A/N-This is the sequel to Fighting For Their Girl, it will be following Juvia and Gray through their process of trying to adopt and mending the hole that losing their baby left. I hope you enjoy!
Chapter 1
Juvia's POV
I had days that were really difficult and then there were days that seemed way too easy, but today was going to be one of those hard days. Gray and I had tests done to try to figure out why we lost the baby, the results were not what either of us wanted, I was close to being infertile, my body couldn't really support a baby, they told us that we could keep trying and that there were options we could look into to help with that, but it was unlikely to work. So we decided to try to adopt before putting ourselves through losing a baby again, we had a meeting with our favorite child service worker Jellal, he did amazing with the case for Gajeel and Levy so I had no doubts he could help us. I had just finished getting ready and was waiting for Gray when I got a text from Levy with a picture of her three kids saying "Jet, Jewel, and Lilly want you to know that everything is going to go great!" I smiled at the sweet text and sent back a thank you text, the twins were now about four months old, and Jewel had finally caught up to her brother and wasn't super tiny anymore. Finally Gray was ready and we got in the car and started the drive to his office, I was nervous just because I knew today we would be looking at children that we would possibly get to meet and try to adopt. When we got there we told the lady at the front desk why we were there and that we had an appointment with Jellal and she told us to wait a few minutes and he would be ready for us. I grabbed Gray's hand as we waited, the longer we waited the more nervous I got, finally Jellal stepped out of his office, gave us a smile and waved us back.
We walked into Jellal's office, I gave him a hug and Gray shook his hand and we all sat down, Jellal started pulling papers out of folders and grabbed a pen and asked us to sign some of the paperwork we had already filled out for him in advance and once we did that he put a few pictures down on the desk in front of us. "So we have a few options that we can pursue, the first option is this little boy, he is two and his parents put him up for adoption when he was born the only details I can give you is that they were high school aged." I looked at the first picture he pointed to, it was a little boy standing by a tree he was so small he had red hair with bright blue eyes and he seemed like he was ready to be done with the picture to get back to playing. "The second option is a little girl who is one, she was put up for adoption about four months ago and I don't have any information on her parents." I looked at the second picture, it was someone holding a little girl she had blonde hair and dark brown eyes and she looked extremely sleepy. "And then the third option is I have a couple who is pregnant but does not want to keep the baby but they do not want to abort it so they are looking for a family that is willing to adopt as soon as the baby is born, she is only 3-4 months pregnant so I don't have much info on the baby." He pointed to a picture of a young couple, they looked like they had just graduated highschool, the girl had strawberry blond hair with green eyes and the boy had dark brown hair and brown eyes, I instantly knew what I wanted to do but I would have to convince Gray. "Hey Jellal is it possible for me to talk to Gray alone for a minute, do you have a private room we could go to?" I asked looking back up to see Jellal looking a bit shocked, but he nodded and gave us instructions on where to go. I walked out of the office and pulled Gray into the room behind me and turned back to see him looking a bit annoyed and confused. "So before you start asking what I'm doing, I knew I wanted to ask you about this before I brought it up to Jellal. I want to adopt the little boy and the baby that hasn't been born yet, I feel like the little girl only being a year old shouldn't have any problems finding another family to adopt her, and he is just so precious." Gray's face softened, and he nodded, "I would like that too, if that's what you want, it will be an adjustment but maybe we can get the little boy before the baby is born and get to know him a little bit before the baby comes." I was shocked, I really wasn't expecting him to agree to that so quickly, "Uh okay well lets go tell Jellal" I said and we walked back to his office and sat back down in front of him to get a questioning look from him. "Do you think we could choose two options Jellal?" Gray asked Jellal smiled and nodded his head, "It will be a bit more difficult but I do think it is okay for us to do that, which options do you two want to pursue?" I spoke up and said, "We want to adopt the little boy and this couples baby. Can I ask what his name is?" Jellal nodded and pulled out some more papers, "His name is Knox and he is located one town over and we can actually set up a meet and greet with him fairly quick the adoption agency he is with has a day open next week that we can go meet him, and after that it's shocking but things should move quickly, you will have to take a short class to make sure your ready to adopt and then the house will have to be assessed to make sure you have room for him but having been in your house and knowing it's quite big I know you will pass, and then as long as you are compatible with Knox you will be able to adopt him so for now let's start filling out the paperwork to send to his adoption agency and you two are in luck the baby's parents are using me as their lawyer for the adoption so I can go through all the paperwork for them and get what I need from you and then tell them about you and set up a day to meet them to see if they are okay with you adopting their baby."
While we filled out the paperwork Jellal called the adoption agency that had Knox and talked to them about coming to meet him next week and after they said that would be okay as long as we got them all the paperwork before that so they could get all of our information before hand and do a background check on both of us. He then called the young couple and asked them if there was anytime that they could meet all of us to see if they were okay with us adopting the baby they were so excited they told him they could come tomorrow to meet us, so we set up a time and finished all the paperwork and Jellal faxed the paperwork for Knox to his adoption agency and then gave us a copy of his picture so we could show everyone but told us not to tell the adoption agency he did that. We left the office after that and Gray dropped me off at Gajeel and Levy's house while he went home. I knocked on the door and then walked in and walked into the living room to see Lilly playing on the floor and Levy holding Jewel while Jet was laying on a playmat. I sat down on the couch beside Levy after saying hello to all of them, "So I have some news Levy, we are trying to adopt two children!" I pulled out the picture of Knox and showed it to her I grinned when her face lit up and started telling her about the couple whose baby we wanted to adopt. "His name is Knox and he is two, and the other baby hasn't been born yet, it's a couple who doesn't want to keep the baby but doesn't want to abort it either, so we are going to meet the couple tomorrow and then going to meet Knox Thursday next week." I was so excited, I felt like things were coming together as soon as I saw Knox I knew I wanted him, but then when he told us about the baby I just knew we had to try to get it too because I wanted to experience raising a newborn. I played with the kids for a while and then texted Gray to come pick me up after a couple hours, since the baby was born I had been coming over every so often to spend time with Levy and the kids, I really enjoyed it and it has helped me recover from losing the baby.
When I got home that night Gray and I went around the house and made a list of things we needed to baby proof and things that needed to be moved out of the house before they came over to inspect it. We both decided that we were going to take a break from work until this whole process was over but we didn't think the actual adoption process would start so soon. I called my office on the way home to let them know that I was taking a family leave because we were starting an adoption process and that was included in family leave. Gray worked as a self employed ice sculptor and so he just put a notice out at his shop that he wasn't taking any new customers right now. We went to bed that night and I fell asleep a lot quicker then normal thinking about the fact that we might have a family soon. When I woke up Gray's face was right up against mine and he was snoring loudly, I quickly kissed his nose and looked at the time, it was nine and we had to meet the couple at 11 which meant we had an hour and a half to get ready because I wanted to get there early to ask Jellal if he had heard anything about Knox. I rolled back over to face Gray and gave his shoulder a gentle shake and said, "Gray we have to wake up and get ready if you want to eat before we leave." I then got out of bed after making sure he was awake, I grabbed a set of clothes and went to the bathroom to shower and get ready. When I got out Gray was eating a bowl of cereal on the bed he wasn't dressed yet but that wasn't a shock, he would avoid putting clothes on as long as he could. I sat down beside him and pulled out the picture of Knox and smiled "Do you think we will get them Gray?" I asked while he continued to eat I wasn't hungry so I was already ready, but it took me about an hour in the bathroom so we only had thirty minutes before I wanted to leave. "I don't see why would lose this, we both have a clear record and we have a house big enough for four people, we have a great backyard for them to play in and we really want a family." He said and then got up to put his bowl back in the kitchen, finally after complaining about having to put on clothes he got dressed.
When we got to Jellal's office we were fifteen minutes early but we were able to go straight back into Jellal's office when we got there. "Hey Jellal! How are things going? Have you heard from Knox's adoption agency?" I said after we walked in and sat down in his office, to wait for the couple to get there. "Hey guys they should be here in about ten minutes, and I did hear back from them, they went ahead and put in the background checks in and want to schedule your class and a home check. They asked me to schedule those so I have the available dates for you to look at and decide on. " He put two papers in front of and let us pick the dates we wanted they had a class available for this week and we picked a home check for the Friday after we were going to meet Knox. We talked to Jellal for a bit until the couple showed up and when they did I was so excited but nervous at the same time, we both stood up when they walked in and introduced ourselves to them."Hi I'm Juvia and this is my husband Gray it's so nice to meet you!" I said as we shook both of their hands, "Hi I'm Annie and this is my boyfriend John it's nice to meet you too." Jellal took us to the room Gray and I were in just yesterday and it looked like it had been set up for the meeting. We all took a seat and started talking, they seemed so sweet, "So we graduated from high school last year and we dated all throughout highschool, and we do want a family but we both have really high ambitions for life and we have a lot of college ahead of us so we can't support a baby right now, we don't want to leave a baby to one of our family members to raise while we go to school yet either. So we are really hoping to find a family that will let us visit the baby once in a while, we don't mind if the baby doesn't know that we are the birth parents but we would like to see them grow up." John told us starting everything off, "We went to an appointment at the end of last week and we were able to find out that the baby is a girl, we decided that we wanted to decide on a name with her adoptive parents, we wanted everyone to have a say in her name so no set of parents hated the name." I was okay with the few terms they had, so I decided to tell them about us and why we wanted to adopt. " So Gray and I have been together since we graduated high school, he made me chase him through high school, we got married four months ago, but we got pregnant before we got married as well, it's been about six and a half months since we lost the baby. After we lost the baby we had a few tests done and the doctor said it would be unlikely for us to successfully have a baby on our own, so we decided that we wanted to adopt rather then possibly losing another baby. We are currently hoping to also adopt a little boy named Knox because we have always wanted to have two children and when I saw him I fell in love and we also want to be able to give your little girl a loving home." I finished and a little tear ran down my cheek from thinking about the baby, Jellal then spoke up. "So I know this may be stepping over the line a little bit but I wanted to tell you Annie and John that Gray and Juvia are actually some of my best friends, we all grew up together, and I can assure you that they would make great parents for your little girl. I have watched them interact with my twins our other friends set of twins and someone else's single baby and they are absolutely great with them. I can promise you that if you choose to let them adopt your little girl she will have an amazing life!" I smiled as he finished talking, I looked over to Annie and John and they were looking at each other, "You both seem like great people, we would be happy to have you adopt our little girl."
My face lit up as soon as Annie finished talking and I first looked at Gray and then Jellal who were both smiling, then Jellal started talking. "That is so great guys, Annie, John if I could get you guys to sign a few papers for me we can talk about all the details of the adoption process." They both nodded and signed all the paperwork he handed them after looking over it and then once they handed it back to him he started talking again. "So this a little bit different then normal adoptions, since you haven't given birth to the baby yet if you want Juvia and Gray can be involved in the pregnancy and help in whatever ways they want to. Gray and Juvia until the adoption process is complete meaning until Annie has given birth and even for a while after that you aren't allowed to tell people who you are adopting the baby from, it's for their privacy of course. John and Annie i don't know if you read it but since you have agreed to let Gray and Juvia adopt the baby there was a form in there that protects them from you guys changing your mind I know it's harsh but that's something new that has been added to the system, many adoptive parents have gone through this process to get to the baby being born to have the birth parents change their mind and not give the baby to the adoptive parents. You guys can switch contact information around so that if you want to have Gray and Juvia at any of the appointments or if you guys want to ask to go to any of the appointments you can ask them, and when you guys want to talk about a name for her it will be easier for you guys. Gray and Juvia are taking the class they have to take to adopt starting tomorrow and it will be over Friday and then the last of the paperwork will be signed the day she is born. John and Annie you will sign the original birth certificate and then Gray and Juvia will get an amended birth certificate with their names on it." Jellal took a deep breath once he finished and smiled at us, "I know it's a lot to take in all at once so if you guys have any questions I'm just a phone call away." We left after telling everyone goodbye and getting John and Annie's phone numbers, I was able to sleep that night knowing that in five months we would have a baby girl and hopefully soon we would have a little boy as well.