A/N: Sorry guys that it took me longer than usual to update this story. As you all know I just finished publishing my Nalu fic called The Interview so please check if out if you haven't. I know you all are eager to know what happened based on the previous chapter. Hehe.

Chapter 7

Sting's POV

She won. She won the battle like I believed she could. She has really grown so much like what Yukino said. I was so proud of her. After Mato announced her win, I was so happy that I cheered out loud. I didn't care what my guild members thought but I left my spot and started running towards her as she stood at the battlefield.

"Lucy!" She turned and looked at me. She seems happy to see me coming over to her. She was about to run to me but she stopped. Something stopped her. The smelt of her blood immediately penetrated through my nose.

"LUCY!" She fell to the ground after Haru pulled the sword out from her. From then, all I see was red. I growled as I ran passed her, heading towards Haru. I put the trust to my guild members to look after her while I took care of this damn asshole. I didn't hesitate to give him my all through my white dragon holy breath. Hoping I actually accidentally killed him. He was out cold so I ran back to Lucy.

"Oi! Who say you can close your eyes?! Wake up Lucy!" I was shouting at her as I kneel by her side. She slowly lifted her hand to touch my cheek and what made me feel sad was that she could still smile at me.

"Okay! I've closed it up. We need to get her to the infirmary now." I heard Cheria announced. I immediately carried her in a bridal style before I ran towards the infirmary. Hold on Lucy, you're going to live. Don't give up yet.

Yukino gotten Porlyusica to come in. I desperately wanted to stay by her side but she said if we wanted her to heal her, we needed to leave because she couldn't stand humans so with much hesitance, I did. After she was done healing her, she exited the infirmary informing us that she was going to be alright. I was about to enter the infirmary when she stopped me. Before she took her leave, she told us that it might take days for her to wake up after all she lost a lot of blood so she told me not to hope too much.

That was when I grabbed a chair and placed it beside her as I sat and waited for her to wake up. I continued to wait by her bedside as she slept like a fallen angel. I never tried to move from her side at all because I wasn't planning on giving up on her. I was going to be by her side when she opened her eyes. I wasn't going to leave until then.

The games still continued on after that. My guild members were being supportive by being there for me but I told them to go when the games were on. They did as I told them to. Two days has passed and Lucy hasn't woken up yet. I haven't eat nor took a shower but I didn't care. If possible, I wanted to keep my eyes opened all the time but the tiredness got the better of me which caused me to sleep at her side when I needed to.

Jason came to visit every day, checking on her status. My guild members did the same too together with Frosch and Lector. Once, Lector offered to stay with me but I told him it wasn't needed. I told Rogue to watch over him and thankfully, he wasn't objective to it. Besides that, a couple of times they tried to open the topic to get me to eat but I reject them straight away until one day, I think they got tired with my attitude.

"Come on Sting, just eat something already man. The food's here staring at you." Orga spoke with an annoyed tone.

"I suggest Orga's right this time Sting. Just eat a little bit." Rufus added in.

"Don't force him. Let him do what he wants." Rogue said, stepping up for me.

"No Rogue!" Yukino yelled. "Look Sting, don't be selfish and just eat. Don't you even care that Lector is worried about you?" I didn't look at neither one of them, not even Lector. My eyes just stick to the blonde below me. Minerva was around but she wasn't saying anything as she stood by the door. "Do you think Lucy wants to see you in this position?" And that's when I flared, causing the chair to fall backwards as I stood up.

"What the hell do you all know what Lucy wants?!" I saw Yukino, Lector and Frosch flinched upon my outburst. "How can I eat when she's here, trying to fight to wake up?!" I punched the wall not caring if I caused a dent to it. "WAKE UP ALREADY LUCY! YOU STILL HAVEN'T FIND FAIRY TAIL YET!" And that's when I felt tears started to stream down my cheeks.

All the pain I felt when I saw she got stabbed to the point she almost bled to death came bursting out. I tried not to cry because I promised myself to be strong for her but it seemed I couldn't take it already. I didn't want to guilt treat myself but I knew it was my fault. I was the one who let Lucy went to the ring. I was the one who even supported it. I was the one who almost got her killed.

"Sting…" I stopped crying when I heard the beauty beneath me whispered my name. I could tell my guild members were also surprised at hearing her voice. I kneel back down on the ground quickly and gently grabbed her hand.

"Hey Lucy, yes it's me." I saw her eyelids started to move before they started to flutter opened and looked at me. Man, do I missed staring at those big brown beautiful eyes of hers. I brought up one of my hands and tucked her loose hair behind her ears.

"Where am I?" Lucy asked as she took a look around. "What are they doing here? Why am I in the infirmary? God, what happened?" The questions came out of Lucy's tongue on a roll. She removed her hand from my grasp as she wanted to sit up. I didn't let her do it alone though. I helped her sit up before readjusting the pillow so that she could leaned against it. "Where are my keys?"

"They're here Lucy." Yukino stepped up so that she could passed them to her. Lucy immediately hugged them closed to her chest. "Do you remember anything?" Yukino asked.

"I remembered winning the match against Haru and then." She paused as she took a look down at her wound. "I got stabbed by him didn't I?" My guild members nodded back in reply to her, confirming her analysis. She tore her gaze from them and looked at me. "How long?"

"Two days." Lucy immediately palmed her forehead.

"God, Jason's going to kill me."

"Don't worry, he knows. He comes in here every day to check on you." Lucy looked up at me and we ended up looking at each other. I forgotten that my guild members were there until I heard someone cleared their throat.

"We'll head back first." Rufus said before exiting the infirmary. I just nodded back in reply before the rest started to follow him out as well. Soon, the infirmary was left with just the two of us.

"I'm glad you're awake." I decided to break the silence. Lucy brought her hand up and properly tucked her hair behind her ear.

"Yeah, I didn't know I was asleep for two days."

"I've been here for the whole two days." Lucy turned back her gaze as me with wide eyes.

"You've been here the whole time?" She questioned and I nodded my head back in reply.

"I was worried sick Lucy." I paused before allowing myself to continue again. "I was worried you're not going to wake up. It's all my fault, I'm sorry." I said, my voice barely audible but I think Lucy heard because the next thing she did, she held my face in her hands.

"It's not. I'm right here now am I?" And she just had to give me that enchanting smile of hers. I brought one of my hands up as I placed it on her cheek.

"Don't do that to me ever again." I saw her cheeks were tinted with blush when I said that. Damn why does she look so cute? What's more, her lips were parted. It just made me wanted to lean forward and kiss those lips of hers but recalling what happened at her apartment, I didn't want to be the reason for her to break down and cry now so instead, I gave her a peck on her forehead.

I pulled away and looked down at her. I could see she was blushing madly now that she didn't dare to look at me. I wanted to tell her my feelings but I backed out. I felt it would be too much for her to handle now and I did hint her already so I shall keep it that way still.

"Sting I-" I interrupted her because I wasn't prepared to hear anything that was regards to us.

"You should go get some rest. I think Jason would want you to start work tomorrow." I saw Lucy was about to speak but she hesitated. Instead, she smiled at me and agreed. She moved to lie herself on the bed once again and of course, I helped her. Once she was in a comfortable position, I brought the chair up that I kicked earlier and sat on it. I folded my arms as I too wanted to get some shut eye.

"Sting."

"Yeah?"

"Will you be here when I wake up?" She asked quietly.

"Always." And she smiled. She let one of her hands out as if asking for mine. I didn't ignore it so I placed my hand on her tiny hand. She closed her fingers around my hand causing me to do the same too but I gave her a little squeeze while I was at it.

Based on her breathing, I could tell she has fallen asleep. I didn't close my eyes yet though. I used my available hand to rest my cheek against it as I watched her slept. I couldn't help but to stare at her. She was so beautiful. I didn't know when my feelings for her started to change. It must be when I first saw her. I was so depressed and sad that Fairy Tail has broken up but she, she stood there at the arena strong and tall. I had to say, she was my light. She awoken me up and showed me what love is. I felt that my tiredness was overtaking me that I didn't realized I said this out loud.

"I love you."

A/N: And that's it for this chapter folks! How did you find it? Are you glad that Lucy is up and well? You could see that their relationship is growing stronger too don't you? Hehe. Anyways, I'm hoping to update the next chapter in the next two days or so for now, please don't forget to drop me a review before you go. Thanks!