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My heart froze as I watched Natsu take down my guild mates one by one. "Give me back my Luce!" shock was evident on my face as Natsu's words hit me full force. My trance was broken by the outraged shouts of Master. Focusing back on the battle I found Wendy trying to talk some sense into Natsu. Her attempts were in vain. In a blink of an eye I switched places with Wendy and took Natsu's attack full on.

The noise in the guild quickly stopped and engulfed the room. My whole midsection ached. I had been so focused on saving Wendy that I didn't have time to block the hit. Slowly I pulled myself off the ground to meet a stunned looking Natsu.

"Luce i'm so sorry I didn't mean to hit you." My body shook with rage and I couldn't take it anymore. Roughly I grabbed Natsu by his vest and we both melted into the shadows. The shocked silence of Sabertooth was replaced with the loud drunken noises of Fairy Tail. Natsu looked around confused at first then his signature grin stretched out his face. He scrambled onto the table closest to us and shouted to get everybody's attention.

"Guys Lucy came back!" A loud cheer went up throughout the hall as people started getting up to greet me. That is when I casually joined Natsu on the table. Everybody stopped their advances thinking that I was going to make an announcement. However, instead I grabbed Natsu by the throat and threw him down to the ground. Shooting the flame idiot a look of pure disgust my eyes slowly shifted to the group of people standing around me.

"I am not here to join you. I am merely here to dispose of the trash that was littering my guild. So i thought it best to warn the others to stay the hell away from me." Gray pushed his way to the front of the group wearing a pained look that sent a light pain through my heart.

"Lucy what happened to you? What happened to the girl who cared about her nakama. What happened to the girl I used to call sister?" The whole guild stared at me with sad eyes as they waited for my reply.

"You all got your wishes, the weak little Lucy is gone. She died the day you all turned your backs on her. All that's left his the shell filled with hatred. Prepare yourself because I plan on showing you all the extent of that hatred." With that I jumped down from my perch on the table and turned towards the doors. Before I pushed the massive oak doors open I turned to them one last time.

"I will be sending Wendy tomorrow to answer any of the dragon slayers questions. I expect her home no later than nine." With that as my final words I left and started walking home. I walked to the hotel, past all the members, and went straight to my room.

Once I was alone I let the tears fall freely.

Celeste had told me all about Lisanna's spell before I left the dragons. I could have went back to them and forgiven them. If I had everything would have gone back to normal.. But I could never forget the fact that they had never looked for me. They had just accepted the fact that I was gone and never coming back. That hurt worse than the harsh words that still plagues some of my dreams.

Suddenly the door to my room opened and I hurriedly tried to hide my tear stained face. A moment of silence passed then the door closed. I released a shaky breath that I had not been aware that i had been holding. Glad that I was once again alone. That is until two strong arms snaked their way around my waist.

"Luce please don't cry alone, especially since I will always be there to wipe away your tears." Turning in her arms I clutched onto Sting's shirt for dear life and let the tears fall again. "How can they still hurt me so much? How can I still crave their approval so much?" For hours Sting just held me close and let me cry. When my eyes were finally dry I pulled away and gave Sting a smile to show him I was all better.

STING POV
 I had been restlessly pacing in my room waiting for Lucy to return. I knew she had taken flame brain back to his guild. That bastard had the nerve to come here spouting crap about how we had taken his Luce away. He was lucky that Lucy had stepped in when she did because Rogue and I were about ready to kill him. My thoughts were interrupted when I heard the door to Lucy's room open and close.

Quickly I ran to her room needing to see with my own eyes that she was ok. When I opened her door she turned her back to me and stood stiffly in the middle of the room. With one more glance out into the hall I stepped in and closed the door behind me. She had been crying I could tell by the way the air smelt haviley of salt. Something inside me was breaking at the way she still tried to close herself off from others.

My body moved forward on it's own accord needing to hold her close. I knew she was surprised that I was still there by the way her body stiffened when I wrapped my arms around her. I refused to let her cry by herself and I told her that so she knew she was never alone. Then after a few minutes she finally told me why she was hurting and I couldn't help myself anymore. I pulled her closer and made a resolve to never let her go.

After what felt like hours of me holding her close she pulled away and smiled at me. That smile is what really broke my heart because it was beautiful and sad at the same time. Without thinking I pulled her chin up so I could gaze into her chocolate orbs. Ever so slowly I inched my lips closer to hers making sure that she wouldn't protest. As soon as our lips connected her hands ran up my arms and into my hair. Everywhere her fingers touched caused a fire in me to come to life within me. I pulled closer wanting to be able to feel every inch of her body against mine. Lucy pulled away to catch her breath. I leaned my forehead against hers as

we both caught our breath.

I couldn't believe it I had been dying to kiss her again ever since that time in the hospital. I just stood there breathing her in taking in how unbelievably sexy she looked with her hooded eyes and messy hair.

"Rouge is going to kill you when he finds out what you did to his little sister." without thinking I pushed her down onto her bed and crawled on top of her.

"Well then why don't I do something to really piss him off."