7 Chapter 7

"Wait I can't fly like you and Lucy how do you expect...Aaaaaaahhhhhh!" I interrupt him by going into Dragon Force and picking him up under his armpits and taking him high in the sky. Even holding him I can barely hear him with the wind rushing by my ears. I'm sure he is still screaming his little head off but I ignore the slight urge to drop him and catch him again and just head to our destination.

We arrive in less than an hour. Gray must have stopped screaming at some point because he just dropped to the ground when I let him go. I check on him and see that he must have passed out because he is it cold.

"Hey stripper we're here!" I yell at him while shaking him. He finally got up and started frantically backing away from me shaking. I'm confused until I realize that I'm still in dragon force. I laugh and let my features return to normal.

Are you ready for your first official S class mission?" I taunt him.

"Yeah yeah whatever," he goes to dust his clothes off to find them gone. "Hey!"

"Don't look at me you wearing them when we stopped. Also don't forget what Gramps said." I yawn out, my hands clasped behind my head as I wait for him to get dressed again mumbling to himself.

We go to the clients house and get to work. The job itself isn't really that hard and between my fire and Grey's ice we are making short work of them.

"You know you should really ask Juvia out," I say as if it's a second thought. I see Gray flinch losing one of the goblins. "Hey pay attention to what your doing!" I reprimand him.

"I was, you just distracted me!" Gray started to argue until he sees me point down at him. His clothes were gone. He quickly corrects his clothing and as we finish off the last goblin I melt what ice is leftover on the lawn so the client wouldn't complain.

"Let's get the reward, this took a lot longer than a few hours," I grumble.  We return to the client and she inspects the yard and happily pays us the reward.

As we are leaving town Gray who had been quite a really long time now speaks up, "Why do you think I should ask her out?"

"Juvia? Well because you're in love with her of course," was my response. I was going to go into Dragon Force and carry Gray back to the guild but decided to wait. I still have time to burn anyway. Might as well let Gray talk a little, for now anyway.

"How can you say that? What makes you think I'm in love with her?" He seems shaken. I walk closer and set my hand on his shoulder and turn him to face me. We are stopped in the middle of the road.

"Gray, I'm a dragon slayer," I tell him. Trying to get him to understand.

"Yeah so?" I take a deep breath. I guess I'm just going to have to tell him.

"Gray, I have dragon senses like hearing and smell," he still looks clueless. "Gray I can smell your hormones whenever your around her," there I said it out loud he will just have to deal with it now.

"Wait you can smell hormones? How long have you been able to do that?"

I look at him like he is stupid, which he is, especially right now, "forever."

"But..." He stops and he just looks at my deadpanned look.

"Look stripper, you like her a lot might I add. You only smell like that when she is around or when you are talking or thinking about her. Yes I know when you are thinking about her. It's why I brought up the subject you were thinking about her again. Otherwise I need to inform you I already have my mate and dragons and slayers only mate for life so no I'm not interested in you." I chuckle at the last part when he gave me a horrified look and I cuffed him behind the ear.

"If you know so much about hormones how didn't you know Lucy loved you for so long?" He challenged me.

"Well they do this thing and apply all sorts of smelly stuff too themselves like lotions and bath salts and perfumes and yes even pheromones; which by the way should be illegal. They are super dangerous around unmated dragon slayers. I'll let you guess why. Anyway it covers up their natural scent so it's really hard to tell much of anything. I can get to their natural scent but not really the hormones."

"So pretty much you know when a guy is either horny or is thinking of someone special?" he asked.

"That's a really gross way to put it but pretty much. Now that Lucy is my mate I haven't had the same issues I know exactly what she wants and when she wants it," I start to drift off as I realize plenty of time has elapsed and it's time to go home.

"I didn't really need to know all of that but I mean, thanks I guess. I wasn't really sure how to go about it and it just seems harder somehow knowing that she already likes me. What if she stops liking me because I like her? What if that is the only reason she likes me?" He looks at me.

I groan out loud, "Okay Gray, secret number two, Juvia is a water mage who frequently turns into water," I pause allowing him to think on this. "She literally doesn't use any of that smelly stuff on herself or it washes away whenever she does use it. Trust me she likes you enough to have even Laxus turn around and go the opposite direction whenever your anywhere in the same room as her."

"Really?"

"Yes, now Lucy is waiting on me," I pick him up again and start flying to the guild again. This time Gray didn't scream the whole way so he must have either made his peace with it or knocked himself out. Either way the rest of the trip was peacefully quite now.

We stop outside of town I normally would fly all the way to the guild but I think Gray wanted to talk more. He was unnaturally quite. We walk for a bit he had to find his clothes once or twice before we are close to the apartment. My senses are dragging at me. It's like my body is being pulled by the nose even though it wasn't her smell attracting me.

I stop and look at Gray, "Talk now or I'm leaving."

"How did you and Lucy start dating?"He asked.

"We didn't," The look on his face was just utter shock. I laughed a little before continuing, "Gray I'll bring up again that dragon slayers only mate for life. Well Luce and I well; we have always been different I guess. I would repeatedly break into her apartment and sleep next to her. So much that eventually she gave up Lucy kicking me out." I chuckled at that part. I looked at Gray and he is intently listening to my story.

"Well during winter this year after a hard day of training together we went and passed out in her room nothing new or heart stopping and when I woke up she was in my arms. The feel of her in my arms that alone was addicting it's why I broke in all the time. Her smell, her laugh, her smile but the feel of her in my arms in the mornings I could forget that she was only my best friend. I mean come on she is Lucy. She is so smart and thoughtful caring and not to mention just heart stoppingly beautiful. The way her chocolate eyes light up when she talks about her friends or how her laughter brings a little warmth to anyone who hears it," I stop and sigh out loud.

I look Gray in the eyes before continuing, "Gray I didn't have a prayer of getting her love. I never once thought I could ever win it or deserve it." Gray was just looking at me like I had lost my mind. He was clearly confused.

"As I was holding her I could only think of how much I loved her and never wanted to leave the bed again. I watched her sleep, I listened as her soft breathing would muffled as she would snuggle into me for what I was sure was only warmth it had been snowing all night the windows were covered in ice the room, I'm sure, was freezing. But I didn't care because it meant that I got to hold her a little longer." I chuckled again at my own corniness.

We had stopped nearby the apartment far enough away that Lucy wouldn't be able to hear us if the window was open and had sat down on a bench, before I continued. I took in a deep breath, "I was sure she was going to kick me out that morning. I had of course gotten hot and stripped off my shirt I was still wearing pants mind you but I was sure she would have gotten mad anyway. I always ran hotter whenever I was around her, still do."

I played with my hair a little, just fidgeting. "Gray, she snuggled right into my chest while in my arms before she opened her big beautiful eyes and looked up at me. The sun was shining through her window and the way the light played with her hair; to say she was an angel would be an understatement. Her eyes lit up, her cheeks went pink, her hair was fucking glowing in the sunlight; and I was holding her. I, of course was stupid, and told her good morning and she started getting all flustered probably because I wasn't wearing a shirt and started scooting away. But I just couldn't let her go. I pulled her closer and begged for just a few more minutes and she let me. Oh Mavis when I realized that she was snuggling closer into me. It took everything I had not to get a boner before I fell asleep in her arms. She was holding onto me."

I looked at Gray again, "I probably shouldn't tell you what happened after that, at least not here."

"You can come over to my house for a bit? I really want to hear what happened next." he asked.

I nod, "Okay but I can't stay long. She's waiting for me."

We quickly go to his apartment which is surprisingly close and go inside. I place a little red stone on the coffee table and Gray looks at me funny.

"It will make it to where no one can hear anything in this room," was all I said.

"So go on. How did you go from only friends to mated and engaged seemingly overnight?" He asked me.

I chuckled a little, "It was overnight." Gray was quite so I continued, " That same morning I woke up to Lucy touching me. I tried to remain calm but it was so hard. She was running her fingers down my abs as if she were inspecting me exploring me. Oh Mavis it felt so good. I nearly lost my mind when she stopped at my pants when I felt her continue over top my pants I nearly jumped on her but I stayed just as I was. I think a rock was moving more than I was." I hear him laugh and I couldn't help it, I joined him.

"She started giving me a hand job not on purpose but more like she was exploring my body. Mavis knows that I have landed on her breast so many times sometimes even grabbing them by accident," I heard Gray snort at that. "Okay mostly accidentally, so I just let her. Then she reached further to my balls I didn't need to hold myself back then. It was like the fight or flight mode was broken I froze up faster than your magic. She seemed to get rather bold and moved back to the hand job teasing the hell out of me."

I stop and look at Gray with a deadly serious expression, " If you tell anyone any of this I will hunt you down and put you out of your misery before Lucy finds you. She will torture you until your body gives out. I promise that it will be quick and relatively painless." Gray's face was ash white and he nodded his head.

"Good," I glared at him once more before continuing on. "I couldn't stop myself anymore, I begged her out loud not to stop. I think my arms were all but crushing her to me. And then I just kissed her. I couldn't stop myself it was like my body was starving and all I needed was her. I kissed her like my life depended on it. Then when I was starting to think it was all over, she kissed me back. Lucy kissed me and she was amazing."

The next thing I know she is on top of me and she had pulled away from me and started stripping her clothes. I think I took off our pants I honestly don't know. One moment we are both wearing pants the next we weren't. Anyway she kissed me again we were only in our underwear at this point.

"I finally pull myself away and that's when I asked her to be my mate. Nothing romantic but before we could do anything she could ever regret." I looked again at Gray somehow he still had his clothes on but I could tell my story was probably too spicy for him. "She said yes and that she had always loved me," I looked away from him. "We mated and after that I asked her to marry me anyway. She looked like the sun itself she was radiating her happiness. She said yes."

"So wait you guys never went on an actual date?" Grey asked sceptically.

"Nope but I did take her to a hot springs after our first S class missions after our honeymoon. Let's just say that there were a lot of flowers, food and water with the scented candles that she loves so much involved." I grin and add, "I might of acted like a dense idiot but those three days I showed her I was anything but. I showered her in the romance I just knew she needed."

"Why don't you take her on a proper date?" Gray asked, "You know she would like it."

I nod, "True but what kind of date? I already gave her the most romantic breakfast, lunch and dinners while at the hot springs. I showered her in flowers, literally with the rose petals. I rented a private hot spring room, I've taken her flying around the country we have played tag here in the streets of Magnolia. The town's people actually stop what they are doing and cheer us on from the ground. We go walking around and anytime she starts to show any kind of tiredness I'm begging her to let me carry her." I look up at him, "What more can I actually do?"

He just looked at me for a while. "How many of those romantic books of Lucy's have you read?"

I smirk a little at him, "Gray I love her, I have read every book in her apartment for years now. I'm not stupid."

Gray didn't seem to have a response for me he just stared at me. "You have had it that bad?"

Confused I just look at him raising an eyebrow like a question. "Have you really been that in love with her, this whole time?" Gray clarified.

I laugh, "Are you really in love with Juvia?"

"Fuck, we are so screwed," He responded.

"Stripper if you love her you can only hope to get screwed." He nods at my statement a little, I look at the clock and jump up, "I really have to go. Lucy is waiting for me."

"How I thought she was hibernating?" Gray asked.

"It's one of the dragon slayer things I told you we would tell you about when she wakes up in a couple months," I respond slowly making my way to the door.

"Gray ask her out, or you will regret it," I say before running out of his apartment with my red stone and raced home.

Mira was in the living room when I rushed in through the door skipping the window because I wanted to make sure the apartment was empty before I saw her.

"Hey Mira, thanks for taking care of her for me. Anything important happen?" I talked to her. It was so hard not to push her out the door and run to my mate.

"No not at all in fact I was just about to leave," she yawned a little at the end if her statement.

"Well then I wouldn't want to keep you from from whatever plans you have," I grin at her when I saw her cheeks get a light blush.

When she left and I made sure the apartment was empty I finally went to my mate. "Lucy I'm home, finally. Arg I mean the mission was easy but I have no idea how it was a S class and it was close by which drove me crazy being so close to you yet so far away!" I waited to see her responses before going on.

"I took Gray with me," she gives a different kind of look that I take as confusion so I go on. "He begged to go and Gramps approved it in fact he approved Gray to go on any s class mission that I go on. I think he is worried about me." I wait and see her smile.

"You know that book he gave me said that we might be able to talk like in our minds if we wanted to then you could ask me questions and give me more than yes and no answers. But it didn't say how just that if our bond was strong enough that we would be able to do it."

I looked at her and decided to try it myself. In my head I screamed that 'Erza why are you here no don't take me from Luce. No!' and I saw Lucy flinch. I smile at Lucy and got in the bed with her and curled around her which seemed to confuse her because she was making that face again.

'Luce I'm not talking out loud I'm sorry I scared you. I just thought Erza was scary enough to get you to hear my thoughts.' I tell her again with my mind.

'Well I differently heard that but how can I talk to you Natsu. I'm stuck just lying here all day. It's driving me crazy. I'm so glad your home you at least talk to me and understand simple yes or no answers. I wish you could hear me though.' I heard Lucy's voice without my ears. I grin so large that my face feels like it will crack in two.

'Oh Luce, do you want me to kiss you now? I've missed you so much.' I don't tell her just yet that I can hear her.

'Oh Mavis yes I want so much more than a kiss. I want you to go straight to eating me out now but I also want a bath and for that matter shower sex sounds fucking amazing right now. Why can't I talk? This is torture!' Lucy talks a lot more in her head than out loud I think to myself.

I give her a sweet kiss before deepening the kiss pulling the air straight from her lungs and giving it back to her again as I ran my hands down her body. I'll show her I can hear her instead of tell her, she should like that a lot. I carefully pull her clothes off of her and continue with the kiss. Fondling her breast with my hands.

'Yes Natsu please more, I need more.' I hear her sigh in my head. I smile and continue my administrations making my way down from her lips along her neck careful to skirt around her mark. I begin nibbling along her collarbone. I feel as her body tenses up with my every touch. I'm careful not to say anything to her though, I want her to guide me.

I am kissing and nibbling on her collarbone for what feels like forever when I hear Lucy start screaming in my head. 'Natsu why? I love you but why are you torturing me like this? Take a nipple in your mouth run your fingers against my clit but please stop it with the light kisses.'

I smile to myself before I slowly do just as she asks me to. I pull her left nipple into my mouth and begin to tease her mercilessly with my teeth and tongue. I slowly reach down and rub her clit with my thumb and prod at her entrance with my fingers. Not going in just teasing around it. I waited for her next directions only switching nipples now and then.

I could feel the blood rushing through her body as my fingers and tongue took there time touching her. I could see very clearly that she wanted more so I decided to ask her, 'Do you want me to eat you out now?'

'Yes!!!!!' I swear my ears were aching even though she was only screaming it in my head I will have to remember that.

I made my way down her and started lapping up her sweet juices curling my tongue here or there enjoying myself. 'This is where I will be when you're ready to talk to me. I will only do what you tell me to nothing more nothing less.' I tell her.

I could feel her agony at my words. I continued to lick and suck on her clit. My tongue was admittedly getting tired when I heard her again. 'Please Natsu I need more! Please just thrust into me.' I hear her beg. I grin but decide to play dumb and insert my fingers thrusting into her.

'NATSU I want you to thrust your manhood into me right now or I won't sleep with you for a week!' With a threat like that I did exactly what I was told to. My member was so swollen that is was borderline painful. Feeling her hot wetness squeezing around me was absolutely mind blowing. I lost control, I could barely tell her moans apart from mine. When I finally couldn't take it anymore I pulled Lucy in for a deep kiss and I came as she orgasmed around me sending me over the edge.

'Damn Luce, I thought my jaw was going to go numb for a moment there,' I say as I cuddle her pulling her into my arms. "But it so good to hear your voice again," I purr aloud into her ear.

'It's good to be heard,' she purrs back. I grin and kiss along her mark. It's on the left side of her neck, my own was on the right. It's so hard not to kiss on it but I know what it does to us when we do. It's like a huge bundle of nerves screaming for release.

Which in of itself is amazing but Lucy is hibernating right now and it could force her awake. Endangering not only her own health but that of our three babies. I focus on her belly again listening to their little heartbeats. I begin to purr and snuggle into them. Moving down so my face was right beside them. I gently squeezed my mate closer to me.

'I love you Natsu Dragneel,' Lucy said it so gently to me.

"I love you too Luce," I respond out loud. We fell asleep snuggling into each other's arms.

Lucy's POV

That morning I heard a squeal all I wanted to do was jump out of bed and slam it's throat into the floor. But instead I panicked, I couldn't move. I couldn't move anything at all. I was stuck and yet I was still sleeping? It was more like a half sleep you know what's going on around you but you still can't move at all.

I was relieved when I heard Natsu talking. I guess it was Mira that made that awful noise. I breath out a sigh of relief but I still can't move. I listen to what I can but they leave the room making it quite a bit harder. 'Aaaarggggg why can't I do anything?!' I think to myself. I focus on their voices Natsu it's literally lecturing them on how close they came to dying. I smile a little guiltily. To think I wanted to close Mira's throat permanently. I shudder to myself. I will have to give her an apology gift when I can.

Eventually they leave but before that I overheard Natsu say he wanted to ask Loke to be a groomsman and my heart fluttered a little. It meant so much to me that he wanted one of my spirits included in the wedding. I could feel my smile on my face even though I couldn't move.

Soon Natsu comes running in the bedroom and starts kissing on me. Oh Mavis, yes. I want this. But he stops I frown and I curse the fact that I can't move or talk to him. I'm horny and I now know I'm not going to get any. All of a sudden I feel Natsu freeze and jump out of bed. He ran out of the apartment leaving me all alone.

Why? He just left without saying a word. Did I do something wrong? Will he come back? I lay there for what feels like hours I'm sure it was probably just an hour or so but it feels like so much more. He did finally come back home and if I could have moved I would have jumped on him and then dragged him to it bed.

What is he doing? I could feel that he was in the room but he was silent. every once in a while I would hear him mumbling once I was sure he said triplets. I'm having triplets? Somehow that felt right and it felt good. Wait three kids all at once? They are going to be a handful then they hatch. I smile sweetly to myself. I relaxed, Natsu was just trying to take care of me. He was probably reading something that would help him do that. I drifted off into a deep sleep.

"Lucy I love you, do you love me?" I hear Natsu's sweet voice waking me gently from my sound sleep. Well not really waking me up but to where I'm paying attention to him again.

'Of course I do Natsu,' I think to myself as I feel the smile flash across my face.

"Lucy can I kiss you now?" he tenderly whispers in my ear. 'Oh fuck yes please,' I wish I could sing it to him as I could only briefly smile. Then he does! Oh finally yes more I want more than just a tender kiss. It was over far too quickly I could feel myself frown.

"I'm confused Lucy I thought you said it was okay?" I smile at him again it seems like all I can do is smile or frown. "Did you want more then?" YES!!! I smile.

"I wonder how much more you could want?" He asked me. "Just kisses?" 'No!' I think to myself frowning this time. "Surely not sex already?" 'Yes' a small smile. "Well if that's what you want then that is what you get." 'Oh Mavis yes!' I could have screamed my pleasure.

Eventually he woke up again after our fun. We for lack of a better word 'talked' about what was going on. I'm having triplets! And apparently I am hibernating right now apparently because of having three babies instead of one or two caused to much stress on my body. Add into that all the wedding plans and boom time for an extra long nap. I didn't like the hibernating but three babies is not something I'm not going to complain about. I wonder what we should name them? I frown and mentally shake my head it's far too early for that.

He tells me about the book he got from Master and how he found out to at least get yes and no answers. I smile really big at that at least I won't be all alone,' I think to myself. He goes on to read me the whole book and tells me he even has it memorized and not to worry he would take very good care of me. Thankfully while I'm honest I won't really need to use the bathroom and I will only really need fire as food. I smile at the thought and I guess he took it as me being hungry, I could feel the heat of his fire near my face. I wasn't hungry but I ate it anyway, just a little.

He tells me that he doesn't feel comfortable leaving me all alone even though he has to and asked about having one of our friends look in on me every now and again on the days he had to leave. I smiled at him. Not really in agreement but at the fact that he cared so much. I agree to have Levy and Mira check in on me.

When he leaves I go into a truly deep sleep. Everything is so black and all consuming, I should have been scared but I was at peace. When Levy came in to check on me I barely noticed; she was probably just reading a book the whole time so I drifted back off again. When Mira came she talked a little telling me about how she had a date that night and was super nervous. I also heard her say she felt really dumb talking too me while I was asleep.

I'm really bored of this and I start to drift off again. I wouldn't mind her telling me about the date I would have liked that but she would maybe say half a sentence before berating herself for talking to a sleeping person and that got really old really quick.

"Oh there's Natsu and Grey," I hear Mira say a little bored. My focus is razor sharp now, my window is closed but I try to hone in on Natsu. I could barely sense him but I couldn't hear what he was saying. I frown in frustration. Mira doesn't notice and is probably watching them.

"They seem to be talking about something really personal. Grey is watching Natsu really carefully making weird faces every now and again," At least Mira is talking normally now I think to myself. What else?

"I wonder if I can make out what they are saying? I'm pretty good at reading lips you know." I can hear the pride in her voice. Oh come on just tell me already.

" 'You can come over to my house for a bit? I really want to hear what happened next.' That was Grey. I guess they are leaving because they turned around," Mira sighed.

'Natsu! Come home to me!' I wanted to scream but nothing happened just a cute like snore is all that came out. Arg.

Soon as if Natsu could hear my pleas he did come home and Mira left. We talked for a while and I mean actual words! He could hear my voice even while I was hibernating. I'm so happy I could cry. We had some real sex sure I couldn't move much, but being able to tell him what I wanted felt so good. We soon snuggled and I fell into a deep restful sleep.