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The Song.
Sweat dripped down my back as my ears rang with the loud music blaring through the speakers. Natsu and I had jumped from club, to club, before deciding on this one. After being surrounded by grinding bodies and elbows in unfortunate places, we both decided that the music the 'standard' clubs blasted wasn't really to our liking. In fact, I don't think I ever wanted to hear another piece of the 'bass dropping' for the next twenty years. Happy had already given up, complaining that his ears were burning from all the noise.
But Natsu and I were heavily into the task of finding the perfect club we could let loose at.
And I think we did.
It had more of a rock and roll sort of vibe, and the music wasn't half-bad. We had arrived about five minutes before a live set was about to start. After finding a seat, resting my feet and wiping underneath my eyes, I caught Natsu's eyes. I could barely hear his voice but luckily, he had leaned in and spoken rather loudly.
"What do you think?"
"I like the music better than the other one!" I shouted back, as he nodded, "Not a lot of 'dancers.' They all look they are jumping."
"Some are grinding." I pointed to a couple as he yelled, "Even better."
I flushed in excitement at his words, giggling as he took my purse, and walked over to the bar, handing it to the bartender. The bartender glanced at me and I waved. He nodded and Natsu gave him some money. I assumed he was asking the bartender to keep my bag behind the bar since Happy wasn't here to mind it. He also brought drinks over, which I guzzled in a couple seconds flat since I was so dehydrated. My boob hurt a little from a girl head-butting it, in the previous club before.
"I still think I should have tripped that bitch who head-butted me." I rubbed my boob in thought as he leaned in to catch what I said, lifting his beer to his lips. I noticed his eyes stray down to my boob where I was currently caressing. He grinned a little against the glass, shaking his head as the crowd on the floor dispersed while the live-band set up. A moment of sheer bravery rushed through me as I asked, "Want to touch it?"
"Huh?" The place got quiet without the music blaring, loud talking all that was keeping our conversation private.
"Do you want to touch my boob?" I practically screamed, smiling when some girl who had walked past, stopped to high-five me.
"You go girl! Be dominant for once!" She shouted her encouragement as I grinned, "Thanks!"
She wandered off as Natsu chuckled, "I think I'll let you decide that when you aren't plastered."
I pouted, "But she just said-"
"She is also plastered."
"You won't let me be dominant." I stated with a huff and crossed my arms over my chest, wincing as Natsu turned to me, "Lucy. The day you ask that question, sober, is the day I stop just being your best friend."
"Natsu." I leaned closer, and said with a sweet little smile, "If you think we are only best friends after everything we've been through, you are much more naive then I thought."
We stared at each other for a long moment before a lick of guitar picked up. I tilted my head to the dance floor, "Wanna go jump around?"
He licked his lips and I could tell his voice was a little rougher, a little deeper, "You bet."
The guys voice was raspy and almost way too hot for innocent little ears to handle but once we got onto that dance floor, it was just us. We weren't worried about our friendship status, or being shoved around by other bodies. Everybody seemed to get into each others spaces but not in malice, just because they were excited for the song. Nobody wanted us off the dance floor, because we were nobodies. Just some guy, and some girl.
The chorus kicked in, and I found myself shaking my hips and jumping to the beat. The guitars drilled through the speakers, the drum almost drowning out the singer but still maintaining it's place in the back ground so that voice could sing through my bones. Natsu and I lost ourselves in that crowd, clapping along with the beat until I found myself grinding against Natsu, almost innocently. It was more of a 'I'm really close to your body right now, so I'm going to take a little bit advantage of it.' My hips swayed and wiggle as one of his hands held my hip, and the other was slung over my shoulder, keeping me to him lightly.
Both our hands went up to the roof like everyone else did, as the lead, sung loudly, the lyrics finally hitting me.
"Your sex is on fire..."
I relaxed into Natsu, turning around as he grabbed my wrists from the air, the bridge continuing with just the singer belting out the lyrics.
"We're the ones, what's to transpire..."
The drum solo came so quick, and I felt the lyrics pour into my soul as he brought my hands to his shoulders and I looped them around his neck, pressing myself closer.
"Your sex is on fire..."
He was screaming the words by this point, but I didn't notice. I couldn't have. Because Natsu Dragneel was kissing me.
I was sweating, sore and completely drunk. And I had Natsu's lips, against mine.
...
"Shit." I muttered, watching the cockroach crawl across the floor and towards my desk. I was currently standing on top of my couch, eyes wide and skin crawling. I hated cockroaches. It was a horrible name for a bug, and they were practically the demon spawn. They were almost as bad as leeches. I shivered in disgust when I remember my experience with those little shits, watching as the cockroach began climbing up my chair, nearing my book.
Which I would have to burn and start over if that little fucker touched it.
"Fuuuuuuuuck." I balanced on the arm of the couch, before jumping when I heard the telltale thud coming from my bedroom. Joy exploded in my chest as I hissed, "Natsu! Natsu!"
I heard him yawn and was wrestling with the urge to throw my shoe at the door when he opened it. He stopped, finding me up on the couch. He frowned, confused before sighing, "Mouse again?"
"Worse. Cockroach." I flailed my finger to the desk where Natsu glanced over, as the cockroach finally reached the top of my writing chair. The demon flicked his little antenna's at Natsu curiously, and I resisted the urge to squeal in fright. Natsu had a smile playing on his lips as he neared it, glancing over to me amused. I shut down any naughty idea's he had with a simple glare. He picked up a book holder, and I wrinkled my nose, thinking about the disinfectant bath it would have to take after this when the unholy offspring of death and shit itself, flew.
I screamed bloody murder, which made Natsu curse as the cockroach/mutated moth thing flew straight at me.
Wings?! Since when do they have wings?
I jumped off the couch, heading straight for Natsu and barging past him. He hit the wall as I fled into my bedroom, still hearing the loud buzzing which seemed to be following me. I locked myself into the bathroom, then climbed into the tub.
If my life couldn't get any worse. Cockroaches have finally evolved to have wings.
I could hear some vague smashes and Natsu cursing for a few long minutes but I stayed in the tub, resting my chin on my knees as I just listened.
"Lucy!" He called as I glanced at the door, before shaking my head, "I'm sorry Natsu, but marriage means I get your money if you die and I saw a pair of shoes I want."
The lock rattled, before opening. I inwardly cursed, remembering the fact that when I got a builder to add a door to my bathroom after the 'Natsu- let's pretend it never happened' fiasco three days ago, I hadn't told him to install the lock properly. Which, you would assume was a given since the man ripped me off. But I guess it was better then having a curtain. The door opened then closed as Natsu huffed, "You seriously were going to leave me to die so you could get your money."
"No...?" I tried and he snorted, climbing into the bathtub with me. We stared at each other for a long moment as he stated with a grin, "The cockroach is gone. Squished and thrown out the window."
"Do you think it laid eggs?" I whispered, horrified as his grin widened, "Maybe. Winged cockroaches. That sounds like some fun roommates."
I moaned pathetically, my skin still crawling, "Shut up."
He chuckled but remained quiet as I pouted, "I don't laugh at your weaknesses."
"Yes, you do." He laughed a little louder, the noise echoing off the tiles of the bathroom and I momentarily sighed, liking how his laugh just was. Loud and free. Just like his personality.
"So why are you here?"
"Happy kicked me out. Said I was causing too much noise." Natsu shrugged as I asked, "What were you doing?"
"I hung up a boxing bag that zaps you back every-time you hit. Want to challenge Laxus at the end of this month." I snorted a little bit, shaking my head at his form of 'training'. I had once seen him tie a boulder to his waist and drag it across the ground. Despite Natsu having a somewhat human body, his strength was something else entirely. Just like his E.N.D form was. I momentarily thought back to the claws, and that moment where he had passed out in my arms when he found out I was alive.
Seems so long ago.
"Do you want to go to Igneel's grave with me next week?" I looked up, surprised. Natsu had never... offered something so private with me. Only, next week was when I normally went and visited my Mom. I bit my lip, avoiding his serious eyes before nodding, "Yeah. Do you want to go see my mom's?"
He nodded immediately, as I smiled, reaching out to take his hand. He took it, no hesitance or worry. His hand was warm, rough and calloused against mine, but it felt comforting and nice. I squeezed his hand and stated, "Do you think it's safe to get out of the tub now?"
"The nest might be infiltrating your Kitchen now."
My eye twitched, "Bastard."
...
"So Lucy, what are you going as for my Halloween Party?" Mira asked me, eyes glowing with excitement as I laughed, "Well, I bought two costumes and just can't decide. It's either Harleen Kuinn."
"Oh! From the book? I love those novels. She's an incredible hero." Levy piped in, from her seat beside me as I nodded, agreeing before stating, "Or Little Bo Peep."
"Little Bo Peep?" They both gave me a confused look as I blinked, nodding slowly, "Yeah? From the nursery rhyme?"
"I'm sorry, I haven't heard of it." Mira frowned and Levy pouted, "Neither have I! How does it go?"
I flushed a little from being put on the spot but hummed the lullaby softly to myself before stating, "Little Bo Peep, lost her sheep, and doesn't know where to find them. Leave them alone, and they'll come back home, waving their tails behind them."
"Oh, that's so cute!" Mira gushed as Levy asked, "Is there a meaning behind it?"
"It has a lot of different variations. I only remember that one, because my mom used to sing it to me when I was going asleep. It's one of the only things I remember." I admittedly bashfully, running a hand through my hair as Mira smiled adoringly, "It's amazing you remember at all. I think you should go as Little Bo Peep. You can help me herd the drunks into their rooms when the party is settling down." I laughed at her little joke as Levy giggled, "A Fairy Tail party? Settling down...?"
We giggled together at the unlikeliness of that happening when I asked, "What are you two going as?"
"I'm going as Pepper Pan." Levy stated proudly, as if that wasn't the thing she went as last year, and the year before that.
"Different outfit this time?" I smiled encouragingly as she shook her head, "That's a waste of money. If it still fits, I'm wearing it." Mira held her hand to her mouth to quiet her feminine giggles while I just snickered loudly. We both turned to Mira who smiled innocently, "I'm going as an ax murderer."
Levy and I blinked in surprise before offering our encouragements hesitantly. Mira took them graciously before moving away to serve Macao. Levy and I shared a vaguely horrified glance before warmth enveloped my back. Mira returned to see Natsu towering over me. I didn't turn around, instead settling for, "Yes, Natsu?"
"Happy said you have a rhyme."
I then turned around, confused, "I don't... And how does he know that."
"Because I've been spying on you!" His chirpy voice made me look up as he floated down from the ceiling, smiling widely.
"Why have you been spying on me?" I asked, a little disturbed and very much confuddled.
"Natsu wanted to know what you were wearing for Halloween so he can choose something better." Happy explained helpfully, rolling his eyes before stating, "But he got distracted when I told him about the rhyme your Mom used to sing to you before you go to sleep."
"Seriously Natsu? Why does everything have to be a contest with you?" I bristled, a little annoyed that he wanted to beat me and even more annoyed at myself because I wasn't even competing. Natsu cackled, "I don't want to beat you! I just want to choose your natural predator. What are you going as, anyway?"
"Why do you want to be natural predator?" I complained, not even beginning to understand his train of thought as he prompted, ignoring my question entirely, "Well? What are you going as?"
"I'm not sure yet. It's been two."
"Well hurry up and choose! It's tomorrow night!" He thought he had the right to whine at me for not choosing, which was so ridiculously Natsu, I don't know what else could be. I simply rolled my eyes and shared a look at Happy which made him bark, "What was that?"
I blinked innocently, "What was what?"
"That. You gave each other a look." He shifted his eyes between us suspiciously as I laughed, "Nothing! We didn't look at each other." As if reading my thoughts, Happy and I gave each other another look, mostly just to annoy Natsu now. Happy giggled gleefully when it worked, Natsu narrowing his eyes at me.
"I know you are conspiring against me. You will not win. I will beat everyone." Natsu cried out and I laughed, patting his shoulder, my voice very sarcastic, "Sure you will."
He growled but I heard the playful note in his voice which made me smile and stormed off, as I glanced at Happy, "In the future, don't spy on me. Or no more salmon for a year." Happy's blue fur grew pale at the threat and he shouted, "Wah! You are so mean!" He followed his best friend and I turned back to the bar, taking a sip of my milkshake as Mira giggled, "You are so good at handling them now Lucy."
"Sometimes it's a struggle to get out of bed." I joked as the girls laughed at my dramatic flail.
As we moved onto another topic of conversation, Natsu's words echoed through my head.
I just want to choose your natural predator.
But why?
Heya there!
So, if anyone doesn't know this song, I got a lot of inspiration from it for this chapter, specifically the club scene. It's called 'Sex Is On Fire' by Kings of Leon 10/10 would recommend. I don't know why, but imaging Natsu and Lucy grinding to a dubstep/club song just didn't fit with their characters for me. And I happen to love rock/sort of indie clubs, a lot better. But please let me know what you think.
The next chapter will be HALLOWEEN. And my god. It will be beautiful.
I'm a little shitty at how this chapter turned out, not my best work, not my worst. Just sort of eh.
For all you amazing people who reviewed, I love you and who also checked out my Nalu Love Fest, extra love to you 3
I'm deciding whether I should call you my dragons or my fairies as a way of bye... what do you think?
/ leave a review, tell me what you think of this chapter so I don't freak out over how shitty it is. plz.
REVIEW REPLY.
OMG! and through all of this, all i can think is "happy dreamed what?" i love lucys response, instead of the usual screaming/sputtering/kicking/blushing/running away you always see. so much better. loved it and thanks for the timeline so i can get my ducks in a row.
Mate, I dunno where that came from. I mean, cat's don't really care about other cats seeing that but I feel like Exceed are a little more intelligent so they should...? I'm not making sense. And Lucy to me is Queen so of course, I'm not gonna make her into a cliche mess that screams when she see's a peen. Of course... I did make her drool a bit.
Shoot those ducks down my friend. And thanks for reviewing.
I can't wait to see what you guys wrote, I will be seeing you in the next chapter.
as always (insert dragon or fairies)
stay fresh
xo fresh princess.
