Lucy stared at the door to her red headed friend's apartment. The door was a light shade of brown with a strange design in the middle. In the middle started out as a small spiky circle then it would start to expand, making more space in between each circle, until it hit the edge of the door. Lucy hadn't seen a door with that type of design on it. Then again many doors had different designs.
Lucy raised her fist and took a deep breath. She didn't want to do this. She wanted to be alone, to just sit on her own couch and eat ice cream. That wasn't allowed anymore, not since he decided that she wasn't her own woman. That she would have to do whatever he said. He believed she was just an item, a possession.
But she wasn't that.
She's realized it now, she's a person.
A real person who has emotions like happiness, sadness, anger. Not only that, she could feel. She could be in love. She knows what she loved and what she doesn't. She knows, for once in her life she knows.
She knows she wants to feel Natsu's warm embrace. His lips touching her own. She wanted to wake up to his face every morning. But that wasn't going to happen. No his heart belonged to someone else.
And she understood that.
She understood that she wasn't the person he loved. It was okay. Maybe he could've been friends with her, without the leading her on bit. But it was okay.
It didn't stop the pain though.
It didn't stop the aching in her heart whenever she thought of the two of them kissing.
It didn't stop the tears that were trying to find their way out of her eyes.
Right now though, she was just a girl in pain trying to find her way in love. Pretending that she didn't need anybody to help her because she had been alone all of her life.
When really her body cried out for comfort. For someone to tell her it'll be alright. To hear the sweet sound of a comforting voice.
That's when Lucy let her hand fall on the door.
Almost immediately the door opened to reveal Lucy's red headed friend. She was wearing a white tank top that showed quite a bit of cleavage and a pair of pajama pants. It was obvious she wasn't expecting anyone over. She looked annoyed at first but her face calmed down when she saw Lucy. Then her eyes went to sympathy.
"Lucy what's wro-" Erza started but the blonde cut her friend off by letting the tears slip down her cheek. Instantly Erza brought Lucy's head into her own shoulder. She stroked Lucy's hair for a minute before bringing her blonde friend inside her apartment.
Where Lucy was comforted.
000
"DAMN IT!" Natsu yelled running through the streets of Magnolia. Occasionally he would run into pedestrians that he brushed off (then they yelled curses at him) and not to forget that rocks kept piercing his feet but he didn't care anymore. The only thing on his mind was Lucy. Zancrow was there, at her apartment waiting for her.
He was going to do something to her.
Something bad.
Natsu didn't know if he would hurt her, kill her, or just yell at her a bit. He was going to get there in time. He was going to protect Lucy like he had always promised himself.
He was going to protect the woman he loves.
Even if it meant getting swore at by random people and having his feet bleed painfully.
Lucy wasn't going to be hurt by that bastard anymore.
Before he realized it he was racing down the hallways of her apartment. Only inches away from her door. He finally got there, and he didn't think twice about kicking down the closed (maybe locked) door.
"Luce!" Natsu called out in the apartment. No response. He walked into the apartment looking around. He didn't see anything too unusual, the lights were off and it was pretty messy. The door to her room was open and her bed was the same way they had left it a when they left.
Then he saw it.
Blood. He saw blood on the on the wooden floor. Natsu kneeled down slowly and touched the blood. It was still wet.
She had been hurt and Natsu wasn't there to save her, he had disappointed himself but most of all he...he lost her.
He lost Lucy.
Natsu watched as tears slowly fell from his own cheek and onto the floor, splashing themselves into tinier tears when they touched the ground. His heart was big before, it was still beating for her. And now it was torn, just like the tears. Torn from themselves. No.. he shouldn't just be sit there when Lucy might still be alive.
She might still need help.
Suddenly Natsu felt a presence above him. He turned around quickly but not quickly enough. Zancrow was standing above him holding a knife. The knife had almost touched Natsu's own back if someone hadn't grabbed Zancrow's wrist. He looked to see his savior and noticed it was girl with blonde hair, just like Lucy. She actually looked like Lucy too. She was wearing a green half top that had a red flower on the side and green tights.
The girl swung her other arm out too quick for Zancrow to see, making it nearly impossible for him to dodge her punch. Luckily, he wasn't one for going impossible. The girl twisted Zancrow's wrist around so that he would drop the knife. When he did Natsu had caught it. The girl however wasn't done with him.
She released his wrist then sent her foot (note that she was wearing heels too) up and made quite a large impact with his chest. Zancrow stumbled around a bit before falling on the ground.
Then Natsu noticed his ankle.
It was bleeding.
HE was bleeding.
This blood wasn't Lucy's.
"Are you here to protect Lucy?" The girl asked turning her attention to Natsu. Without thinking, he nodded. It was an automatic instinct.
"Good." The girl quickly took the knife from Natsu's hand and placed it on a nearby counter. She offered him a hand to stand up but he accepted it and got up.
"I should've been there too protect her but I was scared...I... I need you to always watch over her. Never let her go! Be the person I was supposed to be, mend her!" The girl looked straight into my eyes and Natsu nodded once again.
Natsu wasn't going to let her go.
Never again.
"I heard she was going to someone's named Erza's go see her," the girl instructed and Natsu was already half way down the hallway before Natsu heard her yell something.
"GO PROTECT MY COUSIN!"
000
Lucy heard a knock on Erza's door. After being stuffed with gallons and gallons of ice cream, Erza and Lucy decided to watch a movie. "Mean Girls," is what Erza called it and so far it was...strange.
Erza paused the movie and walked over to the door.
"Natsu? What are you doing here?" Erza asked looking at the door. It was obvious her voice was supposed to be low so that Lucy wouldn't hear it, it didn't work. Natsu pushed past Erza and ran towards Lucy.
Lucy was about to get off the couch and walk away, but something stopped her.
Then something else happened, he smashed his own lips into hers.
Lucy felt herself melting away at the soft touch of his lips that she almost forgot to kiss back. She wrapped her arms around his neck while he wrapped his own around her waist.
Everything was just fading away now. Angel, Zancrow, Grimoire Heart, all just gone.
For now it was the two of them.
000
Gray walked into his hotel room. He saw something completely unexpected.
There was a naked girl, that he recognized from high school with silver hair, on the couch with only a thin blanket covering her.
"WHAT THE HELL?" Gray yelled, grabbing the girl's attention. She smirked.
Oh well, I'll get this hunk instead Angel thought to herself.
Gray ran in her direction but he didn't stop at her. He kept going.
"WHY'S THERE A BLUE CAT AND A SNOWMAN IN HERE? OH MY FRIGGEN GOSH THE SNOWMAN'S ALIVE!" Gray yelled then ran out of the room as Plue started to walk towards him.
Angel sat there with a confused look on her face.
Lol you guy's like that last part? I'm going to be completely honest, I have no idea what to do for the next chapter so if you have any ideas feel free to share. I hope you guys really like this chapter because I got some extra time on the computer and had to stay here so I could finish for you,and uh now I can't feel my arm.
It really hurts.
I'm losing feeling in my foot too now (I sit weirdly).
Okay goodbye guys I have to move my arm now.
Awh frig this is going to hurt.