Time for a Natsu drabble! I'm gonna try to make it to where there's never more than one chapter in a row about any certain dragon slayer. All of these will most certainly not be connected, and all of them won't be romances. Just Lucy/Dragon slayer. Friendship is important too y'all! I'm going to try to crank out at least one drabble a week, possibly two weeks but I have BPD and ADHD so the memory and attention span are not optimal in this bitch. I'm trying to get better about deadlines, though. Here's to me not having issues keeping text bold/italicized and line breaks in place this chapter! (My laptop hates me lmao) I try to make it a point to reply to all reviews I get, and between using my phone and my laptop, sometimes I reply to the same review twice LMAO oops. Double the gratitude!

Lucy had just fallen asleep when she was awoken by the sensation of a warm body sliding against hers to join her under the covers. The heat and small waft of scent that hit her nose as the mystery person pulled the blankets up over them again alerted her to his identity. Besides, Natsu was the only one out of all her nakama that occasionally crashed with her that would immediately wrap himself around her body. Anyone else would at least stay on their side of the bed.

She hummed and peeked open an eye to glare sleepily over her shoulder at her partner as he continued to invade her space, a heated arm wrapping around her ribs like a steel band. "Natsu?"

He huffed and ignored her in favor of burying his face in the hair spilled over the curve of her neck, his warm breath tickling her skin. She reached back to pinch his side, rolling over to face him with a squeak when her fingers met bare skin instead of fabric. Natsu was glaring at her sleepily, hair sticking up like he'd been electrocuted, sans shirt. "Luce." He admonished, like she was the one creeping into his bed half naked in the middle of the night. "Sleepy time."

"Why are you here and why aren't you wearing a shirt?!" Lucy whisper-shouted at the fire mage. She prayed he wasn't awake enough to notice the fierce blush that had stolen over her cheeks when he had just shoved his free arm underneath her, and with the help of the arm still currently around her ribs yanked her into his bare chest. Warm fingers wound their way into the hair at the back of her neck.

"I had the dream again." He finally muttered in response once he had managed to crush the only-mildly-struggling celestial mage fully into his warm embrace.

Natsu… Lucy gave in with a sigh and draped her own arm over her partner's hip. "I'm right here." She murmured, pinching his side again softly with a smile. "That still doesn't explain why you aren't wearing a shirt."

Natsu huffed and pinched her back, mouth curving slightly at her startled squeak. So, Lucy was ticklish? That was good to know for the future. "I usually sleep like this, weirdo. Not my fault you've never noticed. Now, sleepy time."

"Liar." Lucy scoffed, wiggling around to get more comfortable. "You always just sleep in your clothes."

He huffed again and squeezed her tighter so she would lay still. "That's when I fall asleep here, Luce. I get hot so I sleep like this at home." He kicked the blankets off of their feet when he finished speaking, for good measure.

"Oh." Lucy was finding it hard to stay in her sleepy place with Natsu wrapped so tightly around her. She was very aware of the fact that her partner was an extremely attractive male. One that wasn't usually this grabby with her, either.

Natsu had been having recurring nightmares of her future self dying for awhile now, always immediately seeking her out after to reassure himself that she was okay. Which lately seemed to mean inserting himself within her personal space for awhile and not leaving it until he had calmed down completely. Lucy knew that the dreams rattled her partner, so she mostly let him invade her bubble without complaint. She wasn't always entirely sure that the dreams were the cause behind it every time Natsu decided to get a little more touchy-feely though. Oh well… Not like she was going to make an honest effort to stop him anyway. Lucy could admit, at least to herself, that she enjoyed the concentrated attention from the dragon slayer. She had a massive crush on him, he was oblivious, and she would take what she could get in favor of potentially ruining their friendship.

"Luce?" Natsu's whisper roused her from the mostly-asleep state she had managed to fall back into. She hummed to let him know that she had heard. "Will you sing me that song?"

Lucy smiled softly to herself. Natsu had caught her humming the tune to a lullaby her mother had frequently sang to her one night, and now demanded that she sing it for him at every opportunity he could get away with. What she didn't know was that aside from her partner enjoying her voice, was that it calmed that part deep down inside of him that wasn't human. Only Lucy could do that. "Sure Natsu."

She squirmed around in his hold until he loosened up enough for her to roll over onto her back, Natsu moving with her to snuggle into her side, his ear centered over the beating of her heart. She carded her fingers through his hair as she began humming the tune he had requested.

"Deep in the meadow, under the willow.

A bed of grass, a soft green pillow.

Lay down your head, and close your eyes.

And when they open, the sun will rise.

Here it's safe, and here it's warm.

Here the daisies guard you from every harm.

Here your dreams are sweet, and tomorrow brings them true.

Here is the place where I love you." Lucy paused to breathe briefly, stilling her fingers from where they had been tracing swirling patterns against her partner's bare back. Natsu's eyes were closed, his breathing deep. She smiled softly and closed her own eyes, sleepily finishing the second verse to the song.

"Deep in the meadow, hidden far away.

A cloak of green, a moon beam ray.

Forget your woes, and let your troubles lay.

And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.

Here it's safe, and here it's warm.

Here the daisies guard you from every harm.

Here your dreams are sweet, and tomorrow brings them true.

Here is the place where I love you…"

Awareness came to Lucy slowly. The room around her was just barely beginning to lighten up with the rising sun, signalling how early it was. She was surrounded by warmth and still incredibly sleepy, so she was uncertain to why she was awake.

The answer came to her in the form of Natsu tightening his hold on her and letting loose a rumbling purr directly next to her ear. Apparently the fire mage had managed to wrap himself around her completely in their sleep, and his usual sleep noises were now right in her ear thanks to his face being pressed into the crook of her neck. Every breath he exhaled ghosted across the sensitive skin there, making Lucy shiver. Leave it to Natsu to find one of her hot spots in his sleep. She tried to shift away enough that the sleeping fire dragon slayer wouldn't be able to unintentionally keep turning her on in his sleep, but the slumbering mage had other ideas. He growled lowly in his throat and yanked Lucy flush against his chest, burying his face back in the curve of her shoulder and neck.

Lucy let out a small gasp when one of his sharp canines scraped against her skin. Natsu could get a little handsy in his sleep, she was more than aware, but this was new. So was the length of hard and heated flesh now pressed against her ass. That had never happened before. She lay completely still, not wanting to wake Natsu up and make the situation even more awkward. He was still pretty deeply asleep, she knew because he never made noises or borderline groped her when he was anything but deeply in the clutches of the sandman.

Of course that plan almost went flying out the window when her partner not only scraped his teeth against her skin again, but followed it up with what could only be his overly-warm tongue sweeping across the same spot. His chest rumbled against her back as he let out a low growl, attempting to squeeze her further into his embrace.

Lucy was fairly certain that her face should have burst into flames by now with how fiercely she was blushing. She wasn't inexperienced anymore when it came to sex and the like, but she had never been as attracted to her past partners as she was to Natsu, had never been as affected as she was right now. And he wasn't even awake!

His hand shifted, journeying from her stomach up to hook over her shoulder, thumb pressing lightly into the hollow of her throat. Another growl rumbled directly into her ear as Natsu wrapped his other arm firmly around her hips, shoving his hand between her skin and the mattress so that she was effectively trapped. He seemed to settle down a bit once Lucy was securely pressed against him, shoving his nose through her hair to press it against the back of her neck.

Deciding after a moment of deliberation that it was safer for her to just try and go back to sleep rather than attempting to wiggle her way out of his embrace, Lucy gave a shaky sigh and closed her eyes.

This one is so short and kinda cliffhangery but I got massive writer's block going on right now and I didn't want to leave y'all hanging anymore! *insert profusely crying emoji here* I'LL DO BETTER IN THE FUTURE I SWEAR! I'm just not used to writing anymore lmao. That's kinda the point of this series of drabbles, actually. To get me used to writing and posting again so that I can start posting chapter stories again. I'm rambling now lol bye