An: I know I said a week to two weeks for the epilogue but I couldn't wait. Well actually my brain said F that and had me write down this chapter that I am happy with. I hope that everyone enjoys it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Rogue POV

Today marked the one year anniversary of the day I had lost Lucy. The day she had died and all of our lives changed. Frosch dropped me onto the ground when we arrived, flying around for another second looking at me to make sure I was alright before taking off back to the main land as Frosch had done many times before. Today would be the last day that we made this trip. As I walked through the dense forest I thought about what had happened since that horrible day a year ago.

I had woken up strapped down to a bed in the guild, surrounded by Sting, Rufus and Orga who looked grief-stricken. If I hadn't been restrained I knew I would have hurt them, hurt anyone to get to her but luckily I was. Lucy was dead they told me. There was nothing Wendy could do to save her. Those words sent a spike of pain through my heart making me fight my restrains even harder. I demanded to see her, not willing to believe them until I saw her with my own eyes but I couldn't. She was gone, completely gone.

When I had been knocked out and Lucy snatched out of my arms her body had disappeared with no warning. Not even Loke knew what that had meant, but the others disappeared before they could be questioned. I laid their quiet refusing to believe them, demanding to talk to Corvo, but no one had seen any of Lucy's spirits since that night. Even Amie's wolf pack had disappeared by the time we had returned to the guild. Every sign of the spirits was gone.

Rea, no matter what she did or said her spirits couldn't or wouldn't tell her anything and every time Lucy's name was mentioned would disappear back into the Spirit World.

The lively Fairy Tail was anything but for months afterwards. They continued to take jobs to take their mind of the missing guild member, they even decided to expand the guild after the mages from Sabertooth that had stuck around decided to join. More S-class offices were added, a men's dorm and even a clinic where Wendy offered her services to people in and outside of the guild.

Sting, Rufus and Orga moved into the dorms shortly after they were built, they even had a room all picked out for me with the stuff from my house that had survived the attack on Sabertooth. But I refused to move in. Instead I moved into Lucy's apartment, fully intending on paying the rent with my savings, but it wasn't needed because Lucy had already given the money from our one job together to her landlady and the rent was covered for the next year. Not needing the money I refused to go on jobs with the others, instead I scoured the island that Lucy had disappeared on for any sign of her or the others but found nothing.

Everyone slowly moved on from the loss of Lucy, until her name could be spoken and not a single tear was shed. Eventually to where they could all smile and laugh when they thought of Lucy and all of their wonderful memories together. Even I was able to move on a little more, enough so I could box up her belongings and put them in storage until I decided what to do with them.

Eight months after her death I still thought of her nearly every day, making it easy to turn down the women who specifically asked for me to do a job and those who sought me out at the guild. None of them caught my attention, not even stirring my interest for a second. They only reminded me of what I had lost, and what I would never get back.

Escaping from the thoughts of the past I looked around the dusty room with anger and sadness. This is where it had happened, this is where I had lost Lucy. The ground in front of me had an outline of where her body had last been seen. A mixture of gold and blue filled the outline.

Kneeling down beside the outline I laid a hand in the center thinking of her. Memories ran through my mind; of her hair whipping around on the mountain where Draco had been, her face when I had told her I loved her for the first time, her sickly figure as she lay in a coma for months on end and finally to her smiling face when I had held her for the last time. All of the memories I had of her filled me with a reminder of our love, of finally finding someone who had completed me.

We had had such a small amount of time together, but it had all been worth is. She had shown me so much, gave me so much that I knew it could last me a life time. Even if I ever fell for someone again, no one would be able to compare to her, or how I felt about her.

Letting my tears fall on the ground around my hand I stroked the spot where her heart should have been. "Goodbye my love." I whispered before getting to my feet and giving the room one last look before leaving.

-Nine months later-

"Cinder-face!" Gray yelled, slamming the doors to the guild open and looking wildly around for the dragon slayer that had just ducked underneath the table he and Erza were eating at. Gray must have caught a glimpse of his pink hair as he hid because he ignored all of the greetings telling him to go home and put some clothes on and made a beeline for the table. He was so focused on getting to his target he must have not seen Erza siting at the table eating her cake because he flipped the table over without a care in the world and revealed the snickering Happy and Natsu.

"What the hell did I tell you about going into my room?!" Gray bellowed dropping a pile of ashes onto the ground in front of Natsu. The pieces that had survived looking strangely like Gray's clothes.

Right as Natsu opened his mouth to answer his eyes widened and he scrambled backwards, away from the enraged Gray. A second later the table that had been flipped over was smashed into Gray's back and sent him flying head first into the wall on the other side of the guild. Everyone laughed at the scene, moving out of the way when Erza flew towards Gray with the table. So distracted by the fight no one was aware of the person who had appeared at the guild doors.

Abruptly I stopped laughing and raised my head to sniff, inhaling a scent that I thought I would never come across again. Pushing backwards my bench scrapped across the floor as I stood up. I followed the scent and looked at the doors. Apparently I wasn't the only one to smell it because I could hear the other slayers' benches being pushed across the floor as they too stood up. Eventually everyone caught on that something was up as the guild quieted and we all stared at the figure by the door.

Pushing through the crowd Gray ran to the person. "Loke! Man I never thought I'd see you again. Where have you been?!" Gray said embracing the spirits who didn't return his hug.

"Is she here?" Loke demanded, looking around.

"Who-?" I said stepping forward.

"Lucy damn it!" He yelled looking at me in panic. A few people gasped at the name, while others pushed forward to ask their own questions. Before anything else could be said another spirit appeared. "Corvo she isn't here!" Loke said pulling at his already messed up hair.

"She's not at her apartment either." Corvo sighed, looking a little less panicked as Loke, but still panicked none the less.

"Shit." They said in unison.

"What the hell do you mean? Lucy's been dead for nearly two years now." Gray said quietly.

"Fucking idiots, they don't know anything. We need to go meet up with the others, hopefully one of them have found something." Corvo said dragging Loke away from Gray.

"Wait!" Wendy cried running up to the two spirits. "Why are you looking for Lucy? Is she… is she alive?" Wide eyed Wendy looked up at them.

"Wendy-." Loke said softly.

"Shut it lion we don't have time for this." Corvo said shoving Loke behind him right as Nick appeared. His back to us he spoke to the two spirits.

"We found her, she's at the old compound. She's tearing apart the room and demanding to see Rogue." All three of them looked at me for a moment before they vanished.

"Lucy…"

"She's alive!"

I heard everyone's joy at the news but I still stood there frozen, staring at where they had been standing. When I felt a hand on my shoulder I looked over to see Sting talking to me but I couldn't hear a word he said. When all of the muffled voices silenced once again I turned to see that Elle had appeared. She was looking around until her eyes found mine and she took my hand, wrapped something around my shoulders covering me before the guild fell away. Whatever she had done had my stomach protesting at every twist, turn and flip. It seemed like forever until the motion stopped and we materialized in the room I had said goodbye to Lucy nine months ago.

The Zodiacs and Jeweled spirits surrounded someone in the middle of the room trying to calm them down.

"Lucy please, you shouldn't be here. You need to be in the healing chamber." Nick said his eyes finding me and his shoulders sagging in relief. Motioning me forwards he moved to the side so I could enter the circle. "Lucy, look who's here." He said after he closed the opening I had entered through.

In front of me stood a struggling woman with dull blond and brown hair that reached her knees. From what I could see it looked as if this woman hadn't eaten a decent meal in months because she was all skin and bones.

"Lucy?" I whispered. "Lucy!" I said louder, causing the woman to freeze and slowly turn around to face me.

"Ro-Rogue?" She said, looking at me as if she couldn't believe I was there.

"It's me." I said taking a step forward and then another.

"Rogue!" She said excitedly before breaking free from Corvo and Loke and half running and half tripping to me as if she hadn't used her legs in some time. When I was close enough to touch her I caught her around the waist and lifted her to me, burying my face into her neck and inhaling deeply. It was her, it was my Lucy. Her smell was a little off, sickly, unlike anything I had smelled on Earthland, but a hint of her scent lingered there. I squeezed her needing to make sure she was real and not a figment of my imagination. When that wasn't enough I set her down on her feet and lifted her face and cupped her cheek. Staring down into her eyes I saw that her hair wasn't the only thing to change color, her eyes were now grey reminding me of the person who had killed her.

"Wha-How are you here?" I asked still holding her. Instead of answering she slumped forward, passed out. Looking down at her I panicked. Seeing Nick reach for her from the corner of my eye I held her close. All of this reminding me of the last time we had been here. "No! Not again!"

"Rogue I swear she's alright, we just need to get here back to the Spirit World. Elle and Virgo have gotten you clothes for you so you can come back with us." Nick said waiting for me to release her into his care. Seeing how fragile she looked, even paler than before I let her go.

"Okay but I want answers and the others need to be told where we are and that we are alive." I said glaring at them.

"Yes, yes of course. Loke will go back and tell them." Nick said impatiently, nodding to Loke to leave.

This time when the room fell away I was prepared. Taking less time than before, at least it seemed like it to me, we arrived in the Spirit World. I wanted to take it all in but a familiar scream caught my attentions and I ran towards it.

Running through the windy pathway and up stairs I entered a chamber and saw Lucy on a bed, eyes closed screaming. I would have gone to her if it hadn't been for Corvo holding me back.

"She's alright." He said grabbing my attention. When I just glared at him he glared back. "Don't start. You're seeing this for the first time, we have been seeing and hearing this for the past seven days. Well a year and nine months in Earthland time. She has been healing this entire time, it's not easy because she isn't used to being here for so long and she is a little…off since that night. But the main thing is that she can't leave the Spirit World for longer than a few minutes otherwise she will die. Nick is trying to fix that though. Before you start yelling about keeping all of you in the dark about her being alive, we all decided it was for the best for everyone.

"We didn't know if she would ever be able to leave the Spirit World again so we didn't want to get your hopes up. We all have been researching a way to get her back to Earthland permanently since she came here and we didn't find anything until today. When we were all discussing it she faked being asleep until we were far enough away to not hear her tearing through her restraints and escaping. Why she went to the compound instead of the guild I have no idea." Corvo said shaking his head as we continued to watch Lucy in the middle of her nightmare. "We have to keep her locked up otherwise she will go back to you guys, and sometimes while she is sleeping she attacks us, thinking that we are the monsters in her dreams."

"Is there anything I can do to help her?" I asked, wanting nothing more than to hold her again. When Corvo stayed silent I looked over to see him giving me a calculating look. "What, what is it?"

"According to the research the reason Lucy can't live on Earthland is because when Polaris killed her, her body that tied her there died. Luckily we were able to save her spirit and bring her here but she has nothing tying her to Earthland anymore. But is we could find something, or someone to be her anchor to Earthland she could live there again. Her connection to that person would be life-long. She could take strength from that person, share magic and even die if that person died. Same goes for the anchor. Th-"

"I'll do it." I cut Corvo off. "Whatever she needs I'll give it to her."

"Perfect." Corvo said dragging me to the other bed besides Lucy, one that I hadn't seen before. "He said he would do it Nick."

Nodding Nick restrained me, before giving me something to drink that he said would knock me out. Almost instantly I felt myself drifting away, but before I was completely out of it I felt Lucy grab my hand and squeeze it.

-Three months later-

Lucy POV

I woke up besides Rogue, a hint of the scar that was now on both of our chests showing from beneath the blanket that was draped over him. For the first time in eight spirit days I felt whole, normal even.

I looked over my body. I was no longer merely skin and bones, my body was back to how it used to be now that I was able to hold the nutrients that I had been lacking before. My hair once again shone with color indicating that it too was now healthy. I didn't even mind the brown strands that was mixed in with the blond. Although if I changed my mind Cancer said that he could dye it for me, but I didn't think I would need it. The new color was a reminder of what I had accomplished, what we had all done to protect the ones I loved that lived in both worlds. At the thought of what I had to do in order to ensure everyone's safety I grew sad. I had never killed anyone before, and the fact that I felt everything she felt, saw everything she thought as it happened didn't make it any easier.

I had seen how she was before she was corrupted, or changed or whatever. The point is I saw how happy she had been, how much she had loved her friends, loved her father, loved both worlds. I was sad because I wasn't able to help her get back to that. I wasn't able to prevent the king from losing his daughter.

Feeling a finger wipe away a stray tear I looked down at Rogue who looked concerned as he continued to hold my cheek in his hand.

"Lucy, are you alright? Did it not work?" He asked growing sadder as he continued to speak.

"No. Wait, that's not what I meant. I meant no that's not was I was thinking about. Nick said that everything went as it should and that I can return to Earthland whenever we are ready. And since I was able to retain most of my powers I can still take us there or come back here whenever." I said smiling down at him. Leaning down to give him a peck on his cheek, I let out a squeal when he pulled me on top of him so he could kiss my lips. Sinking into him I closed my eyes enjoying the feel of his lips.

"I'm so glad you're alive." I heard him think and smiled.

"Me too." I answered. Feeling him freeze beneath me I opened my eyes to see his were as round as saucers. "Don't freak out. Nick did something to connect us remember? He wouldn't go into much detail about it, ancient secrets and all that, but from our scars I gather that we each hold a piece of each other now." I mind spoke to him, reach down to trace his scar through the blanket.

"Yeah, we can communicate silently now. We can do other cool stuff too I think but Nick says we have to find it out as we go." I said out loud. Giving his hand a squeeze I hopped off of him and the bed throwing his clothes on top of him. "Get dressed. We're going home." I said excitedly turning to leave him.

"No don't leave!" I heard Rogue's panicked thought. Turning around I saw him half out of bed, one foot on the ground and the other in the process of swinging over.

"I'll be right over there." I though pointing to the pillar that was just outside the door where he could still see me. "If you need to you can keep me in sight at all times, but if you just think about me our connection will tell you where I am. From now on you will always know where I am. Now get dressed please." Slowly walking to the pillar I had pointed at I leaned against it and looked out at the Spirit World.

"Leaving so soon?" Corvo said coming up the steps in front of me.

"Yeah, I want to get home and see everyone. Even though Loke explained everything to them I can still imagine they're freaking out." I said with a sad laugh. "Thank you for finding the solution to my problem, for bringing Rogue here and for being a wonderful companion." I said smiling at him.

As promised I had given all of the Jeweled spirits thie keys back when I was able to, allowing them to be finally free for the first time in centuries. Amie had gone off immediately, checking to see if it was some kind of trick before coming back hours later. She said that she was moving the pack back to the land Fairy Tail had set aside for them and would be there if needed but she was too used to being her own master that she decided that she would keep possession of her key – something I was totally fine with.

After seeing that I was fine with that decisions the others finally decided what they were going to do too. Out of the six of them Nick, Draco and Elle had given me back their keys saying that they'd be honored to continue their contract with me. Although I was happy with their decision I felt like I wasn't the sole reason for it. Nick had mumbled something about teaching the little one; Draco had said that he wanted to play more games with the pink haired slayer and Elle had blushed saying she enjoyed the guild. But what I think she really meant is that she wanted to spend more time with Ever and Laxus who had found her.

As for Ayame she had decided that Rea would be a perfect master, since she had kept possession over her key and kept it away from Polaris and her followers. At that I had smiled, knowing that Rea would be ecstatic when she received the key. All that left was Corvo, who had disappeared after he had gotten his key, only to appear now.

We stood there looking at the view quietly. I, waiting for him to collect his thoughts and say what he had come here to say. I didn't have to wait that long, but he did refuse to look at me as he talked.

"You know for a human you weren't that horrible." He said looking uncomfortable. Clearing his throat he continued. "I was thinking now that I can do what I want, I think I want to see more of Earthland. Maybe go looking for that piece of shit Julien while I'm at it. Make him pay for everything that I had to go through with him… If you're up for that I wouldn't mind you tagging along."

"Haha, is he trying to ask you to be his master again?" Rogue asked. I could sense him standing by the bed looking out at us.

"I think so, but where I go you go. Would you be alright with searching for Julien and wandering around Earthland? We might be gone for quite a while." I asked, knowing I couldn't leave him again.

"After what he did, definitely!" Rogue growled, an image of my bruised and battered body flashing through his mind from when I had been at Sabertooth after an encounter with Julien. Trying to sooth him, and get his mind off of that memory I reminded him that he had beat Julien to avenge me before we had left. At that memory he laughed.

Smiling I stepped in front of Corvo. "I would love to Corvo." I said happily. My smile widening when he produces his key from his pocket and held it out to me.

Shifting from foot to foot as if he couldn't stand being here anymore I took the key from him and added it to the rest of the ones on my ring. "We can work out the contract later, after your reunion." He mumbled before walking away quickly towards my smirking spirits.

Covering my mouth so he wouldn't be able to see me laugh if he turned back I watched as he started a fight with Loke. While I watched the two fight I felt arms circling me from behind and a head drop down on my shoulder.

"You ready to go home?" He whispered in my ear. Kissing my cheek when I turned my face towards him.

"Let's go home." I whispered, seeing him take one last look at the Spirit World and nod I pictured the guild as it was, but silently thanked Rogue when he showed me what it looked like now and transported us there.

"WELCOME HOME!" Everyone yelled before we had opened our eyes. Instantly we were surrounded and I was torn away from Rogue to receive hugs from everyone, my team members first of course. But when people began dragging me away from Rogue to the point that he couldn't see me I felt him begin to panic.

"Where you go I go." I said to him, coming up behind him to grab his hand.

"Where you go I go." He responded smiling down at me.

The End

An: Oh my gosh it's finally over! I hope everyone liked the ending. I know I said this in the last chapter's author note but I'm gonna say it again. I love every one of you that has stuck with my fic! Everyone who followed, favorited, reviewed and read it are awesome and I couldn't have finished it without all of you encouraging me.

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