Erlu Oneshots

Blooms

FLUFF /W/ A SMIDGE OF ANGST
Prompt: If your soulmate gets a wound or cut, flowers bloom out of the same spot on your own body. (I'm switching it so that it's just if the soulmate feels pain.)

When Lucy was young, she would carry around both scissors and tissues in her pocket.

The scissors were for the flowers. They would bloom all over her body. Most of the time they were petunias or carnations but sometimes, a little red rose would bloom.

The tissues were for her tears. Lucy didn't know much about why these flowers grew or of the science of it but Ms. Degeneres, her English tutor, had explained to her that when it happened, it meant that the person they were meant to love was hurt.

Lucy had looked down and then Ms. Degeneres had asked her why her father hadn't talked to her about it. Lucy remembers her father yelling at her and saying that she shouldn't be worrying about pesky flowers and that they only represented pain.

He had told her to never love anyone.

She looked at Ms. Degeneres, smiled and said that she had never asked.

Lucy was a smart child. More advanced than the average of her age. Every night, she would wonder why the flowers were so common. She wondered why someone she was supposed to inevitably love would go through so much pain.

As she grew older, the flowers came less and less but when they did, they came in large quantity. Lucy would grow frustrated with having to trim her skin every five minutes but ultimately was glad that the gardens were less frequent. She hoped her soulmate had found a good home.

She hoped for herself as well. She sometimes wondered if her soulmate wondered about her often. Lucy did not feel her problems were as big as other's, in a world of slavery and dark guilds, but she was an emotional girl. And after her mother died and her father grew cold, she often wondered if her soulmate would resent her for causing so much to grow so often.

She left home.

She took her keys and her most modest clothes and left the Heartfilia estate, not once looking back. For the first time in a long while, she felt free and happy. Silently, she hoped her soulmate would be happy there were no flowers that day.

Eventually, she found Natsu and Happy. They took her to Fairy Tail. She found another home, but this time with a real family. She went on a few small jobs with Natsu. She met her now best friend Levy. She laughed more in the week she joined than she had the past year.

Then, Erza Scarlet returned. She strutted into the guild with a giant horn lifted above her head. Lucy stared at the beauty and wondered how Natsu and Gray could describe her as a monster. Then she addressed the two, inquiring about help for a job. Lucy became interested.

She joined them on the job. She said that it was because Mira asked her to go along. Really, it was because she wanted to be on this wacky team. And she wanted to know more about the famed Queen of the Fairies.

Turns out, the redhead was just as insane as the ice and fire mages.

Lucy figured that out while Erza was pumping insane amounts of magic power into a vehicle to catch up to a hijacked train. Then, they got in the car again, after figuring out that Erigor was going to use Lullaby and Erza poured more magic power into their transportation.

Lucy thought the weird feeling in her stomach was because of the fear.

She remembered running through halls. She and Erza had just defeated most of the members of the dark guild and Lucy was tasked with finding the escaped member. The fuzziness in her stomach had grown worse but, so had the situation. She shrugged it off.