"No! Stay away from me! Let me go!" I scream as I feel Hibiki's hands all over me, his lips on mine as he kisses me wherever he can reach.
I try to drag myself away from him but it is no use. He is too strong for me. I feel the heat from the closeness of our bodies. The air around me starts to thicken and I struggle to breathe. I am panting loudly, sweating profusely as I try to get away from Hibiki.
"You can not get away from me Princess. You are going to be with me forever"
"No!" I shout out "No please no! Let me go back to Natsu! I need Natsu not you!" I manage to shout out. The feel of his grip on my hands starts to get heavier and heavier as his hands almost starting to feel like shackles. My body start to grow into a full on panic attack as the linger in his stare bores into my already wide panicking eyes, the smell of his strong cologne hitting me so that it the only thing that I smell. My body starts to shake rapidly under his body as once more I try to get him off me.
"Why bother Princess. No one is coming for you. Natsu is never going to come for you. He is gone for good anyway. I made sure of it." My eyes grow even more in panic and my heart skips a beat.
"What?" I say slowly trying to take in what he had just said.
Hibiki gestured his head to the other side of the room where I suddenly saw a body on the floor. In all of my panicking, I had not noticed that it was there in the first place. I managed to get a good look at it. I noticed the muscled body on the floor lying face down that was covered in blood. There was a tattoo on the shoulder blade that I recognised as the All Fired Up logo and the one thing that gave it away as to who it was….bright pink hair. Fresh tears fell and I screamed as I saw who it was.
It was Natsu. Natsu was dead on the floor in my apartment as I was being assaulted by my ex-fiance.
My body went into spasm as Hibiki kissed my neck while I continued to look at Natsu not believing what I am seeing right now.
I didn't even flinch when he whispered directly into my ear. "Now you see Princess? There is no one else there for you. It is only me and you…..forever"
"No!"
I scream as the image in front of me immediately changes. I quickly sit up and look at my surroundings. I notice that it is suddenly darker in the room that I am in. I look down to see that I am lying on a large four poster bed and not my sofa. I look at my wrists to see that there are no marks there and that I am also wearing pyjamas. I start to panic. Did I get knocked out after seeing Natsu on the floor? Where is he now? Where is Hibiki? Where am I?
"-ce….Luce…" I suddenly hear from beside me and my panic rises again hearing the one voice that I never thought that I would hear again. I turn to look at a very frightened Natsu who is holding his hand out wanting to touch me. I take another look around and realise that I am in Natsu's house. I am in bed with Natsu. Hibiki is gone. I am safe with Natsu now. My ordeal is over.
Relief floods me as I feel so overwhelmed with everything at once. I am no longer in danger, everyone is safe and Natsu is alive. I bring my hands up to cover my face and I sob loudly to try and calm myself down. I feel Natsu pull me into his arms as I continue to sob and I allow him to do so. I need to feel him right now and nothing is going to stop that. I need to feel his warmth. I need further proof that he is still alive.
"Shh. It's okay Lucy. I am here now. Nothing is going to hurt you. It was just a nightmare." I hear Natsu whisper soft words into my ear calming me down but the tears keeping flowing.
It has been over a week since the incident with Hibiki at my apartment and a lot has happened since then. Hibiki has been sent to jail for attempted assault and threatening to kidnap me, all of my stuff has been moved out, I even sold the apartment the other night and finally… I have now officially moved in Natsu.
But despite everything, I still get flashbacks in my dreams that haunt me. Sometimes, like tonight, the dream changes slightly. Sometimes I dream that Natsu gets me out safe, sometimes I dream that he is dead like tonight and other times I dream that Hibiki kidnaps me and takes me somewhere else and I was never found again. Each time I wake up sweating and screaming. Each night Natsu needs to calm me down and each night I tell myself that it was a dream, that things are okay now and that it will be the last time that I dream those dreams! Looks like tonight is like every other night.
I still remember coming home that night. I was so numb. I had never felt so numb and shut off from the world in my life. I basically went into auto pilot once I left the apartment. I had not even realised that the police had turned up by that point. After Natsu got me to his house, he made sure that I was comfortable in his bed and stayed with me trying to calm me down. Natsu explained that Laxus saw Hibiki running into the apartment block, recognised him and called him on his mobile to get him over to my apartment to stop Hibiki and called the police after he heard screams coming from my apartment. Thank goodness for Laxus really otherwise things may have been a lot worse.
After a while I calmed down to just a few shivers and Natsu wraps me fully in the duvet and rubs my back.
"Are you alright?" He asks. I nod.
"Maybe talking to the police today was not the best idea." He stated and I wince at the memory of having to reencounter the whole incident for the police statement. I was wreck after leaving the police station this afternoon, but I tried to not show it in front of the cameras. The news of what happened travelled fast around the media and I was met with camera after camera following me to try and get the slightest bit of news. It never happened. I just stayed silent about it. It turned out that Hibiki had been sent for psychiatric tests and his mental ability proved to be unstable since he was suffering with grief and that apparently led to explaining why he did what he did. Poor excuse in Natsu's books but there was nothing we could do about it now.
Natsu and I decide to stay in bed for a while longer just holding each other, me lying on Natsu's chest playing with his key necklace with one hand and Natsu was lying on his back playing with my hair softly. The moment was perfect and we relished in it for as long as we could.
Eventually we decided to get out of bed and started our day which, considering that we decided to stay house bound to get away from the cameras and newspapers, normally consisted of house cleaning and watching trash TV and movies. As we were getting ready to sit down for our second movie of the day, our doorbell rung and Natsu went to let whoever it was in. Natsu forbid me to open the door incase it was someone linked to Hibiki or from the newspapers. He has been fantastic for the last week and I honestly have no idea what I would have done without him!
Suddenly, I heard a buzzing in the kitchen and I walked in from the living room to see everyone standing around the kitchen island.
"Guys? What are you all doing here?" I say a little stunned.
Natsu came up from behind me and hugged me, whispering in my ear. "I felt that you needed a bit of time with your friends, so I invited them over."
My eyes started to tear up "Thank you" I say turning around and kissing him. I walk over the others by the kitchen island and greet them all, thanking them all for turning up.
"Right. Who is up for a movie and a bit of drinking?" Gray shouts out raising a bottle of vodka in the air. Everyone cheers and within the hour, the drinks are flowing and we are watching a random comedy movie in the living room. I turn around to look at all of the couples in the room and I realise how much love there is and how far we have all come within the last year or so. I look at Juvia snuggled up to Gray while he subconsciously plays with her engagement ring on her hand, I look at Jellal and Erza sitting next to each other holding hands and I look at Levy leaning on Gajeel with his arm across her stomach as if in protection. I laugh to myself in wonder how two people like Gajeel and Levy that are so mismatch can somehow fit so perfectly. Then I look to Natsu who is holding me on his lap rubbing his hand slowly up and down my back. It's almost soothing and with the help of the vodka, I almost want to fall asleep already even though it's only the afternoon!
I decide to just enjoy the moment and revel in the joy that I am here with my friends having a wonderful time together laughing and drinking together on a day off from work.
As the movie finishes, we all decide to take a shot of vodka each, Levy full on refusing because she is driving everyone home later and is the 'designated sober' for the night, so she just has a shot of water instead.
"Let's do some drinking games!" Gray shouts out
"Let's play truth or dare!" Natsu suggests
"Or strip poker!" Gray jokes
"You would do that on your own you stripper!" Natsu shouts back making us all laugh
"At least my dares don't involve us burning our mouths drinking chilli sauce straight!" Gray shouts back.
"Chilli sauce is nice!"
"Not everyone can take spicy things like you can!"
"And not everyone can eat ice cream like you do! I've never seen someone eat a whole tub of ice cream that quickly before!"
"It wasn't that fast!"
"You ate a giant tub in 15 minutes!"
"That's all I had eaten that day!"
"Then eat something else rather than ice cream pervert!"
"Flame breath!"
"Stripper!"
"I bet you can not make better dares me!"
"You're on!"
This could get interesting…..
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