Fighting Oblivion

Chapter Twenty Four

Chapter Twenty Four

So, they're gonna reform their guild I guess. I shouldn't be surprised, really. Lucy seemed so happy to see the other fairies when they popped up in Guiltina. I knew she missed them all a lot...and Natsu too, of course. I was probably being selfish, but when Jellal suggested it I kinda wanted to punch the heavenly body mage right in the face. OK, I was definitely being selfish. I just...I guess I hoped she'd come back to Sabertooth. Not right away maybe, just...eventually?

"Would you fucking go to sleep?" Rogue said as he tossed a pillow at my head. We were back at the inn now, and how I wished we had each got our own rooms. We got two doubles again, Gray and Jellal passed out almost right away in their bed. I was jealous. Gray was going to have Juvia with him all the time, see her whenever he wanted, go on jobs together. All of it. And Erza and Jellal...well they were a different breed. They'd been traveling and doing missions together and separately with his little vigilante group. I guess they just saw each other whenever they could, what with him still being a fugitive or whatever.

Even Rogue was going to be around Yukino, even if he was too much of a coward to be with her. I whipped the pillow back at his face.

"Argh," he growled at me. "Magnolia isn't even that far from Gazania! Get over it!"

"Shhhh!" I didn't want him to wake the others. The last thing I needed was for Gray to tell Lucy I didn't want her going to Fairy Tail and screw this whole thing up. If it was between me and her guild...well I didn't wanna know which she'd choose.

"Fuck off," he grumbled, pressing the pillow against his ears. I let out a quiet sigh, well I tried to keep it quiet but...well he's a dragon slayer after all. He heard me, and he was pissed. Oh well. He threw the blankets off, swung out of bed and pulled open the door to the balcony.

"Outside," he said, was this asshole gonna make me sleep out there?

"You first," I told him. He gritted his teeth and stomped out the door.

"Now!" He called. I followed him out, now that I knew he wasn't gonna lock the door behind me.

"Alright," I said, leaning on the railing, arms crossed. "What?"

"I can't believe I have to be the one to tell the Almighty Sting Eucliffe to fucking relax," he hissed.

"I am relaxed," I told him, earning a nice snort of complete disbelief. Fucker. After a minute or two he joined me against the railing, a thoughtful look on his dark features.

"Sting, Lucy has been a fairy for a long time," he finally said. "You can't ask her to not do this."

"I wouldn't!"

"No, but you want to." He shook his head at me before grabbing me by the shoulders and giving me a little shake. "Would you leave Sabertooth for her? Give up everything we've built?"

I couldn't believe he'd even ask me that. I was so proud of what we've achieved with the guild, I could never just drop all that and leave. I couldn't let everyone down. Besides, Lucy would never even ask...Oh.

"Oh."

"Yeah, she wouldn't want you to, right?"

"Yeah, but...fuck," I groaned as I slid down the railing, putting my head on my arms between my knees. "How are we gonna make this work if we don't even live in the same place?"

I felt Rogue settle in beside me. I was glad he called me out on my shit, honestly. Even if it was a little weird to be talking about this stuff with him. I think he knew me better than anyone, we'd been friends and partners for so long. But we never really did the deep conversation thing anymore. Especially not about girls. Mostly he'd just give me a judgey look or two when I wandered into the guild a little too late after one of my nights on the town, and I'd tease him about chickening out with Yukino. This was different.