* * BEFORE * *

Rainbow Dash hovered above a cloudy street, a pair of white pegasi trotting along below her. "Did you guys see when I totally took out seven clouds in one blow? That was so totally awesome, I almost can't believe I did it."

The stallion below gave an amused little snort. "Yeah, babe, we saw it. Pretty cool."

"How about when I hurled that cloud across the field and knocked half the other team out of formation? Didn't even see it coming."

The mare below spoke up this time, snickering as she said, "It took them forever to recover from that. They never even stood a chance."

"Pfft, duh," Rainbow responded, "I wasn't on their team."

"That's you, Dash," the mare said with a smirk as she watched Rainbow make lazy loops in the air, "unbeatable."

"You know it, Bolt. There'll be a Summer Sun Celebration in Tartarus before anypony gets one over on me."

The stallion rolled his eyes before going back to watching Rainbow. "Hey, are you just gonna roll around up there, or are you gonna give your boyfriend a victory kiss?"

"Dunno," Dash said. "You were pretty useless out there today, Whitewash. Only scored one goal, and that was after I punched a hole in their defenses."

"Rainbow...."

"Tch, fine." Dash rolled over once, dropping down and landing beside him. She glanced up and down the street a few times before leaning over and giving Whitewash a quick peck on the lips.

"That's it?" he said in disappointment. "C'mon." He wrapped a hoof around her neck, pulling Rainbow in for a longer kiss. Dash's body tensed a little as her eyes flicked from one side to the other, keeping an eye on the street as she kissed him. Bolt started snickering again after a few seconds of watching the two.

Rainbow pushed away from Whitewash, though she kept her hooves against him. "Better?"

"Ehh," he said, shrugging with a grin.

Dash lightly punched his shoulder and turned back around. "C'mon, I wanna get home already."

A few minutes later, Rainbow pushed open the door to her Cloudsdale apartment and shoved her way inside, tossing her saddlebags onto the coffee table. "Make yourselves at home," she said over her shoulder to the two pegasi still following behind her. Whitewash nodded, closing the front door after Bolt had come in. Rainbow turned to face both of them, continuing, "I'm gonna grab a quick shower. You can just hang here 'till I get back, 'kay?"

Bolt and Whitewash both nodded, taking seats on the couch as Dash trotted off into her bedroom. The apartment wasn't much to speak of, but it was enough to call home for the time being. She made her way past the bed and its old Wonderbolt sheets, slipping into the only bathroom in the apartment and shutting the door behind her. A quick flick of the hoof, and soon a jet of hot water was spraying down into the bathtub. After a test with her hoof, she stepped in and pulled the curtains shut.

Steam rose around her as she rubbed her hooves through her mane and preened herself, removing the traces of sweat and dirt that had accumulated on her during the day's classes. She reared up, hooking a hoof up and over the shower curtain rod to bring her belly into the water's path. Her hoof stopped short of grabbing at a scrubber when she felt something warm wrap around her body, and a glance down brought a pair of white hooves into her sight. "W-what're you doing, White?"

A warm body pressed into her back, followed by a pair of soft lips nuzzling into her neck. Despite the heat of the water, she shivered. The warm muzzle tugged on her moist fur, kissing and nipping lightly at her neck. The two hooves slid down away from her barrel, nestling themselves between her hind legs, and Rainbow let out a gasp at the touch, followed by a shuddering moan as she leaned back.

"Heh heh, this isn't exactly how I imagined I'd do this," Dash said between heavy breaths. Rainbow arched her back for a moment, biting her lip. Then she twisted her head around, eyes closing as her face moved into the hot spray of water, and locked lips with the pony at her back. "But what the hay, right?" she breathed, taking a moment to indulge in another kiss, "I think I've waited long enough." She opened her eyes, only to scream at the sight of a pair of bedroom eyes that did not belong to her boyfriend. She reached around to shove the white mare off of her, hooves slipping and sending Dash to the hard floor of the tub.

"Hey, hey!" a masculine voice called as Whitewash appeared in the open doorway. "I said to just get her started, not bring her all the way 'round!"

"W-wha-what the hay is going on?!" Dash shrieked, standing up with her rump pressed to the tiled wall just under the shower head.

"Well, it was supposed to be a threesome," her boyfriend said with a bit of disappointment.

Bolt rolled her eyes. "I didn't finish her without you; she freaked out when she saw me."

"Something wrong, babe?" the stallion asked, stepping over to the tub and turning off the water.

"Uh, yeah!" Dash said, holding a hoof to her pounding heart. "This is totally not cool, Whitewash!"

He narrowed his eyes at her incredulously. "Really? Huh.... I thought for sure you'd be into it."

"Uh, why?" Rainbow turned to the mare. "And get out of my bathtub!"

"C'mon, you've known Bolt even longer than you've known me. You really telling me that you never thought about hooking up with her?"

"Of course not, you idiot!"

Whitewash tilted his head, his expression held in confusion for a good ten seconds before shifting to one of surprise. "Ohhh.... Really? I thought for sure you were into that. Bolt, didn't you say...."

Bolt just held up her hooves, "I thought she was just plain gay before she started dating you, yeah."

Dash was shaking her head, splattering water onto the walls and floor from her soaking mane. "Huh uh, nope. Not."

"You sure?" Bolt asked. "I can usually tell, and you seemed pretty into it a moment ago."

"Hey, yeah, maybe you just never realized you were bi," Whitewash added, stepping closer and reaching out a hoof to Dash's face.

"That's not—" Rainbow was cut off by a kiss from Whitewash. He broke it after a moment, and she held a hoof across her own muzzle. "I'm, uhh.... I don't...." Her stammering was silenced with another kiss, her heart rate starting to go back up again as he pressed her against the tiled wall. Her eyes jolted open after a few seconds, however, as another wet mouth landed elsewhere on her body. She tried to pull back, but her head was sandwiched between Whitewash's muzzle as the wall. She settled for shifting sideways and slamming a hoof into his face, instead, reaching down a moment later and shoving Bolt's head out from under her. She hopped up, pushing them out of her bathtub.

"Get out, both of you," Rainbow growled, her body quivering, damp mane still dripping as it lay plastered to her face. "We're done."

* * AFTER * *

Princess Twilight looked up from the friendship report in front of her on the desk as a sharp knocking sound came from her office door. "Come in," she said cordially.

The door slid open, and Rainbow Dash stepped in, a little stack of papers tucked under one wing.

"Oh," Twilight said, standing up as Dash approached the desk.

"Weather team needs you to sign off on this storm schedule for April," Dash said, almost in a monotone as she dropped the papers onto the desk.

"Right," said the princess, tearing her eyes from Rainbow's vaguely-bored expression and looking down at the pages before her. She sat down, lifting the schedule in her magic and shuffling through it. Neither said anything as she reviewed the proposed plan, the only noise in the room at all coming from the rustling of paper.

After a few minutes, she wordlessly dipped her hoof in ink and stamped it on each page, giving them all her royal approval. Then she stood back up and held the stack out in her magic. Rainbow took the schedule under a wing, turned around, and trotted for the door.

"Hey, Rainbow?"

Dash paused in the doorway, though she didn't turn around.

Twilight took a few steps around the side of her desk. She reached out a hoof momentarily, paused, and then retracted it. "Four months ago, I made a terrible mistake," she began. "I betrayed a friend's trust, you see. She said she didn't want to do something, but I kept pressuring her until she did anyway. I lost my friend that day because I couldn't let go of something I had thought was a sure thing but turned out not to be at all. We haven't really spoken much since then, but I hope that she'll forgive me, one day."

Twilight paused a moment, looking at the back of Rainbow's unmoving head. "Do you think she'll ever forgive me?"

"I wouldn't hold my breath." Rainbow stepped out into the hallway and slid the door shut behind her.

Twilight sighed, trudging back over and slumping down onto her seat, resting her head in her hooves. After a few minutes, Twilight just went back to her paperwork, trying to ignore that empty feeling she'd become so familiar with.

Author's Note

I'd just like to mention that I have absolutely nothing against this particular ship, the FlutterDash ship, characters being of any sexual orientation, or shipping in general (or sexy preening).