Fairy Tail: Not Coming Home

Chapter 16: The liar

Ohaio Minna! Here we are, yet again with another update that was supposed to be up last night but......Logic I guess xp

So well...it's not a long one but I hope it will do.

Until next time, Minna, Take care!

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Lucy blinked, her eyes staring right up at the plain ceiling. Her body was patched with new bandages that the men had been kind enough to give her and with the help of a few women, they changed the bloody bandages to clean ones. But even though they had changed the bandages, her body hurt like hell, especially her injured hand. Her mark had been completely covered with blood when they had changed it and it laid a heavy feeling over her heart.

Her Fairy Tail mark was her only connection to the guild and it just felt wrong not seeing it like she usually did.

She closed her eyes and almost smiled to herself, despite the pain it gave her. She could almost see her friends smiling back at her Natsu reaching out his hand, Erza standing with her arms crossed behind him, Gray leaning on a beaming Juvia and Wendy smiling kindly as Charle scolded Happy for his childish behavior.

God, she missed them.

The door to the room opened up and the old man, which she learned was named Desmond, stepped inside with a small smile as she was pushed out of her thoughts.

''Good morning, Dear.'' He said as he closed the door behind him.

''Good morning, Desmond.'' She replied in a weak voice, smiling at him with her white teeth.

''Oh! I heard that you've finally found your voice.'' He said as he pulled a chair up next to the bed. ''That's good.''

Lucy nodded slowly, being extra careful not to hurt herself as she did.

''Well, dear. I recon you have many questions. I, myself, also have many questions. Like for an example, what's your name and why where you in the forest?''

Lucy swallowed, gathering enough saliva in her throat to answer.

''My name is Lucy. Lucy Heartfilia.'' She said, the man raising an eyebrow.

''You are the one owning the heartfilia estate a few ways off here?''

''I owned.'' Lucy sighed. ''Or rather, my dad owned it.''

The man nodded, understanding.

''Oh, well it has been a while since someone visited our village.'' He confessed with a troubled smile.

''It's fine.'' Lucy said, averting her eyes from him to stare out the window. ''And as for why I was in the forest...Well... I don't really know myself to be honest.'' She confessed and gave out a humorless laugh before looking back at him again.

''Trouble in paradise perhaps?''

Lucy snorted, fisting her palms. '' Yeah, you could almost say that.''

''Well.'' He said, gripping his walking cane. ''You can always talk to me if there is something troubling you.''

''Thank you.'' Lucy nodded in appreciation. Realization then dawned upon her and she frowned. ''Excuse me for asking, but how long was I out for?''

The man sighed, closing his eyes as he gripped the walking cane tighter before opening his eyes.

''Somehow you ended up in a coma for 30 years.'' As those words left his mouth, the girl's face paled. ''I don't know how, but somehow you ended up in a coma and it's beyond us all of why you haven't woken up earlier, and well, one of our wizards placed a spell over you so that you would not age. Unfortunately, she died a few years ago. I-I know this is a lot to take in, and-''

A sob emerged from the wizards mouth and she placed a hand over her mouth, the man cursing every known curse word in his mind towards himself for lying and while the man was cursing himself to death, only one word swam around the small wizard's head.

She'd been asleep for 30 years?