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Chapter 2: Welcome back!

My head fell on the counter. Future-Lucy was still talking about how things had changed between her Natsu. Apparently, she had been running away from something when, suddenly, she had run into him, knocking him off and then things just had happened. I didn't really want to know, to be honest. The thought of being in a relationship with Natsu was irritating.

What was I supposed to do now? I had to go back to the present somehow but future-Lucy obviously had no intention of telling me how. I had to somehow interrupt her in mid-flow and while I was thinking about how to get my self to shut up somebody else took over the job.

"Mommy, I'm hungry", Sakura complained, wrapping her arms around her tummy.

Future-me stopped her torrent of words and turned to her daughter with a smile. "Go and ask auntie Mira to make you a sandwich, okay?"

Saskura nodded and ran off grabbing her teddy bear.

"Where was I?" Future-Lucy said, thinking about where she had left off. This was my chance!

"Uhm... You know..." I raised my head. "Is it okay for you to tell me about all of this?" I asked and cursed myself for not coming up with a better question.

But Lucy just laughed and leaned back. "You're thinking that you don't want to hear any of this, right?" She pierced me with that knowing smile from before, making me feel nervous and extremely self-conscious.

"I-It's not like that-", I tried to excuse myself but was interrupted by Lucy's laughter. With a guilty expression I looked at her, putting my hands in my lap. "How did you know?" Another stupid question. Why wouldn't she know? She was me after all and I'm pretty sure that I know myself well enough to tell what I'm thinking about. Hold on, this was getting pretty complicated.

Future-Lucy smiled. "I went through the same, you know?"

Now, this was an answer I did not expect. "The same?"

Lucy nodded and laughed again. "At that time I was quite irritated hearing all that stuff my future self told me about Natsu and me. I asked her the same question you asked me just now and she gave me the same answer I gave you."

"So...", I started, grasping the whole situation, "you mean that after I return to the present, my past self will appear in front of me and I will welcome her to the future?"

"Correct!"

"But... I'm here and you're here. How?"

"Think about it", my older self said and with that said, she took the last sip of her juice and got up. "I'm going to look for Sakura. She probably made Mira bake her a cake or cookies."

While my older self went to look for my/her/our daughter, I thought about her words. I was here. The present Lucy. The future me was also here. So there would logically be a past Lucy. But my future self said that she had encountered the dilemma I was in now. So that means that there had to be more Lucies. But if there were more Lucies, there would be more periods of time. Then, how many time periods were there exactly? My head was spinning and I let out a quiet groan.

"What's with this?" I whined and noticed that somebody had occupied the place Lucy had been sitting on just now. It was Sakura's brother, my son, I mean future-son. He looked at me with an interested expression and I had the feeling that he was about to jump at me. Now, that I thought about it, I didn't even know his name.

"So, you're my mom, only younger?" he suddenly asked.

"Yeah."

A huge grin – which reminded me of Natsu and therefore this child's father – spread across his face as he leaned forward. "Wow! You're so pretty!"

I probably blushed. I was sure that I blushed. I mean, I felt the blood creeping up my face, I was certainly blushing. "Thank you", I muttered embarrassed and couldn't help but stare at him. Just now, he had looked just like Natsu. That grin was definitely Natsu's. Telling me that I was beautiful with that face was not fair. "What's your name?" I asked him.

He frowned. Eh? Did I ask something wrong?, I wondered. "Are you sure you're my mom?" the boy asked with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"Yeah, why?"

"Well, because you don't even know my name! If you're my mother you should know at least that much, shouldn't you? You're so weird!"

HE WAS DEFINITELY NATSU'S CHILD! I felt anger built up inside of me and tried my best to suppress it.

"You, listen", I said quietly causing the poor boy to flinch and lean back. "How am I supposed to know your name if I don't have any children yet, huh? Calling me weird... You're just like your father!"

The boy winced. "I-I'm sorry!" And then he bowed. "I shouldn't have said that I'm really sorry! You're definitely my mom, I know now! I'm really sorry! And my name is Haru!"

Haru? "Haru as in 'spring'"? I asked, a lot calmer now.

Haru glanced at me, probably to verify that I had calmed down, and nodded.

I smiled widely. "That's a great name!"

Haru blushed a bit and looked away when he suddenly noticed something and a huge childish smile spread on his face. Jumping off the chair he ran towards the guild's entrance and suddenly the door swung open. A tall figure with salmon hair and a cat sitting on his right shoulder came walking in. Haru jumped at him and I was expecting them to hug but instead Haru's fist lit on fire and he attacked the man who simply dodged him causing Haru to fall right on his face. Haru laughed and got up rubbing his head.

The man grinned familiarly and rubbed Haru's head snickering. "You got stronger, Haru", he said.

Haru smiled proudly. "Welcome back, dad!"

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