Honor of Thieves

The New Life

After Twilight and the others released Blue Rose, she collapsed, and while they ran to her Crimson told them not to worry. He went through the same thing when he was free. So he picked her up and took her to her room and placed her on her bed.

"Thank you." He said when he rejoined them, "I owe you more than you can ever imagine."

"So how long will she be asleep?" Twilight asked

"A day or two," he answered, "but please let me show you how grateful I am." With that he went to the vault and didn't come back for several minutes

"What do ya think he's getting?" Applejack asked. When he returned he brought six hexagonal gems.

"These are the first things I stole with my gang." He said, "We didn't sell them because, they reminded us of how well we worked together."

"Thank you," Rarity said, "but don't you the original owners would want these?"

"The original owners were museum curators, and displayed these replicas of the Elements of Harmony." He explained

"So, these are glass?" Rarity asked

"Far from it, they used real gems for these displays." He said, "The replacements were glass."

"I still think we shouldn't accept stolen items." Twilight said, "But we will anyway."

"Don't think of them as gifts more like tokens of friendship," He said, "since I'm going to live in Ponyville. Anyways I need to take care of the garden so feel free to go into town."

"What time is it?" A voice said from the staircase, "Where's Crimson too."

Crimson immediately went to her and said, "I'm here Sapphire, and besides you should be resting."

"I'm not as weak as I look." She replied annoyed, "I want to talk to your friends anyway, I want to know what happened over the past century, and I'm extremely hungry."

"Sounds fine to me." Twilight said as the others nodded in agreement, "It's settled then, come on Blue Rose." Then she walked down the stairs and out the door with the others.

"All alone again." Crimson sighed, "What a crazy couple of days."
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"I'm so sorry about how Crimson acted to you." Blue Rose said after she heard what he's done, "He's not like that most of the time, but he does go overboard every once in a while."

"The only reason he did it was to free you." Fluttershy said

"Well that does sound like him always trying to protect me." Blue sighed, "He's been that way since we were young."

"How'd you two meet anyhow?" Applejack asked

"Oh, I guess we met a few months after my parents died." Rose replied, "After they passed I was just a homeless orphan living on the streets. I stole food, pickpocketed, and only looked out for myself. That changed when I tried to steal from a couple that looked like tourists." Then she started giggling at the memories, "The looked the part map, looking around, and not knowing anything else about the area."

"I guess tourist are easy for you then?" Twilight asked

"Well if they didn't find out, but this couple did, and when they caught me the stallion said, 'What a sad looking filly, what should we do dear?'" She said mocking the stallions voice, "Then his wife replied 'I kind of feel sorry for her. Where are your parents dear?' I told her they died and she only said, 'That settles it, you're going to stay with us!' Then they walked to the train station with me struggling to free myself."

"That's sweet of them." Rarity said, "Now what did they say to you on the train?"

"They said that my pickpocketing days were over, and I'll be getting a better life." Rose answered, "They also told me that they had a colt around my age that I needed to get along with, and when we got there they said 'Crimson we're home!' and he came running down the stairs to hug them. When they introduced me to him, he was so glad to have another friend to play with, I on the other hoof was not as enthusiastic."

"What you do then? Did you run away? Were you mean to him?" Pinkie asked

"Yes to the last two questions Pinkie." Rose answered, "I was always trying to run away, only to be caught and dragged back by Crimson, and I was always angry at him for no reason. That changed when I started school, I kept pushing ponies away and I was so mean to them. It started causing problems for me, and bullies started to pick on me for multiple reasons mostly because I didn't get my cutie mark. It stopped when they cornered me and Crimson stood up for me." She started to tear up thinking of it, "Since then Crimson and I were inseparable we did almost everything together and he protected me as if I were a younger sibling. But his parents didn't really adopt me, they only took care of me until they had passed away."

"Then you just stayed with him?" Rainbow Dash asked, "How can you stand him, he's a complete pain in the neck!"

"Rainbow Dash!" Applejack yelled

"What? I'm just saying." She retorted

Blue Rose just giggled and replied, "Yes he can be a pain, but you haven't known him as long as I have. Once you know him you'll learn that he's actually a sweetheart."

"So when did you guys start stealing?" Dash asked

"After elementary school I think, we started training around that time." Rose replied, "When we finished training in general, we were grown up and we started dating. Then five years later we tried to steal Celestia's crown and here we are now."

"So, you two still going out?" Rarity asked

"Yes actually, we are at that point where share the same bed." She replied before blushing and earned a chorus of laughter from the others, "Please forget I said that!"

"Well at least you two still complete each other." Twilight said giggling at the embarrassed unicorn, "Anyway it's getting dark we should probably head back."

"Besides Crimson and I need to pack if we're going to Ponyville." Rose said heading towards her home.

When Crimson and Rose finished packing they were exhausted, Rose from not sleeping when she needed it and Crimson was working all day.

"You know you could have shown more respect towards them?" Rose brought up as he was lying in bed

"Freeing you was the only thing on my mind at the moment." He replied, "Nothing more, nothing less, I apologized when it was over."

Rose only sighed and laid next to him then said, "Dash is right you are a pain in the neck."

"I've been called worse and it doesn't get to me." Crimson said, "And besides I'm glad to have you back." Then he kissed her then laid down and fell asleep.

"I love you too Crimson." She said then she fell asleep next to him.