C.C.: Sorry for the looooong wait! Word is going through a rebellious phase right now so I needed to find a substitute. Luckily, I did :D well that's half of it the other half is that I've been way too busy so I haven't had any time to even look at my works.

~In Sickness and in Health ~

Rated: T

He had thought it was weird not seeing Lucy that day. He hadn't seen her face for the entire day and he was usually the first one she went to.

Not that he was gloating or anything.

It was just simple fact…they were partners, after all.

According to Levi (she and Lucy were pretty close), Lucy was home with a cold. Natsu could not help but feel that the reason behind this was entirely his fault. Just the other day, they had had a mission which was located at one of the largest (and coldest) lakes in Fiore.

He'd explain why but that was too much work.

The good part about the mission was that it was relatively successful and the bad part…was that they had pretty much blown up the entire lake. Natsu, being a Dragon Slayer of Flame, well he pretty much dried the minute the water touched his skin. Sadly, Lucy took the brunt of the damage and was soaked to the bone at the end of the day.

She had told him that she was most likely going to get sick. Well, rather than 'telling' him…it was more like she shouted it at him…very…very angrily. He merely joked back…but he had never thought that it would really happen.

"Natsu, are we going to Lucy's?"

Natsu looked to his right where Happy hovered.

"That's right!" Natsu lifted up a plastic bag, grinning from ear to ear at the sight of its contents. "We have to make it up to her after all!"

"Aye!"

In the plastic bag were hot/cold patches, various medicines and a couple of band-aids. Why there were band-aids he had no idea…he just sort of grabbed whatever he saw on the counter.

"Do you think Lucy will want to see us?" Happy questioned as the two neared the girl's home.

"Sure she will! We're nakama!" Natsu had said, but he really didn't know. Would she want to see them? It was their fault that she was sick. He didn't even know how bad it was.

Was she suffering?

Was she all alone?

Did she have anyone to take care of her?

He thought about the Lucy growing up, with her mother gone and her father being the way that he was...she probably only had the servants to look to for comfort. They were probably the ones who took care of her when she was sick and even then, Lucy probably had to look out for herself all the time. All by herself.

It made him a little sad, thinking about it now.

Well, now Lucy wasn't alone. She had him and Happy after all! Pride and a sense of duty swelled up in Natsu's chest as he took a long, deep breath and stared at her front door. That's right; he was here to take care of her. There was no way Lucy would be mad with him anymore if he did that! Having Lucy be mad at him, or even worse, hate him really made him feel bad.

If he could make it up to her in any shape or form, he'd do it.

Lucy would do the same for him, he knew it for sure.

Swinging the door open with a loud bang, Natsu shouted in a loud, booming voice.

"ARE YOU ALL RIGHT LUCY?"

"NATSU, YOU IDIOT I'M NAKED GET OUT! AT LEAST KNOCK YOU DOLT!"

"Woah! S-Sorry Luce! Wait...why are you naked?"

"Does that even MATTER? Get out! OUT!"

Well…at least he now had a use for those band-aids.

He'd have to think of another way to make it up to her for this….

C.C.: Sorry if my writing seems a little...off...today, I haven't written for this story in a while so I'm trying to find my rhythm again haha, hopefully it'll come back.