Chapter 16: Insanity Is Often Found In Love

Mystery POV

She's worthy of the title of a goddess; her kindness and beauty never out matched.

The moment I realized I fell in love with a woman named Lucy Heartfillia I knew she's the one. In a way, I'm like a dragon slayer, and like dragon slayers I have a mate also; the one person I am meant to spend the rest of my life with. And that person is Lucy, and I knew it the moment I set eyes on her.

Yes, I have become somewhat obsessed with her, but it happened shortly after I saw her, and tried to get her out of my mind. She was like a plague, always there and causing my attention span to be limited and I soon realized the plague held beauty inside; being sent to the beautiful underworld.

After that I could barely stop myself. I stalked her around, watching her intently as she went inside the Fairy Tail guild, as she went on with her life. And as always, she smiled her brilliant smile, even though she had gone through such terrible horrors, she continued smiling, like nothing wrong had happened. Her optimism and refusal to ever be down is admirable, yet, I knew the truth.

She forgave everybody easily, her sweet heart showing, but it was hard for her to forget.

At first I wanted to make my presence known, to comfort her in her time of need, but then, I saw a sight that made me see red. Every night a pink haired boy climbed into her and slept with her, and sometimes it wasn't just him. A red haired woman, which he soon found out her name, was Erza, and a black haired boy, named Gray, also snuck into her house, taking care of her and making her smile genuinely.

It made me angry; we mates are generally possessive of our significant other, and those three were all over her, much to my annoyance. But there weren't the only ones. Her entire guild was all over her too, the boys drooling over her shown off form like they had the right to look! And what bothered me was that she didn't seem to care, only Lucy Kicking them when it got out of hand.

None of them could be trusted with her; they were all animalist males who needed to stay as far away from my kind golden haired goddess.

And that was when I made the plan, and it was perfect. I even had the perfect person on my team, who easily infiltrated them. The plan went off without of hitch. Sure there were a couple people not affected by it, like the white haired bar maiden, Mira for example, but they were just useless variable who I needn't to worry about.

Or so I thought…

Black haired, red eyed, pierced body and annoying eating habit: Gajeel Redfox. Just the thought of him made me want to murder him, like how he thought he could be around her, carry her on his shoulder, yell at any guy with wandering eyes like he owned her, and in all, he was a nuisance and could cause a major set back in my plan. He was attracted to her, like a nauseating bee to the sweetest honey on Earthland, and so far, the man has proved to be more trouble than it's worth. I couldn't follow her just because he was always nearby, able to smell my presence, hear it too. So then I was homebound with a simple lacrima as my way to see her, which made me angry to no end.

It didn't help Lucy stuck to him like they were attached to the hip, but in a way, I understood.

I watched every day as she came home, drinking loads of tea, and taking as many sleeping pills just to get her through the night. Her once happy melted chocolate brown orbs held misery and the verge of breaking inside as she finally was home alone. I watched as the horrors she experienced haunted her, and stuck to her like super glue. She would lay down in her bed, curling up into the fetal position and sob and whimper, not being strong enough to let tears pass. In reality she's tired; she was tired of walking around plastering a fake smile on her face like she wasn't breaking inside, she was tired of feigning cheerfulness when she felt the complete opposite, and she was ultimately tired of just trying in general! She was tired of trying to not be alone, she was tired of trying to make friends with those who no longer cared about her, she was tired of losing family every where she went, and as much as I wanted to comfort and hold her/take care of her until a real smile crossed her lips, I knew this was part of the plan, and I would just have to endure it until we can finally be together. After all, with love doesn't there come a little pain as well?

Lucy POV

If I was to really be honest with myself, I would exclaim that this is the first time in a while I felt so happy that I was actually humming along to an unknown tune. Everything with Fairy Tail, everything wrong in my life, was washed away easily, and all I could think about was Gajeel. I still couldn't believe it; that he and I are dating, but it was the truth. I had always thought he and Levy would end up together, but I never predicted something like this to happen. But I didn't dwell too long in the past, instead, I thought of him, and us kissing… Get your head out of gutter girl, my thoughts snapped, which made me notice how I had stopped walking. I continued on forward, slapping my first down on my palm in determination.

The second I saw Gajeel's kitchen cabinets, I froze. There was nothing in them, except some were filled with plates and bowls, but that was it, no food. I had made it my sole mission to get him some food, wondering how he stayed alive this long being a dragon slayer. Gajeel had tried to convince me everything was fine with having no food (he said he always went out anyways, that the food would be gone in a matter of two days and wasn't worth it), even giving me a tempting kiss to ease me, but that didn't change my mind, and so, this evenig I am setting out to pick him up some food. Having fed Natsu on more than a couple occasions, I knew just how much to buy, especially with as big as appetite and Gajeel's.

Walking into the supermarket, I grabbed a cart and went to the food section, my eyes lit with silent determination. I had to make sure my dragon didn't starve, I thought jokingly, smirking mischievously to myself. My dragon… I like the sound of that, my thoughts mused, causing me to press a hand against my lips, suppressing a giggle. Ever since then I felt like a girly fool, wanting to giggle and blush at everything he did, which I now knew was out of love, not because he pitied me or because of our friendship. However, I knew I was coming to terms with our relationship already, and was getting better.

Moving to cart over to veggies and fruits, I started loading the cart, which I knew as much as I wanted to eat strawberry desserts every day, I needed to be healthy, and so does Gajeel, probably much to his dismay. Mavis I already sound like his wife, I sighed, shaking earlier creepy thoughts out the way. I just moved my way on, trying to keep my attention off of the creepy thought moment I had earlier, and waving to a couple people I knew, or at least, recognized. One of them being one of the fishermen who always warned me to be careful whenever I walked on the curb of the river, trying to balance myself.

For once in some time I felt at peace, and happy. I was sulking over painful thoughts, I wasn't locked up in my apartment, I wasn't being anything like my unusual self, and instead, I was at the store, buying food. I had someone who cared about me, and that was all that mattered; the thought of being alone still jolting fear into my heart.

Finally, I finished my trip, and bought the food, but it wasn't till after that I realized my mistake: I had bought all this food and yet I had no help with bringing it back to his apartment. "Um, excuse me but could I leave some of the food here and pick it up later," I asked the woman, grabbing two of the heavier bags, might as well get through the worst on the first trip.

"Sure thing sweetie, they'll stay right here for you," she answered kindly back, smiling my way. And in return, I smiled sincerely back, leaving the store to finish my first trip.

I headed my way home, taking the short cut which still was a long way to go; now I understood part of the reason why he claimed this "wasn't worth it." But about one block in I had a sudden dropping feeling in my stomach: like someone was following me. I tried to play myself off as paranoid, but then I started hearing footsteps. I jerked around, ready to catch the perp in the act, but all I was met with was empty space, and no sound; there was no one there.

I gingerly press a palm to my race car heart, trying to calm it down. I was being silly, why would anyone follow me. I then smiled to myself and continued to walk along, my hips swaying slightly as a song popped into my head. Everything was fine.

To be continued…

A/N: Another glorious chapter. I had a bit of troubles with this one but it worked out fine. Excuse my grammar errors, and thank you for following/favorite/reviewing!

To rolulove4ever: yay! I feel like to only person who likes cows… Haha the confession poor Gajeel! :3

To SuperPsychoNutcase: Right?! And every one just sees his blood colored eyes and freaks out, but he is such a softie. Especially at the time he really wanted a cat since every other dragon slayer had an exceed. He reminded me a pouting kid lol.

To Lucy Heartfillia (Guest): So I really hope you read this: I agree with you, Natsu nor Team Natsu nor the Guild would ever act this way to her, it's too OOC of them, unless, there's something up… I'll leave you with that. In the anime I AM A MAJOR SHIPPER OF NALU, but I find it hard in the fanfiction because Lucy tends to act OOC in nearly all of them, she's either over confident or overly shy (which she is both in the anime) and so in FanFiction I tend to prefer other pairings. But I agree with you, in the anime NALU IS THE BOMB! But I still like GaLu slightly better lol, maybe because it's not a popular pairing.

To mariawalker112: Right?! Poor guy who almost never expresses himself save for creative insults. I probably redid his confession like three times, the other times he was just acting too OOC.

To AiMila: Thank you, I hope this chapter wasn't too creepy, I just needed to show it so no one forgets the threat amongst the happiness.

To jfkkennedy: Thank you! And well I'm not really stalling, but… I'll just say it might be a while before they finally start their happy life together, and that's all, I'll leave you with that.

To fairychime-diamond47: AGREED, I shipped them for a sec in the anime and after that it turned into a full on obsession lol. Thank you so much, your comment made my day!:3 Oh and just wait, more lovely-doveness will be coming soon!