Given the proximity, they were so close. Their warm breaths hitting each other
He lifts his hand, tucking the stray hair behind her ear. Thumb rubbing on the corner of her lips as he looks at them
Lucy's heart starts to beat fast, the parted pink lips waiting for his to meet
"Erza is coming" he backs away smirking "you look red"
"Are you done?" Erza asks opening the door
"Yeah I am...but she is not"
As Lucy covers her cheeks with the back of her hand to cool them off
"Porlyusica left saying she needs to meet your dad" gray says as he enters the room to natsu
"Mom's gonna have a hard time cleaning the house again"
"So he told you whatever he told us?" Erza looks at lucy
"Hmm and I have things to share too. I don't have any memories until I was 10. It was like the years was erased out of my mind"
"Weren't you living with your dad and sister?" Gray asked
"Not during those 10 and when I try to ask...my mom's ready answer was 'you were really sick, I had to take care of you away from that sick house"
"No pictures? Videos? Other people around you?"
"We were alone, just us two"
"Did she prepare a script?"
"She could have" Lucy giggles "and if what you said about my blood is true, then maybe she was just hiding me away until the spell was casted on me"
"The puzzle is solved right? Lucy's mom knew about her so she went to your dad for help, it must have taken longer to know about her condition" Gray starts
"And zeref must've been searching along with them leading to the battle between our parents...and he got out of hands" Erza adds
"We came from our last year of boarding right after the day he disappeared" Natsu finishes
"Zeref?" Lucy looks at them lost at the new name
"My brother" natsu sighs
"A murderer" Gray grits his teeth
"He was not adopted"
"That's isn't how the it works, pinky"
"Villan, he is a villan who need to die" Erza says waving her hands to not mind he bickering kids
"What am I supposed to do now?" Lucy asks
"Nothing, you will live yours as usual just with us on your tail"
"But I don't gave college for a month"
"Much better, how about going to a holiday house?" Natsu says shoving gray to the ground
"With levy and juvia?"
"The more the merrier" Gray stands up dusting off his hands
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Hours later, Lucy stood inside the huge mansion hand crossed in front of her
Standing behind her were erza and gray whos eyes were glued to the exterior of the ruined interior
"I'll take the left" Erza says walking to help the workers
"Uh? Ah...uh...okay" gray just huffs out, trying to cool off the burned wallpapers flying off the wall
Like a lost puppy, lucy fidgets in her position. She couldn't help the magical being nor can she walk away inside an unknown house
"Is that her?"
"Yeah" Natsu was equally useless, his own fire power can't be put to use to save anything in the house
So he went to call his family to invite his family to welcome the girl
"Is that really Lucy?" Grandeeney covers her mouth with both hands, eyes tear up
"Something is missing...on her" his dad looks at him, a large red hand mark on his left cheek
"Dad please...go meet her first" natsu nudges them both toward the girl
Lucy who was Circling in her position, gets startled when Grandeeney grabs her shoulders
"Lucy..."
"Ye-yes..." lucy smiles, eyes looking at the adults and behind them to a nodding natsu "Sorry for intruding at such..time" she looks at the mess
"Intruding? Oh my...not at all...come inside, ill cook you something" she gets dragged
"She can cook?" Natsu asks with a shocked face
"Layla and your mom were college bestie natsu, she learned cooking out of curiosity"
Once inside the huge kitchen, Grandeeney made Lucy site infront of her as she cooked
"How is your mom?"
"She is good, just..surviving in that house for me"
"Can I...talk to her? Its been so many years"
Lucy nods happily, eyes glossy at the very small request
Whipping her phone out, she rings her mom up and after a minute of keeping her hooked
Lucy hands over the phone to the woman who placed the food before her right then
Deep breaths follow as she holds the device, the line speaking 'Lucy? Who is it? Hello? Who is it?'
Bring it to her ear, grandeeney walks to the window letting a tear flow "Layla?"
Lucy looks on as she munches on looking at the little drama before her. Laughing as they keep arguing over things, laugh or even get sad
She silently leaves the place, tiptoeing away and out into the large hallways
She giggles more thinking how happy and excited her mom might be
"Miss heartfilia?"
Lucy stops, looking up at the voice
"Oh it is! Welcome!" He sings jogging up to her and bowing down
"You know me?"
"Yes...young master always talks about you!" He says with a smile "please follow me to your room"
"And you? Whats your role to him?"
"Babysitter" he says almost instantly regretting "ahh-ahh...I...I mean...butler...Happy is my name" he rushes away with messy steps but turning his head around to see if she was following