Beholden | NaLu |

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It was just another normal day for Lucy Heartfilia. Wake up at 7, stretch for about 15 minutes, and then have a hearty breakfast of oatmeal and berries, occasionally accompanied with a glass of fruit juice. A hot, relaxing shower 10 minutes later, followed by getting dressed for work. After that, checking her mail and other important stuff, feeding Plue and finally beginning her walk to work.

True, it was just another normal day for Lucy Heartfilia. Not.

It was half past 8, and she was sitting on her dining table, across a complete stranger, eating pancakes. A rather attractive one too, she added as an afterthought.

"What was your name again?" She asked him.

"Natsu. Natsu Dragneel. Prince of the fire dragons."

"Such a fancy title" She mumbled, however Natsu didn't hear it, or didn't choose to hear it.

She watched him scarf down the breakfast she prepared, with such urgency and speed that she worried that he just might end up choking.

"Hey now, you should take it easy! We wouldn't want you choking now, do we?"

He swallowed, before giving her a toothy grin.

"I'm the son of the king of the fire dragons, choking on such delicious food is not how I plan to die."

Lucy raised her eyebrows at his cocky response while she reminisced about his condition the night before.

How she managed to make it to her apartment while practically carrying him still surprised her. It was totally unbelievable! Also, she didn't know why, but for some forgotten reason, she decided against calling for help and took this complete and brutally injured stranger home.

Talk about stupid.

That whole night, she tended to his wounds, and cleaned him up. He was carefully tucked in the warm sheets of her bed, breathing heavily, but surely. Meanwhile she took haven on the floor, near his side, carefully watching over him.

When exhaustion claimed her and she drifted off, she didn't know.

All she remembered next, was the morning light being blocked by something..or someone.

She almost punched him in the face, when the first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was his face, smiling widely down at her, his onyx eyes twinkling and full of life.

His bruises and injuries were all miraculously healed, and the deep gash from the night before had been reduced to nothing more than just a shallow cut.

To say that Lucy was utterly baffled at the sight before her would've been the understatement of the century.

She was hyperventilating like crazy and the situation got no better when Natsu, apparently started sprouting nonsense about 'dragons' and 'magic' and 'dragons slayers' and what not.

It wasn't until her dining table was almost set on fire that she believed him. Believed that Natsu Dragneel...well..wasn't exactly human.

Natsu was smiling apologetically, while Lucy inspected the damage. It wasn't much, but it was enough to give her a good scare. She finally turned to face him, scared beyond her wits from the supernatural being.