Chapter 3

Lucy could smell something really good next to her when she woke up. She opened her eyes and wasn't sure where she was, expecting to wake up in her home. Then she remembered last night, and how the fire dragonslayer had stayed in the infirmary with her all night. Lucy looked and noticed he was gone. She looked over to see a small plate of bacon and eggs next to her bedside. She didn't feel too queasy anymore so she thought she would try and eat a bit. As she picked up the plate Natsu came in, his face brightened up as he saw Lucy was awake. He walked to her bedside. He leaned down and planted a kiss right on her cheek.

"Good morning Lucy, how are you feeling?" Natsu asked as if he didn't just kiss her cheek. Her face was bright red, and her eyes looked like saucers, she just froze and was at a loss for words. "Well I guess you're still not feeling too well if you look like that, I'll go get Wendy for you." As he got up and started walking to the door Lucy managed to find her voice.

"Natsu…" Lucy said so quietly that if Natsu didn't have dragon slayer hearing, he would not have been able to hear. He turned around and looked at her quizzically.

"Hmmm? What is Lucy?" Natsu said starting to walk back to the bed. She put her hand on the spot that Natsu kissed, and he chuckled a bit as he looked down and blushed. "Oh you're not sick just surprised right? What a friend can't give another friend a friendly kiss on the cheek?" He sat back down and Lucy let out a sigh of relief.

"Oh it was just a friendly kiss, good you kind of scared me for a second there Natsu." She looked down kind of sad, she thought oh, it was just a friendly kiss, for a second I thought he liked me too. Natsu looked down kind of upset to in his mind he was saying Oh I didn't think she would be relieved that I don't like her, even though I do. There was a silence as they both thought things to themselves. Wendy came in just then and suddenly broke the silence that the two mages had between them.

"Lucy, how are you feeling this morning?" Wendy said, unaware of the awkward silence between the two.

"I'm feeling much better Wendy, thank you so much." Wendy smiled and Levy walked in to join everyone.

"Lu-chan! you're awake! I could hardly concentrate on my book I was so worried about you!" Levy said and rushed next to her. It was weird to Lucy having all of these worried people around her. I mean it was just the stomach flu after all. I giggled a little and started to get out of the bed.

"Natsu, let's go on a mission, my rent is due next week and I need 5,000 more jewels." Natsu shot out of the chair and pumped his fist in the air.

"YOSH! COME ON LUCE!" He grabbed her hand and pulled her as fast as he could to the job board. He just grabbed one and handed it to Mira over the counter. She quickly wrote it in her job book and as they were running out of the guild she yelled

"GOOD LUCK!" After them, Lucy turned and waved as Natsu pulled her behind him and ran to the train station. After the duo left Gray went to the bar table and sat with Mira, Levy following shortly after. They started talking about the two, and how to get them together.

"I talked to Natsu, and he's like head over heels over Lucy" Gray started the conversation with.

"It's so obvious they are like head over heels for each other" Mira said giggling.

"How are we going to get Lu-chan and Natsu together?" Levy interjected, they needed to start constructing a plan of how this would pan out.

"After they come back from their mission you know Lucy will go home to take a bath, we just need to get a reason for Natsu to go to her house afterwards." Gray said, Mira and Levy looked surprised that he knew this. "What? I'm in a team with those two, I know how they work." Levy and Mira then did a 'that's true' nod.

"How do we get Natsu to go to her house then?" Levy asked, Gray and Mira looked at each other and smiled. At the same time they answered Levy's question.

"Food" Levy was surprised at how into this the two were.

"After missions Natsu always comes and orders his favorite food, fire chicken wings, when he does, I'll just tell him I ran out of ingredients but I heard that Lucy had all the ingredients and he should go ask her to make him some." Mira said looking at the two. Gray, Levy, and Mira looked like they just thought up a perfect plan, which they kind of did. Now all they had to do was wait for the two to come back from their mission, and start operation get Natsu and Lucy together.