BlackLynx17: I was never going to have Cora get hit by a car, after that Lisanna part he was going to run home to Lucy and all this stuff was going to happen back at their house, but I got really bored and wondered why not? I haven't written a story where someone gets hit by a car before, let's do it in this one. So sorry about the heartattacks I gave some of you. This is the end though.
Thanks for reading and thank you for loving and I hope I gave you a good enough ending! I'm not planning on writing anymore songfics, I actually think I'm almost done with my writing on fanfiction. I might actually start writing some real things that will one day make me famous and published hopefully.
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SKATER BOY
CHAPTER 25
Natsu was biting on his fingernails until they started bleeding, his legs hopping up and down as he waited for the results. He couldn't believe what had just happened, he couldn't believe what had happened countless minutes ago. His eyes were wide, tears ready to pour out at a moments notice, ignoring the whole world around him until he heard familiar clicks running down the hallway.
He turned his head over and slowly stood up, seeing the person he's feared to show up running over to him right now. Those tears finally fell as he saw the tears in her eyes as well.
"Lucy I'm so sor-"
He wasn't able to finish because right when she was close enough she balled her hand into a fist and punched him right in the face. Natsu fell back and started clutching at his nose, Igneel and Aiko going to his aid while Erza and Cana walked over and held Lucy back.
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED NATSU! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING HIM! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING OUR BABY!"
"I'm sorry Lucy, I'm sorry." He begged her.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!" She screamed out at the top of her lungs.
"Lucy!" Erza yelled at her.
Lucy pulled back and wiped her tears away, shooting a dark glare at Natsu. "I want you to stay away from us! Stay as far the hell away from us Natsu! If anything happens to him it'll be your fault!" She screamed before walking into the operating room, not giving a damn what any doctor had to say about that.
Natsu sat paralyzed on the floor, his father giving him a good shake while his mother ran her fingers soothingly through his hair.
"It's alright Natsu, she didn't mean it. Cora is going to be just fine." She whispered.
"It's my fault, I wasn't watching him, I let him run off. She's right, I don't deserve to be here." Natsu whispered to himself.
"Nonsense son, this was all an accident. Lucy will see that, she's just overemotional right now. Everything's going to be just fine." Igneel said helping him to a seat.
Nothing was going to be fine though, he had his one chance and blew it. It was his fault. He should have talked to Lisanna sooner, he should have had a tighter grip on Cora, he should have walked away from her sooner, he should have done so many things and yet he hadn't, he didn't, and now he didn't even know if his son was alright or not.
"I can't believe this," he whimpered clutching at his head.
Erza and Cana looked at each other before looking at their friend.
"This is real bad Erza." She whispered.
"I know, I'm going to go check in with the doctors. Watch them please." Erza said patting her shoulder before leaving.
Right when she reached the door it opened up, a doctor appearing from behind it. He blinked, nearly running into her, and apologized before fixing his glasses up.
"You were the family who brought in young Cora Dragneel, right?" He asked.
"How is he?!" Aiko asked.
"He's going to be just fine, the car slowed down just enough for the impact not to be too bad. He has a broken arm and a few cracked rips, scraps here and there, but we're expecting a full recovery from him. He was lucky."
"Can we go and see him?!" Igneel asked.
"The mother's asked that no one goes in, but I'm sure the father's will be fine. He's awake right now, but about to go to sleep soon so if the Father wants to go check on him then that'll be fine."
Everyone turned to Natsu, he shook his head though.
"I can't-"
"Dammit Natsu go check on your son! For us! Screw what Lucy says, you're worrying just as much as her right now!" Erza yelled picking him up by his collar.
Natsu stared in his eyes and slowly started nodding, slapping the sides of his face.
"This way if you will." The doctor said leading the way.
"I'll be back." Natsu mumbled before following him.
He was lead into the back, past the operating room and down a hallway filled with doors on both sides. He was led to room 1311, seeing Cora's name on the slot next to the door. The doctor nodded his head at it before excusing himself. Natsu just stood outside, hand on the door handle not really turning it. He heard laughter coming from inside of the room that finally woke him up and made him enter.
Lucy was a wreck, crying by his bedside, while Cora... he was the one laughing and chuckling as he petted her hair.
"I'm fine Mommy, really. Like Grannie always says you look ugly when you cry." Cora chuckled.
"No you don't, you don't get to make me feel better! I should be doing that to you! Cora!" Lucy sniffed looking up at him.
Cora gave her a weak smile, but Natsu knew he was forcing it. He was just trying to spare his mother's feelings... for how long had he had to play the man of the house? The man in Lucy's life? The burden that he shouldn't have bared, but Natsu instead... he really messed up.
"I'm really fine Mom, I don't feel a thing! And it was kind of cool getting hit by a car! How many kids can say that?" Cora started joking.
"Oh honey, you're so silly." Lucy sniffed, wiping her tears away.
Cora smiled at her and turned his head, freezing when he finally spotted Natsu. Lucy followed him and froze as well.
"GET OUT!" She screamed.
"I just wanted to see if he was fine Lucy!" Natsu told her, raising his hands up.
"NO THANKS TO YOU HE IS! GET OUT NATSU! GET THE HELL OUT OF-"
Lucy froze as she felt Cora grab her hand. She looked at him, but he wasn't looking at her. He was looking straight at Natsu.
"I'm fine." Cora told him coldly.
Natsu sighed out a bit in relief, "Cora... I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so-"
"No, Natsu... I shouldn't have ran. I'm sorry to have worried you, you too Mom. I'm sorry." Cora sniffed, looking down at his lap.
"It wasn't your fault Cora! It was mine entirely! I shouldn't have let Lisanna yell at me like that, I shouldn't have allowed you to hear that!"
"Cora, honey, it wasn't your fault! It was his and- wait a second, Lisanna?! Where did Lisanna come from?!" Lucy yelled out.
"You weren't supposed to tell her!" Cora yelled at his father, his eyes going wide.
Now his Mom was going to get all sad knowing that his father had abandoned them for another woman.
"Lisanna was the reason Cora ran, she came up to me and started yelling at me why I hadn't talked to her in ages."
"So this is all Lisanna's fault?! What was she doing there in the first place?! I thought you broke up with her!"
"I was planning on it, but I started hanging out with Cora and totally forgot about her! Honestly! I was so worried about getting Cora to like me that she was the last thing on my mind!"
"So this is still your fault!"
"I accept that it's my fault! I know I'm to blame here Lucy! And I'm sorry! I can never make up for that, I can't for putting you through all of this emotional trauma, so take whatever you want! I don't care! Take all my money, take my life, I'll give you whatever you want! Just please, please don't take Cora from me! Please don't separate us after we finally were able to meet! Please!" Natsu yelled out.
"Get out Natsu! I'm not playing at all!"
"Please Lucy! Please!" Natsu started begging, going on his hands and knees, bowing his head down to her.
"Wait! Mommy! Mommy!" Cora started calling out.
"What is it baby? Does it hurt? Are you alright?" Lucy started fretting over her son.
"You know about the other woman?" Cora asked.
Lucy blinked and Natsu slowly lifted his head up, just as equally surprised.
"What?" She asked.
"You know the woman Daddy left us for?" Cora asked again.
"Left you for? I didn't leave you Cora." Natsu said getting up.
Cora turned to him, "you didn't?"
"Of course not Cora, I didn't know you existed! I had no idea you were here on this earth or else I would have been there for you!" Natsu said walking closer to him.
"Really? So Mommy wasn't lying before to spare my feelings about you? Daddy didn't really know about me?" Cora asked turning back to Lucy, "why Mommy? Did you think I wouldn't want a Daddy?"
"No dear, things were complicated at the time."
"Well I want to know now! What happened?! Do I hate Daddy or do I love him?! Because I don't know Mommy! I don't know what I should feel!" Cora started yelling, tears running down his eyes.
"Cora!" Lucy started crying hugging him.
"Cora!" Natsu called out, reaching out to hug him as well.
"No, no! Stop it! Let me go! I want to know the truth!" Cora screamed out.
Natsu and Lucy looked at each other, the two of them sighing out.
"Cora... the truth... the truth was that your Daddy wasn't exactly a good guy." Natsu said softly.
Cora looked up at him, really listening.
"He hung around a lot of bad people, not to say we were mean people or did bad things, just... bad people that some people didn't like or respect. Lucy's family, they didn't like me very much, and I did something to your Mother that they will never forgive me for which is why they sent her away, sent you away from me." Natsu whispered.
Lucy sniffed while Cora nodded his head.
"I don't regret what I did, because we got you out of it, and I did look and wait for your Mother. I had no idea where she was though. Before I knew it five years passed and I had moved on, but I never forgot about your mother, I never forgot about you Lucy. And she, your mother, she never forgot about me either. I didn't know about you Cora because people kept hiding you, Lucy kept trying to tell me, but she was never able to until the two of you moved back here. Cora, I've always wanted to meet you. I've always wanted to know about you and spend time with you and I have never once not wanted you. I never once wanted to abandon you or anything like that because I love you, I love you son." Natsu cried, grabbing his hands.
"What about the girl? You love her?"
"She was only a replacement for your mother, because I got so lonely without her. Now that she came back though I wasn't with her anymore. I chose your Mother, I wanted to be with her. She's the one I really love and she's the one I want to be with, you two are the ones I want to be a family with."
Cora sniffed a little bit and nodded his head, "so it wasn't your fault you weren't there." He then turned to his mother, "and it wasn't your fault he never came."
Lucy and Natsu both stared at their son.
"So there's no reason we should be mad and there's no reason why we shouldn't be a family... right?"
"Cora," Lucy whispered.
"I love you Mommy, so very much, and I wanted to protect you from mean people like Daddy. I just wanted it to be the two of us forever, but you were right. It was nice having a Daddy and I liked spending time with Natsu. You love him and want to be with him and I like him and want to spend more time with him, and you Daddy, you want to be with us, right? I don't see why we shouldn't all get what we want."
"Cora." Natsu whimpered.
"Cora," Lucy cried.
"I forgive you Mommy and I forgive you too Daddy. Can we all be a happy family now?"
"Of course baby!" Lucy started crying now, hugging Cora close.
"I'm so sorry Cora, I'm so sorry. I love you so much." Natsu said hugging them both close.
This was the right thing to do, Cora knew that deep inside of his heart. Now not only would Mommy be happy, but Daddy too and everything was going to be alright now. Everything was going to be just fine.
"Am I really allowed to go Mommy?" Cora asked, still confused on the matter.
"Of course baby, we're not going to be with the crowds though. We're going to be backstage so we don't have to deal with all the yelling and screaming fans." Lucy giggled zipping up his jacket.
She minded his cast still around his arm and made sure he was all snug and warm before standing back up. Cora tugged at his collar a bit, reaching for his action figure who loved rock n' roll that he got from his Daddy.
"Lucy! Come on! If I'm late Erza is going to bite my head off!" Natsu called from the doorway.
"We're coming!" Lucy giggled grabbing Cora's hand.
Natsu helped put on his shoes at the entrance while Lucy gave herself a check in the mirror before grabbing her purse.
"Are you sure I can go Daddy?" Cora asked lightly, still confused on the matter.
"Of course, you want to see where Daddy works, right?" Natsu asked with a grin.
Cora nodded his head.
"So you can go! And then tomorrow you and Mommy are going to go to Daddy's studio and you get to see all the cool things that's there and Daddy and friends are going to show you how we record and make music! You can even help Daddy write a new song and sing with me if you want, you and Mommy. We can even make it about Mommy if you want since we love her so much." Natsu chuckled.
Lucy snorted in the background, "and what would be the lyrics to that song? Our whole relationship was about me being with you, I'm with the skater boy and I do ballet? At least the lyrics will be original."
"Then that's what it'll be about, a skater boy and a girl I used to know that ended up my wife five years later." Natsu grinned at her lovingly.
He finished tying up Cora's shoes and patting his shoulder, lifting him up and over his shoulders. Lucy quickly calmed down from her blush before she followed the two of them out, heading to the driver's seat while Natsu and Cora both sat in the back.
"You're going to be so amazed Cora! Daddy is truly a genius when it comes to music! I hope you like it, and maybe even if your Mother doesn't mind, I can pull you onstage and we can both sing a song! Your favorite even!" Natsu started telling him.
"Natsu, he's in no condition to be standing in front of a bunch of drunken heavy metal punks." Lucy called from the front seat.
"Calm down Lucy." Natsu teased.
"Yeah, calm down Mom! I'm just fine!" Cora started laughing.
Lucy smiled lightly and quickly drove to the concert hall, parking in the special V.I.P. parking lot and helping Natsu unload their son and his guitar. He gave his wife a quick kiss before ruffling up Cora's hair.
"You two know where to go, right?" He asked.
"Yes! Now go, hurry before there is a riot!" Lucy giggled shooing him away.
"Good luck Daddy!" Cora waved at him.
"You know it, Daddy's going to rock! I'll see you two in the back!" Natsu yelled jogging away.
"See you later boy!" Lucy called after him.
"A lot of people love Daddy, huh?" Cora asked as the two of them started walking backstage.
"Yeah, but Daddy loves us the most." Lucy smiled at him.
Cora pouted lightly, "well I love Daddy more than them!"
"That's sweet honey, are you ready to see Daddy play? He's going to be amazing, just like he told you." Lucy giggled.
"Yeah!" Cora cheered following his mother.
He could hear the screaming and yelling of fans and heard Auntie Erza talking to all of them. He heard Daddy's voice right after, it light and happy and laughing.
"HELLO EVERYBODY! I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING, BUT MOST OF ALL, I WANT TO WELCOME MY SON CORA HERE! THIS IS HIS FIRST TIME SEEING HIS DADDY JAM ON A REAL STAGE SO LET'S HOPE I DON'T SCREW UP SO MUCH, AM I RIGHT?! CORA, SON, I LOVE YOU!"
"I LOVE YOU TOO DADDY!" Cora yelled, not knowing if he could hear it or not.
Lucy smiled lightly and walked them to the side stage, the two having the perfect view of the band. Natsu turned his head to the side and winked at them before getting his guitar ready.
"Um Natsu? Are you sure I can be doing this right now?" Lucy asked, holding the headphones close to her ears.
Natsu sighed as he did the final tunes on his guitar, "yeah Lucy, for the final time yes. All this time is costing money, so just do your best babe."
"But you know I don't have a good singing voice!" Lucy whined.
Natsu groaned and started waving towards his son in the other room; Cora runs up to the mic and pushed the button.
"Yeah Dad?"
"Tell your mother she has a good voice so she can sing this song for us please."
Cora started laughing, "you have a great voice Mommy! You can do it!" He grinned shooting her a thumb's up.
"Aw, thanks baby! Alright, I think I'm ready to do this now. But if I suck then Erza has to sing your new song instead, alright? Will you do that for me Erz?" Lucy asked turning back to look at her.
"Of course Lucy, we will all be brutally honest with you. I promise." Erza said tapping on her pace.
"Alright then! Ready or not here we go! Hit it!" Natsu said and waited for the light to turn on before he started strumming on his guitar.
Lucy took a deep breath and looked at the lyrics in front of her, giving her baby a small wink before she started singing.
"He was a boy, she was girl. Can I make it anymore obvious?"
I'm with the skater boy I said see you later boy, I'll be backstage after the show. I'll be at the studio singing the song we wrote about a girl you used to know.
I'm with the skater boy I said see you later boy, I'll be backstage after the show. I'll be at the studio singing the song we wrote about a girl you used to know