@novashe decided to come for my heart :
the war was finally over, fairy tail and the rest of the guilds won, everything could be peaceful again. but it would be a long time before any sense of normalcy would occur. everyone has their own wounds, some had it worst than others, but everyone alive would remember this war for the rest of their lives. because of Wendy’s quick first aid juvia’s life was in no risk. But it still hurt to move around. But there was someone she had to see, someone who was still alive because of her, someone who would rather harm themselves than to harm her. She needed to see Gray. She looked around the guild hall for him, but there was no sign of him.
There was one more area she thought she could find him, she wanted to try but at the same time knew it was probably best to leave him alone. But her desires overpowered her clear thoughts and so she ran out of the guild hall, ignoring the burning feeling in her side to the spot the two of them were at before the war. He was there, watching the sunrise of the first day of a new time. After silently catching her breath, she walked to his side and looked at the colorful sky. It took her a moment before she looked at the ice mage ‘ gray-San. are you feeling ok? ‘ concerned for him more than herself juvia didn’t know how to start this conversation. WHAT WAS THIER RELATIONSHIP ?
‘ juvia is so happy you’re alive and I’m so happy that I can still be by your side. . . ‘ she can’t muster up the courage to say anything else.
IT WAS OVER, FINALLY IT WAS ALL OVER. AND HE HAD SURVIVED IT. That truly was what shocked him the most about it all, the fact that he was still breathing, still alive to see the future that was secured for them all. He found his attention locked firmly on his hands, the cracks far more prominent then they have ever been, permanently marking his failed attempt at ending it all so stupidly suddenly. Just another new scar to match-
BLUE FLASHED ACROSS HIS MEMORY AS THE INJURY ON HIS SIDE FLARED UP. On instinct alone, his hand dropped to the wound, allowing his magic to leak over it until it was numb enough for him to ignore once again. I had almost lost her. The memory played in a loop, the pain in his stomach as his ice burst out the other end, the absolute horror in meeting her eyes and seeing her parallel would. The scream he had let out when he realized what she had done echoed again and again. More magic than expected coated the wound, snapping him out of his head at the sudden stab of ice on uninjured skin.
BEFORE HE COULD SLIP BACK INTO HIS OWN HEAD, HER VOICE REACHED HIS EARS. Shifting ever so slightly, he found his eyes tracing over her, before settling on the injury, in better state than his own ( the mountains of thanks he owed Wendy ever growing ) but still there. I almost lost her. But I didn't. Not this time. A wave of guilt washed over the ice mage as he turned his attention to the river below. I don't deserve you. I don't deserve what you did for me.
❝ I... I'm so glad you're okay.
HIS WORDS WERE SHAKY, UNNAMED EMOTIONS CREEPING INTO EVERY SYLLABLE. No. That was a lie. He knew exactly what emotion it was. It was the same emotion he had named when they were together during the year the guild wasn't. The same emotion he tried to force away when he had to leave her for Avatar. The same emotion he was hoping she'd forget when he vanished into ice to end the war. Silently, he found his hand trailing toward hers, letting his frigid touch rest gently against the warm and alive one of her own.
❝ I... I really don't deserve what you did for me, for you saving me... but I promise I'll make it up to you. Somehow...