Summer Cold

by HaviTheWerecat

Rating: everyone
Tags: Slice of Life, Lyra, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Bon-Bon
Length: 1528

Lyra Heartstrings catches a summer cold and Bonbon must stay at home to take care of her, well, more like pampering her.

It's a hot summer day, and Lyra Heartstrings begins to feel ill. Bonbon decides to take a few days off from work to stay at home and take care of her sick marefriend, but Lyra starts to take advantage of lover's kindness.

Published 2014-04-05 13:00:03 UTC
Last updated 2014-04-05 13:00:03 UTC

Summer Cold

It was a warm summer morning. The birds chirped outside to welcome the day and most ponies were still curled up in their beds. All except for Bonbon. Bonbon was getting up to start baking fresh batches of candies like she always did first thing in the morning to start work. She always started the day off selling fresh candies, and it was the early bird ponies that were lucky enough to get them.

While Bonbon always got up bright and early, her roommate stayed in bed until late morning. Lyra Heartstrings always had a lot of time on her hooves, since she didn't always work everyday. Once in while she'll be asked to be somewhere for a performance, but most days she was able to lay around and do what she pleased.

The sun was completely up by the time Lyra finally opened her eyes, her golden irises peered from underneath her eyelids and she immediately closed them again when the sunlight from the window hit them. She rolled over facing the other direction and realized how weak she felt.

"I just need more sleep."

*~*

"Lyra! C'mon wake up! I gotta leave soon and you promised you'd get some housework done while I was gone!" Lyra covered her face with the covers that were immediately pulled away and set aside making Lyra groan in protest and look up. Just one look at Lyra's face made her gasp.

"Lyra, your entire face is beat red! Are you alright?" She asked as she placed her lips on Lyra's forehead to take her temperature and at the same time giving her a comforting kiss.

"You're burning up." Bonbon made her way back to the door. "I'll be back with some medicine." Lyra groaned and put her hoof up to her own forehead.

"I knew something was off today." Lyra slowly sat up and picked up her blanket, wrapping it back around her. She knew because she was ill that her magic would be pretty much useless.

Bonbon sat down on the bed next to her marefriend and sat a small cup of medicine and orange juice on the dresser. "Here's your medicine. I know how terrible it tastes so I brought a glass of orange juice to wash it down with." She smiled down and patted Lyra's mane and helped her to sit up.

"You take your medicine and I'll go find a thermometer." Lyra downed the nasty medicine and quickly chased it down with the glass of orange juice. She laid back down on her back and waited patiently. Bonbon made it back to their bedroom with the thermometer.

"Say 'aahhh' Lye-Lye." Bonbon said treating her lover like a little kid, making Lyra raise an eyebrow at her. Bonbon chuckled. "Just do it." Lyra opened her mouth and Bonbon stuck it in her mouth and under her tongue.

Lyra removed the thermometer once it began to beep and read the result. "102.2."

"You definitely have a fever. I'll be back with a cold wash cloth and some breakfast. Looks like I'll have to take the day off today." Bonbon hopped off of the bed.

"W-Wait! You don't have to do that Bonnie! I'll be fine. I will stay in bed and rest, I promise." Lyra held her hoof and looked up at her in a way that Bonbon found adorable.

"Exactly Lyra, you can't just sit here in bed. Somepony has to be here to bring you food and medicine. I'm just gonna take days off of work until you have fully recovered. Got that?" Lyra didn't like the idea of making her marefriend stay home, but she gave in since she really didn't feel like arguing.

"Okay, just don't go too much out of your way, 'kay Bonnie?" Lyra smiled up at her.

*~*

"Here's your medicine, milk, and carrot soup, Lye-Lye. Enjoy!" Bonbon smiled.

"You really don't need to be doing all of this Bonbon. I can cook for myself you know."

"But you'll get better faster in you stay in bed. You just can't push yourself okay?" She nuzzled Lyra's mint colored neck lovingly.

"Alright. But don't push yourself too hard either, or you might get sick too." She laughed.

"Oh don't worry about me, baby. I'll be just fine. I'll do whatever it takes for you to get back on your hooves again. Now if you need anything, just call for me, 'kay?" Lyra nodded.

"Alright babe." Bonbon closed the door behind her.

"This is pretty nice, having Bonnie taking care of me like this. I've never seen her act so loving and affectionate. This is just so sweet of her. I just wish she'd treat me like this more often...

*~*

"Thanks for the fresh candies Bonnie. This is really sweet." Lyra said as she quickly popped a truffle into her mouth.

"It's no problem sweetie. I've been baking all of these fresh candies every morning, and since I haven't been going to work to sell them I haven't been able to sell any, so they're kind starting to pile up. I'm sure you can help me with this. I know how much you love my candies." Lyra then began to feel a hint of guilt.

"I've gotta stop this."

"H-Hey, Bonnie?" She stuttered. Bonbon's blue eyes lit up and she quickly hopped onto the bed.

"Yes, Lye-Lye?" She tilted her head.

"Uhhh...well the truth is..." Lyra looked into her lover's beautiful deep blue eyes and realized that she couldn't bring herself to confess. "D-Do you mind if you come here and lay here with me? I-It's kinda lonely laying here in bed all day, and I would just like to have some company." Lyra blushed and smiled.

"Of course. Why would I ever say no to that? I love to snuggle with my beautiful marefriend." Bonbon climbed under the covers wrapping her arms around her and nuzzling Lyra's warm fur. Warm, but not warm enough.

Bonbon kissed her lover's forehead, leaving her lips there to feel the warmth. But it wasn't...hot.

"Lyra? How are you feeling?"

"I'm fine Bonnie." Lyra said, not thinking before she relied. She immediately wanted those words back. Bonbon's face went from loving to absolutely furious.

"You're FINE!? For how long have you been fine Lyra!? If you're fine why am I even here!? Why would you fake being sick, huh? Were you sick from the beginning? I bet you did the whole mane dryer trick to make your head feel hot too! WHY THE HOOF DID YOU DO THIS LYRA!!??" Lyra scooted back to the far edge of the bed meekly and tears threatened to fall.

"I-I'm sorry, Bonnie."

"No your not! You just wanted to get to lay here while I stayed here pampering you, feeding you, and caring for you!"

"I AM sorry! I so so soooo very sorry, Bonnie...I just..." Lyra lost it, and tears ran down her cheeks and her hooves covered her face. She was the kind of pony that could never handle being yelled at. "I-I was sick! I was for a while...but I was just so happy that you were caring for me that I just didn't want you to stop treating me like that. I didn't want it to end. I understand that you are mad at me, what I did was wrong. I shouldn't have taken advantage of you like that." She continued to sob into her hooves, and Bonbon suddenly felt guilty herself. She crawled onto the bed and held Lyra in her arms.

"It's okay, I forgive you. If it's anypony's fault, it's my fault. I should always treat you lovingly. I'm sorry for yelling at you." She stoked Lyra's minty mane and pulled her hooves away from her face and began to wipe her tears away. "You should have told me that you were feeling neglected." Lyra did her best to smile.

"I know, I'm sorry for using you like that. That's not what a good marefriend should do. I promise to be more vocal next time." Lyra pulled Bonbon into a hug.

"Alright, well it's getting late now. Now I have an actual reason to be waking up early tomorrow, so we should be getting to bed now." Bonbon got underneath the covers, dragging Lyra under with her and turning the table light off. They cuddled, enjoying each others warmth.

"G'night, Bonnie. How 'bout I take you out to dinner tomorrow? It's been a while since we went out on a date, and I need to do something nice for you to apologize." Lyra suggested snuggling closer, if that was possible.

"That sounds great. Goodnight, "Lye-Lye."

Author's Note

So yeah, I decided to do a one-shot Lyra and Bonbon ship fic.
Somehow this took a ridiculously large amount of time to write even though it's not even that long of a fic. Yeah, I just don't write big long fics, I'm too impatient to do that. :P

Leave you opinions and criticism in the comments. I hope you enjoyed, if you didn't, find a better writer or write one the way you would have liked it.