"You made Pinkie try to kill herself! I can't believe... I can't believe all this happened because of you!" Rainbow screamed, cracking in her pipe.

She tossed something in reach, blindly choosing a bludgeon for Lilith. The incubus flailed her arms up, wincing harshly as it cut her arm open. Rainbow huffed in anger as she threw another object. Only, that time, it was stricken down. Silence, impenetrable by the sharpest rapier, reigned over the lonely cloudhouse. Tiny mists reached their ankles as Rainbow opened the exit. At times, it used to be an entrance.

"I... I can't be with you. I can't. You made me push everyone away. It all happened because w-we spent too much time together. And now I have to deal with her almost dying." The mare choked out, biting her hoof as she fell against the door.

Lilith shook. And jittered. Anger. Confusion. What wasn't present as they stirred her gut in sick comeliness. It felt familiar. Losing what she had became familiar, just as gaining what she never had. The incubus, lit only by her maelstrom of thoughts and the candle-light, spoke.

"How... how can you blame me like that. How could you say that to me... Any of it. You blame me for all of it when you focused on us. I never did anything to hurt you and all you can do is pin this shit on me? So what I was here. I didn't tell you to not pay attention to Pinkie. I didn't keep you from doing anything. We did so much... So much together, and you just leave me because you didn't get to your friend in time...?"

The quake in her words showed restless fatigue. Places between her arteries stung from having to talk that way. It was never something she wanted to do. Never to talk down about her love. Never to stop worshipping her touch.

"Lilith... Find... someone better than me. I can't deal with this. I'm sorry I ran." Rainbow trembled, scrunching in pain as she stumbled to her hooves and flew.

Along came an angel in her life. And along they flew, for a time, entertaining their mortal heart. But a demon was a demon, and demons lived in Hell. They weren't meant for happiness. Not forever. Demons were humanity in a different vein, with different cackles and different cries; but no man or demon could protest life was best lived beneath the skies, lest the one who flies surely meets the sun and fries. Lilith knew, the moment her sun left, her wings of wax and feathers melted to naught. Before she could watch the world turn as she lay there, rotting, night flew by and somepony found her. An angel crept through the door and let more mist in.

"Hey, Heartbreaker. Looks like you've had a rough night." They hushed, smiling lithely as her tiny lips grew wide on one side only.

Lilith hushed 'what gave that away...?' her eyes drowned in red, swollen veins and salt-kissed black bags.

"Lucky guess." Twilight hushed, touching her hoof against one, raised finger.

They left together.

Author's Note

"Alone together."

"Forever."