Lucy and The Lion

Chapter 4 : The Finale

Lucy woke up to the sound of rain, opening her eyes to see the sky was clouded over and lightly raining.

"Good morning Lucy" A voice had greeted her happily.

Lucy knows this voice... very well.

"Good morning Loke—EHHHHHH Loke!?" Lucy shoots straight up to turn and look at Loke, carrying his usual smirk.

"Loke you're back to normal! Right?" Lucy exclaimed and then questions.

"I am the same as always, I don't know why you think something is different... But I am interested in why we are sharing the same bed" He says casually although emphasizing a smirk on the 'bed' question.

"I see, so you don't remember anything." Lucy says relieved.

"Well I remember on your last job, I got hit with some weird magic but that's about it" Loke says as he recalls the memories of that night.

"It's been 3 days since then... you weren't yourself" Lucy says, her tone sounding a bit too serious.

"3 days...What do you mean I wasn't myself?" Loke doesn't lose his smile but his eyes hint at his concern.

Lucy spends the next hour explaining everything to Loke, about his transformation, his tail, the scratch and the reason they were in the same bed.

Loke was wide eyed and add a nervous sweat droplet, a mild blush had crept onto his face as he averted his gaze from Lucy.

"I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble" He said apologetically

"Don't worry about it, it was fun" Lucy said with a big smile that seemed to stab Loke right in the heart.

Loke looked away again, blushing even more furiously than before.

Lucy started giggling, which turned into hearty laughter, she has never seen Loke lose his composure, his usual cool and collected demeanour that made him seem unaffected by everything was nowhere to be found.

"Wh-what?" Loke asked accidently fumbling over his words.

"I've never seen you act like this before" Lucy said in-between her burst of laughter.

"Like what? I'm perfectly fine" Loki exclaimed as he adjusted and fiddled with his glasses.

"You can lie to me, but your tail can't" Lucy said with a raised eyebrow

Loki smiled "I don't have a tail" That statement carried so much certainty and confidence, until Lucy pointed behind him. Following her finger he could see...very clearly a tail, exposing his true emotions...

"I have a tail" He seemed to nonchalantly change his earlier statement.

"And to correct you...My tail is lying" He said with a cute expression.

"Sure it is" Lucy said laughing at him.

Poor Loke was feeling tortured, his composure was being unravelled, how could she always do this, how could Lucy always make him crumble this way.

As he remained lost in thought, his smile had faded and now wore an expression of concern.

"Are you alright?" Lucy had asked, looking at him with genuine concern.

Loke looked away and adjusted his glasses once again "This is no good" He said

"What do you mea—" Lucy's sentence was interrupted when Loke had pulled her close to him.

"L-L-Loke...." She stammered while sporting a very obvious blush.

"It seems the lesser versions of myself were more honest" He said softly while looking into her eyes.

"What...." Lucy trailed off with her eyes full of confusion, Loke pulled Lucy in for a hug, his head resting on her shoulder. "Well, if my earlier actions haven't told you... I love you" He broke the hug and stared straight at her flustered face with a bashful expression of his own.

Lucy just stared in shock, she had always wanted to hear those words...Her heart was about to beat out of her chest, the emotions seemed to overwhelm her and flow out in the form of tears.

Loke's eyes widened "Lucy?"

"I'm so happy" She said smiling, such a bright smile. Her tears still falling down her cheeks, Loki smiled at her as he wiped away her tears.

Loke kissed Lucy softly on the forehead, finally their feelings were now known to each other.

Lucy thought to how a prank turned out to be the best thing for her...

She closed her eyes and leaned her head against Loke's chest... Softly against the silence she whispered "I love you"

~Hey everyone! I hope you enjoyed this story, hope Loke's 'cat mode' was cat like enough. >_< I had based a lot of his actions/ habits on my own cats, they're not lions but they're still awesome, let's also just dedicate this to my weirdo cats... Metawarkitty~