Holy fuck! That's Igneel? This is Natsu's father? The very man that abandoned Natsu as a teenager to survive on his own without any contact at all? How dare he turn up! Anger starts to boil in me as I join in the stares that the boys are making towards him.

Natsu starts to make his way towards Igneel but Jellal stops him.

"Think about this before you do this Natsu" Jellal warns. But this is clearly in one ear and out the other, as Natsu continues on and without saying another word, gives my coat to Jellal, walks over to Igneel and punches him straight in the face causing him to fall onto the group.

We all stand there shocked as we realise what has just happened. Natsu has just punched his father in the face! Igneel starts to get up shakily and nurses his jaw.

"Okay I deserved that" He starts

"Where the fuck were you!" Natsu shouts at him. Igneel doesn't reply. "You left me alone when I was 13, without warning, with no notice and I hear nothing from you! Nothing! No phone call, text, email, appear at my door, face to face chance meeting in the street nothing! I had to go through school alone, I had to have a job to pay the bills when it wasn't even legal to! I had to depend on myself when I needed you the most. I needed you so where the fuck were you! Why are you here!" He screams. I have never seen Natsu this angry. In comparison to the argument that we had at my apartment, this is nothing. This is sheer anger and it is shaking me to my core. I hear Juvia whimpering into Gray's chest while he is trying to comfort her, the same with Levy and Gajeel and Erza and Jellal. I know that I need to get to Natsu to calm him down but right now I don't think that he is in the right frame of mind for me to be near.

Igneel finally speaks after a moment of silence. "I wanted to find you. I wanted to see you"

Natsu looks at him with pure disgust waving his arms around in pure anger. "What for? You never cared about me before so why now? Is it money? Are you in some sort of trouble? Was it the fact that I'm well known now that you can think that you can make a buck or two selling your story? What is it Dad? What is it that you need to see me for?"

"What the hell is going on here!" I hear Makarov shout as we see him running towards Natsu with MiraJane in tow.

"Gii-chan….." Natsu starts "This lowlife you see before me is my father." He then directs his talk to Igneel pointing directly at him. "I searched everywhere for you! I asked around everywhere where you might be! I wanted to know why you left and now that you are here…..I don't think I honestly give a shit anymore. It's taken you too long to find me! I've been touring the country for 5 years with my band! I have made national papers, tv, radio and not once have you shown any want to find me! Not once did I ever see you, hear that you were around and be aware that you honestly cared."

"But Natsu, son, I-"

"You don't get to say those words to me! I am not your son. I never was in the first place so why does it matter now!" I watch the tears pour from his eyes as he starts to break down.

Igneel pleads again "Natsu…I'm-"

"I thought that if I ever found you, I would be happy to see you. Now that I have I am just furious. I realised a long time ago when I was sitting in the flat we stayed together in, starving since I didn't know how to cook, tired from working a long job while trying to complete my school work and barely scraping rent, that I don't need you and I never will. I have my nakama now. Without them, I never would have survived. I have my friends, my manager who I consider my Gii-chan and my girlfriend and not one bit of that involves you so just fuck off out of my life. I am done with you!" He starts to walk towards the car and I follow him. Igneel continues to call for him in the background while Natsu makes his way into the car followed by the rest of us and MiraJane and Makarov are left to handle Igneel. I sit next to Natsu in the car as the doors close and we are driven in silence back to our respected houses.

Natsu and I are dropped off at my place last as we say good night to everyone in turn as they leave the car. Natsu has been deadly silent throughout the trip and I manage to grab his hand and entwine it with mine slowly stroking my thumb over his hand to show that I am with him.

We make it up to my apartment and while I shut the door, Natsu makes his way to sit down on the sofa, bending over resting his elbows on his bent knees, his head in his hands. I lock the door and make my over to him crouching down in front of him, placing my hands on his arms that are on his legs slowly rubbing them in support.

"Do you want to talk about it?" I ask sullenly. I don't really know what to say at this point. It's almost 3 am, we are tired, tipsy, running off the high that it was the album launch performance, Gray and Juvia's engagement and the encounter with Igneel.

Natsu slowly shakes his head. "I completely blew it"

"What?" I ask confused.

He continues to slowly shake his head "I have been looking for Igneel for years and out of no where he comes to find me and I blow it!"

I rub my hands up and down slowly his arms to try and comfort him. "You were angry Natsu. It's natural to feel like that after what happened to you. He even said that he deserved it when you punched him in the face. Especially since you were not prepared."

Natsu takes a deep sigh and looks at me. We both stare at each other as I see the hurt and the pain that this man caused Natsu, especially tonight after seeing him for years.

"I actually saw him Luce." Natsu speaks softly. His demeanour changing completely from angry to sad in one hit. His shoulders start to shake in shock as I place my hand on his face cupping it while stroking his cheek with my thumb. I nod. "I spoke to him. I told him all of things that I wanted to say for years." There is a small pause as I notice tears starting to fall gently from his face. I try to catch them but there was no stopping this.

"I got to see my Dad again" He put his hands over his face to hide his shock and his silent sobs. "I saw Igneel" He says again, his sobs growing louder every time he repeats "I found him and I blew it".

With that I grabbed him and enveloped him in my arms holding onto him tight. His arms are engulfing me now as his sobs turn into full on howls as he lets go of years of hurt, wonder and loneliness because of Igneel. All I do is stroke his back and whisper to him words of comfort.

It wasn't long before Natsu has fallen asleep in my arms while still crying. I manage to place him slowly onto my sofa and put a blanket over him. As he readjusts himself on the sofa I make my way to my kitchen and pull out my phone and dial a rarely used number.

As the phone rings, I check on Natsu who is luckily still asleep on the sofa not realising that I am gone. I am brought back to the phone as the person answers.

"Lucy? Is everything okay?"

"Makarov. I need to ask you something"

'Sure what is it. Is Natsu okay?"

I pause. "He's…dealing. Look I need you to do something for me."

Hmm what do you think Lucy wants Makarov's help with? Did you like how Natsu reacted to Igneel? I hope that I got the scene right! If you were in Natsu's case, would you react the same?

Thank you to all of you who are reading, following, favouriting this fanfic! I am so happy that you all like it and it gives me more want to write even more! I am currently writing chapter 12 as we speak thanks to your wonderful comments so there is loads more of this fanfic to come! I'm so proud of this fanfic and it's prequel! Please read the other ones that I have written! I would love to know what you think! I have multiple ideas in the pipeline too once this one is done :D

usual stuff: I dont own anything to do with fairy tail! I just love it and ship Nalu, Gruvia, Jerza and Gale and waiting for Mashima-sensei to hurry up and make them real and also reveal that Silver is Gray's son already! (and maybe ship secretly Gratsu a little too :P)

Love to all! xx