To say that it was an emotional reunion would be quite the under-statement! After the better part of thirty minutes, the two girls had calmed down enough to notice the other people in the room however, this just made things worse. Even though Amelie had seemed like a strong person earlier, the sudden reality of not having any memories hit and it hit hard. Minerva had tried to ease her way out of Amelie's strong grip as she knew how her sister liked to look strong only to be surprised when her sister clamped down harder onto her as if she was going to disappear. Minerva's heart broke as she pulled her sister up to sit next to her properly on her bed just as they had done when they were younger.

Melissa could remember standing there watching her sister shaking, she was only three and she looked close to having a panic attack. She had once again been practising her magic, something she was forbidden from doing, and she had broke a priceless vase, something given to her father by his mother before she died. She looked at the shattered pieces and then at her sister. Knowing that her sister was going to take the blame for her, she shoved her sister into a wardrobe quickly and locked the cupboard, tucking the key into her now sweaty palm. She remembered what had happened, it had been the only time their dad had truly lost his temper.

Their dad had rushed in thinking an accident had occurred and that his children were in trouble but all he had found was his daughter shaking in fear and looking at the floor. Their dad had looked down and had saw the vase. His face turned ashen and then turned red going to a violent purple and with that he exploded in rage.

"AMELIE LUCILLE HEARTFILIA YOU ARE A DISGRACEFUL CHILD. YOU HAVE NOT ONLY DISREGARDED MY RULES OF NO PRACTICING YOUR MAGIC WITHOUT A RESPONSIBLE ADULT BUT YOU HAVE BROKEN SOMETHING PRECIOUS..."

He had continued to shout at her for five minutes and near to the end of it, he rose his hand as if to slap his daughter and held it there glaring at the girl. Sudden realisation had dawned on him as he saw his daughter's pleading eyes, a three year old should not have to wear that look. He just hissed, "I can't bear to have you in my sight any longer..." and left. Amelie stood there shaking, on the verge of tears. She took some careful steps over to the cupboard and unlocked it with fumbling hands but instead of letting me out, she got in with me and just sat there in shock. I had never fully forgiven my father over that, every time someone convinced me too, I just remembered his face and that hand going to smack Amelie and how helpless I was. We were only three… we shouldn't have even had to think like this…

She looked down at her sister as she trembled and pulled her closer, as if to make up for several years of absence. The why did not matter to Amelie at the point in time, just the contact comfort was enough. It stayed that way for the rest of the night, whenever someone tried to move Amelie away from Melissa, she would hold tighter and shut her eyes, in the end they decided the best possible solution would be to leave her with her sister and get someone from Fairy Tail to extend the beds. After Amelie had finally settled down and fallen asleep, only Melissa and Natsu were awake. They sat in silence for a while until the dragon slayer could bear it no longer.

"That's not how the Luce I know or the Amelie we saw earlier today acts."

"She's only acts this way when she is truly scarred, well I believe anyway, what your ice mage said earlier surely left a mark."

"Gray?"

"That's the one."

"Ignore what he said, he acts like that when he is angry or upset with a situation, he lashes out on people to hide his own problems."

"Still, what he said did hit a mark… I've only been there for four years of her life, we are magical twins for Morgana's sake!"

"That's more than the rest of us and we consider her family."

"What do you mean? Surely she joined the guild when she was a child, that was always her plan! We were going to run away to a guild at ten."

"She joined a little over a year before the Tenrou accident."

"But… you can't have done everything you said earlier in a little over a year."

"We did and we came out of it but not always for the better."

"What do you mean?"

"You know what I said about Phantom Lord, Lisanna and Tenrou. They left marks deeper than any of us could of imagined. We didn't notice at first but she always seemed a bit off every now and again so I followed her, and smelt her tears so I went to find out why… Even though her and your father had a rocky relationship, she always expected him to stop and see what his decisions were doing to hear, for him to reconsider but he never did until the Tenrou accident. When we returned your father had left her a series of presents and letters showing that he had changed her ways and that he had believed in her return, due to stubbornness he joked, however, we returned two months too late..."

"He's dead?"

"Yes and I know you will be sad over this but I won't say I'm sorry for your loss as that isn't what you need to hear right now. What you need to hear is that he loved you, in one of our letter's towards the end he said to find you and tell you that he loves you and that he hopes your happy and still alive. We didn't know what to make of this and put it down to delirium, I'm sad for you as you didn't get a chance at a happy childhood with him or a long enough relationship."

"Th… Thank you Natsu, please go on with your story..."

"You must stop crying first, he wanted you to be happy and this is hardly happy!"

"Okay… I'm ready now..."

"Anyway after finding this out, Lucy was a recluse for days, nobody could get her to leave her apartment and I was one of the only ones aloud in. She still hasn't opened all the letters or gifts, maybe you can do that later together, she will need someone who understands who her father was as I only know him as the man he became in her teenage years."

"And who was that?"

"The man who was taking away her happiness and forcing her into a loveless amrriage for his own gains."

"..."

"I'm sorry for breaking any good memories if I did."

"Too tell you the truth, I don't know him well enough and the memories returning to me aren't all pleasant."

"Can you tell me what you mean?"

"Maybe later but I am curious, why did you mention Lisanna?"

"After she returned, you must understand that due to that memory charm, everyone who was supposed to be there for her in her life had vanished and changed, she believed us to do the same. Lisanna actually joined Fairy Tail when she was much younger however, on a mission she was severely injured and sucked into an anima into Edolas. We searched for her and her body but found nothing, we had had to accept that she had died. Once she came back, she anticipated that people would surround Lisanna to catch up with her for a while and hoped to become friends with her too however, everything we had talked about was in a past she had never had so she began to feel left out. We also, unknowingly, began to visit her house less, it had gotten to the fortnight stage when I realised that I hadn't been going there as much so I visited her and she seemed so happy to see me, she didn't even 'Lucy kick' me out of the house. This kept up for several days until me, Happy and Lisanna went on a mission together. I had asked Mira to tell Lucy before we left however, she was requested for a job and had to leave straight away. She had forgot to pass on the message for someone to tell Lucy so when she got to the guild and found no one she normally talked to she started to freak out a bit, even though everyone loves her! Anyway our missions took longer than expected and we didn't get back until a week later. Once we had got back to the guild, I noticed that Lucy wasn't there and asked people if they had seen her, they said they hadn't for the past three days so I went to check on her. She thought she was going to be left alone again… I found her asleep in her own tears and decided to stay at hers for a couple of days as she needed convincing that we were not going anywhere. When she woke up, she found me on her sofa and was surprised, I faked being asleep as I wanted to know what was going on and she has a habit of speaking to herself, which is probably from her speaking to you as if you were there, she said things like 'thank Merlin, not again' and 'please stay' over and over again… she's such a weirdo, a poor, beautiful weirdo..."

Throughout this Melissa had just hugged her sister tighter and tighter, happy to see her become more relaxed and the corners of her lips gently point to the moon and the stars. She was listening to the problems her sister had had to go through alone, falling deeper and deeper into her own pit of depression until she heard Natsu's unconscious confession. She looked at him in shock and he of course didn't know why being the very selectively dense idiot he is… Then he realised what he said, turned red and walked to the other side of the room shouting good night. Whilst in the celestial world you could hear a chorus of, "About time!"

The next morning they had woken up at fairly similar times, Melissa was happy that sleep had calmed her sister down and had gotten he back to her old behaviour until she saw the real reason why. Reverting back to her 'heartless bitch' persona for a bit, she just had to see what Amelie's reaction would be to waking up hugging Natsu, and a couple of photo's would never hurt. A quick summoning of a camera lacrima, she doesn't know how it happened but she was not going to argue with the forces of magic which were so obviously in her favour this morning, a couple of snaps and the hiding of said lacrima finally led to much desired event. A tap on the shoulder, the slow reaction of her dear sister, a quick realisation and a 'Lucy Kick' later led to one ice queen Minerva breaking out in laughter and rolling on the floor laughing much to the horror of the Sabertooth member on duty.