A/N: health issues an school, ladalada. Also had computer issues.

Anyway... this is a rewrite of the previous filler of back to the past. Edited it all that. The ending will surely make you laugh.

Please enjoy

A heavy sigh left Lucy's mouth as she brooded. "Why do I have to do this?"

"Blame a certain fire slayer and ice mage. And I do wonder why I was dragged into this as well." Erza said as she carried some books.

"It wasn't our fault when Natsu and I accidently destroyed part of a town." Gray muttered as he placed some books in the shelf.

"If anything, you guys should be the ones to clean. Not me!" Lucy whined while she placed a book in one of the shelf with a frown painted on her face.

"I'm sure we can finish faster we work together." Wendy spoke up while putting some books on the shelf, trying to be optimistic about their current situation.

"I have to agree." Erza nodded in agreement, though she just want to steal Lucy and go to the beach with her. Life sure is hard and cruel.

"Aye!" Happy agreed while munching on a fish, sitting on a table, doing absolutely nothing, like a lazy piece of S!#% (adorable) that he is.

"I'm sure you're agreeing so you won't have to work alone." Carla said, glaring at the redhead, already sensing the mage's plan. After all, it wasn't hard to guess what Erra was up to, or what she was day dreaming about.

Erza glared back with much more intensity at the cat's comment, but decided to say nothing (for the sake of her blonde girlfriend).

"And why are you staring at me!?" Lucy cried. She didn't say anything for ten minutes and tried to ignore the dragoon slayer who was staring at her for no reason at all, and focused on putting the ridiculous amount of books in their proper place. But she couldn't take it anymore.

Unintelligent noise was heard from Natsu as he kept staring at Lucy. Erza was quick to knock him out with fury. "I suggest you look at someone else. Gray perhaps."

Lucy gasped. "They would be so adorable together!", clasping her hands together.

"Eh?" Gray stopped in his tracks, the book falling ungraciously to the floor, and looked at the girls with confusions. "What you talking about?"

Erza smirked as a plan was forming in her mind. If she could get Gray to like someone else, then there would be less people who would go after Lucy. Her Lucy.

She will have to talk to Mira about this after this is all finished, since Mira is basically a master at matchmaking. And maybe she should have Wendy do something as well.

Erza turned to Lucy, "We'll talk about Gray and Natsu later. First, we need to finish cleaning up."

Lucy nodded in agreement. Carla stood in the background, making a gagging face.

Then something clicked in Erza's mind and smirked evilly. "Lucy. How about we make the boys do all the work and we just kick back and relax?"

Lucy turned and stared at Erza with narrowed eyes. "If I recall, you were also responsible for the destruction as well."

"I had no choice. I needed to stop them!" Erza protested, raising her hands in front of her.

Lucy was not taking it, and crossed her arms. "Because you had destroyed parts of houses, ate countless of cakes when we accidentally destroyed a bakery. And you're saying it was all to stop Natsu and Gray?"

Erza deflated. "...Maybe?"

Lucy sighed. "If anything, Wendy and I should be the one to kick back and relax and watch you three work."

"But you wouldn't make your girlfriend to do the work...would you?"

Lucy smirked. "Yes."

Erza faked a tear. "You wouldn't."

Lucy chuckled. "Of course I wouldn't. I wouldn't let you do it by yourself, and before we knew it, you would have the library destroyed for trying to stop the boys. Someone needed to keep an eye out for you and the boys."

Erza narrowed her eyes. "You're no fun." Carla secretly smiled at the blonde for destroying Erra's fun.

"Perhaps." Lucy smirked as she picked up a book and handed it to Erza. "Here, take this and put it on the bookshelf behind you."

Erza scoffed as she takes it and placed it on the shelf behind her. She couldn't say no to her bossy girlfriend, in fact, she thought it as hot.

"Hey, look what I found!" Natsu beamed, holding a random book, appearing out of no where.

"Who cares about that book, flame breath!?" Gray retorted, not interested.

"But it has cool pictures in it!" Natsu shot back.

"Children, am I right?" Carla muttered to Lucy, who said nothing but a nervous smile.

Erza takes the book from Natsu's hand and scans it, immediately interested in it. "It's full of magic circles. Get your fact straight!"

Natsu cowered.

"Yeah, flame breath! Now get back to work so I can relax!" Gray shouted.

Natsu face-palmed Gray and started throwing insults at him. Gray retorted with more insults toward Natsu.

Lucy watched from the side as they were bickering, hoping that there won't be any magic involved.

Erza was about to tell them to knock it off when Gray was thrown toward her violently. Among all the chaos, Erza and Gray was dropped onto the floor, and the book that Erza held was dropped.

And the book begun to illuminate the room with a pretty color of purple.

"What..."

"The book..."

"Is shining!"

"Huh?"

"Pretty..."

The purple light begun to intensify, blinding the mages.

When the light died down, the mages were all on the ground, shocked. Gray was on top of Erza, and Natsu was on top of Lucy. Happy and Carla was on top of Wendy.

When Erza sees where Lucy was, she kicked Gray off of her with fury and grabbed Natsu by the hair. "Don't you dare take my Lucy!"

"I didn't do anything!" Natsu howled from the pain of his hair being pulled.

Gray stood back up after being kicked by an angry Erza. He turned to an angry Erza beating Natsu up. Lucy was next to them with a nervous smile.

Then he realized something. He looked around. "How did we get outside?" Gray asked, asking no one in particular.

The mages turned to him with a confused look, before looking around. Sudden revelation set in, shocked emotion flooded their minds as they tried to understand what was happening.

"But we were inside the library." Lucy said, with a tangled look, scanning her surroundings.

"That's not everything, look!" Happy exclaimed, pointing to a direction.

The young mages turned to the indicated direction and was speechless. Everyone was shocked by what they was seeing. 'Impossible' would be the word to describe what they'd be thinking. Because it was.

"The guild looks like it was years ago!" Natsu exclaimed.

"What the hell is going on!?" Gray muttered with wide eyes.

"The mark that Natsu made couple year ago is gone." Lucy pointed to the wall next to the door. It all looked so brand new and untouched by the hands of an enemy.

"So this is what it looked like before it was destroyed?" Wendy muttered.

Erza turned to the book that was on the ground and picked it up. "Is it because of this book?"

They continued to stare at their guild that looked so much like the guild before it was destroyed by Phantom. The guild of many memories. The guild where Lucy and Erza had bonded and grown. The guild of where Natsu and Gray continued to bicker with intense rivalry. The guild of where friends and family had gathered. It was all here in perfect condition.

Then Lucy noticed something at the entrance of the guild. "Somebody is coming out! Quick, let's hide!"

Lucy was confused and felt that there was a reason why the guild looked like the guild from years ago. The best action was to hide and see what was going on. She didn't want to create any unnecessary trouble until she has an idea of what's going on.

When the mages hid behind a crate across the guild, they watched as someone exited the guild.

To the surprise of the mages, a young Natsu, Gray, and Erza walked out of the guild. Young Gray and Natsu was glaring at each other while young Erza was walking out with face that looked angry.

"So there's two of you today?" Young Erza spoke up, glaring at them with crossed arms.

"I alone should be enough!" Young Natsu yelled.

"I should be saying that!" Young Gray shouted back.

Angry at each other, they both ran toward Young Erza, wanting to beat the redhead.

Young Erza only smirked, and in a flash, she knocked them to the ground without any efforts what so ever.

"What's this? Are we done already?" Young Erza taunted.

Natsu and Gray sweatdropped as they watched this. They found it odd and weird to watch themselves get beaten up by a younger version of Erza.

Wendy giggled a bit. "They're kinda cute."

Carla scoffed. "Once a brute, always a brute." She said, glaring at a certain redhead.

Lucy was the first to speak up. "Why are we seeing a younger version of you three? It's as if we've been sent to the past."

The mages froze as a realization was sunk in.

"The past?"

"Then where is the younger Lucy?" Erza spoke up.

Lucy sighed. "We don't know the date. For all we know, I had not joined the guild yet."

The mages continued to watch the younger selves of Erza, Natsu, and Gray. All the sudden, young Erza kicked them in the face with fury and started chasing them around.

"Who ate my cake!?" Young Erza yelled.

"What!?" Young Gray exclaimed, while being chased by an angry Erza.

"You ate my cake! I was saving it for later!" Young Erza shouted back.

"I didn't eat your cake!" Young Natsu cried. "Please don't cut me there!"

"I'm innocent!" Young Gray shouted.

Young Erza became angrier and jumped them and started beating them up senseless.

"Brute." Carla muttered.

Lucy watched from behind the crate with a smile.

She couldn't help but laugh at the sight. Lucy wondered exactly when she had joined. But the only question remained in her mind. How do they go back?

"In any case, this isn't the time for reminiscing. We need to find a way back to our world." Erza said, crossing her arms.

"I have to agree with the brute for once." Carla said.

A growl was heard for a second.

Lucy nodded in agreement.

"Why? I think its fine. Let's look around for a bit." Natsu grinned.

"Fine by me." Gray agreed.

Erza hit them both in the head. "You idiots! Haven't you ever heard of time paradoxes?"

"Time paradoxes?" Wendy repeated with a question mark above his head.

"I read about them in a book. The past and future coming together at the same time...Messing with something in the past could have some serious repercussions in the future. A 'butterfly effect'." Lucy explained.

"Surprise the brute knows about the time paradoxes." Carla smirked, clearly trying to pick a fight with the redhead.

"Now now." Lucy patted Carla's head, trying to prevent any bloodshed.

Erza frowned when the little shit was being protected by Lucy. But she will get the cat next time. "If we do something to alter this world, there's a possibility that we'd change history." Erza said and turned to the other mages to formulate a plan to ensure no chaos is created. "Listen, Natsu, Gray..." She trailed off, soon seeing that something was off...something terribly off. The boys were no where to be found, which made things much more complicated.

Lucy facepalmed. "Even Happy!?"

Erza paled. "Those guys..." She took a deep breath before she begun to yell with rage. "I didn't think they be this stupid!"

"Some things never change, I suppose." Carla commented.

Wendy only chuckled.

Lucy back away a bit from an angry Erza. As much as she loved her, she was still a bit scared of an angry Erza. "What do we do now?" Lucy asked.

Erza sighed and took a deep breath. "We need to find them. But we can't draw attention."

"We could always do disguises." Wendy offered.

Erza nodded in agreement. "But I don't want you leave me."

Lucy chuckled. "I wouldn't leave you."

"No...I mean...Just don't go anywhere."

"But we need to find them." Lucy said, not seeing anything wrong about going their separate ways, even if it was temporary.

Erza sighed. "I would go. But I need to decipher this book and try to find a way back to our world."

"Then how about we do it at the same time." Wendy offered.

Erza perked up. "Huh?"

"You decipher it while we go and find them."

Erza shook her head. "I can't read and walk at the same time. Too much distraction."

Lucy sighed. "Then Wendy and I will go and find them. You stay here and try to find a way back."

Erza struggled to say no, but Lucy's right. She forced a 'fine' through her throat. "But first, we need a disguise, so this world won't know that we're Erza and Lucy and Wendy. Carla can wear a poop costume."

Carla glared at the redhead.

"What kind of disguise?"

Erza only smirked.

~Many seconds later that the old narrator got tired of narrating and they had to hired a new one~

Lucy looked down at her new 'disguise'.

Erza shook her head with confirmation of delight. She was enjoying this too much. "With this on, no one will suspect that you're Lucy."

"I'll just attract more attention!" Lucy protested. "Please be reasonable, Erza. Why is a bunny costume a disguise? I don't like this!" Lucy didn't like this, even though Erza was wearing a cat costume, which looked really cute on her. "And why does Wendy not have a costume?"

Erza faked a tear and sniffed. "But because we changed worlds, my summoning powers could only get these two costumes. And Wendy's too young and almost no one will know who she is."

Wendy nervously chuckled. Carla sighed.

Lucy made a frustrated groan. "If we avoid people that we know, then it's fine."

"It's too dangerous. I rather do this than take risks."

Lucy glared at Erza with narrowed eyes. She's doing this on purpose...isn't she? She's enjoying this too much. She needs to punish the redhead later.

"I hate you." Lucy muttered before walking off in a huff. "Let's go Wendy, Carla."

"I love you too!" Erza called out with a guilty look, hoping that she didn't make Lucy too mad at her. But then again, she was enjoying this a little too much.

...

Lucy, Wendy and Carla walked into the guild and stayed close to the walls to avoid detection. Lucy honestly hated her 'costume'. She was already catching some attention from some drunk men.

"Wow! This place is awesome!" Wendy said, scanning the guild.

"This place is too rowdy." Carla commented, clearly not not interested. But let's be honest, Carla is clearly interested to see the old guild before the renovations.

Lucy sees many familiar mages, and some mages that were no longer part of the guild, and some mages that are still part of the guild. It brought Lucy some memories of happiness and fear.

Meeting Erza for the first time and being led to this guild. Meeting Levy and the boys. Meeting Makarov. Meeting many more. And fighting the inevitable destiny of her father attacking the guild, just to bring her back.

Lucy loved this guild so much.

But she couldn't find her younger self. She was nowhere to be found. "What is the date?" Lucy muttered, asking to no one in particular.

"X777." Wendy said, reading a newspaper that was in her hands.

Lucy turned to Wendy. "Are you sure?"

Wendy nodded and handed her the paper. Lucy takes the paper and read the date. It was very similar. The date was close to when her mother will die.

She felt dizzy now. She was confused on what to do now. Go and see her mother for the last time, or find a way to go back.

Lucy grabbed Wendy's hand and dragged her out of the guild, opting to find Erza. She needed a second opinion.

Couple minutes later, Lucy found Erza...or moreover, Erza talking to her younger self who was walking away.

After young Erza was at a safe distance, Lucy walked up to Erza. "Why were you talking to your younger self?"

Erza jumped and turned around, seeing Lucy and Wendy, and the cat behind her.

"Y-you saw that?" Erza squeaked.

Lucy laughed and nodded. "We just waited until she was gone."

Erza sighed. "I see."

"What were you two talking about?" Wendy inquired.

Erza blushed. "I...just told her some things."

"Hmm?" Lucy hummed.

"W-Well...I just told her to...apologize."

Carla stared at her with a deadpanned look. "And this was coming from someone who said not to talk to anyone...I'm shocked."

"I'm sure Erza had a reason." Lucy said, looking at Carla.

Carla looked away with an 'hmph' sound.

"So why are you back here? Did you figure some stuff out?" Erza asked.

Lucy nervously chuckled. "Yeah. I managed to find the date of when we were brought back to the past."

"What is it?" Erza asked.

"Well, I haven't joined Fairy Tail, and it seems that my mother is still alive."

Erza immediately perked up, realizing something. She had a plan...a stupid one at that. She turned to Lucy with determination.

"Lucy. Don't you realized? We can change history!"

"..." Lucy stared at her, unblinking and unsure is she was joking or not.

"If your mother is still alive, then you go and talk to her, and stuff. And we can arrest you father before he hurt you."

"Please tell me you're joking...right?"

Erza shook her head. "You suffered...a lot. And we can change that by stopping your father before he...well...you know. You wouldn't be in pain, you wouldn't shed tears, the guild wouldn't be destroyed, and you could be happier, and-"

Lucy interrupted Erza by placing her hand on Erza's mouth. "I understand why you would want to do that. But I don't want that. I don't want anything to change."

Erza gently removed Lucy's hand from her mouth and held it in her arms. "Why would you say that?"

Lucy smiled. "I'm quite happy on how things had turned out. Gajeel had become a good person since he had joined. So had Juvia. Sure, I had shed some tears. Sure I had gotten hurt. But there had been some good outcomes for it. I...don't to change the things that had already happened. I'm happy, and I'm happy to be with you."

Erza stared at Lucy, feeling like she was being lectured for doing something bad...which was the case and she felt guilty for that. "You're right. I just don't want you to suffer."

"I may had suffered in the past. But you were there for me. So, please don't think about changing the past. Because it's not needed."

Erza smiled slightly and tugged Lucy into her arms and held her tightly. "You're so strong...I'm envious of the way you think."

Lucy smiled and hugged Erza back. "I have you to thank. If anything, you're my foundation. I always think to myself what would happen to me if I had never ran into you that day when we first met."

"I had found myself thinking that sometimes." Erza muttered while nuzzling into Lucy's hair.

"If she was still alive, I would love for you to meet my Mother. I'm sure she would have loved you." Lucy murmured, quite comfortable in the warmth of her girlfriend.

Erza smiled. "Lucy...if fate had given you a chance, would you go and talk to your mother? Just to...catch up and tell her of what had happened?"

Lucy blinked, pulling away to look Erza in the eyes. "To meet my mother?" She looked down. "I would love that...above all else. I miss her so much..."

Erza smiled and held her tightly, not intent on letting her go. "Then let's go and meet her before it's too late.

Lucy blinked and pulled away to look Erza in the eyes. "You're not serious...are you?"

"I think you need it."

"U-Um..."

Lucy and Erza turned to see Wendy fidgeting.

"What are you talking about?" Wendy asked, feeling like she's a third wheel for being there.

"You're not thinking of trying to change the past...are you?" Carla spoke up.

Erza turned back to Lucy who seemed conflicted. "Lucy. I think it will be worth it. Think of it as destiny giving you a second chance to see your mother."

Lucy was extremely conflicted and tempted to run and see her mother again. To hug her and see her smile again.

Then she perked up, an idea forming in her head. It may not be the most...stoic plan. But Lucy wanted to do it.

"Let's go."

Erza smile. She turned to Wendy, "Want to see your Grandma?"

"Grandma?" Wendy cocked her head to the side.

"Lucy's mom."

Carla sighed. "Lucy. Are you sure that's the right thing to do?"

"I have my reasons. Let take a train to the mansion. The sooner, the better." Lucy said, already walking to the train station, excited to see her late mother.

Erza, Wendy and Carla followed and entered the train and sat next to Lucy who was looking out the window.

"Lucy...can I ask...what happened to them...your parents I mean?" Wendy asked, wondering if it was okay for her to ask or not.

Lucy did not respond, she continued to stare out into the window. Erza spoke for her. "Her mother died around this time. Soon, her father became bitter and abused her. Lucy wants to see her mother before she dies."

"That's horrible." Wendy commented, feeling sad for Lucy.

"I guess that would make sense for her to want to see her before it's too late. But what about getting back to our world?" Carla asked the obvious.

Erza looked at the book in her hands. "I have a fleeting suspicion that this book is giving Lucy a chance to see her mother before she passes away...a second chance maybe. Lucy won't say anything about what happened between the two in her mother's last moments. I'm guess they made a promise or something."

"What about Gray and Natsu?" Wendy asked, worried if it was okay to just leave them.

"As stupid as they are, it is best to leave them be. I could care less about them." Erza muttered.

While Erza, Wendy and Carla talked amongst themselves, all Lucy could think of was her mother. Her smile, her warmth, her voice. She missed it so much, she missed her mother so much. Especially their last moments together. Her mother made her promise something...a promise that she had to break. She can only hope that her mother can forgive her for that.

A tap was felt on Lucy's shoulder. She turned to see Erza standing up with Wendy. "We're here."

Lucy blinked before looking out the window. She was so spaced out, she didn't realized the familiar terrain of her family's land.

She stood up and followed her family out of the train and led the way to the mansion of many memories. The mansion of where everything had started.

"How can I face her?" Lucy muttered out loud as they walked through the 'garden', toward the mansion.

"We can always break in." Erza offered.

"Breaking into my own home? I guess that would be plausible." Lucy said sarcastically.

Silence was in the air as they walked, getting closer and closer to Lucy's mansion.

"I hear something." Wendy spoke up.

The mages turned to the little girl. Lucy then remembered that Wendy was a dragon slayer and had enhanced hearing and smell. "What do you hear?"

"I hear...a little girl shouting and playing. And I hear another voice as well."

"That's probably my mother...my father never had time to play with me, even before my mother's death." Lucy concluded.

Lucy and the mages stopped behind a bush and could see a little girl playing on the ground, and a woman sitting at a table, reading a book with a smile.

"Is that Lucy?" Wendy asked, looking at the little girl on the ground.

"She's even cuter than I thought." Erza said with glee.

"Erza had gone into a perverted mode." Carla observed, glaring at the redhead.

Erza glared back at her with much more intensity.

"How can I go to her?" Lucy thought out loud, asking to no one in particular.

Erza stopped her glaring and turned to Lucy. "I can go in and try to talk to her."

Lucy shook her head. "I rather not."

Lucy was in deep thought, Erza was too busy staring at her, and Wendy was getting tensed and was will filled with uncertainty when they were being approached. Carla remained quiet.

"Who are you and why are you here?"

Erza and Lucy jumped and turned to see the woman standing front of her with her book closed in her hands. The woman stood with a defensive stance and a determined look as she looked down on the people behind the bushes.

Lucy was speechless, staring at the woman that had been dead for years. She would love to cry and hug her senseless. Talk to her about the things that had happened. But she didn't. She was unsure of what to do...

The woman, Layla Heartfilia stood in front of three girls and a cat. She eyes one girl in particular that looked so much like herself and her daughter.

Erza was the first to speak up as she stood to her full height. "H-Hello. I'm Erza Scarlet of Fairy Tail"

Layla raised an eyebrow. "I see. And may I ask why you are in my garden like thieves?"

Lucy interrupted Erza before she could say anything by covering her mouth with her hands.

"Would you believe us if we said we came from the future?" Lucy asked timidly.

Layla studied the girl before nodding. "Yes."

"Well...we came from the future and..."

"And you wanted to check up on your family?" Layla smiled.

Lucy felt her heart racing. "I...how did you know...?"

"How could I not know who my daughter was?" Layla smiled. "You certainly had grown. But what kind of mother would I be if I can't recognize my grown daughter?"

Lucy immediately jumped into her mother's arms, immediately feeling the familiar warmth that only a mother can give.

"What do I owe to the pleasure this visit?" Layla spoke up while hugging her grown up child.

Layla would be lying if she was not shocked or surprised to the see a grown up version of her daughter. But she knew it must be important for her to be here, in the past.

"I just wanted to see you." Lucy muttered.

"I see." Layla smiled. She turned to the other girls and smiled them. "Who are these lovely ladies?"

Lucy pulled away hastily, almost forgetting that they were there. "I'm sorry. This is Erza...my girlfriend."

Layla raised an eyebrow and smirked. "Oh? This is interesting."

Erza extended her hand, "Nice to meet you. Lucy told me wonderful stories about you. And she was right, your beauty certainly exceed my expectations."

Layla smiled as she shook Erza's hand. "I do hope you are treating my daughter well." She then turned the little girl with long blue hair. "And who is this?"

"Our daughter." Lucy and Erza said in unison.

Layla paused and looked at the both of them before smirking. "I do hoped that you have used condoms. My. My. You two certainly moved fast, haven't you?"

"Oh my god, Mother! We adopted her!" Lucy whined, hiding behind her hands due to embarrassment.

Erza only stood there, blushing up a storm. Wendy, more or less, was confused on what they was talking about. Carla only sighed.

Layla laughed. "Anyway. Lucy, your father is out on a business trip. The staff are on a vacation. And I will put little Lucy to sleep and then we'll talk."

Lucy nodded. "Okay. We'll wait." She was still blushing when she had said those embarrassing lines.

"What was she talking about?" Wendy asked.

"Nothing that is too important. You don't need to know about it...yet." Erza said, still recovering from the heat on her cheeks.

As confused as Wendy was, she was still fascinated by the scenery before her. "So you used to live here?"

"Hmm...I guess it is nice." Lucy muttered, looking around, faintly remembering the past when her mother had passed away...when the tortures had begun. She was eyeing a particular area...the place where the grave of her mother shall lie...Right now, it's empty. But soon, it will be replaced with the grave of her mother.

Then Lucy's mother came back with a smile, but also with a concerned look. "Alright. Shall we sit down and talk about why you are here?"

Erza didn't want to say anything. She'll let Lucy talk to her, and be a spectator in the audience.

It took Lucy couple of minutes to actually say it. "You...I-I..."

"I died." Layla said, as if it didn't affect her at all.

Lucy perked up. "I...how did you know?"

Layla eyed her daughter for a moment before turning to Erza and Wendy. "Do you mind if I can talk to Lucy privately?"

Erza nodded and led Wendy out of earshot, along with Carla.

When they are alone, she turned back to Lucy with a smile.

"How did you know?"

"Couple days ago, I received communication from someone in the past. 400 years ago to be precise. It's complicated right now. But, I was told that the world was going to end and that I needed to open a gate to the past, so they can send some...people into the future. I was given a week in advance to collect all 12 golden keys to open them so they send in their selected mages to enter into the world of the future."

All of this information was making Lucy dizzy.

"I'm not sure how I will die, but I needed to do this. So you can live a bright future, even if there will be a war soon. I saw it as a necessity to make sure you live a happy life."

"I see. I understand. I never hated you after you died..."

"Did something happen after I died?"

Lucy shook her head. "You don't need to worry about it." Lucy smiled to reassure her.

Layla was not convinced. "I know my own daughter. And I know that's there something's wrong."

Lucy sighed. "You had me to keep a promise before you had passed away. To keep take care of my father, knowing how distraught he would be after you had passed away. I had broken that promise by running away."

"That's it? Promises are meant to be broken. I'm sure you had a reason."

"...Do you...love father?" Lucy had always wanted to ask her mother this question. She had always wondered why her mother had loved her father.

"You father is genuine and kind. I love him as much as I love you." Layla smiled.

Lucy forced a smile. She couldn't tell her what her father had done...She couldn't. She shouldn't. And she won't.

"So you ran away. Why?"

Lucy was silent for a moment. "I wanted to be free and join a guild. Fairy Tail to be precise."

Layla seemed to accept the answer, as she did not pressed for any more information out of her. "Fairy Tail...it brings me memories."

"Makarov told me that you used to be part of the guild. Why did you leave?"

"Your father happened. And I had you as well." Layla smiled.

Lucy had to smile at that. Seeing the genuine smile of her mother, the happiness when she thinks of her husband. Lucy did not dare to betray that smile.

"You are a celestial mage, correct?"

Lucy nodded, bring out her keys to show her mother.

Layla eyed each keys with an amused expression. "Well, you certainly had been busy with collecting them."

Lucy smiled and blushed. "Makarov had given me your keys when I had joined."

"I see. Then I will have to send it to the guild. I know Makarov will know what to do with it."

Lucy remembered it clearly. The day when she had met Makarov, receiving the keys that had once belonged to her mother.

"It still hurts, you know. After you died...I felt so lonely. Father was extremely...busy. So I had no one to go to. The servants here was too busy with their own things. Then one day...I decided to break your promise and ran away. That's when I came across Erza...she brought me to Fairy Tail. She taught me so many things. Makarov was like second father to me. I met so many friends. Fairy Tail became my new family."

"I'm sorry...for having leaving you like that." Layla smiled sadly.

Lucy smiled. "It's fine. I'm happy. I'm happy to be where I am. Things happen for a reason. I never...blamed you for what had happened. I never blamed you for leaving me like you had."

Layla smiled and hugged Lucy, who had tears streaming down her face. "You had become strong. I'm proud of you. And you already have a family. I will respect your decision, any decisions that you had made."

Lucy felt more tears falling as she hugged her mother tightly. "Thank you for being a mother. I loved you...and I still do."

Layla chuckled. "I wished I could watch you grow up. That would be my only regret..."

Lucy pulled away. Layla stared at her daughter, thinking how beautiful she had become. "Can you call your friends...your family in?"

"Family?"

"Girlfriend and a daughter? I'm surprised you aren't married yet." Layla smirked.

Lucy begun to blush as she stood up and ran to fetch Erza and Wendy, and Carla.

Once they were all at the table, Layla was the first to speak up with a smirk. "So, who confessed first?"