My gaze drifted to Master laying next to me on the bed as the moonlight lit up his features. He looked so peaceful asleep. His forelegs were wrapped around me. His warm sweet breath brushed down my chest. I looked up at Master’s open mouth.

His pink tongue hid slightly behind his white teeth. I licked my lips reaching up with my hoof, but stopped before my hoof guard touched Master’s cheek. Did I really want to wake him up for a kiss?

I…I don’t. Pulling back, I moved my hoof away from Master, then I slowly slid, inch by inch, out from his warm embrace. Doing my best not to wake him up, I moved away, replacing myself with a pillow.

Carefully judging my movements, I got off the bed. As I touched the floor, my joints locked up, sending pain rippling through my body. My legs gave out, sending me crashing to the floor, smacking against the ground. I gasped when my breath was knocked out of my lungs, as all of the… day’s… something… shut up, it hurts!

Lightly, I groaned as I twisted my body and pushed against my weakness to stand up, now having energy to do it. Fighting through the lightning which was cutting through my body; I started walking quietly going to the bathroom. First things first. I went inside and did all that I needed to.

Master shifted in bed as I came out of the bathroom wiping my mouth. My stomach wasn’t settling, though I was sure everything I had eaten was digested since I was only throwing up stomach acid.

The floor was silent as I walked across it going to the door. My hoof touched the knob, and I frowned when it didn’t turn. So I tried twisting harder, but it didn’t work. The door had a lock on it, but it was unlocked. Sadly, I was going to have to wake up Master, I needed to see Sethi if I was going to be able to sleep through the night.

“Where do you think you’re going?” Master’s voice resonated with a dangerous tone. I turned to Master as he leaned down, being only inches from my face, with a less than happy expression. In fact, it was downright scary. I squeaked a scream, slamming against the door startled. “Answer me.”

My hoof went to my chest, trying to slow down my breathing. “Master, you scared me.”

“That’s not an answer,” he growled, stepping forward pressing his forehead to mine, and fear shot through me.

“I-I was going to see Sethi.”

“Why?”

“I can’t sleep.”

“You seemed fine for hours.”

“I passed out; of course I didn’t toss in my sleep.”

He stomped his hoof making me shake. “And you thought it was a good idea to try and run away from me?”

“I wasn’t—”

Master slammed his hoof against the door, my body jolted in shock. “DON’T LIE TO ME!”

“I di—” He slammed his hoof again against the door. “I-I.” Tears went down my face. “I love you, Master.”

“Get back to that bed!” I turned and ran, tail tucked between my legs, not caring about the pain that vibrated through me. Jumping, I flew onto the bed sitting down, and Master walked over to me. “You don’t ever leave my side again unless I say so. In fact you will not do anything unless I command it, is that clear?”

“Yes, Master.” He got back onto the bed, going to his side and laying down. Master grabbed me pulling me close to him in a tight embrace.

“Sleep.”

I sniffled. “Please, Master, I’m in too much pain to sleep. I really was—” He went over me in an instant narrowing his eyes, and I started to sob.

“You think you’re in enough pain, that it’s more important than following the orders I give you?”

“Your orders are more important.”

“Good.” With that final word, he laid back down pulling me close and closing his eyes. I whimpered in pain. Now that I was fully awake, all my bruises and basically everything started raining down on me in thick waves. How was I even alive? In fact, the pain was getting worse and worse.

“Master, I need medical treatment!” I shouted, causing his eyes to shoot open.

“Excuse me?”

“Please, please, please, please, please.” I repeated over and over, and he got up, hovering over me, as I begged.

“Are you trying to piss me off?”

“If it will get me Sethi, then yes. I’m trying to piss you off; I’m trying to run away. It doesn’t matter that I love you; it doesn’t matter that I wouldn’t get away. Please, let me have Sethi, Master.”

“Fine,” he growled, getting off the bed. “March.” I wiped my eyes and got up. Quickly I hugged Master.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you so much Master.”

“Move.” I swiftly got off the bed, and Master stayed close behind me, watching my every nervous twitch and quiver. Not even a hawk could watch its prey like this. He simply drank in my very essence from watching me. We got into the hallway, and I started marching without a word, I was far too scared for it. Honestly, the pain didn’t bother me that much; it was the crippling fear for my life.

Master put his hoof in front of me, stopping me from walking as we got halfway to Sethi’s office. Looking up at him, he leaned down, smelling my neck. Oddly, it felt really good as he took in long, deep breaths of my scent. When he smelled my flank, I lifted my leg allowing him easy access to my underside. With greedy breaths, he smelled my belly and my privates very closely. Shock went through me as he licked me, cleaning me before smelling me again, and then standing up.

Motioning for me to keep going, I started walking. We reached the medical room, and he opened the door, holding a hoof in front of me, and stopping me. He briefly looked inside the room before letting me enter.

Sethi was asleep on her back in a chair which could turn into something of a bed. Master closed the door behind me and walked over to Sethi. From the corner of his eye, he looked at me, and I got onto the hospital bed thing, sitting down.

“Sethi,” Master said, shaking her, and she groaned. Moving forward, Master smiled, staring at me. Knowing very well it would spite me, he kissed her neck. She giggled, and I frowned as he moved to her chest. I went to get up, and he held up his hoof stopping me. Gritting my teeth, I sat back down.

Still asleep, Sethi turned in her chair, allowing Master to go down further. Carefully he watched me as if he was judging my reaction. With each kiss he went lower, and a smile went across her lips as he made it to her thigh, kissing.

Her entire body shuddered, and he looked down at the wrong moment. With my wing, I quickly grabbed a box of bandages from a nearby cart and threw them at Master, hitting him on the head. It bounced off, hitting Sethi, and waking her up. Master looked at me, and Sethi looked up for a moment startled.

“Get away from her,” I snapped. He looked at Sethi which had a confused look on her face. He came over to me, and I fell back spreading my legs. This time more in offering than in defense of some kind. While I didn’t know or understand why, Master was mine. I’d kill the mare that touched him. Of course my mom was different. “If you have a problem with that, you can sleep alone in your bed tonight.” He rolled his eyes, and I grabbed his head. “You’re as much mine as I’m yours, don’t you dare forget that,” I growled, trembling.

His hooves pressed on either side of me, and he kissed me. Softly, I pulled him closer, and he pulled me closer, sliding me along the paper. It felt great to taste Master. My whole body agreed with my mind. Sending waves of pleasure over me, filling me with happiness. Without a doubt, I hated my body, but maybe it knew what it was doing in the first place.

“Um, is everything alright?” Sethi asked, coming over to us pulling out a rag with her magic and wiping the sleep from her eyes. Master stopped kissing me and stepped back, staring intently at me. She looked back and forth, confused as to what she had missed.

“She’s in pain and can’t sleep,” Master said.

Clearing her throat, the tan mare went over to a drawer pulling out a small box. The lid opened, and she pulled out a small needle and a small glass bottle. Carefully, she sucked out the clear liquid with the needle. Once full, the needle flew over and stuck into my neck without a single second of pause or hesitation from her. Almost instantly the pain dulled as the liquid was injected.

“Any pain left?” Sethi asked after a moment.

“Yes, still quite a bit, but.” I smiled. “It’s not that bad. I think I could sleep like this just fine.”

“That’s not good, I gave you enough to make a full adult feel numb. Which means I need to draw blood.”

“Alright.”

The pony doctor pulled out a bit bigger needle from a drawer and stuck it into the large black spots. She had to empty the blood into the sink a few times. Major spots dulled as the pressure stopped. Sethi cleaned the punctures, then wiped a white gel onto them, stopping the bleeding. After a few pills, the pain almost completely died. She turned to him once she finished.

“Jerard, seeing as you will do whatever you want to. I just want to ask you not to almost kill her anymore. These wounds weren’t that bad, but they can still cause a lot of pain. If you want her to stay healthy, you need to take better care of her.”

“Oh, my hooves as well.” Her body became slightly ridged. As I took off my hoof guards, her eyes bulged a little.

“Skinned hooves, yeah, that’s perfectly normal. Are you that scared that she’ll run off that you really had to skin her hooves? And all four of them as well? I mean, can’t you just put a leash on her?”

“I didn’t do it,” Master growled. When I raised my hoof, she frowned, clearly not happy with the answer.

“Oh, well, let’s start then.” Carefully she took off my hoof guards, one by one. With a precision unlike what I had ever seen, she cut off dead flesh as well as any infected areas, going only skin deep. Once that was all done, she used a bit of her magic to lightly burn bits of my flesh, rubbing a clear gel onto them before wrapping them up again. “That gel should close and stop any tenderness in a few hours. Hopefully by the time you wake up. Your other wounds will take a day or two, but other than that, you should be healthy. Hopefully you don’t get chopped into bits by then.”

“So will the hair grow back?” I asked as she eased my hoof guards back on, careful not to hurt me.

Her chuckle was daunting. “In a few weeks maybe. I don’t have a magic hair growth spell. You need to grow that back naturally. While I can take on burns, skinning, even growing bones and muscles. I can’t, however, grow you new hair. Isn’t that a tit for tat? Many would argue that’s a small price.”

“You could make me grow new bones?”

“Yep, it takes weeks.” She looked at Master giving him a mindful look. “But yes, I can even grow back a whole limb. It takes a long time, and there’s a high chance of infection which is arguably worse than actually losing the limb, but I can do it. Jerard’s donations to the medical field have advanced the world.”

“What else am I going to spend my excess bits on? I already have everything else I could waste money on.”

“Wait, if you have so much money. Why do you work so much?” Master and Sethi turned, looking at me. “I mean, why not retire?”

“I enjoy being a diplomat, and I like ponies looking up to me. So what if I spend most of my money to run hospitals, pay for roads, trains, scholarships, feed the poor, pay for schools, fund orphanages, and that I pay for well over half of Equestria’s army. I like it, and it gives me leeway when I need it.”

“Didn’t you say you made, like, a thousand bits a month?” I asked, and he laughed grinning widely.

“I make more than a thousand bits a day from land rights in Canterlot, and that’s if I don’t enforce the land rights at all. I have other properties outside of Canterlot and all across Equestria. That doesn’t include my property that I own outside of Equestria. From everything I have, I could easily make fifty times that in a day. Not including trade agreements, which would easily double even that.”

Shock went through me. “How is that even possible?”

“My family ties, which I'm so very fond of. They allow me to buy land in other nations, even though I’m not a citizen of that nation. I use the land to make villages, which pay a small rent fee. They gain a considerable amount of wealth for living on the land, but I make a healthy profit, and I have personal land managers that oversee the lands wellbeing and the security of all living on it.”

“That’s… a lot of money.”

“Yes it is, but if you add that up, I make around ten to fifteen times what Equestria does in one tax season, in one month. And yes, a normal pony could easily live off that for a lifetime, but that’s not the point, because Equestria isn’t the only country I fund so extensively. My money pays for several countries’ lifestyles.”

His grin made me understand. If he really made that much money and spent it on countries, then he could completely wipe an economy of an entire nation out without his support. No wonder he’s so feared; he’s a nightmare.

“That’s, great, Master.”

The chuckle that rolled out of this throat made me shiver. “Every single ally of Equestria is a nation by which I fund.”

“All of them?”

“Not a single one doesn’t heavily rely on me. You now understand why even Princess Celestia didn’t just rip you from my home and kill me. The amount of benefits that Equestria’s gains from me calling it home are nearly immeasurable. It’s the reason why nations would go to war with Equestria if they killed me.” A sickening feeling crawled over my body, and Master got up. “You now understand why even when ponies found out that I was raping a filly every single night, no one bats an eyelash.”

“I-”

With a quiet swiftness, he went forward kissing me. “Now then, what do you want? I could see it, you want something. I know it, I need to buy you something once in a while for good measure.”

“Bed.”

“Bed?”

“I’m tired.”

Gently, he lifted my chin with his hoof. “I’m serious, if I could buy you anything in the whole entire world, what would you want me to buy? And I mean anything.”

“You can’t buy what I want.”

His eyes narrowed. “Tell me.”

“A Master that doesn’t hit me.”

“You know that’s not going to happen, and you’re just being difficult.” His hoof rubbed the spirals on my cheek.

“I know.” I grabbed his hoof, lightly kissing it.

“So any other problems?” Sethi asked, and Master looked at her annoyed.

“I bled a little the last time we had sex, I think.” Blush went across my face; I didn’t know why that was embarrassing.

She sighed having probably expected that. “Lay on your back.” Sethi came over to me, and Master backed away allowing her to get to me. She checked my insides. It stung a lot even with the drugs, as she stretched me. Sethi froze for a moment, but then put something inside me, and the pain dulled instantly. “Well, it looks like you have four new, small rips in your walls. They should heal quickly, by morning you should be fine. Other than that, you’re good to go.”

Sethi went back over to her chair and laid down facing the wall. Master came over to me and kissed me. I pulled him closer, enjoying it even more now that there was very little pain. He stopped and floated me onto his back.

“Now back to bed.” Snuggling into Master, I smiled. We went back to his bedroom, setting me on the bed gently. I moved to my spot, as he got onto the bed. Once he was comfortable, he grabbed me, hugging me, and pulling the blanket up. Sleep had never come so easily for me.

“Sir,” Al said, knocking on the door before opening it. Master grunted not waking up just yet from the long night before.

Yawning, I sat up. “What?” I asked wiping my eyes.

“Duke Silver Tip is here, he’s waiting in the guest waiting room.”

I couldn’t help but whine. Master was right; Silver Tip did bother him a lot. “Tell him Master’s asleep right now.”

“Well he brought a filly with him, and said he wanted to talk to both of you.” Master still asleep next to me.

“Master.” I shook him, and he opened his eyes looking at me.

“What?” Master groaned.

“Silver Tip is here.”

“Tell him I’m busy till I wake up.”

“Yes sir.” Al closed the door, and I fell back hugging Master again, closing my eyes trying to sleep again. After about ten minutes, I whimpered giving up and opened my eyes, looking at Master.

“I can’t sleep.”

Master chuckled. “Me either.” He kissed me. “But I don’t want to get up.” I kissed his chest. “We should wait a while longer before we do anything.”

I nodded sliding my tongue across his chest. He sighed and got up stretching. My neck cracked as I stretched, then I spread out my wings and popping a few sore bones. A nice, relaxed feeling let me tucked them back in. Oh it had been too long since I last flew. Turning to Master nervousness quickly washed over me seeing him frowning.

“Is something wrong?” I had noticed it, but I didn’t know what to think about it. Master was starting to be more controlling than normal. He wouldn’t have cared before our trip if I just went to Sethi alone. The chest at the end of his bed opened and a strap came out flying out, and fitting to me.

“Wings down,” he growled, and I tucked my wings under the strap, it tightened. A lock flew onto the end of it locking it so I couldn’t take it off. For a minute, I stared at it, I didn’t know why Master was doing this.

The bags Rarity had left floated onto the bed, clothes spilling out. It had hoodies of all colors with ear pockets, some of them had interesting patterns. A few pants, shirts, a bunch of colored socks, and—I paused picking up a piece of clothing, or so I guessed.

“What are these?”

“That is a pair of panties.”

“Panties?”

“Yes, they go under clothes normally. They are called underwear.”

“If you already have clothes, why have on underwear?”

“I asked the same question when I was in another country where it’s illegal not to wear clothes. You wear underwear to make your outer clothes last longer, panties help to stop the zippers from rubbing your privates, keeps you warmer, cleaner and such. So there are some benefits to it.”

“That is nice, I didn’t think of that.” Magic weaved through my fur, and he lifted me into the air, surprising me. My hooves tingled a bit as he pulled my hoof guards off one by one so it didn’t hurt. Smiling and staring into my eyes. I bit my lip quivering, excited. When Master didn’t hurt me, I didn’t know why, but I got excited, like something good was going to happen.

The white panties slid over my hind legs, covering me. It took me a second to get a feel for it. The pair of panties covered my nipples, fitting to me perfectly. White socks floated into the air and over my legs going up them and staying up. I didn’t quite know how they squeezed my leg, but they seemed to be able to clamp onto me comfortably. Clothes weren’t actually half bad.

“How do they feel?”

“Good, Master.” My body quivered as he slid my hoof guards onto my hooves going over the socks. There was no discomfort with them on me now, over my bandages. Though, it felt really odd with socks and panties on, but then again, so did my hoodie and pants. After all I’d been through I felt, well, naked without them.

A blue shirt, blue pants flew onto me and a hoodie then went over my shirt. Master then put me down onto the floor. I looked at my right hoof, and then down at myself. Everything was completely covered, from my neck to the bottom of my tail. Only my tail and head showed at all with this outfit, and even then I could cover my head if I wanted to.

“Do I really need this many clothes on?” My hood went over my head, and my ears twitched inside the ear pockets. On the outside it was clear my ears were there, just covered with the front missing to allow me to hear. This outfit was a bit hot, so I unzipped the front of it, looking at my shirt. I wasn't quite sure where Rarity came up with half these designs, but they were nice.

“No, but you need to make sure the clothes fit. Also I think you look very nice in those clothes, don’t you?” I felt my collar and necklace. They were outside of the shirt so they could still be easily seen.

“I really like them a lot.”

“Then I won’t rip them off you.” He felt my cheek with his hoof. “Now let’s go meet our guests, then get something to eat.” I smiled. “Can you walk?” I got up and checked my hooves. They didn’t hurt—actually I felt fine, a little sore in some spots—but overall, I felt just fine.

“Yes.” I jumped off the bed and forgot my wings were held down so I had nothing to slow me down. Landing face first on the floor, my body tensed painfully. Everything was unbalanced with my wings down. It was the same as not hearing anything from one ear or seeing anything from one eye. It just felt weird.

Author's Note

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