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Spending day after day in the cabin Natsu had built near the Guild, going on missions and living, being WITH Natsu was plain and simple, pure. Heaven. Lucy could genuinely not think of any time she was as happy as she was with him. It still amused her to think of the times she was too flustered to acknowledge her feelings for him, until things came to a head.

And then the kids came along during that mission - Nev and Justine, along with their 'mom' Regine. If Natsu becoming an integral part of Lucy's life was like completing her, then the kids and Regine were the added frosting on a perfected cake. Yeah that metaphor was all over the place. GRANTED it was a little difficult to get time alone with Nev and Justine almost demanding their attention a good amount of the time, but she didn't mind, and didn't think Natsu did either. They had their evenings together, and their little hiding spots to sneak away to, sometimes just for fun.

Meanwhile the first rays of light were beginning to filter in through the window-shades of their room, with Lucy snuggled up against Natsu's side, an arm wrapped around him with a faint smile on her lips. Not quite awake yet, but in that in-between point of just about to rouse. The birds had barely even begun to chirp when the distant BAM! of a door swinging open, followed by barely hushed giggling voices and scampering feet could be heard by Dragonslayer senses with ease, obviously heading towards said cabin.

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He did move away but he smirked back at her before he nipped the back of her neck for a split second before pulling away completely.

"You can't say that would be so bad though can you~?"

She let out a squeak, swatting at him in response, "No," she admitted, "It's probably too tempting, but at the same time," she reached over with a light fluff of her fingers through his hair. "We'll have plenty of time to do that later, you know." She moved her hand over with a grin, to tap his nose gently, "You just have to behave yourself till then."

He grinned shamelessly before he nipped at that finger she used to tap his nose.

"Well I'll do my best~" Not a total promise though. So hopefully Lucy did not lower her guard TOO much~

ACK! She swatted at him again, giggling, "Cut that out~!" She giggled, "You're such a trouble maker." Though he's HER troublemaker. "You're just adding to your punishment, you know that don't you?"

"Ohhh noooo what am I gonna do with that much 'punishment' " Natsu rolled his eyes cheekily before leaning after her with a grin.

"I might not be able to take it for that long~" A flat out lie and they both knew it

She giggled, "I feel like you aren't takeing your impending punishment as seriously as you should." she smirked back, shifting to sit up, "I think you should be more nervous~! YOu don't have any idea what I'm going to do, after all." Grinning as he leaned after her, she leaned over as well, chuckling.

"Am I though? I'm just working with what 'punishments' I can remember~" Natsu answered with a delighted purr as he leaned forward after her, slowly escorting his beloved celestial mage back inside the guild.

She tilted her head enough to lean it against his, grinning, "I could take you by surprise, though, you never know~!" She purred, wrapped so much in him she barely even noticed when they walked back into the guild. At least until she heard the children's voices lifting in 'ewwwwww' and giggled responses.

Blushing fiercely, she abruptly pulled away from Natsu and cleared her throat. You saw nothing.

Natsu still coiled one arm around Lucy's waist keeping her close but not doing anything other than that. He did turn his face to the kids sticking his tongue out at them like a child himself while he walked Lucy over to the table again.

The children giggled at Natsu's response before scampering off again. "Everyone still keeps staring at us," she murmured with a chuckle, settling next to him at the table. "IF my being with you is this much of a shock to them, imagine when the others show up." She giggled faintly. Oh lord, her luck would be they'd walk in while she was all snuggled against her beloved dragon slayer, and then she'd just be even more embarrassment.

Natsu claimed his seat of honor naturally by Lucy's side leaning in to her ear and whispering hotly.

"Nah but imagine if they knew how far we've gone by now. That would definitely leave them without being able to say a single word I bet. Especially with how thick they think I am about those things~"

She felt like her blush was never going to fade, the way he closed in with her like usual. She grinned a little, slipping her arm around him and settled against his side.

"I..IF they figured that out I don't think i'd ever stop blushing." She chuckled, ".. you -were- pretty thick though. They probably think we haven't done more than hold hands." Thinking about how much further than that they have gone in the past year and a half though.. welp.

"Well that just works in our favor then. Since they think I'm still that way~" Natsu answered with a sly purr as he nuzzled against her shoulder happily, just taking in her intoxicating scent as a dragon slayer.

Lucy grinned, nuzzling gently into him in turn, "You won't hear me complaining." she purred back softly - thankfully with the level increase in cuteness, they were being allotted their privacy too.

Natsu's hand gripped hers under the table and the two simply leaned against one another as they admired the rowdy hall of their guild and how the adorable new comers were already fitting right in.

She squeezed his hand when she felt him gripping hers, nuzzling affectionately against him. Quite content to watch the rest of the people in the guild - in much the way she often loved watching him. Only difference this time was that she was free to cuddle and hold him now.

The two of them hardly needed anything more than that. But they also noticed Mira swooning every time she didn't have to serve more drinks. That was going to keep happening for a while no doubt.

After the tenth time Mira swooned just from watching the two of them, Lucy chuckled, leaning over to her dragon, "I think we're a hazard to Mira's health. Maybe we should grab Regine and the kids and let them know where they can stay for now?" Well. 'For now' is probably going to be a permanent fixture for the kids being that they'll be able to stay in the same place their HERO stayed.

"Hahaha that might be a good idea. Though getting them to pull away from Asuka might be the real challenge. They've hit it off so well." Natsu explained, a faint hint of pride slipping into his voice.

"It's no surprise really -" She chuckled softly. "Asuka's such a sweet heart." She gave Natsu's hand another light squeeze before tugging it away to get to her feet, "Mira, can we borrow Regine and the kids for a few?" Lucy called over to the pair.

Mirajane nodded, still giddy and woozy from her latest swooning spell, now draped over the counter with a broad grin on her face, "Of course! Everything okay?"

Regine gave Lucy a curious glance as well, and the blonde smiled, "Well, we figured out a place that Regine and the kids could stay while they're here-ack!" She squeaked when Nev, dashing into the room from a barrage of pellets on behalf of Asuka, bumped into Lucy - who let out a yelp when Asuka hit her mark on Lucy's backside as well. "Hey!"

Asuka giggled sheepishly, "Sorry Lucy~!" She zipped past, but Lucy nabbed Nev before he could ru n after her, "Hold on Nev - actually, Natsu and I wanted to show you, your sister and Regine where you can stay while you're here. You can come back and play later."

"Awwwwwwww.." Nev pouted a second - but this was just as much an adventure as any, and he moved over to Regine's side as she stepped out from behind the bar with Herb trotting obediently at her side.

Seeing Lucy get shot in the but only made Natsu break out into laughter as his partner protested this great injustice.

"Asuka will be back here anyway. Come on let me show you where me and Happy live." Natsu said to Nev with a conspiriing grin as if sharing some great dirty secret.

"Natsu!" Lucy huffed at him, then overdramatically reached over for Regine and Justine, stalking out of the guild.

The others in the guild of course, are tickled at the dramatic exit, while Nev's eyes light up at Natsu's comment. "We're gonna see where you live!? COOOL! Let's go let's go!" He reached out to grab Natsu's hand to pull him as if HE knew where the place was.

Though when they get outside, it seems Regine and Justine have formed a united front with Lucy for fun, and shoot Natsu 'Shame on you for laughing!' looks, before glancing away with 'hmphfs!'

Lucy was refusing to even so much as glance at Natsu because the minute she did, she was going to lose her shit giggling. How long they were going to be able to keep this up... probably not long.

Natsu was talking happily with Nev abotu the houe dscribing it when he saw the three girls looking at his so disapprovingly for lauing at Lucy's 'horrific' plight.

"Huh? What? is somethin on my face?" he asked pretending to nwo know what those looks were over since he knew Lucy surely knew he was just hamming it up.

Lucy stifled a snicker behind her hand and muffled it as best she could. Justine glanced at her and decided to ramp up the hamminess, turning to waggle a finger at Natsu.

"You should be ashamed of yourself, you upset Lucy," she scolded as they walked, "I bet she's crying and hiding it because you laughed at her getting shot in the butt."

"Pf.." Lucy coughed, and quickly changed her sputtered laugh into a mock sobb, "Boohoohoo~!"

Regine can't even keep a straight face, and instead focuses on keeping Herb from chasing after small critters, and Nev from jumping into the canal.

"Oh really? Whatever should I do then?" Natsu asked rolling his eyes a bit at the silly antics he was being made to take part in now.

Well he could think of a few things but he was going to have Justine give him the excuse ot do some of them~.