First of all, thank you to those who did review! This is a confusing story isn't it? For those who have an account, you know that I usually will PM a response to reviews. But since you can't do that with a guest, I thought I would answer a couple of them on here.

To Juvia lover: Yeah, I actually agree with you. The talk with Natsu in the last chapter was so that Gray would have some food for thought. Thank you for your input!

To Traycie: Hmmmm... yes, you make a good point. To be perfectly candid, I have never slept with two people on the same night,so I hadn't thought of the possibility of the second guy noticing any "signs". I think that it's kind of a gray (no pun intended) area. I feel it would depend on a variety of factors. Either way, Gray really is not going along with what Juvia is saying. But he's still confused because he doesn't understand why she thinks she slept with Lyon. (I'm not implying she did or didn't though), any ways thank you!

Just so everybody's on the same page somewhat here's the situation; Gray is 100% percent sure he remembers being with her. Juvia is one confused girl. The only thing she is sure of is that Lyon is the last person she remembers at all. But she doesn't remember any actual sex. Also, she is passing off any other dreams/flashbacks as being false or at least not accepting them fully as truth yet.

Down at his thinking spot, Gray nearly fell into the water with how off balance he was. He had a stagger to his step as he moved towards the very edge of the rocks to cast the current bottle he'd been drinking into the ocean. It sunk to the bottom of the deep, murky, blue waters.

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU CAUSE?!" He screamed as if it was all that particular bottle's fault. That bottle was a bastard, and an unapologetic one at that.

He turned and began to walk away from the water but hit an invisible barrier. He looked over his shoulder at the vast body of water. The stubborn man crossed his arms indignantly. "Stupid girl, I don't need her." though, he didn't believe himself so he placed the blame back on the drink "And I don't need any damn alcohol either!"

"YOU HEAR ME?! I DON"T NEED YOU!" He bellowed at the top of his lungs.

The man looked proud of his accomplishment. not that it really accomplished anything, except for getting rid of the tenth bottle. It didn't matter…..he could get more. But, a seagull flew by in a flash, causing him to become distracted an. lose his footing and fall below the waves.

As he came up for air, he coughed out the water that had started to fill his lungs. "Damn it!"

The ice mage climbed up on the rocks, and sat there, soaking wet. He didn't feel like going anywhere so he picked up a pebble and tossed it. One skip. Two skips. Three skips.

Ker-plunk!

Of course, water was her, element; it always would be. The man was just a wannabe professional stone skipper. As much as he wanted, as much as he tried, he would never be the best at anything. Even in his own element, Lyon had beaten him countless times, and in his love life….well he wouldn't go there.

The one thing he was always sure of, was that Juvia would always be by his side, but now, there was uncertainty between them, their future held uncertainty as well. But he knew, that he could've never become the person he was without her, and now he had developed a need for her that was stronger than words.

Somehow knowing about the pregnancy didn't really change anything. He had felt the disconnect and pain she kept deep inside for a long time. It was almost as if he had known she was pregnant all along, yet hadn't.

But it was a good thing, because had it not been working on his subconscious for a long time, he wasn't sure if he would have made it out of her dorm without doing something he would regret.

For some reason, being drunk, actually gave his mind an artificial, yet very effective clarity of mind. He was going to be a father, and he was going to have to deal with a mother who couldn't even remember the fact. She didn't know who he was, because if she did, she would know that it was his baby she was carrying.

His baby.

But why was she in the dark? Where did she even get that fucked up idea from?

The baby was his and she was his. There wasn't an opposing side to the matter. The last person he had suspected would have trouble accepting the idea was Juvia. Though it had taken him a long time to figure out his own feelings, he knew that she had been after him since day one. And now, at the worst of times she was going through some sort mental or emotional crisis.

Her subconscious was in denial for a reason he couldn't understand if he tried. But he had no desire to understand it. If there was anything he had learned from his experiences it was that gut feelings didn't lie. Lyon sleeping with Juvia didn't make sense and he refused to believe anything else could be true.

He wouldn't be able to convince her of anything else unless he got to the source of her evidence. He had made the assumption that if she couldn't remember sleeping with him, there must have been some sort of false belief or memory the was messing with her.

He needed to get to the bottom of this.

"ARGGGGGHHHH! LYOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN!" He called out over the waters, as if the other man could hear him from where he was. Maybe the hysteria in his voice would supernaturally reach the other man's ears, so he could feel the restrained aggression just waiting to be unleashed on him.

He breathed in. "Lyon… what the fuck did you do to make her think she's having your child? Juvia would never sleep with you!

Damn it Ur….what the hell is going on? He asked his former mentor as if she had all the answers. Though, he found that, usually she did. If ever in a bind, it helped him to come and talk to her. But instead of listening to what she actually had to say, he heard what he wanted; that Juvia and Lyon were both guilty sinners; Juvia for deceiving him, and Lyon for several reasons, but mostly for simply existing.

Despite the fact that Lyon was one of Ur's students as well, he heard the deceased ice mage tell him that he was the victim and the other ice mage was the villain. The drunk man was too distracted with his own agenda to effectively hear his teacher's still and gentle voice tell him that he was blinded by the unfair injustice he had been done, and needed to think before he let his anger get the best of him .

But Natsu was right, in all of the mess somehow the baby's presence had been obscured. There was a baby in the confused girl's belly, and she didn't even know who it belonged to. If Juvia couldn't get past whatever was playing with her head, he needed to get to the root cause of the problem, the root of all evil, which was not money, but Lyon.

Unaware that the real Ur was probably face palming, he made a decision. That bastard was not going to get away with using ruthless tactics to claim her. The woman and child were both his and nobody was going to take that away from him.

Nobody.

Meanwhile, Juvia opened her eyes to a seering pain on the bottom left side of her face.

"AHHHHHHHH!" She let out a cry that had more gasp than voice and pulled away from the flat iron on the floor. She lightly touched the effected area with her hand, still sitting on the cold bathroom floor.

Now how did this happen? Oh yes. She had been attempting to straighten her hair, after fiddling with it for a while, out of boredom. But then everything had gone black. Back on her feet, the woman who was still disoriented, squinted her eyes trying to see only one Juvia in the mirror instead of three.

She darted into the kitchen, flicked the faucet's handle and put her face under the cold water rushing down.

Suddenly, Juvia heard a knock on the door which scared her shitless, since the last she opened the door, it didn't turn out so well. Thinking fast, she grabbed a washcloth and soaked it. After squeezing it, she held the cloth to her face and she swore she could hear a sizzling sound. She let out another breath of air from the pain. Recovering,the girl made her way over to the door.

"Lucy-san?"

"Hi, Juvia!" The blonde's smile soon faded upon seeing the side of the pregnant girl's face.

"What do you want?" The blunette asked in a mildly unfriendly way. She wasn't too thrilled to see her 'love rival'. though, she was past that stage.

Lucy gasped. "What happened?!

"What do you mean?" The water mage questioned dumbly.

"Your face! How did you get that?!"

Remembering the cloth pressed against her cheek, she replied. "Oh, this. It's nothing. Juvia just, um…..fainted and fell on top of her flat iron."

The celestial spirit mage lifted an eyebrow. "You fainted? Are you okay then?" Lucy actually didn't know Juvia owned a flat iron, since her hair was never straight. She shrugged her shoulders in her head.

"Why are you here?" The water mage asked, still not inviting the other woman inside.

"I just came over to see how you're doing."

"What do you mean?" The water mage questioned, assessing the blonde's knowledge. She wasn't sure what she knew, but the suspicious girl wouldn't be surprised if she had found out from one of the big mouthed dragon slayers.

"Well, it's just seemed like for a while, you and Gray were starting to, you know, get closer. And now…Gray's been acting weird. I don't know what happened, but it's not healthy to keep yourself locked up in your room like that, Juvia.

The pregnant girl replied, still rather somberly. "Juvia's fine. What happens between her and Gray-sama is her business. Why don't you ask him anyway?" The pregnant mage began closing the door on her, but was stopped by Lucy holding the door, refusing to let her friend isolate herself anymore.

"Because I care about you, Juvia, the whole guild does, and we just want to make you're okay."

The blue haired girl gave in and opened the door up wider and let the blonde in.

"Tea?" She asked and didn't wait for an answer as she headed towards the kitchen. Most didn't know it, but her 'hospitality' was really just a stalling technique and she took her sweet time with it, especially on these occasions.

When she re-entered the room, she saw that Lucy looked disturbed by the massive amounts of clutter that had built up. The water mage wasn't the type to neglect cleaning her space, so it was highly unusual for it to look the way it did, like a pigsty.

Ignoring the Spirit mage's reaction she handed her the cup and sat down to address the main topic of conversation "Juvia's fine, really, but if you must know, Gray-sama and her just got in a little argument."

Lucy frowned. "I'm so sorry, if you don't mind me asking, what was it about? He seemed really upset."

Juvia nodded her head. "That's to be expected. He wasn't very happy about the news." She admitted, opening up more than she originally planned. Now that she was at odds with Gray, she realized it didn't matter to her whether Lucy knew or not. Things couldn't possibly get worse.

The blonde's curiosity was piqued. "Why? What's going on, Juvia?"

The girl took her time formulating a response. Despite having told the news to several people already, it never got easier, because when it was said out loud, she had to abandon her fantasy world to face yet another 'pregnant' interaction with a clueless soul.

"Juvia's pregnant." She said, plain and simple.

Lucy spit out the tea she was sipping. "WHAT?!" The liquid sprayed onto the carpet.

Juvia, who would normally have a fit about the mess , didn't feel like cleaning it up at the moment and let it be. Instead, she let her process the news. She figured out after telling enough people that it was best to let them go through the shock before trying to explain the real jaw dropper.

"So that's why Natsu was….." Lucy caught herself. She didn't want Juvia knowing that one of the hidden reasons she came over was because Natsu had been acting very fishy to her, being disproportionately concerned about Juvia. She knew Natsu and there had to be something behind his sudden concern.

The blunette cocked her head to the side."What?" She inquired.

Lucy smiled. "Oh, nothing." Her expression then changed to one which expressed complete shock. "But wait a second, y-y-you're pregnant? You're serious? That's what you guys were fighting about? That jerk! He was mad at you because you're pregnant?"

"No, trust me Lucy-san, he was right to be. Juvia deceived him and let him believe she was innocent the whole time."

"W-what do you mean? He's just as responsible for what happened right?"

The water mage shook her head. "Juvia is just confused."

"Why?'

The pregnant mage sighed. She didn't want to have to go through this again, especially now that it made even less sense than it did before. "There is a lot to explain, but basically Juvia went into a hotel room." She paused. "With Lyon."

As she said it the pregnant girl flinched slightly due to a mild form of though she should have seen it coming, it still hurt to replay the scene of Gray reacting to this statement in her head again. So much of her world revolved around the man, and having done this to him made her feel like trash.

Lucy eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. It was the same familiar face that Juvia had seen a million times before. "You mean to say that you..?"

"Yes, that's right. But…."

"Gray-sama, he-" The girl couldn't help but hesitate.

"What is it Juvia?"

"He says he was the one who slept with Juvia, but she only remembers being with Lyon-sama." She crinkled her forehead as her mind tried to latch onto any form of common sense.

The celestial spirit's mages eye bugged out even more as if to say 'there's more?!' There had been a lot of times in Lucy's life when she had been shocked. There was when she found out Natsu was the Salamander, when she realized that Gildarts was Cana's father, Lisanna being alive, and the list went on.

Juvia being pregnant had definitely made the list. However, Juvia being unsure of who the father was, that one didn't make the list. That one made a mockery of the list, it made the list seem like nothing but the daily to do list., a totally and utterly predictable and ordinary concept.

" So…wait…you don't even remember…..?"

"Yes, Juvia knows. It doesn't make sense, Gray-sama would never lie but, that night, he wasn't even around! He is nowhere in Juvia's memories!" The girl could feel the frustration begin to build up once again inside, bubbling towards the surface.

When the ice mage first told her that she had slept with him, she couldn't comprehend what he was saying, it didn't register in the least of ways. Now, what the delayed reaction had caused her to feel anger at herself for not being able to figure out for herself what was truth and what was a lie.

"Hey calm down, can you explain to me a little better?"

"Juvia should be able to remember Gray-sama! How could she forget a night like that?! And what's more….Juvia remembers Lyon-sama being there very clearly! She can recall it perfectly. We were drunk when we decided to go back to the hotel. Juvia remembers starting to take off her clothes and…."

"So you remember having sex?"

Juvia shifted around on the couch cushion, making a creaking sound, and shook her head, with uncertainty. "No. but if she went that far….there's no turning back right?" How could something so black and white, be so hard to grasp? If she had slept with Lyon, she had slept with Lyon. If she had slept with Gray, then she had slept with Gray, end of story. But nothing seemed to quite add up perfectly, there were so many holes to fill in her memory, that it was scary.

Lucy couldn't conceal her confusion. Confusion. That must've been the theme lately.

"Right?" The pregnant mage repeated herself, hoping that maybe Lucy could help her figure this out, though that wasn't a realistic expectation.

"Uhhhhhh….well, it is a little more unlikely, but I think what's more important is when did Gray come into all of this?" It was the same question she had had. But she didn't ask Gray to elaborate at the time he made his claim.

Lucy didn't get it. Of course not. Why would somebody who was less involved than all three of them understand the situation better?

The water mage put her hands up to her face. "I don't know! But Gray-sama is so angry with Juvia! He is not happy with her behavior. Juvia has betrayed him and deceived him! Now he knows her secret and is upset with her. Do you think…" Her eyebrows curved into a forlorned expression. "He wants Juvia to have an abortion?"

"No! I don't think he would want you to do that, especially if that's not what you want."

"But…you should have seen him. He has nothing but bad feelings about this….and her." She said rubbing her hand over her belly.

The celestial spirit mage thought for a moment before replying. "If I know Gray, he's not mad that your pregnant. He's probably more concerned about you." She laughed warmly, trying to comfort the distressed pregnant mage. "You can't help that you're, uh… fertile."

"But Juvia doesn't know if he' s the father or not. He must think she is a SLUT!" She wailed, hands pressed against her cheeks. She lowered her voice a little."And how could a slut make a good mother?" She directed the question mostly at herself, taking all the blame.

"No, no, no! You're not a slut! I don't think that, and neither does Gray! " to further her reassurance she continued. "Juvia, you're going to make a great mother. People get drunk and do crazy things all the time! That doesn't make you a slut, you just happened to suffer worse consequences than most. You were a victim of chance, and it can't be helped now."

The blunette looked up and made direct eye contact with her blonde friend, hopeful eyes glistening with tears of happiness. "You really think so?"

"Of course!" She reassured her, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Trust me, Gray cares about you a lot. If he didn't, there's no way this would upset him so much! You should be happy he's upset with you!" The celestial Spirit Mage knew it was a desperate way to put a positive spin on it all, but she didn't have any others ideas about what she could say, so she had said the first thing that popped into her head.

What were you thinking Lucy?! Of course it's not a good thing that he's mad at her! Not to her at least!

She held her breath for Juvia's response, hoping she hadn't taken it the wrong way.

Juvia wore a blank stare before forming a wide grin. "Gray-sama was very mad." She said, happy with this new take on it. "Juvia thought for a second he wanted to hurt her! He must care for Juvia a lot then!" She exclaimed, excitedly, nearly giddy at the prospect of it.

Lucy's inner self let out a 'phew' although it felt a little weird that Juvia was getting excited about the idea of Gray wanting to get violent with her. Why did she have to give the three year old matches to play with? But since it worked nonetheless, she kept going along with it. "He does." Lucy nodded her head in agreement, trying to contain her laughter.

"Juvia must go find Gray-sama right away!" The blue haired girl announced.

Uh oh!

"Oh, I think he's by himself right now. I mean, it might not be such a great idea to talk to him just yet." She tried to reason. The last the spirit mage had seen of Gray, he had been drunk, not the best timing to try and fix things. If a sober Gray had a temper, she couldn't imagine him drunk when he was upset. It wouldn't be pretty.

The water mage sighed, calming herself down "I guess Juvia will wait then."

"He just needs some time to re-evaluate everything. I'm sure if you're patient he'll come around and talk to you when he's ready. But Juvia-"

"What?"

"I really think you should see the doctor if you're passing out while flat ironing, if that is what really happened that is."

The blue haired girl then remembered that she still had a burn and picked up the cloth again, pressing it against her face."Juvia was not lying! But anyways, she is supposed to get regular check-ups anyways, so she'll talk to the doctor about it."

"Good! and…. I know you're still kind of distracted by all of this baby business, but you should probably keep it a little cleaner in here." She said, watching a cockroach scurry across the floor.

"Umm… Juvia's supposes she should get to that." She agreed.

"LYON!"

The doors of the Lamia Scale guild swung open as a fuming Gray Fullbuster entered inside in search of his enemy. He spotted him seated with his usual posse, leaning back in his chair, arms crossed. he stood up at the sight of his former fellow student of Ur's. Every mouth in the building was sealed shut to see what all the fuss was about, even Sherry stopped making out with Ren in response to the commotion.

The dark haired ice mage marched over to where he was at, all puffed up.

"Gray." The light haired ice mage remained a stoic appearance, though well aware of why the other man was here.

"Lyon."

For one civilized moment, Gray seemed as if he was going to try and resolve this calmly. "You must have a death wish, you bastard."

Obviously he was anything but calm.

The dark haired ice mage was glad their master wasn't around to oppose the confrontation. Perfect timing. Not wanting to waste anymore time, he reached out and swung the most loaded punch he'd ever thrown at Lyon's face. The blow surprised him for sure, although he had been expecting him to become aggressive at some point, he didn't didn't expect so soon.

Lyon bared his fangs. "Are you drunk?! Because you just made the wrong choice, Gray." With that he threw a punch back with as much, if not more force.

Gray took the blow to his face and stood frozen for a minute.

The rest of the guild were baffled by this random display of aggression between two mages who barely came in contact with each other to boot. Even Lyon's main group of followers seemed to not have a clue as to what was going on. They all exchanged glances and found that none had any idea what this was about. An ominous feeling filled the air, and all who were witness to the growing tension between the two, were anxious for them.

Chelia, who was distressed by the whole rushed over to her idol's side. "Lyon! What's going on?!"

He turned towards the pink haired girl. "Chelia! Stay out of this! You aren't involved." He commanded sternly, causing the god slayer to take one last look at Gray and shrink back, obediently removing herself from the scene.

"So you really intended to just keep your little scheme a secret?" Gray questioned accusingly, ignoring them.

The light haired ice mage looked lost. "I'd humor you, but I don't know what the hell you're talking about." He replied, irritated at the accusation that he was "scheming".

That did it. "Shut the FUCK up! Don't you dare act like you have no idea what's going on!"

"Let's not do this here." He said calmly. "It's not an appropriate place." He hadn't told anyone from Lamia about the pregnancy, he hadn't thought there was any urgency to.

"I don't honestly care where the hell we are! I want the truth NOW! What did you do to Juvia?!What's all this shit she's talking about?!

"I see she's told you. Well, what's done is done and nothing about it can change. Face it Gray, you drove her away from you and now this is the consequence you have to live with."

That did it. "Drove her away?! She's pregnant and thinks you're the father! How the hell is this my fault?!" At this heavy accusation, unanimous gasps could be heard everywhere. A few of the Lamia Scale's members clasped a hand over their mouths, Chelia and Sherry included of course. Nobody had seen this coming.

"Ly-" Chelia tried, still keeping her distance, but was cut off.

"Quiet!" He barked at the pink haired girl without taking his eyes of Gray. "Thinks?" He scoffed. " She doesn't 'think' anything. Just accept the facts." He corrected, still rather stoically.

"Are you really that desperate that you have to go so low as to play with her head?" Gray shot back.

"I have to say, I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't have that sort of power, Gray. She's pregnant, that's an undeniable fact. Let's be honest; what would I gain in making her believe such a thing? Though it may be painful, she hasn't returned my feelings despite her motherhood status. Though, I can't understand why she still hangs onto an asshole like you."

That was not what the raven haired man wanted to hear."If I hear one more piece of shit out of that fucking mouth I swear I'll-"

"You'll what?! Fight me?! Go ahead and try! You know you can't win against me!" Out of all the mages, nobody tried to intervene. It was intimidating to get involved in something as emotionally charged as this. If there were ever an unforgivable act between males, it was messing with the other's girl, in any way whatsoever.

"I have before and I WILL now! I'll expose you for the scum of a liar you are! There's no WAY you could get her pregnant that inchworm you call a penis!" Drunken Gray taunted.

Lyon's cheeks wore a scarlet hue as some of his own guild members began to snicker. What betrayal.

He pointed a finger at the cocky raven haired man. "How dare you make a mockery of me! YOU'RE just sour that you weren't even worthy to make it in bed with her! If I'm the one who's small, then why are you so afraid of her?!" He retorted. "You're not MAN enough to own up to your feelings for my sweet Juvia-chan!

"I think you need a fact check BASTARD! It's time we settled things, once and for all!"

The silver haired mage couldn't come up with words to describe what he was trying to process right now. He knew Gray wouldn't be happy about him getting Juvia pregnant, but he didn't expect him to flat out deny that it was true.

"Stop playing around! You're in denial!"

"LYOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNN!" Came the infuriated man's roar.

The dark haired ice mage put a fist to his palm, ready to take drastic measures, somebody was going to have to suffer, and it wasn't him.

"ICE-MAAAAAAKE….!"

A/N: Uh oh! Boys :O Their testosterone's a little too high huh? They want to kill each other. I cannot speak of love in this situation. Sorry, I was being Chelia/Sherry for a second.

But seriously, nobody knows how to communicate in my story, so it's kind of like…. dramatic irony maybe?

On a side note, who do you guys think Silver is? Personally I think he must be connected to Gray somehow. His name is Silver…..? And then there's Gray? See what I'm saying? I think it'd be pretty cool, if they were related somehow.

But maybe not. I guess we'll see, but you know, I always thought it was really weird how he had that whole darkness thing about Deliora and his parents. But now, he only thinks about Ur? Sorry, random thought. But Mashima does weird things, like, remember Lisanna?

Please don't give up on giving me feedback! You can be honest too. For those who do, I can't thank you enough!xoxo