A/N: Hey guys! Long time no see! Sorry it's been so long! In the little time I have to write, I've been trying to focus my efforts on Lucid, but I was stuck in a rut on that, so I decided it was time to work on Togetherness! On with the chapter!

4 months, 2 weeks (18 weeks)

"I'm so exhausted!" Lucy exclaimed as she and Natsu entered their home.

"I know, Luce. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have let my fight with Gray go on for that long. I offered to carry you home!"

"Again, I'm not going to make you carry my heavy, pregnant self all the way home!" Natsu laughed and turned on their bedroom light as Lucy collapsed on the bed. "Ah! Turn it off! I wanna sleeeeeep!"

Natsu chuckled again. "Can we talk for a little bit first? We're supposed to see Porlyusica tomorrow again-"

Lucy darted up, her signs of exhaustion gone. "The gender! We'll find out what the baby is!"

"And I'll win 20,000 J!" Natsu snickered.

"No, I will!" Lucy insisted.

"I will!"

"I will!"

"I will!"

"I- what are we doing? We're acting like kids!" Lucy suddenly realized. "Let's stop debating on that. We haven't talked about names in a while. Did you come up with a good girl's name?"

"Yup!"

"Well, what is it?" Although Lucy could guess what Natsu would say next.

"I'm not telling! You first"

"Well, I wanna hear the girl's name before I say the boy's name!"

"Boy's name first!"

"We're acting like kids again!" Lucy exclaimed. "Fine! I'll be the adult here! I chose the name Igneel!"

Natsu hadn't been expecting the outburst and was all ready to tease his wife again. He was taken completely by surprise. "What did you say?"

Lucy smiled. "Igneel."

Natsu's eyes lit up and a grin spread across his face. "Really? You wanna name our kid after their grandpa?" Lucy nodded in confirmation. "Wow! That's so great! Except our baby isn't a boy! Baby is a girl named Layla!"

Lucy was taken even more aback than Natsu had been. "Wha- my mother- Wait, you actually remember Mom's name!?"

Natsu scoffed in fake offense. "Well, obviously! Of course I know your parents' names!"

"Oh yeah? What's my dad's?"

"Jimmy!" Natsu replied quickly.

Lucy laughed. "Well, points for confidence. His name was Jude." Natsu scoffed at getting the answer wrong. "Anyways, thank you, Natsu. I'd love to name Baby after mom!" Natsu grinned brightly, and then Lucy smiled jokingly. "Except Baby'll be a boy! Igneel!"

"Layla!" Natsu insisted, his grin also becoming a teasing one.

"Igneel!"

"Layla!"

"You'll see tomorrow that I'm right! I'm his mother, after all! I should be able to tell if Baby's a boy or a girl!"

Natsu snickered. "Yeah, yeah. We'll see tomorrow. My instincts are never wrong!"

"'Never wrong'? Yeah, right." Lucy finished as Natsu shut off the light and got back into bed.

Natsu and Lucy entered the guild hall to be hit with a flying, white roll of streamers. "HEY! WHO THE HELL JUST THREW THAT AT LUCY!" Natsu yelled at his guildmates as he glared around with a fist in the air and a protective arm across his wife. In the next second Natsu had run towards a guilty-looking Max, and Lucy heard a cry for help from the man. Lucy took a moment to look around the guild hall and see what was going on. All around the large room were all sorts of white decorations and guildmates putting them up. More streamers were wrapped around poles and railings, white balloons floated to the ceiling, and Lucy saw Mirajane setting out dozens of white frosted cupcakes on a table by the bar.

"Hey Mira!" Lucy greeted, strolling over. "What's going on? Why are you decorating?"

Mira whipped around at Lucy's voice, a finger in her mouth as she sucked some frosting from it. "Lucy!" She cried. "You weren't supposed to see!" Lucy gave Mirajane a questioning look. "Wendy told us that you guys would find out the gender of the baby today! She just left! She was going to meet you two at your house so we could surprise you with a party after the appointment!"

Lucy whined sadly. "Oh, that's too bad! That would've been a fun surprise! But how would you know the gender?"

"I thought it would be cool if you announced it by using colors magic on the white decorations! I bought a new package of it just for the occasion!" Mira replied, digging into a bag of party supplies next to her and holding up the item. Lucy smiled.

"Alright! Sounds good! Just a heads up, though, I'm almost certain that Baby is a boy!"

Mira laughed. "I think you've mentioned that. Natsu's sure it's a girl, though."

"I know that! He's insane! Baby can't be a girl! Not with the appetite I'm getting from them!" Mira laughed again. "Well, I'd better grab Natsu so we can find Wendy. Time to go see Porlyusica!" Mira waved the woman off, then went back to her cupcakes. Lucy couldn't see her husband, so she went to the epicenter of the chaos, where a bunch of the guys, including Natsu, were having fun with the balloons' helium. She stood in front of him and crossed her arms while her face held a look of annoyance, earning her husband a few nudges and looks of fear for his health from the other boys around him. Natsu blanched and cleared his throat as he let go of the still half-inflated balloon pinched shut by his fingers. It flew around him once before smacking Lucy in the chest. She raised her eyebrow and Natsu grew even more white-faced.

"H-" It had come out squeaky, so he cleared his throat again and started trying to speak in a comically low voice. "Hello, Lucy!" Lucy rolled her eyes.

"Oh don't even try. Come on. We've gotta head to Porlyusica's." Natsu nodded and stood up to follow his wife as she exited, high-pitched laughs and teasing trailing after him. Just as they'd left the guild hall, Wendy had run into them, red-faced in embarrassment that she hadn't found the two before they'd seen the party. Then, they headed to their appointment. Porlyusica asked Lucy all the normal questions, about how she'd been doing, how everything was going, the similar, then Wendy did her scan, found that no problems were arising, and they could start what Lucy and Natsu had been dying to know.

"Alright, let's see..." Wendy put her hands on Lucy's baby bump and closed her eyes to better focus her magic. A fuzzy projection of the baby appeared before them. It was difficult for Wendy to project the image like this, but she'd promised to try and do it as often as she could.

"You got it, Wendy!" Natsu announced. She smiled, but it was obvious she was a little strained. Natsu and Lucy knew they wouldn't have very long to look at their precious baby, so they looked to where the gender would be revealed.

"Hey Lucy," he started. "I don't see a thing."

"No... No! These things are read wrong all the time!"

Wendy and Natsu both laughed. "If I'm reading the chromosomes right," Wendy remarked. "Then Baby has two Xs. Baby's a girl!"

"My baby girl has the appetite of a dragon!"

Natsu snickered. "Well, she is the granddaughter of one!" Lucy sighed shakily.

"How am I ever going to feed you two...?" Natsu just laughed again and kissed his wife's cheek. Then, he put his hand next to Wendy's.

"Hello, Layla! I knew you would be my little baby girl! I told Mommy, but she just didn't believe me!" Lucy stuck her tongue out playfully at Natsu, and then added her own words.

"I love you, Layla. Very very much. We both do. But between you and Daddy, we'll always have an empty fridge!" She pressed a kiss on her hand and put her hand by Natsu's. Wendy's had moved at this point, and Natsu went to clasp Lucy's hand within his own. As they'd said, they had already loved Baby very much, but now that they could call her by name, they felt as if they already loved her an infinite times more than the abundant amount they had before.

"Let's go back to the guild, Luce! I wanna tell everyone about Layla! And show off that I was right!" He gave Lucy another grin, to which she responded with another stuck-out tongue. Standing up from the bed, with help from Natsu, of course, Lucy called a goodbye and a thank you to Porlyusica. Then, the three Fairy Tail members were headed back.

"Natsu, don't just burst in yelling about Layla. Mira is having us announce by changing the color of the decorations to pink, okay?" Natsu nodded, pouting a little that he couldn't tell everyone in his normal way. They opened the doors, Lucy slapped a hand over Natsu's mouth, and Mirajane handed Lucy the magic item. Lucy giggled as she looked around, especially at the scene by the cupcakes. Many guild members, most notably Happy and Droy, were basically drooling over the cupcakes while Erza loomed over them, probably to protect them until they were the proper color. That is, that's what Lucy assumed until she saw the cluster of strawberry topped cupcakes that Erza was more likely protecting. Some of the guys were still playing with helium, as well. Many members hadn't even noticed the arrival of Natsu, Lucy, and Wendy, since Lucy hadn't let Natsu yell that they were back. Lucy looked to the magic in her hand, read the instructions, and changed every white decoration in the room to a bright pink color. It surprised everyone who hadn't been paying attention, balloons being released and the pink decorations now flying around the room as they lost air. As people put two and two together, they looked to the doors.

"It's a girl!" Natsu finally shouted, unable to resist it any longer. As she went to sit down, Lucy heard shouts of congratulations and swore she saw the passing of money between many guild members, much of which seemed to be going to Cana and Mirajane.

"Mira! You thought Baby was a girl!? Even after I told you I thought she was going to be a boy!?"

Mira just chuckled in response. "Enough of that, though. Have you picked out her name?" As if Mira's question had summoned them, Erza, Juvia, and Levy were all surrounding Lucy as well, eager to know.

Lucy nodded excitedly as she put her hands on her baby bump again, but Natsu, of course, was the one to reveal it. "Layla! Her name is Layla Dragneel!"

"Layla... I like that! Where did the name come from?" Juvia asked.

Lucy smiled up at her husband. "It's actually Mom's name. Natsu suggested it." A chorus of 'awwws' resounded, and since Natsu could sense they were about to start chattering about more baby stuff that he wouldn't be able to put his input into, he gave Lucy a kiss on the cheek and ran off to grab a bunch of cupcakes.

"So, a girl, huh?" Gray asked as he approached his rival at the dessert table.

"Yup!" Natsu shouted as he stuffed a cupcake in his mouth. "Layla Dragneel!"

"Hey, what's it like?" When Natsu voiced his confusion, Gray continued. "You know, knowing that you're gonna have to be a dad in a few months."

"Oh, it's awesome! And I'm already a dad! Just because she's still in Lucy's belly doesn't mean I don't already love Layla and take care of her!"

Gray rolled his eyes but smiled at the sentiment. "Yeah, yeah, you love Layla. We've only been hearing about it for the past three months. But isn't it scary?"

"What? How can it be scary? I have a kid!"

"Exactly! Isn't it scary to think about how you have to raise your kid and how her life depends on you?"

Natsu was about to retort, but then he actually thought about Gray's words. "Woah," was all he could reply.

"Yeah."

"Why're you bringing that up, anyways?"

Gray sighed. "Juvia and I are thinking about having a baby, too, but I'm worried."

"Hey, that's great! That you want a baby, not that you're worried. But why do you think you gotta be worried? Sure, we're idiots, but that's why it's a team effort with our wives! So that they can stop our kids from being as big of morons as their dads!"

Gray laughed. "Yeah, I suppose so. With Lucy and Juvia, the kids wouldn't have a completely hopeless case." Natsu laughed as well.

"Just trust me, Gray. Sure, it's scary to think about how I'll have a tiny little baby that is totally dependent upon me, but I think the scariness is worth it. I can't wait to see Layla and be able to hold her and play with her. I can't wait to introduce her to all you guys and to teach her magic. I can't wait to celebrate birthdays and Christmas and all the holidays with both my girls!"

Gray gave his rival a rare word of gratitude. "Yeah. Thanks, Natsu. That does all sound great." Gray closed his eyes and began to imagine some of the things Natsu had described, but with a little blue-haired baby in place of a pink or blonde one. "Yeah..."

A/N: A little Gruvia for you Gray and Juvia fans out there :)