Hello, long time no see... or writing... I don't know but I am so sorry for not updating for like a month... I feel so bad. T.T Please forgive me. I have been so busy with school and then there was my writers block and yeah... I have been trying to watch One Piece (Finally reached episode 100) and I have gotten an Xbox to myself meaning I have to start all my games again and get my gamer score back up... I am such a weirdo. :L I also have been drawing and yeah, I would love it if you looked at them, the link is on my profile page. So I have been busy. Hahaa.

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Chapter Twenty-Two

The news of the Twin Dragons of Sabertooth joining the guild spread throughout Fiore, the guild eventually befriended the two former members of Sabertooth to which Lucy was happy about. Rogue got along with most of the members he was glad that everyone was so nice here, loud but nice. He wasn't used to this atmosphere but he enjoyed it.

As for Sting, he actually got along with everyone which was something Lucy had loved. She was worried everyone would be wary of him but they got along, it was like he had been there more than the two months he had actually been there for.

Lucy and Sting had found a house with three bedrooms, it was a reasonable size but the rent wasn't something they were overly happy about. It was 100,000 jewels a month causing Sting to have to go on missions at least once – sometimes twice a week. When he had returned him and Lucy would spend time their time together and catching up even though he would be gone a day or two, sometimes three days but that was it.

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The guild watched as the White Dragon Slayer sat at one of the back corners of the guild reading. Lucy was happy he was finally reading the books she had bought a few months ago and had read a few times to get the information in her head or due to her boredom from sitting in Sting's old house.

Lucy smiled and looked back to Mira who was sitting across from her at the table, the two were talking about baby names, Lucy had recently found out about the gender of her child. She didn't care if the baby was a girl or boy, she was just happy that the baby was healthy. She was able to go to the hospital freely and get her ultrasounds.

When she and Sting went for the first time she was happy, she hadn't seen her baby before and seeing it brought tears to her eyes, surprisingly Sting had almost cried which was something she teased him about after wards.

Lucy shook her head a Mira's suggestion and the barmaid let out a sigh.

"I don't know, I have two months till my due date. Sting and I will have a name by then." Lucy let out a groan.

"Sting just finished another book." Levy said as she leaned over.

"How many is that now?" Lucy asked.

"6, I didn't think he was a fast reader." She commented.

"Neither did I. I guess we still have some things to learn about each other." Lucy smiled at this and stole a glance at Sting. "I hope everything will be okay." Lucy touched her stomach and smiled even more. "I promise to make you happy; I don't want to make any more mistakes in my life."

"Everything will be okay Lu-chan. Knowing Sting he'll be an overprotective father, I think dragon slayers are like that. Because from what I have read dragons are protective of their offspring, like they're with their mates." Lucy nodded taking in the information.

"I need to borrow these books from you one day Levy." Levy nodded and then blushed.

"Some of the books are a bit… graphic with the information but I will bring them to the guild one day for you."

"Thanks Levy-chan." Lucy smiled at her friend. Lucy turned back to look at Sting only to see he wasn't there anymore, frowning she looked around and noticed that him and Natsu were fighting. Lucy sighed and shook her head. "Here I was thinking he would finish reading the books, stupid Sting. Of course he would chose to fight with Natsu than read parenting books."

"It's okay Lucy, you still have another two months. He should finish them by then, there is always after wards as well." Lucy nodded and then sighed, she had been getting more tired lately. Now that her child has gotten bigger so has she, it hurt her back to walk and it was just so tiring. The blonde rubbed her eyes and let out a yawn.

"I'm so tired." Mira laughed at this.

"You're always tired Lucy."

"It's because of the baby." Lucy leaned forward placing her head on the table and began to doze off.

~ With Sting

He landed a punch to Natsu's stomach, effectively knocking the pink haired idiot out.

"Now leave me alone, Lucy wants me to read these books so I am going to." Sting let out a sigh and went back to his seat when he was about to sit down he noticed Lucy was sleeping, he shook his head and put all of the books in the bag and threw it over his shoulders as he walked over to Lucy. He leaned over to her ear whispering her name, when she didn't stir he sighed again and tapped her shoulder. When Lucy finally looked up at him she sent him a questioning look. "We'll go now, you're getting tired and I want to read were there isn't any distractions." she nodded tiredly and stood up slowly cradling her stomach as she did so.

As they were leaving the guild Wendy called out their names and ran towards them, panting when she reached them. The two looked at each other then back at the little girl.

"What is it Wendy?" Lucy asked.

"Master got some good news from the council. They caught Minerva and the Master of Sabertooth, the guild has been disbanded though." Wendy frowned at the last bit of information, but she was happy that Lucy wasn't in danger anymore.

"That's good news. Minus the Sabertooth part though." Lucy sighed in relief, Sting nodded in agreement.

"I'm happy you're not in danger anymore, I don't want anything like that happening to you again." Sting hugged Lucy, she blushed at his words.

"Thanks. We were leaving Wendy, I need sleep. This baby is making me exhausted so easily." the blonde laughed and waved at Wendy and walked out of the guild with Sting following her.

Sorry for it being short and for any grammar or spelling errors... Also I am sorry if it's not that good, the first half was written when I had writers block.

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