Wow thanks for the awesome response you guys...I decided a few days ago that I really wanted to continue this but as of yet I don't know how many chapters, there are at least two more in the works. Hope you enjoy! Things get a bit more fun and naughty in this one...

Lucy Heartfillia was almost sure something had happened between her and Natsu in that little room back in that fortress. Almost...

She recalled a particularly vivid dream of being alone in bed with a certain Fire Mage running his heated hands over her body and pressing urgent kisses against her lips while whispering dirty things to her.

She'd honestly been pretty disappointed when she'd woken to find her team smiling at her, and then laughing at her as she took in her state of undress with an embarrassed yelp; she briefly caught Natsu gazing at her with heated eyes and dare she call it want...something he'd whispered to her in the dream confirmed her suspicions that something had happened.

'Fuck Lu, I'm supposed to be warming you up, not the other way round...'

The way her body had reacted to his while trying not to doze off against the smell of spices in his soft salmon hair, as he gave her a piggyback to the nearest town to find an inn was another clue she tried to piece together.

Lucy couldn't very well ask her best friend about what had happened.

'Hi Natsu, I really like the way your thumbs have been rubbing against the back of my thighs for the last hour so by any chance have I been groping you in my sleep? If we could continue where we left off...that would be great!'

She could just imagine how that conversation would go.

A small grin left her lips as she thought 'to hell with it' and nuzzled her nose into his neck, gently tracing her lips up to his earlobe. She paid avid attention to his reaction.

Natsu, who was currently having a heated discussion with Erza about dinner; stopped talking momentarily and tilted his head back to catch the drooped brown eyes of his best friend. A teasing smile graced her lips and he swallowed quietly as she traced the edge of her nose against his cheek.

She felt his hands squeeze her thighs and she gasped gently as his thumbs moved to rub at the soft skin he found under the hem of her skirt.

"Natsu...?" Lucy gasped quietly into her best friends ear.

"Don't start teasing me again, Lu." He whispered to her. She growled against his throat.

Again? Did that mean she had started something in her sleep?

She felt a laugh bubble out of his throat before his hands returned from their teasing at her thighs to a more conservative position at her knees.

Frustration huffed out of her as the Fire Mage continued his conversation with the Requip Mage as though nothing had happened.

She'd get a solid answer out of him if it was the last thing she did...

The group had decided to split for a while before retiring to their rooms at the inn for the evening.

Erza, Wendy, Charle and Happy wanted to go and grab some food; Lucy wanted to browse the local shops for essentials while Natsu announced he desperately needed a shower before joining them later for food. Something about being 'hot and sweaty'.

A blush came to Lucy's cheeks as she tried not to imagine Natsu naked in the shower but her vivid imagination failed miserably not to conjure up an image of the Fire Mages' tanned and muscled body glistening with water running down it. Dammit...

He left them with a grin and a wave over his shoulder, the other four said their brief farewells to Lucy and disappeared into a local tavern.

With a sneaky grin, Lucy did not head for the local high street as she said she would, but made off after Natsu instead.

She was going to sneak into his room and get some answers...

As she got to the quaint looking inn, the Celestial Mage darted down the small alley way she had noticed earlier and smiled with satisfaction that the window of the Fire Mages' room was slightly ajar.

"Open, gate of the maiden...Virgo!" Lucy whispered quietly into the evening air of the deserted alleyway, careful not to make too much noise to alert his sensitive hearing.

To be completely honest...Natsu really wasn't expecting company. But his nose picked up Lucy's scent as he stepped out of the bathroom in nothing but a towel slung round his waist.

So the image of his best friend half perched on his window sill, one leg on his floor and arguing quietly with her celestial spirit, Virgo about being quiet; caused him to grin and lean against the doorframe with his arms folded.

She obviously hadn't spotted him yet as she set foot in his room and dismissed the maid spirit, who said nothing as she grinned suggestively at Natsu and disappeared with a bow.

"So err...the door is over there..." Natsu spoke loudly and grinned at her 'eep!' of surprise as she turned to face him.

Her eyes widened as she took in his wet and mostly bare muscled body and the way his damp pink hair fell around his amused eyes, her cheeks flared red for a few moments before she looked away.

"I was hoping you'd still be in the shower...and w-well...you sneak in through my window all the time." Lucy hissed quietly. "I don't think I would have plucked up the courage to say what I want to if I'd have knocked on the door." She added.

"If you wanted to see me naked all you had to do was ask, Luce." Natsu grinned as she folded her arms and glared at him.

"I'm not here to gawk at you, pervert." Lucy gathered her courage and walked towards him.

His eyebrows raised at her reaction to his teasing, normally she'd be blushing cutely and would probably have hit him by now; but instead she stood in front of him, hands on her waist and regarding him with a slightly suspicious look.

It was throwing him off a little...what had changed?

"Oh?" Was all he managed to get out before he felt his back hit the bathroom door and she placed a shaky hand against the cross shaped scar on his hip bone.

"I want to know what happened in that place, Natsu? All I remember is a dreaming about your warm hands all over me and you saying...things." Lucy whispered into his chest. "Then I wake up and I can't stop feeling hyper aware of every time we touch."

The same stirring of something within him started again in his chest and he sighed when warm hands removed her own from his scar. He'd told himself that she wouldn't find out about that...

"Nothing happened, Lucy." He bit out, hoping she'd believe him as he looked away from her with a blush.

"It didn't?" Her eyebrow raised at his obvious lie and she placed her fingertips on his cheek to bring his face back to her.

"N-not if you don't want it to."

"So something did happen!" Lucy gasped with eyes wide, she pulled away from Natsu and began pacing around his room, babbling to herself about something.

"If you promise not to hit me...I'll tell you."

Lucy stopped pacing and gazed over at him with a fierce blush.

"Did we...y'know..." Lucy cleared her throat and tried to ignore the pleasure that shot through her body as she imagined them in that position. His warm hands on her hips as they moved urgently - stop!

She shook her head and slapped her ruddy cheeks before regarding his own red face.

"N-no nothing like that...I...I wouldn't let you."

Lucy paled.

"What?" She gulped. "So I did something?"

Natsu nodded and moved by her, motioning for her to sit down on his bed with him while he explained; but she shook her head vehemently and held a hand up.

"I want the whole story, Natsu...and I don't think its a good idea me sitting so close to you right now."

Natsu blinked at her.

"Well...Erza told you what happened with the dark water, right?" Lucy nodded. "Well Wendy was unconscious and I was the only one who could keep you warm...you were so out of it I was shocked when you started...touching me...I sort of responded and we got pretty...handsy with each other."

Lucy sat down, ignoring her previous statement of refusal to do as such.

"Is that why I nearly flashed the others when I woke up?" She hissed at him.

"You started it...I'm a man...what do you expect me to do when I have a beautiful woman I'm completely nuts over rubbing against me and trailing her lips down my throat?!" Natsu got to his feet and hissed angrily. "I'm glad I was respectful enough to stop when I did or..."

Lucy stared at him with her lips agape, she grabbed his hand in hers before he could move too far from her.

"What do you mean you're nuts over me?" She asked him quietly.

"Please don't hate me, Luce...I don't want us to fall out over this...I couldn't bear loosing you." Natsu whispered, his head hung in shame. "I get that you probably don't feel the same...but I-"

"You won't loose me..." Lucy got to her feet and wrapped her arms around his hips from behind. "And when did I ever say I didn't feel the same...I thought my flirting was pretty obvious..."

She stay like that for a minute, watching his body tense before relaxing. She made a decision to tell him something that would likely change things between them forever.

"Besides...it's not like I wouldn't have let you continue if I wasn't so completely out of it, Natsu." Lucy whispered against his neck.

She felt him seize up completely in her arms this time, his heated eyes turning to look at her.

"What?"

Removing herself from his glorious body, Lucy sat down again and held herself; her own eyes refusing to look at him as he turned to move towards her.

"Was I out of it when you carried me earlier?" She asked quietly.

She saw his tanned abs stop at her eye level as he stood before her, she felt his warm but rough hands tilt her chin up to look at him.

"No...I guess you weren't." He murmured. "Why didn't you say anything before now?"

With a startled gasp she was pulled up against his narrow but firm hips and a shudder racked through her frame, a gasp of delight left her lips and for a moment Natsu stared heatedly at her.

"You never asked...I just assumed the only girl who held your heart was Lisanna." Lucy whispered sadly.

"She does have a special place in my heart, but not how you think...Lis' is a dear childhood friend, almost like a sister." He whispered to her gently. "I'm sorry if we made you think that...to tell the truth she was always going on about what a cute couple me and you would make." Natsu grinned bashfully.

Lucy blushed. "We're complete idiots...we could have had so much more time together..."

"Nah...I'm glad we took the time to figure our feelings out...it was just a crush at first but now." Natsu began, looking up and out of his window thoughtfully.

"N-now?" Lucy asked hopefully.

Natsu looked back to her with a tender smile that caused her insides to loop excitedly.

"I'm in love with everything about you."

Happy tears sprung to her eyes and she hugged him fiercely, nuzzling against his neck.

"I love you too."

With a gasp, he crushed her mouth against his, dipping his tongue out to taste the plump flesh at her lips.

"Tell me to stop if you don't want this."

His name spilled from her lips quietly with a shaky breath and she raised her arms to pull him further into her at his shoulders, her fingers raking through partially dried salmon locks as he wrapped his arms around her tightly.

"I think it's pretty obvious I want this, Natsu."

Pulling away slightly, the two gazed at each other longingly and leaned in to continue their heated kiss before the sound of Nastu's stomach rumbling angrily broke their trance.

"Fuck..." Natsu hissed angrily as Lucy grinned at him.

"Looks like someone wants dinner more than me." She murmured up at him.

"Never! But yeah...I kind of used all my energy warming you up." Natsu unhooked an arm and scratched his head, grinning at her adorably. "I'm starving."

With a heated smile, she squeezed his hand and reluctantly moved away from him; he made to move towards her as she stopped at his window, but she held up a waggling finger.

"Nu uh...Get dressed and I'll meet you at the tavern." Lucy winked at him. "We'll finish this later."

With that she vanished from view.

"Fuck...now I need a cold shower."

Dinner was a lively affair as usual, Happy was telling, Natsu expected, a very over exaggerated tale of how he bravely protected an unconscious Wendy and Carla earlier that day. The six team mates were stuffed into a cosy booth in a quiet corner of the tavern, plates of delicious meats, pastries and flagons of beer and wine were enjoyed and Natsu was feeling particularly chilled out. He and Lucy shared a grin across at each other as Happy grabbed his fellow Exceeds' paws and gave Carla a quick nuzzle when she thanked him for protecting Wendy and herself.

Natsu felt something slide against his bare calf momentarily but brushed it off as he grabbed his third or fourth flagon of beer and took a sip.

This time something hard pressed into his hips and the apex of his thigh and his eyes widened as he realised from the heated smirk his best friend shot across the table at him...she was feeling him up with her booted foot.

It seemed now that their mutual feeling of want for the other had been put out in the open, the Celestial Mage had no qualms about doing something so blasé in public. Not that they could be seen, a thick tablecloth covered her wandering leg against his crotch quite successfully.

"So Fireball...what happened to coming to help us fight when you managed to wake Lucy up?" Grey grinned over at his male friend, who was looking strangely panicked.

"Yeah Natsu, what exactly happened in that room?" Lucy asked with a successfully innocent raised eyebrow and her chin in hand.

"U-urgh...it took a lot longer than I thought it would...but E-Erza -" His eyes widened as the booted foot at his crotch slowly rotated in circles and his legs opened involuntarily. "Erza said I needed to be careful...didn't want to cause Luce any more harm." Natsu grinned bashfully and snaked down a hand to grab the booted calf of his audacious best friend.

"But I'm all better now, so thank you Nats-su." Lucy started but struggled to contain a gasp as she felt firm and hot fingers tracing teasingly around the bare thigh above her brown boots.

"Aww...you're welcome Luce..." He grinned wickedly at her blush as she huffed at the nickname and he removed his hand from under the table, reaching to grab a piece of fried chicken. Heat began to pool in his lower belly as she made a very public display of stretching sinuously, her back arching teasingly as she gave him a very obvious wink. A pleasant smell of arousal reached his sensitive nose and he gulped down his chicken, hoping she didn't notice the fierce blush on his face.

"Well if you guys don't mind I'm gonna go grab a shower and head to my room, I'm exhausted."

The group said their good nights before the Mage left the booth and eventually the tavern. Natsu watched her go, not missing the enticing sway of her hips as she left.

The Fire Mage blew out a heated breath, his cheeks still burning as Erza turned to him with a raised eyebrow.

"What was that about?" The red head folded her arms with a smirk.

"Yeah...I could feel the sparks flying off you two from here..." Gray waggled his eyebrows while Wendy giggled behind her hands.

"You lurve each other!" Happy piped up.

"Shut it!" Natsu hissed.

"Then how do you explain the fact you were both half dressed -" Erza teased.

"You're all delusional..." He grumbled before turning back to his food.

He crushed her against him as her room door was shut to and locked quietly later that night, she was wearing her normal blue halter and white skirt, but without those thigh high brown boots that did nothing to help the raging fire of want coursing through his body whenever she wore them. He dipped his head and kissed her hard, his tongue slipping passed her lips slowly as she pressed her chest against his torso.

Groaning deeply, his head fell back against the door with a low thump as Lucy began a slow rhythm with her hips against his pelvis.

"Shh...the others are still awake." Lucy murmured against his throat as she trailed her heated lips against his Adams apple.

"Lucy...should we be doing this when our friends are so close? I'm pretty sure ah I'm pretty sure Wendy can hear as well as I can." Natsu hissed a whine as she grabbed hold of his vest and tugged it down his muscular torso and let it pool on the floor. "They were suspicious enough at dinner..."

"I don't intend on us going that far..." She blushed and looked up at him. "But if we keep quiet, I'm happy to do other things."

Regarding her for a minute, he grinned evilly at her and grabbed her legs, hoisting her up into his lap while marching them towards the bed.

"Let's see how quiet you can be..." he growled lowly.

Natsu hovered over her and surged down to kiss her roughly, rolling his strong hips against hers. She breathed in a whimper quietly and let her head loll to the side, his firm hands grabbed hers and set them into the pillow above their heads.

Gasping in delight at his teeth against her neck as his talented mouth tugged at the straps that held her top up, she shivered as they parted slowly.

"Natsu..." Lucy whined lowly.

She met his eyes and he leaned in to kiss her roughly again, rolling her hips against his urgently. He hissed against her lips, pressing them apart to slide his tongue against hers.

A groan left his throat as her own tongue massaged his and hands lifted to pull down on the blue halter, stopping before he completely exposed the peaks of her breasts.

His lips followed the path the top had uncovered right to the swell of her ample chest, hearing her breath quicken to panting as he travelled lower.

Her shaky hands trailed down his abs and rested on the knotted sash that stood between her and loosening the waistband of his white pants. She teased the hidden skin under it and felt him immediately harden against her thigh.

"If you don't stop that I'm-"

His kisses became a little more forceful and he suddenly lifted her off the bed and into his lap, grinding up into her hips.

Wrapping her lithe legs tightly around his pelvis, she returned the favour. He slid a hand to caress her bare back then joined the other as it pulled up her halter top over her breasts, then arms and eventually off of her body.

Somewhere in the back of his mind a little voice told him that maybe they were moving pretty fast for having only revealed their mutual feelings only a few hours ago, but by the way Lucy hissed and pushed him backwards against the bed; he decided she didn't want to stop.

She gasped again as his hips rutted up into hers and she gazed down at the flushed cheeks and eyes glazed over with desire as he trailed down her breasts and toned stomach. Her once neat ponytail was mussed from their activities so she reached up a hand to untie the messy bow, letting her long blond hair cascade around her naked torso.

"You're beautiful." He whispered.

Settling heated hands upon her thighs, she smiled blissfully down at him before a small yawn left her lips.

Natsu chuckled and raised his eyes to regard her for a moment.

"The others are fast asleep." He whispered. "But as much as I wanna finish this...you're exhausted."

"I don't care...touch me Natsu." She replied boldly, a satisfied whimper escaped her lips as his hands found the roundness of her breasts. She rocked her hips against his in a quick rhythm as she felt his hands begin to tease the gently hardening nubs. Her gasp of pleasure shot straight through him and his hips subconsciously rocked back against hers, tearing a quiet moan from her parted lips.

When Natsu eventually regained his senses, Lucy had managed to get his sash undone and parted the white fabric of his waistband before lowering her mouth to kiss down his bare and heaving torso.

He was vaguely aware that her hips had stopped moving against his and her breathing had completely evened out.

It was when her hands stopped moving on his chest did he look up at her.

His libido cooled considerably when he found she was in fact fast asleep upon his chest. A bark of laughter rose up his throat as he moved aside the curtain of blond hair and gently sat up, bringing her with him.

Lucy stirred slightly as he moved to pull away the covers and set her down gently, smiling fondly down at her as she curled against him in her sleep. He pulled the covers over them and snuggled against her, pressing a long kiss into her hair.

"Night Lu."

He couldn't wait to see her face in the morning when she realised she'd passed out on him...

I enjoyed writing this, sorry to be a tease but I love writing the build up just as much as I enjoy writing the sex! See you soon with Chapter 3!

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