Here's another fantabulous chapter.
I know a lot of you want Minerva dead and so do I teehee
I hope you enjoy xD Disclaimer: Hiro Mashima owns Fairy Tail
" Lucy..." was the only word that came out of Natsu's mouth as he just stares at the blonde teen. "H-Hey buddy, is she your sister?" He says still in denial, there's just no way that Lucy is the mom. That would be crazy, that would mean she gave birth at the age of twelve, that most likely means she was raped at a young age.
"No, she is my mom." He answers smiling, he looks up at his mom and sees her face still petrified, staring at Natsu. "Mommy?" Ezekiel tries to reach up to wave his little hands in front of his mom trying to get her to snap out of it.
Lucy did snap out of it and immediately asks "What are you doing here Natsu?" She quickly looks around "Where's Minerva?" Ezekiel started tearing up, Natsu fists clenched. "She abandoned him at the park." He says darkly. The blonde's face went from confusion to fury in zero point one second. "She what!?" Lucy whips out her phone and dials 911 right away.
A woman picked up,"Hello, this is 911 what's your emerg-" Lucy cut off the lady. "My six-year-old was abandoned at the park today by his babysitter. Her name is Minerva Orland, she has long black hair and her hair is also tied into a pair of bun-shaped Dango loops at both sides of her head, age 26, green eyes, and is 5'1. She drives a black BMW M235i coupe 2016 model and her address is 3245 East cocoa avenue zip code 4001." Lucy ends up catching her breath. She gave out that woman's information so fast that the police didn't even have time to ask questions and don't really have to ask anymore since she answered everything they were going to ask.
Natsu didn't actually expect her to say everything so quick. Lucy said some uh-huh's and okay's then hung up. "I'm sorry Ezekiel for not coming sooner if I only I had known, I'm so sorry. Are you okay, did she hit you? I should've asked this earlier but did she hit you, did she do anything else to harm you?" Lucy was checking Ezekiel all over to make sure there is no mark on him of any kind.
"What did the police say?" Natsu asks her. "They said that they will send some officers to continue questioning Ezekiel and that they are going to look for Minerva right now. Man but she better hope that they find her before I ever do because if I see her..." She covers Ezekiel's ear, "I'm going to kill her in ways she never thought existed." She uncovers his ears. Then it hit her, "Natsu, did you bring him here?" He nodded his head. "Thank you very much, I'll do anything to my ability to pay you back but please leave. I'll see you at school-" Her eyes widen...
There is no way she can go to school still, now that no one can take care of Ezekiel and there was no way she was going to trust another babysitter to take care of her son. 'I have to drop out.' Was her solution because if she drops out of school, she can move her shift during her school hours and pick up Ezekiel from daycare and take care of him.
The pink haired teen notices her eyes widening "Lucy, what are you thinking about?" She looks at him and then looks at her son. "Sweetie, I'm a go talk to Natsu outside real quick okay?" He nods his head and the two teens went outside.
"Natsu again thank you for bringing Ezekiel here, I'm really grateful and I'm not trying to sound rude when I say this but you can take your leave. You probably don't even want to continue being near me since my existence angers you." She smiles. Natsu felt like someone shot his heart, it's like reality slapped him in the face, he remembers those words he said to her, how stupid is he. "Lucy, I'm not leaving. I want to help you and Ezekiel." He says standing his ground firmly.
Lucy sighed "Natsu, you hurt me since the start of school but oh now that you see that I have a child and we live here ourselves, you want to help and be nice? If it's just pitying Natsu please just take it somewhere else. How can you think I would trust you if for every moment I was with you, you make me want to end my life, along with everyone else." She feels herself ready to cry but she was holding it back.
He's speechless and Lucy noticed and she continues "That one day when you, your stripper friend and the little hoe who follows you like a freaking puppy in love had a surprise for me." His eyes widen thinking back at that day. "Yes, that day Dragoneel! The day where you all had told me to die on the blackboard, the day you pinned me against the wall thinking I had such a beautiful life, that I probably have no worries. Does it look like that to you now Natsu?"
He just shook his head "No it doesn't Lucy, I'm sorry for what I've done. I know I just did something stupid to you today but, Lucy please I want to help you." He starts to beg "Let me help you and Ezekiel."
"Why do you want to help so much what happens to me is none of your business, I can handle things fine okay-" Natsu cuts her off. "No, you can't! Your crying Lucy! You can't even put up your strong front right now to fake your smile!" Her eyes widen as she realizes that tears were spilling out her eyes. "Lucy, You have a six-year-old son and your only eighteen, that means you gave birth at twelve. Lucy, you were raped. Where are your parents? Who's taking care of you? I know you must have a job if you hired a babysitter in the first place and live alone with your son."
"Natsu, none of this is any of your business okay. Look I'm crying right now and that's all you wanted from me, right? To see me in my weak state, why don't you just laugh and do a victory dance and just get out now, please." Lucy practically begged. Natsu goes and hugs Lucy, catching her by surprise. "Lucy, let me help you, let me care for you. I will protect you and Ezekiel, Please Luce."
The blonde pushes him off her "Natsu, for the millionth time and please listen well. I. Can't. Trust. You. You hurt me for far too long, okay? I have been depressed for so long because of you and your stupid friends! Why would I want the person who has hurt me to take care of me and my son!? Why would I let the person who made me want to end my life take care of my pride and joy!? Tell me Natsu, does that sound right to you!?" She yells at him desperately trying to get him to understand.
"No, it doesn't sound right at all." He walks up to her and she steps back "But, I'm going to earn your trust. I mean it when I say I want to protect you and Ezekiel. I'm going to do whatever it takes to earn your trust Lucy." Lucy has never seen him look so serious before "see you at school tomorrow." He was about to walk off until Lucy stopped him "Say bye to Ezekiel first, I would never hear the end of it if you didn't." Natsu walks back in along with Lucy and said his goodbye then he exited the house. On his way out he passed by a lady with long black hair, he eyed her suspiciously. 'I have a bad feeling about her, she looks like the lady Lucy described but there aren't dango buns. I should stay here just in case.' Natsu stood where he was and noticed the lady was in front of Lucy's door. He walked nearby enough so that anything happens he will hear it and rush right in.
Lucy sighed rubbing her temples. 'What is going on today?' Then knocking comes from the door. 'What now?' "Mommy, do I answer the door?" Ezekiel asks walking up to the door. "Ask who is it first, okay." She replies. "Who is it?" Ezekiel asks and there was no answer but the knocking still continued "Who is it? You have to tell me who you are, the person behind the door." and still no response just more knocking. "Mommy the person isn't saying who they are and he/she keeps knocking."
Lucy eyes the door strangely, "Ezekiel go to your room now." He looks at her confused as to why he needs to go to his room but he obeyed nevertheless. Lucy walks towards the kitchen and grabs a knife afterward, she walks towards the door and looks through the peephole. Anger rose within her as she sees Minerva standing at her door. "Leave my house right now Minerva," Lucy demands. Minerva just stood there smirking at Lucy.
"I don't think so you little wench. Having the audacity to call the cops on me? Well then, you have to pay for being a snitch." Minerva opens the door with a key the landlord gave her, someone she knew quite well. She slams the door open making Lucy jump back, then she runs and tackles Lucy causing Lucy to drop the knife she had. "If I'm going to jail then I might as well go for a good reason." She whips out her pocket knife. "First you and then the little brat of yours!" She tries to stab Lucy but Lucy grabs her hand before she impaled her.
"You are not hurting my son! Get off of me!" Lucy attempts to push off Minerva but she wasn't budging at all instead she keeps trying to push the knife to pierce Lucy and it did cut Lucy, just a little and blood started trickling. Ezekiel hears the ruckus and runs out his room just to see his ex-babysitter hurting his mom. "Mommy!" He screeches. That screech alarmed Natsu and he dashed to her apartment door.
"Ezekiel go back inside your room! Now!" He shook his head violently "No!" He saw the knife by his mom and grabs a hold of it. He held it in his hands and heads towards them with the knife getting ready to stab Minerva. "Don't do it, Ezekiel!" His mom yells trying to stop him with her words but to no avail as he continues to disobey out of the fear that if he didn't do something his mom would die. "No Mommy! I have to do this to protect you!" He yells back. "Ezekiel! Please!" She begs. He plunges his knife at Minerva almost impaling her until Natsu swooped him up to stop him.
"Buddy you have to trust me, I got this." He said quickly, he runs to where Lucy and Minerva are still fighting. He grabs Minerva and pulls her off of Lucy tossing her to the side "Ezekiel watch your mom for me." He hears Minerva yelling as she was going to stab him and he reacted fast enough, grabbing her hand and knocking the pocket knife out of it. He twists her arm to go behind her back and pins her down on the floor.
Minerva starts thrashing about trying to get him off her but he wasn't budging. Then the police finally arrive and as soon as Natsu pulls her up, she ran off pushing past the police. She kept on running, crossing the street and didn't make it because a speeding car hit her and sent her flying. As she landed, her head impacted with the ground causing immediate death.
Some of the police went to get her dead body and the rest of them went to tend any wounds that were on Lucy and checking up if Ezekiel or Natsu had any wounds but thankfully they did not.
"Do you want to go to the hospital, ma'am?" The police asked Lucy and she shook her head telling the officer she was fine. The police left. Natsu, Lucy, and Ezekiel just stood there until Ezekiel burst out in tears "That was so scary~ Mommy I was so scared! You were going to die and I-I couldn't do a-anything to help y-you." He starts to hiccup. Lucy hugs him tightly "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry you had to go through that sweetheart. I'm sorry I didn't realize sooner how bad she was. Please forgive me, I'm so sorry sweetie." Her eyes began to water. She turns back to look at Natsu and mouths a thank you, he gives her a reassuring smile.
A while later, Ezekiel cries himself to sleep and Natsu carries him to his bed because Lucy body was a little weak right now to do it herself. "Thank you so much, Natsu for today. Seriously, thank you Natsu." Natsu looks at her seriously "Lucy, I mean it when I told you that I would protect you and Ezekiel. Please just try to trust me, Lucy." He looks at her pleadingly. "Natsu, I already told you over and over. I can't trust you actually I'm scared to trust you Natsu. You bullied me for months and today you show up and saved my son and me. I'm' scared to trust you because you will just go back to being the bully you were to me. That's all this is just you getting too much into the emotions."
"Lucy, it isn't like that. I sincerely want to help you, I want to be there to support you. Lucy, you are trying so hard all by yourself and I don't want you to be by yourself anymore. I was stupid I admit, I want to choke myself for just how dumb I am but, I won't hurt you anymore-"
Lucy cuts him off and asks what she wanted to know the most "Why did you even started to bully me? What did I do to make you want to hurt me?" She starts to cry "What did I do wrong Natsu?"
He starts to tear up noticing that he honestly didn't have a reason to bully her, that he just did it for the heck of it and her being a transfer student seem like a perfect target. "I didn't have a reason... I just did it for fun and as time went by you just kept on smiling and I got irritated by you smiling so I wanted to make you cry and show despair. My dumb self actually thought you had a perfect life that the bullying had no effect on you but I was completely and utterly wrong and stupid." He looks up apologetically "Lucy, I know I have no right to ask but can you please forgive me? I'm sorry for hurting you Lucy but I promise I won't hurt you like that ever again just give me a chance to redeem myself." He grabs her hands "Let me be the one to rescue you." Her eyes widen and her knees felt weak. She never thought in all her life that she would hear someone want to help her so much and she defiantly didn't expect it from Natsu.
"Natsu, Please don't bully me anymore. Please help Ezekiel. Please help, I admit I need help right now supporting Ezekiel." She sobs "I can't do this on my own." Natsu hugs her tears falling down his cheeks. "I'm right here, Lucy." She cries harder, holding on to him tightly. Right now she needs to be helped, she needed help for a long time. She finally got it from the person she expected it from the least.
She pulls away softly and looks up at him. "Lucy move to my place with me and my parents." Her eyes widen, did he really just ask her to move in with him? There's no way she can do that but, if it will help make it easier for her to go to school and work then... wait no! She doesn't even know his parents how could she even think for a second to leave him with them when both she and Natsu are gone.
"Natsu, I can't. I'm sorry but I don't trust anyone to be alone with Ezekiel if I don't know them," she explains. He looks at her, "Lucy by chance do you work at a cafe?" She nods her head "Yea, how do you know that?" He responds "Becuase my parents always talks about you and some other girl name Erza." Her face brightens up a bit "Your parents are Igneel and Grandeeny." This chance made this a bit better because she knows they wouldn't do anything to Ezekiel but would they really accept her?
He nods his head and she asks "Are you sure they would accept me. I mean I know we get along but moving with them is too sudden and they probably wouldn't want a burden on their-"
"You not a burden!" He yells suddenly and then quickly apologizes for it. "Just trust me, they would be more than happy for you to move in. especially seeing that you need this, they would do anything to help you." She thought about it and all signs say yes. 'This would help me support Ezekiel better'
"Ok Natsu, I will move in with you." She stares at him hard. "Your parents are Igneel and Grandeeny? The sweetest people I know... and you're their son... Oh goodness, what happened?" she shakes her head and walks away.
"Hey!" Natsu exclaims playfully.
Lucy giggles, she doesn't like the idea of being helped but this is the one hand that offered it and she is desperate.
Another chapter done BOOM. I'm still surprise at how fast I'm updating and again please don't get use to it. School is going to give a lot more work and that means more of my time to work on this.
I hope this didn't seem crazy rushed like I said first chapter, I suck at pacing.
And bigger news: MINERVA IS DEAD YAAAAAAY!
Yami: YES! KARMA CAME RIGHT BACK AND BIT YOUR HEAD OFF! DUECES MINERVA YOU WILL NOT BE MISSED! and Natsu deary better not screw this up because they're a lot of Ezekiel fangirls that will kill him :)