7th week of Pregnancy (1 Month, 3 weeks)

It had been about two weeks since Lucy's morning sickness had started. Due to the intensity of her vomiting every time the smell of fish came upon her, Natsu and Lucy had worked out an arrangement where Happy would stay with Wendy and Carla the days that he went fishing. This was one of those days. Happy had woken up at five and left with his fishing pole, careful not to wake Lucy and Natsu as he left. However, Lucy had soon after woken because of morning sickness, and the couple were alone at home. They decided that they were going to have a lazy day and not go anywhere, as they were both tired from their sleep schedule change, and needed a day away from the guild's excitement. When even Natsu needed a break, everyone knew it had to be exhausting. Because of Lucy's morning sickness and Natsu's insisting that he take care of her, they'd been getting up at five thirty in the morning. Of course, they had tried to compromise that by going to bed earlier, but the 'morning sickness' had other ideas. Without fail, Lucy had a bout of vomiting at both five thirty in the morning and eleven o'clock at night. Without fail. Luckily for Lucy, she didn't ever vomit much in between, besides when she smelled fish, but the inconvenient times made for a frustrated, pregnant Lucy.

"Naaatsuuuu..." Lucy whined. Natsu noticed that she was a lot more whiny when she was pregnant. He knew that that was common for pregnant women, as well as being yelly. He didn't know which he'd prefer: whiny or yelly. He knew better than to complain about it, though. Even he wasn't that dumb, so he just contented himself to taking care of her.

"Yeah, Luce?" They were in bed right now, Lucy laying basically on top of him, with their arms around each other.

"I wanna have saltiiiiiiiines..."

Natsu groaned as he realized that he had forgotten to grab her bi-daily saltines. He tried to get up to comply to her request, but found that Lucy wasn't budging. "Lucy, I'll go get them, but you've gotta get off of me."

Lucy propped her head up on his chest. "But I wanna cuddle..." Suddenly, Lucy's lip stuck out in a pout and her eyes got watery. "Don't you like cuddling with me?" she asked a little hysterically. Damn hormones, they both thought.

"Lucy, that's not what I meant! I love cuddling with you, you know that! I just meant-" Suddenly, with a burst of golden magic, another person appeared in the room: a pink haired girl in a maid's uniform.

"I sensed Princess's distress," Virgo notified. "What's wrong?"

Lucy didn't answer, still sniffling. Natsu glanced at Virgo, then kept looking at Lucy and said, "She wants the crackers from the kitchen, but she won't let me get up because she wants to cuddle." Natsu didn't know why she insisted on keeping them in the kitchen when she always ate them in bed. But she had yelled at him when he suggested storing them in their bedroom, so he didn't bring it up again.

"Very well." Virgo headed to the kitchen. Natsu sighed in relief, thankful for Lucy's spirits. Many of them had offered their help, and they would especially be needed later in the pregnancy when Natsu would have to go on jobs without Lucy in order to keep Baby safe and well.

Virgo came back with two packages of saltine crackers. "Thank you, Virgo," Lucy sniffled out. "And no, I would not like to punish you." Lucy rolled off of Natsu and sat up in order to eat the crackers.

"You're welcome, Princess. Master Natsu, if Princess requires my assistance again, just call my name, and someone will come." And with that, the spirit disappeared into the spirit realm.

Natsu watched Lucy stuff what had to be six crackers in her mouth at once and soon after, she let out a satisfied hum. Natsu smiled as he sat up to kiss her cheek. So far, his guess that Lucy would be eating a lot had been confirmed. It had only been two weeks, but Natsu could say pretty confidently that she had eaten more in her pregnancy than she had the entire two months before it. She always craved saltine crackers after her morning sickness and downed at least an entire package and a half before that craving was sated, but that was the least of her cravings. There wasn't a moment of the day that she didn't feel like eating something. Sometimes, her food desire was vague, like needing something sweet, or something with beef, but other times, it was very specific. Just yesterday, she flat-out refused to eat anything for supper but a deep dish pizza with mozzarella, cheddar, and parmesan cheeses, cubes of pepperoni, slices of tomato, and ranch to dip it in, of all things. They'd had to order three pizzas before she deemed one perfect. And then she'd ended up eating that entire one and half of one of the slightly imperfect ones. And no matter what Lucy ate for supper, she always craved some sort of ice cream afterwards. It was always ice cream with chunks of something in it, a type of syrup drizzled on it, and some kind of fruit to top it off. Usually, it was the brownie ice cream that had served as her first craving, but once it had been chocolate chip cookie dough with caramel and raspberries. The ice cream was only after second supper, though. She craved cheesy popcorn after first supper, and jello after first and second lunch. Basically, Lucy was eating a meal every other hour of the day that wasn't occupied with sleep, vomit, or peeing. Natsu was glad about that. They were finally on an eating schedule that made sense.

Natsu was taken out of his thoughts by the crinkling of Lucy opening another package of crackers. Then, she commented, "Natsu, I'm eating so much! This baby is definitely taking after you!" Lucy stuffed more crackers in her mouth.

Natsu grinned and patted Lucy's belly lightly. "Seems like it!"

"Have you thought of any good names?"

"Nope," Natsu replied, popping the end of the word with a 'puh'. "You?" Lucy replied the same he had. They both sat and brainstormed for names.

"Maybe we could ask the guild," Lucy suggested.

Natsu snorted at the idea. "Half of them would tell us to name Baby after them."

Lucy laughed. "Yeah, they probably would." She continued thinking. "Ugh! I wish we could know the gender right away! Then we would only have to come up with one name!"

"Yeah, that'd make it easier!"

"Hey, why don't we do that? Just focus on figuring out one name, I mean." Natsu replied with his approval. "Let's figure out the name for a boy first, then, because I think Baby will be male."

"Really?" Natsu asked. Lucy nodded. "'Cause I think Baby'll be a girl."

"What!? It seems like Baby has your appetite, and there's no way a girl could eat that much!"

Natsu gestured towards the crackers that she had just started to put down on the nightstand. "You're eating that much," he said with a snicker.

Lucy whacked him in the back of the head before they laid back down to try and get some more sleep. "Only because of your baby!"

"Your baby too, Luce," Natsu said before kissing her on the cheek again. Lucy smiled and nuzzled his nose with hers for a second before giving him a chaste kiss on the lips.

"It's our baby." Lucy snuggled up to Natsu, her head on his chest. "So, what makes you so sure Baby's a girl?"

"Nothing. Just a hunch. But it is the guy that chooses the gender, isn't it?"

Lucy lifted her head up and gawked at him. "You mean, you actually remember that!?"

Natsu feigned offence. "Hey! You gotta gimme some credit! That was only last week that Porlyusica was talking about it!"

Lucy laughed and laid back down. She yawned before saying, "Well, if you're so sure that Baby's a girl, then you get to come up with the girl name."

Natsu chuckled. "Will do, but you have to come up with the boy name."

Lucy yawned again. "Okay, Natsu. It's a deal. You find a girl name and I'll find a boy name." She closed her eyes, and within thirty seconds, she fell asleep, lulled by his heartbeat. Natsu smiled at the sight of his sleeping wife, then started his task of finding the perfect girl name for their baby. He gazed into the room, hoping for some sort of idea to come to him, when his hopes were granted. His eyes had fallen on the box that sat at Lucy's desk; the box of letters to her mother.

"Layla." Natsu smiled, happy with the way the name rolled off of his tongue. "Perfect." And with that, Natsu closed his own eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Knock Knock Knock

Lucy groaned as the sound awoke her from her peaceful slumber. Somebody was at the front door, pounding pretty heavily. I should probably get up and see who it is.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Lucy's eyes shot open. At the same time, her body was propelled upwards as the husband she was laying on darted up into a sitting position, startled awake by the pounding. That isn't the front door, that's our-

"Alright, that's it!" They heard Erza and Mirajane shout before the bedroom door was kicked open by those same people.

-bedroom door... Lucy finished her thought. She whipped around to look at the intruders, which consisted of Erza and Mirajane, who looked frustrated with each other, as well as a flustered Levy in the background.

"What the hell, guys? You woke me up!" Natsu whined sleepily. Then he shut up with an 'eep!' when he saw the angry requip and takeover mages.

"What are you doing here?" Lucy asked calmly. After getting out of her sleep clogged mind, Lucy wasn't too fazed by their appearance in her bedroom. She and Natsu's closest friends made breaking and entering each other's homes a common thing.

Erza spoke up first, with a sword pointed at her former, and apparently now current, rival. "Will you tell this woman that a demon is not suitable for godmothering!?"

Mirajane retorted, pointing a demonic hand at the redhead. "And would you tell this lady that an armored swordswoman is not suitable for godmothering, either!?"

Levy peeped up. "And would you tell both of these two that they should stop fighting over who gets to be godmother and just the parents of the baby decide?"

Before giving her attention to the mages in the forefront, Lucy addressed Levy. "What, you're not competing for godmother?"

"No. I got to be your maid of honor, I don't need to be your first child's godmother on top of that." Lucy smiled at the memory of her wedding, then shook her head in order to take care of the issue at hand.

"We can't wait any longer to know! Who's the baby's godmother!?" Erza and Mira shouted.

Natsu and Lucy looked nervously at each other. "We... Uh... Haven't talked about choosing godparents yet..." Lucy said.

Mira and Erza had a stunned look on their faces. "What!?"

Levy piped up again. "See? I told you that they probably hadn't decided yet. Let's go back to the guild so that they can! We're sorry for breaking in, guys!"

Natsu and Lucy laughed and waved her off. "We'll let you guys know once we decide on the godparents, alright?" Lucy reassured them. The fighting mages grumbled and started to leave, but then Mira turned around and made sure to say,

"You look quite lovely today, Lucy, I might add."

"Mira!" Levy upbraided the takeover mage.

"Hey, I'm competing for godmother of their firstborn! I'm not above flattery!" The married couple could still hear the ladies' bickering as they left the house. They both sighed in relief when they heard the front door slam shut.

"I suppose we'd better talk about who we want for the godparents." Lucy pointed out.

"Well, who do you think should be the godmother? The demon or the monster?"

Lucy put her finger to her head as she thought. "How about... Neither one of them?" Natsu whistled out a breath.

"They won't like that. Who are you thinking?"

"Wendy."

Natsu grinned his approval. "Yeah, she'd be good."

"She's already doing so much to take care of Baby, I think she'd be perfect," Lucy continued. Natsu grinned and gave his approval again. "But they're going to kill us."

"Correction. They're gonna kill you. I'm not the one that chose Wendy instead of one of them."

Lucy scoffed. "So that's how it is. You're just going to abandon your wife as soon as trouble comes. Maybe you just won't have a wife, then," she said jokingly.

"Hey! That's not what I meant! I'll only abandon you when you incur the wrath of Erza and Mira, is all!" Natsu joked back.

"'Incur'? That's a pretty big word for you," Lucy teased again.

Natsu grinned. "You used it when you were writing once."

A smile appeared on Lucy's face until she realized what he said and remembered the instance she had used the word. "Natsu! That one wasn't done yet! You weren't supposed to read it!" She whacked him, and Natsu mumbled out an apology with another grin. "Anyways, we've apparently decided on Wendy for godmother, but who should be Baby's godfather?"

"I don't know. How do you decide something like that?"

"It should be someone that will always be around for Baby, and will be a good influence; a good role model."

Natsu snorted. "We don't know any guys who fall under that second one."

Lucy laughed. "Maybe so. You can figure it out later. Right now, I want food again." Natsu's stomach growled to show his agreement. "I want... Orange chicken! With sticky rice! And fried rice! And eggrolls!"

"All right! Sounds great! Do you wanna stay here while I go into Magnolia?"

Sighing, Lucy said, "To be honest... Yeah. I don't feel like getting up. Sorry, Natsu!" Natsu laughed, then kissed her forehead as he clambered out of bed.

"Don't worry about it, Luce! You're carrying our child. I think you have 'staying in bed' rights!"

Lucy smiled in thanks to her loving husband, and soon after, he was gone, giving another kiss to her forehead before leaving. She patted her abdomen. "You're daddy is absolutely amazing, Baby." Kissing her hand and pressing it on her belly, Lucy continued. "I wonder if you will be a girl, like Daddy says, but I still think you're going to be a boy. I wonder what we'll call you? Maybe I should start thinking about that." Just as Natsu had done before, Lucy trailed her eyes through the room for an idea, and her eyes were drawn to the white, scaly scarf strewn on the nightstand. Natsu had started wearing it less, as he was planning on giving the precious item to the baby, but that's not what Lucy was thinking about. She was thinking about who had gifted the scarf to Natsu.

"Igneel... That's it! If you're a boy, we'll call you Igneel, Baby! I can't believe I didn't think of it before!" Lucy smiled, imagining her husband's face once she would tell him the name she picked out. "Now that that's decided, what should we talk about now? Daddy's been telling you about everything Mommy and Daddy have done together, so why don't I tell you a story about my childhood, from before I met Daddy and before your Grandma Layla died! Alright..." Lucy began to reiterate her story to the unborn child, and about twenty minutes later, she was saying 'the end' followed by a 'welcome back' to her husband.

"Got the food! I'll bring it in to you!"

"Natsu, we are not eating Chinese food in bed!" Lucy may have started eating crackers in bed , but she refused to eat an actual meal there. She heard Natsu whine. "We can eat on the couch, just not the bed," Lucy followed. She heard a call of joy and smiled as she got out of bed and headed to the living room, where Natsu was setting down the take-out boxes. "Mmmm! That smells great!"

"Yeah! I got some other stuff, too, like beef and broccoli, but I didn't get any seafood, in case it's all seafood that makes you sick, and not just fish."

Lucy noticed the receipt attached to one of the boxes. "Holy- That's a lot of jewel! We have to go on a job tomorrow! And a high-paying one, too, if we keep eating like this! Good job, Natsu, giving this kid your appetite! We'll always be broke!"

Natsu snickered, then spoke. "Hey, speaking of jobs, when are you gonna stop going on them? Are you sure it's safe for you to be going on them even now?"

"Natsu, we've gone over this. I know what my limits are for right now, and until I really start to get a baby bump, I'm not going to just stay home."

The addressee sighed. "Yeah, okay. I trust ya, Luce. Just... Be careful."

Lucy smiled and kissed her husband's cheek. "I know. I will."

They smiled to each other, then began to dig in to the array of meals Natsu had brought home as they started talking about their plans around the house for the baby. Neither one told the other the name they had come up with, though, deciding to tell once they talked about names again, which would turn out not to be until the night before they were to find out the gender.

A/N: In case any of you are wondering, Gray was Natsu's best man. I may eventually write a short companion fic of Natsu asking Gray to be the best man. Also, Mira and Erza were Lucy's other bridesmaids.

ALSO HOLY MOTHERFORKING SHIRTBALLS DID YOU GUYS SEE THE HIRO MASHIMA THING AT NYCC!? I DIDN'T ACTUALLY SEE IT, BUT ACCORDING TO SOMEONE ON TUMBLR, HE WAS ASKED WHO NATSU WOULD THEORETICALLY END UP WITH, AND MASHIMA HELD UP A PICTURE HE'D BEEN DRAWING OF NATSU AND LUCY TO SAY THAT LUCY WOULD! AND THEN HE DREW THE NALU CHILD. Also the Gruvia child, but I don't ship Gruvia as much as I ship Nalu. To me, Gruvia is a standard sailboat and Nalu is an entire three Naval fleets, grouped with about five ship-shipping ships shipping shipping ships (look it up). Gajevy is just one of those Naval fleets (I like how I say just one Naval fleet like it's a small thing).

Anyways, we have names and the godmother decided now! Who will be the godfather? Seriously, guys, I'm asking. I don't know who to make godfather. Leave comments giving me a name and reason for who Natsu and Lucy should ask to be godfather, please!

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Until next time!