Baby at the Doorstep.

It was a nice clear sunday morning, the sky was clear and blue, the sung shinging bringhtly and not a cloud in sight. The grls sang up high in the trees outside and the neiborhood was quiet. Lucy layed in her bed, enjoying the lazy end of spring sunday morning. Her cest rose and fell with her deep calm breahts, her eyes gazed outside the window waching the singing birds ain the trees, her fluffy white dog pluewas curled in a ball behind her kneecaps, and her blue cat Happy curled next to him. It was perfect. She felt warm kisses traling from her tail bone, all the way up her bare back. Chills ran threw her skin making her gasp. She tured from laying on her side, a pink haired man with a bare and tone tan chest hovered over her with a large grin. "Morning Luce."

"Morning Natsu.." she said still rather sleepy. She streatched out her arms high above her head and curving her body forward letting out a yawn. Her boyfriend lied on top of her covering with soft light kisses, tickling her skin. "Natsu~" she giggled. "What are you doing?" he continued to kiss her from chest and made a trail to her jawline.

"I want to play." he stated simply. kissing her cheeks.

"But we already played last night." she pouted flirtatiouly.

"I want to play again!"

"Again?"

"Yes!" he shoved his face into her neck hard and sinked his teeth lightly on her fair skin. She squealed in laughterwrapping her arms around his tan shoulders. He made silly growling noises and pretened to eat her fleash like a vampire. She kicked under the sheets laughing and hitting her small hands on his strong rough skin. The vibrations of his voice on her neck tickled her to the point she couldn't breath. Her kicks woke the animals and made them jump off the bed.

"Natsu~" she laughed. "Stop! HAAHAHA!" the rolled over slightly on the bedon the sheets. They've been dating for a while now, and had a little over a year living together. Sure it wasn't all fun and playing, but th simple moments, when they had mini dates, sunday mornings, and fridaynight food fights where the greatest It made everything worth it. They had finally stopped rolling around the sheets , their laughing began to turn into heavy breaths and giggles. Natsu hovered over the beutiful blonde enjoyng the view.

A smile curled on his lips as he looked into her brown eyes. He's known her since senoir year in highschool, and now years later, they still where inceperable. "Luce, I've been meaning to talk to you about something." she arched a brow

"You did't kill any one right?"

"No. And it I did, you woud't be the one to know or ever find out about." he piointed at her nose. She swated it away.

"Whatever, so what is it?"

Ding Dong.

The couple could hear Plue's barks, and Happy's scratching from down the hall. It's something that they ususlly do when they smelled some one at the both looked at eachother with their brows knitted together. Lucy tiled her head up to eye the alarm clock on the night stand. 8 am. Funny, it didn't feel like 8. She turned to her boyfriend. "Did you expect anyone?"

"No, you're always the one inviting people over. Just ignore them. Anyway-" Plue's barking became louder, and so did Happy's urgant scratches, and... Meowing? Happy rarely meows, and it sounded like he wasn't the only one. They sat up looking at their bedroom door ciriously. "I'ma check it out." he said flinging the sheets off his bed and pulling uo his sweat pants.

"If it's a girl scout , buy thi mints!" she called out.

"Fatass!"

"Shut up! It's almost shark week and I need my damn choclates ready!"

He laughed chuckled the back of his head. He waked down the hallway into the livingroom where the Plue and Happy seemed to want to go outside. Happy might be a cat, but he acted too much like a dog. He didn't seem to be meowing like he thought. He opened he door carefully, making the meowing cry louder. He looked around, the place seemed empty as usual. He lived in a awkward neighborhood where the roads where of dirt and everyone had wide open spaces to run around and surounded by grass. It was a nice town not too far from the city of Magnolia. He jerked his head around, looking for the source of meowing, that seemed to be more like crying now. His eyes traveled down to the portch where Hapy and Plue stared at a Moses basket, there was a bably blue blanket that had something moving under neath His eyes widen in shock. "Hey Luce?" he called out. Her voice sounded like and echo when she answered.

"Yeah?"

"Did you order a baby?"

"What?"

He kneeled down to the basket, and examined it closely. There was a note on the corner tapped there. He pealed it off and began to read. Behind him Lucy showed up with a concered face wrapping herslim figure in a silk robbe. "Natsu, this better not-" her heart stopped at the sound of is cries. She looked down at the portch. "Oh My Gods!" she rushed to it and pulled out the child, rocking it in her arms. "How long was it out here for?"

"I don't know, not long..." his voice wasn't as cheery anymore, he stood up and looked at his partner with sad onyx eyes. "Luce...he was abandoned." Lucy looked upp at him with large worried eyes, then back at the child who continued to cry softly in her arms.

"L-lets talk about this inside, the breeze might get him sick." she studdered turning to the living room. Natsu rubbed the back of his neck stressed and took another look at the note. He took a deep sigh and picked up the basket bringing it in with him. He took a look inside to find anything els. There was a binky, glass baby bottle, a set of cloths, a few diapers, and a second blanket with a name on it. "Sting huh?" he closed the door hehind him and set the Moses basket down on the coffee table. He looked at his blonde mate who was sitting on the couch bouncing the aby lightly and giving light sushes. His cries stopped and only became soft murmers of noises.

Lucy uncovered the child's face for a moment, he had slightly tan skin with blonde hair similar to hers and a button nose. He was beutiful, and was still so young, a month at most. She couldn't help but smile at him lovingly. Natsu grinned slightly at the sight, he liked what he saw, and pictured it often, sometimes pink haired girl or, like now, blonde boys. He turned back at the nt and sat on the coffee table in front of her, moving the basket to make room. "His name is Sting."

"Sting?" she looked up knitting her brows together

"Yeah," he held up the note. "His birthparents said they couldn't take care of him, and don't want him to fall in the system, so they want us to take care of him."

"The system?"

"Foster homes." He had pleanty of expiriences with 'the system'. He spent half his life in it. He rested his elbows on his knees sighing. and began to read. "I'm sorry, I can't be a mom. I know I'm not going to make a good paren, but I know your family will take good care of him. I don't want him to end up in the system like I did. Tell him that you love him every day, feed him, cloth him, and show him the effection I can't." He looked up at Lucy, her brown eyes watered and hed the child closer to her. "I love Sting, but this is what's best for him. Thank you for loving my son." he finished.

"What are we gonna do?" Her voice cracked.

"Simple. We keep him."

"What?"

"I'm serious." He was, his face was strong and showed no sign of a joke like he ususally was. "We can't let him fall in the system Lucy. We can do it, we already have two kids!" he exteded his arm gesturing to the cat and dog playing behind him. Lucy rolled her eyes.

"They are different-"

"Think about it Luce, we have jobs, and own a house, what els do we need?"

"For one a college fund." she protested.

"We'll start one."

"We don't know how to be parents."

"We'll learn!"

"Baby stuff."

"We'll buy them today, and set him up in the spare room." he crossed his arm with a prideful smirk. He knew he won this.

"We arn't even married!"

Natsu pressed his lips together into a line and stared at the blonde. He got up from his seat and dashed to the bedroom. Before Lucy could call him to ask what he was doing he was already back wih a tin black box on his fist. He went down on both knees in front of her inbetween her legs, their faces where leveled perfectly, and their chests where a baby apart. He held up the box with a serious face. "Remember when I needed to tell you something before this guy became a cock block?" he smirked as it opened. Lucy's jaw dropped, and her eyes nearly bugged out of her sockets. Her eyes admired the beutiful simplity of the single star cut dimond on the silver band. "Well?" she was still speachless. She gazd back at the baby and then at the ring. Her tears mad it hard to focus on either of them. Suddenly, the child in her arms squrmed one more. She sniffed and blinked the tears away looking at him.

Sting opened his eyes slowly, big round crystal blue orbs stared at the pair in wonder. He gave a wide toothless grin and letting out a quiet chuckle. "Hi Sting." Lucy snffed. "I'm your new mommy." Natsu looked up at the blonde, with a wide stupid grin. He leanded in kissing her hard on the forehead and looked down at the baby blonde, still grinning.

"And I'm your dad!"