Where we left off:

"Stupid girl. I don't plan on letting you go for free. If any of you want to see your precious CelestialStar ever again you will come to her." He said on video, "Otherwise, this shooting star is going to be gone. Message me if you have any information on her." He turned the video off and then uploaded it to Lucy's channel, sending it to public, "Let's see who tries to save the last star now." He smirked and left the room.

LUCY

When I woke up I remembered the predicament I was in. I had no doubt in my mind that this is how I would die. My father never knowing and police finding out too late. I was too scared to move. I didn't hear anything in the room besides my breathing, but that wasn't going to last long. Maybe if I pretended I was still out the person wouldn't bother me.

That's what I thought, but my heart was racing and my body was too stiff to pass for someone who was sleeping.

The door creaked open and I heard footsteps approaching. I stood my ground, trying my best not to flinch away from the weird heat of the person approaching. I was in such a panic that it hurt. It was the man that had been with her before, "Oh, Lucy. You should really just tell me your father's secret about your mother and you." He said, running a cold metal object across my arm.

I gulped, "Please, I don't know what you are talking about. No one knows. My father hasn't even talked to me since my mother has died. Please." My voice sounded shaky, but I knew exactly what he was talking about. None of her subs knew, so it was only a matter of time before something happened to me. I was scared, scared I'd never see my new friends again. Scared that nothing would come of this. I was sure someone noticed by now that I wasn't around. I'm sure Levy had tried to get me from my dorm room so that she could go out with me, or talk to me about books.

I felt lost as the man pressed down harder with the metal object almost to the point where it was cutting through her skin, "You know, I have half a mind to record this and send it off to the internet. I could give you away." Of course knowing how sadistic the man was being he was already recording this. I was stiff and scared.

"Do it. Send it off to the internet. Someone will come for me." I spit and squirmed slightly as I felt a sharp pain in my arm. A scream escaped my lips. I had no reason to keep it in here, "Please, I don't know what you want!"

I could almost hear the smirk on the man's face when he spoke next, "Let's have a little fun with this. Seeing as no one as tried to help you and you have been out for two days." The words didn't sound right to me. I had been out for two days? It felt like a few hours. I struggled when the man walked away and I heard some clicking on a computer, "Let's see who is going to watch you suffer and do nothing."

NATSU

It had been quite a while since Lucy had come to school and I was getting worried for my new friend that I felt so connected to though we've barely spoken. What concerned me more was what was going on with CelestialStar. Was that video just a hoax, or was it a threat. If she had only forty-eight hours then what was happening to her now. It was our lunch period when I first received notice that something was up. Not only was it Erza who told him to look at the channel, but when I did I saw blood dripping down her arm and a man standing next to her with a knife in his hand, "No..."

My hand tightened around my phone and suddenly I notice where this was. I glanced at Gajeel and then at Juvia who happened to be visiting for Lunch. I was about to go crazy and not in a good way. I wanted to rip head off. Erza looked like she knew something because she had felt uncomfortable since the fist video came out. She looked more worried than anyone else. I had remembered Gray saying that Lucy was supposed to meet someone in front of the school, but whoever it was never showed. It made me uncomfortable.

Now back to what I noticed in the video. I noticed a certain ghostly figure on a banner behind Lucy. Phantom was behind this. I watched the video to see if she was going to be okay and the sound I heard left my ears ringing and my face going pale. I was watching her constantly deny that she knew anything. Then when the stream ended I watched in horror as I saw an arrangement of cuts across her body completely unconscious again.

It made me so mad that I physically raised from the table and threw my phone down, "Guys, we have to help her." I sounded completely dead hollow and all of them starred at me. My eyes were in slits and my hand was clenched on the table like I was holding onto my last bit of sanity, "We have to. I don't know who she is, but I can't let this happen to her. Not when I have the power to do something. Gajeel, Juvia, It's Phantom." Phantom was a gang that originated their name from Phantom High. Gajeel and Juvia used to be part of the gang, but left when their hearts connected with others, so I figured they could help me get in and out of there with CelestialStar.

I just hoped she could wait until I arrived. Erza agreed to go with given her experience with fighting with weapons. That was a great relief to me as we waited for the bell to ring.

Time passed slow as the images I saw on my phone became clearer in my head. I was worried about her and her face was covered by a black bag. She looked so pale and scared, like a bunny, which I admit is a weird way to describe someone who was cut up and bleeding the last time I saw her. However, I was stopped in my tracks on my way to my locker by a ringing tone on my phone. It was another live stream on torturous events. This time the man in the video was physically beating her until she was crying.

"Come now, my dear. Tell me what your secret is. Tell me what dark secrets the Heartfilia's are holding." The man was laughing as he punched her in the gut, "You aren't going to eat until you tell me and they say a person can only go so long without eating and drinking before they die." He kicked her legs and I watched as she grunted and took the beating like a champ. It was almost like this wasn't an unusual circumstance for her to be in.

"I'm not telling you anything because I don't know! Please just le- AUGH!" She screamed as there was a knife slit across her leg. I winced and then listened, "I don't negotiate with trash like you." She spat at his feet and that only seemed to piss him off more. The man took a shot to the head with his fist, but she seemed to have seen it coming as she flung herself backwards.

"You little..." The man muttered, "Tell me your secrets by the end of today and I won't kill your father." I watched as the female went rigid and started squirming in the chair. It sounded like she had started crying and I could tell she was hyperventilating.

I had about enough of this. I grabbed my friends and we ran to the headquarters of the Phantom gang. I wasn't about to let that happen to someone who didn't deserve that kind of treatment. I was angry and nothing could possibly stop that rage from going a hundred percent into that man's face.

LUCY

As soon as he mentioned my father I froze, now it was my life or his. Tears found their way creeping into my eyes and I couldn't take it. I started panicking like I had never panicked before, "Please no, he's the only family I have left. I don't care about how he mistreats me. Please, don't!" I couldn't hear anything, I was seeing red and my entire body was convulsing. I didn't feel pain, or relief. I felt fright, cold, and darkness creeping up on me. I would never be the same around my friends, or at school. I would constantly live in fear that this would happen again.

The next thing I knew I was out. I didn't know what was going on and I didn't even know if I was alive. All I knew was that this death, if it was death, felt sweet. It felt safe and it felt like the world was expanding rather than closing in. The last thought I remember having was, "Please save me." As the darkness completely took over and I embraced it. Little did I know that help was already on the way from my friends who would willingly try to save me because they saw the stream.

NATSU

A few hours later we arrived at where she was being kept in a seclusion room in the basement of the headquarters where they interrogated people. According to Gajeel, the interrogation usually ended badly in the worst sense that you could imagine, "Get in there and get out, Natsu. We will handle things up here." Gajeel said as I ran towards a staircase. I looked through every room until I found the one with a man and a girl who was pasted out. He was waiting for her to wake up and that's when I took my chance for revenge.

Fists were flying as I furiously and viciously tore the man's clothes apart as I beat him into oblivion. I didn't stop until he was completely knocked out and that smirk was off of his face. I untied the girl and I didn't want to lift the hood off her head, so I draped her over my shoulders and ran out of the room and up the stairs. I did't care about the blood still leaking from the cuts all over her body. I got back to my friends and we all left as quickly as we came. CelestialStar was safe now, but who was she.

Erza seemed to flock to her side when we got to the park, "Lucy..." She muttered and that's when I quirked a brow at her, "Lucy, wake up."

"Erza, what do you mean 'Lucy'?" I asked and then my curiosity took over as Erza gestured to the hood over her face. I slowly took my hand and gently pulled the hood up as blonde hair began to show and then the face I cam to know as Lucy's sleeping face. My eyes widened as I looked at Erza, "No.."

Erza nodded, "I promised her I wouldn't tell you who she was on the day she was kidnapped. She said she was going to tell you on her own time, but you might as well know now that you just saved her from a life or death situation. We should get her to a hospital though. To makes sure she heals well enough to operate at school."

I lifted her up from the bench I had put her down on and started walking, "Yeah, sounds like a plan. I'll stay with her until she wakes up. I promise."

Erza shook her head, "Natsu, I know how you feel about her. I also know that you are still angry, so please go home and rest. I'll take care of Lucy for the time being."

"I said I'd stay with her until she wakes up, Erza." I rejected the idea of even leaving her side for a second.

"Fine. I'll see you at school tomorrow. Maybe Lucy too if she is awake." Erza stated and then walked with Gajeel and Juvia back to the school.

I walked Lucy to the hospital with her on my back and then stayed by her side until the magic moment where she would wake up and realize what he had done.

LUCY

Everything was hazy as things swirled in my mind. I was accepting death, but when I finally opened my eyes I saw a flash of my mother and smiled softly as she disappeared. That was when I truly woke up. It was so bright and open that I felt disoriented. I felt the pain and the suffering that I went through and immediately shut my eyes again and begged then and there for death to take her. Then she heard a voice in her ear that wasn't he same as before. It was concerned and warm. It belonged to Natsu, "Lucy? Are you okay?" He asked as I felt a hand on my arm and immediately flinched back and went rigid again.

I didn't even have the voice to respond to him. I was so tired and in so much pain that I felt that if I were to open my mouth screams of agony would escape me. I opened my eyes to peak and make sure this wasn't a dream. I wanted to cry and not just tear up a little, but full on bawl at this entire situation. I wasn't ready to suffer like this. I looked at him and my eyes seemed to say it all to him, "Lucy, it's okay. You are safe. No one is going to hurt you. I brought you to a hospital and you are safe."

I shut my eyes to push back tears as my insanity lessened, "N-Natsu..." I ended up sobbing and covering my face with the bandaged hands, "Help me.." It was impossible for me to be alright. I continued to sob and Natsu stroked my hair and it felt so real, but I was sure I was just dreaming. All of this was just a good dream. The color that came with his voice the warth of his touch. All of it wasn't real.

"Shh. I'm right here. Come on. Please stop crying. Your dad is safe too, Luce." Natsu reassured me, but it didn't seem to work as I continued to sob, "Stop crying, Luce. Come one look at me. Feel my hand, it's real. I promise. Look at me please."

I wanted to open my eyes, but fear took over. Fear of the pain and the reality that I was in danger, "I can't he'll kill me if I wake up again."

Natsu shook his head and pressed his forehead to hers, "Luce, I beat the crap out of him and got you out of there. Just open your eyes. Stop being so stubborn and look at me."

I reluctantly did what he said and it wasn't black and dark, but light and warm. His face looked so close, so real. I blinked to see if it was going away and then I looked away, "Natsu... I'm sorry you had to find out who I was like this." I shook my head painfully, "I'm so sorry that you had to see that." I was so hurt because not only did he find out my identity, but it must've killed him to sit back and watch while I was getting hurt.

"Don't apologize, Lucy. I'm not mad. Well, I am mad, but not at you." His voice sounded sincere and it mad a tear come to my eyes, "D-Don't cry, Luce. Come on. I'm sorry. Don't get upset." He sounded worried and I realized the tears had spilled over despite my every will fighting them back.

"I'm not. I'm happy. I'm happy because you finally know and probably everyone else now." I smiled softly, "It's been one hell of a week I'm just glad my father has no idea about this. Otherwi-" Just as I started explaining I heard a phone ring and I looked around for what it was because only one person I knew had that ringtone. Then I sighed and let it ring, "He is going to kill me."

Natsu chuckled as he watched me look around and handed me my cell phone, "I'll give you some time, unless you'd like me to stay here." He gave me a grin and I nodded as I answered the call. He sat back in the chair watching how my face went from happy to stone cold.

I was quiet for some time before I answered a question my father had asked, "School is okay. I'm doing fine and why are you suddenly so interested?" I muttered through the receiver. Nothing could've prepared me for the look I got from Natsu, but if we were at my home he would be seeing a much more bitter side to me.

"Lucy, what is that infernal beeping sound?" My father's voice boomed through like he was trying to break a wall with it.

"It's the hospital... What else would it be and before you ask I am not injured. It's for a school trip for career possibilities." I said and Natsu chuckled and whispered something in my ear, "Natsu, I am not telling my father that! Get out of my face!" A thump was heard over the phone and her father scoffed.

"Who is Natsu? What did he say is that laughing?" He sounded like he was upset and I couldn't help, but glare at Natsu who immediately shut up, "I hope you are being responsible. Don't ruin the great Heartfilia name, Lucy."

"I don't give a damn about the great name of the family!" I yelled through the phone. I was getting fed up with his straight disreguard for how I must be feeling at the moment, "You can't just ask me how I am and then say that! I am a human being not some stupid pet that you have on a leash!" I gripped my hand on the sheets and clenched my teeth.

Natsu looked at me from the chair and sighed suddenly realizing why I felt so broken. I felt trapped by a father who has ignored my feelings from a young age, "Luce..." He whispered.

There was no way that I had just yelled that across the phone, but nonetheless my father answered with a booming voice, "You will respect me, Lucy! I am your father and you will show some respect. What do you think your mother would say!?"

My face when pale as I bit my lip, "Don't throw that at me.." My voice was quiet and shaking, "Don't you dare throw that at me! You don't know! You will NEVER know!" I clenched my fist so tight that if I squeezed any harder my nails would no doubt pierce my skin. My sadness and anger were evident on my face and voice, "She wouldn't want to be used against me! I know that for a fact. Do you even know how it felt to be left alone on that day." I shut my eyes as the memory poured back in to my mind, "It's my fault. It's all my fault and I know you hate me for it. I hate myself too." I mumbled over the phone.

To Natsu is must've hit a chord with him because he put a warm hand over my clench fist and then over my hand with the phone and then hung up on my father. I sobbed as all the pain came back. All the darkness rushed into my eyes as thoughts of how I wished the world took me instead of her. I was hurting and Natsu could see it.

He soothed my hair and smiled, "Hey, Luce... It's going to be okay. Look at me." I tried to, but I couldn't. I couldn't open my eyes as I slumped, "I can't help you if you don't look at me, Lucy." He said softly and in a comforting way, but my tears didn't end. In fact, a nurse had come in and gave me some pain medication and also a sedative to try and calm me down.

It worked because after a short while I was feeling tired and wanted to sleep, "Natsu, do me a favor and go back home. Tell the others that I'm okay. I.. I'm so... sleepy." I muttered out.

"Well, I'm not going anywhere. Erza is already telling everyone that you are okay and I told them I'd stay here with you until you are feeling better. Don't worry. Go to sleep and I'll be here when you wake up." He smiled and I reached out to him in my last moments of consciousness.

My hand felt like it was on fire and I ran from the pain that I saw in my dream. I watched as my mother left the house and never returned. I watched a man mercilessly beating my mother and me until we were both unconscious. I watched fire take over a building while I was inside of it. There was nothing from my past that I wasn't seeing in my dreams, but the warmth in my hand reminded me that this was not happening now and that I was just asleep. It made my dreams calmer and less real.

I was walking through a field with Natsu in this one scene. We were laughing about stars and music as we chased each other about with nets. It was the image of a bright future and then it stayed bright which surprised me. Most of my dreams were dark and cold.

The brightness of the smiles and the warmth of the hearts. The strange, but odd feeling of his calloused hand on mine. There were flowers and trees lining the meadow. The smell of the grass filled my nose and the glow of the sun cover my face and the wind danced around us. It was a beautiful spring day, but that would change when later the rain came. The rain was light at first, but then it started down pouring to the point of having no vision at all. We continued to run and laugh as the rain fell, but it was towards his dorm room and at that point we were dried off and watching tv while sitting next to each other on the couch.

The scene told me of brighter things coming in my future. All of the things I dream tend to happen anyways. It happened with my mother and the trait was passed down to me. We can see the future in our sleep not exactly useful for any money, but I saw the attack on me coming around a week before it did, so I knew that I'd get kidnapped, but I didn't know this would happen. In the dream I had I had died from bleeding out. Is it because of meeting Natsu? It is because he is so unpredictable that my dreams can't see his actions. I felt consciousness slipping back into focus.

When I finally woke up all my friends were surrounding me. I felt a little uncomfortable with everyone starring at me like that, "Uh, hi, guys. Can we not look at me like that." They all seemed in awe at what had happened. I sat up and Natsu lightly pushed me back down again.

"Nope, doctor told me not to let you move, Luce." He stated, "The guy told me he wanted to do some last minute things before he releases you, but he wants you to take it easy. Your leg is broken and he wants to redress your wounds." He grinned and I flinched at how bright it was.

"Well, that and we all wanted to make sure you were alright, Lu!" Levy said as she stood next to Gajeel, "It's not everyday that my friends get hurt."

"Lucy, I'm glad you are alright. We really showed them a lesson so you should be okay." Erza said and I flinched again, remembering what Natsu had said when she woke up.

"Juvia thinks Lucy should be fine with proper treatment from her lover." Juvia stated and I choked which made everyone look worried.

"My LOVER?" I raised my eyebrow and looked around and my eyes stopped on Natsu who was looking confused as well, "I don't have a lover! I'm single I'm meant to be alone. I... I can't feel love anymore." I looked down and bit my lip.

"I don't think it's physically possible not to feel love after losing something that important, Lucy." Gray said, "In fact, you have more emotions in you then I could possibly ever have. So, don't put yourself down."

"Yeah, Lucy, You shouldn't feel guilty over something you couldn't control." Natsu said softly and then sighed, "Things always change. You just can't control it."

That didn't make me feel any better and I wish I could tell them why because I can control it. Since I can see the future, "I know you guys don't understand yet, but... Nevermind, it doesn't matter." I muttered and then I pushed myself up, but Natsu once again pushed my down, "Please stop, Natsu. I'm trying to do something."

Natsu shook his head, "Do it after the doctor signs the release papers."

Everyone nodded their heads and agreed, "Yeah, Lucy. Stay down until the doctor comes back."

A/N: Hello everyone! Well, now we know the secret of her and her mom. Yes, she saw he mother die in her dreams. Yes, she was stuck in a house fire. Yes, when she was little Layla and Lucy were kidnapped and beaten for information. Yes, she is going to be happy in spring.

Anyways, If you are enjoying this you might also enjoy my other fanfic, Unexpected Love for a Pyro?, which I am curently working on as of right now. Please check it out. Also, if you would like to help me inprove on this please leave a review! Thank you for reading!

Reviews:

Illusions From Ink: Well, now there is some Natsu POV for you to enjoy. I was holding off specifically for this. I know my pronouns are janky, but you are correct. I've been writing with no sleep, but that's when my best ideas come to me so there is not much I can do about that. LOL. I'm also working on the pronoun thing. Well, at least I'm trying. I've also decided to stick with CelestialStar mostly because I like it more and it just slips off of the tongue easier for me.

FlameDragonHime: Yep, Lucy is going to be having a hard time for a while. Here's hoping she is going to be okay!

Brynn chan: Thank you so much for reading. I hoped you enjoyed this chapter as well.

Hime of Hearts: Well, it was light torture. Emotional torture. physical pain. We aren't going to talk about it though because it sucked super bad. LOL! Thank you so much for reading and I hope you enjoy this chapter too!

Much Love,

~StellarLucy