Lucy pushed the piece of beef round her plate and chewed her lip under the uncomfortable stares of the two silver haired sisters at the counter. Levy glanced at her sympathetically, while Gajeel teased Natsu about his apparent innocence and naivety.

"Don't worry about it Lu. It won't be that bad."

Levy patted her arm comfortingly, her brown eyes twinkling, "at least we're both in this together, Mira's always trying to get gossip about me and Gajeel."

Lucy sighed and tore up the meat into strips, "I know…but she didn't walk in on you, when you were making out."

Levy giggled, "No. That's true."

"I mean…what further information does she need?" Lucy exclaimed, she huffed and drank deeply from her mug.

A heavy, tanned arm draped across Lucy's shoulders.

"Are ya gonna eat that Luce?"

Lucy rolled her eyes at Natsu and smiled, "no. you can have it."

He cracked a wide grin at her and stuffed the beef into his mouth, chewing noisily.

"…And I wonder why I kiss you."

He pouted at her and flicked her nose; Lucy rubbed it and glared at Levy and Juvia who were giggling at them.

"You two are too cute."

"Yeah, makes me sick," Gray said sulkily, gripping onto a rum bottle.

Natsu scoffed, "Oh yeah! At least I'm not trying to inhale Luce's face every five minutes.

He snickered and turned to Lucy. "You'd think Gray was some kinda slobbery Kraken, the way they make out; it's truly horrifying!"

The rum bottle in Gray's hand shattered, spraying them with the sticky amber liquid; Juvia immediately soothed his seething rage, by running her hands through his raven locks, while fixing Natsu with a dangerous smile, lined with razor sharp teeth. Gajeel chuckle at Gray as he drained his bucket-like tankard, with Levy perched on his lap.

"Someone had ta date flame brain, or he'd remain a virgin forever."

Gray and Gajeel laughed together heartily at Natsu's furiously, blushing face.

"Shut up!"

"Whatever!" Gray wiped the tears from his eyes, "Whenever a girl flirted with him, he didn't even realise and thought they were sick."

"HA HA!" Gajeel barked, "It was like he hadn't even gone through puberty yet!"

"Shut up!"

"Do ya remember when Gildarts tried ta take im to a whore house and he ran away!" Gajeel, crouched over the table guffawing with laughter.

Lucy sat there dumbfounded as she watched Natsu shrink away, his face very red.

"Did you really run away Natsu?"

He nodded and hid his face in her shoulder, Lucy chuckled softly. Salamander; fearsome pirate of the seas and Fiore…a complete and utter virgin.

"This little chat is doing wonders for your fearsome image Natsu," Lucy said gently.

He scowled at her as Gray and Gajeel continued to laugh, "come on Luce! Stick up for me!"

"There's nothing wrong, being pure. It's just ironic, you know cos you're a pirate."

Natsu's flush lessened slightly and he hugged her closer.

Lucy pursed her lips to stop herself from giggling, "to be honest it doesn't surprise me."

He looked at her dejectedly, "What!?"

"Please Natsu. When I first met you, you were so childish; it's hard to imagine you ever got laid."

The tables' raucous laughter began anew as Natsu scowled at Lucy's giggling face.

"Oh really!...What about you Luce?" An evil grin adorned his face.

"You were a Lady, you had to be pure."

The occupants of the table went very quiet, listening in on the conversation. Lucy flushed slightly then, regained her composure sitting up straighter.

"Think what you like," She shrugged a smirk on her face. "I was away from my father for three years after all…"

Gray and Gajeel's jaws dropped as they stared disbelievingly at Lucy. Ha ha! they believed me! Suckers! Natsu frowned at the slight pink tinge on Lucy's cheeks. As the table sat in confusion, he leaned forward, so his lips brushed her ear and whispered.

"Tell me the truth later…"

Lucy grinned, "sure thing."

Levy nudged Lucy and pointed over towards the counter; Mira was beckoning them with a finger, a mischievous gleam in her eyes.

Lucy groaned and looked desperately at Levy, "you've got to get me out of this!"

Levy pouted and looked at her pitifully, "I'll see what I can do, but there's no guarantee."

Gajeel reluctantly let her off his lap and slumped heavily on the table as he watched her go. Lucy was impressed; the tiny blue-haired pirate had a huge influence on the intimidating male, he clearly cared for her a lot. She waved sadly at Natsu who sat back in his stool, with a sad look on his face as he watched her leave the food hall with the girls, with wide black eyes.

Gray chuckled at the pathetic look on Natsu's face, "she's not gonna be gone forever, flame brain."

Natsu scowled at him, "just let me wallow!"

The shaggy head of hair on the table sniggered loudly.

"I don't know why ya laughin metal-head!"

Lucy sat uncomfortably as Levy plaited her long blonde hair, neatly down her back; Erza's cabin was at least three times the size as the one she shared with Natsu and Happy. It housed dozens of mannequins clad in different armours and many swords lined the walls. Lucy could have sworn she saw a pure white dress poking out of an intricate chest at the foot of Erza's bed. Why would she need that?! Levy sat down cross legged in her cream nightgown next to Lucy. The blue-haired girl fiddled with the lace hemming the knee length dress and smiled nervously at Lucy. They had tried to get out of the girl's night by saying they needed a drink or they needed to go to the washroom, but Lisanna had followed them everywhere and when they had returned to the cabin, Mira had bolted the door, noisily with a huge grin on her face. When Lucy had asked for pyjamas, she immediately whipped out, this deep red number which had long bell like sleeves a low neckline with lacing across the cleavage and a lace lined hem which trailed on the floor, covering Lucy's feet. Despite the undoubted sex-appeal of her attire, the dress was really comfortable; Lucy huddled her legs to her chest, wrapping them up in the soft red cotton.

Mira motioned for them all to sit in a circle as Cana passed round a large flagon of vanilla spiced rum (Think Sailor Jerry's…yum! And please drink responsibly). Cana grinned at them all as she fiddled with a heavy gold ring, set with green jade around her neck. That's obviously a present from Bacchus. Lucy smiled back; maybe this won't be so bad…

And three hours later Lucy could only think that her conclusion couldn't have been more wrong. After Mira had grilled Cana for every detail she could get about her love life for over an hour, she had turned on Levy. That had been painful. Levy had found it harder to shove off Mira's questions than Cana had. She sat next to Lucy, red faced as she timidly gave Mira the information she wanted to know.

"So Levy…have you and Gajeel consummated your relationship?"

Levy squeaked, blushing and shook her head fervently, "N-no! We haven't done that yet."

Mira tutted, "well get busy then, we haven't had any cute babies since Asuka!"

Levy's jaw dropped as Lucy snorted at Mira's brazen answer.

Mira huffed and tossed her hair, "we'll be seeing pink haired babies with brown eyes, before blue haired babies with red eyes."

Lucy flushed heavily and raised her hands defensively, "hold up! We haven't done that either!"

Mira looked at her disbelievingly, "Oh!...but you two were alone for a whole night in the tree house."

Lucy laughed, "That doesn't mean we slept together!"

Mira giggled, "Come off it! You two make out like that and you're telling me you haven't done the dirty!"

Lucy laughed uncomfortably, "We've only been together for a couple of days! Natsu's not like that!"

Mira pouted, "Fine then! But when did he confess!?"

Lucy glanced warily at the mad gleam in her eyes and sighed, "He told me he liked me at the tree house, then we talked and went to sleep and that was pretty much it."

Mira looked slightly disappointed.

"Lucy! Why didn't you tell me!?" Erza exclaimed, she frowned at Lucy with a hurt look on her face.

"I swear that if Natsu does anything to hurt you, I will flay him myself!"

Lucy shrank back a bit, "Sorry Erza. It's all pretty new, plus with the gossip on this ship; I thought you would've heard by now."

Lucy watched as the red-haired pirate nodded and drained her tankard. Lucy breathed a small sigh of relief and smiled at Levy, whose blush had reduced considerably, now that she was out of the spotlight.

"Well at least you two have owned up to your relationships," Mira grinned happily. "But I wanna be a godmother someday soon, so hurry up! I'm not getting any younger."

Lucy giggled, "Why don't you have some kids Mira, since you want them so badly."

Mira flushed, "There's no one I wanna have kids with."

Lucy smirked, time for payback! "Oh, but Mira, you're so pretty and there's a few guys your age on the ship, let's see…"

Levy grinned at the smug look on Lucy's face and joined in, "There's Freed, Bixslow and…Laxus."

Mira flushed deeper. Bullseye!

"We didn't know you liked Laxus…Mira," Erza stated calmly.

Mira stared around at them uncomfortably, "Who says I do."

Lucy raised an eyebrow, "Your blush does."

Mira scoffed slightly, but her voice became squeaky, "Pfffftt! Me and Laxus, Ha! Ha! I don't think so."

"Oh please sis, you always light up when he comes in the kitchen," Lisanna sighed. "Stop trying to deny it!"

"Erm…" Mira gulped at stared at the door.

"Would you look at the time! It's almost midnight! Well I'm off to bed, see ya!"

She unlocked the door and bolted away in a flash of silver hair. Lucy dragged Levy up and grinned at Erza, "This was cool, we should all do it again some time…"

"But I thought you guys were supposed to sleep over!" Erza looked at them glumly.

Lucy waved her hand, "Sorry Erza, Levy and I have got to get back to some grumpy pirates, and I do not want to deal with a grouchy Natsu in the morning," Lucy grimaced, "He's whiny and clingy, it's not nice."

Levy giggled as they walked down the corridor, her arm linked with Lucy's, "That was great Lu. I can get back to Gajeel, he was really angry when I told him about the sleepover."

Lucy laughed in agreement, "Yeah! It's so funny that Mira likes Laxus."

"I know right! And then she tried to deny it! The irony!"

They continued giggling and chatting until they reached a door with a small iron plaque.

"Well this is me…" Levy smile at Lucy.

"Oh! Gray!"

They both flushed at looked at the door with Gray and Juvia's names on it.

"I wondered why Juvia wasn't at the sleepover," Lucy cringed when she heard another loud moan.

"Mira's kinda given up with them, they've done everything under the sun and Juvia isn't afraid to talk about it. It's quite graphic."

Lucy nodded as she heard the sighs and moaning getting louder.

"How do you get to sleep at night?!"

Levy chuckled, "Gajeel insulated our door; we can't hear a thing."

A shaggy black head poked out of the door. Speak of the devil. Gajeel flashed a toothy grin.

"Shrimp! You're back!"

He pulled her over his shoulder gleefully, "Blondie, you'd better get back ta Salamander, he wasn't in a good mood after ya left."

Lucy nodded and waved, "Alright then. Goodnight!"

Gajeel saluted, "Night Blondie!" and shut the heavy door loudly behind him.

She grimaced as she heard another moan from Gray and Juvia's cabin and sprinted down the stairs onto the next corridor, heading through the maze like ship, to her cabin.

Lucy quietly opened the door of the cabin and looked down at the rug, to see Natsu sitting there his back to the door, cradling Happy to his chest. Lucy padded soundlessly over to the rug, listening to Happy's purrs. She pounced on his shoulders. Natsu whirled around and tackled Lucy onto the rug, a wide grin on his face.

"LUCE!"

He hugged her tight, pulling her to his chest, "my Luce!"

Lucy grinned down at him, "Hello to you too."

He began kissing her face feverishly, nuzzling her forehead.

"Alright Natsu! You didn't have to wait up for me."

Lucy ran her hands through his hair, giggling when he hummed happily as her fingers tugged at the soft pink spikes. He grinned at her, his black eyes sparkling.

"But you said you'd get out of it and ya did!"

Lucy yawned, "I know. Can we go to sleep now?"

Natsu sat them up, so Lucy straddled his lap; he tugged at the lacing on the front of the nightdress.

"Lucy. What are you wearing?"

Lucy blushed and pulled the fabric away from his prying fingers, "Mira made me wear it."

He grinned at her and chuckled, "It's pretty…"

Natsu stood up and tumbled on the bed, still holding Lucy to his chest.

"…You're so pretty."

He smirked at her heavy blush and kissed her hard. Lucy felt all of her breath rush out of her lungs, as he nibbled her bottom lip and ran his hands gently up her sides, brushing his fingers just under her breasts. He started kissing her neck, biting down on the pink marks he had left earlier.

"Ah! Natsu! You bit me again!"

Lucy slapped at his shoulders.

He pouted and looked at her innocently, "What? Don't you like it?"

Lucy prodded the red mark with her fingers, "It's not that I don't like it…it's just weird."

"So you do like it?…cos I like it, then everyone knows you're mine."

He smirked at her, his eyes half-lidded.

"Wow! Ok Natsu that's a little bit possessive."

He pouted and gripped her waist tighter.

"But that's fine, as long as you know that you belong to me too."

Natsu chuckled and kissed her gently; he rolled off her and played with a strand of her hair that had come loose from her plait.

"You were gonna tell me the truth…about, you know."

Lucy smirked at the blush on his face, "Oh my God, Natsu you don't have to be flustered about it."

He frowned at her.

"Ok! Ok! I'm completely pure, just like you," she poked his nose and laughed at his shocked expression.

"You're not lyin are ya Luce?" He glanced at her worriedly.

"NO! I'd never lie to you!"

He looked at her, confused; "But in the mess hall you said-"

Lucy giggled and tugged at his pink hair, "I know what I said. Do you think I'd really want to talk about my sex life with Gray and Gajeel?"

Natsu laughed, "No! I wish they hadn't told you about me though, that was private."

Lucy shrugged, "Meh! I'd find out eventually you know."

Natsu rolled his eyes and pulled her into a hug. "Ya had that time away from your dad though Luce, ya could have done anything."

Lucy scoffed, "Do you think my father would have let the thing that his future investments relied on, leave home without protection and insurance that she'd be completely pure! I don't think so!"

They both grinned and laughed together, while Happy curled up on the bookshelf above the bed.

"I do really want you though Luce." He looked at her sincerely.

Lucy blushed and bit her lip, "That's apparent, but we don't have to do that straight away, we're going really quickly as it is, let's just take our time."

Natsu smiled at her, "That sounds alright. I don't wanna hurt you Lucy, Igneel always told me to respect women's feelings."

Lucy laughed, "Igneel sounded like a nice man."

Natsu grinned and nodded, rubbing her arm gently; "he sure was…I didn't understand what he said at the time, I thought girls were gross."

He nuzzled Lucy's hair, "You're definitely not gross though Luce."

Lucy snorted derisively, "Thanks."

Natsu chuckled and ran his hands down, feeling the curve of her hips; Lucy rolled on her side and patted his chest, yawning.

"Can I go to sleep now Natsu?"

He sighed and kissed her forehead, "Yeah. I'm pretty beat too."

He pulled the covers over them as Lucy snuggled into his chest, her head resting just below his collar bone.

"I love ya Natsu."

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