Title of story: The Other Man

Update: 01/16/13 (WEDNESDAY) 12:35 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 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 4

A Promise By Night

The atmosphere within the Fullbuster Mansion was so tensely thick that everything seemed to stop in time… the ear splitting shouts echoed through the mansion sent shivers across the walls, then – a deadly silence….

Gray was breathing heavily from his thunderous shouts, and his big clutched fist still rested against the desk. A hushed moment passed where he power fully glared with loathing at the motionless Ur, then walked away – and stormed out of the main study.

Not too far from him, two people stood rooted with alarmed shock racing through them at what they just heard….

A man and woman stood by the white stairs, both staring at where they heard Gray's deep voice erupted from… then suddenly their faces flushed scarlet as their dark eyes landed on Gray's approaching stiff form.

"Can I speak to you both in the upper balcony?" Gray questioned quietly and was already going up the spacious stairs. "Jellal? Erza?" His voice held a strange emotion that intrigued both of his best friends, especially Jellal – his cousin. -I made him his cousin, because he got Blue hair XD-

"Yah…." The couple spoke quietly as Erza Fernandes tugged on her husband, Jellal Fernandes' hand to climb the stairs. They both walked up feeling tense and very uncomfortable, as if they were missing something big here…. 'Shit… what the hell is going on?' Jellal thought as he subconsciously squeezed Erza's smooth hand in his.

The white balcony doors flew open next as Gray walked all the way to the very edge, resting his strong arms heavily on the border and looked up at the glowing moon. The silver moonlight bathed Gray completely, making him look like an angel – a handsome distressed angel….

Jellal and Erza entered the magical balcony now, and looked around. Jellal's gaze locked on his messy raven hair's cousin and he suddenly felt a wave of sadness engulfed him. He looked at his beautiful wife curiously, looking at her for if she could explain – but Erza only shook her head sadly.

They walked forward, staring at Gray… both of them not knowing what to expect –

"Lucy was innocent…." Gray spoke clearly. His voice was stressed with raw naked, powerful emotion that made Jellal and Erza halt instantly.

"Lu…cy?" They both questioned enquiringly, both shocked and confused to hear her name.

"Innocent…? What do you mean, Gray?" Erza asked Gray's broad back, grabbing Jellal's hand more tightly.

'I can't take much more of this….' Gray sighed deeply. "Lucy never betrayed me…."

Erza and Jellal gasped. "What the fuck has gotten into you?" Jellal shot out, looking at him worriedly.

"That's just it, Jellal… Lucy has gotten into me!" Gray turned around to face his friends, and they gasped even more!

Gray Fullbuster never cried! He never ever cried! Never! -Ahem* he cried on Deliora Arc- ^^

"Gray… stop joking, what the hell is going on?" Erza approached him, but Gray held up his strong hand to stop her. She didn't move.

Gray's watery glowing navy blue orbs looked at the two people who had supported him throughout the six unhappy years without Lucy… and now he knew also – without his children…. He looked at the only real family he had these past six years….

Jellal's blue midnight hair mingled with the dark sky behind him. His brown orbs alighted with deep concern. He wore a shiny blue shirt with black jeans. Jellal looked cool and mysterious. His milky white smooth skin matched Erza's as they stood side by side.

Erza's long straight scarlet hair flew gently behind her, and her dark brown eyes sparkled with confusion, and concern. She wore a light scarlet red skirt, and a striking white shirt. Her lovely face with set in a troubled expression, a very troubled expression….

"Lucy was set up…." Gray spoke to them with now a new emotion taking over – anger. "She – she was never the one in those damn photos!"

Silence….

Jellal and Erza stared at Gray without moving… they looked pale – extremely pale…. But Jellal was the one to recover first, pulling Erza next to him to support her.

"Shit…." Jellal said angrily, and regretfully.

"Exactly!" Gray exclaimed in a cold hysteria.

"Gray, please explain this!" Erza was so confused that she leaned on Jellal, trying to borrow some energy from him.

"Juvia…." Gray hesitated. 'Should I tell them Juvia, my sisters, and mother were all behind it?'

"Don't even think of hiding the truth from us!" Erza spoke with a new energy pouring from her, her dark brown eyes flashing.

Well, that gave him his answer. "Juvia… told me the truth."

"The… truth?" Erza questioned him, forgetting the argument he just had downstairs. "But… Juvia is – "

"Juvia told me just before she died…. She told me that Lucy never betrayed me as I – you two – everyone – saw and believed in those damn photos. She never betrayed me at all! Goddammit!" Gray looked pained.

He turned around and grabbed his head, leaning his rock hard elbows on the border. "Lucy was innocent! She was set up by Juvia, my sisters and for fuck's sake – mother! My own mother!"

Jellal paled as white as paper, holding Erza's hand a bit too tightly. Erza went rigid and silent with shock. Her face was painted in pain, disbelief, and utter – complete utter – horror.

"Those fucking damn photos were fake! Set up as a tool – as the damn evidence! – to get me to believe Lucy betrayed me!" Gray rasped out in hoarse tones. "My sisters took orders from mother to get rid of Lucy. Get her out of my life! Mother thought that Lucy was an unsuitable – " He spat the word out like poison. " – wife for me!"

Erza was silently crying her eyes out now, and Jellal was rooted with shock and anger. He pulled Erza into his tight embrace, and looked at Gray – feeling as if he somehow failed him….

But Gray didn't see what was happening behind him, he just continued as though letting it all out would make it all go away and leave his heart from breaking any further…. "But my sisters didn't say anything because they all died one by one suddenly, and you know how! It was Juvia… Juvia! God, I was even going to marry her!"

"Did Juvia take orders from Aunt Ur as well?" Jellal spoke calmly to Gray, urging him to continue speaking. This was very hard to take in… when they all believed either wise!

"Juvia told me that she help my sisters in getting rid of Lucy – that she did it because she loved me, because she wanted me! She said she saw me falling in love with Lucy… and so played the leading role in destroying my love and trust in Lucy and throwing her out of my life permanently!"

"No!" Erza cried out. "Its not true!" She cried out desperately.

"It is true." Gray spoke directly to her. " She told me all this on her death bed! Her death bed – how could she lie?"

"Oh God…no..." Erza looked away.

"So… Juvia keep quiet all this time? And just before she died, she confessed…?" Jellal asked carefully.

"Yes. But I'm grateful that she told me… God, if she died without telling me! My God – without me knowing, I would have lost them! Lost them all!"

"Lost them…?" Jellal spoke in confusion, and now Erza was staring at Gray, but her painfully tears keep coming….

Gray realized he left out the vital point to this conversation. So with a strong turn, he faced his friends again. The words that came out from his mouth next would turn their worlds upside down forever….

"Lucy… was pregnant…." Jellal and Erza froze, the entire colour drained from their faces and their eyes opened to the widest! "She gave birth five years ago to boy twins. My boy twins. My sons. Lucy and my children. God! Our children!"

"Oh my God!" Erza cried out, turning away from the men and buried her colourless face into her hands crying her heart out. "Oh my God…."

"Erza…." Jellal pulled Erza into a crushing embrace and she buried her face into his chest and sobbed. Gray stared at the couple and couldn't help but feel terribly envious and angry towards them. 'I want Lucy in my arms too….'

"Children! Boys… twins!" Erza croaked in happiness and realisation. "Our nephews, Jellal! We have nephews! Gray is a father! And Lucy is a mother! Gray and Lucy are parents!"

"Grey and Grayson Heartfilia…." Gray spoke his twin's names in such adoring affection and softness. Jellal and Erza stared at him, seeing him in a new light now…. 'He's a father….'

"But there's a catch here… I can feel it, Gray…." Jellal smiled at his now over excited and heartbroken wife, then his smile turned into a frown as he spoke to Gray.

"Hai. Mother – God! – mother paid Lucy off by a million to get out and stay out of my life." Jellal and Erza looked taken aback and disgusted. "Mother told me that she set up a trust fund for my twins though… but when I met Lucy this morning – " Gray began quietly.

"You met Lucy this morning?" Erza cried out, her hands clutching the front of Jellal's shirt tightly.

"Yes… and God, I saw them… saw them all!" Gray looked up at the kind luminous moon. "They are so beautiful, guys…. I – I fell in love with them… fell in deep love with them…."

They stared at the moon, wanted to end this conversation… and only talk about Lucy and the twins….

"I think Erza and I want to know more about Lucy and the twins." Jellal led Erza to the glass table and made her sit down next to him, while Gray took the sit opposite them.

"Here…." Gray took a picture out of his black wallet and handed it to Erza.

"Oh my God! Is that – " Erza nearly squealed out. Jellal leaned in to look.

"Ya! Lucy with my sons… Our beautiful children…." Gray continued to look at his friend's expressions. Their faces changed from sadness to excitement and happiness.

"They do look exactly like you, Gray…." Jellal observed curiously. "Anyone with that messy raven hair and those eyes must be yours."

Gray sent Jellal a wide grin instead of his famous death glare! And Jellal nearly fell off his chair, while Erza and Gray started laughing! "I must agree with you on that one, Jellal. I am gorgeous, so therefore my boys must be cute too!"

"Smart ass…." Jellal joked.

"But look Jellal, Gray – this little one has different colours for eyes…." The trio of friends looked at the photograph carefully.

"Its as if God couldn't decide if he wanted chocolate brown or navy blue in his eyes – so mixed them…. Wow, he is a handsome little fellow?" Jellal and Erza smiled at Gray.

Gray grin back happily. "Oh, yea – they are knock outs. All the girls will drool for them when they grow up…. God… when they grow up…." His eyes glowed with hope. "The one with the brown and navy blue eyes is Grey as Lucy calls him. The other little one is Grayson." Gray couldn't help the grins that were appearing on his face now.

"They are so – " Erza started, and Jellal and Gray slammed their hands over their ears…. " – KAWAII!" She screamed with excitement.

"I couldn't agree with you more on that, Erza…." Gray's smile stayed on his attractive face.

"Lucy looks a bit different" Jellal put in, feeling horrible for he remembered very well of what he said to her that awful night when she left….

"When I saw her… well, you can imagine my shock. I didn't know what hit me! She looked the same but with a elegant and matured air around her." Jellal and Erza's eyes lit up at that. "But… when I talked to her – she was a whole new person!" The little light died out as soon as it came….

"How so?" Erza spoke quietly, brushing fingers over Lucy in the photo.

"She was… colder." Erza looked up at him, her eyes glittering with un-fallen tears. "She is not the cheerful girl we once knew… she protected the twins and herself from me the whole time I was there. I can tell that she hated me, and hated the fact that I went there…."

"But you needed to be there! They are your children as well!" Jellal put in, but he felt horrible.

"I agree with you… but its more complicated then that!" Gray looked at him with pain and regret. "Do you actually think Lucy will let me into her life with open arms?"

Jellal opened his mouth to start arguing back, but Erza got there before him –

"Please Jellal, we can talk the rest out in the morning…. Go rest, Gray. Please…." Erza stopped the conversation, knowing that they had all reached the limit, especially Gray.

He was exhausted! He has been travelling for the whole day between Fiore and Bosco. He hasn't eaten anything since the morning… then he met Lucy and his own children for the first time in six years, and had a heated talk with her…. Then he had come back here and had a huge argument with the proud Ur… and now talking to Jellal and Erza….

"Erza's right. Go rest." Gray looked revolted. "We'll talk in the morning…."

Erza turned to Gray, and her voice took on a serious tone. "Gray…we promise to help you whenever you need us. We'll be there for you, Lucy, and the twins! We promise!"

Erza held out her hand, as the gestured pact they all used to do, but didn't anymore when Lucy left. Jellal's hand joined Erza's and he looked at Gray, smiling with promise.

Gray couldn't ask for more… his strong hand lifted and closed around his friend's hands and he smiled. "It will definitely be alright." He looked at them with love and affection pouring in his expression and eyes – he looked like the Gray they all knew and loved. Jellal and Erza couldn't help but have tears in their eyes….

"I promise to you that we will get Lucy back…." Gray smiled in confidence, holding their hands more tightly. "And the twins. I will never give up…."

They all smiled at each other, silent tears fell freely from their eyes… their sincere glowing eyes…. Gray gave his word –

"I promise to never give up."

~to be continued~

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GrayLu Fan News: Sorry for the wait ^^ I was editing this yesterday by myself and then I suddenly felt sick. I wanted to upload this Chapter so badly yesterday, but my mom gave me a medicine TT-TT I didn't know it would make me fall asleep =.= stupid Night Time Tylenol~ Gomenasai! Anyways, I don't think I'll be able to reply to all 25 reviewers! I have to edit Chapter 5 ASAP ^-^

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A Meeting With The Other Man!?

Uwah~ What's this!? Lucy has another man in her life? A. Sting? Hmm ^^ B. Loke? Well, he is a bad boy and a womanizer x) C. Hibiki? But Hibiki is Ur-san's lawyer, right? D. Happy!? E-yahhh!