The next day Dan was having another one of his parties where he flirted and slept with other women when Jude called again and unfortunately Dan was the one who answered the phone.

"Hello?" He said.

"Dan I've been calling for months and I'm losing my patience! Where is Lucille?" Jude demanded.

"Lucille? Uh... She's out."

"Is that a fact? Well then you should know Dan that I've become very worried about my daughter lately so I've decided to come down there and pay you two a visit!"

"You're going to what?!"

"Yes and if you fail to produce Lucille I will personally hire a mass of mercenaries to hunt you down and chop off the protruding parts of your body!"

Dan gulped.

"Have I made myself clear?!"

"Clear as a bell." Dan said sweating. "Don't worry I'll find your daughter."

"Good. I should be there in a week and expect my little girl to be the first person I see."

"Yes sir."

Dan hung up and quickly set to work trying to locate Lucille. Speaking of which Lucille or Lucy at the moment was vaccum cleaning the bedroom when she accidentally hit the shelf and knocked over some books. She turned off the vaccum cleaner and started to pick up the books. A folded up note slipped out of one of the books and fell on to the floor. She picked up the note, unfolded it, and began reading.

"My dearest Lisanna." It read. "I know that I shouldn't be seeing you but I can't stop thinking about you. I know that I'm not good enough for you and that a man like me could never give you what you deserve but I've recently been doing well with my new job so I'll be able to take care of you. I love you more than I have ever loved anyone else in my entire life. I would gladly give up everything if it meant I could be with you. So if you accept meet me at our special place tonight at midnight. I'll be waiting."

Lucy clutched the note to her chest as tears began to stream down her face. Was Natsu having an affair? Was he planning to leave her for this Lisanna girl? She was angry but she also said. In fact she was more sad than angry. How could he do this to her after that wonderful night they shared together? Little did she know that the note she found was written to Lisanna ten years ago. After he had gotten her pregnant her father was going to force her to get an abortion and send her away to a very strict boarding school. He sent her that note so they could runaway together, elope, and raise their child together. He still kept the note because it helped him remember that wonderful night where they got married and began their life as a family. But Lucy believed it to be part of an affair so when he came home that evening...

"Who's Lisanna?" She asked him.

Natsu froze when he heard the name of his deceased wife. He always did that whenever Lisanna was mentioned.

"What?" He said.

"You heard me, who's Lisanna?"

"Where did you hear that name?"

"I didn't hear it! I read it!" She held up the note. "So who is she?"

"She's... She's no one important."

"Really then why did you write this note to her?"

"Lucy it's no big deal."

"No big deal? You're cheating on me!"

"No I'm not!"

"Then why was this in our room, in a book, that came from your shelf?"

"It's a little hard to explain right now."

"Well I want you to explain it to me now otherwise I'm forced to assume that you're having an affair with some slut!"

That set Natsu off and enraged he grabbed a lamp a threw it at the wall shattering it.

"Don't you ever call her that again!" He shouted angrily, forgetting that he was dangerously close to exposing the truth. The kids had heard the sound of glass breaking and their father shouting so they went downstairs to see what was happening.

"So she's not that important huh? If that's true then why are you getting so angry?" Lucy asked. "How could you do this to me?! I was married to you for ten years, bore your fruit four times, gave up my family, gave up everything to be with you and this is how you thank me?! With infidelity!"

"You don't know what you're talking about!"

"Enlighten me then!"

"Alright fine! You were going to find out about this sooner or later so I'll just say it now! The truth you're not-"

But he was silenced by Igneel slingshotting a bundle of socks into his mouth.

"Bleh! What the-" He spat the socks out of his mouth and looked up to see his kids on the stairway ready to fire another bundle socks. "Excuse me for a moment. I don't think our kids should hear this."

Natsu went upstairs, chased the kids into their room, and locked the door.

"What the heck do you kids think you're doing?!" He asked them.

"We can't let you do it Dad." Igneel said.

"Do what?"

"Tell her the truth." Tobais said.

"If you do she'll leave." Gale said.

"That's kind of the idea kids."

"But we don't want her to leave." Nashi said. "She's our Mom."

"She's not your mother! You know that!"

"Well she is now!" Gale said.

"She takes care of us and she loves us!" Tobais said.

"And we love her!" Nashi said.

"But she doesn't belong to us."

"That didn't stop you from bringing her here in the first place!" Igneel said.

"I had my reasons."

"So do we!" Tobais said.

"That's enough! I can't keep up with this anymore! I'm telling her the truth and that's final! I know you guys like her but she can't stay! And she can't be your mother! Or did forget that you already have a mother?"

"No Dad we haven't forgotten about Mom and we still love her. But Mom's dead! And when she died you always left us alone! We know part of that was because of your job but even when you were home you still left us alone!"

"So you're saying that after your mother died I became horrible father?! Is that it?!"

"No Dad. You weren't a horrible father you were just an unhappy one."

"But we were unhappy too." Tobais said.

"Why do you think we were always misbehaving so much?" Gale asked.

"We were mad at the world to for taking Mom away from us." Igneel said. "But now we have someone who's helping us get over it and for the first time since Mom died we're all happy. Don't make us lose our mother again."

Natsu sighed at looked at his children as they pleased with him not to say or do anything that would cause Lucy to leave. The truth was he didn't want her to leave either but he couldn't just keep her like this.

"I'm sorry."

He came out of their room and went downstairs to where he saw Lucy talking with Erza.

"It's okay Natsu I told her everything." Erza said.

"You did?"

"Yeah."

"Oh Natsu I'm so sorry." Lucy said running to hug him.

"Huh?"

"I didn't know that she was your first love who you lost.

"What?"

"Natsu I told her that Lisanna was a girl you were with before you started dating Lucy who died of cancer and that you wrote that note to her because you wanted her to spend the last few years of her life with you instead of in a hospital."

"Uh-huh. Erza a word please."

He took her outside in the back yard.

"Why did you tell her that?" He asked. "Was it to protect Jellal's ass for those pictures?"

"No it was to protect your ass. You belong with her."

"Oh cute. Real cute."

"I'm serious Natsu. Admit it You've been happier than you ever been since Lisanna's passing."

"So what if I am?! It doesn't change the fact that sooner or later she'll find out who she is and leaving me right back where I started! And I...I don't think I can deal with that happening twice!"

After punching his car he walked away to blow off steam.