This wasn't requested, I just wrote it on a whim.

Lucy gave an enormous gasp of relief as crying filled the room and her body was suddenly able to relax after such a long, strenuous day.

"Am I done!? Am I done!?" Lucy cried, gripping onto Natsu's shirt as he sat beside her bed.

Natsu shakily sighed, caressing her cheek and pressing a kiss onto her forehead, slicked with sweat. "You're done, Luce, you did amazing!"

Lucy pulled Natsu to her lips to give him a desperate kiss. "Where is she!? Where is Layla!? I wanna see her!"

Her husband gave a stuttery laugh. "They're just cleaning her up." Natsu saw tears running down Lucy's cheeks. "Hey, what're you crying for?"

"I don't know!" she whined, spurning more tears. "I'm just so-"

Natsu laughed again and pulled her in for an embrace. "I love you, Lucy."

"I love you, too!" she wept before kissing him softly again.

"You did fantastic, Luce," he told her for the second time.

"Not to interrupt this moment," Wendy hesitantly said, coming back into the room and holding a bundle in her arms. "But would you like to meet your new baby daughter?"

Natsu and Lucy's faces both lit up with grins as Natsu eagerly held his arms out towards Wendy. The teenager carefully handed the baby over to the new father.

"Oh! Let me see her!" Lucy cried, tiredly reaching towards the baby. "She's so- she's so-" Lucy's last word was incoherent as she started sobbing again, a mix of exhaustion, hormones, and happiness taking a toll on her. "She has your pink hair, Natsu! I was- I was hoping she would! I've always loved- loved your hair," she continued weeping. Lucy reached up to her silent husband's cheek and turned him to her, noticing his wide-eyed and slack-jawed expression. "Hey, what's wrong?"

"No, nothing's-" Natsu turned to look back at his daughter, currently yawning widely. His throat choked. "-wrong." And then the waterworks came. "SHE'S JUST SO- SO BEAUTIFUL, LUCY!" He cried, tears streaming down his cheeks.

Lucy sobbed right next to him, just as many joyful tears. "I KNOW!" Lucy ran her fingers through the tiny, soft, pink locks on her daughter's head. "Natsu, can I- can I hold her?"

Natsu blubbered something through his tears while nodding, carefully moving Layla from his arms to hers.

There was a knock on the door. "Can we come in?" the new parents heard Mirajane ask.

"Come in, come in!" Lucy sobbed. Mirajane, Erza, Levy, and Juvia came in initially, giving 'aww's at Natsu and Lucy's happy tears.

"She's so sweet," Levy remarked.

"She looks like you, Natsu," Erza told him. "You must be proud."

Natsu just nodded while blubbering again.

"Should we let the boys in now?" Mirajane asked, gesturing to the door, where Gajeel and Gray were waiting outside. Natsu and Lucy both nodded and Mirajane went to let them in.

Gray and Gajeel laughed lightly as they came in and saw Natsu. "What's with the tears, Salamander?" Gajeel teased.

Natsu was too happy to get annoyed with them, only nodding. "She's- she's so beautiful!"

"She is, Natsu, she is," Gray agreed. He took his own wife's hand, the two sharing a moment of contemplation.

Lucy continued rocking Layla in her arms while Natsu rubbed his wife's back as chatter and compliments surrounded the family.

More joyful sobs wracked Natsu and Lucy's bodies as they imagined what the rest of their lives would be like, taking care of and raising their baby daughter.

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