Disclaimer: Hiro Mashima owns all of Fairy Tail I only own the idea to my story line.


"Umm Lucy," I nuzzled closer into the warm woman beside me. It had been two weeks since she'd left on her job and obviously it hadn't gone well as she was supposed to have been back a week ago. I'd been out of my mind worried over her as well due to the fact I hadn't been able to contact her on the communications lacrima.

I'd only just got back to our home the day before, due to visiting Fairy Tail to see if their Master had heard anything of my blonde haired partner, after I'd completed a job of my own. He had confirmed that nothing bad had happened and that he had received word earlier that morning that Team Natsu would be returning home later that day, if not the early hours of the next morning depending on which train they managed to catch/drag Natsu on.

I'd been so over the moon at getting the news that I'd rang my fellow Trimen's immediately to let them know. Since we'd become a couple 3 years ago, Lucy had become close to Eve and Ren with us hanging out or going on double dates. Though she hadn't bonded at all with Ichiya-san, but you couldn't blame her for that, he could be rather full on at times. Likewise, I had also become well acquainted with the members of Lucy's team and would call them close friends of mine now. So I knew that if anything had happened to me whist on a job Lucy would have turned to them for support and would have filled them in immediately upon hearing word of my condition. After all it was what concerned friends, lovers, partners and family did, wasn't it?

Once I'd informed my fellow teammates, I'd dropped by the market in Magnolia knowing that I could pick up some of Lucy's favourite foods there, as I was planning to surprise her with a romantic meal to welcome her home. Seeing as we'd been apart for 2 weeks I thought it would be nice to chill and relax, maybe have a sensual bath together before dinner and then for desert we could...well you get the picture.

So anyway, after that I had gone home and started preparing the bathroom for our bath and making sure the rest of the house was presentable for my lovely lady's return. I admit to being slightly messy when she wasn't around to keep me in line. I didn't know exactly when she'd be home so I was making sure I didn't get caught off guard. It was also why I was waiting for her to walk through the door before I put the food in the oven, no point wasting good food if Lucy got delayed and didn't return until the morning.

Then while I'd been putting the dishes away a knock at the door had grabbed my attention, I'd finished up quickly and gone to the door to see who was calling. I hadn't been expecting anyone you see and I knew Lucy had a key of her own so wouldn't need to be let in by anyone. As I opened the door though I'd got the most unexpected surprise. Lucy was stood outside, her beautiful smile plastered all over her face. I never did get a chance to ask why she knocked on the door instead of just coming straight on in, as she had jumped over the threshold, wrapped her arms around my neck pulled me towards her and locked her lips with mine. Which was quite startling as Lucy wasn't usually this forward unless she had had a few drinks, but I wasn't going to complain. It was a pleasant event, which I put down to our separation, so I returned the kiss and wrapped my arms around her waist. It hadn't taken long for this to become much more heated and we had stumbled towards the stairs shedding our clothes as we went.

I smiled to myself as I remembered the events that had followed that and felt my passion ignite again. "Ohayo, Lucy."

"Good morning, Hibiki."

My smile froze on my face, and I felt the blood in my body freeze. That wasn't Lucy's voice but I did recognize who it belonged to...

"Jenny?" Opening my eyes I slowly took in the scene in front of me and wondered if I was in a nightmare or not. Almost falling out of bed as I threw myself backwards to distance myself from the woman who was clearly not my girlfriend. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Well what do you think I'm doing here, darling?" The woman purred, leaning over to try and run her finger down my chest. I swatted her hand away from me, my mind running a mile a minute.

"Oh god," I gasped in horror as my mind came up with the most likely possibility as to why she was in my house, in my bed. "You didn't?"

"Didn't what?" She giggled, getting out of bed and reaching for her underwear which was located on the floor. My heart was pounded a mile a minute as I realized she had done just what I suspected her of doing. She'd used transformation magic to turn herself into a copy of Lucy to get me into bed...but why?

"How could you?" I demanded, leaping out of bed and pulling my own underwear on. "What do you have to gain by pulling such a cruel stunt."

"It was only meant to be a joke." She winked at me as she pulled her shoes on. "But it got me what I ultimately wanted."

"And what was that?" I spat at the conniving cow that stood before me. I'd never really been one to feel hatred before, but right now my blood was boiling with it. I only hoped that Lucy hadn't returned home yet or seen anything of this cruel woman's ploy. Oh please god don't have let Lucy have witnessed any of this, it would have crushed her.

"Why don't you trying ringing that little fairy of yours that your so fond of and find out." She replied with such bitterness in her voice. This wasn't the Jenny I knew, she had never been so cruel or nasty before. Sure she was a big flirt and was used to getting what she wanted most of the time, but never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined her pulling something like this...Wait what did she mean ring Lucy?

"N...nooooo," I sank to my knees as the meaning of her words sank in. "Lucy saw didn't she?"

"Yes she did," The woman beamed gleefully at me. "Ran out of here about an hour ago too. I guess she must be heartbroken, the poor thing."

"Get out!" I demanded. "I've had enough of this shit! First you disguise yourself as my girlfriend, trick me into sleeping with you and all for what? To break Lucy and myself up?!"

"That sounds about right to me," She laughed out loud. She actually looked proud of herself, which made me sick to my stomach. How could she do this to me I thought we were friends, sure we'd had a small fling through the grand magic games, but after I'd fallen for Lucy I thought we'd ended on amicable terms, before I'd gone about making the wonderful celestial mage my girlfriend. Obviously I had been terribly wrong.

You're a despicable whore and I never want to see you again!" My words seemed to wound Jenny in some way, probably because they didn't fit in with whatever demented daydream she had of how this would have turned out. But I didn't care the only woman who's feelings mattered to me were Lucy's and right now I needed to fix things with her!

"Whatever, but I doubt that little bimbo will ever take you back now." Were her parting words to me as she exited the room and a few seconds later the house.

"You might just be right." I whispered to myself, feeling my anger give way to pain and grief. I felt a lump clog up my throat and tears well up in my eyes, I feared it might be too late to save my relationship, feared I might have lost the second love of my life. That thought caused the tears to spill over the rims of my eyes. No get a grip, Hibiki, I slapped my cheeks and wiped the tears away using my sleeve. If I explain everything to Lucy I'm sure she'd forgive me...given she actually gives me the chance to set the record straight. But you never know unless you try, is the saying right?

With that in mind I steeled my resolve, picked myself of the floor and headed downstairs to face the music so to speak. First I needed to call Lucy and see where she was and if she was willing to meet me to talk. Second was to pray with everything I had to whichever gods were listening that she would hear me out and give me the time of day to explain myself.

"Here goes nothing." I gulped as I headed towards the lacrima we kept by the kitchen table. I brought up Lucy's face in my mind and sent a pulse of magic into the object so that it could go about it's job of connecting me to her lacrima.

"Um, hello." A soft voice answered. "Who's speaking?"

"Lucy?" I asked in amazement as her face flickered into focus. I was over joyed at the fact she'd actually answered, but then I took the time to take in the full image of what I was seeing and it hit me hard. She had no makeup on and her eyes were red and puffy, she looked pale and her voice sounded hoarse, all indicator that she had been crying but not just any type of tears but truly sobbing due to what she'd witnessed and from the look of it she'd been crying for a long time, probably since she'd left the house. I felt another flash of anger and hatred rise up inside me at just how vile this scheme of Jenny's had been.

"Hibiki?" Her voice held so much skepticism that it left me speechless for a second. Why did it sound as if she couldn't believe I was calling her?

"Yes, it's me." I smiled at her, trying to re-leave some of the tension that had creaped into her shoulders. "Where are you?"

"Why do you care." She snapped at me with such venom in her tone that I felt my earlier fear claw at the back of my mind that I had truly lost her. Her eyes looked so cold and hard, it made me cringe. She was usually so warm and loving, but the woman that was glaring daggers at me from the other side of the lacrima was scaring me, she really had been heartbroken by this. And if I was honest with myself, my heart was breaking too.

"Because I love you and I need to explain that what you saw wasn't what it looked like." I desperately tried to plead with Lucy, hoping beyond hope that she still loved me. Not that I could blame her if she didn't, the evidence that she had seen was pretty damning.

"It sure as hell looked like what I thought it did." She replied, tears seemed to be filling her large chocolate brown eyes. "And don't you dare say that you love me, you bastard! If you did then you'd never have screwed that woman behind my back!"

"But I didn't..."

"Goodbye, Hibiki." She cut me off before I could finish my sentence, then hung up the call on me.

I stood staring at the now blank lacrima, my mind totally empty as I tried to comprehend what had just happened. Oh crap! Well that hadn't gone how I'd hoped it would, but it had gone how I'd expected it too. Lucy was heartbroken after all and it was evident to see that it was going to take much more than a simple phone call to straighten this mess out.

"What the hell am I going to do now?!" I ran my hand through my hair in frustration as I tried to think up a plan of action for winning Lucy back.


A/N: So I'm sure this chapter took a different turn to what most of you readers were expecting, but I decided to try something different for this story. Anyway I hoped you liked it and I do apologize for any ooc moments, but I'm always aware of the fact when love is involved you can never truly predict how someone will react. After all the heart is a weird thing. Please do tell me what you thought of this chapter and I hope you continue to read this little story of mine :)