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Who: Lucy and Natsu (and later Wendy)
When: Backdated like WOA, 3/30/14
Where: Fairy Haven, the most happenin' guild on Earth!
What: Evil things. They.. they're just. Evil. So evil I can't even talk about it.

It's been a busy, busy few days at the new Guild lately! Finally dealing with the witch that had been causing trouble for their newly adopted members, not to mention Erza getting injured - not that it seemed to slow her down that much.

Still! To come up with a cure for the poison in Erza's system, Regina needed a special herb, which Lucy had offered to collect. Something simple and boring, she could get it and trot back before anyone even knew she'd gone anywhere. No harm right?

On her return, Regina had immediately busied herself out in the courtyard with mixing an antidote (sorry it kinda stinks out there right now). As for Lucy? Lucy was up in her room ~~plotting evil~~ modeling her latest acquisition. ... what, a girl can't go shopping?

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"Would you quit your struggling and let me help you already!?" Natsu said and brought his teeth down against the surface of her palm. Not before his lips brushed against it though. After a few atttempts he felt something small but hard between his teeth and he pulled back, extracting the thorn from her skin.

But why with his TEETH. She swears it's like he's more dragon than man sometimes. As much as she wanted to squirm and fidget and pull away and flee, she managed to force herself to hold still with only a bit of a vague grumble.

Her hand twitched slightly first at the brush of his lips, and then again when the thorn was pulled out - don't swallow it or something, that'd probably be bad.

Cause it's faster and he doesn't want to leave that thing in her palm any longer. As for swallowing, no way in hell. He had a plan for it already. One involving taking the thorn between his index and thumb sniffing it briefly for any hints of magic and then burning it with a burst of fire before turning his attention back to her hand.

"We should get Wendy to look at this."

C..can she change first?

The thorny thing probably did smell a little bit of magic though. Which might explain the drastic change in Lucy's behavior at first. It'd be -crazy- to think she was doing all that on her own right? -Right-!

"Ah.. that's not -" Well she'd be about to say it wasn't necessary except it occurs to her that it might be. Also, Natsu would likely insist and drag her off to see Wendy himself.

Which was exactly why he burned it. Even so Now that she seems to be somewhat back to normal, his focus shifts back to the fact that yes Lucy is in his lap in a rather revealing outfit and he is holding her hand rather firmly.

"Uhhhh you still wanna go out looking like that?" Because it's...distracting. Really distracting.

That's exactly the focus she was hoping he wouldn't go back to! She mentally chokes at the question, glancing towards him and... that isn't a great idea either but she couldn't exactly -avoid- looking at him from her position.

...seriously this was just bad. The outfit was revealing enough, but the way he was holding her hand, and with her free arm around the back of his neck? Good god if someone walked in right now.

Oh wait, she's gotta use her words too, not just..look at him. Silly. "E-em, I... I think I should..change first." And.. NOT think about how comfortable she was on his lap. Or being this close to him period. Augh.

It was exactly because this was the Lucy he knew and cared for that the current situation was affecting him more than it first did. Something about that startled far away look and the blush in her cheeks and even the thumping of hear heart quickening.

"Y-Yeah that'd be a good idea. So um..." Maybe letting go of her hand first would be a good idea.

That'd be a great idea! And she should...move her arm from around him too while she's at it. And.. at least try to get off of his lap. ".. Yeah. I should..um..." move. Moving would be a fan-tastic idea.

... You can move ANY time now, Lucy.

Well to be fair he didn't mind her arm around his neck like that. It kinda reminded him of the last time they danced. And how close she had been...and how they...YEP totally had to disengage quick. They would be stuck here for another few hours if the didn't!

So with great reluctance he let go of Lucy's hand. She was still in his lap though. And he wasn't going to push her off.

Yes exactly! And that would be a terrible thing. Well..maybe not terrible, but being this close to him always made her want to be closer and...

OKAY YES, Moving. Moving is a thing that is happening. Except she was moving towards him. Wrong direction, sorry. She caught herself though, the blush only getting darker as she quickly leaned back again.

See? Totally not irresistible. She resisted right now didn't she? ... though it had been a very close call. Instead she braced the hand he let go of on the table in order to get up, even more aware of her new outfit and Natsu's proximity. Heelp. "I... um...I'm going to go and change. Wendy's..." Upstairs? She thinks?

Terrible wouldn't be the word he'd use. But they still had the better part of the day ahead of them. So they would definitely have to part. Parting did not involve her leaning into him like that though she quickly recovered. Phew. Must have been having a bit of a relapse but she snapped out of it.

"In her room. Uhhh yeah I think I felt her scent from behind the door before I met up with you. I'll...wait outside the door for ya." Though she still had to GET up so he could stand up as well.

Yes. Relapse. We'll go with that.

In any case, she quickly vacated his lap, wishing she'd kept the cape on. At least then she could cover herself better. She mentally cringed at the movement, blushing fiercely, but she nodded when he said he'd wait outside the door.

It was tempting to insist he stay put until she was decently dressed and THEN come up though. "Erm.. right." Right, right. She turned and quickly trotted out of the room, pausing only for a second when she reached the stairs to look at him. "... L..Look away, all right?"

Not that he hasn't already gotten plenty of eyefulls at this point anyway but STILL. It's different now. Now she's rational! kinda. And heading upstairs to get to her room kthanks. Let's..just hope she doesn't run into anyone before then.

He might have spared a glance longer than he should have but he quickly turned around when she asked him to look away.

"Y-Yeah just yell if you need help with anything." Probably wrong thing to say right now but he was already quickly making his way out the door before she could spaz out at him properly.

Good thing he was out the door after saying something like that! Even though he probably wasn't thinking too clearly, it didn't stop her from spazzing. So the door was closing behind him rather quickly, on her "WHat the hEll Natsu!"

Followed by grumbles of "Jeez! I can get out of my clothes just fine without his help. ... oh lord." She..just is going to stop saying things. Whatever had affected her might well still be in her system, ... maybe it'd be a good idea to stay away from him for the rest of the day after Wendy checked her hand.

Just to be safe!

He heard her yell but for some reason couldn't help but smirk a little as he leaned against the wall crossing his arms and waiting for his partner to come back out. Noisy weird Lucy was best after all.

So he waited, trying to filter out the intruding thoughts that came to him whenever he would think about what had almost happened.

Denial is on the menu for dessert today, and Lucy was doing her best to try and pretend what almost happened didn't happen. Not being very successful at it either, but.. well, one thing at a time. Once she changed out of THAT outfit and into one of her usual ones she gathered her courage, took a breath and... stepped back out into the hall.

At least Wendy's room wasn't far from here. "Okay, let's go." The sooner she checked Lucy's hand the better!

Isn't that on the menu all the time? Oh well. By the time Lucy came out he'd managed to compartmentalize his thoughts away from what had just happened. So he greeted Lucy with his trademark grin and nodded before joining up by her side.

"You remember how you got that wound on your hand?" he asked as they walked down the corridor towards Wendy's room.

Yes! And because Lucy's been making a pig of herself on it it's pretty much in short supply at this point. Tsk tsk, too bad. Only not really.

Seeing that trademark grin was always reassuring, though she still felt a teeny bit awkward. Taking care to keep an arm's length of space between them as they walked, Lucy glanced at her hand again, resisting the urge to scratch it. "I don't remember it having quite that reaction - or feeling that thorn at all, actually. I was reaching into a bush, and I felt some of the bramble graze my skin, but I didn't think anything of it at first." She'd just washed her hands and covered it up to keep the dirt out.

Natsu's been dining on confusion more than denial. This whole feelings beyond friendship thing was really damn labyrinthine. The urges didn't help either.

He noticed she was keeping a bit of a distance between himself and her and while he wasn't all that fond of it, he respected it this time.

"Hmmm. Well this place has a lot of magic creatures and plants so something that'd affect you like it did isn't that hard to imagine. Wendy should be able to fix you up though. Nothing beats her healing."

Confusion and denial can't possibly be health for them as three course meals. But it's a good point. Urges reaaaaally didn't help. Lucy nodded in agreement, sheepishly, "Yeah, after all it's.." Not like she'd -wanted-... okay that's an outright lie. She hadn't minded it - but the fact that it had been caused by a plant and not because she wanted to was bothersome.

He'd probably think she was affected by the same plant if she did it again -- wait what?

"She really has brilliant timing, like you." She quipped lightly. "Still I'm glad we got here before her. Whatever she went through before coming here - I'd hate to think of her being in this place alone." She might think she was dead.

He'd certainly feel torn about that uncertainty but luckily she couldn't transmit those doubts to him and neither could he read Lucy's mind.

"Yeah she does. Only hope Charle had managed to come with her though. Wendy must be really hurting about that."

Wendy was, but she couldn't help but feel reassured by her guild mates because Natsu and Gajeel were without their Exceeds. She tried her best to get past not being able to see Charle for a while. Speaking of which, the younger Dragon Slayer spotted Lucy and Natsu walking towards her room as she was leaving it. Speaking of the devil aren't we?

She smiles as she greets the two of them, "Natsu-san, Lucy-san, hello."

She had to do her best to remain cheerful for her friends because they're all suffering internally in their own way. Wendy knew this. She was going to work hard to make sure that she wouldn't burden them.

Lucy was about to bring up the point that Natsu must miss his partner too, but before she could say anything, Wendy was stepping out of her room.

"Ah, Wendy! We were just coming to see you." A distraction must be had, so Wendy wouldn't think back on her own missing kitty. She was working hard to stay cheerful too.

Yeah Natsu did miss Happy but there could be times he could go without his partner. However Wendy had grown up with Carla from an even younger age. That kind of bond hurts even more.

However he quickly put up a happy grin hearing Wendy's voice from up ahead.

"Hey Wendy! Lucy needs your help with something."

"Oh hello Natsu-san-- what can I do for you, Lucy-san?"

She msued as she noticed the two of them were indeed searching for her since they didn't usually come up here. Wendy also spent some of her time in the common room, rather in her own bedroom. She was slowly getting used to this but things are still a bit complicated for her.

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