Lucy woke up early to make breakfast before school. She made chocolate chip pancakes. Lucy finished them and put them all on a big plate. She waited a while at the table for Natsu to wake up. A few minutes went by and she decided to wake him up or they would be late.
She ran upstairs and knocked on the door. "Natsu?" She cracked the door open. "Natsu?" He slowly opened his eyes. "Lucy?" She walked over to him. "Come on Natsu, you have to get ready for school, I made breakfast." "I don't think I can Luce." He said in a kind of weak voice. "Why not?" She asked, tilting her head to the side. "I feel really sick." She felt his head.
"You're burning up!" Lucy said. "Lucy... do you have- anything for me to-" Natsu couldn't hold it back anymore. He grabbed an empty bag that was by Lucy's bed and puked in it. Lucy stroked his head to comfort him. "I'm going to go downstairs for a mintue, ok? I'm going to try and find some meds in there and I'll get you a bowl." She picked up the puke bag. "And I'll throw this out too."
She went downstairs and into the backyard where the big trash cans were. She threw out the puke-filled bag and ran back inside. She raided all her cupboards and drawers and eventually found something. "Here Natsu." She said, walking into her room with a bowl for Natsu to puke in and some medicine.
"I found some medicine for you and I have a bowl you can throw up in." "Thanks Luce, you're the best." He swallowed the pills. "I don't know if I can stay though Natsu. I've already skipped so much school. I might not even pass the grade. Sorry, but I'll see you this afternoon." She kissed him on the forehead, grabbed her backpack and breakfast, and left for school.
Natsu layed his head back and tried to get to sleep. He didn't want to be constantly hurting so he figured he'd sleep the day away. It took a while for him to fall asleep. His head was pounding and it distracted him. Thoughts of what would happen to Lucy, since he wasn't there, rushed through his head.
Lucy got to school, worried. Not about her own safety, but about Natsu. She figured he had some sort of flu, and she hated leaving him, but she had missed way much school as it is. She didn't think much about the fact Natsu wasn't there. No one had bothered her for weeks.
Lucy went to her locker to grab some stuff. It was obvious everyone was confused why Natsu wasn't with her. She looked around at everyone, completely weirded out. She shrugged it off and went to class. Through out the day, people were whispering and staring at her.
Lunch came and she felt so lonely. She hadn't realized until just then that Natsu was her only friend and the only person who cared about her. They spent every second of every day together, except for when they had different classes. But now, Natsu was sick. He wasn't at school. It made Lucy feel better knowing that he was waiting for her at home.
Lucy had two more classes after lunch. Biology and European Historical Events. In biology, she heard the boys behind her whisper, then snicker. She started to get nervous. By the he end of the class it had happened again. Whispering and snickering, whispering and snickering. This went on for what seemed like forever until the end of the day came.
Finally, all this can stop and she can go home. European historical events ended and she went to her locker to drop off her books. She slammed the locker door and a boy was standing over her. His arm right above her, standing so close she could feel his breathing.
She smiled nervously and turned around. There was another one, standing slightly further away from the other. She turned to the side and the same thing. She wasn't exactly sure what they were going to do. Beat her, rob her, she didn't know. Their faces told her nothing.
They started closing in in her. She backed up against the lockers. The one that was closest to her, which is the first one she saw originally, covered her mouth. She slightly screamed but she knew it was useless. No one was going to save her. No one cared. She sat there as they ripped apart her clothes, and their own.
When they had each had their turn, she was left naked with strands left of her clothing. She fell to the floor, hugged herself, and just sat there, crying.
Natsu woke up and noticed it was getting late. Lucy should have been home by then, especially since he was sick, she would have rushed home. He thought maybe she got held up, or needed to finish some work. He waited another 20 minutes before he really got worried.
Natsu stepped outside and stepped right back in. "Damn, it's freezing out there!" He grabbed his jacket and went to find Lucy. He thought he'd go to the school, since that would be the most likely place of where she would be. He breathed into his hands to try and heat them up.
Boys who were leaving the school saw Lucy and didn't help her, but they took advantage of the "opportunity" and did what the others boys did. They had their turn.
Lucy was shaking when Natsu got there. So many people had gotten to her. She started not to feel it. Her tears were frozen onto her face because it was so cold. "Lucy!" Natsu sprinted to Lucy. She slowly opened her eyes to see Natsu. Natsu took off his jacket and the scarf his father had given him and put it on Lucy. He hugged her tight.
Lucy finally processed who it was and started sobbing. She didn't even want to talk. She wanted nothing more than to go home and snuggle under the blankets forever. She felt like dying, she was in so much pain, physically and mentally.
Natsu just picked her up and held her close to his chest. She had her arms around him tight. On the way back home Lucy remembered that Natsu was sick. "Wait, Natsu." She said in a tired, raspy voice. It was the first time she had spoken since he found her. "Yeah Luce?" "Your sick. You shouldn't be up right now."
"You're more important that a stupid flu, or just health in general. If I hadn't found you you would've froze to death, or someone else would've-" He stopped. Thinking about it pissed him off. It was one thing when they beat her up, but rape? And the fact that nobody stopped it, they just continued the cycle.
"Natsu." Lucy attempted to get down. "You're sick. I can't keep having you do this. You're hurting yourself and that hurts me." Despite her saying that, the second she stood up she started hurting like hell. She screamed out in pain. She almost fell to the ground but Natsu caught her. "I know. Your in more pain then me. But it hurts me to watch you like this too. And you can't even walk, so I'm going to take care of you."
He picked her back up and continued walking. When they got home Natsu brought Lucy upstairs and gently put her in bed. He got ready for bed himself and crawled in next to her. Lucy curled up in a ball. Thinking about it and what they did made her tear up. Natsu heard her crying and put his arm around her. Lucy relaxed a bit and turned towards him.
Natsu pulled Lucy close to him, afraid to let go. Lucy hugged him tight as she cried onto his chest, the memories completely unbearable. Natsu stroked her hair in attempt to try and make her feel better, but he knew it wouldn't help. He had no idea how to do this, this had never happened before.
Lucy felt comforted by the fact that at least one person cared for her. But having one person wasn't going to help her. She was constantly remembering everything that happened. Especially one, that disturbed her the most. Gray. It was the first time he didn't have Juvia with him that Lucy had seen. He kissed her and she hated it, the only boy she wanted to kiss was Natsu.
Not long before Lucy and Natsu started dating, Gray and Lucy had a moment. Lucy was getting pushed around, she had a crowd laughing and watching her. Natsu was in a different class so he didn't see this. This was before people realized they couldn't mess with Lucy.
Lucy was being tossed around like a beach ball. Someone pushed her right into Gray where they fell onto the ground. When Lucy realized what happened, she found herself ontop of Gray, kissing him. Juvia nearly kicked Lucy off as Gray wiped his lips. Two people had gotten pictures. Gray grabbed both their phones, sent the pictures to himself, and deleted the pictures from their camera roll.
Lucy loved Natsu so much, and he loved her. Natsu didn't know that Gray had raped Lucy. She had told him everyone who had done it except for him. Gray blackmailed Lucy. If she didn't do whatever he said, he would tell Natsu about the pictures. Juvia didn't care, anything to get the bitch that hurt her Gray, out of the game.
Lucy couldn't sleep. She sat there, eyes wide open, replaying the moment Gray grabbed her by the neck and whispered: "Tell Natsu, and I'll show him the pictures." She remembered him slamming her back to the ground, hitting her head really hard. Thinking about it gave her a sensation. She rubbed the back of her head.
The pictures made it look like Lucy was purposely kissing Gray. Like she had pushed him down and made out with him against his will. She didn't want Natsu to see those pictures, so she kept quiet and did what Gray said.
"Hey Luce, you ok?" Natsu asked. He noticed her rubbing her head. "Oh, I thought you were asleep." She exhaled and wiped her tears. "Yeah, I'm fine. I just hit my head really hard when one of the people..." She stopped. "U-um, they had slammed my head against the ground pretty hard, t-that's it."
"Who?! Which one of the bastards?!" Natsu said, in a pissed, yet whispered, voice. Lucy looked away. "I can't tell you." She said. Natsu looked utterly confused. "What?" He asked sitting up. "I'm not allowed to tell you." She said, squeezing the blanket. She was sitting up facing Natsu. "Why?" Natsu asked, getting really annoyed. "I-it's a long story Natsu and I can't tell you."
He grunted and plopped back onto the bed, facing away from Lucy. Lucy felt the tears building up in her eyes. She knew she couldn't stop them so she tried to cry silently while she layed back down and faced away from Natsu. She wanted to tell Natsu so bad but she couldn't, and now he was mad at her. It was so frustrating, all she could do was cry.
Lucy stayed out from under the blanket. She just made herself as small as she felt. Lucy was freezing but she was afraid to say anything because it might annoy Natsu even more. She was back to square one, constantly afraid to say anything that would suggest benifit to herself. Such as a blanket that would keep her warm.
She shivered in the dark and watched the clock. She couldn't sleep, flash backs and coldness kept her awake. She couldn't really do anything. So she just sat there. Lucy closed her eyes and began to cry again when she felt an arm go over her. "Please don't cry Lucy." She cried even more.
"I can't help it.." She said. "It's just so frustrating, I want to tell you everything but I can't." She covered her face and continued crying while Natsu pulled her closer. "Shh. I don't care about that right now. If you can't tell me, that's ok, just stop crying, please." "I-I-I can't." She sobbed. Natsu turned her around. "Come here." He pulled her head to his chest and stroked her hair while she sobbed into his chest.
Natsu stayed up until Lucy had finally fallen asleep. He kissed her forehead, rested his chin on the top of her head, and fell asleep. Lucy woke up the next morning in Natsu's arms. Her eyes felt puffy from crying. She felt safe in Natsu's arm. Like he would protect her no matter what.
"You awake?" Natsu asked. "Yeah." Lucy replied, surprised to hear Natsu. "Good morning." He said. She looked up at him and smiled. "Good morning." Lucy pushed away from Natsu a little bit. He loosened his grip on her so she could move. Natsu put his arm up on the pillow to get out of her way. She moved closer to him.
Lucy put her hand on his cheek and kissed him. Natsu put his hand on her waist to bring her a little closer. They continued to make out. Natsu, without realizing, had moved above Lucy and was hovering over her. Lucy had her hands on the back of his neck. They stopped for a second and looked at each other, then pushed their lips back together.
Natsu was worried that this might bring back memories of the day before, but for Lucy, she was fine, it in fact made her feel better to finally be kissing the person she loved. Not some boy who found her naked on the ground and was in love with her body. Someone who was in love with her, and she was in love with him.
Natsu looked at the time and pulled away. "Luce, we gotta go." Lucy looked over at the digital clock by her bed. "Ugh, your right." Natsu moved off of her and they got ready for school. "Let's just have cereal today." Lucy said. "Yeah." Natsu said. They ate breakfast and went to school.
On the walk to school they held hands. It had been about a month since they first started dating. They joked around and teased each other the whole way there. They acted as if nothing had happened the day before. They got to the school and went to their lockers. Incidentally, their lockers were right across from each other. Lisana noticed them being all "cute" and "lovey dovey", it disgusted her.
The people who had seen the events that had happened yesterday stared at Lucy. Others stared at Lucy and Natsu. Natsu and Lucy didn't care though. Once again, Lucy's first class was statistics and Natsu's was chemistry. They kissed and went their separate ways.
During class, Natsu heard whispers in the back. He looked behind him to see Lisana. She was planning something. She noticed him and flirtatiously waved. He rolled his eyes and turned back around. She frowned, disappointed. She couldn't think of any possible way why he would love Lucy but not her.
The classes seemed to take forever. It was finally over and Natsu waited at Lucy's classroom for her. "Hey." Natsu said, walking with Lucy. "Did you guys get in trouble and you were kept in there?" "Yeah, one of the other smart kids got the exact same answers as me and the teacher thought I was cheating. Even though we were half a classroom away from each other."
They walked to fifth period, geometry. "Ok class, we have a new student but not enough desks for one, so someone will have to sit on the floor. Or on someone's lap." The teacher joked. Natsu and Lucy looked at each other a shrugged. Lucy got up and sat on Natsu's lap. "Oh, I didn't think anyone would actually do it, ok, whatever."
The teacher directed the student to Lucy's seat. The rest of the class, Lucy caught the new kid staring at her multiple times. He would look at her, and immediately look away when he realized that she saw him. After class, Lucy asked Natsu if they could wait a bit before going to lunch. Natsu thought it was weird, but he didn't care. He had his arm around Lucy's waist, with her close, and she had her arm on his shoulder.
Finally, the new kid came out. "Hey." Lucy said. The boy jumped and turned around. "Why were you staring at me the whole class?" Natsu looked confused. He looked between Lucy and the boy. "I-I-um-you s-see-" He continued to stutter. Lucy rolled her eyes. "Out with it already." She said, waving her hand. "I kinda-sorta have a crush on you." He said in a small voice.
Natsu didn't hear him correctly but Lucy did. She blushed a bit and put her face in Natsu's shoulder. "What?" Natsu said. He was trying to figure out what the boy had said. "I-I said, I have a crush on her." He said in a much clearer voice. Natsu looked surprised. Lucy was blushing like crazy, and so was the boy.
Natsu held Lucy closer. "So you have a crush on my girlfriend?" Natsu said. Lucy stuffed her face further into Natsu's shoulder. It didn't occur to the boy until just then that Lucy was sitting on Natsu's lap and now was in his arms, stuffing her face in his shoulder. Lucy peeked at the boy. Natsu checked the time.
"It's getting late, Luce, we gotta get going or we won't have any time to eat." Lucy looked at Natsu. "Ok, yeah, let's go." They turned around and left. Leaving the boy standing there, alone.
Natsu and Lucy walked into the lunchroom. Natsu's friends, Gajeel and Laxus, noticed them and invited them over. Natsu and Lucy went over to their table with their lunches. They were eating and laughing when Gray and Juvia arrived. "Hey guys." Lucy froze when she saw Gray. He smirked as he sat down with Juvia.
Juvia was giving Lucy a death stare. Gray gestured for Juvia to sit on his lap. She sat on his lap and rested her head on his shoulder. Lucy was already on Natsu's lap. It was like a battle of the couples to the people who didn't no know about what Gray had done.
Everyone in the lunchroom jumped when they heard someone on the speaker say something. "Attention everyone, next week, on Friday, there will be the winter dance. Tickets will be sold online and at the door." "Sweet, you wanna go Luce?" Natsu asked. "Sure." She shrugged.
Gajeel looked kind of nervous. Natsu rolled his eyes. "You're going to ask her aren't you?" "Yes." Gajeel said. He was sweating like crazy. "Dude, stop worrying, you'll do fine." Gajeel glanced at a blue haired girl across the room. She saw him and smiled. He quickly turned away, her face turned from happy to disappointed.
"Who's that?" Lucy asked. "Oh, that's Levy, Gajeel has a huge crush on her." "Oh." Lucy said. She giggled a bit. "What're you laughing about, blondey?" Gajeel said. Lucy rolled her eyes a bit. "Jesus Gajeel, just ask the girl out already." She said. "That's what I've been saying!" Natsu exclaimed.
Natsu caught sight of the new kid walking in. He saw Natsu and scurried away. "What's with that kid?" Gajeel asked. "He's afraid of me because he has a crush on Lucy." "If you need any beating up done, Salamander, you know I'm willing to do it." Gajeel said, punching his hand. Natsu laughed a bit. "I'm fine."
Lucy rolled her eyes at them and looked towards the doorway. She saw Jet, who was one of the people who raped her, walk in. She stared at him and hugged Natsu. Natsu felt her tight grip and looked to where she was looking. He knew Jet was one of the rapers. He started to get red with anger.
"Hey Salamander, you ok?" Gajeel asked. "He's one of them." Gajeel looked shocked. "Jet? Did that?" Gajeel also stared at Jet with anger. Natsu and Gajeel were best friends, anyone hurts Natsu or Lucy, he'll kill them. "Settled down guys." Laxus said. "I'll take care of this."
Laxus stood up and walked over to Jet. Jet turned around to see Laxus towering over him. Laxus picked Jet up by the throat and held him high. "Did you rape Lucy?" Everyone was staring at them. "Yes." Jet said with a raspy voice. Laxus slammed him onto the ground. "Touch her again, we'll kill you." Jet looked behind Laxus to see Gajeel and Natsu punching their hands.
Lucy had Natsu's scarf around her. She tried to hide her face from embarrassment. "Ok, now that that's done. Let's finish eating before class starts." Just as Natsu said that, the bell rang. "You've got to be fucking kidding me." Natsu said. He stuffed his face with food and he and Lucy went to class.
Economics was their second to last class. They were doing a project that required a partner. But the teacher didn't let them pick their partners. They were assigned. Natsu and Lucy hoped they would get each other. But Natsu got Lisanna and Lucy got Gray. Both of them kept looking at each other from across the room.
Sorry, I didn't know how to end it so I thought I would do it here. It was way too long of a chapter. I was also writing late at night so it probably sucks. Hopefully the next one will be better.