Day 5

Part 2

Lucy groaned let her eyelids flutter slowly open, revealing to her a soft black surface. Her mind whirled and for a moment she was confused, then, she saw the surface gently rise and fall. A body. Pulling herself away from the sleeping boy, Lucy moved to look down at Carter's face. She smiled – he looked kind of cute when he slept. He looked kind of like Natsu. She cringed and raised her fingers to brush a stray strand of black hair from Carters eyes, giggling softly as his nose twitched and wrinkled as the hair brushed against his skin.

He grunted and turned on his side so that he was facing her. She giggled again. Damn, she wished she knew what time it was. She cast her gaze around the room, while her fingers stayed entangled in Carters black locks, unnoticed by the blonde. Suddenly, her eyes caught sight of something lying on the floor.

She froze. It was a piece of paper. Another game? No, surely not, they had just come out of one after all… Then what? Removing her fingers from the onyx mess – causing the wolf boy to groan in his sleep – Lucy crawled over to the piece of paper. For what seemed like a long while, she just stared at it, her insides tying themselves in millions of knots. Should she wake Carter?

Another glance at his peaceful features told her no. Lucy gulped and hesitantly picked up the paper, her fingers trembling violently. As she unfolded and unfolded over and over again, she was expecting to find another set of rules. But, that probably would have been better than what was actually written on the sheet.

A note.

'Dead Miss Heartfilia and Mr Hound,

You were lucky this time, the chairman took a liking to your feistiness. But next time, don't expect to get the same treatment. If you ever do so much as think about escape again, I will personally see to it that you receive punishment.

And if they were still alive, anyone who's received my punishment will gladly tell you how horrendous it is.

Make sure you be good little puppets now, and don't go making any bad choices, you wouldn't want anything to happen to your precious guilds after all now, would you?

I look forward to your suffering,

Lues.'

A shiver ran down the blonde celestial wizard's spine and she gulped. She could literally feel the sweat seeping from her pores and beading on her forehead. She note began to shake in her hand, and you could hear the rustling of the paper.

"Luce?" The voice was heavy with sleep and Lucy jumped somewhat at the sudden sound. Slowly she turned round to face the worn out Carter who was lazily rubbing his eyes free from sleep.

He stopped rubbing at the sight of her face though. It was pretty much had the word 'Scared' tattooed across it. Carter rose to his feet and came to kneel beside his comrade, caringly placing a hand on her quivering shoulder.

"Lucy, what is it?" The blonde girl slowly handed him the note and he scanned it quickly, his eyes widening as the words soaked in. His face drained from all emotion and robotically he placed the paper back on the floor in front of them. When he spoke again, his voice was devoid of anything. "Guess this means operation 'Let's-get-the-hell-out-of-her-and-I-don't-mean-back-to-our-cell' is a no, no then?"

Lucy's eyes drifted down to the hellish note on the stone floor.

"Carter," Her voice was flat but you could just hear the quake. "Don't even think about joking at a time like this."

Neither spoke the rest of the night. Or was it morning? They just sat in eerie silence, listening to the clumping of guards feet outside and the small chatter that seeped through the halls. They ate their meal of bread in silence and drank small amounts of their remaining water. Lucy had quickly gotten used to the routing of the place. There was three bottles in the corner, each containing two litres of water. That had to last a week, and then they were refilled. Meals came twice a day, always the same thing. Toilet breaks were three times a day. Once at breakfast, once in the middle of the day and one before bed. If you needed to pee or… something else in between those times, you either had to hold in or wet yourself.

Luckily, neither Carter nor Lucy had had to do that yet.

Carter silently placed the empty bottles of water by the door, ready to be collected by one of the guards and then went to sit in the corner. Lucy shuffled a little on the spot before rising from the floor and going to sit with him. She leant her back against the wall.

"Lucy." Said girl looked up. "I'm sorry, It was stupid to try and escape."

Lucy sighed and placed her head on Carters shoulder, snuggling closer to the older boy and taking comfort in his warmth.

"At you done something. I was useless."

Carter chuckled softly and began stroking Lucy's soft blonde hair.

"Then how about I train you? Just simple hand to hand combat, nothing too bad."

"Yeah, I'd like that." He voice began to trail off as her eyes drifted close, but before she fell into a deep slumber, she said one thing, her voice as quiet as a mouse. "Carter?"

"Um?"

"Tomorrow, tell me about your powers and your guild. Please?"

Carter smiled at the sleepy celestial mage.

"Sure thing, Luce"

Another update, I'm pretty chuffed with myself hehe :)

(Wow, my shortest authors note ever! I think, anyway...)