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A/N: 32nd fic/story. 2nd Fairy tail fic. Flames aren't welcomed, but reviews and constructive criticism are. This seemingly has the potential to be an actual story, but this will only be short story, if nothing less.

Summary: Lucy never knew that simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time could change so much.

Chapter 1 - Natsu!

Despite the weather getting off to a bad start, Lucy could honestly state that she had a rather good day today. It had been storming pretty hard since earlier this morning, and the weather had later - sometime around noon - finally eased up, finally allowing the dark skies that loitered the atmosphere to settle back to its usual color as well as resulting in everything returning to the typical day of Magnolia: streets bustling with various people with set destinations in mind, children laughing and running about - it was almost as if evidence of the storm even occurring in the beginning was now gone, save for the occasional puddles one would see here and there among the pathways.

The blonde had even received enough jewels to pay half of this month's rent from the job she was now returning from. Her, along with Levy McGarden - a close friend of hers, whom had asked her to join her with completing the job request - had departed around late afternoon for the job, which was located in a small town bordering the outskirts of Magnolia: Ranley.

The job had been to decode five books - all written in various languages - and write out a thorough translation as well as producing an actual copy of the translations, and due to the fact that there were rarely people that knew how to decode books, the amount of the reward had been 700,000. Of course, Levy decoded the books and wrote out the translations while Lucy assisted by copying Levy's translation by hand, but it was probably needless to say that the job was pretty easy, and though the job request, which had been requested by the librarian of Ranley, took several hours, Lucy felt that it was very much worth the money.

Now, though, it was pretty late, and if Lucy had to make an approximate estimation as to what the current time was, she'd say that it was somewhere between 9:30pm and 10:00pm.

The Celestial Mage released a faint sigh, tilting her head towards the night sky, silently observing it as she continued her trek to her apartment. Since she had rather go home and take a much needed bath instead of heading to the guild, her and Levy split up the moment the guild had came into view, the blue-haired Solid Script Mage opting to hang around the guild a little more before going home, unlike her. Even so, Lucy couldn't help but wonder what Natsu and the others were up to right about now even if she did hold no desire to head to the guild tonight.

Lucy stifled a feminine giggle, already having a thought as to what Natsu was up to, for it was more than likely that he and Gray were going at it, if not he and Gajeel. Sometimes, it surprised her that the guild even manage to keep standing with someone such as Natsu in it; though, she was already aware he couldn't take the blame for all of the daily destruction that went on in Fairy Tail alone, for he certainly wasn't the only one who knew how to distribute damage.

The brown-eyed girl temporarily ceased her thoughts as soon as she realized she was in front of her apartment door. Wasting little time pulling out the key and then unlocking the door, all too eager for a nice, hot bath, she quickly entered her apartment, closing and locking the door afterwards.

It sure feels good to be home, Lucy thought to herself, her brown eyes already roaming her apartment to make sure that she was alone - her friends seemed to have the tendency to always be in her home. Once she was convinced she was alone, Lucy immediately began to remove her rather revealing top, heading towards her bathroom in the process.

Not realizing that the faint sound of a shower running could be heard outside the bathroom door if one paid close enough attention, she eased out of the rest of her clothing before entering her bathroom. It wasn't until she heard the faint screech of the shower handle being turned off, that she realized that she wasn't alone and that someone had been using her shower.

Lucy turned to face whomever it was in her shower, already assuming that it was either Erza or Cana. Only to find out that the person that was in her shower wasn't Erza or Cana, but, instead, a completely bare Natsu.

Lucy's eyes widened as she released a short, feminine scream in absolute shock, not believing what she was seeing. "Natsu!" Please, tell me that I'm having some sort of dream, or that I was so tired that as soon as I made it home, I fell asleep! Either one works!, Lucy mentally exclaimed to herself, not being able to tear her eyes away due to the fact that her thoughts were running a mile a minute.

The blonde honestly didn't know whether or not Natsu had realized that she was present, or if he had heard her at all, but as long as she pulled herself together and got out before he turned around, then maybe - just maybe - she could forget this even happened and keep it a secret for the rest of her life, right?

Wrong.

Because it was at that exact moment that Natsu turned around, and for the first time ever in her life, Lucy realized that she probably had a blush that could rival Erza's hair color. And as if finally realizing that someone was present, Natsu quickly grabbed a nearby towel and wrapped it around his waist, his face just as red as Lucy's if not more.

"L-Lucy!" Natsu stammered. "What are you doin' here?!"

Lucy looked taken aback by Natsu's question. What did he mean what she was doing here?! She lived here! It was her apartment after all! "What do you mean what am I doing here?!" Lucy exclaimed in disbelief and frustration, voicing her thoughts. "I live here, Natsu!"

A/N: Alright. This was the first chapter, and it's pretty short, but I do expect the next few chapters to be longer. Let me know what you think! In character, or not? Review.