Never let go

Finale: Forever and always

Hey, I wanted to add a note to the beginning of the final chapter.

I want to thank you all again for reading. Never would I have imagined that this book would be so loved so I genuinely appreciate you all so much.

I also suggest to play this song (My Heart Will Go On instrumental by Celine Dion) when I tell you too. I did and was bawling my eyes out as this story comes to a close. This chapter will be majority my own imaginings with the final scene of Lucille revealing her name, talking of Natsu and two more important scenes coming from the movie so please...enjoy (:

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Lucille sat on board of the Carpathia, a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. Gray sat next to her, head in his hands. Levy sat, her hair tied back and she stiffened, hands tightening around Lucille's, causing the blonde to glance over her shoulder. She watched Dan walk slowly among the crying second and third class passengers before turning to return upstairs to first class.

That would be the last time she ever saw him. She heard that he had married another, a girl by the name of Jenny and inherited his millions from his father. The Great Depression hit his interests hard and he put a pistol in his mouth in 1929.

A few nights passed and Lucille stood with her friends, Levy clinging to her side as they along with Gray stared up at the Statue of Liberty, Gray placing his hand softly on Lucille's back as he remembered his words to Natsu on deck of Titanic. A man approached them, holding a clip board and an umbrella as rain fell hard.

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"Can I take you name please, loves?" He asked, looking at the girls. "And you as well, sir." He said this with a nod to Gray.

Lucille's eyes never left the statue as her friends told him their names, her body stiffening slightly when Levy replied 'Levy Redfox'.

The man turned to look at Lucille and swallowed, watching the blonde as she admired the statue. "Miss?" He began and she swallowed.

"Dragneel." She said simply, causing Gray to suck in a breath as she looked to the man with the clipboard. "Lucy Dragneel."

The name rolled off her tongue like melting chocolate. The man nodded, writing their names down and walked away, Gray watching the blonde.

"Lucille--"

"I am no longer Lucille." Lucy said, lowering her head to the ground. "She died when the Titanic sunk."

Gray smiled at her and Levy wiped her eyes, hugging her friend. Lucy's heart swelled, having freed herself from her burden as Lucille Heartfilia. She loved Natsu. He gave her the name Lucy and she would always remember that.

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"We never found anything on Natsu." Bixlow said, pushing a hand through his hair. Lucy chuckled slightly and looked to the monitors, showing the robot traveling through her old room. "There's no record of him at all."

"No there wouldn't be, would there?" Lucy replied to the young man who offered her a sympathetic smile. "And I've never spoken of him till now. I thought he would die with me. The only others who knew of him were Levy and your grandfather, Wendy." Lucy turned to look the blue haired woman across from her. Lucy sighed and looked back to the monitor. "A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But...now you know there was a man named Natsu Dragneel and that he saved me in every way that I needed to be saved. I don't even have a picture of him...he only remains in my memory."