So I've been a little stuck on this chapter not really knowing what to write after Cana's reappearance but I came up with this and I hope you all like it. Please R&R and I shall see you at the bottom of the page.

POV: Lucy, Lucy

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

I turn another corner feeling my heart in my throat. It's beating so loud that it's all I hear making it drown out the sounds of the crashing waves and the seagulls that caw overhead. Sweat is pouring down my face as I look around continuing to search on and it doesn't take me long to figure out that I'm chasing someone. I can't see who it is that I', chasing but I continue to beat my feet down on the cobblestone path toward the light at the end of the empty road.

"Lucy, are you alright," I turn and look at Jellal who's sitting on the floor next to me staring at me curiously, "Did you dream something bad?"

"No, why?" I ask as he shrugs.

"You were whimpering in your sleep," he says looking away from me and down at his hands where a small foam cup sits with steaming ramen inside.

We stay quiet for a few minutes before I ask, "Hey Jellal," said bluenet looks up from his ramen and looks at me curiously. He got out of work early and decided to come and give me a quick visit at home before he went to go pick Wendy up from school. At the moment we're sitting outside under the gazebo that decorates Fairy Hills' wonderful garden, "You seem to know Erza really well." I say and watch as he chokes on a noodle he had been eating.

I hold in the urge to laugh as he wipes his mouth with the sleeve of his shirt before looking at me shocked, "Why do you say," he asks while stirring his noodles and I shrug while picking at the petals of an Aster flower that I had picked from the garden earlier trying to make myself appear nonchalant, "She's actually an old friend of mine," he says and when I look at him I notice a light pink hue dusted on his cheeks.

His brown eyes stare off into space like they usually always do, but this time he's smiling and it's such a rare sight for me to see that I can't help but just stare at him. He's changed a lot over the years. The deep bruise like bags under his eyes are gone and the worry lines he used to have are less noticeable than they used to be. I watch as he touches the tattoo on his face gingerly, as if it were to burn him if he were too brash.

The wind picks up around us a bit making the leaves of the nearby trees rustle and I watch a few leaves dance over our heads disappearing into the forest, "Are you in love with her," I compulsively ask and he stands up dropping his ramen and looking at me as if I had hit him or something.

His mouth gapes open and closes then opens again as if he's trying to tell me something but the words just won't come. He looks like a fish gasping for air before he composes himself and turns to leave, "Wendy will be out soon. I should probably go and pick her up from school,"

"I thought she was at a friend's house," I ask and he ducks his head caught and I almost feel bad for making him feel uncomfortable, almost, "Is she the girl you used to cry about when we were little?" I then ask and he turns to look at me with a pained expression and he nods his eyes then staring down at a patch of Tea Roses.

"It's my fault you know," he looks up at me, that old haunted expression that he used to have as a child darkening his face now was like a bad dream. He moves and sits next to me on the bench I had been laying on and stares down at his hands, "I met Erza and a few others on the island after I was kidnapped and she didn't remember what her last name had been so I decided to name her Scarlet because of the color of her hair. We became really good friends and if it weren't for them I probably wouldn't have made it out of there alive," I sit up straight in my seat feeling my heart beat erratically in my chest. Jellal never likes talking about the Tower of Heaven and has told no one about the horrors he endured all that time that he was stuck there. All any of his family members know is that he was mistreated and branded with a horrible tattoo as punishment for a crime he had committed within the small island. No one, not even his parents know of what truly happened and now he was going to tell 'me' of all people, "I had tried many times to escape from the island and I failed every single time and it came to the point that the warren got fed up with me that he sent guards to beat me up and later carved this tattoo onto my face," his eyes harden as he mentions this and suddenly everything around us seems to grow quiet as if listening intently to every word that Jellal is saying, "My friend Sho had come up with the idea to dig a tunnel from our cell underground that would lead to the beach so we could escape, but we got caught.

"The guards that had figured out our plan threatened for us to give up the mastermind of the plan and I gave myself up even though it had been Sho who had come up with the plan. I thought that they would only take me and punish me on my own but they took Erza as well and beat her right before my very own eyes. I tried to fight them and when I got free I noticed that Erza was clutching her right eye with her hand and it didn't take me long to understand what they had done to her," his hand clutches into a fist at the horrible memory, "After that all the people who had been taken made a riot and some of us escaped while a few were killed by the guards. I was separated from everyone else and Erza ended up on a different ship with an old man that used to share the cell with us. His name was Rob, but he insisted that we call him Grandpa Rob. It didn't take long for my parents to pick me up from where some of the refugees had been taken to and after I wouldn't talk or eat your mom, aunt Layla, decided that it would be best if we left Akane and moved in with you all," he turns to look at me and gives me a halfhearted smile, "I must have scared you when we first met,"

"Not really, but you did scare me when you tried to cut off your tattoo," he winces at the memory but nods with a deep heavy sigh.

"I was actually glad that we left Akane and moved in with you all in Crocus, your mother really helped me a lot before she…. Passed away," his voice grows morose at the last two words and I feel my heart stutter painfully. Not long after he and his family came to live with us did my mother get extremely sick before leaving us, "All that time I had lived with you I had wondered what had happened with Erza and I always wondered if she had really lost her eye. It wasn't until we moved here to Magnolia and started going to school that I found out that she was perfectly fine. She didn't even have a scar where they had cut her and I was so happy to see that she was safe and alive living in my grandfather's dorm. I could see her and talk to her all I wanted but instead I made it a point to steer clear of her path. I was so ashamed to look her in the eye after I couldn't save her and it wasn't until she confronted me that I finally snapped out of it," I hear a twig snap nearby and I look up to find Erza standing in the middle of the garden and I wonder how long she's been standing there and how much she's heard as she stares at Jellal. He's still looking down at his hands when he says, "So to answer your previous question, yes I do love her," Erza stares at us shocked, blinking a few times as if there were dirt in her eyes. She looks at me and then at Jellal who slowly picks up his head and looks at her with an expression I had never seen before.

He stands up and walks over to a frozen Erza before taking her hand in his and staring down into her deep brown eyes, "I love you Erza Scarlet," he whispers and tears stream down her cheeks as she smiles up at him holding the same warm expression as him.

Could this be what I've never known to be love?

This is an important chapter and it's also a small filler. The reason I did this into a Jerza chapter is because later on something will be happening between the two. What is it? Well you'll have to continue reading to find out what it is.

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