Prologue 1- He just sat there.

Three months before accident…..

As per usual, Lucy sat at the bar twirling the straw to her orange juice. Sighing for the umpteenth time over the Lissana and Natsu problem she's been having ever since Lissana came back, that day she decided that she would cheer herself up that day by talking to Natsu, Lissana and group about her problem with them ignoring her.

But as soon as Natsu and Lissana skipped, yes they skipped, up to Lucy, Lucy knew she didn't have the courage to speak up about what was on her mind, and instead she sat grumpily and waited for the two to arrive to her seat, looking contagiously happy…. Unfortunately Lucy couldn't find herself to catch on to the overwhelming amount of giddiness from the two. Hell, she may have even thrown up a bit in her mouth from the scene.

"Hey Lucy!" Natsu called, effectively bringing Lucy of her thoughts, which she did appreciate, having the sour taste in her mouth was something she preferred not to have.

Is it okay if Lissana come's with us on the next job instead of you? No offense or anything…." Natsu trailed off, rubbing his neck as he stared down the girl. The way his eyes seemed to narrow convinced Lucy enough to say yes, but of course, she was going to say yes anyway, considering the fact that SHE COULDN'T GATHER UP ANY STRENGTH SHE DID HAVE TO TELL HIN HER FEELINGS.

"Yeah sure, I understand." Lucy mumbled as Natsu started to grin and Lissana nodded happily.

"Thanks a lot Lucy!" Natsu called as he left with Lissana. Lucy waited a moment to figure out what was wrong with what he just said and she widened her eyes.

He didn't call her Luce.

A month later…..

Of course, what was Lucy thinking? She should've said something to the guild, screamed in frustration or throw a tantrum, tell the world how much she wanted to disappear and cry out in agony over the situation she dug herself into. And of course Natsu, Lissana, and the rest of guild only hurried the process.

Every time it was the same damn excuse they'd given her…

"We want to catch up with Lissana more if that's okay with you."

HELL. NO.

Lucy gets it; you haven't 'seen here in 7 years which makes your excuse valid' but is it necessary to ignore her? To think this was her nakama, when the only thing that's binding her to guild now is a freaking stamp. It's truly and utterly pathetic. And so was she, what was she thinking? That the world would be all sunshine and rainbows after a couple weeks? Lucy laughs as she wonders where the hope from before went?

Lucy exited the guild as Natsu made a big show of how 'strong' Lissana was on a job, and how Natsu didn't even have to save her. Lucy guesses that Natsu didn't really mean to direct the last part to her but it still stung no matter what.

Her head hung low she silently let her unshed tears flow just a bit, not wanting to make a scene with the people around her, it's bad enough many of the townspeople think she's weak, no need in adding fuel to the fire.

Lucy thought of everything in the past month and she felt all of herself fall, she thought maybe she had just left go of everything but it never seems to be the case.

"Excuse me, miss?" A rough but handsome voice called out and Lucy tilted her head up just in time to snag his blue eyes, a spark sizzled in her stomach and she found herself to be let by him to help her up by grabbing his hand.

As Lucy stood up the man's hand lingered on hers before realizing and he blushed, pulling his hand behind his head and nervously rubbing his neck. He had neck length blonder hair that was loosely spiked up in different directions at the top while the rest of his hair fell to the sides of his head and finally clung to his neck. He was muscular, but it was more of a skinny yet muscular body than a full out body build. He wore skinny jeans that were ripped and dirtied all around with a red t-shirt that hung over his shoulder, suggesting that he may have just came from somewhere that required quite a bit of labor. When he gave Lucy a closed mouth smile it was beautiful in itself.

"Sorry to bump into you, it was a mistake! Honest." He called out and in a long time Lucy giggled, nodding her head as she brushed off some loose dirt on her clothes.

"No problem, I wasn't watching where I was going." She answered and he grinned before slightly frowning.

"Did you feel that spark? I mean, sorry, I'm sorry, didn't mean to… Sorry." He said and to his surprise Lucy nodded.

"I did," She replied and his grin returned?

"This may seem weird but…. Would you like to hang out? I know it's not every day where you meet a cute stranger who just so happened to also feel a spark." He asked and even though Lucy was wary of him, she still gave him a positive answer. And it was weird, Lucy knew herself that she wouldn't have agreed even with that spark, so why agree to this man? She doesn't even know his name or anything yet here she was walking with him back towards the river to set under the cooling shadow of tree. It was also strangely calming.

"The names Jordan." The man spoke after a couple minutes of silence. Lucy rolled his name around in her head before she realized he was waiting for her answer.

"Oh! My name is Lucy, nice to meet you." Lucy responded, and gave a smile when Jordan grinned.

"Great, now, time to really get to know each other.." Jordan spoke and the two engaged in a long conversation.

A little while later….

"He didn't," Jordan started but Lucy nodded. Jordan feigned a dramatic gasp and covered his mouth in shock.

"But I thought he said that…." Jordan began again and Lucy yet again nodded.

"That's what I thought. But apparently he doesn't know the meaning of promises when it comes to me." Lucy muttered and Jordan shook his head, placing his hand on his hip once he got up from his spot on the grass.

"Gurl, ditch im." Jordan said with a weird accent and Lucy tilted her head.

"That was supposed to be a gay accent." Jordan stated and Lucy just smiled.

"Gays don't have an accent, they're just them. But if that was supposed to be the stereotypical gay voice, ya need some work. Gurl." Lucy teased and Jordan flipped his spikey hair, rolling his eyes as he helped Lucy up. They traded goodbyes and set a time for another meet-up.

And for the first time in a month, Lucy felt like her life was starting to clear up just a bit.

Another month has passed…..

Like always, the guild itself ignored Lucy, except when Natsu made comparisons between Lissana and Lucy without directly calling out Lucy. And Lucy is starting to feel as if those comparisons aren't accidental.

But nothing mattered with the guild anymore, after all, to her it was just a guild now. Where she got work and ditched everyone for a friend who within a month managed to gain Lucy's trust even more than Levy, who also ditched her for Lissana.

Not like she cared, screw them.

Before….

Lucy walked home with grace and giddiness from thinking about Jordan, it was raining, but Lucy managed to twirl perfectly before giggling and thinking about Jordan's and Lucy's first date together, well more like a friendly hangout, but it was going to somewhere other than the usual places they hung out. It as Jordan's house. And yes, Lucy has had Jordan multiple times before, and he's slept over more times than she can count, but she never went to Jordan's house, so this was a new experience for her.

She twirled once more before widening her eyes and falling unconscious as soon as she took her next breath of air.

Then…

Groggily Lucy could faintly hear voices and struggled to shake to drowsiness out of her system, she shakily stood up from her place on the cement and the voices stopped.

"Well it seems she woke up boys, huh." One of the voices called out, Lucy couldn't believe the situation she in currently, and shook her head to try and make due of the situation at hand.

A hand grabbed her hair and pulled her back, she could feel his breath on her neck and shivered out of disgust.

The man took it another way.

"So you like huh?" His alcoholic breath made Lucy choke herself trying to inhale fresh air, but with his face getting closer to hers Lucy couldn't move any further.

He pressed his lips to hers and she felt his cracked lips try to push further into hers, pieces of skin were flaking off from his lips due to how rough he was being and when he tried to enter her mouth with his tongue, Lucy clenched her teeth, denying access. He groped her left breast but Lucy made no move to open her mouth, she knew from all her books he only wanted her to open her mouth from surprise. And lie hell she'd give it to him. The man drew his lips away and sighed.

"Fine, be it that way, boys." He called out and next thing Lucy knew she was tied to a machine of some sort, effectively strapping her down to cold metal table she was currently naked on, Lucy squired and hissed at the men but they didn't heed her warnings.

"Fuck you all." Was Lucy's last words as she was raped and cut over and over again from the group of men. And through this Lucy realized something.

She was weak.

Meanwhile through all of Lucy's first three hours of torture Jordan went crazy looking for Lucy, he had a sinking feeling that wouldn't go away when Lucy didn't show up on time and then a near continuous heart attack when he ran out his door to search for Lucy. Jordan didn't stop even though he was soaking wet to the bone and tried his best to scan out the town, looking everywhere twice.

By the third and fourth hour Jordan had been close to giving up hope to finding Lucy and went back to where he first met here, at the bridge when the fishermen would greet Lucy and she would wave back with a happy smile that brought hearts to their eyes. Jordan saw a crumpled figure in the dark and prayed with every fiber of his being plus ten that it was Lucy, as he got closer his eyes widened and tears sprung fourth, refusing not to be shown at this time of hour.

"Oh god, Lucy please." Jordan searched for a heartbeat and found it faint, he released a bit and took quick time to look over Lucy, and the sight made him clench his teeth, he could tell she was raped. And it didn't take long for him to find multiple stab wounds, and other wounds. Jordan tore off his hoodie and wrapped it around Lucy, ignoring all the frightened looks as he made his way to quickest place he knew would have medical treatment. And he didn't like it, he knew Lucy wouldn't either, but it was the only way.

He took her to Fairy Tail.

Busting through the doors Jordan fell to his knees as one of the members, a white haired girl, took Lucy away from him and swiftly carried her upstairs, another one of the members brought down clothes for Jordan to change in, their head bowed low as some of the members stared at him and back at the door where the girl who he now knew as Mira went through with a blue haired girl named Levy and another, a sky dragon slayer her believed to be called Wendy.

"What happened?" Elfman asked as he looked down at the broken boy. Elfman couldn't believe that body belonged to Lucy, just a couple hours ago she was happy, or was that yesterday….? Elfman could only remember the blonde once throughout the whole week and suddenly guilt crashed down on him with the force of the sun. He couldn't believe he left his own nakama out there to fend for herself, and he bet with all the stress added on with Natsu and his little sister that this surely would damage Lucy.

Those same feelings were transferred and multiplied to every member of the guild, but Jordan didn't care. He didn't want them to pity her now, after all they did to her. And damn them if they try to gain Lucy's happiness back after this. Where were they when she was depressed? Out celebrating that a bitch came back to life? Doesn't give them the right to ignore her like that! With each passing though Jordan became enraged at the guild to the point where he almost couldn't thin straight until Gildarts (They introduced themselves briefly while Jordan changed) put his hand on Jordan and Jordan looked up to the man as Gildarts spoke.

"We won't ask for her forgiveness, because what we've done is unforgivable. I know you are angry with what's happened to her, but nothing we say or do will take back what has happened, you can only think of right now. Not of silly thoughts that enrage a person to the point of no return. Remember, you're here for Lucy, and for Lucy only. Nothing else. That being said, I also understand if you do kick our asses, I don't think any of us would fight back." Gildarts said and Jordan looked at the man before slumping and crying.

He couldn't feel his hatred anymore, the only thing that he felt could avenge and protect Lucy as a last resort. This man in front of him tore the one thing precious to him and crushed it into something else. How could he forgive these people for what's happened? It's their fault it happened in the first place! But then again, if they didn't Jordan would've never met Lucy that way. It would've have been as memorable to him as it was. And whether he liked or not, these people helped him in a way. This new feeling rustled with Jordan's conscious and made him nervous, yet it also calmed him in a way that he never thought it would.

"I…. I can't bring myself to hate you? Why?" Jordan asked and Gildarts bent over and looked Jordan in the eye.

"We're sorry for the trouble we cause you. We also say sorry on Lucy's behalf and we understand if she doesn't want to see us right now. Even though it's not my place I think I should also point this out. Lucy was on her way to your house."

And Jordan cracked.

Two weeks later

Jordan found himself to completely trust the guild, in fact, he even joined the guild to spend more time with them and check up on Lucy, and most all of the females swoon whenever he smiled and the men tussled around with the 18 year old boy. He didn't want to call them nakama, he wasn't that forgiving, but was slowly making his way to that relationship with the guild.

Lucy had come in and out of consciousness for the past week, calling out for certain members who in less than a minute, would be at her side and consoling her, just yesterday Lucy stayed awake for more than three hours talking to the females, Jordan sneaked a peek and grinned when he saw Lucy laughing with them.

Team Natsu hadn't come back from their job yet, which seemed a little off, considering that what from Lucy said they would finish in less than a couple days. But he brushed it off, he didn't care about the team that drive Lucy almost over the edge. They could be dead and he wouldn't care.

No, he wouldn't go that far, but he would be satisfied for them to stay away forever.

In a dungeon.

Being tortured every day.

Especially Lissana.

Bitch.

As Jordan pondered over the thoughts Elfman came over and Jordan did his famous head tilt, making every fan girl squeal and Elfman grin at Jordan's confusion.

"A real man needs to stop moping work out. UP. UP. UP." Elfman hollered out, chasing Jordan out of the guild while the members laughed as the two made their way through the doors with Jordan screaming.

As soon as Jordan and Elfman left the guild grew solemn, today was the day that Team Natsu were expected to return from their job. And the guild really wasn't looking forward to their return home, in fact, hey dreaded it. They didn't want to see Team Natsu's face for a little while more, seeing the Team would make the guild even more guilty, and just after they made up with Lucy.

The guild doors busted open and Natsu gave a great grin, scanning the crowd his grin faltered a bit before turning to Gray.

And in a not so quiet voice.

"What the hell is wrong with the guild?"

Mira tried to sneak her way down from the infirmary but Lissana saw her and ran up to her sister.

"Hey Mira! What were you doing in the infirmary, everyone is here….except… Elfman?" Lissana gasped and ran up the stairs with Team Natsu behind. Mira's eyes widened and tried to stop them but it was useless, the door was open and the team's shocked faces were evident.

Natsu looked down at Lucy, his face clearly read…..