The next day I came into work and saw Mira sitting at the front desk. I approached her as she lifted her head and smiled at me. Her big blue eyes lighting up the way they always do. She had her beautiful white hair pulled into a loose pony tail and the nurses uniform did wonders for her.

"Hey Mira, how are the other two patients from the bombing doing?" I asked her.

"They are fine, the first one that Levy is looking after is named Gajeel Redfox. He is awake and healing just fine. The other is Gray Fullbuster. He is pretty banged up and currently asleep but he should wake up soon." She answered.

"So I noticed that you are from the same guild as them. Do you know them?"

"Yes, Natsu and Gray, I have known since they were little. Gajeel is a newer member but he is still part of the family." She responded.

I nodded and thought to myself for a second how lucky it was that they all survived.

"Lucy, would you like to inform Natsu about the other patients?" She questioned and I immediately nodded.

A smirk formed on her face and she had that usual gleam in her eyes. Oh boy, is all I could think about. I walked towards Natsu's room and knocked before walking in. When I got there, he was asleep so I checked his bandages and they looked like they were just changed.

This was probably Mira's doing. She probably changed them and never mentioned about the others so that I could do it and get closer to him but I didn't mind because Natsu is a nice guy and I wanted to be the one to bring him the good news.

After a few minutes he started to stir and he opened his eyes to look my way.

"Hey there," he said sleepily.

"Hi, how did you sleep?" I asked.

"Could have been better if I was awoken the same way as yesterday," he answered which resulted in me blushing up a storm.

"I'm only playing with you. So are you hear about the info you didn't get yesterday?" he laughed out.

"Well yes but before we talk about that, I have some news about your team." I said kind of excitedly.

His eyes lit up and you could tell he was anxious to hear what I had to say. His onyx eyes never left mine.

"Well I just found out that the other man who came in with you was Gajeel Redfox. He is stable and healing very well. He will be just fine."

I watched his features as he became happy then sad and then what looked to be a mixture of the two. He is probably happy about Gajeel but upset thinking Gray didn't make it. I smiled at the thought of how happy he was going to be when I give him the rest of the info.

"Last night a man came into the ER, he was also involved in the bombing and I had just found out that his name is Gray Fullbuster. He is alive but currently unconscious and should be awakening soon."

That bright smile returned to his face, the same one that I saw yesterday and I couldn't help but smile back. His smile is contagious.

"Can I see them?" He asked with hope filled eyes.

"Yes when Gray wakes up I will take you to see him, and I can take you shortly to go see Gajeel as well. You will have to go in a wheel chair though and there will be no standing up. Do you understand?"

He quickly nodded, his big smile never leaving his face. I walked out of the room to grab the wheel chair and saw Mira coming this way.

"Hey Lucy, where are you going?"

"Oh to get a wheel chair so that Natsu can visit Mr. Redfox." I stated.

"Calling him Natsu aye? Don't you normally refer to patients as Ms. and Mr.?" She interrogated.

I had to admit that she was right, this is the first time that I can freely call a patient by their first name. I just nodded in response as she went down a different hallway but not before winking at me and telling me good luck.

I grabbed the wheel chair and returned to Natsu's room, blushing a nice shade of pink. Almost the same color as his hair.

"You ready to go?" I asked and he jumped out of bed and hopped into the wheel chair.

I couldn't help but laugh at his antics as I pushed him towards Gajeel's room. I knocked on the door lightly and heard a grunt in response. I figured that was meant to say that I was okay to enter. I opened the door and Natsu jumped out of the chair and ran over to the man laying in it.

He had black long spikey hair, with piercings all over his face. He had a rough exterior but when I noticed Levy sitting in the chair next to him with a smile on her face, something told me that he was a great guy on the inside. I shouted at Natsu to sit back down in the wheel chair and then started a conversation with Levy.

As I spoke with her, I noticed that she had the same guild mark on her but in white. That's when I started to wonder just how many people who worked here are from that guild. Natsu and Gajeel had started bickering back and forth about fighting and who would beat who when I told Natsu that it was time to go.

He pouted and I couldn't help but think of how cute he looked but I kept that thought to myself as I pushed him towards the door. I said goodbye to Levy and Gajeel who said the same in response. We entered his room and he laid back down on the bed.

I put the wheel chair back where it was so that whenever his other friend would awaken it would be there for us to use. I then walked over to the chair next to the bed and sat down.

"So about what I asked yesterday?"

"Oh you mean my family?" He asked and I nodded.

"Well I never met my real parents. I was abandoned before I could remember them. I was taken in by my foster father Igneel who was a fire dragon when I-"

"You what!" I said almost shouting.

He looked at me confused so I rephrased.

"You were raised by a fire dragon?" He smiled slightly then nodded.

That was definitely not what I was expecting but I have heard of it before. Dragons taking in human children to train them in dragon slaying magic. But that would mean that Natsu is a dragon slayer.

"Natsu are you a dragon slayer?" I asked nervously.

He nodded in response and I started to get nervous. Dragon slayers are supposed to be extremely powerful and dangerous. But Natsu isn't like that though. I mean I can't say whether or not he is powerful but I know that he would never intentionally hurt me. He took my silence as a sign to continue.

"Like I was saying, I was taken in by my foster father Igneel who was a fire dragon and he taught me to be the fire dragon slayer. But several years ago I woke up one day and he was gone. I searched and searched for him but was never able to locate him. Eventually I joined the guild as a kid and that's where I met all my current friends. They are closer to me than family itself so they are my family."

He really didn't have an easy life. I sat there thinking over everything he said taking it in when something clicked. He said that he was the fire dragon slayer, why didn't I think of this before. He told me that he was a fire mage and that his high body temp was normal yet I know that normal fire mages aren't like that.

And then he told me he was raised by a dragon. So why didn't I figure out that he was the fire dragon slayer and if that's true then that means he is...

"Natsu, are you the one they call Salamander?"

His headed nodded and I couldn't believe this. He is famous for being strong and destructive. I mean for fucks sake he is the famous Salamander of Fairy Tail. Oh wait that means that all these people are from Fairy Tail! How could I have not known. That's my favorite guild! I always read about how rowdy and crazy they can get. But it always went along with saying how close they all are to each other.

That was always the kind of family that I wanted and now I am meeting these people face to face and some I have even known for quite sometime. My spirits started to plummet once again when I remembered about his hard past.

"I'm sorry for asking about such painful things. I know it has to be hard to talk about."

I lowered my head and looked at the ground when I felt a warm hand sit on my shoulder. That small gesture sent chills up my spine.

"Hey, look at me," He said.

I lifted my head. Chocolate eyes meeting onyx ones and he gave me a big smile and like I said before, his smile is contagious so I couldn't help but smile in return.

"See, that's much better. Your so pretty when you smile."

Once again, I felt the heat returning to my face. I started to wonder why this guy gets under my skin so easily. How many times is this going to happen to me?

"Thanks for telling me Natsu." I managed to choke out.

"Your welcome, now tell me about you. What about your family?"

I didn't really want to discuss my family but he told me his story so it's only fair. I took in a deep breath of air trying to think of what to say.

"Well, my mom died when I was young and after that my dad stopped caring. He only cared about money and his work. He tried to sell me off to marry the first rich guy that came along so that he could be richer. He was always working and no matter what I did, he wouldn't pay any attention to me even if it was for my birthday. So I ran away and eventually I came here and the head nurse Mira, who you already know, hired me. I have been happy ever since. I love it here."

I couldn't help but smile as I thought of this place and the people here.

"It sounds like you haven't had the easiest life either." He said with a look of understanding.

I honestly felt better to talk to him about. He was a great listener and he could understand how I feel. I smiled at him and I was about to say something when Mira came rushing in.

"Gray has woken up!" She shouted in glee.

I watched as Natsu bolted up into a sitting position as his smile grew wider. He is such a cheerful person, always smiling.

"Can I visit him?"

"Well that's up to Lucy. She is your nurse so she would have to be the one to take you."

They both turned to me, their eyes begging me to take him. How could I resist. I didn't want to be the one to remove that smile off Natsu's face.

I nodded and stood up to grab the wheel chair. Natsu jumped out of bed once more and I scolded him about the way he was moving. I told him that he was going to eventually reopen his wounds if he kept moving so quickly. I pushed the wheelchair and Natsu out of the room and went to the desk where Levy was now sitting and asked her for which room Gray was in.

She told me which it was and I headed that way. I stopped out front of the door and was about to knock when Natsu jumped up and kicked the door in knocking it right off the hinges. I was shocked, unable to move for a moment but then I finally recovered.

"You idiot! Don't go destroying things like that!" I screamed.

He shrunk in fear and just replied his a hai!. After I pulled back he then ran inside the room and started yelling at the patient. He was calling him all sorts of names but the one I caught as I walked in was stripper.

"Stop stressing the patient!" I yelled.

I heard chuckling and I glanced in the direction it was coming from to see it was the man with dark hair and deep blue eyes. He was wrapped heavily in bandages just like Natsu and he was laughing his ass of right now at mine and Natsu's antics.

"I like her!" He stated.

I felt the deep blush returning to me once more and I wondered why since I met Natsu has this been such a normal occurrence for me.

"Hey icy bastard, she's my nurse!" Natsu yelled.

I couldn't help but think of what kind of day this was going to be.

~TBC~