*Laxus' POV*

It was one of those occasions where the Thunder Legion and I were at the guild. In fact, almost everyone except Gildarts that is, was here in the guild. I won't admit it to anyone, but, I'm actually impressed by our celestial mage. Not only did she whoop Bix's ass, she also forgave them along with me. She was the only one who treated us like people and willing to speak up against any stupidity of ours. Heck, Freed backed down on an argument over a book with Lucy.

Now, what makes this day so special? Well, Gramps said that we had a new member arriving today so everyone was here. Lucy was sitting at the bar with her normal milkshake in front of her. The doors opened revealing a guy, he wasn't that impressive. He looked like a friggen twig!

Everyone had looked and I noticed the scent of anger. From who though? I sniffed again and it was coming off of Blondie.

"Master, is this who we have joining?" Lucy asked, her tone was calm.

"Yes. Everyone, this is…" Gramps started before the twig cut him off.

"Tommy. Tommy Lichten." the twig said.

A glass slamming drew our attention to Lucy.

"You're not actually going to let that asshole join Fairy Tail are you?" Lucy asked Gramps.

The guy actually had the nerve to look offended, "Why shouldn't I Lucy. I'm just a normal mage."

Lucy's eyes narrowed, a rare hardness in them that wasn't even present when fighting us, "Can you even do magic?'

"Of course I can." the twig said.

"When did you discover it?" Lucy asked.

"Twelve." the twig said.

"Why Fairy Tail? There are better guilds for people like you." Lucy said as she was sitting in her chair, honestly it made Gramps seem to fade into the background.

"Atonement for everything I've done in the past, to show people that I've changed." the guy answered, but it seemed off.

"Please, people like you. Don't change, Thomas. So why don't you tell me the real reason you're here?"

It seemed as if a blanket came down on the guild as they stared at Lucy. The man's face turned. Lucy stood up. She stood straight, looking like a different person.

"Don't tell me. You came here to - for lack of a better word - avenge your stupid record? Or perhaps you came here to avenge your friend?" Lucy's voice became sickly sweet as she smiled. Like Mira's.

Tommy's face turned red and tried to push Lucy away. Key word...TRIED. Lucy didn't budge.

"Shut up you damn bitch. Not everything revolves around you" Tommy said.

"Oh?" Lucy said in a tone that perfectly matched Mira's, her stance was still like Erza's as she circled the twig, "So I haven't been on your mind all these years? I haven't been your obsession? After all, I am the first girl to reject you. The first girl to deny you anything. Even after you tried so hard to woo me."

Tommy's face turned cruel, "I remember you. Lucy Heartfillia, the heartless bitch that scared away so many of her suitors."

I growled low at the fact, ever since I ran into her while I was out and about, she became the sister I never had. Even my dragon instincts indicated that she was a sibling. I noticed that Bix had his babies nearby and ready to role. Evergreen was fidgeting with her glasses, and Freed had a hand on his sword. I also noticed that Erza had stepped up behind Lucy.

"And I remember you," Lucy said, "Thomas Lichten, the playboy that thought he ruled the world just because his family had a little bit of money, that if a girl wasn't in love with you, she must be gay."

Some of the guys chuckled at that. Who knew Lucy had some good roasting material?

The boy flushed again in anger and embarrassment, "At least it wasn't my fault that Lila died. And for hiring those lowlife mages to run that scheme to kill ya."

I noticed that everyone had frozen at that. The collective, She was the target of an attempted murder?! Ran through everyone's head. Lucy was still, the only sign of how angry she really was, was that her hands were clenching and unclenching. Then without any warning, her hand shot out and slammed the back of the twig's head onto the bar.

"Listen close you stupid piece of shit," Lucy hissed, "It wasn't my fault Lila died. It was yours, her parents and everyone in that stupid town."

In that time, the twig was trying and failing at getting Lucy off of him. I walked over to stand behind her.

"Lucy, let go of him, he can't breathe." Erza said as she touched Lucy's shoulder.

Lucy looked up and let go. The man collapsed to the ground, coughing violently with his hands drawn across his chest. Obviously, he couldn't read the atmosphere cause he had the gall to sneer, "The girl was clearly delusional. If anything she should've been grateful I took such an interest in her, heaven's knows no one else would've."

Erza had gripped onto Lucy's shoulder with more force, but instead of a head slam, the twig was round housed. He was sent flying, crashing, and busting the doors of the guild open. Lucy glided over to him, looking like a wolf surrounding it's prey. I noticed the scent of fear and it was coming off of the guy.

"Get out. Now." she had growled, "unless you want to end up like Roster."

"Huh?" he actually played dumb.

"I said, get the **** out of my guild!" Lucy hissed, The guy nearly pissed his pants as he ran for the hills.

Lucy took a deep breath, "Stupid, idiotic, *******,"

She went off on a tirade so dirty that even Gajeel blushed. Who knew Lucy knew that many cuss words - or be that descriptive about ways to torture someone. Lucy turned to gramps.

"Master, you absolutely cannot let someone like that in the guild." Lucy said.

Gramps' face was calm, "Lucy, you know that forgiveness and second chances are principles of Fairy Tail."

"You don't get it," Lucy shook her head, her eyes held a distant look, "People like him...don't change."

"What are you talking about Luce?" Natsu asked, almost hesitantly.

I stepped up and placed a hand on her shoulder. Something that I had learned from when she had found me was that she had to let someone touch her or she touches them first. Apparently I was the only one to get past that wall as I noticed her lean in slightly. I took that and wrapped my arms around her. She moved to sit so I put her on my lap

Lucy let out a tired sigh, "People like him...we're raised differently than you. We're raised to think that we're the best of the best, that as long as we say so we're right. All because of one reason, we're rich."

"Perhaps he's changed Lu - look at you - you never know." Levy whispered.

"Oh I do know. I never conformed to that rule. If I ever got out of hand, Aquarius would be right there to smack me down from that haughty pedestal. She lightened up over the years though, but still gives me a smack on the head every now and then." Lucy chuckled at that as she brushed over her keys.

Suddenly, a bright golden light appeared. There was a lady, half fish half person.

"Aquarius. He's long gone by now." Lucy said.

"Oh I know brat. I came to see how you tell this." Aquarius said.

Lucy chuckled, "Of course you did." Lucy then turned to Levy, "I know exactly what he's going to do, he's going to chat up the girls, make them feel special, and gonna make friends with the guys, gain their trust. Then he's going to get himself groupies, people who will do whatever he wants simply because they don't want to disappoint him. Than he's going to pick a target - one of the girls from the guild - an easy first test of his power and see how loyal his followers actually are."

"You sound like you've had experience," Carla said, her voice didn't hold that uppity attitude as if she could sense that Lucy didn't want that.

"Something like that." Lucy said.

At that, Aquarius looked shocked, "Wait, you mean to tell me that's the reason you kept calling me to play?!"

Lucy nodded as if she knew what Aquarius was talking about, "Cancer tried to help and I love him for it. Always fixing my hair, doing his thing. I had always wanted a sibling, but never got the chance. I knew that celestial spirits were people too so I looked up to you. My nickname for you was an attest to that."

Aquarius looked sad for a second. Then she had a purple aura around her, a scary one. Lucy ran up to her and HUGGED her! She then forced Aquarius' gate closed.

"What do you mean Lucy?" Wendy asked.

I knew from Lucy that Wendy had become a little sister to her so I considered her a sibling too.

Lucy sighed, "To get what I mean, you'll have to know how I was brought up. Freed has a similar backstory so he'll get it the most. The place I was brought up was very old fashioned. Men were in charge, where if you weren't a guy, the only thing you were good for was getting married and producing a boy to be heir. In their eyes' the perfect woman knew how to cook, clean, was polite, educated but not so smart that they were smarter than their husband. They held their tongue, spoken only when spoken too. Most of all, the women had to be submissive. They had to bow their head to whatever the men wanted them to do."

Most of the women snarled at that. Lucy smirked, "That's just the thing though, it's just not in my personality. I learned the ways around trades and negotiations. I learned how to look at a contract and see if there's a loophole. I learned how to manage money. I learned how to cook. By the time I was eleven, I could run the entire estate if I wanted to. I never let my father see what I was up too. If he did, he wouldn't have cared. He should've, by summoning Aquarius to play and Cancer to do my hair and just talk, my reserves built up. Anyway, that's the thing. I don't do submissive I don't bow my head to anyone. That was troublesome for my father. I do however listen to Aquarius because she is my oldest spirits."

Gajeel smirked.

"What happened?" Gray asked.

"As soon as he deemed me old enough, he started setting me up. But I scared off all of my suitors, no matter how charming, handsome, rich, or how much my dad liked them I always sent them packing. That was a problem so my dad decided to set me up with the nasties, most perverted, cruelest rich guys he could find. Hoping that one of them would break me." everyone gasped at that, "but here's the thing, instead of them breaking me, I broke them."

"What do you mean?" Cana asked.

Lucy chuckled, "There was this one guy. Real piece of work, took misogynist to a whole new level. By the time I was done with him, and this was before Aquarius got to him, he couldn't even look at the opposite sex without crying."

"Then who was Tommy?" Warren asked.

Lucy tensed again, "he was one of my suitors. After several of the meanest boys he chose ended up running away in tears, my father decided to go easy on me because he thought I'd learned my lesson. I turned Tommy down."

"Who was Lila?" I asked, remembering her reaction to the name.

Lucy took a breath and sat next to me instead of on my lap. "She was my only friend back then - my only real friend. Well, besides Aquarius of course. About two months after I rejected Tommy, it happened. I was leaving the library after a meeting with Lila and she was going to leave later because she had to look something up for class. Everyone knew about our friendship, the merchant's daughter and the Heartfilia heiress but I didn't care because Lila was the first person to see me. Me, not the Heartfilia heiress but me Lucy. I know that your wondering if you really know me? What I show the guild is the side of me I like showing. The cold and distant front comes with being raised that way."

"What happened to her? If she's so close to you, then why isn't she here?" Natsu asked.

"After I left the library Tommy and his two most loyal followers cornered her in the library. He had," she swallowed and her jaw clenched, "he had his two goon's hold her down while he...while he…" Lucy growled and slammed a hand down on the table, breaking it in half. She took a deep breath. "That spineless, pathetic, asshole had his worshipers hold her down while he raped her. After that, she was never the same. She tried to tell her parents but they didn't believe her, she tried to tell Tommy's parents but they sent her away. If that wasn't bad enough, Tommy had started taunting her saying that no guy would ever want her now. That she should just go and kill herself because she didn't matter to anyone. No matter how much I tried to convince her that she did matter. She never believed it, then she decided to take his suggestion. But no, I had to watch as his goons held me down and made me watch as she died. Right as I couldn't do anything to stop it, they let me go and bolted. I was nine when I watched another person I cared about die right in front of me."

Lucy had been gripping her wrist tight and Juvia pried open her palm.

"What did you do to them?" Juvia asked, "the two followers?"

A cold, cruel, smile appeared on her lips, "One of them is in a coma in a very expensive hospital Oh I remember him; he kept on crying out for Tommy to save him. As if...as soon as Tommy got word of it, he bolted to save his own ass. Not like he could have stopped me from doing the exact same thing to him"

"How did you get away with it?" Gajeel asked.

"It was only a week after Lila's death so the police chalked it up to emotional and magical instability o something equally dumb. My dad who for once paid attention, paid them off. Then laid into me about how stupid it was while Tommy walked free." Lucy replied.

"And the other one?" Romeo asked.

"Got away, but if he ever had the misfortune to see me again…" Lucy just left it hanging.

"What about Tommy?" Lisanna asked.

Lucy's lips twisted up into a snarl, "The coward ran away as soon as he heard I was looking for him. Moved to another city. And because he's a male, He told his family that the rumors werent' true. He walked free just because he said so."

Lucy got up suddenly. She stalked over to gramps and slammed down her keys and weapon on the table in front of him.

"What's this for Lucy?" he asked.

"If Tommy's going to be in town, I have to make sure to reduce my chances of successfully killing him. I don't think pleading emotional instability will work so well this time." and with that she walked away.