8th Week of Pregnancy (2 Months)

"Lucy..."

"No... I don't wanna get up... I'm too tired and sore..."

It had been about a month since Lucy had found out about the pregnancy, which meant she was about two months along. Since then, she had found herself to be in ever-increasing discomfort.

"I know you are, Luce, but we're supposed to go see Wendy and Porlyusica so they can check up on you and Baby!" Lucy squinted her eyes open. Natsu was standing over her, a hand gently shaking her shoulder. She could vaguely make out an excited smile on Natsu's face through her mostly-closed eyelids. In order to see him more clearly, she opened her eyes completely. Lucy knew that Natsu hadn't been in bed for a while, but she was surprised to see that he was completely dressed and ready to go. It actually embarrassed Lucy, a little. Here was Natsu, all ready to leave, and here she was, lounging in bed. She also knew that Natsu didn't care, though. He luckily seemed to understand that pregnancy was tiring, even this early.

"No wonder you're so smiley. I'm excited to see how Baby's doing, too," Lucy remarked. Natsu nodded, then held a hand out for Lucy to get out of bed with. "I hope you're this eager to give me a helping hand when the baby's bigger."

Natsu grinned. "Of course!" Lucy didn't have a chance to reply before her bladder sent her to the bathroom.

"You all stink of humans, so let's get this over with."

Wendy, Lucy, and Natsu all sweat dropped at the greeting from Porlyusica, although they couldn't say they were too surprised.

"Good morning to you, too!" Wendy said cheerfully. Porlyusica gave her a look that was slightly less grumpy than the looks she gave to Natsu and Lucy.

"Come in, come in. Don't dawdle." Lucy laid down on the bed. "I'll have Wendy do a quick checkup scan to make sure everything is okay." At Porlyusica's instruction, Wendy's hands glowed blue, and she focused her magic energy over Lucy's body. It was a magical scan that instantly checked for problems. If there were any, then Porlyusica would do further checking into it to make sure it wasn't serious.

"It seems like everything's fine," Wendy claimed as her hands lost their blue aura. Lucy and Natsu sighed in relief.

Porlyusica commented, "Good. You'll be here for less time. I don't believe I told you last time, Lucy, but your due date is the thirtieth of March." Lucy and Natsu smiled. They couldn't wait until then. "How's your morning sickness been?"

"It's not all too bad. I always throw up at exactly 5:30 in the morning and 11:00 at night, but besides then, I haven't vomited too much," Lucy answered. "Oh! Unless I smell fish! If I smell even a whiff of it, I immediately vomit."

Porlyusica nodded. "It would be a good idea for you to stay away from all seafood, then. Any cravings?"

Lucy let out a shuddered laugh while Natsu snickered loudly beside her. "I crave everything! All the time! This baby is making me eat all damn day!"

Porlyusica shook her head with a slight smile. She knew the baby's father well enough to expect the baby to want a lot of food. "Now, I trust Wendy has answered all of your questions, so le-"

"Actually, Porlyusica..." Lucy interrupted. "Natsu and I had a question that we didn't really want to ask Wendy. We were wondering about, um..." Lucy and Natsu both looked uncomfortable, which caused Porlyusica to figure out what they wanted to know.

"Why didn't you just spit it out!? Yes, you two can continue to have sex while Lucy's pregnant. You just can't be too rough." Wendy spluttered and was blushing brightly, trying to ignore the cheeky looks the couple gave each other. Porlyusica ignored everyone's reactions. "Wendy, why don't you start the next part?" The girl nodded and smiled to Lucy and Natsu.

"I'm gonna do another spell on you now, Lucy," Wendy said.

"What will it do?" Lucy asked.

"It won't hurt Lucy or Baby, will it?" Natsu was concerned. He trusted Wendy with his life, but he didn't want anything happening to his beloved wife and child.

"No, no," Wendy reassured, "It will merely let you-"

"Why don't you let them find out what it does?" Porlyusica suggested with the tiniest of smiles. Wendy looked to Lucy and got a nod of approval. She lifted her hands over Lucy's stomach and another aura of blue surrounded the appendages.

"Wha-" Natsu started, but then he was interrupted by another sound.

Ba-bump ba-bump ba-bump

Lucy knew immediately what the sound was. She took her husband's hand and looked to him with a bright smile as she waited for him to figure it out. It took Natsu a while, but after about fifteen seconds of the steady thumping, Natsu's eyes widened and a grin spread across his face from ear to ear as he realized what he was hearing.

"It's Baby's..." Natsu started, squeezing Lucy's hand within his own.

"Heartbeat," Lucy finished.

Natsu's grin seemed to grow brighter, if that was even possible. His hand left Lucy's as his arms flailed in his excitement. "That's our kid, Lucy! That's my kid! I have a child, and that's their heartbeat! Lucy, that's our kid! Tha- OW!"

"You're going to knock something over!" Porlyusica squawked, breaking the moment and brandishing the broom she had just whacked Natsu in the head with. "Now, we're all done, so unless you have any more questions, get out! I have to clean the human smell out!" And the visitors were abruptly pushed out the door.

The trio headed back towards town. "Thank you, Wendy," Lucy started.

The bluenette smiled to the couple. "Oh, it's no problem. It's a simple spell. All it does is amplify the sound enough for people to hear." Seeing a confused look on Natsu's face, she added, "Otherwise, it's too quiet right now for even dragon slayers to hear."

"I didn't just mean that. I meant 'thank you for everything you've done.' You've done so much for us and Baby."

"Oh, no, it's Porlyusica who's doing ever-"

"But you're not being an old hag while helping!" Natsu interrupted. Lucy gave him a glare, effectively shutting him up.

"While Natsu didn't exactly choose the best words, he has a point. It's a lot more comfortable when you're around to help."

Wendy still looked nervous, "Well, yeah, I guess..."

"In fact," Lucy continued, "Natsu and I would like for you to be the baby's godmother."

Wendy looked shocked. "What!? But I- I- Not Miss Mira or Erza? You really want me!?" Lucy and Natsu both nodded. Wendy smiled, still a little hesitantly. "Okay..." Then she nodded, and smiled a bit more. "Okay! I promise to be a great godmother for the baby!"

"You already are!" Natsu told her with a grin. Lucy nodded to show her agreement. "Good! We're back at the guild! Are you hungry, Luce?"

"Yeah." She thought for a second. "I want two grilled sharp cheddar cheese sandwiches on rye with creamy tomato soup." Natsu repeated her order, then nodded as Lucy sat down at a table and sent Natsu to the bar. "Lots of butter!" She called after him.

"Luuuushi! How'd it go!" A familiarly happy voice called as the also jubilant owner flew to the table.

"Everything's fine with Baby still!"

"That's good! I'm gonna drop my stuff from Wendy's at home, and then I'll be back!" Happy said, holding up a big messenger bag full of whatever items he had deemed necessary for spending the night with Wendy and Carla. Lucy hummed her understanding and waved after as he left. Then, Lucy watched as Natsu waited for Mira to cook the food, and she remembered something.

"Ah... Wendy? You might want to go home..."

"Hm? Why?" The bluenette asked.

"Because Mirajane and Erza might try and kill you once we tell them that you're Baby's godmother." Out of her peripheral vision, Lucy saw two female mages' heads pop up at the words: a redhead and a whitette.

"Eep! I don't wanna die!" I take it back! One of them can be godmother!"

Lucy laughed. "They'll get over it. You already accepted, so no take-backs!" Then, Lucy and Wendy felt dark presences behind them. A cold sweat formed on them, and they turned around to see what they feared.

"Did I hear correctly?" Erza angrily asked.

"I'm not the godmother!?" Mira followed. Lucy and Wendy nodded nervously.

"It was my idea to make Wendy godmother..." Lucy confessed, seeing her husband stock still with fear behind the angry mages.

"Is that so?" The redhead said.

"Wendy is godmother?" The whitette followed. After a nod, the speakers whipped around and each whacked Natsu hard in the head at the same time, then sat down with Wendy and Lucy, completely jovial and congratulatory.

Natsu darted up, hands over the bumps forming on his head. "What the hell!? Why'd you hit me!?"

The previously angry women scoffed. Mirajane started. "Well, it's not like we could hit Wendy or Lucy!"

"Exactly! Lucy's pregnant and we're too excited for Wendy to hurt her!"

That wasn't a good enough explanation for Natsu. "WHY'D YOU HAVE TO HIT ANYONE?"

"Because I'm not godmother," they both said simply. Lucy laughed quietly to herself at the expression on her husband's face, but unluckily for her, he noticed.

"Luuucyy!," he whined. "Stop laughing!"

The woman responded by laughing a little louder. "I'm sorry, Natsu, but you're making such a funny face!" Lucy calmed down and collected herself. "I'm sorry." She got up and hugged him, then beckoned him to sit in another chair at the table. "Mira, can you go get our food, please?" The once again cheerful woman nodded and smiled to her present company before leaving to comply to the request.

"So, Natsu and Lucy," Erza began. "Who would the godfather be?"

"Natsu hasn't come up with anyone, yet." Lucy replied. Her husband knew that the words held a subtle command for him to figure someone out, so he looked around at his guildmates for someone who would make a good godfather while Lucy chattered with the other girls at the table. Some time through his searching, Mira had brought the food out, and he bit into the sandwich he suddenly found in his hand.

Elfman? No. I don't want Baby's first word to be 'manly'.

Gray- definitely not.

Laxus? No.

Macao or Wakaba? No, not unless I want Baby to pick up some bad habits.

At the thought of Macao, another Conbolt crossed Natsu's mind. Romeo. He grinned. Yes.

Scanning the guild hall for the fire-wielding teenager, Natsu finally noticed the boy on the other side of the hall, entertaining Asuka and her three-year-old little brother, Zach. Natsu smiled, seeing that his idea was a good one. He cupped his hands around his mouth to yell across the guild hall.

"HEY ROMEO!" Natsu called. Lucy whacked him for being too loud, and he just snickered in reply.

"WHAT, NATSU?" Romeo yelled back after a few seconds.

"WANNA BE MY KID'S GODFATHER?" Natsu could see him gesture towards the children to wait, and then he began to stroll over to Natsu. Romeo hadn't understood what Natsu said, only hearing incoherent yelling.

"WHAT?" He asked as he approached, not bothering to lower his volume.

"I SAID, 'WANNA BE MY KID'S GODFATHER?'" Natsu yelled again, also not getting quieter despite Lucy's glares, with a grin on his face. Romeo blinked as he realized what Natsu was asking him. Then, he grinned. By that time, he was standing right by Natsu.

"Yeah!"

"Good! Because I want you to be!" Natsu put his hand out for a fist bump, which Romeo gladly returned before heading back to Asuka and Zach.

Lucy sighed at their loudness, but then smiled to her husband. "He's a great choice, Natsu."

A/N: Thank you for all the favorites, follows, and reviews!

I said this on Idiots in Love, but it may be a while before you see more content from me. Life is making me busy right now, and I've also started writing another fic: a longer one. As per usual, I will not start posting until it's all done, so it may be a while before it gets seen. I will tell you that if you like Monarchy AUs, then you'll hopefully like it. I'll try to still write some more chapters of this as I'm working on the monarchy one.

Until next time!