A quick note to say THANK YOU to the continued reviews from leoslady4ever

Also in response to rariccia: I too am excited to see where this leads LOL

"Oi, Wendy!" Natsu called as he approached the girl.

A small girl's blue haired head popped up from the game of checkers she was playing with Happy at the sound of her name. Staring a bit wide eyed at who was addressing her she wasn't sure how to react given the current situations. "Yes Natsu-san?" She replied cautiously.

"Your dragon taught you to read and write, right?"

She blinked at the odd question, "Of course! Matter of fact Shori-san in my old guild used to make me practice with her daily!" she beamed only to frown slightly at the remembrance of her former guild.

Nodding in approval he continued, "Good! I need your help with something important. Ask Levi for some paper and a pen and meet me outside." Looking pointedly at Charla he added, "Alone."

Huffing a bit at the older male Charla protested, "I do not approve of this Wendy. Who knows what kind of trouble this hooligan will get you involved with?"

"Charla!" the young girl scolded. "I don't think Natsu-san has any bad intentions. Besides if he needs my help as a member of Fairy Tail I'm going to help him!"

A, "Hmmph," was heard as they watched Charla cross her arms and stick her nose in the air.

Just before the pair of dragon slayers could walk off to their intended locations, Happy spoke up, "Natsu?" he called. Seeing his long time partner turn around he started to cry, "I'm really sorry I got so mad at you!" was all that was said before he lunged into said man's arms.

Natsu smiled slightly. Patting Happy's head he said, "It's ok buddy! I forgive you!"

Wide, glossy eyes looked up in disbelief, "Really?" Seeing Natsu nod his affirmative he smiled, "You're the best Natsu!" The happy moment was short lived though when the exceed spotted their other partner still at the bar. Pouting he looked up once more, "But what about Lucy?"

Natsu frowned at the sudden change of mood. "You trust me right buddy?"

"AYE SIR!"

"Good! Then trust I'm going to fix this!"

"AYE!"

By this point Wendy came back pen and paper in hand, "All set lead the way!" She said following the older dragon slayer out the guild doors.

The duo made their way around back to the court yard. Seeing that no one was in sight Natsu decided on a table far in the back corner. From there he'd see or hear anyone before they could him. Anyone but Gajeel or Laxus, but he doubted either of those two would care considering one was out on a mission and the other wouldn't go outside unless Levi did. Shaking his head at the sidetracking thoughts he turned to the key to his redemption, "Ok I need you to help me write to Lucy so she'll talk to me again."

Wendy stifled the giggle that rose at his request. She had guessed it was something to do with Lucy considering she had heard part of the conversation he had with Grey. "No problem! But Natsu-san can I ask why me? I mean... I'm flatteredifinitelygetting around considering his choice for further help. f to. Whatever that walking forest fire had to say he deffinat and thankful you trust me so much… but don't you think someone like Levi-san would be better since she knows Lucy-san so well?"

Natsu shook his head, "No you're one of the few people I can count on with this. Levi would just blab to everyone. You, I know, won't tell anyone what we write."

Wendy blushed a bit at the compliment. For not the first time she was grateful that she ended up in Fairy Tail. The people here really were great! "Ok let's start! What do you want me to write?"

Natsu opened his mouth, then closed it abruptly and blinked. What to write was the question. A simple apology wouldn't work. He was so bad with words sometimes he was pretty sure if he told her exactly what he was thinking she still might stay mad. Whimpering slightly he banged his head in defeat once more. This was taking its toll on him. Was it even worth it anymore?

Sitting up at the thought he cursed himself for having such an idiotic idea. Of course it was worth it! This was for Lucy! His Lucy of all people! She was the most important person in the whole world to him! Hell this morning he was willing to give up fire just to be next to her! Damn, maybe some people were right and he really was an idiot. If he ever wanted to have her be his friend again, let alone anything else, he had to do this. Frowning he looked to Wendy for help, "I don't know what to write. I mean I know what to write but I don't know how to write it. Does that make sense?"

Wendy looked sadly to Natsu as she nodded, "Yes it makes sense." She frowned. From what she heard of Grey and Natsu's conversation she was pretty sure a simple letter wouldn't work. Lucy would probably crumple it up after reading 'Dear Lucy' knowing who it was from. "Natsu-san, we have to make this something Lucy-san will want to read. If it's just a letter she might ignore it. You know her better than anyone else in the guild… What does she like?"

Natsu covered his face with his hands sighing to himself. Wendy was right, if it was just a letter, especially from him, Lucy wouldn't read it. Mumbling into his hands he started naming things, "She likes clothes, and art. She like flowers a lot, mostly cherry blossoms though. The guild is a big one, and cooking. The color pink is her favorite for some weird reason she won't tell me. She likes it when her hair is out of her face that's why she never wears it down except for first thing in the morning. Only time she wears it up to bed is in the summer because it's hot, otherwise it causes her hair to break, that's what she says anyway. Sounds dumb to me cause I don't get how hair breaks but she's weird."

Chuckling and removing his hands, he leaned forward on his forearms not really looking at anything as he continued. "She likes yogurt and apples. That stuff is always in her frig. Fish are too but those are for Happy. She really likes books and writing letters to her mom and her novel she won't let me read. Mostly it's fairy tales she reads but she likes all kinds. She had to tell me the difference between Fairy Tail and fairy tales once. Got hit a few times during that." Laughing a little harder he went to continue only to be stopped by the hand on his arm. Blinking a few times he looked to Wendy, "What?"

Wendy smiled. She had figured early on that the teammates had some feelings for one another but she didn't realize Natsu's were so deep. Given she was still between a child and an adult but she knew about a few things in the world. Their story was like a strange fairy tale, the irony not lost on her. "Natsu-san, forgive me for asking, but have you ever thought about telling Lucy-san how you feel?"

Natsu stiffened and leaned back tossing his hands behind his head and staring at the sky. He felt his face heat up slightly and knew it had nothing to do with his magic. How did Wendy just catch onto that? Was he transparent or something? Maybe she had some kind of mind reading magic he didn't know about. He hated lying and he didn't want to upset the only person he could count on to help him. Would it hurt to talk to someone he knew would never say anything? Hell Happy knew, and he couldn't keep his damn mouth shut most days.

Mentally shrugging he decided it wouldn't hurt anything, "Honestly? Just between us?" he asked glancing at the girl. Seeing her nod he admitted, "I have. It's just, well you see how she is. I don't know how she'll react. Knowing her she'd flip out and sic Erza on me or something. Hell she over reacted on something she thinks I said, not even something I actually said. I mean look at the shit I'm going through just to get her to talk to me again!"

Wendy giggled slightly, "Natsu-san, I know I'm still young, but I think… well… Given Lucy-san's reaction to what she thought you implied she just might feel the same way, at the very least very close to it."

Natsu was about to question how Wendy knew what the going theory was on his problem, until he remembered that she could hear better than 98% of the guild. He frowned a bit at that thought. That meant more than likely Gajeel heard too, especially since his hearing was better than Wendy's. If Gajeel was in the know then so was Levi. Once again shrugging mentally and decided he didn't care. Knowing captain frosted ass, their conversation was public knowledge at this point. Glancing to the court yard entrance he was slightly relieved to not see a pissed off demon Mira waiting for him.

Shaking the thoughts from his head he once more looked to the girl across from him. "Let's just pretend you might be right. Don't you think I should get her to talk to me again first before I ask her to plan out our perfect fairy tale wedding?" Did he actually just say that? Dear sweet… He could feel his face heat up twenty times worse than before. Damn Lucy having his head all messed up! If ever he needed to go back in time today would be the day! Then again wasn't time traveling what started ALL of this? Without it all the insanity during the games wouldn't have happened, then the nightmares wouldn't have started, and without those he wouldn't be in this mess. Shaking his head once more he focused again on Wendy gauging her reaction.

For a moment Wendy sat shocked at what Natsu had said. Then she blushed a bit at such a forward response from the man. Too bad she didn't have a recording lacrama with her. If she did she could just play this whole conversation back to Lucy and all of this certainly would be resolved. Then maybe she could be the flower girl at their 'fairy tale wedding' as Natsu had put it. Wait that was it! "Natsu-san! I've got a great idea! You said she likes stories and fairy tales at that, right?" Seeing him nod confusedly she hurried to continue, "We'll write her a fairy tale! Your fairy tale! We'll put in the fight and how she misunderstood and all of what you want her to know!"

For a moment Natsu looked excited. Lucy would read a story! But a thought hit him, "I don't know how to write a story, never mind a fairy tale."

"Don't worry Natsu-san! Levi-san lets me borrow books from her all the time, most of them have tons of old fairy tales! Remember I'm here to help!"

A wide bright smile appeared on the man's face, "Wendy you're the BEST! YOOSH! I'M ALL FIRED UP NOW!"

So here's today's chappy. Hope you all enjoyed it! I feel like I made Wendy act a bit older then she is but at the same time she is one of the few SANE members and is also kind of reserved, so maybe she's not to ooc. I do realize I did make Natsu a bit ooc being all open to talking and such, then again he seems like the kind that if he trust you enough he wouldn't give much thought in talking. He's just normally to high strung to sit still and do so LOL.

On a side note I'm not really sure when this story will end. See I originally didn't think to get this far into it. It was only supposed to be a 4-5 chap story and well yeh... after the first three chaps were done a plot bunny jumped on my keyboard and started going and now has ran away with the story! LOL I've got an ending in mind but seems like it's in the far future honestly. Put it this way I've got 14 chaps done and no end near. Please don't beg me to post all the chaps at once because I won't. I'm very nutty with my writing and will re-read something 5 or more times before I feel I'm ready to show the world. However I will continue to post daily at worst every other day as I progress. So once again TY to all who are reading and hope you are all enjoying!