Disclaimer: It's all Hiro Mashima's.
Warning/s: Possible spoilers of the Oración Seis arc.

11:40, the old grandfather clock chimed. Twenty minutes until the next day—until midnight.

Normally at this time, Erza Scarlet would have been fast asleep in her bedroom—one of the five rooms she rented in Fairy Heights—but today, she was fully clothed in her normal armour outfit, sitting on a chair and looking out the window. She didn't want to risk missing the 12 AM trip going to Era, where the Magic Council was, and thus she stayed up for it.

Erza brought out her finger and, on the water vapour of her glass window, she started writing on it mindlessly. Twenty minutes until we leave for the train, Erza noted, still writing. She remembered how the trip was made. Natsu—of course it was Natsu—had convinced Makarov to let the train system have, just this once, a schedule for it to go directly to Era.

Makarov had asked and the train administration agreed to it but the only time that they allotted for it was at 12:10 in the morning. If it was missed, then there were no more second chances to get to Era. She recalled how happy Natsu was to tell her that there was an 8-hour trip to Era.

"Erza, Erza, Erza!" Natsu called in an exuberant manner, running towards the red-haired.

The red head turned around when she heard her name being called, only to see Natsu panting behind her. "Oh, Natsu. What is it? Don't tell me you've destroyed another—"

Cutting her off, Natsu brought out a piece of paper from his hand, trying to catch his breath. "H-H-Here," he panted. "T-This is for y-you!"

Erza raised a brow and took the paper. Upon taking a closer look at it, she felt her body tremble and she could already feel tears forming in her eyes.

It was a ticket; its destination was directly to Era from Magnolia, no stopovers.

"H-H-How did you—"

"I know how much you want to go to Era two days from now. For his thing, you know?" Natsu gave a sad smile. "Besides, you're not the only one who wants to go. Everyone from the Oración Seis incident is coming along!"

Composing herself, Erza looked at Natsu and whole-heartedly smiled, "Thank you, Natsu."

"It's no problem, Erza! Anything for nakama! Thank Gramps, too!" he grinned. "Anyway, we're all going to pick you up at 12 AM so that we can all get to the station at 12:10." told Natsu. "Have to go, Erza! I have a thing to settle with that ice bastard! See you tomorrow... well, two days from now but technically tomorrow!" Natsu then ran to where Gray was and a huge explosion was heard after that.

Erza felt a tear fall as she recalled the memory; despite the clumsy idiot Natsu was, he always put his nakama first and he would do anything for his nakama, even if it meant riding on a train for twelve hours.

She heaved a sigh. Tomorrow, no, in a few more minutes... I'll be on the train. Erza thought. In eight hours, I will be in Era—where the Magic Council is. Erza gulped. ...Where the prison is.

Ah, the quintessence of the whole trip—the prison. Disdainfully, Erza recalled that tomorrow would mark the 1-year mark of his stay in prison.

Yet, it would also be his execution date.

It had taken the Magic Council a year of debating whether Jellal was to be executed or to be imprisoned for eternity. Despite everything he had done during the incident with Oración Seis, with the whole ordeal with Nirvana and all that, it wasn't enough to compensate what he had done when he was still under Zeref's influence, and thus his execution sentence.

Erza gritted her teeth and tightened her fist. It wasn't fair. Then again, who said life would be—was? Despite everything, Jellal was going to be executed even if he was innocent and Erza couldn't do anything about it, which was why she was going to go to his execution: to remove any hard feelings, to remove all regrets, to start over. Start over? Something inside of her scoffed. As if. How the hell do you start over when you're dead?

11:45 had struck the grandfather clock. Only fifteen more minutes.

She looked out her window and noticed that the storm outside had gotten worse. Lightning started to strike and thunder boomed all over. It was terrifying.

Erza, trying to distract herself from looking out the window, looked at the things she had mindlessly written on the vapour. She couldn't see what she had written because there was no light to see it—the candle had burned out—and so she decided to look for a light. Just when she was about to get off the chair, lightning had struck near enough her window to act as a light to let her see it. And what she had seen made her widen her eyes in horror.

She had only written one word, but it was enough to have such a great impact on her. She got off of her seat and with her hands covering her mouth she slowly backed away from her seat while still looking at the word on the window.

She read aloud in a quiet whisper what the word was; she could not believe that mindlessly, she had written his name.

While backing away, she felt herself hit something. Strange, she thought to herself. My cabinet isn't this near.

She turned around to check what she had hit, only to find herself ramming against a... person?

"Erza," the person whispered. She shivered; she, of course, knew that velvety voice that sent chills to her spine, and oh so well just for that matter.

But with hope that it wasn't him, she denied. No, it isn't possible, Erza told herself. It can't be him. Slowly, Erza lifted her head to look up.

And once more, her eyes widened in horror because it was him.

She gulped and in a shaky voice, she breathed, "J-Jell-Jellal,"

Despite the darkness, she saw his emerald orbs clearly looking at her and only her. She then saw his lips curve into a sly, coy smile.

"You called, Erza?"

And 11:50 struck the clock when he covered her scream with his hand.

I've just spent the last 30 hours reading all 230 chapters of Fairy Tail and I've to say, I really love FT! I've yet to watch the anime. After reading, I quickly went to and looked at FT's archive. I have no idea why, but it's so full of NaLu! I don't even recall there being any NaLu moments but whatever. Jellal x Erza is my top pairing in this anime but I find Gray x Erza cool as well. Weird. JERZA FTW. :)

Anyway, despite this being my first Fairy Tail entry, I hope they're in character and if not, I hope this is at least a little bit interesting.

I don't know if I should continue this or not—I find the cliff hanger evil but wonderful. (Weird author? Yeah.) Leave a review if there're any typos, grammatical errors, etc., or if you'd want me to continue? Haha. Criticisms are wanted. Thanks. :)

Oh yeah, the title of this may change as well. Just a warning?

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