prompt: natsu having to take care of a drunk lucy after a party he barged into because of cana's phonecall
Title: Midnight Call
Pairing: NaLu
Prompt: natsu having to takecare of a drunk lucy after a party he barged into because of cana’s phone call
Rating: M; cause nudity mention I guess. I’m not sure. haha
None of these characters are owned by me, they are all owned bythe wonderful Hiro Mashima!
A/N:
May or may not be very barge-y. I always feel like he gets hellaawkward around her when shes drunk so im kind of winging it which seems to bemy best style haha it actually ended up barge-y so im kind of happy so here you go completed prompt under the read more!
To be honest, Natsuhated that stupid thing. Whoever created these pocket sized lacrima wasdefinitely out to get him. None the less, the entire team had forced him to getone which they then discovered was their worst idea yet. First, they’d had to pooltogether money to replace the damn thing more than enough times. He was eitherbreaking it, or losing it, and rarely answered it when he did have one. Still,Lucy had insisted she was going out tonight with the girls, and that meant hewasn’t invited. Which was fine. He and Happy had been wanting alone time forweeks now, and this was the perfect time to have a guys’ night. Except… they’dimmediately become worried for Lucy within 30 minutes of her leaving the smallapartment.
Whichbrought him to this very moment. It was the first time he’d ever kept thedevice so close to him before, and he’d certainly never kept his eyes glued toit. In fact, both he and the exceed had been buzzing with anxiety which wasdefinitely not how they wanted to spend their guys’ night.
“I’msure she’s fine, Natsu.” Even though Happy was normally, well, happy he held atone of hesitation in his voice as he hovered in the air beside the pinkette.
“Butya know how she gets, Happy!” Natsu sounded particularly exasperated with thethought of his partner drunk and asking some stranger to make her purr. Though,he also knew that his reasoning for that was a territorial issue as well as aconcern for her safety. He scowled at his train of thought for a second but wassnapped out of it by the buzz of his lacrima. There were only 4 people who had hisnumber: Lucy, Erza, Gray (unfortunately), and Gramps.
Thename on the screen read ‘Lucy’ in big letters, and Natsu very nearly had aheart attack. Lucy had been out with Cana, Erza, and Levy for only 2 hours. Howthe hell had she already gotten herself into trouble? Hesitantly, he grippedthe phone in his hand, and tapped the answer button on the screen. And justlike that he wished he’d never put the device to his ear.
“NA~~~~~TSU!!”that was not Lucy, but it absolutely did not surprise him to hear Cana’s voiceblaring over the music of what sounded like a club. Had Lucy mentioned a club?If she had he would’ve been glued to this damned lacrima the second she leftthe apartment. Had he mentioned how concerned he got when she drank? It wasnormal for him to be there since 100% of the time, up to now, she’d drank atthe guild. It’s easy to keep an eye on the entire team when they’re howlingaround the guild. Or in Lucy’s case: crawling. The thought of her crawling at aclub made him cringe immediately.
“Whatdo ya want, Cana? Why do ya even have Luce’s phone?” he wondered briefly if she’deven heard him over the music. Before she could respond the dragon slayer movedthe device away from his ear to tone down the amount of damage his ear drums weretaking. He pitied Cobra for a single moment. Then, it was gone. Replaced withanxiety.
“Well!Our lovely girl is having a blast of course, but~” she was dragging out wordsagain, and had she not been Gildarts’ daughter he might’ve just fought her in adamn parking lot.
“Outwith it.” A demand, and his tone certainly was not on the forgiving side. Soon,the brunette was giggling through the phone.
“Oh!Is that Natsu!?” it was Erza’s voice now. Is this what girls do? They getdrunk, and then call random guys until they get someone who will actually stayon the phone? He felt himself slowly slipping into rage. Why didn’t Lucy haveher phone anyway? Had she wandered off, and they needed him to find her? She’ddone that on more than a few occasions, and every time they sent him to go findher.
“Natsu.Listen. We’re at Lullaby, and you should join us.” First of all, this wassupposed to be a girls’ night out or whatever they’d called it. Second of all, hereally didn’t want to deal with Erza.
“Lookif you’re both done I’m hanging up now.” And even if they weren’t done he sureas hell was.
“HeyLucy! You can’t just walk up to strangers every time we look away!” it was Levythis time, and it was definitely in the background. Why was she going afterstrange men? His eyebrows knit together, and he pinched the bridge of his nose.
“Justget her home safe will ya.” He was done listening to this, all he’d been wasanxious the entire time since she left, and he’d thought he left her in goodhands.
“Willdo—Lucy no!” it was Erza again. This time a chiding, slurred voice came fromthe line.
“Whatdo you mean, no?” it was Lucy’s voice, completely lacking her normal tone ofvoice, and way of speaking. Lucy wasn’t rigid like Erza sometimes came off as,but you could definitely tell she was the Heartfilia heiress. Well, with thefall of the company heiress was an incorrect term, but that wasn’t really theproblem. She’d lost that particular pattern of speaking, and that had himnearly groaning into the phone.
“That’sNatsu! Duh. Look, there’s a scarf so he’s not a stranger.” Some of her wordsstarted awkwardly stringing together, but there was no mistaking Lucy’sinterpretation of the situation. She saw a scarf, and immediately thought he’dcome there. Which means the ‘stranger’ was someone she thought was him.
“I’mon my way.” Click. He shoved the stupid ass lacrima into his pocket, beforeexiting their apartment, and stalking down the road. He passed the canal wherethe boat men waved and gave him a ‘Hello!’ from the river bank. He muttered theentire time he stalked down the stone road, but a small part of him enjoyedthat she immediately rushed to a person she thought was him. Another part wasangry. If a scarf was enough to derail her than he’d have to give her a chidingin the morning.
“Happy.Go back to apartment and get a cup of water ready will ya. We’re in for a long night.”From the look on the exceed’s face he knew he understood. The blue cat was wary,but gave a swift nod. He was gone in seconds. It took him about 10 minutes toreach his destination. He’d seen Lullaby a million times while passing throughto get to the guild, but he’d never once realized what it was. Well, it wasnormally day when he had seen the building so surely that played a factor.
Itwas time for the dragon to storm the castle, and kidnap the princess. Heentered the club, and the first thing he caught scent of was Lucy. Truth betold, he could find her anywhere, anytime, any day. He followed the scentthrough the crowd, just barely making his way to the bar. Mavis, that’s why hehated these types of places.
“Natsu~”Cana’s voice rang to his right, and he immediately turned. He supposed the lookon his face must’ve caught her off guard, because she let out a tiny squeak,and a chuckle.
“Youliiiiiiike her!” she was mimicking Happy now, but he wasn’t going to deny theaccusation. He was here for a blonde, and he’d be leaving with a blonde. Cana pointedthrough the path of people, and he immediately saw her. There’s no way hewouldn’t. Her hair was the color of sunflowers, and her skin as white as snow.She was talking to a man, and he noticed quickly it was the man in the scarf.
“Thanks,Cana.” He wasted no time barging through the crowd, and leaving a chorus of ‘hey!’in his wake. As soon as he was in reach he gripped her upper arm, and whirlingher around to face him.
Hecould tell she was about to fight back from the rage in her chocolate coloredeyes, but that meant absolute shit to him right now. Realization hit her like atrain.
“You’renot Natsu!” she pointed at dick bag. That’s what Natsu had decided to name theman in the white scarf. “You’re Natsu!” she pointed at him a gave a sigh ofrelief.
“Natsu~”she was whining, and normally he’d find it cute, but right now? Not so much.
“We’regoin’ home, Luce.” He pulled, gently, and she immediately moved close to hisside.
“Butwe just got here!” valid point. But not valid enough.
“You’vealready mistaken one guy in a scarf for me! You’re clearly drunk.” Well, to befair that was the whole point of their outing. That didn’t mean he had to likeit. Then, she was sulking, and Mavis did he hate when she sulked.
“Fine.But only a bit longer, okay?” he relented, but he would deny it if anyone saidhe was happy about it.
“Yay!”and with that she rejoined the girls. He went ahead, and he drank. Not much, he’dhad maybe a beer before Lucy reappeared at his side. He hadn’t really beenpaying attention when she left, but checking her outfit now it more thanobvious she hadn’t been going to a regular bar. It was the little black dressin every girl’s closet (according to Erza). Strapless, form-fitting, short. He foundhimself gritting his teeth, but he brought himself back down quickly.
“Let’sgo home.” It was a simple statement.
“Ifyou’re not ready to go yet it’s alright. I wouldn’t mind waiting a bit longer.You were looking forward to this right?” he wasn’t about to ruin her night overhis own petty jealousy, but it seemed he’d already done a good job of that.
“Atfirst I wasn’t, but now. I want to go home now.” She seemed to be pleasantlyhappy. She was humming, and swaying. He was almost positive the swaying wasn’ton purpose, but more of a lack of depth perception, and drunkenness. Shegrabbed his arm, and tugged, stumbling back a few steps. He pulled her to himjust in time to prevent two things. One: her nearly barreling into someone.Two: her nearly falling to the ground. He sighed, but led her from the clubwith ease. He was practiced in the art of Lucy navigation.
Oncethey were on the street it was an easier process. He just hefted her onto hisback, and made quick work of their travel home. If it went as planned then he andHappy could get her changed, and make sure she chugged the glass of water.Which was why, when he came to a stop in front of the strangely dark apartmentbuilding, he had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. He’d struggledgetting the front door open which meant one of two things: Happy wasn’t here,or he was sound asleep. It turned out to be the former. He groaned loudly, butwent to work on getting his partner changed anyway. It was likely that the exceedhad gone to see Charle. They’d taken up late night dates by the river. It wasHappy’s way of showing off by catching her a fish.
Natsureally wished the cat would let him know beforehand. Obviously, he would havetold him eventually when he left guys night to go see his girl. Though, Natsucouldn’t fault him since he’d done a similar action.
“Alright,Luce. C’mon.” he made an upward gesture with her arms, and grumbled as he wentto work trying to get the stupid thing off his stumbling partner.
“Zipper~”she cooed at him, and boy did he hate when she did that with her voice. Ofcourse there’d be a damn zipper. She turned around to show him her back, andmade several pointing motions.
“Yeah,I got it.” He muttered before brushing the hair from her neck, and then tuggingthe zipper. The dress dropped like a ton of bricks, and he jumped back a step.Braless. She’d gone to a busy club, BRALESS,and then hit on men in scarves. Was she trying to give him a heart attack?Probably.
“Somethingwrong?” she purred while turning on the balls of her feet to face him. Hegulped, taking another step back. There weren’t a lot of things that scaredNatsu Dragneel, but boy did she when she drank.
“Iknew you’d come. If the girls made a fuss, and I slipped mention of a boy in ascarf. I knew you’d come for me.” It was sultry, and Mavis be damned he wasscared. She took a step towards him, and his skin turned a shade paler.
“What?So, that was a damn ploy to get me out there!? Why!?” he was enraged. She’dplayed games with his emotions, she’d scared him because he thought she wasgoing to get hurt.
“Because,”she mumbled, her face turning the shade of the pale pink carnations they’d seenearlier that day, “I wanted to see something.” She wanted to see something?
“Yacan’t just ask outright, can ya?” he was mumbling now. He couldn’t understandher train of thought. Then, it flickered in her eyes. A dangerous look that hada shiver run up his spine. Now, she’d try to distract him.
“Say,Natsu. Make me purr like you always do~” he didn’t always do that, but when shejutted out her chin, and he looked into those beautiful eyes of amber speckledwith gold it was like he couldn’t resist. He reached out, and scratched underher chin. She reciprocated the motion with a low purr that caused her throat tovibrate under his fingers.
“Iwanted to see if you’d get jealous.” His fingers halted immediately, and whenhe went to hold her gaze, she immediately looked away. He knew that look. Thatwas the look she gave when she felt guilty.
“I’msorry.” It was a low whisper, but he still caught it. One of the perks of beinga dragon slayer he guess.
“Why’dya want to see that?” he was asking a daring question now. He was aware of hisown feelings for the blonde, and he was more than aware of how she felt abouthim but he’d been waiting on her. He was waiting for a sign that it was okay toproceed to another level in their relationship.
Shepulled away, and stumbled to the bed where she immediately fell in. She proceededto roll until she hit the wall before tucking herself into her blanket for refuge.Not ready yet, clearly. That’s fine. He’d wait.
Hecrawled in beside her, and it wasn’t long before she’d nestled against him, andwhispered several more apologies, which he gladly accepted. She’d recognizedshe was wrong, but the connotations behind her actions were more than enoughfor Natsu. They were going further in their relationship, even if it was just asmidge. That was fine. They’d be together forever after all.