Like a Campfire

Author's Note: Ne, mina! So… I have not had a very good day today… I mean, did anyone else read the new chapter of Fairy Tail? It had such a bad cliffhanger! And… my beloved Natsu… was crying… Uwaaa… I hate seeing Natsu cry. And today's episode had a bad ending too… Grrr…

Anyway, as you guys may have noticed, I changed the title from To Be Lucky to A Family's Tale. I changed it because TBL was the title of the first chapter, which was originally just a oneshot. So I figured… why not change it? I hope this chapter is okay. I know it's a little short compared to the other chapters, but I just wanted to give you guys a little teaser for some GrUvia I've got planned. ;D

Let me know what you think in a review, alright?

Lucy lay in bed, waiting for her husband to come back. His sensitive ears picked up Nashi's crying in his sleep, and so he was in her room down the hall, tending to her. It was just three hours after they'd put her to bed, and an hour and a half since they went to bed themselves. Neither of them knew what could've possibly caused their beloved daughter to cry. She never cried in the middle of the night. She was a deep sleeper, something she got from her father. But she was glad that Natsu offered to go see what was wrong, because Lucy had been so comfortable on the mattress, his scarf wrapped around her neck.

Speaking of his scarf, it was incredibly soft. Sighing contently, the sleepy stellar wizard nuzzled her face deeper into the cloth and took in a deep breath through her nose. It was drenched in his scent. Natsu always smelled like smoke. Not the nasty cigarette smoke that makes you gag. No. He smelled like burning wood, like a campfire. Which she found fitting for him. Even when he'd just come out of a fight, instead of stinking of sweat, he smelled just as he did before the fight: like he'd been standing in a cloud of campfire smoke for hours. Lucy smiled. She'd always loved the smell of a campfire.

She told him that he smelled like a campfire once before, when they had first started dating. She didn't know why, but it embarrassed the hell out of him. She found it utterly adorable, though.

"You smell like a campfire." Natsu took a step back out of surprise, slightly slack jawed and his eyes widened.

"Wh-why would you say that?" he stuttered as a light shade of red coated his face. He lowered his head into his scarf to hide his cheeks. But the way she laughed and touched his arm made his blush darken and spread across the rest of his face, making it hard to hide.

"Aw, did I embarrass you?" she teased, poking him in the side. He turned his head away from her, promptly stuffing his hands into his pockets.

"You're weird." She smiled gently and lifted herself onto her toes, planting a light kiss on his temple.

That was the first time she kissed him. And just thinking about the whole thing made her giggle to herself just as Natsu walked back into the room. "Whatcha laughing at?" he asked tiredly, lifting a hand to his head and ruffling his hair.

"I was just thinking about when I told you that you smell like a campfire," she answered, moving aside to make room for him.

"Oh…" he said, lowering himself onto the bed beside her. "That…" Lucy laughed as she moved to rest her head on his shoulder while he wrapped his arm around her.

"Isn't it weird to think that we started dating almost two years ago?"

"A little bit, yeah," he answered. "It's even weirder to think about all that's happened over those two years. We have a child, we're married, Gray and Juvia are engaged…"

"Juvia told me that she's pregnant, too."

"Seriously?"

"Yup. With twins." Natsu tsked, his face twisting into a scowl.

"They really are just trying to copy us, aren't they?" he sneered. "Pathetic ice cube."

"Oh, come on, babe, don't be like that," Lucy said, giving him a like smack on his bare chest. "I think it's great. I mean, twins! That's incredible! Nashi's going to have two friends to play with that are her age!" Natsu rolled his eyes. "Oh! What if they had a boy?" The Dragon Slayer stiffened. He was not liking where this was going. "That would be amazing! Nashi and their little boy could be best friends, grow up together, and maybe even start dating!"

"Oh, hell no," Natsu interjected, vehemently shaking his head. "No. No, no, no, no, no. Not happening." Lucy laughed before continuing to mess with him.

"What if they got married?"

"No! No way in hell!"

"Natsu!" she hissed. "Stop yelling. You're going to wake up Nashi."

"No!" he whispered. "Absolutely not!"

"Why not? Why are you so against the idea?"

"Because that would make me and Gray… brothers…" The rosy-haired man grimaced and shuddered. Lucy rolled her eyes.

"You're such a child, Natsu," she sighed as she snuggled into him, ready for sleep. Natsu chuckled and pulled her closer, beginning to doze off as well.

"So you've said."