Hey guys! So thanks to all of you who have been reading my story so far! So from now on I've decided to update once a week because of school and gymnastics. Anyway, in this chapter you finally get to see part of Evelyn's past. So yeah, enjoy!

Natsu's POV

Today had been crazy. All the travelling and meeting new people had been fun and all but now I was having trouble falling asleep. It was weird, I always fell asleep easily; I exhaled loudly when I heard a pair of footsteps in the hall and a familiar vanilla and strawberry scent was wafting under the door. Lucy, I thought. That was it. I had become so used to sneaking into her bed and sleeping there that it was kind of weird not being with her. Huh. She opened the door quietly and was greeted with me sitting up in bed.

"Hey Luce," I whispered. "What's up?"

"Natsu, it's Evelyn." That's all she had to say to get me out of bed. I knew what Evelyn had gone through. Lucy, Gray, Erza, the other dragonslayers, and I were the only people, besides Gramps, she had told about what had happened to her while she was kidnapped. We ran down the hallway being careful not to wake everyone up. When we got back Evelyn was shaking and tears were running down her face. Sweat was coating her body as her nightmare continued. I clenched my fist and I felt my face contort from anger.

"Natsu," Lucy gently touched my arm, a concerned look on her face. I nodded starting to gently shake my little sister awake from her hellish dream. When she finally woke up Evelyn didn't say a word. Her eyes were glassy with tears and were filled with fear. She hugged me tight while sobbing into my shoulder. Lucy stroked her hair while I rubbed my sister's back.

"Do you want to talk about it?" When she shook her head I sighed. "Evie, we want to help you. The only way we can do that is if you tell us what's going on." I could see Lucy looking at me with an amazed expression on her face. "What?"

"Nothing I just didn't know you could be that gentle. I'm surprised no one else woke up." I gave a half smile at the compliment.

"If I find whoever did this to her, I'm going to burn them into a pile of ashes," I promised out loud, not caring to disguise the hatred and anger in my voice.

"And I'm sure all of us will help. We're nakama after all." I smiled again at her. Evelyn's sobs subsided after a time until she was breathing normally again, for the most part. Little whimpers left her mouth periodically. "I feel so sorry for her," Lucy murmured.

"I should have been the one in her position," Natsu said bitterly. "If I hadn't left-." Lucy wrapped her arms around me effectively shutting me up.

"Don't say that," she scolded. Her arms tightened, "don't you ever say that. You did everything you could." We both fell silent and I heard her breathing steady out signaling she had gone back to sleep. Not wanting to go back to my room with Gajeel and the ice cube I did what I had done so many nights before. I curled up with her and went to sleep.

I woke up to a scream as I remembered what had happened the night before. It probably didn't help that Lucy and I were in a slightly compromising position. We had apparently started cuddling during the night, with my arm around her waist, and our legs tangled together.

"What are you doing here?" the brunette, Hermy or something, shrieked. Lucy woke up soon after and noticed the position we were in and pushed me away, a blush spreading over her face. Was she getting sick? I worried to myself. She sat up and yawned; she had reluctantly accepted the fact that I snuck into her house to sleep with her on a daily basis a long time ago.

"What's going on?"

"Why are you sleeping with him?" Hermy demanded.

"Relax Hermy," I laughed but Lucy hit my arm. "What?"

"It's Hermione idiot," she corrected but I also won a sleepy smile from her. "Evie had a nightmare so I got Natsu to help me calm her down. We must have accidentally fallen asleep." Hermione was still giving us a strange look before all of the others rushed into the room to see what Hermione had been yelling about. Gajeel and Gray automatically gave Evelyn a worried look.

"Are you okay?" the redhead British girl was asking my sister who had just woken up. She gave a nod still half asleep. Erza and Mirajane were giving her a concerned look as well. Lisanna was stroking her hair in a comforting way.

"What happened, why are you in here?" Harry demanded. I just yawned again before explaining that my sister had a nightmare and that Lucy came and got me.

"I must have fallen asleep before I could get back to the room." Harry nodded sympathetically as if he could relate to having nightmares.

"Are you ok, child?" Charle asked, worry evident in her voice.

"Do you want a fish?" Happy suggested looking for a way to comfort her. My sister gave a small laugh and shook her head.

"Her nightmares probably aren't as bad as yours Harry," Ron pointed out. All of a sudden the Fairy Tail mages and I jumped to her defense.

"You don't know anything about her!" Erza interjected.

" How dare you say that my sister's dreams aren't as bad if you don't even know what she went through." I could feel anger coursing through my veins, I didn't care if anyone said stuff like that about me but if it was about my sister then that person would have another thing coming. My hand was heating up ready to summon fire before I felt Evelyn set a hand on my arm.

"It's ok Natsu, don't worry about it." Even though I was still shaking with anger my hand dropped. There was an awkward silence before the four British wizards went downstairs for breakfast. Soon Erza and the fairy tail wizards left leaving just Lucy, Evelyn, and I in the room.

"It was such a bad dream."

Evelyn and I had been kidnapped by a dark guild that was fascinated with dragonslayer magic and they wanted to see what kind of pressures and manipulations would make a dragonslayer enhance their power. Their main focus was on going into dragon force. She had described how they had tortured her both physically and mentally to see if they could force her into activating it. I had escaped before they could do anything to me, but I left my little sister behind to fend for herself because I was confident that she would escape on her own. After three months when she hadn't returned Lucy, Gray, Erza, and I went out to find her. Seeing my sister in a state of utter terror and pain made me pissed off. Really pissed off. We had burned the whole guildhall to the ground before depositing her at Fairy Tail's infirmary, but the mages escaped. It appeared she was still suffering from nightmares. This was her first month back with us and she was already being thrown into crazy situations.

When she finished explaining her dream she was in tears again. Both Lucy and I were shaking in fury before coaxing Evie to join us downstairs. She reluctantly agreed and trudged down the creaky staircase. Everyone was waiting for us before they started breakfast so we took our seats and started eating our food.