AN: Oh my dear baby Happy...thank you all so much for your support and reviews. Every time I get an email saying someone new added me personally as a favorite author or this story as a favorite I freak out. And you guys do not want to see me when I freak out. Not pretty.

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Anyways, about the story, I was starting to get really nervous and losing hope in how I could still tie Fairy Tail and Hapi Mari together, so I decided to do a little research. Now I can't tell you my plan exactly, but I can say that the dragons will be playing a major role in the outcome of this story. And with dragons, come the dragon slayers. Yes, Gajeel, Rouge, Sting and Wendy will be in this as well. I would never leave Sting's sexiness out of a story!

Oh and for my last chapter, that part when Ichiya is firing Lucy, that was a flashback she was having. That's why I italicized it, I didn't feel like writing it out.

Now my pretties, that is all I can say, oh and don't worry, Gray and Erza are coming up soon. Now, without further ado, let the story begin!

Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah...we all know I don't own Fairy Tail or Hapi Mari...I wish I was Japanese and awesome like their authors...

The Perfect Plan

Chapter 2: Two Sides to Every Story

Mirajane Strauss stood in front of the president's desk, watching him as he read over the paperwork in front of him carefully. "So, she is Layla Heartfilia's daughter?" he asked in a bored tone. Mira nodded making the young man groan, obviously not liking the fact that he had to read a long paper for such an easy answer. "Alright, go fetch her."

"Yes Mr. Dragneel, but may I ask why you need Lucy? She's just a plain office lady." The man stood with a smile, his hands placed firmly on his desk, eyes cast down on the picture. He had stared at that picture for hours the night before.

He rose his head before answering the secretary, a playful spark in his dark eyes. "Not for long."

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"How dare he speak to me like that, I'm his daughter for Christ sake! I have rights too!" Lucy shouted form her cubical as she typed furiously on her computer. Several Fairy Tail employees watched as the blonde cursed, shook and even spat at the machine in front of her. Some shook their heads at the young girl, some told her to calm down, Lisanna on the other hand lounged back in her chair and watched with a smile.

"Lu-chan is scary this morning." Levy said from beside her two childhood friends, Jet Sarusuke and Droy. The two handsome men nodded, Jet ran finger though her spiky orange hair while Droy stared down at Levy's barely noticeable cleavage. Levy was the only one who didn't know about the life time crushed her two friends had on her. She's still oblivious to the matter.

"More like entertaining. I haven't seem this much emotion from her since the time I posted a nude pic of her on the company's website." Lisanna said wiping away a non existent tear from the corner of her eye as she reminisced about the blonde's face.

Lucy stopped suddenly, looking around her seeing the colorful collection of her fellow employees staring at her. It wasn't really a secret that Lucy hated her father since she cursed him everyday. But only Lisanna knew about his debt that Lucy was trying to pay off and that's exactly how the blonde wanted to keep it.

"What are you all doing? What if Mr. Dragneel was to walk down here and see you all gawking at poor Lucy? He wouldn't be very pleased about you people not working." Lucy bent her head back to stare straight at the only other person to match Jenny Realight's beauty; Mirajane Strauss.

The pale skinned beauty had long, wavy silver hair and large royal blue colored eyes. Her appearance matched her sister, Lisanna's almost to a point except the younger sister's shoulder length layered locks.

"Mira-chan, what are you doing down here?" Levy asked as she toke her seat beside Lisanna in the cubical they shared with Lucy. "She probably misses me, don'tcha Mira-nee?" her sister beamed, her large eyes sparkling with admiration.

Mira giggled and smiled an angelic smile, "Actually Lisanna, I'm here on business." Lucy felt her heart leap when the older woman turned to face her, her smile faltering slightly. "Mr. Dragneel wants you Lucy, did you do something wrong?" Lucy swore she heard everyone in the room gasp.

Lisanna gasped and looked to her sister for an explanation. The young silverette's infatuation with president of their section of Fairy Tail Enterprises was comical to Lucy. She swore that they were friend when they were younger, but due to an accident she refuses to talk about, he dropped all contact with her and his other friends.

Levy frowned, "I'll be praying for you, Lu-chan." The blonde raised an eyebrow before turning to Mira. "He doesn't like to be kept waiting, Lucy." she woman said in her sweet yet threatening voice, making the blonde stand instantly.

She glanced back at her friends who were whispering amongst themselves but staring at Lucy with sad eyes. As her and Mira began walking across the office, she could hear the voices of her fellow employee's getting louder and louder.

Lucy ignored their requests for her cubical or their attempts to make her feel better. In her two years of working here, she had never once had to see anyone higher than Mirajane's status. What if they found out about her hostessing job? Would Ichiya call for revenge? Did the customer find out where she worked and rat her out? Did her father call?

Mira led her to a large oak double door, stopping for a moment before knocking. "Mr. Dragneel, I have Miss Heartfilia in my company." Lucy's eyes drifted away from the silver haired beauty to stare in awe at the beautiful carvings on the door. There were flowers and small towns carved carefully into the wood.

Once the door opened, Mira guided Lucy into the room before she got to see the most spectacular detail of the door; a hand carved dragon with flames escaping its mouth and surrounding it's wings.

Lucy looked around the plain white room. It was huge, at least as big as her whole office's floor. It had a black couch and loveseat outlining a glass table with a simply arrangement of flowers in the middle. Dragon snappers.

'Thank you Mira, you can get back to work now. I can handle everything from here." Lucy took her yes off the crimson flowers to look at a silhouette whom was being shadowed by the large window he stood at. Mira nodded and stepped out of the room. Lucy and the figured stayed motionless until the door closed behind the secretary.

"I'd like to thank you for the Jack Daniels last night," Lucy caught her breath, feeling her heart jump into her throat, "It sucks that none ended up in my mouth." The figure stepped forward and Lucy would recognize him from anywhere with his distinctive features.

Tall, sturdy form, muscles that could be seen through a fine tailored suit, large hands and pink hair. This time, his hair was gelled back minus a few strands that escaped the slick hair do."Wha-?" Lucy said in a breathless voice, her mouth settling in a O shape. "Speechless? That's a first." Mr. Dragneel chuckled to himself as he walked to the front of his desk, leaning against the glass cover.

"I am Natsu Dragneel, president of Fairy Tail Enterprises."

Lucy resisted the urge to run, shout and curse the man in front of her. She slowly thought this out in her head. The man she threw spicy, luke warm whiskey on was her boss. He was the president of Fairy Tail Enterprises. Her dream job. She threw whiskey on her dream boss.

Natsu watched her a moment, not knowing if it was safe for him to continue. He watched her large chest rise and fall quicker than a normal human's breath, her face was red and her hands her were white and shaking. "Are you-"

"I am so sorry! Please let me keep my job here! I had no idea it was you! Pleasepleaseplease!" Lucy dropped to her knees, her hands clasped together and eyes shut tight. She continued her apologizes as the pink haired man fought back chuckled that rumbles in his chest.

"You're a weird one, huh?" Large brown eyes snapped open, looking up into a pair of dark onyx eyes. They weren't just onyx, they had bits of dark green in them too. "Do you need help standing up Lucy?" he asked, kneeling down to be level with her. He held out his hand, wearing a cheeky grin, "I'm not gonna hurt you. Can you stand?"

Lucy was stunned by his sudden change of character. She reached her hand out to his, brushing his fingers slightly, before feeling something run straight into her chest. Something strangely human. She let out a shriek, throwing her hands back, eyes cast down at the man holding himself in her chest.

"Oh my gosh, she looks just like Layla did at that age!" Natsu stood and grabbed the small man by his collar, lifting him easily away from the stunned girl. The man was very short and very old. His hair was balding in exception of two bushy lines by his ears. His large eyes were the color of ash, staring down at Lucy.

"Old man, I told you to wait until I said you could come in." Natsu said in a hopeless kind of voice, holding the man at his level of height. "I know son, but I couldn't help it! She even sounds like Layla." Lucy stayed as still as possible, gawking at the man.

Natsu held out the small man to Lucy, "This is Makarov Dreyar, one of the founders of Fairy Tail Enterprises. He has retired to a board member now, but he still makes most of the executive decisions."

"Oh can I please just touch her one more time?" Makarov said with his hands stretched out towards Lucy. "Ah!" Lucy screamed, covering herself with her arms, eyes darting from the old man to Natsu. The president cleared his throat, pulling the old man back to look straight at him.

"So you approve?" Natsu, raising an eyebrow at the man. "Oh yes, yes a hundred percent, yes!" Makarov answered, "I'll inform Erza to start making invitations." Natsu countered that with a shake of the head, "That won't be necessary, I'll just have her sign that paper and then we can be done with this fiasco."

Lucy felt so out of the conversation it was as if she was in a different country. Invitations? Paperwork? Fiasco, what fiasco? "W-what the hell is going on?!" Lucy shouted at the two who automatically turned to face, eyes wide.

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"You what?" Lucy gaped, she was currently sitting next to Natsu and across from Makarov, watching the perverted old man. He had gone farther than any of her boyfriends in three seconds so of course she would be cautious.

"I'd like to help you pay off your father's debt, as a favor to your mother." The blonde blinked, he knew mama?, she thought. Natsu stayed strangely silent, eyes closed and face calm. He was probably asleep. "How do you know my mother?" she asked, leaning towards the man who piked her interest.

"I use to be a butler in her household. I worked a long side Igneel Dragneel, Natsu's father, in the gardens and she always brought us lemonade and told us stories. She's the one who suggested to us that Fairy Tail Enterprises could really hit it off, so she lent us some money and well, now I'm sitting on a mountain of money."

Lucy always knew her mother came from a wealthy family, but they abandoned her when she left her arranged marriage to marry her one true love, Jude Heartfilia. Her mother's side of the family never acknowledged Lucy as a member, so she never spoke of them.

"I looked up to your mother even though she was so much younger than I. I treated her like she was a daughter, taking her to school and making sure she was fed right. I knew she wanted to marry your father and I told her to follow her heart. You may not have known this Lucy, but Igneel and I were there when you were born. So was Natsu here, although he was only 3 so he probably doesn't remember."

Lucy glanced over at Natsu, his face still calm but Lucy swore she saw a twitch of his lips."I swear you were to cutest baby I had ever seen. That was the only time I had ever seen your father smile, even as a teenager he was a emotionless brute. Oh, but when Natsu saw you, he blushed like a tomato, it was so cute~!" Lucy giggled, looking over at the still man beside her.

"Enough reminiscing, just get to the point, old man." Natsu growled, opening his eyes to glare at Makarov. "Oh," the old man cleared his throat, "right. Anyways, when I found out that your mother died, I couldn't bare to see you because of your striking resemblance. Please forgive me for that Lucy, it was truly selfish of me."

Lucy suddenly let her guard down and smiled a genuine smile, making Makarov and Natsu both stare at her. "It's alright Mr. Dreyar, I'm just pleased to hear such lovely things about my mother, we don't talk about her in my house anymore." Lucy felt a lump in her throat swell as she thought her of her father drinking away the pain of her loss.

Makarov stayed silent for a minute, his eyes focused on Lucy. "Miss Lucy, please allow me to pay off your father's debt. If not for him, please for your mother, I feel like you working at that despicable place was all my doing." Lucy turned to Natsu and glared at him. "You told him?" she hissed, earning herself a glare back. "Will you shut your mouth and listen to the old man."

"Hmph" Lucy crossed her arms and turned away from the pink haired man. "There is one condition though, and I'm afraid I cannot give you the money unless this is made before hand." Lucy re-opened her eyes, seeing his gaze travel from Natsu and then to hers.

"You must marry my god-son, Natsu." Lucy realized she had been in shock multiple times today, but this was greater than them all. This time she felt her body begin to shake, felt her heart rate pick up three paces and her throat went dry. "Come again?"

"For this to work, Natsu needs to be married to you or else me sending money to a random woman would look bad for an eligible bachelor like myself, unless you would like to marry me over this pain in the ass, which is understandable." Natsu stood at the that statement. "That's enough, old man." He picked the man up by the color again and began walking to the door.

"W-wait, I still don't-" Natsu turned to look over his shoulder, the same look he had the night before, but this time he wasn't soaking in whiskey. "I'll explain in a second. As for you old man, Mira can show you back to your office."

The loud slamming of his door made Lucy jump off of the couch and place a hand on her heart to calm it down. "I need a drink." Natsu said, pinching the bridge of his nose in frustration. The blonde stayed silent, watching him move from the mini bar in his office back to his desk. Lucy bit her lip, feeling her face heat in embarrassment before she spoke.

"I have to marry you?" Natsu looked up from his drink. "It's hard to explain." he groaned, taking a sip of his drink. "This would not be a marriage for love, this is about business." Lucy rose an eyebrow again, putting her hands on her hips. "Go on."

"I am the only child of Igneel Dragneel, with that birth right, I was given Fairy Tail as a birthday present four years ago from Makarov. My father started this business with him with intentions of me becoming president someday. But, for reasons I will not get into just yet, someone would rather see my cousin Sting Eucliffe leave his company and take over this one instead of letting me run it." Lucy rose a thin eyebrow, clearly not understanding her need in this.

Natsu let out a sigh. "Listen blondie, I will explain my twisted family later, I just need you to trust me and agree to this. If Sting gets a hold of Fairy Tail, everything I love, everything my father worked for, will be gone. Please just say yes." Lucy had to admit, she liked this groveling Natsu a lot better than the fiery one she saw only moments ago.

"I see, please, just give me a minute." Lucy said taking a seat again, staring at the dragon snappers. If she agreed to this, her father could live my himself and be out of her hair. She could get her own car, her own house and live her own life. But, she would be married. Its not that Natsu was ugly, he was the best looking guy Lucy had seen in a long time, but it wasn't a marriage for love.

"Marriage is suppose to be for love." Lucy said to herself, Natsu was somehow able to hear it and let out a loud laugh making Lucy face red with embarrassment. "Then that's simple," he said bringing his glass to his lips, "fall in love with me."

Lucy rolled her eyes. Could he really pay off the debt? Could she really be free from her father's cruel mouth and harsh exterior? "Alright." Natsu set down his drink and smirked, showing off oddly sharp canines. "Alright, what?" he edged, leaning towards her.

Lucy sighed, crossing her arms across her chest and looking straight at him. "Alright, I'll marry you." Natsu let out a loud victory laugh, making Lucy somehow regret her final decision.

AN: Well, I do not like this chapter at all! But I swear I had to put it out there to get to where I actually want to be. There will be some NaLu interaction next chapter when the two are forced to live together! Don't worry, Happy is lurking around here somewhere.

For Natsu being so straight-to-the-point this chapter will be explained. He is a man with a lot on hi shoulders and a lot of pride so that's why he was such a ass earlier. He will be a dynamic character, don't worry

Did ya'll like my mention of Sting in this chapter? God I can't wait to write him, hes gonna be so sexy!

Again, thank you so much for your reviews and support, its amazing how you guys got me from working out for swimming to sitting down under a hot laptop and typing for hours. After 17 reviews, there no way my mom can call me anti-social now :D