Silent Night -A Fairy Tail FANFIC- Chapter 5 -FIN-

  Natsu sits across the recently tided up table and stares at the food being brought out via Happy with lust. Just as he tries to sneak a bite, a knife lands right between his fingers and stops him dead in his tracks, he looks up at the menacing blonde in the Santa costume and backs his hand away slowly.

  “But Lucy…it looks so good…” He complained finally, to which Lucy just let out an annoyed scoff and rolled her eyes.

  “Just hold it a bit longer, ok?” Natsu’s eyes drooped down to her neck and exposed chest, to which Lucy responds to with a slap to his face.

  “Lucy!! what the hell!?”

  “Don’t ‘what the hell’ me, you pervert!”

  Natsu’s face blanked with confusion “I was just checking if I had burned you!” she looked down at her own chest and looked back up at him, a look of slight disappointment in her eyes.

  “Is that all? Well, I’m fine, I told you I’m fine” Happy flew in with the last of the food and landed on Natsu’s head, whispering stealthily into his ear.

  “She used that stuff you made for her nose all over her body, I saw it! She was rubbing it all over herself in the bathroom!” Natsu’s eyes went from amused to a full on glare.

  “Happy, are you openly admitting that you peeked at her?” Happy grinned and winked

  “Nope, who do you think she asked to get in the ‘hard to reach’ sections?”

  In response to that, Natsu’s face, after carefully looking over the words and putting the pieces together, grew bright red. Happy flew around the house now, avoiding Natsu’s grip and carefully driving him to fall all over himself in the process of chasing him. The two continued to do this until Lucy finally stopped them, previously too held up by her laughter at the situation to do anything. They all sat down around the table and just to be polite and courteous towards Lucy for making all this food in the first place and in such short notice as well, he ate with utensils and kept the splatter radius to a minimum.

  After the meal, the three just sat around talking about random things and putting up some dusty, tragically underused decorations for Christmas up around the house. As they worked Natsu found his gaze always somehow finding its way towards Lucy, and cleared his throat, gaining hers and the not so welcomed cat’s attention.

  “So…um…did Happy really rub that medicine I made for you on you…?” he asked surprisingly nervous, Lucy didn't really seem to notice or mind or rather was too busy yelling at Happy for blowing the secret.

  “Well yea, I couldn't get it in certain places,” She admitted slowly, as Happy found his way snuggling onto her shoulder and purring against her neck, “Happy’s a cat, so it’s not a problem, not like I could ask you to do it…”

  “—and why the hell not??  I've got fingers and opposable thumbs! Hell I could’ve given you a massage while I was at it!” Lucy’s face quite literally went up in smoke as those last few words flew out of Natsu’s mouth far to quickly for him to realize his implications on time.

  “Natsu wants to rub you, Lucy!” sang the cat teasingly, making her face only blossom into an even darker shade of red, a puff of steam emitting from her face.

  “Don’t say it like that Happy!” Natsu yelled at him, running after the flying cat once again. Another ten minutes of chasing after him later, Lucy grabs her basket and starts to dress up in her winter covers, catching both of their attentions.

  “W-wait, Lucy!! Where are you going!?” the clumsy dragon yelled in panic and tried to shield her from the door, gaining a confused and annoyed look.

  “I’m going home; it’s three in the morning!” She replied sassily “I need to get home and clean up all the wrappings I left on the floor from the presents I opened before I go to bed or they’ll stay there till next Christmas!” Natsu shook his head and clamped his hands on her shoulders.

  “No, please stay,” “Please!” backed up Happy carrying something in his paws as he flew by, Lucy gave him a suspicious look but her eyes were directed back to Natsu when he began shaking her “Please, you’re more than welcome to stay the night, or the whole day, or all of next week!”

  “I’m not gunna stay with you that long; a night is already outta the question! I miss my bed, where would I even sleep here!?”

  Natsu looks over at Happy, now beside him floating both staring at each other thinking, then unanimously suggest,

  “The bathtub!”

  “My hammock!”

  Lucy growls at them, “I wouldn't fit in your hammock Happy! Nor would I sleep in a hard bathtub a whole night when I have a perfectly good bed back at home! So good night!” she yells decisively and bulldozes through them towards the door.

  After a smack to the head by Happy, Natsu grabs Lucy’s hand as she opens the door, she looks back surprised and Natsu takes a deep breath, sighing.

  “At least…” he begins, stroking his fingers across her hand, “At least come visit us again soon…” Lucy smiles, covering her face with her scarf as it shades in deep scarlet.

  “Yes…I’ll defiantly come over more…” Natsu’s eyes beamed in happiness

  “I’ll clean up everything too, so you won’t be grossed out!” She looks down defeated by his cuteness, her eyes catching sight of her key carrier and her eyes go wide.

  “Oh! I almost forgot!” She reaches down and takes out the now touchable heart shaped lacrima, and slowly pushes it into Natsu’s hand, his expression surprised and a bit flustered at the shape.

  “What’s this for?” he asks, examining it thoroughly

  “Heat it up and find out” She said with a confident wink.

  Natsu looks at the Lacrima and slowly heats it up in his hand, once it was a bright red, the lacrima begins to leak fire which judging by Natsu’s reaction, smelled really good. He instantly began to sniff at it excitedly and slurp it down.

  “It’s my favorite type of fire! Thanks Lucy!” he said through gulps and munches. She shook her head “I’m sorry I couldn't wrap it, Merry Christmas, Natsu”

  He nodded with a full mouth and suddenly his eyes go wide and harshly he swallows that last bite of fire, to look back down at Lucy in complete shock and his mouth hanging slightly open.

  In the background he could hear that obnoxious cat’s chuckling, and curses him out in every way he’s learned to within the safety of his mind. Bashfully, Natsu points upward and Lucy’s eyes cautiously follow, meeting with the ultimate Christmas prank.




                                      Mistletoe

  Lucy looks back down to see Natsu’s changed eyes, from a surprised maybe a bit flustered to a more daring and ironically, spicy stare through half lidded eyes and a sensuous smile.

  Lucy didn't even get time to think before Natsu’s arm wraps around her waist and drag her close enough to meet hip bones, Lucy’s gasp is taken in by his lips, a perfect opportunity to catch her with her mouth open and taste her thoroughly. Though shocking as this moment may have been, and though the spur of the moment still weighed down on her ability to react, Lucy didn't hesitate much after understanding what was going on between them to comply evenly or hell, even more aggressively. The two were locked together but Natsu still found a way to drag her outside and slam the door shut on Happy, where then he lifted her up by the legs and pushed her up against a wall of the house.

  Lucy broke the kiss panting, pointing in a random direction hoping that the door was there

  “Once… we’re out… from underneath it… Natsu, you don’t have to go on—” and was caught again by his lips, she eagerly pulled him closer, and wrapped her legs around his waist. He paused to lap sensuously at her neck and nibbled down on her collarbone, earning him a few small moans that only drove him harder onto her and wanting so desperately to bury himself deeper into that ridiculously intoxicating scent she was producing that made his heart beat blow out harder than any battle or fight he’d ever been in. Natsu also significantly preferred feeling the warmth emanating from her and coming to know her body more and more under his hungry palms than the flames he produced and using his keen senses on some enemies fighting style. This, he thought secretly, was a better use of his talents. He wanted to be the closest to her he could. He parted from their fifth or sixth kiss and looked her dead in the eyes, her flustered still half moaning face only causing him to claw into the wall behind her for restraint, leaving four rough deep gashes in the wall and crave fiercely to carve himself instead into her.

  “Lucy…” he growled prominently and Lucy quickly understood

  “We can’t…Happy” Natsu grinded his teeth, apparently thinking things through and then slowly slid Lucy down the wall and began trudging awkwardly back to the front of the house.

  “Stay here” he ordered and Lucy nodded. After he was gone, she brushed by her hair quickly, making it look a little more messy and reviewing her outfit, her breath and anything else she could think of whilst simultaneously going over everything she’d ever read regarding what was about to happen in her mind religiously for the next four minutes, in which time, Happy flew out the door and waved goodbye pleasantly to Natsu, heading off into the horizon.

  Lucy slowly walked over to Natsu at the doorway, where he plucked the Mistletoe from the doorway and set it on fire, holding it above his head again.

  “Do you know what this means, Lucy?” She shivered watching his tongue run his lips and form a sly smirk, her lips slightly agape she still innocently shook her head.

  “It means you’re about to have the best freaking Christmas... EVER” He took her by the waist once more, twirling her in and catching her in a kiss before shutting the door.

                There had never been a less silent Christmas night…


The End