-Letter-

(Ver. 1)

Gray awoke, his face stained with dried tear trails as he clutched several sheets of paper in his hands. His once bright eyes dissolved into one of lifelessness, and decided to sit up from his bed. He held out the now wrinkled material, and looked at them again.

"… Natsu," he whispered as tears began to emerge, remembering the contents of it.

"I loved you, Natsu. I loved you," he said as if he was still there, but... he knew.

He knew that his love wouldn't come back anymore.

"So why?" He embraced the material as the tears relentlessly fell from his face. "Why the hell did you kill yourself?!"

He sobbed just like when he had received and read the letter earlier that day.
"So unfair... You're really not fair," he rubbed his eyes when he had calmed even for just for a bit. "Writing in your letter that you love me... Then, you go and kill yourself."

He laughed, sounding defeated, "What am I going to do without you now?"

He looked at the tear-stained and wrinkled papers with a sad smile. "What am I to do now that you're gone?"

All he received was silence in his frigid room, yearning for the warmth he knew he can never obtain anymore.

(Ver. 2)

Gray came home from work, though not before rummaging through his mail. As per usual, there was at least 20 letters in total or something, and it was always like that at the end of every month.

He took all of it and settled them on his coffee table. He was going to read them in bit after he got change and brewed tea for himself.
Once done, he settled himself on his couch, drank a bit of his drink to relax, before opening and reading the letters one by one.

Gray enjoyed receiving mails, especially whenever it came to his husband, who's currently working in the army. They had promised to send each other a letter as to how they were doing, what has been happening with them, and the like. Though, he only gets his lover's mails at the end of every month. That's why, he made sure to write a letter every night; tedious as it may be, it was only fair to the other and it's nice to know that they were doing fine.
Hence, he began reading them, enjoying the humour, effort and love encased in every letter they've exchanged.

"Pfft, only you would think of doing that," he chuckled. His husband was just so strange sometimes.

It wasn't until later that day that he heard the doorbell rang. He glanced at the papers, still having so many more to go. Though, he got up as he sighed, and headed for the door.

"Who is i-" he stopped in his tracks the moment he saw who it was. His eyes widened in bewilderment as he continued to stare.

"What? No welcome home, dear~? No, oh Natsu, I missed you much?" A salmon pink-haired man said mockingly, smiling in triumphant as he succeeded in surprising the other.

"... Welcome home, Natsu," Gray said with a genuine and endearing smile, causing the latter to gawk at him in shock at the unexpected express of affection from the usually icy cold partner of his.

Natsu embraced him tightly, "Oh man, that was a counter-attack wasn't it?"

"Eh?" The dark-haired male questioned for he couldn't quite understand what the other was talking about.

"Geez, you're just so agh! I can't explain." He looked at his lover, who in turn, looked at him with a confused expression.

Gray really wonders sometimes how he fell in love with the man. As you can see, his husband was just so strange sometimes.

The soldier began, his tone was gentle and you can just sense the love hidden beneath it,"... I missed you so much, Gray. Every day I would always be thinking about you, and wanting to do-"

"Gaah! Don't say it, idiot!" Gray's face coloured a dark hue of red, which earned him a hearty laugh from the latter. Natsu leaned down for a kiss, his feelings reciprocated with the same intensity as the other kissed back.

Both were happy to be with their lover once more, each time becoming sweeter than the last as their love for each other only continues to increase in time.

Just for the record, these are all un-beta'd and stuff, so please do pardon my amateurish mistakes for I'm still quite learning to get better. m(_ _)m

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