White Hawk's Fate

Chapter 6: Slumber Party In A tree

<<------- Fluttershy ------->>

After a while of small talk we decided we better get home before it's too dark. Everypony save Twilight was almost out the door when she stopped us.

"You know girls.... And Gavin, it's pretty late, you sure you want to head home in the dark? I mean you could stay the night like, you know. A slumber party!" Twilight was tapping her hooves together nervously and she had a sheepish grin. It would be a good opportunity to spend time with my friends after I've been cooped up the last few days. Without a second thought I answered.

"That sounds fun Twilight. I'm sure Gavin would like to stay the night to." Gavin who was currently right beside me nodded before he answered.

"It would be nice to get to really know Fluttershy's friends."

"Oh I would like to get to know you too Gavin." Pinkie said bouncing around as usual. There was a round of nodding from the other ponies accept for Applejack. She was still upset about the lost opportunity to breed Gavin on her farm. Just thinking about it sent shivers down my spine. "Come on Applejack, it'll be fun!" Applejack sighed and nodded her head. Twilight let out a squeak of delight.

"Yay! My first slumber party with ALL my friends! I'll go get sleeping bags from the basement!" In her excitement she forgot to actually open the door when she ran into it there was a loud thud. She quickly righted herself opened the door and ran into the basement screaming. "I'm ok!" Rainbow Dash flew into an alcove in the wall as she laughed.

"Oh I can tell tonight is gonna be fun!" She stretched out and laid flat on her back. I leaned to my right expecting to lean onto Gavin's leg, but instead I just found air. I looked around slightly worried until I found him looking through the books in the walls. He noticed me looking at him and smiled at me.

"You know a lot of these books seem to mimic books from my world, like this one." He pulled out a copy of Mare and the Manticore. "Looking at the description on the back it sounds a lot like Beauty and the Beast. I noticed that with a lot of other things to, everything in this world seems perfectly fit for human use." I found this kind of interesting.

"Can you think of any other examples?" I asked.

"Well for one you have forks, knives, and spoons. By the way how do you even hold things in your hooves?" He sounded as if it was a mystery. He closed the distance between us and then grabbed my hoof and examined the bottom of it. He then proceeded to poke the bottom of it. "The bottom of your hoof feels kind of like a suction cup... Interesting." The look on his face said he was trying very hard to process this... And he is still poking my hoof.

"Is th-that bad?" I asked worriedly. I didn't want anything about me to be bad in his eyes. I'm probably worrying too much. I told myself.

"No. No just interesting." He let go of my hoof and started looking through the books again. He found a book called Twilight and looked at it with disgust as he muttered something about sparkling vampires. I felt somepony poke my side. I looked to find Rarity was the one who poked me.

"Darling you must stop staring at him as if he is going to disappear the moment you look away. I mean really he loves you he won't leave you, at least not without an explanation as to why." I gave her a small smile.

"I know that, it's just hard to believe that he would actually feel that way about me." I said honestly.

"Well believe it darling as long as he lives he is going to be with you, and if he even tries to leave you I'll knock some sense into him!" That made me laugh.

"Now why would I need some sense knocked into me?" Gavin asked as he walked up to me and Rarity.

"Oh nothing darling, you probably won't have to worry your cute head about it." Rarity said as she snickered and waved a hoof dismissively. Gavin looked confused but shrugged his shoulders. "Now I say what is taking Twilight so long?" Rarity asked looking towards the basement door. As if to answer her question there was a loud thud on the basement door. I walked over and opened the door to see Twilight's laying on the stairs, and her eyes swirling in her head, and the sleeping bags were piled on the stairs behind her.

"Oh, are you ok Twilight?" I asked Twilight as I reached a hoof down to help her up. Rainbow Dash flew over my head and behind Twilight to pick up the sleeping bags. Twilight accepted my help to get up as Rainbow Dash brought the last sleeping bag upstairs.

"Thanks Fluttershy." Twilight said with a sheepish grin.

"No problem Twilight." The smile on my face was beaming kindness. As we went upstairs into the living room I found that everypony else was already setting up in their sleeping bags. Gavin caught sight of me and waved me over to him. He smiled at me as he said.

"Looks like your going to have to share a bag, Rainbow Dash only brought six up here. You know what's funny? These sleeping bags are perfect for humans too!" Behind me Rainbow Dash whispered something to Rarity in which Rarity replied saying that it was a good idea. Something tells me there were more than six sleeping bags on the stairway. Twilight was about to spoil those two's plan.

"But there were mo..." She was interrupted by a shush from Rainbow Dash and Rarity. I look of realization touched her face. "I'm sorry there were no more sleeping bags in the basement." She said as always being a bad liar. I decided to go along with it though, since I definitely would not mind sleeping in the same bag as my special some... one? Would it be someone? He is not a pony. *cough* Anyways I decided to joke a bit.

"Oh I wouldn't mind sharing a bag with somepony. Who want's to share a bag?" As soon as I asked Gavin cam up behind me, picked me up and brought me over to the couch were he had laid out a blue sleeping bag. "Am I really light or are you really strong?" I asked as he set me down atop the sleeping bag and kissed my cheek. I blushed a little bit as I giggled.

"Uh, a little bit of both. I wouldn't say I'm weak but I'm not that strong. Especially since I haven't exercise at all since I've been here." He chuckled after he said this. "This is a slumber PARTY so what are we going to do first?" Gavin asked. Pinkie Pie the party pony then shouted.

"Let's play truth or dare!" She was somehow able to get up the chimney and was now poking her head out of the bottom. Her mane was full of black dust. Nobody had a better idea of what to do so we all nodded in approval of the idea. "Ok. Ok I go first! Gavin, Truth or Dare?"

"Dare."

"I dare you to..." Pinkie pie contorted her face as she thought. "To lift up me and Rainbow Dash at the same time!" She crawled out of the chimney and shook the dust out of her coat and mane. Rainbow Dash got up and sighed heading towards Gavin. Pinkie Pie started heading for Gavin too, they stood at either side of him as he got up.

"Come on dude, I KNOW I don't way anymore then Fluttershy and you..." She cut off as Gavin picked the two of them up and put them on his shoulders. He started walking around with them like that as Pinkie Pie gave a prominent. "WEEE!" While she stretched her legs out behind and in front of her. Rainbow Dash just crossed her arms and muttered. "Show off." I was giggling as I watched them.

"Ok that's enough, now it's my turn." He set down the two ponies on his shoulder as he searched for his victim. "Hmm Rarity, Truth or Dare?"

"Oh a lady of my stature would never take a dare, so of course I choose truth." Gavin apparently already had a question in mind.

"Why did you want to buy me?" He asked with a teasing grin. He probably hoped the answer would be embarrassing, which it was.

"Well, I, uh..." Her cheeks were turning red. "uh... A woman has needs." Everypony snickered at this, even applejack. This only served to darken Rarity's blush. "Oh laugh all you want I know you ladies have at least thought about it!" I blushed and stopped snickering right away. Rarity saw me and said. "Why it's alright for you to think that way dear he is your special some.... one?... What?" Gavin blushed too now though he was laughing all the same, well no it was more like a nervous chuckle. As he sat down beside me he said.

"I don't know about your world but in my old world I would have been called her boyfriend, well if we were the same species. Like I said earlier, in my old world this would be considered wrong and immoral, and about what you said uhm, like Fluttershy said earlier not even the third date." I chuckled a bit at the last part. He wrapped one arm around me and squeezed for a moment. "Anyways, choose your victim Rarity."

"Well I already have someone in mind." She gave a sinister smile. "So Applejack, Truth or Dare?" Applejack gave her the stink eye.

"Dare"

"I dare you to... Ugh I was hoping you would say truth!" She thought for a few minutes. "Uh, Try to beat Gavin in a wrestling match?" She said in a more questioning tone then commanding. To make a short story shorter approximately six minutes later Applejack was pinned to the ground by Gavin.

"You dun got lucky!" Applejack retorted. Gavin got off her and held out his hand to help her up. Although begrudgingly she accepted his help. "Yer strong I'll give ya that. If you ever need some bits just come over to the farm, and I'll give ya some work to do." If you try anything I will find you Applejack and so help me, I'll make sure you regret the day you were born! Gavin raised a skeptical eye brow. "I assure you it's not what yer thinkin, it's just some manual labor." Gavin thought for a moment before he answered.

"I might take you up on that offer," I looked at him as if he was crazy. "if Fluttershy come's with me. I don't entirely trust you, to be honest." Ok he's not crazy. Applejack's tail flicked in agitation. So she did want to try something. Gavin either didn't notice or didn't know what it meant when a ponies tail flicked.

"That's fine." Applejack said with a barely noticeable undertone of anger. "Now then Gavin, let's get down to business. Truth er Dare?"

"Dare." Gavin's tone made it sound like a challenge. Applejack gave a triumphant smile.

"Good choice, because you have two options. Let a deadly spider crawl on your arm for ten minutes, or let me kick you in the balls as hard as I can." Gavin did not waste anytime before answering.

"I'll take the spider!" Applejack nodded as she went downstairs for a moment and came back holding a jar with a black widow in it. "Why did you bring a spider with you?" He asked before I could.

"Applejack and Rainbow Dash like to see who will freak out first having a spider crawl on them." Twilight said as she looked through a book about slumber parties. "I don't see anything about life threatening dares in here." She said after a moment.

"May I just say I hold the record of 27 minutes." Rainbow Dash bragged.

"Please if that beast from earlier barely made him flinch what a little spider gonna do to em?" Asked Applejack as she pressed the open part of the jar onto Gavin's arm. Gavin had a sour look on his face as he pulled up his shirt to show the scar to the right of his stomach. I flinched when I thought of how painful that must have been. "Oh it's just a scratch, it's fine!" The spider had tried to crawl off of Gavin's arm several times during the ten minutes, but Applejack kept it from leaving.

"That wasn't so bad, it kinda tickled as it crawled on me actually!" Gavin laughed as Applejack muttered. "I suppose we should try a new game now." Gavin said. I nodded my head in agreement. I really didn't want to take a chance getting chosen for Truth or Dare.

"We could give each other makeovers!" Rarity suggested, in a rather loud manner. It didn't seem like a bad idea. "I would love to see what I could do with your mane Fluttershy!" Until she said that... I don't like people messing with my mane. I have it as I like it, an I'd like to keep it that way.

"I'll have to skip on the makeover, well I do need a haircut. If one of you can find a haircut I'd like then go ahead. Otherwise, no way."

"Leave my mane alone, please. I like it as it is, but a mud mask would be nice."

"Oh I suppose." Soon everypony (save Gavin and Rarity) had mud masks on, even Rainbow Dash. Rarity was using magic to project 3D images of different haircuts she could give Gavin.

"That one looks nice." He said when she showed one that just simply had all the hair the same length, which was one inch.

"Are you sure darling?" Gavin just nodded. Rarity obviously disappointed in his choice sighed. "Oh fine. Take off your shirt we don't want to get it covered in hair." Gavin reluctantly took his shirt off. "Well you look nice darling, you don't have any muscle tone but you are definitely not fat. Wouldn't you say he looks nice Fluttershy?"

"Y-yeah I would." I sounded slightly embarrassed saying so. I don't know why, I've always been embarrassed talking about somepony looking nice or as some of my friends would say "Hot". I guess it's just apart of my generally shy attitude.

"Fluttershy must I keep telling you this? You are supposed to be proud if your..." She looked at Gavin trying to think of the word he used.

"Boyfriend." Gavin supplied

"You're supposed to be proud if your boyfriend looks handsome, or as somepony who is uncouth would say hot." Rarity began to start cutting Gavin's hair. She was going so carefully about it that it looked as if it was going to take at least an hour to do.

"Don't you have razors Rarity?" Rainbow Dash asked from atop the fire place.

"Sadly I don't, they're the one thing I forget to pack every time!" I laughed quietly. Rarity shushed me saying she needed absolute quiet to concentrate.

"How much longer before we need to take these mud masks off?" Rarity sighed as she stopped cutting Gavin's hair to answer my question.

"First of all, about 7 minutes. Second, can you please stop interrupting me? I need to focus!" Rarity continued to scold us for a minute before she was satisfied thinking we all had learned our lesson. Rarity stopped cutting Gavin's hair again and gave a puzzled look. "Twilight where is Spike, if he was here by now he would be trying to woo me." Gavin shot me a questioning look.

"Spike is a baby dragon. He has a crush on Rarity." I told Gavin who promptly started laughing. "Laugh all you want Gavin, when you see Spike try to woo her you'll think it's cute." After giving Gavin the stink eye he stopped laughing immediately and pretended to lock his mouth shut. I rolled my eyes at him. "You're a dork." I teased.

"No I'm a dork fish, and that means you're dork bait!" Even though the joke was cheesy it got me to laugh. "So where is this Spike and why am I not meeting him?" Gavin asked bemused.

"He should be staying the night with the crusaders." I got another puzzled look from Gavin.

"I'll tell you in the morning." I giggled at him as he shrugged his shoulders. We relaxed in silence (Besides for the snipping of scissors) until it was time to take off our mud masks. "Oh what time is it?" Rainbow Dash was blocking the clock above the fireplace. Rainbow Dash shifted so she herself could see the clock.

"It's 1:30." She said as she shifted back into her comfortable position.

"I think we should do one more thing before we go to sleep." Twilight said. I raised an eyebrow at her waiting for he to say what we should do. "I think we should use the fireplace for a bit of smore making." I thought for a moment before I nodded my head.

"That sounds nice, and delicious." I said with a smile touching my lips. Rarity was almost done cutting Gavin's hair.

"We can't start without Gavin darling, and he is going to have to shower in a moment, because I have... One... More... Snip!" She shouted with victory as she finished cutting his hair. "Now darling go take that shower to get the hair off you. It's upstairs second door to the left!"

Gavin headed upstairs with a melodramatic "Yes mom." as he rolled his eyes with a smirk. I couldn't help but giggle at his antics.

"It's nice to meet you Gavin's mom." Rainbow Dash joked. Rarity acted very cross as she went to her sleeping bag. "Anyways Twilight if you tell me were the pantry is I'll get the stuff for the smores."

"The pantry is to the left of the bottom of the basement stairway." When Twilight finished Rainbow Dash immediately bolted downstairs, it was only three minuted before she came back with graham crackers, chocolate, and jumbo marshmallows. She began to unpackage all the items but was stopped by Rarity.

"I told you we must wait for Gavin." Rainbow Dash just crossed her arms and muttered to herself.

"Where do you keep the towels?!" Gavin shouted from upstairs.

"They should be in the cabinet below the sink! Although I'm not sure if there are any in there at the moment, I put some in the dryer earlier!" Twilight looked at me for a minute, a kind of creepy smile spread across her face. "I think you may have to get him a towel Fluttershy." I blushed. Why do all my friends have to be perverts about this?!

"There ain't any towels up here!" Gavin shouted. My blush deepened into a tomato color.

"Darling I'm not shy." She paused for a moment to give a smile that rivaled Twilight's. "If you really are that nervous about seeing your boyfriend naked then I could give him the towel for you."

"No! I... I'll do it." Just close your eyes Fluttershy. I told myself as I headed upstairs with a towel folded under my wing. Coming to the door with steam coming out the crack at the bottom of it. I knocked on the door. I head the water stop hitting the base of the tub.

"Who is it?" He asked.

"Its m-me. I brought you a towel."

"Oh, thank you Fluttershy. Come on in." I closed my eyes as I opened the door. I tried my best to get around without opening my eyes but I ended up slipping on the wet floor. "Are you okay?" I felt one hand on my hoof and another on my side. I opened my eyes hoping to look into Gavin's eyes, but I got a completely different view. My wings unfurled and stiffened at my sides as I blushed. He looked at me in confusion for a few moments before realizing what that meant. "Oh..." He help me up as he blushed.

"I got you a towel." I said with half the volume of my usual voice as I hid behind my mane I stood up and grabbed the towel that landed on the floor when My wings unfurled. I handed it to him and left as fast as a pegasus could with stiff wings. Closing the door I waited for a few minutes for my wings to cooperate. Realizing they weren't going to anytime soon I just headed downstairs not caring if the others saw. Twilight was about to say something but I stopped her. "If you're going to say something mean or laugh at me stay quiet." She looked at me slightly disheartened.

"I was going to say that you look upset, but you shouldn't be. You love him you are supposed to think he looks... Attractive, you shouldn't be embarrassed that he aroused you." She put a consoling hoof on my shoulder.

"It's just really embarrassing that he realized what it meant... It's embarrassing to let him see just how much he affects me. I wish there was someway to keep someponies wings down when they get aroused."

"I could work on that! the number of times I've been around Soarin and... Nevermind." Rainbow Dash started blushing the moment she realized what she was saying. This served to make me laugh. I heard hoo... Foot steps coming down the stairs behind me. I got Twilight and Pinkie Pie to help me keep my wings down as Gavin came into view. Gavin bent down in front of me.

"If what I'm thinking is right, you shouldn't be embarrassed. I find it hard to believe that there aren't at least three pairs of wings um... Stiff in the middle of town at once. I mean, if it means what I think it means that is." I was glad that he didn't find it weird or anything. Why would he find it weird? I'm sure there was something similar in his world. How could he be so comfortable talking about it though?  The last question I decided to ask aloud.

"How are you so comfortable talking about this?" he shrugged his shoulders before he answered.

"To be brutally honest, I'm a pervert." He said this as if it was as casual as choosing what type of ice cream you were going to have. It was the fact of how casually he said it though that made me laugh. Rarity was starting to tear the package of marshmallows open when she looked over at us.

"That's not something you should be proud of darling." Gavin just laughed at this.

"There's nothing bad about being a pervert, it is the thing that you do that's perverted that may or may not be bad. I was caught staring a lot." This I just found weird. Twilight who was to my right gave Gavin a skeptical look. Gavin held his hands up as if he were surrendering. "Hey I haven't been staring at any of you guys, ponies don't really have anything to stare at. Also Fluttershy would probably kick my butt if she caught me staring at another pony." He said the last part in a joking tone. Rainbow Dash was laughing and had to be careful not to fall off the fireplace. Rarity just smirked and went back to opening up everything for the smores.

"No I would just whack your head." I said with a smile. As my mind relaxed I felt my wings finally relax. I gently pushed Pinkie and Twilight away from my sides. "Twilight shouldn't you start the fire?" I asked. Twilight nodded as her horn lit up and sent a small purple fireball towards the fireplace.

"That is SO cool!" Gavin exclaimed as he watch the fireball traverse the room. "Screw pyrotechnics, I would rather have magic any day!"

"Pyro-what-nics?" Rainbow Dash asked. Everypony including me, gave Gavin a confused look.

"I can't give you a technical definition but, it basically has to do with fire and explosions. Those kinds of things." A big oohhh went around the room. "Well can't say I've ever roasted marshmallows over a magic fire." Gavin joked awhile later. I laid my head against Gavin's chest as he stroked my mane and ate a marshmallow. A question popped into my head as he said this. I lifted my head a bit and told Gavin to stop stroking my mane before I asked.

"Is there any magic in your world Gavin?"

"That's interesting really. I would answer you with a quote from my world. If you showed a caveman our technology, he would think it magic. If you showed modern man magic, he would think it technology. Take that as you will, but if you are talking hocus pocus. Then no." I thought about this for a moment.

"What's a caveman?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Humans used to be almost as stupid as the humans here, they lived in caves." Gavin answered.

"How long ago was that?"

"Thousands of years ago." Rainbow Dash looked astonished but satisfied with that answer. I leaned back into his chest the heat of the fire along with his body heat (Which I asked earlier he said that if he is healthy his body temperature should be between 96 and 98.) served to keep me warm, I sighed contently. I noticed Gavin's eyes getting heavy as he tried to fight off sleep.

"Are you tired?" I asked him rhetorically, he sleepily nodded his head. "Ok let's go to bed, goodnight girls." They all said goodnight before resuming their chatter. Gavin leaned onto me slightly, using me for support. I crawled into the bag before him and helped him as he got in. He wrapped his arms around me. "Goodnight, love you."

"Love you too." He said before kissing my cheek. I sighed as I snuggled into his arms and fell asleep.