He hated night watch. He hated it enough that it was the reason Gray and Gajeel continually put him on night watch. It was only for a few hours but still, the leftover batteries were supposed to be for emergencies only and starting a fire could alert any enemies, such as the now dead bodies that lay outside the building, to where they were meaning that all he had as a full source of light was the full moon that gazed down upon the Earth from above. Therefore Natsu sat on a chair inside the door of their room flicking on and off a lighter that he had carried around with him for the last five years. Gray and Gajeel snored peacefully in beds that had been very carefully combed for any blood or brains that were left over from the incident with the twins and Erigor. Thinking back to that small skirmish Natsu reached down and un-holstered his new gun from his right ankle. It was a Baretta 92FS, standard gun amongst anybody who wanted to defend themselves before all hell broke loose years ago. Raiding even the smallest of gun shops led to finding at least an ammo box or four for the guns making them common beyond all belief so luckily the group had lots of the exact ammo that was needed for the gun.

While he did enjoy his shotgun Natsu had needed a longer ranged weapon for quite a while now. Just a few weeks ago a fire-fight had erupted between their group and another one after somebody had tried to steal one of Gajeel's studs, off of his face, while he was sleeping. While the first couple of people had been relatively easy to subdue being at such close range the others had quickly dispersed making Natsu's shotgun ineffective for the rest of the fight. Remembering a few weeks ago Natsu felt the tears forming in his eyes. The group had still been four back then, but that fight had brought their numbers down and lost them all a good friend.

"Fuckin hell, why'd you have to be so stupid." Natsu re-holstered the gun in anger and continued to play with his lighter for a bit before checking his watch. About half an hour now until he could wake up Gajeel and get some sleep. Wiping the weariness from his eyes Natsu was about to get up and stretch when something crunched from outside the room. Panicking the man pulled his switchblade from his back jean pocket and hid behind the door as it slowly opened inwards. Soft footprints moved their way through the doorway to the bathroom where the intruder seemed to stop and start opening cabinet doors.

"Looking for anything hidden no doubt." Whoever the intruder was he was smart enough for that to be his first apporach to his investigation. Holding his breath Natsu slammed the door shut and charged the intruder head on. His yelling woke Gray and Gajeel who both jumped from their sleep with guns ready to go. Natsu for his part landed in the bathtub with the would be intruder though the initial shock from his tackle had knocked the switchblade out of his hand and into the sink. Though he couldn't see anything he felt the first blow land on his head and the second hit his inner thigh. Cursing he threw his own punch and finally felt the satisfying feeling of his fist connect with...boob? Realizing that it was in fact a woman he was fighting, and a very well endoubed woman at that, Natsu jumped from the bathtub and full on sprinted out of the dark room while slamming the door behind him.

"The fuck is going on in there?!" Gray was panting from the adrenaline coursing through his veins.

"I have a switchblade! Don't you fucking come in here!" A female voice resounded from inside the bathroom. Natsu Was still pulling on the door handle to make sure that the woman didn't pull it by surprise and yank him back into the bathroom with her.

"Is that a chick?"

"Yes that's a chick!"

"Why the hell is there a chick in the bathroom?"

"Oh well you know I opened up the curtain of the shower and suddenly she was there WHY DO YOU FUCKING THINK SHE TRIED TO BREAK IN AND I LOCKED HER IN THERE!" Gajeel laughed as Natsu's face got redder and redder from frustration.

"I SWEAR TO GOD I KNOW HOW TO USE THIS AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO DO SO!" The girl screamed at them again, more desperation laced into her voice than before.

"I'd say there's about another three hours before we get any sunlight which gives us two options, open fire on the bathroom and kill her or wait till daylight and leave the room and her here." The three men stood thinking for a good minute about Gajeel's plan until Gray finally spoke up.

"She didn't hurt any of us so I don't think we really need to kill her. Plus it's kind of a waste of ammo." The other two nodded in agreement.

"Alright then. I'm going back to bed." Gajeel stumbled his way back to his bed and flopped down on it without looking back. Gray nodded his approval at the plan and did the same. Natsu, alone once again, sat down in the chair and put the shotgun by his chair.

"I don't know how much of that you heard, but you're lucky were nice. I'm gonna sit hear 'till the Sun comes up and then we're gonna head out of here to look around town. While were gone you can let yourself out and never come back, got it?" Silence resonated from the bathroom but Natsu knew for a fact that he was loud enough she could hear him.

"Do you promise?" The small voice was closer to the door, she had moved.

"Stick a needle in my eye." There was a small hint of laughter from the other side of the door and Natsu grinned.

"We got a couple of hours. What's your name?" Silence for a few seconds.

"Lucy."

"Well Lucy I'm Natsu. Pleased to meet you."

"Why are you being nice? I saw what you did to those men." It was Natsu's turn to pause before answering.

"You know we really don't like killing. Even now this long on the road together none of us actually enjoy the act of doing it. But sometimes we have to. If we truly don't then there's no point but if it's life or death we do what we have to." Natsu looked down at his feet sadly. "We all learned that the hard way at some point." The silence between them was longer this time before Lucy finally spoke.

"Can I come with you?" Natsu smiled.

"Tell you what. We'll talk about it in the morning okay?"

"Okay." The rest of the night went on in silence and a few hours later the sun started to rise on a new day.

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