Lucy was worried sick now as it grew darker not knowing where lucia was.. she didn't want to worry for her since she was a adult capable of taking care of herself but, with Hector still after her. It was reckless of lucia to leave without someone accompanying her. The kids where asleep already tired out from their outing as natsu had carried them back and put them to bed already.
"Relax luce, she'll be fine.. she probably went to take a walk in the woods and fell asleep under a tree. You know she doesn't like staying inside much.."
*natsu told her some common sense and Lucy sighed and relaxed.*
"Okay natsu.. I should relax especially because of our baby.. I don't want a repeat of our last time.."
*lucy felt grim at remembering her last failed pregnancy but natsu comforted her as he hugged her warming her sore back that began to hurt earlier then her other pregnancies. Just them Lucy felt natsu unwrap himself from her as he sniffed the air coming from inside the window of their house… he looked serious..*
"Lucy, don't be worried now.. lucia is here.. but.."
"But what natsu? Is something wrong?"
*lucy asked as natsu looked at her as he replied*
"Sting is here?"
Lucy remembered what lucia had told her and mira about that night as she walked outside the house to see sting carrying a messy lucia. She saw Lucia's torn dress from the hem as she began to think of the worst..
"Lucia!!! What happened!!! Are you alright!!! What were you thinking walking alone in the city!?"
*lucy began to lecture lucia who was put down by sting for her to stand on her feet now.. she tried to remain calm and mask her feelings until she heard stings voice*
"Hi Lucy, natsu… sorry for-"
*sting tried to bid forgiveness for his rude intrusion into their home, but lucia lost her composure as she hugged Lucy and began sobbing into her shoulder. Sting was fidgeting behind lucia wondering why she was always crying around him*
"Lucy!!! *sob* I'm pregnant!!!"
*at this natsu, Lucy and sting all sorta just deadpanned at the sudden confession but began hearing out the rest of Lucia's ranting.*
"I'm pregnant lucy!!! *sob* I-I tried denying it, and-and I tried getting rid of my child..*sob* because I'm not fit to be a good mother like you Lucy!!! *sob* and I pushed sting away when he was being very considerate!! *sob* and-and I was almost raped by the men my father sold me off too!!! *sob* then sting saved me and our child before I decided to breath my last breath to kill me and the child!! *WAILING*"
*lucy patted her back as she saw a angry and grim looking sting who was about to say something but natsu grabbed his shoulder motioning to come out to the backyard with him. Sting respected natsu so he followed him out as Lucy brought inside lucia to calm her down.*
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Sting punched the ground underneath him as hard as he could at remembering how lucia confessed to knowing that she was pregnant with his child and was willing to have a miscarriage to not have his child! He was pissed….
"Oi.. are you done ruining my yard?"
*natsu sat on a log waiting for sting to calm down. He had a hand underneath his chin as he rested on it waiting for sting to reply.*
"Ha, Ha, Ha, why would she do that?? Is she really that sick of a person to kill her own child to not be with me?? Was I that big of a mistake to her??"
*sting sat on the floor now feeling anger rise inside him as he regretted a lot of things now… he regretted accepting the fact he loved her, he regretted giving her his vest, he regretted showing her his soft side, he regretted that night where she looked so helpless underneath him and beautiful. He began to chuckle at how sick that image of an Angel was the total opposite of who she really was..*
"First, relax… sting if you knew half of the things she had gone through you would understand why she's the way she is… second she isn't a bad person, believe me if she was I wouldn't have brought her to my home to introduce her to Lucy. I would have straight up sent her back the way she came and kept the secret of Lucy's cousin visit to the grave. And finally, yes she's wrong for doing that to her child but why are you so angry about it? It's not it was your child.."
*natsu felt a chill go through him as he looked back to see sting in his dragon force… he was pissed at natsu's last comment but managed to calm down knowing natsu doesn't know about the night he spent with lucia. He began to explain the night he spent with lucia to natsu, he also told him about how she had ran away that morning while he was stuck to return back to his guild to take care of business their. And then he mentioned the note he had addressed to her but since he didn't know where she lived and who knew where she was, he had addressed it to him natsu..*
"Ahhhhh! So that's why you gave me that creepy message! Sorry! I didn't know it was for her… I sorta just burned it and ate it.."
*natsu scratched his cheek sheepishly as sting yelled at him*
"NATSU-SAN!!! You mean to tell me she didn't even get to read about my promise to return!!!?"
"Yah… sorry about that…"
*sting sighed as he felt a bit better now knowing she didn't reach her decision to kill their child after hearing his message to finish things from where they started. In this case, it was his fault for not coming to look for her in those 2 weeks that probably felt like hell to her.. feeling the feelings of abandonment, alone, and having to raise a child by herself began to make sense why she didn't want the child to be born… it still pissed him off for seeing how easy she was to give up, but he wouldn't judge her anymore. He had to talk to her now..*
In that moment the back door was heard opening as lucia had changed into a new dress and washed up. She stood there shyly and ashamed as she looked to the ground waiting for sting to say the first word.
"I guess you two need to talk now… I'll give you some room to fix this.."
*natsu patted stings back to encourage him to take it slow with her and gave a thumbs up to lucia who looked up to natsu to get out of his way to go inside. She took a seat a bit far from sting but still close enough for them to talk… it was silent.*
"I'm sorry… if I had known you cared for me I wouldn't have tried doing that.. I apologize."
*lucia apologized to sting but he held a hand up to her face to stop her from saying anything else.*
"No. It's my fault I didn't come back sooner.. I left you alone for what probably felt like hell and back. You had the right to feel fear of raising our child alone and had the decision at the end, but please.."
*sting held her as he hugged her close to him as he began to breath deeply into her neck.*
"Don't give up so easily on happiness… don't give up on "us" yet… give me a chance.."
At this lucia began to sob again into stings naked chest as he hugged her tighter letting her cry out all of her pain and suffering she had to be feeling without knowing he was always going to be there for her. Especially now with his child growing inside her..
With their silence he tilted her head up to his face now as he implanted her his first kiss full of love.. with his kiss he thought back to what rogue had asked him before, if he would be fine to let her go and let someone else steal her away from him. He smirked inwardly as he thought to himself..
'No way in hell.. she's mine now..'