Un-fucking-believable. Natsu thought as he partially hauled Rissa out of the soapy water with an annoyed look on his damned woman had actually almost drowned herself!

In the bathtub no less after he'd motioned with his hand for her to come up so that he could talk to her.

Damn her hide. Was he really that hard to talk too? Or did she think he was going to get too close and ravish her or something? The idea certainly had some merit as he pulled her completely out of the water and sat down and settled Rissa in his lap as she coughed up the water she'd swallowed.

Reaching off to the side Natsu fumbled around for something to wrap around her and came into contact with his discarded pants and sighed.

Well hell. It would have to do for the moment. He wrapped the pants around her slender shoulders. Making sure to show extra attention to her chest area to make sure that they got covered up too. Breasts were nice and all, but they were distracting to him when he had something serious on his mind and while his pants covered her upper body, it left her lower body completely uncovered and vulnerable to him...

Which was another distraction since they were skin to skin. Still Natsu had no intention of getting out of hand or doing anything against her wishes.

He just wanted to talk to her. Or at least that's what he kept telling himself when she squirmed in his lap causing a very nice sort of friction against his hardening cock. He gritted his teeth and hissed and tightened his arms around her body and growled. "Don't do that."

"Then let go! You're pressing against my butt."

Natsu's eyes nearly crossed and he groaned. Oh dear god the mental images he got! "Then stop moving and it won't go anywhere."

Rissa shrieked and squirmed a little more in alarm. "What do you mean, if I stop it won't go anywhere?" Natsu sighed and prayed for patience. Dear god in heaven, Rissa was going to kill him. He was literally going to be the only dragon slayer in existance to ever have a heart attack and die just because his mate squirmed in his lap.

He would be the laughingstock of his guild and every other dragon slayer in existance. He tightened his arms around her a little more and trapped her against him completely and let out a breathy laugh next to her ear that made her shiver. "What I meant was the more you move around the easier it would be for an accident to happen. And god help me, Rissa I don't think I would mind half as much as you would."

He glanced over at her out of the corner of his eyes and smirked as she went totally still. Her ears a vivid red color. How cute. I never knew that her ears could blush too. Natsu thought as his tongue snaked out and ran along the shell of her ear.

She squeaked and tried to lean foward but he stopped her by wrapped one hand loosely around her throat, his thumb stroking over her pulse as he kissed her shoulder then the side of her neck. "N-N-Natsu? I-I thought y-you c-c-came in here t-t-to talk?" Rissa studdered nervously jolting him out of his lustful thoughts. He kissed her shoulder one more time then removed his hand from her neck and sighed.

"Right... Talk-" He got quiet for a moment then asked, "What was I wanting to talk about again?"

"There is no way in hell that you're that forgetful."

"In most cases you would be right. But I think you've distracted me to much from my origional purpose. Ah, I remember now." Natsu said before asking. "Do you know what it means to share a flame with a dragon slayer?" It was a stupid question, Natsu knew. But it seemed like the best place to start their conversation because he had no way of really knowing what she knew about dragon slayers.

"Sharing a flame with a dragon slayer is a way of binding one person to another. But only if the flame doesn't consume the person that it's fed too."

Ah, so she knows that much- Natsu thought as he rested his chin on her shoulder. But just because a person knew something didn't necessarily mean that they understood it. "Do you know what that bond created by flame is supposed to be?" Natsu asked curiously.

Rissa got quiet for a moment and thought before saying in a small voice, "I'm not sure... I have a few theories. But I have so many different ones. So many worries and fears that I-"

Natsu sighed again. "Rissa, I understand that living with me isn't easy. I know that you get anxious, nervous and scared. But it seems to me like everytime I try to help, I only wind up making you more wary. But I would rather die than hurt you. And I'd rather kill than have you taken away from me. What does that tell you about me?"

"I don't know."

He gave a savage sounding growl. "Don't lie to me. You can run away from the truth and refuse to admit it all you want but you already know what's going on between us. What I want is for you to admit it so that we can move forward before you drive me crazy." Rissa got quiet again and Natsu made a frustrated sound and stood up and forcibly turned her so that they were facing one another.

And leaned in so that their faces were a mere hair apart. "Say it."

Rissa opened her mouth then abruptly closed it and looked mutinous. He grasped her slender shoulders in his hands and shook her a little bit. "Say it." He bit out from between clenched teeth. His temper spiking a little bit.

She shook her head no and he made a soft rumbling sound in the back of his throat and leaned in enough to brush his lips against hers as he spoke. "Say it or I'm going to make you wish you did."

"Y-You wouldn't." Rissa breathed in a frightened tone. Natsu pulled away from her a little bit and smirked evilly.

"Yes. I would." And he'd enjoy every damn minute of it too.