“Fluttershy…Fluttershy?”

The Pegasus yawned lazily as she woke from a continuous poking of her shoulder.

“Who…who is it? I thought the mail-pony took breaks today…”

“Um…no. It’s Discord. Didn’t you forget that today is Tuesday?”

“Oh…hi Discord.” She replied, too sleepy to look up.

“Don’t you hi Discord me! What happened to our Tuesday Tease?” Discord replied angrily, poking her shoulder a bit harder.

“Tuesday Tease? Oh…OH!” She sprang up from the couch and sent Discord flying towards the wall before he teleported back towards the ground. “How could I have forgotten? Oh I’m sorry, um…let me go prepare the tea and cookies.”

“You mean you haven’t even prepared snacks?! Luckily I brought a little more than I should have…” He muttered, snapping his fingers and causing a plate of quesadillas to appear on the small table. “What happened? You still haven’t replied from my last letter seven days ago, and today you forget about a friend?” He sulked.

Fluttershy hesitated a bit in the kitchen before starting to reply.

“Oh, I was in the hospit…”

“Nevermind nevermind, I’m here now. So how are you doing Fluttershy? Did you get rid of Angel yet?” Discord asked with a hint of excitement.

“Er…no. I told you already that Angel stepping on your tail does not give you the right to throw him into another dimension."

The bunny, hearing this, hopped across the room cheerfully while grinning at the chaos sprit then sprayed him with spit from the other side of the room, where Fluttershy vision of sight was limited.

“Why you little…”

“Discord, be patient with Angel. He just has a little grudge from your first meeting with him at my house.” Fluttershy called out apprehensively, putting the pre-made cookies into the oven.

“Well I have changed, so why can’t he?” Discord protested, teleporting right next to Fluttershy with Angel on his claws, holding his ears.

“Angel doesn’t really mean it, don’t you Angel?” The rabbit nodded, forcing Discord to let it go and scamper out onto the backyard, snickering all the way.

“Oh, let me help you with that.” Discord said grudgingly, preparing to instantly finish the heating process.

“I told you that I want the snacks I prepare to be natural…”

“Well since you’re late, there’s not really much time left is there?”

“Oh, fine.” Fluttershy agreed, causing the cookies to disappear from the oven and onto the table completely baked. The teapot and cups went along with it, the pieces levitating one by one a placing themselves neatly beside the plate.

“So.” Discord began, waiting for Fluttershy to sit down before doing it himself. “Why were you so busy all this time again?”

“I was about to tell you…its just that…”

“That you’re too busy hanging out with your friends and Treehugger to actually spend time with me.” Discord huffed.

Not this again…Flutershy sighed to herself.

“Discord, the truth is that I have Lymphosarcoma.”

“What the heck is that?”

“…Lymph Cancer.”

“And that is?”

“Um…do you know what is hessonite?”

“Hessonite? Yes, I do know. The magic negating crystals…why are you bringing that up?” Discord questioned, confused.

“Because those crystals are stuck in my body through mutation. I only have about a month to live, Discord. I’m sorry.”

CRASH.

The teacup broke into countless pieces as it fell onto the cold hard ground while Discord spat out his tea onto the debris.

“Wha..WHAT? That’s not possible! I never heard of Hessonite being formed through mutation. It’s simply ridiculous! This is some kind of prank, right?”

“Do I look like the type of pony to make jokes?”

Discord stood up from the table, panicking as he disapparted every few seconds into the house and back.

“But that’s impossible! How did you manage to get such a disease?”

“To be honest. I’m not sure. But I suspect that I managed to get it in the Crystal Empire when Twilight was trying to stop Sombra.”

“Insane…Unacceptable…Morbid…Crazy!”

“Look, I know that you’re in denial right now, but…”

“No no no no! I can’t allow this to happen! This is just some kind of sick joke Rainbow Dash came up with right?”

“Do you really want proof?” Fluttershy said sadly. “Lift me.”

“What?”

“Try to levitate me. I’ll allow it.”

Gingerly, Discord focused his aura on the pony, and slowly raised his hands up towards the center height of the room. Instead of Fluttershy being raised up by its motion, she remained stable on the ground as the crystals inside negated the chaotic magic effect. Even through intense focus the task was impossible.

“You…you really do have Hessonite inside.”

“I told you. I’m really, really sorry Discord for telling you now, at such a late moment. But this is the main reason I forgot and did not pursue to answer your letters or prepare for our Tuesday Tease. I spent 5 days in the hospital. And yesterday I had a party with my friends here, which is why you found me at the couch.”

“…I refuse to accept this.”

“Discord…”

“I don’t care what your friends or your doctors at the hospital say. What I do know is that nothing is non-curable. There has to be a way to remove that Hessonite tumor from you…I mean…I have a lot of connections outside Equestria.” He mumbled.

“What do you mean?” Fluttershy asked, surprised at how quickly he was resolving the situation instead of complaining or making a scene.

“The Hessonite crystals inside your body are very unique…Grade S…there really isn’t anything that can stop its effect, even in the shadow market.”

“Um…what?”

“You think that I would abandon my friends so easily? Especially the first real one I ever had in centuries? Don’t worry Fluttershy. I may not have a lot of friends in the monster world…but I do have a lot of clients. What else did you think I was doing when I wasn’t coming in to visit from Ponyville?”

“You’ve been working outside Equestria?” Fluttershy guessed.

“Not exactly work…more like business. All non-lethal and non-evil of course!” He quickly added, noticing Fluttershy giving him the Stare. “I just take part in gathering and getting materials to and from many different mystical creatures and beings.”

“Ooh! Mystical Creatures and beings?” Fluttershy inquired excitedly.

“They aren’t animals, Fluttershy. Most are either demi-gods or monsters.”

“Oh.”

“Anyways...there’s bound to be something that can help you out there. Promise me that you’ll be there when I come back, alright?”

Discord was kneeing down on half of his body, his paw and claw holding on to Fluttershy’s hooves tightly as their eyes met.

“I promise.” She answered confidently.

“I’ll be back.” And just like that he was gone again.

“Wait! Oh…he didn’t even eat any of the cookies…”

After sweeping the floor and dumping the fragments into a bin, she began to take the tray out of the table before seeing a clumsily wrapped gift below his former chair.

“What’s this? He never brings in gifts…”

Inside was a single piece of paper along with a lamp that was shaped like the chaos spirit. Three words were present on it: Get Well Soon.

Smiling, she placed it on top of the fireplace, next to the other cards and letters from her friends and the members of the town.

“And I’ll be waiting.”

Author's Note

Dear god, the last few lines made me want to build a ship when the purpose isn't to. Why does writing and reading two characters in this show interacting imply this thing so well?