Title of story: The Other Man
Update: 01/14/13 (MONDAY) 6:48 PM
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+Summary:
Gray Fullbuster threw his fiancé, Lucy Heartfilia out of his life when he thought she'd betrayed him with someone else! Six years later, and Gray learns that Lucy was innocent! His cousin and currently arranged fiancé, Juvia Lockser lied! But also he learns that Lucy was pregnant! However, Lucy wants nothing to do with Gray. He can't get her back, for she has a new man in her life now! What's Gray going to do now…? How is he going to get his Lucy back? And who is this damn Other Man?
+Pairings:
Gray x Lucy
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail and this plot. The story belongs to "MizEvilBlossoms." This story is half-cooked XD it means incomplete. So, I guess the rest are gonna be me, "The Editor's" job x) I might force FairyTailFreak-san and Fullbuster1597-san to help me out. GrayLu Fans lets finish this story "TOGETHER" ^^ Any ideas is acceptable. Working together with other GrayLu Fans would be my dream come true~
Chapter 3
Confronting The Cause of The Pain
The imperfect white moon glistened greyish tonight, as the Fullbuster Mansion reflected its importance to the whole sleepy world….
A cold nipping cold breeze blew stronger, as a raven bluish black Ferrari zoomed through the streets straight towards the Fullbuster Mansion.
Gray was in a bad mood. And when he was in a bad mood, things usually turned out for the worse! 'Wait… just wait until I get there….'
As soon as Gray gotten over his hurtful shock of Lucy's unemotional remark to him… he flung himself into his blue Ferrari and sped off towards his company in Fiore. That was where a private jet was waiting for him if he ever needed it.
"Get the jet ready as soon as possible. I need to get to Bosco." Gray said in furious in his latest expensive mobile, while driving with strong one hand. "Immediately." And he threw his black mobile roughly in the back seats.
So, a few hours later… here he was now – driving like a lunatic towards his family's mansion!
"Hello! Erza here!" Came a stiff tone of his cousin's wife – Erza Scarlet, now Fernandes – Jellal Fernandes' wife. 'And Lucy's ex–best friend…. Oh, I've fucked up so hard!'
"It's Gray. I need to talk to Jellal and you. Its urgent." In a cutthroat business type tone he replied. Gray once again had his mobile glued to his ear, and his voice streaming into the mobile. "But I need to talk mother first. Bye." And with that curt 'Bye.' he switched his mobile off.
'How could mother of been so… so – ' Gray thought angrily, the rage burning inside flared as he sped the car past his family's huge black iron gates, up the long straight runway and parked perfectly in front of the massive entrance to the Fullbuster Mansion.
Gray flung his car's door wide open, and slammed it shut with a force that shattered the window! He angrily huffed in the direction of his car, as he walked to the big double doors.
In an instance, Macao – the family butler – swung the double doors open. He's looking greyer than usual, Gray thought with a pang of pain. One look at Gray, and Macao spoke quietly. "Your mother is in the central study room, Gray."
Gray's eyes softened as he replied to Macao. "Thank you, Macao." Gray held much love for Macao… Macao has been like the father Gray never had…. 'I will be a father to my own children! No matter what!'
The Fullbuster Mansion was simply magnificent! Completely beautiful and pure white… the front garden with lush with flowers, which glittered into the pitch-black night.
Gray's cold eyes skimmed his family's property over one broad shoulder. 'Do I want them to live here? Would Lucy ever want to… to live here? Oh, hell. Would the twins want to live here?' Placing a soft hand on Macao's shoulder in sonly affection, Gray walked toward the place where his mother waited for him.
The stairs gleamed pearly white as he crossed the marble white floors towards another set of double white doors. But chills of emptiness slowed him down…. 'The fucking mansion feels so empty… because they are all dead!' He shouted angrily in his mind. He felt grief, sadness, remorse, and anger of the purest emotion fasten on his breaking heart… no matter what he could do… no matter how hard he tried… he couldn't never bring the dead back….
Gray stopped right in front of white doors. He took a huge breath, put on a calm but deadly serious looking face then flung the white doors open with a frown.
Ur Fullbuster stood tall and elegant facing the beautiful crystal windows, watching the pale moon shift slowly into dark clouds. 'He's in a bad mood.' Ur sighed tiredly. 'Nothing's changed there.'
"Mother, I require your immediate attention." Gray's chipped cold tone shot inside Ur like electrical shocks. 'That's a first.' Ur thought, bitterly amused.
Ur sighed tiredly again. "Speak, Gray." Her voice came out like a sigh, and Gray knew his mother was not ready for a fight right now. 'Too bad. Lucy and the twins are my only concern now.'
Ur turned to face her only son, and had a sudden chill over take her body. She sank into the chair behind the huge desk and rested her cold hands on top. Ur was looking very tired, Gray thought as he viewed his mother.
Her short dark purple hair that was kept at a shoulder length. Her clothes were black, just black as she was still mourning…. Her dark eyes glitter with pain and fatigue, but she looked the absolute strong Fullbuster woman. Her skin was still prefect though… the brilliant milky white looked soft and made her glow….
Gray walked opposite her and stood rigidly, then took an envelope from his business suit jacket and tossed it in front of her. "Your immediate attention, mother." Gray tried to hide he venom spilling into his deep masculine voice.
"What is this?" Ur demanded, her expression blank.
"Photos. Remember Juvia and my sisters presented them to me six years ago?" Gray spoke with sarcasm.
Ur frowned. "Why in the world would you keep them, Gray?"
"I didn't. These are new photos, mother." Gray corrected her.
"I do not understand…." Ur's face was blank again, as confusion washed over it slightly.
"Oh, you will. And since you are so reluctant to look at the photos, let me help." Gray snatched the envelope off the desk, opened it up and one by one slapped the photos down on the desk in front of Ur's vision.
"Lucy Heartfilia with my sons." Gray declared with bitter fury. "My twins who are now schoolboys. My identical sons that first five years of their lives I have missed, because I did not know of their existence! Look at them mother!"
The passionate outburst from Gray didn't get much response… only a stony faced defence and a controlled cool voice from Ur. "How do you know that they are your sons?"
"Don't you dare threw that at me!" Gray's arm flew out in a fiercely dismissive gesture, and his gaze hardened tightly. "Juvia confessed to your indecent conspiracy against Lucy on her own deathbed! She told me about the pregnancy and later I learned that you paid Lucy off!" His eyes flashed with daring challenging fire. "Don't you even dare try to deny it!"
Ur's mouth compressed into a very thin line of distaste. She sat back in the black chair and viewed Gray through narrowed dark eyes. Her eyes searched for ways to dealing with this sudden crisis. "Surely, in perception, you realise that she was an unsuitable future to be wife for you." Came her clear cool reply.
"Don't go there, mother." Gray warned dangerously, hard ruthless fire burned in his amber gold eyes. "You've already lost five Fullbusters. You're very close to losing another…."
"I did what I thought was best for you, Gray." Ur said, attempting a tone of appeasement. "You were blindly infatuated – "
"I'm here to give you one chance – " Gray held up his index finger to emphasises the point. " – one chance to answer Lucy's accusation that you paid her off for her to have an abortion."
"That's a lie!" Ur exploded up from the chair, her body rigid with anger and her eyes glittered challenge. "You see what she is doing… the scheming little witch – trying to turn you against me! I paid out one million pounds for her to get out and stay out of your life! She could have decided if she wanted to abort the pregnancy or not – obviously not – but I didn't pay her to have an abortion!"
"Then why doesn't she have any money?" Gray shot back. "Why is she living in borderline poverty?"
"The little witch must be hiding it!" Came a reply full of venom.
"No, she is not. Trust me on this." Gray spoke back with ice lacing his deep voice. "I had a thorough investigation carried out. There is… no money! In fact, she had no support whatsoever! Her stepmother, Karen Lilica ditched her while she was still pregnant!"
He took a deep breath before carried on. "Her older brother and his wife died in a plane crush going to Fiore while she was still pregnant! Her father died when the twins were only eight months old! Her own mother died when she was three years old! And Erza is over here because of you! She was left nothing but the house where she grew up… trying to cope with everywhere – with my twins included by taking a job as a teacher!" -Oh, my! Gray!? How do you know all of this!?-
"A teacher?" Ur exclaimed and jeered. "They shouldn't even allow her in a school!"
Gray's strong hard clutched hard, turning white. He was barely able to hold back from slapping his mother. "A primary school teacher." Gray bit out, ignoring his mother's rude comment. "She had to take a job to provide for my twins and herself. She never got to finish the modelling course, she always wanted to do to make her own mother proud and follow in her footsteps."
He glared at Ur angrily. "She didn't – couldn't – complete or do anything she wished before, she didn't have any money or support! So the evidence – the evidence, mother! – is all against you!"
Ur looked at Gray with offended dignity. "You doubt my word?"
"I have every reason in the world to doubt your word where Lucy Heartfilia is concerned." Gray fired at her point-blank, not even giving her a chance.
Ur raised her chin furiously. "I can prove that the money was given. And that is still going to be given."
"Then I suggest you start proving it!" Gray nearly roared.
"The papers are at my solicitor's office." Came back a brisk reply.
"Call your solicitor. Get him to bring the papers right here." Gray paused thoughtfully. "Show them to me… before you have the chance to cook up more lies behind my back."
Solicitor is a lawyer who traditionally deals with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in court.
For several tense moments the air between them was charged with Ur Fullbuster's fierce pride and Gray Fulbuster's explosive mistrust – a mistrust that Ur finally realised that could destroy everything between them.
So she reached for the telephone on the desk and began dialling….
Gray walked to the windows next, looking out into the darkness and folded his powerful arms tightly across his broad muscular chest. His mother's cruel limited view of Lucy Heartfilia was deeply offensive to him. Especially since Lucy was completely innocent of those horrible lies and sins that were manufactured against her. 'I don't know if I could ever forgive mother for that… if her solicitor can't bring any proof….'
"Hibiki, I'm sorry to intrude on your evening, but this is an emergency. I need the Lucy Heartfilia's file and I need it now." Hibiki Slates is a slim young man of average height with spiky, somewhat messy brownish blond hair framing his face. He has dark eyes and noticeably long eyelashes. He specialize to the Fullbuster's dealings only.
Hibiki – Ur's solicitor – spoke back.
"Yes." Ur spoke coolly. "I'm am at home. Bring the file here as soon as possible." And that was the end of that conversation.
Gray didn't turn around from the windows. He was fixed into the outside's darkness… lost in the despair of how in the hell would he ever get Lucy back…. He was crushed when he saw the photos that showed him Lucy's betrayal… but it wasn't true…. 'Goddamnmit!'
He would somehow have to get her trust and if possible her love back… for he still – still – wanted her! Somehow he would have to persuade her to open up to him again…. Somehow….
"A trust fund was set up for the children's support and education." Ur stated, as she resumed her seat in the chair behind the desk – waiting for her solicitor's arrival.
'If that was true… then there could not of been an instruction to Lucy to abort the pregnancy… not from my mother. But I will not ever disbelieve Lucy!' Gray thought fast and furiously. 'So where the fuck did that God-forbidden instruction came from?'
"All that girl had to do was apply in writing for the funds to become available." Ur told Gray with hatred pulsing through….
"Then why didn't she?" Gray challenged, not even bothering to glance over his broad shoulder to face to his mother.
But no answer came to answer that.
However, things were finally clicking into place in Gray's mind as he tried to find the full truth. 'Her solicitor said that the file has not been open since it was set up….' Gray glance at his ghostly reflection in the windows, and read his eyes. 'Only one answer make sense of what could of happened is that Lucy didn't even know that there was a trust fund! So how… how – '
As if reading his mind, Ur began to speak with a hint of guilt in her sharp voice. "I dealt with the stepmother, Karen Lilica. Everything was worked through her…. And so, you said she left that girl before she had the children." Ur's eyes flicked a lot as she talked as if finding answers in the air. "If what you say about her life and circumstance are true, Gray. Then the stepmother must have scammed the money and never told that girl about the trust fund."
'The stepmother….' Gray thought in a rage. 'Mother neatly removed all responsibility from herself. But not the blame.' He thought viciously. 'None of this would have ever happen without mother's controlling hand….'
"Then you made a huge mistake of judgement for trusting the stepmother, didn't you?" Gray mocked. "As well as not caring enough to check up on what was happening to my own children…."
"Gray…." Ur said in a blunt appeal, looking for solid ground to twist things to make some credibility for herself.
"Let's wait for the file to arrive. That might – " Gray half turned to stare long and hard at the woman, who interfered so painfully with what should have been between Lucy and him. " – might – "He bit out warningly. " – go some little way to restoring a viable relationship between us."
"You are my son – my only son! What was done was done for – " Ur persisted with the blunt appeal appeal.
"Don't you dare say for me! You were not thinking of me. Nor Lucy. Not even for our children." Gray bit out harshly, turning to face his mother now, still standing by the windows. "When you stop thinking of what you and the Guild, the Fullbuster Clan want and start respecting what I want… perhaps we'll have something to talk about."
"I'm giving you what you want, Gray! I called Hibiki to bring you the proof…." Ur said quietly, yet clearly.
"Step One." Came a cool two-word reply.
Ur's chin lifted a notch higher. "What is Step Two?"
"You will immediately start revising your attitude towards Lucy Heartfilia. If you speak one more word of her in any kind of disrespectable or cruel manner… I will walk out of here and not – not ever – come back."
"Is there a Step Three?" Ur grimaced, but did not argue.
"Step Three is to fully accept her and our children into my life, your life and the Guild's life including the Fairy Tail Corp. they are my heirs. That means no damaging act behind my back. And believe me, I'll know about it if you so much as raise a finger to interfere between us again." Gray threw at his mother in a tight voice as finally the tables have turned – hopefully for good.
Ur waved a giving gesture. "If you want to take an interest in the boys…."
"Not just the boys, mother. I intend to do everything within my power to persuade Lucy Heartfilia to marry me." Gray spoke with determined confidence!
Shock cracked the facade of stone on Ur's aging face. "Surely there's no need for that!" The words whipped from her mouth like hot water! "I can understand about the children…."
Finally, the intense violence Gray held back erupted! His body jerked in action, his long lean strong legs closed the distance between them so fast that everything was a blur! – Except for Gray's need to punch home his point.
Gray's clutched bloodless big fist crashed down on the desk hard causing it to dent and crack, making Ur flinch back in the chair! And Gray thundered –
"Understand me!" His cold navy blue eyes blazed unshakable determined resolution as he reinforced it with all the chaotic passion stirred by the situation. "Lucy Heartfilia should have been my wife! I want her as my wife! And I will have her as my wife!"
~to be continued~
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-Cesia14
Special Thanks To:
Imlookingforaname: You say B. For Loke? XD I say D. For Happy! hahahahaaaha! x)
pikaqueen: x) Yes, it is quite tragic, but I want Lucy to play hard-to-get XD Hohohoho
otakulover: That's good! I'm planning to make a half-half shipper love GrayLu from every story I will revise~
Lillyviolet: XD Yahhh! Lets cheer for Lucy!
1fairytaillover: IKR! I bet if she wasn't dying she wouldn't tell Gray about Lucy's pregnancy and innocence. She's such a self-centered brat! But I guess we should be thankful since she confessed to Gray on-her-death-bed =.=
Nance-chan: Aye ^^.v Lucy's attitude change, it's all Gray's Families fault! and Gray too TT-TT Uwahh~ I want Gray to feel the hurt Lucy did~ HohohoXD
leoslady4ever: TT-TT me too! I miss Layla soo much. At first I was thinking making the shy Grayson to Layla~
FairyTailFreak: ^^ I wanted a story where Gray is jealous~ XD But now TT-TT Uwahhh~ Can we really do this FairyTailFreak-san? Can we really manage to write the rest chapters for this story? Thanks for the help ^^ I'm soooo happy you're one of my assitants~ Oh, Please do check your inbox ^^ If you want to add something or something popped out of your head just put it down and make it a side note that you want it added and I'll check it out^^
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IYRGirl: Yes they obviously still love each other! And what's more Kyaaa Kyaaa! Is that they are sexually attractive to each other. Hot Guy + Hot Girl = Cute babies!
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amyskywalker: I have already chosen the rightful Fairy Tail character to do that job! Kyaaa! Too tell you the truth, I don't know which one to pick. I was like hmm Sting, Loke, Hibiki or Happy? XD
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Rockin' angels: I love revising stories~ But I think this story is gonna be really hard to continue since its incomplete~ This story might force me to take another plot and use it~ Hehehe, but of course I'm not a thief~ I'll make sure to put it up on disclaimer which plots are own.
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Coming Soon~
A Promise By Night
Now that Gray knows the truth of Lucy's innocent. Lets witness the Fernandes couple's reaction when they learn the truth. And what's this crap Gray is sprouting about? Something about promise, never to give up?
~Find Out Soon~