AN: Poor Seahawks =[

But onto more important things. Thank you to everyone who followed and favorited my story, it's much appreciated!

Sorry it's shorter than the last couple of chapters. I'll probably publish the next chapter in the next couple of days, no promises though- i'm sick.

Lucy POV

"What possessed you to use that spell? How could you be so careless? What if something had happened to you, how do you think all of we would feel, how about Rogue and that frog? Huh!" I just giggled as I watched Loke pace around in the infirmary.

I realized it was the wrong thing to do when he stopped and stared at me with so much hurt in his eyes. Sighing I got up and hugged him. "I'm sorry Loke I didn't plan on using that spell but you should have seen how she treated her spirits; it was appalling. She was being so mean to them; you know how angry that makes me. You guys aren't just tools meant to be used, you all feel pain, get scared, and get hurt. If I had lost to her there would be no chance of me releasing them from their contracts. You understand, right Loke" I pouted at him, hoping he would see reason. "Plus, I knew I had to end the fight, I was barely able to stand up, if I had continued fighting for much longer I would have passed out before the fight at ended, and one of you would have gotten hurt." This time I tried my puppy eyes, knowing it worked every time.

Hearing him sigh I knew I had made my point and that he wasn't mad at me anymore. "We just worry about you Lucy; we all love you and can't imagine a world without you". He said while squeezing me to his side. We both sighed, knowing that we would go through this again at a later date when I did something else he didn't like. He helped me into bed, climbing in after me. We laid there in silence enjoying being back in each other's presence, while the doctor checked on all of my vitals, and flashed a light in my eyes. When he was done he wiped my head clean of blood and wrapped it in gauze.

"You'll be fine Lucy you just have a minor concussion. You'll need to be checked on every hour tonight. I've seen you too many times in the past week, please be more careful." Dr. Fujii said shaking his head as he left.

"What did you learn Loke? Did you get the spell revoked?" I said turning to look up into his eyes, accidentally putting our faces incredibly close together. Loke was smirking, keeping his eyes on my lips, trying to close the gap between us. Exasperated I was holding him back when I heard talking outside my door.

"Lucy I just ran into the doctor, I'm glad that it's just a minor concussion. I smelt so much blood on you I was worried." Rogue said as he barged into the room. When he took in my current position he froze, and I saw how his eyes changed. When it was just the two us, three if you count Frosch, his eyes were soft and inviting, but for some reason his eyes were cold and distant.

Whispering to Loke I asked him to leave so I could talk to Rogue. I could tell how reluctant he was but he still left, kissing me on my forehead and winking at Rogue as he did; causing Rogue to growl rather loudly. It was weird, in the weeks that I had been here I have heard almost as much growling as I had in Fairy Tail, and it had all come from Rogue. "Why do you always growl when someone touches me or is around me? I understand Julien, but Loke would never do anything to hurt me." I asked, annoyed by it all.

Rogue was silent for a while, thinking of how to answer my question. He remained silent, even after Frosch came in, bouncing onto my bed and into my arms. "Fro thinks Lucy did a wonderful job, but Fro was worried when she saw the blood." She said with tears in her eyes, and hugging me tight.

"I'm sorry for worrying you Fro, I didn't mean to. The important thing is that I'm gonna be fine, and that the bleeding has stopped." Returning her hug, I was touched that she cared so much.

"I…I was worried too. Lucy." Rogue said quietly. "I'm sorry for growling so much, it's an automatic reaction when I see people around you. I feel protective of you for some reason; it might be because I haven't been able to figure out where I know you from. I know I've seen you getting hurt before, and that's probably why I have all of these protective instincts." Coming closer to me he grabbed my hand, entwining our fingers. "At least most of the reason" he muttered under his breath, barely audible. "You have been so familiar to me since I found you in that barrier." He said, squeezing my hand tighter and looked into my eyes, searching for something. "Do I seem familiar to you at all?" He said looking hopefully into my eyes.

I could see how much this had been bothering him and I was sad that I couldn't solve the mystery for him. "No Rogue, I'm sorry. When I woke up you didn't seem familiar at all. There was no sense of déjà vu, nothing."

I could tell that he was disappointed, but he bounced back pretty quickly, returning back to the Rogue I knew. "That's okay Lucy; I'll figure it out eventually, until then bear with me." Smiling at Frosch he continued talking. "Do you think I could stay in here with you tonight? I'd be happy to wake you up every hour to make sure you're alright." He said shyly.

"Uh, sure, thanks Rogue. But you can't sleep in the bed with me." I added quickly, laughing nervously. Looking down I noticed that we were still holding hands and began to blush. Even though I was blushing I didn't remove my hand from his, enjoying the feel of his hand in mine too much. Closing my eyes I just felt his hand, and felt his pulse; I didn't realize that I had begun stroking the back of his hand with my thumb, but when I did my eyes snapped open to look at him.

I was afraid to see his reaction, but I had no reason to be scared because he was smiling at our hands. When he saw me move, our eyes locked on each other and we just smiled. "Go to sleep, I know how tired you must be after your fight."

"But we didn't get out breakfast, and I'm starving!" I said right as my stomach growled, laughing at its perfect timing. Sitting up, I laid Frosch down on my pillow, while keeping ahold of Rogue's hand. "Let's go get our breakfast." Bouncing up, dragging Rogue along with me; leaving the door open in case Frosch woke up before we got back.

Rogue POV

When Lucy had opened her eyes I thought for sure that she would take her hand out of mine, but when she didn't I was unable to contain my smile, happy to hold on to her for a little while longer. I hadn't even realized that we haven't eaten yet, and it was way past lunch time. I guess I was going too slowly for her because the next thing I know is being drug out of the room. Laughing at how fast she was moving, I let her continue to drag me along until we reached the top of the stairs. When we got there I pulled her to a stop making sure she was alright when she swayed a little and had to lean on me for support. "I can get our food; I've had breakfast with you enough times to know that you only eat strawberry pancakes in the morning with a strawberry milkshake." I said with a chuckle. While I was talking she tried to move away from me to go down the stairs, she would have fallen if I hadn't still had ahold of her hand. Pulling her to my side I made the executive decision that she was having breakfast in bed. Lifting her up, I ignored her protests and gently dropped her onto the bed next to Frosch.

"Stay" was all I said before I left to order our food. Shaking my head at her earlier tactics I proceeded downstairs, weaving in and out of the flying debris and guild members. As I approached the bar I was relieved that Julien wasn't on duty anymore, because one look at him and my good mood would have disappeared. Sliding onto a stool I impatiently waited for the barkeep to notice my presence, but didn't interrupt his conversation about the fight between Lucy and Yukino.

"Can you believe Lucy won? I lost a week's worth of pay because of that! How can someone who gets thrown around the guild on a daily basis beat one of our strongest S-Class mages?" The barkeep, Andrew said.

"I know! I thought betting on Yukino would be safe but we were totally wrong, now I can't buy that outfit I was eyeing yesterday!" His girlfriend said pouting. Looking up to Andrew, she whispered "I wonder who the third person was to bet on Lucy. I know Rogue and Rufus did but the third one was a late entry and I couldn't check before the actual fight."

That's interesting; I didn't know anyone else had bet on Lucy beyond Rufus and I. "Andrew!" I said growing impatient and worried that if Lucy didn't get her food soon enough she would try to come downstairs to check on me. "I'll take my usual breakfast order plus Lucy's." When I had spoken his name they both turned to me, and looked sheepish, knowing I had heard what they said about Lucy. It was no secret that I didn't like it when people put down Lucy. "When it's done bring it up to the room." I said without looking at him for acknowledgement, I knew he would bring it up as quickly as possible in order to not anger me.

On my way back up to Lucy I overheard similar conversations and just smirked. The one of the best things about Lucy's win was that I had won enough jewels to make up for the weeks I had spent here instead of out on requests. I stopped by the request board, so I could listen to them some more, enjoying their agony.

I was so distracted that I barely caught a strange scent passing by me to go upstairs. Looking around I saw nothing out of the ordinary, but I heard the door to Lucy's room open and close. Without a though I raced upstairs, knowing something was off. When I got to the door and turned the handle the door wouldn't budge; something was jamming the door closed. "Lucy, Lucy, open the door!" I yelled through it. Strangely enough I couldn't hear anything coming from the room; none of Frosch's soft snores, or their heartbeats. My concern only grew when I saw a familiar blue light shining from the bottom of the door. Turning to shadows I tried to slip under the door, but was thrown back, same as when I first had found Lucy.

Running back to the door I brought my foot up to it trying to kick it down, but still nothing.

"Rogue, what's wrong? You and Lucy get into a fight or something?" Sting said laughing at my attempts to break down the door.

"No" I said trying to bust the door once again "there is something going on in there, and I can't get in. Lucy and Frosch are in there." The door was splintering, but not enough for me to get in yet. The next time my foot hit the door so did Sting's. Looking at him in surprise, he just shrugged and continued to help me bust open the door.

When there was a big enough opening we could see Frosch hiding behind Lucy, who was using her whip to keep Julien and a murder of crows at bay. I was wondering why she didn't just call her spirits to help her when I noticed that her whip looked like a normal one. Looking further into the room I could see the blue barrier was lining the room, most likely preventing any use of magic.

Catching Sting's arm before he could hit the barrier with his magic incased fist, I shook my head. "It repels magic and reflects magical attacks back to the attacker." I explained, looking helpless.

He looked at me in disbelief. "What are we supposed to do? Just watch them get beaten and possibly taken?" he shouted. Returning his attention back to the door, he examined the barrier before muttering "it's worth a try" before he started eating the blue light that made up the barrier. After a couple of inhales he started coughing and turning green; as if he were on transportation.

"Stin-." Was all I got out before he ran to the balcony and threw up on the unsuspecting people below. Cringing at the sound of it landing on someone I let him be and continued to beat on the barrier, trying to distract Julien in order to create an opening for Lucy. My first strike surprisingly created cracks in the area where Sting had been focusing on. Sending him a mental thanks I continued to pound into the splintering shield.

At the sound of the shield breaking Julien took his attention off of Lucy long enough for her to latch onto him with the whip and slam him into the ceiling and ground a couple of times, until he was unconscious. Just as I finally broke through, the crows disappeared and in their place was a key. Ignoring everything I ran to Lucy and Frosch, reaching them in time to catch Lucy as she passed out. Feeling my hand touch something wet I finally noticed that she had reopened her head wound and was bleeding again. Setting her down on the bed I looked towards the door and saw curious faces peering in, and still could hear Sting retching over the balcony.

"Someone take this idiot to the cellar." I said jerking my head in Julien's direction. "Be sure to restrain him with the anti-magic cuffs." When no one moved to follow my orders I glared at them all and roared "NOW!" That got everyone moving and soon Julien was being dragged down the stairs.

No longer hearing Sting, I poked my head out the door and saw the doctor leading him to the other infirmary, moaning and clenching his stomach as he went. Know he would be taken care of I looked around the room for something to cover up the doorway. Looking through the open bathroom door I spotted the shower rack and snatched it, and put it in the doorway, creating some semblance of privacy. Once I was done making my makeshift door I grabbed a chair and placed it by Lucy's bed.

Sitting beside her I grabbed her hand, feeling how cold she was and hearing how shallow her breathing was. When Dr. Fujii came in, he took one look at her and shook his head, muttering about irresponsible mages. "She used too much of her energy, and since her magic levels were so low earlier she will be out of it for a while." Turning to me he pointed at me speaking in a sterner voice "Make sure she stays in bed, no more fighting for at least a week." Assuring him that I would be glued to her side until she had fully recovered I watched him re-clean her head and wrap it up in clean gauze. When he was done he left, still muttering about foolish mages.

"Thank you Lucy for protecting Frosch, she means the world to me." I said while petting Fro with one hand as she laid down on my lap, and holding onto Lucy's hand with the other. "I don't know what I would have done if she had gotten hurt." Looking down at her I saw that Fro was still crying as she slept. "I owe you so much Lucy."

Sting POV

I was still standing in the training yard trying to process what I had just seen. Blondie had beaten the shit out of Yukino. Yup that still wasn't making any sense, but having seen it with my own eyes I couldn't deny it. I'm glad I changed my bet last minute.

"I guess that means we have to let Blondie in the guild now, My Lady" I said sneaking a glance at her shocked expression while suppressing my laughter. Seeing her nod still at a loss for words I snorted and moved to help Yukino. I had watched as everyone had filed back into the guild ignoring her unconscious body as they went. When her attitude went downhill she burned all of her bridges, ending every possible friendship she had.

Reaching her, I picked her up and headed towards the infirmary; ignoring all the looks I got I pushed passed everyone and took her to the communal infirmary, knowing that Lucy was still in the private one. When I got there I saw that no one else was there so I laid her down on the bed closest to the window and pulled up a chair so I could sit with her.

We had been close before everything had happened to her but she pushed me away along with everyone else. Even though she didn't want me around I still kept tabs on her and sometimes 'assisted' on some of her missions. She almost caught me several times when I followed her, so close that she confronted me about it, and glared daggers at me when we were both at the guild.

Hearing her breathing pattern change I knew she was waking, standing up I put the chair back where it belonged and headed towards the exit. "Sting, thank you" she whispered. Turning back to her I winked at her and was about to head back to her when I heard Rogue yelling out to Lucy.

"I'll be back. Don't go anywhere." I said while holding up my hands.

Heading out the door, following Rogue's voice, I came upon Rogue banging on Lucy's door and I smirked. They probably got into a fight. "Rogue, what's wrong? You and Lucy get into a fight or something?" I said laughing at Rogue's struggle.

"No, there is something going on in there, and I can't get in. Lucy and Frosch are in there." When I heard that Frosch was in there too and saw how worried Rogue was about the two of them I decided to help him try and break the door.

It took several more kicks before we were able to make a hole big enough to see what was happening in there. Even with the barrier in our way we could see inside the room. Julien? What the hell! Looking through the door I could see the tears in Frosch's eyes and how scared she was as Julien ordered the crows to attack Lucy. They were the only ones to attack, as Julien watched with his arms crossed. Everytime the crows approached Lucy she would use her whip to sweep them away and then she would take a shot at Julien, splitting his cheek open. Watching Lucy protect her, I had a whole new respect for her. After her fight with Yukino I knew she wasn't in any condition to be up and fighting. The strength it took to ignore all of her aches and pains was insurmountable. Although she was holding her own I could tell that her strength was waning and that we needed to get in there now.

Inspecting the barrier I could sense that it was made out of solid light, similar to the light that Yukino and Lucy's spirits appeared from. I can eat light why not this? Shrugging I decided to give it a go.

Sucking in the barrier's light was painful and disgusting. When I ate light it was warm and delicious, the taste varying depending on the type of light. Unlike the normal light I've eaten, this light was ice cold, burning my throat as I swallowed it. The taste was unusual, making me gag when the taste of chemicals hit my tongue. After several mouthfuls of the light I stopped, feeling queasy; it was just like when I was on the train, I could barely hold the puke in as a ran to the balcony. Just as I got there I released it, laughing at the people I had hit; abruptly stopping my laughter when another wave of vomit came up.

When I stopped throwing up I leaned on the balcony and just stood there, until I felt hands guiding me to a bed in the infirmary. Laying down on a bed I felt the doctor looking me over.

"Sting?" I heard Yukino from her bed, before I passed out.

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Thanks to StiLu RoLu JeLu Love for unintentionally giving me the idea to have Sting eat the barrier! =]