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Chapter 16

-A Few Days Later-

Lucy was sitting with the Raijinshuu at their normal table. Lucy and Freed were reading, Bickslow was arguing with Evergreen about something, and Laxus had his new sound pods on, and his eyes closed. Evergreen and Bickslow stopped arguing when a couple of people walked up to their table. Laxus opened his eyes and let out a low growl when he sensed who was walking towards the table. Lucy and Freed looked up from their books, Lucy looked a little nervous, she hadn't really talked to team Natsu since she left.

"Luce, can we talk please? I miss you. We want you back on the team." Natsu said.

"Natsu, we told you not to bring up coming back to the team right now! We just want to talk to you Lucy, we have missed you." Gray said.

"I was hoping maybe you would like to do a spa day with me, we can bring Evergreen with us." Erza said.

"I would like that Erza. Ever do you want to join us?"

"Of course, Lulu!" Lucy and Erza smiled.

"Lucy, we are sorry for what happened. I understand if you don't want to be on the team or do missions with us, but maybe we could hang out in the guild sometime? I miss you and think of you as a sister." Gray said.

"I would like that Gray. I don't blame either of you. I should have been more aware of the surroundings."

"No, Luce you were staying aware of your surroundings, by trying to stay away from our attacks." Natsu said.

"I heard that the Raijinshuu have been training you Lucy." Erza said, and Lucy nodded her head. "Thank you for training Lucy and helping her. It means a lot to us; she is a sister to me."

"I'm sorry about being distant towards you guys lately. I will try to do better, maybe we can sit together some tomorrow." They nodded and waved as they walked back to their table.

"Are you guys hungry? I'm going to go order something from Mira."

"Lulu, I'll come with you!" Evergreen and Lucy walked downstairs to the bar to put in the lunch order for everyone. Mira said that she would bring the food up when it was ready.

"Hey Ever, will you go shopping with me for a new outfit? Freed wants to take me on a date tomorrow, and I want something nice to wear."

"Of course, let's go after lunch." Evergreen said, Lucy smiled and nodded. About thirty minutes later Mira brought their lunch. Once they had finished eating, Lucy and Evergreen got up to go shopping. While they were walking to the shopping district, Lucy kept getting the feeling that someone was following her.

"Oh, let's go in here Lulu! Maybe we can find you a cute dress!" Evergreen said. Lucy laughed and followed her into the store. They looked around for thirty minutes and were getting ready to leave when Lucy spotted one, she liked. It was a flowy off the shoulder dress that stopped at her ankles. It was an emerald green color with small white flower designs down the skirt.

"Ever look at this one!" Lucy quickly grabbed the outfit to show her. Evergreen gasped and nodded her head.

"Try it on!" She said, and she pushed Lucy into a fitting room. While she was changing, Evergreen looked around for a necklace to go with it. She spotted the perfect necklace it was a long chain necklace with a simple white flower charm on it. She kept the necklace out of view, she would get it for Lucy as a gift.

"Ever, what do you think?"

"Lulu it's perfect on you! It truly looks like this was made for you!" Ever said with a smile. Lucy smiled and decided to get it to wear for the date. She also bought a pair of white ballet flats to wear with it. Once they left the shop, Evergreen handed Lucy a small bag.

"Ever, what's this?" She opened the bag to find the beautiful necklace. "Oh, this is beautiful and would look great with my new outfit."

"That's why I bought it. I wanted to get you something since you bought me this beautiful fan!" They decided to go by Lucy's apartment quick to drop off the outfit, she didn't want Freed to see it. When they got to her apartment, they gasped. Everything was destroyed. The furniture was ripped apart, stuffing from it thrown everywhere, her mattress was on the floor with cuts all through it. All the drawers in her desk were thrown on, papers all over the place. What made Lucy let out a sob was seeing the box with her mother's letters in it destroyed. They heard a knock on the door, Evergreen went to answer it.

"Is Lucy here?" Evergreen recognized the lady as the manager of the apartment building. Lucy walked around the corner to see what the land lady wanted.

"Lucy I am sorry to do this, but you are being evicted. I will give you the next couple days to move everything out." Lucy stood there in shock; she didn't know what she would do now. Evergreen quickly called Laxus and told him to get over to Lucy's place with Bickslow and Freed. They got there ten minutes later, to find Lucy and Evergreen sitting outside. Freed quickly went to Lucy and kneeled in front of her.

"Lucy, what happened?" He asked. She couldn't answer him, all he heard were quiet sobs.

"You guys need to go up to her apartment, I'll sit out here with her." They nodded and walked up to her place. They were shocked and angry at what they were seeing, all of her things were broken. They were angry when they came back outside, Laxus and Bickslow saw Lucy as a sister.

"Lucy, we will help you replace your things." Freed said.

"It doesn't matter if they get replaced." Lucy whispered.

"Why doesn't it matter Cosplayer?"

"She was evicted." Evergreen said. Laxus growled and went back into the apartment building to talk to the land lady. When Laxus came back out he explained why she was being evicted.

"The land lady said because of the damage done to the property, she can't allow her to continue to live there. Especially since there could be a chance for it to happen again."

"Lucy come live with me please?" Freed asked. "I have more than enough room. I would be happy to share my house with you." Lucy looked at Freed in shock, and then quickly moved forward and wrapped her arms around him.

"Thank you Freed. Thank you. Could we postpone our date until tomorrow?" Lucy whispered as she hugged him. They decided to go and see what could be saved. Luckily all of Lucy's clothes were okay. Once they had all the clothes packed, Lucy called Virgo to take them to Freed's house. Bickslow and Laxus moved all the furniture out of the apartment and put it in the dumpster. It was weird to see the apartment empty. I'm glad I let Levy read my novel I'm working on. I don't know what I would have done if that was damaged.

"Of course, Lucy."

Laxus called Makarov to let him know what happened to Lucy's apartment and how she would be living with Freed. Makarov was shocked to hear what happened but was glad that they were taking good care of her. She had been through enough already. They decided to go back to Freed's house for the day.

"You guys don't think the dark mages that kidnapped me got free somehow, do you? I can't think of anyone who would be after me." Lucy said.

"It wasn't the mages that had you, I would have recognized the scent. I didn't recognize the scent." Laxus said.

"How were they able to get through the runes?" Ever asked.

"I'm not sure, someone would have to know how to rewrite runes. The ones I put up were a kind of protection rune."

"What should we do for dinner?" Bickslow asked.

"Does Chinese sound good to anyone?" Lucy asked.

"That actually sounds really good Lulu! Let's order Chinese." They looked over the menu and decided what they wanted. By the time they decided, they had ordered half the menu. They sat around talking and waiting for their food to be delivered. When the food arrived, they sat around talking and joking, trying to cheer Lucy up and not let her dwell on what had happened with her apartment.

-Somewhere in Magnolia-

"We will make Lucy Heartfilia lose everything, just like her father did to us."

"She already lost her apartment. Now we need to figure out how to get her kicked out of that guild. I also want her boyfriend for myself."

"Ayame, you can do so much better than a guild mage."

"Masahiro, I just want to make her suffer more, and there is no better way than taking someone she loves away from her. I want to use him to break her." Ayame said. Masahiro just laughed at his sister.

Lucy played no part in what her father had done, but these two didn't care. They wanted the Heartfilia line gone permanently. Yes, she would pay for what her father did to the Beaumont family.

-With the Raijinshuu-

After they had finished dinner, they sat around talking about going on a mission and having Lucy help them. Lucy liked the idea of going on a mission with them. They were all curious to see how Lucy worked with them and see how she interacted with her spirits during a mission. Everyone was getting tired and decided to get some sleep.

In the morning, they ate breakfast before heading to the guild. Even with what happened yesterday, Lucy was happy about her date with Freed later in the day. She was walking next to Freed, and slowly reached out and held Freed's hand. He smiled down at Lucy and laced their fingers together.

When they got to the guild, she looked around to see if team Natsu was in yet but didn't see them. They all sat down at the normal table.

"So Freed, where are you taking Lulu on the date tonight?" Evergreen asked.

"I got reservations at a restaurant, and then I thought we could go for a walk, and then watch a movie at my place." Freed said, and Lucy smiled.

"It sounds perfect to me Freed." She said.

"I can't wait for you to see Lulu's outfit! It's beautiful." Evergreen said.

"Make sure you have Cosplayer home by midnight Freed." He said with his signature grin.

"Bix, who are you, my dad?" Lucy said with a giggle.

"Nope, just a concerned brother." Lucy couldn't help but smile when Bickslow said that.

"Bix, you do remember I live with Freed now, right?" She giggled. He just laughed.

"YOU WHAT?"

"Luce, why did you move in with him? I liked your apartment." Natsu whined.

"Oh, um, you see." Lucy mumbled.

"Someone broke into Blondie's apartment and destroyed everything. Then her land lady evicted her because of all the damage that was done."

"I'm sorry Lucy, I know how much you liked your apartment." Gray said.

"Thanks Gray. It's okay though. Freed's house is nice, and I feel very welcome there. Would you guys like to sit and join us for lunch? If that's okay with everyone else." Lucy said. They all nodded.

"Sorry Lucy, we are leaving for a mission, and wanted to stop by to say hello, and let you know we would be back in a couple weeks." Erza said.

"Okay, you guys be careful. See you guys when you get back." Lucy said. After team Natsu left, they ordered their lunches. After lunch Laxus went to his office to work on some paperwork, Bickslow cleaned up his babies, Freed started to read, and Lucy and Evergreen were talking to each other.

"Freed, what time is the reservations for?" Lucy asked.

"They are for six thirty. I hope that is an okay time." Freed said. Lucy nodded and smiled.

"We have four hours Lulu. Let's go get a manicure and pedicure!" Evergreen said.

"I'll meet you at your house?" Lucy asked. Freed smiled and nodded.

It took a little over an hour for their manicures and pedicures. Lucy had her fingernails and toenails painted a deep green. Evergreen had her toenails, and fingernails painted red. They then went back to Freed's house so Lucy could take a bath. Evergreen sat in the bathroom with her. By the time she got out of the bath, she still had two hours to finish getting ready. She put on her new outfit and then called out Cancer to do her hair and makeup. He curled her hair and then pulled it into a side ponytail, and put small white flower in the band of the ponytail. For her makeup he did a light green eyeshadow, eye liner, mascara, and a shimmer lip gloss.

"Thank you, Cancer! I love it." Lucy said and hugged her spirit.

"You are welcome, Ebi. Have fun tonight." Then he went back to the spirit world.

"Oh wow, Lulu, you look amazing." Evergreen said, and Lucy smiled. They heard a knock on her door.

"Lucy are you ready to go?" Freed asked. Evergreen opened the door and told Freed to wait downstairs, that Lucy was putting her shoes on. Once Lucy put her shoes on, they walked downstairs. Freed's jaw dropped when he seen Lucy.

"Lucy, you look so beautiful!" He said. Evergreen pulled out her camera to get a picture of the two together.

"Freed, you take care of our sister!" Evergreen said. Freed nodded, and Lucy giggled. They held hands as they walked to the restaurant. I'm so happy to finally get to go on a date with Freed. I am thankful that he has been by my side after what happened. He truly makes me happy.