Teehee.
Lisanna gripped her bag tightly. The area she lived in wasn't that great and although she wasn't helpless she had a horrid sense of foreboding. Mira was alive. All those years of thinking she was alone now seemed to pull on her even more. Mira was alive. Funny how the most important sentances in life were so short.
Mira is alive. I'm not alone. All three words.
Shuffling to the front door she plunged the key in easily, turning it equally so. She flicked the lock back in place once inside and mounted the stairs in persuit of her apartment. It wasn't much, enough to accomadate one teenager still in the last strands of senior year. Opening the door she kicked her shoes off, tossed the groceries on the kitchen counter, and flopped onto the couch.
She rifled through channels before aggrivatedly throwing the remote on the floor, effectively turning the blasted machine off. A chuckle behind her made her stiffen, but then relax. "Laxus," She said easily. "I told you not to come in while I'm not home."
The chuckles grew as she felt the couch dip with the man's weight. "I just got here a moment ago, Lis." He said. "I was just going to wait for you."
Laxus was Mira's ex. He, much like herself, had thought the elder Strauss dead for the past four years.
"Now Mira," Lucy chided softly. "I've said my peice. I want you to tell me why Lisanna's name struck you so."
Mira froze at the sentence and tilted her head up robotically, her panic clear on her face. "Now Lucy," She tried to keep a calm voice. "Whatever do you mean?"
Lucy raised an eyebrow, her head tilting to signal Mira she wasn't getting out of it that easily. At some point between the banter Gray slipped out, but his mouth was set firmly, he would be revealing no more of Lucy's secrets.
Eventually Mira's tone began to match her face, dropping in defeat. She sighed before answering. "Lisanna was my sister."
Lucy's eyebrow quirked. "Was?"
Sadly Mira nodded her eyes pooling with tears she had fought hard to hold at bay. "Yes," She reiterated, "Was. My sister was with me in an accident. My boyfriend, Laxus; our brother, Elfman; and myself had decided to surprise Lisanna with a front row seat at the concert of her favorite band. There were people everywhere. Lisanna wanted to go get something, I can't for the life of me remember, and I sent Laxus with her. To keep her safe."
Lucy nodded, enthralled, as Mira swiped away mascara stained tears, the lines remaining. "I shouldn't have seperated." She said ruefully, her voice showing how truly sorry she was. "A firework onstage backfired, and the stage caught on fire. I was able to escape, along with Elfman. But when we didn't see Lisanna or Laxus, Elfman decided to go back in. They never came out. Elfman's body was found when they finally got the fire out. He burned to death. They never found Lisanna or Laxus's bodies but the same fate was thought to befall them. For four years I've been alone."
Lucy gaped at the story. "Mira," She said slowly, as if she couldn't believe it herself. "Did Lisanna look like you?"
Mira nodded. "Almost mirror-image."
Lucy took a deep breath. "Well then Mira, I have some good knews." She tried to smile, her own tears beginning to fog her vision.
"Lisanna's alive."
"I know." Mira's voice quavered. "But I don't believe it. Until I can hold my little sister in my arms I won't believe it. Natsu spoke of a Lis often. Never said her real name, and he seemed touchy on the subject, so I never pressed. I even got a call about an hour ago, while you were gone, from a Lisanna Strauss. She knew me."
Mira then exploded into tears.
Gray inched out into the hall, turning into the only room he knew he would be able to clear his mind.
"Gray-sama!" He was greeted by the ever cheerful voice of one Juvia Lockser. "Gray-sama is in Juvia's room! Juvia is so happy!"
Gray smiled easily, it was always so much easier to smile around Juvia, and laughed just as such. "It's nice to see you too, Juvia." Juvia smiled and motioned him in, seating him at the blue patio table that sat against her was. The surface was tiled and depicted a swriling ocean wave.
"Juvia tiled that herself." Juvia had said when she caught him glancing at it.
"So what brings Gray-sama to Juvia's room?" Juvia asked as she sat down a glass of chilled jasmine tea infront of him, pouring herself a cup from the ceramic blue teapot. She knew he had something on his mind, ergo the jasmine tea.
Gray took a sip of the cool tea, revelling in the smooth texture. "Well I can't actually tell you," He said finally. "Lucy made that very clear."
"It's about Natsu-san causing the explosion that caused him to be blind and Love Rival Number One to be deaf, Juvia guesses." She said it so normally he blinked a few times, letting the information sink in.
"You knew?" He said finally. "For how long?"
Juvia shrugged. "Juvia isn't sure. Juvia googled everyone when she first got here. Knowing helps Juvia feel better." She smiled as though what she had just said was completely normal and took another sip from her delicately crafted blue teacup.
"You know what?" Gray said aafter a moment of silence, drawing a curious glance from the bluenette before him. "That doesn't surprise me as much as I thought it would. "
The two laughed.
Once Lucy had Mira calmed down she rolled into her room, finding Natsu fast asleep on her bed. She smiled at the peaceful expression on his face, brushing a stray strand of pink hair from his eyes.
She lifted her phone from the base in seeing she had a message. She held it up, waiting as the dial tone and automated voicemai scrolled across the digital screen that converted audio messages to text. Pressing the password she watched as the message filtered across the screen.
"Ms. Heartphilia, this is Gretta from Fiore Regional Hospital. We are calling to inform you your father has been enrolled in our facilities. Please call back at this number for more information."
Lucy paled.
What should she do?
Ahahahahahahahaha. Another chapter done. I'm on a role lately.
Everytime I type Ahahahahahaha I think of natsu with the cat-head on when he's laughing. I'm... a nerd. (._.)