A/N Hallo Loves!

If you didn't get to read le announcement earlier, I am re-writing chapters 18-on. And this is this first!

I'm very excited for this, and I hope you are too. ^^

So anyways...

ENJOY!

It had been four weeks since they had the apartment building up and running, they already had a few tenants. They had a young couple, an old man and a huge scary looking man.

Lucy, Fairy and Ike and Izumi stood in the middle of Fairy's soon-to-be bedroom. Today, they were painting it and putting some final touches on it before they moved her bed and other furniture in.

"...And..." Lucy stuck her tongue out in concentration, adding one more brush stroke to the wall, "...Voila!" Lucy exclaimed, stepping back to admire her work.

"It's amazing, mama!" Fairy squealed. All three looked at the mother's work; the walls were dark blue and dark violet. There were stars all along the walls, they constellations all in their right places, the spirits standing beside them. "There are Tori, Virgo..." she trailed off as her eyes went over a particular lion spirit. "And there's Daddy too! This is amazing," Fairy said in awe.

"Yep, but that's not all," Lucy went over and flicked the light switch. The children gasped as the paint lit up, making the room look exactly like the midnight sky.

"Wow," was all Ike could say.

"So pretty," Izumi cooed.

"Mama, how did you-"

"Magic paint," her mother answered. "It is pretty amazing, huh?"

"Heavenly," Fairy breathed out. Lucy smiled at her daughter's remark. Lucy glanced at the clock.

"I have to go get the mail, I'll be right back." Lucy told the two, who weren't paying attention but instead, studying a glowing Capricorn on the wall. Lucy smiled and left the room.

Lucy picked up the small stack of letters that were in the large mailbox, she slowly made her inside, looking through and sorting the letters.

"Hikaru… Kaede… Arisa…" she placed the letters on the front counter, putting them into various piles. There was a rather large stack addressed to 'Lucy Heartfilia'. The large man, whose name was Katsuo, came down the stairs, looking to get his mail when he heard Lucy sigh. "Don't people know I'm not a Heartfilia anymore?"

-X-

Katsuo peered around the corner of the stairs at the blonde woman.

'So this is her,' his thoughts mused. 'I don't believe this will be much of a problem.'

Katsuo glanced down the hall, making sure no one was coming; he knew there weren't very many people in the building. There was the couple with the annoying newborn and the old guy that probably couldn't stop what he was about to do if he tried. He also knew that the husband wasn't home, he'd overheard him telling the woman about a job he was taking and it would last a couple of days. He hurried back to his room, when he got there he pulled out a bag from the closet. He dug through it and found a cloth and a small bottle of liquid. He dabbed the cloth a few times, soaking it slightly and hoped the woman was still there. He pushed the cloth in his pocket and made his way back down stairs. He let out a sigh of relief when he saw the woman writing something down in a folder.

"S'cuse me miss," Katsuo said, getting the blond haired woman's attention.

"Yes?" She lifted her eyebrows and placed her pin down.

"I think my door lock is sticking, would you come and see?" He asked.

"Sure," she smiled warmly at him.

The petite woman made her way past him to his door. He followed wordlessly.

When they got to his door, the woman pulled out a spare room key from a second key ring on a garter on her leg. She locked and unlocked his door before she turned back to look at Katsuo curiously.

"There's nothing wrong with this lock," She stated.

"I know."

With lightning speed, Katsuo pressed the cloth over her mouth and nose, pulling her close so she couldn't escape. She fought and tried to scream but it was muffled by the cloth. Katsuo smirked as she involuntarily drew in a breath because she used all her air futilely screaming. A few seconds after she drew in a breath, her eyelids fluttered closed against her will and she went limp in his arms. Katsuo sighed and scooped the blond woman up in his arms.

"Too easy" He said to himself.

"Is it done?" a brunette boy poked his head out of Katsuo's door. The older man nodded. The young man emerged from the room his room and pulled out a pouch by his side. He slid out a small glass marble and threw it to the ground, stomping on it under his heel. There was a magic circle formed under his foot, and then silence.

"It should keep everyone in the building asleep for at least another two hours except for us," the brunette man explained quietly as they both men made their way down the stairs, Lucy over Katsuo's shoulder.

"Then you grab the child."

"Hai," he nodded and sped forward into the back rooms to find a small ginger girl and a blunette boy. "H-Hey!" he called, going back into the lobby. "There's two kids in there!"

The older man paused. "It can't be helped." He said. "Bring them both."

A/N Hallo again!

Yeah. this chapter isn't much different than before. But it is.

Hehe. I can't wait to write the next chapter!

ANYWAYS! Review, 'kay? 'Till next time, Loves-

Ally-chan Ravenwood :-*