I've been quite relaxed with my speed of writing, so chapters have been coming out later. But, seeing as I'm writing at the same time as the last chapters reviews come in, I'd like to thank everyone for their support.

I'm also writing a non-fanfic story called 'The Wall' which I'll upload somewhere on the internet at some point.

Imperfect Lover - Chapter 14 - Meet The Family

The train arrived in the station, even with the delay, an hour earlier than it was expected. Lucy and Natsu hadn't spoken to each other for the whole train ride and didn't make eye contact much. To say things were slightly awkward between them was a slight understatement. Natsu hauled his luggage off of the train along with everyone else, but he stayed miles away from Lucy who got off last with Levy. It was clearly obvious that she had needed help too but he couldn't bring himself to talk to her without being embarrassed of wanting to kiss her.

Gray on the other hand was trying to stay as near to Juvia as humanly - he'd tried to ask her out severely times but kept tripping over his own words and ended up saying completely mumbled sentences which consisted of words pulled out of thin air that didn't make sense. Juvia didn't notice, just the fact that Gray was going out of his way to stand next to her, help her and to talk to her made her whole body melt. On the train they hadn't been sitting next to each other but Gray messaged her throughout the rest of their train ride.

They had all walked quickly through the train station, which seemed abandoned - but then again they it was the countryside filled with rich people's holiday homes on small lakes and old, retired people who used the fortune they'd made when they were living to move here. They ended up in a small car park where there were a few cars scattered here and there, but no more than nine cars were there. The sun shone down gently on the ground from a little past the middle of the sky, it could be seen plain as day as there was not a cloud in the sky.

A limo pulled into the car park and went round half of it before pulling up at their feet. A man came out of the drivers side, moving in a fast pace over to Natsu who smiled gently and squinted. The man opened up the limo door and out came a large man. His hair was slightly redder than Natsu's and he had a light beard and a scar slightly protruding from under it - it crinkled ever so slightly at the tip when he smiled or laughed wide enough.

"Beatuiful day for biking isn't it, son?" The large man said, he grabbed Natsu's shoulders and pulled him into a hug. "Shame that you guys will be too tired after that journey to bike."

"Yeah." Natsu said, he was let out of the hug and scratched the back of his head. "I'm surprised you recognised me."

"With that stupid hair colour? How could I not." Igneel joked, placing his hands on his hips and bellowing a single laugh out. "I'd say introduce me to your friends but you're ex will show up any time now, so shall we?" He ushered them to the door and helped the driver put the bags and suitcases into the boot of the car.

Natsu somehow ended up sitting next to Lucy at the very middle of the car where the wall diving the driver from the passengers part of the limo. Gray, Juvia, Levy and Gajeel all sat in the same row of seats that were directly opposite the wine cooler and mini-fridge, leaving the space near the door for Natsu's father, Igneel. Natsu shifted in his seat a little more to the window as his dad got in and the limo began to move; Lucy then moved slightly more towards him so that she wasn't on the edge of her seat.

"Natsu never really told us about you." Levy spoke first, being intrigued about the wealthy background Natsu came from. "Or his past really. He mentioned a couple things."

Igneel nodded and smirked slightly. "I understand why he hid many things from his past, but now I have the chance to tell you all about myself." He clapped his hands together and rubbed them. "I'm the founder of Drag. Corp. The massive racing company that makes racing clothing, vehicles and so forth. Natsu is my only male heir to the company and he's also had a winning streak in the 16-10's national racing scene. My biggest pride and joy."

Natsu coughed, his arm had rubbed against Lucy's and he jerk away quickly. "What about Wendy? Isn't she your pride and joy, too?"

"Oh, yes." Igneel smiled. "Natsu is my second prided and joy, my little girl Wendy is a future healer! Speaking of Wendy, that boy, Romeo, the one that you taught to fight, started dating her."

Natsu leaned back and put his arm resting along the rim of the seats, which went behind Lucy and hung slightly over her shoulder - an old habit of his. "You're telling me that little punk is dating my sweet, younger sister. This is worse than my ex coming to meet me - a war must be started!" Natsu pumped his fists in the air before resting them back down - he was fired up. "I'll have to make sure he's good enough for her."

Natsu scratched along his jawline, while Lucy stared at him - Igneel caught the look in Natsu's eye, which pleaded with Igneel not to say anything due to something awkward. "So, these are you friends? From the picture you sent me with their names captioned on it I think I can figure it out. The blonde one is Lucy; the big guy with piercings is Gajeel and his girlfriend Levy is sitting next to him. Gray and Juvia are the last ones which I haven't named and I surely can't confuse a female and a male."

"Sir, we're home." The driver said as the little window separating them rolled down.

Igneel was the first to exit, with the other four following after him. Natsu and Lucy remained in the car for a few minutes, neither knowing who should move first or speak first or be the first to do anything other than breathe. Natsu put his hand out, telling Lucy to move first, which she did. When Natsu made it out he was surprised to see that the girls had split off while the guys were talking with Igneel about the cars lining their drive way.

Natsu turned around, saw the front door of his house open and saw Romeo step out, then bolted towards him as fast as his legs could take him. He grabbed Romeo by the collar and dragged him down the front steps and placed him onto the grass before moving away to the other side of the grass and taking off of his shoes.

"First of all, you have to be tested to date my sister. Second, Igneel, why the hell are you leaving them in the house alone together, are you stupid?" He looked at his dad and then pointed between the two younger people.

"I told you I was going to ask her out before you left." Romeo said calmly. "Put your shoes back on."

"Oh, yeah you did." Natsu wrapped his arm around Romeo's neck and grabbed Wendy and brought them over to his friends, who were getting their bags out. "This is Wendy and this is Romeo."

Wendy was a young girl, she had long blue hair tied up in pigtails and had a slightly babyish face. Romeo also had a baby-like face but he had hair like Gray's, but his was actually black and not a weird, dark shade of blue. They both waved at Natsu's friends before Natsu let go of them and headed over to his friends. He introduced them slowly, making sure that he didn't confuse Wendy and Romeo with whose name belonged to who.

"Alright, lets go in and eat!" Igneel yelled lightly over the light chatter.