I'm better off Blind

8.

Days went by and Gray's tears were still running.

Weeps of Erzas voice, and weeps of unseen past.

His vision though, they were getting blurry once again.

Gradually darkness was yet again coating his eyes.

He had strained them, too much to get back what he wanted.

But the fact that he was better off blind than not see Erza ever, made him shun the hope of seeing the world again.

He sat on his bed.

With nothing to see, but only to hear.

Drops of water, wetted his linen.

"Gray!"

Gray jolted from his seat and turned to the direction of the voice.

"Sorry to make you worry!" She breathed heavily.

"Where have you been?! I got so scared..." His voice cracked into bits and pieces.

"I'm sorry, I just had some work I had to finish-but wait, can you see me?"

Gray became confused.

The voice, it was so near so real.

Was it really Erza? Alive and in front of him?

"Erza..." He stretched out his hand, but felt no one.

"Oi Gray, how can you not take care of yourself? You lost them once again..."

Erza wasn't there.

It was just Gray's consciousness.

Just his mind playing games on him.

"I...I don't care." Gray was still trying to feel Erzas hand.

Her soft, long fingers were hard to grasp, they were hard to find.

"Now how will you see the world? How will you see me?"

"I don't want to...I just want to hear your voice Erza."

"Gray, you shouldn't have cried if I didn't come. You should have lived your life. Continued on without me."

"I can't..."

"I'm sorry."

"No...Don't be Erza, it's alright...I'm alright, I don't want to see, I'm fine like this. I just...I just want to hold you for once..."

Gray searching for Erzas hand was to no avail. He was only moving his hands in thin air to find no one.

"I wish I could too Gray."

And Gray felt her soft, long fingers wipe his fear away.

It was just a memory actually, just a sense of the past and a peek to the gone by.

"Don't you want your eyes back?" Erza asked.

"No." Gray replied unhesitatingly.

He would rather not see than not hear Erzas voice ever.

Even supposing it was all in his head.

"I'm better off blind."