10 years later
"Julie? Jules?" I called out as I made my way down the corridor, passing long glass windows as I went,
"Sweetie?" I called out again, searching for my daughter, but just before I could turn the corner, I felt a small hand snake around my thigh and I jumped at the sudden action.
"Found you mummy!" Her light giggles made me relax, I followed her into the room, watching the brown eyed girl in front of me jump up and down, her long ebony locks and baby blue sun dress following suit.
"Mummy, is Lara coming over today? As it's my birthday, I want a sleep over!" The 10 year old exclaimed, spinning around in circles as she went,
"I don't know sweetie." I said, crossing my arms and thinking for a moment.
"Please? Mummy please?" She pleaded, batting her long lashes,
'my little bean is so cute' Inwardly, I giggled.
The door bell rang and startled me
"Lucy, Julie? Are you guys home?" A voice called out, my little dark head quickly turned towards the front door, her eyes widening in realisation.
"I wonder who that could-"
I was cut off as my daughter brushed past me bounding towards the front door, I followed. Julie threw open the door and squealed jumping "Aunty Mira!" And I watched as she jumped into the arms of her beautiful aunt
"Happy Birthday, my little Julie." Mirajane hugged the little bean, the two separated as Mirajane kneeled down and handed her a small red box, Julie clapped her hands, jumping on the spot with happiness and kissed Mirajane on the cheek.
"Uncle Laxus is bringing up more presents for you. This one is my personal favourite." Mirajane smiled, giving her niece a kiss on the forehead,
"Thank you, Aunt Mira." She bowed and ran back to me,
"Mummy! Look! Look!" She exclaimed, I smiled at my daughter and raised a brow at Mirajane
"More presents? I thought I said only one per person."
"I just had to spoil her." She gushed, "Besides, Uncle Laxus spoils her the most." Mirajane shrugged,
"Where are they?" I asked as I saw a box full of presents walking up behind her
"Jeez, Mirajane." I looked over to her but she whistled and avoided my look
"Julie!" Another childlike voice came from behind
"Lara!" We watched as the two tackled each other into a hug
"Again, where are the boys?" I asked, not taking her eyes of the two catching up
"The boys are with their great grandpa." Laxus commented, he passed his wife and stopped beside me
"Hey." He kissed me on the cheek as he walked in "Their grandpa wanted to take the boys up for camping."
Mirajane closed the the door.
We made our way to the living room, Julie and Lara sitting on the white fur carpet, I sat with Mirajane on the couch and Laxus placed the amount of presents next to the two, disappearing into the kitchen,
"Thanks for coming over. Julie only wanted to have a small party but because of work, she didn't want anyone to plan her birthday party but me." I sighed feeling bad for my daughter, It's hard constantly working and missing half of her birthday's,
"So the girls are gonna be having a birthday pajama party?" Mirajane questioned, I nodded
"Here you are, ladies." Laxus passed us glasses and filled it with red wine,
"This is one of my all time favourites Klara Valley Barossa." He said as he took a sip, I looked over to Mirajane who took a sip with a smile and I smirked,
"I thank this wine everyday for giving me a niece." I said before taking a sip and the other two spat out their wine. I roared with laughter as the two glared at me,
"Not funny, Lucy." Laxus warned, I couldn't breathe as Mirajane's face turned beet red,
"Mummy, are you ok?" Lara asked her mother, a worried look on her face,
Mirajane cleared her throat, "Yeah, mummy is fine. Just...nearly choked " She said,
"That wasn't the only thing she choked on." I raised my glass to her, wiggling my eyebrows,
"Lucy!" The couple screamed, making me laugh even harder.
The girls opened the presents, excited about everything they saw, lastly, Julie opened the box Mirajane gave her and a small gold locket sat perfectly inside with her name engraved in front of it. I watched as she opened the locket a wide smile spread across her small lips, I walked behind her and looked over her shoulder, It was a group family photo of them. The two of them, Lara, Mirajane, Laxus and her two baby brothers, Raxus and Rala.
"I love this so much!" her eyes gleamed, her finger brushed against the photo inside
"Really?" Mirajane asked as my daughter looked up at her with stars in her eyes "It's beautiful. Thank you so much, Aunty Mira." She bowed and kissed the locket.
The two little ones awed at the locket
"Thank you Mira." I thanked her, she nodded and leaned her head on Laxus,
"I decorated her room with one of the girls today, so it looks like they'll have tons of fun." I said,
Just then, the timer for lunch went off and I rushed to the kitchen to serve it. "Oh! Seems like lunch is ready. I'll be back in a bit."
10 minutes later I walked in and clapped my hands together "Alright my little pretties. Lunch is served now get your behinds outside, we have some fun and games waiting for us." I announced, everyone cheered as they made their way outside.
The whole afternoon we played lots of birthday games, baked monster cookies and even splashed around in the pool, well Laxus and the girls, Mirajane was too busy drooling over her shirtless husband,
"Will I be getting a nephew or niece soon?" I teased, she looked at me bewildered and hit my arm "Ow!" I laughed seeing her face grow red once again.
After their swim, the girls got changed into their pyjamas and watched a movie,
"Miss Lucy?" I turned to see our house maid, dressed in her normal clothes,
"Midori, you all packed for next week?" I ask and she nods excitedly, we'll be moving back to Fiore due to the shoot,
"Thank you for helping me today, I'll see you next week." I got up and walked her out the door, "This is exciting! It's my first time going to Fiore." She gushed,
"Well, I'm glad to have someone like you accompany my daughter and I." She blushed at my words and bowed "It's an honour to work with you Miss Lucy." She beamed, I opened the door for her and a car was waiting for her outside,
"Get home safely ok?" I pat her back and she nods as she walked down the stairs and walking towards her SUV
"Have a goodnight Miss Lucy!" Her boyfriend waved from the car, "You too Kazuki!" I waved at the young couple as they drove off, I closed the door and turn to see Lara saying her goodbyes with Mirajane and Laxus,
"You behave now ok?" Mirajane tapped the nose of her daughter who nodded quickly,
"Love you mummy." She kissed her mother and Laxus leaned beside the two,
"Me too!" He pouted his lips and Lara giggled as he kissed her dad and then wiped it almost too quickly "Hey!" He whined as he tickled her daughter "No!" She giggled. I felt a tug at my chest as I saw Julie hiding behind the stairs,
"Oh Julie." I whispered, feeling a bit guilty. Mirajane walked over to me as Laxus said his goodbyes,
"Ok, we'll come over tomorrow around 3pm. Laxus won't be back till 2 and I'll finish at around 2:30." She gave me a hug,
"I'll see you tomorrow, bye Sweetie." Mirajane gave air kisses and Laxus joined us,
"Had fun today." He gave me a hug and i rolled my eyes, "Course you did."
"Bye baby." He waved to his daughter but she was already running up the stairs to join Julie, "Bye Julie love you."
They blew air kisses to Julie who smiled,
"Thank you." She returned the air kisses and ran to her room with Lara on her tail.
"Goodnight Lucy." They waved and I smirked, "Now that all the kids are gone. You two can have some.....alone time." I winked and they both flipped me off, "Hahaha, totally deserved it." I laughed as the two's driver pulled up, Laxus opened the car door and Mirajane got in, he then jumped in and I waved at the two,
"Bye!" They chorused and left.
It was around 11 at night and the girls were fast asleep, I was looking over my script and noticed a familiar name, two actually, "You've got to be kidding me." On the parts of the two main leads were Natsu Dragneel and Gray Fullbuster,
"For fuc-"
"Mummy?"
I jumped to see Julie standing beside me,
"Jesus, honey don't scare me like that." I held my pounding heart as my daughter apologised,
"What are you doing up honey?" I asked as she joined me on the couch and she snuggled up to me, "Did I do something wrong?" She questioned,
"What? Honey what do you mean?" I asked, curious, Julie still not looking at me tightened her grip on my blouse,
"I mean, did...did my dad not like me?" She asked, my heart tightened and I felt bad, I felt guilty.
This was all my fault.
"Honey, I want you to know that your father would have loved you so much!" I said as I hugged her,
"So why did he leave?" She questioned,
Uugh! Damn, now I feel bad, "It's more like, mummy left."
My daughter shifted and looked up at me, "You left?"
Her eyes were brimming with tears and I gasped, "Oh, honey. Don't cry, I'm sorry, mummy was still young, she was mad at daddy. Something happened and mummy didn't want to get hurt." My vision was blurring. I was crying in front of her, I never cried in front of her, I closed my eyes as i felt a thumb wiping my tears away,
"You're crying. I don't like seeing you cry. I'm sorry." She said and I smiled as I kissed her little hands,
"Mummy is sorry." I whispered softly.
Julie fell asleep and I carried her up to her room, Lara was sleeping peacefully as I laid Julie next to her. I gave them kisses on their foreheads before leaving and made my own way to my bedroom.
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"Alright girls, we need to hurry if you want to come with me to work."
I placed their orange juice in front of them as they finished up their pancakes. I finished up my coffee and placed my phone, tablet and chargers in my bag,
"We're gonna watch mummy at work." Julie exclaimed and Lara clapped her hands. "Alright girls, come on."
I picked up their plates and washed it "Go and get your shoes on." I told them as they nodded.
We got in the car and drove to the set, we were 20 minutes early and everyone was still setting up,
"Julie, Lara, be on your best behaviour today, okay?" The two nodded
"Okay, Leona is in my dresser, since none of the actors and actresses are here yet you guys can go get your makeup done." I smiled and the two squealed as they ran to my dressing room. I giggled at the two as I went to look for the director.
"Lucy?" I turned to see the director making his way over with a cup of coffee in his hand,
"Good Morning director." I bowed, he did too,
"Early as usual." He said and I chuckled, "Got the girls today." I nodded my head towards my dresser,
"Julie's here? Perfect, we were actually looking for an assistant director." He said and I shook my head,
"Oh no, let's not go there again." I said, remembering what happed the last time she helped.
I suspect the director found it funny that my daughter was bossing me around,
"Oh you'll have to forgive me, two of the main guys had dropped the main lead due to some problems so I asked one of my friends to fill in." He said and I dropped my smile, "I noticed."
"It was last minute. But I'm glad-"
"Director!" We both looked over to the assistant director running towards us, she tripped and fell on her face,
"Oh!" We both said in unison,
"Ow." She cried, we both went to help her up,
"Lucy I got this. You can go get ready." The director patted my back and I nodded, I excused myself as I made my way to the dressing room.
"Lucy?"
I stopped in my tracks as I heard a familiar voice, oh no. Not now, I'm not mentally prepared to see him, once my closest friend. I clenched my fist, sighing and slowly turned around,
"Hello, Natsu."
Edited By-clobo15000