"Knock knock." Melody said, inviting herself into Lucy's room. Lucy was still asleep. "Luce. It's time to go. " Lucy slowly opened her eyes. She reached behind her to feel for Natsu but he wasn't there. Her eyes shot open.

"W-where's Natsu?" Lucy said. Melody looked confused. "Natsu? What do you mean?" "It must've been a dream, I dreamt that Natsu had come in my room in the middle of the night. Guess not." Lucy let out a forced laugh. Truth was, she was looking forward to waking up in his arms.

Melody chuckled. "What? What's so funny, Mel?" Lucy asked, cocking her head to the side a bit. "It's just, you did the same thing yesterday. I found you asleep on Natsu's shoulder around the corner of the guild. When I woke you up to bring you home, you kept apologizing for 'kissing him', or something. Guess you had a pretty nice dream." Melody said with a smirk.

"Wait, what? That-that was, fake? A dream? Oh." Lucy noticed Melody's mischeifious expression and forced herself to say, "Phew, I thought I had really kissed him. I haven't known him long enough for that." She let out a nervous laugh, sweat dripping from her pores. Melody's face looked skeptical. "Sure."

Thy got dressed and head off to th guild for a days work. On the walk there, Lucy had thoughts about Natsu rushing through her her. Did she really like him? Was it really a dream? Or was Mel messing with her? She decided to push those thoughts to the back of her mind for now. She didn't have time to worry about that, she had to work.

They got to the guild hall and greeted everyone. When Lucy got to Natsu, she blushed and turned away. His face looked confused. "You ok Luce?" He asked. "Ye-yeah. I'm fine." Her voice sounded flushed and raspy. The thoughts flooded her mind again. He pulled out a seat that was next to him, offering her to sit down. She took the offer and slouched in her chair.

God Lucy! She thought to herself. Could you embarrass yourself anymore? She sat herself up and thought about how she was going to deal with this. She couldn't have a crush on Natsu. He was her partner in crime. Her guy best friend. She wasn't allowed to have a crush on him. She couldn't tell anyone.

But she had to find out what had happened yesterday. Had they kissed? Or was it a dream? She finally built up the courage to ask. "H-hey, Natsu?" He turned towards her. "Yeah Luce?" "Um, what happened yesterday?" His cheeks turned pink. "W-well, you fell asleep on my shoulder after I brought you to sit down after I found you crying, and when you woke up you thought we had kissed."

Lucy's face turned bright red. "Reallly?" He gulped. "Y-yeah." "A-and last night?" She asked, immediately regretting her descion to ask. He cocked his head to the side. "What do you mean?" Her face felt hot. "O-oh. Nothing. Never mind." He looked slightly confused and he turned back to his food and beer.

Lucy mind was racing. She started to feel sick, like she was going to puke then topple over. Lucy covered her mouth quickly, as if she were going to throw up. Natsu got worried and felt her head. his eyes went wide. "Lucy! You're burning up!" All of the sudden, she took her empty bowl of soup and puked. Natsu pulled her hair back and Wendy got some water.

Lucy leaned back in her chair. "C'mon, let's get you home." Natsu said. "Can you walk?" Lucy attempted to get up but collapsed into Natsu's arms. "I guess not." He picked her up princess style and left to bring her home. Melody had already left on a job with her group so she wasn't there.

Natsu made it to her house and laid her down in her bed. He went into the kitchen and grabbed a damp cloth. He walked back into her room and placed in gracefully over her forehead.

"You don't have to stay here you know." It had been a couple hours, and Natsu was watching her every move. "Except I do have to stay here. You're sick, so I'm gonna take care of you." He would take the cloth off her head switch it with a new one, and put it into a bowl of water with ice in it, every hour.

The first day, Natsu wasn't too worried, she probably just had a 24 hour stomache flu. But then she had it for 2 days, then 3, then 4. On day five he brought her to the doctor. The doctor said she ust had a strong case of the stomache flu and he gave her an antibiotic.

Natsu brought her home from the doctor's office, gave her her meds, then put her back to bed. He watched her, day after day, getting better and worse. But he never left her side. He didn't go to work, or go to the guild. He just took care of her.

"Why do you care so much?" Lucy asked. "I mean, you've only known me for eight months, I'm basicly no one." "You're not no one Lucy! You're Lucy, you're a part of the FairyTail family. Of course I care." Lucy blushed a little bit at his last comment. She was lucky that he was too busy making food to notice.

"Here you go." Natsu said, placing a plate in front of Lucy. She was sitting at the table. "Ooh, this looks good." Lucy said, licking her lips. "Who would've known that you were such a good cook." She stuffed her face with delicious food.

"You must've been hungry." Natsu said with a chuckle. "Well, I'm not able to keep anything down because of this flu, so I figured I'd enjoy it while it lasts." Lucy said.

A couple days later, Lucy decided to go to work, she felt a lot better and thought it was time. Natsu wasn't exactly "thrilled" so they decided to go with a small job: Organizing a library.

Natsu and Lucy informed Mira that they were taking the job and left. When they got there Natsu got bored instantly and fell asleep. Lucy on the other hand was excited of all the books she would find. By the time they had walked out, she had 3 books.

They headed towards the guild, but Lucy started to feel dizzy. "I don't feel so well..." she would've collapsed to the ground if Natsu hadn't caught her. "There you go." He picked her up and brought her back home.

He had slept the whole time she was working, so now it was time for her to sleep while he works. He spent the rest of the day doing what he had been doing for the entire duration of her flu.

Natsu started to get sleepy. His eyes started to shut close and he fell onto Lucy's bed, unconscious. He had worked so hard while Lucy was sick, he was exhausted. Lucy woke up to Natsu's head layed down on her bed, asleep. She smiled. He looked so peaceful.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! I read the last two and I nearly slapped myself in the face for ever writing something so bad. So, I. Tried to save it, I don't know how good a job I did though. Love you guys!