She didn't know what was going on until Natsu crawled onto the bed and sat straddling her legs. Pinning her in place as he leaned over her and grasped her wrists, his grip firm yet gentle as he closed what little distance between their faces and hesitantly put his lips against hers while breathing a small thin trail of blue fire against her lips.

Rissa squirmed, the warmth of his breath was almost painful- it was...well there was no real words to discribe it. It was just uncomfortably warm.

She felt his breathing stop for a moment as something warm and moist ran along her bottom lip, slowly, coaxingly trying to get her to open her mouth. And she made a distressed sound as Natsu let go of one of her wrists and placed his free hand on her stomach and pushed down. She opened her mouth to scream as the air left her lungs in a whoosh as Natsu captured her parted lips and snaked his tongue inside of her mouth and started to slowly blow his fire into her.

She panicked.

Who in their right mind wouldn't when they knew that breathing in fire could collapse their lungs and kill them among many other, horrible things.

She tried hitting his shoulder to get him to back off, but all he did was growl and recapture her hand and pin it down again. She tried bucking her hips in an effort to throw him off balance, but Natsu stayed firmly where he was.

His molten gold eyes staring down at her, unblinking, as she tried to hold her breath in an effort to protect her insides, but she could already feel the unnatrual warmth of his flame sliding down her throat, making it's way slowly to her stomach. Her lungs burned from lack of air and her eyes were tearing up despite the fact that the world was spinning and her vision was fading to black.

She started to lose consciousness when he pulled back a bit, lifting his mouth from her own a scant inch to allow her to pull some air into her lungs while continuing to feed her his flame until it turned green and he abruptly stopped and gathered her limp body up in his arms and held her against his chest and stroked her hair and whispered jumbled and broken words to her before kissing her again, this time without the flames. His desire to mate pushed back to the deepest darkest corner of his mind for the moment.

As he tried to get her to respond. To breath before the flame he'd fed to her died.

He kissed her, softly. Using his tongue and used his saliva to sooth and heal the scorched skin of her lips inbetween speaking to her. Trying to calm her because he could smell her fear so strongly in his nose that it worried him. His Lucy should know, even without her memories, that he would never hurt her.

Not purposefully. It simply wasn't his nature.

"Luc. My Luc, breathe. Please." He pleaded as he kissed her cheeks, her temple, her eye lids. He waited for what felt like an eternity, hoping, praying that his flame would take root inside of her and infuse her fragile body with some of his magic and power. It took longer than he would have liked but finally she started breathing again, deep shuddering breaths that made him smile faintly as he held her and rubbed her back until he was sure that she was fully conscious and aware again of what was going on.

"I'm sorry Luc, I didn't mean to go overboard." He said as he nuzzled the curve of her jaw.

She smacked him on the shoulder, the blow was pitifully weak even by her standards. But Natsu understood all too well what she was trying to say to him. No more flames! He waited for several minutes, worried and scared that his flame might kill her like it had Lisanna- No! His mind cried out in denial. He wouldn't lose another partner to his own flame.

Surely fate wasn't that cruel. But just in case Lucy did burn up- He'd have to be quick about throwing himself into the flames so that he could die with her. He wouldn't lose another woman to his own dragon nature and continue living.

Several minutes passed and nothing happened and Natsu finally breathed a sigh of relief andsmiled as his heart beat, and indraw of breath into his lungs sycronized with hers and kissed her again on the lips. She jerked a little bit in his grasp and whimpered, thinking that he was going to feed her more of his fire but Natsu knew that doing so could kill her.

He wouldn't tempt fate further.

Not when his supressed desire to mate suddenly roared to the forefront of his mind. No, he had better things to do at the moment. Like figuring out a way to get her out of that flimsy night gown and out of those enchanting lace panties she was wearing.

He pulled back a bit, breaking the kiss and said in a rough tone, "No more flames Lucy. Just me-" It felt like he was pledging his life to her in the way human's did and the second the words left his lips more came forth. "Take me. All that I am, all that I will ever be. My heart, my life, my body and soul are yours to comand. I bind myself to you with my dragons flame and take all that you are and ever will be. Your heart, your life, your body and soul as my mate."

He pulled back a bit more to see her face and saw the wide eyed, almost panicked expression on her face and started to lean down to kiss her again, wanting to put her fears to rest when he heard the sound of someone knocking at the front door and completely froze for a moment then leaned back so that he was sitting on Lucy's upper legs and looked towards the door through narrowed eyes.

He wanted to ignore it but knew that if he did then everyone from the guild would be kicking down the door to find him and Lucy. Damn. Why do I have the worst luck? He wondered to himself as he looked down at Lucy and poked her in the chest with the tip of his clawed index finger and growled. "You don't move from this spot. We'll continue once I drop kick whoever is at the door."

She blinked at him and he closed his eyes and let his body return to normal knowing that if he didn't whoever was at the door would go running to the guild then he'd find himself on the receiving end of some seriously painful sealing magicks.

Once he was sure that his eyes, fangs, claws and scales were gone, he got up off of Lucy and quickly made his way to the door and disappeared out of the bedroom to see who was bothering him at such a time.