Thanks for continuing to read this story, I hope you like this chapter. The chapters before were mostly written through Erza's eyes, but during this one, I'm going to try to focus more on Jellal's side. Enjoy!

Disclaimer; I do not own Fairy Tail. It belongs to Hiro Mashima.

Don't Leave

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The heat emitting from her forehead caused him worry as did the glazed look in her eyes. Before she had grown conscious of his presence, Jellal had slid a chair from the kitchen to her bedside. Now Erza's dark, brown eyes were fixated on the blue haired man, as if she was making sure he wasn't going to do anything. She was right to be cautious of him, just as he was sitting there looking at Erza's sickly body, he had to force himself not to attack her.

She's too weak to resist. The devilish voice inside his head began talking once more, This is your chance. Ever since that faithful day in the tower, his mind was constantly at war with this inner, evil voice. However, seeing Erza again Jellal was able to control his thoughts more than usual but the inner demon still tried to take over.

Jellal had found it annoying that Erza didn't obey him and not take one of the celestial wizards keys. His plan probably won't have work, since a celestial spirit is not in fact a human, but it was worth a shot. The voice within his head had claimed Erza to become the sacrifice for the Tower of Heaven, when it was time to resurrect Zeref, and the reason Jellal shown up was to kidnap the scarlet haired warrior, but once he seen her face again ... he couldn't do that to her. That's why he wanted her to steal on of her friend's keys, thinking one of the spirits could replace Erza as a sacrifice. Even if he did explain the situation, Erza probably still wouldn't comply.

"Why are you here?" Erza demanded, a sneeze soon followed. Jellal held back a chuckle, finding it hard to take the sick warrior seriously as she tried to put up her tough act.

"I came to make sure you get better." Jellal repeated.

Pulling off his gloves and placing them on the nightstand near her bed, Jellal touch her forehead once more. She needed medicine or else her fever was bound to get worst. He left her side, walking into the kitchen in search for something to ease her cold.

"What are you looking for?" Her soft, weak voice called out but Jellal ignored her as he continued to look through her cabinets.

Most cabinets contained plates, glasses, and cups but he finally found the medicine cabinet. It was mostly empty, a few bottles of pills collecting dust. Erza probably didn't like taking medicine, which is going make things ten times harder since she most likely won't trust Jellal, of all people, to give her any kind of pills in the first place. Searching quickly through the labels, Jellal found a cough syrup for colds and was cherry flavored.

"No." Erza growled lowly, once the red haired girl noticed the spoon and bottle of medicine in Jellal's hands.

"It'll make you feel better." Jellal insisted as he poured the foul smelling liquid into the spoon and placed the container on the nightstand. Her coffee, brown eyes sharpened into a glare that signified she wasn't planning on cooperating.

"No." She repeated, "That tastes disgus-!"

Just as Erza opened her mouth, Jellal took the opportunity to shove the spoonful of medicine down her throat. She was surprised by the sudden attack, Erza didn't have time to react. Jellal replaced the spoon with his hand, covering her mouth so she didn't spit it out. Her nails dug deeply into his forearm as she attempted to pull his arm away but it was to no avail. She was forced to swallow down the medicine and Jellal released his grip, sighing in relief.

"It's disgusting!" Erza gagged, the cherry flavored was tainted by the overwhelming scent of medication and the mixture was purely awful to the tongue. She gulped down the water Natsu had placed on her bedside table earlier. The plain taste of water didn't get rid of the horrible aftertaste of the cough syrup, if anything, it only made it worst, "Ugh!"

The disgusted expressions that were being displayed on the Titania's face were quite amusing. It took about five minutes for Erza to regain her composer, the taste still haunted her mouth but it was now bearable. Sitting up in her bed, Erza changed her expression to a more serious one and narrowed her eyes towards Jellal.

"What about the 'punishment' you were talking about earlier?" Erza asked. Obviously, she didn't want to be 'punished' for not obeying Jellal's order but she had to make sure the villain wasn't secretly plotting something while her guard was down.

"Heh, I think your cold is punishment enough." Jellal grinned.

She'll never learn if you don't punish her, The sick, twisted voice in his head remarked, Just wait until she's asleep ... He tried to shut out the voice but it was impossible.

"Whatever." Erza grunted, sniffling as she laid back down in her bed and snuggling up with the covers.

Her slender back was facing Jellal, he felt his arm reaching closer to her body. It went towards the back of her neck, wanting to choke it tightly in his hold. As it lingered closer, the Titania's sudden turn caused him to jerk away. This did not go unnoticed by Erza as she gave him a suspicious look. He snapped out of his small trance and gave her an innocent grin before standing up from his chair.

"Where are you going now?" Erza called after Jellal, the tall, dark man was heading towards her doorway.

"You need your rest," Jellal began, "I should be leaving now."

The trench coat that he lent Erza last night was hanging neatly on a coat rack beside the door, he grabbed it and slung the heavy material over his should. Just as he reached for the doorknob, Erza shouted, "Wait!"

Jellal looked back, "What?"

"Ple ... Please stay." Erza coughed. The strong, powerful Erza of Fairy Tail looked scared and lonely. Her brown eyes gazed at him pleadingly, the same way she use to look in the tower where Erza was nothing more than a frighten child. A soft sigh escaped his lips but Jellal grinned at the scarlet haired girl.

"Okay." He reluctantly accepted, heading back to the sick girl.

She had expected him to take his seat back in the chair but the Titania was taken by surprise as his crashed down onto bed, nearly crushing her legs as he rolled over her body so that he was beside the wall. Erza blinked, confused as Jellal smirked. He lazily kicked off boots to the floor and lifted the covers that guarded Erza's body. The red head was about to protest but she didn't have enough time until he wrapped his arms around her body once he found his under the blanket.

"J-Jellal!" Erza stammered, her face turning the scarlet color of her hair.

"You asked me to stay." He snickered, burying his face in the crook of her neck as he let his eyes shut. Deciding not to protest, Erza found herself falling into a dreamless sleep. Lately, the Titania noticed whenever Jellal was beside when she slept, her nightmares seemed to vanish.

Gray Fullbuster raced through the streets of Magnolia, suddenly one of their guild members, Loke, had left Fairy Tail. The first person he reported to was Lucy, the celestial wizard seemed to had an idea where Loke might have went off to. Gray trusted her intuition but he searched through the streets from his guildmate.

"Loke! Loke!" Gray shouted, no one replied. Off in the distance, he heard the fire dragon and other fairies calling out Loke's name as well.

The ice mage had noticed this part of the city was close to Erza's apartment. The scarlet haired warrior didn't know much about Loke, so she probably didn't know where he went off to, but Gray knew she would probably want to know what's going on. Going up the stairs of the brick building, Gray found himself in front of Erza's door and wrapped his hand around the doorknob, not bothering to knock. She needs her rest. He began to have second thoughts about interrupting Erza while she was sick.

"I'll just check up on her," Gray reassured himself, "See if she's doing any better."

He hadn't gone with Natsu and Lucy when they took her home because he was still distraught by yesterday, but he knew Erza had pride she needed to protect. She wasn't a damsel in distress, she could take care things herself. Sighing, he turned the knob and pushed the door open.

"Erza!" He greeted in a happy manner. But his friendly grin soon disappeared as his dark, black eyes rested at Erza's bed. She wasn't alone.

"Gray?" Erza inquired, drowsily as she lifted her body up to get a better view of her visitor. The figure beside her slowly began to stir, sitting up as well.

"Y-You!" Gray choked out, shakily pointing an accusing finger at the two, "What is going on!"

His panic and shock was quickly replaced by seriousness, putting both his hands together to ready an attack. It took a moment for Erza to realize what the ice creation wizard was about to do, "Stop!" She yelled as chilly mist was forming around his body and hands.

"Ice Make," He began his spell. Rage flowed rapidly through his body that he didn't even take time to think that his attack would most likely end up hitting Erza as well. All he could think about was killing the bastard who kept on making Erza cry, "Lanc-"

"I wouldn't do that." A sadistic, deep voice hissed into Gray's ear. The ice mage didn't see Jellal's fast moments, the blue haired man was at the bed and then had Gray in a choke hold in less than a second. Jellal tighten his hold, making it harder for Gray to breath.

Kill him. Kill him. Kill him. The voice repeated with twisted glee. Jellal chuckled as Gray began to struggle against his grip, the ice mage's hands tried to pry Jellal's arms away from his neck but Jellal was too strong him.

Kill him. Applying more pressure, Jellal yelled, "Die!"

"Jellal! Stop!" Erza shouted, her voice snapping him out his murderous trance. He loosen his grip on Gray and stepped back, his hair falling into his face. Erza was quickly by her friend's side, who was frantically gasping for air.

"What is going on!" Gray snapped as he regained his composer, his eyes glaring at Erza, "I though he was your enemy! Why is he here?"

"Gray ... I ..." It was impossible to form a sentence, her head was throbbing and her belly churned in a way that she felt like she was able to throw up.

"Well, Erza?" Gray pressed, gritting his teeth together and his fist clenched in rage. Tears began forming in the corner of her eye, normally Gray would regret causing her sorrow but he felt so betrayed.

"Gray, I ... I love him!"

A/N ;; BAM! I'm debating on what should happen next, but I'll work on it as soon as I can. Thanks for reading!