THE LIFE WITHIN

Soft moon light filtered trough the drapes at the window. It was a breezy night. The slightly iluminated couple lay at the bed in utter peacefulness. That's a rare chance for both of them.

The red haired beauty softly stroked the tatooed face of the man. Tracing the tatoo horizontally, then vertically. She stroked the rough, albeit smooth skin of his cheks and jaw. Oh, how she missed doing this, just gazing at his face all night long. Well, she knows it's kinda stalkerish, but who can blame her. She, along with her other guildmates never got the chance to enjoy their youth. They were almost forced to be an adult.

She shook her head slightly to get rid of those thoughts. After all, those days were the base of today. If those days never happened, then she wouldn't have met these amazing people she calls her friends. She smiled slightly remembering them.

A sudden chilly wind brought shiver upon her exposed skin. Autumn is already approaching. She snuggled closer to her personal body heater, i.e. her boyfriend. She giggled quitely, when he automatically pulled her closer to his chest. She sighed contentedly, remembering those difficult times, when she only needed this warmth to go on in her life. Well, she also needs this now. More than ever. She doesn't think that she can survive if this warmth became lost to her.

She snuggled closer to him, perilicous thoughts plugging her mind. One tattoed eye opened slightly at the disturbence, shifting his hands swiftly to gather her close within his arms. He tilted his face slightly to look at the face of his beloved, and his widen slightly to see two trails of silver at her cheeks.

Jellal moved slightly to balance his waight on his right elbow and looked down at her face more clearly. He stroked her face and tucked the stray strands of her velvet hair against her ear. Erza looked up at his questioning gaze and slightly shook her head to dismiss the matter. Jellal sighed lightly, knowing something is wrong and settled for stroking her head, his absolute favorite job. But suddenly his eyes widened at an obvious thought. He quickly slid back down on the bed and gazed woriedly at his fiance's face.

"Hey, is everything alright?", he moved his other hand to expand against her slightly swollen belly. "She's doing fine, right?"

Erza smiled gently, a smile which he has newly found on her face after finding the existance of the life within her own body.

"Hmm.. the baby's fine, sleeping now. I just...", she fell silent with a frown on her face, which automatically broght a frown on Jellal's face.

"Tell me, what's bothering you? You know that it doesn't settle with me, untill you tell me about it, right?"

Erza sighed and hid her face against the crook of his neck. Jellal gathered her against him and stroked her hair silently. Erza gradually told him abut her fears, about him disappearing from her life again. Jellal eventually started soothing her when he felt the tell tale sign of her sniffles against his neck.

"Hey, you know that I would never leave you, right? You know how smitten I am with you, and now with the baby coming in our life, it will practically need to murder me to separate me from you two. I love you two too much to leave you know."

Erza smiled gently against his chest, now that she has settled there. "I know. It's just..I know that it's irrational.. and also I think it's because of my hormones going haywire.." Jellal chuckled at this along with kissing her forehead.

He hummed and gently stroked her belly.

"By the way, " she gazed at his face with curiosity," why do you keep calling the baby 'her'?"

Jellal hummed again, " Well, I know so, that's why. I know that it's going to be a girl with your amazing hair and eyes.." he sighed dreamily and Erza giggled.

"And what if it's a boy?"

"I KNOW it's a girl, end of discussion. " He pouted cutely and Erza giggled again.

"No, seriously. What if it is?"

"Well, then I'll love him as much as I'll love our baby girl. You know that I don't have any preference, right? I'll be happy as long as the baby is healthy."

Erza hummed and yawned tiredly. Jellal pulled the cover over their body fully and kissed her head.

"Now sleep. We have to go to the guild tomorrow. Porlyusica was saying that she needs to check up on you and the baby. "

Erza just hummed again and fell into sleep again with a quiet goodnight.

Jellal sighed and returned the goodnight with a smile on his lips.

To think what awaited in his life...he chuckled again.

Now he understood what living truely means.