Raising our child
Loving you was easy, losing you was hard, but raising our daughter all alone...

Rain cascaded from the grey heavens that day, disguising the tears of her loved ones. "S-she was the best friend -the best nakama- that anyone could wish for." Someone proclaimed through their tears. "Her smile could brighten up the darkest of days, she could even brighten up this day, if only she was alive." The speech could've went on for hours, were it not for the wails of the child that interrupted it. The gentle, uncharacteristic, coos were barley audible over the torrent of rain, but the child's wails subsided none-the-less. "But she's not gone -not really- she'll live on in our hearts and in our lives." They speaker wrapped up their speech and soon all but one person had payed their respects and were on their way to the wake.

Only one person remained by the cold marble slab that marked his wife's resting place. At least it should've. They never found her body. Blood, yes, lots of it, ripped clothes, locks of hair, even a limb, but they never found her whole body. Tears ran down his rugged, pierced face as he commented that the marble slab was so unlike his wife. She was warm, kind, forgiving and a million more things that he couldn't describe, unlike the forbidding marble in front of him. Wordlessly the child in his arms begged for attention. It didn't know what was going on, it didn't know that they were at her mother's funeral, all she wanted was her father's attention. Slowly he turned his attention to his daughter. Their daughter.

Gajeel smiled for the little girl. He would be strong for her, just like her mother was. Slowly he turned away from the gravestone and made his way towards the guild for the wake. It was time to stop mourning and be strong, for his daughter's sake.

R.I.P

~Levy Redfox/Mcgarden~
The words she loved, cannot describe her brilliance.

The words etched into his wife's grave would forever haunt him, but it was time to stop mourning her death, and start celebrating her life. It was time to raise their daughter.