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Lucy woke up to see that Natsu was gone, or at least she thought he was until she walked out of her room to see him raiding her fridge.

"What are you doing idiot?" She said through a yawn as she wiped the sleep from her eyes.

"Looking for something to cook you for breakfast?"

He gave her a look that shown her he thought it should have been obvious what he was doing.

"Okay, why?"

"Because I want to take care of you".

"Well thankyou but you won't find anything decent in there, I need to go shopping to stock up on food".

"Then what am I meant to make you for breakfast?". Natsu sulked as he dropped his bottom lip to pull what was possibly the strangest looking puppy face Lucy has ever seen

"I don't want breakfast".

"I can hear your stomach rumbling from here Lucy, going hungry won't make you feel any better. How about we go out for breakfast? My treat?".

"Okay, just let me get dressed first".

As Lucy turned back into her bedroom Natsu briefly considered following her but decided against it. She would NOT be very fond of him if he tried to pull a stunt like that.

He longed to touch her. She was his mate, his treasure. He also longed to sink his teeth into and pretty little neck claim her as his but he pushed those thoughts far down. The mating season has only just begun, he would not lose control of his inner dragon by tempting himself with thoughts like that.

Mostly he longed to make her happy, he wanted to see her stare at him lovingly with a smile on her face and joy in her heart.

He didn't expect her to be happy about this whole thing, but he had at least hoped. He hoped that once she found out he would need a mate that she would realise that she loved him, or at least cared about him as more then a friend. Then maybe she would be relieved to be his mate. Truth is he didn't know what to expect or hope for anymore.

He wasn't exactly expecting for her to break down into tears at the thought of having children with him, that was a good slap to the ego if he ever had one. He knew she was overwhelmed and that she needed time. He just hoped she didn't take too much time.

His thoughts were interrupted by her walking out of the room, she was dress in her favourite skirt and top. She was beautiful.

"Ready?" She gave him a small timid smile.

"Ready? I've been the one waiting for you! Come on I'm starving".

He grabbed her by the hand and ran out of the apartment and towards the nearest cafe where they sat down to eat and talk in between.

"So, how are you feeling Luce? Do you have any more questions or anything you want to talk about?"

Natsu couldn't stop fiddling with his hands as he spoke, he didn't want to let on that he has been following her yesterday. Or that he had heard some of the conversation between and Levy. He had to be close by so he knew she was safe at all times!

"Actually I'm feeling a lot better, still really confused about everything and still trying to process what is happening but I'm not crying any more so that's at least an improvement".

"Yeah, you still look beautiful when you cry though".

"Nobody looks beautiful when they cry!". Lucy said with laughter in her voice.

"You do".

"Yeah right! You HAVE to think that".

"I don't, mate or not if someone looks ugly when they cry there is no lying about that".

It felt good for Natsu to see Lucy laugh again, to have things at least return to somewhat normal.

They had a long road ahead of them but seeing Lucy laugh made him believe that they would be okay.

He would wait as long as he needed to for Lucy to decide what she wanted. If she decided it wasn't him then so be it, as long as she was happy that was all the mattered.

Besides, they had six months. He just hoped he good keep his "dragon instinct" in check. It was an inward struggle but he really didn't want to scare her.

'Ease her into it all, let her get use to things in her own time. Hopefully things will turn out okay in the end'.

Natsu was many things, an idiot was not one of them. Okay maybe it was but he still had hits wits about him, he knew that the more he pushed Lucy the further she would pull away from him.

They problem with that was that all he wanted to do was push her, preferably onto a bed.

He shook his head, he had to stop thinking like that, his inner dragon was hard enough to contain and would only grow harder as time went on.

It felt like a beast, one he needed to keep caged for as long as possible. For Lucy's sake and her sanity.