Day 5 is here! Yea! I hope you enjoy and I'm sorry if it's sloppy. I had barely any inspiration and I'm running out of days to write this ahead of time...

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail

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Struggle (Day 5)

It was really hard when Lucy's mother died. It was like having your heart ripped in half and buried in a pit of ashes…and right after having your mom die…your father buries himself in his work as his way of mourning. When you need your dad the most, he's not there. He just wants to work and work, even if it's to marry his daughter off like selling a child into slavery. Lucy was broken and bleeding for so long and she just couldn't take it; she had to leave. She had to get away where she could be free. She wanted to go on adventures.

So she did, and she met so many people who were just like who she wanted to be. They were free and their own persons. They weren't under the thumb of their parents, they were together as a big family who wanted nothing more than what she wanted: adventures. The Fairy Tail guild was her home and family and she never wanted to let it go.

Then the Phantom Lord guild hit them…and she really thought it was all over. It was short lived. Her home and family didn't matter. It was like going on a vacation: you go to a place, relax and have fun, then you come back home. Lucy leaves her estate, finds the Fairy Tail guild to have adventures with…and now it's time to come back home to her father; to be sold like a slave!

She didn't want to leave her family. Her friends were the best thing that has ever happened to her. She loved them! She wanted to stay. She admitted this in tears and her friends felt the same: they wanted her to stay because they loved her too. Lucy couldn't be happier that they felt the same.

So she left to tell her father that she wasn't ever coming back and that he better not mess with her and her family again. She left the mansion because she hated it and finally found a place to be happy, but he had to storm in and ruin it. No! That will not happen again.

Then after the Fantasia Parade, her father suddenly appeared a block from her house and before she could get angry, he tells her the company was sold out and he was homeless now. Lucy could barely believe it! How could a company, whose owner had been working and working on for years, be easily sold out like that? Lucy was upset. Sure, maybe she was enslaved there, but it was still her childhood home. It was where all her memories of her mother were and even her mother's grave. Though thankfully, it was moved to Magnolia.

Still, even though he was homeless and wanted to see his daughter, Lucy didn't like the idea of her father staying near her and her family. Luckily, he was just passing through and on his way to Acalypha to join the merchant guild, Love and Lucky.

She surprised herself by being so worried about her father when a dark guild attacked Love and Lucky, she quit a job when she was short on money and her rent was due shortly and left to Acalypha to save him. She saved a bunch of businessmen, but in the end, her father had only just arrived. They talked about her mother and he meeting at Love and Lucky and how she was named before her friends found her. It was a mere few minutes, but that was probably the sweetest and happiest moments with her dad.

Seven years later, her world comes crashing down…

At first, it seemed cool. You get boosted seven years into the future! You look the same; you sound the same! It was so cool! In one moment, you're in a world that consists of buildings and streets, and the next thing you know, everything is updated, ungraded, and renewed. It was so cool…at first. Lucy then realizes how much pain her friends who waited for them for seven years went through…and she's seven years behind on rent…and her father has died.

She never really had thought about what she would feel like when her father died. Would she feel happy because of the way he treated her? She would feel selfish if that was the case. He was her father. No matter how much he mistreated her, he was still her flesh and blood. She was sad he was gone, but hadn't cried. She still felt selfish for it, but she just walked on home anyway.

It shocked her when her landlady told her that her rent has been paid and she could live back in her apartment again. There were presents and letters on her dining table. Lucy opened a letter and felt the tears prick her eyes as her father wished her a happy birthday and told her that he loved her. She knew then, even though they had never said it to each other face to face, she loved her father and he loved her…and she cried…her father was gone and she felt alone. Not one family member was left alive. She was the only Heartfilia still standing and she was alone. Everything was gone. No more mansion, no more puffy dresses and fancy dining tables…it was gone and she was left all alone. It was the one time in Lucy's life that she wished she never ran away from home.

"Yo Lucy! Me and Happy are going on a job!"

Then it hit her: she wasn't alone. She was never alone. Natsu was always standing right beside her the entire way. Through all her struggles of her past, Natsu was always right next to her supporting her and lifting her up. He made her feel important and not some rich girl who ran away from home. He found her on the street and brought her to his family. He formed a team with her because she didn't have anyone else. He was a shoulder to cry on, a joke to laugh at, an idiot to entertain, a hero to protect, and arms to hold her. He was always there and now she could see it. Natsu made her feel alive and she felt that she could take on the world…as long as he was right next to her, holding her hand through it all.

"Wait up! I'll go with you!"

With her struggles of the past, present, and future, Lucy knew that Natsu was always going to be there…and in return, during his struggles, she would always be there for him.

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I wrote this in one sitting! Yes! It's short, but sweet and I hope you all enjoyed it!

-zEllie