I'm back! Sorry for taking so long. I really have no excuses, but here it is. This falls after their first job with Eisenwald and near the Gaulna Island incident. Enjoy!

Erza's POV

I take a deep breath and walk through the town to that small house Natsu told me about. "Just greet her. She's a team member…"I mutter. I get to the house and walk up the second floor. I gulp and raise my hand to knock. I gently rap my armored fist against the wooden door and considered running when I heard Lucy's footsteps on the inside. No! I can't run. She's a new member of fairy tail and I should get to know her.

She answers the door and looks surprised to see me. "Erza! I didn't expect to see you here. Well, I'm surprised you came to the door. The guys usually just invite themselves in." She smiles. "Sorry, I was just writing…"She blushes. I study her for a moment. She wore a pair of boxers for shorts and a tank top that barely contained her, but still seemed to be innocent. She was stunning I'll admit. She is beyond beautiful and just so cute. Just something in her smile seemed oddly familiar. The familiarity is just something I can't put my finger on. An old crush of mine? No, the only girl I was with was her. She…well, I only knew a few things anymore. Loved writing, had a mother named Layla and was very open with herself and lacked any shame with her identity.

"Hello, Lucy. I just wanted to get to know you after our first mission together. We didn't get much time for pleasantries during the whole Eisenwald debacle." I walk into the apartment and look around. "Nice place you got here."

"Thanks!" She walks into the kitchen. "Would you like a drink?"

"I'm fine. Do you by any chance have any—"

"Strawberry cake?" She walks out holding a slice of strawberry cake.

"Yes…how did you know? I love strawberry cake!" I grin. I take a bite and I feel an odd feeling of nostalgia rush over me. I can't quite put my finger on it…

"I just happened to make one." She smiles sheepishly and puts the plate down on the kitchen table. I sit down and grab the fork on the plate. "So you've been in Fairy Tail since you were a kid, but what happened to you before then?"

I tense and shiver. "I don't like talking about it."

"Oh…I'm sorry," she apologizes.

"You wouldn't want to talk of your past, would you?"

"No. I understand that it's not always the best." She looks in pain. No…longing for something?

"So that job…"I change the topic.

"Yeah, it was quite the challenge. But you seemed to know what you were doing. You're magic actually is quite beautiful. You're like an actual knight in shining armor to people. You protect them!"

I blush slightly but brush it off with the wave of my hand. "It's nothing. It's what I agreed to be when I joined Fairy Tail. You can be someone's hero as well."

"I hope to be."

I take a bite of her cake and moan. "Oh my god this is amazing." I haven't tasted something this amazing since I was a kid. Jesus Christ, it's like heaven!

"It's not that good…"She blushes and tucks a stand of hair behind her ear.

"It is. It's better than Mira's."

"Well I've made it since I was five," she tells me.

"Heh….I knew a girl who made a cake like this. I was six when I knew her. She was about the same age when we met."

She looks down at me. She smiles, but her eyes look clouded. Sad? Intrigued? I couldn't tell. "Is that so? What was her name?" She sat across from me. I almost sensed an urgency in her voice.

"I don't remember. I just remember little snippets of her…"I shake my head. "Never mind it. I don't really talk about my past. I would love to hear about you." Like your mother's name.

She frowns and shakes her head. "I'm the same…I don't like talking about my past. Me currently? I'm just trying to be a celestial wizard like I've always wanted to be and try to publish the next great novel." A writer? Better yet, a writer with a talent with celestial spirits and eyes that contain the universe within them.

"Oh! Can I read your novel?" The girl I knew, she would let me read what she wrote. It wasn't much, but at that age, it amazed me. I loved her short little stories and poems. They were always so sweet. She usually did romance. Her way of writing was rather pillowy and romantic. They made you want to fall in love with her. She wrote a scary story once and it was terrifying to my young mind. I wonder how Lucy wrote.

"Hell no," she snaps. Well, that was a bit uncalled for. It seems she's prone to an escalation of moods when slightly provoked. It seems I'll have to wary.

"Okay…sorry." I lick frosting from my lips. I see Lucy's eyes do a subtle sweep from the corner of my eye, but they quickly return to looking back at me. "What do you write about?"

"Um…I like to write several different genres at a time. I have a bad habit of starting a new story when I'm stuck on a story. That leads me to leave stories untouched for months on end."

"How many stories are you juggling right now?"

"Um…four, I have two romances, one horror, and one mystery."

"Levy must love you." I chuckle and smile at her. "I heard she's the only one knowing the pleasure of reading your stories."

"Yeah, she's been a help. She's my unofficial editor." She smiles softly. "She's quite nice."

"Indeed, she is, but she's hardly around. She takes a lot of jobs."

"I've seen. We were planning on meeting up today." She huffs and looks down at the table. I look at her hands and see the pen ink on her fingers. She must use a dip pen. The black was lustrous ebony, but parts seemed graying and tinted blue by the fading of cleanings. Small spots of pale skin peeked through the deep color.

"You wrote her some new chapters?" I question.

"Having someone reading it makes me more motivated to write," she explains.

"Especially someone so cute."

"I suppose…I mean I guess she's cute!" She blushes and rubs over her guild mark.

"So bi or lesbian?" Last main part of her. I feel having, at least, some things remembered to be in this girl, it could be something. It was highly unlikely. Hell…why am I longing for her? It's been a decade. She could've easily found another woman. She could be engaged to someone else for all I know.

Her eyes widen in surprise. "What!?"

"I'm just curious." I tilt my head. "You wouldn't be alone. Mira is bisexual and so is Cana. I'm a lesbian myself."

"I'm not really comfortable with telling you that, Erza!" She flushes dark red. I shake my head and sigh. It must not be her. Just a coincidence that she writes I guess. I suppose that isn't an uncommon thing. Everyone has tried to write a story. God knows I have tried to create memoirs and journals, a way to pour myself out and try to let everything go.

"Sorry. Can we brush past this?"

"Fine." She rubs her temples. "You're not shy with people, are you?"

"Well…usually." You're just too familiar for me to feel uncomfortable, but you're not her. Life isn't so sweet. "I should go. I have a job to go on." I stand. "Thank you for the cake, Lucy."

"It's no problem."

I smile at her before leaving. I shake my head upon leaving. "Goddammit."

Lucy's POV

I frown after she goes. What the hell sort of questions was that? I didn't want our meeting to be like that. I mean she caught me without makeup and I was in my pajamas. She must've thought I was such a slob. And what was with her asking me if I was gay? Wait…is she attracted to me? Oh, I hope that's how it is. But she doesn't know I'm her old betrothed. Does that mean she's moved on? Forgotten me? Or does she want me because she remembers me?

"Argh! This is confusing!" I groan and fall onto my bed.

"Lucy!" Natsu flies in with Happy.

"Get out!" I throw a pillow at him, but he ducks it.

"I got us a job." He drops a flyer into my lap. "It pays a lot!"

I look at the flyer and swallow, feeling a lump in my throat form. "This is an S-class job."

"Yeah, Happy snatched it up for us."

"This is a bad bad idea!" I squeak.

"It offers a golden gate key as well," Happy says slyly.

"A golden…gate…key." I sigh, "fine. Let's go.

"Alright!" Natsu cheers.

Thank you all for reading.I'm praying that this was enough to make up for the fact it's been two months since I've updated (It took a while because I kept rewriting the story and it just got really annoying. I had some writers block. Just the usual.) I hope to have the next chapter up by next year (haha). Thank you for following the storing and making it your favorites. And all those reviews give me life. Seriously. And all those people who follow me as an author I love you.