STA: I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaack! I haven't really been inspired to write an mpreg for like, 3 years! Whoo!
Just a heads up, the explanation Gajeel is going to give for how Sting was able to get pregnant is BS. If I ever see anyone actually use that explanation, I stop reading their story right then and there, because no remotely decent mpreg would truly use that explanation. Or something about "it just happens in my family" or "the power of love made it possible" or any other crap like that. "We have no idea how this is possible. Moving on." Is a better excuse than those pieces of *there is no strong enough swear word to describe my hatred for these excuses. Please create your own.*
But back to Gajeel. When he starts spewing BS, please grit your teeth and bear it. The pain will be over soon.
Sting had finally managed to get on top, something he accomplished less often than he'd like to admit, when a quiver in his stomach gave Natsu the opening to flip him back over and pin him to the mattress.
"Not on my watch." Natsu smirked, ready to get to business.
"Just because…" Sting paused, feeling the quiver turn into full blown nausea. "Crap. Get off of me."
"Because you're losing? I don't think so."
"Get off of me before I throw up on you." Sting elaborated.
Natsu let Sting go.
Usually Rogue tried to pretend he was alone in the house when Natsu came to visit, and that those noises from the other room were just… birds. Very active birds, for which he really ought to hire an exterminator, or just send Frosch and Lector out there, but having no experience pretending that the sound of someone vomiting was just a bird, he couldn't help but peek in to make sure everything was okay.
Thank God they were both covered. Ignoring the heat rising in his cheeks he focused on Sting, who was the one leaning over the side of the bed, and asked "You alright?"
"Just peachy." Sting grumbled.
"I guess the game's over." Natsu sighed, grabbing what clothing he could without having to get up and expose himself in front of his lover's roommate.
"You two probably shouldn't… play, for a while." Rogue did his best not to grimace at the word. "Sting… are you-"
"Fine." Sting assured him. "The doctor said I was just fine."
"Doctor?" Natsu froze in the middle of pulling on his vest. "I didn't hear anything about a doctor. Are you okay?"
"Not at all. I mean, I just said that doctor told me I was fine." Sting retorted, wrapping the bed sheets around himself tighter now that Natsu wasn't hiding under them. "I was just feeling…" he groped for the right word. "Off balance. I wouldn't have even bothered with it but Rogue said something about my smell having changed too. He said he couldn't find anything wrong with me and that was that."
If Sting said he was fine he was probably fine, but Natsu did see that Rogue, who'd known the blond much longer, didn't look too convinced. "Well, you should tell me in the future anyway." He tied the straps on his sandals stood up, fully dressed. "And when you get over your cold, too."
"Yes, mother." Sting threw a pillow at Natsu. "Rogue, where do we keep the mop?"
"I'll clean up." Rogue assured him. Mopping up vomit was a lot less disgusting that having to wash sheets, which would have also been his job thanks to Sting's need to never be caught doing anything 'girly.' In a way the vomit was actually a blessing. "You just rest."
"Yeah, yeah."
"Hurry up and get better." Natsu told him, a broad grin spreading across his lips. "It's more fun to dominate you when you aren't sick."
Sting had a four letter explicit for him.
"I will, next time." Natsu promised. "I'll visit again soon."
"If a doctor told him he's alright, then I'm sure he's okay." Wendy assured Natsu. "If you're really worried I can go check on him, but… um…"
"Nah." Natsu eased back into his seat at the guild bar. "If you say he's fine. I mean, I'm more likely to believe it coming from you then from him."
"Not to mention that blond brat would bite Wendy's head off if she tried." Gajeel grumbled. "Just the idea that someone could be in a relationship with him is messed up."
"The relationship is messed up even without taking Sting into account." Gray, who'd come over just to take a jab at Natsu's love life, argued. "Have you seen the two of them together? They're always fighting over which one of them is dominant. In bed."
"Care to say that again, droopy eyes?" Natsu demanded.
"Make me, flame brain!" Gray smirked, readying his first spell.
"It's important, you know." Gajeel cut in before a fight could break out. Not that the fight mattered to him. He'd just been waiting weeks for Natsu to notice something anyway. "Which dragon slayer is dominant."
"Oh, you want to get in on their creepy little love fest?" Gray asked mockingly. Gajeel and Natsu teaming up against him wasn't something he needed, but if he let Natsu calm down…
"No. I know I'm on top without pinning someone to a bed." Gajeel smirked at Natsu's squawk of indignation. "But you know what can happen to a submissive dragon slayer, right?"
"No." Gray admitted. If it really did matter… Natsu's 'relationship' still barely went past friends with benefits, but at least it would explain the fighting.
"Well, I didn't expect you too." Why did Gajeel sound so wickedly delighted? "But Natsu, surely Igneel told you about it?"
"Of… of course he did." Natsu lied.
"He didn't, did he? You two must be acting on instincts then, if you didn't know that a submissive male could get pregnant."
Wendy, who'd been growing more and more convinced that this was a conversation that she was far too young to overhear, decided that actually she needed to be the voice of reason. "Males can't have babies." Or could they? She'd always thought that was the case but if the adults said otherwise… then again, they were adults from Fairy Tail.
"They can if they're dragon slayers." Gajeel explained, pretending not to notice that his ridiculous claim was drawing the attention of the rest of the guild. "Dragons are scarce, right? They've got a built in way of dealing with too few of a certain gender. If there are only female's, the most dominant can act as a male for reproduction. If there are only males then the most submissive can act as a female. As dragon slayers, we do take on the traits of dragons, and there aren't a whole lot of people who use our magic."
"…That's stupid." Natsu told him.
"It's the truth." Gajeel insisted.
"Actually, I have heard of some types of fish that can do that." Bisca admitted. "But dragons… well I guess you three would know more about them than any of us… still…"
"Mama, what's re-po-duck-shun?" Asuka asked.
While Bisca and Alzack tried to give their daughter some variant of the stork story, Natsu thought over her claim and asked Gajeel seriously "So… I could have gotten Sting pregnant?"
"Or him you, but if he's the one who's sick…" Gajeel let the idea hang there.
"I… I'd better go check on him." Natsu decided, hurrying out of the building.
The guild buzzed for some time afterward, repeatedly forcing Gajeel to verify his claim, and questioning how-should he be right-Sting would actually be able to carry that child. Having not thought his story through that far, Natsu wouldn't have thought to ask about any of that, after all, Gajeel told them he didn't know the details.
Wendy waited until the buzz died down before asking Gajeel quietly, in a whisper too soft for all but their ears "Could I really get someone pregnant if I was more aggressive than them?"
Gajeel considered it for a moment. Wendy awfully was young to poison with his lies. If she grew up believing that it could come back to bite him. "Nah."
"But you said-"
"Juvia dragged to see some shady pharmacist about a love potion. She went on and on about her dreams about having a family with Gray." Gajeel told her. "He seemed to misunderstand what she wanted. He gave her some sort of super fertility drug instead of a date rape-er!" She was only twelve! "A 'classic love potion.' I was trying to swap out Gray's drink before she could do something funky to him with it and accidentally gave it to Sting."
"That's horrible!" Wendy exclaimed loud enough for everyone without a dragon slayer's hearing to catch.
"Hey, those two needed the heads up." That, and it would be a riot to see that blond brat burdened with a baby. He hadn't meant to give the potion to Sting, but he hadn't tried too hard to stop it. If that brat's nose was so broken than he couldn't notice something in his drink than he deserved whatever he was going to be going through.
STA: Just for the record, there are, in fact, fish who can change their gender if they're dominant/submissive enough. It is not, unfortunately, something humans can do. Also, love potions are totally date rape drugs. The Weasley twins produce and sell date rape drugs. To teenagers. They even have a smuggling business for them.
edit: Just realized I mixed up Natsu and Gray's eye insults.