CHAPTER 3

Hello again! New chapter up, YAY! Sorry for the long awaited actual Chapter 3. I couldn't find the time to get onto an available laptop or computer at all! :( But now the new chapter is here! Tee-Hee. Hopefully you guys are liking it so far? (Even if I updated this late -_-)

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Fairy Tail or its characters! Hiro Mashima does!

CHAPTER 3: Missing Emotion

~ROGUE POV~

I sigh as I sat across from Lucy and her father. I thought that I would only have to deal with 1 blonde, but now I have 3! It's not that I don't like them, well… Sting can be annoying & idiotic &... Well… let's not go any further.

Why are there blondes everywhere I look? I thought. I felt the aura that Lucy was emitting.

Was she mad that I didn't tell her? Or was it because he had to work with her for a long amount of time?

"I want you both to manage the company for the next 3 weeks. So Lucy I want you to move to Rouge's place for the next two weeks too. That way you could learn more with the Cheney family and their work." Mr. Heartfilia said. I sighed.

'Great. Not that I care. As long as she doesn't do anything stupid than I am okay with it.' I thought.

"What?! 2 weeks? Why?!" she asked. Mr. Heartfilia shook his head.

"I will be gone for a bit and I don't trust you with the house yet. Even if there are the butlers and maids with you." he said. My eyes were closed.

"But-" she was cut off.

"Lucy!" he all of a sudden yelled. I could sense her flinch a bit. I sighed.

"Alright. For 3 weeks. Then… I will see you in the next 3 weeks, Mr. Heartfilia." I answered him. I then got up and left the room. Leaving only the two alone in the room to talk things out.

~LUCY POV~

Father was leaving the next day and I was in the Cheney family's mansion. It's quite big, almost as big as mine. I looked around the place for a bit and found that it was quite amazing.

I kind of lost track and wandered off by myself, eventually getting lost. I sighed. I looked both ways of the long and white corridor. I didn't want to get lost even more so I found a sofa. I walked over to it and fell asleep after a few minutes.

After what felt like 10 minutes later, I felt someone's hands on the bottom of my thighs. I opened my eyes to see black raven hair and realized I was on someone's back. The person felt me waking up and stopped walking.

"Are you awake now?" the familiar voice said. I opened my eyes to see that it was Rogue.

"R-Rogue?!" I stuttered. He ignored me and I got off of his back. He then started walking away.

"T-thank you…" I said. He just kept walking away.

'Rude.. At least say one word.' I thought pouting.

~NORMAL POV~

The next day felt like a living dead for Lucy. She tried to get along well with Rogue, but he only ignored her. She felt like punching him in the face. But like her father said they had to get along. For the better of the company.

Every time she felt like it was a perfect time to talk to him, he only ignored her. No talking or anything. Just a DON'T BUG ME look on his face.

On the 3rd day of her stay there she didn't go to work at all. Instead she went to her mother's grave. She just wanted to visit her.

The day was nice and bright. As she stands in front of her mother's grave she thinks of the past things that happened. Her flashbacks of when she was a child. Left alone in a locked and dark room. All by herself.

She shrugged it off and looked up at the sky.

"Someday… It'll all come back. The time when I am alone again. I don't want anyone else to leave me. Not anymore." she whispered to herself. A tear drop came down her cheeks. She then gave out a heavy sigh.

"I can't cry in front of you. Not now. I wish you could be with me, Mama." she said with a bright smile. After a few more minutes just standing there, she walked away. To the garden she always played with her mother. She enjoyed playing with her mother. She loved her and so did her mother.

She laid down on the soft green grass looking up at the clouds and the birds passing by, remembering the things she did with her mother. She closed her eyes and wondered off into her dream.

~LUCY'S DREAM~

She stood there… In darkness. Everywhere she looked at was dark. There was not even a light. Not one thing. All of a sudden the scenery changed. She saw her mother and her father. They were both smiling happily. Holding their hand out to her. She reached her hand out slowly. Trying to hold their hand. Their warmth. But the scenery changed again. It went back to an eternal darkness.

She cried. For help, for anything that will get her out of there. She needed her mother's warmth again.

She then saw her mother. She was kneeling and both her arms were stretched out. She ran into her mother's arms. Her mother wrapped her arms around her.

But after a bit she started squeezing her. She couldn't breathe.

"Mama… Ca- Can't- B-breathe…" she choked out. She let her go and then started choking her. Her mother's hands on her neck, squeezing her neck. Lucy tried to get herself free.

"N-no… Mama…. D-don't… Sto-" the scenery changed again. She was panting very hard.

She was crying.

"Someone help… Help me…" she cried silently. Then she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"Kyaaa~~~!" she screamed out in horror trying to escape.

~END OF DREAM~

Lucy woke up abruptly and hugged someone. She didn't know who it was, be it stranger or someone she knew, she just needed some sort of comfort. There were tears coming down her eyes.

She was sobbing. Hugging the person really tight, not wanting to let go of that person.

"I'm scared… Someone… Save me… Don't leave me alone." she said those last words and then fainted.

~ROGUE POV~

I went to go look for Lucy at her place and found her sleeping in the grass at her garden.

I walked to where she laid down and noticed tears.

"Someone help… Help me…" I heard her say.

'Help me…? A nightmare?' I thought. I then tried to wake her up and nudged her shoulder. She screamed. She then opened her eyes and hugged me. I kneeled there shocked at her actions.

"I'm scared… Someone… Save me… Don't leave me alone." she said and I felt her hug me tighter. Her tears wetting my shirt. I then felt her body go limp. She fainted.

I quickly got up and took her to her room, in her mansion of course.

The maids led me there and I laid her down on her bed. I just sat there, looking at her. Seeing her eyebrows scrunch up and then loosen up.

'What is she dreaming about?' I wondered. I sat at the couch which was close to her bed. I watched as she just slept on her bed. I walked over to her and sat right next to her.

My hand somehow moved on its own and held onto her hand.

"What am I doing?" I mumbled to myself as I held onto her hand tighter. I then felt her have relief. Like everything bad she was dreaming went away.

I too felt myself loosen up when I touched her.

"What is it this time?" I softly said as I removed her hair away from her face.

Yay! I finally updated! I know right. I said I was going to update in like 2 weeks. But instead it took me what a month?

Ahehehe... I won't make any excuses. I updated at least though right?

But yeah! Sorry for the late update and R&R!

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PEACE.

~J