"C'mon mom, please" came the unison pleas of the twin four year olds.

Sighing their mother put down her pen and swiveled around in her chair and replying "I thought I already gave you two an answer to this question?"

"Well you did" the boy, Iggy, said "But we thought that maybe after thinking it over a bit more you would've changed your mind."

"Well dear, it's still the same answer, no" Lucy said "I have a lot of work to finish today and your father is on a job, I don't have time to take you down to the guild and watch you."

Stomping her foot, the girl, Kasai huffed "But mama, we can take care of ourselves and you don't need to work on your stupid book right now. Why can't you write tomorrow and take us to the guild today?!"

"Kasai it's not that simple, right now mama is having some inspiration for her book and needs to write it all down before she loses it" Lucy said placing her hands on the girl's shoulders.

"It's not like your inspiration can run away, so how can you lose it?" she asked.

Shaking her head she answered "It's not like that at all, yes it doesn't run away, I mean that I would lose it in a metaphorical way."

"What does that mean?"

Before Lucy could answer her, Iggy said "It's an exaggeration, like when someone says it's raining cats and dogs you idiot."

"Who ya calling idiot dumbass, I've already started learning magic but look at you" Kasai mocked.

"Shut up fire breath!" Iggy yelled.

Kasai, watch your language and don't tease your brother!" Lucy said scolding her daughter before seeing Iggy smirk. "And you Iggy" Lucy said turning around "Be nicer to your sister, don't be mean to her just because she doesn't know something. Now I know for sure you're not going down to the guild today!"

"Awww mom" they cried.

"No complaining, you brought this onto yourselves. Now, go to your rooms" Lucy said pointing down the hall.

"Fine" they both huffed before stomping off.

Sighing before rubbing her temples she cursed her husband for leaving her to watch the twins. It was bad enough when he left for a day, but a weekend. It wouldn't surprise her if the house was burned down by the night. He was going to owe her big time for this.

She went back to writing, but it wasn't long before she ran out of ideas. She looked at the time and saw that she could still take the two down to the guild, but she wasn't going to let them think that she had changed her mind and become convinced that it would happen in the future. Instead she went back to staring at her paper and waiting for ideas.

She had just started to write again when she heard footsteps coming down the hall. Leaning back in her chair she saw her daughter bolting down the hallway.

"Hold up! What do you think you're doing missy? I thought I told you to sit in your room?" Lucy asked.

"You did but I got bored so I practiced on my magic and kinda burned the curtains-"

"What?!" Lucy exclaimed.

"And then I smelled papa!" Kasai exclaimed.

Raising an eyebrow Lucy said "Papa isn't due home for another day at the least."

"But I smelled him! He'll be home any second!"

"Kasai, I know you're bored and that you don't want to sit in your room anymore but papa isn't-"

"Yo" called a voice from the kitchen.

"Papa" Kasai cried running opened arms towards the kitchen, Iggy soon came bolting out in the same manner. Groaning and getting up she headed into the kitchen. The sight she saw was one she couldn't help but smile at. With Kasai sitting on her husband's shoulders talking to him excitedly about what he had missed while Iggy clung to his leg and did the same.

Looking up Natsu said "Hey Luce, the job went faster than I thought it would've so I finished early."

"I can tell" she said before walking over to him and giving him a peck on the lips.

"Eww, you two are gross" Kasai and Iggy said in unison.

When the twins were finally asleep and they two where lying in bed, Lucy told Natsu "Next time I'm on a mission I'm leaving you alone with them for the same amount of time."

"Aww come on Luce, they couldn't have been that bad" Natsu said.

"Kasai burned her curtains."

"You have a point there" he said before wrapping his arms around her.

"You owe me big time" Lucy said.

"Uh huh" Natsu said as he kissed her neck. Smiling into her neck he whisper "Why don't I make it up to you starting now?"

"You know Kasai has your hearing, you know she's probably not asleep."

"I'll risk it" he said before meeting their lips together in kiss.