Chapter 1
"THIS CAN'T BE RIGHT! Are you sure you didn't mix my test results up with someone else's?" Asked the beautiful, hysterical blonde.
The tall serious black haired doctor shook his head. "I know this is tough news Mrs. Dragneel, but I have been a doctor long enough to know what I'm saying is true." He responded with slight arrogance.
The blonde - Lucy Heartfilia Dragneel - put her face in her hands. She couldn't believe it, but she knew he was telling the truth because she had seen 3 doctors in the last week and they had all said the same thing.
FLASHBACK
It had all started about a month ago and she had just started doing missions again after taking about 6 months off. She was on a mission with Team Natsu and they were on their way back to Magnolia when she tripped getting onto the train platform. Lucy didn't think she fell that hard, but when she got home that night, she had a huge bruise on her thigh. Her tall husband was the first one to notice the bruise.
"Hey Luce, have you seen my red shirt?" Natsu yelled walking into the bedroom smiling a goofy grin and wearing only a pair of boxers. His spiky, pink hair stuck out as if being pulled by gravity. Lucy started to speak when Natsu interrupted her, "How in the hell did you get a bruise that big?" He says walking over to her.
Lucy who was laying on the bed asks, "What bruise?"
Natsu who is now sitting on the bed right beside her points to her left thigh and says, "That bruise."
She looked down and saw a purplish circle on her thigh the size of a tangerine. "I don't know Natsu, maybe it's from where I fell today." She replies.
He looks closer before saying skeptically, "Okay."
He gets off the bed and starts heading for the bathroom when she says, "Your shirt is on the couch."
He turns around and says, "I looked there!"
"Well look again, it might have gotten pushed under the cushions." She said as he runs off to find his shirt. She smiled in amusement. Natsu could be so dense, sometimes.
After that night things didn't get better, they got worse. Over the course of the next three weeks, she started to eat less, get tired often, bruise easily, have horrible headaches, bleeding gums, and she lost a lot of weight. One week after the symptoms started, Natsu began trying to get Lucy to go to the doctor. She could tell that he was really worried about her as Natsu hated going to the doctors and never wished anyone to suffer the same fate. He was never sick though which he thanked Mavis about as he never had to go to any doctors.
FLASHBACK END
Lucy smiled as she thought about Natsu and the rest of her family. She didn't want to leave them alone but there was no doubt about it. She had AML also known as Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Now she had to face the music. She held her head up high and wiped the tears away as the doctor spoke again.
"Now Mrs. Dragneel I am going to set up an appointment for you to see an old colleague of mine, Dr. Martha Resnik, she specializes in helping people with leukemia. I'll have her office call you and let you know when your appointment will be. She can give you more information on the disease and tell you how bad your condition is. Now I'm going to go into the other room to get you some paperwork on AML and a print out of my diagnosis to show Martha."
Lucy nodded and watched him leave. How was she going to tell her family?