An Elaborate Ruse

by halledean

Fairy Hills High is... interesting. Jellal discovers this, pretending to be his triplet brother, Myst, and spending the year with Erza and her incident-causing Fairy Tail foster family. Then there's Sieg, causing him even more trouble. Can Jellal make it through the year undiscovered? Can he resist feelings for Erza? Not likely, but it'll be interesting. Many ships, mainly Jerza.

54. Fifty-Four - Siegrain Fernandes

Author's Note:

Penultimate chapter, guys! :D

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Fifty-Four - Siegrain Fernandes

Siegrain was exhausted. He was glad to finally be at home and away from all of those people. He sat down in the living room of the large, empty house. Myst and Erza Knightwalker had gone off somewhere and Jellal had likely gone to speak with Erza Scarlet, so that left Sieg happily alone. That is, until Ultear walked in.

"So," she said, sitting beside him on the couch. "I think that went pretty well."

"Yeah," Sieg sighed. "It wasn't so bad."

"I think people took it well," Ultear said.

Sieg nodded. "Milliana told me I'm a slightly smaller bag of dicks now," he said. "So that's… good. I think."

Ultear smiled. "Well, I'm glad we did what was right. People might take some time to trust us completely, but it'll at least be earned trust this time."

"Yeah, that's true," he said. "As long as we make sure to be trustworthy this time around."

"I'll help you if you help me," she said, placing her hand on his. He looked down at their hands and felt a strange feeling that he couldn't quite discern. He looked at Ultear to see her smiling at him. "Deal?" she asked.

He smiled back. "Deal," he said. She kept smiling at him and he felt his face start to get hot. He looked away from her and tried to think of something else to say. "So, I called the company," he said. "Myst and I did together, actually. It seems like they're willing to work with me, at least on a trial basis."

"Well, that's good," she said, standing up and stretching her arms above her head. "I think I'm gonna go take a nap. It's been a long day."

"Oh… okay," he said.

He stood up, for some reason feeling sad that she was leaving. He had been so happy to be alone just moments earlier. He wanted to reach out and keep her from going, but he stopped himself, feeling foolish. She turned to him again and he got that strange feeling when she smiled at him. She put her hand on his shoulder.

"I'm glad we're together again," she said. "Hopefully it'll be for good this time."

With that, she kissed him on the cheek and walked away. He stood, dumbstruck, for a very long moment. He watched her walk out the door, his fingers barely touching where she had kissed him. His brain was working to come up with a reason for his heart to be beating the way that it was. Then something clicked, and he ran after her.