The wait was excruciating, almost as bad as the fall. Trixie had to remain still? When her world was changing, she had to remain in bed!? From popping spit bubbles to testing her horn on the IV drip, she took a surprisingly dark pleasure with cutting off her own IV drip for a few moments. It was stupid, but she was a stupid mare when she was bored.

Two days passed until Trixie had been deemed healed. She stretched as she entered the royal library, immediately struck with a stray book. Pulling it from her horn, she yelped as she was clocked in the chin with a heavy scroll, then another! The mare ducked like she was in the middle of a war-zone, books being flung at her from the center of the room until she heard a familiar vocal tone. "AH...Mastery of Magic, Volume 134, there you are" Luna exclaimed with vigor, levitating a book and stopping her search as she looked over at the pile of books near the entrance. As she blinked, Luna noticed that the pile had a familiar looking magic hat on top. "Oh my, Trixie...are you alright?"

As she used her magic to separate the books, the unicorn underneath poked her head up like a spring. "I'm good" she yipped, hopping up from the pile and sitting in front of the alicorn, smiling wide as she waited for instructions. Luna tilted her head, prodding the pony idly as Trixie twitched."No really" she protested,"I'm fine. Just...uh...gotta remember not to 'hit the books' quite so hard."

The rest of Trixie's day was spent reading and refining her magic. Every few hours, Luna would smile as she walked by, seeing the mare hard at work with slightly more advanced magic each time. Trixie was never bad at performing magic, but her stubborn attitude made her look down on basic spells. She only perform difficult castings early on. Since she had seen her actions that night, the unicorn was slowly becoming much more powerful than many at Ponyville would have thought.

Day-after-day, Luna noticed her protégée growing more adept at controlling her magic, as well as the magic of humility. Her boastful, aggressive attitude had been adequately tempered by Luna's presence, perhaps signifying Trixie's need to be noticed countering her worry of insulting such royalty. Nevertheless, the mare was hot on her way to controlling both mind and tongue, as Luna was quick to find out.

It had been after a week of studying, vigorous training, and self teaching populating her schedule, that Luna patiently stepped though the arch leading into the library. Trixie shot to attention and bowed, making Luna smile lightly as she realized that her protegee had learned respect so very quickly. "Trixie...it is time to show me what you have learned" the night princess told her, leading Trixie into a courtyard. Aside from a few benches and shrubs, there lay a small fountain nearby. The breeze flowed lightly through the unicorn's mane as she breathed calmly, gulping. "I have not given any direction...and have allowed you to learn what you think is inside of your boundaries...so...show me what you have learned."

As the alicorn retreated behind Trixie, she sat and patiently waited as the blue unicorn called upon her magic. She lowered herself to the ground slightly as her horn lit up, causing a small stream of water from the fountain to to curve and bend towards them. Trixie gave a light smile as she levitated the liquid around their heads and back into the fountain, creating a light sigh from Luna. Trixie's heart sunk at that reaction, her chin shivering lightly as the water returned, and her gaze returned to her teacher.

"That is it? If I had known..." she stopped speaking as the ground began shaking. She turned to Trixie, who had a fixed smile on her face as the grass separated beneath Luna's hooves slightly. Water began floating into the sky above them. It just grew and grew before a ball of water the size of a one-story cot was floating over them. Trixie's soft grunts showed the exertion of her magic, the sparks and sizzling from her horn displaying the pool of magic draining faster than it was rejuvenating. Luna was slightly slack-jawed at the ruse her pupil had pulled. . .until it got better. Trixie had made the water come back down in raindrops, and while Luna would have deemed the act a pass from this alone, she realized what Trixie had actually done. The alicorn noticed that each raindrop was shaped like a star, exploding into tiny shooting stars upon hitting the ground. It had turned into a downpour of star-shaped rain as Trixie smiled weakly to Luna.

"D...did I pass?" Trixie felt her belly cramp and squeeze as she looked upon the mare, who's stern expression drained from her face as fast as the blood had moments before.

"Trixie...you have passed this test" Luna beamed,"...with flying colors." The alicorn grinned wide as Trixie galloped over and hugged her. "I am very proud of you...you have learned quickly, especially with barely any levitation skill to start with." She brought the unicorn back inside, where a magical barrier, set up by Luna as she congratulated the unicorn, dried the two as they trotted back to the library."Alright my pupil, next I want you to..." She was cut off by a loud clang behind her, making them both spin and look to the culprit. Trixie gasped lightly and hid behind Luna as they stared upon Twilight Sparkle, who had accidentally bumped a bronze jar.

"Oh dear...I'm so sorry...I didn't mean to interrupt." She had a blush on her face as she stuttered through her words. "I...um...well ya see, Princess Celestia asked me to retrieve the book Advanced Levitation, and said I should come in here to retrieve it."

Looking over to Trixie, Luna's face made a sly smile before returning to her usual poker-face."Yes...I think I needed to see that book as well. Wait here with Trixie...I shall take the book to my sister." She levitated the tome and galloped off, leaving the nervous unicorns blushing lightly as they stared at each other.

"T...Trixie, you know Princess Luna? I'm impressed, I thought you didn't need friends..." Twilight smiled, inching forward as she grinned. She was never one to hold a grudge, so being as chipper as she is to many wasn't too much of a surprise.

Trixie's breathing was shallow and weak as she thought of a reason to explain her situation. She assumed that Oh Twilight, I begged for your forgiveness as I bled out in a forest might not be the best answer."I...I suppose i just saw what I was doing wrong" she finally blurted out in a timid tone,"...and Luna is teaching me how to be a better unicorn."

"Well...she's doing a great job...I saw your spell outside and it was amazing. You're really progressing well" Twilight added, smirking softly. Trixie began to respond in kind before Luna trotted playfully back in, smiling in hopes the two unicorns were getting better acquainted. The princess was well aware of Trixie's feelings, and her smile drained as the two were quietly seated on the floor of the library, their heads turned slightly away from each other and both with a noticeable tint of red shining subtly through the fur on their cheeks.

"Well...Twilight, what are you and Celestia doing with the levitation spell book? I hope it is something special." Luna spoke with half fake enthusiasm, trying to get the two mares talking again.

"Well...Princess, she didn't actually tell me, I think it was just a task she had me do while I was here telling her about my progress on friendship...and come to think of it...i really must be going. It was nice meeting you again Trixie...um...take care." Twilight went to make her exit before Luna galloped to stop her suddenly, Trixie being levitated behind her and placed directly next to Twilight.

"N...NO" Luna blurted out, forgetting her royal manners and bringing Twilight to a startled stop. "D...don't leave yet, you...haven't spoken to Trixie about...um...about friendship, yea, and I'm sure she would love to hear about it." Twilight looked over at a blushing Trixie, slowly backing away.

"I...um...really have to go..."

Luna's eyes darted around the room as she halted the mares, worried that she'd lose a moment to bring the two together."AH....forget protocol" Luna yelled, her voice almost reaching Canterlock volume as she pressed her hoofs to both of the unicorns' horns, her own lighting up as she gave Twilight every moment of Trixie's memory from leaving Ponyville in tears of anger, to the fall, and then crying out to Twilight for forgiveness and passing out. Twilight shivered lightly, cringing as the pain was played back in full mental volume.

As Luna withdrew her hooves, Twilight looked back to Trixie. Tears welled in the azure pony's eyes as she realized every word she spoke was now known to the one that was never meant to hear it. She began sobbing lightly as she galloped at full speed away to her private chambers, leaving drops of tears on the floor in a breadcrumb trail to her room.

Trixie teleported through her bedroom door, tears running down her face as she levitated her possessions out of the shelves next to her bed and into a box. She angrily slammed the shelves closed as Luna teleported in behind her. "Trixie please, I'm sorry...I...I didn't mean to..." she was cut off by a crying unicorn slamming another shelve closed, looking into the alicorn's cyan blue irises.

"YOU DIDN'T MEAN TO RUIN MY ONLY CHANCE AT LOVE?! How dare you? You think just because your royalty that you can toy with others and do as you please, well Trixie will NOT stand for it." Trixie slowly trotted closer to the alicorn, making the royal equine reel backwards, almost fearful of the blue unicorn.

"T...Trixie...your speaking in third person...please...stop this..." she tried to continue, but was stopped by Trixie's aggressive advances.

"STOP!? You toy with my memories and show the only mare I could ever love my thoughts...and YOU want ME to back off?" she angrily kicked the wall, practically foaming from the mouth."I'm not a damn filly, and I will not let you toy with me any further. You...you're a monster." Trixie slowly lost the rage swelling inside of her as a realization kicked in."And now...Twilight will never care about me. She knows everything; she knows how I feel and that I am not worthy of her." The mare slumped against the foot of the bed, sliding down it as her pants became stuttering and weak

She then began crying again as her magic stopped levitating the box of items, making a few glass orbs shatter as the paper crate collided with the hardwood floor. Shivering lightly, Trixie grabbed the bedpost closest to her and slipped weakly onto the bed, groaning from exhaustion."I wanted to go slowly...I didn't need to rush...but you just had to...to ruin this. Now I've lost my chances...WHY WOULD YOU...." she couldn't speak any more as she curled into a ball on her bed, tears running down her crimson, blushing face. Luna could only shrink down, ashamed that she had let her own emotions affect another pony's life, maybe two.

"Trixie...I'm so sorry...please..." Her words are met with a weak panting, stuttering heavily through the tears and knots in her throat as Trixie just blocks her out. "I...I'm not leaving...not like this." Luna weakly stutters out, crawling over the unicorn and hugging her tightly. Trixie tries to resist, muffled protests soon silenced as she feels the alicorn's wings wrap around her and encase her loosely in warmth before the princess backed up and starred, pitying the poor unicorn.

Her heart was broken. She knew Twilight was a sweet, harmless soul who just wanted good things...and it made Trixie happy to think she could ever get with such a beautiful personality. Through the week of training her magic, she had secretly read the past notes Twilight has sent. She read every one, more and more interested as time went on. She learned so much about the purple pony, and began drawing closer to her. When the events transpired the way that they did, Trixie didn't cry from the invasion of privacy, she cried because she knew Twilight wouldn't feel the same way.

Outside Trixie's door sat the purple unicorn, a single tear running down her face as she listen. She wearily withdrew and headed towards the channeling bay (a hub where unicorns could use the raw power of the room to enhance teleportation) to get home. With a flash, she was back. Her face was pale with a mass conflagration of ideas was mentally burning down her subconscious. She needed to get home to her library, and fast. She was too weak from the large-scale teleporting she had just done, so she simply walked home, heading inside and falling to her bed. As she laid on her back, the memories from Trixie's mind and her own slowly categorized themselves, ending up making Twilight scream in frustration. I sorted this out she thought to herself. I was contempt knowing Trixie was just jealous...or just a showoff. Why does she have to desire me? She knew why, the memories weren't riddles. She simply didn't want to realize it. It slowly clicked that the cyan unicorn not only respected and admired her, but wanted to be serious.

It was then that Twilight pulled out a small cube, no bigger than a shoe box, and opened it. Inside was the tattered remains of a cape. It wasn't any cape, but the replacement of the one Trixie always wore. When the Ursa Minor destroyed Trixie's caravan of sorts, many of her spare clothes and belongings were destroyed. One of the only surviving item was a wrecked, dirty cape. It was nearly identical to the one Trixie wore when she fled town, and when Twilight saw it, she felt the need to keep it in case Trixie returned to apologize.

As she sat in bed, holding the cape with her hooves, she softly hugged it. Another tear went down her face as she remembered the cyan unicorn's feelings towards her again. She didn't know what to do, but she had to do something. She took a book from next to her bed and brought it downstairs into the main level, putting it on the shelf and grabbing a "Material Mending Manual" book from another section, bringing it to bed with her. She flipped through the pages, her horn lighting up slowly as she looked at the cape and sighed. "Well...guess this is it...have to start somewhere."

Author's Note

Oh no...Luna ruins relationships like she ruins the English language...am I write, or am I just biding time as I think of clever things to fill this note box with?...the second one...that's the answer. :|