Prompt: Feed my desire

Title: Everything's Better With Bacon

It had been a rough day.

Natsu was finally getting back from one of the most pain-in-the-ass jobs he had ever had the misfortune to do in his entire life.

It was especially disappointing because when he picked the job off the request board, it had looked so promising. The job was located in an area well-known for being heavily populated by monsters, the advertising on the flier offered a huge sum of money, and the wording was such that whoever sent in the job seemed absolutely desperate for help. In essence, it looked nice and dangerous—just the kind of job he loved.

And what did it end up being?

Goats.

That's right, he had just spent the whole day rounding up someone's herd of pure-blood prize-winning racing goats.

They really lived up to their name cause those buggers were certainly fast enough for racing. He, along with Erza and Gray had spent hours chasing them down and capturing them. Happy had gone with on the mission as well, but wasn't much help after one of the goats caught Natsu unawares and headbutted him square in the ass, pushing him face first into a small pond. His blue exceed partner had practically spent the rest of the mission breaking into hysterics whenever he saw the dragon-slayer.

He really wished that Lucy had gone with. With her varied keys, she could've set traps to contain the goats in no time. The few traps he set on his own, made by knocking down trees and making a fenced-in area, didn't always work. The goats evaded his attempts to herd them, often running in the away from the trap at the last second. He finally gave it up when one of them almost got crushed by a falling tree; he didn't want to accidentally kill one of them and forfeit his pay. Erza had to go easy on her magic as well, but at least she was able to scare a couple of goats into submission. Mostly they had depended on Gray slowing them down with his ice. However, Natsu was nowhere near as adept at ice skating as the ice devil slayer; he could still feel every small bruise from falling as well as the large one from the headbutting.

It really was unfortunate that Lucy had been unable to go.

But, you just can't bring your four-months pregnant wife with you on what you thought was going to be a dangerous mission. No one was willing to do that.

It was an exciting time for them, preparing to be parents for the first time. Getting everything ready had been very time consuming and also very expensive, which explained why he had been so eager to take the mission in the first place. With Lucy not able to take the more dangerous jobs—and thus the more high-paying jobs—it left Natsu to pick up the pace to provide for their growing family.

Although Natsu was happy to do so (he loved being someone that Happy, Lucy, and any future children could depend on) it also meant that he got to experience crappy days like today had been.

Even after the job was done, another kind of hell began for him. That had been the two torturous hours that he had to endure on the train ride back home. He had especially missed Lucy then; she was the only one he could count on to comfort him as he suffered through his motion sickness. Instead, he moaned his distress as everyone else tried to ignore him, Happy even going as far as shushing Natsu when he talked on the communication lacrima, laughingly retelling Natsu's fall into the pond, to both Charle and Lucy.

Now, finally off that hell ride, he was going home at last.

As soon as he exited the train, he and Happy had parted ways, the blue exceed explaining that Lucy specifically requested some alone time with her husband and father of her child. Happy said he was only too happy to comply, offering it as a form of apology for laughing at Natsu so often during the day. Natsu thought it more likely that Happy did so because there was someone (a white-furred exceed someone) that Happy would rather see than Lucy.

Whatever the reason, the exceed and dragon-slayer went in different directions, one heading towards the guild, the other towards his home and wife.

Natsu opened his front door, happy to finally be home. It smelled great inside, like Lucy had recently been cooking meat—bacon to be exact. It was dark and quiet; he wondered if Lucy had fallen asleep. Even in these first few months of her pregnancy, he noticed that she had been tiring easier, often going to bed early and taking naps during the day.

"Lucy?" he called. "You home?"

"In he~re." she answered in a sing-song voice from the direction of their bedroom.

Smiling, he headed towards her, shedding his backpack, sandals, and jacket as he walked. He was looking forward to his Lucy time; whether he got a little somethin' somethin' or just got to cuddle with her as they fell asleep didn't matter. It was all good in his book.

He opened his bedroom door to one of the most wonderful sights he had ever seen. About a dozen of his favorite candles littered the room, illuminating the area with their light and making his mouth water from their tasty looking flames. In addition, a small fire burned in the fireplace—from the smell, Lucy had added Maple to the fire—he could pick out its sweet scent.

His eyes were naturally drawn to the centerpiece of the scene—his bed and the person who laid within, the one he had been looking forward to seeing all day.

Lucy was there, not a stitch of clothing adorning her soft and creamy skin. Instead, draped along her body, provocatively covering her best bits were several strips of delicious-looking thick-cut bacon that she apparently had cooked earlier in the day.

Lucy laid on her back, showing off the bacon covering her breasts to best advantage; there was enough of it to make a bra of sorts. She had placed several pieces along her thighs and above her pubic mound, although she left the curly blonde hairs of her pubis undecorated. It was just as well, he'd rather not eat pubic hairs, even if it they were Lucy's. There were several other pieces: on her arms, along her neck, covering her ankles. She had even arranged a few along her belly, emphasizing the small bump signifying her pregnancy.

"Welcome home, honey!" She said, smiling, a playful glint in her eyes. She brought a finger up to her chin, as if in deep thought. "Let's see...would you maybe like some dinner first, or maybe a bath, or maybe, me, first?"

"You. Definitely you." he said with no hesitation at all, voice husky with desire, at the same time rushing to strip off his pants and boxers. He paused in his actions for a moment. "And maybe...a little snack?"

Lucy said nothing at all, just raised her arms to welcome him into her smiling embrace.

His day might have been terrible, but his night sure wouldn't be.

Heavily inspired by volume 23 of the Fairy Tail tankobon. Mira says some great things in the Q & A part at the end. Even if you don't/can't buy the volumes, read them anyway—they have some great extra stuff.