midnightstar | Happy Holidays Charlie Brown! .. oh wait wrong canon

Christmas and Thanksgiving were going to be difficult holidays for Regina and the kids. They had, for the most part, mended from the deaths of their friends, but this would also be the first Christmas slash Thanksgiving without them. So for that afternoon, she decided to let Natsu distract the kids and the dog for the time being. More than likely they were bundled up and jumping in piles of leaves outside, or begging Natsu for more demonstrations. As for herself, she went to help distract Regine with preparing food. Happily, Regina only took Lucy's bright smile for her natural demeanor and not for any other reasons.

On the other hand, Lucy hadn't been able to stop smiling since the night she and Natsu were.. er.. very intimate together. Assuming she didn't drift off into a dreamy spacey mode when she thought no one was looking. And if she actually saw him, forget it - it took everything she had not to grab him and hold him close. Heck, before that night she had difficulty keeping her eyes off him - it was more so now. SO it was probably for the best that she had something like cooking and entertaining Regine to occupy her attention.

If Regine noticed the way Lucy's conversation chatter kept turning to the topic of Natsu unconsciously, she didn't mention it, though she did seem amused for some reason. Currently the ladies were discussing options for the dinner - the kids wanted to start eating spicier food to - obviously - be more like Natsu after all.

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She flashed a wide smile at him as he called her on her nitpicking. Feeling that shudder against her, she chuckled softly, her hand sliding lower so it can slip under his vest, letting it rest still for the time being, save for her thumb that gently slid against the skin, content to just have that contact.

"There's.. there's no rules that say I can't nitpick." She stammered defensively. Feeling his hand sliding up to her neck, she brought her hand from the back of his head to brush her fingers against his cheek, the blush her cheeks likely never to tone down at this rate.

"I'm surprised you can still think of rules~" He chuckled, once again turning to misthief as he nipped on her earlobe this time. just enough for her to feel his teeth teasing the skin and nothing more.

He was subdued right after that though by that soft touch to his cheek that melted his resolve in a heartbeat.

"You really don't play fair you know that?" And he stole another line of hers.

What do you expect from a dragon tamer? Although that nip effectively shorted out her brain for a second, as she uttered a soft whimper, cut short by her pulling her hand away to press it over her mouth. She didn't say ANYTHING.

"Wha..." What was he saying again? OH! Right, something about playing fair. Darn line thief. Well she was just going to take a page from his book and rally herself a little, smirking. "I.. W-Who said I wanted to play fair?" Especially when it was just the two of them. Somehow, inevitably, all bets were off when it came to playing fair.

She could say that nip was pretty unfair too, for that matter.

Dragon tamer. She certainly fits the template. She even has a whip to boot. But her tamed dragon could easily frazzle her all the same. So who was really taming who? Natsu chuckled hearing that whimper. Oh yes he heard it. She didn't have to say it.

"Oh you don't want to play fair hmmm? I can oblige~" Uh oh his voice was going down in tone again and his tongue actually traced the outside of her ear to reinforce his acceptance of her challenge.

Maybe they were taming each other? They certainly were taking on each other's qualities a lot, and they frazzled each other equally. "Wh.. wait I..I --" ohlord she stepped in it that time. His voice getting deeper was bad enough, but his tongue tracing the outside of her ear? Evil. She shivered under him witih another whimper, the hand against his back reflexively sliding across to his side.

There were no take backs in this little game of taming one another. Natsu was by nature a very tactile person and the things he knew he could do now with Lucy were merely the natural progression of that trait. And by god was it effective at frying Lucy's brain. Licks, nipping even sniffing. All of it made her react in so many amazing and entertaining ways.

"Hmmm did you say something~?" Oh yes he was well aware of the effect he was having and relishing it completely.

Well fine - she'd just get even with him. . .. when he wasn't frying her brain like he was. "Gh.." There definitely was a variety to how she reacted- she giggled a little at the sniffs, giggles that gave way to noises that were more akin to soft whimpers at the nips, squirming under him when she felt his tongue. And he had the audacity to ask her questions in all of that. "Y... you ... y'know I .. I did." She answered, her voice somewhere between amusement and a whine. So unfair and cruel and she will see her revenge, eventually.

Who said he'd give her a chance to get even to begin with. Natsu continued his faint assault on her senses on all fronts. It was so easy to pluck at the strings of her being to make her sing the way he liked it. His body shook a little over her as he chuckled to himself.

"Not really. It was hard to tell what you said. Maybe you can repeat it for me~" oh yes he was taking this the whole way.

Well even if he didn't let her get her revenge now, she would get it next time. That she'd promise him - if she were capable of thinking properly enough to say so. Although with the assault on her senses, that was rather difficult to think, letting out soft gasps. Augh. Repeat it?

"Nng.. I..ah.." What was it she said? Come on brain, work with me here~! "I.. it was... um... s... something.."

BRILLIANT.

Next time would be fun regardless. Natsu had to hold in another chuckle with how she could barely think of anything to counter him with.

"Something hmmm? Was it important enough to make me stop?" As if he would stop. But dangling the possibility in front of her like baiting a cat with yarn was another secret pleasure.

She'd promise to give him as good as he got her - and then some. Oh the plotting. "Nn...Natsu.." So. Un. Fair. Though that whine could have been a 'don't you dare' or a 'you're so horrible right now' or just a whine in general. Some part of her wondered what he would have said if she told him it -was- important enough considering he'd know it wasn't. But she squirms a bit in the knowledge he was so amused. She pouts at him, though can't quite keep the humor from her voice. "W. what do you think?" No, of course.

She's the one who said not playing fair was the name of the game. Is what he'd use as an argument. In truth he would have reached this point with or without her blunder. That is to say he still prefered it whenever she put her foot in her mouth like that.

"What I think? I think you would hate it if I stopped~"

She'd insist that she had said that hypothetically! ... not that she was against the way things were turning out. "Nng.. g'y.. you'd...you'd be right. Ahah.. ho.. how -" How was it possible that he knew exactly - whether by instinct or not - but he ALWAYS knew how to touch her and where and make her /squirm/ so much. She has to cover her face with a hand - it was kind of embarrassing how much of an effect he had on her.

Another sultry chuckle was her reward for that flimsy protest from Lucy's lips. How? HOw could he not when he knew things she did on a subconscious level in terms of body language? But revealing his trick like that too her? Oh no that wouldn't do.

"Don't hide now. I've already seen you completely~" He cheekily teased.

It was bad enough he was doing all that, making it harder for her to think straight by the second, but he was being -cheeky- about it too! That teasing comment made her blush more - she didn't think it was possible to blush more than she already was. "I .. I feel like _I'm_ the one on fire here." Seriously if she were capable of it, she thinks her face would burst into flame from that alone. But, since he insisted -she forced her hand away from her face to settle both arms around him.

"Being on fire with me isn't a bad thing though~ You liked it so much last time~" Natsu was apprently pulling off the gloves completely in his approach and his hand started moving down over Lucy's leg while his lips trailed from her neck over to her chin and clearly heading right for her lips.

He really was taking the 'not playing fair' thing to heart here. Her leg twitched slightly under his hand, "O-oh god, I.." Gracious he was being absolutely merciless wasn't he? "Th.. that.." She shivered again, the feels of his lips trailing up her chin enough to steal away her ability to speak for a moment. "...t..that was..." There weren't enough words to describe that last time. And it was hard to think of creative ones while he was doing that anyway.

She really was on fire in multiple ways. Her mind was burning down because of his careful attention to her every secret need. Her body was burning with that desire he'd stoked up with each touch and brush of his lips and tongue. And all the while his own heat rose because of her gradual inability to even form full sentences as well as the intoxicating scent she was starting to emanate the longer they continued this.

It was a fire that she entirely didn't mind being consumed by - being on fire with him. The way his touch ignited her entire being in ways she didn't think were possible. She'd kept asking herself how the hell he knew to do what he was doing, but in the end it didn't matter. Or she could simply chalk it up to Natsu being Natsu - intuitive in and out of fights. But it definitely didn't matter because by -GOD- she did not want him to stop.

All he did was watch her with every action he did and learn what got the strongest reaction and build up on that. Honestly it was all surprisingly natural for him. His instincts were never wrong either. "Mmmm Lucy~" he purred her name as if to get her attention only to steal her breath away as he claimed her lips with the greed expected of a dragon.

That figured it would be the trick of it. She wouldn't be surprised at all to know that actually, the way he was. She opened her eyes at the sound of her name, and just in time for him to claim her lips. Honestly she didn't mind running out of air with him either, and she was privately amused by his green. She wasn't sure who was greedier when it came to contact and kisses with each other, but she hadn't exactly made a count either. Didn't care to - the second she felt his lips against hers, she tightened her arms around him, leaning into the kiss with a low hum of pleasure. It was as she always said - the longer she was in his arms, the less she wanted to be out of them, fingers stroking through his hair idly.

This time the kiss wasn't just a press of lips to lips. No she would soon feel that familiar sensation of his tongue trying to find its way past her lips to sate a completely different thirst they shared. Keeping track of anything in these moments was a futile endeavor unless it involved making the other cry out more than you.

That would be an entertaining method of keeping score - although that would probably also be futile if they got so caught up with the sound of the other crying out that score didn't become important anymore. In any case if it had been something they were doing, Natsu would already have had the advantage from the soft moans he'd gotten out of her already.

And.. oh; feeling his tongue against her lips trying to gain entrance, she obliged him eagerly parting her lips with her tongue moving to meet his, the hand in his hair giving a slight tug reflexively.

It would be unreliable in the end. Especially when they would be so immersed in one another to think of anything else but that sensation. He felt Lucy's lips part and his tongue tried to dart in quickly only to be met by Lucy's own tongue. Oh so now she was finally playing the real game. That was exactly what he had been hoping for. The tug on his hair earned her another of those deep rumbling growls that seemed to taunt her to do that again.

Pretty accurate - probably a good thing something like that hadn't occurred to them to even try. Speaking of immersed, Lucy certainly was getting more immersed in him, Enough that her free hand slid under his vest in order to brush up his side and over his back, moving in a slow circle to better feel him. And that growl - she shivered slightly at the sound, the hand in his hair taking up that taunt and giving it another, slightly harder, tug.