"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Lucy screamed as the knife pierced her arm, digging into her skin and cutting her flesh and vain. Her sudden scream turned Natsu around and made him jump up, staring shockingly in horror at the scene of his mother, stabbing his beloved best friend in the arm, where his neck had been only moments before. Grandeeney cursed under her breath and ran over to the door, closing and locking it, then walked back over to Lucy, ignoring Natsu like he wasn't there.

"Mom?" He chocked furrowing his brows, mouth slightly agape, in wretched disgust.

"What is it sweety?" She asked with a light voice, as if she had just been caught giving Christmas cookies to lonely orphans. Grandeeney ripped the knife out of Lucy's arm, with Lucy giving a loud "Ah!" as she did, and turned to face Natsu with a smile, who stood behind her in mixed fear and confusion.

"Mom what are you doing?" He questioned her in a tall whisper, backing away against the wall.

"Nothing sweety, now mommy has some business to finish, why don't you go and play with your friends." Grandeeney told him with a tilted head and innocent grin. Lucy struggled to move on her hospital bed, squirming around like a worm, grunting as she did. Grandeeney grabbed her head and held her down, face first into the cushions.

"But you locked the door." He noted and stared at his mother's hand, crushing Lucy's head. "What are you doing to Lucy." He questioned, pointing to the face down blond. Grandeeney looked where he was pointing, then back at her son with a grin.

"Suffocating her." She answered.

"Well stop it." He yelled and tried to remove her hand from Lucy's head, but stopped when Grandeeney removed her hand, only to wrap them around his neck, strangling him.

"Do you want a turn? It that it?" She asked in her usual sickly sweet voice.

"Mom...stop it..." He gasped and struggled to push her off, but to no avail. Pounding sounded from the other side of the door, as what looked like a nurse tried to get in with no success, but this went ignored from the bodies inside the room.

"It's not just her fault." The bluenette woman muttered, her head facing towards the white, tiled floor, then whipped up to face him, wearing a mad expression. "If you weren't born, then maybe I could have convinced him... I could have had him. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN MINE!" She screamed in anger and raised the knife up, bringing it down on Natsu, slicing the width of his arm as he held them out to protect himself.

"Ahh, mom! What are you doing?" Natsu begged, tripping over his feet, and falling on his butt.

Grandeeney pulled out a 9 inch pistol from the inside pocket of her winter coat and shoved it in his face.

"Doing what I should have done seventeen years ago!" She roared and cocked the gun.

"NO!" Lucy shouted and hopped on Grandeeney's back, causing her to miss and shoot the wall. Lucy fought with the bluenette over the gun in her hands, causing bullets to fly and fire up the room, shattering vases and equipment. Finally Lucy got a hold of the gun and through it out the window, breaking the glass. Grandeeney managed to throw Lucy off her back, sending her flying into the wall, causing Lucy to let out another wail of pain. Meanwhile, security started to ram into the door to try and bust it open.

"That was the dumbest thing you could've done." Grandeeney laughed and wavered on her feet, stumbling as she made her way over to the the blond's body. "Guess you forgot I'm still armed-" She reached into her pocket, but froze when she realized that her knife was missing.

"Looking for this?" Natsu called out behind her from his spot on the ground. Grandeeney twisted around to see her son holding her silver butterfly knife in his hand.

"Now what hero?" She giggled venomously and turned to face him, leaning on one side due to an apparent limp on her right foot.

The pounding in the door continued.

"Are you gonna stab your mother?" She charged, motioning to the knife in his hand. "Are you going to kill the woman who brought you life? Huh?"

Natsu said nothing and sat frozen still, not knowing what to do.

The pounding of security got louder.

"Well? Do it... Come on. Do it!... DO IT! DON'T TELL ME I GAVE BIRTH TO A COWARD!" She screamed at him, strange tears running down her face in cascading waterfalls. "DO IT YOU FUCKING BAS- awk! gak!"

Just then the door finally burst open and three security guards, a doctor, and nurse came bustling into the room, stopping when they saw the wrecked room, and the scene before them.

Lucy sat on her knees behind Grandeeney, blood running down her right arm, her limbs bent awkwardly as if in an attempt to accommodate for them, one of her casts cracked open, revealing her hideously scarred and bruised leg, and her hands holding a long shard of glass through Grandeeney's stomach. No edges in her face gave off any emotion, her eyes dull and dead, yet she was crying. Grandeeney was just emotionless, seemingly unaffected from pain in her stomach as blood ran out from her mouth. Natsu, who was breathing heavily and shaking, let the knife drop from his hands and clatter on the floor.

"You know I hate you, right?" Grandeeney breathed, closing her eyes. "I really do."

"Yes I know, but I don't hate you." Lucy said and let go of the glass, moving her hands to lay the older woman down. "It may take me a while... but I'm sure I can forgive you." Lucy ran her fingers through her blue hair repeatedly, as a way to calm herself down. Grandeeney allowed herself to smile ever so slightly, resting her head on Lucy's lap.

"You truly are your parents' daughter."

...

After the hospital episode, Lucy was sent back into emergency care to stop the bleeding of her cut vain, as well as to repatch her wounds and casts. Going into yet another surgery, it was found that Lucy had gained a minor concussion, probably from when Grandeeney slammed her against the wall. Grandeeney was also sent to emergency care to treat her stomach wound and have the glass from her stomach and back extracted.

When the news was broke to all the members of the party by Natsu, almost no one believed it at first, thinking Natsu was joking, but realized it was true when they saw the state Natsu was in. Natsu had become a nervous wreck, stuttering and shaking constantly, not being able to make eye contact with anyone, he spent most of his time either sitting by Lucy's sleeping body, or in his room under the sheets. He would only come to see her when she was asleep, not yet able to face her when she was awake, feeling like a complete loser for acting the way he did, but who could blame him? Natsu had just witness his mother try to kill his best friend, threaten to kill him, and watched as she was stabbed by his best friend, all in about seven minutes.

The police came in a few hours later and put Grandeeney on lock down in her room, not letting anyone in besides the doctors, nurses, and intimate family, though they doubted anyone would want to see her. She was strapped to her bed to keep her from running away or from hurting anybody else. However, not an inch of movement was made by her, lying completely still as if she was asleep, but with her eyes open. She had had no visitors but one, Igneel, who came in three days later. Igneel stood on the right size of the bed, looking out the window at the new sunrise. When he had come in, Grandeeney's eyes had widened ever so slightly, surprised that he would bother with her, but he didn't even spare her a glance, and headed straight for the window.

"What are you doing here Igneel?" Grandeeney questioned, eyes still on the ceiling. Igneel didn't answer right away, but held his breath for a few moments while he gazed at the sun.

"I knew this day would come." He murmured.

"That doesn't answer my question." She stated, turning her head to look at his fiery complexion as the light surrounded him. Her false husband didn't respond, still not looking her way, hands in his pockets and standing tall. Grandeeney sighed, she new the idiot to well, he was faking a calm demeanor to avoid breaking down in front of her.

"What's my sentence?" She asked.

"Still undecided, our son has given his testimony as well as Lucy, yet she pleads for your freedom from jail. Despite that, the police have found your connection to a large amount of gang wars, abduction, mass murder, attempted murder, human trafficking, drug dealing, and psychological torture. They have a good amount of evidence to move on with your sentence. As it is, your looking at the death penalty."

Grandeeney chuckled bitterly, "So I guess my past crimes have finally caught up with me. My time's up-" Out of nowhere, Igneel spun around and slapped his wife in the face.

"Shut up! Have you given up already? Don't you value your own life?!" He questioned in a broken voice, allowing tears to finally flow down his face.

"No I don't, not for the past seventeen years." Grandeeney whispered.

"But I do! Surely you can plead insane?! You'll be sent back to the hospital! You won't have to-!"

"Igneel." Grandeeney said sternly with a serious look. "I'm not going back there, I've brought this on myself and will face it."

"B-b-but I-I, y-you..." Igneel trailed off, not knowing what to say, and laid his head by her side, sobbing into her arm.

"You know I never loved you, right?" She murmured, running her fingers through his hair gently. "But you were the only one who ever loved me."

"It was enough, but don't blame Lucy or our son for the past." Igneel raised his head and grabbed her hand, which was still bound. "It's my fault for telling Jude not to go after you because I loved you." Grandeeney's eyes grew larger, almost the size of dinner plates. "I'm the one who impregnated you, left you in that hospital, and took our son away."

"But I killed our daughter. Killed many others, and tortured them for fun." She challenged.

"Yes. And I hate you for that, for the woman you've become." His voice went deeper and tightened his grip on her hand to where it hurt. "But for my sake, when you see Wendy again, apologize and raise her for me."

Grandeeney closed her eyes to stop her from crying, but it didn't stop them. "Damn, stop making me regret my actions already, that's the one thing you've always made me do and I hate it." She cursed at him and tried to hit him, jiggling around in her cuffs.

"Igneel. I buried our daughter on the northwest side of the river by the bridge. There is a wooden cross sticking out of the ground next to a dirt mound with snowdrops on top." She maneuvered her hand to hold his. "As much as I wanted to, I couldn't bring myself to throw her in the river."

Igneel cupped both his hands around her right hand, giving it a small kiss. "Thank you."

"Does this mean I'm bipolar to?" She laughed.

"No it doesn't." Igneel smiled and kissed her forehead. "You're just showing your true colors."

Grandeeney let out a content breath. "Maybe I did love you."

...

After he left from his visitation with his wife, he set out to find Lucy's room just down the hall. Walking in he saw Lucy reading, with Natsu sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at the floor. When the door closed behind him, Natsu stood and looked his way, while Lucy closed her book and greeted him.

"Morning, Igneel." She smiled.

"Good morning, Lucy." He greeted back.

"What are you doing here dad?" Natsu questioned. Igneel huffed partly at this, like father like son he guessed. Then a melancholy air of emotion swept him, remembering what he had come here for.

"I'm sorry about everything." Igneel said. "I knew about Grandeeney, but I didn't stop her."

"You what?" Natsu growled. "You knew my mother was crazy?!"

"Natsu."

"And you didn't stop her?!"

"Natsu." Lucy said firmly then turned back to Igneel, motioning for him to continue. Igneel explained his past with Grandeeney and why he felt responsible, as well as his lack of action due to a foolish hope that the teenager he once knew would resurface.

"I was a fool. I thought by doing nothing, it would some how change her. I brought her back into your life, because I thought she would remember the friendship she once had with Layla. But I was only kidding myself, now I've dragged so many down with me."

"You're right you are an idiot." Lucy stated, Igneel looked up at her shocked. "But not for the reasons that you think. The blame belongs to no one because it belongs to everyone. I'm guilty for letting myself believe in my own misfortune and letting it dictate my life. But what is important now is that we move on." Lucy smiled and started to get emotional, crying for the remorse that she held in her soul.

...

Three months later the trial was carried out and Grandeeney was sentenced to death by injection. Ninety days later again, her sentence was carried out. Around that time, a proper funeral was held for the youngest Dragneel.

...

Grandeeney opened her eyes to a vast field, never ending on all sides, and a large blue sky above her with a bright orange sun. "Mama!" A voice called out, carried by the wind. Grandeeney looked behind her to see her daughter, Wendy, standing on the hill behind her.

"Wendy?" She gasped in disbelief and smiled, running over to her and collapsing on her knees in front of her, grabbing the small girl into a large hug and cried uncontrollably. "Oh Wendy! I'm so sorry! It's my fault your here! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" She cried and buried her face in her blue hair.

"It's okay mama, I'm fine now. Aunty Layla and Uncle Jude are here as well." Wendy murmured and lifted her mother's face. From behind walked in two faces from her past, whom she thought she would never see again.

"Hi Deeney!" Layla smiled at her.

"It's been a long time." Said Jude.

Grandeeney sat on the ground in shock, staring wide eyed at the two phantoms. "I-it's you."

"Deeney, I'm sorry for what I did. I was helping Igneel by setting you up on a date, but I guess I was wrong-"

"NO! Don't you dare apologize!" Grandeeney sobbed. "The blame is soley mine! I killed you and tortured your daughter! Killed my own daughter! I DON'T DESERVE THIS!"

"Deeney." Layla said softly and keeled before her. "It's time to let go, follow us."

"But I don't deserve it." Grandeeney muttered. Layla took her best friend's hand and helped her up.

"And that's why you'll spend the rest of your time paying it off by doing good." She told her with a hug. Taking her hand, she pulled her ahead to a path of light that formed as they went. "Come now, to your redemption."

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Well, was that okay. At first I didn't want her to die but then I didn't want her to be in the hospital nor jail. But then I didn't want to just kill her, I hope I gave more light to her character. If I'm counting right, we have three chapters left. Holy sh*t this is almost over I just realized that. What?! This is my longest last story ever! And honestly didn't think I would get this far. Well stay tuned for the upcoming finale!

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