Day with Daddy

Lucy goes out on a mission. Natsu is left to care for the children. What could go wrong?

"Oh come on Layla! I mean I know you're like three but really? You're gonna draw with sharpie on the walls? That's bad Layla! Bad! Your mother is going to kill me. That doesn't wash off!"

"Sowwy, Daddy!" The strawberry blonde-haired, brown-eyed cute toddler smiled widely, showing off her brilliant pointy teeth, and then proceeded to run away before Natsu could really scold or punish her. She had an attitude, that one.

Natsu groaned, leaning down to pick up the markers and shove them in a drawer, hopefully where his little tykes couldn't reach them again. Lucy would definitely not be happy about this...

Natsu froze stiffly as he tentatively sniffed the air. Now that was a smell he did not like smelling in his house.

Burning.

"KIDS."

Cursing under his breath, Natsu ran towards the source of the smell. Unsurprisingly, he saw his twin five-year-old boys looking horrified and hiding behind a couch. Some mangled toy was sitting in the middle of the room, completely on fire. The fire had quickly spread to other things like the carpet and some nearby picture books.

Natsu was never more glad that he could eat fire than when he had kids who could also produce fire. He was quite used to sucking up the fires they caused throughout the years. He immediately slurped up the flames before they could continue to demolish any other belongings.

He then rounded on the offenders. The twins were polar opposites, and yet both caused as much mayhem. Nash was the pink-haired one, with Lucy's chocolate brown eyes. And if Natsu was being perfectly honest with himself, he could admit that Nash was a little asshole. He took after his father. All action and fists, and he had a very loud mouth. Aidan was the opposite, with his spiky hair blonde like Lucy's and his eyes black like Natsu's. He took after Lucy, usually sweet and quiet, but could easily resort to yelling and violence when provoked. He was the cunning, sneaky one.

"Boys. Who did this?"

That question never worked. Each boy pointed to the other one. Natsu should have known, really, it happened every damned time!

"Oh never mind. Don't do it again. Just help Daddy clean it up, okay? Layla you too! Stay here!" He wanted all three of them in his line of sight at all times.

'Clean-up' entailed another fire, again without an actual culprit. Oh he had the same three suspects, but which one was actually the guilty one? Would he ever really know?

Natsu pinched the bridge of his nose. Lucy had already been gone for three days. Three whole fucking miserable days. And her mission would take at least ten, probably more. He was a goner.

"Alright kiddos! Time to go to the guild!" At least at the guild, usually someone else would gush over his kids and entertain them. Plus they get in less trouble when there are more people watching. The guild was always his safe haven.