my answer is you Chapter 7: glory days, a fairy tail fanfic

my answer is you

notes: don't really like this one...wanted to try my hand at all-dialogue again but it didn't turn out nearly as well as i'd hoped. all-dialogue truly is difficult. being able to keep readers engaged with only dialogue is a useful skill, though, so i will have to work on it. anyway, just two more days! enjoy!

disclaimer: i don't own "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen.

glory days

Glory days well they'll pass you by

"Time really passes way too quickly. Still can't believe we're already old and grey."

"Yuck, don't mention the ice princess!"

"I wasn't even talking about him!"

"Doesn't matter!"

"Ugh, whatever. I'm feeling too nostalgic to argue about Gray again. I wonder how he and Juvia are doing."

"Don't know, don't care."

"Don't be so rude! When I visited Levy and all the grandchildren yesterday, Gajeel told me Juvia had been thinking about moving closer to everyone so we could all spend more time together."

"We've been with 'em most of our lives already!"

"Doesn't mean we can't spend a little more time with them! Honestly Natsu, we've been retired for decades. What do you plan to spend the rest of your days doing?"

"Thinkin' about the good ol' days."

"Hm? Oh, you mean like that time Gray dared you to streak naked across the football field and you got caught by the security guard and Igneel had to go pick you up? And then you caught a cold?"

"Sh-shut up! I thought we agreed not to talk about that anymore!"

"But it's such a happy memory!"

"Oh yeah? Well what about that time you tried to bribe Happy with candy so he'd leave your couch alone and instead he messed up your bed and your closet?"

"You know, I still haven't forgiven either of you for that."

"Hey! I had nothing to do with it!"

"Mm, I'm sure. Anyway, he's your cat and your responsibility, so you share the blame."

"Aw c'mon, that was literally half a century ago! Have you really been holding such a stupid grudge for so long?"

"I'll hold a grudge for as long as I want! Anyway, don't call me stupid. You're the one who blew up the chemistry lab and the girls' bathroom and then got beat up by Erza and Gildarts for it since you got Cana caught up in it!"

"Ugh, not that one too! You're just diggin' up my embarrassing past!"

"Not my fault you have so much to dig up, now is it?"

"Aww Luce c'mon, spare me! You know Happy and I love you more than anything in the world. You're our north star. Finding you was the best thing to ever happen to us."

"Flattering will get you nowhere. But…I love you both too. I…If you hadn't found me…I don't even want to think about what I'd be doing now. I—"

"I know, Luce. Me too."

Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye

"Do you remember the day you proposed to me, Natsu?"

"'Course I do! That was a good day."

"Well, you didn't so much propose as declare that we should get married. I seem to recall you shoved the ring onto my finger. The wrong finger."

"I was embarrassed! All that getting'-down-on-one-knee stuff—just wasn't me."

"Right. It wouldn't have hurt you to just ask, rather than assume, you know."

"Why would I need to ask when I knew you'd say yes?"

"Oh really? You were that confident, huh?"

"Well, yeah! I mean, I love you, you love me, why would you say no?"

"…Oh Natsu. Everything is so simple in that brain of yours."

"Everything is simple! Hey! Did you just low-key dis me?"

"I dunno, did I?"

"Luuuuucyyyyyy!"

"Naaaaaatsuuuuu!"

"Sometimes, I really don't feel appreciated."

"Hahaha! You know I love you."

"Hmph."

"…Hey Natsu."

"Yeah?"

"We had some good times, didn't we?"

"…Yeah. We did."

Glory days, glory days