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Chapter 4

"Natsu… Lucy!" someone said nearby but it was way too damn early and I was not ready to respond yet.

"Guys, wake up!" a different voice said and I heard Natsu behind me groan and then tighten his arm around my waist beneath the cover of the blanket.

"Come on, you're gonna be late and Erza will kill you if you don't show up on time."

The mention of Erza seemed to jolt something inside of Natsu and he bolted upright, his eyes alert with fear.

"Yea, I figured that would get you up. Either that or Lucy beating the crap out of you when she realizes you snuck into her bed again," I heard Gray say and I turned my face into the pillow to hide the smile that I couldn't contain. Natsu had been right; they just thought he had done what he commonly did back home.

I was still lying in bed as I looked around the room and besides Gray who was already walking towards the door, no one was there… except Natsu of course who was still sitting in my bed next to me rubbing his eyes and stretching his arms. When the door closed behind the Ice Prince I reached my hands out and pulled Natsu back down on to the bed and crawled on top of him. His hair was a dishevel mess and he had the cutest grin on his face as he looked up at me.

"Good morning," I said and leaned down to press my lips against his.

I heard him groan and then his arms wrapped around my back, pulling me down till my belly touched his. My body reacted instantly, my blood heating and electricity shooting through my limbs. His tongue swooped inside my mouth and I groaned at the pleasurable feeling it created low in my stomach.

"Good morning," he answered when I finally lifted my head.

"We better get going," I said and leaned down to kiss him quickly once more and then rolled off of him and the bed.

I watched him stand up and shrug out of his shirt. It was strange, I saw him every day with just a vest on that didn't cover much of anything but for some reason, seeing him completely without a shirt was a major turn on. His shoulders seemed broader some how and his body tapered into deliciously narrow hips, making me recall thoughts of last night out in the woods and the amazing feelings he'd introduced me to.

"What?" Natsu said, making my head snap up in embarrassment.

I can feel the blush spreading rapidly over my face and I laugh nervously as I reach down into my bag and grab a shirt.

"What were you looking at?" Natsu prodded, coming to stand directly in front of me, his shirt dangling from his fingers.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I wasn't looking at anything."

"Yes you were. And you had this weird look on your face."

'Ah crap!' I scream in my head and start biting my lower lip.

"I was just… daydreaming. You know, not really paying attention to where I was looking," I answer and try to ignore how close his half naked body was to me. If I wanted to I could just reach my hand out and run my fingers over those beautifully chiseled abs and then reach down further to…

"There, you just did it again," Natsu exclaimed and this time I knew my face was flaming red.

"Just go get dressed," I say, trying to change the subject.

I heard him sigh while he turned around and started walking to where his bag was lying on the floor. I lifted my shirt over my head and quickly reached for the other but before I could pick it up Natsu's eyes were on me and my entire body became lustfully alert from the look he was directing towards me. Before I could even take a breath he was on me, his hands grasping my hips and pulling me against him while his mouth covered mine. Our hands were frantic, reaching for any part of each other that we could find. The need I'd felt last night came crashing back in a tumultuous wave and when his hand reached up and cupped my breast I threw back my head and cried out at the feeling.

"Natsu, we… we're gonna… be late," I tried to say between gasps as his fingers teased the sensitive nub into a hardened point. My head rolled back, my senses overwhelmed with his touch and then his lips were on my neck, caressing the soft flesh beneath my ear and I could barely manage to hold myself up any more.

His mouth moved up over my jaw and then across my cheek to press against my lips. A moan traveled up my throat and that's when I heard it, the sound of a door creaking open and a sudden gasp before the door slammed shut.

"Shit!" Natsu swore and quickly took a step away. I grabbed my shirt, threw it over my head and bolted for the door. Sitting against the wall on the opposite side of the hallway was Levy, her eyes smiling mischievously.

"I'm sorry," she said and then her eyes scrunched up as she burst out laughing.

I felt rather than heard Natsu move up beside me and then Levy's eyes were bouncing from him to me, over and over again before she jumped up and threw her arms around both of us.

"I'm so happy for you guys!" she squealed and my eyes met Natsu's over Levy's shoulder as she continued to squeeze us enthusiastically. A blush crept over my face for the 100th time this morning and I bit my lip nervously.

When she finally released us I fumbled to try and find something to say but Natsu stepped in before I was able to speak. "Can you not tell anyone Levy? We don't really want anyone to know yet," he said and I was astonished when he put his arm around my back in a comforting gesture.

"Yes, of course! I'm just so excited for you!" Her eyes kept moving back and forth between us and then she said, "I actually was coming here to tell you to hurry up. The tournament is about to begin and everyone was looking for you guys."

"Oh crap!"

Natsu and I run inside, closing the door behind us to quickly change then met back up with Levy in the hallway. The three of us take off and head to the arena.

Later that night when we were all back in the bar after the days events, I sat down beside Levy and she still had the same grin on her face that had been there nearly all day since she'd discovered Natsu and I together this morning. I was a little uneasy as I sat there, unsure of what to say until Levy leaned across the table and whispered quietly in my ear, "So how long have you guys been… together?"

My eyes skimmed nervously across the room, afraid people might be able to hear us but it was so noisy in the room that I doubted that even if we were talking normally anyone would be able to hear. "Um well, we aren't exactly together but things kinda started the night the guys pretended to be drunk at the resort."

Levy squealed with excitement and asked further, "Who kissed who first?"

Her questions became bolder and bolder throughout the evening but eventually I got used to talking about it and by the end I was just as giddy as her over the whole conversation. I was surprised by how good it felt to talk to someone else about what was going on. Throughout the whole conversation though I couldn't help but keep looking across the room at Natsu and several times our eyes met and I had to resist the urge to stand up and pull him out of the bar. I didn't know where these surges of lust were coming from. I'd never felt anything even remotely close to what my body was feeling like nearly every moment of every day since we'd kissed.

"Hey, I know!" Levy said excitedly as she leaned closer to me. "I can be that friend, like in those paperback novels who devises secret ways that the couple can get together."

"Wait, what?" I questioned her, not quite sure I knew what she was talking about.

"You know, in those romance novels where a guy and girl are secretly dating and the best friend is the only one who knows so she comes up with excuses for the pair to do something together or whatever."

"Oh uh, yea I guess I know what you mean. But really, you don't have to do that."

"It'll be fun! And I think I have an idea right now." I watched her mentally calculate something in her head and then she said quietly, "Give me five minutes," and raced off, running out of the room and down the street till she was out of sight.

I sat there, not quite sure what had just happened and gasped when a voice said near my ear, "Lucy, why didn't you kick Natsu out of your bed like you always do?"

I turned and saw Happy looking up at me from where he stood on the table.

"Err, I was really tired. I didn't even notice him get in," I quickly lied.

"You and Natsu were gone really late. Where did you go?"

"Well I uh, had something I needed to do. I don't know where he was," I lied once again. I didn't like doing it but I didn't have much choice.

"I think you guys were alone… together," Happy said with his eyes aglow and his voice making that strange sound he occasionally made.

I breathed a sigh of relief when Levy walked back inside and interrupted Happy's stream of questioning.

"Lucy, I need you for something," Levy said and I waved a quick good bye to Happy before Levy started tugging my arm till we were across the room in front of where Natsu was standing.

"Hey Natsu, can you help us out with something?" she asked and Natsu looked at me questioningly before nodding his head and following us outside.

Once we were walking down the street and had put several hundred feet between us and the bar, Levy started explaining along the way, "The first day we got to the city, when we had all that free time, I found this wonderful library and the old man who worked there said I could come whenever I wanted… even if it was after hours seeing as how most of the time I wouldn't be getting back from the tournament till late. He showed me a side entrance that he keeps unlocked. He even gave me access to the restricted section, can you believe it?" Her eyes were excited as she kept talking. "Well anyway, I just checked and no one is in there right now so you'll have the whole place to yourselves."

The look on Natsu's face almost made me laugh. He seemed to be both frightened and curious at the same time. To be honest though, my face was probably not a whole lot different. It was a bit embarrassing being led to a library that we were supposed to be using as a den of sexual activity. And, the fact that a third party was the one leading us and that person would know what we were doing made it even worse.

"Alright, come on guys. Back here," Levy said, motioning for us to follow her around the side of the brick building. There was about four feet of space between the library and the building next door and with the sun being down it was quite hard to see where we were going. Several times I bumped into the back of Levy's tiny frame to be soon followed by Natsu bumping into me. "Here it is."

I heard the sound of a door clicking open and then we all walked into the large dark room. Levy lit a small lantern that was sitting on a nearby wooden table and the light cast long shadows everywhere, illuminating the walls which were filled with shelves of dusty old books.

"Ok, I'm off. Have fun guys!" Levy said with a wink and before I could say a word to stop her she was slipping out the door and hurrying back to the Inn, the door slamming closed behind her.

I turned back around and glanced nervously at Natsu who was standing in the center of the room, his hands lifted and resting on the back of his head.

"Sorry," was all I could manage to say as I looked at him. How embarrassing was this situation?

"So umm, she brought us here…," Natsu began to say but I interrupted him with a whimper as I covered my flaming face with my hands.

"She wanted to help us. She thinks it's sorta her job now to find opportunities for us to… you know."

I was surprised when I heard Natsu chuckle and I dropped my hands from my face to see what he was doing. His gorgeous figure had moved to lean on the table in the center of the room, his backside pressed against the wooden edge while his arms crossed casually over his chest. The pose was oddly sexy, the muscles on his arms flexed to advantage but the look on his face still showed a bit of unease at the situation despite the large smile pasted there.

"She was just being a bit overly umm… romantic. We can go back," I say as I'm turning to head towards the door, my body semi-deflated because I really didn't want to go back. As awkward as the situation was, I wanted to be here alone, with Natsu.

"Wait. Let's stay," Natsu quickly said and then continued. "I mean, we can stay for a little while… right?"

I smiled slightly and nodded my head. For a few minutes we both just stood there, neither one of us sure what we should do when I caught a glimpse of an odd looking book in the background behind Natsu. I walked past him and slid the book off of the shelf.

"Hey look, it's about dragons," I said, holding the large volume out towards Natsu. "The History of Dragons."

Natsu walked next to me and looked down at the pages as I opened the book and started skimming through.

"Is Igneel in there?" he asked.

"I don't know. Let's see if there's an index."

I flip to the back of the book and unfortunately there was nothing. Turning back to the front I start flipping through the pages.

"Oh wow! Look at that one," I point out when I turn to a page with a large picture of a forest green colored dragon with light green scales on its belly. "Says here his name was Firnen (see AN). He was a woodland dragon who was able to manipulate his surrounding landscape."

I glanced over and looked at Natsu who was staring intently at the opened page. His nearness was slightly distracting. I could practically feel the heat radiating off of his body he was so close.

I tried to ignore my awareness of him as I said, "But here it says the year he was around and that was over 700 years ago. How long do dragons live?"

"I don't know," Natsu answered and I flipped through another handful of pages, aware of his body shifting subtly closer to mine. "Look at that one. It's incredible!" Natsu said in awe as he looked down at another large picture of a dragon. This dragon was golden of color, his entire body covered in scales that shone like shiny gold coins. The author took up two entire pages to draw him to convey the scale of size compared to the others.

"It says here that his name was Glaedr (see AN) and that he was the largest dragon in history, easily over double the size of the next largest dragon of his time. He lived over 1000 years ago."

We continued to look through the book, stopping whenever we came across a new picture. Towards the end I felt the subtle touch of fingers skimming over the exposed skin on my back and I sucked in a quick breath at the unexpected feeling. We glanced at the last couple of pages, slightly disappointed that it didn't mention any of the dragons we were familiar with and when I closed the book, Natsu moved his body behind mine and rested his hands on my waist. I took a deep breath and slid the book back into its slot. As my arm extended up his lips pressed against the skin between my neck and my shoulder, making my body shutter and I almost dropped the book to the floor.

"Natsu!" I gasped as I fumbled to put the leather bound book away. It slid into its slot and I gasped again when Natsu's hand slid up from my waist to my left breast while at the same time his tongue licked up the side of my neck to my ear lobe. I grabbed the edge of the shelf in front of me with both hands and felt my body instantly responding to his touch, my blood pumping rapidly through my veins and every nerve becoming highly sensitized.

Without thought I arched into his touch, my chest pressing against his hand while at the same time my backside curved into his hips. His fingers started to pluck my sensitive nipple through my shirt, drawing it out into a hard pebble and rolling it between his fingers. My breath became raspy, my knuckles turning white where they gripped the shelf. When I felt him grind against my rear I threw my head back and moaned loudly.

"Natsu!" I said, his name coming out garbled through the moan that was forcing its way out of my mouth. My mind was already reeling, the need inside me building at an alarming rate. Somehow the way his hips pressed so intimately against my backside soothed and yet also frustrated the hell out of me. I loved how his body felt against me, loved every solidly built inch of him.

Suddenly I couldn't think about anything else other than touching him and devouring him. I turned quickly and practically slammed my mouth against his, my tongue probing between his lips to taste him deeply. My hands pressed against his chest, pushing him till he had to step back a few times till the back of his legs pressed against a small bench in the center of the room where he sat down without releasing the connection between our mouths. I straddled his hips, kneeling on either side of his body and deepened the kiss even more, tilting his head back to give myself easier access to his hot mouth. My fingers stroked through his thick hair, tugging on it as we both gasped for breath between kisses.

I don't know what has gotten into me. All I know is that I want him… badly and that my body is moving without any thought. I can't seem to control the way my hips are rubbing over his, the way my back arched with the touch of his hands as they slid up my back and then beneath my shirt. I let my own hands glide down to his shoulders, measuring their broadness and then moving down to rub his chest. I squeezed the muscular flesh, loving how wonderfully built he was.

He groaned when my lips moved from his mouth to his neck. I wanted to suck on the skin there but I resisted the urge, not wanting to leave embarrassing marks, so I moved down to his collarbone where I lightly nibbled on the tender flesh.

"Lucy!" he cried out, the sound enflaming my senses. My hands were traveling down his chest to his abdomen, tracing over the hard ridges of muscle. I was beginning to love the fact that he wore vests all the time… much easier access.

I pushed his vest over his shoulders and slid the fabric down his arms, letting it fall off of him and leaving him nude from the waist up. My mouth was back on him instantly, tasting every bit of him I could reach. His hands started tugging on my shirt and I sat up to help him pull it over my head. It felt incredible to be flesh against flesh and I loved the feeling of his arms wrapped intimately around my body.

Our mouths met again, our hands exploring each others bodies but I was eager to taste more… explore more.

I slid to the floor, kneeling between his spread legs and let my tongue lick his tight stomach while my hands slid up and down his sides. Natsu's hands started sifting through my hair, pulling the mass back as I peaked up at him while I continued to lick the hard ridges of muscle. When I reached the waist band of his pants I hesitantly lifted my hands and started undoing the buckle of his belt.

His eyes were staring down at me and he looked slightly incredulous. "Is this… ok?" I asked, unsure if I was pushing things too far.

He gulped, his beautiful dark eyes not leaving my face. "I-If you want to."

I nodded my head in answer and finished undoing his belt. Then I slid my hands up his inner thigh over his pants and I watched his eyes practically roll into the back of his head when my fingers stroked over the bulge between his legs. He was already hard, his pants straining to keep himself contained. My hands started to shake as I worked on undoing the fastenings of his pants and before I could start to pull them down, Natsu lightly grasped my wrists and pulled my hands up to his lips.

I stared at him while he kissed each tip of my fingers, his lips warm and soft. My nerves started to melt away. This was Natsu… this was the man who I could trust with my life.

When he released my hands I slipped one around his neck and pulled him down for a passionate kiss. My chest was pounding, my stomach clenching deliciously into a thousand tiny knots as his tongue slid expertly over mine. Any nervousness vanished and was replaced with longing. I let my hands slide back down his torso, enjoying the ridges of muscle as they moved down till they were once again resting just above his waist.

I delved beneath the fabric, the tips of my fingers gliding over his smooth skin till they encountered a small tuft of hair. I continued down, sifting through the coarse hair till I brushed against the base of his hard shaft. I grasped his erection, squeezing lightly and shifting my body back so that I could look at his face. This part of him was still so foreign but I loved his reactions whenever I touched him there.

I moved farther back so that I was kneeling between his legs again and I had an intimate view of my hand as it pumped up and down his length. My tongue poked out and licked my lips, an idea popping into my head and with only a moment's hesitation I lowered my head and wrapped my lips around the crown of his arousal.

"Lucy!" Natsu screamed and from the corner of my eye I could see his head roll back while the rest of his body shuttered.

"Do you like this?" I asked, my tongue still circling the tip of his incredibly hard member.

"Yes… God yes," he moaned and his fingers started threading through my hair, massaging my scalp.

I took him deeper in my mouth, his length sliding in inch by inch as my hands brace my weight on his thighs. My tongue swirls around the tip when my lips slide back up his length and then I'm pressing down again, hollowing out my cheeks and sucking harder.

I hear him groan loudly and I peak up at him. His face is flushed and his breathing is ragged and hoarse. His eyes stare blisteringly hot at me and it turns me on even more. I love doing this to him. Making him lose control because of what I'm doing is such a huge turn-on.

My mouth starts to move faster, sucking up and down in deep sweeps while at the same time my tongue is swirling around the head. I want to taste more, want to feel him filling my mouth with his impressive length so I press down. He slides between my lips, my mouth sucking him deeper and deeper till I can feel my gag reflex kicking into action and I lift my head up, taking a deep breath and turning my face up to look at him.

"Do that again," he pleads and the strangled way he made the request started my blood boiling.

My lips circled his cock once again and I sucked him down, the need and desire to please him overcoming any gag reflex and suddenly I can feel him probing the back of my throat.

"Fuck… Lucy!" he hollered and his fingers tightened their grip on my hair. "You gotta stop."

I peak up at him, my lips hovering just centimeters above his erection. "Why? Am I doing something wrong?"

He shakes his head and answers, "You're making me come."

His words have the reverse effect on me and I lean forward to lick him back into my mouth and I quicken my pace. I can feel the muscles in his legs tensing and flexing beneath my hands as his hips start to thrust up. I continue to suck, pushing as much of him inside my mouth as I can and then suddenly I can taste salty liquid trickling down my throat as Natsu's grip on my hair tightens and he throws his head back to scream his release. I feel triumphant as I watch him unravel in front of me and I only briefly cringe while I swallow the strange liquid.

Sitting back on my heels I watch Natsu, slightly awed by what has just occurred. Never in a million years had I ever thought it would be so arousing to bring someone else so much pleasure but right at this moment, I was beyond turned-on. A gentle throb had started between my legs and I wanted desperately for him to touch me again like he had last night.

His eyes are coming back into focus as he looks down at me and when his hands reach out I immediately jump back on his lap and wrap my arms around his shoulders. Our lips meet and it's only a matter of time before our hands start to roam over each others bodies. When his fingers start to undo the fastenings on my skirt I don't stop him and a moment later I'm left in only my baby blue lace underwear. I feel slightly vulnerable but his touch is gentle, his hands cupping my backside and squeezing lightly.

His fingers are so close, mere inches from the area I'm practically dying for him to touch again. He keeps one hand grasping my rear and the other moves to the front of my body, skimming over lace till the tips of his fingers are teasingly tracing circles just above my slit. With every circle he gets closer, barely brushing against the sensitive nub. My body is writhing in his lap, anticipation driving me insane.

"Please… touch me," I beg and I can feel his mouth turn up into a grin where it was resting against my neck.

Instead of doing as I request he removes his hands and hooks his fingers in the fabric over my hips, tugging at it.

"Can I take them off?" he asks, his voice a whispered caress against my ear.

I swallow the large lump in my throat and nervously nod my head before I slide off of his lap and take a step back to stand in front of him. It's a struggle to keep my hands from covering my body but his openly appreciative gaze makes it slightly easier to resist the urge. I watch him lean forward and he hooks his fingers once again in my panties and slowly pulls them down. When they hit the floor I press my legs together and bite on my bottom lip nervously.

"You're beautiful," Natsu says, bringing a blush to my cheeks. He stands up in front of me and cups my face with his hands then leans down to kiss me gently. My body responds as it always does, searing heat flowing through my veins and my belly twisting pleasantly. His unfastened pants fall to the floor with my underwear and I can feel his member stirring to life between our bodies and this further enflames my senses.

I'm vaguely aware of him steering me backwards and suddenly I feel the back of my legs bump into the side of a large wooden oval table. His hands reach down and grab my backside, lifting me up and releasing me so that I'm sitting on the table. Our private areas are pressing indecently together, my body excruciatingly aware of how close he was to slipping inside of me. Thankfully though, a second later he moves a few inches away so that his hand could slide down the front of my body. His fingertips are nearing my cleft again and then the pad of his middle finger starts rubbing over my clit. I cry out, my hands grabbing the muscles on his shoulders as I arch back.

He teases me, circling the area and then leaving to caress my swollen feminine lips before returning. My legs are unabashedly spread open, all thought to modesty completely forgotten. All my senses are focused on his fingers and when one slowly starts to slide inside my opening I gasp and then throw back my head in ecstasy. He starts to move his finger in and out of my body, sliding with ease from the natural lubrication that my body has created. My own breathing is so loud that I almost can't hear his harsh breaths near my ear but when he slides two fingers inside of me and I scream his name he groans loudly and repeats the motion.

I'm panting now, my chest rising and falling rapidly and my body has become a raging inferno. His fingers slide back to my clit, rubbing the area sensually and inducing short intakes of air to pass through my lips with every movement of his fingers.

"Lucy, I want to taste you," Natsu says beside my ear and I'm confused by his words.

"You what?" I ask, my eyes hooded from the pleasure his fingers were creating.

"… Down there," he further explained and reinforced his statement by lightly pinching my highly sensitive clit.

I suck in another large breath before I open my eyes and look at him. "You want to put your mouth… where your hands are?"

He nods his head and doesn't wait for me to answer before he leans forward and sucks my nipple into his mouth. His fingers are still rubbing between my legs and the combined actions make my body buck and squirm on the table. The sensations are making my body start to climb the cliff I remembered from yesterday but he removes his mouth and starts licking down the center of my body, nudging me backwards as he makes his way down my stomach.

I'm now lying on the table, Natsu standing between my legs which were dangling over the side of the table and his body was bent over mine. His lips trail down to the apex of my thighs and then his fingers spread my feminine lips.

I want to cover myself, press my legs together to hide from his gaze but his body is blocking me from doing so. This was so embarrassing. He was looking at me.

The thoughts don't last long though because a moment later his lips are wrapping around my clit and the most incredible sensation tears through my body. It barely even registers in my head that I'm babbling his name obsessively because I'm so lost to the feeling his mouth is creating. He starts to gently suck, making my hips move uncontrollably and when his tongue lightly licks over the area I fall apart, my body exploding and spasms rocking me from my toes to the tips of my fingers.

I lay there, completely lost to reality as I concentrate of regaining my breath. My body is still pulsing with unbelievable feelings that are making my limbs tremble and I can feel Natsu still standing between my legs.

When I finally open my eyes I look up at him and I can see the barely restrained need in his face. That's when I become aware of the very hard erection pressed against the inside of my thigh and the fact that with just a simple twist of his hips he could slip right inside of me. My body cries out for the joining, every nerve attuned to the area but some small sliver in my brain yells at me, jolting some sense into me.

"Natsu?" I say quietly, lifting my back off of the table so that I was sitting directly in front of him. "I want to as well but… we can't. We don't have any, um… protection."

He nods his head in understanding and lowers his forehead to mine as he takes a deep breath. I kiss him softly and then cup his face in my hands to look at him.

"Thank you."

His eyebrows quirk and he asks, "What for?"

"For umm, what you did… earlier," I answer, ashamed of the blush that is spreading over my face. What the heck was wrong with me? I just let him lick… down there, but saying the words for some reason is difficult. I'm an idiot.

His grin immediately makes me smile and he helps me down from the table when he steps back. We search out our clothing and get dressed together. When we're both fully dressed, Natsu walks up to me and pulls me into a bone crushing hug. I snuggle against him, enjoying being in his arms and later that night when we crawl into bed together at the Inn he pulls me back into his arms and I fall contentedly asleep against him.

To be continued…

AN: I took the names of those dragons from one of my favorite series of books. I wonder if anyone knows which series I'm talking about.

Sorry it took so long for me to publish this. By the time I was home this past week I was just way too exhausted to do anything besides crawl into my bed. I hope the extra long chapter appeases you.

I hope to hear from you! I just love getting your comments!