"Come on, Nash," I said from my spot kneeling on the floor. I held up hands out to her. "You can make it."

Nashi looked back at me from her spot holding on to the bars of her crib. Her pink hair was held back by a headband (the only thing I knew hold to do to her hair) and she looked at me with curious eyes. She turned towards me, her little feet uneasy on floor. She flashed me a smile and took slow, wobbly steps towards me.

I smiled, looking up make sure Happy was there to catch her if she fell. He always was.

She kept stepping and I nodded. "Go on, Nashi. I got you," I said and she walked a bit faster. When she grabbed onto my hands I smiled and picked her up. She'd walked. My baby girl was already walking.

"Nash, you did it!" I said, putting her on my side and bouncing her slightly.

She just laughed that little laugh that was just like Lucy's and I got her ready to go show everyone at Fairy Tail what she'd learned.

"Come on, Nashi. Say Daddy," I persisted.

The little girl in her tiny white dress looked at me from her spot sitting on one of the tables in the Guild Hall. She tilted her head and smiled. I think she must have thought I was hilarious.

"Natsu, give her some patience," Levy said from the other side of the table where she'd been reading. "She's only been doing the whole baby talk thing for a little while."

I sighed. "I just don't want her to say Gajeel first with the amount of time she spends with you two."

Gajeel gave one of his weird "gihi" laughs and shrugged. "She just knows we're cooler."

I glared at him. "What are you teaching my girl when I'm off on missions?"

Nashi put her hands on my cheeks, shifting my head to play with my hair and I sighed. She'll talk eventually, I convinced myself.

"Oh, man..." Levy suddenly said, pulling something out of the book was reading. "Natsu, look at this."

She put a photo on the table and smiled.

"I forgot I lent this book to Lucy while she was basically on bed rest. I guess she forgot this," she explained.

I grabbed the square and saw it was a slightly old photo, a little dinged up from being inside a book for so long. It was a picture of me, Lucy, Levy and Gajeel with stupid party hats on and paint on some of our faces.

"I remember this," I said with a smile. "Its from that New Year's party. That was... years ago." Nashi was grabbing my hand to get a glimpse at the picture, so I let her tiny fingers take it. "Look, Nash. That's Daddy, that's Aunt Levy, that's Uncle Gajeel, and that's Mommy," I told her, pointing at each person.

She gave her melodic little giggle and held the photo on front of her, pointing at parts of it the way she'd seen me do. She put her finger on Lucy's smiling face and said, clear as day, "Mommy!"

I stared at her for a minute and then looked at Levy. We started laughing at the same time.

I'd shown her so many pictures of Lucy, I wasn't really surprised. I guess I'd made sure neither of us would ever forget about her Mom.

"She just said that, didn't she?" Gajeel asked.

I nodded with a laugh, patting Nashi's little cheek. "She sure did. I knew she'd play favorites I just thought it'd be Levy she said first."

Levy pouted slightly. "Yeah, so did I."

I pressed a kiss to Nashi's forehead. "That's right, baby. That's Mommy." She looked at me with golden brown eyes. "Alright. Now, can you say Daddy?"

It was a quiet night just after Nashi's second birthday that a stack of newspaper on the coffee table caught on fire in front of her little wide eyes.

"Whoa! Nashi!" I picked her up and stopped the fire. "What the hell..."

The little girl looked at me with a grinning face and clapped her little palms.

It took me a second to get it but I laughed. "Nashi, did you do that? Can you do fire magic like Daddy?"

"Magic!" She said with a smile, pointing at my hand and putting her other palm up in front of me. A little wisp of flame caught in her palm.

I laughed, kissing her forehead excitedly. "Oh, Nash. Wait 'til Daddy starts really teaching you."

One more chapter down ^^ I've been working really hard lately to get the chapters written out so I can type 'em up and check 'em before I put them up so I'm almost to the end in my writing :3

I have a big ending ready, so everyone stay tuned for that one. Thanks so much for reading. Art will be linked soon enough ^^

-J