Hi everyone, this is my first publish FanFic, so please don't hate, but I would love comments and suggestions! THanks to the most beautiful of lies for an awesome summery! So without further adu... Enjoy

Lucy bent her neck down like a swan, blond hair draped across his hand. She wondered what he could be thinking, the fire in his eyes was gone. Then, he moved his head so close to hers she could feel his dragon's breath caressing her face. His hand tightened slightly at her waist as he pulled her closer. Almost shyly she took her hand and tangled it in the back of his salmon colored hair. They stood their for a moment poised, finally when the electricity coercing in the space between their bodies was unbearable...

Suddenly Lucy looked up, and saw the tears in Natsu's eyes. Not again she thought. This had been happening more and more lately, she wanted to stop she really did but... She couldn't, she wasn't strong enough to push him away, but she wasn't strong enough to protect him either.

She knew how this dream would play out, they would stand there for a moment more, then he would pull away, she would wake up. How long between dreams was anyones guess, but they would always come. She didn't want to re-live it again and again, even though she knew it was all a dream, the pain was real.

She thought she knew, and was resined to the fact he would pull away. So, when instead of doing that he came closer she panicked. Thoughts raced around her head, as her heart tried to beat out of her chest. Strange, she never though of him like this, before the dreams...

These thoughts had but a moment to race around, before they and everything else was banished from her head, because suddenly and against all logic they were kissing. Lucy could taste his tears, and feel the sadness in his body, how desperately alone he was. She pushed herself into him, not caring if this was the right thing to do, she wanted to feel his body against hers. Suddenly, she felt something strange, his sadness evaporating into the wind as he wound his hands around to her back, returning her kiss two fold.

Lucy sat up in bed, or at least she thought it was her bed, until moving into space where her mattress should have been, landing painfully on her floor in a pile of blankets. The couch, she hazily remembered, I was sleeping on the couch. Almost as soon as the logical next question-Why was I sleeping on the couch?-Crossed her mind, it was answered in the form of a questioning, "Lucy?" coming from her bed.

Oh, the realization slowly coming to her, out of the thick fog that generally crowds one's mind at 2am, if one has just woken up, Natsu took my bed. Silently she cursed. Why did he have to always insist on staying here of all places? She hadn't told him about the dreams, and waking up to find him in the same room probably didn't help. Just friends, she quickly repeated to herself. She had never even thought they could be more, until the stupid dreams started. They had forced her into look at him in a different way, and now their friendship was suffering because of it.

For a while longer she sat on the floor wondering what this latest dream could mean, hopefully it meant it was over. That whatever was causing his was some joke spell, or potion that somehow found its way into her drink. She wanted to believe that whatever was causing them would stop now that her dream changed, that it wasn't her mind.

Abruptly her train of thought crashed, its way bared by movement from her bed. Natsu had gotten up. She looked to see he had taken off his vest to sleep but not his scarf. Before the dreams she wound have started teasing him, 2am or not, but now it felt weird, like if she said anything then she had noticed.

"Hey Lucy, why you sitting on the floor?" Natsu, just as clueless as usual

Just like that the spell binding Lucy was broken, "Clothes, fire princess!" She said, louder than normal, but not quite a yell because she really didn't want to get kicked out of her apartment.

Natsu looked embarrassed as he quickly scrambled to find his vest.

Weird, Lucy thought. He looked embarrassed, and didn't even try and kill me for calling him fire princess... Since when did he care more about the fact he didn't have his vest, then that I used a form his insult for Gray on him right after telling him to find so clothes. Maybe he didn't get the joke... or just decided it wasn't funny... He probably didn't look embarrassed at all, or did he...

Lucy was so wrapped up in her thoughts that it wasn't until Natsu's third time saying her name that she responded. "Huh?" She muttered, her voice heavy with confusion. "Say that again."

"I was trying to tell you I had a weird dream, but your weren't exactly here so never mind." As soon as he had finished saying this he flopped down on her bed, and in a matter of seconds was asleep.

That was out of character, Lucy thought. I wonder what he had a dream about... What if we had the same dream? She cringed and blushed at the thought. He has been acting strange lately.

These thoughts and many more, followed her as she got up and lay back down on the couch. They didn't stop until she finally fell asleep. Then they waited patently, knowing they had time, they would be on her mind for a long time to come.