AN: The unborn baby was being neglected, so… A special baby chapter.

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Someone Else's Life

By: BonneyQ

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Chapter 04

Gray started going on missions again – nothing too long, but they needed money to keep living and Juvia couldn't – and before he could realize, it had been three months since he woke up at the age of twenty-eight after going to sleep with only twenty years of age.

A few nights after sleeping at the same bed as his wife and son, the boy was moved back to his room so the master bedroom was once again for the couple (although he had no recollection about sharing it before that night after the nightmare) and even though they didn't do anything else other than kissing and touching each other, Gray found that he very much liked his new life.

Ur was an amazing boy, smart, strong, compassionate and full of energy. Juvia looked bigger every day and Gray found it fascinating the way at every breath she took, she was creating a new life – a life he helped create – and she really looked beautiful with that big round belly (not that Gray had the balls to tell her that she looked big or anything) and during the night, before he fell asleep curled up around Juvia, he would feel the baby kick over and over again and he would smile silly; there was some magic in feeling a baby move still inside their mothers, especially if that child was half his.

He was glad that the child was fine – Juvia told him about what happened before they had Ur and for a few nights the Ice Mage only slept after feeling the baby move for hours to make sure that it was fine.

According to Juvia, they had started dating seven years before and the hormones made them start their sex lives not too long after and, also according to her, they were at it at every opportunity (it appalled him that the woman told him that with the straightest face ever while he blushed; lots of images about the fantasies he had about her from before they got together rushed back to his mind and he wondered if his younger self did half the things his mind imagined, because if he did, he'd been a very lucky man) and a year into their relationship, Juvia was spending the night at his place when a terrible pain woken her and even though she was trying not to wake her boyfriend up, he woke up anyway with her moaning in pain. His face went to sleepy to awareness of her state in a second.

"I still remember the look of confusion on your face when we lift the covers and it was all bloodied." Juvia sighed and saw Gray frown. "You took me to the Hospital and that's when we found out that I was having a miscarriage." She put a hand over her growing stomach. "We didn't even know I was pregnant." Gray's eyes widened while the thought sank in. "You held my hand during the whole time and held me when I cried and didn't leave me alone after." Juvia grabbed his hand. "It was horrible, but we got past it."

"I'm sorry I don't remember that." Gray whispered. "I'm sorry that you have to remember it by yourself."

"It's okay." The blunette assured her husband with a soft smile. "Sometimes things are just not meant to be so we can have an ever better gift." She pointed to the place their son was happily lying on the ground with papers all around him, drawing, coloring and singing a made-up song. "We got married almost a year later and… Well, Ur is a honeymoon baby." Juvia chuckled. "When we knew that I was expecting again… we spent the first trimester freaking out – you, especially – and when we held him for the first time… It was right. We were meant to have him."

"He is a great kid." Gray stared as the boy giggled in delight with whatever he was drawing. "You did good, Juvia."

"We did good, Gray-sama." The blunette smiled softly and squeezed his hand. "You don't remember, but you were there and you will be here from now on too."

"That's something I wanted to talk about with you: the baby we are about to have." Gray looked stressed. "I don't remember how I carried Ur, what I did to calm him down when he was crying. What will I do with it? What if the baby hates me because I can't carry it? I can't even change a diaper and…"

"Gray-sama, calm down." Juvia chuckled. "You learned it all with Ur and you will learn again with this one. You were very good with Ur-chan, you know?" Gray perked at that. "Sometimes he would want me for hours and other times he would only calm down with you, especially during the night – when he didn't want to eat, it was just fussing – he would only like you holding him."

"He did?"

"Yes." The blunette nodded. "Maybe it was the contact with your skin – you never sleep clothed anyway – or the sound of your voice, since you liked to tell him stories about your missions and sing to him."

"I sang?" Gray asked with incredulity. "Me? Are you sure?"

"Oh yes. I heard it many times." Juvia giggled. "Having a child changes you, Gray-sama. And now you'll understand it once more."

Once his fears of becoming a father of a baby – who was arriving in just a couple of months – Gray really got time to think about how it would turn out. Would it be another boy with dark hair and Juvia's eyes? Or maybe a little girl who would look like her mother but with Gray's personality?

So many possibilities for a person who wasn't even born yet! It was nice, that expectation. He liked to be a father and a father to be. Him! A man, who never thought could have a family, liked the feeling of a little person depending on hi the way Ur eyes sparkled with whatever he had to say, unconditionally loving him was one of the best things he ever experienced..

And in a few months, there would be another one. And Gray was excited with it, as surprisingly as it was.

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When Ur asked about the new baby, the questions were simple enough: "Is it a boy or a girl?", "Can we choose what we are gonna get?", "Where will it sleep?", "Do I have to share my toys?" and it was entertaining to watch his little mind work these little problems, but one night, during their dinner, his question was a lot more complicated to answer.

"Mom?"

"Yes, honey?" Juvia asked in a light tone while she served their little boy his food.

His little frown was adorable. "How come the baby comes from inside you when you told me that you and dad made it? How did it get there?" Gray, who was drinking his orange juice, started to cough and Juvia had to aid him while Ur looked utterly confused. "What is it?"

Juvia was the first one to respond. "Nothing, sweetie. The question was just too sudden, that's all." Gray nodded; his face was red while his breathing returned to normal.

"Why did you ask that, Ur?" Gray managed to cough it out.

"Because Igor and Julei told me that Mom was going to lay an egg, just like Charle did." The boy looked worried. "Look at Mom's belly, dad! She told me that the baby is inside her, if she lays an egg that big, it will hurt her. And how did the egg got there in the first place?"

Gray looked startled for a moment and then stared at Juvia, pleading for help: he was not prepared to answer that question (hell, he didn't even remember making Ur or the baby, it was up to her to answer the boy).

"Well, Ur-chan." Juvia cleared her throat. "Igor and Julei are not totally wrong, there's an egg, but Mama is not going to lay one, alright?"

"So, it won't hurt for the baby to get out?" The boy asked, suspicious.

Juvia hesitated, but couldn't tell her baby boy that it would indeed hurt a lot. "No, not too much."

"But it comes from inside you."

"Yes."

"Then how come Dad helped you make it?" Ur asked.

The woman sighed. "Girls are born with teeny tiny eggs inside them, and when they grow up, they use it to make a baby with their husband;, do you understand so far?" Juvia asked gently and the boy nodded. "When the mother and the father love each other very much, they get together to make a baby because boys are born with… hm…" The woman looked to her husband.

"Erm… a special seed?" Gray offered; his face red with embarrassment.

"Yes." Juvia nodded. "Boys have a special seed and when the egg and the seed got together, it makes a baby. And the best place for the baby to grow until it's safe to come out, is inside the mom's belly." She pointed to her own stomach. "Your brother or sister will come out when it's time but not from an egg."

After a moment, the boy nodded. "Oh." There was silence for a moment. "But how the seed gets inside the mom?"

Even Juvia blushed with that. "You are fat too young for the answer to that, young man." She kissed his cheek. "Your dad will tell you when you are older, deal?"

"Alright." The boy shrugged and started to eat; at least he could now tell Igor and Julei that his mother was not laying an egg like an Exceed, she was laying the whole baby.

The couple stared at each other and then Juvia told her husband with a giggle: "You get to tell the next one." Gray smiled.

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AN: Here we go! Sorry for the wait! I hope you like the little backstory and how Gray is feeling about the baby and Ur's question!

Thanks to: Mrs Murasaki-sama, olej2k10, NollyLvn, sparkles princess, BrigitteoO, babypapaya, Lanvia, xXChiasaHimuraXx, Kojo208, MrsGooglyBear, otaku03, Medaka-chan, YamixTeaLover, Esthellar, Darkhope, Summer Éclair, Bubblycutie and Awesomnessdude, mgaa, PandaGirl, superduperizee, P. FullbusterBelieve, 16176, Adelram, Hanazawa-Tsuki, KHR1427, KayraHearts, Guest, mizz-sandra, strawhatgirl, NelielNyx and Playgod! You are all awesome!

04/04/2014 ~ BonneyQ