This part is basically all citrus. Enjoy. You've been warned. hehe.

"Its Lucy...actually," she said, her voice barely more than a whisper.

And at that moment he couldn't stand not touching her any longer.

Natsu covered the distance between them in three steps, claiming her mouth with his as his eyes slammed closed. One hand immediately cradled her head, holding her against his lips, while the other snaked around her waist, caressing the skin he had been dreaming of touching for so long.

Lucy responded immediately, thrusting her fingers into his hair, and pulling her body closer to his. She couldn't think. Her brain had shut down the minute his lips hit hers, opening her up like a raw nerve to the sheer sensation that was Natsu. His arm around her waist tugged her hips forward the last few inches that separated them as he invaded her mouth with his tongue and groaned, even deeper than he always did when she was eating something decadent. She moaned in response and sucked on his tongue, enjoying the way the toned arm circling her waist pulled her tighter when she did. Every touch, every caress, every move he made felt familiar and yet exciting and new all at once. It felt like coming home after being away for far too long.

One hand descended from his hair and clutched at his shoulder, desperately clinging to him as he bent her backwards at the waist.

Suddenly behind them, they heard giggling and the rustling of dry corn stalks.

Pulling away from the kiss, but not letting go of his hold on Lucy (BECAUSE FUCKING A, HE WAS FINALLY HOLDING HER!), Natsu opened the gate and pulled her through after him, turning left to duck behind the high stone wall. He trapped her against the wall and attacked her lips again, feeling like those lips were his lifeline.

How had he stood not feeling her gorgeous body pressed up against him like this all those months? How had he lived without her soft skin under his fingers? Without hearing her soft sighs brushing against his ear? His hand ran up her spine and back down the bared skin, sliding his hand under the opening of her low-backed dress to get a better grip on her waist. Lucy shivered in his arms as he caressed the sensitive skin. His other hand moved quickly from her neck to her side, thumb resting just below her breast under the arm she had raised so her hand could bury itself in his hair. She tugged on his hair and it sent a zap of pleasure running through him. Too much more of this and he'd be taking her right here against this wall. He bit her lower lip to get her attention.

Lucy's eyes popped open at the sharp nip he gave her, pulling back just enough to look him in the eyes. They were both still breathing hard, though it had nothing to do with their run through the maze anymore. His hips pressed hers into the wall and she could feel his arousal as he took her face in his hands and leaned his forehead against hers, their eyes too close to truly focus, but still, somehow too far away. Lucy clung to his shoulders, feeling drunk. She pushed back on his hips, subconsciously searching for the answer to the question her body was screaming at her.

"I have been dreaming of doing this for so long," he whispered, finally breaking their silence. She breathed out a laugh.

"Understatement of the year," she replied against his lips, unable to stay away from them for long. He tasted like caramel apple pops, a personal Halloween favorite of hers, and she couldn't get enough. He ran his lips over hers a couple of times. His eyes locked with hers as his hands drifted down to her hips, one continuing still lower, until it finally met bare thigh.

She shivered at his light touch, her eyes falling closed at the feeling of his fingers finally really on her skin. For months she had been attuned to his body, feeling his slightest movement; any touch of his own fingers on his own skin. But feeling it firsthand was like getting oxygen at the peak of a mountain after months of climbing deprived. And his touch was hotter. So much more heat transferred from his skin to hers than when she felt him touch himself. It was like she was being caressed by fire as his grip strengthened and his hand explored the exposed skin of her thigh. Compared to a moment ago, he seemed to be holding back, determined to go slow. The contained strength and power simmering beneath his skin seemed to sizzle through her wherever their bodies were touching. Her fingers in his hair and on his shoulder, his burning hand inside her dress, the arm splayed across her back, and even forehead pressed to hers. The fingers making soft circles down her leg were almost more than she could stand. Every movement sent pulses of heat thrumming through her body to her belly. Her legs quivered with it. If he didn't kiss her soon, she was going to end up throwing herself on him in desperation.

As if he could sense her frustration and arousal, he kissed her softly then, coaxing, as he found her knee and gently tugged on it until she shifted her weight and lifted it off the ground. He raised it slowly, the hem of her dress rising to match it, until her knee was hitched around his hip and her silk covered core pressed against his own barely covered arousal.

At the long awaited contact, they both moaned softly, Lucy grinding her hips into his hardness in a quest for more. More sensation, more heat, just, more Natsu. The hot hand holding her knee slid back up her painted thigh and under her skirt, getting a full handful of her generous derriere. His lips broke away from hers as he glanced down, as though he could see the bare skin his fingers had encountered. A little more exploring found the string of her thong and he groaned against her mouth again, his other hand finding it's way under her skirt to feel her other luscious cheek. With a firm grip, he lifted her to press more securely against his erection and she eagerly wrapped her other leg around his hip with a whimper as the thin slip of satin pressed between them was quickly saturated with the slick substance between her thighs.

They could hear giggling not too far off on the other side of the wall, so he pulled her closer against him, supporting her weight on his hands, and moved them several feet down the wall, taking the opportunity to enjoy the incredible view of Lucy's cleavage reflecting the moonlight in metallic swirls. He couldn't resist biting her lips again as he pushed her back up against the wall in front of him.

For the first time all day, Natsu regretted painting her. All he wanted to do was lick her from cleavage to collarbone and back again. But he didn't particularly like the idea of a mouthful of paint. He frantically surveyed her skin, searching in vain for an inch without color, his sudden desire to taste her becoming an unbearable need in moments.

"Natsu?" Her breathless inquiry brought his questing eyes back to her face instantly. She looked slightly down at him from her seat in his arms and traced her thumb roughly over his lips. He bit her thumb lightly, a smear of paint coming away with it. He cringed at the taste. Seeming to suddenly understand, she rubbed the wet substance between her thumb and finger as he leaned her into the wall and dragged a trail of closed mouth kisses down her neck.

"Hey, do you want to get out of here?" she said suddenly. He pulled back, looking her in the eye. She looked fired up and hungry. And more than a little desperate. "Shower, maybe?" He grinned.

"More than anything." Then he was struck by a random memory. "Or maybe we don't have to go that far." He adjusted his grip, settling an arm under her ass so he could steady her back with the other. She clenched her legs more securely around his hips and wrapped her arms around his neck. He groaned and stopped moving as his brain promptly stopped working.

"Gods, Lucy, can you do that again in, like, five minutes?" His muffled words prompted her to look down where she was practically smothering him with her breasts. He didn't seem to mind though, nuzzling every inch of skin he could. She promptly leaned back a bit, seeing, with amusement, that his pupils were blown so wide, his beautiful green eyes overcome by black.

"Maybe I should just walk…" Lucy said as she unlocked her legs and let one fall to catch her. Natsu gently lowered her until she was standing, grabbing one of her hands and immediately dragging her down a path through some trees behind Lamia's house. She carefully picked her way behind him, wishing she had put her stupid shoes back on, but making do.

"Yes, there it is!" Natsu muttered to himself as they cleared the little forested area and came out right on the shore of a small lake, still and shimmering in the moonlight.

"It's so beautiful," Lucy breathed stopping to stare when Natsu dropped her hand.

"Yeah, and wet!" he replied, walking toward the water.

"Wait! Stop!" He did as instructed.

"What?" She took her phone out of the front of her dress and opened up her camera app.

"I want to get pictures before it's destroyed!" Natsu rolled his eyes and posed while she took a dozen pictures of his body, the flash picking up what the moon didn't. When she finally seemed to be done, scrolling through to look at the pictures she had taken, he went for her phone.

"Ok, your turn." But Lucy snatched her phone back from him, giving him a little smile.

"I took some earlier, actually." Natsu's eyebrows went up and he made another grab for her phone, this time with no resistance. He scrolled back through the pictures until he hit one of her in a mirror fully dressed. It looked like it could have been her bedroom. Back a few more, she had shots of her back, and then a few more swipes in, he hit paydirt.

She was topless, wearing a short red skirt to cover up the pale skin around her pantyline that hadn't gotten painted. His mouth went dry and Lucy easily took the moment to steal her phone back from him, setting it on a large rock a safe distance from the water. He made a mental note to borrow her phone and send that picture to himself later. She turned her back to him, unzipping and peeling the dress down, shimmying it off her hips to drop to a pile on the ground. Her unpainted ass would have been funny if Natsu hadn't been so distracted by the fact she was taking off her underwear. She glanced over her shoulder, meeting his eye for only a moment before looking away again.

"Aren't you coming?"

Natsu smirked and shrugged, running down the nearby dock and jumping off the end. A cloud of red and gold stained the water around where he went in as he popped his head up out of the ripples he had created. Lucy walked a little more slowly after him down the dock, one hand wrapped around her chest. His eyes roamed over her hungrily, watching the red marks run and fade. Using his hands, he scrubbed over his body and face washing off as much as he could, before looking at her again.

Her pale skin glowed in the moonlight, looking truly naked now, but almost more beautiful as lingering streaks of red faded away.

"Stop staring!" she barked at him, forgetting to cover herself as her hands flew to her hips and opened herself up for his viewing pleasure. Gods she was beautiful.

"If you don't want me staring at you, then get your ass in here." She sniffed and carefully made her way down the rest of the dock, finally reaching the end and diving off into the water gracefully.

Lucy resurfaced a second later, smoothing her hair out of her face as she came up. The red water had turned her hair a little pink.

"Hey, now you look like me!" Natsu said, jokingly, reaching out to touch her, only to have her pull away from him.

"Uh-uh. I'm naked!" Natsu quirked an eyebrow at her. Lucy was such a weirdo. Like he didn't already know every inch of her body as though it were his own, her hands mapping it out for him over the months.

"Ok…" he pulled his swimming trunks off under the water and wrung them out a little, throwing the sopping bundle up onto the dock. "Now I am too!" He grinned at her.

She laughed at him, distracted enough not to notice he was closing the distance between them. When she finally did, she gasped and darted away, heading back toward shore down the side of the dock. She was just able to touch the bottom with her toes when he caught her, grabbing her around the waist and pulling her flush with his body. She blushed as she felt her skin slip over his, but didn't have much time to think about it before he kissed her again, invading her mouth with his tongue for only a moment before moving to kiss her neck, sucking on a spot that made her knees buckle. He ran his tongue over the chain still around her throat and pulled back for a second, a hand coming up to brush the pendant out of the way. But the moonlight caught on something that made him pause. He leaned out of the path of the light, examined the little golden heart closer and grinned.

"You planned this!" he suddenly accused her. "You knew I was coming tonight, didn't you?!" His arms pulled her closer to him in delight.

Lucy blushed and bit her lip. He could only watch her for a moment before he had to do it for her. Bite her, that is. Which led him to nibble on her upper lip too, until he eventually pulled back to let her answer.

"I hoped you would," she said, a hand coming up to touch the pendant against her throat. He grabbed her legs and wrapped them loosely around his waist again, so she floated in the water with him as her anchor.

"I love you, you know," he said seriously, looking her straight in the eye.

"Well, that's good. Because I love you too," she replied, her grin starting to match the one he was wearing.

Then, as he leaned in and nipped at the hickey he had just given her at the crook of her neck, one of Natsu's hands slid up her leg, to her hip and then continued up her side until his thumb brushed the underside of her breast. The feeling of his hot digit sweeping over water cooled skin sent a jolt of pleasure down her abdomen, landing between her legs, which clenched around him a little closer. He swept his tongue up her neck to her ear as he slid his hand fully onto her supple breast, lightly brushing her straining nipple with his thumb. Lucy moaned in response, grabbing his wet hair and dragging his lips back to hers. She attacked him with gusto then, pulling her body closer as he roughly palmed her breast and their tongues danced in the hot space they created between their open lips.

Lucy rolled her hips against him, her core sliding against something hard, making them both moan. The hand on her breast slid down her stomach, reaching between them to ghost over her wet curls. He paused there, just barely touching her and pulled away from her lips.

"Lucy, is this wh-" he was cut off as she kissed him again, bucking her hips intentionally into his hand.

"Gods yes," she moaned into his mouth.

That was all he needed to hear. His long finger parted her and he found her slick little bundle of nerves with his thumb as he slid his finger into her to the first knuckle.

"Oh, fuck," she swore roughly into his ear as he pulled the digit out of her and then pushed it back in, further this time. Feeling her warm walls sucking him in, he added a second finger and curled them, pushing the rough tips of his fingers against her roughly, stretching her. She cried out at that, clutching him and arching her back, unable to concentrate on kissing him anymore as the combined sensations of the cool water surrounding them and his hot fingers fucking her shut down her brain. He took advantage of her exposed neck and sucked on her skin, his hot tongue laving the cool surface in time with the curl of his fingers. It had her moaning and crying out almost continuously then. Her wordless cries echoed out over the water, disapating into the air around them. Thank the gods that lake was deserted. Hearing Lucy lose control was the most beautiful thing he'd ever heard.

Lucy rolled her hips into his fingers, searching for more and instinctually riding his hand. As he kept up a steady rhythm, he edged her to slightly shallower water until her breasts were fully exposed above the waterline and leaned down to capture a nipple between his teeth, rolling it and flicking the tip with his tongue.

Lucy was in heaven. At least she assumed that's where she was, because she had never experienced anything like this before. It was an overwhelming amount of sensation, twice as stimulating as any of the showers they had taken together, and so much more satisfying. As if to confirm that he really was there between her legs, she ran a hand down his toned chest, crying out as he hit that amazing place inside of her again and again with his fingertips. A hot wire of pleasure ran from between her legs to where he bit lightly and pulled at her nipple with his teeth. Without realizing it, her hand slid lower between them, down the ripples of his abs and brushed against his erection.

Natsu took a sharp intake of breath and his lips left her breast as he felt her small hand close around him. He was so hard at that point that the slightest brush of her fingers sent a jolt of oversensitized pleasure through him. And when she started to stroke him, closing that tight fist around him, his brain stopped and so did his breathing. It took a roll of her hips against his hand to remind him that his fingers were still inside her. He swiftly curled them once more, proud of the loud cry he drew from her, before removing his fingers, using his thumb to circle her engorged clit at an agonizing pace. A single thought beat down anything else he could possibly be thinking: he had to be inside Lucy. As soon as fucking possible.

And thank the gods, Lucy seemed to be thinking the same thing. She guided his stiff length to push his fingers out of the way and pressed the firm head against herself, slipping over her clit as she struggled to align herself with him. Lucy moaned into his mouth at the sensation.

Natsu opened his eyes and grabbed Lucy's neck with one hand, startling her into opening her eyes and looking at him. The desperate question in his eyes was answered quickly and clearly with a breathless grin accompanying her nod, and Lucy lined him up just in time for his push into her.

Between the water and her own slippery wetness, he met little friction, her tight walls closing in around him as he tried to take it slow. But she had other ideas.

Lucy wanted him to fill her up, to stretch her out! His hesitant pace was itching at her, until she couldn't take it anymore. She grabbed his shoulders and rolled her hips, pushing herself onto him until he filled her to the hilt. It stung a little, but finally satisfied that empty feeling she'd been looking to fill since his fingers had left her.

Natsu's hands gripped her waist and braced her as he pulled out slightly and then dove back in.

"Fuck, Lucy," he moaned into her neck. "You're so tight its insane! Do you work out down there or something? I'm not hurting you am I?" She laughed at his sudden rambling, reminded that he was in fact the slightly goofy guy she had fallen in love with steadily, but surely over the last few months. He was pretty sure her laughing meant she was ok, but just to make sure, he focused all of his attention on her, on feeling what she felt through their bond. Then, when he could feel the air entering her lungs in burning breaths, he pulled away and thrust back in carefully.

The wave of pleasure he felt from her hit him like a freight train, almost sending him into an orgasm as she moaned his name. That's what she was feeling?!

"Holy shit Lucy, does it feel like that every time?!" he choked out, fingers clenching around her plump ass cheeks again as he struggled to keep from releasing. He was no hair-trigger, at least he never used to be, but the overwhelming combination of his pleasure plus hers was fucking incredible. Her muscles clenched down on him and he whimpered, his jaw clenching. He was not going to fucking come until she did, damnit. He was better than that.

She opened her eyes at the sound, her shining brown eyes black and silver in the moonlight, hazy and full of lust.

"What? Does what feel like what?" she said somewhat incoherently.

"I just...felt what you feel, when I do this," he thrust into her again, feeling her reaction again, though better prepared for it this time. He couldn't stop himself this time, rocking into her steadily now. "And it almost made me...Fuck! You are so fucking tight! Does it feel like that every time?!" He thrust particularly deep to illustrate his point.

"Doesn't it...feel like that...for you?" Lucy gasped as she rolled her hips back, pulling off of him slightly and closed her eyes to concentrate on him before clenching her legs again and pulling him back into her with a clench of her inner muscles. Her vision burst into white and her fingers clamped down on him as wave after wave of pleasure crashed over her. Natsu's mouth dropped open as he felt her milking him, and clenched his teeth for all he was worth, every muscle in his body tensed as he froze. He couldn't bear to leave her but he wasn't about to let himself blow inside her either. He could do this. He was fucking Natsu Dragneel. There were girls who still called him when they came back into town. What good was all the practice freshman year if he couldn't even do this?

Just as he felt her coming down from her climax he pulled out of her, not quite leaving her completely and pushed back in again, beginning a rhythm that pushed her orgasm out for several moments before it backed off. His mind was blank as he drove into her, concentrating on her pleasure with every stroke. It was driving him wild, feeling her pleasure mingling with his own. It was all he could do to hold out on his own climax. He was determined to make this last. Just a little bit longer.

Lucy couldn't feel her fingers as she grasped onto Natsu with everything she had. She had thought just being touched by him was good, and then having him fill her up was great, but tuning in her mind to what his body was feeling? On top of the heat he was stoking up in her again? It was phenomenal. Scintillating. Effervescent! She didn't even have enough perfect words in her vast vocabulary to describe it. She could feel the tingles returning to her fingers and her head going woozy from lack of oxygen as the tension built in her again. Natsu's strokes had become shorter, harder, and more frantic, pressing her back into the deck support and slamming into her as deeply as he could go. It was all her body needed to push it over the edge, her world exploding in brightness again as he hastily pulled out of her and climaxed harmlessly into the water. They shared a breathless moment, staring into one another's eyes before Natsu pulled her body back up against his and kissed her firmly. Then, strengthening his grip on her, he made his way to shore, sliding a little on the slimy rocks of the lakebed. Lucy clung to him, muscles shaking, until he eventually lowered her onto the dock itself, next to her clothes. He had to hold her steady as her legs gave way multiple times before actually doing their job and holding her up. At least long enough to pull on her underwear and dress again. Then he sat her down on a large rock and hunted down his own swimming trunks, wringing them out and pulling up the clingy shorts that plastered themselves to his skin. He wrinkled his nose and took a few steps. It was incredibly uncomfortable, but hopefully, they'd be dry soon.

When he got back to Lucy, he knelt in front of her, offering his back.

"Hop on up. Let's get the hell out of here and shower."

"You don't need to carry me. I can walk," Lucy said stubbornly, barely managing to stand before her legs collapsed again and she fell onto his back anyway. The blonde looked down at her legs, disgruntled by their betrayal. Well, she had been clenching her leg muscles pretty much the last half and hour. Plus orgasming twice. It was sort of understandable.

"Aaaaaand, I rest my case," Natsu replied, grabbing her shaking legs and hiking her up a little higher on his back.

"Damnit Natsu...always gotta be right…" she grumbled into his ear, resting her head against his shoulder with a smile that belied her words. Her wet hair dripped down onto his shoulders as he tried really really hard not to think of what parts of her were pressed up against his back. Swimwear did not give a man a lot of leeway. Especially wet swimwear. And he could already tell it wouldn't take much for him to be hot and ready for Lucy again. She just had that effect on him.

But first, they desperately needed showers.

"Which way to your place?" he chirped over his shoulder, straightening and heading back to the corn maze.

"It's not too far. I've got an apartment at Fairy Hills," Lucy replied, playing with a lock of his wet hair with her fingers as she relaxed blissfully against his warmth. The breeze that had felt so good earlier was chilling the water on her skin. So Natsu's body warmth was much appreciated.

He stopped walking for a second.

"Are you fucking kidding me? You have lived THAT CLOSE this entire time?! FUCK!"

She giggled at his outburst as he proceeded forward again. They had reached the end of the maze, Natsu stooping over so that Lucy could grab her abandoned shoes before exiting the maze and taking a shortcut around the stone wall instead. Natsu kept up a steady stream of swearing and complaints about the fact she had been under his nose the whole time until they rounded the corner and Lucy recognized a few of the group of people standing in front of the maze.

"Levy! Gajeel!" she shouted, waving an arm enthusiastically, causing Natsu to stumble crookedly for a moment. His own legs weren't feeling particularly stable at the moment either…but he couldn't help but grin. Totally worth it.

"Oh my gods, Lucy! We were just looking for you! Where have you-"

"Holy shit you fuckin' did it!" a voice interrupted Levy from behind them. Natsu turned to see his roommate with his arm around some random chick. "You found her! About fucking time!"

Lucy stared, perplexed, at the fit man dressed like an Olympic swimmer in front of her. His fingers fluttered around the tight waistband of the speedo he wore, and it hit her like a ton of bricks.

"Gray! You must be Gray! Hi! I'm Lucy! It's nice to finally meet you!"

"You too! We should get coffee sometime and I can tell you why this loser isn't worth your time," he joked affectionately. Natsu gritted his teeth and narrowed his eyes. Then he felt the cool metal of Lucy's pendant against the back of his neck. He leaned in close to his roommate and smirked.

"Sorry Ice-Pop, it's a little late for that. Lucy, why don't you show him what that necklace of yours says." Lucy, a little embarrassed, but mostly deliriously happy, tugged the pendant around in front of her and held it out so Gray could read it. He had just enough time to make out what it said before Natsu took off in long strides around the side of the house, yelling back over his shoulder.

"We'll see you later. Lucy's got several months of playing keep away to make up to me."

Lucy shivered at his words and her arms wrapped around him tighter. That sounded fair to her. She yelled back to the group.

"Bye guys! See you all Monday!"

Erza, who had walked up behind Gray with Mystogan just in time to hear Natsu tell Lucy to show Gray the necklace, cleared her throat.

"So, what did it say?" she finally asked. Gray grinned back at her.

Levy and Gajeel grinned too. They had known Lucy's plans from the beginning. Levy had been particularly proud of Gajeel for not spilling the beans as he painted the wings on Natsu's back that morning. Subtly and secrets were definitely not his thing, but he had done an excellent job of zipping his lips. He would be handsomely rewarded when they got home.

Finally, Gray replied, his grin growing.

"Lucy Heartfilia, Property of Natsu Dragneel, Fire Dragon of Fairy Tail."

They all shared a smile.

Those two were clearly made for each other.

And, we're just gonna ignore the facts that lakes are gross and dirty and go with it...hurray for fiction and it's lack of realistic bacteria! hehe