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• Set to Boil by CelestialEmbers (BitterNovember)

  Fandoms: Fairy Tail  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  15 Sep 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Natsu Dragneel/Lucy Heartfilia
  • Natsu Dragneel
  • Lucy Heartfilia
  • Romance
  • Humor
  • Mutual Pining
  • they're idiots your honor
  • Not really a slow burn since the water is already hot
  • Fluff
  • Emotional development with a healthy dose of smut
  • no beta we die like igneel
  • shattered but heroic
  • Tags to be added when and if my ADHD self remembers

  Summary

  More than friends, less than lovers. That had been the status for the majority of their relationship. Lucy knows that moving forward means going slow to avoid setting off Natsu's aversion to change. She's going to have to boil the Salamander.

  As for Natsu?

  Well, he's never been opposed to turning up the heat.

  Language:

  English

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  5,187

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