Prompt: "Don't give me that look! You started it!" for CoLu.

Having lived in Australia my whole life, I've never seen snow. So, if this is horribly wrong, please forgive me. I've only ever asked a few people what snow is actually like, mostly out of curiosity.

Snowball

Erik froze in his spot when he felt something cold, wet, and hard hit the back of his head. He shivered as soon as he felt what he quickly realised to be the remnants of a melting snowball sliding down the small gap between his neck and the collar of his coat.

Instantly, Erik regretted the fact he hadn't worn a scarf that morning.

He turned to find Lucy standing a few feet away, an all too mischievous smirk on her lips as she tried to contain her giggling. "Really?" Erik deadpanned.

Lucy gave a small shrug. It had snowed all night, and it was so cold that most of it had yet to melt. Lucy wasn't one to waste an opportunity, either - Erik knew that all too well with how much time they spent together when he did manage to visit Magnolia. But with how much snow had fallen, Lucy would've been stupid to not take her chance and throw some of it at the grumpy Dragon Slayer.

"What else is snow good for?" Lucy asked sweetly.

Erik crouched down to begin piling some of the hard snow into his gloved hands. "Melting," he mumbled. "Piling into someone's mailbox… Shoving down someone's"–mostly Jellal's–"pants…"

"Well, yes… But–wait, what are you doing?" Lucy's eyes went wide when she saw Erik now heading straight for her, boots crunching in the snow as he tossed the rounded ball between his hands. A menacing grin was set on his face and it took Lucy all of a few seconds to realise that he planned on getting her back. "Erik, no!"

Lucy didn't get to run very far before Erik caught her, a hand around her arm before it went around her waist and he pulled her towards him, and then he was dumping the snowball right on top of Lucy's head.

"Nooo! It's cold!" Lucy squealed. Erik had forgotten his scarf, but Lucy had forgotten her beanie and now her head was freezing as snow was melting in her hair as she quickly tried shaking it off.

Erik watched in amusement as his girlfriend rid her hair of the snow. "That's what you get for throwing one at me." Like he would've let her get away with that. Hell no. It had somehow managed to melt all the way down his back and straight into his underwear, and it wasn't pleasant in the slightest.

Once Lucy had finished picking most of the snow out, she simply huffed in frustration and stomped past him in the deep snow, shoving his arm as she did so.

The scowl on her face only had Erik rolling his eye as he caught up to her again. "Oh, don't give me that look!" he groaned. "You started it!" He knew that Lucy was competitive in some areas, but now she was just being a sore loser, and it hadn't even been a competition at all.

"It was cold," Lucy pouted.

"Funny that."

Really, it wasn't like Lucy was upset. She was mostly just surprised he'd even made a point of getting her back. Erik usually just brushed silly things like that off…

Still, he hadn't that time, which had Lucy wondering just what she could get away with. Erik had his better days, as far as his tolerance went. Maybe that day was one of them.

Her pout turning to a small smile, Lucy stopped again to pick up some more snow. Erik barely noticed it until Lucy was throwing another smaller snowball at him, right at his ear that time. He could shake his head as Lucy ran off ahead laughing at him.