Lucy did a quick check up over all the kids in her yard. One pink head, three blue heads, one (bright) red head, three white heads, two black heads, and one brunette.

They were getting along just fine (at the moment) and she felt like she could leave them alone for five minutes. Surely nothing horrible will happen if she left them alone for just a few short minutes, right?

"Jellal," the only male bluenette in her yard rushed to her side immediately.

"Is something wrong Ms. Lucy?" The blonde smiled softly at him; no matter how many times she asked, the boy still called her Miss (even after her wedding, which he was present in).

"Nothing is wrong sweetie; I just wanted to ask you to be in charge of everyone for a bit? I just want to go for in for a second, and then I'll be right back." She explained.

He blinked at her and smiled back happily, "Of course, Ms. Lucy. Take your time."

She wasn't going to 'take her time', the group of preteens was just too prone for trouble, but she appreciated the gesture.

Making a bee line to kitchen, Lucy frowned at the pile of dishes in her sink. It wasn't a pile anymore, it was a tiny mountain. But even when it when it was only Igneel's and Natsu's and her dishes, she hated dealing with them, which was why she would wash them later.

Or she could wait until Ig would come back and convince him to do it instead.

So Lucy decided to clean up a bit. She took put a few books back on the shelf, put the TV remote back in its proper place, found Happy's fish toy under the couch, and then took her husband's favorite red hoodie from its current location on the couch (where it was bound to be dirtied in some way) and put it back where it really belonged – the closet.

Satisfied with her half-assed attempt to tidy up the house, Lucy turned to leave the bedroom but stopped as she passed the bathroom.

The door is partially open and out of the corner of her eye she can see the scale peeking from beneath the raised drawers.

Glancing at the door and trying to make out from the sounds around her if one of the kids got inside the house. The silence around her had Lucy dashing to the bathroom (what are you doing? It's not as if anyone is here to see you, you weirdo Natsu's voice told her in her head).

Pulling the damned scale from its place, Lucy hesitantly stepped onto the scale.

And then she gasped.

Did she really gain three pounds since the last time she weighed herself?!

A soft meow was heard beside her and Lucy's head snapped to the floor to glare at Happy.

"Meow," He repeated.

"Don't you dare look at me like that, I am not fat!"

The blue cat just looked at her with dark judgmental eyes.

"What is wrong with you, you stupid cat?"

"Luce?" the blonde yelped and jumped in surprise. With all her attention split between her weight and Happy's criticizing stare, she didn't even notice Natsu coming in.

"Natsu, what ar-"

"Why were you talking to Happy? He's a cat, they can't talk you weirdo."

Lucy gaped at the 13 year old in shock for exactly 2.7 seconds before her shock turned to rage.

"You little-!"

And then she chased the pinkette back to the living room. Once she grabbed him she had to tackle him to stop him from running. She was getting too old for all that running….

"What were you doing in my bedroom?"

"Looking for you! Lisanna scraped her knee and Jellal sent me to get a band aid or something because it's my home." Green eyes met with brown and Lucy let go of the boy.

"Go get the first aid kit from the bathroom, I'll go see what happened," she sighed.

Later that day when Igneel was washing the dishes with Lucy drying them, they shared stories of their day and the redhead laughed at what happened.

"Well you can't blame him for being confused Love, you talked to a cat."

She pouted up to the red head and he swooped in to kiss the pout away from her lips, not controlling himself as always happened when she pouted like that.

"You have the most interesting adventures without me Love, I'm a bit jealous."

Lucy giggled, but right then Igneel thought about his beautiful wife chasing his son with flaming cheeks again and he burst out laughing.

"Ig~!"

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Hi~

So this is the first chapter of The Magic In Between, it's kind of but not really a spin off of the lovely Maiokoe's fic Growing up Magical where Luneel (Lucy/Igneel) was created! AU obviously~

I won't post regularly, mostly because there is no plot line, and it won't always follow Maiokoe's plot line in the original story, she was just kind (and crazy) enough to let me use the setting she created for a pairing that inspired me. Honestly, I might not even be consistent here.

I hope you like those fics here, I'm open to suggestions (BTW this chapter is inspired by PinkFireandGoldenStars' review on the last chapter of GUM, this is dedicated to you and Maiokoe), so if I'm inspired by your idea it might show up here~!

Well I'm pretty sure that's it for now (it's not I forgot stuff, but it's 4:40 am so I think I did pretty good)

See ya soon :)