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day six
It is the sixth day and the invisible rain is creeping closer and has wiped out half of the world.
The rain goes on.
The roof is burning through. She can feel the crack of the timbers and the sizzling of the rain as it hits the floors above hers. She is on floor three. There are only five floors in this apartment. She hears the screams as the first family explodes in a rain of blood. One floor down, one floor left to go. She knows it will last her until tomorrow.
Natsu is asleep, tear tracks dried on his face. "Sweet dreams," she whispers to him, as he once did to her. She steps off the bed, slowly, careful not to wake Natsu. She knows not to touch anything wet right now. Anything could make her explode. Her throat is parched with thirst, and the dripping rain from the window has wiped out all but three bottles of water. It has burned into her refrigerator and she only has a few packets and cans of food left. It's enough to survive them until tomorrow.
She and Natsu don't eat as much as they once did. Slowly, the rain is searing through the carpet, nearing the bed. The wall and window have melted into a mess of blood-rain and hot glass. The thick carpet keeps it from moving too fast or melting through the floor. It will, eventually, melt through the floor, but not as fast as usual. There is no wind to carry the rain through the non-existent window. They are safe for now.
Lucy picks up a bottle of water and gulps down half of it, waking Natsu up and dumping the rest of it down his throat. He sighs in relief and mumbles, "Luigi…" Lucy can't help but smile even though the world is ending.
"Idiot," she teases, crawling on top of him. She runs her fingers over his neck, tickling his abdomen and brushing her lips over his cheeks. He moans and stirs, wrapping his hands around her neck and pulling her down. They kiss and forget about the world for a few seconds. Everything now is about them.
They are not dead because of their will to survive. No one wants to die and they are no different. Yes, everything will be over soon, but until then, their life burns on. "I love you, I love you Natsu," Lucy whispers heatedly into his lips and he responds in kind, flipping them over.
Suddenly the cold turns to unbearable heat and they rip their clothes off in an attempt to get closer to one another.
"The world is ending, Natsu," Lucy says, weirdly happy. "Why are we here?"
"I don't know," Natsu grins back. "I don't know. We should go see Happy, you know." What they do know is that they are not hallucinations – they are not alone – and they are still alive. So they will enjoy their last hours while they can cause who cares about rules when the world is ending? (yolo)
"Soon," Lucy replies. "We'll see Happy soon," she revels in the it's-there feeling of his hair. It's not fake.
They do know that their love is real, they are real and the feelings of each other, they are all real. So Natsu puts his arms around Lucy and hugs her tight. "Heya Luce. We can get through this."
Somehow she's crying again but it's pretty natural now so she doesn't really notice. "Yeah, yeah we can," she says. "Love me…make there something worth dying for."
Natsu agrees and suddenly they are lost in passion and only them. The end of the world seems so near yet so far – so surreal.
Only they exist in the world and there is nothing more important than feeling each other.
'Hey, I'm glad it's with you, too – ya know, the whole dying thing.'
and so the sixth day ends