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POV: Lucy

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The sound of crashing waves and chirping seagulls is all around me along with the deep pungent scent of the salty sea air. There is so much light from the sun pouring around me as I cover my eyes searching along the streets of a familiar town. It's humid out and not a single cloud in the sky to cover over the blasted sun but I continue to walk and search fearfully feeling myself grow more panicked with each passing second. I continue to search down the cobblestone path searching for what I lost.

I open my eyes to hear the slow beeping of what must be a nearby heart monitor. My vision is hazy and the room I'm in is all too bright to allow me to see correctly as I blink trying to focus my vision. My body is sore all over and it takes me a few minutes to remember what had happened when the flashbacks assault me almost instantly making my head throb from where I must have hit it when I fell.

"She's stable with just a few bruises and a minor concoction. Her previous wounds reopened during the fall giving the reason for the blood, but other than that she's alright," a feminine voice whispers from somewhere to my left. I turn to find a tall elderly woman who seems to be around her mid-eighties and she's talking to my grandfather who has his back to me.

She's fairly tall and her pink hair, a little lighter than Natsu's hair color, is tied up into a neat bun with two small moon shaped pins and two bangs of hair frame her face. Her eyes are a light shade of red that hold a bit of sadness to them and she has a beauty mark on the left side of her face just below her mouth. She's wearing a white lab coat with a stethoscope hanging around her neck.

The doctor looks up at me after whispering something that I can't hear and Makarov turns following her gaze toward me, "Lucy, you're awake," he says surprised walking toward me along with the doctor, "How are you feeling," Makarov asks taking my hand in his as gently as he can almost as if I were to break like a glass doll.

"I'm fine, just a little sore," say while sitting up feeling my muscles scream out in pain making me wince, "How long have I been out," I ask clutching my head where it throbs from where I probably hit it when I fell down the stairs.

"Not long, only a couple of hours have passed," Doctor Porlyusica, as said on her badge, says as she checks the monitors around me and writing into her notepad, "You weren't seriously injured and other than your previous wounds reopening you're just fine. You'll be in observation for a few days and until then I hope you make yourself comfortable and stay out of trouble," she finishes writing in her notepad before leaving the room without another word.

"You really had us in a scare there Lucy," grandfather says tugging on my arm, "We all rushed here as soon as we found out what happened. They've been waiting in the lobby for you to wake up but I've sent them all home a while ago," He's probably talking about everyone I know in Magnolia. He moves to sit in the nearby chair that's right next to my bed.

Once he's seated he crosses his arms across his chest and bows his head with his eyes closed almost as if he were sleeping. Truth is that he actually looks tired and worn out from where he sits in his seat. I turn to the window and notice that it's dark outside with a full moon shining out along with twinkling stars dusted across the night sky.

Night sky.

"Grandfather, you should go home," Makarov looks up at me ready to argue but I cut him off, "It's late and you have work tomorrow. Besides, if you sleep on that chair you're going to hurt your back and then you'll be the one who ends up in here instead of me," with a grunt he leans back into his chair telling me that he is unwilling to move, "Come on, don't be stubborn," I laugh when he continues to sit in his seat unmoving seeming to be muttering something under his breath.

Grumbling he stands up and walks on over next to me, "Are you sure you don't want me to stay. I just don't want you to be alone," he says taking my hand in his again making me smile. How long had it been that my father had said those very words to me. Truth is that every time I would end up in the hospital he would say the same thing up until a few years ago. Now he would only stay for a while and then he'd leave for the night without another word.

"I'll be fine, nothing's going to happen while you're away," I reassure him, "I doubt that I'll find a way to suffocate myself in my sleep," I joke and he blanches seeming to be even more worried than before, "I'm just kidding,"

He lingers around the room for a while longer up until Laxus arrives to take him home and soon enough I'm all alone in my room with nothing but the sound of the machines surrounding my bed keeping me company. The room is surprisingly cool and the bed I'm on is a bit uncomfortable and lumpy. The ivory walls have a few pictures hanging on the wall which hold paintings of fruits and scenic views of mysterious forests and glistening lakes.

Just when I'm about to settle down to try and sleep I hear the a knock on the door before it opens and in walks in a boy my age carrying a large bouquet of flowers, "Natsu," surprised, I watch as the teen walks toward me a bit solemnly, "what are you doing here at this time of night," I ask and he only smiles sheepishly while sitting down in the chair beside my bed, the one grandfather had been sitting in earlier.

"I came to see how you were doing," he says while handing me the large bouquet, "These are for you by the way," I take the large ornate flowers feeling their weight on my arms and I begin to wonder how much they cost him.

"They're beautiful," I murmur while gently stroking the soft petal of one of the Asiatic Lilies that's surrounded by a few Gerberas, Chrysanthemums, Carnations, and Lisianthus making the arrangements pop in color, "Thank you," he sits there a little shy, his cheeks dusted a light pink, and it's so odd on him since he's decked out in black, other than his white scarf that he never seems to take off.

"So how did this happen," he asks while looking at the heart machine just beside my bed sounding as if this weren't the first time that this has happened. Well this isn't the first time that it's happened and really this is only the second time he sees me in a hospital bed because of my clumsiness, but the point is that he makes it sound as if he's known me for years and that him showing up to see me is just another routine of his.

I'm compelled to answer, seeming as I had been looking for him at the time of my misfortune, but somehow I feel compelled to keep it from him, "I saw you go into the building during lunch and I decided to try and follow you, but by the time I reached the school you were gone," I say ducking my head so that my hair covers my shame painted face, "I had then decided to go to the library when I couldn't find you and then I heard a crash on the second floor so I got curious and decided to investigate, that's when I crashed into that boy and fell down the stairs," I mumble feeling my ears burn in shame.

He stays quiet for some time and once I feel too much time pass I look up at him only to notice his glare and oddly I feel like a child again when father used to scold me for something I did that I knew I shouldn't have done. It's actually really unnerving when he does that.

Sighing deeply, he sits back in his seat while closing his eyes and crossing his arms over his chest, "Well I guess it's my fault for not finishing telling you all the rules," he mutters exasperated.

"Wait, there's more?"

"Yeah, it's why their called RULES with an 's'," he says making it sound as if it were common sense, which it actually is, but how was I supposed to know, "And you broke two of those rules which led you to where you are now," he says almost smugly.

"Which are…"

"Rule number two," he says while pointing two fingers at me for emphasis, "Don't go snooping around, and rule three," he then points three fingers at me and I really get the urge to grab onto his fingers and just break them, but I hold back knowing that he could overpower me and I'd end up getting hurt instead, "Don't follow your curiosity,"

I look down at the bouquet in my arms oddly annoyed and at the same time mystified. What is it with these strange rules and why is it that they have to be followed. I didn't really believe him when he first told me about them, I still don't. I mean, it could have been just a coincidence that I had crashed into that kid and fell down that flight of stairs. Breaking the rules had nothing to do with it, or did it?

"Don't worry Luce, as long as you stay out of trouble you'll be just fine," I turn to look at him and his face is only a mere inches, no, centimeters away from my own that I have to fight the urge to jerk away knowing very well that I'd probably fall off the bed and bring down all the machines I'm hooked up to with me, "But I promise that if you ever get yourself into trouble I'll be there to catch you when you fall," he sounds so sincere and his dark golden eyes swim with assurance that I can't help but feel myself blush madly. He then leans his forehead onto mine and I'm frozen in place with my heart hammering a thousand miles a second.

When he moves away I let out a breath I had not known that I had been holding as I watch him walk away towards the door, "Y-you know that if you k-keep on having those weird mood swings around me we'll never become friends," I call out to him just as he reaches the door.

He turns around with a hard expression and then gives me a mocking smile while saying, "That's the point," and for some odd reason I feel a pain in my chest when he closes the door behind him.

There was chapter ten. Hope you all enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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