I'm sorry this took so long! I was sick and wasn't feeling like working on this, although I did get some work done on another fic idea I had. Like I said in another author note, I want to get it completely finished before I begin posting to make sure that I don't leave a story hanging, so it may be a while before it sees the light of day.

By the way, the outfit Lucy is wearing is from the 5th episode, when she met Erza for the first time.

Enjoy!

Third Person POV

Happy, Carla, and Wendy's train pulled into Magnolia station at about 10:00. The job itself wasn't particularly hard, but the location was a good seven hour's train ride away. None of them had realized how far it was until after they took the job. It hadn't even paid very much, although on the way to the station in their request town, Happy had bought a camera with his part of the reward, wanting to use it to take embarrassing pictures of Natsu and Lucy 'in love' to tease them. Happy had noticed that they were both getting more frantic and crazy with his teasing for the last couple of months, and that just made it more fun for him.

Happy, Carla, and Wendy were all exhausted, but Carla was the best at not showing it.

"Come on, you two! Wake up! We have to get to the guild hall and let Master know of our success on the mission!"

"But Caaaaarrrllllaaaaa... I'm sleeeeeeepyyyyyyy..." Happy whined.

"It's okay, Happy..." Wendy yawned. "You can go home... We can let Miss Mirajane and Master Makarov know without you..." She yawned again.

"THANK YOOOOUUU! Hey, Carla, I'll bring you a big fish tomorrow... Okaaaaay?" Carla 'hmphed' at him, and Wendy giggled at the two's antics. Happy wished them a good night and flew away from the two.

"Now. If I were Natsu, where would I be sleeping?" He laughed at what he saw as a joke and began flying to Lucy's.

When he arrived, he wasn't surprised to find Lucy's window open, once again giggling at how correct he had been.

He flew in and saw Natsu and Lucy on the bed, and he was happy to find them hugging, assuming that the two had curled into each other in their sleep. Happy had a dubious look on his face as he readied his new camera and took a picture. As tired as he was, Happy did figure out that if he stayed here, his plan may be discovered, so he flew back out the window to his own house.

xxx

Lucy woke up feeling very warm and comfortable, wrapped in Natsu,her love's, arms. She almost wanted to go to sleep again, but then Natsu started talking.

"Good morning, Luce!" Lucy opened her eyes to be staring right into Natsu's. He had his signature grin on, as well. Lucy smiled at him.

"How long have you been awake, Natsu?"

"Oh, a half hour, maybe an hour." Lucy's eyes widened. She sat up on one elbow, with Natsu following suit.

"Why didn't you get up?"

Natsu shrugged. "I didn't want to bother you! The time flew by, anyways. I just couldn't stop thinking about how lucky I am to have you!" Lucy blushed and looked down, and Natsu took the opportunity to give her head a kiss. Lucy looked forward again and pecked him on the cheek, then began getting out of bed. That is, until Natsu pulled her back and began tickling her. Lucy shrieked with laughter.

"STOP! NATSU! EEEEEEEE! NAAAATSUUUU!" She and Natsu were both laughing, but finally Lucy was able to grab onto one of the pillows at the head of the bed. She grabbed it and whacked Natsu over the head with it.

"Oooowwweeee... Luucyyy... That hurt!" Natsu playfully pouted at her. Lucy stuck her tongue out at him.

"Come on, Natsu. It's time to get up. We should get to the guild and tell them the good news!"

"Aww... But I want to stay here and cuddle you!"

"Don't you want to show off to Gray that you got a girlfriend before him?" Lucy asked, knowing Natsu all too well. He sprang out of bed and grabbed Lucy's arm, beginning to drag her to the window.

Lucy coughed for his attention.

"What?"

"Natsu, I'm still wearing pajamas!"

"Well, hurry up! I need to show you off to that ice butt and iron eater! And Laxus, too, if he's there. Oh, and I'll have to find Jellal! Hey, Luce, do you think the Magic Council let's maximum security prisoners get visitors? Hey! We should try to get back to Edolas, too! I need to show you off to everyone there!..." Lucy went into the bathroom and got dressed while Natsu continued listing all the people he would show her off to, even mentioning Bora, although Natsu quickly took that back after remembering what a creep Bora was. "He really was a creep. If I had known that he wasn't even a dragon, I never would've gotten on that stupid train, let alone get stuck riding it more than I had to. Of course, without him, I wouldn't have been there to drag you with me to Fairy Tail..." Lucy was grinning from ear to ear at how amazing Natsu was, thinking similar thoughts to Natsu's from earlier that morning. She also smiled when Natsu meandered from the path of those to show Lucy off to and began reiterating the day they had met after mentioning Bora.

Lucy came out of the bathroom wearing a red half-sleeved shirt with a white, brown-belted mini skirt. Her hair was tied in a pink ribbon. "All right, Natsu. Ready to go?"

"Almost! Just need to grab this!" Natsu reached for his scarf and Lucy turned away to walk to the door. She was surprised when Natsu began wrapping the scarf on her instead of himself and turned back to him.

"Natsu, what're you doing...?" He grinned at her.

"It looks better on you! We need to get you one of your own!" He leaned forward and pecked Lucy on the cheek, then picked her up bridal style and headed to the window. Lucy grumbled and rolled her eyes at Natsu's need to use her window as a door, but she did like the way he was holding her.

Natsu jumped out the window and they landed safely on the ground below. Lucy jumped out of his arms and Natsu immediately grabbed her wrist and darted towards their guild. Lucy couldn't help but remember the day they had met once again, the first time he had dragged her to Fairy Tail.

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Happy had made sure to get an early start that day, because he wanted to get to the guild before his favorite to-be (as far as he knew) couple.

The Exceed arrived at the guild and was happy to see that Natsu and Lucy had yet to arrive. Spying Mira wiping counters at the bar, he darted over with his new photograph.

"Hey, Mira! Look what I have~!" Happy held up the photo and Mira turned to look.

As soon as Mira saw Natsu and Lucy hugging in the picture, she was squealing with joy.

"EEEEEEEE! THEY'RE SO CUTE TOGETHER! Why can't they just admit that they're in love! Lucy was wearing Natsu's scarf yesterday, but they denied everything!"

"I bought a new camera yesterday, so maybe if I take enough pictures and tease them enough, it'll finally happen!"

"You're logic seems a little flawed, but Mavis knows that the rest of our ideas have yet to work, so go for it!" Happy grinned and nodded at her, then flew off to tell the other members of the guild who were part of what Mirajane called the "Nalu Crew," which included Gray, Erza, Cana, and a few others.

Soon after, the guild doors burst open.

"HELLO, FAIRY TAIL!" Natsu shouted to his guild mates as he and Lucy walked in. Natsu was still holding Lucy's wrist, and was about to shout that he had the greatest, most beautiful, most amazing person ever now, and that he would never ever let her go, but Happy got to them before he could. Mirajane noticed the scarf around Lucy's neck, but after the day before's events, she dismissed it.

"NAAATTSUUUU! I'M HOOOOMEEEE!" Happy flew into Natsu's chest and Natsu let go of Lucy's arm to hug his friend. Lucy giggled at the little blue cat and ruffled the fur on his head.

"Welcome back, little buddy! Mission go well?"

"Uh-huh, and I bought a present for me while I was there!"

Lucy spoke up next as the trio made their way to the bar to get breakfast. "Oh, yeah? What did you buy?" Mirajane, Lisanna, Gray, Erza, Levy, and Cana were all sitting there, watching the conversation closely in case Happy needed backup, but they were trying to act uninterested, in order to hide the plan.

"A camera! I want to take pictures!"

Natsu and Lucy were both confused. Why did he have that evil glint in his eye...? Lucy was almost too scared to ask, but... "...of what?"

"Oh, just some interesting things..." The group gathered at the bar was still trying to be covert, but they were failing miserably now. Mirajane and Erza, who were supposed to be talking about cake recipes, were the worst offenders, now staring at the trio, just watching and waiting.

Happy continued. "...In fact, I saw something very interesting on the way home last night..."

Lucy and Natsu looked at each other. Does this have something to do with us?

Natsu spoke next. "What was it, Happy?" The group at the bar was now all staring at the conversation, hoping it would unfold into an admittance of love from Natsu and Lucy.

"Well..." Happy produced the photo of them hugging in their sleep from his bag. "I found this! You're in love~!"

There was a pause. Mirajane and Erza especially looked hopeful. Natsu and Lucy just looked at each other. Then they started laughing.

Everyone in the guild had been staring by now, and everyones' eyes bugged out at the couple's reaction. Weren't they supposed to be yelling and denying it? It was completely silent beside the two's laughter. Natsu and Lucy shared a look once more, and Natsu put his arm around Lucy's shoulders. He got a small nod from Lucy, then looked straight at Happy.

"Yes. Yes we are."

And he put his other arm around her waist as Lucy put her hands on the back of his neck. They each leaned forward until their lips met, and they kissed.