Broken Hearts and Diamonds

Spike wished he didn't wake up. There was nothing good about waking back up.

As the small dragon came to he felt his head spinning faster than if he were trapped inside a tornado. His breathing was slow and labored as if he had just ran from one end of Equestria to the other and back at full speed. But worst of all was the rapidly building feeling that... he needed... to...

"Hurgh!" Spike groaned.

"Shh, shh, over here." a gentle voice said. Spike felt himself being pushed to one side just as his stomach decided to expel everything inside of it.

Spike vomited just as his head cleared the side of Rarity's bed. Rarity had expect that this may happen and had placed a bucket by the side of the bed. Most of the contents of his stomach spilled into it, but the occasional bit would miss and land on the floor. Rarity winced as she thought how long it would take to clean up the mess, but for now the cleanliness of her bedroom carpet came nowhere near as important as her little lover.

"Urggh... water..." Spike murmured, trying to get the vile taste out of his mouth once he had finally finished throwing up.

Rarity brought a bottle of water over to him using her levitation spell. "Here you go, darling, drink this." she said.

Spike grabbed a hold of the water and took a sip, spitting out the mouthful of water into the bucket to rid himself of the taste. His aim was off and the majority of the dirty water hit her floor, causing Rarity to wince again. 'Steady, Rarity, he's not feeling well. It's just a little dirt, that's all.' she thought to herself.

Spike took another mouthful of water and to Rarity's relief swallowed it. "My head..." he said, clutching his throbbing head.

"Shush, Spike, just lay down and relax. You'll feel better." Rarity said. Wanting the pain and dizziness to stop he complied, laying back on her bed and letting his head sink into her plush pillows. Rarity put the water bottle back on the night stand and began rubbing Spike's stomach to help ease his uneasiness. "Does this feel good, Spikey-Wikey?" she asked.

"Yeah, it does." he replied, closing his eyes and letting her continue. He didn't notice that Rarity was using her tummy rubbing as an excuse to begin unbuttoning his shirt, sliding the undone clothing apart once the last button came loose. She continued her caressing directly against his scales, smiling as Spike let out a soft 'mmmm' of approval.

"So, what happened? How did I end up here?" Spike asked once his head had begun to finally slow down.

"Oh, you, uh... it must have been that whiskey, it must have been too strong for you." Rarity said quickly, having hoped that Spike wouldn't ask that question.

"Whiskey, huh?" Spike repeated. He didn't remember drinking any whiskey. In fact, he didn't remember much about that night at all. He remembered trying two or three wines before his mind started becoming a muddy blur. He remembered Rarity's explanation of each wine becoming indistinguishable sounds to his ears. He remembered the young pegasus next to him dressed in her sexy red dress...

"Wait, where's Flitter?" Spike realized, trying to sit up.

Rarity gritted her teeth at the name of her competition. "Who? Oh, her. She went home already." she quickly replied.

"She did? Urgh, I gotta go. I have to apologize to her." Spike said, thinking that Flitter left after he had passed out. 'She probably hates me for falling asleep and leaving her to walk home herself.' he thought.

"No!" Rarity yelled, quickly softening her voice after she realized she overreacted. "No, I mean, she said it was alright. She wanted you to stay here and rest."

"Thanks, Rarity, but I'm feeling better. I should really go to at least let her know I'm okay." Spike said, starting to sit up. Rarity forced him back down with her magic, surprising the small dragon. "Hey! What gives?" he asked her.

Rarity took off her tiara and placed it on the table next to the water. Flicking her mane back into place over her eye, she straddled Spike and let her body brush up against his. "Spike, you need to rest. Flitter said she was fine going home by herself, but she wanted you to stay here with me tonight."

"She did?" Spike asked. His mind was still fuzzy from the drugs but Rarity's statement still sounded off.

Rarity nodded. "Yes, she did, and she told me to take care of you and do whatever you needed." she said coyly, letting one of her rear legs run up the inside of his thigh.

Spike gulped due to the awkward situation he was in. True, he was now dating Flitter, but of course he still found Rarity absolutely gorgeous, especially with her current attire. "W-w-well, I should probably, uh, go check on Flitter anyway." Spike said, trying to wriggle free.

Rarity stayed firm, not letting him leave. "Like I said, Spike, I can't let you leave. Besides, darling, wouldn't you rather spend the night sleeping here with me?"

"Buh?" Spike blurted out, unable to form any words.

Rarity knew she had his attention now. Licking her lips, she leaned in closer to him, her face less than six inches from him. "Wouldn't you rather sleep with me tonight?" she repeated. To get her point across firmly she bent her hind legs and pressed her flank against his crotch. She was overjoyed to feel that Spike's member was already beginning to harden, and she took the time to forcefully press herself down on it and wiggle her hips slightly. Spike involuntarily let out a moan, causing Rarity to giggle. "Well, I think that settles it. Let's get you out of those restrictive clothes and get you comfortable."

Spike felt Rarity lift herself off of him and start unbuttoning his pants. "Ah! Rarity, wait!" he tried to protest. His pleas didn't stop her, and she unzipped his fly and used her magic to pull his pants off and exposed his erection to her.

Spike's face went red as he saw Rarity staring at his boner, but Rarity was absolutely mesmerized by it. "Oh my..." she murmured, caught off guard. Even though he had grown just a few inches since he and Twilight had moved to Ponyville, his cock clearly showed that he was maturing. His sizable member was only half erect but was already nearly at his chest. 'No wonder he tripped and fell when he ran off from here!' Rarity thought, recalling the last time she had teased him.

"R-R-Rarity, this i-isn't what... I mean, I d-didn't mean to... I..." Spike stuttered, unsure of how to explain his situation to her.

Rarity just smiled at him. "Don't worry, my special little dragon. Momma knows how to fix that problem for you." she said, reaching out and gently grasping his little dragon with her hoof. She began to gently stroke his dick as she brought her other hoof to her crotch. She was already soaking wet and wanted Spike to shove his rock hard shaft into her and forget all about Flitter, but she couldn't take things too fast.

"Mmm, does it feel good, Spike?" Rarity asked. "Aren't you glad you stayed here with me?"

Spike could only nod his head slightly as Rarity continued to bring her hoof up and down his shaft. He had never felt this kind of stimulation before, not even when he would be forced to jack himself off after Rarity would tease him. But this... this was a whole new sensation to him. Nopony had ever made him feel this good before. Not even...

"Flitter..." Spike said, barely able to even hear himself.

"Hmm? What did you say, dear?" Rarity said.

Spike quickly sat up, catching Rarity off guard. "I'm sorry, I can't... I have to go." he said, getting up and woozily making his way to the door after grabbing his discarded pants.

Rarity could only sit on her bed and watch with complete shock at Spike left her alone. 'He... I... but he... he can't...'

"Spike, wait!" Rarity shouted just as he reached for the doorknob. He stopped and looked back at her and saw that she was crying. "I thought you wanted me. I thought you loved me." she said to him.

"I do, Rarity, as a good friend. You're one of my best friends. But I'm dating Flitter now, and I love her, too. I'm sorry, Rarity." he said. Rarity hung her head down in depression as Spike opened the door and left the white unicorn alone with her tears.

Walking slowly down the dark stairs Spike sighed with relief as he felt his erection beginning to fade. 'Phew, now I don't have to worry about hiding myself all the way to Flitter's house.' he thought. He tried to figure out how he would make this evening up to Flitter; perhaps a trip to Canterlot would help her forgive him for passing out and making her go home alone.

He reached the front door of the boutique and started to open the door. 'Man, I really hope she's not too mad. I don't think I coul- oh wait, my hat. I left it in the back.'

Spike turned around and headed back inside, headed for the back work room. 'I think it's back here. I think I left it on one of the mannequins.' he thought, pushing open the door to the darkened room.

What he saw stirred up caused him to freeze. Though the room was dark, Spike could see that Thunderlane was standing in front of somepony on one of the couches. The flash of a camera momentarily blinded Spike, and his vision cleared just in time to see Thunderlane place the camera beside the unconscious form on the couch before he reared up and placed his equine cock by the unknown pony's crotch.

Spike's eyes finally adjusted to the darkness and he saw that his worst fears had come true; the pony sprawled out on the couch was his mare, Flitter! Despite Thunderlane's body right above hers she wasn't moving. Her dress had been pulled up and bunched around her chest while her panties were barely hanging on to one of her hooves, and as Spike took a step closer he could make out the slight shimmer or something wet covering part of her body. Spike could hear Thunderlane's heavy breathing but felt a stabbing pain in his heart as one short sentence reached his ears;

"Ready, my little Flitter? Here I come."

"No!" he cried out, running as fast as he could towards the two ponies.

Thunderlane had just started pushing his erection forward and had just popped the tip of his flared cock into her when he heard Spike's cry. Turning his head to see who had yelled, he had just enough time to widen his eyes in surprise as Spike came crashing into him. With a loud bang both dragon and stallion went tumbling to the floor away from Flitter's body. Thunderlane managed to scramble to his feet and he glared at the small dragon who had assaulted him.

"Hey, what gives?" he snapped.

"What in Celestia's name do you think you're doing to my Flitter?!" Spike demanded.

Thunderlane felt a quick jolt of fear before he relaxed. 'This small dragon's no threat. I can probably knock him out cold with one hit.' he thought, smiling in confidence. "Hey, you should be thanking me for breaking in your little whorse friend there." he said, sizing the little dragon up. "I'll teach her all my tricks and she can show you them later."

Spike wasn't mad, he was furious. Without giving a second thought he charged the pegasus again, but this time Thunderlane was ready and waiting. Just as Spike was about to last out at him, THunderlane sidestepped the dragon and kicked out with his hind legs, both of his hooves connecting with Spike's skull with a sickening *thud*. Spike crumpled to the ground, but as Thunderlane remained poised for another attack Spike didn't get up. After a few seconds of waiting Thunderlane didn't see any movement from the dragon and laughed aloud.

"You stupid dragon, I was going to be gentle with your filly friend here but now I guess I'll just claim both of her holes tonight." he said. Just to add insult to injury he spat on Spike's head and kicked him in the stomach, hearing the dragon gurgle in pain and curl up into a tighter ball. He began to turn back to his prize, but as he did it was his turn to open his eyes in surprise.

Before he could even think of any words he found himself being blasted backwards by a blast of pure magic. He flew past where Spike lay and slammed against the wall, his head causing the plaster to crack. He crumpled to the ground himsef, the only part of his body moving being one of his legs twitching due to the impact.

Finally regaining his ability to breathe, Spike looked up to see who had attacked Thunderlane so viciously. His ears were still ringing from the bucking he took to his head, but he could have sworn the pony walking towards him was talking to him.

"-ke?"

"-ike?"

"-u hea- me?"

As the pony approached he finally recognized her. "T-Twilight?" he asked, taking a step towards her. He stumbled and started to fall but Twilight raced over and caught him before he could hit the ground.

"Spike! Are you okay? What happened? Where's Rarity?" Twilight asked rapidly, her horn still glowing as she remained ready to blast Thunderlane again.

"I... fine. Flitter!" Spike gasped, not aware that he wasn't exactly forming complete sentences. He wrestled himself from Twilight's hooves and stumbled over to where Flitter still lay unconscious. He gently placed a claw on her stomach and cringed as he felt Thunderlane's now-cold semen between his claw and her body. "Flitter..." he said quietly, starting to cry as he realized that he wasn't able to protect her. His eyes scanned her body, causing him to feel queasy from the sight of so much sperm all over her, but he felt absolutely sick when he saw her crotch covered in white with a thin trickle of red leaking from her pussy. He sunk to his knees and toppled over, passed out as he was mentally and physically exhausted, not to mention still in immense pain from Thunderlane's attack.

Somepony's gasp caused Twilight to wheel around, her magic at the ready to attack once again. She lowered her aggressive stance immediately as she saw Rarity standing in the doorway, sighing with relief. "Rarity, you're okay!" Twilight said relieved.

"Wha... what happened in here?" Rarity gasped, genuinely surprised by what she found. She wanted to rush over and cradle Spike in her hooves as well as kill Thunderlane for not removing Flitter from her home before trying something this brazen and stupid, but Twilight stopped her from coming into the room any farther.

"Rarity, I need you to call the hospital, now." Twilight said surprisingly calmly. "We need to get these two there immediately. Well, okay, all three. But I'm ordering the guards to throw HIM in prison the first chance they get."

Rarity nodded and rushed to do as she was told. Twilight opened one of the windows and sent up three magical signal flares into the night sky, and within two minutes a group of guard ponies descended upon Carousel Boutique. With great care they lifted Spike and Flitter onto two awaiting stretchers and rushed them both to the hospital. Thunderlane wasn't shown as much courtesy as he was quickly looked over by a medic and was deemed fit enough to go straight to jail. The guards were absolutely okay with the decision and bound his hooves and wings before tossing him into an awaiting armored carriage and whisked away.

Twilight accompanied the two to the hospital while Rarity spoke to the guards about that night's events. She explained to them that she had invited Spike, Flitter, and Thunderlane over to have a wine tasting but had gone up to her room after having a little too much to drink.

"So you don't know what happened with the other three downstairs? You came down after Princess Twilight arrived?" one guard asked.

Rarity gulped silently and nodded.

The guard reached under his wing and produced a small baggy of white powder. "We found this and a few more pills in your kitchen, hidden in the freezer." he said sternly.

"I... I don't know where those came from." Rarity lied. "Thunderlane insisted he prepare everything for tonight so I talked to Spike and Flitter while he was in the kitchen."

Normally the guards would investigate further for any holes in her story, but Twilight returned just then and came to Rarity's defense. "Guys, she's one of the Elements of Harmony. There's no way she would be involved with trying to drug some poor filly or attacking Spike."

The guards looked at each other and nodded in agreement. "Sorry to bother you, miss." the lead guard said before motioning the others to leave.

Twilight turned to Rarity. "Are you sure you don't want to get checked out at the hospital also? You may have been slipped some of those drugs also."

Rarity shook her head no. "I'm fine, Twilight, or at least as okay as I can be. Are you sure there's no way I can go visit Spike right now?"

Twilight shook her head. "They won't let anypony in. Even I can't go to see them. The doctor said he won't allow any family or visitors until at least noon. They're in bad shape and he needs to work without any distraction."

Rarity nodded in understanding. "Very well, but I will be there exactly at noon and he better let me in to see my Spike." she said aggressively.

Twilight nodded in ironic understanding. "I'll be there as well. I have to go inform Cloudchaser that her sister is in the hospital and probably stay with her tonight. I'll bring her over to the hospital with me."

Rarity of course didn't care at all who Twilight brought to see Flitter but nodded anyways. "I'll see you tomorrow, then. Thank you Twilight." she said before returning to her boutique.

On the other side of Ponyville, four ponies of various ages were asleep in their beds, exhausted after yet another hard day's work of working in the fields. Applejack lay sprawled out on top of her bed, too tired to even get under her sheets before falling asleep. Her Element of Honesty lay on her dresser next to her favorite hat, just as they always were almost every night. The element began to glow softly, a fiery red aura surrounding it before the light seemed to explode and a sharp *CRACK* sounded. The noise startled Applejack, who woke with a start and fell out of bed. Just as quickly as the light burst, it rapidly disappeared and plunged the room back into darkness. Absolutely confused by what had happened, Applejack glanced all around the room, half expecting to see an army of changelings attacking her farm. But only silence followed, and with caution she approached her dresser and peered closely at her Element.

She looked dumbfounded as her Element was cracked, the scar clearly evident across the apple-shaped gem. "What the.." she wondered aloud.