Lucy was toweling her hair off after a hot long relaxing shower. After the day she had she felt like she needed a little extra pampering. She decided to give herself extra care by using her favorite vanilla coconut sugar scrub and a deep conditioning treatment for her hair. She took extra care in shaving and finally she just relaxed under in the steam and heat of the water as it gently massaged her aching body. She tried to preoccupy her thoughts with practical things. Anything to avoid the day's events and Natsu. She made a mental list of things she needed at the market: fruit, milk, salmon for Happy, sausage for Natsu. Then she started thinking about cleaning her living room and maybe flipping her couch cushions since Natsu always seemed to plop and flatten them. Next on her mental list was re-organizing her draws, she figured it was time to switch things around since Natsu liked to snoop in her underwear drawer. She thought it was kinda cute how he always seemed to want to look in there. It seemed more like he was genuinely curious and in awe. He always asked how on earth this pair or that pair could be comfortable or how she could even fight in them without feeling like she has a wedgie. She eventually gave up her practical thinking since she realized with a hint of frustration that everything just led back to the boisterous flame eating man in her life. Even her personal life was so intertwined with him that she couldn't avoid him if she tried.
Slumping onto her bed with her oversized towel securely wrapped around her. She wanted to explore the thoughts she was trying to stuff away and hide, she needed to and at that moment she thought 'screw it!', and gave into the inevitable.
Going back over the day's events, she mulled over the mark and how it came to be if only Meredy could cast it. 'Why would she do such a thing? It's such an odd thing to do. Why us?' She never even saw Meredy and Natsu said nothing of seeing her either. Her thoughts then shifted to the overload of senses she had at the guild earlier. She never fully realized just how strong Natsu was mentally and not just physically. To be bombarded with that kind of stimulus daily, it's a wonder he hasn't lost his mind yet. Then she thought back on all the countless petty fights he would pick with people and his hot-headed demeanor. 'That's his way of coping, he fights, that is how diffuses his anger and frustration. I do yoga, he picks a fight.' She finally understood. She had seen another piece of the puzzle that is Natsu Dragneel and for every piece she found, she loved it dearly. She started to wonder about what he thought of her. 'Do I smell icky to him and he just tries to ignore it? I guess if he did he wouldn't be around so much...', she instantly flushed with embarrassment as she realized he can identify when she has been aroused or even when it's of the month 'but he has never once commented or teased or made me feel bad.' It seemed counter intuitive to the Natsu she knew who loved to taunt her and get her angry over trivial things and try her patience.
Looking at him in this newer light, she wondered if he did, in fact, love her. Maybe, but she had convinced herself for so long that he doesn't and in her mind for good reason. She had hinted in the past about her true feelings but it was like hinting at a brick wall. She had concluded that he wasn't as interested as she was. If she did express her true feelings what would happen? 'Would he laugh it off? What if he started acting awkward? What if it ruined their team and their friendship? What if he went along only to avoid me being unhappy?' Her brain knew this wasn't the truth but her heart and emotions believed it. She couldn't deny that in the woods today there was a moment they both shared that put her on cloud 9 he seemed equally affected but again, what if he was just acting on her emotion. This sensory link was maddening. 'What if he confessed now? What if he was simply sensing my love and acting on the reflection of it?', with a sigh she looked out her window to the night sky. 'I'm over thinking this whole damn thing!' Lucy let out a long sigh and then did the only thing she could manage, she started to meditate.
Natsu laid in his hammock feeling completely drained emotionally and physically from the events of the day. The wolf bite was really nothing but the healing power that Wendy used always left you a little more tired within the first 24 hours. Happy was curled up on his stomach relaxing and they swung gently in silence. Happy could sense that Natsu was distracted and even though he wanted to talk to him about what happened that day he dared not speak up. Natsu, on the other hand, was trying to control his wild mind. He just wanted to sleep, sleeping always fixed everything. His mind was all over the place, from the comments he heard that set him off that day, the fact that he had inadvertently hurt Lucy to why Meredy had cast that on him. 'I wonder if I even remembered to tell Luce, we'll talk tomorrow I'm sure.' For the second time that day he mulled over why she was hiding her feelings from him with so much effort. He had wanted to talk to her after they got back to the guild but she seemed so exhausted and tired that he didn't have the heart to start a deep discussion if she wasn't ready for it. He felt a gamut of emotions that he realized were not all his own and it made him feel even more for his blonde celestial mage. 'Why the hell does she torture herself like this? Does she not understand that I love her and would give her the world?', he let out a little sigh 'Then again, it's not like I told her how I feel. I wanted to, I just couldn't before knowing that she held something back from me… Now that I know the what it was, I have to figure out the why.'
Deep in his thoughts, he started noticing a familiar vibration throughout his body. It didn't occur to him right away what it was but he found himself thinking about the unison raid they performed. He recalled how adorably awkward Lucy was at first and how she reacted when he had instinctively placed her in his lap. He thought of how they had stared not at each other but into each other. He heard her gasp in his memory all over again and a wave of pleasure rolled slowly through his body. Happy perked his head up and looked at Natsu "Ew… not this again. I'm outta here you pervert!"
"I'm not a perv, why don't you just go see Carla!" Natsu winked with a sly grin on his face. The blue feline was out of there in a jiffy.
He was focused again on the gentle airy prickling sensation he felt throughout his body. It slowly started to build more steadily it felt like how the night sky looked on a clear evening with all the stars brightly shining and twinkling. He could feel Lucy's magic all over centering from his core winding outward to his fingertips, passing down through his groin all the way down to the tips of his toes. He was in awe of the woman he had grown to love deeply. It was a feeling of absolute pleasure. Lucy always had an effect his libido which he aptly stifled, it slipped out occasionally, but he almost always kept it in check. After all, her body was not what he loved most, it was simply a bonus in the total package that was Lucy Heartfilia. Right now though, he had almost zero control of keeping anything in check as the tickle of her magic flowed through him. 'I wonder what she is doing?' Slowly a more instinctive and primal side of his personality began to seep in and take over and he was powerless to keep up it at bay 'Maybe if she felt how much I loved her she would open up.', and with that, he let out a long breathy shudder and let go.
He closed his eyes and pictured her beautifully bright face. Her eyes like liquid pools of chocolate. Lips so soft and supple they begged to be kissed. A jawline that called to be caressed A graceful neckline to nibbled on deliciously. Shoulders to be bit into gently. Curves that demanded to be traced. Breasts that waited for a heated mouth. A stomach that was smooth and lickable. Shapely legs to be kneaded all gently leading to the junction of her thighs that waited to be tasted.
Shifting himself more comfortably, he felt the strain and tightness of his constrained erection. Despite his urge to ease the tension humming in his body, he knew Lucy would feel this too, he wanted her to feel his desire for her. He decided to tap into his magic ever so gently and he felt the fire twist and snake through him resulting in a warm vibration all over. His hands trailed from behind his head to rub his stomach and with a soft fingertip traced up his abdomen hoping that she would feel the gentle tickling sensation. Not sure if she would feel it, and really not into caressing himself, he decided to go with a more direct point of arousal. He gently caressed his taut nipple pinching and gently rolling between his fingers. He switched from one to the other and repeated the delicate actions. It felt a little odd to be doing this to himself but he was rewarded when he felt a pull of arousal at the core of his body that he knew was Lucy's. Riding on the rush of success he moved his hand down to his waistline unbuckled and loosened his pants. Again, taking a chance that she could feel the ticklish pulling sensation he grazed his fingertips along the cut of his hipbones. Moving down to the upper part of his inner thigh he flared his magic and then firmly grabbed as much of himself as he could in one cupped motion. Almost instantly he felt a deeply pleasurable roll of tightening muscles that ached for release. He was ready to satisfy the need. He rubbed his hand along the length of arousal and gripped it firmly and then a shock of embarrassment and fear tore through his body and jolted him out of his sexual haze 'what the fuck was that!', he felt his face flush mirroring what could only be Lucy's extreme embarrassment. Before he could recover fully he felt a sudden rush of cold throughout his body. The cold caught him so off guard that he lost his balance within the hammock and crashed to the floor head first. "OUCH… DAMNIT!"
Lucy was focusing on strengthening her second origin. Meditating was the only effective way for trying to gain ease of access to it and it was an effective way to forget the day. She gradually felt her familiar and comforting magic spread throughout her body. She pictured a beautiful and radiant flower, her magic slowly forcing open its delicate petals. Her imagery faltered and she had a brief thought of Natsu caressing her body. She tried to push the fantasy aside but it started persisting more and she felt the warmth of his fire in her body mixing with her own power and she knew in that moment what he was doing and she was powerless to fight it. She felt the gentle knot of pleasure building. The feeling of a gentle caress triggered her thoughts of him trailing his tongue down her neck, over her collarbone and down to her breasts. She felt as though her nipples were being gently played with, as their sensitivity increased she couldn't help but lay back and fondle her breast in harmony with the sensation. She arched and stretched at the shiver of arousal coursed through her. If things kept up like this should orgasm without barely touching herself. Her breathing started to increase. Her breath hitched as she felt a feathery tickling sensation around her hips. She nearly came when it felt like someone had cupped between her legs firmly. She was started to gently roll her hips as an automatic response to the stimulation she received.
"Ewww Lucy, not you too…. PERVERT you're both weirdos!"
Lucy shot up from the bed like a bolt of lightning not realizing the state of undress she was in "What the hell cat! GET OUT! Haven't you heard of a door… or KNOCKING!"
"Ahhhh my eyes! It's worse than Gray!" Happy tried to cover his eyes trying not to burst out laughing.
Lucy looked down in horror and total embarrassment. Her towel had fallen off when she leaped out of the bed. She immediately ran into the bathroom. Looking in the mirror she was so red in the face. Then it set in she felt the slick moistness on her thighs and she did the only thing she could think of to stop herself and him, she cranked the shower on ice cold and jumped in. 'That'll fix him… jerk.' She shrieked from the cold and suddenly felt a large lump of pain in her head. "DAMMIT NATSU!"
Again Lucy exited the shower toweling off her hair for a second time that day. 'I suppose that's what I get for thinking about Natsu. Wonder if he was thinking about me or just one of his random Salamander Groupies.' She walked out of her bathroom to find Happy curled up on her pillow sleeping soundly. Even though she was still embarrassed about the incident she still smiled at how peaceful and cute he looked. She tossed on her nightshirt and snuggled into her crisp cold sheets. 'Tomorrow will be a better day. I'll talk to Natsu and we will find Meredy and she will remove this bond.'