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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He did have a tendency to draw it out of her, along with her possessive streak. Feeling his hands explore more, she squirmed occasionally under him, whenever he touched a particularly sensitive part of her body, her fingers digging into his skin to encourage him - - not ... that he even -needed- encouragement. But she knew he liked to feel her nails too, so it worked both ways, as she kept the kiss going, her tongue wrestling against his, occassionately tugging it out of the way just to tease him.

And he relished that power far too much than he should. Then again they both benefited from it in the end so neither could really complain. A faint teasingly frustrated growl started slipping out from between their joined lips as her tongue started playing hard to get with his, making his hands falter from time to time as if to try and distract her long enough for him to get the upper hand.

His reaction to her teasing was met with a muffled chuckle within the kiss; though his distraction technique was successful, usually. In hindsight she found herself occasionaly amused the way they traded aggression back and forth in things like this. Though she needed air, she didn't pull back so much as break the kiss briefly to pant for air. "Mmg.. gods.. Natsu," she managed, unable to keep from kissing him again, "..why are you so addicting.." Not that she really expects him to have an answer for that. He might not have a chance to anyway, the way she spoke in between kisses.

The fact that she could barely keep her lips off of his long enough to try and speak was more flattering than any romantic commentary they could have had. Natsu groaned outright this time because dammit he wanted to claim those lips outright now. He would settle in the end for starting to consciously work her top off completely, evening the odds a bit more and giving them both more of that delicious contact there were so dire in need of.

In due time, surely. She grinned at the sound of the groan, trailing her kisses to different parts of his face and neck, letting her lips drift close enough to his skin to let him guess where her lips would touch. Or try to guess, since once in a while she picked a less obvious spot. Of course in her eagerness to help him work her top off, it didn't occur to her she'd have to pull it over her head. Meaning she'd have to stop kissing him for a second.

This was why he sometimes was tempted to just burn her clothes off. Less hassle and wasted time getting undressed. But it wasn't worth angering Lucy to that extent. Oh well it was worth those few moments apart. He attacked her neck all over again with kisses and nips before an odd idea suddenly struck Natsu.

"I have an idea I wanna try out with you~" Natsu purred into Lucy's ear. "One you are definitely gonna like."

SHe'd protest that it wasn't fair to attack her neck while she was in the middle of pulling her shirt over her head..if she wasn't groaning happily at it. And if she didn't remember that they were playing the 'no playing fair' game. Finally managing to tug it over her head, her breathing raspy from his assault, she cast a feverish glance at him. "What..? What idea..?" She was all for it if he was certain she'd like it - and he knew her tastes perfectly by now. She set her shirt aside.

"Wait.. surprise me." It might be risky to tell him to just try this idea without knowing what it was, but she trusted him. If he said she'd like it, she'd believe it.

"This~" Natsu grinned and gripped Lucy's hips and rolled them both over so that she straddled his stomach while he was under her pinned and served up on a platter for her eyes and hands. Yes he'd just given her the top throne for now. He wanted to see what she would do with it now that she was as worked up as he wanted her to be.

Lucy squeaked in surprise when he shifted them over. Blinkblinking down at him, she grinned. "Hoou, so that's how it is, hm?" She trailed her fingers over his chest, tracing around the muscles with a finger, watching his face before leaning down and targeting his neck the way he had hers, giving it a sharp bite as she purred against him. "Mmmm, makes me wonder.."

He would be grinning up at her if she hadn't bent down on top of him to bite at his neck. That was a definite bite and the surprised gasp Natsu let out was a sound that was really first of a kind. Usually he was the one doing the biting so being on the receiving end like that was unbelievably arousing.

OH. She liked that sound. She really really liked it. She purred in approval, pressing her lips against the spot she bit, before considering something -- well to be fair, a number of things. The next sensation he'll have is the feel of her tongue gently brushing over that same spot, before she caught some of the skin between her teeth, trading between applying the slightest bit of pressure and even sucking on the spot a little. Hope he doesn't mind a hickey- ... or twenty. Hey, he's got a scarf he can cover it up with, it'll be fine! Right?

Had he known that putting her on top would awaken this side of her, Natsu would have done it even sooner. Be that as it were, he was having a very hard time focusing his mind on anything but the sensation of Lucy's lips and tongue over his neck before another sharp inhale left him when he felt her....mark him. She was marking him. The thought was making him unbelievably hot and if she were to press down a bit lower on his body she would feel exactly how strong of an effect she had just had on him.

Maaaaaaaaaaaybe it was revenge of her own after he'd gotten her all riled up. Her hands slid along his sides, moving as far down as his hips and then up to his shoulders as she painstakingly, slowly covered every part of his neck with kisses, shifting to the other side and purring against his skin. She might very well be aware of just how strong an effect she was having on him, and it made her grin quite a bit. Tracing her kisses up his chin, she looked at him with a sudden smile that was two parts sultry and two parts mischief. "Natsu.." She purred. "I just had a great idea.." He may be doomed.

Payback he more or less have hi consent to. Not that he regretted it for a single moment. Seeing Lucy this in charge, this powerful and this delectable. IT was worthy any price. Which was why he asked without a shred of doubt or apprehension.

"You did huh? And what is it?"

"You'll see. ... Well... kind of." Cryptic much? Such complete trust in each other made it easier to do things that were this fun and pleasurable. And she was ..extremely curious about something. "Close your eyes."

Cryptic indeed but his trust in Lucy was absolute and so far everything she'd done had lit the fire inside him to even greater heights. "Okay then." He said and closed his eyes, curiously expectant of what Lucy had in mind.

Absolute, just like her trust in him was. She smiled softly, lowering a hand to caress his cheek gently. She loved him more with every second that passed, it was utter madness. Although what she had been considering might be madness too. She leaned down to rest her forehead against his, breathing in his presence a moment, and then smiles, shifting her hands under his scarf to move it out of the way more. Over his eyes, in fact. "No peeking." She added.

Her next statement miight be a little -evil-, and her voice betrays her a bit there. "And no touching." Well, for him anyway. She was trailing her fingers over his chest ever so lightly. Of course if he asks /WHY/ no touching she'd be perfectly happy to tell him. It was a new game~!

With his eyes closed, he had only his senses to rely upon to know what she was doing. And even that was barely enough. He did grow even more puzzled when he felt her hand moving his scarf all the way over his eyes. That was...new and in a way quite thrilling. And then she had to use the VOICE. Oh god that voice.

"T-That's gonna be a pretty tall order you know. Gonna have to give me a bit more than that"

"Is it?" She grinned down at him. "Well I can't exactly tie your wrists down to keep you from trying to touch. I -suppose- I could hold your wrists down, but -" Keeping them down would be laughable. "That'd leave me a little limited." Although she'd have to think of some creative ways to drive him crazy for sure. "What more could you want?" She can't help herself though, and reaches down to trace the outline of his abdomen idly.

She was grinning. He didn't have to see it to know. Her voice gave it away and he would be lying if he said he didn't wish he could see it. "Mngh you know I don't have an answer for that." Natsu growled as his body thrummed under her hand with each tantalizing brush of her fingers.

It was the own downside of her little mischievous plan. Being unable to see his face, and vice versa. She loved to see his reactions - but she'd have to listen to them instead. "Hmm.. that's a shame, if you had an answer for it you might have been able to convince me~." The likelihood of that was slim though.

Just as he had been attentive and quite, -quite- thorough with her, she intended to do the same with him. She supposed it would be more effective if she had done this from the start and built up his fire the way he had hers though. But tenderly building that existing fire into an all consuming blaze was just as good. "Am I going to have to hold your hands down?" There's almost a laugh there, because leverage or not, she knew she wouldn't be able to hold him still if he wanted to move.

Oh he wasn't complaining about the current circumstance. Why would he when everything felt that much more vibrant with his sight denied like this. Natsu chuckled hearing that thoughtful hum of hers. "Oh yeah you think I could change your mind once you decide on something?" He didn't. She could be as stubborn as him after all.

"Well you could try. depends how good your idea is really~" Oh yes he was taunting her even now and he knew he'd be eating those words.

He's taunting her? HER? .. just like she'd be taunting him. They really were too much alike. Well fine. Challenge accepted. The laugh she'd been holding back escapes at that. "Hm, you're going to have to tell me afterwards then. That is.." There's a slight shift of her weight as she leans closer, her lips against his ear. "If you can," she purred low in her throat, her lips pressing against his ear with a light kiss, followed by the feel of her tongue tracing along the edge of his ear to his earlobe, which received a tiny nip.

Not that she'd forgotten about his hands though! Her hands stroking up his sides slowly slid up to his shoulders and then down to his wrists, to grip them lightly as she had 'threatened' to do.

Yes he was taunting her. She would do the same and he knew it so why hold back at all. A low shudder wracked his body hearing her whisper in his ear like that before attacking it in a way similar to what he'd done. So first she stole his lines and now she stole his techniques? Then again by god did that nip get him bucking a little on instinct before he caught himself.

He could feel her hands, even see them in his mind, see himself under Lucy as her hands explored his sides until they gripped his wrists. THe whole was not a strong one and he could definitely break free if he wanted. If he wasn't curious what kind of ideas she had gotten from all of this.

Was it a crime to test out the same techniques he used on her to see how he'd respond to them too? Well in any case, she knew quite a few chinks in his armor, so to speak, by now. Even though that involuntary buck on his side got a surprised noise from Lucy as she sucked in a breath, her hands tightening on his wrists briefly. Okay. Okay that's... that was to be expected. Yeah.

Her lips trailed down the side of his neck with gentle nips and not so gentle bites until she found a spot against his throat that she paid particular attention to for a bit longer than the rest, assaulting the area with an assortment of nips and bites before proceeding to mark him again with a faint growl, shifting slightly against his waist to add ..well not insult to injury but she probably is perfectly aware of that effect too.