A/N: Hello, lovelies! I'm on a serious updating role this week...please, don't expect this always. For veteran readers know, I have a tendency to go AWOL every now and then. But I try not to, and will not let you down and drop a story! I promise! Just might take a while! Haha, oh well...
Chapter Comments: Just setting it up for the real stuff! Still kind of prologue-y! Lucy is in here...but in a talked about way, haha. She'll be in the next one, big time! :)
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Fate is a Fickle Lady
Ch. 2
Lisanna had always complimented me on my handiwork in building things. So after her death, I built. I built her headstone, well not her real one, but she had wanted me to make her one when she died. Since it couldn't be her real one that sits by the church, I put one next to our hut and buried a picture of her beneath. The "home" we'd always go back to and have sleepovers in, the "home" of our childhood in which we played and the place where my childhood was buried along with the remembrance of a girl I'd loved dearly.
You see Lisanna had always planned on us getting married and having a house, a nice cozy house just big enough for the two of us. She'd always dreamed of a big tree being in the center of it, growing out. She had thought that'd be nice and keep us close to nature. She'd always loved nature, being a shape-shifter and all. So, I built her house. I built the house she had always wanted us to have, the house we'd have been a family in. Why? As patronage to her. I told myself I'd never let another person in, not again and I'd play my life out like it was supposed to have happened. At the time I believed that Dragons took lifetime mates, and I was going to pay a lifetime for letting mine die. Nakama were one thing, but there would never be another Lisanna. If I couldn't have my forever as we'd planned, then I'd have forever, in my never ever again.
I'd gone a year and six months keeping that promise to myself while being a hermit in the woods, working on my house with my two bare hands and only leaving to go on missions for food money. On the occasion in which I heard something that led me to believe I had a lead on Igneel, I'd pack up and leave for weeks, sometimes months before returning even more miserable. Mira Jane had been worried and Erza too, they'd actually gone to the Master a few times trying to get him to intervene on my erratic behavior. Lucky for me, the Master waived them off and told them I was simply grieving. Yeah, for almost two years? Gee, I had fallen for the role of a Dragon without thought! If Master hadn't waived off my psycho-depression, I wouldn't have met her though. I would never have gotten to Hargeon Town and met Lucy Heartfilia. The woman who made me realize that I am not a Dragon, I'm a man.
Everything changed when I met Lucy and I was determined at first to forget her. I brought her to Fairy Tail, and then decided to try and ignore her, forget her name. I'm not sure how it happened, I'm not sure how that devil Mira knew how to take control of the situation, but my life was forcibly changed. I'd left on a mission to save Macao and all of a sudden, Lucy was there saying that Mira had sent her. Turned out in the end, I could never forget or leave Lucy behind. I'd unintentionally bonded to her right from the start.
As our days began, I found myself happier than I'd been in years. I'd always stayed somewhat my rowdy self at the guild though I was depressed, but it had been a long time since anybody had seen a truly happy me. I went to Lucy's apartment often, despite her dislike of it. I delighted in having her attentions all to myself and as the days turned to weeks and the weeks to months, the others soon found Lucy just as magnetic. I'd begun having to share my time with Lucy, with everyone else, but I wanted her to myself. I quit working on my house (my obsession) and started spending every minute I could with Lucy. Lucy had become my life somehow, I wasn't in love or anything yet, but she'd become my world. Now, let me clearly say I wasn't obsessed. Okay, okay…I wasn't Juvia level obsessed alright? I practically lived with her, and to her chagrin referred to her home as our place.
She had somehow made herself my home. I kept souvenirs reminding me of our adventures. I'd never been so sentimental before with anyone else, but Igneel. I realize that my prior comment about not being Juvia level obsessed has now been disproved, but Lisanna had reinforced in me the idea of cherishing every moment with your Nakama. So, I treasured Lucy twice as much.
After Edolas, when we found that Lisanna was still alive and that she'd returned to Earth land I was ecstatic! However, we'd grown apart Lisanna and me, or perhaps I'd gone through an experience somewhat like she herself had. When Lisanna had left, I too had been cast into another world; the one without her in it. So, I stumbled upon a new world, named Lucy. Thankfully Lisanna didn't seem to mind my transition having had changed herself, and I'm glad of it. It wouldn't sit right, having an old "mate" trying to take out my new one. Of course, I never realized any of this at that point in time. On a side note, I'm trying to get out of the habit of referring to them as mates in my head, it's too animalistic. Don't you think?
When we were fighting the seven kin of purgatory, and I was caught beneath an avalanche of rubble, unable to do anything as I watched Lucy be crushed, I finally realized my growing feelings. Up until that point I had been oblivious, I didn't know Lucy Heartfilia was my universe. Even though we'd been through so many scenes of her almost dying, never had I been immobile when she was in danger. As she cried and bled in front of me though, I saw every moment with her flash behind my eyes and I realized I could never let our time end. If our time ended, like Lisanna's and mine had, I'd never recover. Not this time. In fact, I knew that I would deliberately choose not to recover. So, from that moment on I kept her near me, we never separated not once, not even after we woke from our seven year slumber. Well, we never separated for long anyways.
When Lucy went to visit her father I was there with her, I didn't know where else to be. It seemed normal and right to go wherever she was going. When we found out her father had died, I was there for her. I learned too, that even though I knew she was my world and my home, that she thought she was alone in hers, despite being a member of Fairy Tail. I made an unspoken promise right there, to never let Lucy Heartfilia feel alone anymore. I'd grown significantly that day; hey I even passed up an opportunity to fight alongside Mira and Erza to beat up those ogre thugs!
Onto the next turning point: Dan Straight. Dan Straight was an irritating bastard, but he was another wakeup call for my dense head. At one point Michelle, Lucy's doll had ended up planning Dan and Lucy's wedding and honeymoon for a distraction. Yet, even though I knew it was only a ploy I found myself enraged. How dare they forget about me, I had thought and vocalized at the time. As long as I was around Lucy, she wouldn't be marrying anyone I didn't explicitly approve of— and fat chance of that happening buddy! That's what I'd thought at the time anyway, until I'd let all of my feelings set in. After the Infinity Clock scenario was over, and I'd caught Lucy and she was finally safe in my arms, I knew for sure how I felt. I mean yeah, technically when I caught her that night, I caught her with my face and it hurt like hell, but that's not the point people!
Now I knew, without a doubt that I absolutely adored, Lucy Heartfilia. I knew that I was going to marry Lucy in the end and because of that I began working on my house again. I had been amazed to see the thing still standing after seven years, just some shingles and whatnot missing. My handiwork can't be that bad! So, I started reconstruction. I had a new soul mate now, and I wasn't losing her this time. Not easily, anyhow.
A/N: I like delving into the mind of our dear dragon-slayer...even though I know he's supposed to be as dumb as a rock! Me and Lucy can dream though, right? ;) (I do kind of believe he's smarter than he lets on though, Hiro just hasn't realized it yet!) Haha, review? Follow? Fav? LOVE?