I AM SO SORRY! I had written this straight after chapter 8 like the same day! But for some reason it wouldn't let me upload it and then I'd forgotten about it and then when I remembered I had no internet and I had uni! IM SO SORRY! PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR IT TAKING SO LONG! D:
Hearing the man move as he tried to stand Lucy watched for a moment before bolting out of the alley. 'I shouldn't've run away!' Mentally slapping herself stupid, she stopped and searched her surroundings, noticing a car park. She ran towards one of the cars and slid underneath it, cutting her hands and knees on the broken glass in the process. Trying her hardest to keep quiet as she caught he breath, she watched the way that she had come from. Lucy jumped and let out an ear piercing scream when felt someone grab her foot, pulling her out front under the car, dragging her through the glass, cutting her legs, arms and back, but before she was pulled all the way out Lucy heard gunshots. Feeling the person let go, Lucy instinctively pulled her legs into body back under the car, as she watched the person's lifeless body fall to the ground. Rolling to the other side underneath the car she didn't care that she was bleeding, she wanted to get out of there.
Erza and Jellal had chased after Lucy, calling out her name, but it fell on deaf ears, she just kept running. Losing sight over her they just kept running hoping that they would find her. Noticing a man running after something they followed him, and when they heard a deafening scream, both Jellal and Erza fired one shot each that melded together, killing the man instantly. Walking around the car they stopped for a moment before crouching "Lucy…?" Erza spoke softly, shining her phones light under the car, they saw her red face, tears still poured from her eyes as crawled out wrapping her arms around her red head friend, crying louder into her clothes.
Hearing footsteps Lucy found that her body was frozen just before she could poke her head out. She couldn't move no matter how much she tried, she was frozen in fear. 'They're going to kill me… I'm going to die…' she thought to herself when she saw two pairs of feet stop in front of her face. "Lucy…?" a familiar voice broke through her thoughts as a bright artificial light shined on her face, causing her to squint for a moment. Her eyes went wide and the tears poured down her face as she crawled out hugging her friend. "I'm so – sorry." Lucy sobbed into Erza's shirt, as her friend wrapped her arms around her trying to comfort her from the events.
Looking down at Lucy's legs and seeing the blood on her nighty and feet, Erza looked to Jellal. "Can you carry her, it will faster that way to get back to the others." Jellal nodded crouching beside Erza, who helped Lucy onto his back. As they hurriedly walked back towards the pier Erza kept a look out in case someone tried to jump them. As the pier came into sight Lucy tightened her hold on Jellal, "Natsu's mad isn't he…?" she wanted to hide, she didn't want to face Natsu not after one of the stupidest decisions of her life almost killed her. "If you pretend you're asleep you won't have to face him till later…" Erza spoke smiling at her friend holding the back of her head for a moment before letting it fall "I don't think I could pretend to sleep with all the cuts I have and all the glass in me as well."
"What happened?" Levy saw Lucy, and how badly her body was cut. "We lost sight of Lucy which resulted in her getting hurt." Jellal spoke sternly "Where is Natsu?" "Gray and Juvia took him home, he needed stitches and none of us had any medical thread in any of our cars." Gajeel stood against his car opening the back door "He was also trying to go after you Lu- chan, he wouldn't stop threatening us, if Gajeel didn't knock him out I think he would've gone after you after he sent Jellal and Erza."
Jellal placed Lucy in the car seat so that her legs were dangling out the door "You three keep watch I'll get as much glass out now until we get home." Jellal, Erza and Gajeel nodded as they made sure no one would attack them as Levy cleaned her wounds. "Lucy…" Levy spoke as she pulled out small to large shards of glass out of her legs and feet. She didn't get a response from her but she knew that the blonde was listening, "When we get home, just apologise to Natsu… You really scared us, but when you ran off and after he sent Jellal and Erza after you, he almost lost it." Lucy just sat there expressionless "I don't want to go home…" Levy looked up at her blonde friend. "I don't want to face Natsu…" biting on her lips she tried her hardest not to cry "He got hurt… because of me…"
As Levy finished cleaning her bloody legs she sighed at the sight of her arms 'And I still have to do your back as well…' "Lucy Youre going to have to lay down in the car, I can't do anymore until we get home, we've been out here for too long." Helping her friend lay on her stomach she closed the car door "Guys time to go." Levy shouted, everyone made their way back to the two cars, walking around to the other side opening the door, Levy placed her head on her lap as she continued pulling out more shards from her arms and cleaned as she went.
The car ride home was too quiet for Lucy's liking, and when they had gotten home no one spoke. Gray stood out front entrance door frame before walking over to Lucy giving her a piggy back ride inside. "Natsu is in his room asleep, Juvia gave him some anaesthetic when he wouldn't stop carrying on. He should be up shortly though, she only gave him enough so she could do his stitches." Carrying her upstairs, she strained her ears trying to listen to Levy and Juvia speak, but their voice faded away the closer Gray carried Lucy to her room.
Setting Lucy on the bed she instantly laid onto her stomach "I'm going to guess that happened when you ran off?" he sat on the edge of the bed seeing the cuts that had glass embedded in them covering her back "You know that you have to apologise to Natsu right?" pulling out one of the shards, not sure if she was paying attention to him, but when he did, she tensed turning her head to face him fresh tears pooled in her eyes as she tried to give him a death glare "He did what he did to protect you, if he didn't care for you do you really think that he would smile right after being stabbed?"
Lucy's ears twitched when she heard a door open next door… Natsu's door. Both Gray and Lucy looked towards her door frame as a tall pink haired man came into sight, just standing there expressionless. 'Idiot… She's a fucken idiot…' he thought to himself as Juvia came up behind him, tapping his shoulder "I see you're awake." Passing the box full of tweezers, cotton balls, cloths, disinfectant, needles that were labelled 'To sleep', 'To wake', 'Numbing', medical thread and a stitching needle to Natsu, Juvia smiled "I'm going to let you do it." Gray looked at Juvia worryingly for a moment "Don't do that Juvia!" Lucy shouted causing all three to look at her with a glare "Shut up…" they all said in unison Gray got up and left the room, leaving Natsu alone to tend to Lucy.
As Gray shut the door to Lucy's room he looked over at Juvia for a moment before wrapping his arm around her "Are we sure this should be her punishment?" he spoke as they headed towards his room. "Lucy needs to hear what Natsu has to say… Even if it may be harsh… he doesn't want to see her hurt… or lose her again." Reaching Gray's room Juvia sat on his bed before pulling her hair out of a pony tail that she had pulled it into "You've done the same for me Gray…" she leaned over Gray's body when she felt him lay on the bed, she traced her fingers along the scar on his face before tracing the one the lower side of his body. Hooking her fingers under his pants, she started placing soft kisses up his body.
Natsu sat on the other side of her bed, with the box of medical things he would need to use. Lucy was too scared to face him, she wasn't scared of him, and she was scared of what his reaction might be. She kept her head facing away from Natsu and rested it upon her arms. 'I swear… I'm going to kill everyone that hurts her…' Feeling his calloused hands run over her legs, she flinched before tensing. "Levy didn't have any disinfectant… She cleaned what she could with water…" Lucy's voice was low and shaky, she didn't want to speak but she knew she had to. Grabbing the disinfectant and a cloth out of the box, Natsu grabbed a hold of her legs gently, wiping the cloth over the sole of her feet and her legs.
Lucy bit her lips in pain when she felt the stinging sensation engulf her legs. Natsu hadn't said a word to her, not after telling her to shut up, the silence was killing her on the inside. He had moved up and grabbed her arms doing the same actions as he did to her feet and legs, she didn't face him, she kept her face to the side, not facing him. "Lucy… Take off your dress" his voice was stern but it sounded emotionless and she did as he said. Blushing as she tried her best to take of nighty off without hurting herself, she heard Natsu sigh. He reached to one of the rips in the back of her nighty and ripped it further, exposing her cut up back. Her hands rushed to cover her chest as Natsu softly pushed her uncut shoulder forcing her to lay back down. He watched as blood pooled in some wounds and gushed out of others. 'She's going to need stitches' he sighed. Reaching for the tweezers he started to pull shards out from her back, she bit her lips and winced in pain, Natsu still hadn't said anything "I – I'm sorry Natsu." She said softly "I'm sorry." she sobbed into her bed, "I'm so sorry." Natsu gripped the tweezers tighter as he clenched his mouth.
"Do you have any idea… How fucken worried I was?" His voice was getting louder "I don't care if I get hurt, if I get hurt so be it! If I get hurt protecting you I don't care! As long as you are safe!" He shouted, making her flinch, the sound of his voice was stern and aggressive, for the first time in a long time he was crying "I don't want you to get hurt protecting me!" She yelled back at him, finally facing Natsu. His face was red 'Have you been… crying?' her heart hurt at the sight, she wanted to hug him tightly and not let go of him, she wanted to comfort him and make him know that she was ok… minus her cuts. "I don't want you to get hurt! I don't want to lose you again!" pulling out the last of the glass, Natsu quickly grabbed Lucy roughly, pulling her against him, her exposed chest against his "I don't want to go through the pain of losing you again!" he gripped her tighter against him, making her wince in pain, she didn't mind the pain as much as the pain she had in her heart.
Wrapping her arms around Natsu, she cried into him "I – I'm sorry… I'm so – rry… I – I just do – don't want y – ou to get hurt, b – but." Natsu loosened his grip on Lucy, pulling away he leaned in and kissed her, devouring her lips "Please… Just don't ever do anything that stupid again… Promise me" he looked into her eyes with desperation as he cupped her face "I promise." She said before he wiped away her tears with his thumbs before he laid her back down on her stomach. Grabbing cotton balls he dunked them all in the disinfectant and placed them on her smaller wounds watching for a moment as they absorbed the blood. Looking down at her body, he reached for cotton clothes and placed them over the larger wounds. Every time the cloth came in contact with her open wounds she groaned in pain as she bit her lips.
"You have to get stitches on your lower back, near your hip" Natsu pointed to the large blood soaked cloth that wrapped around her from the centre of her back to just around the front of her hip. 'I must've gotten that when I hid under the car… when I was dragged out' she looked down at the cloth as best she could. "It's going to hurt isn't it?" Lucy looked at Natsu worryingly, she was never one for needles, she would always scream and kick when she had to get them, and even now she still cries at the sight of them. Natsu nodded when her shaky voice spoke. "I'll make it numb so you don't feel anything." Pulling away the cloth, he reached for the needle labelled 'Numbing' and pulled off the cap. She tried to get her body to scurry away from him, but she just laid there as her eyes fixated widely on the needle. "Take my hand."
Natsu held out his left calloused hand towards Lucy. Her hands were so soft in his even after the cuts she had gotten. "On three." Watching Lucy nod, he didn't take his eyes off of hers once he had lined up the needle to around her wound. "One…" her hand was already gripping his hand tightly, and it gripped tighter in suspense "Two…" her knuckles were white, and her nails dug into his skin. Looking back to the wound "Three." As Lucy felt the needle break through her skin, she could've sworn she could feel the liquid gush into her body. Biting her lips and letting out a small breathless scream her hand squeezed as tight as she could around his hand.
"It needs a moment to kick in." she nodded, not letting go of his hand. "You know with the amount of strength you put into your hand getting a needle…" he gulped and forcibly smiled at her "What?" bringing his hand to her face she wiped her tears away. "I was just wondering how many of my bones are you going to break through childbirth." She couldn't help at laugh at his words.
"Can you feel this?" he placed the cloth back over her wound soaking up more of the blood. "Nope." Shaking her head side to side slowly she watched as best as she could as he placed the needle that still had half of the numbing liquid in it back near her wound, causing her to squeeze his hand.
"Don't look, It won't hurt I promise." Loosening her grip she waited a moment and felt his hand squeezes her softly "See? Wasn't that bad." Reaching for the box that rested on her bedside table, he placed the cap back on the needle and threaded the medical string through the curved stitching needle. "I'm going to need both hands." Bringing their hands to his mouth Natsu kissed hers before pulling away from her grip. Lucy watched the way his muscles moved as they sowed her wound together. Her eyes scanning all over his body she caught a glimpse of his stitches that made a line of red skin and black thread from where he was stabbed. "It might start itching when the numbing wears off, just don't scratch it and it'll be fine." She nodded looking at his wound as he stood up.
Natsu had packed up the box of medical gear that Juvia had given to him, after he had patted Lucy's wounds making sure the bleeding stopped he went and washed his hands. Walking back to Lucy's room, Natsu saw Lucy was loosely cross legged as her hands covered her oversized chest. "Natsu… Can I ask something of you…?" closing her door quietly, Natsu walked over to her bed and sat in front of her, never taking his eyes off the blonde as he nodded slowly. "Can you… um… Help me in the shower? It's just I don't want to smell like disinfectant as I sleep." he smirked, grabbing her hand not giving her a chance to grab anything to cover herself. "Natsu!" she shouted quietly as he hurriedly pulled her down the stairs behind him. She could feel his smirk as he opened the bathroom door, she was so engulfed by his energy that she had forgotten about the pain.
Quickly turning the tap the water started flowing in the shower Natsu removed his pants, his smirk never leaving his face. He felt her eyes burning over his skin, she was watching him strip from his pants, 'Completely innocent…' her arms still covered her breasts as a light pink blush covered her cheeks. "Like what you see?" his smirk grew wider as she ogled over him. Not realising that he had gotten closer to her, Lucy jumped at the sudden touch of his hands gliding along her shoulders, his hair brushing against her face as he placed kisses from her ear, down her neck, to her shoulders. The kisses were slow and lingering as his burning lips pressed against her skin, she was melting in his touch, she was moaning softly.
"Can't I just clean your body with kisses…?" he managed to say between his sweet kisses that he planted kisses above her breasts. "You'll taste disinfectant…" her mind was blurred and was hypnotised from his actions, but it was restored when he pulled away and grabbed her hand, pulling her into the steamy shower. "Wash my back for me?" she purred as she leaned her back against him causing a small growl erupt from his chest. "Only if you wash mine." He reached behind her head and grabbed some lotion. "You know this is going to sting right?"