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I do not own Fairy Tail.

It belongs to Mashima-sama. I'm just a fan trying to make a story about my OTP!

(A.N.: my angst mode is on!)

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Maybe it's true, when you're at the brink of death; you'll your life flashing in your eyes. From the very beginning to the very moment where you stand waiting for that final act that will take your soul apart from your body. That's exactly what is happening to Juvia as her eyes were shut tight and she's trying hard to block Gray's voice calling out for her. If this would be her end she doesn't want her last memory to be of Gray's painful stares and hurt calls.

All she can feel is the cold crawling on her being. The cruel feel of ice dragging her to oblivion. She knows that in few more seconds those sharp ices will hit her fatally and that will be the end of her. At least she'll die knowing that she did her best for the guild and for Gray. She'll be in peace knowing that someone like her who used to only bring gloom anywhere she goes did something for the people who accepted her completely as she is, no motives, no pretending.

She just has one regret. She had hoped that if she's going to die she'll die knowing who she really id for Gray. Is she just simply a nakama or someone important that he wants to treasure and adore. But that's not important anymore. If that will be really the end of Juvia of the sea, she just wanted to die as his simple nakama. That will hurt less than if she actually managed to get inside his heart. She doesn't want to leave him as a broken man once more. She had seen him after his father's second death and she don't wish for him to go through that kind of pain and self loathing again. It's no longer important that he return her feeling so long as he's away from another heart break.

But Juvia is no stupid. She's just crazy at times but she already knew, once she draw her last breathe what their enemy initially planned will happen. The moment Gray told her he's going to give her an answer she already seen it in his eyes. She already felt it in the way he acted that night. No matter what, if she dies, Gray Fullbuster will be broken.

I'm sorry, Gray-sama.

"Hush, don't be sorry."

Juvia went rigid with that voice that suddenly talked to her. It's not just a voice. There are arms embracing her tightly and warm breath hitting her neck causing her to shiver not because of cold but an electrifying sensation running down her spine. "Gray-sama!"

"A-ar—e yo—u okay?"

What's wrong with him? Why does he sound so weak and pained? "Gray-sama! Gray-sama! GRAY!" she don't want to but she can't help but cry when his body went limp and weighed down on her. She can feel something wet and warm on his back and she doesn't need to be smart to know that it's blood. All those strikes intended for her, he blocked the rest of it using his own body as a shield. "Why? Gray, why?" Memories of dragons and white deathly beams played in her mind and panic slowly swallowed her. It can't be happening. Not again. She knew that that dream like memory from the night of the dragon invasion was real; Gray had done this before but for some reason time went back for just a minute and things changed. It was just a minute but it meant everything to someone like her and sacrifices that night can't just go to waste just like that. Why do you have to do this again, Gray?

"Don't – cry, Juvia." Gray's breathing is laboured and from time to time she could hear him cough and each time blood slips out of his mouth and it's terrifying. "I was taunting hi—m to attack m—e b—ut he went after yo—u. I told you, I. Need. You. Alive. I'm just making sure you won't die."

"That's pointless when Gray is the one going to die," she cried hugging him tightly close to her. Just thinking a life without him already feels like her. What more if it actually happens? Does really need to live in sorrow and loneliness again just like those six months he was gone playing the badass to infiltrate some stupid dark guild? She doesn't want that kind of pain again. "Gray can't do this to Juvia. This is just too cruel."

"What happened to 'sama'?" he asked with a smile she felt against the skin of her neck where his face is buried. "Am I not that important anymore?"

"It's no time for jokes!"

Gray heaved a deep breath before clutching her shoulders tightly. He pushed himself a little bit away from her so they are facing each other as he took leverage on her. "I'm serious." He is. For as long as they can both remember Juvia always used the suffix to his name and from the moment they started fighting Invel she had his name without it several times too many for his liking. He's just acting cool by saying he never liked the way she called him that but he actually find it special and sweet of her to put him above anyone else. "I always wonder what it would be like to hear my name coming from you without the sama and now I know it. I don't like it. Not because I want to be some sort of high and mighty bastard but because I know that that is your endearment for me."

"Why are you saying things like this to me all of a sudden." And there she completely dropped the third person. She's being too emotional to still care about trivial things such as her speech pattern.

"Because this may be the only tim—"

"Don't say that," she sobbed loudly. "If you don't want me dead, Juvia don't want you either. Please don't do this to me."

He smiled apologetically. "I w—on't if I have a choice. I still have plan of taking you out in a date after this mess." His smile turned regretful when he saw her shocked face. "I'm sorry to say it this way," he whispered gently. "I. Love. You." He's breathing heavily but he has to tell her. She needs to hear it. "That's my answer and if by any chance," he cupped her face gently leaving trails of fresh blood on her cheeks. "If by any chance I survive I want to properly court you the way a woman as amazing as you are deserves. I – love you, Juvia."

Tears flows down freely from both their eyes as their lips touched. Why does it hurt, Juvia have no idea. All she knows is it's not what she expected to feel once Gray finally tells her he loves her and not the way she imagined their first kiss would be. Sure it's great that he finally realized that he loves her too but why do they need to be in that situation? What happened to her perfectly planned date where Gray would kneel down in front of her and ask her to be his girl and then they'll get married and have many children!

Their lips parted when Gray coughed again spitting more blood. "Gray-sama!"

"I'm sor—"

"GRAY!"

That heart breaking scream broke the silence that hang in the air after blood spilled around the white battle field after Gray Fullbuster, resident ice mage of Fairy Tail shattered at the very front of Juvia Lockser'd eyes. Behind Gray stood Invel Yura with an ice spear in hand with frozen blood on tip. Everyone near them froze not in cold but by shock of what just happened. No one can believe that an Ice Mage, an ice devil slayer for that matter died in the hands of someone with similar power.

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