Hello everyone! I hope that you have been enjoying the story up to this point.

DISCLAIMER: Fairy Tail and all related characters belong to Hiro Mashima

Lucy was thinking about the mission that she had done that day while riding back on the train. It was easy enough, but she had to admit it was rather… boring. Natsu and Happy did not go with her, nor did the other members of Team Natsu. Her train was scheduled to arrive in Magnolia in two hours and Lucy was lonely by herself in the train cart. She summoned Plue, it had been awhile since the last time she had called him.

Lucy looked out the window and saw that the sun was setting, "So pretty, I wish the others were here to see this." Well, most of her partners would be able to enjoy the sunset on the train, except Natsu. "Too bad. Sunsets are really romantic." It took a second for Lucy to process what she had just said, "Am I really still thinking about him like that?"

The only response that Lucy had to that question were Plue's normal sounds, which either sounded in agreement or confusion to the question. Lucy looked at the sunset again, "Maybe I should have found a hotel and stayed in town over night. At this rate it is going to be dark out by the time I get home." She just sighed and wanted the train ride to be over already.

Back at Lucy's apartment dwelled a very grumpy Natsu. The day before he had discovered Lucy's diary, but could not figure out what was in it because of Gray, then was threatened by Juvia soon after. "She knows that she can talk to me, so why the hell would Lucy keep a stupid diary?!"

"Are you still thinking about that, Natsu," asked Happy chewing on a fish. Unlike Natsu, Happy had given up on trying to figure out what was written in the diary. "I'm sure Lucy has her reasons and you just have to wait until Lucy tell you that she lllllllllllikes you," Happy teased for the uncountable time that day.

"That is not why I want to know what she writes in it," it was extremely faint, but there was a dusting of blush on Natsu's cheeks. "I just want to make sure she isn't dealing with any problems that she hasn't told me about!"

"Whatever you say, Natsu." Happy finished off his fish and sighed contentedly. "Goodnight, Natsu," Happy said as he settled himself on Lucy's bed.

"Goodnight, Happy, I think I'll stay up for a little longer." Natsu was trying his best to get that book out of his mind, but there was something that bothered him about it. Sure, Lucy can keep a diary, she loved writing and would probably say that it was to practice her writing style. That part Natsu did not mind, what did bothered him though was the fact that Lucy had gone as far as getting a fire-proof lock. The fire part was obviously not a coincidence. "Hey, Happy, when was Lucy supposed to be coming back?"

Happy rolled so that he was facing Natsu, but his eyes were still closed, "I think she was coming back today, but it's late. Lucy might have stayed there for the night."

It was getting late and getting dark outside, Natsu really did hope that Lucy was not traveling in the dark. She was notorious for being kidnapped. 'No, don't think like that,' Natsu thought, 'Lucy is strong. She would not give up without a fight.' Natsu smiled at this, he had seen Lucy grow so much since the first time he met her. She was no longer that girl that would try using her sex appeal to try and get out of a fight, now Lucy would stand up and fight for herself. 'That's my girl.' Wait, what? Natsu was confused about the way he just thought about Lucy. He blamed the past two days, everything about them had been weird. Maybe it would be better to just go to bed early and hope everything would be back to normal tomorrow.

When Lucy finally got off the train there was barely any light left and Plue had already gone back. "Shoot, I better hurry." Lucy walked quickly as possible to her apartment that would not cause any attention. However, there were still the perverts that would give her cat calls as she walked. To be honest, it really ticked her off now and she just ignored them. Luckily none of them followed her, but she still kept her hand on her keys if something were to happen. Unlike all the other times when Lucy walked home, she made sure not to walk on the edge of the riverbed. It was dark, she did not want to waste anytime getting home, and she had nearly fallen in the other day. Before opening the door to her apartment, Lucy checked her surroundings for anything dangerous. Nope, the coast was clear.

She turned the key and pushed the door open, "I'm home," she called out into the apartment. There was no answer, Lucy turned on the lights before walking in further into the apartment. Grabbing a set of pajamas, changing into them, and brushing her teeth, Lucy was ready to go to bed. The thought of her bed seemed so wonderful at the moment, she did not get to sleep at home the previous night and it was not comfortable where she stayed during the mission. However, she had no doubt in her mind that a certain dragon slayer had occupied her bed during her absence and was most likely still there. If she was a gambler, she would probably put all the money she just made toward that bet and she would have won big time after pulling back the comforter.

Normally, Lucy would have yelled at him to wake up and leave, but she did not have the energy for that after her long day. "Scooch over," Lucy whispered, not really expecting a response from Natsu who was deeply asleep. Surprisingly enough, Natsu did in fact move enough to the side for Lucy to fit in his sleep while mumbling what sounded like "Okay."

After carefully climbing in to not wake up Natsu, Lucy settled in the covers. "So warm," Lucy hummed, it was obvious that Natsu had been sleeping for some time now. Lucy turned onto her side so that she was facing the sleeping Natsu. Eventhough he would not be able to hear her at the moment, Lucy decided to talk about her day before going to sleep. "I succeeded on completing the mission and I'll tell Mira that tomorrow," Lucy started off, "then I took the train back." The word "train" managed to make Natsu groan in his sleep and he became slightly greener than before. Lucy chuckled, and stroked Natsu's hair to settle him down, she would not be cleaning off vomit tonight. "Sorry, should have known better," Natsu returned to his normal sleeping self. Lucy continued, "When I got off some guys were giving me cat calls as I walked home, it was really annoying." Lucy thought she saw Natsu scowl in his sleep, but it was gone as soon as it appeared. "But don't worry, I was ready to fight back if any of them tried to do anything," Lucy declared proudly. "Goodnight, Natsu."

Lucy was going back to her side of the bed, until she became wrapped up by Natsu's arms. One across her waist and the other holding her head into the crook of Natsu's neck. Lucy started blushing furiously. She was ready to accuse of Natsu actually being awake the entire time, but he was snoring the entire time she was talking. 'Don't freak out, he's just asleep and probably doesn't even know what he's doing. But, this actually feels… pretty nice,' Lucy thought. 'It's like we're a coupl- I need to stop thinking that! Oh, who am I kidding?' Lucy questioned. 'I like being held by him and can't deny it!' She was decided to just go to sleep and deal with the issue at hand in the morning and dozed off due to Natsu's warmth.

"That's my girl," Natsu mumbled in his sleep, smiling.

The next morning Lucy and Natsu were detangled from each other from some point during the night. Natsu was the first one of two to wake up. "Good morning, Lucy," Natsu said groggily rubbing the sleep out of his eye. Wait a second, "Lucy! You're back!"

Natsu's booming voice first thing in the morning had caused Lucy to nearly fall of the bed out of startlement. However, instead of yelling at Natsu to get out of her bed like any other morning, Lucy asked, "Do you have to be so loud first thing in the morning?"

"Huh? But I was just excited to see you, Lucy. I didn't get to see you for a whole day. Anyways, when did you get back? I didn't hear you come in."

'He was excited to see me? Wait, calm down, this is Natsu we're talking about here,' Lucy thought to herself. Despite what she told herself, her heart did beat a little faster.

"I came home sometime last night. You were already asleep and I didn't feel like waking you up."

"But that's never stopped you before, you always yell at me for sleeping in your bed," Natsu stated rather plainly.

"To be honest, I kinda gave up since you never seem to listen to me about that," Lucy sighed.

"Or maybe you didn't wake up Natsu because you llllllllllllike him," Happy laughed after listening to their conversation for a while. He did not hear any sound of embarrassment from Lucy nor Natsu. So Happy crossed his arms and put on a smug smile, thinking he had rendered them speechless from embarrassment.

"What do you want for breakfast since you're here," Lucy asked Natsu as they walked toward the kitchen, completely ignoring Happy's comment.

"I don't know. Do you have any bacon left? That sounds good," answered Natsu, also ignoring Happy's comment.

"What!? Natsu and Lucy are ignoring what I just said! Is my running gag becoming stale!?" Screamed Happy, breaking the fourth wall.

"A long time ago," Natsu and Lucy said in unison from the kitchen.

"Hurry up, Happy, or you're going to miss breakfast," Lucy called.

"Breakfast? Oh that's right," Happy exclaimed as he flew into the kitchen. "Lucy, I made sure Natsu didn't burn down anything… from your apartment. When can we pick up my fish?"

"Later today," Lucy said as she unwrapped the bacon, per Natsu's request, "I need to go grocery shopping anyways. Oh, this stupid stove isn't working!"

"Here, let me try," Natsu said as he held the skillet in one hand and over the other. He carefully heated up the pan so he would not ruin the bacon. "Nice and crispy! Stand back Lucy, Happy, it's going to start popping soon."

While Natsu was handling the bacon, Lucy decided to cut up some fruit to eat, since the stove was not working and they could not have pancakes like she had planned. Also, because she was missing ingredients like flour and eggs, Lucy was not kidding when she said she needed to go grocery shopping. "Happy, could you set up the table, please?"

"Aye sir!"

After the bacon was cooked and the fruit was sliced, everyone sat down at the table and ate. There was a lot of bacon. A lot. Natsu had cooked the entire package and naturally he had the biggest helping of it.

Breaking the silence, Happy asked, "Why were you two cuddling last night?" This caused Lucy to start coughing from her juice and Natsu to drop any bacon he had from his mouth.

"WHAT!?"

Happy was unfazed by the reaction, "I had to use the restroom last night and you two were cuddling. The both of you looked so cute smiling the way you were!" Happy laughed like it was the funniest thing he had ever seen.

"You're, you're making that up! We did no such thing last-" then Lucy remembered what happened right before falling asleep. Regardless to say, she was quite pink at this point. "Night," the last part came out rather weak.

"Y-yeah Happy, you must have dreamt that," Natsu said rather nervously. Though, he did not understand why he was nervous. He and Lucy were friends and hugged plenty of times before. He had no memory of what happened after Lucy had come home last night.

"Are the two of you secretly dating?"

"No, we're not!" Lucy's hands flew up to her cheeks that were only getting pinker.

"Are you sure? I think I'm going to tell Mira your little secret!"

"Don't go telling lies, Happy," Natsu yelled.

"I don't think it's a lie, you two are obviously hiding something."

"No, we're not," Lucy said once again. "How would you like if we told people you and Carla were- Wait, you'd like that," her plan backfired. But then she got an even better plan, "You know, I don't feel like buying fish today."

"What? No! You promised," Happy protested.

"You were about to tell Mira something that was not true, no fish is your punishment."

"Okay, I won't tell Mira that you and Natsu are a couple," Happy agreed. Lucy smirked in triumph. "But I will tell her that you two were cuddling, and that's the truth!"

"GET BACK HERE!"

Happy did not get fish that day when the three of them went down to the open air market. Lucy got the basics that she needed, like flour and eggs. Then whatever foods Natsu would throw into the wicker basket. It got a little too heavy for Lucy to comfortably carry, Natsu noticed this and insisted on carrying the basket from there on out, since the main reason why it got heavy was because of him. Needless to say, any fish that Happy did try sneaking into the basket was sent right back, after an apology to the vendor. Much to Happy's dismay, Natsu was on Lucy's side every time he tried sneaking in said fish.

However, during their walk through the market, the diary had never fully left Natsu's thoughts, but he was not going to ask at the moment.

"Good morning, youngins," a vendor man called from his booth. Natsu and Lucy took a quick glance at his wares from where they were standing. Not seeing anything they were interested in, they waved him off and kept walking. "Wait, young man, don't you want to buy a gift for your girlfriend?"

Once again, Lucy and Natsu had been mistaken for being a couple, only this time it was Lucy's turn to be identified as such. "G-girlfriend?"

"She's not my girlfriend," Natsu said.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," the vendor started off with, "I just assumed because you both looked so young." What did that have to do with anything? "Your wife." Oh.

"Sh-she's not my wife either," Natsu said a little too loudly and his face started to match his hair. He turned away from the vendor and started walking forward, "L-let's go Lucy. Lucy? What's wrong?"

Lucy's face was in complete shock and the darkest shade of pink before people could start calling it red. The vendor's comment only reminded her of the third and fourth pages of her diary, 'Mrs. Lucy Dragneel Mrs. Lucy Dragneel Mrs. Lucy Dragneel...' was the only thing that Lucy could think of, along with wedding bells in the background.

"Y-yeah, l-let's j-just g-go n-now," Lucy stuttered and started walking rather mechanically.

"Are you sure you're going to to be okay," Natsu asked concerned.

"Y-yeah."

"She llll-" Happy was cut off.

"Not now, Happy!" Lucy yelled after snapping out of it. The blush was long ways away from dying down anytime soon.

Hi again! Thanks for reading. Sorry that this chapter was a bit slower than the last two, I just needed transition between Lucy's departure and returning from the mission. It's 2 AM when I'm writing this and I want bacon now.