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With each apprehensive steps, and with each obstructive minutes of silence, Erza stood outside of her own apartment thinking how much she had failed to stimulate a plan to help Lucy after learning what had happened.
All the sudden, the door opened, revealing Wendy through the door.
"Erza-san? Carla told me that you were outside."
Erza sighed at those words. "I was just thinking...How's Lucy?" The redhead asked as she walked into her apartment and sauntered quietly toward to where Lucy laid.
"Still sleeping. But may ask where you had gone?" Wendy asked as she closed the door and followed Erza into the room.
"Just some private matters with Lucy's relative." Erza responded as she walked into the room where Carla was sitting in a chair watching over the sleeping blonde.
"Relative?" Wendy perked up.
Erza took one glance at the blonde before picking up Carla with careful grip and gave her to Wendy. "You two may go back to you room. I'll take care of the rest."
"Huh? But, I still want to-"
Erza stopped Wendy by placing a hand on her shoulder. "Wendy, I need to talk to Lucy privately about some things that I had learned. It would be in our best interest if there were less audience. You did plenty already, Wendy. You already saved Lucy twice. So take a long break and rest."
Wendy pouted for a minute and nodded, letting Erza follow her out with much reluctance. Wendy was concerned for Lucy, and didn't want to leave her alone. But she trusted Erza, she trusted the judgment of the Knight.
After closing the door and locking it for privacy just in case, Erza turned back and entered the room, and discerned that Lucy was still asleep. With a deep sigh, and declaring that she should let the blonde have her rest, the redhead sauntered to the kitchen to grab some strawberry cake to relieve her soon-to-be hungry stomach.
After grabbing the strawberry cake and a fork, Erza went back to the room, expecting to see Lucy still asleep, but Lucy was wide awake again, sitting up with wide eyes, and looking directly ahead.
Erza stood still and studied the blonde who had not yet moved an inch.
After a few more minutes, Erza placed the strawberry cake on the stand next to the bed and placed her hand on Lucy's shoulder to get her attention. "Lucy?"
Lucy blinked couple of times before her eyes landed on Erza's.
"You okay?" Erza inquired, already knowing the frightened state of the blonde. But for now, she'll play ignorance until she deemed it necessary to probe her for questions and comfort her for the things she had learned from her father.
"Where am I?" Lucy spoke up after a minute of scanning the room.
"My place. I needed to clean you up. You were completely covered in blood."
Lucy paled for a second, looking down, realizing that Erza had not only cleaned her, but put her in different clothes as well. She tried to hide her panic and looked at Erza. She knew that Erza had seen them, but she was confused too. Erza seemed indifferent, other than that fact that Lucy had cut herself again.
Erza sat in the chair and stared at the blonde. "You feeling okay?
Lucy glared back for a moment before looking down at her clenched fists wrapping around the blanket.
Erza sensed the blonde's hesitation and decided to talk about something else, deliberately avoiding the topic of her father and her past.
"Are you hungry?" Erza asked as she reached for her strawberry cake handing it to Lucy.
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Decay of Agony
FanfictionIt all starts with Lucy and her demons. Her past that she tries to heartedly to escape. It all comes back to eat away at her. And it was the last straw when after the incident of Phantom Lord. She starts to lean toward to self-harming, and possibly...