Disclaimer: If I lied, and said I did own Fairy Tail, do you think anyone would actually believe me? Maybe I could trick someone into making an entire episode on Lucy and Gray's relationship.
Quick Author's Note: This story is about winter. Partially because I needed to escape the heat, and partially because I can.
The way Lucy dressed, you would think she didn't feel the cold, like Gray.
Gray knew better. She was freezing.
As Natsu and him had a wonderful snowball fight, she just stared on.
"You should join in!" he called to her.
"No thanks!" she replied.
"It's because you're too cold, isn't it?" Gray smirked as he walked over to her.
"Yes..." Lucy blushed at her obvious lack of preparation for the weather.
"Why aren't you wearing pants?" Gray gestured to the tiny skirt she was wearing.
"Um... I don't own any." This was getting more embarrassing by the minute for Lucy.
"You could wear some of your pajama pants." he teased her, thinking back to their conversation about how many she really had.
"I can't wear my pajamas in public!" Lucy exclaimed, "What would people think?"
"You could get away with wearing your ones with the Fairy Tail symbol. Or, you know, borrow some jeans from me." Gray was dead serious on this. Lucy shouldn't wear tiny skirts in the middle of winter unless she was like him and didn't feel the cold.
"I'll wear the Fairy Tail ones!" Lucy said hurriedly.
"Good," Gray said, and turned around into a giant snowball. It hit his face.
"Ha ha! I got you Ice Princess!" Natsu jeered.
"You'll pay for that Flame-Brain!" Gray yelled.
Gary's ice magic was absolutely no help in this fight, considering that Natsu simply melted all of his snowballs.
"You can't use your magic!" Gray shouted at him.
"Then don't use yours!" Natsu crowed.
"Sounds fair!" Gray agreed, and surprisingly, did stop using his magic.
Natsu was so shocked, he didn't notice when Lucy snuck up on him and smashed a snowball onto his head.
"That was payback." she told him. "For hitting Gray while I was talking to him."
"I'm sorry!" Natsu whimpered. He and Happy then flew away to give the two of them "space"
"Thanks!" Gray said, "I knew I could count on you!"
"No problem!" Lucy replied, "Besides, you distracted him for me. I should be thanking you."
Gray smiled, "Then we're even." he said, then changed the subject, "You change fast." he commented, eyeing her non-pajama pants. "And you're not wearing your Fairy Tail pants."
"Turns out I actually did have a pair," she explained, "And it looked like you guys were having so much fun so..."
"You need more pants." Gray said.
"I guess they are pretty nice..." Lucy admitted, "Maybe I will buy some more."
"You better, because I want to hang out with you outside this winter, but I will not allow you to walk around in those tiny skirts. You'll get frostbite or something."
"I appreciate your concern." Lucy said, then gave Gray a kiss on the cheek.
"What was that for?" Gray was bewildered.
"For caring. And for reminding me of the magic of pants." Lucy smiled.
"I've always liked them." Gray kissed her on the cheek. "Thanks for knowing I care. And nailing Natsu! That was awesome!"
He handed her a rose made of ice and walked away.
"You really look good in pants!" he yelled to her.
"You too." she waved.
"She thinks I look good in pants... Wait I always wear pants! Is she implying that I always look good?" Gray muttered to himself. "What is Lucy trying to tell me? Could she possibly like me too?"
"Is it weird that I had already bought pants because I wanted to be with Gray in the snow?" Lucy asked herself, "I know I love him, but lately it's affecting everything I do! Why am I so obsessed? Could Gray feel the same way?"
One day soon, the mages would realize how the other felt.
Too bad they were both incredibly thick.
They'll figure it out.
Eventually.