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Chapter: Another New Day

Summary: One Tuesday, Gajeel and Mira are trying out new drinks on the drinking club guinea pigs, when Laxus comes into the guild carrying someone...

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Gray was deep in conversation with Cana, Evergreen, and Mira one Tuesday, when Natsu suddenly sat up beside him and started sniffing. Gajeel, who'd also been silent until now, made a grumble of surprise.

Interesting.

"Gajeel, would you hand me that?" Mira asked, pointing at something behind the bar, not aware anything was off.

"…Sure," he said after a moment. "Wait, what else did you put in that?"

Gajeel and Mira were experimenting with their own versions of cocktails. Next week was the second anniversary of the Drinking Club, and Gajeel had insisted they needed to make something special. Cana was their taste-tester for the nonalcoholic bits.

"I want Cana to guess." Grinning, Mira handed over a shot glass full of something purple.

Cana drank, looked consideringly at the far wall, and opened her mouth, but Gray missed her answer when Natsu twisted around bodily and almost knocked him over.

"What's wrong?" the ice mage asked.

"Just…nothing."

"If just-nothing is going to make you fall into my lap, I guess I don't mind."

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I Wouldn’t Be His Wife If You Bribed Me With Food

Chapter 2: I Love Him Even When I’m Starving

Summary: In the carriage home, Natsu and Gray get up to mischief.

(This chapter is explicit.)

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Lord Natsu, second child of Baron Dragneel, did not expect to find himself in such a position.

He hadn't meant for it to go this way, honestly. After Lady Lucy filled his head with everything he needed to know (and more) about bodies and their fitting together, he'd intended to mull it over. To tell his beloved in dribs and drabs, and maybe, if the pair of them could actually get the words out, have a discussion. When the time actually came, he'd intended to go slow, to have it be a careful discovery.

And indeed, they would have such slow discovery later. That was not what was happening right now.

With all the thoughts about bodies and Gray and self-care and Gray and joining and Gray, Natsu was riled up. His heart needed little inducement to increase to a racehorse's gallop. His fingers itched to touch and do all the things that were now bounding around his mind.

And so when they entered Gray's carriage at the end of the night, Natsu was already eager, reaching for his hand as soon as the door closed. As it pulled forward and the inside of the carriage was cast in darkness, he crossed the space between them and found Gray's mouth.

It was a long kiss full of warm promise.

Gray groaned beneath his lips, hands instantly going to Natsu's sides. With Natsu leaning in kiss him harder, a bump made them jostle together lengthwise, and Natsu swung his leg over Gray's thighs, pinning him. Their bodies entwined with a fluid move that was more natural than air.

"Wow," Gray gasped out. "Wow."

Natsu didn't stop kissing him.

They'd kissed many times, but this was a new fervor. Natsu's fingers were eager against the constraint of Gray's clothes, slipping beneath his jacket, tugging at the fabric of his shirt. Gray helped, pulling out his cravat with uncanny speed.

"We can always say it was a particularly wild party," Gray gasped out, grinning.