FOURRRRTTTH CHAAAPPTTERRRRR
Here is the longer chapter as promised. So be nice to me. Lol.
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"What the hell do you think you're doing, idiot?" Lucy hissed, watching as the agent flung the phone back towards their pursuers. He turned to face his head to her.
"Nothing much." A vein throbbed from Lucy's head and she bit down her cheeks to resist the urge to back-kick him on the floor so that whoever was following them could take him. Take him away from her so she'd never experience his stupidity again.
"Nothing much? You are sending an order to have pizza. What is going on in that head of yours? Are you that thick-headed? Why-?" A tan palm was pushed against her mouth and she was shoved to the side. Natsu leaned down and pushed a finger to her lips.
"Just watch and enjoy." He pulled her towards him and they leaned from the side of the wall. Watching as the phone lay where he threw it and the intruders ran across it. As soon as their foot hit closely to where the phone lay, there was a large explosion that sent debris throughout the whole building, sending the fire alarm off and emergency water drills to pour.
"What did you do?" Lucy asked, wiping a wet palm against her forehead. The agent stood up and pulled her along.
"Two pepperoni meant two minutes. Four sides means four pursuers and one large coke obviously meant on hell of an explosion." Lucy stared at the floor with a light blush of shame. Of it course it would mean that. How unthinkable if he were to actually send a pizza order in the middle of a run? She felt more stupid than the agent, to be very honest.
"I'm guessing you don't have a place to stay at the moment, right?" Lucy's head snapped up back to Natsu as he smiled down at her. Immediately, she was suddenly very much annoyed. Natsu felt a push on his chest. The blonde before him was glaring severe daggers at his face.
"Just because you saved my life doesn't overrule the jackass you really are." Lucy stated coldly, straightening her clothes and walking away.
"Luce..." The female agent halted in her steps. What did he just call her? Did he just give her a nickname? Hell no.
"It's Lucy. Lu-cy. Not Luigi. Not blondie. And most definitely, not Luce."
"But you're my partner. Come on, Luce..." The named blonde had the sudden urge of strangling him over a cliff. It was really no use right now. He was like a persistent insect.
"You're not gonna leave me alone, are you?" There was a haunting smile on the pinkette's face.
"Ha. Course not... partner." Lucy sighed briefly before turning around. Natsu almost congratulated himself at the sudden turn of event. She stood in front of him, placed a hand on her hip and had the biggest smile that he was sure, he'd never seen sparkle so brightly before.
"Okay Salamander, let's go home."
"You can't be serious..." Lucy's left eye twitched at the sight of her so-called partner, half-naked, wearing only sweatpants and slouched lazily across the sofa in front of his large flat screen. But that wasn't the thin that annoyed her. There on the glass table were two pepperoni pizzas, with four fried and a bottle of Coke. Right there beside Natsu whilst he flicked between channels boredly.
"Oh, you finished? Is that okay?" Lucy shrugged as the teen pushed himself up and make way for her to sit.
As soon as they got into Natsu's luxurious hotel room, they immediately looked for some towels and Natsu handed the bag of clothes that he bought whilst she showered. Lucy looked down hesitantly in the bag. He had bought her just a sweatpants. Apparently, he threw one of his shirts at her saying, 'not to waste money'. The shirt smelled like forest and fresh rain. And a bit of fire. Mixed with cologne.
As if offended, she threw it back to him whilst covering her front rack with her towel.
"Don't think I'm stupid to believe I'll wear your stupid cliche shirt. Don't take me for an idiot." Lucy snarled, hating the fact that he'd just chuck whatever at her and she'll wear it.
"Look Luigi-" A twitch formed.
"It's Lucy."
"Right. Lucy - smooshy. Who ared. I'm just doing this out of a good heart and I'm still trying to get on your good side." A blonde eyebrow raised.
"By forgetting my name and throwing me your shit?" Natsu left out a nervous laugh.
"Damn. You sure are quite handful."
"Thanks. I like making my intentions clear as an agent with pink hair." Lucy replied bluntly. Natsu faltered for a bit but a smirk managed to creep on his featured. Something that told Lucy, it was not good.
"I don't know, Luce. You may be fire-hot pissed right now but standing there boob-free half naked in front of a guy while lecturing about intentions is giving me quite the mixed signals." A deep shade of red settled on Lucy's face and Natsu knew he couldn't stop a chuckle from emitting at his lips.
"I'm guessing you still don't want this shirt, huh princess?" The blonde haired assassin stormed her way to the laughing male and attempted a snatch for his shirt. However, the pinkette moved quickly to the side.
"Natsu... give the shirt right now." Lucy hissed threateningly. How immature can this guy get? And did he really need to point out how indecent she looked? SHE KNOW DAMMIT!
A playful smile was plastered on Natsu's face as he swung the shirt around his index finger while looking innocent.
"Shirt?" He pretended to look around while avoiding the swinging fabric. Looking down at his finger, he pretended to be shocked and using his other finger to point at the object of concern. Looking at Lucy with surprised eyes and jaw-dropped mouth.
"Oh. You mean this piece of cliche shirt?" Natsu knew that in a few seconds, he will burst out laughing but he had to keep his cool. Lucy glared at him.
"Natsu." Finally, the blonde agent felt her face being smacked softly by the material and a loud laughing erupted in the room, pulling the shirt from her face, she stared at the guy laughing with tears emerging from the corner of his eyes.
"I'm sorry - your face made me crack-" he wheezed, "There ya go, happy?" He watched as Lucy turned around walked towards the bathroom to put the shirt on, giving him a nice view of her back and dimples at the edge of her sweatpants.
"Don't take it the wrong way but I'm here to do my job. Not to kid around."
"Lucy..." The named girl stopped in her tracks but slowly turned her head around with a hardened look.
"I don't have time to befriend you or anyone else while on the job. At least understand why. If you want to be on my good side, try and understand our situation first."
Natsu felt his heart dropped when he saw her breath out an exasperated sigh. Wait. His heart dropped? No way. Why should he worry about her being upset for his childish antics? She should just deal with it. But... she is right. They were here to finish the job and get things over with. Because it involved Lisanna. Unknowingly, the blonde emerged from the bathroom with his shirt on, she stared at the dazed agent that seemed to be staring at nothing.
"Uh... you okay?"
"Lisanna..." Natsu muttered softly as he sat back against the couch in a daze. Lucy stared at her partner. What's going on now?
"What did you just say?" Lucy whispered, the name sounding all too familiar to her ears but her mind was racking for clues. Why did this name sound so familiar? Why can't she remember?
RING RING... RING RING
The hotel phone rand on the left side of the couch where Natsu laid. Lucy looked alarmingly at her partner while he shook his head, as if answering her silent panic,
"Is it the pursuers?" Lucy asked, hands clenching down and eyes darting around to plan a quick escape route.
"Nah. While you were in the shower, I contacted headquarters about the situation. I'm sure it's them." Natsu replied, leaning over and picking up the phone.
"Yo." The blonde girl sauntered towards him and settled beside her partner, listening to the words that he was exchanging.
"Ant Trails."
"There were ants but I'm not too sure where they came from. We did leave a couple of crumbs though."
"Princess are Dragon are in the tower; west from the kingdom."
"Will do. Let me know if you need the name of the book."
His eyes turned to her as he placed the phone back on the holder. He scratched the back of his head a bit before fully turning to her with an unsure look. Nevertheless, his olive-green eyes met her confused brown orbs.
"We've got a problem."
Chapter four is donnneeee
Props to anyone who can figure out the code?
AGAIN if you guys haven't yet figured out, I've made Lucy behave so coldly because I need her to BE THAT WAY. I understand that some characters in the anime probably went through harder things in life but in my story, they are HUMAN. Not magic users. So all in all, Lucy is facing the hardest battle with her situation.
Plus - there's a reason why I want her to be this way.
Lots of love,
B7K :)