A hunter and her prey

Miles made his way out of the tavern as Autta looked on with a smirk of victory on her face, it disappeared as Berry looked at her with a displeased face, "What did you do to him?"

"I did nothing to the old fart! I just did as instructed by the princess and teased him a bit, the guy is cold as ice, he'll be fine." Berry closed her eyes and shook her head

"I know Miles very well, you fucked up in some way to have him leave, what did you tease him about?"

Autta thought back to the events that occurred not too long ago at Canterlot castle, "Well...I made fun of his immortality...his demeanor...and a bit about his family..."

She paused and looked at Berry, waiting for a gasp to come from her to signal where she messed up but Berry glared at her friend with disbelief. "Do you have a death wish or something!?! You single handedly hit all his peeves in one go! He is sensitive about what his is now and his past, he had and still has a hard life...of all the ponies in Equestria, you'd know his feelings"

Auttawhishy thought for a bit and nodded with a bit of regret, "I suppose you do have a point but...how is it that we are relatable?"

Berry thought for a bit and snapped her fingers as she pointed to her worker, he came to where she was she Berry took Autta upstairs to her home.

"Yo Berry, why are we going to your place? You could have told me at the bar" said Autta as she was ushered inside by Berry.

"This kind of information has been surpressed and hidden for a long time, no other pony needs to know about it...except for you of course"

Autta braced for Berry's incoming history lesson, it surprised her that Berry could even think with how much alcohol she usually drank but then again, this was Berry Punch, drinking legend of Equestria.

"Okay, after this, you better go apologize to him, he is a dear friend of mine and my family...plus I...I kind of...like him" her face became flushed and Autta couldn't help but laugh a bit at her friend's sudden confession.

"Yeah, yeah, now give me the sob story so I can get your future boyfriend back." Berry looked at her angrily for a bit before brushing her comment to the side and started.

"Okay, it all took place during the civil war that broke out during Celestia's and Luna's fight for power."

"Wait a sec, there was a civil war?! Where was I in all this!?" exclaimed Autta only to be shushed by Berry

"No questions till the end! Anyways...where was I? Oh yes! The civil war is less known due to record destruction and secrecy by Princess Celestia. The civil war was a six year war between Luna's Midnight Military and Celesita's Celestian Army, Miles was and technically still is General of the Celestian Army. He led his troops into skirmishes and great battles against the Midnights, the beginning of the war was a major struggle since most of Equestria seemed to side with Luna since Celestia lost Canterlot castle rather quickly in an ambush by the Midnights. Miles lost his parents there as they protected Celestia till she was able to escape, Miles was also majorly wounded by the Midnight's General, Nec Assis, the adopted son of Princess Luna."

"Wait! Princess Luna has a son!? I never heard of him!" Berry sighed as she was once again cut off by Autta's outbursts

"He is reintergraiting into normal society at the moment so he isn't known yet to the public...as I said...he was majorly injured but a medic and her squad snuck in and took him away, saving his life. The medic was Mari Rica, she was quite bold for a field medic and was recognized for her valiant rescue, she also gained the love of Miles. They married six months later, she stayed in his hometown as he went to fight, she was with filly. Near the end of the Civil War, Miles had the Midnights on the ropes but they became desperate...He launched a massive assault on their main base where Luna was, he managed to keep her inside as his army wiped out most of her troops within the hour of arrival. He went in and battled with her till she was badly injured only to be saved by a lone guard but not before Luna stabbed him with her horn as she preformed an olden curse, a curse of life. What Miles didn't know was that right after the fall of the main base, the Midnights became too desperate.  As Mari was bathing her filly, Sargenta, the Midnight Military sent a battalion and attacked the town..." Berry teared up "They had the gull to hang Mari and Sargenta from the rooftop and slice their stomachs open and fill his home with the bodies of the dead townspeople...he came home to this and went mad..."

Autta kept silent, she was transfixed on the story Berry was telling her, she was already feeling terrible for picking on him

"He became drunk on blood lust, he was merciless to all who laid in the path of his blade which cost him his life for a hundred years. Celestia tried to have him killed for his actions but she soon found out he was immortal, nothing could kill him and she placed a high bounty on his head just to see if somepony could finally end him but nopony ever could. He doesn't like being immortal, he wishes for death all the time but right as he is about to get it...it's gone"

Autta looked down and cried a bit, she was ashamed that she acted the way she did to him for he could understand her even better than Berry could. "Berry...tell me where he lives...I...I need to speak to him...please..."

Berry nodded and told her to go into the Everfree and keep going till she reached a clearing, that is where he lived. Autta got up and thanked her friend before leaving, determined to right her wrongs and to see if she could actually make some sort of connection with the old fool.

Autta left the tavern, fighting a bit against a group of drunks who kept trying to get her to drink with them. After slamming a few heads on the bar table, she left and began to head down the road into the Everfree.

"So...he does know a pain like mine? I...I really do hope I can at least befriend him...for Berry's sake" she said as she reached the edge of the forest. She looked around and found it odd that a stallion would even consider living in one of the most inhospitable places in Equestria but taking into consideration that he was an immortal, it didn't have to matter to him.

She began to walk into the forest, scanning for a clearing to signal she was close but she kept walking for half an hour finding nothing but more forest.

"Damn it, don't tell me I'm lost..." she said as she looked around, she decided to stop walking and turn around to leave when she heard the noise of glass breaking.

"What was that? ...I must be close..." she saw a dense tree line form in front of her and she walked through it to find herself in a large clearing inside the forest. She was shocked by what she found in the center of it, there stood a large castle like structure but it looked completely untouched by time. No damages of ruins, no sign of attacks to it; just a large structure that looked as if it were old as Canterlot castle itself.

"What the hell are you doing here!?" came the voice of Miles from a window atop the large wooden and metal doors.

"Miles...I want to talk...please I made a mistake" she said as she tried to reason with him to have her conscious cleared.

"What makes you think I want to hear your crap!?!" he snapped at her, his words a bit slurred. Autta chuckled a bit as she now knew she had him. She took a bottle out of her bag and perked her breasts up before looking at him with a sultry smile.

"Come on big boy, don't leave a sexy mare out in the cold when we can be inside...keeping each other warm" Miles couldn't help but blush at her remark and shook his head.

"You are a cruel mare! Using two of my weaknesses at once!" with that he left the window and the doors began to open, Autta walked toward the opening doors to find Miles waiting behind them, sword in hand.

"I still don't trust you..." he said as he pointed the tip at her neck, she smiled and walked past him

"Same here, I don't just go into any stallion's home with the intention of being alone with him...alcohol in our system...together in their room..." she said as she swayed her hips a bit, catching Miles attention. He let out a sigh and closed the large doors, he walked past her and lead her to his living room.

"So tell me Miles, how can you afford such a place magnificent as this?" she asked

"Over a thousand years of keeping Equestria safe, you tend to get paid rather well. I used to live here when it was first constructed, it was the Wonderbolt's HQ, back when the Wonderbolts were a special force, not just fancy fliers. It was abandoned during the war and was unkept for a hundred years till I came along and had is restored. I bought it and have used it as my home ever since then."

He sat down on a chair and offered her one as well, she sat down and placed the bottle between them.

"I wanted to apologize for what I said before...I shouldn't of said such things to you" she said with a sorry tone, Miles nodded and scratched his forehead

"You are forgiven, you don't know my past so I don't expect you to-"

"I do know your past! Berry told me once you left the tavern and she left out nothing...I'm really sorry for it all, your story is quite depressing" she looked at him as he shot an annoyed glare at her.

"Is that all I am? A story!" he stood and pointed to the doors "Leave at once! I've had enough of people giving me their pity! Get out now!" he started to walk away when Auttawhishy grabbed his arm, he tried to brush her off with his wing but she blocked with her own wing

"Please Miles, hear me out! I...I do know your pain...really well"

"How could you!?! My parents were killed protecting a false God, my wife and child were murdered for loving me, and I roam this world a husk of who I was with no end in sight. You know nothing of my pain!!!" he pushed her off and stormed into his bedroom and slammed the door. Autta got close to the door and heard a faint sob before silence.

"I was found a baby in a mountain village over a thousand years ago, nopony knew whom my parents were or where I came from...I was an outsider to all who lived there but even so, they cared for me. As I grew, a stallion taught me the art of assassinations, his name was Ishmael" she got up and went to the living room to grab the bottle of whiskey and sat back down by the door before drinking a bit of it

"I fell in love with him and he fell in love with me...we were engaged and everything was great...till the White Fang appeared. A rival clan of Ishmael's, they attacked and killed everypony, Ishmael and I narrowly escaped but..." she began to cry as she continued her story. "I couldn't save him...they got him Miles...they got my true love..." she took a large drink of the bottle before having it taken away, she turned to see Miles with his door open and drinking some of the whiskey, he motioned for her to enter.

"For so long I became cold to everypony until recently, I became friends with Berry Punch and she became a way to vent my troubles... I also had an apprentice for a few years. He fell in love with me but...all I saw was Ishmael, he tried to kill me when I refused his love and he ran off." She took the bottle from him and drank more, the alcohol was starting to get to her, she felt a bit numb and leaned against him.

Miles looked down at her and took two glasses out from a drawer, he poured themselves a drink and raised his, "To Ishmael"

Autta took her glass and smiled, she raised it and looked at Miles "To Mari" she drank the whiskey down and shed a tear and was surprised to find Miles wiping it away. She sat on his lap perpendicularly and put her arms around his neck, burying her face into his chest.

"Just...for a night...be my Ishmael" she said, Miles could feel her tears dampen his coat. He smiled a bit and ran his fingers through her mane

"I can't be him but...I'll keep ya company all the same" he wrapped his arms around her waste and held her, her body heat and presence was comforting to him. He closed his eyes and thought back to the last time he acted like this and could only think of his time with Mari.