I ran down the hall that Mira was in so I could go to her room to tell her about Natsu's condition. I really was nervous for my dragon slayer friend; his normal temperature is hot enough, so I couldn't imagine how miserably hot he was right now. With something like a fever, I wonder how he will take it. As I blindly ran throughout the hall, I ran into a certain raven haired ice mage.

"Wa- Lucy, what are you doing running around? Plus, where's Natsu, I would think that he'd be trailing you." Gray asked me taking a step back to remove the awkwardness between us.

"Gomen Gray, it's just that Natsu has a fever and I don't know how he will take it! He's stumbling and not taking this whole thing so well and I was going to tell Mira but," I babbled on but got interrupted by Gray.

"Whoa, you said he had a fever?" Gray started anxiously. "Last time he had a fever it was terrible, he had tantrums, he was like a sick baby to put it in a short story. So please, go take care of him and calm him down! If he's left unattended to only Mavis knows what he'd do." He rambled scratching the back of head like he was tense.

"Oh thank you so much for the information! I have been so worried, oh and can you tell the others that Natsu and I won't be at the beach?" I asked running backwards so I could still hear his answer from a distance.

"Alright, just take care of him!" he yelled running off to the others I'd presume.

Surprisingly when I opened the door, it didn't creak; it didn't make the slightest noise. I scanned the room for Natsu as I took a small step in and closed the door. I couldn't see his spikey salmon hair, which really panicked me. I thought I was about to hyperventilate before I found a figure shivering under the covers. He had really petrified me hiding like that. But it's not like he did it intentionally.

"Natsu, how do you feel?" I spoke gently as I walked toward him and sat down on the comfy bed. "I ran into one of our friends and they told me to take care of you. So, please answer." I said uncovering the covers that blanketed Natsu's face and caressed my hand on his cheek.

"Lucy, why were you talking with that ice bastard?" he hissed, it surprised me, his sudden anger. I slipped my hand away from his face.

"He's only worried about you Natsu." I told him and stood up.

"I thought you were going to tell Mira." He said through clenched teeth. His hair lay down on his face so it covered his eyes. It gave him a much more intimidating appearance.

"W-we bumped into each other." I could tell he was getting more and more worked up, so I knew exactly what to do. "Open, Gate of the Lyre Key, LYRA!" I shouted which startled the poor sickened nakama of mine.

"Lu-cy, what are you doing?" Natsu asked me, which I replied with a smiled and cued Lyra to start singing as I crawled under the covers Natsu and held him tightly, hoping that this would work.

Furuki tomo, watashi wa mieru

Anata ga soko ni iru

Furuki tomo, watashi wa chikau

Kesshite togireru kizuna

Aruki dasu, mugen no kouya

Namida koraete, asu e to susumu

Anata no tame no hoshi dakara

Watashi wa kagayakeru

Anata no tame no uta dakara

Egao o misete

The song was beautiful, calming, and it seemed to work on Natsu. The harp mixed with Lyra's voice was like the sound of honey. Natsu had really calmed down and so had I. I felt like a lot of stress had been lifted off of my shoulders. I really did get stressed when Natsu was. Lyra played the song about ten times before I felt that Natsu had calmed down. When I knew that Natsu was done with his tantrums, I fell asleep in his arms.

~o~

When I woke up from my nap, I saw a sleeping Lucy snuggled right beside me. She was probably as close as one could be; head in the crook my neck, legs entangled within each other's, arms around each other. Every time she let out a shallow breath, it tingled on my neck. The tingling sensation stayed there for a while, and I let it stay. Suddenly she said something; she said my name in her sleep. I smiled at this, and gave her a tight squeeze.

"Natsu…" she whispered again. But this time she said something after she said my name. "I love…"

My eyes widened. She said my name, and said; "I love." Does that mean that, no, she doesn't like me like that.

'Does she, love, me, me, of all people….me?" I thought, this thinking thing wasn't what I'm used to.

"Lucy, you're so cute when you're asleep, and weird." I laughed; I had felt so much better when Lucy summoned Lyra to sing a calming song. Last time I had a fever all those years ago, things never ended well. I guess Lucy is my good luck charm, mine. Only mine and mine only. Then I started to think about the previous events of today, before Lyra.

'Did I call her my wife? I wonder if she was happy about that. Cleaning and taking care of me; what a wife should do! You do that for people you love right, like an advanced friend!' I smiled and looked the sleeping blonde and pulled her closer that was possible. When I was thinking about that, Lucy had awakened and was giving me some pretty messed up stares.

"Yo Lucy, you're awake! And you're giving me some creepy stare…" I told her with a now blank expression on my face.

"First, you better tell me why you look so deep in thought. Tell me what's making you think so much." She asked me with a smirk on her face.

"Um, I was thinking about you being me wife." I answered her simple question with a simple answer.

~o~

"Um, I was thinking about you being me wife." He answered my question as simply as if it was 1, 2, and 3.

'W-what, did he just…no way. It, no it's just not Natsu, he would never say such a thing, never. Nothing near that, I guess my dream is messing with my head.' My mind wondered as the dragon slayer next to me eyed my very intently and conspicuously.

"Eh-hem Natsu, please clarify what you said." I choked up, for some awkward and emotional reason, I felt like crying. I could feel the salty tears will to stream down my face; trying to break the protective dam that I had built to keep them at bay. But now that dam is too weak and soon their will shall be granted. They streamed down my face like it was their life on the line, if they had one.

"Lucy, why are you crying, so you not want to be my wife?" he asked me, caressing my cheek that was completely and utterly obscured by the salty liquid which I don't even know why it was there.

"A-answer my q-question!" I pressed, noticing that he must've felt much better after the rest we shared.

"I was thinking that I would want you as a wife! So that you could clean for me and take care of me! That's what wives do." He had grinned that signature grin of his which made me want to cry even more. His answer had only beckoned more tears to come; true tears. They were kind that I knew why I had cried them.

'Why Natsu, why break my heart? Why break my wounded heart with your denseness?' I thought over and over again.

"Baka, why did you have to break my heart?" I hissed. "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BREAK MY HEART!?" I shouted at my nakama. "Why do you have to be so dense?" I cried in my hands as I sat up and untangled myself from Natsu.

"Lucy, I'm sorry I upset you, but wives are for cleaning and stuff like that. You know that I don't like making you sad, so don't be!" he tried to pull me closer to him but I fought out of his hands and stomped over to my bag with various books. Throughout the tangles of books I found the one I was looking for; a dictionary. I flipped through the pages as Natsu eyed me curiously which made me uncomfortable. I finally found the page I was looking for and started to recite a definition in it.

"The definition of wife is, and I quote unquote; 'The person that is there for you whenever you need them, the person that makes you want to be better, the person you love intimately and cherish forever.'" I said, trying to keep my voice from cracking because of the previous tears I had shed. Natsu's facial expression slowly changed as he registered what he had heard.

"That's what wives are for!?" He shouted like it was the most surprising thing he had ever heard. "Geez, it kinda makes me wanna beat someone up…"

"NATSU! You are total baka! Why do you always think of fighting?" I sobbed in my hands again, dropping the large dictionary which made a large pounding noise as it hit the floor.

"Because it's fun!" he said smiling, but then frowning. "I'm kidding; I was just trying to cheer you up. You seemed very down. Now I kind of get what a wife means, and I get that you aren't happy with me right now. But I still don't feel very good, so can we just go back to sleep?" he asked me and walked over to me.

"Natsu, I guess we're both very stressed out right now, and fighting isn't the thing we should be doing. I guess maybe a bit more resting would be the best option." I said and put my arms on his shoulders and he wrapped his arms around me to pull me close. I snuggled in his arms and walked over the bed with him. We both fell on the bed and laughed.

"Lucy, this is so much better than fighting, don't you think?" he asked me with a huge smile plastered on his face.

"Yes, yes it is, my Natsu." I said as I got up to go change into some pajamas.

I came out of the bathroom in pajama shorts and a strapless tank top I got recently got at the shop near my house. I reached the bed with Natsu in it and climbed on top of him. Natsu was under me with arms wrapped around my waist. Our legs were intertwined with one another's. I dipped my head into his neck and, without having a second thought about it, licked his neck. Natsu stiffened and held me tighter.

"Lucy, w-what did you just do? Did you just l-lick me?" he asked with a fresh blush on his cheeks. I looked up at him, blushing myself.

'Maybe he's not as dense as we all thought.' I thought. That thought had negatives and positives.

"Y-yeah sorry, I didn't put much thought into that. I shouldn't have done it. I'm sorry." I apologized sat up, still on him.

"Its fine, I actually kind of liked it. It um, tingled." He smiled and had blushed a deeper shade of red than before.

"Oh? Um, s-should I do it, again?" I asked embarrassed.

"Um yeah, I want that." He said. So I did it again; this time with more strokes and longer time.

"Lucy?" he asked me. I looked up at him, we were both what you could call, fifty shades of red.

"Y-yeah?" I asked sheepishly.

"W-what if I do that to you?" he asked me, putting his hand on my cheek.

"Yes, please." I begged him, turning my head so he had better access to me neck.

"Okay." He replied and started to lick my neck.

'Mmmm, he feels so, good! Mm, but it's not like he's kissing me.' I thought as Natsu started to suck on my flesh.

"Mmmmm." I moaned, surprised by my own response. Natsu released his mouth from my neck and started at me. "W-what?" I asked, surprised by his sudden release of my neck.

"It's just, is this what nakama do?" he asked me sat up, causing me to sit up along with him. I was still on top of him in his lap though.

"No." I whispered.

"Then what are we?" he asked, panic filled his voice. "If you're not my nakama, then I'd be lost!"

"This is was boyfriends and girlfriends do." I said, blushing, and blushing even more at what he said.

"What do those do?" he asked, reaching for the place where he had licked me. Seeing that there was a bruise there, he looked at me worriedly.

"Oh, don't worry, that's supposed to happen!" I reassured him. "And um, they kiss and do other things…" I trailed off, I was scared of Natsu's rejection, and I just know he wants to remain nakama.

"Well then shouldn't we kiss?" he asked me. His response made me gasp and look him straight in the eye; he wasn't lying.

"R-really?" I asked, stuttering.

"Well yeah, if you want to…" he turned his head away, preparing himself for a rejection.

"Ok, I'll do it. Ready?" I asked him. He nodded, so we started to prepare ourselves.

'Okay, it's your first kiss, your first time at this. This is what I've been dreaming about, fantasizing about for the past couple months. It's time, it's time.' I kept thinking as I closed my eyes and puckered my lips. Natsu had done the same thing. Before I knew it, we had started to lean into each other and hold each other closely.

~o~

Gray and I were leaning out ears on the door of Natsu and Lucy. We heard whispers but couldn't distinguish words.

"Mira, let's just go in and see how the flame heads doin." Gray grunted.

"Shhhh! They might hear us!" I whispered angrily while putting a finger to lips. "But maybe we should just go check." I smiled devilishly.

'I knew I heard moaning before! I know it! I want to catch them in the act, and then we can have them be publicized!' I thought, getting to far ahead of myself as I swung open the door of their room.

"AHHH!" Lucy and Natsu yelled as we broke an entering in their suite.

What I saw was devastating! Natsu and Lucy were THIS close to kissing! Just an inch apart, and I ruined it all.

"Mira!" Lucy yipped, blushing as she tried to get off of Natsu but unsuccessfully fell and banged her head on the end of the bed.

Gray was stunned to silence by what he saw and didn't do anything as Lucy lay there unconscious.

"Gray do something you ice bastard!" Natsu hissed as he grabbed Lucy began to caress her head in his hands.

"Sorry flame head! It didn't occur to me that you and Lucy would actually be doing something in here-whoa, what kind of torture chamber is this?" Gray asked as he took in a view of the amazing love chamber.

"It's called a honeymoon suite, Gray." I pouted to the ice mage.

"More like a torture suite." He muttered.

"Well maybe you should knock first!" Natsu hissed as he held Lucy even closer.

'I really do wish I had stayed back a couple more seconds. But seeing this affection is just as sweet!' I thought smiling. I grabbed Gray by the arm, for now he had not shirt on, as a gesture to leave. When I was signaling for us to leave Lucy had begun to regain consciousness. And when she realized what kind of situation she was in, she started to blush like tomorrow wasn't a possibility.

~o~

When I woke up from being unconscious, I didn't really get why Mira and Gray were in Natsu and I's room. Then suddenly, as if someone pushed the "PLAY" button my thoughts, I remembered. Natsu and I were so close to kissing! When I remembered this is little thing, I started to blush madly.

'Mira and Gray walked in us like that! W-why did they have to walk in at that time? Why couldn't they wait like two more seconds?' my mind wailed as I realized that they were slowly walking out of the room. Mira was smiling and guiding Gray out with an evil look in her eyes, and Gray was still shocked by what he had found us almost doing. Then Mira started to study me a bit more closely and before she shut the door she mouthed something.

"Is that a hickey on your neck?" she mouthed to me which made me instinctively shot a hand up to my neck to cover it. "Yes." I mouthed back. She just smiled and closed the door.

"Lucy, what were you and Mira talking about?" he asked, crossing his arms.

"Oh nothing, at least nothing you need to worry about." I told him smiling.

"Oh ok. Hey, I'm tired now, so can we just go to sleep?" he asked me, scratching his head. I nodded and got up off of the covers and walked over to my bag and brought it to a small but workable desk.

"What are you doing Luce?" Natsu asked me groggily. "It's better when you're in bed with me." He kept on complaining.

"I'm writing my novel Natsu, plus, I'm not sleepy. So I'll come to bed after I've written a few pages." I lied to him. I didn't like lying to him, but this is just something I have to do that's between me and my mom.

"Fine." He whined, flopping back down on the bed. "But you better come back to bed to me!"

"Okay Natsu, I will, just be patient. Writing takes a lot of time." I tried to keep my voice from cracking, whenever I do this I start to cry. I don't know why though.

I grabbed a pencil and squeezed it tight to relieve some my anxiety. With the other hand I had I fought back tears by pressing it firmly on them. With this, I built a new, but temporary, dam, one to keep these tears from flowing.

A/N

So, how was it my Fairies? I think this chapter should please all of you who have been craving an intimate scene! I know, I suck at them, but just imagine it in the way you want so it flows perfectly! I am so proud; this is the most I have EVER stayed with a story! Thank you all for supporting me and encouraging me! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, Hanukah, or any other holiday you are celebrating! I love you all (but not in a creepy way!)! If you want more scenes between Natsu and Lucy, make sure to tell me! (Although they will probably be in there anyway…) So, anyone wondering what Lucy's doing? I got this idea, I'm not sure if it was from the actual anime or someone's fanfiction, but anyways, credit to Hiro Mashima!

Oh, and I am kinda self-teaching myself how to write lemons if a time where I need to write one comes! So don't get you're up, but it may happen. =D

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