Here's another Chapter. I did ultimately decide to make it a love triangle I suppose. With that said, feel free to read on.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima does.

It was a lovely morning. The sky was a crystal blue as the sun barely hung in the sky. Fresh white snow sparkled as if sprinkled with tons of diamond dust in the sun. Light had streamed in from the window in beams. One of them shined directly in the face of a certain stellar mage. She stirred slightly, snuggling into her bed hiding deeper in the covers wanting to catch back up to her dream slowly drifting away. She ran her hands over her muscular pillow.

Wait. Muscular?!

Lucy's eyes shot open only to be met with the sight of her fellow team mate sleeping. His body warming the whole bed as he lay motionless beside her. Lucy was confused. She knew she went to sleep last night….without him there. Right? A recall of her night before only confirmed her notation. So she wondered, Why was he here? When did he show up? And why was he sleeping on her bed? With all these thoughts plaguing her mind she couldn't help but notice her partners innocent sleeping face.

With a face like this, there was no way he meant anything bad. Though it would help if he'd tell me of his improv sleepovers.

Lucy carefully retracted her hand from his person and tried to exit the bed without disturbing him. After she successfully escaped the bed she trekked towards the bathroom to brush her teeth and clean up. Once tidied up she changed into her outfit for the day. Some white skinny jeans with her brown belt holding her keys pouch across her hips and a pink V-necked sweater. Dressed and ready for the day, Lucy walked in her kitchen and opened the fridge to take out the eggs and bacon for breakfast. She started cooking easily making scrambled eggs sprinkled with peppers and perfectly crisp bacon.

While the bacon sizzled, Lucy couldn't help but let her mind wandered to her pink haired friend. More and more often than not Natsu has been spending the night at her place. However, this was the first time she has found him in her bed with her when she awoke. Why did he start sleeping in her bed when for a good while he was perfectly fine with snoring away on the couch? Should she be concerned? Did something happen? She honestly couldn't tell sometimes. Though through the years that they have been going on missions together she's picked up on a few things. Natsu is a very caring and sensitive guy towards his nakama. Acting all goofy and happy go lucky all the time is what some would say is the very definition of the fire dragon slayer. Those who really know him, who spend almost every day with the guy, know he's more than that. He's more than he appears to be. He isn't all fire brained and impulsive. Deep down he's aware, he's intelligent. Maybe not in the way Lucy is intelligent, but he's people intelligent. He knows how to cheer people up and when to comfort them. He spreads himself out for others, not caring about the state it puts him in. Not letting people know the state it puts him in. It was the subtle changes that let Lucy know. This was one of them.

The aroma of the delicious breakfast food wafted its way through the apartment, awakening the dragon slayer with his heightened sense of smell. He groaned and groggily sat up, only barely recognizing where he was. Following his nose he swung his legs off the bed and walked towards the place the mouth watering scent was coming from. Of course he bumped into things tripping over a couple of times. That's what happens when you see with your nose and not your actual eyes.

Lucy noticed the other person enter the kitchen, and started making a plate for the unexpected guest. Natsu sat down at one the table and started to wake up a bit more. Lucy set down a plate filled with bacon and eggs in front of Natsu.

"Good morning, Natsu."

Natsu finally registered the familiar surroundings and the person with him.

"Morning." Natsu said with sleep still evident in his voice. Shortly, Lucy set down her own plate and asked,

"Would you like anything to drink?"

"Juice." He replied already starting to stuff his face. Lucy didn't mind his curt answers, knowing he wasn't really focused until he had food in his stomach and went to the cabinet and brought out two glasses placing them on the table. She then strode to the fridge in search for the juice. Only problem? There was no juice in the fridge.

I could have swore I had some left.

Sighing she grabbed the milk instead and closed the fridge, not before noticing the empty juice bottle in the trash can.

Of course he would have gulped it all down already

She walked back to the table milk in hand and poured two glasses.

"I see you drank all my juice, so you can't complain about me being out, Natsu."

Lucy lightly reprimanded.

"What can I say, I was thirsty last night Lushi." Natsu said with grin while simultaneously shoving food in his mouth, much to Lucy's dismay.

Lucy however only shook her head and smiled at his nonsense. He seems normal enough. Maybe nothing was worrying him

I guess nothing is bothering him. Maybe I'm just overanalyzing.

Honestly, she would have her hands full as long as she was around the guy. Deciphering his words, making sure he doesn't get into too much trouble. Whether it was going on missions with him, monitoring his fights in the guild, or just housing him a bit, Lucy would always spend time with him, caring for him.

There had been times when she was uncertain of her true feelings. Why wouldn't she be? Natsu was certainly handsome whether he knew it or not. Undeniably kind, and overall she could be herself with him. But of course she tried to quickly squashed these feelings seeing as there was no romantic bone in Natsu's body. So she just took what she could get. She will do her best to ignore the warm feeling he got while looking at him. They were best friends after all. The two great amigos, three if you add a flying cat in the mix. Nothing could separate them. Oh how blissful they were.

Shortly after the two finished eating, Natsu said he was heading off to the guild and would meet her there later. Lucy just agreed waving him off in response while she was washing the few dishes in the sink. While doing so she made a mental note to go out grocery shopping seeing that Natsu has her fridge running low again.

Once she was done drying off the dishes and putting them away, she started to write down the things she would need to get from the market. When everything had been taken into stock in her kitchen she easily had quite a few items on the shopping list. Sighing she looked at the clock and decided that now was as good as time as any to shop.

With this thought in mind she quickly grabbed a fluffy coat with the list stuffed in the pocket and put on some snow boots. The adventure to the market was rather quiet. The sun was shining and the air was crisp and clean. So clean that Lucy even decided to pop in a piece of mint gum from her coat pocket to enhance the winter air. Call it a habit of hers. It was rather tranquil. The sky, cloudless, was vast in its vibrant blue. The snow had been trampled on a bit leaving a few pathways of footprints in its wake. Still breathtaking nonetheless. Something that loses its pureness doesn't always lose its beauty at the same time. In fact it gives it character.

If only everyone thought like that.

The market was rather busy for a snow day. She suppose it was because of people restocking for any upcoming storms. She highly doubt all these people had a dragon slayer depleting their food as well. Lucy dug out the list and started shopping. First up some produce. Red and green shiny apples, fresh juicy purple grapes, some ripening light green bananas, and last but not least some red and orange Tabasco peppers, ultimately to please Natsu, all went into her little shopping basket. She paid the stall owner who graciously gave her a discount of 1000 jewels saying something about being a devoted customer of theirs. Leaving with a smile on her face next she headed over to the meats and seafood stalls. Five tuna fishes, two pink salmons, three pounds of ground beef, and some chicken breasts and thighs were all added to her basket, which was getting rather heavy. While she was taking out her jewels in order to pay the vendor, she was bumped to the side, thus almost spilling all of her basket's contents on the ground.

She quickly turned around to see what or who bumped into her not pleased by almost falling down hard herself.

"Watch where you're going will you?! You almost made me drop all of my things!"

However her scolding fell on deaf ears, as she was completely ignored by the tall figure darkened by the Sun's shining angle.

This ticked her off. The audacity of some people these days was remarkable. It was a wonderful day outside, and this person had the nerve to ruin it.

She grabbed his arm, that she noted was rather toned. Did that stop Lucy? Nope. No red flags went up at all due to her already blind irritated state.

"Hey! I'm talking to you! Aren't you going to apologize!"

The mysterious figure finally turned towards her flicking her hand off his arm.

"Maybe you should pay more attention to who's around you, Fairy."

Lucy's eyes widen as she slowly registered the spiky blonde hair, the scar marked above his right piercing blue eye, the sharp canine teeth now showing due to the smirk on his face. Lucy just might've picked a fight with the white dragon slayer of Sabertooth.

Oh shit.

Done. So, Whatcha think? Stay tuned~