Chapter 1-Meet the Lawyer

Levy's POV.

Junior year was amazing I had a new boyfriend who was sooo amazing, he was sweet and caring and tough. Gajeel was a senior though so I didn't get to see him very much but we had lunch and one class together. The only bad thing is my parents hate him, they tried to make me break up with him but I didn't. We have been dating for six months now and they still hated him. There wasn't much they could do about it though except for not let me see him much outside of school but even that didn't work because he was friends with all of my friends and when I hung out with my friends he was there. But all of that changed when I got pregnant… my parents went ballistic and went through legal rights to get custody of the baby and then kicked me out right after I had her. I hated them they took our baby away. They told me I could have her back after I left Gajeel and that if I even tried to leave him, get her back, and then go back to him they would snatch her back. They didn't even let me name her, and they gave her a horrendous name: Deanna we wanted to name her Lilly Nicole Redfox. But as of now her name is Deanna Marie McGarden.

When they kicked me out I moved in with Lucy my best friend until Gajeel had a house on his own and then I moved in with him. We lived on Fairy Tail Ln. with all of our friends and it's great but we have a little hole in our life that we plan to fix.

Present Day

Gajeel was getting dressed and I was putting the last touches on my makeup while I waited for him, I was turning 20 today and that meant we were going to meet with a child services lawyer to discuss getting custody of Lilly(Deanna) she turned two last month and I was so excited to get her back. I have only seen her a couple times since birth and I wanted to have her back where she belonged. Gajeel finally got finished and we walked outthe door to head to the lawyers office. We don't even know this guys name but i was praying to Mavis that he could get us our little girl back and change her name. We hated the name Deanna and wanted to change her name to what we had always planned to name her. It was only a ten minute drive to the office from our house and we were both too anxious to talk the entire ride so we rode in silence. When we got there and signed in my nerves were through the roof, this was the start of a long legal battle to get our girl back. When we were finally called back to the office area we were both so shocked at who was sitting behind the desk we busted out laughing. Jellal Fernandes was sitting behind the desk grinning at us, he waved the receptionist away who gave us all a look of confusion. She closed the door behind her and when we sat down in front of Jellal's desk we both gave him a look of pure confusion.

"I didn't know you worked in child services, Jellal?" I asked he nodded and started pulling papers out. "When I saw your file hit the system I pulled it so that I could be the one to help you. I know this case like the back of my hand so I was determined to get it." He told placing papers in front of us to sign. "These acknowledge that your parents took your daughter out of spite and that she wouldn't let you name your own daughter and that's why you want to change her name. And these verify that you are in fact Deanna's parents and that you want to get legal guardianship over her." I nodded signing them all and them handing them to Gajeel to sign. I looked up at Jellal with concern "Do you think we will get her back, Jellal?" I asked. That was my worst fear, going through all of this and then being denied custody. He looked at me seriously before taking the papers from Gajeel and filing them away. "Levy you two are going to have to jump through some hoops to get her. It's not going to be easy, you will have to get a job, make the house toddler proof, and possibly get married, I know you already want to do that but it may have to be sooner than planned." I looked at Gajeel who looked distraught, I took his hand in mine and gave it a squeeze. "We can do it, we have to. I have to have my girl back with me." He nodded. "The first step is for you, Levy, to get a job. And I will turn in these papers and see what to do after that, Levy I need you to get me paperwork to prove that you are employed when you get a job. I don't care what it is but you need a job to show that you two are financially stable." Jellal told us before standing up to shake Gajeel's hand and hug me. We walked out after saying goodbye.

I grabbed Gajeel's hand as we walked back to his truck, "I think this will be a lot more pleasant then we expected with him as our lawyer." I told him. I hopped in his truck with some struggling because of how high it was. I hated his truck but my car was run down and needed to be junked but I had to have a car so we couldn't. "Hey I have to swing by the forge and grab some stuff is that okay?" Gajeel asked starting the truck and backing out of the parking lot. I nodded and started playing on my phone. "Hey you need to be looking for a job miss!" Gajeel teased me, but I took it seriously and started looking for job listings in our area. I scrolled through the list looking for anything that caught my eye, I needed to find something that I would actually enjoy and that I would be able to take off a few days at a time if I needed to while getting Lilly settled in to living with us. I looked and looked not seeing much. When I got to the bottom of the list I found the perfect job. "Gajeel look I could be a librarian! It's perfect! I always helped in the library at school!" I shrieked getting excited. I quickly pulled up the application and started filling it out. I needed to do this asap so that I could interview soon and get a job quickly.

I finished filling it out while Gajeel got what he needed from his forge so that we could head home and have a movie marathon like we always did for my birthday. We always throw in a kid movie for Lilly even though she isn't with us we know that if she would she would want to watch a movie she would like. On her birthday every year we buy a cake and celebrate here and watch kid movies for her even though we don't get to see her. It's a tradition, we always go buy her presents to give her and a card that says from Mommy and Daddy, but I doubt that they give them to her from us. But next year I plan to have her here for her birthday to throw her a big birthday party and show her that Mommy and Daddy love her more than she could ever know. I couldn't wait to get to see her, I have heard that once the trial starts she has to come to all of the court appearances. I would get to see her everytime we went before the judge.

My phone vibrated and I looked down to see an email from an unknown address, I opened it and saw that it was the library asking me to come in for an interview tomorrow. I responded that I would come and asking if I got the job could I have paperwork proving employment. I told Gajeel about the interview and asked if he could take me to it so that I didn't have to drive my junk heap to it.. He agreed and told me he was glad I got an interview so fast, and that hopefully that would make a good impression on the judge. When we got back to the house I walked in to pop popcorn and get the snacks ready while Gajeel unloaded his stuff. Once he got done he sat down with me and we watched movies until 6 and then we got ready to go meet everyone at Lucy and Natsu's house for a birthday dinner. When we got there we were greeted by a very pregnant Lucy who looked absolutely miserable.

"Hey you know you didn't have to do this you don't look like you feel good." I said hugging her and avoiding her belly, I knew it had to be sore, I had been there. She smiled at me and shook her head "No Levy I wanted to, it's your twentieth birthday. And Natsu has been a big help when he wasn't being dumb." I laughed at her and walked in with Gajeel following me. Erza and Jellal were in the living room waiting with their twins Simon and Millianna. They were both only 5 months old and trying to learn to crawl, Erza was having a hard time, she is apparently struggling with keeping up with both of them at the same time. I'm envious of her though, she is getting to raise her babies. I have missed so much with Lilly, it hurt knowing that she had all of her firsts and I wasn't there for them, I had missed everything, they didn't even have the decency to record things for me. I don't even know what she looks like except for the fact that she has blue hair and black eyes. It's been a year since I last saw her, I got to see her for an hour on my birthday last year, but they wouldn't let Gajeel come with me so I took a few pictures and videos to show him when I left. I cherished those few pictures and videos of her. I smiled at them though, hiding the pain I was feeling, and picked up Millianna and bounced her around on my hip while talking to Erza.

"Oh hey Jellal, I got a job interview tomorrow. It's a librarian position." I told Jellal receiving a smile. "That's great Levy, it will look good for you to get a job this fast, just go ahead and get paperwork tomorrow if you get the job. And if you can swing by my office and drop them off." I nodded and continued to play with Millianna, I was close to them because I babysat them when Erza needed a break, but I was especially close to Millianna. Lucy walked back in and heard what we were talking about, " Is Jellal the lawyer for your case Levy?" She asked sitting down in a recliner. I nodded "I'm happy I feel so much more comfortable going through this with someone we already know, and he already knows most of the details about the case since he was around when it happened." I told her putting down Millianna and picking up Simon.

Gajeel walked over and plopped down beside Natsu and punched his arm. "How's it going, pregnancy hormones killed you yet? Levy was miserable for her entire pregnancy and it about killed me." Gajeel asked Natsu. I laughed because even though I hated it, what he said was true. "Nah, Lucy is a champ, she has been doing things she was told not to though and it's hard to keep her sitting for more than thirty minutes, and that's the worst part." Natsu laughed "She has tried to murder me a couple times though, she tried to make me eat peanut butter on eggs." He gagged at the end and laughed at Lucy's face. We all laughed and joked around until Grey and Juvia got there, we were all excited to see them because Grey was supposed to propose anytime soon and every time we see them we wondered if he would do it then.

We all perked up when we saw them and he gave a gloomy shake of his head saying that it wouldn't be tonight. I sighed and got up to hug Juvia and thank her for coming since this was for my birthday. "Thanks for coming! We went and met the lawyer today to start the case to get Lilly back! Guess who it is!" I told her, she laughed " I have no clue Lev!" I pointed over to Jellal and grinned at her. "Jellal! I'm so happy!" I told her. She smiled at me as we all walked to the dining room. I still had Simon with me and Erza had her hands full with Millianna, so I told her I would take care of feeding Simon for her. They were still taking bottles but I knew Erza liked to give them a bottle while her and Jellal ate and so I fixed the bottle for Simon and sat down with Gajeel. Lucy had made my favorite for dinner, katsudon was by far my favorite thing that Lucy made. We all ate dinner and laughed and talked, Simon ended up falling asleep in my arms while at the table so when I stayed there until it was time for Jellal and Erza to go. That was one of the best days I had had in awhile, I couldn't wait to get my girl back and we were on the journey towards that now.