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#edgar also likes sleeping in warm blankets from the laundry... he also just likes sleeping in general... cute!!!
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It Will Come Back
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“I’m glad you two are finally together”
“I am happy too, it’s like a dream come true”
“But I have a question, you have been crushing on him for so long; how did you know you loved him?”
“It’s hard to explain. The first moment I saw him, it felt like if we have known each other for so long that my soul jumped inside of me when my eyes noticed him”
 Lucy sighed, meditating if it had actually been a good idea to volunteer to tutor Natsu. She better than anyone knew how hard-headed the pink haired boy could be, particularly when it came to things he deemed as useless or boring. His eyes seemed like if they would fall asleep in any minute and for a split second, the blonde girl actually felt bad for him. Nothing so big it would overrule the exasperation she was feeling in that instant.
The things you do for your friends.
“I’m telling you, Edgar Allan Poe based his stories on fever dreams he frequently had. And not only that, what tale was inspired by an epidemic there was around that time?”
Natsu groaned loudly, running one hand over his soft pink hair.
“I don’t know… The Raven?”, Lucy felt her eyebrow twitch
“Natsu, would you please tell me how the story about a raven that keeps saying ‘Nevermore’ could be based on an epidemic? The correct answer is ‘The Mask of the Red Death’” She instructed, tying her blonde hair into a ponytail, her brown eyes scanned her friend who was doing nothing but balancing into his chair.
“Man, I don’t know. An epidemic of talking ravens perhaps?” Natsu inquired.
The mix between exasperation and curiosity on his face made Lucy repress a smile. “I don’t know why I have to take this class in college, I’m trying to become a chemical engineer, not an author or a professor. That’s for you”, he complains standing up from the kitchen table throwing himself into the couch.
“Although I do want to become an author, remember I’m studying astronomy. Besides, don’t you recall this was the only optative left because you decided the day before was the perfect day to go to a party and you ended up so drunk, I had to drive you home. And not only that, you also waited until last minute despite my warning that this could very well happen”
“How could I forget, it was the first time you spent the night at my house” Natsu raised a teasing eyebrow, Lucy’s cheeks tuned a soft pink.
“I still don’t know how I survived” 
Natsu’s house, which Lucy still had no idea how exactly he could afford it. Despite the fact she knew the boy had a job, it was still hard to believe a nineteen year old was able to pay for a house that wasn’t an inheritance. It was a mess to say the least; the cat got lost every once in a while in the midst of mountains of dirty laundry, she had her doubts about the origins of some of the food in his fridge and could have sworn some of it had begun to talk, and for some reason he did not only have a bed but also a hammock in his bedroom and another one in the living room. And to top it all, Lucy was impressed how even in his drunken state he was able to move between the trash and dirt like if it was nothing.
“In my defense, I never saw a problem with it”
“That’s because you are an animal”
“Whatever”, he shrugged it off. “I’ll sleep here today. It’s pretty late to go home”
Lucy looked at her phone, it marked it was past two am. She nodded knowing the boy wouldn’t need a blanket to keep himself warm for the rest of the night.
“You could have at least asked, you know?”, she tried to reason.
“What do you mean Luce? I don’t see anything wrong with it. Besides, it wouldn’t be the first time I spend the night here”, he had a point, but Lucy didn’t want to admit it. After seeing his house, she thought it was because he didn’t want to risk getting a disease in his own home; she quickly realized her mistake the second after she helped him clean his house thoroughly and buy new groceries. The boy appeared in her house and was asleep in her bed.
“Just don’t make a mess. Goodnight Natsu”, she smiled softly, noticing he was already fast asleep.
Lucy closed the bedroom door behind herself throwing her body onto the bed. She would probably have to wake up early to the sound of him messing around her kitchen looking for something to eat before he left for work.
The room around her was strange, the usually light blue sheets were now yellow and a single desk accompanied the bed in her bedroom. Despite the fact she couldn’t recall ever being in that room before, the entirety of it was so familiar to her she felt as if it had always been her own.
Natsu was in front of her, his face in furrowed eyebrows exhibiting a scowl while Lucy bandaged his arm. She was wearing a skirt and her blonde hair was tied in a side ponytail.
She paid attention to his torso was already tended but she could still see his muscles as she tried to focus on her bitterness and the task ahead of her.
“You shouldn’t be doing this sort of thing anymore Natsu, you are not a child. You shouldn’t get in fights with the first idiot who comes” she scolded with severity, the scowl on his face turned into a pout. Lucy was sure if she hadn’t known him before everything, she would have never believed he was over four hundred years old.
“Well, he was threatening you. The asshole had it coming” Natsu crossed his arms, letting out a small hiss of pain as he did so.
“And you don’t think I can fend for myself?”
 She posed both her arms on her waist raising an eyebrow to the young man, he turned his eyes to the floor.
“It’s not that” he was quick to say. “But the jerk came to me first, so I attacked him back when he did. I know you can very well kick his ass, yet, who am I to refuse the opportunity to burn some asshole’s face off”.
“You still shouldn’t be running around looking for people to burn”, Lucy sighed.
“Awww, Luce, are you worried about me? I’ll be fine”, Natsu laughed grabbing the young woman by the waist until she was close to him, Lucy smiled softly and leaned closer to him.
“Careful Natsu, you don’t want Lucy to crush you”. A blue cat caught Lucy’s eye stopping her from saying any answer to Natsu, instead she focused her attention to the animal while Natsu buried his head on her.
Lucy opened her eyes, running the dream in her head a second time to ensure she recalled it as thoroughly as possible. It wasn’t the first time she had a dream about Natsu, although, this dream was strange compared to the rest; it didn’t feel the same way and she felt a sudden urge to check on Natsu only to find him snoring on the side of her bed. The blonde wondered how he had arrived there but instead was relieved he wasn’t injured like he had been in her dream; it felt awfully real. In any other circumstances she would have screamed and kicked him out of her bedroom, this time, all she did was smile softly and return to sleep.
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
It was a bright sunny day, perfect summer weather. Lucy was outside sitting in a table with Levy, a short flat-chested girl with blue hair with who Lucy shared a deep love for books; and Erza, a girl with bright red hair, taller than both girls and stronger than anyone Lucy knew. The three of them were in the same year and had been friends since high school but with college they barely had time to meet each other as casually as they were in that moment.
The sight in front of them was something quite special. Juvia, a shy friend of them with blue hair, was asleep on her boyfriend’s shoulder. Gray was a friend Lucy held very dearly, and he was very attractive, with dark hair, stern eyes and a toned body he was prone to exhibiting to anyone whether they wanted to see it or not.
How the two of them got together was something Lucy couldn’t quite fully understand, she did know (like everyone who knew the two of them) that Juvia had been crushing on him since she was in middle school and now they were together.
Gray wasn’t known for being a particularly tender boyfriend, that didn’t seem to be very obvious now that he was glaring at anyone who stepped as close as three feet near Juvia or made any sort of noise that could wake the girl up. It was an adorable sight that Lucy knew Gray wouldn’t fully accept to have done.
“They are so cute”, Levy mumbled before returning her eyes to her book for a split second before closing it.
“They really are”, Erza agreed.
“Every girl should get herself a boy who would do that for her”, Lucy commented., Erza and Levy changed a smile between themselves that Lucy didn’t fully understand.
“Well, I’m sure Natsu would do the same for you Lucy”, Erza pointed out and Lucy felt her cheeks turn pink.
“What does Natsu have to do with this?”, Lucy questioned bothered by the facts that her friends dragged Natsu into the conversation.
"Well, Natsu did that for you, Lucy", Levy teased with a cat-like grin she probably caught from Gajeel.
"Very funny. We all now that if Natsu saw me asleep in the middle of the day, he would steal frying pans from the cafeteria and would bang them until they woke me up" Lucy reasoned.
"That's not what I recall", Erza teased, and Lucy raised a curious eyebrow inviting her to continue.
"One day you fell asleep in the middle of class, we were on the class of the teacher who is very strict, the one who kicked a student out for yawning once. Natsu said you had to work until late and that you had also helped him study so despite your attempts you fell asleep. When the teacher noticed you had fallen asleep Natsu realized and began an argument with Gray so the teacher wouldn't wake you up. They both got in detention for three days and since the teacher was out for the rest of the class you were able to sleep. I tried to ask him about it but he said it was a coincidence and hadn't noticed you were asleep" Erza told Lucy, who was unaware of the story.
"You mean, lies", Levy added, taking a drink from her tea.
"Pretty much, yeah", Erza shrugged
Lucy heard the story with close attention, it seemed like something surreal that her friends had probably twisted. There was no way Natsu had purposefully dragged himself to detention just for her.
Lucy could feel twenty-three pairs of eyes staring at her, the confidence she radiated suddenly gone abandoning in front of the unknown figures.
“Alright Lucy, you can sit down over there” The teacher, a woman with white hair whose name Lucy momentarily forgot, pointed at a the only available seat, next to a boy with pink hair whose eyes turned between the blonde and the schoolyard.
She was glad she had found a job and a house cheap enough she was able to pay for the rent, and yet, the prospect of having to go to a new school hadn’t quite settled inside of her. Still, she would be lying if she went and said she regretted leaving her father’s house at the short age of sixteen. Lucy moved the chair trying to make the smallest amount of noise possible to be able to quietly enjoy the class.
The pink haired boy by her side seemed to have an entirely different idea.
He turned to her, his face closer than any other face Lucy had seen in her life, her heart took a leap in her chest and she stood still.
“I’ve met you before.” It wasn’t a question, Lucy knew it and his words did nothing to ease her pre-existing fear of being recognized and dragged back home with her father. The look on the boy’s face wasn’t like the one you would have when encountering the daughter of a millionaire and a movie star and you were eager to get a reward over claiming you had found her, no, he looked like if he had found a long-lost friend.
“I don’t think so, no” Lucy tried, the red all over her face. “Back off”, she pushed the boy back to his seat, his eyes still focused on her.
“You’re a weirdo”, he scrunched his nose, she took offense to his words. 
“I’m Natsu”
“I am a weirdo? You are the one who is approaching your face to mine! My name is Lucy.”
The math problem ahead of her was giving Lucy a headache, the marks of erasing incorrect results all over her notebook, she let out an exasperated groan begging anyone to give her the answer to the problem in a way she could justify it to professor Laxus so she could get an easy way out of his class, or a break. She could use a break from the letters and numbers.
While she was busy complaining in a hushed tone about whoever had decided to mix letters and numbers, the tune to ‘Follow Your Fire’ rang in her phone;, only one person in her contact list had said tune.
“What do you need Natsu?” Lucy looked at the clock in her wall, it was well past one in the morning, which in a Friday night probably meant Natsu wanted to either drag her to a party or her to pick him up from some random party he wanted to get out from.
“Luce!” His tone was overly cheery “Are you busy?” The question was odd coming from him; Lucy stared at the impossible problem in front of her.
“Not particularly, no. Why?” She knew if math had eyes they would be burning her skull right now, shaming her for ignoring her schoolwork for some temporary rest.
“The teacher just e-mailed us the results, and guess what? I passed my literature test!” Lucy made a mental note to check her own results later.
“That’s great Natsu!” Lucy congratulated standing up from her kitchen table to get a glass of water. “Congratulations! What was your score?”
“The important part is that I passed and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without you! You are the best Lucy!” His words through the line raised a blush in her cheeks and made a smile reach her lips.
“You worked really hard for that test” Lucy reasoned.
“Yeah, but you’re the one who taught me all that stuff about those guys. It’s thanks to you that I won’t fail the class. I’ll leave now. I probably woke you up and since you’re a weirdo you’ll start saying things about beauty sleep and what-not. Goodbye Lucy, have a nice sleep”
“Goodnight Natsu” She muttered softly as her best friend hung up the line.
She held her phone close to her heart for a few seconds after the call ended, the smile still on her face. She still hadn’t figured out exactly when it had been when she had fallen for Natsu, they had been friends since high school and at some point her feelings for him changed to less friendly ones. Lucy tried to avoid said feelings or at the very least not let anyone notice, it was going as good as it could, she just wished her friends weren’t making a sport on who could get her the most flustered when talking about Natsu.
Lucy lifted the pencil from the notebook trying to focus on the problem ahead of her, she should be able to do it eventually. Or at least leave enough marks on her notebook so her professor would notice she at least tried and have some mercy on her poor unfortunate soul.
As she scribbled through her notebook, her eyes slowly closed, the pencil fell from her grasp and she adjusted herself to sleep.
Lucy stared at the creature in front of her, a curious eyebrow raised as he entertained himself playing with one of the palace mascots while she read in the garden. Her father’s command was that he was to remain at her said at all moment unless he was told otherwise, still, he took every opportunity to make the situation more amusing than it was supposed to be.
She was curious of the pair of horns that grew from his head, common courtesy told her she shouldn’t even dare to ask about other people’s appearance, it was rude in the very least, in some cases even highly offensive.
As she returned her eyes to her reading, she scrunched her nose at how the events unfolded.
“A new letter from a new overly proud lord?” His voice sounded closer than what she assumed he was and was surprised when she discovered he was now sitting by her side holding the creature between his arms.
“What makes you think that?” She questioned, she shrugged it off.
“You always scrunch your nose when you get a letter from one of those Lords ‘Oh your majesty, Princess Lucy, you beautiful angel, every day I’m thankful to have been graced with the sight of your beauty, so grateful that I would ask your hand in marriage to your father at the slightest opportunity, what do you mean you do not wish to marry me? Have you got any idea of how beautiful our children would be as soon as I take over your kingdom and snatch you from your birthright and reduce you to a mere creature whose only function is to provide me children and no other business than that. What part of it doesn’t sound delightful to you, milady? Your interests? Milady, you silly princess, we both know birthing machines have no interest other than pleasing such a great husband as I would be if you would accept my very generous offer’”, Lucy couldn’t avoid laughing at the over exaggerated accent Natsu used when trying to imitate the letters she got from the lords every once in a while.
“Oh Natsu. You are a prince, shouldn’t you be going around pestering ladies and other princesses instead of running around in this castle and playing with my family’s pets?”
“Nah, you’re the only princess I enjoy pestering” He laughed nudging her side. “And you know I can’t leave this castle without your parents’ authorization. I am the peace offer, that doesn’t leave much time to seduce ladies.”
“Sorry” She apologized, sometimes, she forgot the circumstances that made Natsu begin to live with her, and while she enjoyed his company more than anyone else’s, she made herself the promise to offer him his freedom as soon as she became a queen.
“Hey, you have nothing to apologize for you weirdo” He said.
“Do not call me weirdo” She pouted as a woman arrived offering a letter whose calligraphy was painfully familiar to her. “Would you burn this for me after we’re done reading it?” She showed the letter to Natsu who smiled with mischief
“Anything for you, princess.”
As her eyes slowly opened, she contemplated the strange familiarity of the dream she just had, the hour on her cellphone claimed it was barely 3 in the morning, it took her a few seconds to fully realize she had fallen asleep on top of her notebook, she rubbed her cheek conscious there was a red mark in them to prove she had fallen sleep where she wasn’t supposed to.
She tried to not give much thought to the dream she just had as she closed the notebook, finally accepting her defeat. Refusing the strange feeling the dreams were giving her was something that was proving itself to be significantly difficult, dreaming about Natsu was no novelty for Lucy (one of the many disadvantages of falling for someone you see nearly every day), these two dreams, instead of giving her the feeling of relief people had when having a nice dream with someone they love it gave her a sensation of longing. Of giving her something she lost only to have it taken away.
Lucy took her cellphone from the table, checking the date on it as she dragged her feet to the bedroom. Noticing the date she made sure to send Juvia a quick message congratulating her for her 19th birthday. As she threw herself onto bed, she tried to recall if she had anything to wear for the party Gray had planned but figured she would check in the morning.
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
Lucy looked at her own reflection in the mirror revising for any final touches her make up could require. She smiled at herself proud with the result, the dress on the bed, dark blue, midtight, it went up to her collar and had a small heart on the chest.
Before she could pick the dress from the bed, she heard a knock on her door.
“Luce! It’s me!”
Had it been anyone else, she would have told them to wait, however, it was Natsu. She couldn’t leave him outside even if she wanted to, not to mention the fact that he bothered to knock was a miracle on its own. She opened the door for him, her eyes throwing fire.
“What are you doing here Natsu?”, Lucy questioned, moving from the way so he could walk inside., He threw himself on the couch, Lucy looked at him up and down, black leather jacket, black jeans, snickers and a white shirt that read something about fire., She couldn’t fully make it out.
“I figured you could need a ride” He shrugged “You’re always so late to everything. Look at you, you are not even dressed”
“I am never late!” She argued back, walking to her bedroom. “And if I ever am it’s because of you”
Natsu tsked, “Excuses, excuses, Luce.”
With her door closed behind her, she couldn’t help but smile rolling her eyes finally picking the dress from the bed wondering why was it that she had bought it but never actually worn it. It still fitted her.
It almost felt like a glove on her, and it wasn’t until she had to pull the zipper up when she fully realized why she never put the dress on after buying it. The zipper was trickier than what she remembered and it ended in a point where she couldn’t reach, sighing in defeat she called for Natsu who entered her bedroom as if it was his own. She wasn’t in a position to fight him for it at the moment.
“Could you help me with my dress? I need you to pull the zipper up” She glanced at the young man, who nodded.
“Anything for you, princess”, Lucy blinked a couple times, letting the words Natsu had said sink into her brain, they were familiar, but they didn’t belong to the Natsu she had always known.
“What did you just say?” She questioned turning to him, he shrugged.
“You should check your ears Lucy, I said we’re gonna be late weirdo” He answered staring at him, she knew he was lying but decided to not comment more on it.
She followed Natsu, remembering to lock the door behind herself. Normally the small walk between Lucy’s apartment and whatever ride they were going to take together, (usually Natsu’s car) was filled with Natsu’s jokes or Lucy talking about anything she deemed interesting and Natsu listened as attentive as his short attention span allowed him, sometimes mocking whatever situation she found herself in.
This time, however, there was no laughter or mundane conversation., Natsu didn’t seem to be making any effort to stir a laugh out of Lucy and she was far too focused in the dream she had and how Natsu had said the same thing the same thing the Natsu in her dream had said. Normally Lucy let go of things like that, she deemed similarities between dreams and reality as nothing but mere subconscious coincidences. She couldn’t let go of this., Lucy felt like there was something else to this, something she was supposed to know.
As she got into the seat on Natsu’s car, she stared at the window, watching the cars pass by her side as Natsu started the engine.
“Why did you call me princess?” She questioned, unable to face him as a faint blush shone in her face.
“What do you mean?”
“A few minutes ago, you called me princess, you never call me that.”, Lucy reasoned, noticing how Natsu was gripping the steering wheel a little tighter.
“I used to, a long time ago. I guess I just forgot I didn’t call you that anymore” He shrugged, letting out a goofy grin, never taking his eyes off the road. Lucy stared at him for a few seconds until everything suddenly clicked in her mind. She rested her back against the seat as an array of memories went through her. Every single one of them almost felt like they didn’t belong to her, but they did and she knew it.
 She wasn’t supposed to be there, she was supposed to be resting in her bedroom waiting for the doctor who would ensure she was in good health. It was the first place where they would look for her, but even the curious and almost threatening glances from the guards had no effect on her as she moved with hurried steps past them dragging one of them so he would open the only door she was after.
“Your majesty, your father gave us strict orders not to…”
“I do not care what orders my father gave you. I’m ordering you to open Natsu’s door right now”, Lucy stared at the guard who was taller with than her with daggers in her eyes. The man sighed, mumbling something she wasn’t able to understand. Not that it mattered, when she saw him it was almost like if the world had lit up around her.
Only for it to fall seconds later.
The Natsu in front of her wasn’t the one that had been dragged away from her less than a day ago, his face had visible bags underneath them and there was something black on his fingers that seemed to be getting closer and closer to his heart, his clothes were all ragged. For a second, his eyes lit up the moment he saw her but when he tried to reach her his legs didn’t seem to respond.
Lucy rushed to him, trying desperate to contain the tears in her eyes and gave him a smile. She recognized the symptoms, she also recognized there was no cure for what they had given him.
“Princess” He smiled looking at her, a weak smile in his face. “Glad to see you around, have those princes already told you sweet love words in my absence? I know how those snakes are when I’m not there, but once I get out I’ll kick all their asses.”
“I hope you do. If I hear any of them tell me about how much I’ll love their homeland’s weather, I will die” She complained, following him.
“Lucy” He began with a raspy voice “You were the best thing out of being here, you know that, right? When I first arrived after being pushed away from my own home and sent here, when I met you it seemed like everything happened for a reason.” It was like a goodbye from him, and she didn’t want that, she didn’t want to say goodbye, not yet.
“I’m sorry Natsu.” She lamented
“Hey, don’t apologize. It was fun, I got to ride one of those winged horses that belong to the royal family, I got to be with you. I got a small taste of a future by your side which is more than what I could have asked for, so don’t say sorry. Don’t make it the last thing I hear” He pouted and Lucy couldn’t help but giggle softly.
“I’ll always love you. Know that.”
“I’ve always loved you and now we know that I always will. I wamt you to promise me that no matter what, you will allow yourself to be happy, please do that for me.” She saw him lift his hand to try and touch her cheek but never actually doing it, afraid the poison would spread to her as well.
“I promise.” It felt like a lie coming from her, but she would try. “Hey Natsu.”
His hand to the floor and his eyes looked for her.
“You were the best thing about here for me too” She mumbled, placing a soft kiss on his forehead, he laughed.
It wasn’t until he closed his eyes that she allowed herself to cry.
“Have we met before?”, Lucy questioned him, serious.
“What do you mean? Of course we have, you weirdo” He dismissed, mocking at her.
“That’s not what I mean.”, Lucy pouted irritated.
“I know. Look, we arrived.”
Before Lucy could say anything Natsu got out of the car and opened her door, he began rambling about his cat, not giving her a second to talk.
The moment she stepped inside the party, loud music filled her ears and Natsu wasn’t anywhere in sight. She tried not to give much mind on it and instead focused on trying to find her friends to properly congratulate Juvia and tell her she would give her a present the following Monday.
She had to move in between people wondering who all of them were, some were familiar from college. She didn’t take Juvia for someone overly-friendly since the girl was of shy nature, and it wasn’t like if Gray was too friendly either to have invited all the people who crowded the bar. It took her a few minutes until she finally saw Juvia, she had a drink in hand, her hair held high in a bun she looked beautiful with Gray by her side, giving the girl quick kisses on the cheek. Lucy hesitated on joining them, but then again she probably wouldn’t have another chance of seeing Juvia in the entire night so she hurried to greet her friend.
“Juvia! Happy Birthday girl!” She greeted, raising her voice to make sure the birthday girl heard her as she gave her a tight hug.
“Thank you for coming.”, Juvia smiled breaking the embrace. “I’m glad that all my friends are here, even Gajeel showed up!” Juvia was beaming with happiness pointing at the black haired man who seemed to be scaring every guy who approached to Levy.
“Well, what matters the most is that you are happy, and that you get to enjoy yourself on your birthday. I’ll give you your present on Monday, I promise.”
“Don’t worry, Lucy.”, Juvia dismissed “Natsu didn’t come with you?” Lucy thought her answer for a second while Juvia saw her with curiosity.
“He brought me, but I lost him as soon as we got inside. In the meantime, I’ll go greet Levy, have fun with Gray!” Lucy gave a quick goodbye hug to Juvia before walking towards her short friend.
When she approached Levy with a similar enthusiasm that she had with Juvia, glad she wouldn’t have to spend her time moving around trying to find Natsu and get some sort of answer out of him when he seemed so keen on avoiding her.
“Where is the arsonist?”, Gajeel’s voice resonated in Lucy’s ears while Levy’s eyes looked at her waiting for the answer to the question.
“Who knows”, Lucy shrugged “He pretty much ran away from me as soon as we walked into the party.”
“I see.”, Gajeel nodded drinking something Lucy couldn’t quite identify. “Don’t worry Blondie, every relationship has its issues” He laughed, even more after Levy elbowed his stomach.
“For the last time, Natsu and I aren’t dating.”, Lucy sighed, exasperated.
“Gajeel never said you were though, Lucy”, Levy reasoned, Lucy’s face got covered in red while Gajeel’s laughter grew in volume. The blonde girl ordered a drink for herself trying to allow her mind to focus on something else.
“Where is Erza?”, Lucy questioned, Levy pointed at the dance floor, sly smile on her face. Lucy followed the direction of her finger, to see Erza happily dancing alongside her boyfriend.
“When did he arrive in town?” The surprise in her tone was evident, Lucy didn’t know Jellal had arrived in town or that he would go at all.
“When did Erza kindly reject a girls night?”
“Oh.”, Lucy said simply, it made sense. “We should dance Levy.”
Before the short girl could argue, Lucy was dragging her to the dance floor. Gajeel threw a sympathetic smile to her, leaving her at the mercy of the girl who wanted to enjoy a moment of peace.
The two girls grew tired after a few minutes, deciding to greet Erza and Jellal who received the girls with a pleasant smile while the redhead stood unsure of what to do while her friends began conversation. It didn’t take long for them to leave the couple at their own and instead, retreated to a corner to talk between each other, for what they thought would a night as peaceful as it could be.
The next thing Lucy heard was the sound of glass breaking and the music being shut down as Natsu’s voice resonated across the entirety of the bar.
“If you do as much as touch one hair of her head, I will beat you up!” Lucy knew it was nearly instinctive to know that Natsu would never waste the chance to fight someone; it was part of his nature, just like trying to befriend the person he fought no matter who won. His words, however, were filled with venom and something Lucy thought was genuine hatred.
She walked towards the sound of his voice, trying not to clash with people who seemed to be eager to find out who did the voice belong to. It didn’t take her more than a couple minutes to reach the pair, Natsu had knives in his green eyes standing still on his feet, the young man in front of her, probably a couple years older than them with brown hair was staring at Natsu with fear in his eyes, trying to get him to calm down.
“Calm down?” Natsu walked a step closer to him, only for the other to clash against a stool. “You want me to calm down…”
“Natsu.”, Lucy tried to call.
“When you not only said those things about my friend, but also the woman I waited seven hundred years to meet again. Do you know what it’s like? To wait for someone seven hundred years only to have to hear some fuckhead talk about her like that?” His words seemed senseless, yet, they were clear to Lucy.
“Natsu!”, She raised her voice a little higher.
“Man, are you high?”, The other guy asked, a mocking grin on his face. Natsu had fought someone for less than that, even so, it still surprised Lucy when he approached the guy and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt while holding the other ready to throw the first hit.
“You little…”
“Natsu!”, Lucy screamed, this time louder walking in the middle of the small ring the people had made to grab the hand Natsu was using to hold the guy. His eyes turned to her, no longer filled with venom, instead soft and kinder, the eyes she had always known.
“Let’s go home, please” She pleaded. Natsu dropped the guy letting him fall to the floor, giving a single nod and a friendly smile to the girl.
Lucy left walking behind Natsu, feeling everyone’s eyes on her. She noticed Gray and Juvia throw an empathetic smile at her and she made a mental note to apologize to both of them for the mess her friend had caused; even if Gray would probably fight him about it the next time he saw Natsu.
None of them said a word until they were in the car., Natsu opened Lucy’s door like usual. Instead of immediately turning on the engine they both stood inside the vehicle in silence letting the weight of what had just happened sink in.
“Have we met before?”, Lucy asked, turning her eyes at him, who had his eyes fixed on the car’s keys. A few seconds of silence passed before he raised his head to her direction.
“Twice.”, Natsu finally admitted after a few seconds of silence, Lucy noticed the hesitation on his voice, like if it was something he felt wasn’t appropriate to tell her.
“What happened?”
“Well, the first time Gray was supposed to marry you, but instead decided to marry Juvia and we tried to run away together. It didn’t end well, I died.” He turned on the engine listening to the roar of the vehicle holding in a gag reflex, she observed the unnatural gesture with interest.
“And the second time?”, Lucy pried, his eyes were fixated on the road ahead, seeing the path he was taking she realized they weren’t heading her home. Natsu gripped the steering wheel tighter.
“We were mages.” He smiled. “Well, you were a mage, a celestial one specifically, you summoned spirits from who knows where. By the time we first met, I was a four hundred years old demon, and dragon slayer. We went on so many adventures together and we went to Fairy Tail which was a guild, our family. and we went on adventures together with our friends and I always snuck into your house. You were always such a weirdo Lucy, we went through so much and…” The smile that had lit his face suddenly vanished, Lucy could see his house on the distance. “Then it ended.”
“What happened?” She tried, while he was parking his car.
“It was a threat like nothing we had seen before. We had to make a sacrifice and you decided to be said sacrifice before any of us could stop you., you assured there was no other choice, it was either you or the world and you took the decision.” Natsu turned off his car, his eyes brimming with tears he refused to let out. “Since I met you on Hargeon, my greatest fear was losing you again but it can never compare to the sensation of having to hold your body one last time.” Natsu went out of the car opening her door for her. They walked in silence side by side until he opened his door.
Lucy was surprised his house remained still somewhat clean after her last visit, his cat was sleeping on the couch his mind ignoring what was going on in front of him.
“You know where my clothes are.”, Natsu said throwing his jacket to the floor. “Take anything you feel comfortable in.” Lucy nodded asking him to pull down her dress’s zipper.
She silently walked to Natsu’s bedroom turning the light on as she entered closing the door behind herself., it was a lot to sink in. Lucy still wanted more., she grabbed a shirt she found with the Targaryen banner on it and a pair of pants which she had to tie to make sure they weren’t loose, throwing her dress on the floor next to the bed, the young man had leaving her heels next to the dress.
“Can I come inside?”, His voice resonated on her ears and caused her heart to take a leap.
“Sure.” As soon as those words left her mouth, he opened the door walking on her direction only to surround her with his arms, holding her as tight as he could.
When he broke the embrace, she stared into his eyes, he was close, so close. She wondered if he could read her thoughts, then she would probably be able to guess what he would do next.
“Is it okay if I kiss you?” It took her by surprise, but she nodded.
His lips clashed against hers on a quick soft kiss, barely getting a taste of it, before he pulled apart. Her face was red, and a faint blush was on his cheeks. He was holding her still, their breaths at the same rhythm when he kissed her once again. This time, it was more passionate, hungrier, she could taste a faint of whiskey on his mouth alongside something spicy. They approached his bed until Lucy was sitting on it, he held the back of her neck and they only broke the kiss when the air became a need. Even then he didn’t let go of Lucy, placing his head on the crook of her neck, they stayed like that for a few minutes.
“How long have you known?”, Lucy spoke, her words hesitant as Natsu lifted himself and she looked up to see Natsu’s eyes. he was still holding the back of her neck and her hand was resting on his chest. She could feel his heartbeat.
“Before I met you.”, he confessed. she looked at him, her eyes wide in curiosity. “It was because of a curse. As far as I recall, I’ve always had these dreams about a weird blonde girl smiling and thinking I was supposed to do anything to protect that smile.” He kissed her forehead.
“It must have been difficult, to be constantly dreaming about someone you never met.”, She tried to empathize.
“I’d rather see the bright side.”, He smiled.
“Which is?”, she raised her eyebrows.
“When I met you, I was way happy. I was like ‘look at that blonde girl, that’ is my weirdo’.” He claimed with pride.
“Why were we cursed?”, Lucy questioned.
“My mother, the first time, was a well known witch who wasn’t very happy of having her only child taken away from her. So, instead of cursing your father, she decided it was funnier to curse you and your soulmate to live an endless cycle of find, suffer, and repeat.”, Natsu shrugged. “I was cursed twice though, once indirectly by my mother, the second time by a witch.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, after you died I was grieving, and furious. Mostly furious. So I wanted to give that woman the beating she deserved for taking your life away from us., she wasn’t too pleased about it. She noticed about my first curse, so to add salt to the wound she decided the best thing she could do was force me to live with the fact that my loved one had died on my arms, so since then I remember all the lifetimes you are in, which are only three counting this one.” He made a thinking gesture, until his eyes lit, like a puppy who saw his favorite toy. “Do you want to know something cool?” Lucy nodded. Natsu let go of her and decided instead to rest on the side of the bed on one arm while Lucy followed him lying on her side to not lose sight of him.
“When I realized who you were, I tried my best to not fall for you. I thought that if I didn’t fall in love with you, I would break the cycle. You are so weird Lucy, you make it impossible for me not to love you.”. Natsu put his arms around her and held onto her tightly placing her head close to his heart.
“Like you are any better.”, She muttered. “I love you too, idiot.” Natsu laughed reaching for her to sink his head on the crook of her neck for a few minutes before both of them adjusted onto a more comfortable position allowing the sleep to take both of them.
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