WildCard555 here after writing fanfics for one year now presenting you Child of Darkness(Zeref & Lucy's baby) chapter 11. Time to start the drama that happens when a baby is on the way. Surely this will be a fun time in the lives of everyone in Fairy Tail. If this chapter seems to be a bit off blame it on the fact I'm a guy have no idea everything that goes through a woman's head when she finds out that she's pregnant, and I just couldn't get my heart into this chapter for some reason.

Thank you everyone for your reviews. From all the feedback you've all given me it looks like I'm getting the responses I want. Also thank you to everyone for being patient with me when I put this story on its temporary hiatus while I got the work done for Dragon's Tear one year anniversary. Again thank you for all the support you've all given me.

I Own Nothing.


Chapter 11

What Do I Do?

In less than a minute thanks to Lisanna's assistance Wendy got Lucy in a comfortable position after making sure nothing was wrong with her after passing out from learning she was pregnant.

"So you're positive she's pregnant?" Asked Lisanna.

"With all the medical knowledge Porlyusica has passed onto me I know she is." Said Wendy.

"Poor girl." Thinking how hard learning this info must be on Lucy, especially when you combine the facts the father is MIA and the fact how young she is.

Wendy started to do math in her head. "Lucy is seven weeks along now." Still doing math. "That means the baby will be born in July. So Lucy-Chan will be turning nineteen around the time the baby is born."

"They could end up having the same birthday." Remembering the blonde's birthday was July 1st.

"That is if she…"

"Uggghhhh!" Lucy groaned as she woke up. Looking around her room she saw Wendy and Lisanna leaning over her while she lay down on her bed. "What hap…" Remembering the answer to her question before she could finish asking it. Sitting up in her bed she looked at the young dragon slayer. "So I'm pregnant." Hugging her legs to her chest.

"And currently seven weeks along." Wendy confirmed.

The celestial mage started to shed a tear as she moved one of her hands to rub her stomach over where the baby was growing inside her. "What am I…" Before she could ask the question she had the same urge to vomit she'd been having all week so she rushed to the bathroom.

Wendy was about to follow until Lisanna stopped her giving her a look to let her handle this. Sure Wendy had more medical experience than the other girl will ever have, but she was more knowledgeable when it came to comforting others. After all she was the one who nearly ended her rampage a couple months ago.

So Lisanna stepped into the bathroom seeing Lucy emptying the contents of her stomach into the toilet. Before she started to approach her Lisanna stopped after the first step after feeling something under her bear foot. Quickly picking what she stepped on she saw it was a pregnancy test that was positive. 'We must have just gotten here before she got the results.' Tossing the test in the trash before knelling down next to Lucy so she could pull her hair back so it wouldn't get in the toilet as well. "Just let it out." She said soothingly while she rubbed the other girls' back gently.

Once she was done throwing up Lucy turned toward the other girl. Instead of saying thank you she asked. "What am I going to do Lisanna?" Unsure of how to handle this situation. Out of all the times she wished her mother were still alive this was the one moment she needed her the most.

"I don't know Lucy." She answered honestly. "But I'll be there to help you." She promised.

"Thank you Lisanna."

After several minutes of talking the girls decided it would be best to go the guild to help the expecting mother get some advice from the other members who already had kids. In another couple of minutes after Lucy got dressed(all in year X791 outfits) the three girls began to walk to the guild with Wendy holding onto both girls hands to make sure Laxus wouldn't snatch her. Before any of them knew it they where standing in front of Fairy Tail.

"Here we are." Said Wendy letting go of the other girl's hands as she rushed for certain safety from her evil trainer.

"I can't do this." Said Lucy starting to loss all her nerves.

"Come on Lucy you know you'll have to tell everyone eventually anyway." Lisanna said in a matter of fact way.

"Can't I hold off on telling everyone?" Begging Lisanna not to make her tell the guild about her situation when she was still uncertain of what to do.

"Lucy with how rowdy the guild is you might get hit during a random brawl and possibly loss the baby." Again saying in a matter of fact tone, as she knew that nearly everyone gets hit at least once during the many brawls that happens at Fairy Tail daily. She also knew the longer Lucy waited the more likely she would be to get hit and it hurt the baby in the process.

"You're right Lisanna." Knowing she was right about the brawls.

Grabbing a hold of the celestial mage's hands. "I know this must be really nerve racking for you, but like I said earlier I'm here to help you."

"Thank you." At that the two girls entered the guild with Wendy holding the door open for them. Looking around the room Lucy saw nearly everyone was in the guild tonight. Not only that but it looked like they were celebrating something, and when a celebration it taking place its only a matter of time till thing went flying around. Knowing that Lucy knew she needed to tell everyone soon before something bad happened to her, but with everyone there half of which she still needed to apologize to only added to how nervous she was about telling them the big news.

Sensing her friend's nerves growing Lisanna knew she'd need to get everyone's attention for the expecting woman. "Excuse me!" Attempting to get everyone's attention.

Fairy Tail only seemed to get more rambunctious ignoring the woman trying to get their attention.

"Excuse me!" Doubling her volume.

Still the guild couldn't hear her over their rowdiness.

Now getting irritated. "EXCUSE ME!" Lisanna yelled at the top of her lungs.

Everyone stopped what they were doing as they finally heard the silerette's voice. Now everyone in the guild was staring at her, Wendy and Lucy.

"Lucy has an announcement to make." Turning to the blonde. "You're up." She whispered as she pushed her in front of the small group at the door.

To say Lucy was nervous was an understatement. The last time she was in the guild with everyone around she ended up ripping half of their heads off. She knew all the girls understood what she went through that morning. They told her that they explained it to the guys, but still she had yet to apologize to them personally yet. "I'm sorry for being so mean to all of you two months ago." Giving the guild as deep a bow as she could while still standing up.

"It's okay." Wakaba slurred.

"I would have done the same if I was a chick." Macao slurred his speech as well.

"You'd be one ugly ass chick."

"I'd be hotter than you'd be if you were a woman."

"You two have had one two many." Said Cana drinking out of a normal sized mug of beer.

"Just don't let it happen again." Random member.

"We understand." Another random member spook.

Nearly everyone gave her a quick reply saying they had no bad feelings over it anymore. As a matter of fact all but one didn't accept the apology.

"Fuck you Lucy!" Gajeel said while he flipped the blonde off.

'Looks like Gajeel is the only one here who I need to make things up to.' Making a mental note to be careful around the Iron Dragon Slayer. "I have one more thing to say." Noticing the guild was about to go back into party mode. "I'm…" Unable to make her announcement as she was losing her nerves again.

"You're?" Several people trying to help the girl get the words out.

"I'm…" Throat feeling to dried out to speak

"Just Fucking say it." Gajeel ordered growing more irritated by the girl who he believed cost him Levy.

"You can do it." Lisanna whispered into Lucy's ear encouragingly.

"I'm pregnant." Lucy only managed to whisper.

"Lucy I could barely hear that." Wendy said.

"I'm pregnant." Barely above a whisper, but still no one besides Lisanna and Wendy could hear her.

"Maybe a mug of beer will calm you nerves." Mira offered Lucy a mug of beer off of the tray loaded with drinks she was carrying thinking the alcohol would help calm her nerves for the announcement.

"I can't drink." Turning down the drink knowing full well that a pregnant woman isn't supposed to have any alcohol what so ever.

"Why not?" Still trying to give her the drink.

"Because I'm pregnant." Finally saying it loud enough for everyone to hear.

CRASH! That was the sound made when Mira dropped the serving tray filled with mugs of beer. "Oh My God Lucy!" She squealed as she began to hug the life out of the girl over the exciting news. The rest of the guild began to get rowdy again for they had yet another reason to celebrate. Only in three seconds did everyone start to put pieces together. And how quickly did they all sober up after seeing tears falling from the girl after she revealed her pregnancy to them all. This was the quickest a party had ever ended without either Erza or Makarov ending it for them.

"Oh God Lucy." Now looking sympathetically at the blonde. Now hugging the other girl in a comforting manor. After hearing about all the times Natsu had snuck into her bed and how close the two were she thought that when the blonde would make the announcement it would have been his child, and not some stranger who left her in the middle of the night.

"What am I going to do Mira?" Lucy sobbed.

"I don't know." Starting to lead her to the bar, and away from everyone else.

The others looked on as the two women walked towards the bar first feeling sympathy toward their expecting Nakama. Feeling sorry for her as they began to think how hard this whole ordeal will be for her because they all thought the same as Mira on her eventual love life. Right then they all felt that same feeling of anger she had displaced on them two months ago because of that bastard. Right then did the entire guild agree that if that bastard ever showed his face to them again they'd make it permanently unrecognizable after they had finished with him.

Macao, Alzack, Bisca, and Wakaba all looked each other in the eye all knowing the younger woman needed all the advice the four of them could give her on becoming a parent. On the walk to the bar did they notice Gildarts had joined them. "What do you think you're dong?" They all asked in Unison.

"What I have a daughter too." Gildarts pointed at Cana.

"You didn't even know about it till she was all grown up and didn't need you anymore." Again all four said in unison. Gildarts quickly made his way towards one of the far away corners in the room vowing he'd find a way to make this up to his daughter one day. At that they started again towards the bar.

Lucy had her head pressed on the bar counter still not believing this could be happening. "What am I going to do?" Moving he left hand over her stomach taking a sip from the drink Mira had given her to help calm her down.

The four parents each took a seat next to Lucy. Each of them began to think of when their wife, or when Bisca told Alzack they were going to be parents. Both Wakaba and Macao were both nearly thirty and in committed relationships when they were told. Alzack and Bisca on the other hand were only a year older than Lucy was when they had Asuka, but they at least had each other. Lucy on the other hand was still a young woman who got pregnant after a one-night stand, and like most of the guild only had each other as family.

Macao was the first to speak, and was going to say something the rest of them might not like to hear, but felt it needed to be said. "Lucy I know this might not be the best time to say it, but you're still so young and have so much more to learn and grow as a person. I know you'd be a good caring mother, but now might be too soon for you especially on your own. You might want to think what would be best for you and…" Macao stopped what he was saying when Lucy looked up at him not with anger on her face, but sadness.

"That wouldn't be fair." She sobbed looking down at her stomach. "I can't punish this child because of a mistake I made." Putting her head down back on the counter now hugging the child growing in her. "How would I be able to look at another child I may have in the future knowing I aborted this one." Right then Lucy made up her mind that she would have the baby, but soon came the fears of how she would be able to take care of it on her own. With those fears tears started to fall down her face.

"There, there Lucy." Bisca whispered into the blondes' ear patting her back gently. She knew better than the others did just how scary thinking how your whole world changes when you learn you're about to become a parent in less than nine months time. "You're not in this alone. The entire guild is here to help you."

Still having her head pressed down on the counter she knew it was Bisca trying to soothe her. "Thank you Bisca." Wiping away her tears.

"No problem Lucy." Bisca smiled. "If you have any questions I'm more than happy to answer them."

"Thanks." Looking each of them in the eye seeing they were all sincere in wanting to help her out. "But right now I need to think of how I'm going to support myself before and after." Rubbing her abdomen.

The four parents knew that they could help her think of ways to support herself, but knew that what she wanted right now was time alone to think. One by one the each told her if she had any questions or needed anything all she needed to do was ask. Each got a thank you before they started to make their way home after seeing most had left the guild already as it was only 10 O' clock which was early for them to go home, but tonight was not a night to be celebrating, not anymore.

Lucy just sat at the bar just thinking of the future she was going to have. Parts horrifying her to death while also knowing there would be rewards along the way. The thing that scarred her the most was that she'd end up doing it all by herself. The last thing she wanted to do after the way she grew up. 'Sorry!" Thinking to her baby. 'I never wanted to have you live through a broken child hood like I did.'

"So I guess you and me are in the same boat." Said a female voice taking the empty seat next to Lucy.

Looking for the owner of the voice she saw a woman with long straight purplish-black hair. She was wearing a tie-dye purple summer dress despite it now being November. One other feature that popped out at Lucy was that she had a small, but visible baby bump. "Ultear."

"So how far along are you?" Ultear asked while ordering water from Mira.

Thinking of what Wendy had told her earlier. "Today will make seven weeks." Now starting to think of all the things that she needed to get done in the seven months before the baby is born. "How about you?"

"Fifteen weeks." She said rubbing her belly. "So mine will be about two months older than yours."

"It should be my baby." Erza drunkenly stated on the other side of the bar. She meant to keep it to herself, but after all the alcohol she's had Erza couldn't control the volume of her voice.

"I think someone should take her home." Lucy whispered to Mira using one of her hands to cover her mouth so the armored woman couldn't hear or read her lips.

Mira looked around the bar. "Cana, Juvia. Can you two take Erza home before she does something she'll regret."

Cana set down her beer. "You know none of the guys around here are going to be stupid enough to try to take advantage of her right?" Placing one of Erza's arms over her shoulder. This had now become a daily ritual for her and Juvia since Erza began drinking after the Jellal-Ultear situation.

"Juvia has no problem assisting Cana-Sama taking Erza-Sama home." Juvia chirped taking Erza's other arm over her shoulder.

"You two are sexy." Erza slurred.

"I'm more so worried of her taking advantage of someone else." Said Mira before shooing the girls away.

The two Strauss sisters, Ultear, and Lucy watched as the Card and Water mage carry the stumbling armored mage back to Fairy Hills.

"I think you need to hook Erza up with someone Mira-Nee." Said Lisanna.

"I would if she could sober up enough." Mira sighed "Only who do I pair her up with? After all Jellal was…" Stopping what she was about to say remembering the woman carrying his child was within an arms length of her.

Ultear dropped her head down just hard enough to make a thump sound on the bar counter. "I'm not too happy about this situation either." Making small sobbing sounds. "Sure I'm happy I get to sleep in a nice warm bed again, and not have to worry about giving birth in some cave while taking care of it on the road. Still though I don't like the fact I took Jellal away from Erza this way."

"Then why'd you sleep with Jellal?" Lucy asked the question only Erza had asked her since Ultear became a member of Fairy Tail.

"I don't know why I did." She hiccuped. "All I know is Jellal is promised not to leave me without me even thinking of asking him."

Right then did she realize that Ultear was correct in saying both of them where indeed in the same boat. Right then did she think of something that would bring up both of their moods. "Hopefully our babies will be friends growing up." Putting on a smile.

Picking her head up off the counter she smiled at the thought as well. "I'd like that." Right then did both women start to look forward to the future. After all what really mattered now wasn't how they go there, but that they took care of their children to the best of their abilities.

"Are you ready do go home?" Asked a male voice placing his hand on Ultear's shoulder.

Looking for the body connected to the hand did Ultear see Jellal standing beside her. "Yeah!" She said as they began to walk towards the door. "See you later Lucy." Waving goodbye.

"See you later Ultear." Said Lucy now grateful she had someone else to talk to going through the same ordeal she was.

"Lucy take this." Makarov said appearing out of nowhere, as he handed her an envelope.

"What's this?" Opening up the envelope seeing it filled up with jewels. "Where did you get this?" Freaking out about the large sum of jewels in her hands.

"That's the money that Ceadra used to win your bid. After hearing you were pregnant I thought it would be best for you to have it to support yourself while you get prepared for what's to come." Makarov was smiling the whole time.

"Sorry Master but I can't accept this." Handing the Jewels back.

"Why not?" Now confused.

"As much as I hate to admit this it was my decision to sleep with that 'Asshole' that night. We were all told to remind our dates we were not going to sleep with them, but I did anyway."

"You know I won't allow you take on any dangerous missions while you're pregnant right?" Still keeping the envelope held out for her to take.

"Yeah!" She sighed realizing most of the jobs required some sort of fighting to get the job done. Sure there were also missions that required no fighting whatsoever on the board, but those were few and far between due to Fairy Tails reputation. That and once she got further in she knew traveling to go on jobs would be out of the question as well.

"What about the idea I gave you six weeks ago?" Mira asked Makarov.

"It's been approved by the mayor so go ahead." At that Makarov made his exit still having the envelope in hand wishing it wasn't there despite how much he needed it to pay off Fairy Tails debts.

"What were you two talking about?" Lucy asked the barmaid.

"You see after looking through the books on the night of the auction we nearly made as much money selling food and drinks to the guests as we did from the action itself." Mira began. "After showing that to Master I asked him if I could turn the bottom floor into a restaurant/bar open to the public."

Thinking back to that night she remembered the guests staying for quite a long time before leaving having a good time hanging around the guild after the action was over. "I guess that's good for clearing away our debt."

"And good for you as well." Mira smiled.

"What do you mean."

"This means I now have a job opened up for you."

"Huh?"

"I've already have a couple cooks learning my recipes, Kinana will be heading the bar from now on, and I'll have to host and oversee everything to make sure the restaurant has everything it needs daily. With how crowded we were that night I know I still need a couple of waitresses to cover for me and Kinana having to do our new jobs." Stretching out her hand. "So what do you say." Offering Lucy a job.

Lucy thought about it for a couple of minutes. Sure it wasn't a glamorous job, but it would pay the bills until she was able to go back on missions that would have better pay. It also guaranteed she wouldn't have to do any traveling or placing the baby in any unnecessary danger. From how the guild acted after she had revealed her news they all knew they couldn't get into brawl when she or Ultear were around. Plus with the public now coming in for food and drinks they'd have to take the fights outback from now on for the customers sake as well. She loved going on missions with her teammates, but hated the fact she never got to take home more than half the share she should have gotten due to collateral damages, so brining home a steady paycheck would be nice for a change, plus the tips she'd get daily. "Alright, I'll take it." Shaking Mira's hand accepting her new job.

"Good." After they stopped shaking hands Mira picked up a bag from behind the counter. "The job will start next week, and there are three uniforms in the bag for you."

"Thank you Mira." She yawned. "I think I'd better go home and get some rest." Starting to realize just how long and emotionally draining the day had been on her. Then she thought of something else. "Mira have you seen Natsu?"

"After getting Wendy and Lisanna to go check on you I had him fix the stoves for me. After that he left only to come back and grab a job shortly after getting back saying he needed to get away for a while."

'Did he hear about my condition?' Thinking that Natsu had heard Wendy reveal the news to her. 'But why would Natsu leave after that. I mean it's not like…'

Seeing the concern on the blonde's face Mira snapped her out of her thoughts. "Don't worry Lucy Natsu can take care of himself. Besides right now you should be worrying about yourself." Mira knew exactly why Natsu had left. The man was in love with her and he must have heard about her condition thus causing him pain as well not knowing what this all meant for the two of them now with the traditions of dragon mating he was taught growing up. How does she now about Dragon mating rituals you ask? After being convinced Natsu would end up with her sister Lisanna she looked up everything she could in regards to the subject so she could warn her sister of what to expect later on, but that was before Lisanna went to Edolas and meeting and eventually falling for Lucy. 'Poor Natsu. This must be nearly as hard on him as it is with Lucy.'

"You're right Mira." Lucy sighed. "I think I'd better head home." Standing up. "See you tomorrow boss." Now heading for the door.

"Good night Lucy."

Walking toward the door to head home until she felt someone grab a hold of her shoulder. Looking back she saw it was Gray fully clothed for once.

"Do you want me to walk you home Lucy?" Gray asked not wanting anything bad to happen to the girl that he considered his younger sister.

"I appreciate the offer Gray, but I'll be just fine." Rubbing her stomach. "It's going to be a while before the baby starts limiting me."

Opening the door for her. "Just be safe." Concern on his face. "After all you're caring for a second life now."

"I know." She said before walking out the door. Stopping suddenly she turned around to look at the now shirtless Gray. "I'm sorry for yelling at you the way I did."

"It's alright. If I were in your shoes I would have done the same."

"Sorry if I ruined your chances with Juvia." Remembering what she said to the Water-Woman while he lay on the table defenselessly after she had thrown him on it.

Sighing. "If anything I ruined my chances with her myself for how I treated her." Knowing full well it was his own neglectful fault Juvia wasn't his at the moment.

Nodding her head she started to walk home. After walking home for a minute in the cold November night she felt someone putting a jacked over her shoulders just as she began to shiver. Turning around she saw who it was "Loke!"

"You might be able to tell Gray no, but as your spirit it's my job to protect you at all times." Looking down at her abdomen. "Both of you."

"I could always close your gate." Pulling out her key playfully.

Loke quickly snatched his key out of the blonde's hand. "It's my job to protect you at all times." He said in a serious tone. "Both of you." Repeating what he said seconds ago.

"Thank you Loke." The two started to walk home.

"Lucy I can fell your fears, all of them." Loke started. "I know what you fear most is ending up raising this child alone." Drawing his mistress in to keep her warm on this cold November night. "I want you to know if somehow that does happen I'll always be there for you two. All of us will be." Speaking on behalf of all the celestial spirits Lucy had contracts with.

"Can a spirit be with a human?" Now thinking it would be Loke acting as the father to her child if no one would want her after having this child.

"No, but its not like it would be the first time I've broken the rules of the Spirit World."

"Thanks Loke." The rest of the walk home was in silence. When they reached her apartment Lucy told Loke he could head back home as she was just going to make dinner, take a shower, and then go to bed.

Though he didn't want to go Loke knew better than anyone else just how exhausting this day was for his mistress. "See you soon princess." Giving her a hug and his key back before fading away.

"See you later Loke." Inserting her key into the lock to let her inside. Right before turning the key to unlock her door Lucy saw an envelope on her doorstep addressed to her. Bending down to pick it up she opened it thinking it was the one Master had tried to give her earlier, but quickly realized it wasn't when she saw it said 'Support?' on the front of it in an unfamiliar handwriting. Upon opening the envelope did she see it filled with Jewels. Counting it up she saw it had 70,000 Jewels in it. Looking back at the writing on the envelope she somehow knew it was in Ceadra's handwriting. "Asshole!" Throwing the envelope and its contents behind her. "That's not the kind of support I need." Slamming the door behind her.

Someone watched Lucy tossing the envelope away and was quick to pick it up after they were certain no one was watching them do it. After looking inside it and back to the house a couple of times the stranger asked themself. "What kind of mess have you gotten yourself into young lady?"

End Chapter 11

Next Chapter

Waitress


Sorry for those of you hopping Ultear was lying to Jellal, but she is indeed having his child. So, so far we have two babies on the way. Also if this chapter seemed repetitive, or just plain flat I'm Still recovering from all the work I did on Dragon's Tear last month(21,000 words in 20 days time), and I just couldn't get my heart into this chapter. Next one I'll be picking things back up(Heart will be in it), and most likely will be the longest chapter to this story thus far.

Just out of Curiosity how do you all fell about the way I'm portraying the Lisanna character in this story? After all you all know my opinion on that whole she comes back and Lucy gets ignored cliche after chapter 8. How does it feel reading a story where Lisanna is actually being nice to Lucy for a change(and vise-verse) instead of there being the usual animosity they usually have towards each other in most other stories.

Hope you all enjoyed.

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WildCard555 Out.