The moment Lucy stepped inside fairy tail's building, she wondered if she could go back.

Mirajane was standing right in front of the counter wearing a big unwavering smile that didn't even twitched when Lucy tried to escape Mira's grasp. Apparently the second in command at fairy tail had made it her responsibility to show the new recruits around fairy tail.

But when Lucy asked what about the other three new recruits, Viola, Miranda and Jacob...

The said white haired woman waved her off.

Tightening her grip on Lucy's hand Mira took Lucy through the door behind the front desk.

"Here Lucy," Mira said as she gestured to the lines of endless lockers. "this is fairy tail 'store floor'. As the name suggests this floor is used only to keep stocks of food, extra empty folders, endless numbers of pens and papers. Oh! And we also have an unhealthy amount of chairs and tables too!" Mira said proudly as clapped her hand under her chin after she let go of Lucy's hand.

The said blonde woman stared at Mira with big wide eyes for two reason. First was as to why the heck they have so many extra chairs and tables; and second was...

"Pardon me Mira but do you always wear this kind of dresses to work or..." Lucy asked baffled by the older woman's choice of clothing.

Mira blinked before she smiled kindly and patted her red dress that sported a big pink bow at the centre of her neck line, to remove non existent dirt. She shook her head before giving Lucy an even brighter smile.

"Don't be uncomfortable about it Lucy. I understand you got a lot of criticizing looks from more out of most agents. They just didn't took it well that a candidate wore a dress to an interview. But hey wanna know a secret?" Mira asked, her face suddenly turning pink as she spoke lowering her voice at the end and hunching downing a little at Lucy's level.

She looked like a little girl in that moment and that moment was what actually won over Lucy.

The blond turned smiled and she took a small step towards Mira.

The she-devil almost squealed but somehow managed to contain herself before she whispered in Lucy's space. "The moment you entered the room for that 'talk', we malachites had with you candidates, you earned my vote instantly. Because the way you carried yourself spoke of the amount of confidence you have, just like that quote 'confidence is not about wanting to fit in or something but about being okay with not fitting in' or something just like that."

Lucy's face turned red like a fresh tomato.

The blonde out of everything wasn't expecting this. Mira had a way of surprising Lucy that didn't sat well with the blonde. But now feeling abashed the new recruit of fairy tail looked sideways and slightly scratched her right cheek with her right index finger all the while muttering, "that's not it...the only thing I was thinking about was to get over with that meeting and have some good tea at sweet and sour."

Out of all the reactions Lucy could've predicted. She didn't expected Mirajane to squeal loudly and hold both of Lucy's hand while saying, "you know that place too!? It's one of my favourite! Lets go there together sometime in the future. Oh! I know I would love you the moment I first saw you!"

After that confession...it was safe to say Mira somewhat broke Lucy.

Because the blonde stood unresponsive to the hug she was receiving from the white haired women.

Stepping back Mira completed the tour of the first floor and making sure Lucy knew where the extra chair were in case hers broke in one of fairy tail's quarrel.

Leaving the first floor the duo of blonde and white headed towards the second floor which Lucy found out was the call centre. A place where all the call made to fairy tail's were received. The floor also had the main intercom office whose in charge was the man Mira called Warren.

On the third floor Lucy met Lisanna again and the younger white haired agent was thrilled to see the blonde much like her older sister. Lisanna joined her sister in the job of showing around fairy tail.

The third floor was the emergency unit.

There were few offices of the higher agents, the rest are was cubicles for those who didn't had there own office. Mira and Lisanna guided Lucy through the floor and at the end they led Lucy to the office of malachite-in-charge of the emergency unit.

Their brother: Elfman Strauss.

The trio of the siblings was quite unusual for Lucy. There was Mira who held herself like a warrior though she tried to hide it through her childish behaviour. Then the brother Elfman who compared to the two sister was a 'not-green' hulk. And the youngest: Lisanna who was the same age as Lucy; a year younger than her brother and two years younger than her elder sister.

Yet she tried to act as the mother of the two. While Mira just smiled at her antics.

So after a countless numbers 'manly' and 'big brother' Lucy and Mira finally left the third floor.

Which brought them to fourth floor: the infirmary.

Which was quite empty with only a handful of people roaming around. Lucy was told that it was the place where agents were given emergency treatments and first-aid before being shifted to the city hospital.

Moving ahead Lucy and Mira skipped the fifth floor which was the jail and interrogation area as the white haired woman had claimed that the blonde was had time before she stepped foot on that floor.

On the sixth floor was the gym and it being still fairly early in the morning the floor was quite deserted...and the moment Lucy stepped in there she turned to Mira, "Excuse me, Mira but there is one thing I must do."

Mira looked at the blonde who gave her a cheeky grin before she went ahead and climbed the upside-down jungle gym.

Fifteen minutes later both of the woman left the gym are with a giggling Mirajane and a Lucy (whose hair had turned into a bird-nest from a bun while she enjoyed her time on the jungle gym) who sported a huge grin.

Mira skips the seventh on Lucy's request after the blonde learns that it was the kitchen area.

The lift opens it's arm and the blonde and white haired women walkout of the it and on to the eighth floor. Compared to the other floors that Lucy had been on this one definitely was a hundred times calmer. There was a round library area right of the bat.

"This is what we all like to call our archive." Mira said gaining Lucy's attention.

The older woman had a look of fondness as she looked around the round library. The entire space had a sense of calm in it. And for a book worm like Lucy that was an ideal space to die. So that even after death she could be surrounded by books.

"What happens in fairy tail, Lucy, from the biggest of cases to the smallest of theft. If there is a case that fairy tail took you will find its report here." the older woman completed gesturing Lucy to just go ahead if she was interested in seeing it. Naturally the blonde didn't wasted anytime before she was skimming through the title those racked the walls."

And that is when Lucy noticed it. Even though Mira claimed that all the cases were here she couldn't help but notice that other than the case files there were book about law and order. A lot of them had marking probably from those agents who were using them to study but what unnerved Lucy the most; that there was no case that went prior last year.

There was year x788, which was last year and the year x789, the current year.

"Where are the file beyond year x788?" Lucy asked out loud without so much as turning towards Mira who now sported a slightly taken back expression.

Gajeel wasn't exaggerating about her observation skill the she-devil thought as a small smile stretched on her lips.

But before either of them could respond further a voice cut them off.

"They are in the hallway to the right. There are so many file that every year ftib needs to push the old one back to the backs. And currently there is at least twenty five year worth of data stored on this floor in different room for each year." Miranda completed as she walked in line of sight of Mira and Lucy. And soon a woman with pale lavender coloured hair came to stand beside Miranda whom Mira addressed her as, "Laki".

"Good morning Mira." The said woman greeted them and the other reciprocate.

"So I see you..." The white haired malachite turns to the ginger head who looked down at her feet the submissive person she was, and asks, "You're ready for work Miranda and I hope your knees are better."

The addressed recruit blushed and nodded before she turned to Lucy who give her a small smile and asked, "How are you Lucy?"

The blonde simply grined before answering, "Better than I have ever been! I'm living my dream being a part of fairy tail Miran."

Both of the new recruits chuckled and after a couple of more small words, the duo of Mira and Lucy left the eight floor.

The ninth floor was something Lucy didn't think existed in any other of the listed organization.

A freaking dorm house.

Apparently the entirety of the ninth floor was divided into two parts. One for the men of fairy tail and the other for the women of fairy tail. It was the place where fairy tail agent could rest and stay if they were working on longer projects. It was a place people could relax when work became exhausting.

Tenth floor was the forensic unit. Compared to other floor this floor had the strong smell of antiseptics, chemicals and sanitizers.

The lab though, Lucy concluded, was the nest of these smells and it took her a minute before she was comfortable with it but according to the blonde it was still much, much better than to be standing in the mortuary big enough to store at least a hundred dead people.

Inside the lab, Levy was sitting lost in a book. She was so engrossed with it that she didn't noticed Mira and Lucy entering.

"You know Levy right?" Mira asked looking at Lucy from the corner of her eyes, "She the head of the forensic unit but you already know that."

Lucy giggled as she agreed with Mira. She saw Levy on Friday when Makarov was going on about how he was proud to call them his children or something like that.

The blue haired woman still didn't acknowledged their presence. Mira picked up a metal tray that held a lot of surgical tools before she dropped them at their respective place which made a crackling noise making Levy almost drop out of her chair.

If those two people weren't malachites of level second Lucy would had laughed.

Trying to cover up her lack of attention Levy giggled nervously and waved a hand at Mira and asked Lucy, "How do you like the place so far?"

"So far it's everything I imagined it would be...except for maybe that dorm! Is that normal?"

Both of the malachite giggle as they simultaneously said, "Nothing is normal when it comes to fairy tail."

Mira ignores the confuse look that Lucy gives them and says, "You stay here Lucy I have a little something to take care off but don't worry I will Be back in a blink of an eye." and before the blonde can say anything Mira slips pass the door closing it behind her.

Sighing Levy closes her book and offers a seat to Lucy who graciously takes it. The blue head looks down at her slightly worn-out book as she traces it's title with her thumb. The blond notices the action and decides to speak up before the silence between them turned awkward.

"Daybreak, Kemu Zaleon...I have read that book thirteen times."

The petite looked up at Lucy surprised. Soon, though, the glint of mischief took over Levy's eyes and she spoke sporting a playful and victorious grin, "This will be my fifteenth."

That was all it took before both of the nerds were having full blown discussion about the book, its characters and plots, their favourite and least favourite. Mira was back in a blink of an eye (five minutes to be exact) just like she promised but that was enough time for the two book worms to have bonded over their love for books and exchange numbers.

The eleventh floor was where all the information about the employs was kept along with fairy tail monitoring system.

The cctv system was so shocking that Lucy couldn't believe her eyes. The front gate that was missing at fairy tail had apparently meant nothing. There were tons of hidden cameras that left no angle unchecked.

And Lucy was suddenly glad that she always wore short shorts under her dresses rather than underwear.

Mira purposely missed the twelfth floor claiming that was Lucy's last stop.

On the thirteenth floor was a jail of sort except it was used to keep important witnesses and victims save.

Fourteenth floor was the special unit of fairy tail.

There were no cubicles here. Only individual offices of every individual who was a special agent.

"This is as far as a graduate like you can come Lucy." Mira said turning to the said woman and showing her the control panel off the lift. There was no fifteenth floor which confused Lucy since she was sure that she counted fifteen floor. But what unnerved her more was the fact that she didn't noticed it before.

"Above this is Master Makarov's office (pent house) and you cant go there unless you're a malachite enlisted to fairy tail or being accompanied by one." Moving along Mira showed Lucy a lift that was completely separated form the floor's theme and only opened when Mira placed her hand in a hand-scanner.

Lucy wondered if she should get a hand scanner like that for her room as well.

Makarov was sitting in his usual place when Mira entered his office (living room) followed by an extremely confused Lucy whose brain could only formulate one thought.

Why was there a freaking pent house on the top floor of fairy tail!?

"Good Morning everyone!" Mira cheered as she sat beside a tea-drinking Juvia whom Lucy had failed to notice.

The blue haired woman had a depressing aura surrounding her and barely answered Mira with a 'morning'.

Makarov was even worse replying with only a nod.

"Don't mind them Lucy most of fairy tail isn't exactly morning people." Mira told Lucy, as cheerful as ever in the depressing atmosphere of the room, as they both took seats across Juvia to Makarov's right.

To say Lucy was lost...it was an understatement.

Lucy was standing outside Gajeel's office preparing herself to knock. Mira had brought Lucy to the twelfth floor after an uneventful encounter with fairy tail's chief and left her outside Gajeel's office to let her start her work day.

So far fairy tail was exactly like her father had told her through his letter to her. Of course most of which she didn't believed until she saw it with her own eyes.

For example the actual penthouse that even had a freaking indoor pool.

Lucy sweat dropped.

But she realised something. Mira wanting to show her around...was not only hers decision but hers and Makarov's.

"This is as far as a graduate like you can come Lucy. Above this is Master Makarov's office and you can't go there unless you're a malachite enlisted to fairy tail or being accompanied by one."

The chief of fairy tail wanted to see her or perhaps wanted to show her something but never got the chance. Lucy could only wonder.

So finally taking a deep breath, Lucy knocked on the door of the head of the investigation unit: Gajeel Redfox and asked, "May I come in?"

"Do you have coffee!?" Came the gruff voice from the other side of the door which made Lucy blink.

Another a-no-morning-person.

"Ah...no si-"

"Then get lost!"

Lucy blinked again. Twice. Thrice. Before she looked around for some help.

She thought about texting Mira but the older woman had seemed busy when she left Lucy outside the brute's office. Then she thought about texting levy but then realized she didn't knew her so well.

So in the end Lucy made a call to a certain blue malachite whose number she did had.

"Hello?"

"Please don't tell me your not a morning person either!" Lucy pleaded before she could think of a better reply to the sleepy voice of Gray.

There was a yawn on the other side of the call before the raven head spoke again, "Nah. Was working and pulled an all-nighter. So...Sup!"

Lucy sighed. she couldn't help it. "Nothing just needed a tiny help. I'm outside Gajeel's office and he just denied me entry because I don't have coffee." The blonde explained keeping her voice low.

There was a slight pause, a thud and a curse before Gray answered again, "It's nothing. Just enter his office, look him in the eye and say 'Levy said behave' and that will do the trick." and before Lucy could say anything the line went dead.

Lucy blinked again. Before deciding that she would actually just go with it instead of questioning it. So the blonde cleared her throat before she entered the room.

Gajeel was draped on his desk and when he didn't look up, Lucy cleared her throat again.

Slowly but surely Gajeel looked up at Lucy and the said blonde wanted to shrink away from his glare.

Come on! Man up will you. Put this guy down!

A voice that was cheerful and suspiciously sounded a little too much like herself said in Lucy's head.

The blonde took the advice and levelled Gajeel with her own glare before she calmly said the three magic words.

"Levy said behave."

Lucy didn't knew what she was expecting in reaction to those words. But what ever the heck it was it couldn't had compared to the reaction the brute-of-a-man-gave.

Hearing those words, first Gajeel's eyes widened and he went rigid. Then slowly his entire face started to turn red starting from his neck. And Lucy swore if she looked hard enough; she could see the fumes coming out of his face. He muttered some incoherent word before he picked a paper board with few clipping of pares stuck to it.

"New...FTIB...job...assignment...work...report...copy...Lucy Heartfilia."

Lucy grinned that was something she could answer and she did with a "Sir, Yes Sir."

Gajeel grunted before he stood up and started going through all the file present on his desk...which by the way were a lot. Soon there was a stack of fifteen files (Lucy counted) and Gajeel tapped them before he gave his orders.

"First of all, no 'sir' or whatever, my name is Gajeel. Second, these are report files of fifteen cases FTIB took in the past three months among others. Your job for now is going to be of going through reports like these and get a hang of what is happening in the real world and how fairy tail does things. For each report I want you to write a report of what you learned or if you see any pattern of investigation going on. Any question?"

Lucy understood what Gajeel was asking of her. It was pretty clear obviously which let only one question.

"Where do I work?"

If Lucy was expecting Gajeel to give her a separate office...then she was utterly disappointed. Which was why she was now sitting in one of the cubicles staring into space for the past five minutes trying to comprehend on what happened.

But the best part was that the cubicle wasn't a single person but shared with another agent whose name Lucy didn't bothered to learn nor did the person was interested in telling. And it was not like the blonde hadn't tried. She did but the person was just not interested.

So Lucy sighed before she gave her part of the office a critical look.

And honestly there was nothing worth noticing the cubical was that much stereo-typical.

Sighing Lucy opened the computer provided to her by FTIB and began setting up her profile. The badges for the new recruits were due Friday so it would be a while before Lucy could begin to carry around the prove of her enlistment to fairy tail.

Once the setup was complete; Lucy took a deep breath before she picked up the first file.

About 'theft' in down town.

And it caught her attention so fast that Lucy was practically inhaling the data and knowledge provided to her. While piling notes on a note pad she found in her drawer.

Time flew past Lucy and the blonde swore that the last time she studied like that was for the final exams at CEU third year.

Because the blonde just didn't studied the reports Gajeel had provided her but also searched up the web, local news and even social opinion on the cases from the internet.

Where as Gajeel's report gave a clear accurate story of the cases, Lucy gathered all the outside information to get a broader view of the cases and get a better understanding of the cases.

It was thirty minutes to lunch break and Lucy was on the last file. She opened the case and read the title of the case: 'Conis pvt. Ltd. Fraud case.'

Lucy paused. She read the title again. And again. And again.

Until it snapped and Lucy realised that Conis pvt. Ltd. is the same company about which Lucy read three weeks ago. It was a real estate company of a higher calibre and had made quite a chaos when the board accountant: Axil Ross, had played a fraud and sold property of billions only for millions discreetly before trying to make a run for it with all the money.

Axil Ross, however was caught before he could escape the state.

Lucy had no idea that fairy tail was the one actually to capture him. The blonde turned the page and read the report. She knew the fact of the case but didn't knew what happened when Axil was actually captured.

According to the report the man had surrendered peacefully and had confessed his crime after he was captured. Bottom line of the report was that Axil would be given fifteen years behind bars and the Conis pvt. Ltd. will get complete refunds of the property from the state along with their property...it was an 'open and shut case'.

Then why? Lucy asked herself as her shoulders hunched her breathing turned slightly fast and her eyes unclear.

If this is an open-shut case...why do I feel trepidation?

Lucy shook her head and turned the pages. On the last page there was a photo attached to. It was Axil. He was thirty three, had brown hair and brown eyes, round face, thin lips. For his early thirties he wasn't half bad.

But Lucy saw something in the photo that any other person wouldn't bother looking at. The man had wrinkles on his face. And not just any kind but the one caused by constant mirth.

Which raised another question in Lucy's head...

If a person was constantly happy...why the heck he would he suddenly need money for?

The blonde's brows furrowed, the 'open-shut case' became more unsettling for her.

She read more about Axil Ross. Apparently, his family was dead. His wife, Amelia Ross and twin daughters, Beatrice and Bonney, died in a car accident that occurred ten years ago when his daughters were just five.

Lucy's frowned deepened and she felt little fire stir in herself.

If the guy's family was dead then why the fuck he had joy lines? If the guy's family was dead why in the fucking hells he needed the money?

The blonde clenched her fists till they turned white. By this point the blonde had blocked every other voice off to focus on her thoughts.

The 'report' she was reading was not of 'an open and shut case'. Nope! not at all.

There were important questions missing in the report. And that made Lucy's blood boil. Those who had taken the case under them had clearly didn't bothered with the details.

Before Lucy could think twice about her actions. She was surfing through the database off city council, looking for Beatrice and Bonney Ross. And every time she got the same answer...

result not found.

Or if she did found someone; they were not twins.

Lucy was ready to throw her keyboard across the room and in fact, it was truly a mystery as how the heck it was not broken yet.

Twenty minutes till lunch break and the blonde could hear some people already leaving their work to get some food as she leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes.

"You know what princess, this is called Facebook. We get it that you have to go and won't be able to contact us for a while but when you are available...just use this to give us a simple message okay."

Lucy's eyes snapped opened as the words of her friends roamed her mind. The blonde blinked a few times staring at the ceiling as, slowly a smile stretched over her lips.

As a young girl, Lucy was relatively slow when it came to social media but her friends Virgo and Aries made sure that their friend was never left too far behind.

Sitting up straight Lucy opened her Facebook id that she hadn't used in forever which was why it took her three minutes just to find the search bar all the while muttering 'stupid social sites'.

The blonde hesitated...She hadn't exactly thought about what would happen if Bonney and Beatrice were truly alive...

'Well for one FTIB will have to reopen a case.'

Lucy sighed and wondered, not for the first time, was she the only one who had this inner voice that brings backs the person to reality.

Shaking off her useless thoughts, Lucy crossed her legs as she types the name: Beatrice Ross.

it was ten minutes to lunch and Gajeel was preparing to dash out of his seat and to the kitchen. What he wasn't preparing was a rushed knock oh his door before it opened and a very familiar blonde stepped in.

And before Gajeel could ask her anything or even grunt at her presence, the blonde fired her question, "Hypothetically. Gajeel. If there was a case among the cases you gave me, that I felt like should reopen...what would be the procedure to do so?"

Gajeel blinked at the rookie's question. The blonde stood ramrod straight with her hands shoved in her pockets. The black haired man frowned at the difference. The Lucy he had seen in the morning was a little chirpy and carefree; just like a bunny. she looked young for her age.

But the Lucy that was standing in front of him right now looked older. She looked her age and maybe a year or two older than her age. She wasn't carefree and she definitely wasn't hesitant.

Which was why Gajeel actually decided to answer her straight and forward with No beating around the bush kind of attitude.

And beside, Gajeel thought and he eyed Lucy standing at the door way waiting for his answer, she did say hypothetically, it's good knowledge.

"First of all, there is no 'i felt like it' on this business, bunny girl..."

Lucy's eyebrow twitched at the nickname but she said nothing and Gajeel continued, "There are only fact, witnesses and proves. If hypothetically you had a case like that. You collect intel, you collect proves and you use those to back up your report written to the chief of FTIB, as to why the case should be reopened. First it will be me that will go through you report and if and only if i think your report has a valid point the report goes to that old-geezer for a check up and then the case will reopen under the same agents who had worked on it before with the added number of that agent because of whom the case is reopened."

The blonde listened and allowed the information to sink in.

Then she looked at her watch. "We have an hour for lunch. I need to gather intel in this hour. See you later pierce face."

Lucy flashed the blue malachite her billion dollar smile before she vanished out of the office like thin air.

All the while Gajeel sat there with his left eye twitching on the nickname the blonde had given him: pierce face!

Hello readers,

Don't really have much to say this week...oh! well whatever.

So can anyone guess who was in-charge of the 'Conis pvt. ltd. fraud' case before?

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blackLocks