A/N: I don't even want to know how long it took me to update this. All I can say is sorry.

Disclaimer: Nope. Don't own it.

It had been a week since Lucy told the girls in the guild. She had yet to gather the courage to tell the rest of the guild.

Especially Natsu. She was keeping her distance for now, but he was upset that she was seemingly ignoring him and just kept going on jobs.

But her secret wouldn't stay a secret for very long if the girls kept doing her favors. For example, Lucy was carrying a very light box from the guild to her apartment, and Lisanna and Levy immediately dropped what they were doing and rushed over to her. And Mira kept giving her free food. And even though most of them tried to be nonchalant about it, it was little things that bugged Lucy the most.

"Mira! Stop it, I'm fine, I swear!" Lucy was trying (and failing) to decline more fattening food from the demon barmaid.

"Please Lucy, you need your fuel. How do you expect to stay on your feet if you don't properly feed yourself, much less the-" Mira was quickly cut off by a sharp glare from Cana, sitting a few stools away.

Lucy groaned inwardly. If Mira could hardly keep it together, and Cana could, she didn't know what was happening to the world.

"Hi Lu. Are you ok? How are you feeling?" Lisanna came up beside Lucy, smiling. There was another thing. All of them, every single one of the girls constantly asked if Lucy was ok, and how she was feeling. Lucy understood that their hearts were in the right places, but it was driving her to pieces. But she put on a smile and answered, trying to sound the least annoyed as possible.

"So when do you think you'll tell the rest of the guild?" Mira asked, though very quietly, almost a whisper. Lucy sighed, outwardly this time.

"I don't know. Its probably time I told master, though." She answered truthfully. Mira just nodded and hummed in acknowledgement.

"He isn't with anyone as of now. You can go in, if you're up to it of course."

Lucy nodded and stood up, breathing deeply. Walking the short distance to Makarov's office felt like miles, wearing down on her legs. Lucy wasn't even sure why she was so nervous, Fairy Tail was her family, Master Makarov was like her father. Somehow, that thought didn't really ease her worries.
Lucy knocked on the door. Another eternity passed, until the soft reply echoed through the wooden door, telling her to enter. She peeked her head in, Makarov looked up from his desk.

"Lucy! Come in, come in. What can I help you with?" Lucy just stood, breathing shallow and wringing her hands together.

"Well, I wanted to, um. I wanted to tell you. That I…" She drifted off, not sure how to continue. To her surprise, Makarov just smiled knowingly and jumped down from his insanely high chair. Walking up to her, he surprised her even further.

"Is this about the pregnancy?" He asked. Lucy looked down at the man in shock.

"Y-you know?"

Makarov smiled softly, the corners of his beard lifting up. "I've known for a while. I wanted you to tell me when you were ready." Lucy walked backwards until her back hit the door, sliding down until she curled up into herself, creating a ball. Makarov placed his hand on her knee, making Lucy look up at the old man.

"I don't want you to suffer, child. I want all of my children to lead happy lives and be successful. I will support all of you, always." Lucy sniffed, wiping the tears away from her eyes. "Now, why don't we tell the guild? Together?" Lucy stood up, and took a deep breath.

"Ok. Thank you, Master Makarov."

Natsu was getting extremely bored and agitated. He snapped at Happy and made his blue friend fly off toward the guild, crying. This was all Lucy's fault!
…

Ok, that wasn't true, or fair. But Lucy was really confusing him, she still refused to go on any jobs with him. She was eating a lot. More than usual. He noticed that certain people, mostly the females of Fairy Tail, acted off around Lucy. Doing her favors, offering her food. Why wouldn't they do that for him?

Also, Lucy's smell was getting stronger. Maybe she was using more perfume than normal, but it didn't smell like her usual strawberry scent.

As Natsu entered Magnolia, he put Lucy out of his mind, ready to go to the guild and get some food. Before entering the large building, he heard Master yelling at his brats to shut up, so Natsu decided that the best way to enter was quietly. Though, quietly for Natsu was slamming the door open instead of kicking it down.

"Lucy had something she wants to share with you brats. Lucy." The old man stepped down, revealing to Natsu the blonde, wearing a pink sweater with brown pants.

"Oh… Uh… Well…" Lucy looked extremely uncomfortable, and Natsu could smell her fear excreting off of her. "I'm pregnant!" She practically shouted.

Silence. If you lived in Magnolia at the time, you'd stop what you were doing and look in the direction of the Fairy Tail guild, because it had gone silent.

"It's quiet. Too quiet…" The local detective inspector whispered under his breath.

For Natsu, that silence lasted an eternity, as he stared at his blonde friend, the words she said not exactly clicking in his brain. Everyone in the guild had exploded after about 10.8 seconds, rushing towards Lucy to congratulate her or question her about her baby.

Baby. Natsu stayed where he was, blood pounding in his ears.

Baby.

Pregnant.

Lucy.

Mother.

Lucy is pregnant with a baby and will become a mother. That's all he heard in the commotion because Natsu said it himself, heard the words he never thought to even think about. Especially not with Lucy.

While it lasted 10.8 seconds for the guild to explode, it took Natsu about 15.6 seconds to finally find out that he, in fact, could still move.

He walked slowly, very slowly, towards Lucy. He didn't notice everyone suddenly hushed, or that the guild was parting like the Red Sea, making a path from him to Lucy.

He wasn't sure when he had gotten so close to his friend, but the only thing he could see were Lucy's big, chocolate brown eyes. Natsu couldn't place the look in her eyes, but it was something in between guilt and regret.

"Natsu…?" She whispered, placing her hands on his chest to keep him from moving any closer to her.

"Y-you… Y-you're what?"

A/N: Hope you liked! I hope you think Natsu's reaction will be believable...

Well. Until next chapter! Review, please.

~ Marshy