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P is for parasomnia

The girls of Fairy Hills were all worried about their resident water mage. Strange things were happening with the girl and they weren't exactly sure how they should alert her and let her know what was happening. Erza sighed, her hands on hips. She didn't know why she couldn't just tell her!

"I still don't understand why you all think it's heartless to tell her. It's just forewarning."

Levy sighed and nodded. "I understand where you're coming from, but you don't know of the traumas that she must have gone through in life to suddenly have such a disorder! If we discuss this with her, it could bring up unwanted memories, and from there, they could get worse. She could start having nightmares while in her parasomnia."

The girls all hummed in understanding and they sighed. They were pretty sure that Juvia didn't know of what she did at night and the weird thing was that she always ended up back in her bed, unaware of the things that she did around her. Such as wailing. Like by KAMI, did Juvia wail! She screamed and this was while she opened her window to do so!

They didn't know why it was happening so suddenly because it never happened before, but they gathered that her parasomnia actually wasn't at all that bad, but it was just now progressively getting worse. They needed to do something, not just for Juvia's sake, but for the sake of their own sleep as well.

Lucy brightened up. "Why don't we keep watch of her one by one? We tell her she has parasomnia and that we're going to watch over her one by one! We just guard her and make sure that she's okay, kind of like patrol, right?"

The girls murmured between themselves, nodding and weighing their pros and cons out before decided whether they agreed. In the end, they all looked at Erza for her final judgement and the redhead had her hand under her chin, a concentrated look on her face. She nodded before looking at the girls.

"I think that's a splendid plan. Lucy? As this was your idea, you can keep first watch. I'll take second, Levy third, Wendy fourth, Mira fifth, Lisanna sixth, Laki seventh, Bisca eighth and Cana the last. Hopefully she'll be alright by Cana's turn. If not, we may have to take her to Porlyusica. Maybe she can find the root of the problem despite it not being physical. We might have to get Warren in on it too."

Juvia had been in the guild for a while and she had seen the group of girls as they were talking. She pouted and decided to sit down at one of the empty tables and wait for them to call her over. She didn't know why they didn't include her in all their girlie things and she was quite upset that they left her out of most things. What if they were planning on going to the beach without her?

She sighed and just as she was about to rest her head in her arms, Happy landed on her head and Natsu skidded to a halt beside her. She heard him growl and Happy was just laughing his head off, thinking it was rather funny to piss off his partner so much.

"You can't attack me now, if you do, you might hurt Juvia as well!"

The cat stuck his tongue out and yelped as he quickly threw himself into Juvia's arms. It seemed like Natsu didn't care one little bit about whether or not Happy was trying to use Juvia as a safe haven, he knew that he couldn't burn her due to her water body.

"Natsu! You're so mean to me! Juvia save me!"

The girl couldn't help but slide her way out of her funk as she laughed and cradled Happy close to her body where he mewled like a little kitten. Natsu rolled his eyes and sat down next to Juvia.

"Ignore him. What's with the long face?"

Juvia sighed once more. "Sometimes, I feel like the girls leave me out of a lot of things. I feel like I'm not part of their group. I thought me changing would have made things better, I mean, I've stopped chasing a guy who doesn't love me, I've changed my speech, even my clothes! Maybe I just wasn't made to have friends."

Natsu scoffed at her and grabbed her in a light and friendly headlock. "Hey! You've got me haven't ya? You've even got that iron bastard! I'm pretty sure it's nothing, maybe they haven't seen you walk into the guild yet or somethin'. Pretty sure they'll call you over soon."

As soon as those words fell from his lips, Erza called out Juvia's name, making her jump. She turned back to see the girls smiling and waving at her. She blinked in surprise, wondering how Natsu knew they were going to call her before she felt herself getting pushed out of her seat. She turned back to Natsu who was giving her a toothy grin.

"Hey, didn't you want them to call you over? Why stalling?"

"I'm just so shocked that you were right!"

Happy burst out laughing at that statement and Natsu pouted. "I can be right sometimes!"

Happy and Juvia laughed with one another before she set the exceed down. "I believe you can be, don't worry. See you guys later!"

She bounded over to the girls as Mira set out her favourite cold beverage, orange juice. She gave her a huge smile, wondering how the hell she could ever doubt the fact that they liked her. Natsu was probably right, they probably hadn't noticed her walk into the guild at the time, therefore they hadn't called her over. Her mind was always overactive sometimes.

"So Juvia, we've been meaning to talk to you about something pretty important."

Juvia nodded absent mindedly, enjoying how cool and refreshing her orange juice was. She hadn't really noticed that Erza was using a careful tone with her, as though she didn't want to piss her off or something.

"We've noticed that...well...you shout, wail, walk and sometimes attack people in your sleep."

She choked on her drink that she was swallowing down at the time and felt a little hand patting her back. Asuka who was sitting on the bar did what her mother would have done for her if she had started choking, and that was to pat her back. In her mind, Juvia cooed at the little girl and was grateful, even if her pats weren't actually hard enough for them to affect her.

"I-I do? That probably explains why after a really bad nightmare, I don't really find myself in my room, or my room is soaking wet. Oh Kami, have I attacked anyone of you?!"

Juvia was really panicking now, her orange juice forgotten. Levy got up quickly and waved her hands about nervously. "No, no! You haven't hit anyone at least! You've just tried to attack people."

Juvia slumped back down into her seat, her face in her hands. She started shaking her head and the girls were wondering if she was crying. Lucy came forward with Lisanna, and they sat on either side of the girl, patting her and making sure she was okay. She wiped raised her head, trying to wipe her tears and she shook her head at them.

"Now this is just another reason for you guys to hate me even more."

Her eyes were cast down as she couldn't care to look at any of them in the eye and they fussed around her, saying not say stupid things like that. Juvia wasn't so sure. She was a highly insecure person, and the way that Gray would always let her down, it made her insecurities even worse.

"Juvia, just because you have parasomnia, doesn't mean we hate you! We just want to help you now, okay?"

She nodded her head, the last of her tears wiped. She smiled at them all as Levy explained to her what parasomnia was. When Levy explained that this could be due to a childhood trauma, her insides froze. She was starting to remember her childhood, something that she didn't really feel comfortable in sharing. On the outside, she looked calm, like she was taking it all in, but on the inside, she was screaming and crying for her past.

"Okay, so what was the plan that you came up with then?"

"We're going to be on patrol! Keep ya company teehee." Cana swung an arm over her shoulder as she chugged down on some beer. Juvia smiled at their concern for her mental sleeping state, but now she just felt like she was being a burden onto them. Cana seemed to sense the change in the water mage and brought her face close to hers.

"If you so much as think to yourself that you're being a burden, I will throw sake down your throat until you're soooo drunk, you'll strip in front of me."

Cana laughed at the face that Juvia made and Erza sighed before pulling the card mage away from their innocent water mage. Juvia was still blushing and prayed to Kami that Cana didn't have the first watch. As much as she was the first friend that she had actually made when coming to the guild, sometimes, Cana was a bit too much for the reserved water mage.

"Because it was my idea, I've got the first watch!"

Juvia beamed at Lucy, grateful for her plan. She nodded as they all told her when their day it was to keep watch over her. She nodded and smiled the whole way through, happy that her friends wanted to do something to help her. Suddenly, Natsu and Happy came jumping out of nowhere.

"What about us? We've got the tenth watch!"

The girls spluttered at Natsu and Erza shook her head, punching his own head, making him fall and hold it in pain.

"Fairy Hills is for girls only, and seeing as that's where we'll be looking after Juvia, you're not allowed in!"

Natsu pouted when Happy turned to him and told him that Erza would never agree to his plan. Natsu only crossed his arms and closed his eyes while pouting.

"Aww c'mon, I'll only be in Juvia's apartment, I won't see anyone else, I promise!"

Juvia blushed at how Natsu wanted to help her and she thought it was quite sweet. Ever since he had gone to find Gray for her, she had become very good friends with the fire mage. She was charmed by his presence and believed in his promises, like everyone else did. She was honestly surprised that Lucy hadn't made her claim on him yet. Not like Juvia wanted Natsu like that, they were merely friends. She didn't like anyone in that way right now.

Laki and Erza stood over Natsu, the look of death on their face and thunder and lightning in the back. It made Happy and Natsu want to hide. "No. Boys. Allowed."

"AYE SIR!"

They both stood up before running back to where they came from, but Natsu still turned around to catch Juvia's eyes. No one else was looking, so he smirked and winked at her, almost as though he was putting on a show in front of Erza and Laki. They didn't scare him. He was still going to come and look after her on the tenth day like he said he will.

Juvia's heart sped up as she smiled at him subtly, so the others didn't see.

~x~

The night went by terribly. Lucy kept watch with Juvia for the first night and it hadn't been great at all. Okay, so Juvia hadn't attacked her, but she was very creative when she came up with spells. Lucy had actually written a few down for Juvia, just in case she wanted to use them another time, but had forgotten how. Even if Lucy had been a target, she was still trying to help.

They had both walked into the guild, a guilty expression on Juvia's face and a not so happy one on Lucy's. Everyone's eyes widened when they saw the two of them walk into the guild together. Lucy was wearing a waterproof jacket that Juvia had quickly made for her and then gave her her pink umbrella.

"Er, Lucy, you okay?"

Gray walked up to the two girls and jumped back when he got too close to her. Juvia scratched the back of her head, giggling nervously as she did so. "Erm, blame me. I might have accidentally made a spell that makes a raincloud stay with someone for 24 hours."

As much as Lucy loved her friend, she hated this spell, and her face made sure that everyone knew that. Gray nodded awkwardly when Juvia said that. He could tell that Lucy wasn't happy at all.

"How do you accidentally make a spell like that?" Gray was pretty nosey sometimes, so he really wanted to know why there was a cloud following Lucy now. It seemed like such a Natsu thing to do. As much as Lucy hated it, she knew that Juvia didn't want her parasomnia problem floating about in the guild.

"Us girls are practicing with her! So yeah, it was my day first last night and then it's Erza's turn tonight. Juvia's just trying to get stronger, you know?"

Juvia gave Lucy a grateful look and Lucy smiled back in return. Gray watched the exchange and raised an eyebrow. There was definitely something more to the situation, but because they were girls, it was probably something weird happening with them. He just and walked away, his shirt on the floor where he once stood. The two girls looked at the shirt before laughing and shaking their head.

Then lightning cracked over Lucy's head, making her foul mood come back.

The second day, Erza was wearing something from Juvia's wardrobe. The girls eye's widened as they all stared on. Juvia had the same guilty look as the day before and Erza's eyes were closed as she sat down, not acknowledging anyone. Mira clamped her mouth shut and passed her her favourite drink. All the girls were silent, until Cana couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing.

"WHAT IN THE FUCK HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?"

Erza's teeth were grinding against each other. Honestly, if Juvia had been an enemy and conscious with the sort of power that she had, Juvia would have killed her. She didn't know where the extra strength had come from, but all she knew was that as soon as she changed her armour, Juvia shattered it, just by punching her. Erza had spent a good portion of the night trying to dodge all of Juvia's attacks, attacks that she had never seen before. The only reason she didn't look so banged up was because Juvia then had healing spells and healed her up right before she fell asleep.

Juvia shook her head and gave Cana a very distressed look which made Cana calm down and she knew that there was something wrong. Lucy wondered what was as bad as Juvia making prank spells. Erza looked like she wasn't about to say anything, but above all, she looked extremely tired.

"I almost killed Erza..."

The girls all gulped and Levy almost fainted. It was her turn next and she was dreading it. The girls were trying to get Erza to talk, but it looked like she didn't want to. She was more in a state of shock than anything. She knew that Juvia was strong, but she hadn't known that Juvia was in a position to kill in this state. What was she supposed to tell the other girls when they needed to help Juvia?

"I think we need to involve the guys."

Erza's eyes opened when she heard Juvia speak. They all looked at Juvia and she gave them all a tired look and shook her head, her tears in her eyes ready to fall.

"I can't do this guys. Maybe I need to go straight to Porlyusica. If I can nearly kill Erza, I can just...Oh Kami."

Juvia didn't even finish her sentence as she just ran out of the guild, the girls being able to do nothing as they watched her. Erza stood up and narrowed her eyes as she started running after her. Gajeel came out of nowhere and stopped her, picking her up easily. The guild's strongest female yelped as she blushed, trying to hold Juvia's skirt in place. The slits went really high, how did she fight in this?!

"Leave her be. I've been listening to your conversations and trust me, if she doesn't want yer help, she really doesn't want it."

He put Erza down and she frowned. "Well then what the hell are we supposed to do then? I can't just sit by and let my nakama suffer!"

Gajeel sighed, rubbing at his face and nodding. This had now gained the attention of the whole guild as they were looking on, wondering what was going on. Everyone was silent as all they could hear was the swinging of the guild door from when Juvia ran through it.

Happy looked up at Natsu with a serious look. "Are you going after her?"

"No."

Happy was taken aback as he looked at Natsu's blank face. Natsu was never one who didn't do anything for his nakama, so Happy was wondering what Natsu had up his sleeve this time. He wanted to know what he had in mind this time. He knew that Natsu had some sort of soft spot for Juvia as they had been hanging around together for around 6 months. He might not necessarily like Juvia in that way (though Happy was convinced otherwise, but this wasn't the time to say that), Happy knew that Natsu and Juvia enjoyed each other's company.

"You're not going after her?"

"Nope. She's probably run off to the old hag and you know that she doesn't like us humans."

"I'm a cat."

"She hates you too."

"YOU'RE SO MEAN!"

Natsu didn't even react to Happy's call and he just stared out of the door. Happy stopped his yelling and looked up at Natsu who was just looking out at the door where Juvia had gone through. Everyone was talking about Juvia, hoping that she was okay and Erza was just itching to go after her. Instead, she walked over to Natsu.

"I thought you would have gone after her?"

"Nope," he replied, popping his p. Erza's eyebrow twitched and she really wanted to hit him, but in this situation, this is where Natsu was at home. Natsu knew how to get through to all the guild members, and there is definitely a time in history where every member could say that Natsu has been able to help them. It was Juvia's turn now and he wasn't going to? No, he was, in his own way.

Erza nodded her head, acknowledging that he had his own way and left him to his own devices. Natsu looked over at Happy before opening his mouth to talk.

"I'm not going to come home tonight. Maybe you can go stay with Wendy or Lucy."

"Why, where are you going to be?"

"I'm going to the old hag's place. I'm gonna stay with Juvia."

"That's your plan?"

"Did you think I wouldn't have one?"

"Well you are Natsu."

"Why thank you! Wait...YOU IDIOT CAT!"

It was night time when Natsu made his way to Porlyusica's house and he stood outside the door. He knew that the old bat would be able to smell him and that was her doorbell. The smell of humans bothered her, so she would always come to the door to chase them away. Right on time, she opened the door to find Natsu standing there, his face as hard as stone.

She opened the door wider and let him come through as he stood in her room.

"I've come to watch over Juvia."

"I thought you that's why you were here. You above all people usually try and avoid me. Well, there's nothing I could have done for her, but because I'm out here in the forest, I allowed her to stay with me. I'll take you through to where she is."

Natsu nodded and followed the woman through corridors nobody knew that she had. Eventually, she took him to a room that locked from the inside. Porlyusica wasn't a fighter and didn't have a spells for attacking, just for healing, so she wasn't really going to take any chances of dying in her own house when she saw what Juvia had done to Erza. Erza had filmed the whole night she spent with Juvia and Juvia took it to show the old woman.

"There's a bathroom and a kitchen in there along with entertainment. I'll get you out in the morning as you can't get out of there. See you in the morning."

"Thank you."

The woman nodded and walked off as Natsu took in a deep breath and opened the door.

Juvia looked up from her place on the sofa when she heard the door open. She saw Natsu smile at her and came to sit down next to her. She didn't even ask him what he was doing here, she just made space for him on the sofa.

"Let me guess, you're going to patrol tonight."

"Yuuuup!"

Juvia smiled as she shook her head at him. Of course he was going to. She liked that about him, his helpful nature. It was what drew her to him. As much as she tried to deny it, she was so sure that she liked him more than a friend. She didn't know why she didn't want to admit it to herself, maybe it was because she didn't want to have her heart broken again.

After probably an hour, Juvia yawned and stretched. She had to stop herself from falling onto Natsu and falling asleep. He just looked so comfy! She turned her head to see his attention focusing on the lacryma tv. His expression was relaxed, his pink locks falling across his face. He was slumped on the sofa, but he didn't even look tired. Well Juvia was.

"I'm going to sleep Natsu, I'm tired."

His attention shifted to Juvia as he nodded his head, watching her move over to the bed. Juvia smiled at him before falling on the bed. "Goodnight."

Natsu threw her a smile before a worried look passed his face. "Sure you're going to be okay?"

"Well you're here aren't you?"

Natsu blushed when she said that and nodded his head. She smiled at him as she lay down and turned her back towards him. He looked at her for a while before he turned back to the tv.

It must have been another 2 hours before it started. Natsu could hear Juvia panting heavily. She started shaking in the bed and Natsu wanted to wake her up, but he knew he couldn't. He had overheard everything that Levy was talking about when she was talking about what parasomnia was.

"Juvia?"

She started crying, sobbing and even wailing. The wails were loud and Natsu could hear the painful emotion behind them, as though it was something based on her past. Natsu wanted to do nothing more than shake her awake, but the trauma would probably kill her.

Then she got up and started her attacks. She had changed up a few spells that she had to make them deadly and soon, the whole room was soaking wet. Natsu didn't know what to do, but he ran forward and hugged her.

It managed to calm her down somehow and she soon woke up. "N-Natsu?"

"You awake?"

"...I started attacking you, didn't I?"

"Yeah, you did. Talk to me, what's up?"

She started crying as she sank down on the bed. Natsu sat by her, hugging her as a form of comfort as she spilled everything from her past.

"It started off as insomnia. Both my parents died and the people around me described it as they were 'sleeping'. I didn't want to 'sleep' forever, I mean, my 3 year old self wasn't sure if one day, she might not wake up like her parents did. So I never really slept when I was younger. Eventually I grew up to find what death really meant, but mentally, I was too far gone to start sleeping. I mean I did, but I think I started hallucinating. The real reason why I got kicked out of the orphanage was because I was attacking people, but I didn't even know I was doing so!"

Natsu managed to calm her down, before he got her in a lying position. She was confused when he lay down next to her and held her in his arms. Juvia wanted to protest, saying that he didn't have to, but this is Natsu she was talking about. Once he had his mind set on something, he was going to do it. It was probably his way of helping her.

"You're not alone anymore, Via. I'm here to make sure that you're alright, okay? We're not going to leave you, I'm not going to leave you? Just know that I'll always be here for you, with my arms wide open to keep you safe. Just sleep."

He was stroking her hair slowly as he brought her close to his chest. His other arm had circled itself around her torso and Juvia wanted to stay awake, scared that she might attack him again, but her eyelids were drooping. Natsu's soft and constant touch on her hair was making her sleepy. His words were soothing her troubled mind and she knew that she could trust him. She smiled lazily as she thought of her love towards him.

Natsu watched as her eyes closed slowly till they were open no more. He watched her serene and calm face, drinking in her beauty. Her pale skin seemed to light up while she slept and her hair glowed blue. He couldn't help him as he caressed her cheek, feeling how wonderfully soft her skin was.

He may not have acted like it openly, but he was very much in love with the water mage and he was going to make sure that nothing ever happened to her. She was going to be fine under his watch and in his arms.

~x~

Porlyusica arose the next morning and walked up to the door of the mini apartment that she had left the two Fairy Tail mages in. She knocked on the door first and when she didn't hear a response, she opened the door slowly to find that they were still asleep in each other's arms.

The old woman blinked before smiling. She had heard Juvia's attacks near the beginning of the night, but they had been cut off. She was scared that Natsu had gone to wake her up, but she probably woke up by her own accord. She knew that Natsu would have a way to calm her down. She probably just needed someone to talk to and be held.

On the bed, the two mages held each other close, a smile on both of their faces as they both slept.

So how was that chapter for ya? Did ya like it? I hope you did!

Parasomnia = a disorder characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during sleep (A wikipedia description). This includes stuff like nightmares, sleep-related eating disorders, sleep walking, sleep paralysis, sleep aggression etc.

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