Authors Notes: So glad that I'm getting some good feedback and lots of new followersJ I still don't have the honor of owning fairy tail.

Chapter Ten

The Past

Natsu's POV:

I looked over at Lucy as I was setting my guitar down and noticed a guy I'd never seen before standing next to her. I glared at him, but before I could get to Lucy's side to figure out who this guy was, why he was touching her and why she looked so scared Lucy's legs seemed to fall out from under her and she collapsed. My eyes widened in fear as I yelled,

"Luce." I rushed to her side and pulled her into my lap as I looked down at her. She seemed fine, except she was unconscious, which was not fine. I glared up at this orange haired bastard, who for some reason was wearing sun glasses inside, who does that? Douchebags that's who. I wanted to hit him so hard that his face broke, but I couldn't not with Lucy in my arms so I settled for yelling at him, for now,

"Who the fuck are you and what did you do to Lucy?" He held his hands up in surrender as he said,

"Down boy. I'm Loke, a friend of Lucy's." I arched my eyebrow at him as I growled out,

"Sure you are, because Lucy just faints every time she sees a friend." He rubbed the back of his head as he looked everywhere but at me,

"It's been a very long time." I was about to tell him to get lost but Lucy began to stir and I turned my full attention to her as she whispered,

"Natsu, what happened?" I breathed a sigh of relief as I helped her to her feet and said,

"No clue, you took one look at this guy and went down." It was her turn to glare at this creep, who just smiled at her and said,

"Hey there princess." Lucy then did something I did not expect, she punched him, right in the nose causing him to bleed and her to wince because hitting people hurts, trust me I should know. Lucy shook her hand, like she was trying to make the pain go away as she yelled at the boy that was now clutching his face,

"Why the hell are you here?" I could see that bastard smirking at her as he asked,

"Didn't you miss me princess?" I wanted nothing more than to rearrange his face, but Lucy just said in that very scary, very calm tone she has when she is really anger, as she crossed her arms over her chest,

"Talk or I will Lucy kick you into next week." He cowered and I smiled, my girl could really kick some ass.

Lucy's POV:
I really thought that I would never see Loke again, I mean I gave up everything from my past so that I could escape and although Loke was my friend since childhood, he also worked for my father, and therefore could not be trusted and that hurt. When he didn't answer I kicked him hard in the shin, causing him to hop around rub the sore spot which made me smile, as I thought maybe Natsu's violent nature was rubbing off on me, that's when I heard the man in question laugh, yep he was defiantly a bad influence. That was when Loke finally spoke,

"Fine, Lucy you win, I'll talk." By now the whole bar was eagerly listening to our whole encounter, I blushed and said,

"Good, follow me." I then led him to the practice room, much to the displeasure of the rest of the bar, but I noticed that Natsu never left my side. Once inside, Loke looked over at Natsu and said,

"You can leave, this doesn't concern you." Natsu glared and cracked his knuckles as he replied,

"There is no way that I am leaving Lucy alone with a perv like you." Loke just looked at me like he expected me to send Natsu away, but I wouldn't I was sick of hiding things from him and if we were really going to try make the us, thing work I needed to tell him everything and trust him.

"Natsu stays." I could see Loke's eyes widen behind his sun glasses and his mouth opened to argue with me, but once he saw the look on my face, he quickly rethought that and his mouth snapped closed. I took a deep breath and looked at Natsu as I said softly,

"I'm not who you think I am." He cocked his head in confusion as he held my hand in his, and let my continue, "There was a reason I didn't tell anyone my last name, I didn't want to lie but I couldn't tell the truth, because if someone let it slip then he'd find me." I closed my eyes against the tears I could feel behind them as I heard Natsu's tender voice ask,

"Who would find you Luce?" I looked up at his face, and all I saw was concern for me so I told him my truth,

"My dad." His eyes widened in shock, because I didn't talk about family, except my mom so I took a deep breath and told this pink haired boy that had crept into my heart about the past that I so desperately wanted to keep in the past. "My dad was always worried about work, he would leave for months at a time without even saying goodbye, and as bad as that was it got so much worse when my mom died. It was like he was jealous that I got to spend her last days with her, but I was just a kid I didn't understand any of it, all I wanted was to have my mom back." I wiped away my tears and continued, "As absentee as my dad was before, it got worse, except now he wanted complete control over my life. I had no friends, I was ripped out of school, he made me practice opera for hours, I hate opera. He wanted me to follow in my mother's footsteps; he wanted me to be this sought after soprano like she was. I felt suffocated I didn't want to be my mother, I wanted to be me. So I refused to sing, he was furious and I was terrified. He ignored me for months and then he told me that I would be marrying his business partner's son, Dan Straight. I said no, he told me I didn't have a choice. I told him about what a creep Dan was, he simply said that Dan had always loved me, Dan loved every girl. So the night before I was suppose to get married I packed everything I thought was important and I ran as far and as fast as I could, that was four years ago, and it looks like he finally found me." Natsu just pulled me into a hug as he whispered,

"Oh Luce, why didn't you just tell me?" I shrugged as I cried into his shoulder,

"I didn't want to think about it, I just wanted to be happy with you and the band." He sighed and pulled me closer, and then I heard Loke clear his throat,

"I'd hate to interrupt…" I felt Natsu stiffen as he asked me,

"Can I please punch him?" I smiled against his black shirt as I said,

"Not yet, I need answers."

Natsu's POV:

I watched Lucy stalk towards her prey as she said menacingly,

"Talk." Loke cringed as he sighed in defeat,

"He doesn't know where you are yet, but he will, he wanted me to find you, but I was taking too long, but I think he suspected that I knew where you were all along." Her eyes widened,

"And how would you know that? I moved all over, I never told anyone where I was going." He smirked at her and I could feel my blood boiling as I clenched my fist,

"Princess, I knew you were going to run, and as your friend I wanted you too, but I needed to know where you were." I watched her hand fly to her mouth, as she whispered,

"You didn't?" He just nodded,

"Afraid so." Her shocked expression quickly led way to anger,

"Where?" When he didn't answer her immediately she stomped her foot as she yelled, "Damnit Loke, where." He jumped as he said,

"In your guitar." He then looked at her with pleading eyes as he said, "I swear Lucy I was never going to tell him where you were, I just needed to make sure you were safe. It broke my heart when you left, but I knew it was what was best for you, but now your dad is threatening Aries if I don't find you." He ran his hands through his hair, "I don't know what I should do." Her eyes widened in concern as she walked towards the creep, and flicked his head as she sighed,

"Why didn't you say that in the first place, you jerk?" She then looked over at me and I knew what she was going to do, she was going to go see her father, a man that she admitted to being terrified of all to save a friend, and then I was right by her side and her fingers were entwined with mine as I said,

"Not without me your not." She just gave me that smile of hers that made me feel like I was looking into the sun and nodded.

To be continued…