I moved quickly down the darkened street as my breathing quickened. I could already hear whispers at the edge of my perception, heralds of what was to come.

Gotta get to Twilight. Quickly.

I turned a corner and came back onto Mane Street, where a few ponies were still wandering around, enjoying the early night air. A couple waved at me, and I flashed shaky smiles at them as I hurried past. The whispers were becoming audible, now.

Alone....

Shut up.

You're all alone, little human.

No I'm not.

Aren't you?

Images began swimming in my vision, showing me being shunned by my pony friends, and sent away to the wilderness near the Griffon Kingdoms. They showed me failing to survive, and being eaten by a pack of wolves after I became too weak to fight back.

Aren't you alone, little human? Do you really think that any of them truly accept you?

I already know they do. I doubt I'd still be here otherwise.

They tolerate you, nothing more, and you know it.

I know Luna's been letting me fuck her for months, and I know Twilight let me fuck her a couple nights ago.

Luna has been sitting alone in her tower for months since her return, and longer before her banishment. She allowed you to release yourself because she had no other choice. You disgust her. Twilight only permitted you into her life at all because of your 'aura' that makes mares want you. Every time you leave, she thinks about how much you scare her, and what you might do, and she cries to herself for acting how she does to you.

SHUT UP!

You know it's true!

I could see the library now, as my breathing became ragged and I found my legs barely able to move forward.

She will shun you. She will push you away. She will force you to relent and make you suffer for controlling her. She will-

SILENCE!!!

I raised my arm as I neared the library door, and managed to stumble forward just enough for it to thump against the door. I reared my whole body back, and fell forward again to make another thump. The lights were still on, so she was still up.

And what if she doesn't want to see you? What if she'd rather stay with the stallion who's in there with her right now?

I was on all fours now, panting from the induced fear, stabbing into the back of my skull like an intangible knife. I heard hoofsteps, and the door opened, revealing a pair of purple hooves attached to a pair of purple legs.

"Zephyr!" The legs bent, and a pair of purple arms grabbed my face and pulled it up, letting me see Twilight's face. "Zephyr, are you okay? What happened?"

I couldn't be bothered to explain at that particular moment, and instead opted to just kiss her. I shoved my lips against hers, and pushed her back enough to get the door closed. She fell backward, and I had to catch her to keep her from hitting her head. As soon as I did, my hands started moving up and down her sides, and she began moaning into my mouth as a result. Somewhere during this time, I became aware of the fact that she was wearing nothing but a short nightgown, which was currently losing its grip on her body. Finally, I pulled back for air, and Twilight looked up at me with a lot of surprise and a little bit of lust as we caught our breath.

"You going to tell me what that was all about, or do I have to figure it out myself?"

"Is it alright if I fuck you first?"

Her ears perked and her head jerked back at my bluntness.

"Uh, okay. Any particular reason?"

I took off my guitar and set it on the couch before scooping Twilight up and carrying her up the stairs as her legs wrapped around my waist. It always surprised me how light all the ponies were.

"Same reason I was panting like a dog outside your door."

Because you are loathed and unwanted, and you know it.

Another shot of pain-inducing fear went through my skull, and I had to pause climbing the stairs to regain my balance. Twilight looked at my face worriedly.

"Are you alright?" I could hear the concern in her voice, and the fear subsided just enough for my eyes to work properly again.

"I will be. I just need you to help a bit." I made it up the stairs, and into Twilight's room before collapsing halfway to the landing with the bed. Twilight now laid below me, watching with growing concern evident on her face as the pain grew sharper, and began spreading through my body. Finally, my arms gave out and I fell next to her, shuddering with every breath as tears formed from the agony. She managed to lift my clothes enough to get me back on my feet, and helped me up to the bed.

She pities you. She's only tolerating you because she feels sorry for you.

I did my best to ignore the words as Twilight laid me down and curled up on top of me. I held her tightly and she pressed her nose against my neck. It was a gesture I had only seen a few times, mostly between Derpy and Time Turner. I knew it was something ponies considered to be an intimate gesture. The voice finally fell silent, and some of the fear ebbed away, giving me enough clarity to pull Twilight up and kiss her again. As I made out with her, I could feel her hands travel downward, and start undoing my pants. My hands moved south as well, and started massaging her cutie marks. She moaned softly as she pulled my dick out, and started stroking it. She pulled back, and smiled down at me.

"Feeling better yet?"

She doesn't want you. She wants to run away, and never have to see you again. Never have to suffer your violations again.

My hands clenched, making Twilight squeak as I dug into her flanks, and my vision blurred.

"I need to fuck you, Twilight. Please."

She nodded.

"Okay, but, this time I get to lead."

She doesn't want to feel like she's getting raped again.

I ignored the voice as best I could, and focused on the sensation of Twilight guiding my cock into her waiting marehood. She was already wet enough for me to enter, and she started off with a slow grind, making both our arousals stronger and slicking her folds sufficiently for my dick to move inside her without resistance. She repositioned slightly, then lifted herself slowly to the head of my dick before lowering herself back down. She moved with deliberate slowness, letting us both feel every inch of the other. As she reached my base, she positioned her hands on my chest while I resumed massaging her flanks. A low moan escaped her as she lifted herself again, and pushed back down just as slowly. Finally, she started moving at a rhythm, pulling out with a flick of her tail, then slowly engulfing me again. I groaned as she began gyrating her hips in time with her flicks, angling my shaft inside her as she moved and dragging my tip against her walls.

"You've been reading again, haven't you?" I barely managed to open my eyes to see her blush.

"Yeah. There's a surprising number of books about this sort of thing."

"Well, don't stop. It's working."

"The reading, or the fucking?"

"Both."

She giggled, and picked up her pace. I could feel her beginning to tighten, and my own groin was warning me of the coming flood.

She wants to get off you. She wants you to disappear.

The sound was easy to ignore, now. The effects were finally wearing off, made apparent by the desperation in the taunts. I was close, now, and Twilight didn't show any signs of stopping before I finished.

"I'm cumming, Twilight."

"Me, too. I'm not going to stop!"

"You better not."

I came first, painting her insides with semen just before she clenched on my cock. She kept moving up and down on my cock as her orgasm threatened to crush my dick, squeezing out a couple more spurts of jizz while I was still hard. Finally, she relaxed, and we stayed still while we caught our breath. My cock softened and slid out of her with a soft pop, and she gently laid down on top of me. I squeezed her cutie marks one last time, then moved my arms upward to hold her close. The voice was gone, the fear was gone, and all that held my focus at that moment was the mare in my arms.

"So, you going to tell me what just happened? Not that I didn't enjoy myself, but it was a little abrupt."

"Yeah. Well... you know the Music of Harmony."

She lifted her head so she could watch my face, obviously interested.

"Yeah. Whenever a pony, or group of ponies, feels strong enough emotions, the latent magic in the atmosphere generates a music-based spell, allowing those ponies to sing in tune with each other about those emotions. The most notable of these being Winter Wrap-Up. Why?"

"I can control the Music of Harmony."

Twilight blinked a few times.

"What."

I could almost hear the gears in her head falling off their spokes at this information. I had done some research of my own on the subject, and the ability I had should have been impossible, by all accounts. Twilight shook her head, and the spark of curiosity she always got was apparent in her eyes.

"How is that possible?! Prevailing magical experimentation says that there's no possible way of doing that!"

I nodded, and rubbed her back, just below her ribs where I knew I could make her relax from the shifts I had worked at the spa.

"I'm aware. I have a theory about it, though. I've seen a few ponies feeling emotions just as strong as, if not stronger than, my own. However, they don't typically seem to know what they want to do with it. They have a general idea, but no specific action, which I usually have a pretty good idea about pretty quickly in that kind of situation. The other part is that I always have to use an instrument, and be playing a song I know. These two things have given me the idea that, by having most of the framework laid out already, there's enough magic left over from creating the rest of the song to do other things. Tonight, I was showing Filthy Rich and his daughter what would happen if they keep acting how they do.

"Here's the downside, though: Any time I do this, the Music of Harmony does something to me, as well. The Music itself has some sort of low-level consciousness, and it does not like being controlled like that. And, since sound is one of the few types of magic that can affect me, I basically have no way of stopping it. Any time I do this, the Music collects a toll in the form of my misery. It changes each time, too. This time, it was telling me you didn't want anything to do with me, and that you'd rather I just disappear."

Twilight's ears drooped, and she moved forward for a long, slow kiss, immediately shoving her tongue in my mouth and holding my head tight. The last scraps of doubt were propelled out of my mind, and I grabbed her head as well. We held each other like that for what felt like at least a minute, and we were both breathless after.

"That's..." Twilight gasped a couple more times, "that's why you wanted to have sex so badly. So you could prove the truth to yourself, right?"

I nodded as my breathing returned to normal.

"Yeah. And it worked, too." I kissed her again. "Thank you, Twilight."

"Sniff."

Our reverie was suddenly broken, and we both looked at the window to see Pinkie Pie half-in and half-out, rubbing away tears from her eyes. Twilight scrambled to get a blanket over us.

"Pinkie! What are you doing here!? And why are you hanging off my windowsill!?"

"Well, I got the Crusaders home like Zephyr asked, and I had another question for him, so I was trying to find him, but I couldn't find him anywhere! Then I remembered you're with him, now, so I thought, maybe he's at Twilight's. And you were! But the door was locked, so I came up through the window, but you were busy, and I didn't want to interrupt, so I just waited, but that story about Zephyr getting hurt for trying to help ponies was just so unfair, and I sniffed, and then you noticed me, and then you were like-"

"Pinkie."

She fluttered her eyelashes at me as I interrupted.

"Yes, Zephyr?"

"What did you want to ask me?"

"Oh, right! I wanted to know, since you and Twilight are together now, if I could join your group, too!"

She gave a big smile, obviously hopeful.

Not what I was expecting.

Author's Note

Finally. There were far too many unexpected interruptions this week for my taste.