The routine was the same, pick mission, go to mission destination, fight whoever was in the way, destroy 90% of what was there (be it a town, home, mountain, forest, port, island etc…), pick up reward, go back to guild, reward money lost to fixing costs, then eventually go home. This cycle was every day and Lucy was starting to feel a little overworked and a little underpaid. So she decided to sit one day out just because she needed a break from the chaos, just for once.

In this one day, she realized that she had a lot of time to herself, alone. Since Erza, Gray, Natsu, and Happy still went on another mission, her home was at peace. The silence filled the room and it became very tranquil and her stress level decreased by 100 if there was a scale between 1 and 100 (100 being the max amount of stress). Soothing bubble bath, warm tea, and reading by the fireplace. All of it was done without anything being broken or smashed or noisy.

"Finally, a full day without any disturbances." She said to herself while she was day dreaming in her chair by the warm fireplace. She looked outside and it was full of stars. Little sparkles peeked through the vast dark sky.

But she was soon interrupted by her door being kicked open with heavy breaths and footsteps. It scared her half to death. Stress level peaked at 85.

"Natsu's hurt Lucy, we're putting him on the bed." Erza commanded her. Lucy just nodded and got the bed ready. She looked at Natsu who was unconscious and slung over Gray's and Erza's shoulders. They dragged him to the bed. Happy was already in Lucy's arms.

"What happened to him?" Lucy asked Gray and Erza for an explanation.

"Well to be honest, we wanted to get the mission over as soon as possible because we didn't want you to be alone for too long…" Erza started to explain.

"But we ended spending the whole day there and then…" Gray continued.

"Aye. Natsu went off to fight the monster alone because he didn't want to wait til the next day…" Happy concluded their story.

"This is the result of his eagerness and impatience." Erza said as she made herself comfortable in Lucy's reading chair.

Gray started to strip down as he headed to the washroom. "I'm gonna take a shower now."

Lucy's mouth dropped open. Stress level hit 100. At this rate her heart is going to explode. "GRAYYYYY AT LEAST TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF ONCE YOU'RE IN THE WASHROOM!" She threw him his clothes and it knocked him into the washroom. Then she slammed the washroom door shut, leaving Gray in a comatose state, sprawled on the floor. She couldn't help herself from thinking that it was better off when they weren't here but they missed her, stress level dropped to 50.

"You guys should get Wendy." Lucy said plainly because Wendy was the one with the healing powers not her.

"But Natsu wanted to come straight here." Erza shrugged. "He said he'll be just fine once he gets to your place."

Lucy just wore a blank face, she didn't feel like taking care of Natsu since last time he punched her out in his sleep.

"When did he say that?"

"When we were on the train."

"So why is he unconscious?"

"I punched him."

Lucy smacked her head. Of course she would do that. "Okay, okay, everyone out. It's late and we're not having a sleep over. Erza take Gray and Natsu home please."

"I'll take Gray home once he puts on his clothes and I don't think Natsu wants to leave." She pointed to Natsu. He was on Lucy's bed with his hands clutched to the sides as if he was listening to their conversation. Lucy hit his head.

"YOU ARE NOT HURT OR UNCONSCIOUS!"

A small smirk crept across his face and he mumbled, "I don't feel too good…" Lucy tried to pull him off the bed but his grasp on the bed was too strong.

"NATSU!" Her stress level was way over 100 now.

"But your bed is much better than mine…" He managed to mumble words.

Lucy kept trying to pry him off her bed. While she was doing that, Erza was dragging a half-naked Gray across the floor, by his foot.

"Kay, we're leaving then." They left.

Happy was already sleeping on the couch. Lucy finally gave up. This wasn't the way she imagined going to bed. One night, she wished, just one night she would have a peaceful night. Since there was no way of moving the 'sleeping' dragon, she took out a sleeping bag and placed it on the floor next to the bed. Happy, half asleep, found his way to the bed since they stopped fighting.

A heavy sigh escaped from Lucy's lips. Then she started to doze off to sleep on the floor.

"You could have just slept at your place. You're not even hurt." She yawned.

Lucy didn't hear a reply but all she heard was his light snoring. She decided to give in to her sleepiness. As soon as she fell asleep, Natsu replied, "I just missed you…" Stress level dropped to 0.

A/N: I'm still in this NaLu phase. Lol it's getting in the way of my other stories ;P Anyways, a little fluff here (: