Quick note: I wrote this before I was even caught up in the anime let alone the manga (which I'm still not caught up in). It is a post-series story but I don't really know how the characters and storyline is doing past episode 113. Please forgive anything that isn't canon for I don't really know what psot series canon would be yet ^^

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail is Hiro Mashima's. I would have made Natsu and Lucy canon by now.

Coming Home

Pairings: Natsu/Lucy

Timeline: Post ep113

Rating: K+

Dedication: Can you guess? Kat requested Natsu/Lucy as a prompt!

Natsu didn't particularly mind the cold. It's not like it really affected him in anyway. He could probably run around outside in the snow wearing practically nothing and be fine. Except for being compared to Gray, and that is not something he ever wanted. What did bother him was when it was snowing so hard he could barely make out the outline of his town. Where he hadn't been in three months, and was quite looking forward to going home. It had been snowing for most of his trip back into Magnolia; the snow on the ground was beginning to reach his calves. Still, it wasn't that bad.

A burst of snow hit him in the face. The 25 year old Dragon Slayer grumbled as he went to wipe the wet substance off his face. Despite the inconvenience of weather being irritating and the wind pushing on him, Natsu was still determined to get to his house. This stupid storm would keep him. Three months was a long time to be away and to be alone. He had opted to take this mission by himself, without even Happy's help. No one had been thrilled by his choice but he did it anyway.

Lights shown through the windows of familiar houses and buildings as Natsu passed through town. He couldn't help but smile slightly at the relief only home could bring. He hadn't expected anyone to be out in the streets at this time of night even on a good day yet even just the shadows of people in the windows made the man feel comforted. The snow was starting to swirl heavily again.

"Hey!" a voice cut through the storm causing Natsu to blink through the white blurs. He hadn't noticed before but there was now the shadow of a person standing a little ways in front of him. The jacket of the figure was blowing back in the wind causing the easily recognizable color of skin to be seen. If Natsu had any doubts of who it was, and he didn't, that was the dead giveaway. "Welcome back, moron."

Natsu scoffed. "Some welcome they give me. Of all the people, I get you?"

Gray turned away from him, not seeming phased by his friend. "Come one, I'm taking you to the guild."

"I don't think so," Natsu stood firm in the snow. "I'm going home. Whatever it is can wait."

"You are coming with me, Natsu," Gray glanced back through the snow. "The guild is closer and Master specifically asked me to come out here and bring you back."

The Dragon Slayer's shoulders slumped. "Fine," he grumbled and dragged his feet behind Gray as they began to walk the short distance to the guild.

"I'll make sure you get home as soon as you can," Gray looked over to the disgruntled man beside him.

Natsu raised an eyebrow at Gray's face which he couldn't help but noticed had grown a bit softer.

"Considering you were the one stupid enough to come back in the middle of the biggest storm we have seen in years," Gray snapped his head back around looking slightly disgruntled himself.

"I came home when I was finished! I don't care if it's the end of the world kind of storm!"

Much to the man's surprise Gray didn't argue back, he just laughed. "Do you know how quiet it's been without you around?"

Natsu blinked. "I'm guessing extremely?"

Gray swung the ever familiar doors of the Fairy Tail Guild open, causing the light to stream out into the moonless night. "Extremely," he nodded with a smile giving Natsu a slap on the back. The pink haired man squinted at the sudden brightness having been traveling in the dark for quite some time.

"Will you, just come in, you are letting in all the cold," a female voice snarled before Gray pushed the still somewhat blind Natsu into the warmth of the Guild as he shut the doors behind him. He rubbed his eyes a few times before looking into the basically empty room. Cana was growling at him from the bar, while Mirajane and Makarov smiled pleasantly at their member come home.

"I take it all went well, Natsu?" the longtime master grinned down at Natsu.

"Went just fine," he nodded with a pat to his pack as he headed up to the bar.

"Let me make you something to drink!" Mirajane bubbled over with happiness as her fingers quickly mixed something together.

"Really, its okay," Natsu tried to get her to stop but she already had a steaming drink on the table. He couldn't very well say no to that face. He pulled out the stool next to Cana and sat down while Gray leaned up against the counter. "You wanted to talk to me, old man?"

"Normally, I would have it wait but given the extremity of the mission I wanted to discuss it with you right away," Makarov turned his head to the man next to him.

Natsu nodded unenthusiastically as his head slipped down into his arm on the table. "Sure, sure."

"Buck up, Kid," Cana kicked his bar stool causing Natsu to jolt up in his seat. "What's one more hour going to do?"

Makarov let out a laugh seeming too deep for his size. "You haven't changed one bit over the years have you, Natsu?"

The pink haired man was about to open his mouth in defense of himself.

"Natsu Dragneel!" a sudden voice roared as the doors swung open with a crash. The guild members practically jumped out of their skin at the tone of the already quite loud female.

"He is back for five minutes and the noise returns," Gray sighed from his side of the bar causing Mirajane to choke back a laugh.

Natsu turned slowly in his chair to face the doors He had no doubt knew who it was.

There in the doorway stood Lucy. Her chest was heaving from obviously storming out of her house and running the whole way. Her cheeks were stained red from the cold or from anger, Natsu couldn't tell. There was a layer of snow covering her blonde hair and shoulders, her jacket not even buttoned up as it blew around in the wind. She was even still in her pajamas, boots thrown on her feet, the laces hanging in the snow covered ground. Her face was furious as she stared him down from across the room.

"You," she pointed dangerously at him. "I cannot believe you!"

Despite the fact the woman look like she wanted to kill him, he had to smile. He had never been more happy to see her angry, because he was simply seeing her.

"You are gone for months without a single word!" she began to stalk towards him, her finger still angrily shaking at the pink haired man. "No concern for anyone who might have been worried about you! No care to let us know if you were even still alive because you had to go all noble and take a quest by yourself even though there were plenty of people willing to go with you but no Natsu is better than everyone and doesn't need any help and he doesn't care if he has people waiting up every night for him to come home safe and..."

By the time Lucy had made it to the middle of the room, Natsu really wasn't paying much attention to what she was shouting about. His legs lifted him up on their own till he was standing in front of the bar. Lucy was still coming at him, her mouth moving frantically. She was shivering; it could have been in anger but he thought more or less it was because she was cold. She always got cold far too easily. She should have at least got dressed; she must have been livid when she left.

"…and then you come home in the middle of the night in a snowstorm and come straight to the guild!" her voice filled his mind once more as she got right up next to him. "Are you even listening to me?" Lucy snarled before pounding her fisted hands on his chest. "Stop smiling at me! Do you even c-"

Natsu effectively cut off the blonde's rant by wrapping his arms around her body and pressing his lips firmly to hers. He had to stop himself from laughing at her stifled squeal of surprise. He felt her eyelashes flutter close against his face as she melted into the warmth she hadn't felt in three antagonizingly long months. Her skin goose bumped as his hands held her tighter to his body, her fingers curled around his shirt where her hands were trapped, her mouth still moving furiously with his. Natsu momentarily forgot where he was; nothing else really mattered. Three months was much too long. His hand moved up her back and was soon tangled in her thick blonde hair. He moved his mouth to deepen the kiss when a deep clearing of a throat snap the two out of their haze.

"Happy to be home, Natsu?" Makarov smiled slyly at that pair still entangled in each other.

The Dragon Slayer smiled widely as he glanced down at Lucy's flushed face. "Extremely," he moved his hands back her back before reaching down and scooping her up in his arms causing the Spirit Mage to squeal slightly. "Sorry, old man, this conversation will have to wait till later. I'm going home."

"Yes, please, leave," Gray snorted walking a head of them to help in the weather. "You are like two teenagers still."

Natsu still has his eyes on Makarov.

"Yes, go, I'll see you in the morning," Markarov dramatically rolled his eyes before waving the man off.

Lucy snuggled into his chest to brace herself for the cold as they stepped back outside.

"I missed you, Luce."

"I missed you too, you big jerk."

I actually love this one. I might right more in this style since it's kind of my head canon at the moment. That might change the farther I get though since I think I'm missing something big...that is coming up soon in the anime...This also the last of my pre-written drabbles. I have three in the works that I will post whenever they get finished!

~Lyssa