NOT A CHAPTER OF EPILOGUE THING!!! I just thought I'd post this, as a sort of display of the thought process while writing Lost Magic.

First off, Jeral and Erza are my favorite characters, and 50% of my fanfic ideas involve them becoming a couple. So, naturally, when I wanted to do a Fairy Tail mpreg I paired them up for it (though I almost did Natsu/Gray). If a boy can be the mom a girl really ought to be able to be the dad, right?

One of the first things I come up with for mpregs is the excuse for how it happens. The best thing about stories with lots of magic in them is that you can just say "A spell did it". So that's what happened.

The very first idea was that Jeral was going to cast the spell when he did, then Urtear would get hit in the head by a chunk of debris while Natsu was going nuts (if you look back, she did get hit) and her mind control over Jeral would be broken since it was already starting to waiver. When the other people in the tower found out he'd become a good guy who was expecting Erza's kid he was going to be locked up for most of the story, but that left me with no material at all for most of the story. So Jeral got to leave the tower.

Shimon was the one who was all "I don't buy this. I'm with Erza", so I made him force Jeral out. Then, naturally, he had to meet up with Erza. Then I planned on him being evil the whole time, and after he had the kid he'd return to the tower and there'd be a second fic where his kid would go out and find his mom and bring Erza and Gerard together.

This is where the name Lume came from. They were originally gonna have a girl named Luna. But I really prefer it when they have boys (since girls are so much more common in mpregs) So I thought "I'll have Erza want a girl named Luna, but when Jeral has a boy he'll name him Lune as a way of keeping… wait… That sounds like a crazy person. I'll use Lume instead."

But I've learned from experience in the Yugioh fandom that sequels with someone's kid aren't that great, and I really wanted to do something with the whole unrequited love thing, so I brought back that whole thing with the brain control being broken by a blow to Urtear's head. Raises the question of why it didn't work the first time (haha). How about the extra couple months were what was needed to make the control weak enough for it to work? Don't like the idea? To bad.

Having him confess as early as he did actually surprised me a lot more than it you… whoever you are actually reading this. I couldn't think of anything better to do right then. Then I had to try and slowly make Erza begin to fall for him while still being really ticked and him being all depressed because she was still ticked. Then when it happened to fast I had him dragged back to the tower to make her really mad. It was around this point that I decided I was actually going to have him arrested.

Note that any idea where I came up with the ending before I was pretty much at the ending got scrapped. I made up just about everything as I went.