Mission

I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing, getting up I glanced at the screen. It was Mirajane, one of my bosses from work.

"Hello?" I answered groggily while throwing the covers off of me.

"Lucy."

"Mira?" I asked glancing at the digital clock sitting on the small wooden drawer next to my queen sized bed. It was one in the morning!

"How are you feeling?"

"Mira, it's one in the morning... What do you need?" Obviously, I wanted to shout at my superior for waking me up at three in the morning, but if she called me up at one in the morning there must have be a really good reason.

"Can you come by the agency? We have a important mission for you to do." Many times I wondered where did this woman on the other line get her energy from? Mirajane Strauss did not sound drowsy at all.

"Okay...Mira?" I asked hesitantly.

"Yes?"

"Is it solo?"

"No...why? Is there something going on between you and your partner?" Yes.

"N-no! It's been a while since I last saw him, and well I heard from Juvia that he got shot in the arm on his last mission..." I trailed off feeling that same familiar ache I always got whenever I spoke of him. I shivered at the rush of cold I got when stepping out onto the balcony of my condo, hoping that the cold air would freeze that painful longing ache.

"Awww, how sweet." Mira cooed as I went back in to get dressed.

"Mira! Mou, I'll take the mission with him! Can you just drop it please?" I cried out in embarrassment while slipping on a white blouse, and pencil skirt.

"Okay. Okay, I'll drop it." She giggled, and I knew she wasn't going to drop it anything soon. I pressed the 'END' button before grabbing my purse and heading out the door.

I felt anxious as I walked past the doors of the Fairy Tail Agency to the metal detectors. It wasn't because of the security screening, but because I knew that he would be here. Was I ready to face him? A quick rush of anger went through me followed by regret. Maybe I shouldn't have told him that after all... I thought sullenly while exiting the elevator to the seventh floor, where all of the Agency's assignments were handed to field agents such as myself. I greeted a few co-workers that weren't half asleep with a cup of coffee, that most likely Mira made, before entering the briefing room.

"Thanks for coming Lucy. I'm sorry to pull you out of your leave, but this is urgent." greeted Mira dressed in a tight black skirt, a blouse and a lovely necklace that Laxus might have given her. Later I'd pry details out of her, but for now it was time for work. I closed the door behind me. "Of course. What do you need me to do?"

"We need you to infiltrate a filthy rich community." yawned Laxus dressed in a suit with a few buttons undone, much to Mira's dismay no doubt. They were married after all.

"Okay. Anything else?"

"We'll fill you in on that once your partner gets here."

Oh crap. Completely forgot about him.

"Ah, he here comes!" I turned to see a familiar pink spiky haired man with sparked coal eyes.

"Natsu?" I froze, unsure of what to say.

"Lucy?" He grinned. "It good to see you again! How long has it been? Four months? It felt like forever. How's your father?"

"He's doing just fine." One of the reasons why I left was cause my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and I couldn't leave him alone. My father was all I had left for family. Luckily, he only had the early stages of the cancer and was able to treat it. After my last assignment with Natsu, I couldn't bear to face him. Not after what we did that night.

"Good."

"He's feeling much better. I'm glad to finally get back into the field."

"So tell us, what do we have to do?"

Laxus then gave Mira a look that pretty much said. You're really going to make them do this? Mira smiled ignoring the vain look. "We need you to get married to each other!"

"WHAT?!" We both shouted in unison. We looked back at each other before quickly looking away. This is definitely going to get awkward.

"Don't worry, it's just a cover. You won't actually get married, unlike us. Real marriage is hell." grunted Laxus as Mira shot him a knowing glare.

"Anyway," Laxus continued as Mira pulled up the database that was projecting behind her. She typed in a few things before his blue hair and a strange red tattoo under and above his right eye showed up. He didn't look like an average crook, but you never know with appearances. "This is Jellal Fernandes. He is a wanted criminal due to certain reasons, and has one of our 'sleeping' operatives in his hands. We need you to go uncover as a married couple that has just moved into the community looking for a fresh start. Find out what the hell is going on and report back."

"Okay." As we both left the room, we looked at each other and it was like all the air left my body. I bit my bottom lip instinctively before saying, "We should talk..."

Natsu shoved his hands into the pockets of his slacks. "Yeah..."

"Here you go, ma'm." said a waiter before leaving to greet the next set of customers. We had walked down to one of my favorite restaurants that was across the street from the Agency. I felt my chest tighten, it was pure suffocation sitting across from him. Finally, after a couple of minutes of cold silence he asked, "How have you been?

I shivered at his husky voice while stirring my coffee. How I've missed that voice... "I-I'm good..."

The waiter from earlier came back with our orders. I took a bite out of my turkey sandwich.

"I heard from Juvia that you got shot..." I trailed off, noticing that he stiffened for a brief moment. "Oh that, the bullet just grazed my shoulder. No big deal."

"You're lying." The words quickly spilled out my mouth without hesitation. We both knew that we knew each other long enough to know how the other was feeling at that moment. Natsu stared at me for a good minute before chuckling. "You could always see right through me, Lucy... I'm sorry."

"For what?" Deep down I knew what he was talking about, and we had to face the inevitable. "You know what I mean, Lucy."

"Don't," I interrupted, "Can we talk about that later?" I never wanted to hear those words come out of his mouth a second time.

"Luce, we both know that this," Natsu gestured between us, "Will cause a few complications."

"A few?" I raised a brow. "Natsu this is a complication, and right now-"

"We need to solve it."

"No." I said firmly. "I rather take my chances with the complications, because right now I just can't, okay?"

Before I could get up, he grabbed my wrist. I looked up from his hand to his determined eyes. "Lucy, I get that you're still angry about-"

"I'm not angry, Natsu. Our relationship has always been some what complicated. That night proves it." We looked at each other, neither of us willing to back down.

"Yes you are," he insisted.

"No I'm not." I countered.

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

This continued for a good half hour until we called a truce by orders of Mira, who happened to hear us over the phone when Juvia called me.

A two weeks later...

"NATSU!" I shouted around the huge mansion that I was currently residing in searching from my partner in blind rage. He had done it again. "HOW MANY TIMES DID I TELL YOU NOT TO MIX IN THE COLORS WITH THE WHITES?!"

I had been holding onto one of her favorite and expensive white blouses that were now stained in pink.

"12 times?" said Natsu fearfully as I looked up and saw the pink haired man leaning over the banister of the stairs that led to the second floor only wearing a pair of boxers. Color soon rushed to my cheeks. It wasn't like I hadn't seen him half naked before, but it never ceased to amaze me on how he was so toned and muscular. Shaking my head to get rid of these thoughts about my naive partner I continued off with my rant. "Exactly! If we're a real married couple, I can't be wearing a stained blouse for tomorrow's party!"

"Well we're not married, and you can always buy new clothes." he pointed out as I retorted while holding up my left hand with a ruby studded gold ring that Mira had forced Natsu give it to me on my ring finger, "We are married on this assignment. I can't keep on buying new clothes every time you ruin them, Natsu. I do have a rent to pay. So what do you have from Mira?"

Natsu went down the stairs warily still cautious of my anger. "We have new info on the target."

"Good." I nodded before looking at him once more. "Now go and put on some clothes, it'd be horrifying if one of the neighborhood kids saw you like that. I'd never hear the end of it from the girls."

"What ever you say, mother." He said as I grabbed a pillow that was on top of one of the many couches that were in the two story house and threw it smack down on the back of his head. He turned around grinning. "Is that a challenge, Lucy?"

"Maybe it is." Soon we engaged in a massive pillow fight that led to the master bedroom and I forget about the incident. Then the door bell rang loudly as I got up from pinning Natsu to the ground.

"I'll get it, meanwhile go and clean up the mess we made. I'm counting on you, Natsu!" I said before running to get the door.

"Oi!"

"Hey Erza." I greeted at the front door of the mansion. "How's it going with your husband?"

The scarlet haired woman in a cute orange sundress nodded. I knew the instant we met that I liked her and we soon became friends. "He's doing fine, here. Thanks for letting me use it."

She handed me back my baking pan. "Your welcome. I'll see you tomorrow."

Once dinner was done I hollered for Natsu to get his ass down here before the spicy food got cold. When he didn't reply I went to find him.

"Natsu?" I said before opening the door to the bedroom seeing that the light of the bathroom was on. I sighed settling down on the king sized bed that we had to share much to Mira's persistence and scariness. How long as it been since we've been together on a mission? He's changed since I last saw him, he grew.

"Natsu are you done with the shower?" I called out as he hollered. "I'll be out in a minute!"

Once the door opened I looked up seeing Natsu with his usual grin and nothing but a towel covering his lower half. Immediately I screamed at him feeling blood rise to my cheeks, "PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!"

"A-Aye!" I hurled a book that was on my side of the bed at him, but he closed the door before it reached him. I shook my head while rubbing my temples.

This man was going to be the end of me.

Argh I feel so tortured right now. I have too many stories, but I needed to get this one out of my mind before I started to go crazy. So I've been listening to Lucy x Natsu {Catch Me} the amv and it's addicting and mainly inspired me to write this ^_^

If you find any good amvs let me know it may cause me to update faster. ;D

Has my writing improved abit? *pokes*

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Can you imagine Natsu in a suit? Should Natsu have a motorcycle?

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