How Writing Fanfiction Saved Me

I Want To Help You, But I Don't Know How

     Disclaimer: All Fairy Tail characters belong to Hiro Mashima

Chapter 11: I Want To Help You, But I Don't Know How

Wendy awoke to find herself alone in Natsu's room. She got up quickly not liking the feeling. She walked out of the room and saw Zeref's door was open. She peered inside but it too was empty. She heard noises coming from the kitchen and made her way there. She saw Natsu, busy trying to make what appeared to be breakfast. He didn't seem to be having much luck if the mess surrounding him was any indication.

Natsu noticed her and gave her a helpless look. He was covered in ingredients, flour covered his hair and his shirt along with bits and pieces of other things that Wendy did not care to identify. Wendy giggled at him and asked, "What are you doing?"

"What does it look like? I'm trying to make you breakfast." he groused, "I just forgot that I'm not very good at it."

Wendy laughed at how pathetic Natsu looked and grabbed an apron to put on over her pajamas. "Why don't I help you then? Maybe we can figure it out together."

"What were you trying to make?" Wendy asked curiously looking at the messy kitchen.

"Well, first I tried to make pancakes but I got distracted and kind of burnt them all." Natsu said sheepishly, "Then I remembered you liked it when Mom made you oatmeal from scratch so I tried that but I guess I must have set the temperature to high because it all stuck to the bottom of the pan. I was about to move on to eggs."

Wendy sighed, "Let's just clean up this mess first. If we wait too long everything will be that much harder to clean."

Natsu agreed and they set about cleaning up the enormous mess he had made.

"Where's Zeref?" Wendy asked as she wiped down the counters.

"He said we're on our own for today. He had a bunch of errands to run and a doctor's appointment." Natsu shrugged and pointed at the note that was still on the refrigerator door. He had been relieved when he'd found it as it gave him a little more time to think about everything.

"We are so ordering pizza for dinner tonight, I don't think the kitchen can handle another one of you attempts at cooking." Wendy teased her brother before becoming serious. "Natsu, what happened to you yesterday?"

"Silver said I had a panic attack, nothing to worry about." Natsu smiled at his sister trying to assuage her fears. "I'm sorry if I scared you. He also said that neither of us have what Mom and Zeref do, so you don't have to worry, ok?"

Wendy nodded, that was nice to know although it didn't change Zeref's situation any. She looked at the ground before asking "Natsu, what's going to happen to us?"

"Silver said we will go live with them." Natsu tried to make his voice sound reassuring even though he was still a little wary of trusting the change that had seemed to come over Silver in the last few days.

"Oh. I guess that's good, right?" Wendy asked not sure how she was supposed to feel about it. On the one hand she loved the Fullbusters dearly but on the other she felt uncomfortable with the idea of replacing her parents.