The Possibility

Alone Together

Author's note: Another chapter! I finally was able to complete it. Also, to all those who posted their reviews on chapter one, thank you so, so much for such a positive feedback. It made me try harder to upload this one as soon as possible. I hope you enjoy this one as much as you enjoyed A Broken Heart. Also, @ wiltedbliss, thank you so much for your opinion! It helped a lot.

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2. Alone Together

It wasn't raining at all. In fact, it was far from rainy. The scorching heat was adding to Juvia's worsening headache.

An hour had hardly passed since Gray had left and she was already in a dilemma. Her brain was imagining lots of scenarios involving Gray and Lucy going on a mission with no one but each other; scenarios which did nothing but add fuel to the fire consuming her, slowly burning her sanity away.

On the other hand, her heart was contradicting her brain, telling her to have faith in her love. Gray was the one who stopped the rain, the one who showed her the sun. She was confident that he was 'the one'. She was sure, and her heart was constantly reminding her of it.

"Why is Juvia being like this? She needs to trust Gray-sama. They're going on a job, for Mavis' sake. It's not like anything's going to happen between them."

Or is it?

Her thoughts were in a frenzy, like an ocean in a storm, waves crashing into each other making a huge splash which only sunk the ship which would've to lead to the shore. Her paranoia was getting to her, but her positivity was pushing it away.

Gray's trustworthy. But what about Lucy?

"Lucy..." Juvia immediately imagined the pretty celestial mage clinging to Gray while on the job. Many more images were conjured up by her brain, but they disappeared when Juvia thought about the present.

She would have been livid because of the current situation if the past few months hadn't happened. Even though she many times doubted her comrade, she knew that Lucy wouldn't try anything with Gray.

In these few months, she had noticed something which made her thoughts clear up a little. Just a little observation and it became crystal clear that Lucy already had her eyes on someone. Someone with pink-salmon, as she'd reminded Juvia sometime before--hair and wild, fiery eyes; a stark contrast to Gray's cool, calm ones.

With the last thought, Juvia could let out a sigh of relief, that finally, the discomfort had left her. Not that all the doubt had left her thoughts, but she felt better, as if a load had been lifted off of her shoulders.

Now that she was out of the maze of her thoughts, she heard a familiar voice full of desperation, one she'd failed to notice before. It seemed to come from the request board. Out of pure curiosity, Juvia looked towards the board finding the voice to be coming from a table beside it, and she'd correctly guessed whom it belonged to.

Lucy was sitting on the table with Natsu and the two of them were discussing something. Although, it looked like it was more of an explanation and judging by Natsu's expression, he wasn't satisfied with it. Without trying, Juvia's ears caught a part of their conversation.

"I really really need this job, Natsu. If I don't pay the rent, I won't have any other place to stay."

"I get it, Lucy. Believe me, I really do. But I just don't get why you have to go with just Gray. I mean, we're a team! We're supposed to go together."