Prologue
For years she had been laying the groundwork to make this run. Ever since she had gained the scars that her father had always ordered her to hide away, they were a part of her and if the one she was meant to spend her life with couldn't except them, then they weren't a person she would wish to marry anyway. But that was the way of Noble's. A woman with scars was seen as lesser. Beauty and the ability to bare heirs was all that matter to them. Something she had never cared for.
But as Lucy Heartfilia she couldn't get that escape she needed nor the confidence to leave. Which led to her creating another persona. Another life to make sure one day she could leave. The life of Luke Ve, a charming young man who helped out orphanages whenever he could, a traveling celestial mage who was always disappearing. Rose red hair with violet eyes and always wearing a mask over the lower half of his face, scars from swords and whips covering his back and arms. Luke was a mystery. Yet trusted.
Now though her father had gone to far. Trying to marry her off to that pig. A man who she had been building a case against as Luke for the last year. She was better then that. Lucy was a mage. Powerful and destined for more then just being a mother. One day she wanted children, but not yet. She wanted to see the world first. Grow as a mage. Fall in love. And find out where her mother came from. None of which she could do under Jude Heartfilia's thumb.
Which is why she had laid out the scene to make it seem like the young Lady Heartfilia had been kidnapped. Destroying her bedroom, leaving all of her Lucy clothes in tatters, and stealing all the valuables. She would keep them all locked in the celestial world with Virgo where no one would ever be able to tell that Lucy Heartfilia was still alive.