Do not own Fairy Tail
Daylight
Levy commandeered Lucy to sit with her during the lunch break, wanting to chat and catch up. Natsu glanced at his friend from time to time, seeing her laugh or giggle every so often while conversing with the bookworm. Levy held out a book, which Lucy took and stared at the cover, then looked back at Levy with a blush on her face. Levy giggled, saying something, causing Lucy's blush to increase and hide her face. A moment later Gajeel and Pantherlily walked up to the table and sat down across from the ladies.
Natsu and Happy finished their lunch, taking the dirty dishes to the wash area, they were on duty for clean up. Natsu wanted to go over and join Lucy, but made a mental note to ask her tonight. The two began washing and stacking, with Jet joining them a short bit later to move the clean dishes back over to the cooking area for dinner time. Natsu looked back over to Lucy, who was giggling, and had somehow turned the tables on both Levy and Gajeel. Pantherlily was smirking and nodding his head, agreeing with whatever Lucy had said.
Gray dropped his dishes off with Natsu, then turned his head to look at what caught flame brains attention.
"We should go on a mission when Erza gets back. I'm sure Lucy needs to pay her rent soon." Gray suggested.
"Hey, you actually have a good idea for once, stripper." Natsu stated, smirking.
"You want to go, ash for brains?" Gray retorted.
"Bring it on, popsicle." Natsu returned.
"At least wait till all the dishes are done and are moved out of the way." Lucy suggested from behind Gray.
"Yeah, I don't want Mira to kill me?" Happy added.
"Don't worry Happy, I'll protect you, then I'll blame everything on Gray and Natsu. You'll have to move in with me and you'll forever have a refrigerator full of fish, to take your mind off the fact that Natsu is sharing a grave with Gray." Lucy said, smiling.
Happy thought about the scenario for a second, then flew over to Lucy, landing on her head, "You two may proceed with battle." he stated.
Lucy put her hand over her mouth, to hide her smile. The look on Natsu's face was priceless.