Chapter 3- The Second Date and an Unexpected Turn of Events

Lucy's POV.

It had been about three weeks since the first date, Natsu forgot to get tickets to one the week after the first date so we had to wait three weeks for the next play nearby, because Natsu said that once he had made up his mind he wasn't changing it. The three weeks went by and with each week I became more and more worried, I hadn't gotten my period since Natsu and I slept together and I should have gotten it two weeks ago. I was going to kill him if I was pregnant, I was not ready to have a baby, I needed someone to talk to so I did the only thing I could think of, I went to Levy. She was my best friend and I knew I could rely on her to give me good advice, I invited her over the day before my date with Natsu to talk to her about it. When she got here I had tea ready and we sat in the living room to talk. I was so nervous my legs were bouncing, I knew Levy could tell, it was very obvious. I finally got the courage up to ask her what she thought of the situation, I looked up from my shaking hands and braced myself before starting.

"So I need your thoughts on something Levy, on the first date Natsu and I had sex and I knew it was stupid but I want to do what it takes to win him so I did it anyway. But I haven't gotten my period yet and I should have gotten it two weeks ago. What do you think is going on?" I finished shaking all over by that point in time, watching Levy for some sort of reaction. "Lucy if I didn't know any better I would say you are pregnant, that's exactly what it sounds like to me." I shook my head in disbelief, "No I can't be, it's not possible. Levy I can't be pregnant I'm not ready to have a baby." I said the tears threatening to spill over, the next thing I knew Levy's arms were around me and I was crying into her shoulder. "Lucy you need to talk to Natsu he is the father, if you are pregnant I mean." Levy rubbed my back and tried to calm me down, at this point I was sobbing. "Once you calm down I'm going to go back to the guild and tell Natsu to come over so you can talk to him okay?" I nodded sniffling and wiping my face off, I knew Levy would know what to do. "Just tell him to hurry so I don't lose the courage to tell him before he gets here." I told her as she walked out the door, I got up and walked to the bathroom and looked at my face and the damage the tears left behind. I grabbed a washcloth and washed my face with cold water, the guild wasn't very far from my house so I probably didn't have very long before Natsu got here.

I sat on the couch to wait for him, my courage was creeping away by the minute, how was I going to approach this, what was he going to say? After fifteen minutes I heard Natsu barge in the front door and I stood up to greet him, my hands started to shake again. "Hey Lucy! Levy said you needed me to come see you?" He said when he saw me walk over, I nodded and guided him back to the sitting room. We sat down and I looked down at my twiddling thumbs and waited for him to say something. "Lucy what's going on?" he finally said causing my head to look up subconsciously, I braced myself for it and began to talk. "So remember when we slept together?" I asked searching for a way to start. "I couldn't forget if I wanted to Lucy" he said, I only nodded before continuing, "Well I think I might be pregnant, that's the only explanation there is for me being late." Natsu blinked as if he was confused, surely he knew what it meant to be pregnant right?. "What do you mean?" he asked I facepalmed suddenly overwhelmed by how dense he is. "I think i'm going to have a baby, and your the dad, what else could I mean?" I told him shaking my head. He looked clueless still, "How am I the dad if it's your baby?" he asked. "Natsu it takes two people to have a baby, we slept together therefore it's our baby if I'm pregnant." I told him in disbelief, how could he not understand this? "Did Igneel or Gildarts never explain this stuff to you?" I didn't know what to think of this, "No what didn't they tell me?" he asked.

Begrudgingly I explained that sometimes when people sleep together the girl gets pregnant and that it took both people for that to happen. This was horrible why did I have to do this? Natsu should have known this stuff before he decided to do this. "Natsu did you sleep with Lisanna too?" I asked dreading the answer, I knew he had I was sure of it but I didn't want to hear him say yes. "Oh uh yea I did, why'd you ask?" he said in response, my head dropped, "Natsu you need to go ask her about this, she probably is too." I felt like the world was falling down around me, we were probably both pregnant with his child, how was this going to affect everything. Natsu was confused as to why he had to ask her but I didn't let him ask anymore questions and ushered him out the door so that I could go lay down, because all I wanted to do was sleep.

Lisanna's POV.

I was at the guild but I really didn't want to be I didn't feel good and I just wanted to go back to my dorm. I was sitting at the bar with Mira when I felt a tap on my shoulder, I turned around to see a slightly confused Natsu. My heart sank, I needed to talk to him but I had been putting it off because I was still in disbelief. I stood up and walked out of the guild knowing he would follow me, I went and sat under the tree in front of the guild and waited for him. When he sat down I put on my brave face, I was not going to cower out of this. "Natsu I need to tell you something." I said before he interrupted me with, "Lucy told me that I needed to ask you about something." I looked down, "Let me go first Natsu," he nodded and I continued, "I'm pregnant." I said finally and he didn't look too surprised which scared me. "So what did Lucy tell you that you need to ask me?" I said sadly. "Well you answered the question already, she told me to ask you if you were pregnant because she is too." he said and then my heart sunk even further, this was the worst possible thing ever.

I stood up and walked away from him, I couldn't be there, I needed to be alone, and I couldn't look at him, he had gotten us both pregnant, how could this be. As I was walking to Fairy Hills I heard someone running up behind me and turned to see why Natsu was following me, but it wasn't Natsu it was Mira. I stopped and waited for her to catch up to see what was going on, "Big Sis what is it, why did you run all the way out here?" I asked her. "Natsu came in looking miserable and you didn't come back in so I needed to see what was going on. You told him didn't you?" She asked hugging me, I nodded and then looked up at her, "Lucy is too, he got us both pregnant Mira, what am I going to do?" I asked her, she rubbed my back as we walked towards Fairy Hills. "Your going to be strong and finish the competition and then regardless of the results you are going to have a beautiful baby that is going to change your life. And regardless of who he picks you are going to have plenty of help raising this baby." she said. I went to sleep when we got to my dorm, I didn't feel like dealing with the rest of the day.

Natsu's POV

Well I was in big trouble now. I decided to go to Gildarts the only person I knew who could give me any advice on this. Thankfully he hasn't left to go on another job yet so I went to his house and walked in and looked around. He wasn't in the living room so I looked in the kitchen and there he was, "Gildarts I need help, badly, I messed up." I said sitting down at the table with him, he laughed and I looked up in confusion. "Let me guess this has to do with Lucy and Lisanna?" He said, I nodded, of course he guessed that, I looked around and continued. "Well some of the guys around the guild said that I should sleep with them to help make my decision and I listened to them and now both of them are pregnant. What do I do?" I finished now tossing a fire back and forth between my hands. He laughed, "Of course you did something stupid like that. Natsu you can't marry both of them but you need to be a parent to both of those babies. You will still have to pick Lucy or Lisanna, do you have any idea who you want to pick yet?" He said, I thought for a second and then spoke up again. "I'm going on a date with them this week after this date I will make my decision. This is too much thought for my brain, it feels like putty."

I left Gildarts house and walked to Lucy's, I needed to tell her the date was still going to happen tomorrow and that a decision would be made sooner, I would tell Lisanna tomorrow. When I got there I didn't bother knocking like normal and just walked in, when she wasn't in her sitting room I looked in the kitchen and then in her bedroom to see her laying in bed. I walked over and noticed she was asleep, so I sat down on the edge of her bed and decided to wait for her to wake up. I walked over to her desk after sitting for five minutes and looked at the papers strewn across it, some of these looked like pages of a story but they didn't make sense. A few minutes later I heard Lucy stir and turned to see her sit up, her face twisted into confusion when she saw me. "Natsu when did you get in here and why are you reading my story without permission?" She shrieked when she realized what I was doing. I sat down on the end of her bed and looked at her quietly, even I knew this was odd for me, "I'm going to be a dad to your baby, I promise. Tomorrow we will still go on our date and then the day after that I will go on the date with Lisanna and then after that I will make a decision, so we can focus on how we will deal with both of you having my babies." I told her taking her hand and squeezing it. She squeezed back and and moved to sit beside me, I knew I shouldn't be doing this because Lisanna wasn't going to get a time like this but I couldn't leave her, not after what I did to her.

I put my arm around her and she laid her head on my shoulder, I held her close and felt her start to cry, I was so mad at myself. "Lucy I'm sorry, I hate when people hurt you and now I have hurt you." I held her as she cried on my shoulder, I would never forgive myself for this, I had hurt one of the people I always tried to protect. "Lucy please forgive me for hurting you so badly'' I said rubbing her head and I felt her nod, "I agreed to it Natsu, it is both of our faults I'm pregnant, we will just have to face it one day at a time." Lucy finally calmed down after about ten minutes and I left her to go back to sleep and told her I would see her tomorrow. When I got home to Happy I told him what happened and of course the dumb cat mocked me. I would figure this out, I had to, I couldn't hurt them anymore then I already had.

Lucy's POV.

After Natsu left that night I laid in bed for the rest of night going in and out of sleep, I was so stuck in thought sleep didn't last very long. I knew I would be exhausted the next day but I couldn't make myself stay asleep, I would just deal with it when I got there. The next day when I looked in the morning I could tell I had barely slept the night before but Natsu would understand, I called Cancer to do my hair and sat there in silence even though he tried to talk to me. I walked to the guild to meet Natsu while walking there I felt sick to my stomach but I ignored it and kept walking. When I got to the guild I walked over to Levy first and hugged her and asked her to walk with me quickly, and we walked to a quiet corner of the guild. "He got Lisanna pregnant too, Levy what will I do? I love him, but Lisanna is carrying his child as well." Levy gasped and hugged me tightly, and said "Lucy, you have to wait until you see who he chooses, and even if he doesn't choose you, there are plenty of people in the guild that will help you raise this child." I nodded and heard someone approaching and turned to see Natsu walking up I told Levy bye and walked to Natsu. Natsu pulled me into a quick hug and then took my hand to pull me out of the guild.

We walked to the train station to go to Onibus city to see the play, when we got on the train Natsu instantly regretted picking something that requires traveling by train. When we got there we walked in and did our best to blend in so the owner wouldn't recognize us from the job we took here years ago. We sat down and when the play started I laid my head on his shoulders and the next thing I knew the play was over and everyone was clapping, I slept through the whole thing. I got up and followed Natsu out holding his hand tightly, I didn't want to lose him in the crowd. "Sorry for falling asleep, I didn't sleep very well last night." I told him when we were sitting in a restaurant for lunch. "It's okay, it was boring anyway, just a bunch of people dancing on stage." Natsu said, he was bouncing in his seat I could tell he was getting impatient waiting for the food. I giggled at him despite myself, I truly didn't feel like laughing but I wanted to be happy, so I let myself laugh at his quirk. "Natsu, I want you to know I'm not mad at you for getting me pregnant, I mean since I met you I have always thought if I was going to have a baby I wanted it to be with you." I told him, it was true when I met him I instantly fell in love with him, but I was still a little upset at him. That night I slept better knowing that tomorrow I would have a better idea of how my future would go.

Lisanna's POV.

I spent the day of Lucy's date in bed not feeling like leaving my room, I didn't want to deal with anything I had even asked Mira to keep Happy for me. But the next day I begrudgingly got out of bed and got ready to meet Natsu for our date, walking to the guild went by slowly even though I wasn't that far away. I walked into the guild and sat down at the bar in front of Mira and laid my head down on the counter, I didn't feel up to doing anything. What would the others in the guild think when they found out, I was too young to have a baby. I spent the next hour waiting for Natsu with my head on the counter listening to the arguments going on around me. When he got there he tapped on my shoulder, and waited for me to get up before taking my hand and guiding me out of the guild and towards the train station. I knew he would regret getting on a train but maybe it would brighten my mood a bit to see him so sick to his stomach.

We got to Onibus and went to the theater and got our seats for the play, Natsu leaned over and told me it was going to be boring because it was yesterday and I nodded before it started. He was right it was the most boring thing I had seen in my life and we both struggled to stay awake through it. While we were leaving Natsu said he just wanted to go back to the guild because he wasn't hungry so we walked back to the train station and got on the train back to Magnolia. When we got back to the guild Natsu got Happy and left, I knew something was wrong, but I put it to the fact that he was going to make the decision later on today and he needed to think about it. And so Lucy and I waited for him to come back to the guild knowing that the decision he was about to make would change both of our lives forever.