This job was supposed to be easy -considering Lucy has been feeling bad for a few weeks now- they were supposed to be in and out, boom done. But of course something had to happen or go wrong. When Lucy wakes up at the hospital she finds out some very surprising news that will change her life. For better or for worse.
UPDATE I FIXED SOME THINGS THAT WERE BOTHERING ME
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PSYCH AF I DO HA. I finally decided what I want the pairing to be :3 I'm so excited tbh. I'm pretty sure some of you know already.
He pondered my options as he chewed. "I like plan B better, if you take plan A and are wrong then Natsu would probably be upset that it's not his. Knowing him and his father issues he'd be happy to have a kid, not sure how he'd feel about it being yours though. If you go with plan B then you're not exactly leading anyone on but at the same time you have a whole lot of guys thinking 'Well shit, I might have a kid'."
"Then it would be like 'Surprise you have a kid!'" I argued.
He sighed. "That's true."
"We need to take Grays advice and narrow it down."
He arched an eyebrow. "And how do we do that?"
The three of us armed with ice cream made our way back to my apartment.
"We have to ask what the guys were doing at the time of the party, find out where they were, if they were even there, that type of stuff." I told Loki.
"That might be hard. What week are you on?"
"Um, 9 I think."
"So then its been 9 weeks since the party, I doubt anyone remembers." Shit that's true.
"I guess I'll talk to Gray first and see what he remembers then."
Loki nodded his head, still deep in thought. "He was the one who took you home right?"
"Yeah," I kicked a rock. "I talked to him about it recently and he said he was pretty drunk that night and he just remembers taking me home then going back to his place."
His eyebrows scrunched up, I was about to ask what was on his mind but I noticed we made it back to my place in good ol' Strawberry Street. After unlocking the door I closed Plues gate and took a seat on the couch next to Loki.
"Isn't there some way to magically find out the dad?" I asked Loki.
"I really doubt it." Loki rubbed his chin.
"I'll ask Levy and see if we can do some research in the library." I chewed on the cone.
"And if there isn't?" He chewed on his as well.
"Then we go back to plan A, B, and C." C as in Grays plan.
It was almost 2:15, Erza should be here by now and Gray should be getting everyone here.
The first to arrive we're Gajeel and Levy who I noticed came together. Then came Wendy, Erza, and finally Gray. Everyone found a place to sit in my living room with Erza on an armchair, Wendy on another, Gajeel and Levy on the loveseat and Loki, Gray, and I on the couch.
"Alright," I clapped both hands together. "I wanted to know if you guys had any ideas. If you do then go ahead, lay it on me."
It was silent for a little until Wendy spoke up. "I don't think you should leave." She said quietly.
I shook my head and smiled. "I don't either."
"If I may." Erza sat up. "I think it's best if you stay, you'd have the entire guild to help you, you know without a doubt that they would treat the child with much love and care."
"None of us want you to leave, Lu." Levy. Everyone else nodded their agreement.
"I say you stay." Gray said it in a tone that dared me to disagree.
"I think we can all agree that my master will be staying then." Loki shot me a wink.
I smiled at my friends. "I think we can!"
"Now about the other matter at hand, do you have anything planned?" Erza.
Me and Loki explained our ideas and the ideas pros and cons-mostly the cons. I explained my preference to Grays idea of narrowing it down and hoping that people somehow remember.
"I think we should try that," Levy was referring to Grays plan. "at least for now, if we can't get anything then I guess we'll try something else."
"I second it." Wow the first thing that Gajeel says and it's that he agrees with Levy. I raised an eyebrow knowingly making Levy blush.
"Third."
"Fourth."
"Fifth."
"And sixth."
"Wow okay so I guess we'll do that."
We made plans to each investigate on our own then meet again in a few days to discuss. As some were leaving I pulled Levy aside.
"What's up Lu?"
"I wanted to know if you knew anything about finding the paternity through spells or something." I asked holding on to a small shred of hope.
"Well I'm not exactly sure but I remember a while back reading something about that but I can't remember the details."
"Really?"
"Yeah, but Lucy there's something else I thought of. You can't remember much of that night, right?"
"Uh yeah, why?" Where is she going with this?
"Why not try an amnesia spell?"
"Amnesia spell?"
"Yeah! It's a simple procedure that allows a person to remember something they've forgotten."
"Oh!" I hit the bottom of my right fist on my open left hand. "That's it! Levy you're a genius!" I threw myself at her in a giant hug.
Levy laughed and patted my shoulders. "People use it when they are drunk so I'm sure it will work."
I clapped my hands together, excited. "Okay, so how does it work?"
"I have a book on how to do it so I'll go find it then come back, okay?"
I started pushing her out the door. "Go! Go get it! Hurry up!"
"Ow! Okay, I'm going! I'll be back in five minutes!" And she hauled ass out of my apartment, when I turned around I noticed that it was just Loki and Gray. Loki I could understand but I wasn't sure as to why Gray was still here.
"What's up Gray?" I sat- more like threw- myself down in an armchair facing the both of them.
He shrugged, "Got nothin better to do." He sat down on the chair next to mine.
Two minutes later there was a knock on the door. I reluctantly stood back up and opened the door to see Levy carrying a small, old looking book and a bag.
"I got the book Lu!" She smiled and made her way towards the small coffee table by the guys. I closed the door and followed, she started taking a bowl and various small jars out of the bag.
"Uh, that was fast." I picked up a small jar that had some kind of brown powder and shook it.
"What is this stuff?" She took the jar from my hand and added some of it to the bowl along with some other stuff from the jars.
"I ran as fast as I could and trust me," She looked at me briefly. "you do not want to know." I gave two thumbs up, mouthed 'Okay' and slowly backed away turning to the guys.
"Lucy?" Loki. "What is all this." His eyebrow was raised as he pointed to the things Levy was mixing.
"Looks like i'll remember what happened now!" I smiled big at Loki. "I don't exactly know the process but she said it would help me remember so..." I shrugged.
"Oh, well that's good then, the sooner we know the sooner the father will know..." He stopped and rubbed his chin. "That is, if he wants to know."
"Shit, I didn't think of that." I closed my eyes and rubbed the area between my eyebrows while I paced. Sigh. "If he doesn't want to be involved then there's nothing I can do now is there?" I threw myself on the couch with a huff.
"It's okay Lucy." Loki came to my side and held my hand. "I'll help you the same way you helped me all those years ago." Cue the smile and wink, I pursed my lips and patted his shoulder in thanks.
"Appreciated but I'm sure i'll be fine." I looked over and noticed that Gray was bieng unusually quiet. "Gray?" I called out. "You alright?"
"Fine." Single word response, okay.
"You sure? You can say what's on your mind, we can talk about it." I gave him a worried look.
"Nothing much Lucy," he gave me a halfhearted shrug and fingered his necklace. "It's just all very... surreal, that's all."
I let out a dry chuckle and raised my brow at him. "You're telling me?"
Gray snapped his fingers and pointed at me. "True." I sighed heavily and turned back to Levy.
"So... how long is this going to take." I pointed to all the stuff on the table with my chin.
Levy shook her head, still concentrating on mixing the ingredients. "The actual making of the potion shouldn't take very long," She was waving the wooden spoon around. "but the memories might take a while. It won't come back all at once, it could take a couple hours, Give or take."
I nodded in understanding. "One thing I don't understand..."
"Shoot."
"How do I know it will give me the memories from that exact night?"
"It all depends on the amount of ingredients I put in and the actual spell itself. It was about nine weeks ago right?"
"Nine or ten."
"Then I will set it for 10 weeks, so anything you forgot between that time until now should come back to you." I looked at her in awe, I didn't understand how the hell she knew how to do all of this. I stood up and made my way into the kitchen to get a snack, Loki stood up as well and followed me.
"You sure you're ready for this?" I heard his say as we entered the room.
"As ready as I'll ever be." I gave a dry response as I searched the fridge, finding nothing I moved on to the pantry. I felt his hand gently touch my shoulder, I turned to see Loki giving me a smile, an actual smile and not one of his smirks.
"Better sooner than later right?" I gave a tired smile.
He huffed. "Whoever this guy is, I'm going to punch him."
"Go for it."
"Lu! Its ready!" Truth be told I was scared shit less but I put in a brave face and looked Loki dead in the eye.
"Let's do this."
"So I just have to drink this?" I held up a vial full of red, clear liquid. How all that powder and stuff turned into this, no idea but its called magic for a reason.
"Pretty much! I made it taste like strawberries so you'll be fine." I nodded and took a sniff, it really did smell like a strawberry. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
"Well, here goes nothing." I lifted the vial to my lips and drank it all in one go. I grimaced a little at how sour it was.
"It should start working immediately," She turned a couple pages from a book in her hand. "Your memories will be coming back in the order of present to past, so if you forgot something today than it will come back quicker that something from ten weeks ago. Understand?"
"Um," My eyebrows came together in confusion . "I think so. First memories will be recent while the last ones will be from a while ago." Thumbs up.
She returned my thumbs up. "You got it Lu!"
"Remember anything yet?" Gray asked. I shook my head in no.
"If there isn't anything you've forgotten then it will skip, I guess you can say."
"Skip?" Loki crossed his arms.
Levy nodded at his question. "Like fast forward? I'm not sure how to word it, if nothing recent has been forgotten then it will go straight to the past." I gasped all of a sudden at a memory that came back to me.
"Elfman..." I whispered.
"Elfman?" Loki started cracking his fingers.
"THAT BIG OAF OWES ME MONEY! I knew I forgot something!" I stomped my foot.
"Okaay then, Lucy how long ago was that?" Levy had a notepad and a pen at the ready.
"3 weeks ago."
Loki sighed. "This could take a while."
I don't have my laptop right now since my sister has been using it so typing this has been a pain. I'm using a nook and its so annoying so if there's any typos, that's why. I just realized that the format might be different. Great. Im going to post this now and if it looks odd I'll just fix it with a computer tomorow. It is 1:35 in the morning, Insomnia sucks yay. School is going to start soon yaaay. °_°
If this is wrong I'll fix it don't worry.
Deuces.
Mira G.~