I: Heartfilia, He: Dragneel. (A NaLu AU)

Don't know why.

-~NATSU~-

I sometimes can't believe how much of an idiot I can be.

I try my best to run away from her, to actually stay away from her but it always seems impossible.

I was so, so pissed at that moment that I forgot about Luce being around and concentrated on getting my anger out on that dying flashlight. Punch after punch, shove after shove, I kept thinking about how much she has suffered and why she never told me about it. Didn't she trust me? Didn't I deserve to have it because I'm a best friend and was supposed to protect her but failed miserably?

When I heard her scream my name, I knew something was definitely not right. Luce's normal screams sound different than the one I heard that time. Being glad that I can hear like a dragon, I dashed at the direction of the voice and found her, almost raped by that motherfucker's disgusting existence.

Pathetic excuse of a human that flashlight is...

I was always the one who loved to fight, especially if it was for the ones I loved. I would be so fired up that I wouldn't know how much trouble I caused around me. I would definitely cause a ruckus, and my friends would clean it up for me while I'd be mostly chowing food down and helping them a little.

This time, I was beyond furious.

He was touching her in all the wrong ways. He was kissing her. He almost raped her.

The only thing that felt right to me was to yell at him and let him know that he did a big mistake when he touched my girl.

But when I ignored Luce because I was blinded by the anguish and fury I felt, I couldn't regret it more.

She was having another of her anxiety attacks when I turned around. I thought she could come with me but she had it worse than before. She was trying to breathe, get some air in her body somehow but she collapsed, right in front of me. At least my subconscious self was a little intellectual that ran to her and caught her in time otherwise her head would've hit the pipe hard and... I don't even want to talk about it.

Muttering a soft apology, I picked her up and slowly walked to the place where I parked my car, being careful not to fall or let her body slip from my hands. I rocked her once so that her head could rest on my right shoulder- which worked- and then sighed. She snuggled up to me and called my name softly. It took so much of my self control to not just kiss her at the moment. Even though she doesn't remember who I am, I do, and I still love her... just more than I ever had.

"Mom, who is she?" I moved my thumb over the picture of a girl with two blonde pigtails, moving her arms forward to grab a teddy bear who was twice as big as her.

"Oh this is Lucy, my little dragon." My mom Grandeeney smiled when she spotted me in that position. I had lost my parents when I was barely a toddler and so Igneel adopted me, who later married a pregnant Grandeeney. Her husband was killed in a crossfire when he was fighting with men of another opposed company before she got pregnant with Wendy. Soon, she fell in love with Igneel who was her husband's ally and married him. 'It was a forced matrimony, dear. I don't regret it at all. In the end, I found my soulmate and was blessed with three amazing children.' She always used to say that.