-Flash back-
"Natsu!" a small voice shouted, turning around the small pink haired boy's face lit up when he saw the small blonde girl run towards him with open arms. "Natsu!" She shouted once more as she jumped hugging the boy "Lucy" He hugged her back before grabbing her hand. "Mum is here to talk with Makarov, she said she is going to be a while and I want to play with Natsu" she smiled as she tapped Natsu "You're it!" she shouted as she ran around away from him, soon the other children had joined it, from Lisanna and Cana to Gray and Levy.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5…" Levy counted with her eyes closed as she leaned into a tree to prevent her from peaking. Natsu grabbed Lucy's arm and pulled her behind him as he ran away from everyone's sight but hers "She won't find us here!" coming to a stop Natsu's grin was wide as he turned around facing Lucy who was trying to regain her breath. "You run too fast!" she managed to say with her small hand on her flat chest "Are you sure we aren't too far from the rest?" she looked at him with big eyes "I'm sure, I mean we are still in the garden aren't we?" he paused for a moment "They'll find us… Eventually" Poking out his tongue he sat against the tree "Sit." He smiled as he waited for her to sit next to him, jumping slightly when Lucy sat beside him resting her head in his lap, grunting at him.
"Hey Lucy…" he started loosely plating random strands in her hair, she hummed in response "I Love you" He said with a big smile on his face, hearing his words Lucy quickly sat up "So you have to get used to me!" "Huh!? W – w – why!?" placing a kiss on her forehead Lucy went bright red "Because I'm going to marry you one day! So get used to it" He poked out his tongue and smiled once again, but looked worried for a moment when her eyes got big and started to water "Natsu!" she basically pounced on him and pushed him onto the ground "I – I Love you too!" He held her close to him "I can't wait to be your wife…" she rolled off from on top of him and just laid next to him, never wanting to be found, so that they could stay in this perfect moment.
"Haha! I found you!"
-Present-
"Natsu! Youre running too fast!" trying to get her feet to go faster Lucy realised that she was only wearing her short light pink night gown "Natsu! My nighty has probably flashed everyone by now!" Natsu laughed at her and smirked as he saw the old oak tree that brought back so many memories. He turned his head to see Lucy's eyes light up. "Get used to it!" finally coming to a stop behind the old tree Natsu sat against it with his arms behind his head, acting as a pillow. "Sit." He spoke watching her catch her breath. "This seems like Déjà vu." Her hand rested on her chest as it heaved. "Just sit." He patted the ground next to him with his toothy smile, watching as Lucy began to sit beside him, he wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her onto his lap.
"I remember that you've dragged me here once before." She smiled at the memory "Yep, we were playing hide and go seek and Levy was it. I dragged you here wanting to keep you all to myself." "You are really possessive you know that right?" she rested her head against his chest listening to his heart, his arms wrapped around her "Hey! I see that as one of my best qualities!" giggling at his reaction she tilted her head up towards Natsu's face who looked down at her when he felt her shift.
"Natsu…" she breathed softly, chewing at her lips, he knew what she wanted. Leaning his head down towards her lips, brushing over them softly he moved to her ear. "Tell me Lucy…. What do you want?" his hot breath blew into her ear, making her shudder "I – I want a kiss…" Natsu smirked at her words, slowly placing kisses from her ear down her neck. "Where Luce…? Where do you want me to kiss you?" his hands started rubbing along the sides of body down to her thighs, his slow actions were torturing her, and he knew this with the sweet soft moans that were escaping her lips. "My lips… I want you to kiss my lips" Slowly moving his lips back up her shoulder and her neck but not without leaving a few marks.
'My Lucy…' upon reaching him reaching her lips, Lucy felt limp in his arms as he kissed her passionately. Licking at her bottom lip, he begged for entrance, which she quickly granted to him, he shot his tongue into her mouth battling for dominance with her. Natsu's hand started pushing the material to her nighty up her thigh to her panties. Pulling away from the kiss Natsu was impressed with himself, her lips were swollen from his bites, parts of her hair covered her face and the marks on her neck had formed.
Reaching into his pocket Natsu pulled out the small box that had a dragon like lock on it, keeping it hidden from her sight. "Lucy…" she hummed in reply not wanting to speak fearing it would ruin the mood. "Will yo– "before he could ask her anything both of their heads shot to the side, looking out from behind the tree after hearing someone calling out her name. "LUCY!" Happy called out pulling Lucy off of Natsu's lap and into a hug. 'I'm going to kill cat boy…' Natsu glared at Happy, shoving the box back into his pocket. "Hello Happy." Lucy wrapped her arms around the tall blue haired boy, he was roughly Natsu's height but that was still a head taller than her.
Pulling away from the hug Happy twirled Lucy around "You've grown!" 'Definitely going to kill cat boy…' Natsu stood up grabbing Lucy's hand and started walking towards the main entrance to go home, with happy following them. "You have as well, you used to be so short." Catching a glance over at Natsu she saw the scowl over his face 'Are you Jealous? Of Happy?' Mentally face palming herself, she giggled slightly which made Natsu look at her "What?" "Oh nothing…" She just kept smiling. They talked all the way to the exit and Natsu was quiet, not wanting to say or do something that he would end up regretting later. Lucy hugged a few members good night, she saw Happy passing something to Natsu before walking back over to join her. "Let's go Luce." He grabbed her hand and placed his shoulder against a blue screen in the elevator.
"What did Happy give you?" Breaking the silence of what seemed like an eternity in the elevator, pulling a gun out of the back of his pants he showed her "He isn't sure if he and Lily were followed back here. I texted Gajeel, he's said that they're all home, but all my guns are either at home or in the fake floor to the back of the car." He watched Lucy just staring at the gun, as if fascinated "You wanna hold it or something?" "I don't know how to use a gun." Rubbing the back of her neck, Natsu handed her the gun and moved behind her "You hold it like this." overlapping his hand on hers, her positioned her hand so that she was holding the gun correctly and at the right height. Hearing the beep to the elevator Natsu grabbed the gun stuffing it away as he started walking up the stairs with Lucy following. "Can you teach me?" 'You really don't know how to use one do you?' he thought as he pressed his shoulder up against a blue screen opening the last door. As he went to open his mouth he saw something move in the shadows.
"Lucy stay here. Text someone at the house tell them to meet us at the waterpark pier." Passing Lucy his phone as he stood out the door, Lucy stood there confused about what was going on "Just do it!" he shouted causing her to jump, and she did what she was told, watching as the door closed as he disappeared into the shadows with his weapon drawn.
"My, my you are as quick as they say." Following the voice Natsu was on his guard "Such a shame it won't be of any use to you once we get our hand on Lucy Heartfilia…" there was another voice "If you even try to a finger on her I will fucken kill you." Natsu ears twitched as the sound of footsteps behind him. Turning around as quickly as he could he shot the gun multiple times before hearing the sound of a body falling to the ground? "I am the master of the shadows, Natsu Dragneel… What makes you think you stand a chance against me?" feeling a sharp pain surge through the side of his hip, it all acted in slow motion to him as he grabbed the blade with his hand, pulling it out of him before grabbing that hand that held it there, flipping the person over his head and into a wall. Walking over to the unconscious body, he looked down at the red head 'A woman?' Before he could pull the trigger, he heard someone jump on the roof tops.
Following the running figure Natsu could feel the presence of people behind. Skidding to a stop he quickly turned around charged at the three people behind him as he drew his pocket knife out from his pocket, weaving through them as he slit each of their throats, his clothes where covered in blood. Turning around once more he saw that the person had escaped. Running back towards the underground, he grabbed the unconscious woman throwing her over his shoulder before pressing his shoulder against the brick, opening the door to the flight of stairs. 'Fuck! Hurry up!' he mentally screamed as he tried to force the door open faster with his free hand.
"Natsu…?" Lucy stood there in tears when she saw that he was ok, she didn't even notice that he was covered in blood. "Lucy text Elfman, tell him I'm leaving someone for him to interrogate." Walking down the stairs he dropped the woman in the elevator, with her hands binded with her own hair he walked back up to see Lucy still in tears with her hands shaking as she sent the message. Seeing the state that she was in Natsu pulled her into a tight hug "I – I was scared wh – en I heard, the – the gun – shots." Lucy stuttered on her words as she gripped tightly onto his blood soaked shirt. "I'm ok Lucy…" pulling back he bent down slightly resting his forehead against hers. "Let's go meet everyone ok?" as she nodded her head Natsu and Lucy walked out of the hidden door and to his car.
Lucy was quiet most of the trip to the pier just looking down at her hands as he thumbelled her thumbs. She would look over to Natsu every so often to make sure he really was there that he was ok. As they pulled into the car park to the pier she saw everyone else was waiting there gunned and ready. As she climbed out of the car ready to run up to everyone she stopped in her steps when she Natsu fall limp to the ground, not unconscious just limp. Dropping beside him she heard rapid footsteps as they all ran to his side, Gray and Gajeel pulled him up, sitting him against the cars tire. "Fucken bitch got me." He smiled at Lucy trying not to worry her as she sat beside him. "You..." She couldn't think straight, she wasn't sure if she should be happy he's alive or upset that he is hurt because of her. "You… YOU IDIOT!" she screamed. "How – how can you sit here smiling when you were hurt because of me!?" Tears fell down her face rapidly, as she stood up, but before Natsu could grab her hand she was running away from them all. "Go after her now!" Natsu shouted causing Erza and Jellal to run after her.
She didn't know how far she had ran, how many corners she had turned, or how many tears had fallen to the ground 'How…? How can he smile like that when he was just hurt because of me!? I should've just died all those years ago!' she screamed inside of her head running into an alley, she found that it was a dead end when she felt her body hit the wall. Sliding down the bricks to her knees she hit the wall with her fist as the tears kept falling. She didn't even notice the man standing over her till he covered her mouth. Lucy's eyes shot open trying to hold her breath when she felt a damp cloth over her mouth. Shaking her head side to side as hard as she could tried to pull the hand away but she found that that approach wasn't working and tried something else. Lucy used all of her strength to stand as the man tried to hold her still, and when she was on her feet she swept her feet under him. The moment the man was on the ground and the cloth away from her mouth Lucy gasped for long needed air.
Hearing the man move as he tried to stand Lucy watched for a moment before bolting out of the alley. 'I shouldn't've run away!' Mentally slapping herself stupid, she stopped and searched her surroundings, noticing a car park. She ran towards the car and slid underneath one, cutting her hands and knees on the broken glass in the process.