Our Greatest Failures

Chapter 6

"Spike Confesses to Twilight"

After being told by Rarity that Twilight may still love him, Spike awaited the arrival of his friend and master from Canterlot Castle. As he saw Twilight arrive on the train, he could not help but wonder how Twilight was going to react to him when tells her about how he abandoned her at the wedding rehearsal in her greatest tragic moment. Prepping himself for what was about to happen, he tried to hide his feelings again as Twilight opened the door to the library.

"Welcome back, Twilight," he said, trying to force a smile on his face. "Did the Princess overcome her fears?"

"She did Spike," replied Twilight taking off her saddlebag. "It was hard for her to face her subjects like that, but I want to move on from the Changeling Invasion as much as you do."

She then turned to Spike with a worried look on her face. Twilight had managed to help Celestia, but now she had another problem to sort out and that was with her number one assistant.

"Actually, Twilight," said Spike. "Can I ask you something if you have a minute?"

"Of course, Spike," said Twilight. "I don't have anything else to get done. What is it you want to tell me?"

Spike waved his hand to Twilight's head and she got down towards him as if he wanted no one else to hear what he was going to say to Twilight. As a matter of fact, Twilight was going to find out what was on Spike's mind eventually. But, now it looked like she was about to get her answer without even asking Spike.

"Do you think I should still be your assistant" he asked and a shocked Twilight gasped and stood back for a second. Spike seemed to take this as a yes and was just about to leave when Twilight stopped him.

"Spike," she gasped again. "Why would you even ask that question? Of course, I think you should still be my assistant. But, I cannot help but ask you why you were so different when I left this morning? You seemed to be upset over something."

Spike now felt that it was time to pluck up courage and confess what had been on his mind to the one pony who had raised him since he was an egg.

"All right, Twilight," he sighed, sitting down on the steps leading to Twilight's bedroom. "I've been doing some thinking in regards to me abandoning you at the rehearsal. You know, when you tried to warn us about something that was wrong with Cadence?"

"I do, Spike," she said. "But, I still think you initially did the right thing by leaving me alone in the wedding hall."

Spike gasped in horror and grabbed his tail. He could not believe that what Twilight was saying to him was true. He was practically family to her and that he should always be there for her, even if she made a stupid mistake.

"But, Twilight," he replied. "How can you still say that? I'm your number one assistant and I should always be there for you regardless. I only left because I was afraid the others would consider me a traitor for staying with you and throw me out of the wedding too."

"Even if they did," said Twilight reassuringly. "My brother knew that he made a big mistake and that even if I did do such a thing, he would get over it and let me back in anyway. He actually told me that he and Cadence were not going to marry unless I was there. But, I guess what happened has still been on my mind and that I have been having nightmares about it."

Spike was now beginning to worry for his master. He was her number one assistant and that he wanted to be there for her in her moment of need, but he wasn't sure if he would.

"I can see your pain," he said, nuzzling her head. "What has been on my mind has been a reoccurring nightmare, too."

"What is that, Spike?" asked Twilight.

"Well, its kind of hard for me to say it to you, Twilight," said Spike, a tear flowing down his face. "But, after what I did at the rehearsal, should I still be your assistant?"

At that moment, Twilight's heart sank upon hearing those words. Yes, Spike did walk out on her with the others at the rehearsal, but she wasn't expecting to hear something like that.

"Spike," she gasped, levitating a handkerchief to Spike for him to dry his eyes. "Of course you are still going to be my assistant and that you always will be. Even after something as silly as this, I am never going to replace you no matter what. You have always been there for me as I have been there for you. We take care of each other and that is something that is never going to change. I could never live without you, Spike."

Spike happily got up and hugged Twilight as they both began to shed a few tears. For Twilight knew that Spike needed a family and thinking back to the time he made the Great Dragon Migration, he had made his family here in Ponyville with Twilight and her friends and that he was not going anywhere.

"Spike," sobbed Twilight. "You are important to me and my friends and that nothing is going to change our relationship. You are my number one assistant and that whatever you had been thinking will never come to pass. We are going to stay together, no matter what happens. Do you understand?"

"Yes, I do, mom," sobbed Spike and those words made Twilight cry even harder.

"I love you, Spike," sobbed Twilight.

"I love you too, Twilight," sobbed Spike and the two lifelong friends hugged and cried each other knowing that everything was going to be all right even after Twilight's darkest moment and that Celestia and Luna could rest easily in Canterlot tonight after the truth surrounding what happened at the rehearsal was aired out in the open.

The scars of the invasion would still be there, but no matter what happened, Twilight, Spike and those closest to them would still be there, no matter what the outcome.