Three Years+ Later

Natsu and Lucy walked hand in hand, like they had every day since they became a couple. They had returned to the campsite where they had stayed with their friends all those years ago, those same friends with them once more. But right now, they were spending a moment alone on the beach, minus Loke who was taking a picture of the night sky. Once he had the camera set up, he left it while it took it's shot, joining Michelle on the edge of the woods as the watched the happy couple. Loke and Michelle had been married over a year ago and most of their friends had either become engaged or gotten married as well.

Even Wendy and Romeo, who had started at the University this past fall, were now engaged. It seemed that once again Lucy and Natsu were behind the times, but they both knew it wasn't to be for much longer. In fact, Natsu was heading right for where he planned to propose to Lucy, in front of Loke's camera, which once it had taken the picture of the night sky, he had set to take a photo of them at the moment of the word yes from Lucy's mouth. Than he was going to photoshop Lucy and Natsu's photo so that the stars were visible behind them. Most importantly the constellation Orion would be in the background, it was special for Lucy and Natsu.

"Hey Luce, what's your biggest dream, besides being a writer I mean." Natsu asked softly. "That's easy. One day, I want to own the beach house again that my mom so loved. It would be like having a piece of her with me all the time. How about you Natsu? What's your biggest dream?" Lucy answered as well as returned the question. Natsu squeezed her hand and said "I'll tell you about it in a moment." Lucy was confused why he wouldn't share it immediately, but she Natsu would keep his word and so let him wait.

Natsu couldn't have asked for a better Valentine's Day to have proposed, the sky was perfect, Loke had helped him line things up so that Orion would be in the photo and they had a microphone hidden close enough to them so that they could put the proposal's audio over the image, something more to add to his dragon flash drive. There had been many other photos and videos he added, the one where they had gotten a professional photo of themselves with their pets, the video of their first date activity of water tubbing, scans of love letters and photos of past holidays, including that first Christmas they had spent together before even becoming a couple. He was soon to be an uncle to Zeref and Mavis's baby, they weren't telling anyone if it was a boy or a girl, but Natsu didn't care which it was, he would love it anyways.

He shook his head, he had allowed his mind to wander and had almost walked past the mark Loke had set for him to stop on. He quickly did so and pulled Lucy to face him. "You know Luce, I had a feeling, way back that first summer when we first met, when we were just kids, that you were going to be someone special to me. I just didn't know than how special that would be. I can't imagine what life would have been like if we had never gone to Fairy Tail and ran into each other. I wouldn't be close to being a singer like I am now, and you would probably not have published your first book like you did last month. It's been a wild ride so far and I'm hoping that you'll be with me all the way to the end of it. So Lucy," he said as he got down on one knee, keeping his grip on one of her hands as he pulled out a box with his other, using his thumb to open it, "Will you marry me?"

Lucy gasped as she saw the ring, it was a pink diamond, a light shade like his hair with a starburst pattern to it. She could see it because he had used a white glow stick that he had attached to the top of the box right before they started their walk to light it up in the dark. "Yes, of course I will." Lucy exclaimed, throwing herself into his arms as several flashes went off, starting the moment she said yes. Loke wanted to be sure he got the perfect image to go over the photo.

As Natsu slipped the ring on her finger, giving her a kiss at the same time (which would be the photo that Loke would later use), the surrounding woods lit up and hidden family members and friends came out to see and congratulate them. Just before the first of them reached them, Natsu leaned in close to whisper to Lucy, "You know, I'm glad you said yes, because I couldn't help falling in love with you."

The whole I didn't know how special line I actually came up with while writing Chapter 4, so I made a note of it so I wouldn't forget it. I decided on what the last line would be in Chapter 5, knowing that I was going to use that song to have him ask her to be his girlfriend and I wanted him to tie in that moment with the proposal, because I'm sappy I guess XD Originally he was going to say it right after she accepted the proposal, but I hadn't actually worked out the scene yet so yeah XD I know this chapter is super short compared to the rest, but I really want this to be the way to tie up this part of the story.

Kind of funny to me/not really necessary to share, but the last story I wrote with FT characters, Scattered Memories, also ended up being 7 chapters long, with the 7th chapter acting as a way to tie up the story. It wasn't done on purpose, but I just had to say it because I found it so funny/strange that I did it without trying.

And after writing the above section I ended up writing a SEQUEL to this story, so be on the lookout for All My Dreams Fulfilled!

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FTAnt: hehe yep you won the talent show :D I'm glad you loved this story :D