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"Do you wanna hear about Uncle Lyon's magic? It's awsome! But Mommy said one day that when I can fully use my magic, it'll be easy for me to mess with him!" the pinkette stated, a smile playing across her features.

"Alright, what's your magic squirt?" Gray asked, still holding the girl.

Ayame smiled happily. "Mommy says that I'll have fire magic like my Daddy! I don't know who my Daddy is though...Mommy won't tell me...And whenever I brought it up she always got sad..." she whispered.

Gray's eyes widened. 'She looks a lot like Natsu, and she'll have fire magic? This has to be flame-head's kid! And weren't him and Lucy dating before she left...?' he thought.

"Alright then. Let's start with this. "Uncle Lyon's" magic is way lame. Mine's awsome. Name something. Anything." Gray said as he sat the pinkette down on a table next to him.

"Alright..." she trailed off trying to think of something, her finger on her chin. "Oh! Mommy!" she exclaimed.

"You want me to make your mother?" he asked. He recieved an excited nod. He shrugged. "Alright then..." he said and closed his eyes, putting his hands together.

Mist formed, blocking the pinkette's view. When the girl could finally see, she saw Gray, smirking, leaning on an ice sculpture.

Ayame's eyes widened in amazement. "Mommy! It's Mommy! You made a Mommy out of ice! That's just like Uncle Lyon's magic!" she cried bouncing up and down excitedly. "Make something else! Make a rose! Make this guild's sign! Make something cool!" she demanded.

Gray laughed. "I'll make you a deal squirt. You call me Uncle Gray and I'll make you those three things." he said and stuck his hand out. "Deal?" he asked.

Ayame grinned and grabbed his hand. "Deal, Uncle Gray!" she said happily as he shook her hand.

Gray grinned. He liked the flame-head's daughter. No...Lucy's daughter. She may look more like Natsu but for now she's Lucy's daughter. No one else's.

"Alright, here we go." he said and the mist spread around his palm. When it cleared there was a beautiful crystal looking rose.

The pinkette's eyes widened in glee. "Again~! Again~!" she shouted.

Gray said nothing as he continued grinning. 'Take that Lyon...' he thought as he made the Fairy Tail insignia.

Ayame clapped happily and started yelling at him to make something cool. He got rid of the insignia as he started to think. What would the 5 year old pinkette think was cool? 'Aha!' he thought, as an idea hit him.

He was about to create his idea, when a shout was heard, directed at him.

"HEY! Underwear prince! GET AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!" Natsu shouted, and ran forward, his fist aflame, slamming it right into his face.

Ayame shrieked, startling everyone in the guild.

Lucy went on alert when she heard Natsu sscream the word 'daughter'. She had started to turn around when she heard her daughter shriek. "Ayame!" she shouted, and ran towards her daughter who had started crying.

"M-Mommy!" she wailed. "He-he-he hit Uncle Gray!"

Lucy grabbed her daughter into a tight hug, pulling her head into her shoulder. "Natsu!" she shouted, outraged.

"Oy! Flame-head, knock it off! You're daughter's crying, you idiot!" Gray shouted at the pink haired man, he was fighting.

Natsu froze, his fist aflame, inches away from hitting Gray's face.

"Natsu..." Lucy said, her tone softer, as she rocked the crying girl in her arms. The pink haired man's arm dropped to his side as he stepped back away from Gray. "Natsu, we should tell them-" the blonde started but was interupted when she was pushed aside by a girl with short white hair. Seeing as she was kneeling on the floor, she was knocked onto the ground, with her daughter who gave a small cry as both her and her mother crashed.

"Natsu?" Lisanna shouted running forwards into the crowd that had gathered around Lucy, Ayame, Natsu, and Gray, pushing the blonde aside in the process.

"Lucy! Are you okay? Ayame?" Gray asked as he rushed forward towards the blonde, still holding her daughter, who was getting up.

"I'm fine..." Lucy muttered darkly, releasing her child to Gray, who lifted her up into his arms so the blonde could get up without worrying about dropping the girl.

"Mo-Mommy...!" Ayame cried, clinging to Gray.

"Lisanna!" Lucy shouted, the look on her face clearly showed she was annoyed, before Natsu could speak. "What is wrong with you, that you have to knock down someone with their crying child to get to your freakin' boyfriend, who has had nothing done to him?" Lucy growled lowly.

Lisanna turned so she was facing Lucy, her hand resting on Natsu's arm. "You shouldn't have been in my way! Natsu's been acting haywire a lot lately, getting into a lot more fights. So why wouldn't I think he got hurt?" she asked. "And how was I supposed to know she was crying?"

Lucy moved to throw herself at the girl, but was held back by Erza and Mirajane. "You listen for screaming and sobs! Which was what she was doing! And I know that was bull about him getting into a ton of fights! He was 'smiling' when I came into the guild? Heck no! It was fake! I bet you can't even tell when his smile is fake! Can you Lisanna? And it's really low when you hurt your boyfriends own daughter!" she snarled.

Lisanna's eyes widened, and her hand dropped from Natsu's arm. Everyone gasped, and eyes widened.

"Answer me Lisanna! Answer me!" she snarled, thrashing against Erza and Mira's arms.

The shorter white haired girl, stepped back, frightened.

Ayame's cries could be heard clearly in the dead silence. "M-mommy...!" she wailed, hiding her face in Gray's chest.

'I knew this was gonna be a long day, but this is going haywire...!' Gray thought, holding the 5 year old tighter.

"Luce..." Natsu muttered, looking down. "Luce, just stop. We're both scaring her." he said, louder this time.

Lucy blinked, angry tears flowing down her face. Finally Ayame's cries reached the blonde's ears. She fell to her knee's, and Gray rushed forwards. Quickly he went to Erza and whispered something in her ear, and the red head nodded.

Erza leaned towards Mirajane who had started crying silently, who nodded and quickly went to her younger sister, and started to make her leave the room.

"M-Mira-nee...?" Lisanna whispered, still frightened.

"Not now Lisanna." Mira said, her voice firm, despite the tears still flowing down her face.

"Ayame...? Do you want to go to your Mommy?" Gray asked the pinkette hesitently.

Slowly the girl nodded. "Y-yeah..." she hiccuped.

Gray nodded, and started to lower himself to the ground, and gave the pinkette to her mother.

"Mo-mommy!" Ayame wailed, as she threw herself into her mother's arms.

Lucy hugged her daughter tightly, her face in the girl's pink hair. "Ayame...I'm so sorry I scared you...I didn't mean to..." she whispered.

Ayame nodded threw her tears, her head burried in her mother's shoulders.

After a few minutes, Lucy stood, her daughter cradled in her arms. She looked at everyone in the eye slowly. She saw some look down, unable to meet her gaze, people with tears in their eyes, sorrow clear on their face. Gray and Erza were on each side of her, ready to help her if she needed it. Natsu. She saw Natsu standing in the back of the group. His eyes were staring down hard at the floor, his bangs covering his face in shadows. Lucy thought she could see a single tear fall down his face.

Lucy looked at the doors abruptly. "I'm going home." she announced, her voice a little bit hoarse from all her crying.

Everyone panicked momentarily, wondering what home she meant. The one in Magnolia? The one she stayed in by Lamia Scale? Or Blue Pegasaus?

"The one here, in town. Ayame and I are staying there now." she said, and started to walk towards the doors.

As the blonde walked by Natsu, she stopped for a moment. "Come by later. Please." she whispered, watching him in the corner of her eye. He gave the slightest nod, showing that he heard, and she started walking again.

xXx

"M-mira-nee...?" Lisanna asked, startled and scared, close to becoming terrified. She'd never seen Lucy so mad. She was frightening. Soon after Lisanna had come back to the guild, and after going to Tenrou Island, Lucy and Natsu had started dating. Of course Lisanna had a little stick of jealousy in her. She'd liked Natsu since they were kids. And then she was gone, and Lucy came.

At times she'd felt like Lucy had been her replacement, and had permanetly taken her place in the guild. But at other times, it felt like Lucy was her replacement but had started to receed once she came back.

But everything changed when she took, no stole, Natsu from her. How dare her replacement steal her best friend? How dare she?

"Lisanna!" Mira snapped, bringing her younger sister back to reality.

Lisanna gulped, the malice her thoughts brought, now gone. One of the most terrifying people in the guild was her older sister. Just because she retired from being S-Class, did not mean she wasn't a very strong, powerful, and accomplished wizard.

"You had no right, Lisanna! No right, to do what you did to Lucy and her daughter! You know very well that Ayame was crying! You let your jealousy at the fact that Lucy was back, take control of your judgement! You can't do that Lisanna! It's wrong, and what if you had hurt her daughter? What then? What would you have done then?" the bar-maid asked her younger sister, her voice strong and stern.

Lisanna whimpered, tears falling from her eyes. "B-but...why...? Why did she have to come back...? She had to come back and ruin my life...? She's gonna take Natsu...from me..." she cried.

Mira's eyes softened a bit when she heard her sister, but she was still stern. "Lisanna, Lucy said nothing about taking Natsu back. Yes, she may still love him, but do you really think that she's the type of girl who would purposely steal someone from a friend? I bet all she wants is for Natsu to acknowledge the fact that Ayame is his daughter." she explained to her younger sister. "They'll probably make a formal announcement soon. Lucy just left with Ayame. They're staying at her old apartment."

Lisanna nodded mutely.

"And Lisanna, when you see Lucy again at the guild, I want you to apologize to her. And to Ayame. The way you acted was not right. And I want you helping in the kitchen. Do you understand?" Mira asked.

"Y-yes, Mira-nee..."

Mira smiled, and went down to her knees to hug her sister. "It'll be alright. The only reason Lucy was so frightening was because her child was in danger. Just because Lucy looks so sweet and innocent doesn't mean there isn't a ferocious wolf ready to protect her pup inside. She'll forgive you." she whispered, tightening her grip on the girl, who nodded meekly against her shoulder, hugging her back.

xXx

"Mommy...?" Ayame mumbled, reaching up with one hand to rub at her eyes, as her mother laid her down in the only bed in the room.

Lucy smiled. "Hey, sweetie. You okay? I'm sorry about earlier..." she said.

Ayame smiled a soft sleepy smile, laying her head down on the pillow, her head sinking into the plush. "It's...aw'right...Mo...mmy..." she yawned, falling back asleep.

Lucy's smile turned a little sad. 'Oh sweetie...You don't know how not right that was...' she thought. Leaning over she kissed her daughter's forehead before going to the kitchen to make herself some tea, before going to the couch to read a book while curled up, waiting for Natsu to show up.

Natsu. How was she going to explain to Natsu everything else. She gave him the short version outside of the guild...but now the long version. She knows he deserves the full truth but...What should she say? How should she explain it...?

"I could heat that easily, instead of using the microwave you know." a voice said.

Startled, the blonde jumped, snapped out of her thoughts. She whirled around, dropping the cup full of water in her hands.

Natsu dived forward grabbing it before it hit the ground, at the same time as Lucy started to bend to get ready to pick up the pieces.

Natsu grabbed the cup inches above the tile of the kitchen floor, his face close, very close to Lucy's. If he just leaned up a bit his lips would touch hers.

Both adults froze, their eyes wide. Lucy gulped, while Natsu was forcing himself not to move.

'You still love him Lucy.' the blonde's inner voice taunted her. 'Why don't you just lean down...? You'll kiss him then...'

'No!' she shouted in her head. She wanted soooo badly to kiss the pink haired man in front of her, but she knew she couldn't. He was dating someone. Someone that wasn't her.

Of course it wasn't her. She left almost 6 years ago...

Little did the blonde know, that her pink haired companion was fighting similar urges.

'I...I want...I want to kiss her...' he thought, his thoughts running wild. 'No! I...I can't! Lisanna! Remember Lisanna! I'm dating Lisanna!' he forced himself to keep remembering his girlfriend, until he was able to realize he and Lucy were still in the same position, and had been for at least 2 minutes.

Abruptly, they both jerked back, both blushing madly.

"Uh...Um...I..." Lucy studdered, waving her hands back and forth in front of her wildly.

Natsu just looked down at the cup in his hands, heating it for her. "Here." he said softly, holding the cup out to her.

Lucy nodded quietly, and accepted the cup, her hand brushing against his, feeling a spark of heat travel through her body like lightening. She wanted to jerk her hand back, but forced herself to stay calm.

"Th-thanks..." she murmered, and turned around towards the counter to get the tea bags.

Natsu nodded, not realizing that Lucy couldn't see him.

After a couple more moments in silence, Lucy spoke.

"Come on...Let's go to the couch...We need to talk." she said, and headed towards the other room.

Natsu followed her, only asking his question when they were both situated comfortably, and facing each other, while both being able to see the 5 year old girl, asleep on the bed.

"So...the full story...?" he asked.

Lucy nodded. "Yeah..." she whispered, so soft Natsu almost couldn't hear her. "The full story."


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