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Lucy POV

I'm surrounded by darkness, and it's kind of hard to breathe... Almost like I'm trying to in hail water... I open my eyes slightly to see a panicking dragonslayer tilting my head to the side.

"Cau!caucau!" I suddenly started to cough up water. It seemed to pour out of my lungs like a small fountain. It felt disturbing." Lucy!? Lucy are you alright?! Blink once for yes twice for no!" Natsu shouted as he patted my back. I blinked once since I was to busy ridding my lungs of water to speak properly.

He patted my back to help get the water completely out of my lungs before he sat back on his toes watching me intently.

"Lucy. Why did you run from me? I'm really sorry for yelling at you back there. I don't really know what got into me. I was just... Never mind. Please don't do that again." He said as he helped me sit up. "I'm sorry I ran from you like that." I said hugging my knees to my chest.

"I saw you fall off the the waterfall,and panicked. I didn't know what to do other than throw myself at you and take the most of the impact. That's OK though. I'm probably a lot more durable than you are. Came out with a lot of bruises on my back and a sprained ankle, but other than that I'm completely fine.

Although, I can't find the first aid kit in my pack so I had to perform CPR without it." Natsu said slightly embarrassed about it." Thank you Natsu. I know where a first aid kit is, so we can go get it after I take a look at your back and your ankle. If your ankle is seriously injured I'll do my best to heal it here before we go looking for my bag. It should be near the top of the hill I rolled down when I fell in the river." I said with a sheepish smile.

Natsu looked at me with slight concern, but cooperated as I lifted his vest to first look at his back. I had to hold back a gasp as I looked at his back. I was hit with a huge wave of guilt as I touched all the nasty looking bruises on his back. One bruise was right in the middle of his back. It seemed to be the biggest out of all of them and looked like it really hurt. I ran my hand over it, and as I did I felt Natsu take a sharp in hail." Sorry! I didn't mean for that to hurt!" I apologized pulling my hand away.

"That's OK. Its not that bad. My ankle really isn't anything to worry about either so no need to look at that." Natsu said through a slightly pained voice. "No I'll take a look just in case." I said as I began to scoot around in front of him to get a better angle on his ankle. "No really its fine. No need! We should look for your bag now. Wouldn't want any wild animals to get it!" Natsu suddenly burst out as he covered his ankle hiding it from my view.

"Natsu. Let me see. Your not going to be going any where until I see the damage I've caused." I said sternly. "No. Its ok. Nothings wrong just a scrape really! Now we should get your bag before someone else does! Hehe." He still refused to show me his ankle as he also tried to change the subject.

"Princess! I have found your bag!" I nearly jumped out of my skin as Virgo appeared from the ground right next to me. I took my bag and quickly looked to make sure that everything was still in it. I also found the first aid kit I packed.

" Thank you so much Virgo!" I said smiling at her." Punishment time?" She asked with no emotion on her face." N-no Virgo. No punishment. You may go back now."" Yes princess, and I suggest that you wrap his ankle before it gets injured any worse than it is." She added before she left for the spirit realm.

"Natsu! Show me your ankle now!" I yelled angry that he wouldn't let me see the true pain he was in." No! I won't let you!" He shouted back indignantly as he curled up in a ball over his injured ankle." I didn't want it to come to this but you leave me no choice!" I yelled tackling him back so that I could look at his ankle.

"H-hey! Not fair I wasn't ready! Guaah!" Natsu winced in pain as I straddled him. I turned to look at his ankle and made him bend his knee to bring the injured limb closer.

"Sorry if this hurts. It looks pretty bad. I better get that wrapped before you try to start walking on it." I declared examining it. His ankle was swelling slightly, but there was no sign of a break. Which is great because if it was broken we would have yo be out here awhile longer.

As I was examining his ankle I felt a lump push up against my butt.

I turned back around to see Natsu staring at me." What?" I said not completely sure how to react." As comfy as my lap may be to you, my back still hurts to much for you to stay there. So if you wouldn't mind letting me get up?" Natsu said with a slight blush covering his cheeks.

"Sorry!" I practically jumped off of him after processing in my head what kind of position we were just in.' Why hadn't I noticed any sooner!? That was beyond embarrassing!... Although his lap was pretty comfortable. He had some pretty firm thighs too. I wonder if its all muscle.. Wait! No! Stop thinking perversely you stupid brain!' I could practically feel the flames dancing across my face because of what had happened and what I just thought about.

I looked back over to see that he had gotten up. He smirked and offered his hand to me for help up, but as soon as he put weight on his left ankle his smirk fell and he stumble with a surprised, yet pained, groan.

I quickly stood and caught him leading him over to a tree stump nearby while supporting his left side." Stay put and try to keep your ankle still. I'm going to get the first aid kit out of my bag to wrap your ankle." I walked back to my bag and found the first aid kit in one of the side pockets.

"Here. Lift your leg up a little so that I can wrap your ankle properly." I instructed as I sat in front of him holding the wrap in my hand. He did as I asked with out a word, and stayed quiet while I wrapped his ankle firmly, but not so tight that it was uncomfortable.

Natsu's POV

Lucy helped me over to a tree stump as she tried to support my left side. I held most of my weight since I didn't think she could handle carrying most of my weight.

She instructed me to wait here until she got my foot wrapped, and to try not to put so much weight on it.

When she got back she began to wrap my ankle and I had to hide a small blush that appeared on my face as her soft hands ran across the tough skin of my leg. I didn't trust my voice to speak, so I stayed quiet and watched her work.

She began at the bottom of my foot and worked her way up to my lower calf where she used tape to secure the cloth to itself.' She looks so cute when she concentrates. And when she smiles, and when she blushes... Why am I thinking like this? I've never thought about anyone so much before, so why now? What makes her so different to me that I can't stop thinking about her?... Never mind. That would probably take to long.' I thought as I kept staring at her with soft eyes.

She sat back and examined her work before looking back at me with a smile saying,"There! That should do it. You could probably walk on it for a while now, but we will have to take a few breaks before making it back to the guild where Wendy can heal that better."

I couldn't help the smile that broke across my face as she smiled her bright beautiful smile. My chest started to feel all warm and fuzzy as she got up and grabbed my hand. She helped me up and when I was stable on my feet she let go. I felt a little sad as she let go, but quickly dismissed it.

'This is weird. I haven't felt anything like that before. I mean, I've never reacted this way when Lisanna grabs my hand or hugs me. Same with the other girls in the guild. So whywith Lucy?.. I'll ask Mira later.' I quickly though of how to word the questions I have in my head to make things easier on Mira later.

The entire time I was thinking I hadn't noticed that we had started walking back to town. We were already at the edge of town by the time I realized where we were.

"Hey! Look! I can see the guild from here! Come on Natsu! Let's get Wendy so your ankle will feel better!" Lucy said as she ran ahead a little stopping to look back at me with a playful smile. She giggled as I ran up to her trying not to injure my ankle any further.

Yeah. It would make running a lot easier too." I said smiling down at her. I hadn't noticed how much taller I was than her until now. Not by much, but enough that if I hugged her, her head would rest perfectly under my chin.

Again with the weird ideas!God I can't wait until I can ask Mira about this.

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