The Strength in Fragilty
Chapter 2: Fatigue
AN: Anything in italics is a flashback
TW: Cancer and mentions of death
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Fairy Tail nor do I own it's characters. They belong to Hiro Mashima & Co. This story uses coarse language.
"Juvia sweetie, I'm coming home today."
"Really! Why? Juvia thought mom wasn't able to come home for another couple of months."
Juvia was ecstatic. She hadn't seen her mother in over a year, since she had moved aboard for work. Well she wasn't her actual birth mother, she was her adoptive one. You see Juvia never knew her birth mom, for she died during childbirth and her father died when she was seven due to an undetectable cancer. She was sent to an orphanage and was treated horribly by the other children there. But one day, a beautiful brunette came and fell in love with her. A few months later, after all the paper work was done, she adopted Juvia and has been with her ever since. She was an infamous fashion designer, thus she travelled a lot, and recently she had left for an upcoming joint fashion line which required her to move away.
"Well hun, I told them of your 'condition', so I was given permission to move back and take care of you. Isn't that great?"
No it really wasn't.
"Aha mom doesn't need to return on account of Juvia's condition. She can take care of herself. Mom mustn't burden herself." A month ago Juvia was diagnosed with lung cancer. But she believed she was a very independent women now, her mother didn't need to come to her rescue like she used too.
"Nonsense Juvi-bee," her mother chuckled over the phone. "You are much more important than a fashion line. I want my baby feeling worry free as she over comes her illness. So it's no burden."
"But mother," Juvia whined she really didn't need help." Juvia is perfectly fine by herself don't worry abou-"
