A/N: Hi there! First of all I don't want to bore you with the authors note so I'll just let you guys in on a few things. This may not follow canon to a T, so don't expect that very much. Just think of it as it being yeas after the whole Zeref/Acanologia deal.

This story does however have very many ships, some of the obvious ones being Gajevy, Gruvia, Miraxus, etc! The main one however will be NaLu because what else did you expect *eyebrow waggle*

I do not own Fairy Tail or it's characters of course HOWEVER I did create the children that appear in this story so I guess I own them...? Not offically, they're just fanchildren lmao, anyways I hope you guys enjoy! Onto the story!

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"Lu-chaaaaan~!"

The voice was distant and barely audible, but it had reached Lucy's ears clear as day. The blonde had been laying in bed for the majority of the day, curled up in a comfy little burrito made of her sheets and blankets as she fell asleep, woke up and then repeated the process. This time she had just woken up for the 3rd time this morning, her eyes blinking as she tried to adjust to the sun that had been beaming from her window.

"Mm...?" Lucy murmured groggily, stirring just a little but not emerging from her comfy warm cocoon. The voice called out to her again and this time she couldn't ignore it. She forced herself to sit up and let the blankets fall off of her, causing her to shiver from the sudden air but relaxing once again considering her house isn't too cold due to her heater.

Lucy hugged herself as she sighed, reaching a hand up to rub her temple as she felt a twinge of pain shoot through her head like a bullet. Ugh, a headache. Lucy groaned and shut her eyes tight in an attempt to subdue it.

It wasn't as if headaches were a weird thing to experience, it's just the fact that she had been getting them constantly for the past few weeks and Lucy was beginning to tire of having to chug down countless pills to stop it. After hearing the voice for a third time, there had been a knock on the door just a few minutes later and Lucy grumbled as she fumbled to get out of bed.

"Coming." She spoke as she slipped on the slippers which sat near the edge of her bed before she headed over to the door, her blanket still wrapped around her shoulders as she shivered from her sickness. Her shaking hand reached for the knob and took a hold of it, turning it before cracking the door open slightly.

"Lu-chan there you are!"

"Levy? What are you doing here?"

Blinking, Lucy would look down to the shorter female confused as to why she was here at her house. She never really came over unless she invited her to read the latest chapter of her novel but other than that the only ones who had came to her house from the guild was her team mates.

"I came to check on you, silly." Levy spoke as she put her hands behind her back innocently, smiling to her in a warm way as she did to everyone. Levy had a nice smile, Lucy couldn't think of a moment she didn't see the female smiling aside from when she got into her books and writing.

The smile would soon fade however when the bluenette noticed how drained and tired she had looked. "Jeez you look awful!" She couldn't help but shout out, but soon clasped a hand over her mouth as she looked to her apologetically for her outburst.

Lucy simply sighed, closing her eyes when she did. "I know, I feel awful too." She grumbled, clutching the blanket that had been wrapped around her shoulders tighter to cover her body even more.

"I felt I should check on you, the guild is worried about you." Levy spoke with concern in her voice that reminded her a lot like a mothers. "Everyone sends their regards though, they've all been taking jobs and haven't had time to come see you." She then stated as she twirled a blue strand of her hair on her finger, the hair being much longer then it was years ago.

It was true, the guild was busier then ever and jobs had been popping up left and right, the members couldn't let that go to waste. Erza had been on a job for a couple of weeks now, she had taken Wendy and Carla with her for more experience while Gray, Natsu, and Happy had gone their seperate ways to complete other tasks.

It was a bit lonely without the pink haired wizard suddenly appearing out of no where and asking her to take a job with him, but she let him know that it was fine if he wanted to go on missions without her. Afterall, it wasn't as if they HAD to be together 24/7, even though it would've been nice.

Lucy would simply nod, a small smile appearing on her facial features as she looked back to the frantic script mage. "That's alright, I've just been here... dying in my bed." She jokingly said, but it aroused no laugh from Levy.

"Lu-chan don't say that!" She exclaimed, she was such a worry wart. "You've been sick for 2 whole weeks now, you should go see a doctor." Levy would nod once, crossing her arms in a matter of fact way.

"I don't need a doctor, the medicine I have now is FINE, Levy." Lucy grumbled, looking down to the ground with a pout. As much as she hated to admit it, she was terrifed of doctors and if she had medicine that could solve the problem she would avoid doctors like a plague. She also had Wendy to help her out, she didn't need to go through all that trouble.

"You always say that and then you end up worse." Levy retored, raising an eyebrow at this.

Lucy kicked the ground a bit with her slipper, fumbling with the edges of the covers that rested on her shoulders before she looked back up to Levy.

"Fine, If I get worse I'll go to the doctor." She then said. "Deal?"

"Deal, but you have to keep it!"

"I will, you know I keep promises."

The two females would begin to laugh and giggle at their little exchange before another shiver shook Lucy to the core. "Uwah, this sucks..." Lucy whined clutching the blanket tighter. She didn't let it get the best of her however and she was reminded of why Levy was here in the first place.

"Ah, that reminds me Lu-chan." It wasn't too late before Levy had spoken up again, putting her hands together as a wide smile spread across her face. This concerned Lucy, as she only got this smile whenever she had an idea or plan to do something.

"Eh?" Lucy simply questioned.

"I went on a job the other day to help decode some ancient scripts," Levy began, closing her eyes as she explained herself to the celestial mage which stood at the door still in her pjs looking like a mess. "You'll never guess what the reward was."

Lucy brought her hand up to her chin to rub it as started to think of the possibilities, a gold ring? Or rather, gold bars itself? Diamonds? Or just jewels?

"Ahhh I can't think clearly right now," Lucy said defeated. "What was it?"

With a giggle, Levy simply stood there. She didn't pull out a bag of jewels, not any tickets to anywhere, just stood in excitement.

"Reservations to the number one seaside resort in Fiore!"

Reservations to a seaside resort? Now that sounded amazing! They could relax in the lavish rooms or spend the whole day at the beach just having fun. That would be fun, if Lucy wasn't sick as a dog.

"That's great, Levy-chan!" Lucy beamed, but soon her expression fell to a frown. "Just one problem, I don't think I feel good enough to go..."

The bluenette frowned as soon as she heard the news that she wouldn't be able to go. She wanted to invite her, due to the fact all she's been doing lately is staying at her home sick out of her mind and she hasn't even been able to go on jobs.

"That's ok! How about you just try to come?" Levy was hopeful that Lucy would change her mind, after all what better way to work off a flu then to run around and break a sweat? Lucy fidgeted a bit as she thought it over, biting her bottom lip considering the pros and cons.

On one hand, she could end up just staying up in the room not being able to go out with them, or on the other hand she could have a lot of fun and the flu would go away. It was a two way street, but Lucy thought that she had nothing to lose.

"Alright alright, ya got me." The blonde finally stated with a sigh, smiling once again as she looked to the now excited script mage. Without warning, the small woman would jump and wrap her arms around her, squeezing her tightly.

"I'm so happy you agreed, Lu-chan! It won't be for another week, so I hope that everyone will come home from their jobs by then so we could all go." Levy glanced up to Lucy realzing that she was hugging her a bit too tightly before she quickly let go with an apologetic smile on her face.

"Yeah, but what about Garcelle?" Lucy questioned, forgetting about the hug for now.

Garcelle was the name of Levy's baby girl, one whom she and Gajeel had brought into the world two years ago. She was absolutely gorgeous, eyes as piercing and menacing as Gajeel's with beautiful raven hair complimenting her porceline skin which she got from Levy. Lucy remembered the day she got to hold her when she was born. It wasn't for a while however, seeing as Gajeel wouldn't let anyone but the doctors and Levy touch her, dragons were protective over their young and it was especially the case for him considering it was his first born.

"It's ok we're definetely taking her, Gajeel wasn't too keen on going at first but I convinced him." Levy stated, nudging the blondes arm as she raised her eyebrows up and down playfully. Lucy didn't want to know what she meant by that so she let it slide.

"Heh well if Erza and the others are coming we can expect entertainment for the kids, huh?" Lucy would giggle as she thought of the other children that the guild had welcomed years ago. Come to think of it, a lot of the guild members had started lives together and had children in the years prior.

Lucy was also waiting paitentely for her 'happy ending', she was hopeful that she would be able to have children and get married as well. However, with Natsu as her partner and still being as clueless to her feelings as ever it was hardly possible she'd start it soon despite all they've been through.

"Well Lu-chan, I had better get going. Gajeel gets anxious when I'm gone too long." Levy sighed as if it was troublesome to her, but that was far from the truth. Anyone could tell they were happy together, she just liked to tease a lot.

"Oh right! I guess I'll stop by the guild soon to check up on things." Lucy replied, happy to get back to her comfy bed that was calling her name all this time.

"Of course! Get well." With that, the script mage turned on her heels and began to head back to her home. When she was fully out of sight, Lucy swiftly closed the door shut once more and happily went over to her bed once again to slip off into a sweet nap, one that would stop her feelings of nausea and sickness for a couple of hours and that's all she would need.

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"Ah Lucy-san we haven't seen you in weeks!" From the river that flowed in front of Lucy's house there had been a familiar voice call out to her. The two men whom had always greeted her and warned her of walking on the ledge were never late in wishing her a good morning or good night and it was no surprise to her that they would be there today.

"Good morning!" Lucy chimmed as she waved a hand towards them politely, locking the door to her apartment before she started on her way towards the familiar guild she loved so much. Thankfully, today she had been feeling much better than the past few weeks and she was confident that she would be able to survive the trip to the resort.

"Still, I can't help but feel a small amount of nausea in the pit of my stomach..." Lucy grumbled seemingly talking to herself, however her faithful companion Plue was walking along side her, patting her leg in a comforting way as he muttered out his usual phrase.

Lucy would smile at the spirit before she bent over to pick him up and craddle him in her arms as if he was a child. Plue trembled as he usually did but smiled either way as he raised his arms up and spoke.

"Pun, pun!"

"I know I'm excited too, we haven't been to a beach in a while!" Lucy sighed dreamily as she balanced herself on the edge of the sidewalk on her way to the guild. Sure, the guildhall had a really nice pool but it wasn't the same as getting into the salty ocean and kicking up some sand. That's what she wanted to do the most, it seemed like it would relax her.

It didn't take the blonde very long to reach the giant guildhall of Fairy Tail, the spirit in her arms would glow a golden yellow before he disappeared into the spirit world and she would push open the two large doors to the place.

She glanced around the room and a smile appeared on her face, everyone causing a ruckus and drinking as per usual. There had been a lot of new faces over the years but the old ones still stuck out to her the most.

"Lucy-san!" The voice had called out, coming from below as the blondes eyes wandered to the ground.

Her gaze was met by a child, about seven years old, a glare accompanying the smaller facial features as she suddenly felt nervous.

"Where have you been?!" The child exclaimed, pointing an accusing finger up to her as she raised her hands up in a defensive manner. She couldn't find a response, blinking her eyes a few times as she felt her mouth curl into a confused shape.

"W-well-"

"No excuses! Fairy Tail wizards don't get sick!" Before she could attempt to respond again, he turned his back to her and huffed in annoyance. The young blonde certainly was his fathers son.

"Stop harrassing the members, you little brat!" Makarov suddenly called out from across the room as he sat in his usual spot ontop of the bar. His eyebrow twitched in annoyance, looking towards the younger male as he glared back with as much sass as he did.

"You can't make me, old man." The kid mumbled, sticking his tongue out in a mocking manner.

It wasn't too long before Makarov's arm would grow and stretch, shooting across the room to bop the kid right in the head causing him to cry out as he rubbed the spot he hit.

"Have you no respect for your elders, Giro?!" Makarov hissed, the younger boy looking to the ground with guilt. Lucy couldn't help but feel a bit bad and she would smile at him and ruffle his hair.

"Master it's ok, he's just being a child." She spoke, the older man scoffing as he chugged down a mug of beer he held.

"He certainly has his father's vigor, that's for sure." Makarov soon responded as he wiped the contents from his mustache on his sleeve. Anyone that knew him would know the older man had tough love for his children, but he meant well. However, when it came to his great grand child he had a right to be extra tough.

"Giro, stop causing trouble and come help me dry some plates."

Lucy and Giro both would lift their heads and look to the bar once again, this time their attention being grabbed by Mirajane as she stood there casually drying cups and plates after washing them. Giro protested against it and only crossed his arms once again.

"Aw ma... that's too boring! I wanna go on a job!" He exclaimed excitedly, putting his hands into fist. He was quite eccentric when he wanted to be.

"Good boys listen to their mothers, besides you need to grow a little more before you can start taking them." Mirajane would smile towards her son in a way only a mother could. Mirajane was a great mother, after all she already was a mother to a lot of people at the guild so she had some experience.

Despite giving yet another annoyed grunt Giro would follow his mothers wishes and head behind the counter, helping her dry some of the plates and put them away for future use. He was rather helpful when it came to cleaning but she wouldn't let him handle the alcohol.

"I'm glad to see you doing better, Lucy." Mira started, "I was worried you know, you haven't taken a job in a while."

Lucy didn't hesitate to walk over to where she stood, a small smile plastered on her face.

"Heh I know, but I'm feeling much better now so I'll take as many jobs as I can!"

The statement was true, she intended on going on lot's of jobs to make up for what she had missed during her weeks of sickness. However, she wanted to go on the trip first before she went back to working, after all a vacation is always needed after a while of being sick.

"Hey Mira are you going to the resort too?" Lucy was curious to ask, seeing as Levy had mentioned she had reservations for a few people at the guild. Mirajane simply shook her head no before putting away some more glasses.

"I'm rather busy here, much too busy to take a vacation." She laughed a bit, closing her eyes and cocking her head to the side as she usually did. "Laxus has been taking a couple of S-Class jobs so I have to look over the little troublemaker.~"

Mira glanced over to her son who was rushing to dry the plates as if it was a competition and she couldn't help but smile lovingly towards the child. Lucy always took notice of that smile and it made her smile in return. She hoped she would be as good of a mother as Mirajane, if he had a chance.

The two mages continued on with their conversation, the guild carrying on as per usual as the day went on rather slowly.

However, the precious silence didn't last very long as the guild doors swung back open once again.

"We're back." The familiar voice belonged to no one other then the swordswoman Erza, Wendy and Carla followed closely behind her carrying bags of items from their job. Lucy turned around to see and quickly rose to her feet to greet her nakama.

"Erza! Wendy! You're back!" She greeted them all with a friendly smile, the three would look in her direction and quickly return it.

Lucy suddenly found herself in the tightest hug possible, Erza being the culprit.

"Lucy, I heard you were ill in our absence. Are you ok?" The worry in her voice was as geniune as ever and the blonde nodded as a sweat drop fell down her cheek.

"Y-yes I'm fine!" She choked out, the crushing hug from Erza taking out the air from her lungs until she was released onto her feet once again, Lucy coughing slightly.

"Good, I'm glad to hear it." She placed an armored hand on her shoulder, smiling to her kindly as she tilted her head to the side. The scarlet haired female had looked different as well, she had cut her hair extremly short so that she woud be able to fight without it getting in her way and she seemed to look much more mature this way.

"Has Levy told you? About the resort?" Lucy questioned, however she had a feeling that she doesn't know yet due to just getting back. However, she thought it wouldn't hurt to ask.

Erza would nod, Wendy going off to greet other members of the guild.

"Yes in fact, I ran into her before I headed here." Erza said with a smile. "To be honest, I needed a vacation." The female would sigh as she ran her fingers through her now short hair, stretching with a groan soon after.

Lucy could agree with that, though her reasons were probably much different from Erza's. The mage had two kids to look after, on top of that both her and Jellal would take turns going on missions in order to earn some money and this time around it was Erza's turn.

Lucy wished she could do the same, if only her partner had asked her before running off to do a job for long periods of time.

Still, she was glad that she'd be able to go to the resort. She was also happy to know that there was a possibility Natsu would be back in time to go with her. She missed him.

"Hm, thats odd." The blondes thoughts were soon cut off when she heard Erza speak up once more, looking to her as she glanced about the room as if searching for something.

"Natsu isn't back yet?"

"No," Lucy replied. "He's been gone for weeks, the job must've been a hard one."

This only aroused a grunt from Erza, almost as if she had been annoyed with the dragon slayer. "Of course, such an irresponsible man. Leaving you ike this." She finally said, a sigh following.

Sure he had been leaving her behind more recently nowadays, but he had to have a reason right?

"It's ok, I know he'll come back." Lucy felt her cheeks turn a slight tinge of pink, thinking how he always came back for her would do this to her. Erza would simply smile knowingly before she turned on her heel and picked up the bags in which Wendy had left.

"Well, I'll speak to you soon. I must be heading home, Jellal must be pulling his hair out by now." Erza shook her head as she chuckled and she woud soon head towards the door, raising a hand as she left. Lucy was a bit started at the sudden departure, but waved back either way.

"See you later, Lucy."

"Yeah, bye!"

When the redhead had finally dissapeared outside of the guildhall, Lucy returned to her seat at the bar glancing down to her hands that rested calmly on the wood. Her stare would meet the pink mark on her hand and she smiled a bit, placing said hand on her chest. She would be lying if she said she wasn't worried, but she knew she shouldn't be.

"Come back soon, Natsu."

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