The next day

Natsu burned the single sheet of paper, ashes falling out of his hand and on to the luxurious mauve carpeting of the Akane Resort and Hotel. The paper might have been demolished, but the image on the cover of The Weekly Sorcerer was forever seared into his brain. Lucy. And Sting. Kissing. (With a giggling Wendy in the background.) To his dismay, he realized that there was around 20 more pages of this week's issue left to burn. His curiosity got to the best of him, he flipped to the directed page for Lucy and Sting's interview, though he already heard parts of it after eavesdropping on Jason.

His eyes darted around the page, reading 2 or 3 sentences at a time before skipping to another paragraph. His mind was telling him stop, stop, stop. While his heart was telling his mind to shut up and read.

Well, all StiCy lovers, your day is here! cool Lucy Heartfilia and cool Sting Eucliffe were spotted at the amusement park adjacent to Ryuuetzu Park together! Sting threw his normal outfit aside, choosing to instead wear a fan girl/boy t-shirt of the Heartfilia Heiress! Love is in the air! COOL!...

So that's the shirt they were talking about... So what?

..The 2 cool lovesbirds denied any romantic relationship, but we all know it's not true, right?...

... Wendy Marvell, a cool 12-year-old with them at the time of the smooch fest, tells Weekly Sorcerer the 2 lovers were quoting Shakespeare and his impression on love to each other right before they kissed! Coool!...

After reading the word 'cool' about 20 times, he lit the whole magazine on fire, enjoying the smell of smoke filling the air. He would have to tell Levy to wrote the word cool out for him in her solid script so that he could burn that words too.


With Sting, still in 3rd person.

Entering his hotel, there was many words of congratulations, confusing him and making his headache worse. Was there something he won? Well, of course the Great Sting Eucliffe would be able to win something without knowing!

Stepping into his hotel room, slightly groggy from the elevator, (he did not feel like climbing stairs with a hangover.) Yukino was the first to continue the 'congratulations' thing downstairs.

Nodding with whatever she said, he made her squeal in delight, turning his headache into a migraine. He was not a happy camper.

After Yukino left, he was, blessedly, only stuck with Rogue.

"Is it true?" Rogue asked.

"What? Why is everybody telling me congratulations?"

"That Lucy Heartfilia is going out with you." Sting raised an eyebrow. 'What the Hell?' Sting thought before realizing the previous day's events.

Seeing Sting's confusion, Rogue elaborated,"There was a picture of you kissing on the cover of the Weekly Sorcerer."

"Damn reporters.'' he muttered.

Rogue accepted that as a yes. "When's your next date, hmm?" He teased.

To his surprise, Sting BLUSHED and answered, "Tommorow, I think. She owes me. Our relationship is... -I hate to sound like a Facebook status, but,- complicated." a small smile graced Rogue's lips. Typical Sting.

In an attempt to get the subject off of him, Sting asked, "How're you and Yukino going?"

But, Rogue knew Sting very well. Too well. ''Good, How're you going to hide this from Minerva?"

Rufus entered the room after breaking the doorknob. A wicked smile spread across his face, "I have memorized this whole conversation. Payback time."

Then Minerva sashayed in, "What're you trying to hide from me, Sting?"

Sting's blood ran cold. His muscles tensed, wanting to lunge at her. But she would get hurt.

Not Minerva, he didn't give a rat's behind about her.

Lucy.

Gagged with ropes holding her wrists and ankles together, covered in cuts, bruises, and held in a choking hold.

'This isn't happening.'

''Minerva," He spat, "You've crossed the damn line.''

'I thought she changed!' Lucy thought, forlornly.


Flashback, still in third person~

Once Lucy had gotten passed the fact that Sting and her were on a bed. Entangled, with Sting blanketing Lucy, she smelt smoke coming from their hallway. Lucy ran towards Natsu's room with a fire extinguisher, hoping Natsu hadn't gotten in another argument with Grey, but, knowing Natsu, it wasn't very likely. When Lucy had ran into Natsu's room, prepared to squirt the fire extinguisher at Natsu then Lucy-Kick Grey where the sun doesn't shine, she was pleasantly surprised. Natsu was by himself, happily burning up some paper. She sighed and was about to leave when the smoke detector kicked in, spraying the room with water from hidden sprinklers.

"Natsu!"

"Lushy?"

"What are you doing?!"

"Err, well, you see..."

Unable to come up with a logical excuse, Natsu threw the burning paper at Lucy, only the word 'Sorcerer' was able to be read. Lucy panicked, dropping the paper on the carpet, noticing ashes already decorated it. She began to quickly stomp on it, trying to stop the flames from spreading while Natsu edged out of the room. After summoning Aquarius from the sink, the flames were extinguished, water flooding the room from Aquarius' wrath, claiming,"I have to go back on my date with my boyfriend. Boyfriend."

With a "hmph", Lucy opened the door flooding the hallway before asking Juvia to do some damage control. Declaring she was not Juvia's Love-Rival, she ran after Natsu, making sure to make a mental note to give him a Lucy-kick the next time she saw the pyromaniac.

Running into Minerva, she asked,"Minerva-san, um, have you seen Nats-"

The last thing she saw was Rufus' apologetic eyes before she was knocked unconscious.

Er... Hi! Ummm... if I were to make a fanfiction where Lucy, a badass player and singer has to wrok with Natsu the innocent, also corrupting his innocent mind, would you guys read that? I've been playing with that in my head for some time now...