Hm?"

"During the Phantom thing, when Mira begged for your help, why didn't you?"

"I was worried I would fail. I was horrible to that guild, why would I start to fight in the name of the guild? And imagine how to explain to them that you're like me? They would react so drastically that I would probably leave the guild." He answered honestly. "I really do care."

I fell to the floor and hugged him. "Laxus,"

He wrapped his arms around my waist. "Lucy,"

"Thank-you so much. You didn't have to give up training to come here because Master asked you."

"I came because I don't want to leave my own kind alone. Especially, a cute one."

I felt myself blush. He must be crazy. The great Laxus Dreyar, thinks I'm cute. He wouldn't even glace at Evergreen, and she's pretty! He has to be crazy, or maybe I'm dreaming? Could it really be true? He's never taken a liking to anyone in Fairy Tail let alone people in general. I stayed there clutching at his shirt tightly. Natsu caused this, he made my heart hurt like this. I like Natsu a lot, but he crossed the line. I am not his replacement for Lisanna. I did notice the similarities we shared, but I'm not her.

"Come train with me in the East Forest, Lucy. We can forget Fairy Tail and move on."

I nodded, "Laxus, I want to leave Natsu, not the rest of them."

"Natsu can't be dealt with until you're stronger than him. You will beat him, Luce."

He laid me down next to him and I curled into his arms. "I trust you to keep your word."

Chapter two anyone? R&R please -SFL