A/N: just a short update. Too busy in school :/ btw, this chapter will be dramatic and a little angsty. Read and uncover Jellal's past :)) again, thanks for those who posted good reviews in this story, that's why i am more encouraged to update this story.

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Jellal Fernandes angrily shoved the door open, and slammed it loudly behind Erza who was following him, which captured everyone's attention in their house. His mother suddenly came out from the kitchen who was just washing the dishes. Erza already forgot about knocking on their door as a sign of respect to the house owner before she enters. She just unconsciously barged in the Fernandes' house in desperation to approach the bluenette she just offended and hurt.

"Jellal, wait! Please, talk to me! I didn't mean to-" Erza chased after him when he was about to head for the staircase instead of the elevator to go upstairs to his bedroom. She held his hand to stop him from walking away, but what shocked Jellal's parents, and even Ultear, is when he pushed her away that she almost fall onto the carpeted floor. "Don't fucking touch me!" He yelled, which made his parents worried for Erza, so both of them quickly went for the two.

"Jellal, I don't know about it. I'm so sorry!"

"Well, now you know why I'm so useless all the time! Happy? Now, will you stay away from me from now on! I don't want to mess up with someone's life again." He started taking steps on the staircase to head up to his bedroom.

"Jellal, your manners!" Jenny scolded him.

Jellal suddenly turned around to look at his mother who just scolded him about his manners. "Well, sod your manners, mom! Don't you scold me for releasing the pain I've isolated inside me. Just for once let me have a voice to tell the world how I really feel." That's Jellal. He doesn't really care if ever someone calls him rude or disrespectful, all he can think about is to release the isolated pain inside him.

"It's your fault, mom! Why I'm like this!" He cried, tears started streaming down to his cheeks. This the first time Erza saw a guy cry, well, except for those crying guys she encounters in support groups or hospitals whenever they're doing an open forum or if someone just died. For the first time, she witnessed a guy crying as it releases everything inside.

"Because of your selfishness, you turned your son into a useless and weak creature. I'd be happy if you just chose to abort me while I was inside your womb, instead of introducing me to this fuckin' world that is full of pain and judgements!"

"Erza, what happened to him?" His teary-eyed mother asked, why her son suddenly released everything inside him.

"Mom, come on, stop acting as if you don't have any idea what's happening to me." He scoffed at her. "Just because I rarely speak, doesn't mean nothing is wrong with me, and you know it."

"Jellal, I said I'm sorry. You don't have to be like that to your mother. If you're mad, be mad at me instead. Have some respect." Erza said, trying to comfort his crying mother.

"You know what? You're so bossy! You think you know everything that you can simply go dictating the people around you. You don't anything!" He yelled at her, then he just decided to turn his back at them, and start making his way up to his bedroom. But when he reached half pf the staircase, he suddenly lost his balance, so they all quickly went for him to help him stand up. "I can stand by my own. I don't anyone's help." He struggled from Erza when she was going to help him.

He slowly tried to regain his balance to stand up by holding on the railings of the staircase. "Jellal, honey, just use the elevator." Jenny tried to help him stand up, but was also pushed away by him. "Stop acting as if you care. You never cared about me, especially what I feel." He said coldly, pushing her away.

"Jellal, what do you want me to do?! I'm trying to make up to you because I'm regretting for being a bad mother to you. Can't you see it? I'm doing everything to gain your love again, to give me a chance to be a mother to you, again? And, that I've already changed, and worthy for your forgiveness."

"I didn't ask you any of these. I didn't ask you to waste your time over a useless son like me."

"Of course, I'm ready to give everything to you because I'm your mother."

Jellal let out a fake laugh, a sarcastic one, and told her mother, "You're never a mother to me. And, I was never a son to you.", which totally shattered its heart into pieces. And, so is Erza who witnessed how was Jellal and his mother like. She knew that if she didn't triggered Jellal's temper to shut its mouth just because she's too immature, Jellal and her mother wouldn't be arguing at each other. "I know you're just afraid that I might die without looking back at you and forgive you for what you've done. Let me tell, you this - I might forgive you someday, but don't expect us to be a mother and son. Don't expect that it'll change our relationship as mother and son. There are things that can never be fixed from the damage has been done."

"Jellal, I'm trying, and I will never give up because you're the only one I have. You're the greatest gift that I've ever had."

"Can you hear yourself? Remember when you told me that I'm such a pest in your life, that you won't get any benefits from me as your son, and that you couldn't even tell your family, friends or relatives that you're proud that I'm your son. You can say that because you already lost the man you who used to feed and bathe you in riches-"

Jellal wasn't able to continue what he's going to say when his own father suddenly spanked his face. Erza gasped, with her hands covering her mouth. She couldn't believe it. "You ingrate and disrespectful brat! Maybe, we're wrong for tolerating your rudeness. We're letting you release the pain inside you sometimes and act coldly towards us all the time. But this time, I won't tolerate your rudeness anymore. Don't use your disability to be a disrespectful kid." His father scolded him, yelling. "And, what kind of a man like you to be so harsh at a lady?"

"Please, stop, I'll talk to him instead." His mother tried to stop his father from scolding him.

"No, he has to learn his lesson!" His father protested.

"It's okay whatever you wanna do with me. Punish me to teach me a lesson? Fine. It won't work anyway, cause I've already suffered from different kinds of pain in my whole life, under your cruel hands actually. I'm used to it, anyway." Jellal said.

What have I done? I made this family clash against each other, batting each other's mistake in the past. She thought.

Jellal wiped his tears away with his fingers, and quickly stormed upstairs to his bedroom, leaving all those people who hurt him. Life is unfair for him. No matter how much he tried to escape pain, pain was always there to befriend him.

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While sitting on the couch in the living room, Erza kept comforting Jellal's mother who couldn't stop crying after receiving unbearable words from her own son. Erza knew she has a participation why Jellal suddenly clashed with his own parents releasing everything he had kept inside him. If only she was openminded enough earlier, this wouldn't happen. "Ma'am, I'm so sorry for what I did to your son. I didn't mean to kick his leg. I didn't know about his disability. This is all my fault. I-i'll talk to him." Erza told Jenny, comforting her.

"It's also my fault. Everything that happened to him is all my fault." She sobbed.

"I'm just curious, but...how did he lost his leg? What does everything he said earlier mean? What is he implying?" Erza asked. The blue-haired woman took a deep breath before spilling out everything. "I was a bad mother to him." She started, Erza lent her ears.

"I got pregnant at a very young age. I had him when I was seventeen years old. I didn't liked how my life was like as a teenage mother. Full of hardships, even though with the help of my husband, it's still hard. It's so difficult to be a mother. As he grows up, and reached the stage wherein he's starting to be so playful and naughty. I find it more hard to take care and handle him as a toddler. Until, I haven't realized that I often shout at him, hit him sometimes and even deprive him from befriending with the other kids in the neighborhood whenever I'm mad of his naughtiness. Because I hated my life as a young mother, I didn't realize I also hated my own son. He never get to experience what it's like to have a good mother. I never read him bedtime stories, sing a lullaby before he sleeps, play with him, attend the family day program at his kindergarten. I prefer going out with my friends that time, and leave him with his father or nanny instead."

"Then?" Erza asked.

"Jenny, you don't have to force yourself if you can't." Mr. Fernandes said, comforting his sobbing wife.

"When he was four...I had a boyfriend, a rich man, and yes I'm cheating on my husband that time. I often go home late and always out. Until, one night, my husband and I are fighting when he discovered about my affair with another man. I was so mad and full of pride, that I'd rather leave my own family in exchange of another man."

"And the ?"

"When I saw Jellal watching how my husband and I argue, I dragged him with me towards to the car. I started driving away from our house. And, I was driving so fast that time because I was releasing my anger. I was too deaf to hear Jellal, pleading me to slow down in driving. Until..." Then, she started to sob more, that she could barely talk properly. "We hit a tree, and he was severely injured than me. Then...the doctor said it was miracle they were able to save Jellal, but in exchange...they had to cut off his other leg because of the severe damage in his bones. Actually...Jellal also lost his eyes that time. But fortunately, a relative of mine donated a pair of eyes to him, in exchange of big money. That's why he was able to see again. He was disable, and blind as the same time, until he's eight."

Erza felt his heart little by little shattering into pieces as she little by little uncovers the story behind Jellal's outcast state.

"After the incident, I'm still a bad mother to him. I was blind to see how he was suffering from his disability. I didn't take his disability seriously. He was so helpless and weak for a four year-old to lose a leg and eyes at the same time. He gets bullied whenever he passes by some kids, he was often bullied whenever they see him with a fake leg. I get mad at him whenever he isn't able to do what I ask him to do. Like, whenever I'll ask him to hand over something, and he'll drop it on the floor. I'll get mad, and I'll call him useless."

So, that makes sense, she thought inside her. The reason why he walks differently, why he loathes himself after being called useless by his own mother as a kid, why he has no idea what people are like because he was isolated inside their house, and why Principal Makarov asked her to help out Jellal. She started to connect everything.

"When he was ten, I packed all of my clothes, and ready to leave my own family behind. Same when we're at the car before we both crash. I was too deaf to hear him pleading me not to go. But I didn't even bothered to look back at him, when he did his best to run after me despite his disability. He was running with his prosthetic leg. That was also the last time he ran. After that, he was always afraid to run because of the instance he might fall on the ground again, like what happened to him after failing to chase me while I was driving away from him."

Erza suddenly recalled during the time when Gray mocked Jellal for not being able to run or walk fast.

"H-how did you come back to him?" She asked.

"Well, when he was fifteen, I came back. My husband forgave me for everything I have done, but of course I promised to change and make up to our son. That's the time when I realized that money isn't the most precious gift that anyone could receive. I realized it's to have a son. But then...Jellal hates me so much. When I came back, he is completely a different Jellal when I last saw him. He disrespects me, loathes me. Everything I offer him, he rejects it. No matter how kind or sweet I approach him, he pushes me away. He just locks himself inside his bedroom all day, and he'll just come out if he needed something."

"Is that it? Why Jellal is so self-loathing, and like that to you?"

"That's not just it." Mr. Fernandes spoke. "When he was a child, I used to beat him up whenever I'm drunk or angry. I release my anger at him. Whenever I'm stressed, I'll just hit him with anything I am holding without realizing it. Like during those times I tie him on the staircase or forcefully remove his prosthetic leg so he couldn't run, and then I'll hit him a with a belt mercilessly, while I keep blaming him for losing my wife..."

"You little brat! Because of you My wife left me!"

"Daddy, stop! It hurts! Ahh!"

Jellal's merciful and bootless cries echoed all over his parents ear. Erza could only cover his mouth, as she pictures poor Jellal as a kid, who was disabled, lonely, outcast, isolated, motherless and beaten up by his own father. "Jellal..." She whispered, while teary-eyed. It breaks her heart to think that there's actually a person who never felt happy at least once for its life, especially for a compassionate person like her.

"I don't know how should we reach him out. After all the cruelty he suffered over his own parents. We can't give him love and care, but we can give him tons of pain." Jenny so bed on her husband's shoulder. "Erza, please, I know he's rude and arrogant. But please, get to know the real him. Please, I'm begging you." She pleaded.

Carried away by a parent's cry, she de ided to do the right thing, and correct her mistake too. I-i will. I'll try reaching him out to apologize. I will never give up, I promise..."

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Jellal could only bury his face on the mattress of his bed, crying and sobbing. Ocean of tears are filling his bed already. Life is so unfair and painful for him. For a person like him, he never deserves this kind of pain. He deserves to be loved and taken care of.

He heard his parents knocking on the door, calling him, "Jellal, please open the door. Let's talk."

"Go away! I don't need anyone else! Leave me alone!" He screamed at the top of his lungs, with hatred and as the same time the never-ending pain inside him.

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"Sir, can I speak with you?" Erza asked principal Makarov politely, who's sitting on its desk. Makarov can already predict that her topic could be about the student council or Jellal. "Sure, Erza, what is it?" He asked.

The redhead sat on the chair in front of Makarov's desk. "Sir...it's about-"

"Jellal. I know."

Erza wondered, "Yes. How did you know, sir?".

"I've figured it out already. Since, Jellal has been absent for almost a week." He explained.

Jellal has been absent to school for five days already. She recalled when Jellal told her that she won't be able to see him ever again, which she thinks he meant to say is he won't come back to school anymore. Natsu and Lucy were wondering already if ever Jellal is sick, so they could pay him a visit. Erza haven't tell anyone, even Gray, what happened between her and Jellal. It was just embarrassing, to hurt a helpless guy like him. She felt like a hypocrite, for helping other people like Jellal, but when it comes to Jellal - she finds it hard to understand him at first.

"What happened?" Makarov asked, tapping his fingers on his wooden desk.

"Well, sir, I have no idea about his disability. Because I failed to get to know him, and find out about it. I kicked his leg when I got mad at him, then I finally discovered about his disability." Erza explained. "Sir, I'm doing everything to reach him out. I go to his house for like everyday already after school or before I go to school, just to try talking to him. But it was just...useless. Sir, it wasn't really my intention to make him feel like that. I am sorry, but he won't let me reach him out. What should I do?"

Makarov sighed, "I'm a little bit disappointed, Erza. I was expecting you to be the best person who could understand him, since you're just the compassionate girl I knew that is active at support groups."

"Erza bowed down her head, "I know, sir. That's why I'm sorry."

"But you know, you can still make up to him. It'll be hard, and it will take time to gain his trust and attention back, but if you really desire to reach him out, then do whatever it takes. But expect it to be difficult as a broken vase you've been trying to put every pieces back together. And, expect that there could be an awkwardness or gap between you two even if you get to reach him out as the visible cracks of a broken base that had its pieces back together."

"Why didn't you tell me about Jellal's disability?"

"Because...I want you to find it out by yourself. Let's admit that Jellal is not like your boyfriend Gray who is attractive to everyone. Moreover, he's weird in the eyes of many people, like you. But the question is, did we ever consider finding out the story behind his weirdness towards people and outcast state without saying a single judgement? Of course, admit it or not, you and other people judged him. That's how he sees the world, full of judgmental people."

He's right, she thought.

"Erza...I'm telling you, he's a very nice and soft-hearted person, just don't trigger his kindness though or else he'll be the rudest person you'll ever encounter. When you two are okay, try to get to know him more. Make him feel happy and accepted, that's all he ever wanted."

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When Jellal knew his parents aren't home. He took it as a chance to get out of his bedroom without anyone asking him how is he or 'Jellal, let's talk'. As he steps out from the elevator as he reaches the ground floor, he started making his way towards to the kitchen to grab something to eat. He was wondering why Ultear couldn't hear his call, and just thought of her going out to buy something.

But much to his surprise. He spotted Ultear who was unconscious on the floor inside the kitchen. Her hands were tied on her back, and so is her legs, with a duct tale in her mouth too. Ultear?" He immediately ran after her, trying to wake her up by shaking her body. "Ultear? Hey, wake up!" Then, he started to untie her.

Ultear slowly opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw is aside from Jellal, a guy that has the same age as Jellal was approaching. "Mmph!" She muffled, trying to warn Jellal. But before Jellal could untie her, the guy quickly grabbed him, and covered his mouth with a wide handkerchief to sniff the solution sprayed on it. "Mmmph!" He muffled. Jellal attempted to struggle, but the guy's grip on him was too strong. Until, he felt weak, and fell on the ground along with Ultear. His eyes slowly closed, until everything went black for him.

"All set, Midnight. Let's take them to our hideout." The guy told Midnight, the guy who was jailed because Erza set him up.

"Awesome. This guy is the best bait to lure Erza Scarlet." Midnight grinned evilly.

"What about this girl?" The guy asked.

"Oh, she's the very useful one. We'll use her to lure Gray Fullbuster. We can use her and the child inside her to give Gray a taste of his own medicine." Midnight said.

"Who is this girl anyway?"

"Gray's cousin slash ex-girlfriend. If Gray doesn't cooperates with us, his lovely girlfriend Erza will find out how disgusting he is." Then, he ordered, "Take them into the van. Make sure no one will see us."

"Yes, Midnight."

"It's payback time Erza Scarlet, Gray Fullbuster." He chuckled evilly.

To be continued...