Lucy stared out the window watching the snowfall blanketing the earth. At least that was how her writer side would describe it. But her normal side saw thick sheets of snow falling one after another after another, covering the ground with up to four feet of snow, and showing no signs of stopping. Needless to say she knew she wouldn't be able to make it to work, god bless her luck for working in the educational system. Though her roommate was another story, the poor guy was a car mechanic and with all this snow he was bound to start getting calls soon about accidents.

Just standing by the window she was catching the chill of the outside air. Wrapping her arms around her she scurried back to the couch and clicked on the T.V, hoping that the cable wasn't down. Thankfully when she clicked it on the local news popped up and she sat back and listened as they went on about how it was the storm of the century and that it didn't show signs of letting up anytime soon. When they showed footage of a car that had slid off the road into a ditch she though once again of her poor roommate, while she sat at home in her pajamas, he would be at work having to fix wrecked cars. But the worse though was what if he crashed on the way to work. Did they really expect him to come in while a blizzard was going on? She hoped not.

When she heard grumbling and stumbling coming from the hall she called out a greeting of "Morning Natsu."

"Mornin' Luce, did you make coffee?" was the response she got from her half asleep roommate.

"Yeah, go get some before you fall asleep on the floor again."

"You promised to never bring that up again."

"We're not around others" she replied, but all she got was a string of incoherent grumbles as a reply. She heard him rummage through the kitchen for a cup and when he dragged himself into the living room and plopped on the couch next to her, she decided to wait a few more minutes after the coffee kicked in before to talk to him.

When he looked more like his chipper self she asked him "Have any calls yet of your co-workers pleading that you come in? Cause I'm guessing no since all you're wearing right now are boxers and not seeming to be in a rush to get ready."

"Gildarts called and said he wouldn't make us come in until this flippin' blizzard stops, no matter what emergency. At least that what I think he said, I was half asleep" Natsu answered.

"Speaking of being asleep, you snuck into my bed last night, it's the third time this week."

"It was cold last night Luce and you like it, don't lie."

"Wh-wh-what gave you that idea?!"

"Gajeel told me that Levy told him that you secretly like it when I sneak into your bed."

"I'll kill Levy later, but still, what image does that give most people?"

"Lucy why should you care? Literally if someone doesn't call you Lucy then they most likely know you as bunny girl or cheerleader."

"I hate those stupid nicknames. Can you please convince Gajeel to stop calling me that?"

"I tried but he told me that you're stuck with that name after that one incident."

"It was Halloween!"

"Well it stuck."

"Hmph."

"Well I think you looked nice in the bunny suit."

"You would."

"I compliment you and no kick to the face?"

"No, when you compliment me you either get utter disbelief or me loving you for the rest of the day."

"It's more like hour, your bipolar I swear."

"I'm not bipolar. If I'm bipolar then you have ADHD, though that's probably true."

"Hey!"

"See, no so funny when it's on the other foot."

"My foot would not fit into any of your shoes."

"It's a metaphor."

"It is?" Natsu asked with a raised brow "You need to tell me these kinds of things."

"So this is what I have for the entire day?"

"You're stuck with me forever."

"What about when you get married?"

"Do you really think some guy would marry you?"

"NATSU" Lucy screamed at him as she hit him with a pillow. Laughing, Natsu grabbed another pillow and began to playfully hit Lucy back. The two continued this pillow fight until got Natsu got hit square in the face and Lucy got hit off the couch.

"Shit, sorry Luce" Natsu apologized to his friend as she glared at him from the floor before sighing and holding out her hand.

"Well I'm sorry about your face" she said as he grabbed her hand and pulled her back onto the couch. "Besides you are useful for cold days."

"And that would be because?"

"You're a walking heater."

"Ah that's right. You only want to be roommates for my ability to give off heat."

"No, we became roommates because you always used to sneak into my room to sleep with me and we've been friends since middle school. I trust you like 89% to not burn down the apartment."

"What about the rest of the hundred percent?"

"It's precautionary due to your pyromaniac tendencies."

"Point taken."

"Uh-huh. So you wanna watch a movie?"

"Depends, will it be romantic?"

"It's gonna be Christmas obviously."

"Sooooooo, yes?"

"Fine, you get to pick out the first one."

"Yes!" Natsu exclaimed as he jumped up and grabbed his favorite.

"No, not that one" Lucy whined.

"Oh you love it."

"Maybe I did before you made me watch it like fifty times last year."

"Come on Luce, if I'm gonna suffer, so can you."

"Uuuuuugh, I hate you."

"No you don't" Natsu singsonged as he pushed in the cd before running back and plopping down on the couch next to Lucy. Snuggling up to him for warmth she settled in for her probably one hundredth watching of the movie Elf. As usual Natsu laughed at everything that was supposed to be funny but few saw the humor. She just smiled at these parts, she didn't find them humorous anymore but she loved Natsu's laugh more than most things so she could deal with it. But when the end credit finally rolled she jumped up as she ran over to the rack to pick her poison. And when she pulled it out, she could already see Natsu's face pale when he found out what she had picked.

When Natsu saw the beginning of the movie, just like Lucy predicted, he paled a bit, she had picked the movie that Natsu always seemed to dread after watching it the first time, Love at the Christmas Table. "See Natsu, you're not the only one who can make people suffer" she said as she sat down next to him instinctively curling up next to him. All she got from him was a grunt as an answer.

"Why do you hate this movie so much?" she asked him.

"I don't know, I guess cause it kinda reminds me of us" he answered.

"What, why?"

"Just the fact their good friends and have been that way forever and then their relationship gets crappy and stuff after he gets a girlfriend and after that they get into that big argument and I guess I always worry that would happen to us. Because then I'd be kicked out of your bed whenever I'd try to sleep in it."

"You know that started off melting my heart until you added that bit about my bed."

"Well it's the truth!"

"Whatever just watch the movie" she said before regaining her position nestled into his arm. She heard him grumble but he threw his arm around like normal and she went back to watching her favorite movie.

As per usual she watched it and felt touched but then after came all the sad, angst filled parts, she felt her eyes tear up. The two of them were too stupid to see how they felt about each other and when they did they ended up doing something to ruin it. Geez, the movie was touching but did it really need to send her into a pit of sad feelings.

The worst part came though at the end during the proposal. Lucy began sniffing, feeling tears coming on. Natsu was watching her, knowing that this happened every time they watched the movie. He never had liked seeing her cry, but he couldn't beat up a TV, so he settled with trying to make her feel better afterword.

So when the waterworks finally started, he tightened his grip around her and waited for the movie to end before trying to talk to her. He had learned that even if she was crying over a movie, that he should wait until the end credits came before talking. When the cheery Christmas music came on signaling the end, he turned to her and asked "You feeling ok?"

"No, not really" she sniffed "I mean they aren't real, but this movie always strikes a cord within me."

"I know, you say that every time we watch it."

"But I did realize something this time though."

"What?"

"That we are kinda like those two."

"How are you thinking about this exactly?"

"Just like you said, they're close friends and I can't help but see us in a similar situation."

"Do you realize what you're implying?"

"Stop" she teased him before getting another sad look on her face "But I also worry that we could end up like them at that one point. Something that's tearing us apart, that just ruins are relationship."

"Please, if our relationship survived while you were dating Dan then it will last through anything."

"No you don't understand. I don't want our friendship to fail period. But, sometime in life it's going to disintegrate. We're going to end up getting into relationships eventually. And I doubt that our partners would be fine with our close relationship. We live together, we invade each other's space all the time, heck we even end up sleeping in the same bed every night!"

"Luce, you're rambling."

"I don't want anyone to change the relationship between us. I think I enjoy it more that I should. I guess it's because of my fear of change. But I would be…I don't even know how I would feel about that. I love our relationship and I don't want anything to tear us apart and-"Lucy said before she was cut off by Natsu. Because he had got tired of her rambling about pointless things so he decided the best way to shut her up would be to kiss her. He was sure he would end up with a concussion in a few seconds, but at least he could enjoy those few fleeting seconds before.

The kiss was truly nothing more than a chaste peck when put in context. Now all Natsu could do was wait for his punishment that was to come. Lucy was currently starting at him, her face bright red and with her mouth slightly ajar. Natsu immediately began to regret his decision, until Lucy's hand shot up and landed on the back of his neck before pulling him down to her.

The second kiss was nowhere near as chaste as the first. Needless to say it took Natsu by surprise when Lucy smashed their lips together. But he complied easily with her obvious wishes and kissed her back eagerly. Wrapping his arms around her waist, he pulled her closer to him. She moved her hands from her face when she realized he wasn't resisting the kiss and chose to tangle them in his hair instead. The movie long forgotten and was abandoned in favor of an impromptu make out session neither knew would have happened.

It wasn't until Lucy began to move her hands across Natsu's chess did she realize that he was still in only his boxers. But it wasn't like she was planning on telling him before anyway.