Warning: mentions of paedophilia and sexual comments
Natsu rolls around in bed before finally opening his eyes. He's met with blue. He jumps out of bed, ready to attack, when he collapses onto the ground and a piercing headache impales his thoughts. He holds his head and groans, trying to stand up, but collapsing immediately. A sense of dizziness washes over him.
"Natsu!" A familiar voice shouts. Natsu looks down at the blue exceed hugging him.
Natsu grins. "How are you, buddy?"
"We were all so worried. Especially Gray," Happy explains, turning his head to a sleeping Gray.
Natsu laughs. "He must have been high or something to be worried."
"He even carried you back but he was forced to by Lucy."
Natsu looks around slowly. "Where is everyone else?"
"They're still on the mission but they must be coming back soon." Happy removes himself from Natsu and crawls off him.
"Luce will be happy when she gets the award."
"Can you stop being so loud?" Gray's groggy voice snaps.
"I'm not being loud! You are," Natsu shouts but stops as another wave of pain hits him.
"Natsu? Are you OK?" Happy asks.
"Just a headache." Natsu lets out a shaky breath and carefully stands up. Just as he stands up, he loses his balance and stumbles towards the bed, landing uncomfortably on it.
"I'll get some headache meds for ya," Gray says as he stands up, flexing his chest muscles as he stretches. His pants hang loosely on his waist line. He rubs his eyes and pulls on his shoes, grabbing a spare black shirt (one of the ten he owns). Natsu smiles.
"Thanks, Pervy Popsicle."
"Don't call me that, Fire Snot," Gray snaps back. He pulls the shirt over his torso, covering his toned muscles. Before Natsu has a chance to rebel with another insult, Gray's out the door.
***
By the time Gray returns, the others have as well. Natsu smiles when he sees Gray walk in with a bag obviously from the chemist. Gray pulls out the headache medication and throws it to Natsu.
"Gray cares!" Lucy squeals.
"Shut up!" Gray snaps back.
Erza hands over the clothes he'd supposedly left at the bottom of the stairwell back to Gray. He pulls his white coat on and his necklace over his shirt, the one thing he rarely takes off.
"Natsu, I should tell you that you've got severe nerve damage in your shoulder. You won't be able to raise your arm all the way up," Wendy informs.
"That sucks," Natsu says sadly. "Hey, Ice Princess, get me a cup o' water?"
"No way. Swallow it with your saliva," Gray responds harshly and crawls onto his bed.
Lucy sighs and saunters over to the kitchen and pours a glass of water. She gives it to Natsu how snatches it out of her hands, making her growl. He pops two of the pills into his mouth and swallows it with the water. He lets out a satisfied pop.
"Did you find the Appelios?" Natsu asks.
Erza shakes her head. "We searched everywhere but couldn't find it."
"Now how am I goin' to pay for my rent?" Lucy worries.
Natsu smiles brightly. "Don't worry Lucy. When we get back to Fairy Tail, we'll take another job." He rests his hand on her shoulder.
"But you should-" Lucy begins before being cut off.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. It's just a little scratch," Natsu reassures her.
"I'm going to inform Riku about our fail to complete the job," Erza informs and begins walking away.
"I-I'll go with you," Wendy's sweet voice says. Erza stops and looks back at the wind mage. She gives a quick nod before walking to the door. Wendy chases after Erza, Carla flies behind them.
Lucy stays with the boys in their hotel room. "Hey, are you guys hungry?" She asks and looks at Natsu who meets her eyes. She continues, "I can get us some take away if you want?" She expands her gaze to the others.
"Yeah, I'm starving!" Natsu rubs his stomach. "Fire sounds really tasty right now.
"Aye!" Happy exclaims.
Gray stays quiet before saying abruptly, "I'll go with her." He stands out of bed.
Natsu looks into the blue eyed stripper who's now stripped. "Are you OK? Did a rock hit you on the head too hard?" Real worry fills his voice.
"Oh shut up, Frying Pan!" Gray shouts.
"Uh, I'm going to go now..." Lucy awkwardly slurs and starts to edge out of the room. Gray notices and shoots one final insult at Natsu before walking out with Lucy, leaving the fire mage alone with the blue exceed.
***
Gray walk through the door and Lucy follows. "Took you long enough!" Natsu shouts with a big smile.
"Shut up, Frying Pan!" Gray retorts.
"Anyway, we got two meat-lovers pizzas and one Hawaiian pizza." Lucy grabs the pizzas out of Gray's arms and walks over to Natsu's bed. She opens the top one and sees it's the meat-lovers so she puts it down onto Natsu's lap.
"Aww, thanks Luce!" Natsu smiles at Lucy, who blushes hot pink.
"Ah, no problem." She chuckles and sits down on the ground, opening the lids of the other two pizzas. Natsu turns back to his pizza and rips out a slice and stuffing his face, taste immediately melting in his mouth. He lets out a sound of pleasure and swallows the food.
"This is really good," Natsu says and continues to eat the mouth-watering pizza.
"Unlike Abramo," Lucy mumbles. Natsu's head snaps to look at Lucy. He winces as his head throbs. He rests his palm on his forehead. "Natsu? Everything OK?"
"Who's Abramo?" Anger seeps through his words.
"He's a paedophile who tried to get Lucy to have sex with him and his dirty ass," Gray replies nonchalant about it all. He picks up another slice of meat-lovers and bites into the steaming produce.
"He what!?" Natsu screams. Lucy jumps in surprise. She scuttles to her feet as Natsu scrambles out of bed on wobbly legs. She pushes against his chest to get him to calm down.
"Calm down, Natsu, I'm fine. he didn't touch me, I swear!" Lucy shouts over the angry growls from Natsu. He pushes her to the ground and start stomping over to the door.
"Ice Make: Floor!" Gray shouts. Natsu slips on the icy surface, faceplanting onto the ground. "You need to calm down, Pyro. I already dealt with him. Listen to Lucy as well, she said she was perfectly fine," Gray explains in a low voice.
Natsu ignores the throbbing in his head and sits up, looking over at Lucy who holds an angry expression. "Just melt the ice, Natsu," Lucy orders. Natsu reluctantly does what she says.
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