Lucy woke with a start. The celestial sweetheart squirmed into an upright position, blinking and slowly took in her surroundings. She was in a messy, but somehow familiar room. It smelt like dead fish, actually, it was quit disgusting. A shiver shot down her spine, had she been moved into a dungeon by the bandits? No, that couldn't be. If this was a dungeon, then it was very un-kept. There where cloths everywhere, along with assortments of bottles and boxes. A voice spke out from the shadows, "Lucy don't strain yourself, that guy beat you're pretty good". The blonde mage let out a startled noise. "who's there? How do you know my name?" she spoke in a hoarse voice, wincing. Every word hurt. She supposed the man was right. She was beaten up pretty bad. The owner of the voice stepped out of the shadows "ouch lucy, I leave you for an hour and you forget me?" said nastu, freighting hurt. The celestial mage giggled and apologized. The two sat quietly for a while, before lucy asked " say natsu, where are we?" He chuckled slightly and replied "we are at my house, I took you here to recover". She scrunched her nose up and told him he needed to clean.
The dragon slayer thought it prudent not to not let the guild know about Lucy's state, as they may ask troublesome questions. He was lucky that Lucy had been unconscious when he transformed. Although, he didn't know what he was going to do about the reward. He never went to collect it, because if he did, he would have to admit to killing the bandits. Natsu decided he wouldn't risk becoming an outcast again, no matter how much Lucy needed rent. Maybe she would come live with him instead? The fire mage liked that particular idea.
A few minutes later, Lucy fell asleep again and so Natsu decided to go buy some medicine. Due to his lack of money, the pink haired wizard was forced to buy a bottle of medicine at a rather shady shop.
*flash back*
Natsu walked into a rather small store and walked up to the store keeper. He was rather fat and had greasy hair. He had a grubby shirt on and the scent of alcohol lingered in the air around him. The dragon slayer cautiously approached the older man and asked "do you have any medicine?". The man must have seen the distressed look on natsu's face, for he sympathetically replied "here take some whiskey, it makes everything better" before handing the mage a small bottle. Natsu frowned, was this alone enough to fix Lucy? Just to be safe, the fire mage asked for a larger bottle, and ignoring the startled look from the store keeper, set off to fix Lucy.
*flash back end*
"Natsu~" purred a very happy celestial mage. "Um… hey Lucy. Feeling better?" asked a very confused dragon slayer. Was the medicine working? Although, before he received his answer, the blonde beauty ran out the door heading towards the guild. Muttering a quick oath, the dragons slayer took off after her, praying no one would notice the bruises that decorated her body.
The guild simultaneously gasped as Lucy entered. Her hair was disheveled and small purple bruises littered her skin. She was flanked by Natsu who looked quit flustered. The silence was broken by Cana "finally hit a home run hey Natsu?" before everyone started cheering. The fire mage blushed 50 shades of red and screamed. Once the commotion had died down, a very drunk Lucy walked up to Laxus, who was sipping a strawberry milkshake at the bar. "HEY SPARKY" the lightning mage looked up "THAT'S MY DRINK". Laxus smirked, as if silently challenging the blonde. And so, Lucy Heartfilia got up, and punched the cocky bastard in the face.
He glared at the celestial mage, and she glared back intensely. Suddenly her eyes lit up, as if she had a great Idea and she turned to Natsu "I know! Natsu can buy me ice cream to make up for it!" Lucy's announcement left Laxus' mouth gaping like a fish.
Natsu let out an exasperated sigh and said "alright Lucy, let's go"
"YOSH lead the way Natsu~" Lucy cheered, jumping on natsu's back and pointing at the door.
Mira and Cana eyed each other before nodding, and heading out after the duo.
"I wanna sundae! Pwease?" Lucy gave Natsu her best puppy dog eyes, knowing full well he could not resist them. The dragon slayer sighed yet again, and got out the money to buy a sundae. Lucy was so going to owe him tomorrow. The blonde saw the money and jumped up and down in anticipation. "just sit down and eat you damn ice-cream" muttered Natsu, after paying for the frozen delight.
"wowie Natsu, that was delicious~" Lucy grinned at him, and licked the chocolate sauce off her lips. The fire mage chuckled "no prob". The blonde suddenly got up and walked over to where Natsu was sitting, and gave him a peck on the cheek "thanks for today".
Meanwhile, Cana was trying to calm a squealing takeover mage behind some bushes "omgomgomgtheyaregoingtohavepinkhairedbrowneyedbabiesandtheywillbethecutestandtheycancallmeauntmiraandomgomg"
Natsu blushed a deep shade of pink and looked at Lucy. Her large brown eyes where innocently staring at him, and he wanted to kiss her right then and there. So he did. The kiss was gentle and needy. When the two pulled back the dragon slayer whispered "god I love ya Lucy. Can you be my girlfriend?"
Mira smirked and held out her hand as Cana grudgingly handed over 5,000J. she then proceeded to jump out of the bushes at yell "YOU COULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT 5 DAYS AGO YOU FLAME FUCK!?"
