I don't own Fairy tail. It's belong to Hiro Mashima.
"Mama..."
"Hang in there, Layla. We're going to see daddy right away." Lucy reassured as she held the little one in her arm. Layla, the daughter of Lucy sweating up a lot and her body temperature keep raising. It wasn't a joke at all. Her face is very red and she looks terribly suffocated. Moreover, the winter snow getting stronger as the clock strike midnight.
"Mama, it's hard to breathe." The girl whimpered. Wasting no time, Lucy's packing her bag, putting a hat on the little one and head out from her apartment. Dashing through the white snow, she saw a man folding his arm across the road. He's shivered as the cold wind passed through him. The spiky hair reminded her of someone she knew very well.
'Silly me, Why am I thinking of him now?' Lucy shook her head and speed up her pace. Maybe the blonde missed him too much and started imaging things. Little did she not know, the man stopped in front of her and she looked up. There no mistake, it was him. He's Gray Fullbuster, and Lucy started to shake in fear.
"So you didn't have an aborting after all."
His words piercing her heart like a knives, but she keep herself composed, biting her lips as to clam down. She's holding her sick child firmly in her arms. After four years of disappearance, this is the first thing to mention? No wonder people call him an iced heart.
"I don't know you." Lucy spat and walked away from the man, but he didn't let her through. The raven heat quickly caught her arms and flipped. In her arms reveal a little girl possessed blonde hair like Lucy and the same feature like the man himself.
"Mama..." The girl fluttered up her eyes, revealing her dark blue eyes shone so impossibly like the night sky just liked his.
"Layla hold on." Lucy cooed her child hoping that the little one would drowse to sleep.
"She's mine." Gray exclaimed as he took the girl away from the mother.
"No!Please...don't...don't take her away." She pleaded as the tears in her eyes threaten to spill. Gray took his step back before taking another steps and walked toward his limousine.
"Follow me." He said before entering the car. Lucy had no choice but to follow him. The most important thing to do now is get Layla back to a normal condition.
"Give me ice." He told the man beside him, who was his secretary, Natsu. The dark haired man carefully took the little like she the most precious things to him,
That made Lucy shivered with goosebumps that almost visible.
"Ah-mhn"
"Shh"The man shushed,"You're going to wake her up." Looking at him smiling sincerely while cooed the girl to sleep, Lucy had no choice but to stay.
This is all for Layla, only for Layla. Nothing more. She chanted in her mind, because she knew that she has no meaning to him anymore. As she lost in thought, Gray was staring at her. She looks a lot thinner that the last time he saw her. It makes him regret that he didn't listen to her and chased her away.
"Mama, your laps are rough today."
He turned his head, looking down at the whispered one as she's moving closer to his body.
Soon they arrived at the hospital.
"Lucy, What's wrong?" The doctor name Sting came forward as he recognized her.
"Layla got a high fever."
"Let's me see."
Sting got Layla from Gray's wrap, and carefully talk to the girl.
"Layla, Can you hear daddy?"
"Yes,daddy."The little girl said weakly.
"Okay, then let's do some checking."
Lucy sighed in relief to hear that her little girl is in a stable condition. However, Gray's presence instantly make her in self conscious, followed by the tense atmosphere between the two.
"We need to talk." Gray said in a flat tone but his face showed a sigh of displeasure that say he isn't in a good mood.
"I don't want to." Lucy confronted but Gray got her pinned onto the wall, forcing her to meet his eyes in a close range.
"You're married, again?" His hand which held hers gripped firmly as he talked. She started to shiver visibly.
"G-Gray, i-it's hurt."
"Answer me."
"I-I'm.."
"If it is, then I'll take Layla."
"N-no, don't take her."She pleaded, eyes stunk with tears.
"I can't leave Layla with a stepfather. Who know what will he do to her?"
Lucy went silence, before she spoke in a tiny voice,"I'm not married."
"Then why did she calls him 'Daddy'?" His anger had been died down but knowing that his biological daughter calling someone else that made his jaw clenched.
"Sting is only Layla's foster father, get it?" Her tone showed a little annoyance, but it's made the raven-head man inwardly sighed in relieved. Honestly if she remarried, he didn't know what to do with himself anymore.
After a moment, Sting walks out of the infirmary room and called out to Lucy.
"Layla's fine." He reported."She needs to take some medicines and a good rest." Lucy felt that the weight on her left and all worried had been washed off to none when received the good news."Thanks goodness."
The doctor smiled softly to Lucy, but in the dark corner Gray who was standing there show a sigh of displeasure. Walks toward the blonde doctor, He
announced "I'd like to pay for her." And shoved his money toward the blonde man.
"Of course, and you are..." Sting raised his brow at Gray's action, but he calms himself down.
"I'm Layla's father. Lucy's husband." He spoke in low flat tone, but his face show a mocking smile toward Sting.
"You!" Lucy's eyes widen in confused. Trying to deny it, but Gray's hand grips her firmly as to keep her shut. Angered by Gray's mock smile Sting almost jumped to punch him until the nurse came.
"Okay then, please follow me, Mister."
"Gray."
"Then Mr. Gray this way please."