"Ow! Could you TRY to be more careful!" Lucy yelled at her friend and teammate Natsu. Natsu just groaned in annoyance.

They were both exhausted and could no longer stand each other for the moment. They just returned from a job that took up more time than usual. What should've been a few days ended up being a little over a week.

Natsu carried his exhausted and banged up teammate into her room where he dropped her at the threshold and gave a sigh of relief as he jumped onto her bed.

"I… feel… like dying here for several hours." Natsu's voice lagged on in a groggy sleepy tone.

"..Aye." Replied a tired Happy who started to curl up against Natsu.

"HEY!" Lucy yelled forcing herself up from the ground to trudge toward the two.

"GET OUT OF MY BED!" She screamed, to no avail. They were both sleeping. Lucy decided to give in and let them both sleep. He did carry her all the way home from the train station even though he could hardly move due to his motion sickness.

Instead Lucy decided to take a much needed bath. She felt grimy after sweating and being caked in dirt for so long.

She stripped in her bathroom and was careful to lock the door so Natsu didn't walk in.

She climbed into the worlds most amazing bathtub and let the dirt and grime flow off of her peached skin.

Those two always falling asleep in my bed. I can't catch a break. Lucy thought to herself as she sank lower into her tub. The more she relaxed the lower she sank until just her nose up were out of water.

In the distance Lucy could hear the train rolling into town shaking her apartment more than usual.

She was too late to see it but the shaking of her walls made her treasure chest she was hiding on top of her towel cabinet fall off and land on her hard. Forcing her under the water with no where to go. She tried pushing the chest off of her but with no success. Her arms were pinned down.

No, I can't die. Not now. Not Yet! Lucy let out her last garbled breath before the darkness swallowed her whole.

Natsu, save me…

Natsu woke up to the sound of something falling and making a loud thud.

"What? Huh? What?" He groggily got out of Lucy's bed making Happy fall to the floor. He startled himself awake.

"Ow!" Happy complained as he fell to the floor landing in a puddle. Happy looked at it confused and noticed it was all over.

"Um, Natsu?" Happy called to his friend worried. Natsu was looking at the puddle too as he wiped his eyes.

"Where did that come from? Lucy?" Natsu called out thinking she'd be somewhere nearby.

"Natsu! The bathroom!" Happy wailed as he flew to the door trying to open it.

"It's locked!" Happy cried scared tears as he looked at his lifelong friend. Natsu woke up immediately. He leaped and kicked the door open fast to see Lucy being held under the water by a large chest. Her tub still running.

"Lucy!" Natsu cried as he easily pulled the chest off of her and threw it aside pulling his pale naked friend from the water.

"No! NO! LUCYYYYYY!" He cried as he began to give her mouth to mouth and pump her chest in reps.

"Don't you dare die. Not like this!" The tears started to pour out of his eyes. Happy stared in horror nearby.

Finally after giving her mouth to mouth one last time she coughed up her lungs and opened her pretty eyes.

"Nat… su." She whispered weakly as she looked at her partner.

"I'm sorry I wasn't here earlier Luce." Natsu apologized as he reached for a nearby towel to cover her up. He reached around and lifted her up carefully as he walked carefully through her flooded apartment.

"Come on. I'll take you to the guild. I want someone to take a look at you." Natsu insisted as he carried her all the way to the guild. De Ja Vu. Not too long ago she was being carried into her apartment. Now she was being carried out.

Natsu. You came for me. Lucy smiled as she looked up at her hero.