[Awww come on he can let it go just a little can't he?]

That too! I was gonna say "your partner, Natsu the great salamander of FAIRY TAIL!" But yours is better.

[He smiles thinly as they both admit to missing the little dragon Slayer. He follows one of the medical staff to a bed where he gingerly sets Lucy down on her back taking extra care with her arm.]