The day after...
"..underwear, first aid kit, emergency communication lacrima. Hmm, what else?" Lucy wondered as she stood at the foot of the bed, looking around the room her gaze was focused on the vanity mirror where her make-up was placed. Her gaze fell onto a hand-sized bag at the corner of the vanity, she walked over to it and quickly placed her make-up inside the bag. Lipstick, mascara and most importantly her concealer.
"It's better to be safe than sorry I guess. I have to buy more concealer soon." She muttered to herself. She didn't notice her window opening and Natsu putting his foot through and onto her bed.
"Hey Luce! Are you done?" Natsu grinned. "Let's walk together to the station."
Lucy quickly put her make-up inside the bag. "Yeah, I'm just about done. You don't need to pick me up, you know? I can go to the station by myself." She stated as she put her make-up pouch in her carry on.
"Well, yeah I know you can. But I wanted to walk with you." Natsu said, still with a grin on his face but with a hint of a blush on his face.
'Could Natsu be blushing? He looks cute.' Lucy thought. She already accepted her feelings for the salmon haired boy. It was already embarrassing enough that she took Mira's advice when Natsu wanted to tell her something, only to be humiliated when he only wanted Virgo's help in digging. She even dressed herself and made an effort to make sure she looked cute in front of him.
"Well, okay. Let's go?" As she grabbed her bag and made her way out the door she was stopped when Natsu grabbed her by the wrist.
"Lucy, I want to talk to you about something." Natsu asked seriously. "And I want you to be completely honest with me."
"U-Um, okay? But if it is anything really personal I am not obligated to answer it." She already thought that he was going to ask her and she was already prepared to give another reason.
"At the guild, when you said you were on your period, I didn't get it. They said that when a girl is on her period it only lasts for 3 days, and the weird thing is weren't you on your period last week?" He asked with a confused look.
"Well, normally it would be 3 days, more or less. Though it's not exactly 3 days, Natsu. For others it usually lasts for 5-7 days, which is a week. Don't worry, It'll end soon." Lucy assured him as if he was the one on a period.
"Well, okay." Natsu said. And I honestly thought that was the end of that. "But why do you smell different?" or maybe not.
"Has anyone ever told you that smelling other people is rude?" Lucy said blankly.
"Hey! It's normal for me, I can't exactly stop smelling what's around me! It's like not breathing. Wait! it's exactly like that!" Natsu pouted as he realized what he just said.
"Well, at least keep your comments to yourself and as for your question it probably has something to do with my period almost ending." Lucy stated.
"Well, maybe. It's weird though, I always knew you were on your period so I always steer clear away from you during that time, but this kind of smell almost smells like it's an injury of some kind." Natsu contemplated.
"Well no point to think about it now, shouldn't we get going before Erza bursts in here and drags us to the train station?" Lucy wanted to change the subject already, it was already weird enough talking to Natsu about what her period should "smell" like. "Or are we going to talk about other girl things?"
"You're right! Erza's gonna kill us! Let's go!" Natsu jumped through the window again.
"What have I always told you to! Don't use the window when you're trying to enter or exit my house!" Lucy screamed as she poked her head through the window. Locking it and looking at her house one more time to make sure everything was in order before she locked her door and went outside to see Natsu waiting for her. "By the way, where's Happy?"
"Oh, Happy, Wendy and Carla went on another mission in Acalypha. I think it was something about saving a couple of kids who got lost in a cave or something?" Natsu said as he put his hands behind his head.
"Are you sure they're going to be alright? Are there any monsters in the cave?" Lucy asked worriedly.
"Nah, they'll be fine, there were no monsters in the request. It should be perfect for Wendy to find them with her dragon slayer nose." Natsu said.
"Well, if you're sure." Lucy was still unconvinced.
"Of course I am, Wendy's a Fairy Tail wizard, she'll be fine on her, besides Carla and Happy are there to help and keep her company." Okay, he got her there, but it still doesn't ease her worries, but she'll have to trust Wendy.
After 4 hours of train ride, Gray taunting Natsu, Natsu who was muttering how he would 'never ride trains or any other kind of moving platforms' ever again, and Erza not being able to take it knocked Natsu out after an hour and thirty minutes. Huh, that's a new record.
Sierra (village near crocus)
"Okay, here's what we're going to do. Natsu and I will go to the Mayor's office to go and find out more about our job and the bandits we're going to fight against. Lucy and Gray, the both of you will find an inn and reserve 2 rooms for us and find out more from the villagers point of view." Erza ordered.
"Wait! Why can't I go with Luce? And you go with Gray?" Natsu complained
"Because If I paired you up with Lucy you wouldn't be able to ask any of the villagers if you happen to see a restaurant near here and if, coincidentally, the bandits attacked now you wouldn't be able to hold yourself back and cause destruction." Erza replied.
'As if you don't contribute to the destruction yourself.' Lucy sweatdropped.
"Nothing will change my mind so you might as well agree to it." Erza said threateningly
"It's fine. We'll just see you guys later." Gray said as he started to walk away with Lucy following him.
"See you later Natsu, Erza." Lucy said as she waved. Natsu just pouted as he watched them walk away.
"Let's move Natsu. The faster we finish this, the faster you'll be with Lucy." Erza said with a hint of smile on her face.
"I never said I want to be with Lucy." Natsu said as he denied, thought the blush on his face wasn't helping his situation one bit.
"Yes, we'd like two rooms with 2 beds each please." Gray said as he spoke with the lady on the counter. Though it really looked like a one-sided conversation as the woman, not older than 25, eyed Gray with lustful eyes in his body covered with only his boxers.
"Yes, is there anything else you need? Or maybe want?" Lucy looked at the name tag. Hana, the name of the woman, leaned more into the counter as she tried to look sexy. Note the word 'try'. Lucy laughed inwardly as she thought of something.
"Gray, your clothes." Lucy said as she walked up to both of them, she just went to the comfort room to use the toilet and decided to stay back and watch the scene unfold.
"Ahh! When did that happen?!" Gray shouted as he looked frantically for his clothes. When he was far enough, Lucy stared at Hana and smiled, though it must have looked menacing as she winced.
"Please stop flirting with my boyfriend." Lucy said stoically.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Hana nervously said as she avoided Lucy's eyes.
"Please, I know a hoe when I see one. And I know what a hoe's thinking when she looks at a man who barely covered himself up." Lucy said. Someone up there must have felt sorry for the girl as that minute Gray turned up fully clothed.
"I finally found them, Lucy. Thanks for reminding me." Gray sighed thankfully.
"No problem, Gray. Anything for you." Lucy said as she winked at Gray. Gray, on the other hand, looked confused.
"Umm, okay?" Gray said as he looked at her questionably.
"Why don't you take the keys from the kind lady and let's go put our things in the room?" Lucy smiled sweetly.
"Uhh yeah. Can we please get our keys?" Gray asked as he turned to Hana.
"Um, of course. Here you are! Have a good day!" Hana practically shoved the keys in Grays hand and disappeared in the door with an 'Employees Only' sign.
"Wonder what happened to her." Gray said
"Don't know, she was really weird though." Lucy laughed.
"Yeah, she ran as if someone scary was chasing her." Gray laughed with her.
"Hahaha, someone might have." Lucy said as her laughter died down.
"What do you mean?" Gray was confused now.
"Nothing." Lucy sang as she through the halls trying to find their room numbers. 26 and 27 here they are.
As Lucy went to put her bag in room 26, Gray put his in room 27, both Erza and Natsu still had their bag, or in Erza's case pile of luggage, with them. Gray locked their room and came to see the girl's room.
"Hey, we forgot to bring their bags with us." Gray said as he sat down on the bed.
"Heh, you're right." Lucy said as she looked around. 'So that's why it looks spacious, Erza still hasn't put her luggage yet.' Lucy thought.
Everything was quiet between them for a minute or two as she looked in the bathroom and Gray just sitting there thinking of something. Gray contemplated whether he should ask her or not, but decided he should anyway.
"Lucy?" Gray started.
"Yeah?" Lucy asked as she stepped out of the bathroom and looking questioningly at Gray waiting for him to continue.
"You know we're a team right? No, we're not just a team. We're a family. We can tell each other everything and anything that bothers us, anything that we're confused about or anything that happened." Gray said as he looked at her in the eyes seriously.
"W-What?" Lucy was worried if Gray noticed but something clicked inside her. '..anything that happened.' 'He must have meant Natsu's outburst yesterday'
"I'm fine, Gray. I really am. Natsu just didn't know and he must have thought bad about smelling the, uh, blood." Lucy blushed as she thought about her conversation with Natsu just hours ago.
"I know. I just wanted to tell you that no matter what happens we will always be there for you. I will always be there for you." Gray finished. He didn't know that he struck a nerve that almost brought Lucy to tears but she didn't want to have a mental breakdown in front of Gray. Preventing him from asking anymore questions she hugged him.
"I know." She didn't want him to see that her eyes were already watering and she was doing everything in her just for the tears to dry up before she looked at him in the eye.
"I know you will."
Though she didn't really believe herself.
I'm pretty sure I was having an emotional breakdown myself when writing this so, to anyone who spotted any spelling mistakes and grammatical errors please send me a message and I can have it edited right away. Thank you for your time in reading this. Oh, and the village name is something that was named after my pet cat.
Please share with me your thoughts on who you think Lucy is going to end with, because I haven't made the ending but I'm starting to have ideas :)