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day four

It is the fourth day, and the sun is gone and the rain steams the ground.

The rain goes on.

Lucy thinks it's funny, how it rains and rains but it doesn't flood.

In fact, the sewers aren't even overflowing. It's just started today, but Lucy thinks that the rain is steaming off the ground. It looks acidic, as if it's burning a hole through the group. One droplet even explodes on a plant, exploding the plant with it. It doesn't seem to affect the anything that's not alive, though.

She shivers at the thought of going outside. If that rain touched her…maybe she'd explode too. What type of magic is that? She is a Fairy Tail mage. She desperately believes that maybe she can stop this, but she can't. Maybe it was possible in the first day of rain, when the sun was still there. But it's too late now. All she can do is sit and wait. One brave soul ventures outside. As the rain touches him, he does not explode, but the rain burns through his skin like acid, leaving burns on him.

It's not safe to go outside.

Or maybe it's all a hallucination. Maybe Lucy is going crazy from staying inside. Maybe she's losing her mind. She doesn't know. She desperately clings onto Natsu. She needs a rock right now. Something to hold on in the currents that are sweeping her away. Natsu holds onto her as she sobs, and he, too, stares outside in worry. He too knows it is hopeless.

He does not open the windows, but the rain is already tearing through them as well. Two more days and this shelter will be useless. Lucy needs something to reassure her, to hide in, to pretend that nothing is wrong. He will be that person for her.

She kisses him, grabbing onto his clothes and pulling him down onto the bed, squeezing her eyes shut so she won't have to see the rain. He kisses back.

Even if she's doing it out of desperation or her sadness, he likes to believe that maybe she's doing it out of love – like the rain's not there and they can still have their happily-ever-after.

They break away and she stares at him, scared. "What's going to happen, Natsu? What are we doing?" He doesn't have an answer.

He just kisses her again and tries to forget everything. "Don't think. Just feel," he whispers, and his body obeys, crushing her body against his. He doesn't know where Happy is but he can't find himself to care, not when the world is ending.

They wake up wrapped in each other, and fall back asleep.

At some point in the afternoon (it is dark as night because the sun's not there) Natsu gets up and closes the curtains. Lucy stares at him from the bed and tries to memorize him before everything's all gone.

"It's alright, we still have awhile," she sobs, while Natsu holds her. "We still have some time."

Tears fall from her eyes because she pities herself. She knows that everything is gone for her. The only things she has left are Natsu and Happy and this apartment. Happy crawls into her arms and she hugs him, tightly.

"Don't leave," she cries, holding onto Natsu. "Stay here."

Natsu promises. "It's not like I have anywhere I can go," he says bitterly, blinking back tears. "Just…don't," he whispers into the crook of her neck. He doesn't even understand what he means but he knows one thing. He has to escape this world. So he pulls Lucy back down and shoos Happy away. "Let's forget."

When they are done they fall asleep and dream about the world they used to know.

'Hey, I think I'm in love with you too.'

and so the fourth day ends