Hey guys! Sorry about the super weird updates, I just haven't had regular access to a computer where I could save and upload these chapters. I apologize for any mistakes (and how short it is haha), it's around midnight here. So, expect some regular updates from now on, and as usual, please read and review!

-Emily

She got up and left.

After a few seconds of staring at him, dumbstruck, she simply got up out of her chair and walked straight out of the room. She could hear him calling for her, but she just kept walking.

With everything that had happened today, Lucy was more than stressed, and her pink-haired partner was about to throw her over the edge. She picked up her pace, practically jogging down the hallway until she saw another set of bathrooms. She slowed down to a walk and peeked her head into the bathroom, checking to make sure there was no one else in there before entering.

She slowly walked to the wall, legs shaking, and slid down until she was sitting on the floor. She sat there for a good five minutes, head in her hands before she heard the door opening.

She quickly stood up peered into the mirror, checking to make sure she didn't look too upset, and started walking towards the exit. She could hear the girl talking to someone outside of the bathroom, and decided to wait until they were done talking to leave. As soon as the blonde heard the door shut she started walking towards the exit again.

As she hurried past the girl, her mind wandered to her new partner. Not only had everyone warned her about him, but apparently he was the type of person who broke into other people's and made a sandwich. She didn't know how she was going to deal with someone like that. Her train of thought was broken by someone tugging on her sleeve.

As she turned around, she saw that it was a rather petite looking girl who couldn't have been older than 15.

"Uh, did you need something?" she asked, wondering why such a young girl was here.

"Yeah, are you the new girl here?" she said nervously, tugging on her skirt, "Because Natsu's been looking for you, he's pretty worried. I think you should go find him…" she trailed off, her gaze drifting towards the ground, blue hair covering her face.

Lucy pondered this for a moment. It probably was pretty weird for her to just run out like that, she probably should have tried to talk it out with him. She smiled before replying to the young girl.

"Yeah, I guess I should go find him, huh?" she stated gently before continuing. "My name's Lucy, what's yours?" The girl looked back up and smiled before replying.

"My names Wendy!" she stated, sticking her hand out. Lucy smiled and bent down a little to shake her hand. Wendy girl reminded her a little bit of Levy, with her petite build and blue hair. Lucy stood back up and turned around, waving backwards to Wendy as she walked towards the exit.

As she opened the door, she wondered how she was going to deal with her new partner. Would he be super confrontational about it? Would he be upset with her for threatening him with a bat? She slowly walked down the hallway, looking at all the pictures, letting the homey feel of the place calm her down. As she stopped to get a closer look at on of the plants hanging from the ceiling, she heard footsteps coming rapidly down the hallway. She turned to see who it was, and saw a flash of pink rush past her.

She watched as her pink haired partner stopped abruptly about ten feet away from her and turned around, squinting, before jogging up to her.

"Hey," he said, panting, with his hands on his knees, "I'm really sorry about breaking into your house, it's just that my cat had gotten into your window, and once I got in there I was pretty hungry. I didn't think anyone would even notice, I was trying to be quiet," he paused to catch his breath before continuing. "Anyway, it would be great it if you didn't tell anyone? I'm on strike two so…" he stood up and ran his hands through his hair.

Lucy only had enough time to nod before he continued talking.

"Enough about that," he said sticking his hand out, "My name's Natsu, what's yours?" Lucy cautiously reached over and shook his hand.

"My name's Lucy," she said, drawing her hand back. She wasn't quite sure what to think about his two "strikes", but she decided not to tell anyone about last night's adventure.

"Anyway, we should probably actually get to work," he said. "Unless you want to go grab some breakfast first?" he said, bouncing around on the balls of his feet.

They had breakfast here? Lucy hadn't had time this morning to eat anything this morning, and at the mention of food, her stomach grumbled.

She blushed before answering. "Yeah, I wouldn't mind getting something to eat." Natsu laughed a little at her blush, but started walking towards the elevator, beckoning her with his hand.

She rushed after him, and as they walked down the hallway, she thought back to last night. He hadn't really been doing any harm, he just seemed to be a little clueless sometimes. She decided to forget about what happened last night. He seemed like a nice enough guy, and he was even taking her downstairs to grab some breakfast. She smiled as she followed him.

The layout of the downstairs reminded her of a restaurant. As she looked around, Lucy wondered to herself where all of this had come from. When she had come in it looked like a normal office. Natsu must have seen her confusion because he busted out laughing and flung his arm around her shoulders.

She gently shoved his arm off, a little uncomfortable with the gesture, and waited until he was done laughing to speak up.

"Where did this," she said, gesturing with her arms to the restaurant, "Come from?" Natsu snickered again before replying.

"It's been here the entire time, but you must have come in from the back. The front area here is a restaurant. The back half of this floor is full of the offices, along with the next two floors. Mirajane noticed that there weren't a whole lot of restaurants in the area, so she thought we could make some money off of this."

When Natsu said that there was breakfast here, Lucy had thought that he meant there were some doughnuts downstairs, not an actual restaurant.

"Uh, Natsu," she said, tugging on his arm to get him to stop. "I didn't actually bring any money here…" Natsu shrugged off the gesture, continuing to walk towards the counter.

"Don't worry," he said, "Workers eat free three times a week." He grinned as they reached the front.

"Hey Mira!" he yelled, leaning over the counter. "Come meet my new partner!"

"Oh, is Lucy here?" Lucy could hear Mirajane reply from somewhere in the kitchens. "I'll be right there, just hang on a minute." They stood at the counter for a few minutes in silence. Looking around, Lucy could see that this was a fairly nice restaurant, but it still possessed the comfortable atmosphere of the office buildings. It had long rows of benches in the front, with smaller tables in the back. All the lights and windows looked pretty new, and the tables had either been recently bought or had gone under some intense cleaning. She wondered if they had just installed the restaurant.

Lucy was jerked out of her thought by the sound of a plate thumping onto the counter. When she turned around she saw that Mira had brought out two plates of food, piled high with eggs, hashbrowns, and sausage. She turned to look at Natsu, who was already stuffing his face full of the food.

"I thought you might be hungry Lucy, so I brought you some food. You don't have to eat it if your don't want to though." Lucy's stomach answered for her. Both her and Mira laughed, and Lucy dug into her food. She had a feeling