Unwavering
Prompt: Trust
Disclaimer: There really isn't anyone else quite as trusting and patient as Juvia. I just want her appreciated more, so I write. She still belongs to Mashima, kthx.
[Setting: Some point between Ch. 499 and Ch. 500]
Juvia's scar shot a jolt of pain with every step she took, but she tried to ignore it as she focused on what mattered the most.
"Gray-sama!" She stopped to take a breath, her hands on her abdomen as she tried to keep most of what Wendy has healed from reopening.
"Juvia-san, you really shouldn't be pushing yourself right now!" Wendy's usual tone of politeness gone.
"I know, but Gray-sama…" She has to find him. Though when she really thought about it, she is always finding him.
"Gray-sama…"
She remembers those months and days in the rain. Calling his name and getting no response.
When she woke up to find Wendy instead of Gray-sama beside her, it brought back those dark, dark days. She closed her eyes to recoup herself and her thoughts, "Gray-sama!"
She prays, like she has always done in the past, that she will find him in one piece.
"Gray-sama…"
That he is alive.
"You think I can be beaten that easily?!"
That he comes back to her.
"When this war is over, I'll give you my answer."
She had nodded in response when he added, "And… Stay close to me once we start fighting these people from Alvarez."
He'd gone back on his word, but…
"Juviaaa!"
She can't piece back what else had happened… though his cry for her was the last thing she remembered before she'd completely blacked out…. Knowing Gray-sama, he'd probably gone to find Invel, and then…
When Wendy finally caught up with her, she presumed what might have happened to Gray. "We need to get to Gray-sama. Right away." Wendy eyed her with concern, so Juvia smiled at her, "Juvia will do her best not to hurt herself any further."
The smaller girl finally broke into the first smile Juvia has seen since she woke up, "Here, lean on me." Once she got her arm around Wendy's shoulders, the sky dragon slayer continued, "There's traces of Gray-san's scent here, but it gets stronger over there."
"Thank you, Wendy-san."
A/N: This one is a bit on the short side, my apologies. I brought back the moment from "Brighter Days", and continues where Wendy's finished – in Juvia's perspective, haha. As always, how was the drabble? Too short? Just right? Hated it? Loved it? Let me know your thoughts! ^^
