Even Nightmares Have Urges

Two weeks later...

Twilight woke up screaming again.

All she could dream about since the events in the clearing was her; Her face, and her screams of agony, and her convulsions...

A stark white hoof wrapped itself around the unicorn's waist, trying gently to pull her back down to the bed. The lavender pony was sitting straight up, paralyzed from her visions of the alicorn's torment. The warm hoof around her body relaxed her slightly, cutting the wails off and reminding Twilight that she was not alone. The deep breaths she was drawing in became shorter as the unicorn calmed down enough to think again.

As she allowed the hoof to pull her back down, Twilight turned to her right until she was facing her Princess. Her head came to rest on the cloud-like pillow, her eyes avoiding the magenta orbs that glowed in the moonlight as she snuggled up against the warm body, draping one front leg across the alicorn's shoulders and tucking the other under underneath her white neck.

"Twilight?" The alicorn whispered, causing the unicorn in question to bury her face in the fur of the Princess's chest. A leg not belonging to the small pony came over the lavender shoulders as a sigh escaped from the white pony, and Twilight's ears -one of which had the fur on the tip burnt off- flattened in response. She knew what this sigh meant. Another talk.

"Please?" Twilight hated when the Princess used that tone; The same tone little children used when asking for a snack minutes before bedtime. The word wormed its way into the small pony's mind, breaking the unicorn's silence after a moment.

"I want to forget, but..." Twilight pulled out of the embrace. She sat up again, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. She tried every night not to think of that night, not to visit the most traumatic night of her life over and over, but she may as well try to tear down a mountain for all the good it did. "...I just can't, Celestia. No spell or book or pony can block them out."

She put her hooves down, meeting the alicorn's eyes but quickly lowering her gaze. "I just don't know, Celestia. I don't know if they'll ever go away." The alicorn reached out, holding her student under the chin with her hoof. She raised Twilight's head, making sure the unicorn maintained eye contact before speaking.

"If you do not think the dreams will ever go away, then do not think for a second that I will ever go away, either." A soft smile, shining through the near pitch black chamber, seemingly brought with it a warm glow inside Twilight. The lavender pony returned the smile half-heartedly, knowing that she had to speak these words now, lest they arise at a less opportune time.

"And what if you're what brings them back every night?" Twilight let the smile slide off of her face as Celestia's features sank. It killed her knowing what she had just said, but it had been eating her alive since last week when the idea first entered her head. More was forced out of her mouth by her traitorous mind. "What if I can't sleep because of you?"

The white pony let her head fall into her chest. The leg that was cupping Twilight's chin retreated, now being used to push the alicorn onto her back. The Princess stared straight ahead, her expressionless face carved from stone as she was silent for two agonizing minutes. Twilight never looked away from Celestia, spending the time thinking of her questions and the motives behind them.

I don't want to believe that she is the cause, but what else do I have? The unicorn thought. She's fine now- Twilight glanced at the slender horn adorning Celestia's head -almost. She is the same Celestia you've known for years, the same one you fell in love with during your brother's wedding reception. So why do I think she could be doing anything but helping me?

The lavender pony thought long and hard about her dreams, and their ties to the alicorn in front of her. It's her face. Twilight searched the Princess's features for a long minute, finding her answer as she did. Everytime I see it...I go back to the clearing. Even though she smiles on the outside, I can still see her pain when I look in her eyes. That night still hurts her. And it's still killing me.

"Celestia...?"

The Princess closed her eyes for a moment and took in a large breath, gathering her thoughts, and spoke as she turned towards her student. "I'm sorry," Celestia sighed with a shake of her head. "I did not try hard enough...or I tried too hard. I tried to ease the pain by spending as much time with you as possible, always trying to keep you away from your thoughts so you would not have to go back to that night. And by doing this during the day...I was only insuring your return to them at night."

Celestia thought back to the days leading up to this one, remembering her attempts to keep Twilight talking constantly, always steering the conversation away from topics like Nightmare Moon or the Everfree Forest as quickly as she could. She avoided any sort of contact that could be taken as sexual, or even sensual. She had tried every trick she knew to keep her student as happy and busy as possible, whether it was studying or reading or just playing around. And it had backfired in her face.

"No! That's...you're wrong, Celestia!" The unicorn's eyes were wide with horror and disbelief. Twilight was shocked, appalled at herself for letting her Princess think this. "How could you...you're the one..."

Slow down. The unicorn composed herself. Think about what you're about to say. "I think that...the reason that I keep having these nightmares..." Twilight spoke slowly and deliberately, making sure Celestia heard and understood every word. "... is because I can see them in your eyes every day."

Celestia's confusion showed, as her brows knit and she propped herself up on an elbow, making their eyes level with the other's. Twilight turned her body to face the alicorn, resting on her haunches as she continued. "Every time I look into your eyes -night or day- I can see you hurting inside. I know the events in the forest are still troubling you-"

At this, Celestia opened her mouth to speak, but Twilight cut her off, determined to air her thoughts. "Please, I need to say this. Celestia, I know that, being a Princess for the past two thousand years, your instincts are to help others first, but please, don't ignore your own problems. Let me help you." The lavender pony reached for the alicorn, putting her hoof on a white shoulder, and smiled genuinely.

The Princess's eyes swam with tears as she half-laughed, half-sobbed once before grabbing her student and hugging her close. Celestia wrapped her head around the back of Twilight's head, much like she did three years ago when Luna returned from the moon.

"Oh, Twilight..."

“It’s okay, Celestia,” The unicorn pressed up against her mentor, feeling her gentle sobs and her warm coat as she comforted her. Twilight stroked the alicorn’s leg, nuzzling further into the hug.

Eventually Celestia calmed down, brushing the tears away with a hoof as she pulled away. She looked to her student, finding the compassion and caring that usually shone in her eyes reflected back at her. Twilight had grown up so fast.

Celestia layed back down, facing the ceiling, and pat the pristine fur on her chest. Twilight happily complied, the unicorn laying on her belly on top of her Princess. Celestia brushed the violet hair back, taking a moment to hold the lavender pony's cheek and plant a small kiss on her pupil's forehead. Twilight smiled dreamily, closing her eyes and enjoying the touch of the hoof.

As the white leg pulled away, the unicorn rested her head on the alicorn's neck. There it was again, the multitude of scents coming from Celestia; The ocean breeze, a medley of different flowers, a light coat of fragranced soap, a dozen more. Twilight was finally at ease that night, happy that she had at least started to work out her's and Celestia's problems...

"You are wrong, Twilight." Twilight popped up like a weasel out of a box. "I have come to terms with what happened two weeks ago." Twilight looked back and forth between Celestia's eyes, trying to understand the Princess's words. When she found none after a few seconds, the alicorn continued. "It comes with being over two-thousand years old, and the sole ruler of a massive kingdom for half of those years. I have to forgive others and move on from errors quickly, else let grudges and mistakes consume me.

"Yes, my injuries left scars, on the inside as well as out. But that is all they are now - scars." Celestia reached up with both front legs, holding either side of the startled unicorn's head gently. "Reminders of a time that has past. I will carry them with me for the rest of my life. But, like all scars, after a time, they stop hurting." Realization dawned in Twilight's eyes as her mentor finished. "The pain in my eyes is a reflection of your own grief.”

Twilight pushed herself even further away, her shaking leg threatening to give away as she came to a very Twilight-like conclusion. Knowing the things her student’s mind could come up with, and how they usually came close to destroying a town with a stuffed animal, Celestia raced ahead to try and stop the idea from spreading like wildfire. “Twilight, this is not your fault. If anything, it is mine.”

The alicorn could almost read the unicorn’s mind. Twilight thought that she had to take responsibility for everything that had happened, because that was how Twilight was. So now, the young mare would freak out over a small problem that she thought she had caused and blow the issue out of proportion. The only thing that seemed to calm down the unicorn when she got like this was Celestia's presence and words, and luckily those two things were handy at the moment.

"Twilight, listen." The stern voice of her mentor stopped Twilight dead in her tracks just as she began her long apology. "I want you to stop for a moment and tell me why you think this is your fault."

Without missing a beat, Twilight launched right into her rant. "Well, because I... I should have seen that it wasn't your pain. I should have seen that you had moved on."

Celestia responded just as quickly, shifting into teacher mode for the time being. "Twilight, I have been a Princess for a thousand years. I am very well trained in keeping emotions hidden from others, so even if it was my pain, if I wanted to hide it you were not seeing it."

"Fine, but still, I could've just asked if you were okay. I could've just bucking asked what the problem was, instead of guessing and assuming."

"You had no reason to think differently. I distanced myself emotionally, thinking that you were right, that I was the problem."

"But I was wrong!"

Celestia smiled on the inside, knowing that Twilight had just given her the opening to win the argument. "If you were wrong about that issue, my student, is it possible that you could be wrong about this one?"

Twilight's mouth opened to retort, but no words came out. Her mouth closed just as quickly, the mismatched ears flattened and her cheeks burned with embarrassment as she looked away. "Sorry," She muttered, knowing what a scene she had just made.

The alicorn reached up and held onto Twilight's withers. The lavender unicorn glanced at her mentor, and her embarrassment melted away instantly. "Twilight Sparkle, you-" The Princess began.

"I know," Twilight cut in. She had heard this as a filly a few times, but it still brought her comfort. "I never have to say sorry to you." She smiled.

Celestia returned the gesture and pulled her student back down to her body. The unicorn shifted positions, laying directly beside her Princess instead of on top of her. Twilight felt Celestia's magical hair wrap around her like a blanket, cooling and relaxing and enveloping her in that scent that drove the small pony crazy with glee. The lavender pony held her teacher close, their faces almost touching as they simply enjoyed the touch of the other for a long while.

Just as Twilight felt herself returning to sleep, her eyelids getting heavy and closing, yet another worry she had held onto for the past two weeks forced itself to the forefront of her mind. "Celestia?" She asked, not opening her eyes.

"Yes, my student?" came the response from inches away.

"About Nightmare Moon..." Twilight waited for Celestia to stop her, to interject with something, but the Princess could have been a statue. "...she loved you, right?"

"I believe that she believed she loved me."

Twilight hesitated, not sure where this road would lead but knowing she had to travel it. "Why?"

Celestia was silent for a moment, recounting what Nightmare had said before her banishment. "While I was under her control, Nightmare realized that, deep down, she had never hated me. She hated being alone. She -Luna- had felt rejected by her subjects one thousand years ago." As the alicorn spoke, Twilight felt the part of the Lunar Princess that resided in her stir. "This lead her to the assumption that she was uncared for. Alone."

Twilight knew what Celestia was describing. She could almost remember wandering the halls of the castle alone, feeling like an outcast, as the part of Luna inside her brought memories as well as emotions. "So after Luna and I... slept with her, Nightmare thought she loved us, as my sister and I had been her only... partners... in her life."

Twilight took a deep breath before asking her next question, readying herself for the worst. "Do you love her?"

Time had to have stopped. Both ponies were immobile for an eternity. Twilight's mind raced along, wondering if she had overstepped her bounds in asking the question, wondering what Celestia would say, if she ever answered. She could only guess how her Princess would respond.

The hair that had been cocooning the unicorn slowly slid away, unraveling itself from the lavender pony's torso and legs. Twilight let out a sigh, knowing then that she had made a mistake.

A stark white hoof held Twilight's chin. "Look at me." The alicorn's voice was firm, unyielding to her student. The lavender unicorn swallowed hard, then forced her eyes to open, finding a hard expression on Celestia's face. A golden aura appeared around the alicorn's long horn, but not the same aura that had dazzled and amazed a young filly while she was with her mentor. Sparks cracked around a chip near the pointed end, causing the aura to fade slightly.

Celestia's eyes never moved from Twilight, but she let her magic fade away after a few seconds of sparks. "Nightmare Moon did not love me enough to stop herself from doing this (she tapped her horn with a hoof) to me." Celestia raised her voice not once, but the intensity of her stare increased as she went on. "She did not love me enough to stop herself from almost killing me. The only piece of evidence I have that could possibly indicate that she loved me was her willingness to cause even further pain to me by repairing the wing she had damaged in the first place. What reason do I have to love her?"

Twilight understood why Celestia had stayed in power for a thousand years now. She had never been on the full recieving end of the Princess's full anger until now. Though the unicorn had mentally prepared herself for something like this, she was still pretty shaken.

The alicorn's eyes closed, and she took deep breaths to steady herself and calm down. Though she had visibly and verbally showed little of her anger, Twilight's question made her fume. And this lead to her getting even more pissed; Celestia couldn't remember a time when she had let herself get so mad that she snapped at her student like this.

After a few moments of using the meditative breathing technique she learned from a griffon a few hundred years ago, the Princess felt sufficiently calm to face her student. Twilight had retreated back slightly, making the distance between the pony's faces about a foot. The purple eyes showed a mixture of fear and uncertainty, showing that the unicorn knew exactly how angry Celestia was, but not how far Celestia was going to go with that anger.

Very slowly, Celestia leaned towards her student, manipulating her mane and forming a blanket around Twilight once more. The unicorn pulled back just slightly, but Celestia did not stop, instead reaching around her student's back and holding her. Twilight seemed to understand the alicorn's intentions as she leaned forward as well, resting her head on the white fur of the Princess's neck once more.

"Twilight, I apologise. I let myself go for a minute, and that was wrong of me." Celestia may have said more, had the lavender pony not interjected.

"Princess Celestia, you never need to say sorry to me." The leg around Twilight tightened, and she could almost see the glow of the alicorn's smile light up the room again.

"You know I love you, don't you?" Celestia mumbled, burrowing deeper into the fluffy pillows.

"Sorry?" Twilight had misheard her.

"I said," The Princess began with a small chuckle, "I love you."

"I'm sorry, Celestia, but what are you saying? I can't hear you."

One brow arched on the immortal pony. She hadn't mumbled, in fact she had said those last words fairly loud to make sure the unicorn heard them. Celestia retrieved her head from under her student, seeing her Twilight with the ghost of a smile on her face. "Could you please repeat those last words, Princess? I didn't quite catch them." All this being said with the tone of a young schoolfilly taking notes during a lesson.

Oh, please. The white pony thought to herself. She thinks she can play this game with me of all ponies and get away with it. Celestia's own smirk matched her student as she thought of her turn. Let's play a different game. One with significantly less talking. The Princess moved forward, cocking her head to the left as brushed her lips past a lavender cheek. "I said," the alicorn breathed, coming back to face Twilight. She moved in slow deliberation, connecting their lips and pressing forward. Celestia felt very warm suddenly, her student's scent of raspberries mixing with the taste of her mouth and flooding the Princess's senses. After a few seconds of what she thought was sure to be the killing blow, Celestia broke away. "I love you."

To Twilight's eternal credit, she remained completely unphased. She is good, Celestia thought. Very, very good.

"That doesn't seem to mean much," Twilight commented, as if Celestia had just told her it was dark out. "You love a lot of things, don't you?"

Celestia felt obligated to go along with the unicorn now, so she played her student's game for the time being. "I do love many things, you are correct."

"You love your sister." A nod from the alicorn. "You love your subjects."

"Very much, yes."

"And you love me?"

"More than I can ever express."

Twilight's eyes narrowed, attempting to be suspicious, and she was silent for a moment. "Prove it, then." Just as Celestia started moving forward again, a lavender hoof touched the Princess's lips. "Without kissing."

Celestia liked challenges. She never could resist a personal one the few times they were given to her. The white alicorn did not feel as though this one would be hard. After all, Celestia was the teacher for a reason.

"Was that an order?" Celestia's mane moved again, this time encircling the unicorn's front legs, just below the hooves. The lavender appendages were held above the small pony's head as she was turned onto her back by Celestia. The alicorn could smell from lower down on the bed her student's excitement at this point: She knew from their first embrace at the clearing that the unicorn loved this kind of thing.

The alicorn shifted, rolling above her student and applying a small amount of weight to the unicorn's torso. "I am your teacher and Princess for a reason, Twilight Sparkle." The lavender mage's composure cracked, and her breathing became quicker from the Princess's actions. Her pupils dilated and her cheeks flushed as well, signaling that she was more than okay with Celestia continuing. "I make the rules."

Celestia drew her tongue up her student's neck and jawline, noting how Twilight bit her bottom lip and snapped her eyes shut. The alicorn nibbled on the undamaged ear, watching as her student tried to ignore the instinct to flick the ear away while also scrunching her face up in pleasure.

Like a predatory creature, the wet tongue moved slowly, lightly, across the purple fur on Twilight’s forehead, coming to a near stop at the base of the unicorn’s horn, and beginning a slow climb. When twilight moved her head forward to try and get Celestia to press harder, she was rewarded with a light restraint around her neck. After that failed, the lavender pony tried grinding their hips together. The response was the same, the unicorn’s hips now secured to the lush mattress, and the little pleasure Twilight got only made her more frustrated. Now completely bound and immobilized, Twilight could only shake with need and wait for her Princess.

Teasingly, the tongue passed each spiraling indent on the horn, tracing it to the side and moving back to the center. Celestia loved the feeling of power she had over her student, and was not eager to give it up. As she reached the tip of her student’s horn after what had seemingly taken ages, the Princess blew cold air down the horn.

Shivering in response, Twilight whimpered softly, “Please, Celestia...”

A devious grin split the alicorn’s mouth as she moved back down to face her student. “I’m so sorry, my dear Twilight, but I couldn’t quite hear you. What did you say?”

Looking up, Twilight’s eyes were slightly glazed over as she pleaded almost silently. “Please, Princess Celestia...I need you...!” Celestia pressed her groin to Twilight’s as she finished her sentence, and started rocking back and forth, slowly, but forcefully. “Ahh! Princess!” The little button between the unicorn’s haunches was being grinded by the white alicorn’s own, Celestia pressing quite hard and sending bolts of ecstasy down her student’s spine.

Twilight’s eyes were so tightly shut she was seeing colors. Or maybe that was because of the feelings coming from between her legs. One way or the other, the unicorn kept them closed as her Princess commanded her to beg for more. And like the good student she was, Twilight did. She begged and pleaded for more as her mentor pressed ever more firmly against her student, pushing Twilight closer and closer to the point of no return.

Twilight threw her head back, just about to fall over the edge when Celestia pulled away. The small unicorn’s eyes couldn’t have snapped open faster if a shot had just gone off. A needy whine came out of her throat as the restraints around Twilight’s front legs and neck came away, making Celestia giggle. Lowering her head, the alicorn presented her ample horn to her student with very simple instructions. “Start licking.”

Hesitating, as she was still upset at being denied her release, Twilight waited until Celestia pushed the horn against the unicorn’s cheek. With a frustrated sigh, Twilight diligently started running her tongue up and down the length of her teacher’s horn. The lavender mage smiled at the effect this had on Celestia; The alicorn’s mouth was slightly agape and her front legs shook ever so slightly.

Twilight licked, covering every inch of the white horn in saliva until it was dripping wet, sucking on the tip as hard as she could, stopping only for a few split seconds to observe Celestia. The Princess’s cheeks grew steadily hotter and more red, and the tiniest pants could be heard as Celestia lost herself in her own pleasure.

*POMF*

Twilight jumped slightly at the sound, and she paused as she saw Celestia’s wings; flared out to either side and as stiff as a board. The Princess reared her head back, trying to calm down quickly, but this proved difficult as Twilight surged forward, trying to turn the tables on her mentor by rubbing the base of a wing with her hoof. The other leg would have made it between her Princess’s legs had that magical mane not interfered again.

As Celestia pulled the unicorn back, there was a dangerous glint in the alicorn’s eye, communicating very clearly that Twilight was going to pay for that. As the bonds loosened slightly, Celestia issues another order, which was obey instantly. “On your stomach.”

Twilight flipped herself over onto her belly, leaving her rump raised slightly for whatever Celestia wanted to do. “Higher.” Came the order from behind. Twilight quickly obliged, her rear now as high as it would get with her back legs bent. The alicorn’s mane made sure the lavender pony stayed in that position as Twilight’s front, legs, rear legs, and head were secured in place once more.

Suspended in place, completely at her Princess’s mercy once more, Twilight felt as hot as the sun as her body and groin burned with lust. As the unicorn felt something very hard and soaking wet brush against her folds, Twilight suddenly knew what Celestia wanted to do. The thought of Celestia doing something like this... The lavender mage’s arousal was kicked up another notched, if that was possible that this point.

Seeing that her student didn’t protest, the alicorn pushed forward, pressing her horn past Twilight’s lips. The moan this drew from Twilight spurred Celestia onward, and she angled her head perfectly before continuing. As her lubricated horn pushed deeper and deeper, Celestia marveled at how her student’s walls pressed against the invading appendage. The pressure and the heat were already becoming hard to handle as Celestia’s horn got halfway in.

Twilight was moaning quite loudly, using her limited mobility to push her hips against her Princess’s horn, trying to get every inch of it inside her. The white alicorn was getting close to her own edge as she moved forward still, Twilight’s walls kneading and massaging the intruder.
Just as Celestia’s forehead hit Twilight’s rear, the unicorn cried out louder than ever, her silky passage clamping down on the horn as the lavender pony shook in her bonds. Celestia almost fell over as well, pulling out and thrusting back into her student a few times before she reached her climax.

Twilight reached a second orgasm immediately after her first as Celestia’s horn erupted. The magic filled her to the core, tingling and vibrating and heating up inside her, pushing her back over and making her hips rock against the Princess once more. This one lasted much longer than the first as more magic was pumped into her, and Twilight nearly blacked out as her entire body experienced the same feelings as her groin. The unicorn’s mind could barely comprehend the amount of pleasure she was receiving, Twilight being as close to true bliss as was possible. After a straight minute of cumming, Twilight lost the battle to stay conscious.

Celestia’s horn finally stopped erupting, but Twilight kept going. Her inner walls stayed locked around the horn, making sure Celestia remained in their grip for as long as possible.

As her student released her, the alicorn slid her horn out, while at the same time retracting her mane. The Princess was almost too exhausted to move, but she crawled up alongside Twilight before she joined her student in the dreamworld. Twilight’s face was now relaxed, free from worry or nightmares as she slept peacefully for the first time in the last two weeks. It looked as though a great weight had been lifted from the mare’s shoulders.

As Celestia pulled her student closer, nuzzling her neck and burying her face there, breathing in Twilight’s scent, Celestia let sleep carry her away, joining her love once more, in her dreams.