Note From Meg: Hi! I'm proud to be doing this collaberation with my good friend. It took a while, but we've got a lot planned. Stick around, okay?

Note from Hannah: Yep we are working together in this so stick around because I promise there will some good moments. We thought of this idea at lunch and here it is. Please review for Lucy and Natsu... ;)

Disclaimer: We don't own Fairy Tail.

Glancing at her apartment filled her with joy and relief. Lucy knew she shouldn't have taken that job but Natsu kept pestering her, insisting "It will be fun". Besides, she needed the money.

Afterwards, she decided on one thing: Never again would she fight in a sewer, or against a dark mage who used 'Gas magic' or whatever. Especially when the so-called 'deadly gases' looked like glitter.

And never would she even dream (or have nightmares) of summoning Aquarius in one.

Heading for her lovely home – that is, lovely when it wasn't filled with roommates invading her privacy- Lucy couldn't help but have a spring in her step. Sure, the mission had hardly been fun, but she had made a healthy profit. Humming to herself, she unlocked the door. The silence in the building did slightly worry her but she was too tired to care. Opening her door, she was not pleased to find Natsu already there eating the last slice of chocolate cake, her favourite chocolate cake that she had worked hard to make. Her eye twitched slightly.

"What do you think you're doing Natsu? Have I told that this is breaking and entering? And get your hands off my chocolate cake or there will be Hell" Lucy snapped, irritation and frustration getting the better of her. Any trace of a good temper had evaporated.

"Mumunuunn... Mm good cake..." Natsu replied, blatantly ignoring her as he was busy enjoying every last morsel of the delicious cake.

Time slowed down for Lucy as she was staring at the last bite of her scrumptious magnum opus enter the dragonslayer's mouth. Oh no, Lucy thought... This. Is. War.

…Wait, did he just compliment my cooking?

Shaking her head to rid it of any sympathetic thoughts, she considered kicking his sorry ass halfway across Magnolia. Alas, she was too tired to do so. Sighing wearily, she took her partner's plate and dumped it in the sink, not even bothering to turn on the tap.

"Natsu, what the hell are you doing here? I still stink of sewer."

"So do I." The pink haired teen replied simply, already searching her fridge.

Lucy gritted her teeth, grumpily brushing hair out of her face. How did he always manage to completely miss the point? "And I'm going to have a shower! Which means I don't want you in my house."

Natsu shrugged. "And Happy's gone to dump fish on Charle. So I decided to hang out with you."

"Well, believe it or not, I don't want you there while I shower!"

There was silence as Natsu stared at her blankly, his brain slowly processing her words before his eyes lit up in realisation. A goofy grin stretched out across his face as he dumped himself on her sofa. "Then I'll wait outside for you to finish!"

Something inside her snapped.

She did not need this. "One day, just one day, Lucy." The blonde muttered internally as though it was some calming charm.

Underneath the luscious hot water streaming down her body, she forgot about everything else and just how her aching body was finally getting a rest. That shower was her little slice of heaven, perfect after a day of trekking through sewers and almost choking on the stench. Chocolate cake would have been ideal, had her partner not interrupted.

But she couldn't stay mad at Natsu for long.

Cursing her weakness, Lucy heard voices coming from the other room. Frowning at the fact that her period of bliss was over, she turned off the shower and wrapped herself in a towel before poking her head out of the bathroom door.

The scene she saw was rather comical. A lizard-like council representative (or at least a magic projection of one) was failing to get a word in edgeways. Natsu, on the other hand, was flapping his arms about, starting several sentences and finishing none.

"What do you mean under quarantine? We just got here! And who the hell is quarantine?" The pink haired dragonslayer demanded.

Wait a minute…quarantine? Thought Lucy, feeling dread begin to well up in the pit of her stomach. She was suddenly glad that she hadn't eaten any chocolate cake.

The representative held up their hands, spluttering quickly. "Well sir I am sorry but you are in the building are you not?"

"Yes but tha-"

"Did you know about the deadly gases sir?"

It only took a few seconds for Lucy to work out the situation- when she did, she decided that she would pulverise Natsu for convincing her to take that stupid sewer mission.

"Eh?" Natsu said, tilting his head to the side. "Didn't that dude just throw glitter?"

The representative shrugged. "It is a type of magic we have yet to properly research. For all we know, it could have been an extremely dangerous poison that had infected you and Miss Heartfilia and could be contagious. Or it may be harmless. Either way, protocol states that you two must be quarantined for a minimum of fourteen days." And, with those parting words, the image disappeared.

Maybe not one more day… Lucy thought with despair.

That night, Lucy was at her wit's end. Throwing herself down next to her unintentional roommate, she groaned. Heated discussions with Gray, then Erza, then the Master had been fruitless, and the pair had only received a two word answer for their predicament-

"It's protocol."

Natsu growled. "Screw protocol! Stupid stripper penguin…"

Typical Natsu, dumping all the blame on Gray.

"Well…" Lucy started. "We'll get some sleep. Since we're stuck together for two weeks, tomorrow we'll write up a rule book."