Duvets and Pegasi

“Good morning, Rainbow Dash!”

A rainbow-maned pegasus perked up from where she was walking, ready to return the greeting. “Hey there, Derpy- hey, where did she go?” The mare looked to her left and saw a speeding yellow and gray blur fly straight through a wall. She rolled her eyes fondly; That ditzy pony never changed.

Dash continued walking to her destination; the destination being Rarity's boutique. Fluttershy had recently told her about a certain book Rarity had given her. Upon further questioning, she was surprised to find out that it was one of Rarity's cheap romance novels that she read religiously. Even more surprising, it was a sapphic erotica.

At first, Rainbow had been livid when she found out. The thought that Rarity had been corrupting sweet, shy and innocent Flutters made her want to throttle the fashionable mare. A Pinkie-Promise made to Fluttershy was the only reason why she was calmly marching to the boutique, and not already there, busily making Rarity regret ever offering that book to the shy mare.

Rainbow Dash took in a deep calming breath and grinned a wicked grin. 'Of course, Fluttershy only made me promise not to physically harm Rarity. There's nothing wrong with pulling a prank as revenge,' she thought smugly.

A simple prank would not have been nearly enough to satisfy her burning rage. The prank had to be absolutely perfect. It had to really make Rarity rue ever messing with Fluttershy like that. Which is why, in order to pull off such an epic prank, she had enlisted the help of the only pony she would ever admit was a better prankster than herself.

That pony was none other than Pinkie Pie.

The party loving pony had quickly agreed to help after being told of the situation. She had disappeared for barely a minute before returning with a small notebook. Rainbow had been disappointed to see the innocuous looking notebook offered to her. It didn't last for long though, as Pinkie quickly gave a detailed explanation of how to 'get Rarity good'. 'Now don't forget, Dashie! It might sound a bit weird, and you probably won't understand much of it- Rarity will, of course- but this is sure to work on her, and boy will she be in for a doozy! Just be yourself and she won't suspect a thing!' she had said.

Dash returned to the present and noticed that she was already in front of Rarity's boutique. Quickly mentally going through all of Pinkie's notes, she pasted on a friendly smile and gave the door a few quick raps. 'This better work,' she thought.

The door swung open and revealed beaming unicorn mare. “Greetings! Welcome to Carousel Boutique where every garment is chic, unique and- Oh, It's you,” she deadpanned.

Rainbow's smile quickly disappeared and her eyebrow twitched, “What the hay is with the, 'Oh, it's you'? You got a problem with me, princess?!“

Rarity bit her lip, sighed and offered her friend an apologetic smile. “I'm terribly sorry, Rainbow Dash, I've just been having a rather... stressful day. Please forgive me for my absolutely dreadful behaviour!”

The athletic pegasus rose an eyebrow. “Really now? Stressful enough to take it out on a friend? A friend who just so happens to want to visit you; who wants to find out if you haven't died from starvation or something, after another one of your crazy projects?”

The unicorn mare lowered her head in shame. “I am really sorry about that, dear. I feel simply awful when you put it like that. Is there anything, anything at all I can do to make it up to you?” she asked, looking pleadingly at the pegasus while motioning at her to enter the boutique.

Dash smiled cheerfully at Rarity, resisting the urge to cackle gleefully. 'Gotcha! Now how did that notebook say I should start this? Oh yeah.' She walked into the boutique, making a show of limping and appearing to be 'in pain' to the unicorn mare. If Rarity noticed Dash's odd walking, she didn't voice it.

“Well, now that you mention it, there is something I'd like to ask you. You can call us even if you answer me truthfully, deal?” she raised a hoof in offer to the fashionista.

The unicorn scrunched her eyes in distaste at her athletic friend's dirty hoof, and almost hesitantly met Rainbow's hoof with her own. “Deal.” Dash's smile turned from cheerful to predatory, immediately making Rarity's heart sink. 'What have I gotten myself into?'

“Great! Now, answer me this, Rarity. Remember that book you borrowed to Fluttershy? The one you practically forced her to read? Yeah, about that. Did you happen to finish reading it?”

Rarity paled at the question. “O-oh! T-the book? I-I-I, Rainbow, dear, you have to believe me, I-”

CRACK!

The fashionista yelped at the sudden sharp sound of a hoof hitting the floor. She looked fearfully into Dash's burning eyes.

“Answer. The. Question. Rarity” she gritted out.

Rarity nodded as quickly as her head allowed. “W-well, I only managed to read the first few chapters, but I truly thought Fluttershy would enjoy the book more than I could! Please believe when I say this, I only had Fluttershy's best interests in mind, honest!”

Rainbow growled at Rarity, “If you had bothered to read past the first few chapters, then you'd know that the stupid 'hero' of that book becomes a completely crazy Meanie McMeaniepants that's totally into bondage, whipping, being a mistress, and the whole shebang! You think I'm limping for fun?! Fluttershy did this to me! She really wore me out after keeping at it for the entire night!”

Rainbow had no idea what she just said, but from the dawning horror she saw on Rarity's face, it was definitely awesomely effective. Pinkie really knew her stuff! She couldn't help but wonder what whipping had to do with two ponies that liked each other 'like that'. The whole mistress and limping thing didn't make much sense either. Bondage she guessed meant that they liked bonding with one another, and maybe all that bonding could really wear somepony out. She perked up as Rarity finally found her voice again.

“O-oh my Celestia! Rainbow, dear, I had no idea! I-I'm so sorry!” The poor mare genuinely regretted what she had inadvertently caused. The pegasus almost felt sorry for her, almost.

“Sorry? You think being sorry is gonna make things right?! If you hadn't given Fluttershy that stupid book, then I wouldn't be in this mess! Why would you do this to me, Rarity? Why?!”

Rarity was on the verge of breaking down into a sobbing fit, if the tears gathering in her eyes had anything to say. “What have I done?! This is absolutely the worst, thing, ever! I can't tell you enough how sorry I am, Rainbow Dash,” she sniffled, rubbing at the tears in her eyes, “If only I hadn't pawned that stupid book off on Fluttershy to get rid of it!” Her eyes glowed in a smouldering rage. “It's all that accursed book's fault!”

Rainbow's eyes widened comically. 'Whoa! She's really getting worked up about this! I should probably drop this prank before she does something she regrets,' she thought. Before she could stop Rarity, the angered mare pressed on.

“If it wasn't because of that many times damned book, then you wouldn't be in this situation with Fluttershy. And if it wasn't because of that darned book, then I wouldn't be having all of these distracting thoughts of doing such lewd and inappropriate things with Twilight!”

Dash gaped at her friend.

Rarity seemed to realize what she had just blurted out, and looked wordlessly at Dash.

Rainbow pointed a shaking hoof at the fashionista. “Wait, wait, wait. You like Twilight?”

The mare whimpered pitifully and looked anywhere but at her friend. “I, that is to say, I-”

But the athletic pegasus was on a roll, “You, Rarity, the pony that said she's going to charm Prince Blueblood or whatever; the pony that wants to be the belle of the ball, you want to get it on with Twilight, a mare?”

Rarity started crying, did her friend hate her now?

“Wow, I totally wasn't expecting that! Does that mean you're going to charm Twilight when we go to the Grand Galloping Gala?”

The fashionista looked incredulously at the rainbow-maned mare.

Rainbow returned a look full of child-like curiosity. “So...?”

The athletic pegasus let out a surprised yelp as the white coated mare dashed forward and pulled her into a hug. “Whoa! Hey, calm down Rare, I'm no good at this mushy stuff. What's going on?” she panicked and started patting her friend's back in an effort to calm her down.

Rarity sniffled and smiled shyly at Dash. “Oh, it's silly, dear. I'm just happy you are so accepting over the fact that I-I'm attracted to mares.”

Rainbow gave her friend a deadpan look. “You know, it'd be pretty darn hypocritical of me to judge you on that, especially since I'm kind of dating Fluttershy now.”

“WHAT?! But you said- and Fluttershy- and the whipping, and-”

The pegasus laughed nervously, now looking ashamed. “It was all a prank, Rarity. When I found out that you corrupted Shy with that perverted book of yours I wanted to come straight here and get my pound of flesh. But she made me promise not to do anything like that, so I decided to just prank you instead.”

She sighed miserably. “And what a fat load of good that did too, I made you cry. Pranks aren't supposed to hurt other ponies seriously. I'm a real crummy friend, huh?”

“I forgive you.”

Dash gaped at her friend. “What? Seriously?”

Rarity smiled and gave the pegasus another hug. “I'm just happy you don't hate me for being a lesbimare, dear. I had feared that I would lose all my friends if my sexual orientation ever came to light.”

Rainbow sighed in relief. “So you're not mad at me?”

The white coated mare giggled. “Not in the least!”

Both mares enjoyed a companionable silence. Dash was the first to break it.

“So... You like Twilight, huh? You tell her yet?”

Rarity flushed scarlet. “Oh, um, not as of yet.”

“Well, why not?”

The fashionista playfully rolled her eyes and flicked her mane. “Is it not obvious? My confession must be done in exactly the right way! Everything must be perfect! One does not simply just walk up to the mare of their dreams and confess to them.”

Rainbow deadpanned at Rarity. “Why not? It worked for Fluttershy.”

Rarity sputtered at her friend. “T-that's completely different!”

Dash grinned slyly. “Oh? Fluttershy and I are both mares, and so are you and Twilight. I don't see a difference. Maybe you're just a scaredy cat? I bet Opalescence must love that about you.”

The white coated mare glared at Dash. “I'm not afraid, if that's what you are implying.”

The pegasus smirked smugly. “Really?”

“Really.”

“Really?!”

“Really!”

“Really... what?” a new voice piped up.

Both arguing mares faced the direction of the voice and saw a canary-cream coated mare enter the boutique.

Rarity smiled politely at the newcomer. “Oh, Rainbow here was just telling me about how she really, really, REALLY believes without a shadow of a doubt in her mind, that you are simply the most adorable mare she's ever had the pleasure of knowing.”

Fluttershy turned scarlet, and smiled shyly at the rainbow-maned mare. “O-oh! She really said that?”

Rarity and Rainbow shared an amused look, then replied in unison, one feeling relieved, and the other slightly guilty for lying.

“Really!”