(Ok, so people apparently enjoyed the first chapter so here's the second thanks to them.)

He was walking as slow as he could. He had no other choice, that black wizard had wounded his leg too badly. His limp was getting on his nerves. Step, then having to haul his bad leg up off the ground like it weighed a million tons. He still refused to buy the notion that he had gone down that easily. All that black mage had done was get in a lucky shot. He would have had him too, if that damned mage hadn't started that fire. And broke his arm. And kicked his knee. Hard. Either way, he knew what to do next, find the mage and get revenge. And he knew exactly where to go. He had caught the dark purple symbol on his left shoulder, a mark he instantly recognized, Fairy Tail.

"Mavis, Mavis, Maaaavvviiisssss, Hellllooooo."

Mavis' eyes blinked one after the other, still trying to get the weight of sleep off their lids. She was stomach down on her bed. After finally getting her eyes to stay open for a handful of seconds, she moved her arms and used her hands to push her body up. Then she rolled over and and moved, placing her bare feet on the floor and used them to hold her body as she got up and stretched her arms and legs.

"Mavis, are you awake?" Came the voice again.

"Yep, yep, I'm up, I'm up. Just let me get dressed." she replied in a still tired, just barely up tone.

"Alright then, I'll see you at the guild."

Mavis let out a sigh. Then a yawn as she got out of her stretch. Then took a shower, and got dressed.

But after looking at the calendar, she remembered that he was returning soon. So, she decided to try and use her fairy tactician skills to figure out what she was going to do about it.

If she tried to stay in her room. Erza would come in and drag her to the guild hall, so that wouldn't work. If she attempted to take a job from the board, Mira would most likely lock the doors to the hall and trap her like a rabbit. Even if she hid somewhere in town Natsu, Gajeel, or maybe even Wendy would sniff her out. So, she had no real other choice then to go to the guild and face the music.

After coming to that conclusion, she got out of her room, and went to the guild.

When she got there, everyone else was already there. Apparently she had slept until 10 in the morning, so, according to what Cana had said, he would be back in 10 minutes. So, Mavis decided to just sit down at the bar again and wait.

5 minutes in, she found Natsu sitting next to her, now with a 5 o'clock shadow of pink hair on his face. He wanted to grow a handlebar mustache, but thankfully, his wife refused to have sex with him if he did.

"So, how do ya think Zeref is doing?" The fire dragon slayer said to her.

"Oh, I'm sure he's fine." Mavis dully said.

"How do you think his mission went?"

"Well, Cana said he was doing fine, so I guess he got through it okay."

"Mavis, um, I think I should tell you that he sent me letters while he was gone."

"Oh really? Did he ever say why he left?"

"Yea, said he wanted to try and clear his head after finally being lifted from the curse, I guess he wasn't thinking straight when he took the job."

"Yep, that sounds like him." Mavis deadpanned. "Did he ever mention me?"

Natsu hesitated for a moment. Then replied. "Well, actually he-"

It was then that the door opened. Cutting the conversation like a butcher knife.

A shadow loomed over the hall. Crawling its way through the floor, and the top of it just latching itself onto part of the wall.

The owner of the shadow was that of a man, around Mavis' biological age, give or take a year or two. He had short dark hair that had a small tuft of it sticking out on top. the man had black eyes and wore a dark shirt with white pants and shoes. His body shape was that of someone who had been working out, but had only recently seen some physical results.

For the most part he looked fine, aside from the fact that there was a bandage wrapped around his left arm, from below his shoulder, right up to past his elbow. And just above his bandage on his shoulder was the dark purple mark of their guild symbol. As everyone on the room realized that the man standing there was none other than Zeref Dragneel.

No one said anything. They were all too surprised by the man's appearance, last they saw of him he was still wearing his familiar toga and white sash. Now here he was two years older, with the tiniest bit of a beard growing on his chin, standing there semi confidently. Raising his right arm into a friendly wave, talking in a shaky, embarrassed tone. "Um, Hi everyone... I'm back."

The first reply was from Cana. "You still can't pull off those pants Zeref."

"They look fine to me." Came Gray's Voice.

"I told you before Cana I don't really care about wither or not I 'pull off' the pants." Zeref said uninterested.

"Well you SHOULD." Cana yelled in a drunken slur. "How do you expect to impress Mavis with those?"

Said girl blushed slightly while Cana said that. Thankfully for her, Zeref had yet to see her. Thanks to Cana being on the other side of the guild. But that didn't mean she couldn't use Natsu for cover.

"I'm pretty sure she doesn't care about my pants."

It was at this moment, that Natsu's mind tried to unearth some sort of brotherly telepathy to try and warn his brother about the trap he had just walked into, try his best to, in the time frame of a second, inform him of the similar situations that he and Lucy had to go through, wanting to try and stop his imminent embarrassment.

But unfortunately, it was too late.

"Oh my," Came the sweet angelic voice of the guild's bartender. "Please keep in mind that there's children present here Zeref."

Next thing Natsu Dragneel knew, his brother's face was redder than a fresh apple.

"Th-that's not what I meant Mira." Zeref stuttered.

"Well maybe you outta rephrase your words better next time." His Brother replied, being his usual joking self.

"Oh Natsu, I remember you being just as bad at your wording yourself." Mira cut in, her voice still as delightfully sweet.

"WHAT! What are ya talking about?" Natsu said, trying his best to keep his cool.

It was at that moment, while laughing to himself, that Zeref noticed the long wavy blond hair hiding behind his brother. Squinting his eyes to try and get a look, seeing the green eye poking out from right under Natsu's pink hair.

"Mavis?" He found himself saying, a ray of excitement finding it's way in.

The girl in question only turned her head away from him. She didn't want to talk to him right now, maybe in a hour, or day, week month, when hell freezes over. Either way she didn't want to see him. And thankfully, the harsh shadows coming from him, and Natsu's hair had blocked her sight of him. Now she just stared at the bar wall of bottles. Trying her best to ignore the world around her.

Sadly, the guy in front of her quickly invited his brother over to see her. Adding on the cliff note that 'She couldn't wait to see him again!' (Very clearly a lie if you ask her.)

It was the moment that he started rushing over there when she jumped up and ducked under the bar, crouching down under the board, and bringing her legs up to her chest. She couldn't see anything, only the wooden boards of the floor, but she heard every word that followed.

"Where is she?" She heard him say. Confusion laced in his voice. Just as calm and weirdly enchanting as ever.

"Under the bar." His brother said.

"Why?"

"Because my husband is a big fat liar that's why." Lucy's voice cut in.

"So, she doesn't want to see me." Zeref said, his voice slowly turning from enthusiastic and happy, to depressed and saddened. Resembling that of the days he spent on tenru. Causing her face to match how he sounded.

"No, no, no," Lucy's voice replied, trying her best to raise Zeref's spirits. "She just needs some time to think before she sees you again. That's all."

Zeref only sighed in reply.

"Shes mad at me isn't she?"

It was then that Mavis looked up and saw the fingers of his right hand gripping the wood of the bar, the tips going over the edge and in the position to rip the wood clean off. "Probably because I left I bet."

"No, no she's not." Lucy said again trying to sooth him.

Zeref ignored her. sighing to himself for a moment. "Listen, Mavis. I know I left without telling you. I regretted it after I thought about it. I tried to tell you through letters, but I guess that wouldn't do."

'Letters? I never got any letters.' Mavis thought to herself. Unaware that Natsu was scratching his cheek acting like Erza was watching him with a hawk eye. the only difference was that it was his wife.

"I was gonna tell her a moment ago, honest." He muttered through his teeth.

Zeref only lifted his right arm and patted him on the back. "It was a bad idea to tell her through mail anyways." He said, moving his arm and hand back to the position it was in before. "Mavis, can we at least talk?"

No response.

"Please?"

...

"..Alright." He said depressed after a while. "Never mind then."

She recognized the tone he had used. It was one she had always tried to forget, whenever the curse affected him. Even after two years of it being gone, he acted like nothing had changed. And yet here she hid. She was over the age of 100, biologically she was in her early twenties, her hourglass figure had grown out, her hair had gotten longer, she was at best a third taller, and she had even tried to learn more kinds of offensive magic to help protect the guild, alongside still being the fairy tactician. She had changed. He still sounded like he hated himself every time he tried to do something nice for a change.

Now, granted she could be entirely wrong in her assumption, but the way he had said it just reminded her of the days she had to watch him suffer. She didn't want to hear that ever again. So, in response, she reached out her hand and touched the tips of his just before he could move them. Rubbing them softly while getting up from underneath. Although only showing her head, only being able to see his head as he was moping on a stool.

"Hey." she said, sounding soft, caring, and welcoming to the person she hadn't seen in years.

He looked up and saw her.

"Hey." He said same tone, although a bit more awkward.

"Let's talk."

(Yes, I know it's short, but I thought this was the best place to stop it. Next one should be out soon. So, leave what you thought in the reviews, I always enjoy feedback. Till next time.)