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As Lucy wakes up, she hears Virgo cooking in her apartment's kitchenette.

Virgo looks over and says, "Good morning, Lucy."

Lucy, still not fully awake, responds with a yawn and a "Good morning, Virgo."

"I prepared some eggs, would you like some?"

"Sure…"

A full three seconds pass before Lucy shouts, "HUH? WHAT'RE YOU DOING HERE, VIRGO!?"

"I'm making you breakfast. Didn't I just say that?"

"No, I mean, why are you in my apartment instead of the celestial world?"

"I had a bad dream last night and came here to sleep with you."

Lucy pinches herself to make sure that she isn't having some weird, super-vivid dream.

'Wow, I guess that actually happened.' "So what was the dream about?"

Although Lucy can't see this due to the fact that Virgo is facing away from her, Virgo turns as red as a tomato.

Virgo, hesitant and with a slight stutter, recounts: "Um, well, you see… in my dream, I watch all the times that you've comforted or helped me in some way… except you reject me each time. Like, when I reveal my true form, you call me hideous. And when-"

"STOP RIGHT THERE!"

"Huh?"

"You are not allowed to dream things like that!"

"But it's not like I can control-"

"NOPE! I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

"That doesn't make any sense…"

"You came here last night because you thought that being near me would ward off any more bad dreams, right?"

"Yeah…"

"So stay here every night! If you're right, then that will make sure that your dreams never lie to you like that again."

Virgo starts blushing. "You… you realize what you're suggesting… right?"

Lucy starts blushing as well. "Yeah, but if it will help you… I'll do anything."

The two stand in awkward silence while they process the conversation that just occurred, trying to figure out how they feel about the implications.

The tension is broken when Lucy notices a giant smoking hole in her apartment's wall. "What happened to the wall?"

"Natsu stopped by earlier."

"Wow. How in the world did I manage to not wake up?"

Virgo shrugs. "I don't know. Did you still want those eggs?"

"Sure."

The two of them sit down and enjoy a pleasant breakfast together.

Lucy wonders out loud, "So why was Natsu here, anyway?"

Virgo responds, "He never said. He asked if he could talk to you, and I told him that you were tired and still asleep. Before he could respond, there was a series of loud bangs from outside. We both looked out, and Gray was sitting there in an anti-aircraft turret. Natsu asked him what he was doing, and Gray grinned, took off the sunglasses that he was wearing, and responded 'You, my friend, were just shot down.'"

Lucy begins to look a little miffed. "Okay, I REALLY want to know how I managed to not wake up."

Virgo fidgets a little bit, "I may or may not have put earmuffs on you when I saw Natsu coming."

"That explains it… but didn't you say you didn't know how I'd managed to sleep through Natsu's arrival?"

"Um, well, I lied."

Lucy gives Virgo a surprised stare and blinks. Then blinks again. "You… you lied?"

"I'm really very sorry…"

"No, no, it's okay, it's just… I never really thought that you were capable of lying."

Virgo looks down, "I'm sorry."

Before Lucy can respond, there's a small explosion in her apartment wall. Lucy doesn't even look, "Couldn't you have just used your other hole, Natsu?"

Natsu, standing in the brand-new hole in Lucy's wall, pauses in the middle of the windup for what was probably supposed to be a noisy, out-of-the-blue greeting. He looks over to the side and notices the other hole in her wall, before grinning, rubbing the back of his head, and commenting, "Oops, guess I forgot about that, huh?"

Lucy gives a weary smile and affectionately sighs, "That's something only you could do, you know that?"

As they continue to banter back and forth, an odd look comes over Virgo's face. It's similar to frustration, but not quite the same…

*A-hem* Virgo clears her throat to get their attentions. "Lucy, you should finish your eggs before they get cold."

"Oh, right, sorry about that. These are really good, by the way."

Natsu does a double-take, "Wait, you can cook, Virgo?"

A vein pops on Virgo's forehead, and she growls out, "I'm a maid, of COURSE I can cook!"

While Natsu apologizes for his bout(?) of idiocy, Lucy wonders what got Virgo so hostile all of a sudden. She concludes that it's simply wounded pride, since the only other possibility she can think of is simply impossible.

"Well, Natsu, I'll see you at the Guild Hall later, Okay?" Lucy says.
"Oh yeah, that reminds me why I came here in the first place! You haven't stopped by the Guild Hall lately, and everybody is wondering where you went!"

"I've been helping Virgo with some stuff." As she says this, Lucy notices that Virgo had at some point changed back to the form she'd used when Lucy had first summoned her. 'Guess she's still not comfortable showing her true form to others, huh?'

Natsu looks a little confused and asks, "What kind of stuff could get a Celestial Spirit to ask their wizard for help?"

"She didn't ask for my help, but I think the better question is, where's Happy?"

Natsu blinks and looks around. "Where IS Happy? He was with me a minute ago… I'm gonna go look for him, see ya later!"

With this, Natsu turns and jumps back out of the hole in the wall.

Lucy smiles and shakes her head, "Man, he is SUCH a goofball…"

That odd look comes over Virgo's face again, but it's gone by the time Lucy looks back up.

"So, I noticed that you still aren't comfortable showing it to others."

As Lucy says this, Virgo's form becomes wrapped in light. At about the same time that Lucy finishes speaking, the light clears to reveal Virgo, back in her true form.

Virgo nods her head in response to Lucy's statement.

Another explosion. Lucy screams out, "STOP BLOWING BLOODY HOLES IN MY WALL!"

Natsu pauses, then looks to his right and sees the first hole he made. After that, he looks to his left, and sees the second hole he made. He grins and rubs the back of his head, "Oops, guess I forgot about that, huh?"

Lucy, trembling with rage, growls out "You're paying for the repairs, got it?"

"Yeah, yeah, I think I know where Happy went, though…"

Natsu walks over to Lucy's refrigerator and opens it, revealing a very nervous looking Happy sitting in the middle of a pile of fish.

Happy throws himself at Natsu, "Natsu, You've gotta get me outta here! Virgo has a scary secret, and I don't want her to hurt me!"

Natsu looks around, "Where IS Virgo, anyway?"

Lucy looks surprised, then looks at the other chair at her table to discover that it is, indeed empty.

Natsu jumps over to one of the holes in the wall and says, "Well, see ya later!" before jumping out, Happy following close behind.

After a few moments, Virgo gets up from underneath the table, her hair a bit frazzled.

"I didn't expect him to show up again, I didn't even have time to change my appearance…"

Lucy nods, "So that's why you hid under the table. Your hair's messed up, by the way."

Virgo's eyes look up as high as they can, then she gets a bit of a pout-y expression as she reaches up and starts trying to put her hair back in order.

Lucy giggles. "Have I ever mentioned how much I love having you around?"

Virgo pauses her efforts, bringing her attention back to Lucy. "Huh? I'm sorry, what was that?"

"Oh, nothing. Come on, everybody's waiting for us!"

As Lucy jogs out the door, Virgo smiles until she's out of sight. Then her expression falls.

'You mean everybody's waiting for you…'