This one was prompted by freakyFangirl13! Thanks for your review and prompt. It's a little short and I'm not sure it matches so well, as you'll see we (myself, Lucy, and Natsu) all got distracted by various things…

I'll write another soon, now that I'm done with the semester and all I have to worry about is work. There's some art (read: sketch) I did for the last chapter up on my tumblr (same account name). Feel free to submit more prompts!
Love, zabeth

Prompt: It's the middle of the night and both people are awake. Person B starts to ask all sorts of stupid questions until finally person A smacks them with a pillow.

"Hey Natsu?"

"..mmm?" Natsu hummed, not really wanting to open his eyes. He'd been on call that day and while there hadn't been any incidents, sitting idly and listening to the radio scanner made him unbearably sleepy. Lucy's workday had been just as long, but…

"What do you think about getting a cat?"

…he probably shouldn't have let her drink that cappuccino after dinner.

"Wha?"

He creaked an eye open when the bed shifted under him. Glancing towards her, he saw that Lucy was curling up on her side, looking at him with wide eyes. Her fingers were starting to lace together in a way reminiscent of someone begging or praying.

"I said, what do you think about getting a cat?" Her tone was very mugh awake and fit right in with the small pout on her lips. Natsu sighed and closed his eyes again.

"Never thought about it before, to be honest."

"What if… what if it was a blue cat? Could we get it then?"

This made him open his eyes wide in confusion. Blue? A blue cat? What in the…

"Luce, why would you get a blue cat? Do blue cats even exist?"

He turned his head to see that pout again.

"Well, why shouldn't they? Levy and Juvia have blue hair." She shuffled closer to press her chin into his shoulder.

"Levy dyes her hair. You know that, Luce; you're the one helping her bleach it every month before she dyes it again," he mumbled turning eyes back towards the slowly rotating ceiling fan. He felt the puff of indignant air hit his shoulder and neck before she even moved.

Suddenly, Lucy propped herself up, leaning over him a little and blocking his view of the spinning blades above them. Her hair was falling off her shoulders, tickling his chest, and her fingers were digging into the sheets slightly underneath his arm. The way she leaned and fully extended her arms, with elbows locked, gave him a great view of her breast pushed together in the gapping neckline of one of his shirts. He could feel some of the exhaustion of his day being pushed down by other more pressing states of being.

All of this was completely distracting him from the words forming on her mouth. His eyes flicked up to see them stop moving and suddenly curl into a sly grin.

"Well, your hair is pink and I know it isn't dyed at all." That grin was as downright vicious as it was victorious, her head tilting back to look down at him through lowered lashes and catching her lower lip between her teeth. "After all, the curtains match-"

Natsu didn't let her finish that sentence, his face blooming just as pink as his hair. The thwump of the pillow hit her gently, but was shocking enough that she tipped over onto her spot next to him letting out a small squeak of indignation. He didn't need to be reminded that she'd giggled, actually giggled, the first time she'd gotten a good look at him in the buff.

It wasn't his fault that he had naturally pink hair!

Lucy had dissolved into a fit of giggles again next to him as his face screwed up in a half-grimace half-pout, probably reminded of what he didn't want to remember. As swiftly as his still tired self could, whacked her with the pillow again (gently) then turned on his side and pulled her into an embrace. He purposefully pressed her face against his shoulder and neck to smother the last of her giggle fit. His voice rumbled through his chest and into hers.

"Shut up and go to sleep."

Lucy stifled one more titter and tried to suppress the silly smile on her face. Wriggling around to secure her arms around his torso and a leg through his, she felt him pull her closer and relax as he easily drifted off. She was still quite awake, but let her mind continue to run instead of her mouth. Eyes closed she began to imagine going to the animal shelter.

There had to be a blue one. She wouldn't settle for anything that wasn't as unique and interesting as her Natsu.