Here's chapter 4. Please R&R and I shall see you at the bottom of the page.

POV: Lucy

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

"Are you sure you don't want to take the wheelchair. It's not too late to go get one for you so that you won't get tired," Makarov Dreyer, a short perv of an old man, asks shuffling beside me looking worried and just about ready to get a panic attack.

He's short, hard to believe since most of my relatives are fairly tall, with light tanned skin. His hair, what remains of it on the bottom surrounding his head, is fluffy white almost looking exactly like a cloud. A mustache resides above his upper lip and prominent worry wrinkles have dominated his features making him look worried even when he smiles. He's wearing a short sleeved orange shirt with a weird pink happy face painted on the chest along with blue jean shorts and sandals. His deep black eyes, though they are closed most of the time seeming to be in deep concentration, are now wide open looking at me with pure concern making my heart ache with joy.

I smile down at him shaking my head just as the sliding doors of the hospital's front entrance open and we walk out, "No grandpa, I'm fine. You don't have to worry so much. It isn't like this is the first time something remotely close to this has happened to me before," I argue heading toward the sleek SUV that's parked right in front of the entrance with my cousin Laxus Dreyer at the wheel looking annoyed and literally sweating by the bucket full in this heat, "besides, it's a short walk from here to the car and then another short walk from the car to your house,"

"But…" without listening to him any further I open the back door to the shiny new car and climb in with a bit of help from my oversized cousin. He's tall with blond spiky hair, deep gray eyes, almost black like Makarov's, and is ripped up to the max. I swear that it looks like he uses steroids, but my cousin is as clean as they come. Exercising is basically all he ever does on his spare time. Of course he wasn't all that good when he was younger as he used to be in a gang and got in a lot of nasty fights with other gangs. He actually has a really nasty scar over his right eye that he got in his last fight. Thankfully all that gang stuff is all behind him now that he's a professional boxer.

"How you faring kid," Laxus asks as I close the door and strap my seatbelt on while sighing heavily.

"Faring as best as I can," I say leaning onto the door wanting nothing more than to get home and take a long power nap curled up in my own room, "By the way," I ask sitting up and looking at Laxus through the rearview mirror, "Have you heard anything from my dad,"

"He's up in the country of Bosco at the time being, says he sends his regards and apologizes that he couldn't be here this time," Makarov states as he jumps into the front passenger seat and strapping in before Laxus drives off toward home, "He also told me to tell you to be more careful," he says with a sigh as he slumps in his seat looking worn out and twice as old than he really is. Poor grandpa, it's only been a few days and already I'm starting to make him worry. Pushing my thoughts outside, I look out through my window and watch as buildings pass by along with small open fields and lots of dense forest.

Today is my fourth day in Magnolia in almost seven years. The last time I had been here was on summer break when I was nine and my mother, Layla Heartfelia, was still alive. It had been the best summer vacation ever and even to this day I can remember just about every detail about it. Everyone had been so happy that summer and then winter came taking away all the flowers and shinning yellow sun, and my mom. Everyone had been heartbroken, my father more than most, and since that summer we haven't been back to Magnolia. Instead my grandfather would go and visit my father and I until father's job became too hectic that it was near to impossible for grandfather to keep up with his busy schedule.

My father is Jude Heartfelia, head CEO of the largest trading centers in the world (Heartfelia Konzern, Love and Lucky) and because of his job he travels a lot around the world. He's usually gone for only a few days and so he would usually leave me home alone with the maids when he would travel when I was in school, and on vacation days he would sometimes even take me along. This time, however, his business trip has prolonged into an entire year and so that I wouldn't be all on my own back at the mansion he sent me to live with my grandfather Makarov, who I hadn't seen in almost four years. I had actually sort of forgotten what he had looked like, along with Laxus who had grown tremendously, thus getting me lost at the airport when I couldn't find them leading to my unavoidable accident.

I don't mind it though, because even though I'll be away from my own father I'll be able to spend time with my mother's father. The perk about this stay is that I'll be able to learn all about my mother before she had married my father and maybe even stories about when she later married my father. All the stories that were too painful for my father to mention to me no matter how much I begged him to tell me.

"You've grown so much Lucy," Makarov says looking at me from over his shoulder with a soft smile on his face.

"Nah, she's about the same height, you've just shrunken more since the last time you saw her," Laxus snorts while turning a corner.

Makarov glares at Laxus before looking back at me, "You look so much like your mother," he says filling the car with melancholy, but I smile either way. It isn't everyday that I am compared to look like my mother, especially when not many people knew who she was, at least not people that didn't live in Magnolia. Everyone in Magnolia knew and loved my mother so dearly.

"You think so?" I ask and he nods winking at me just as we park into the driveway of his forty bedrooms home.

I climb out of the SUV and look up at the huge house. Well it's not really a house per say if not a large dorm where some students who don't have guardians or just don't have a place to go and attend Fairy Tail Academy live at. Since grandfather is the headmaster of the Academy he thought it would be smart to build a dorm for those students and I can say it has come to good use.

"Welcome to Fairy Hills kid," Laxus says while taking my bags from the trunk of the car and heads toward a much smaller home to the side of the large dorms. That's probably grandpa's actual house since he built the building right next to his own home.

I follow Laxus toward the small home when an all too familiar voice catches my attention from the nearby door of the dorm, "Fancy seeing you here," I turn to find Natsu watching me from where he's standing by the entrance of the building holding a grocery bag and dressed in a plain white shirt, faded blue jeans, scuffed up red converse and his trademark scarf. Seriously, it's freaking boiling outside.

"Oh hi Natsu, I didn't know you lived here," I say turning toward him but staying where I'm at. It's funny how not just a few hours ago we had been talking at the hospital.

He smiles a toothy smile and that's when I notice how sharp his teeth look like, almost like fangs, "I could say the same thing about you,"

"My grandfather owns this place," I say and he nods.

"So gramps is your grandfather, huh," he asks and I nod, "Well guess that means we're neighbors," I nod again. He looks up over behind me and his joking smile quickly vanishes turning into a scowl as he turns to head inside, "I'll see you later Luce," and before I can say anything he disappears through the thick wooden double doors without another word.

Turning around I find Laxus glaring at where Natsu had just disappeared and he seems to be almost fuming as I watch him a bit shocked, "Laxus," I ask and he looks down at me as he gently takes my arm in his.

"Come on, it's cooler inside the house," he simply says and leads me away from the dorms towards home in long angry strides making it a bit difficult for me to keep up, "By the way Lucy, you should watch yourself when you're around that guy," he whispers harshly and though I have the temptation to ask him why Natsu's words ring through my head in a deafening warning. Don't bother asking questions no matter what the cost. So for the first time in my life I actually listen to a complete and utter stranger.

So I've got to know, what kind of pairings would you like to see within the story. I already got a request for Jerza but I just want to know if you all want more pairings. I don't mind adding them in.

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