Title: This is our answer

Prompt: Dear person I like

Characters: Jellal Fernandes, Erza Scarlet

Setting: Post-Tenrou arc, pre-GMG

Rating: T

Word count: 465

Notes: I tried to write this as fluff, but I cannot. This is, I think, slight melancholic but also hopeful. Spoiler-ish for manga chapter 264

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When he was sure that his friends are asleep, Jellal quietly approached the campfire with a sheet of paper and an ink pen. Once his eyes adjusted to the dim light, he began to write.

Dear—

He almost wrote her name, but decided not to, in case his friends find it. It is futile to hide who it is for, but after the teasing he got from them earlier, he just couldn't. So he wrote, without thinking too much about it:

Dear person I like,

I have no words to express my happiness to know that you are alive and well.

The past seven years that you and your comrades went missing have given me plenty of time to think of the circumstances between us. I know I have caused you so much suffering.

I owe you and Crime Sorciere for forcing me to begin anew, for giving me a purpose to remain living; to find you, and to atone for my sins. Now that you are back, I shall continue to work with them.

I have pushed you away in the past, and forgive me for doing the same now. It is not yet time. I may or may not ever completely make up for everything that I have done, but your return, as well as your words, has renewed my will to continue trying.

We have things to accomplish. There are answers we need to find.

I cannot tell what is fated, nor if we will find these answers. What I know is that for now, I am content to know that you live. Your life, to me, is of utmost importance.

I wish you well.

Jellal

He reread what he wrote when he was done. There is no chance he would give this letter to the person he wrote it for. It was just something that he had to write down.

Ultear stirred in her sleep and so did Meredy. Before any of them catches him, Jellal tossed the letter into the dying fire. He watched intently as the edges of the paper slowly burnt.

He blamed it to drowsiness when he imagined the burning paper to form the shape of a heart, to melancholy when the middle finally caught fire and broke the heart.

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Not so far away, Erza walked along the shore, thinking of the earlier events that happened between her and the person… the person that she liked.

She knew that they were being hopeless fools, but also understood that they both have reasons for the things that they do and the decisions they make. She is at least satisfied to find the answer to the question she always pushed to the back of her mind.

She smiled wistfully as she thought to herself: "This is our answer."

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Thank you for reading :)

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I wrote this from my memory of chapter 264 and a few tidbits may not be accurate, feel free to correct my mistakes but gently please.