Gratsu Week 2020: Masterlist
Day 1: Prompt: ‘I’ve got no right to say a word’
Invel had said that it was all to do with fate. Gray had believed that he was fated to deal with E.N.D., had made it his fate, his path with his own actions and choices. So, was it fate to that Gray would fall in love with Natsu? That he would fall so far, that his present and future were so intimately tied with the Dragon-slayer’s that he couldn’t imagine either without him?
If so, fate was crueler than any demon.
Day 2: Prompt: ‘I’m ready to die if necessary’
“I wonder.” The menace was gone, back to the earlier curiosity as Zeref looked between the two of them, still smiling as he circled a little to the right with Gray mirroring him. Not about to give him another chance to get too close to Natsu. “How far would you go to protect the one thing you swore to destroy?” Gray flinched at the words but didn’t falter, even as he heard Natsu’s strangled gasp. I promised to destroy E.N.D., and right now you’re not E.N.D., and I won’t let you become him, so we will never have to cross that bridge, he promised silently, hands balled at his sides.
Day 3: Prompt: ‘What’s with all the noise ? I’m sleepy’
“You’ve got to come back to me,” Natsu whispered instead, searching Gray’s face for some sign that the Ice Mage knew that he was there, and finding none. “Please…” he pleaded, voice catching, eyes beginning to sting again, and he buried his head against the hand he was cradling, willing the Ice Mage to come back to him. To give him the chance to apologise, even if Gray didn’t want to forgive him for this. To promise that he would stop chasing the past, as long as Gray had a future. Please…
Day 4: Prompt: ‘That idiot! Running off on his own again’
Gray just knew that Natsu was in the middle of whatever was happening, wondering not for the first time how it was that his boyfriend managed to find himself in the middle of the worst of the chaos every single time. Of course, Natsu didn’t help matters by rushing off on his own to face things, and Gray and the others had been more frustrated than worried when they’d regrouped and turned around to find that the idiot had disappeared. At least until the building had started shaking, rocks and dust falling from the crumbling ceiling.
Day 5: Prompt: ‘Does this fire you up, Natsu?’
“Gray,” Natsu interrupted, closing the last of the distance and reaching out to grasp his hands, burning warmth a balm against the chill Gray’s dark thoughts. “We’re always going to fight. We were rivals before anything else,” he squeezed Gray’s hands. “We’re still going to be rivals on some level even when we’re married, or when we’re old and grey.” That derailed Gray for a moment, and he gaped at Natsu, unable to react as the Dragon-slayer shifted his hold until he had Gray wrapped up in a tight hug. “That hasn’t changed, and it’s not going to, I promise.”
