"Natsu, what the hell man?! Put some clothes on! That is the last thing I needed to see this morning!" Grey shrieked, interrupting Lucy's concentration and doing her aching head no favours. Lucy threw on a bathrobe as quickly as she could, hobbling to the door in the hopes that she would get there before Natsu had a chance to respond-
"You have no right to say that to me!" Natsu replied just as energetically. Lucy had just managed to open the door in the hopes of stopping him from adding to her pain and got an earful as her reward. She glared at the pair, deciding she hated them too much at this moment to even care that neither of them had thought of covering themselves. At the sound of the door, the two men had turned to look at her, and fell silent under the wrath of her gaze.
"If you're going to yell, just go." She managed to say menacingly, while consciously trying to keep her volume down. The two nakama guffawed at her, so she pointed at the door emphatically for them. It was then that they began scuffling around for their pants, which they found in a really strange place. They didn't want to test her patience further by asking why their pants had been pinned to the wall in her kitchen, so they decided they would take that up with her at the guild later.
Once her door closed behind the two of them, she revelled in the quiet and decided that for now, kicking them out had been the right decision. She took the rest of that morning to relax and generally mope about until she felt well enough to go to the guild. When she made it there, she found that, with the exception of Cana, most of the guild members had had a night as rough as she had. She wandered over towards the bar where Mira was offering ice packs to the other mages with hangovers and sat in front of her before laying her head down. She was vaguely uncomfortable, as she wasn't used to wearing long necked garments anymore, but she hadn't really had a choice in the matter if she wanted to avoid talking about the mark on her neck. At the memory of it, she sat straight up. She regretted it, as she wasn't feeling entirely good yet but she had to ask Mira.
"Mira, what in the world happened last night? I feel awful," Lucy whined at her friend. Mira turned from serving another person and tilted her head to the side as if she herself was having trouble remembering it.
"I wonder," she said, thoughtfully. Lucy made a fairly unhappy face in response to this, so she decided to have mercy this one time. "There was definitely drinking, which was surprising that you joined in at all, and then there were some games as well. Have you asked your team yet?". Mira gestured over at the table where Natsu, Happy, and Lisanna were talking brightly. Lucy was still feeling pretty awful, so she resented the fact that he seemed to have bounced back so well, but then there was Grey and Juvia also looked quite healthy this morning. Seeing them there in their particular pairings did make her wonder if it was worth finding out the truth after all. Maybe it would be better to just pretend the whole thing didn't happen, considering that she didn't have the strength to fight off the two other women at the moment and that she liked them too much to do so anyways.
She felt that she and Juvia were finally on good terms, and felt even affection for the blue haired water mage. Then there was Lisanna, so sweet and cute, like a younger sister to the entire guild. Lucy was also aware how frustrating that image had to be for her while she was trying to get Natsu's attention. With a deep sigh, Lucy decided that she was putting her foot down and was not going to investigate this any further. She honestly didn't want to know which man had been drunk enough to take her virginity and completely forget about it. The writer inside her suggested that maybe it had been both of them, before she emphatically pushed that thought out of her mind. No! The issue has been settled, and keeping her precious team and guild together came first. She had priorities. She finally looked back at Mira, who was probably formulating her own ideas about Lucy's silence.
"No, I haven't spoken to them yet. I guess I'll do that next, since I probably owe them an apology," She said demurely. Mira was still eyeing her thoughtfully, so she quickly added: "Did I win any of the games?"
"Sorry, I don't think so. Although my handwriting was pretty bad at the time, it looks like you didn't manage to win anything this time. Cana did very well as usual, but I'm sure you'll do better next time Lucy."
"Ugh, no thanks. Although I'm sure it was fun, I am never drinking again. It's just not worth it. What did I end up drinking anyway? I felt so sore this morning, like I'd had too much wine or something." Lucy wondered out loud.
"We certainly had wine, but I think you had some of whatever Cana was drinking at some point as well. Everyone was really impressed!" Mira enthused, before realizing that she was speaking a bit too brightly for her nakama who were still feeling the effects of the night before. "Are you sure you don't want to play the drunk games again? It looks like you did okay in the scavenger hunt." Mira was looking at a napkin with some pretty messy writing, and Lucy thought it was a miracle that she could read it in the first place.
"No, really, I'm taking a break from every type of alcohol there is for a while. I honestly have no idea how Cana does it," Lucy said, looking over at the victorious woman, who had somehow managed to win games while stone drunk. She removed her hand from where it was resting over the mark on her neck, and decided that, for certain, this was the last that she was going to think about it.