Lucy had started freezing the day her mother had died, leaving her to brave the harsh world on her own, save her spirits.

Before her mother's death, she had been bubbly but collected. A 'happy go lucky' but serious girl.

After he mother's death though, it had all been just an act; an act which had started crumbling when she joined fairy tail; an act, which was starting to become the real thing again.

It had been Natsu who was almost solely responsible for the change in her. His lively character, his and Happy's way of showing caring and love in small or big ways, but not even realizing, how for them it was natural.

But then Lissana came along. Everyone had been fixated on her for a while, and still were, but she understood that.

Natsu was sharing his time though. He would spend most of the day at the guild, talking to Lissana and then would ask Lucy to come on a mission with him.

Lucy was weary of him. She had let him get too close to her already, and it was only those who were close who had enough of you to break you. Unconsciously she was afraid that Natsu would do the same to her that her father had, that he would cause a repeat of the pain she had felt with her father, but her more active logic dismissed the thought, though she couldn't completely rid herself of the notion.

She was willing though to share the warmth of Natsu's flame; willing to let someone else take the majority that she wanted to posses with a burning passion. She knew what she had been missing now, better than she had ever known before, and she refused to let it go. She refused to return to her frozen world, and empty bland world she had spent so long in; and she refused to waste any more time wallowing in sorrow in her own place, mostly making thing worse for herself.

Lissana wasn't so accommodating. She would steal away Natsu's attention from Lucy to herself; earning concerned and disapproving looks from even her elder sister.

Lucy would take this with a sigh. It had been difficult to accept, at first she would spend a good amount of time fuming, but that time she needed to spend quickly decreased, and she was able to using for more fruitful practises. It was actually a relief to just accept it. One less hassle. Now all she was left with was a half empty heart, a deep wound, but one that had already started to heal.

She knew that there would always be a gaping hole where Natsu had been, but it was better than living with no heart at all.

She remembered the emotions that ran through her being when Natsu had proposed.

At first she actually had resented it, thinking that all the trouble she went through to come to terms with what she thought was an unrequited love... but he laughed that off immediately. Her prevailing emotions were those of love, joy and relief. She realised that it had become a cycle for her, the orginal happy go lucky girl. Then the pretend one when her father had started ignoring her though her mother was alive, the frozen girl, then pretend one when she had just joined. Then she started becoming happy go lucky again but less so, then the pretend one again, which slowly began slipping into her frozen world. But Natsu had completely broken the ice when he proposed. She was back to herself now, her original happy go lucky self. Her cycle of personality, now that it was complete she didn't think it would ever start again. She wouldn't let it.

The guild was not surprised, they had been expecting it, and in fact they had been expecting it for a long time now. They started expecting it not long after Lucy joined the guild; that was indeed a very long time.

Perhaps it was because they had been expecting this result for a long time; or because it was a matter that had begun when Lissana was still thought to be dead... or simply because of the joy of the proclamation and the excitement that followed it...

No one really realized Lissana wasn't really taking it so well.

I decide to continue this (sort of...) this will be more like a series of one shots put together that follow the pattern of a story.

I guess I'll update all my whimsically written FT FFs here...

Any way I hope you enjoyed. Though I warn you some of the following stories will most probably rely on a reasoning based on very thin strands of logic (I already have a few ideas that I'll write when I get the time). They will be written on whim after all...

Anyway, I hope you can still enjoy them. :D