Summary: Inspired by the Big Bang Theory. Modern AU, Lucy remembers a Thanksgiving spent in Las Vegas.

Pairings: Natsu/Lucy, implied Mira/Laxus, and friendship feels between Lucy/Mira/Cana/Gray/Natsu.

YouTube Prompt: Crack video for Gray and Natsu to 'If I Didn't Have You' from Quest For Camelot.

"So, I finally convinced Laxus to have a Thanksgiving dinner party at our place for once," Mira said gleefully, "and you're all invited! So will you come?"

There was an explosion of noise as everyone agreed but it was Lucy's voice that Natsu heard clear as day. "Sure," she said cheerfully enough, "it would be nice to not be the one cooking a massive dinner for once."

"What?!" Natsu yelped. "No! You have to cook Thanksgiving dinner, it's a tradition! No one can cook like you, Lucy."

"Thanks Natsu," Mira muttered sarcastically, "I'll remember that the next time you want one of my breakfasts."

"Natsu," Lucy rolled her eyes with great exasperation, "I can't keep cooking for twenty odd people. I never have enough room in my apartment anyway, we all end up eating on the floor."

"It's a picnic!"

"Yeah, well for once I'd like to not end Thanksgiving with gravy down my front," Lucy said sternly.

"But tradition!"

"Come on, Natsu," Gray scoffed, "let Lucy have a break. It's not the first Thanksgiving you had without her cooking. You lived through twenty odd years of them without her, idiot."

"Yeah," Natsu scowled, hating to agree with Gray, "but ever since we met Lucy, Thanksgiving has always been at hers, with her cooking."

"Not like I had any choice," Lucy grumbled, "You were the ones that barged in and demanded food."

"Actually that's not true," Cana spoke up from the kitchen area, "we spent one Thanksgiving in Las Vegas, remember?"

"Oh yeah!" Lucy beamed. "That was surprisingly good fun. I won a fortune that weekend, and discovered a surprisingly good dinner in that strip club, and then I had one of those fake weddings in one of those really cheesy chapels."

"…."

"Erm, Lucy," Mira said, "Those weddings are real."

"No they're not," Lucy denied instantly, "they can't be. I was drunk out of my mind when it happened. Surely that's illegal?!"

"Still a real wedding, Lucy," Gray smirked,

"B-b-but it didn't feel real!" Lucy wailed. "I was married by an Elvis impersonator for Christ sake!"

"Well yeah," Cana teased, "You could never afford the real one."

"And pretending to be Elvis doesn't make him less of an officiated minister," Gray jumped in. he was still wearing his insufferable smirk.

"Nooooooooooooooooooo!" Lucy moaned into her hands. "This was not how I wanted to get married."

"My shipping dreams," Mira agreed sorrowfully, "ruined. Forever. Oh, Lucy how could you?!"

Natsu, who had been staring at Lucy with his mouth open the entire time, shook his head. He blinked, shook his head again, as he replayed the entire conversation all over again in his head.

Lucy was married.

His girlfriend, Lucy, was married.

MARRIED!

It was then when he finally snapped. "You got married in Las Vegas?!" he roared, "You got married to someone else. Someone who isn't me?! THAT'S IT!" Natsu stood up so suddenly that Lucy's armchair toppled over, Lucy's angry shout was ignored as he marched towards the door. "I'm going to find this fucking bastard and kill him."

He tore the door open, stormed out, and slammed the door loudly behind him. Lucy flinched in sympathy for the agony her front door must be in. Mira also grimaced, Cana shrugged, and Gray turned to Lucy.

"Aren't you going to stop him?" he asked worriedly. "Knowing that moron, he will end up in prison."

"Eh," Lucy shrugged, "I don't know who he's going to kill. He was the one I married."