Author's Note

Hey everypony sorry for my absence and my laziness. Here have this chapter!

VII - Alone With Celestia & Nightmare

-Alone With Celestia & Nightmare-

Soon after the whole incident Celestia, Moon and I were in Twilight's library no one else just a whole bunch of books everywhere. I'm normally not OCD but the books all over the place started to bother me.

"I assume you're Celestia?" I ask starting the conversation that we've neglected to start for a whole 10 minutes. The white alicorn nods and sips her tea Twilight set out for us before leaving us to our devices. I'm not a big tea enthusiast but I do drink tea occasionally.

She places the cup of tea down and smiles at me. "Yes, but why would you ask that my little pony?" Celestia asks me calmly.

I look to Moon for a second to see her looking at me and I reply, "I am not from anywhere around here so I don't know anyone except Moon. That includes royalty, nobles, or the famous ponies. I know nothing about where I am." Celestia was clearly taken back by my statement. "Now if you'll excuse me I have to do something about this mess. It is bothering me." I got up and began to pick up books and put them on the shelves in alphabetical order by author. Some of the authors' names looked familiar but i passed it off as a coincidence.

I assume that Moon and Celestia talked very little because after I returned the tea was completely gone all except for my lone cup now sitting on the table. I began to sit back down when Celestia began to speak again. "Jayden tell me, how well has Nightmare Moon been treating you?"

I cocked my head, slightly wondering why she'd ask something like that. Thinking back on the time I've spent with Moon so far which has been, at the least, 18 hours. "I have to say that Moon has been treating me with the utmost respect and care. She hasn't in anyway tried to hurt me if that is what you're looking for." I say after taking a sip of my tea. "To be perfectly honest, Moon is already my best friend. Even though I met her about a day ago I will not leave her by herself, alone and scared of the world. No one deserves that no matter what they could have done in the past."

My words seem to have had very little effect on Celestia for the poker face I'm getting stared at with is absolutely flawless. I glance to Moon to see a similar one being given to Celestia to which I believe she has yet to notice. The stares didn't end for a good few minutes before Twilight came through the door with a stethoscope.

I gave her a look of confusion at first but then I realized she was eavesdropping. "Princess Celestia, you may want to remind a certain individual that it's rude to listen into a conversation to which she is not involved." Celestia's poker face broke and she looked directly at where Twilight was now standing. The look on Twilight's face as Celestia looked at her with what seemed to be disapproval. Twilight looked down at the stethoscope and her ears pinned back and her head dropped.

"Twilight, what we are discussing at this moment isn't anything you need to worry about. We will discuss everything one on one later." A aura of yellow surrounds the stethoscope and it is lifted on to the table form Twilight's shoulders.

"Oh, I assume that a private conversation isn't private?" This caught all three of their attention. "You, Celestia requested to speak with us, privately. Which in turn means you'll respect our privacy and not talk about anything we say unless it's a threat to your kingdom. I'm assuming you don't give a damn whether we have privacy or not given you'd just up and tell some pony about private matters and not punish her accordingly for doing something wrong." I couldn't help myself from entering a rant so I continued on. "Back where I'm from if you made any false accusation high authority you'd be imprisoned if the falsely accused pressed charges for incrimination on there rights. So I will make this clear I will not stand for this. I am only here for NightmareMoon because she is my friend. Nothing is wrong with me and I will NOT change my mind EVER. Understand?" My rant came to an end as I took a few deep breaths. Everypony in the room was silent. Moon moved over and pulled me into her chest, the back of my head is just under her neck. I looked up but I couldn't see her face, so instead I looked at Celestia's and Twilight's. By the look on there faces I tried to deduce what face Nightmare is making. Then I thought, what's the point; she's my friend and I will trust her. Twilight seeing an opening left the room with a spring in her step. I lean back slightly and turn my head using Moon's chest as a pillow. I close my eyes resting there feeling the beat of Moon's heart as it thumped calmly inside her. It's was like a hypnotizing metronome for I felt myself getting sleepy. As I fell asleep I don't recall any words that were said, were they attempts to wake me up they failed terribly.

"Well, Nightmare... I want to know, did you cast a spell on him?" Celestia asked as calmly as she could given the stallion known as Jayden is now being held by NightmareMoon as he slept.

"No, I didn't. You may check yourself if you wish but if you attempt to harm him Celestia... I will not tolerate it." Moon says protectively her wings covering Jaden like a blanket. "He is my friend. My one and only friend and you won't take him away like you took Luna from me with your little student and her friends."

"You know what you were making Luna do was wrong!" Celestia shouted at the dark alicorn. "So don't you say I was being a terrible pony like you."

That statement was the last straw for Moon for her eyes went from an ocean of calm to a raging hurricane of anger. "Leave!" Moon said with enough force in the tone to knock a dragon away if it was a physical blow. "Leave now. I no longer wish to speak with you. For if I do I will do something we both will regret." Celestia's eyes went from Nightmare's eyes to Jayden's sleeping form then back up. Celestia then stood and without another word left the library.