Disclaimer: All Fairy Tail Characters Belong to Hiro Mashima.

Epilogue:

They spent the rest of the day talking, catching up on each other's lives. Gray held Natsu in his arms whenever he became overwhelmed and Natsu listened quietly as Gray told him about his job and about Lucy and Loke, whom he was still friends with.

The next day Natsu had shown Gray around the town he had grown up in and they had spent some time at the beach. The following day it was time for Gray to return to Boston and Natsu drove him to the airport. Gray made him promise to call if he got too sad.

At first, Natsu resisted but once Lisanna and Bickslow had left the overwhelming sense of loneliness had hit him hard. He began to call Gray at least once a week. Their conversations lasted hours. Natsu's depression began improving slowly and he began to see a therapist.

Four months after Gray's trip to Japan his work had him traveling to South Korea. He called Natsu and asked him if he would like to visit him there as he would be staying for at least two weeks. Natsu agreed, excited by the prospect as he had never traveled much. He flew to South Korea for the weekend and they sightsaw and tried all sorts of different foods. They had such a good time that Gray began to make it a habit to invite Natsu on any long trips he had. Natsu would go as often as he could, he was still in charge of his father's business and it wasn't always possible for him to get away.

Gray found it harder and harder to see Natsu leave at the end of these trips. There was no more denying his feelings, he was still in love with Natsu and he wanted to try dating him. He was getting ready to call him and talk to him about it when his phone rang. He saw it was Natsu from the caller ID and smiled.

"Hey Natsu, what's up?" Gray spoke into his phone.

"Gray! I did it!" Natsu said excitedly.

"Did what?"

"I sold the business. I signed all the papers today. I need to stay for a few months to get the new owners up to speed but I'm going to start selling all my assets and move to California as soon as I'm done. I've already started paperwork for the visa. "

"You're moving to California? Why not Boston? You already have an apartment here." Gray said while thinking that more importantly he was in Boston.

"Uhm, I didn't want you to think that I was assuming or expecting anything from you but more importantly I want to live near the beach again. The beaches in Massachusetts are a bit too cold for my liking. Plus Bickslow agreed to sponsor me."

"What if I wanted you to?" Gray asked quietly.

"Wanted me to what, move to Massachusetts?" Natsu asked not sure what Gray meant.

"Assume and expect things from me. I've been thinking about this for a while, I... I still have feelings for you. I want us to try dating."

There was a long silence on the other line that was making Gray panic. "I don't think this is a conversation we should be having over the phone." Natsu said seriously. "Can you fly out to see me sometime soon? I can't really leave the country right now but I can send the plane for you."

Gray looked at his upcoming schedule on his calendar app with frustration. He was booked solid for the foreseeable future but Monday was a holiday. "If you have the plane waiting at Logan (Boston airport) at 5 on Friday I might be able to make it this weekend since Monday is a holiday. Other than that I'm stuck here for the next few months."

"Consider it done." Natsu said cheerfully. "I'll see you this weekend!" He hung up the phone. He had been surprised by Gray's words but he was also cautiously optimistic. He had been thinking along the same lines for a while now but had felt that he should let Gray be the one to make the first move this time. It would be a short visit but more than enough time for them to talk. He waited impatiently for the weekend to arrive.

In the end they both agreed to date but decided not to officially start until Natsu was Stateside. They would give it one year and if they were still together Gray would move to California. There were plenty of job opportunities for a sustainability engineer all over the state, including some transfer opportunities within the company he already worked for. Gray had already looked. That night they shared a bed content to hold each other while they slept. Gray couldn't have been happier when Natsu was still snoring next to him when he woke up the following morning.

The day finally came when Natsu arrived at LAX (Los Angeles airport). He was met by Lisanna, Bickslow and Gray. He would be living with Lis and Bix temporarily while he had a house built in . Natsu and Gray had their first date that very night as they explored the large city. They were still as infatuated with each other as they had been in college but now they could show it. They did not even last a year, Gray had already moved in with Natsu by their sixth month of dating once the house was finished and within the year they were married. Gray somehow talked the extravagant Natsu into an intimate ceremony that was only attended by their close friends. They were extremely happy, their free days were full of adventure and their nights full of passion.

When Lisanna announced she was pregnant Gray worried that this might spiral Natsu back into a depression about Yuki but he took it rather well. He was excited for his friends and gave Bixlow lots of advice on how to deal with Lisanna during her pregnancy when she was out of earshot. She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl that they named Mirajane. Natsu and Gray became her godparents.

Weekends, Natsu and Gray would visit Mira regularly, bringing her presents and watching her so Lisanna could get some rest or go out on dates. Gray saw the longing in Natsu's eyes whenever he looked at Mira and although he never said anything to Gray about wanting a child, Gray began to seriously consider whether he was ready for one. He began to look into adoption and surrogacy, not wanting to get Natsu's hopes up before he knew what they were up against.

On their second wedding anniversary they drove up to San Francisco for the weekend. They checked into their hotel late and began making out the minute the door of their room closed behind them. Gray stopped kissing Natsu long enough to breathlessly ask if he wanted to get pregnant. Natsu looked at him confused but forgot all about it as he was distracted by Gray's hands and mouth. Their lovemaking intensified and they moved to the bed. Once they were done Gray reminded Natsu that he'd never answered his question.

He brought out all the pamphlets that he had collected from his suitcase and showed them to his husband. Natsu looked through all of them in a daze but it wasn't until he saw the certainty and love on Gray's face that he was sure. They decided to go with a surrogate and Gray grinned as he'd anticipated the decision and had already scheduled some interviews for when they returned. Even though he had wanted the child to be Natsu's biologically, Natsu had been against it preferring they use Gray's sperm. Gray didn't pry but he assumed it had something to do with Yuki so he agreed.

"That's the best present anyone's given me." Natsu smiled dreamily already thinking about the future. "I didn't get you anything as good."

"Hmm. I think you can make it up to me." Gray smiled lazily as he admired how beautiful Natsu looked when he was truly happy. "You can try and make me pregnant." Gray grinned.

Natsu chuckled. "You are such an idiot.." He climbed on top of his husband and said "Gladly!" as he slowly and tortuously brought them both to a state of utter bliss.

"I did have a present for you." Natsu said shyly. "Gray, you are the most important person in the world to me and I'm glad that we found our way back to each other. It would mean a lot to me if you would wear this again," He brought out the sword necklace that Gray had left behind in Tokyo. In the past it had been a symbol of Natsu's love for Gray at a time when it was all he could give Gray of himself, but now it was proof, just as much as their wedding rings that Natsu's heart belonged to Gray.

Gray looked at the necklace as he would an old friend and he let Natsu put it around his neck. "I'll never take it off again." he said seriously as he embraced his husband and peppered him with kisses.

Time passed and they ended up having two children, a boy and a girl. They used the same surrogate for both liking the idea that their children would have the same mother, and Natsu agreed to father the second one.

When their children were six and four, Natsu and Gray took them on a family vacation back to Japan so that they could discover some of their heritage. They stayed at the little house where Natsu had lived as a boy. It was the one piece of property he had not been able to make himself sell. He and Gray sat in the sand and watched their children play as Natsu and Zeref had before them. Natsu smiled and closed his eyes, his dream finally fulfilled. He looked at his small family and realized he had never been happier.

A/N For the first time in one of my stories they actually lived happily ever after. Hooray! Here is the Epilogue no one asked for but I wrote anyway for reasons..... basically things are coming down the pipeline in my other stories and I need a happy place to put them in for now. Enjoy it if you will or humor me if you don't. Either way it's done.