Natsu speed through the city, ignoring the honking of people. Natsu had gotten out of the car, just moments ago, unbuckling Lucy from the front seat and moved her to the back placing her on Levy and Juvia as they sat either side of her. "Fucken idiot!" Natsu cursed slamming his hands onto the steering wheel. "If she was sick why the fuck didn't she stay or go home!" resisting the urge to hit his head against the wheel, he honked his horn as Gajeel over took him. "Natsu! Calm down!" Levy screamed at him as she rested her unconscious friend head on her lap "He is only over taking you to slow you down a bit and stop you from hitting innocent people or killing us from a fucken car accident!" Natsu growled, in this mood he hated people yelling at him, usually he would yell and threaten them or hold a gun to their head depending on who they were.
Juvia reached for the first aid kit that Natsu had hidden inside of the front passenger's seat. Grabbing a small towel, she got the bottle of water out of her school bag that was room temperature and damped it before placing onto Lucy's head. "Levy use this cream, it will keep her body cool." Nodding at her friend, Levy reached inside the small container that was transparent orange. "I have concluded that she has a high fever, Natsu you were with her yesterday, was she stuck in rain at any time?" Juvia's voice was stern as if demanding a quick answer "Yeah when I bumped into her, her umbrella fell. It was pissing down with rain so she got drenched pretty quick." "Did she take a shower hot shower when she got back?" "No, she only got changed when I mentioned that she was drenched."
'I wish Lucy took more care of herself…' Levy was massaging the cream into Lucy's skin. Feeling the car come to an abrupt turn and stop Levy looked at Natsu who had already turned off the car and slammed his door shut, opening up her door waiting for her to climb out. He was trying his best to stay as calm as possible not wanting to hurt his friends.
Pulling Lucy's limp body to the car so that he could carry her in both arms, he walked her to the house and carried her to the bathroom, slamming the door with his foot behind him, causing everyone to flinch. "Juvia isn't sure who is scarier, Gray… Is it Natsu at the moment, or Erza if she finds out Natsu is making sweat her fever out in her underwear…" Gray gulped, quite happy he wasn't in Natsu's shoes.
After Natsu had slammed the door with his foot, he placed Lucy on the bathmat before turning the shower on to full on heat, he loved his showers boiling, but he quickly changed the temperature to a warm hot, so that it was still steamy but would be tolerable for her. Removing his school uniform, Natsu stood there in his flame boxers and started removing Lucy's uniform leaving her in her Lacy light purple and pink underwear. 'Gotta remind myself later to get her back for this.' he hissed as he felt his member come to life. Picking her up, he held her so that her head rested in the nape of his neck, with her arms wrapped around him, as one of his hands held her back and the other supporting her underneath. As he and opened the glass shower door, Natsu wet both of their bodies before sliding down the tiled wall, sitting on the warm tiles as the steam just stilled in the room. He rubbed his hand up and down her back as he rested his head against hers, listening to her deep breaths.
Feeling the rapid fall of warm almost hot water fall upon her skin, Lucy opened her eyes slowly, trying to register her surroundings. Feeling something rub up and down her back Lucy jumped slightly turning her head, to face Natsu who looked at her angrily… "You do know how much trouble you are in right?" her face was slightly red from her fever, trying to avoid his gaze she pulled and looked away from him for a moment with her arms slipping from around his neck to his shoulders, she felt something poking her, she looked down realising that she was in her underwear, and so was he... but he was turned on by the current situation, and when she moved he hissed through his teeth. "YOU PERVERT!" she screamed as loud as she could with her voice going horse, she tried to slap him but her wrist was caught before she could even get close to hitting him.
"Call me what you want you are still in the shits! Do you know how fucken worried I was when you just went limp in the car? How fucken worried Levy, Juvia and the rest were! If you were sick you should've stayed home!" he screamed as he pulled her back against his body he forcibly holding her there, and when she tried to pull back but he just gripped her tighter. It was like trying to hold a cat against you in a bath, the cat just didn't want to be there. "You are a pervert… You stripped me… and…" she whispered as she hid her burning face, finally giving up, there was no way he was letting her go. "Hey 'that's' not my fault! You're the one that went to school when you were sick and you were the one that decided to wear Lacy shit." she giggled slightly which made him bite her shoulder, making her wince but moan from the pain that turned into pleasure. "And hell I wasn't going for a shower in my school uniform and neither were you… In fact! I don't like the feeling of my boxers being as wet as they are!" rubbing a hand up and down her back he couldn't tell what was sweat and what was water, it just all melded together.
"Get out of the shower! You've been in there for half an hour!" Gajeel banged at the door, Lucy had fallen asleep with a soft smile on her face, within Natsu's embrace. Opening the shower door Natsu noticed the bathroom door was being closed. Looking at the vanity, he saw clean dry clothes and fresh towels for them both. Placing Lucy on the vanity, leaning her against the mirror he quickly dried himself as best he could while watching Lucy, making sure she wouldn't fall. Putting on a fresh pair of red boxers and pants, he didn't bother with the shirt. Looking at Lucy as he did his belt up, a thought crossed his mind 'If I change her bra and underwear, she would kill me, scratch that I think all the girls would before she'd wake up.' Wrapping Lucy's arms around his neck, Natsu held her in place as he grabbed her dry towel draping it over her body.
Opening up the door, Natsu saw all the girls there waiting for him, as if to make sure he didn't change her, and they sighed with content as Erza pulled the towel away. "Can you guys change her…" a slight blush crossed his cheeks. Erza held out her arms to receive Lucy, she wasn't heavy so it was easy for anyone to carry her really even Levy. The red head shot a glance at the leader of the gang, as if approving what he did. Watching as they walked back into the bathroom he waited 5 minutes, leaning against the wall beside the bathroom door as they changed her clothes and dried her hair. When he heard the door click open Natsu smiled to see that she was still asleep peacefully, even with her redden fevered cheeks. Erza had passed Lucy to Natsu and he had taken her upstairs putting her to bed, Juvia had brought in a humidifier to help her breath properly, and to help her get over her fever. Levy walked up to Natsu as he sat on the edge of her bed "You're lucky Erza didn't see the hickies you gave Lucy…" she turned on her heel and walked out the door 'I would be a dead man if she knew…'
A month had passed, and no word from Happy or Lily. Lucy had slowly gotten better, and was all healthy now. Natsu was happy that she was better, she was no longer found having a coughing fit in her sleep, and while she was awake she could actually stay awake. The entire household had all agreed that she was not going to go to school of course during while she was ill, but when they made this decision she threw a hissy fit and tried to sneak out of bed early the for the next week after they argued… Natsu knew that she was going to try something when she stopped arguing with everyone and agreed with them instead. He would wake up at 5am and sit outside of her door, and when he heard her soft footsteps, he stood up ready throw her over his shoulder and take her back to bed and got in with her.
Natsu rarely left her side, he refused to go to school until she was better. Levy, Juvia, Gajeel and Gray brought their homework to them. Natsu would sit on the other end of the bed watching Lucy while he did his work, making sure she ate the soup that Levy and Juvia made, and made sure she drank plenty of fluids as well. He didn't mind if she didn't do her homework, but when he tried to take it away she pouted at him saying she didn't want to have to catch up on all this work when she had to go back to school, and not sleep for three days straight. He actually agreed with her.
It was Friday evening and everyone was now downstairs in the lounge room, Lucy was asleep upstairs over working herself that day to exhaustion. Everyone talking about random things, from some school work to gang work. Hearing is phone ring Natsu reached into his pocket noticing it was Happy who was calling him. "Natsu we have a problem." Gajeel's phone started ringing and it was Lily, who had basically said the same thing. "Lily and myself, we have been following the two that we had been assigned, Sting and Rogue. We haven't been spotted of noticed, but we know why they are at the school Natsu… They are after Lucy Heartfilia…" Natsu's eyes widened as he ran upstairs to check if Lucy was alright.
Gajeel gritted his teeth into his phone "Lucy Heartfilia is dead, she died 7 years ago alongside her parents." "No Gajeel. Put me on speaker" doing as his long-time friend had said Gajeel pressed the speaker button on his phone "What is this about Lily? Everyone knows the Heartfelia's died 7 years ago from a rival gang." Erza spoke, her voice was breaking, as if trying not to cry at the accusation that she was still alive. Hearing a sigh on the other end of the phone Lily spoke "Happy received a photo last month, of a young woman with blonde hair and brown eyes, who is a spitting image of Layla Heartfilia, at first Happy thought it was impossible for it to be the Lucy we all know, so he checked for anyone who looked remotely similar, Happy came up with nothing… Makarov had given her a new name, a new identity, a new life, she is now known as Lucy Ashley… and Sabertooth are after her…"
Everyone's eyes widened at this new information, is their long-time friend really the daughter of the Heartfilia's, the daughter of one of the richest mafia groups that ever existed, the friend that they thought had been dead for 7 years? "They are after her because of the money that was left to her in her parents Will… and because –" gun shots echoed through the phone "Lily!" Levy shouted "Fuck, look meet us the underground Happy and I will explain what we know there!"
The guys grabbed the keys to their cars "Juvia will go with Natsu to make sure Lucy is ok." Juvia kissed Gray on the cheek as he left the house "I will do the same." Levy stood on her tip toes while pulling on Gajeel's shirt pulling him down and giving him a kiss, before he made his way to the underground. "Natsu get your ass down here right now!" Erza shouted, she knew that he was most likely in a mood, but she was also in a mood, she was the only one that he would listen to right now "Grab your keys and Lucy, we are going to the underground… You both have explaining to do!" Erza screamed almost pulling at her hair as she left the house with Jellal.
Natsu came down the stairs with Lucy in his arms as she slept, "I'm guessing you know now huh?" he looked at Juvia and Levy as he grabbed his keys. "Why didn't she tell us?" Levy asked snatching the keys out of his hand as she glared at him "I'm driving… her voice was stern she was not happy at all. As she stormed her way to Natsu's black 4x4 she waited for everyone to buckle in before heading off.
The trip to the underground was oddly quiet, it was uncomfortable for Natsu, he was jealous that Lucy was sleep not having to face them quite yet. Stepping out of the car, Lucy was in his arms, still fast asleep. He noticed everyone was waiting in the car park for his car to arrive. Walking into a dark alley way, moving his shoulder up against a brick that scanned his tattoo that symbolised he was a part of Fairy Tail. 'Gotta love the tech we have… only Fairy Tail members can get in because of the chip implanted into the tattoo.' As the brick wall shifted revealing a staircase, and at the bottom an elevator. "You know you lot being quiet… it's starting to get on my nerves." Natsu spoke as they went to the bottom floor.