Yay! That was one of my quickest updates! Anyways, sorry if this chapter is on the shorter side, but the next one should be longer (and extra jerza-y!) plus I've already written half of it so expect another quick update, although I just started a Miraxus/Jerza/multi-pairing story as well so I'll be between the two and my other stories!

Again, thank you everyone who is reading/following/favoriting/reviewing! I love you all and it means so much to me that you are enjoying my stories!

Btw the chunk in the beginning that's like this is a flashback, everything else is mental thoughts just incase there is any confusion!

A Surprising Visitor

Erza. Jellal hissed mentally. Meredy and himself were currently making their way towards Magnolia at a rapid pace. He felt bad as he noticed Meredy try and keep up with him, but he felt like his body was on fire, propelling him towards Fairy Tail, towards her.

He thought back to a time when they were both children and still prisoners. Sometimes, when the guards weren't around they would all play house, and it always ended that Erza would be the mother. She cared for everyone so well, and even though Jellal knew she was just pretending, he couldn't help but think of how good a mother she would be in real life.

He recalled a time when they were playing, and Rob telling her exactly what he himself had thought, that she would make a great mother one day. The way Erza's face lit up when he said that to her, he had never seen her so happy, so hopeful for the future.

"When I get older, I'm going to get married and have thirty children!" She exclaimed, causing everyone to laugh.

"Thirty kids? That's too many, how will you take care of them all!?" Milliana asked while giggling.

"No it's not! I'm gonna have thirty babies and I'm going to love and play with every single one of them!" She argued.

"Yeah, yeah I'd like to see that." Wally added with doubt.

"Someday Erza can have as many children as she'd like, and I don't doubt for a moment that she won't be a great mother to all of them!" Jellal defended causing the other kids to go silent.

"Oh yeah, and who's going to help take care of them, you?" Wally teased, breaking the silence.

"Why not? If Erza needs my help then of course I'd do it!" Erza blushed slightly, but Jellal just smiled at her. If that was her dream then he wanted to do everything he could to see it come true.

He clenched his fists. What's the point of all this? He had worked so hard to try and make the world a better place, especially for her so she could live out her dreams, even if it meant that now he would never be a part of them. That was the whole point of Crime Sorciere.

Her happiness was the most important thing to him after all, that's why he distanced himself from her as much as it pained him, but if all he could do at the moment was be there for her right now, then he wouldn't rest until he got to her.

Erza, I'm coming.

Erza opened her eyes, only to find moonlight filtering in through her window. I must have slept through the day again. She thought, bringing her gaze up and looking at the full moon outside her window.

Unable to fall back asleep, she got out of bed and made her way to the bathroom. She turned the light on, only to be startled by her own appearance in the mirror. There she stood, eyes swollen from crying, her shirt fitting her loosely now due to her recent loss of appetite. To say she was a mess was an understatement.

Pathetic. You're stronger than this! Her inner warrior scolded her for such behavior, and she looked away from her reflection.

She turned the faucet on in the bathtub and let it run. Once it was full, she lowered herself into the steaming water, submerging herself under and letting the herself float under the water's surface for a moment, letting the intense heat numb her momentarily.

She stayed under until her body craved oxygen and she rose from the water. Taking a deep breath in, she put her head back trying to figure out how to shake this feeling.

She felt foolish for letting something like this ruin her. This did not define who she was, yet she felt like a big piece of her was now missing, the person she ultimately wanted to be was no longer an option.

She laughed at herself, for ironically she dreamed of children and a family of her own, but she knew the only man she every desired to share that dream with was not even an option.

But still, she found herself often fantasizing about what if and how life would be if that dream could become a reality. She found herself blushing at the thought, but soon felt the sting of the reality of the situation, that her dream was in fact just that, a dream, nothing more.

She closed her eyes and tried to fight back the urge to cry once again, but she was startled by a sudden noise coming from outside her room.

She had heard a rustle of branches from outside, and her body relaxed when she realized it must have been just a bird. She let her body ease back into the water, but jumped up from the tub when she heard a rattling sound come from the window, this time louder than before.

She wrapped a towel around her body and requiped her sword in her hand, slowly making her way back into the bedroom. She may have been currently vulnerable, but she was still able to fight. She gripped the sword, but held it shakily as she had lost some of her strength. Damnit. She cursed at herself, knowing that her recent state of mind had made her phsyically weak as well.

She jumped suddenly, as her thoughts were interuppted by the window flying open as the intruder succesfully opened the lock.

"Show yourself!" She declared, pointing her sword at the hooded silouhette standing, but she dropped the weapon once the figure stepped down, lowering their hood and revealing deep cerulean hair, intense hazel eyes and a very distinct red tattoo.

"J-Jellal?" She gripped onto her towel and stuttered in disbelief at the man in front of her.

"Erza..." He spoke softly.