On a cold winter morning in Magnolia, Lucy was in her apartment, humming to herself as she placed her soap and shampoo by the side of her bathtub and began to run the water. Then she came back into her bedroom and began to unbutton her top.
"Hey Lucy!" Natsu and Happy casually greet her from her bed.
Lucy screamed and pulled her top shut over her chest. Then she frowned when she saw that her bedroom window was wide open.
"Natsu what the hell! I gave you a key so that you could use the door not climb in through my window like a perverted stalker or a burglar!" Lucy complains.
"Oh yeah." Natsu says.
He feels around in his pockets and pulls out the key.
"I'm just so used to coming in through the window I must have forgotten about the key and just broken in out of habit." Natsu laughs.
Lucy sighs and blushes.
"I should have known that this would happen. You always seem to barge in on me while I'm changing after all..." She whines with a teasing lilt to her voice that Natsu picks up on.
He blushes when he notices her tugging on the open ends of her top, teasingly revealing her cleavage while her pretty doe eyes darkened with lust.
Happy felt the change in the atmosphere and immediately felt uncomfortable.
"Uh, I know you two are a thing now but I don't need to know what kind of kinky roleplay you're into!" He says and flies back out the window.
"There's nothing kinky about thi-" Lucy starts then gets cut off and gasps as Natsu suddenly pins her against her dresser.
"So you knew I was coming eh? Is that why you drew a bath?" He asks in a low tone.
"Yeah. Would you care to join me?" Lucy offers seductively.
After taking a nice relaxing bath together where they cleaned each other off among other activities, and then made their way to the guild hall like they did every day since they got together.
It had been a few months since that fateful day that the "baby race" started at the guild and by now most people had forgotten about it entirely. They were just happy that the couples that they knew were destined to be together had finally gotten together, there wasn't a big rush for anyone to get pregnant yet. Lucy for one was fine with that. She and Natsu were still getting used to this new chapter in their relationship, adding a baby to the mix would be too much right now. Besides, Levy was going to be due to have her twins any time this month, and Gray and Juvia were having their wedding the day before Christmas Eve. There was already so much celebration going on, Lucy didn't want to steal her friend's spotlight, nor the Holiday's.
Yep. It was that time of year again, and as the first snow fell on Magnolia, everyone in the guild was busy setting up decorations inside and Erza was meticulously dictating every aspect of it.
"Put in more effort everyone! These decorations need to be perfect this year since we'll not only be celebrating the Holidays, but a Fairy Tail wedding!" Erza declares and everyone cheers.
Juvia's face lit up when she heard everyone cheering.
"Did you hear that Gray-sama? They're so happy for us!" Juvia exclaims and throws her arms around her fiancé in a tight hug.
At first Gray frowned at Juvia for being so affectionate like this, but then he saw how happy she looked and couldn't help but smile and hug her back.
"Yeah they are. But I doubt they're happier than I am to get to have you as my wife." Gray tells her.
"Aw Gray-sama, Juvia is really happy too!" She says and then they kiss each other.
Erza watched them hugging each other and felt a pang of jealousy. Jellal was away for the week, so seeing Gray and Juvia get so cozy with each other was a bit irritating but hey, at least it wasn't every couple right? Suddenly she turned her head towards Levy when she heard her laugh.
Asuka was laughing too, because she had just shot mistletoe onto Gajeel's forehead and he was very unamused.
"Hey this ain't funny you little brat!" Gajeel growls at her.
"Gajeel don't talk to her like that, she's just a little kid. You wouldn't yell at one of our kids like that would you?" Levy asks and rubs her swollen belly.
Gajeel quickly realizes his mistake and then flashes a big grin at Asuka while patting her on the head.
"No of course not. Children are the most precious things in the world gihee." He says.
"That's funny, but now you have to kiss Levy since she's under the mistletoe!" Asuka says and laughs.
"Gihee. That's no problem for me." Gajeel says and then leans down and plants one on Levy.
Now Erza was starting to get a little ticked off and she growled.
Lucy was on a ladder setting up garland on the balcony. While she was working she heard a commotion below her as a bunch of the older men in the guild who had had a little too much to drink were fighting over who got to hold the ladder for her.
"Hey cut it out you perverts! You're gonna make me fall!" Lucy shouts at them.
Natsu came over after hearing the commotion.
"Why are you calling them perverts? They just want to hold the ladder for you so you don't fall." Natsu says.
"Natsu, they want to hold the ladder so that they can look up my skirt!" Lucy shouts at her clueless boyfriend.
As soon as he hears that his demeanor changes and he growls at the older men who dared to creep on Lucy.
"Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" Natsu shouts and all the drunk men scream as his flaming fist comes hurtling towards them.
"Wait Natsu be careful you're gonna break the ladder-AH!" Lucy shouts as the ladder breaks from Natsu's attack and she falls.
She expected to hit the floor but she didn't. Natsu caught her in his arms and smiled at her.
"Don't worry Luce, I'm always here to catch you when you fall." Natsu says.
Lucy blushes and looks at him lovingly.
"You too Natsu." She says and then they both kiss.
Erza was now fully enraged with jealousy and her fist clenched around the railing for the balcony and cracked it.
"Whoa Erza's really mad!" Jet exclaims.
"Everyone look out!" Droy shouts and ducks for cover under a table.
Lucy and Levy noticed how angry she looked and then left their boys and quickly walked towards the guild's exit.
"Hey Levy, do you think now would be a good time to do our Christmas shopping?" Lucy asks nervously.
"Yep! Definitely!" Levy agrees.
Lucy and Levy walked through the streets of Magnolia and looked for gifts to get for their friends in the guild. They also pointed out things that they would want for themselves. Lucy didn't see anything she was dying to get in the market though. But the one Christmas gift she did want was for Natsu to get down on one knee for her with a ring in his hand and a four-word question on his lips. She was pulled from her thoughts as Levy shivered beside her and held her coat tighter to herself, the buttons were strained over her large baby bump. Lucy pulled a shawl out from her bag and wrapped it around Levy's shoulders.
"I hope Gajeel got you a warmer jacket for Christmas." Lucy says as she rubs her best friends shoulders to get her warmed up.
"Don't tempt him or else he'll probably make it himself out of iron." Levy jokes and the two girls laugh.
"He's still determined to build your whole house out of iron isn't he?" Lucy asks.
"No, I was able to talk him out of that." Levy laughs.
"I reminded him that if the whole house was iron then he'd be tempted to eat the place all the time and he wouldn't be able to because it would be made from his own magic so it would be like torture for him. So he's toned down on the home projects for now. Although he does seem to be busy doing something with Natsu lately." Levy says.
"Yeah I've noticed. I tried to ask Natsu what's going on but every time I bring it up he gets nervous and tries to redirect the conversation to something else. Do you know what he's been up to with Gajeel?" Lucy asks.
"I haven't got the slightest clue. Gajeel's been just as secretive. But I don't think it's anything to worry about, because whenever I ask him he laughs before telling me that it's a secret he can't tell me about because if I know then I'll tell you." Levy admits.
Lucy looks down and crosses her arms to keep them closer to her warm body inside her pink jacket as a cold breeze blew by.
"Whatever it is, I guess it's clear that it's something he really doesn't want me to know about." Lucy says.
"Puu-puun." Plue says.
The girls turn and see Plue dancing around as the snowflakes fall around him.
"I'm surprised Plue isn't shivering right now. He looks like he's always cold, I'd imagine he'd be freezing right now." Levy says and holds her shawl tighter to herself.
"He doesn't shiver from the cold, just when he's nervous. He's actually rather fond of the cold weather to be honest, that's why he's so happy right now." Lucy says and giggles as Plue stands in place and shakes his hips before jumping up and cheering with joy.
"There you girls are!" A loud voice shouts, scaring Plue and making him scream and jump into Lucy's arms where he began to shiver.
The girls turned to see Cana standing there, stumbling slightly as she approached them, an open bottle of some sort of liquor in her hand.
"Cana what are you doing drunk out here? The ground is slippery because of the snow, you could fall and hurt yourself!" Levy warns.
"I'm getting drunk to celebrate the first snow of the season!" Cana slurs before taking another large swig of her drink, finishing the bottle and tossing it into the alley where they heard it shatter.
"Besides, being out here is worth the risk because there's something going on at the guild hall you girls have got to see!" Cana exclaims.
Cana lunged forward and grabbed both of their wrists and tugging them forward with surprising ease and then took off down the street with both of the girls struggling to keep up.
"Cana what are you doing?" Lucy exclaims as the card mage dragged her through the street towards the guildhall by her wrist while Plue flew behind Lucy like a kite as she held his hand.
"Yeah, ouch Cana! You're being a bit rough." Levy says as Cana dragged her along by the wrist with her other hand.
"You should be more careful with a pregnant lady." Levy reminds her.
"Relax Levy, I'm grabbing your wrist not your uterus, and besides, for all we know, Lucy could be expecting too by now since she and Natsu are spending every night together." Cana says suggestively and looks at Lucy.
She blushed and looked away from her.
"Just because we're sharing a bed doesn't mean we're having sex every night!" Lucy retorts.
"So you admit you've done it more than once!" Cana replies.
Lucy yelped when she realized what she just revealed and Cana laughed heartily and Levy giggled.
"So what's going on at the guild that's so important that you pulled us away from our Holliday shopping?" Lucy asks grumpily to direct the conversation away from her sex life.
"Heh. We're here now so see for yourself." Cana says and lets go of them once they enter the doors of the guild hall.
What the girls saw inside was nothing out of the ordinary. Just the boys being rowdy and fighting each other as usual. But then when they heard what they were saying, they understood why Cana wanted them to come down there so quickly.
"Lucy is ten times sexier than Juvia!" Natsu exclaims and throws a fireball at Gray.
Gray blocked it with an ice shield that shattered when the fire hit it and then smirked at Natsu.
"Oh yeah, then how come Juvia won the Miss Fiore contest in Sorcerer Weekly and not Lucy!" Gray retorts.
"Yeah! You tell him darling!" Juvia cheers.
"Juvia loves hearing you say how much you prefer her over that blonde bimbo."
Levy and Cana snickered and Lucy rolled her eyes.
"Oh please, that contest means absolutely nothing to me. In my eyes there's nothing in this whole world that's more beautiful than Lucy!" Natsu shouts back at Gray.
Lucy blushed from the compliment.
"Oh wow...I can't believe he really thinks of me like that." She whispers, touched by his words.
"Besides, Lucy's boobs are way bigger than Juvia's!" Natsu adds and Lucy's heartfelt feelings go away as quickly as they came.
"And now I can believe it." She deadpans.
"Well then you need to get your eyes checked because Juvia's rack is ten times better than Lucy's!" Gray shouts at Natsu.
"Hey don't use my numbers against me!" Natsu shouts.
"Does that flame brain of yours even know how to multiply by ten!" Gray retorts.
"Of course it does, that's why I'm gonna punch you ten times harder than I did last time!" Natsu shouts and throws a flaming punch at Gray.
He lands the hit and Gray hits a table while Natsu smiles proudly as he stands over him while Juvia helps him sit up and regain his bearings.
"You two are fightin' over nothin'. Levy's the sexiest girl that ever existed, and you two boneheads are too dumb to see it." Gajeel says from the table next to them and drinks his beer.
Natsu and Gray snickered behind him.
"The problem isn't that we're dumb." Natsu says and both he and Gray snicker again.
"The problem is that you'd need a magnifying glass if you wanted to see her chest."
The boys erupted into a fit of laughter and a vein bulged out of Gajeel's forehead.
Levy gasps and her face turns red from embarrassment while she crosses her arms over her chest and Plue comfortingly pats her shoulder from where he was standing on the balcony.
"Forget her chest Natsu, you'd need a microscope just to see her at all!" Gray adds and the two of them laugh harder.
"And Gajeel's such a big guy, how do you think he even fits inside of her?" Natsu jokes.
"Well she's pregnant so he must have managed to squeeze it in there somehow." Gray snickers.
Then they stopped laughing when Gajeel picked them both up by the collars of their jackets.
"You two don't need to worry about how well I fit inside of Levy. You should be more worried about how yer gonna fit inside the wall!" Gajeel shouts and tosses them both into a wall with a loud crash.
Gray and Natsu groaned and fell out of the wall.
As Natsu regained his senses he noticed that some of the men in the guild were snickering and pointing at him and Gray while the girls looked annoyed and unimpressed.
"Hey Gray, why's everyone laughing at us?" Natsu asks gruffly.
"They're not laughing at us." Gray answers.
Natsu looked confused but then Gray pointed to the wall and Natsu caught himself before he burst out laughing when he saw that the craters that he and Gray made in the wall greatly resembled a woman's chest.
The two mages looked at each other before laughing hysterically and slinging their arms around each other's shoulders.
"I guess now we know who the biggest pair of boobs in the guild are!" Happy teases before falling over from laughing.
"What a mature response." Carla says in an unamused tone but still cracks a small smile when Happy's not looking.
"Huge boobs are so manly!" Elfman shouts.
"You callin' Levy a man Elfman?" Gajeel growls.
"Uh no. I mean, I don't think so." Elfman says and scratches his head.
"I mean her boobs are pretty small aren't they?"
"Well, they were but now they're bigger." Gajeel says and blushes.
"Whoa wait she made them bigger!" Gray exclaims and looks at Gajeel curiously.
"Can girls just make them grow or shrink whenever they want like Brandish's magic or something?" Natsu asks curiously.
"No you idiots it's because of the babies!" Gajeel roars at them.
"They get bigger because of the milk her body's gonna make to feed them with because of hormones or some crap like that, I don't remember." Gajeel explains while blushing and scratching his head.
Carla rolled her eyes in annoyance before quirking an eyebrow when she noticed that Juvia was feeling her chest.
"Why are you doing that in public woman?!" Carla barks at her and Juvia blushes and puts her hands down at her sides and pretending that nothing happened.
"Well pregnant or not Lucy's still got the best rack in the guild!" Natsu claims while giving Gray a challenging look.
"In your dreams flame brain, Juvia's are way better and you know it!" Gray argues.
Both of them press their foreheads together and growl before Mira interjects.
"Both of you are so silly. If you want to know which one of them has a bigger chest then just go by their cup sizes." Mira says cheerily.
"Why is she encouraging them?" Lucy sighs and presses her palm against her forehead.
"Cup size?" Natsu asks.
"You mean I'm supposed to shove different sized cups onto one of her boobs and see to see which one fits or not?"
Lucy groaned and Cana and Levy giggled.
"No you idiot!" Gray says and smacks him in the back of the head.
"She's talking about her bra. The part that holds her boobs."
"Oh that makes more sense. So then do you know what size Juvia is?" Natsu asks.
"No. When I'm taking Juvia's bra off I'm not checking to see what size it is, I just want to get it out of the way to get at what was inside of it." Gray says matter of factly.
A few of the guys in the guild cheered for Gray and a few of them gave wolf whistles too.
"Oh Gray-sama you're so vulgar!" Juvia exclaims happily with hearts in her eyes.
"I can't even get Lucy's bra off. It's too complicated and it takes too long so I just rip it off instead. But Lucy doesn't seem to mind." Natsu says.
Everyone gasps and Lucy squeaks in embarrassment and her face turns bright red and she hides behind her hands.
"Oh my..." Levy says.
"Wow that's kinky." Cana says and slings an arm around Lucy.
"Oh hey Mira that reminds me, do you know where Lucy buys her bras because I owe her a couple new ones." He says and blushes and scratches the back of his head.
"I can buy them myself you pervert!" Lucy shouts.
Natsu froze and looked terrified when he turned his head and saw Lucy standing there glaring at him. Gajeel did a double take when he saw Levy standing next to her looking equally upset.
"Hey honey." Gajeel says with a nervous grin.
"H-hey there Luce, when did you get here?" Natsu asks and scratches the back of his head.
"Just in time to hear your little conversation with the boys..." Lucy says and crosses her arms while tapping her foot.
"Oh good then you heard me defending your beauty in front of them!" Natsu exclaims and stands up.
He shakes the remnants of the plaster from the wall out of his hair and then holds his arms open for Lucy to go and hug him. She remained standing in place with her hands on her hips as she frowned at him. That's when Natsu's smile fell and he lowered his arms.
"I did something wrong again didn't I?" He asks.
Lucy huffs, turns on her heel and walks out the door.
"Hey Lev, have I told you how cute you look today?" Gajeel asks sheepishly.
Levy rolls her eyes and follows Lucy out the door.
Levy came back inside once Gajeel apologized to her. Natsu set a fire in the huge fireplace that the guild built for the winter and everyone was drinking hot cocoa and warming up together. Gajeel and Levy were sitting near Gray and Juvia and Levy turned towards their direction when she heard Wendy say something interesting.
"Hey Juvia, have you started wearing the same perfume as Levy? You kind of smell like her." Wendy asks.
"Really? She doesn't smell any different to me." Gray says.
"Well your nose isn't as good as Wendy's Gray-sama." Juvia reminds him.
Levy smirked at them before trying to fish a marshmallow out of her cocoa.
Meanwhile, Lucy decided to stay outside the guild hall and let Asuka play with Plue since she really wanted to dress him up like a snowman. She looked back at the guildhall and sighed when she heard them all clinking their glasses and cheering to celebrate the first snowfall of the season.
"Why are you out here in the cold and not inside warming up with Natsu?" Asuka asks.
"Because Natsu did something bad today. So I'm not going to give him any attention until he apologizes." Lucy explains.
Just then a cold breeze blew by and Lucy shivered until she gasped when she saw Natsu's scarf get dropped over her head and then she blushed as she felt him gently wrap it around her.
"I guess I'd better say I'm sorry then because I'm worried you might freeze if I wait any longer." Natsu says.
"Tch. I bet your only worried that my tits will freeze off." Lucy scoffs.
"Wait that can happen!?" Natsu exclaims with a worried expression on his face.
"Here I'll warm them up right now!"
Natsu grabs her chest from behind and Plue covers Asuka's eyes. But she could still hear Natsu's wail of pain as Lucy kicks him in the shin to get his hands off of her.
"No it can't! I was being sarcastic you big dummy they're fine!" Lucy shouts at him.
"I'm sorry Lucy. I'm still learning about this stuff. So I know I'm gonna mess up a lot and make you mad pretty often. But I'm gonna put everything I've got into learning from my mistakes so I can be a man worthy of spending forever with you." Natsu says and wraps his arms around her waist and pulls her in close.
"Oh Natsu..." Lucy says softly.
She was almost ready to forgive him but then she remembered something else she was mad at him for and looked away from him.
"That's really sweet and all but if you really want to spend forever with me then why have you been hiding things from me?" Lucy asks.
"Hiding things from you?" Natsu asks.
"Yeah. You've sneaking off with Gajeel for a few hours every day and you won't tell me why. If you really want to spend forever with me then why are you keeping secrets from me?" Lucy asks.
Natsu flashes her that big goofy grin of his.
"I only kept it a secret because I didn't want to ruin the surprise." Natsu explains.
"Surprise? For me?" Lucy asks.
"Yep! And Gajeel and I just finished it today, so now I can show it to ya when we leave the guild today. I hope you really like it!" Natsu says.
Lucy smiles at him then gasps when Asuka suddenly shoots something onto Natsu's forehead out of her toy gun.
"Pow! I got ya! Now Lucy's under the mistletoe so you two have to kiss!" Asuka laughs.
"Well, we've gotta honor tradition you know." Natsu says and Lucy giggles.
"Lucky for you I was already planning on honoring tradition." Lucy says and kisses him.
Once their lips parted Lucy rested her head on Natsu's chest.
"So what's this big surprise you have for me?" Lucy asks.
"I'll show you later Luce." Natsu says and kisses the top of her head.
"Seriously!" They heard Erza shout and turned to see her standing outside the guild hall's doors.
"Why does everyone have to get so romantic when I'm feeling so lonely!"
She swung her sword into the wall of the guild and gave Natsu and Lucy a death glare.
"Or maybe I could go and show you now." Natsu says.
"Yeah you know what, going now sounds like a good idea." Lucy agrees.
Natsu carried Lucy while she had her eyes closed and Happy flew beside them.
"Alright, we're here." Natsu says and sets her down.
"Okay now open your eyes Lucy!" Happy says.
Lucy opened her eyes and gasped in surprise from what she saw. It was Natsu and Happy's house, but it looked different. It was bigger than it was before.
"Surprise!" Natsu and Happy cheered.
"Whoa, so you and Gajeel renovated your house?" Lucy asks.
"Yep. It took a lot of hard work and Jule but we did it! Come on inside I'll show you around." Natsu says and pulls her inside through the front door.
Lucy was expecting to see a mess like there normally was, but instead everything was clean and tidy in the main living space. But what she didn't expect to see were the extra bookshelves considering Natsu and Happy barely read anything. She also noticed something else.
"Hey your hammock is gone." Lucy says.
"Yeah, that's 'cuz we don't need it now that we've got our own bedroom." Natsu says.
He takes her hand and leads her upstairs. He opened a door and Lucy gasped when she saw the bedroom inside. It was just as roomy as the one she had back at her apartment and the window had a beautiful view of the mountains. She opened the door on the far end and squealed with joy when she saw a luxurious bathtub that she could only ever dream about.
"Oh my gosh it's beautiful! I'll have to come over here more often to use it!" Lucy exclaims.
"You can use it as much as you want, Gajeel and I made it for you!" Natsu tells her.
"You built me a bathtub?" Lucy asks, tearing up.
"Yeah, and that's not the only thing I built for ya." Natsu says.
He leads her down the hall to another room and opens it for Lucy and then she actually does tear up from what she sees.
There were more bookshelves, and a desk with writing supplies on it by a big bay window seat with the same gorgeous view as their bedroom.
"Did you make me a writing room?" Lucy asks.
"Yeah, I know how you get upset when Happy and I barge in and distract you when you're writing so I thought you'd like your own space to write in that you can lock us out of whenever you want. Do you like it?" Natsu asks.
Lucy wiped her tears from her eyes and smiled at him.
"Oh Natsu I love it!" Lucy exclaims.
"But why did you have Gajeel do all of this?" Lucy asks.
"The last room will answer that question." Natsu says.
Lucy looked confused as Natsu opened the door to an empty room. She walked inside and looked around for any clue of what it's use could be but she couldn't find one.
"Natsu, what's this room for?" Lucy asks.
"It's for the baby." Natsu says.
Lucy gasped and turned to him.
"It's a nursery?" Lucy asks.
"Yeah dummy he just said it was a room for the baby." Happy teases.
"But why?" Lucy asks.
"Because your apartment doesn't have space for a nursery. So I built one here, and I knew you wouldn't be comfortable living here as it used to be so I added a few things to make it more comfortable for you." Natsu explains.
Lucy was starting to catch on and her tears came back.
"Oh Natsu..." She says softly.
"And I own this place so you don't have to worry about paying rent anymore, which would save us a lot of money that we'll need for the baby, so I was wondering how you might feel about moving in with me and Happy, Lucy?" Natsu asks.
"Yes Natsu! I'd love to!" Lucy exclaims and throws her arms around him in a tight hug.
He hugs her back and rests his head on top of hers.
"Well now that that's settled, there's one more thing you've got to do to make it official!" Happy says cheerfully.
The three of them stood outside while Lucy elegantly wrote her name with the paint brush onto the sign under Natsu's name.
"Why'd you write it so small?" Happy asks.
"Well, there's not much room since your names are so big on the sign." Lucy explains.
"Well to be fair we never expected anyone to ever move in with us. Much less a girlfriend." Happy says and glares at Natsu.
"Hey!" Natsu shouts in offense, making Lucy laugh.
"It's a good thing you wrote it small though Luce. We're gonna have to save room for the kids' names too." Natsu says and wraps an arm around her waist.
"Yeah, but we've got to make a kid first." Lucy reminds him.
"Alright then let's head inside and work on that while testing out the new bed!" Natsu says and Lucy squeals as Natsu picks her up and rushes her inside.
Happy looks at the sign and sighs.
"We're gonna need a bigger sign." He says.