AN: Chapter 321 will only be surpassed by one that they actually hug/kiss/do something more awesome. Friday won't come soon enough. That's all I'm gonna say.

And this chapter's quote is awesome.

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Big announcement! Now this story has a Beta! Yes, you guys won't have to suffer much longer with my awful mistakes. Thank you Ratiqu! Welcome to the family and good luck to you, I can be quite a pain, but I'll try to be as nice as I can.

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What to Expect When You're Expecting

Chapter Eleven – Hit Me

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"When the door closes, when the image of you disappears, I'll probably spend the day in tears because of the memories with you, I'm left alone. I wish you'll be happier. When I let go of this hand now, I'll no longer have any reason to smile but when I see you smiling in another's embrace, I'll try to smile." – DooJoon & DongWoon (B2ST) – When the Door Closes

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"Meredy, you do the dishes today with Gray." Ur said, kissing the pink haired teenager on the top of the head after they had finished their dinner.

"Okay, Nana." The girl replied happily, already picking up some of the dishes. She was the 'adopted daughter' of Ur's daughter, Ultear. She was a nice addition to the family, the girl. Ur knew about her dark background. It wasn't like any of her own kids hadn't gotten in trouble at some point and the older woman was happy to help the girl to have a family. She was happy to be her grandmother.

Ur stared at Gray, who was spacing out –probably worried about his pregnant girlfriend– and smiled. She was going to be a grandmother once again and she had to hide her joy for a few more hours. Sure, the kid was stupid to have knocked someone up, but, according to the things she had heard about her new daughter-in-law, he was on the right track. Besides, when she was out a few days before, she stopped by a baby store and just pictured what she could buy her grandbaby already, but stopped herself. They would have time for presents later.

Then she stared at her older son, Lyon and sighed. The boy had fallen in love with the same girl his brother was currently dating. They were always iffy about each other; they didn't hate each other, of course. But both were very competitive and now that Gray 'won' the girl, Ur had no clue how Lyon would react. The kid was hard to predict.

"Mom, before Meredy and I do the dishes, I have to talk to Lyon for a bit." Gray got up and stared at Lyon, who was confused. Ultear and Meredy also shared a confused look; Gray and Lyon didn't very often share private conversations. And when they did, it was something big. "Can you wait for me a little while, Meredy?"

Gray looked towards Meredy's direction. "Sure thing, Gray."

"How about I do the dishes today with Meredy and tomorrow after lunch, you and Lyon do it?" Ultear suggested. "That way you can talk all you want."

"Fine by me." Gray shrugged.

"Tomorrow I'm gonna use the plates you two can break. No fancy china when you two are working together." Ur joked.

"So, what is it that you want to talk about?" Lyon asked and Gray hesitated.

"Not here." The dark haired man said and looked to Ur.

"You two go talk in the living room. No one will interrupt you." The older woman said as she shooed her daughter and granddaughter from the dining room.

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Once Lyon and Gray were in the living room, the white haired man crossed his arms over his chest, waiting for the younger man to start telling whatever he needed to tell him. And Lyon was certain that it wasn't a good thing that was coming.

"Say it already." Lyon rolled his eyes. "What's so important that you had to talk to me alone?"

Gray stared at him and let out a sigh. "It's about Juvia." Lyon's eyes perked as soon as he heard the name. "It's about me and Juvia."

Something inside Lyon's chest twisted in pain and he tried to calm himself down. "What about it?"

"We're together." Gray said without beating around the bush. It was never his style to just stall and prolong another's suffering, especially family.

Lyon's expression didn't change from the stoic façade he was putting on but Gray could see the pain that passed through his eyes. "I see. Is it recent?"

"Since my graduation party." Gray informed and Lyon nodded, looking away from his younger 'brother.'

"You do know that my feelings won't change just because…" He was saying, but got interrupted by Gray.

"There's more." Gray said, making Lyon look in his direction, and when their eyes met, Gray told him. "She's pregnant." Lyon blinked in shock. "We are having a baby."

"What…?" The white haired man asked, confused. "Your graduation was four weeks ago. It's too soon to…"

"We started dating after my graduation, but we had a night before that." Gray was being as straight with the other guy as he could. "That's why I was so restless at the party." Lyon couldn't believe his ears. He had to sit on the arm of the couch to really think about what Gray was telling him. Juvia was pregnant with Gray's child. "And since I know about your feelings towards her, I wanted to tell you before I told the others."

"I…" Lyon looked up to Gray and frowned, he knew that Gray felt something about Juvia, but he didn't think it would escalate this quickly. "She's pregnant?"

"Nine weeks." Gray brought his hand towards the back of his head and scratched it. "We just found the baby bump this morning before I took the train here."

"A bump…?" Lyon's head was spinning. The woman he had been in love for the past year and a half was pregnant and dating his younger sibling.

Seeing his discomfort, Gray sighed and stepped closer to Lyon. "Look, I know that you are in love with Juvia and this sucks but you and I share the same mother and now Juvia will be part of this family too along with our kid." Lyon was still in shock and Gray started to leave the living room. "I have to tell Ultear and Meredy now." The white haired man nodded.

After a minute or so, he felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up, meeting his mother's eyes. "Hey, kiddo."

"Mother." Lyon said and returned his gaze to the floor. "Gray just told me."

"I know." She sat beside him on the couch, putting an arm on his shoulders. "He wanted to tell you alone."

"How considerate of him." Lyon said bitterly.

"It truly was." Ur said, looking to her older son. "Some other person wouldn't be as considerate towards your feelings." The white haired man frowned at his mother in question. "Do you think it's easy for him to have you in love with the girl he's dating? He knows that every time you see her, you'll wish it was you who was dating her, not him." Ur took her arm from the spot around his shoulders and started to massage the thigh that had the prosthetic leg. "I know that it's not a walk in the park for you, but neither is it for him or her. They started dating and now, before they've even gotten used to the idea of really being together, they are already expecting a baby.

"I am not diminishing your pain, because god knows I've had my heart broken but right now, nothing I say will make yours go away." She said, then pointed towards the door. "So, go. Go mourn. Tonight you are allowed to feel bad. But you need to remember that heartbroken or not, Gray is still your family and he would do anything for you."

Lyon nodded and got up. He leant and kissed his mother's cheek before grabbing his keys and walking out of the house.

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"Hello?" Juvia answered the phone with a sleepy voice and Lyon immediately felt bad.

"Sorry, Juvia. I had no idea you would be asleep at this hour." he said; it was barely ten p.m.

"Lyon-san?" She asked. "It's alright. Juvia was just taking a nap." He could hear her yawn and could only picture her cute face while she did so. "What's that noise?"

"I'm at a bar." He said and looked around. The bar certainly wasn't trashy and the crowd mostly consisted of businessmen. "I heard that congratulations are in order."

The girl was silent for a moment before talking again. "So Gray-sama told you."

"Yes." Lyon laughed a little bitterly. "It was a surprise."

"It was a surprise to all of us." She answered drily and he felt bad for having an attitude towards her.

"Yes, yes. Sorry." He put a hand over his eyes. "Are you happy, Juvia?"

"Yes, Lyon-san. Juvia is happy." She answered softly. "It's not the ideal scenario, or even the ideal timing to have a baby, but sometimes things happen to put us and the people around us on the track you were supposed to be in the first place. That's what Juvia has been telling herself."

"You know that I've always thought that you were 'the one,' right?" Lyon asked, and his eyes had a burning sensation suddenly.

"Yes." She answered. "But…"

"I was never your 'one', was I?" He said, quickly drying a small tear in the corner of his eye that threatened to fall. "For you, it was always Gray."

"Lyon-san…" Juvia tried to say something to comfort him but came up with nothing. So, she opted for a different approach. "Yes. It was always him."

"I never had a chance, then." Lyon asked even though he already knew the answer.

"It would be easier to have fallen for you, Lyon. That, Juvia can't deny. It would save both of us heartache, but it would also be wrong." He could hear the sadness in her voice, the sadness she was feeling for making him feel bad. "Everything that happened, all the pain and tears… it made us who we are. And right now, Juvia likes who she turned out to be. It was a tough road to get here, but she is finally seeing what she was supposed to become. It's hard at first, but…"

"It's easy when the person you fell in love also loves you." Lyon said, bitterly.

"It wasn't easy." Juvia said, bitterly now, the hormones kicking in. "It is never easy. Almost four years with nothing more than being friends, and when we met, not even that. So yes, Juvia knows how much it hurts." She took a deep breath to calm herself down and he waited. When she finally spoke again, her voice was softer. "I am not your 'the one,' Lyon-san. You will find that girl when you least expect and you'll be swept off your feet. You will feel like you haven't lived until that moment. You will feel like you never breathed, never heard music and never felt your heart beating up until that special moment."

Lyon was silent after what Juvia told him, and before hanging up he said. "That's exactly what I felt when I met you, Juvia."

The white haired man looked up to the bartender and pointed to his empty glass. "Hit me. And keep them coming."

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Gray waited until Meredy and Ultear were finished with the plates before he said anything to them. His mother had told him that Lyon was out, clearing his thoughts and for a moment, Gray was worried but the thought soon vanished when his mother assured him that Lyon was a big boy and not stupid.

"Come on, girls! You will not want to miss this!" Ur said, already sitting on the couch, with a smirk on her face.

"Don't do that, mom." Gray groaned and Ur laughed.

"Oh, kid. I am enjoying this as much as I can." She said and when the girls entered the living room, Meredy was immediately sitting next to Ur, who wrapped her arms around the girl; while Ultear chose to sit on the couch's arm, also beside her mother.

They had been getting closer and closer since Ur found out that her daughter was not dead and Ultear had finally found out that her mother had always loved her. It had been two and a half years since Ultear had returned home with Meredy as a plus. And since then, they were rebuilding their bond, and it was clear they loved each other very much even though Ultear was not as forthcoming as her daughter.

"So, Gray." Ultear said, crossing her arms underneath her breasts. "What's the big announcement?"

The man got uncomfortable; standing there alone with his mother, his sister and his niece, was kind of unsettling for him. All of them looking at him with expectation and curiosity.

"Do you guys remember Juvia?" He asked and the girls nodded.

"Of course." Meredy smiled. "I talked to her on the phone just a few weeks ago."

Ultear giggled at the teenage girl. "She was so excited about passing grades that she talked with Juvia for half an hour before I snatched the phone away."

"Hey, it's not every day that I pass top of my class! Besides, I'm going to start High School this fall!" The pink haired girl said with a big grin. "School is so much fun."

"That's good, honey." Ur smiled sweetly at her.

"Besides, Juvia's nice." Meredy shrugged. "But what about her, Gray?"

All the attention was back to him and Gray decided to use the same approach he used with Lyon. "Well, good that you like her. Because we're together."

Ultear and Meredy were silent for a moment, before Meredy got away from her grandmother's arms, squealing in happiness. She went to hug Gray.

"Finally!" She hugged him as he accepted awkwardly.

"I was starting to think that you were soft in the head, Gray." Ultear was shaking her head slightly, but with a small smile. "Took you long enough to realize that you loved her back, didn't you?"

"Well, love is a strong word…" Gray tried, but Meredy shushed him.

"It's good enough that you two are dating. You'll tell her what everyone else knows when you're ready to." The pink haired girl smiled at her uncle. "Oh, this just made my day. Mom, I have to call Juvia!"

"Oh, wait. There's more and it gets better." Ur smirked and both of the girls looked at Gray with curious' eyes.

Gray took a deep breath. "She's pregnant."

Ur was staring at the younger girls with a big smirk on her face. She saw their jaws pretty much hit the floor.

"Come again?" Ultear asked.

"Gray's gonna be a daddy!" Ur mocked her son, who sent her a look.

People from three cities away probably heard Meredy's squealing in happiness after the shock wore off.

"I'm going to have a cousin?" She was jumping around. "Oh, can I be called an Aunt, Gray? Please, please, please?" She looked to him with pleading eyes and he actually chuckled.

"I guess you get to pick your title, Mer." He said with affection and the girl clapped her hands happily.

"'Auntie Meredy!' That sounds good." She turned towards Ur and Ultear. "Did you hear, Mom? Nana? I'm gonna be an aunt!"

"I heard, baby." Ultear smiled sweetly at her daughter. "And you'll be an excellent cousin and aunt."

"I agree." Ur nodded and grabbed her daughter's hand and looked up to the young woman. "And you will too, Ultear. You are already a great mother, having a niece or nephew will be easy."

"Thanks, Mother." Ultear offered her mother a smile and then returned her attention to Meredy, who was picking her phone.

"I'll call Juvia right now to…" Gray stopped her gently.

"She's probably sleeping, Meredy." he told her. "I know it's early but she has been having morning sickness and she's tired all the time, and she works all week. She can only sleep the whole day during the weekends."

"And I don't think she can keep up with a hyper you right now, Meredy." Ultear chuckled. "Besides, I think you already had too much excitement for one day."

"Tomorrow morning I'll call her and you two can talk." Gray told the girl, who looked down. Seeing that, Gray picked his own phone. "But if you want to see the baby bump we found this morning, that I can do."

That made all the girls gather around as he showed the picture he had taken just before he left. In the picture, Juvia had her shirt lifted up to just under her breasts. It wasn't a big bump or anything. It was just a little protuberance on her lower abdomen that no one would pay much attention if they didn't know that she was carrying a child.

But since all the women seeing the picture knew, they all 'awed', even Ultear. And Gray was happy to have his family knowing about the baby. And was even happier to know they were happy for him. His mind wandered again towards Lyon, but he pushed it away. He was going to deal with it when or if something happened.

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The next morning, Gray was awoken by a knock on the door. It was five a.m. and he wondered what the hell was happening.

"Come in." He said sitting on his bed and when he saw Lyon entering his room, he was confused. The man was wearing the same clothes as the night before. "What the hell, Lyon?"

"Are you with Juvia just because of the baby?" Lyon asked, taking a few steps so he was in front of Gray.

"What?" Gray was confused.

Lyon grabbed the dark haired man by the shoulders to make him get up. "Are you with her just because she's pregnant?"

"Of course not!" Gray got free of his grasp.

"Don't lie to me!"

"I am not!" Gray said. "We got together before I knew she was pregnant."

Lyon studied the other man's face and concluded that he was telling the truth, then sighed in relief. "She's in love with you." Gray opened his mouth to talk, but Lyon kept talking. "It's not some silly crush, Gray. I called her last night and we talked. She loves you and I love her. And you probably won't understand it, but I am happy she's happy, even if it's with you and not me. Of course I'd rather have her by my side, but she's not." Gray could smell the liquor on him, but he could tell that Lyon was not too drunk. "She is a beautiful woman. She is sweet, caring, strong and brave. I don't know why she chose you to love; don't matter how long I keep thinking, I don't know why it's you and not me. And even though I know she loves you, I can't just un-love her.

"So, I will be happy to see her happy with you but just as long as you make her happy, because the moment you make her unhappy, I'll be right there to kick your ass and take her away from you. Oh yeah. I will not give up on her either, keep it in your mind that I'll still try to make her love me." Lyon straightened his body. "She told me that I would know 'the one' once I met her. And I did meet her." Lyon gave him an icy look. "You haven't felt that way, and yet you have her love and that's something I have to live with." Lyon stepped closer to Gray. "I don't care if she's pregnant with your kid, because the baby will be half her and that's enough. That's how much I want her." Gray was surprised with his speech. "So, Gray, you two dating and having a baby changes nothing between you and I or between me and Juvia."

"I won't let you have her." Gray growled to Lyon and he could feel the competitiveness inside him rise.

"You won't have to when she comes to me willingly." Lyon said smugly. "It may happen in a week, a year or even ten years from now. It may never happen. But I am not giving up."

"Good for you, but she's not going anywhere with you." Gray said.

"We'll see." Lyon smirked and walked away from the room.

Gray couldn't believe what he had just heard. Was Lyon really still that hooked by Juvia? He wasn't giving up even though she already had a boyfriend and a baby on the way? It was bad to know that he didn't feel that strongly toward Juvia just yet. But it was nice to know that his brother was still his brother. That their relationship didn't change much.

They would always be rivals, and this time, the prize was bigger than anything they ever fought for. And now that Gray was finally opening his heart, he couldn't afford to lose. Maybe having a little competition wasn't a bad idea after all.

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AN: I only watch the scenes from the anime that I like on the manga, mostly the Gruvia ones. I want to see the holding hands thing so bad! I hope they don't put any fillers in the middle! And if they do, many many many many Gruvia or Gruvyon scenes, pls!

Seriously, I never thought that holding hands had so much meaning until I saw Naruto and Hinata doing it. And now, Gray and Juvia. My poor ship-heart has so many feels right now.

Special thanks to: Essence 97, Uchiha Evangeline, , Ratiqu, YamixTeaLover, animegirl115, cybercorpsesnake, Jessicutie, XxPlueXx, Theejay-sama, Tamniin, superduperizee, amyskywalker, xScarletxMoonx0, Yukistar, Seyrin, Darkhope, SaakuraIchigoDark, Chibi Waru-chan, Ushiio, Rochi-Chan and AliceCullen3 who reviewed! Thank you so much!

And the song When the Door Closes is so beautiful. Search it on youtube, it's in Korean, but look it up with subtitles on. It's awesome and beautiful.

03/03/13 ~ BonneyQ