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Nalu Week 2015 - Wander

There were times in her life that Lucy felt adrift, floating along with the whims of the tides. Not all times, mind you. Back when her mother was still alive, she felt secure. It was the naivety of a child who always knew her parents, both parents, would be with her. She didn't need to keep searching for approval, for love. She had it. If she were to fall and scrape her knees her mother would be there to wrap her in her arms and her father, strong and tall would ensure she watched her steps. In her mind, the path to home was covered in safety and love. Then her mother had died.

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She didn't quite understand it at first. One day her mother was telling her stories, the other, she was... not. Why was mommy gone? It didn't make sense. Why did they have to take her away? Could she breathe in that box? It felt akin to ground slip beneath her feet.

Suddenly, her father became less of her father and more Jude Heartfilia - head of the major business conglomerate of Fiore. She was adrift. Her home was no longer one of safety and love. Well if she couldn't find her way home, it was because stones and thorns had littered the path. It didn't mean that she couldn't still try. So she took solace in the stories her mother told her until she took to wandering about in the stories of her mind; stories of the magic and wonder that her mother spoke of. She wandered to far away lands, in worlds of princesses, dragons and knights in shining armour.

But still she couldn't find home.

The memories of home were in her heart, in her head, but they were not in the big, empty rooms that surrounded her. Nor were they in the eyes of her father. No, those eyes were cold and now made Lucy's skin shiver. She needed to find her home, if that meant leaving the place she once called home. So be it.

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Stepping outside the grounds of her house, Lucy felt herself standing on the edge of a precipice. Her heat beat wildly and her breath caught in her throat. Something amazing was going to come out of it. Soon, she wouldn't have to be adrift anymore. She would find her home wherever that may be.

The journey to home, came in the guise of a salmon haired boy and his talking cat.

At the time it didn't seem that way. She merely wanted to thank him for preventing her from getting entangled with a mage using forbidden charm magic. Nevertheless, that brief moment with the pair left her smiling. That, although nice, was the end of that. Or so she thought. Fate had a way of catching up with wanderers and tying them to their harbour. Soon Lucy found herself being grabbed by the hand of this strange, weird (because no matter what Natsu would later tell her, he was the weird one) mage and running off into the unknown.

It was strange, how in that moment, despite her feet being off the ground she had never felt adrift.

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