What If...

Chapter 4

A/N: I have turned the 20 years old today. October 23. I don't feel 20 though so...yeah that's a thing.

Lucy

Lucy woke up and was slightly disgusted by the fact that she still had yesterday's clothes on. She usually cared about her hygiene. Obviously not last night though. She grabbed herself a change of clothes and got into the shower. She made sure to scrub extra well and came out of the bathroom feeling ready for the day. She decided against going to the guild in favor of finishing her next chapter for Levy. Afterwards she planned on making the contracts with her two new spirits, she was excited to meet them.

Future Rogue

Rogue hovered over Lucy watching her write. He was eager to see what would happen as she was writing an extremely suspenseful fight scene. He was snapped out of playing the fight in his head like a movie when he saw a shiver run down her spine and she visibly shuddered. Then he realized he was completely leaning over her. He was about to retreat when he heard something that made a shiver rack his own body, "Rogue I know you're there, come out."

He was frozen for a while before he straightened and reluctantly rematerialized.

Lucy/Future Rogue

She looked at him in surprise, she didn't expect him to actually do it. Now what was she supposed to do? She finally noticed that Rogue was waiting for her to speak. She had no idea what to say and dumbly said, "Uhh. I honestly didn't think you would show yourself."

He rolled his eyes and said, "Well I'm here, don't you have questions?"

Lucy tapped her chin and said, "Yeah, why have you been following me everywhere it's kinda creepy."

He shrugged and said, "Honestly I don't know. Something drew me to you so I just started following you around."

Lucy suddenly remembered, and said with a small blush, "Oh, uh. Also. Thank you. For saving me from those three guys the other day."

He rolled his eyes and criticized, "The one time I don't follow you for two seconds you get into trouble."

Lucy blushed and mumbled, "Well sorry I have this stupid damsel in distress trend going."

He added with a smirk, "Don't forget danger prone. I'm actually surprised you haven't fallen into that canal yet."

Lucy blushed brightly at the smirk, it made him extremely attractive somehow, before she pouted at what he said, "Well I can't help it. It's not like I want the shit to happen."

Rogue nodded before his eyes drifted to her novel and he asked, "What are you going to do now that you know it's me?"

Lucy thought for a moment before she shrugged and said, "I don't know."

She suddenly unleashed a huge smile and exclaimed excitedly, "Oh! Do you want to watch me make a contract with the two new spirits I got yesterday?!"

He looked over at the box that was sitting on her kitchen table holding the two keys in it and said, "Sure why not? Sounds interesting. I'm also curious as to what these two spirits could be."

Lucy clapped, happily bouncing up and down in her seat, "EEEEE!! Okay let's go to the forest!"

Rogue rose an eyebrow and wondered why she was so happy about hanging out with him. HIM of all people. Why wasn't she afraid of him? Did she forget that he tried to kill her and actually killed her future self? Before he could stop himself he asked, "Why aren't you afraid of me? I tried to kill you, and killed your future self."

Lucy flinched at the memory of her future self dying in her arms. She turned around and smiled sadly, "Well you're not trying to kill me now. You actually saved me a couple times. You had plenty of opportunities to kill me and get away with it, but you didn't."