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My friends tell me I need Dr. Phil...

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Her fair green hair swarmed around her head, like a pool of green. Her eyes wide—exposing what he hates the most. Her white nightgown is dyed with the color of blood, and her lips are a bloody red. The dark substance soaks into the white silky sheets of the bed, as the boy trembles. His eyes wide, and tears running down his cheeks. His hands continue to shake, as they drop the thing they were holding—a knife.

One soaked with blood.

The boy's orange mane sticks to his forehead, his sweat acting as a glue. He couldn't believe what he'd just done. How could he live with himself after this? This was wrong—what he did was wrong. No matter what she did to him. But, maybe...just maybe she deserved it. He didn't deserve those once warm brown eyes, looking at him with such a hatred. Nor did he need her witchy nails dragging into his flesh no more.

Maybe, just maybe...this was okay.

Loke wakes up with a gasp, sweat dripping off of his forehead, his hands shaky. The sweat rolls off of his chin, and trails down his bare chest. The body next to him moans, as it gets up. Her long pink hair a mess on her head—but to him she looks beautiful. Especially without that damned sheet covering her.

"Are you okay?" Aries asks in a small voice, touching his shoulder.

Loke calms slightly at her touch. After years—six months—of pursuing her she's finally his—and he didn't want to mess that up by telling her his horrible childhood. Loke had never been insecure—but around this...vixen he's as insecure as they come.

"Yeah, just a bad dream." Or a memory.

Lucy casually whistles as she swings her legs from her position—on Natsu's desk. Natsu simply sighs at her, though he can't say he particularly hates it. If Natsu didn't want her on his desk, then she'd be off in less than a second—but she's still on it. By the time she and Lissana came from their task, he thought there'd be a cat fight. So it was quite surprising for him to see Lucy talking animatedly to Lissana, while the latter just listened.

Seems like they're friends—well, acquaintances would be better fit, seeing as how daggers are being thrown at Lucy by Lissana's eyes. Lucy on the other hand, listens to Lissana talk about what happened the night before; while Lucy simply plans her escape.

During the night the building is left empty, leaving only Lucy. However high tech cameras, and other gadgets secure the place—and keep her from leaving. So, what she needed to do was turn them off—but, from where? Lucy looks over at Levy's laptop, and smirks. Levy's the tech girl, so she will most likely have the options and stuff connected to her laptop. Now, the real problem was getting the laptop by itself, and breaking into it. Levy carries her laptop like it's her lifeline, and Lucy's sure she put some kind of hard password on it, and perhaps even eye scanners.

Then Lucy looks over at Gajeel—maybe Lucy couldn't convince Levy to leave her laptop, but perhaps a certain boyfriend can. With a mischievous grin Lucy lies down on the desk, her head hanging next to Natsu's arm. She looks at the computer and realizes he's on his Email. "E, u, um...g? O, and" Lucy squints to see the last upside down letter, for the name of the person Natsu's emailing.

Natsu rolls his eyes at her, and closes the tab. Looking at her he raises an eyebrow when he notices the mischievous glint in her eyes. What's she up to now? Another prank on Max? He holds back a smirk when he remembers seeing Max faint, due to the spider that had been on him—where did Lucy get the fake spider, he didn't know. He doesn't know why but it feels as though a certain weight has been lifted off his shoulder when he stares at her—perhaps it's because when he first saw her she had dull eyes, with blood covering most of her body.

Celeste, is the name she had given him. But, he'd already known whom she was—Lucy Heartfillia, daughter of Layla and Jude. He didn't know why he stuck around her, giving her his alias—Salamander, the name he went by on his tasks. His tasks. Looking away from her Natsu stares blankly at the screen before him.

His tasks.

Lucy raised an eyebrow as to why he stared at her for a minute, then looked away looking like he needed to take the greatest mondo duke of his life. To be honest she didn't dislike hi looking at her with such an intensity, with those smoldering green eyes. Green to brown. What a weird combination. She sits up and looks over at Lissana whose blue eyes hold a dark glint.

Green to blue beats green to brown.

"Pie! Mr. Yelloooow!" Lucy sings as she jumps of the desk, and sits in between them, pushing Cana off the couch. She puts her arms around them and smirks. "Don't ya wanna have a quickie with your girlies?" Laxus, and Gajeel both glance at each other before nodding. Both wanting to ravish their girlfriends who've been ignoring their sexual needs since the night the girls snuck out.

"Well," Lucy smirks, popping some keys from the middle of her breast, "I can book you guys a room!" Gajeel and Laxus both wondering how that doesn't hurt.

Laxus snatches the keys, and grabs a startled Mira by the arm. Gajeel follows quickly behind, and lifts a shocked Levy into his arms—Levy was so shocked she'd forgotten about her laptop. Lucy grins at her prize, easy as pissing off Max! Now, what she'd need to do is get the laptop alone. Even though Lucy is a great street thief, can she really do it when it's wide in the open?

Lucy sees Lissana looking at her phone, Loke seeming really into a book, Cana sleeping on the ground, and Natsu searching through his drawers. Lucy slowly moves near the laptop, when she's a foot away from it, she looks to see if anyone's noticed her approaching the laptop. Lucy's heart thumps when she sees Loke look up from his book. She gulps, when his eyebrows furrow, but he doesn't look at her. She tries to act as inconspicuous as she can. She glances back at him, and nearly sighs in relief when he goes back into his book. As fast as Lucy can she grabs the laptop, and leaves the room, yelling she needs a snack.

Lucy goes to the nearest bathroom she can find and walks into a stall, making sure to lock it. She sits on the seat and opens the skinny laptop. She recognizes the brand, and whistles when she realizes she read in a magazine this is the world's best laptop. The Macbake? Macaroni? Something like that—she was too busy running from the cops at that time.

Lucy bites her bottom lip, when she remembers Levy must have a password on her laptop. A small smile takes her face when she sees that her screen saver is a picture of ten little kids, she can instantly tell it's them when they were younger. The care free smiles on their faces are so different from their looks now—the calculating ones. And she couldn't have believed her eyes when she saw the largest smile out of all of theirs on Natsu. His fingers into a fist, and pressed on Gray's cheek, while Gray repeats the same action on Natsu. Erza stands over them with small smile as she gets ready to punch both their heads. Mira and Cana both hug the life out of an unprepared Levy, but a smile still plays at their lips. Gajeel, and Laxus look as though they're snickering at Loke's direction. A blurred fist coming his way, as if he didn't see the fist he continues to grin with closed eyes, as he runs his fingers through his hair. The idiot was probably trying to hit on a girl.

A small sad smile takes Lucy's face. That's right, I don't belong here. And I never will.

Sadly Levy has a password on her laptop—and a difficult one at that. Lucy knows that if she keeps attempting to get in, an alarm will be triggered. So, she keeps herself at two tries. Of course Lucy has never done this before, so she fails at both attempts, and lets out a sigh. Guess she'll have to figure out another way to do this. With another deep sigh Lucy shuts off the laptop and steps out of the stall, unfortunately she sees someone with many hickeys facing the mirror.

To her dismay it's Levy.

With wide eyes she quickly closed the stall shut. Today just isn't Lucy's lucky day—Levy saw her, "Lucy are you okay?" Levy asks, concerned for her blonde friend.

Lucy can feel her blood pulsing through her veins, her heart beating at an erratic pace. Her lips suddenly feel dry, and her hands start to get clammy. A sudden surge of guilt washes over her. Why does she feel so bad for lying to her, when she'd met her just about a month ago? Swallowing down the growing guilt, she lets out a shaky breath. "Yeah, I'm good...just constipated."

Levy smiles slightly—with a cringe of course, she didn't need to know about Lucy's troubles with pooping. Shaking her head she looks in the mirror once more and tries to fix her hair—Gajeel sure knows how to leave his marks. "Alright, I'll be going back to the room now."

Lucy's eyes widen—if Levy goes back into the room, that'll mean that she'll know her laptop is missing. Shit, she needs to figure out a different solution. "Oh! Um, Bisca said she needed you earlier—but I told her you were too busy getting it on with Pie."

Levy has never been gladder for the innovation of stalls, then she is now—her whole body was filled with a bright red. "O-Okay!"

Lucy lets out a sigh of relief when she hears the bathroom door close. Sitting up, with the laptop safe in her hands, she leave the bathroom. Lucy double checks down the halls and quickly runs over to the elevator so she can go back to the room. Leaning her head back on the cool tile wall—she lets out a breath she'd been holding.

When the elevator stops at the top floor, Lucy leaves it with another one of her constant sighs. She tiptoes over to the doors of the only room that lies on the floor—and creeps one of them slightly open. Looking through the crack she notices that the room is empty—her lucky day. Opening the door as quick as she can, she runs over to the table it was originally on and places it there. Damn, I should be a flippin' ninja! Ooh, Teenage Awesome Lucy Human! I can already see those green turtles getting mad at me.

"Why do you have Levy's laptop?"

Well, there goes my ninja dream—it's okay Leonardo you and your turtle group are canon.

Swirling around Lucy is met with the playboy of the group. His eyebrows raised, and his brown eyes smothered with a layer of suspicion. Lucy—with all her years of lying—fiddles her fingers, and bites her lips—trying to look innocent. She furrows her eyebrows slightly, before looking up. "I...I was trying to look something up. And I knew the Cotton Candy Tyrant wouldn't let me do anything, so I had to sneak it out."

Loke being quite gullible when it came to the familiar blonde decided to believe her. He lets out a yawn and rubs his eyes "I'm going to take a nap on the couch, tell me when I'm needed."

Lucy nods, and watches as he lays on the couch, covering his eyes with his arm. Something then hit her heart with a hard impact—there goes the guilt again.

"A monster! Don't look at him."

"He's not crying."

"What is he?"

"She was a good woman."

"First his own Mother, now her. What a cursed child."

The boy stood there staring at the casket of his adoptive mother. He should've known no one would believe him when he said she was hurting him—they all had the sick thought of him harming himself, for attention. He looked down at his hands, and saw the sickly stain the blood left. Suddenly the casket was replaced with his "mother's" body. Her lifeless doll like body standing there—her eyes rolled all the way back. A hole in her chest, and a sick smile on her face.

His eyes widened—yet no fear, or sympathy took hold of his heart—only relief, and joy. With clenched teeth the boy ran from the woman's dead body—from the painful remarks of her friends. He ran until his lungs burned, and his legs were too numb to feel anything. He ran until he reached his favorite park—the Sakura tree park.

That wasn't the actual park's name of course—but that's what he and his friends called it, due to the excessive amount of Sakura trees. Loke walks over to the tree he and his group of misfits had claimed as their own—the biggest one there. As cliché as it was it was the one at the top of a hill—looking down at the rest of the park.

He let his back hit the tree as he slid down it. Waiting for tears to sprout in his eyes—yet it never occurred. Why could he not cry? Was he so far gone, that tears didn't affect him anymore? Maybe he was a monster...maybe. He's seen what killing had down to one of his closest friends. His once constant smiles, had turned into rare smirks. A serious expression plastered onto his tan skin—it scared him to know Natsu was that age and he had the look of a twenty year old.

The look of a person whose seen many deaths.

I guess working for Zeref does that to you.

The boy was too far invested in his thought to notice the body that neared him. The body of a woman who had long silky blonde hair—and bright brown eyes, along with pearly white teeth.

"She deserved it." Her soft voice comes out.

His eyes widen. He gulps down the thick saliva. The way she'd said it, made him realize that she'd known the truth. That a burglar hadn't gotten to her—he did.

Loke did.

"Hi" she smiles—and he swears she bewitched him. That smile instantly got rid of the guilt he felt, the warmth warming his heart. "I'm Layla Heartfilia."

Loke's eye lids crack open as he takes in his surroundings. He'd only been asleep for a good ten minutes. A fond smile graces his features, as a nostalgic looks takes ahold of his eyes. He'd always remember that day—the day that started it all. He looks around the room and sees the blonde girl spinning on Natsu's chair. Mocking him in a deep voice.

Loke chuckles, silently.

A sheepish smile grows on her face when she realizes he saw her—and Loke can't help but smile at that smile. The smile that holds so many similarities to her mother. To the woman who'd saved him. Loke realizes then that Lucy Heartfilia is a splitting image of Layla—one could mistake her as her twin. They both hold that bright warm smile, which can melt the biggest glacier. Those big brown orbs that looked innocent—but when it comes to these Heartfilia woman, you can't judge a candy by its wrapper.

"Dude, why are you looking at me like that? I know I'm finer than Francisco Lachowski, but you don't have to stare at me like that—it's creepy." Lucy says with a teasing tone. Lucy can be pretty observant, and she can tell something is bothering Loke. Most people in this case would probably leave it be—well at least most people with sense. Who in their right minds would ask a mafia member what's wrong? But, this is Lucy Heartfilia—a girl who acts like she higher than cloud nine. "What's wrong with you? You look like you ate something bitter. Wait, no, you look like you want to cry."

Loke rolls his eyes at her bluntness. Maybe he should tell her how he knew her mom, and everything he knows about—no! He can't do that. Layla Heartfilia has many enemies, and if Lucy found out who her mother truly was, she'd try to dig deep—and digging into the past will get her killed.

"I killed my adoptive mother, when I was twelve." He spits out—his brain not comprehending what he said. After he realizes what he just told her, he freaks out for a mere second before realizing maybe...this is what he needs. To talk about what happened—and not to someone who's killed. Someone who still has a light in them.

Wow...zero to a hundred real quick. If I'd known I would've been having a heart-to-heart I would've prepared. Geez, way to leave a girl unprepared Loke. So, he killed his mom—well his adoptive mother. Maybe he had a reason; you don't take a life without any justification. That's just...wrong. When you start taking lives without reason—that's when you lose your humanity. Of course there are different ways to lose your humanity.

Lucy knows three people who lost theirs in three different ways.

"Um, why?" Lucy's voice cuts through the silence.

Loke's tongue darts out, as he goes in to lick his lips. It shouldn't be this hard—but it is. It feels like him talking to her mother once more. "She caused me pain. I wanted to end the pain."

The first time he'd seen Karen walk into the orphanage he and his friends called home—she seemed like an angel. Her long green hair framing around her warm brown eyes, he'd sworn he saw a halo. Most the people that came into the orphanage adopted the little kids, the babies—and the toddlers. So, when Gramps—as they referred to Makarov—came over to him with a big smile he was confused.

Then he'd heard it.

The three words he'd longed to hear his whole—ten years—life.

"You're being adopted."

When he'd gotten to his new "home" he was elated, he was bouncing up and down in the car. His room was a big room with all the things a ten year old needed. The first month had been the best of his life—and then it went downhill. She'd shown her true colors. She didn't want a son, she wanted a slave.

She didn't go easy on him at all.

She'd force him to do hard things, which put a strain on his ten year old body—and punish him when he didn't. He didn't mind it—he was hurt, yes. But, he told himself he could live with it. After all now he had someone who wanted him—even if it was a cruel reason.

Then it got even worse.

Her friends would come, and he'd be forced to clean after them, the worst they ever did to him was make him high. Maybe that's what had set his path. Two years after the same routine of lying to his friends—even though he was positive they knew the truth—he broke.

He grabbed the knife and plunged it through her.

Loke was so lost in his thought's he didn't notice Lucy's light footsteps. He did however, notice the light, yet sweet kiss she'd placed on his forehead. Lucy knew instantaneously what he'd been talking about. She'd suffered the same thing he did.

"You did nothing wrong. What comes around, always comes back around. She was your tormentor from the past. And you, Leo were strong enough to defeat her. Don't be ashamed."

Loke's eyes widen as Lucy wraps her long thin fingers around his cheeks, a bright smile just for him. Tears threaten to come falling down his face.

"You're brave, and strong for that. Leo the Lion."

"A Lion is brave, and strong. And so are you, Leo." Layla says with a loving smile.

The tears fall.

This is Lucy Heartfilia, daughter of Layla Heartfilia.

This is Lucy Heartfilia, the girl who'd wormed her way into all their hearts.

He couldn't protect Layla, but he sure will protect her.

He'll be a Lion, for the ones he cares for.

WOW! A lot was revealed int his chapter, guys! Just who was Layla Heartfilia in the past, hmmm? Sorry, i went a little MIA lol. OH AND REMEMBER I'M DOING THAT WHOLE THING WHERE THERE'S A NEW CONTINENT AND THAT'S WHERE FIORE IS IN! SO THERE WILL BE SOME REFERENCES!

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Guys, I don't hate Lissana. I don't really like those stories that make her the most evil person, and Lucy a big ol' saint. Lissana is a good person in the show, and I think you guys should respect that she's not a villain. Of course I'm all NALU, but Lissana is a good person. And in this story i want her and Lucy to be friends. I like stories where Lissana and Lucy BOTH like Natsu, and are friends. Not those stories that depict Lissana as such an evil character. Plus I might just ship her with someone in this story (; BUT REMEMBER YOU ARE ALL ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN OPINIONS! IF SOMEONE REVIEWS SOMETHING BITCHY, IMMA POINT THIS OUT AND BE LIKE "READ YA DUMBASS!" :DDDD

So I finally got a new phone! And it's a...

IPHONE 7!

DIN! DING! DING!

Lol. It's not that different form the six, besides it waterproof, and a better camera, and its faster. The home button also shuts off when the phone is off. The home button is also more touchscreen-ish then it is a button. Oh! You also have live photos. MERRY THANKSGIVING! :DD

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