A/N: Request from Emil C.

I'm busy with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) attempting to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days, so I'm not writing fanfics. This story is already done. It's 5 brief drabbles about Lucy trying to find true love in a world where she's "too much." I'll update one chapter every Saturday through the month of November, so I'm not totally inactive. Which man will Lucy end up with? You have to wait until the end. ^_^

Disclaimer: Hiro Mashima doesn't have to worry about Nanowrimo because he already has Fairy Tail.

She's Too Much

a Fairy Tail fanfic

by Rhov

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Chapter 1

August is Leo's Month

Loke ran his hand through his orange hair in frustration. "Lucy...what the heck is that?"

Lucy sat at her desk with a magazine opened up. Inside were glossy pictures of glamorous women in long, white, glittering wedding dresses. "I'm just looking," she defending.

"No, ladies don't buy wedding magazines because they're just looking." Loke sighed and stepped a little away. "Really, Lucy, I love you with all my heart, but you're too much."

"Too...much?" she asked, slowly closing the magazine.

"You have post-it notes stuck all through that magazine!" he shouted. Loke grabbed it and flipped to each page marked with a piece of paper. "Bouquets, table settings, bridesmaid dresses...dear stars, you have the tuxedo all picked out."

"It...it'd look good on you," she muttered defensively. "Hey, I'm a girl. Girls dream about these sorts of things, and...and we've been together for three months already," she whispered with a dreamy smile. "I'm not hinting that you propose to me, Loke. Really! Still, we could at least, you know...talk about it, about what we want in the future, what our dreams are. You hate to talk about the future."

"Lucy," Loke sighed, rubbing out his forehead. "I'm a Celestial Spirit. I don't age. The future for me is a really long time. I'm a little worried that you won't want a man who can't spend every moment with you, who has to keep returning to another world, who won't ever age. That's why I don't talk about the future, and why I'm a little worried that you might be thinking too much about something I can't provide for you."

Lucy dropped her head sadly. "Are you even allowed to marry a human?"

"It not common, but it's not illegal. Still, we should date a little more before making plans for a wedding. I'm really sorry, but I'm not ready to commit like that. I want to have fun with you. Marriage...I mean, I would love to make you into my beautiful bride, but I don't want anything elaborate. Running away, a tiny chapel in the woods, just a few of our closest friends...isn't that romantic?"

"I...guess," she muttered, "but when, Loke?"

"Well, not anytime soon," he laughed lightly. "We should just date and have fun together."

"You have eternity," she argued. "I only have a few decades. I don't want to wait until I'm too old for kids."

"Kids?" Loke questioned with a slightly reserved frown. "Wait, you want a family? Like, smelly little babies and stuff?"

"You...don't like children?" Lucy asked softly.

"I like children just fine, but I...well...I never really thought about having some of my own. Making you my bride is one thing, but...a family? I'm not even sure if Spirits and Humans can have babies together. It's never been done."

"Oh," she whispered, dropping her eyes down to her skinny belly, thinking about a dream she had where she was pregnant. That might never happen with Loke, and with her, the Heartfilia family would come to an end.

"Hey, don't look sad," he laughed lightly. "That's way in the future. Live in the present! Put that magazine away and let's go to the zoo."

Lucy glanced at the magazine and the bride gracing the front cover. She hated to admit it, but Lucy knew that Loke would never make a commitment. He might tease her from time to time that they should run away and get married, but that was all it was—teasing. Plus, eloping was not what Lucy wanted. She wanted an elaborate wedding, lots of flowers, a huge cake, all of her friends there to celebrate. She could picture it...

Except, she could never picture who was standing beside her. She knew what dresses the bridesmaids would have, and she even picked out boutonnières for the ushers, but the man in the custom long-tailed tuxedo was a blank.

However, she knew she wanted children, too. She did not merely want a husband, but a father for her family, a man who would provide for their children and love them.

She realized that August day, that man would not be Loke.

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