Okay just going to say now
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Since Lucy stayed behind Team Natsu decided to take Lisanna with them making her feel even more isolated than before. She knew the reason they took Lisanna on the mission was because she wasn't going, yet, she couldn't help but feel a little replaced. Yes she considered Lisanna a sister after all they had been through together, but it still hurt to see her and Natsu all chummy with each other since she 'came back to life' as Natsu put it.
Hour by hour the guild had emptied, the only people left in the guild were Mira, Cana and Lucy. The blonde haired mage had drank more lemonades mixed with vodka in the past nine hours than she could count. (Cana was starting to get worried she might have a new rival)
The bar maid was losing patience, the celestial mage still hadn't spilled what happened between her and Natsu. Mira was starting to consider spiking her next drink with the truth tongue vile she had been saving for Levy and Gajeel when they arrived back from their mission. Thinking of this, Mira was pulled into a day dream of mini people that looked like Gajeel and Levy with black and blue hair, chubby cheeks and big eyes running around looking all cute! The white haired mage was instantly pulled out of her daydream when she heard Lucy say something about Natsu. "Sorry Lucy could you repeat yourself?"
Only after asking the blonde mage this question did she realize that Canas mouth was wide open along with her eyes staring at Lucy who was just gazing at her drink with a sad expression falling over her face as she repeated herself, "Natsu- *hiccup*-kissed me, but he was to dr- *hiccup* -drunk so he didn't remember the next morning.*hiccup*" Lucy lifted her gaze from her drink to find Mira joined in with Cana staring at her with eyes wide and jaws that seemed to drop to the floor.
Mira clasped her hands together as she gleefully expressed how she was feeling, "This is wonderful!" The celestial mage just shook her hair from side to side, "It means nothing." The white haired bar maid instantly lost her smile, "Lucy of course it means something! A kiss isn't what you do with everyone." Lucy just let her bangs cover her face as she picked up her drink and finished it. "You haven't told him about it have you." Cana stated.
Tears started to fall from Lucy's cheeks, answering Canas statement. "You can't tell him, either of you." Lucy begged. "Lucy i'm sure if he knew what happened and how you felt h-" Mira was cut off in mid-sentence as Lucy slammed her hands on the table in-front of her, "He'll feel guilty. I don't want to just be the accidental kiss he did that one night and feels guilty about, I want to be his choice not a forced one caused by guilt. It's my choice and If either of you have any respect for my feelings you won't tell him...please, i don't want him to look at me with regret, please." The ending of her voice was merely a whisper through her shaking sobs, as more tears fell down her cheeks.
Cana patted the celestial mage on the back remembering how she had kept the secret that Gildarts was her father, "Secrets safe with me, after all you kept mine." Mira sighed deeply and grabbed Lucy's right hand and nodded her head with a smile. "Thank you." Lucy whispered as her sobs became less frequent. Cana just hugged the poor blonde mage until she tired herself out with exhaustion falling asleep in her arms.
The card mage lay the sleeping Lucys head on the counter as Mira finished cleaning up. Once she was done, the white haired mage asked Cana to take the passed out mage home, she complied and put Lucy in one of her cards so she would be easier to carry, Mira frowned at this action, but Cana was to tired to care.
As Cana was heading out of the door, the bar maid called out to her, "Do you think it's right not to let Natsu know? You can see what it's doing to her." The card mage stopped standing in-between the door frame and turned her head back to Mira, "Honestly no I don't, but she made us promise not to tell him" Mira nodded as a her eyes became filled with more sorrow. "However, she never told us we couldn't push Natsu in the right direction." The white haired mage looked up in shock and excitement to see the grin on Canas face, before the card mage turned and left the guild taking Lucy back to her Apartment. "What are you up to Cana", Mira said to herself with a cheeky smile on her face as she turned off the lights to the guild and headed for the door to close and lock up for the night.
Lucy started to awake with a killing head ache. The celestial mage looked around taking in her surroundings, realizing that she was in her bedroom, yet she couldn't remember how on Earthland she had gotten there.
While the blonde was trying to piece together the events of the night before, she heard a soft moan coming from her right. Lucy screamed "kya!" immediately jumped out the bed onto the cold floor. Her eyes became wide as she lifted her head to see who was in her bed, to find that a certain Card mage had crashed at her apartment for the night.
She considered waking her up to ask what the hell happened last night, but then decided against that idea until her sleeping nakama woke up. Instead she decided to get ready for the day, exiting the bed to enter the bathroom for a shower.
Cana woke up to the sound of spraying water and an empty bed, she guessed that Lucy had woken up and gone into the shower. She started to yawn while stretching her arms up in the air while the sound of the water falling stopped. The door to the bathroom opened and a certain blonde came walking out with a white towel wrapped around her body while her hair was up in another.
"You're awake" She stated with a smile on her face as she went to her wardrobe, "Yeah just woke up a few minutes ago, sorry for crashing the night" "Ah, that's okay. Speaking of last night what exactly happened? I can't really remember how we got back here." Cana looked at the blonde as if she was staring at deaths door as she questioned in a nervously, "You don't remember anything about last night? Nothing at all?"
Lucy stopped looking through her clothes and turned to the girl sitting in her bed, "No..Why? Did i do something?!" The celestial mage questioned with fear in her voice, worrying about the memories she could not recall. "Nah nothing embarrassing, me, you and Mira just chatted for most of the night, then I took you back here." Lucy sighed in relief at what she just heard. "Thank you for looking after me." She turned back to her wardrobe continuing to look through her clothes choosing an outfit for the day.
Cana stood up, "Well guess i'll be going then bye!" She quickly rushed to the door, yet before she even escaped the bedroom Lucy had grabbed her arm. "What's the Hurry?" "I need to change my clothes, they're the same as yesterdays, ha ha." The Card mage laughed nervously at the end, worrying that Lucy would think that she was hiding something.
She did want to speak to her about their discussion last night, but at the same time she knew having Mira there would help the situation so much, yet, for now she would have to keep her cool not to make Lucy suspicious.
The celestial mage shot Cana a questioning look before smiling her, "You can borrow some of my clothes." The brown haired girl just smiled back and replied, "Thanks Lucy!" nudging the blonde who just smiled in reply while drying her damp hair with a towel, all the card mage could think while turning away from the bedroom door thought 'So close.'
The two mages were walking up to the guild. Cana was grateful that Lucy hadn't questioned her about what happened last night again and she sure as hell wasn't going to bring anything up until they got to the white haired barmaid. They each pushed the doors of the guild open walking side by side, greeted by the life saving Mirajane that the Card Mage was so happy to see.
"Hey Mira three barrels!"
"Morning Mira, could I get a glass of water please?"The blonde said while massaging her temples.
"Good Morning girls" The pretty white haired barmaid replied smiling happily, pushing out three big barrels from the side of the bar for the Cana, before returning to the tap, fill a glass with water.
Once Cana had picked up her first barrel Mira turned to Lucy with a gleam in her eye, while handing over the glass of water, making her feel a little uneasy wondering why the Take Over Mage was eyeing her. "Is something wrong?", "Huh? Oh no, I was just thinking about how cute yours and Natsus children will be."
This statement caused the Celestial Mages cheeks to turn two shades darker than Erzas hair, while Cana spat out her alcohol in a laughing fit, she knew Mira would be the perfect person to remind Lucy of their talk the night before.
"Wh- what're you talking about?" Lucy said with a few light nervous laughs as she looked from side to side to see if anyone had heard the white barmaids thoughts, only to see Cana was the only one close enough to hear, she turned to face the Take Over Mage. "You don't remember our talk last night lucy?" The blonde shook her head side to side looking up at her nakama with worried eyes. Mira sighed and filled her in on what had happened the night before, slowly the blonde turned her head to face the brown-haired girl sitting next to her. Lucys eyes glared at her, which sent shivers down the Card Mages spine, who was looking anywhere but her.
The words Cana had told her this morning played in her head, 'Nah nothing embarrassing, me you and Mira just chatted for most of the night, then I took you back here.' True her Nakama had not lied to her, but she still avoided telling her.
Lucy let out a deep sigh that turned into a moan as she grabbed her head and banged the table. Mira and Cana looked at each other with a worry then back at the blonde.
"Lucy it's nothing to be upset about." Mira said while rubbing the poor blondes back "maybe he even likes you as well?" Cana chirped in with the warmest smile she could manage that early in the morning.
"We're talking about Natsu" mumbled the blonde not lifting her head off the bar counter.
"Why not tell us how you two ended up kissing?" Mira suggested just getting a loud moan in response.
"You may as well tell us." Cana pitched in once again, leading to the blonde lifting herself up, straightening her posture sighing once again deeply in defeat and began to tell them the story of what happened.
**Flash back**
Everyone was getting more and more intoxicated as the night progressed.
Lucy didn't feel like going home yet, she decided to walk through the path of the forest to where her favorite tree was in which she would sit under for shade to read a book when she had time to herself, or Team Natsu would be off with their new team member Lisanna. At first she was hurt that they were slowly replacing her in the team. However, she knew that there was no point getting worked up about it, after all she was only a replacement for their comrade who they lost so suddenly and was now back from the 'dead'.
The blonde continued to walk until she reached a part of the forest where there was a clearing. The mage dropped to the floor lying down and looked up to the starry sky, trying to figure out what she was feelings. Lucy closed her eyes and fell into the blissful comfort of sleep.
Lucy started to stir in her sleep, hearing a faint voice calling out to her from a distance, it was merely a whisper. She started to flutter her eyelashes, trying to open her eyes as the voice started to become louder.
Once the celestial mage opened her eyes she found that she wasn't alone, a certain fire dragon was kneeling down shadowing over her. "What're you doing out here?" He asked as she shuffled into a sitting position, "I was just thinking." she replied looking at him trying to hide that she was overwhelmed with so many thoughts that she had to get fresh air away from the guild.
Natsu intensely stared into Lucys brown orbs making her blush,"S-stop looking at me like that." She was about to look away, but the fire mage grabbed the back of her neck, not giving her the chance.
Lucys heartbeat increased, which the dragon slayer heard straight away. She was shocked at her Nakamas actions, his eyes fell to her lips slowly filling the gap that was between them. "Natsu..." Lucy barely whispered as her gaze fell to his slowly closing her eyes as his mouth met hers. Natsus lips were surprisingly soft with little tingles of heat.
The celestial mage couldn't believe what was happening. Yes, she did realize that she had feelings for her partner since the Hanami festival, yet she always brushed them off as if they were just a small crush, only just realized in this moment that those feelings were a lot stronger than originally thought.
The two fell backwards never breaking their entwinement, Lucys hands made their way to Natsus hair, while the fire mage leaned on his right elbow with his left hand still behind her head. The two broke their attachment for air. The fire mage nuzzled into the blondes right shoulder and passed out. The celestial mage, just looked up at the stars as she started to doze off, while her arms cradled her partner. She didn't care what tomorrow would bring, all she knew was that all her troubling thoughts had disappeared.
**Flash back**
"The next day i woke up alone in my bed, when came to the guild I saw Natsu, he said that we were asleep in middle of the field so he took me home, he didn't remember the rest of the night, he said it was all just a big blur." Lucy sighed while massaging her temples to try to get rid of the painful head ache that lingered from all the lemonade vodka mixes she had downed the night before while taking sips of the water Mira had made her.
"So that's why you've avoided going on missions alone with him." Mira stated, the blonde just nodded, "I need space, every time I'm around the idiot I can't think straight.", "Ever think if he knew then he would feel the same way?" Cana questioned, but the celestial mages face started looking despondent, "I thought about it when i saw him that day, but i didn't want to lose what we have. Plus knowing him, he wouldn't know what to do. No, if we were to ever start a relationship, i'd want us to be in a right mind so that he wouldn't regret it." Mira and Cana shot her a worried look, "Guys I'm okay, really, so stop worry about it."
"How about we go on a job together to take your mind off of him for a bit?"
"Are you sure Cana?"
"Yeah! Sounds like fun, go choose a job."
"Thanks Cana." Lucy pushed her stool from the bar counter, stood up and walked over to the mission board.
As Lucy walked away Mira turned to Cana and shot her a glare,
"What're you planning?"
"Wait and see."
Lucy walked back and handed Mira a piece of paper,
"Mira we're taking this mission." Lucy stated beaming with happiness at the thought of not going on another solo job.
"Meet back here in half an hour, I need to go pack." Cana shouted as she put down her third barrel and exited the guild.
Mira turned to Lucy, "Aren't you going to go pack as well Lucy?"
"Nah, I keep a backpack in the celestial world, it's easier to travel that way. At first I didn't feel right about doing that, but Virgo insisted and it just became a habit."
Their conversation was interrupted when the lacrima started to glow, Mira turned to answer it.
"Oh, hi Erza is something wrong?"
"Hello Mira, No I just called to inform you that the mission will be taking an extra two weeks to complete than originally thought."
"I'll tell Master Makarov right away."
"Thank you."
Mira turned off the lacrima expecting Lucy to be sitting behind her, however the blonde had disappeared, that's when it hit her. She obviously overheard the conversation on the lacrima about Team Natsu not coming back for three weeks. She let out a sigh just hoping Lucy was okay.
Sorry that it's taken this long to upload, I've been writing my other stories, hope you enjoyed this chapter, if they're any mistakes please tell me and review. ^_^