I already edited the grammatical errors, typographical errors. I was in a hurry in writing this chapter that I didn't notice I made a lot of mistakes in grammar. Sorry about that XD

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Early in the morning, I woke up from a series of painful moans and screams coming outside of the bedroom. So, I quickly paced out of the bed, as every second that passes by makes me more worry. The moment I step out of our bedroom, and made my way in the hallway. There, I spotted Erza who's almost bleeding to death, with the tiny infant covered in blood between her legs that is still connected from her womb.

"Erza..." I quickly ran after them.

The infant isn't crying.

He's dead.

My son is dead.

Erza just cried, while I just froze in front of them.

My hands are shaking as I took the bloody infant between her legs, causing my hands to be covered with blood too.

"You killed him, Jellal...you killed your son!" Erza sobbed, panting, in pain after her body was forced to push the baby out of her womb.

My son died.

Because of me.

My son died in my own hands.

In his own father's hands.

Jellal quickly paced upwards from laying on the bed as he was awaken by his terrible nightmare, panting nervously. It was one terrible nightmare for him, terrifying as hell! As if his dream is trying to warn him something about his wife and unborn son. The first thing he thought of is Erza. Espcially, after he almost beat her up last night.

Then, he realized Erza wasn't beside him in their bed. And, it was just five-thirty in the morning. He quickly gets off from the bed, and try checking the living room if ever his wife is there.

And, voila! There, he spotted his lovely pregnant wife sitting in the couch in their living room, while talking with someone over the phone. "...Jellal is taking care me, Mom. You don't have to be worried...yes, he is treating me like a queen, just like what he had promised to you before..."

Because of what Erza did - to cover up what she's really going through with him, tackled his conscience. How can a battered wife like Erza could stand covering up what her husband is doing to her? How can he have a wife like Erza? For Erza never deserves a husband like him, especially she's almost the perfect wife that any man would wish for.

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Right after the awarding ceremony in Wendy's school has ended, instead of Wendy to be happy, since she got like three medals. She cried after the ceremony in her mother's arm, because Jellal wasn't able to make it.

"Wendy, please stop crying. Aren't you happy that you got an award?" Erza tried comforting her sad daughter, drying its tears with her fingers.

"Daddy...", she cried.

Last night, he just made both of them cry. One, because he hit her. Second, in front of their own daughter. And, now, after he promised to see her in their awarding day at school. He wasn't able to sacrifice for absenting in work for just one day, at least for their daughter. She knew he was busy at work, but he is not the boss to be so busy like everyday, to the point he couldn't find time for their own daughter anymore just for once. This made Erza wanted to go visit Jellal in his office, again. And, see if ever her doubts in the first place are really true.

She left Wendy in a friend's house for a while, so she could visit her beloved husband. By this time, what is Jellal doing anyway, having no idea that his wife was on its way to pay him a visit?

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After lunch, while Jellal was in the carpark with Minerva, right after they had lunch out together. He approached her and asked, "Minerva, can we talk?", before Minerva could hop inside her car. "Yes?" Minerva asked back. "What do you want to talk about?"

Jellal just recalled what happened last night.

He just hit her pregnant wife, again, because of his never-ending denial of having an affair with someone.

Taking a deep breath first, then he finally spilled out, "Minerva...I have a wife, remember? I know that I don't look at her the same way anymore like before. But...".

"...she's still my wife. I need to love her, take care of her and our children, . They need me."

Minerva scoffed, "So, what are you trying to say? You wanna end this 'thing' between us. Is that it?".

"Yes.", Jellal nodded. "The point is...Minerva, I don't want to hurt her anymore. It breaks my heart to see her in pain, and our daughter seeing me - hurting her."

"It's not my fault you're hurting her. It's your own choice, Jellal. Don't end 'us' just because of that."

"No!" He suddenly raised his voice. "I'm always being carried away by my anger and temper because of you strangling me!"

Minerva chuckled, and told him, "Now you know how it feels like to see the person you love in pain? Listen, Fernandes - it is you who's hurting the person you love, not me. It breaks your heart to see Erza in pain under your own hands? Then, why hurt her if you know you can't stand seeing her in pain? How pathetic of you, Jellal. It's just because you don't really know what it's like to value the person you love."

"Minerva, why are you doing this to me? Why can't you just let me be happy with Erza?" He cried.

"You know why, Jellal."

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"Oh, Erza, what brings you here?" Ultear asked, as she met Erza in the lobby.

"Ultear, where's my husband?" Erza asked, trying to sound politely despite the desperation and doubt filling her heart right now.

Recalling Minerva's threat, her heart skipped a beat, not knowing what exactly to tell her - the truth or another lie to cover up the two. "I don't know where-" She denied. Erza cut her off as she couldn't think of being polite and nice anymore due to her desperation to see her husband. "Stop lying! I know you know where my husband is!" She suddenly raised her voice. It's a good thing by this time people in the building are on their lunch break, or else some people would be talking about Jellal's wife.

"Please, tell me. Please.." She pleaded, while teary-eyed, which tackled Ultear's conscience, witnessing the pain in her eyes. "H-he's..." She stuttered.

"What?! Where?!"

Ultear took a deep breath before blurting out the truth. "He went out with our boss, Minerva."

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"Minerva, please! Please, stop doing this to me!" Jellal pleaded, almost teary-eyed and not knowing what to do with the sadistic Minerva. "I don't want to cheat on my wife anymore! I want to be faithful to her, again! I don't want her to discover about us."

"It's your problem, not mine, if she finds out." Minerva let out a sadistic chuckle. "Actually...you should be in jail right now. For hurting your wife physically...cheating on her...and, for killing Sting!"

"Minerva, stop! It was an accident! I didn't mean to - kill him! I-i-m sorry! Please, forgive me. Just please stop doing this to me! I want to be with my family in peace." He pleaded, almost kneeling in front of her.

"Well, guess what, it's too late! You can never bring back the life of the man I love!" Minerva laughed, almost insanely that all she could think about is making Jellal suffer as her revenge. "Maybe, you don't know how powerful I am. I can also make you kill the person you love! So, you would know how it feels like to lose someone that is dear to you. Because of you I lost the man I love. And, the only thing you could do is to replace the man I love. And, you think I'l gonna let you be happy with the woman you love. So, if you want to end this with me, then I'll guess I'll have to-"

"No, Minerva, don't!" Jellal knelt down in front of Minerva, not caring if it would downgrade his dignity. "Minerva...please, I'm begging you. My family needs me. They'll be homeless, hungry and fatherless if you sue me. My daughter needs me, and there's an unborn child I still need to support."

"Do what you have to do." She said.

Jellal stood up from kneeling on the ground, he can barely stand his legs properly. "Minerva, I want you. I need you." Then, he forcefully kissed her on her black lips. Minerva responded to his bitter kisses, and then she started unbuttoning her black blazer. It took their kiss for more than twenty seconds, while Jellal could only think about Erza, and Minerva loved seeing him suffer inside.

"Jellal..." They both pulled away from each other, the moment they heard a familiar voice of a woman.

Jellal rather wanted to be sucked by the ground the moment he realized Erza was there.

His wife was there, and she caught him cheating in the act.

"Erza...Erza, it's not what you think." He tried approaching her, his voice stammering, and has no idea what to say or how to explain from what his wife just saw.

Tears continuously streamed down to her cheeks, that all she can do is to run away. She wanted to slap him. She wanted to slap both of them actually for betraying her, but she chose to run away. To run away, while thinking it was just one terrible nightmare of hers.

Jellal chased after his wife, trying to speak with her. "Erza, Erza, please talk to me! It's what you think, I can explain-!"

Erza cut him off by slapping him as hard as she could to release her anger at him. Then, followed by another one, two, three slap. "I hate you! I hate you! What have I done to you to do this to me!? I asked you! I asked you if there is someone else, but you kept denying! You should have told me the truth, because finding it out by myself is more painful!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, releasing every anger inside her.

"Erza, I can explain!"

"Explain what?! It is clear! I already saw it! And, still you have denials-! Ughh!" Erza clutched for her belly when she suddenly felt a mild cramping. Then, thing next thing she knew is that there are trails of red blood flowing down from her womanhood to her legs. "Ughh! Ahhh!" Her legs collapsed, it's a good thing Jellal caught her. "Erza!" Jellal started to freak out as he realized his wife was bleeding.

"Jellal, our baby!" Erza cried on his chest.

He thought, she can't have a miscarriage. Not that only a few weeks to go and the baby will come out already.

Erza, little by little she started to become weak, until her everything went black for her.

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The nurses quickly wheeled unconscious Erza in a stretcher towards to the emergency room, passing by some people and patients in the hospital. "Erza, I'm so sorry. Please, be strong." Jellal sobbed, holding his wife's hand. "Hang on..." Then, as they finally reached the emergency room, the nurse left Jellal outside. And, ordered him to wait...to wait for the good or bad news, if ever the baby will live or not. All he can do is pray for their baby, while sitting on the chairs outside the emergency room. By now, his conscience is already killing him. Now, that their baby was harmed because of him.

An hour later, a doctor finally came out to deliver the news. Jellal quickly jumped out from where he's sitting, curious and worried as the same time of what might happen to them because of him. But much to his surprise, the doctor was no ordinary doctor you'll just see in the hospital. It was his mother...

"Mom?" He gasped shockingly.

"Jellal?" The doctor, who was had mother, had the same reaction as they reunite after ten years, since Jellal fought for Erza from his parents.

Instead of asking 'what are you doing here, mom?' or 'how are you, mom?'. He already knew what his mother is doing in the hospital, since his mother is a doctor. He asked, "H-how are them? My wife and the baby?", worryingly.

"Hey, Jellal. It's been ten years." His mother tried to sound casual, as if they're just acquaintances.

"There's no time for saying 'hello' this minute. How's Erza?"

"Until now, you still disrespect me." His mother said sarcastically. "But it's okay. It's always because of that girl. Well, Erza...she almost lost the baby. It's a good thing the baby's grip on her womb was still strong despite her pregnancy condition."

"We had a fight, that's why she bleed because she got stressed." Jellal explained.

Her mother nodding and said, "I know, I know. And, I assume you also know about her pregnancy condition."

Jellal wondered, "What's with her pregnancy condition?".

"What kind of a husband are you to not to know how is her pregnancy? Well, let me tell you this. Her pregnancy is sensitive. Luckily, the baby was able to hang tight inside her womb. Because if the baby came out even if she's not yet due, which can result to the baby's death. You must consider it as a miracle. If she bleed again, I don't think we'll be able to save the baby anymore. Like I said, her pregnancy is sensitive. The baby's grip inside her womb is kind of weak, since she's always emotionally stressed. And since, this is like a second chance for her and the baby, as much as possible she should refrain from being emotionally stressed, exhausted and...from being slapped and spanked."

When his mother mentioned about being slapped and hit, it stopped him. "I saw some deep bruises on her back and arm. Tell me - was it you who did it to her?" His mother confronted. Instead of answering his mother's question, he just said, "I want to see her now."

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Inside a hospital room, is where Jellal found his wife, laying on a hospital bed. Erza was already awake, gawking at the white ceiling, while caressing her belly. Jellal has no idea how to talk to his wife, not after what he done and what happened to her and the baby. He grabbed a chair and sat beside the bed where his wife is laying. He slowly crawled his hand towards to hers. He could see how pale the color of his lips, hands, actually her whole body is. She looks so helpless and weak.

"Erza..." He spoke. But he got no response from her. A dead silence hulled between the spouses for a few minutes. "Look, Erza, I'm sorry. Not just sorry...please forgive me. I know it's hard, but let me explain first."

"Jellal...I wanna go home."

"S-sure, we'll go home later night or tomorrow morning, once you're okay."

"No." Erza shook her head, as another trail of tears started streaming down to her cheeks again. "I wanna go home. I wanna go home to my family. Give me back to my parents." She sobbed. "I should have listened to them! You promised me, and my family that you will never hurt me, and you'll take care of me and our children. But why did you do this?", then she cried out loud. "I want my mother, my sisters, grandpa Rob, my friends. Please, just give me back to them. I wanna go home."

"Erza, no! No, I don't wanna lose you and our baby, and Wendy! W-we can get through with this! We can fix this! Please, don't give up!" Jellal cried. "I already gave you a lot of chances, but you never saw it! You're always on your pride and ego. With your anger and temper. And, since when did you care about this baby!? As far as I know, you don't want this baby because you think he'll just be another burden to you. I tried reaching you out every time, asking you what's the matter, but you kept pushing me away and I don't know why! And, now I know why..."

"I-"

"Jellal, let's separate already." She blurted, causing Jellal heart to shatter.

"Erza, what-"

"This marriage going nowhere. And, this is what you really wanted, right? To get me out of your life, and our children. I don't want Wendy to see how asshole his father was. Don't worry, tomorrow morning, Wendy and I are leaving, we'll be staying with my parents for the meantime. And, don't worry, I'll just raise her by myself and, you don't have to oblige yourself to spend the money your BOSS is giving you. Go live freely with the money your mistress is feeding you. I don't want to be a burden to your life anymore. Go back to your parents like I'll do. Maybe, we're not really meant to be with each other. Go live your life as a teenager."

"You know I can't do that! You're my family! I need you, Wendy and the baby!"

"Enough, Jellal. Please, enough...I give up."

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By night, Erza demanded to go home. After they fetched Wendy from where Erza left her... "Wendy, go pack your things." Erza told her daughter. The little girl wondered, "Why mama? Are we going on a trip?".

"Just do it, please." She demanded, but in a calm way as much as possible so the baby won't be harmed anymore. Wendy just nodded, and headed towards to her bedroom.

Inside their bedroom, she quickly pulled out a suitcase and duffel bag under their bed, and place it on the bed. She went for the closet, grabbing every stuff and clothes of hers. And, stuffed them inside the suitcase and duffel bag.

As Jellal entered their bedroom, he started to panic when he saw his wife packing all of its stuff already to leave. "Erza, what are you doing?" He tried approaching her, but Erza treated him as an invisible ghost she can't see, nor hear. "Erza, stop. We can talk about this. You don't have to go this way."

"I've had enough, Jellal. Just give me some space." Erza said calmly, without giving him a single glance, while she kept on stuffing her clothes inside the bags. "Erza, please. What do you want me to do? Okay, you want space? I'm the one who'll leave for a few weeks or days for you to have space. Just please don't leave this house, this is our home." He pleaded.

"Just let me be."

"Erza-"

"Please...please, before I scream out loud and bleed again."

Jellal sighed, teary-eyed, as he left his wife for a minute to cool off. Just as he went downstairs, he decided to make Erza a glass of milk, the milk for pregnant women. Because of what happened earlier, by this time he'll already do anything to take care of her and the baby's health.

Meanwhile, outside of their house. There stood a pink-haired girl, in front of their door, and was about to knock.

Meredy.

"This will help you two, Jellal and Erza..." She whispered, while staring at the pink vial of Sensory Link potion.

To be continued...

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How was this chappie? Too short IKR. I'm kind of busy because of the speech choir in school. Review and rate, please :))

I know this chapter is angsty, but dont worry there'll be humor and comedy already in the next chapters

Next chapter : The switch