Mint on a Leash

Patient drifts lazily into consciousness as his crusted eyes break their seals and open, revealing his swimming bedroom bathed in morning light. His nostrils heave loads of soft, cold air pinpricked with bits of Colgate's scent as she sleeps curled up next to him, being an inside spoon. Patient yawns and sighs, moving his hooves around the waist of his girlfriend and pulling himself gently to her back, nuzzling the back of her head tenderly with his nose. She's still wearing the damp leg-socks and leather collar.

He stretches his hind legs out, hoping not to disturb his sleeping girlfriend. He gets up, slowly and stealthily; but his stealth is in vain, as Colgate suddenly inhales deeply and sighs. Patient lies back down next to his girlfriend and pecks a kiss on her neck. A quiet giggle comes from the blue unicorn.

"Hey, hon..." She mumbles as she turns over, facing her boyfriend.

Her eyes show the signs of sleep as she gives a warm, loving smile.

"Morning." Patient smirks, leaning in for a kiss.

The couple participates in a long, passionate kiss, wrapping their fore-legs around each other as Patient strokes her mane with a hoof.

"Last night." Colgate simply says after they break the kiss.

"I know." Patient chuckles and smiles.

"...Fuck, I'm sore." Colgate snickers as she uses magic to pull the love-juice soaked socks from her legs and throw them at the clothes hamper next to the door. She does the same with the collar but places it on the night-stand next to the bed.

"Which hole?" He asks, pushing his body back a few inches to admire his gorgeous lover.

"My ass. Why didn't you use lube?" Colgate fake-pouts, giving her boyfriend a joking lower lip.

"I kinda thought your juice would make for a good lube at the time." Patient reasons.

"Next time, we should get some lube from the drugstore." Colgate sighs, stretching her legs out and popping joints.

"Yeah." He agrees and slides off the bed, making his way to the door. "I'll get breakfast started."

"Thanks. I'll be in the shower first, today." Colgate giggles and rubs her butt cheeks with her hooves, giving Patient a loving gaze. Her boyfriend smiles back, walking towards the kitchen.

9:36 AM

Ponyville Hospital; probably one of the nicest places in the entire region to work at. It's not overcrowded like in Manehattan, and it's in a very peaceful, quiet town, so very few injuries come around that need any kind of immediate medical attention. Patient Care, clad in his sickly green nurse scrubs, stands in one of the patient's rooms, preforming his various duties. Changing the IV with a blue aura of magic, the cancerous pony lying on the gurney looks at his care-taker with eyes that suggest hope and fighting courage. Beeps and blips from various machines hooked up to the coat-less pegasus on the bed show that his vitals are normal.

"So, Mr. Care, how's the old Mrs. doing?" The middle aged, balding pegasus asks, stretching his bony, featherless wings.

"She's no Mrs., Emerald. She'd be forced to hate me if that ever happened." The nurse jokes, giving laughing levity to the grim scene on the bed.

"You never fail to impress." Emerald sighs, recovering from laughing a bit too much at that joke.

"Well, from what I can tell, your vitals are more stable than last week, and you've shown improvement from just a month ago. You'll be out of here in no time." Patient reassures Emerald, who smiles.

"That's great! Hey, can I let you in on something...just as a guy thing?" Emerald asks, leaning closer to the nurse.

"Go for it." Patient responds, leaning his ear towards the pegasus.

"You know that sometime in the future, she'll let you...you know..." The middle aged pony gently clops his hooves together.

"I can see that." Patient doesn't fill the details of last night.

"Yeah, nine months and no pussy eats away at you, I tell you what." Emerald laughs as a passing nurse mare looks into the room with a look that says 'the fuck you just say?'.

Patient lets out a laugh as he and Emerald bro-hoof before the stallion nurse exits the room.

5:17 PM

The shiny linoleum of the drugstore acts as a mirror, reflecting the harsh, ugly LED tubes shoved into the tiled ceiling. Rows upon rows of heart-shaped chocolate boxes, holiday cards, and cold medication create colossal barricades between the front door checkout area, and the toilets in the back. . A pair of bored and depressed looking mares sit at the cash registers up front, reapplying way too much make-up and staring off disinterestedly into space.

Browsing through the aisle of random choice, Patient finally comes across a small bottle of:

Hearts and Hooves
Anal Stimulation Lubricant

Turning the bottle around reveals:

New groundbreaking chemicals in our pleasure labs have lead us to create the perfect lube for your loved one's back door. Try it out! The secret is genetically modified unicorn mana that ravages and pleasures the g-spot of your special somepony's prison pocket.

Shrugging and guessing it'll do, Patient brings the bottle up to the front check-out desk. One of the mares boredly saunters over to him and stares at him inquisitively. The other one does the same. Patient just stands there and waits for them to ring it up for him.

An incredibly awkward thirty seconds passes by before anypony says anything.

"It's for my girlfriend." Patient states, bluntly. One of the mares raises an eyebrow.

"She really likes it in the butt." He elaborates. The other mare simply shrugs and presses a few buttons on the cash register with her hooves.

"Six bits." She coldly blurts out.

After paying, Patient exits the door with the small plastic bag carrying his slick loot. From behind him, he hears one of the mares.

"Make her happy!" She almost sounds demanding.

Patient pays no mind to the comment and walks back home, tying the bag shut with an aura or magic.