Several seconds could feel like years in the arms of the lover you chose to spend your life with from that point onward. Natsu could certainly agree with that even as the heat of the moment started to simmer down ever so slightly. He felt Lucy's head rest on his shoulder and he tenderly moved his hand up to lovingly cradle her head while he turned his lips to her throat.

The scars were luckily on his back and that was one of the few parts on his body that were not exposed all that often. Unless they went to the beach again. Then they'd have to come up with a cover story.