So, I have this really sad headcanon that should definitely NOT become true that Angel becomes like a second mother to Meredy(think Ultear) and then she dies heroically/dramatically too, only this time in front of Meredy. And so I wrote this. Don't you love that I come up with this while trying to think of non-angst Angel/Meredy broships?

Do review it.

I'm not sure where this would take place, like maybe during the final battle.

It wasn't fair, what had happened to her.

Fair's a silly word.

Why?

What had she done to deserve this?

Meredy had asked herself this question many times in her life. After her village was destroyed, when Juvia had disappeared on Tenrou Island, after she read that note, that awful, awful note that Ultear left behind. She had been so much happier lately, and that question had not been thought of in a long time. But it was coming to the forefront again, as she cried and held the hand of the woman who had become Ultear all over again, and now in one more way.

She couldn't leave her. She couldn't. It wasn't fair. Haha. Fair. Such a silly word.

It had taken everything the silver-haired woman had to summon that horrible, infinitely powerful angel. And yes, Meredy knew it had been the only way, but it shouldn't be the only way.

Humans weren't born evil, right? Then what had she done to get this lot in life?

They all would have died had she not used all of her life force to summon this thing, the thing that had now disappeared, leaving only an angel. Angel capitalized, actually.

It didn't make a difference now, did it?

There were all these people around, talking, whispering, sighing, crying, but that didn't matter because all that mattered was the fading woman disappearing forever.

Like her village(which wouldn't ever reappear)

Like Ultear(who had saved everyone too. Why did saving rhyme with sacrifice? It didn't. But then why were they always together? Life wasn't fair. Fair really was a silly word.)

Like any chance Meredy had ever had at a normal life(because let's face it, no one would ever be able to forget what she used to be, least of all herself)

(Maybe humans were born evil, and she hadn't been able to overcome it, and so she deserved this. Juvia would tell her it wasn't fair to blame herself. Juvia had almost disappeared. Fair was still a silly word.)

Like the angel before her, fading into the sky, like she had always wanted(and she was getting her wish and she had saved them and it would be selfish to be angry. It wasn't fair to all those who had sacrificed so she could be happy. She wasn't happy.)

Fair was a silly word.

Then again, all's fair in love and war(and she loved Angel and this was a war and her life was a war and it still wasn't fair, the silly word.)