BlackLynx17: Super short, only because something else needed to happen before Doranbolt tried to make Wendy forgive him.
Edolas.
Chapter 13.
I had lost him twice. The second lost though... he wasn't mine to lose in the first place. So this is what an outcast felt like... yet again. I had been so lost before, so very lost; it had taken years for my friends to pull me back. Just like that though I ruined everything, this time completely my fault.
"Wendy?"
I turned my head over and saw Lucy standing right next to me; I didn't even notice she was there. I scooted over on the bench and she sat down, resting her head on my shoulder, but doing nothing more than that.
"I don't care what our King says, you don't have to stay here if you don't want to." She told me.
"Are you telling me that you'd want me to stay? That you don't hate me like everyone else does?" I asked with bitterness in my voice, but the truth of the matter was that I was scared and sad.
"I understand why you did it. If my Natsu was dead, I would try to take Earthland's Natsu if I could have. That just proves how much we love them, how much we miss them. This could have happened to any of us Wendy, you were just the unlucky one."
I started breaking down, my voice breaking as tears fell out of my eyes, "I didn't mean to, I didn't, I realized my mistake. I'm sorry for it, so sorry-"
"I know Wendy, I know." Lucy whispered.
I laid my head over hers and bit my bottom lip to muffle my sounds.
"I don't know what to do Lucy, help me. Please. How do I make this better? How can I fix this?"
"Are you sure you want to fix it though?"
My eyes widened and I flinched back; Lucy leaned up and stared at me with serious eyes.
"You have the chance to have him Wendy, all to yourself. He may hate you now, everyone here may not like you, but once their Wendy leaves you can replace her and... you can have your happy ending. I know I may sound cruel, but no one knows what you went through when Doranbolt died other than me, no one knows what you really went through. So are you sure Wendy? Are you sure you want to give up your chance at happiness?"
"That's just the thing Lucy, I already had my chance at happiness. If I stayed here, I would be taking hers and that's not fair."
"I'm proud of you Wendy; now the only thing I can think of on how to fix this is if you go talk to your other self and really, have her understand that she won. That you're backing down; that you're going to go."
"She'll kill me."
"No she won't; badly hurt you yes, but you'll be able to walk away... or limb."
I started giggling as I wiped my tears away, "thank you Lucy."
"Anytime Wendy, now go. I'll try to distract the others; I think Mystogun was about to visit so I'll hold him off too. I believe in you Wendy, go make this right."
Make this right... do the thing I should have done from the very beginning. I nodded my head and clenched my hands into fist.
"I won't let you down."
I'm going to get hurt. I'm going to get seriously injured, I wasn't going to die though. I'm not going to die. I had to come to terms with this about myself before I broke into my Mini-Me's house. It was easy enough, a simple lock, and once I was in I looked out for her pet cat. This was a nice looking place for someone like her; could she afford this? Or was she living with Doranbolt? Maybe not, since if she was he would have taken me back to this place- and now is not the time to be thinking about this!
I started sneaking around looking for Mini-Me and finally found her resting on her bed; she wasn't the only one though. That pet cat of hers was just sitting beside her on the bed and when I opened the door her eyes turned up and she glared at me.
"You," she said.
I started running, pretty sure that she was going to come after me. I hoped she would have. I ran into the first door I saw down the hallway, pulling the door wide up. I was stuck in the bathroom... this could work. I waited and that cat came flying out, claws extract as she started yelling at me. I ran to the bathtub and moved the curtains, wrapping it around her before running to the door, closing it right behind me and holding it close. I heard her meowing and struggling to open the door, with my weight though she was stuck.
Great. I've trapped her, now how to keep her trap? There was a dresser in the hallway with some pretty flowers in a vase... I could reach that. Turns out my hands couldn't, but my feet could, and I dragged it over and pressed it against the door. Backing up, I saw her try to push the door open again, but it was barely budging.
That's one obstacle out of my way now. I started heading back towards her room, pushing the door open again... and seeing her wide awake just staring at me. I blinked and reached for the light switch, to make sure I was seeing her. If she wasn't awake before she was now as this bright light filled the room. She flinched and blinked at me, probably not believing it herself.
"Wha-what are you doing here?"
There was no disgust or hatred in her voice; it was hoarse and she sounded simply tired. There was a pain in my heart knowing I did this to my younger self; what was I thinking? Fairy Tail didn't do things like this...
"I need to talk to you Wendy, please." I begged her.
She took a deep breath and looked away, "what do you possibly have to say to me? You're getting what you want; you won."
"I never meant to win though Wendy! I never even meant to play this game!" I told her, taking a step in.
I don't know why I was yelling, most likely to get my point more across to her, but her head shrunk away from my voice. I cleared my voice and walked in, sitting on the edge of her bed next to her. I may be over stepping my boundaries, I needed to fix this though.
"I'm sorry Wendy; I'm so sorry." I whispered to her.
"Okay," she mumbled.
"It wasn't Doranbolt's fault tho-"
"Listen Edolas Wendy; I'm giving you Doranbolt. You won him, I no longer care about him. Please don't take my Fairy Tail too though, please don't. I don't want to live in Edolas, I don't want to leave everyone. Please, just take Doranbolt with you. You already have one thing I love, please don't take the other."
My eyes widened as tears started falling down her eyes, "Wendy? Wendy, what are you talking about?"
"Please, please I'm begging you, please don't kick me out."
"Honey! I have no idea what you're talking about! Who said I'm kicking you to Edolas?!" I asked, shocked.
"Mystogun! He told me you were staying here with Doranbolt and everybody else is making me go to Edolas with them! I don't want to go! I won't go! So please, just take Doranbolt with you! And if you really want to stay here then just leave Magnolia, because I can't- I can't see you two happy together, I can't." She started whimpering.
I wanted to reach out and hold the poor child; that could be a very bad move though. Instead I clenched my hands against her sheets and leaned over.
"Wendy, Wendy stop crying. I'm not staying here, I'm not; I'm returning home to Edolas. I don't know who told you that, I never planned on staying here though. Never; not once. I'm returning home, to my own world." I told her, stressed to her.
She sniffed and started wiping the tears out of her eyes.
"And I'm not taking Doranbolt with me."
She froze.
"He doesn't love me Wendy, you're the one he loves."
"Shut up and get out now. I don't care about this, I don't care about him. Just take him, you won. You two deserve each other, so take him and leave." She started growling.
Yup, hugging her would definitely been a bad move.
"Can you listen to me Wendy? Hear my side of the story?"
"I already know you're side! Your Doranbolt is dead! You came here to get mine and you succeeded! Not caring about me or my feelings! So I want you out of my house now and gone! Leave!" She screamed at me.
"I went to Doranbolt's home with the full intention of sleeping with him and making him come back to Edolas with me."
"GET OUT!"
"I practically threw myself at him, but he stopped all my advances. I kissed him, touched him, he pushed me away and yelled at me! I yelled back, begging him to choose me, begging him to leave you, but he, but he kept saying no and he- he offered to talk about my feelings. Told me about how he felt when he lost you and offered me the same advice when he thought you were dead."
Wendy froze.
"He was really shaken up, lost in his sorrows. He stayed alive for a while, searching for you, but after a year past with no turns up he started drinking. It was so bad, he lost all motivation to work and quit from the council; he wanted to die to join you Wendy."
"I already know all of this," she whispered.
"Yeah, of course he would have told you. I wasn't aware that Doranbolt had gone through what I had; it shook me up a bit hearing my exact same feelings told in a different way. We started drinking, I practically forced them down his throat, but he stayed honest, and I- I drugged him to sleep with me. I know it wasn't the right thing to do, but that's how desperately I wanted him. I figured if you smelt me all over him you wouldn't want him and any Wendy would be better than no Wendy, so I did it. Do you know what happened next?"
"Please leave me alone," Wendy whispered like a small little girl.
"Nothing. Nothing happened. I- I couldn't do it at the end. I mean we kissed, took parts of our clothes off, but nothing else happened. He passed out on the floor and I just watched, hating myself. I couldn't believe I went this far, I couldn't believe how far I dropped. The next morning he kicked me out, steamed, worried, not even giving two thoughts about me as all of his mind was consumed with you Wendy. You may think I won, but in all actuality I lost. He still wants you Wendy; he still chooses you."
"Why should I believe anything you say?" Wendy asked me.
"Because if I would have slept with him I wouldn't be here with you right now. I would be with him."
She didn't say anything after that, staring at her hands that were in her lap.
"Do you still love him Wendy?"
She said nothing.
"Wendy? Do you still love him?"
"Of course I do," she whispered to me.
"Do you still want him?"
Again, silence.
"Answer me Wendy, do you still want him? Do you want him? Or can he be with someone else? I'm leaving, he's not going to be with me. Someone else is going to come along and take him from you unless you answer my question. Do you st-"
"I wish it were that simple!" She yelled out at him.
"It is, it truly is that simple Wendy."
"How? How then? I can't stand the sight of him because all I see is you with him! Is him going after you! How can I be with him with that image in my mind?! How can I still love him after all he's done to me?!"
"You forgive." I told him simply.
She opened her mouth, but froze not knowing what to say to such a thing.
"You forgive him Wendy because you love him. You need to forgive him. You love him Wendy and you want to be with him, so don't let this hatred distract you from that. I know he hurt you, and I know it's going to be hard and rough fixing this relationship, but don't let him go Wendy. Don't let him leave you. He's going to be the best man for you, he's going to make you laugh and cry, he's going to go above and beyond for you. Wendy, he loves you the most in this world. If he had a choice to destroy the world or save you, he would choose you. If he had to kill everyone in Fairy Tail or kill you, he would kill Fairy Tail. You have no idea what that man feels for you."
"If that's true then why did he put me through this? Why did he do this to me?"
"Because I'm you. Because he knows deep inside to never make you cry and seeing me crying looking like you he wanted to help me because he believed I was you and I took advantage of that. Wendy, if I hadn't look exactly you though, he wouldn't have done it. He wouldn't have even given me the time of day."
Wendy didn't say anything, lost in deep thought now, and that was good. Because she had to think about what I told her and I've said all I needed to say to her. With that I stood up and nodded at her.
"I do regret it, believe it or not I do, and I am sorry. Don't lose him Wendy, because it may hurt a lot now, but it will only get worse as the years go by and when you can't even remember why you broke up it's going to be too late. He's going to be with someone else, maybe married, maybe with children, and your chance is going to be over. Don't do that, don't regret it, please don't. I swear to you losing him will be the worst thing we'll ever go through. You're going to regret forever that you didn't forgive him when you see him happy with someone else... seeing the one you love with someone else... words can't describe that," I whispered remembering when I finally saw my Doranbolt again, finally... but he wasn't mine, and then you came along and... I shook my head, "I'm sorry." I whispered finally heading towards the door.
I paused before leaving though just remembering, "oh and by the way I locked your cat up in the bathroom, sorry."
Lucy, would you be proud of me? If you were listening, what else would you have added? I said everything in my heart, everything in my mind I could think of that would change her mind. I tried my best, I tried everything but drag her to him. It was all up to her now, it was all her choice now. She didn't want to leave him, leaving a person like Doranbolt... he's one in a million. She was lucky to find him so young, find her soul mate so soon. Now she'd have so many years to be with him, love him, be happy together.
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None of that was going to happen though if I let this man past me right now. What the hell was Mystogun doing here? Obviously going to visit Wendy, like I was going to let that happen.
"Hey!" I yelled out.
Mystogun looked at my direction and paused before heading right towards me.
"Why are you walking over here? Where did you just go?" He asked me.
"Why do you care? Where are you going?"
"Why should I tell you?!" He yelled at me.
We both glared at each other before I stood in front of him, my eyes glaring.
"You aren't going to see her and destroy all that hard work I just did."
His eyes widened, "what did you tell her?! Why would you do such a thing?! You were going to get him! I was going to get her! Why did you ruin that?!"
"Because this was all my fault! If it wasn't for me-"
"He had a choice and wasn't strong enough to ignore temptation-"
"Shut up King Mystogun! You need to stay the hell out of their relationship and give them a chance to work it out!"
"You mean have him hurt her again!"
"I know what you did you asshole! Forcing Wendy to go back with you, telling her that I was staying with Doranbolt! All of that was bullshit, I'm not saying here!"
"You could have fooled me! You know I find this noble act funny since you were the start of all of this! I should thank you really because you revealed Doranbolt to be the snake he is and now I'm here to protect Wendy!"
"You know what! You want to talk to Wendy asshole, you're going to have to get through me!" I growled.
Mystogun took a step back, his eyes widening, "you can't be serious, can you?"
"Try me," I glared bringing up my fists.
He took a deep breath and started cracking his knuckles, "you're going to have to knock me unconscious to keep me from her."
"That was the plan, that or killing you," I smirked at him.
Wendy, I hope you know how sorry I am, and if you didn't believe me before, I hope you believe me now, because I was about to kick my king's ass for you and Doranbolt to have a second chance.