Chapter 9:
Process and Truth

It was a cold December 10th morning, Mavis sat at her desk, looking over the case that was just set other desk, the court date was set for set for January 19th, nearly a month away. Mavis shuffled the case papers together and sighed, it was another of Zeref's cases. "Lucy Heartfilia," Mavis whispered as she looked over the papers, "The poor girl… She has been through a lot, why does Zeref have to put her through this…"

Zeref straighten his tie, he had flowers in one hand and he raised his hand to the door while he spotted a girl giggle in the corner of his eye. "Zeref, why do keep bothering Mavis," the girl asked, she had wavy black hair and she wore a gray skirt and gray suit jacket along with a white button up shirt, "You know that she is still angry with you and wants nothing to do with you."

"Zera, isn't there something else you could be doing," Zeref mumbled and Zera just shook her head and sighed.

"You know, you hurt every time you come to visit her," Zera replied, "You really broke her heart when you started defending criminals without remorse. She hates how you willingly let criminals walk out of the court as free men…"

"I know… But… Zera, I have to try," Zeref said and Zera looked away.

"Fine… But Zeref, I serious would rethink who you're representing in court if you ever want to have a chance at a second chance with Mavis," Zera told Zeref then she walked down the hallway distancing herself farther and farther from Zeref.

"Fuck… Why does Zera have to always be right about this sort of thing," Zeref spoke then he did bang his head on the door which created a nice loud boom noise, "Oh shit…"

Mavis looked up from her paperwork and at the door in curiosity and she got up and made her way to the door. "I wonder who that could be," Mavis asked herself as she draw closer to the door.

Zeref began to panic and sweat drops ran down his face and back while the door slowly opened and words Zera said looped in his mind. When the door opened, Mavis looked surprised but quickly got angry as Zeref said, "Um… Hi."

"Zeref, what in god's name are you doing here," Mavis asked and Zeref's face partly paled.

"Just wanted to give you this," Zeref said then he forced the flowers into Mavis's hands, "Umm… Ok… Bye…"

After that Zeref took off down the hall and Mavis stared off in awe as she whispered to herself, "Maybe he can change."

Zeref got to his car and stopped to breath and he looked down at his shaking hand then he mumbled to himself, "I'll have to give up on Mavis to get my revenge on my former family."

"Or you could give into your heart's desire and let go of your revenge," voice said and Zeref turned to Zera.

"What do you want now…," Zeref asked.

"To try to stop you from doing something stupid," Zera replied as she crossed her arms and stared Zeref down.

"Aren't you something," Zeref responded with a laugh, "You're little tough girl act won't work on me. Really Zera, what do you want from me?"

"Too warn you, Zeref Dragneel," Zera spoke, "Unless you plan on changing your position on some things, I suggest that you leave Mavis alone."

Zeref looked over at Zera and he said, "Alright, I will leave Mavis alone… But perhaps one day I can get passed my revenge and maybe have a life with Mavis. But until then, I will leave her alone, you have my word, Zera."

"Good," Zera replied, then she went walking back to the court house and Zeref got into his car and drove off. While Zeref drove off, he felt tears boil up in his eyes and pour out as the thoughts of the cost of his revenge that he will have to pay crossed his mind.

Meanwhile Natsu and Lucy were cuddling on the couch with Happy sitting on the floor bouncing with excitement. "So Lucy," Natsu spoke and she hummed, "I was wondering if we could do house shopping some time next week."

"House… Shopping…," Lucy said, "Why?"

"Well, I know we don't plan on getting married till after all this Zeref business is done," Natsu replied with a little nervousness in his throat, "But I was thinking that maybe, we could look for a house and maybe even buy one before then. You know try to get our life together… I mean I know it might sound stupid… And… Um…"

"Yes," Lucy spoke but Natsu didn't her over his own stuttering.

"And it might be a little fast… But I honestly think it would be great…," Natsu stuttered as he ran his hands through his hair, "Not just for you and me, but Happy too…"

"Natsu will you shut up," Lucy responded then she put her hand over his mouth and Natsu became silent, "I think it's a wonderful idea."

Natsu's eyes went wide and Lucy dropped her hand and smiled at him while he asked, "Really?"

"Really really," Lucy said and Natsu smiled, "I think we need to do something like that to bring us all together. It would be good for everyone to live together even though you are here almost every day, living together will bring something different to the table."

"Great! Hey Happy," Natsu spoke and Happy turned to him with a grumpy look on his face.

"What," Happy questioned as he stared at Natsu with anger.

"How would you like to celebrate the good news with a trip to Chuck E Cheese," Natsu asked him and Happy began to jump and down with excitement.

"Sounds awesome but I've been looking forward to this show for months," Happy said as he pointed to the screen that was playing season two of Fuller House on Netflix that was put the day before, "And we only watched two episodes last night and one this morning."

"Alright, how about we binge watch Fuller House then once we're all caught up, we'll go to Chuck E Cheese," Natsu replied and Happy smiled brightly.

"This is the best day ever," Happy cheered, then he started running around the apartment in excitement.

"Natsu," Lucy said then he looked over at Lucy, "What the hell have you gotten us into!" Then, without warning, Lucy grabbed the couch pillow and hit Natsu with it as hard as she could.

"Oh, Lucy Heartfilia… You're in trouble now," Natsu spoke, after that he tackled her and began an attack of tickles.

Dear Readers,

So yeah, a fillerish chapter but I wanted to write. I wanted to make Zeref look more human then just a villain because in a way, I want an option to redeemed him. Anyways, onto the reviewer replies:
~snowfairy65- Yeah, Brandish will play important roll soon. As for Jude's death, like I said I wanted that to get through quickly, I didn't want to take forever. Always, glad to hear you enjoyed the last chapter and I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
~kcoll8512- Your review was most insightful, I don't aways get good constructive criticism like you gave. When I get criticism, usually its hateful and mean but you obviously went out of your to give detail of what you thought and how you felt I could improve the story and I love that. When I first started the story, it was originally a one shot but i decided to make a multi-chapter story and really hadn't played out how or where exactly the story was going to go which is something I normally don't do so that is why things aren't very prolonged out like in some of other story. (Which you are more than welcomed to read!) I am going to prolong the chapters with court room scenes, which only seems right since that seems to be where the focus of my story seems to be going. As for the spelling an grammar issues you see thought this story and many of my others, I have been told that I can come with amazing plots but I terrible at grammar and spelling alike. With my fan fiction, I am trying to improve both grammar and spelling so perhaps one day I could write a novel but I still have a long way to go. I will also note that I use a online editor called paperrater, not the best as you can clearly tell but it helps. Anyways thank you so much for reading and reviewing, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
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