Lucy began to stir awake. Behind the darkness of her eyelids she noticed a pressure against her stomach and the smell of something heavenly coming from a distant room. The pressure on her stomach was warm, heavy, but not unpleasant. Before she even opened her eyes she determined what that pressure was by the telltale snore that filled the room.

Lucy opened her brown eyes to look down at where Natsu had fallen asleep. He must have been listening to the babies the whole time. She raked her fingers through his tousled locks and smiled down at him. This definitely was one of those moments she jotted down so she could mentally replay it over and over in her mind. She had developed a list of moments where she was unsure if she could love the adorkable idiot more. It amazingly was longer then she had ever realized it could be. She was already on a third piece of parchment.

Lucy attempted to stretch and push Natsu away. He of course was a solid mass of immovable male. "Natsu! Wake up! I'm hungry!"

Natsu lifted his head. "Did someone say food?"

Lucy sighed at her husband then grinned to herself. She didn't even realize the weight of what she had just said. She was hungry. Many days over the past month she had woken up nauseous. Her and the porcelain throne were unfortunately becoming quite intimately acquainted. But this morning she was hungry. She didn't know if it was the heavenly scents coming from somewhere nearby or if she was over her bouts of nausea. Truthfully she couldn't muster the ability to really contemplate the thought overly long. She just needed to get Natsu moving so she could sample the breakfast she was mostly definitely smelling.

"Natsu!"

It took several more minutes but finally Natsu rolled out of bed when he became conscious enough for he himself to register the scent of food. That was probably because he didn't scent much in the meat department.

Beatrice fussed over Lucy some more. She brought her a meal concoction she created. The main dish was similar to oatmeal but it was almost ginger cookie based. When Lucy sampled it she also tasted finely chopped nuts, probably pecans, and a hint of orange. "The ginger should help settle your stomach. But you should also try the yogurt."

Lucy had originally thought that the other item was a peculiar magenta pudding because of consistency. But the minute Beatrice had informed her it was yogurt she mentally cheered. Lucy was fanatic about fruits but the color didn't register as any she knew off the top of her head. "What kind of yogurt is it?"

"It's made with fresh frost berries. I have a couple bushes out back. They can be tart so I also add a bit of orange zest to the yogurt also."

"Seems I have a lot of orange flavor going on in my meal. I tasted orange in the ginger oats. You said there is some in the yogurt." She picked up her drink when she suddenly became thirsty and took a quick drink. "Oh! I thought that was orange juice but..."

"The fizziness threw you off?"

Lucy nodded at Beatrice. "It is a mixture of orange juice and ginger ale. I try not to throw anything out when I make a meal. But I try to keep everything diverse enough that it doesn't feel like you are eating the same thing. Normally I would reserve the ginger for another meal later in the day but it's so soothing to the stomach I couldn't resist."

Lucy was excessively thankful for Beatrice's thoughtfulness and realized she would greatly miss the motherly nature of the woman beside her.

Natsu began to grumble under his breath. His food had yet to be prepared and here instead of making his meal Beatrice was doting on his wife. He couldn't really be upset about the latter of course. He found himself smiling at the sweet friendly banter being shared between the two. Natsu became sure that despite the distance Beatrice had already pretty much became family in Lucy's eyes.

It took several minutes before Beatrice scooted herself back to the kitchen. The minute she started cooking Natsu's mouth watered. It was strange. He wasn't scenting any spicy aromas but still the food smelled amazing. He caught the scent of beef sizzling in a skillet and a scent similar that was coming from Lucy's food.

"I think she might also be using some of that ginger stuff on my steak."

"It wouldn't surprise me. She did say she doesn't like to waste ingredients."

"I just hope I don't get any of the fruity stuff." He said in a sulking manner and pointed at Lucy's yogurt.

"It's delicious!" Lucy held her spoon up to Natsu. "Do you want to try it?"

"No...thank...you." He paused between each word to get the point across that she would never get him to enjoy that fruit stuff she was so obsessed with.

About 15 minutes later Natsu's food was brought out to him. He had three steaks in front of him, a huge basket of home fries, and some kind of pepper salad.

"I didn't want to go too crazy with seasoning on your food. So I did just light salt on the fries, the steaks have a ginger soy glaze, and the pepper salad I prepared because it has some of the spiciness you would be lacking from what Lucy termed as your normal diet."

Natsu of course grumbled at the amount of meat vs vegetable but once he started actually eating it he found everything was delicious. Even the stupid vegetables.

Lucy grinned to herself. If he liked those vegetables she definitely would get him to enjoy others and fruit someday. Her culinary future started to look promising.

A loud thud came from the front of the house as the main door opened and shut behind the new inhabitant. "Where's my busy Bea?" A thick voice asked from the front hall.

A radiant smile crossed the middle aged woman's face after the greeting. "In hear my crotchety old bear!"

Lucy nearly spit out her food when she heard how Beatrice obviously referred to who could only be her husband.

A tall lumbering man came into the room. You could tell the man was all smiles behind his heavily grown beard. His hair was black and heavily sprinkled with silvery gray strands here and there. It added to what Lucy could only refer to as burliness.

"Lucy and Natsu, this is my husband Berengar. Sorry if my endearment caught you both off guard but his name sort of means bear and I'd probably describe him as looking like one also with all that fur on his face."

The man nodded at both Natsu and Lucy but his attention was solely for his wife. "Yeah well I guess it was in my nature to find a woman who's name and personality is so close to a bee. I mean a bear will always go for some honey, and where a bee is honey can't be far behind."

Lucy mentally giggled at the silliness between the older couple. She hoped that when Lucy and Natsu were there age they would still be so loving.

"Shouldn't Levy and Gajeel be up already?" She asked innocently.

Natsu wondered over the same thing so he began to focus his listening to vicinity of their room. It was the color of his cheeks that made Lucy wish she had never asked the question.

With the awkwardness in the air the Fairy Tail couple completely forgot about Erza.