It was an ordinary day for Fairy Tail. The hall was loud with different conversations, fights that would randomly break out, and laughter at one another. Luckily, Natsu wasn't one of those fighting today but that was because he had already left with Lucy for an exciting mission. It had something to do with a criminal that broke out of jail earlier in the week.

However, the last thing anyone expected was to see Natsu bursting into the guild hall holding an unconscious Lucy in his arms. Both looked like they had been to hell in back during their last mission and Natsu wore an unusual face of worry and fear. Instantly, the hall quieted and all eyes was on the pair.

"Wendy! You have to help her!" Natsu shouted when he spotted the youngest dragon-slayer.

"Take her to the infirmary!" Wendy commanded while weaving through the many tables littering the space.

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Everything was dark. I couldn't make out anything around me and I was lucky enough to be able to see myself. But the larger I looked at my arms in front of me, they would glow and blur into the blackness. Pulling my attention away from the odd blurring sight, I tried to pull the last memory to the surface. What was I doing before I woke up in the darkness? I sat down with my head between my hands as I fought to remember. My mind was blank and the harder I tried, the fuzzier it got. But I wasn't giving up. I had to know.

Finally, it came back. Natsu crawling through my window again waking me up, his excitement on a new mission, leaving to find some escaped convict, and then finding him. But these memories didn't explain why I was sitting alone in the dark.

"Well, sitting around isn't going to answer me questions." I mutter to myself and start walking in a direction.

I don't know how long I have been walking and for some reason, I wasn't getting tired from how much I have walked. Still nothing changed around me. Just black emptiness. I was beginning to get scared. I had no clue what this was. Was I kidnapped and secured in a underground facility? Was I sleeping? I doubted the last one. If I was sleeping, I would be able to wake myself up. Especially with all this panic and fear I was holding on too. But I couldn't have been kidnapped. Natsu would've stopped the culprits before they could have even taken me from Magnolia.

That only left one, unacceptable and not to mention impossible, conclusion to my current situation. I was dead. But that seemed less likely than me being kidnapped. Natsu would have protected me from anything to dangerous, taking the blow himself.

Then what was this? Why couldn't I find a way out?

Suddenly there was voices. I couldn't make out what they were saying or who was talking but it gave me a hope that there was a way out of this. I ran in the direction of the voices

Could they tell me what was going on?

To my surprise, when I got closer to the sounds, light started to stream through the darkness. I was right beside the voices and even though the space was gray, I couldn't see where they were coming from.

"Where are you!?" I shouted into the void. How could I hear voices beside me but see nothing there?

Slowly, the gray around me was becoming brighter. It turned white and was still growing. At this point, it was blinding and I put my arms in front of my face and then everything changed.

I was standing in the infirmary at the guild. But why was I here? I spun on my heels looking at everything. All of the beds were empty. Well for what I could tell. In the back of the room, a curtain was drawn around the last bed. This peeked my interest and I walked towards the white sheet. I approached the curtain and pulled it back. Or at least I tried to. But every time I went to grasp the fabric, my fingers would slip through.

"What is this?" I whispered, trying harder.

This can't be. My hands can NOT be slipping through this. It had to be a figment of my imagination.

Instead of fidgeting with the curtain longer, I just moved around it. But once inside I wished I stayed on the other side of the curtain.

Laying on the bed was me.

My hair was spread onto the pillow beneath me head and a breathing tube was strapped to my nose. My arms were covered in scratches and bruises. My eyes were a medium purple shade.

How long had I been laying there?

How was it possible that I was looking at myself?

Was this an out of body experience?

If so, why was I having it?

"Hey, Luce. I'm back."

I turned around when I heard Natsu's voice. But he was looking right through me to look at the me on the bed.

"Wendy said she didn't know when you would wake up. I wish you would now. I miss you. I know I've said it a million times now but I'm really sorry. This shouldn't have happened."

I moved to stand beside him. I placed a hand on his shoulder to attempt the reassure him. "It's okay. It's not your fault."

but he didn't hear me. Even with his extra strength hearing, he didn't hear me! If he couldn't, then who could?!

"Please come back to me. Don't leave me here alone." Natsu whispered.

For a minute there, I wasn't sure if I heard him correctly. It's not like he would be alone if I didn't make it out of this condition. Maybe he meant partner-less? But it was easy to find a new partner in a guild this large. I wish I knew what he meant.

I watched from behind him as he watched me sleep. It was an odd feeling. I thought about leaving but I felt this strong need to stay there and I feared if I left the room, I would return to the darkness.

After a while Natsu left again and the me in the bed was left alone until night fall, when Mira came in to check on me. She didn't notice that I was standing in the corner of the room. She left without a glance at my spot. Then I was all alone again and I felt myself slip into the darkness again.

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It has been a month since I found myself in my current situation. Every morning I was drug out of the darkness whenever someone approached the bed that my body lay. The most to visit was Mira, Wendy, Gray, Erza, Levy, and more than anybody, Natsu.

It was from all these visits that I learned what had happened. Natsu and I had found our target for our mission but he was stronger than we both realized. With one of his massive heads, he swatted us and we flew through the air into a grove of trees. I was rendered unconscious on impact with the ground but Natsu still had some fight. But even he didn't stand a chance. He never could get close enough to land a hit on the guy and his flames, for some reason, couldn't reach him either. Soon Natsu was knocked out also. He woke some time later, first looking for another fight but then noticed I still hadn't woken up.

My injuries consisted of a few broken ribs, a sprang wrist, bruising up my right side, and a fractured skull. That last one gave me a reason for this out of body experience and it scared me. I could die from this. This could stop me from never waking up again and force my spirit self to the other side of life. The one after death. Or I could survive this. I could wake up but there was a list of things that could still be wrong. I could have a handicap forever or temporarily. There was only a slim chance that I pull out of this unscathed. To be honest, I didn't want to know what could happen if I woke up. I mean, what if I became a burden for my nakama? I wouldn't be able to live with myself.

But I didn't want to think about that stuff. The more I thought about it, the worse I felt. Instead I focused on my friends. Every time one of them came to see me, I saw the fake smiles they all wore and all the sadness behind them. The worst one to see was Natsu. He looked like her hadn't been sleeping at all and he didn't even bother putting on a false smile. He let his features show he incredibly depressed he was about the situation. But I had noticed one thing. Every day he walked into the infirmary with a glint in his eyes but every single time he saw me just laying there, not moving, the glint would vanish. I knew what that glint was. It was Hope. Hope that today would be the day that he would walk over to the bed and I would be sitting up waiting for him.

And my spirit would be sitting there. Inside my body. Not across the room, sitting in a corner unseen.

Today was no different. Natsu walked through the threshold with a gleam in his eyes, praying I was awake. He walked to the curtain and hesitated before pulling it back to look at the bed. But when he had gathered enough courage to do so, he drained of excitement and his shoulders slumped. He moved to the bed and sat on the edge.

The only thing he did different today was release the tears he had been holding in the entire time. Upon seeing his tears, my chest ached. I hated to be the reason for such sorrow in my best friend. I stood from my perch on the windowsill and stood beside Natsu. I longer for him to see me or to hear me. Anything was better than this being so close yet so far away.

"hey, I'm back again." Natsu said after most of the tears were gone.

"Hi, Natsu. I know. I can see you dummy." I replied even though I knew he wouldn't hear.

I watched as he grabbed one of my hands and held it with both of his. "I know you can't hear me, but I need you too. You need to wake up! There are people here who miss you and you need to prove the doubters wrong!"

Doubters?

Does he mean that some people are believing I'll never wake up?

"Please, Luce. I need you to wake up." Natsu cried.

"I'm trying too, I promise!" I shouted this. I hoped that if I put enough emotion into it, he might feel some kind of energy, that he might sense me in the room other than the body.

I watched as he closed his eyes and squeezed my hand. He took slow, deep breaths like he was trying to control the emotions he was feeling. I felt my mouth twitch down after seeing this.

"Lucy, I need you."

Natsu leaned over my body and kissed my forehead, a few more tears slipping out of his eyes and onto my cheek.

"Wake up for me. I can't take this anymore."

He sounded so defeated and with every word that left his mouth, my heart was breaking for him. New tears had formed in my eyes but I didn't dare wipe them away. I threw my ghost-like form onto his shoulders and held him tight. Sobs racked my chest and it was the most painful thing I had ever felt.

"Natsu, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean for you to worry like this. I promise I'm going to wake up! I promise I won't leave you alone!"

but again, he didn't hear any of my promises and he didn't feel my embrace. He just stood up and left.

I had to wake up and quick. All this pain I was causing had to end.

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It has been a week since Natsu's last visit. Ever since he broke down to tears, I haven't seen him; Only heard him outside the door, asking Wendy and Porlyusica how I was doing. It was also during this week that we both found out hat Wendy had healed my brain injury the best she could at the time two weeks ago. The rest would have to wait until I woke up and they saw what kind of damage I had. But the fact that no one knew why I was still in a coma was puzzling. If everything was fine and I was able to waken, why hadn't I?

Didn't I want to wake up bad enough? I begged everyday to all of those unknown forces to just let me return to my friends. I screamed for hours on end for a clue to help me out of this but I got nothing. Not even a sore throat from screaming.

I wanted out of this mess! I wanted to ease my friends' minds! I wanted to have a real conversation again! Not this one-sided crap.

Why wasn't I waking up?!

For the first time since I came into this room from the darkness, I approached my body. It still looked the same as it did when I first came her except now all the bruises and cuts were gone. It just looked like I was sleeping. Hesitantly, I rose my hand and placed it over the heart. Surprisingly, I actually felt my heartbeat. This entire time I was out here, I hadn't felt anything. Not even when I clung to Natsu, desperate that he would notice the astral me.

"Why won't you accept me back? Why must I be stuck here watching as all my friends go through this pain?" I asked my empty shell of a body.

Once I asked and touched my body, I moved to go back to the window. But something tugged at me forcing me to stay. I looked down to see that my hand was still over my heart. I tried to move the hand but it wouldn't budge. Not even a twitch in the pinkie.

Then I felt a sucking sensation, like I was being pulled by a vacuum.

What's happening? Am I dying?

I can't be! Despite my panic, I could still feel the steady pace of my human heart beating under my spiritual hand.

The suction was me moving back into myself? My hand was no longer over my skin but now elbow deep inside the chest. I screamed as I was swallowed up faster and faster, then everything went black again.

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Feeling slowly came to my fingers and then traveled everywhere else on my body. My eyes were closed and my brain felt fuzzy. Like it was trying to work something out but it couldn't remember what. But it figured it out. It always does. I could now remember standing over my body. But how long ago was that? How long had I stood there? There was also something about Natsu but nothing was making sense out of that one.

"Natsu." I croaked through my dry throat.

My ears slowly picked up noises of life below me. It sounded like an argument.

Oh, yeah. I was at the guild, in the infirmary.

"Natsu." I repeated.

For some reason, all I wanted was to see him. Nothing else mattered. I just wanted to see him and that grin that I loved so much. My eyelids blinked open, wiping away the blurs so I could see the ceiling tiles above me. I could hear footsteps and yells everywhere and all I could think was it was no wonder Natsu couldn't hear me.

I was trying to sit up when I heard the door to the infirmary open.

"Alright Lucy, Let's change the need-" Mira stopped mid-sentence when she walked around the curtain and saw that I was sitting up.

Tears could be seen in the corners of her eyes and all I could do was smile at her. I would have said something but she turned on her feet and left the room yet again. Shortly after she left, the sounds down stairs stopped and were replaced by several pairs of footsteps. The door to the infirmary burst open and the six people ran to my side.

"Lucy!"

"You're awake!"

" How are you feeling?"

They all spoke at the same time and I could only smile. I would have laughed but my throat was still so dry. I gave each face a good once over to make sure they were okay now and thankfully the only thing I saw was tears of joy. Erza, Wendy, Gray, Mira, Levy, and of course, him.

I looked at Natsu and gave my best smile and I could tell he too was fighting back tears. "Hi, Natsu." I whispered.

"Hey, Luce!" he gleamed, smiling the biggest grin I had ever seen on him. He sat on the edge of my bed and held me tight in his arms. To me, he whispered, "Thank you for coming back like you promised."

Natsu didn't give me a chance to respond to his whisper. He just leaned back, took my face in his hands, and pressed his lips firmly against mine. The action took me by surprise but I kissed him back, showing him everything I couldn't say. How grateful I was that he didn't give up on me, how I saw everything he had shown me while in the coma, how much I had grown to love him since I first met him, and how I would never leave his side.

While we kissed, I had forgotten that there was others in the room. And I remembered them when we broke apart and I heard whistles and cheers. My cheeks immediately darkened, probably the same shade as Erza's hair, and it probably looked worse due to my colorless skin. Natsu was unfazed by the calls our friends were making, just chuckled and buried my face in his shoulder.

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One week later, I was able to leave but was told no missions for at least one more month. Natsu never really left my side but I didn't mind. By now, everyone already knew about the kiss so we couldn't hide our feelings now even if we wanted to. And now, I remembered the entire Out-of-Body experience I had. Of, course I will never tell anyone about it mainly because the only person I did want to tell already knew. He had some strange sense that I was somewhere else in the room and not in the body on the bed.

It was a great feeling to know that we were close enough to somehow tell these kind of things. I don't even understand how he knew but maybe one day I'll find out. Until then, I'm just going to keep my promise to him.

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So, I have no clue where this came from. It just happened so don't take too much into it. Plus I had no clue how to end it! So difficult when things randomly pop up in my mind.