Hey guys... Sorry for the wait... I don't really have an excuse though. I have been writing this chapter over the entirety of the week and I finally chose to finish it off... It's not that long which I apologise for but I hope you enjoy it.

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Chapter Twenty-Four

The door to Sting and Lucy's home shot open when the blonde dragon slayer rushed in, slamming the door behind him again. He stood there a few moments and shouted out that he loved Lucy; all he got for his response was utter silence. He stood still and sighed realising that she was most likely asleep on their bed, when he walked to the bedroom he saw that he was indeed right. She was sleeping without a care in the world, he frowned as he walked to the bed and took a seat at the end of the bed and watched her sleep.

Now that he had calmed down he can now make sure he doesn't shout out a confession like he just did literally a minute ago, he was now thanking whoever was watching that the girl was asleep and had not heard him. Sting moved up the bed so that he could cuddle up to Lucy but then noticed that he stunk, really bad. He scrunched up his nose and remembered that pregnant women had an enhanced sense of smell, much like he had.

Sting stood up from the bed to go into the bathroom that was located just across the hall, but paused when he was about to open the door when he heard Lucy let out a groan as she turned in her sleep. Sting sighed in relief when he turned and saw that she was still sleeping. Opening the door he made sure that there was a towel and shut the door behind him, locking it with a click.

~ With Lucy

When Lucy heard the bathroom door close she opened her eyes, she had been awake the whole time. She heard Sting open the front door loudly and shout out that he loved her, like who would sleep through that. She chose to pretend to be asleep because she didn't know how to respond to something like that. She never actually thought that Sting would do something as idiotic as that, she would expect Natsu to do that but not him, she then thought that Natsu's stupidity was probably rubbing off onto him.

She heard the tap to the shower turn off when that thought crossed her mind. Shaking her head she slowly turned so that her back was facing the bathroom door. Not long after Sting walked out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist, he walked into the room thinking she was asleep and opened a draw that held his clothes.

Hearing the draw close and a few moments later Lucy felt the bed sink on one side. She resisted the urge to jump and scream at him when his chest pressed up against her back and an arm wrapped around her waist, his hand taking its place against her stomach rubbing in a circular motion. She sighed in content and leaned back into Stings embrace.

He smiled when she did so and looked at her face, noticing that she had her eyes open slightly. She turned her head slightly to look at him and gave him a smile, then turned back to lie her head on her pillow.

"Hey Sting." she whispered tiredly, moving her hand ontop of his.

"You left the guild early today." he stated as he pulled himself closer to her.

"Yeah, I got tired so I came home to sleep. I didn't want to interrupt your fight."

"Oh, sorry about that. Natsu started it really... He challenged me and I could turn it down." he let out a slight chuckle, remembering the results of the large brawl.

"You know when our child is born your going to have to stop with the fighting, well in the guild at least, you can for missions though..." she moved her body slightly to get Sting to let her go as she turned over carefully so that she was facing him. When she was comfortable he wrapped his arms around her again.

"I know that. I won't want to be fighting with our adorable child around anyway." she felt her heart flutter at what he had said.

"We won't be going to the guild for a while, we'll be to exhausted and preoccupied to go." Sting nodded, he had heard from Alzack that when him and Bisca had a child for the first few weeks it was exhausting, but worth it.

"Yeah, I heard." he let out a laugh, then looked into Lucy's eyes. God how much I love those beautiful brown eyes of yours.

"Sting, are you sure your ready to settle down like this. I mean your only twenty, I have to admit having a child at eighteen wasn't something I thought of happening but I have to admit I am kind of glad that it's with you." she smiled and looked away from him. Sting's eyes widen slightly from her confession, then he couldn't help but smile.

"Yeah, I'm ready to settle down. I am not going to be as sexy as I am now for ever." She sent him a slight glare then shook her head, knowing that she had sort of ran into that one.

"I am being serious Sting."

"I am too, I really am ready to settle down." Lucy felt the heat make it's way to her cheeks.

"Thank you, Sting." There was a long silence as Sting and Lucy lay there in each others embrace on their bed.

"Hey Lucy." she hummed in response. "I love you." Lucy's eyes snap open as she looks at Sting.

"W-what?"

"I said... I love you." Sting could see Lucy's eyes beginning to water at his confession. "I would have told you sooner but I couldn't think of a way to say it. I have been thinking for weeks now for the perfect way or the perfect time but for some reason now seems like the right time. So I just wanted you to know that I love you Lucy and I always will."

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