When The Night Fades Away
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Of All The Things We Love

When The Night Fades Away

The calm nighttime air of Ponyville was serene. Leaves rustled through the empty streets as a slight breeze whistled quietly. Crickets chirped peacefully, the entire scene was clam and mellow, adding that traditional serendipity to the night environment. The door to Surgarcube Corner slammed open with a bang, and a lavender alicorn stumbled out, supported by a much more sober cyan pegasus.

"Wazzn' dat da bestest purty eva'?" slurred the comically drunken Twilight Sparkle as Rainbow struggled to guide her down the steps safely.

"Yeah, it was Twi," grunted back Rainbow Dash. The normally sober egghead had been funny at first, but all of the humor quickly drained away when Rarity had told Dash it was the pegasus's duty as 'Loyalty' to take the princess home. "Let's get you home."

They began to walk away from the party, Dash supporting Twilight, and the sight was something out of one of those bad comedy movies. Where the stallions tried to walk home from the bar, only to end up crashing into everything on the street. But eventually, Twilight's home came into view, and Rainbow sighed in relief as she headed towards it.

The two stumbled towards the obnoxiously large crystal palace centered just outside the town's perimeter. "Y'no Dash?" mumbled Twilight, suddenly sounding extremely serious. "Yer eggshtrmley HOT fer a mare..." she trailed off staring into Dash's widening eyes.

That statement made the pegasus realize that Twilight, was indeed, completely and totally out of her mind. "G- great, Twilight. Why don't we just get you inside, and you can lie down..." she replied as she struggled to get the great crystal door open. That is, until the great crystal door suddenly glowed purple and smashed open into her face.

Rubbing her crushed nose, Rainbow grumbled and helped the giggling alicorn inside and up to her royal bedroom. Making sure to stand out of the way as the bedroom door slammed open, she guided Twilight inside, yelping slightly as the door slammed closed into her rump. Glaring at the all-out laughing alicorn, she eased her over to the giant bed, and helped her in.

Turning to walk away, she mumbled good night, but was stopped by Twilight's magic glowing around her, holding her in place. "Hey! What gives, Twi?" she asked as she felt a sudden tightness around her flank. But as soon as the discomfort came,it was gone. Slowly, she floated backwards until she was hovering over the bed, and was turned to face Twilight.

As the lavender mare gyrated Dash's position so she was vertical, the pegasus realized that the alicorn was not looking directly at her, but rather at something near her stomach. Confused she looked down. Her look quickly altered from confusion, to surprise, to shock, and then to all-out fear.

"T-twilight?" she asked in a shaky voice as the glow brought her closer to the awed alicorn. Looking back down as Twilight's muzzle moved ever close to her, she gulped. Dash whimpered slightly as the princess kissed the head of her newly spawned penis.

"Twilight, p- please stop..." moaned Rainbow as Twilight began to greedily suck on the huge dick that the pegasus was now sporting. "What are you doing?"

Conflicting emotions were running through Dash's mind. She knew that this was wrong, and she should force Twilight to stop, but as the mare continued to do... whatever it was she was doing with her mouth, Rainbow Dash really didn't want it to stop.

However, it did eventually stop. Just as the pegasus was about to call out in relief, and order Twilight to let her go, she felt herself being moved again as the alicorn got out of the bed, and turned around in front of her.

"Oh no Twi... please don't-" began Rainbow as Twilight lowered her forelegs, and raised her flank, presenting her dripping marehood to the cyan mare. "Twilight, I'm not going to- RUT YOU!!!!"

Dash cried out as her hips were forcefully bucked into the lavender mare, her length pumping in and out at an obscene pace. "T- Twilight! Please!" she cried. Rainbow had no idea whether or not she could actually seed her drunken friend, but she didn't want that possibility. All that she could hear in reply were Twilight's loud moans rising up from the mattress below her...

When Twilight woke up, she had a splitting headache, and felt like she was going to puke. Thankfully, she didn't however, and was able to retain self control enough to force the bile back down into her stomach.

Moaning in pain, the princess attempted to turn over onto her side, but soon realized that she was unable to do so. Forcing her eyes open to greet the nauseous light, Twilight discovered the source of her entrapment. Rainbow Dash was lying on top of her.

The purple Alicorn lay there for a moment, heart beating out of her chest, and contemplated the situation. Finding no reasonable solution, she did the first natural thing that came to her: Twilight screamed and pushed Rainbow off of her.

Rainbow Dash awoke and slammed onto the hard crystal floor with a dull thud. Remembering last night's events more easily than the Alicorn staring down at her, she glared at Twilight as she stood up. But not before checking between her legs to see if the monstrosity was gone. Thank Celestia it was.

"Well 'friend,'" sneered Dash, emphasizing "friend" sarcastically. "Are you happy now?"

Twilight just stared at the pegasus with a confused look on her face. What was she talking about? Then, almost as if against her will, the events of the night prior flooded back into her mind.

The lavender mare gasped, shocked at her own actions. How could she have done that to her good and loyal friend? Unfortunately for her, she knew the answer...

Twilight had been secretly harboring emotions for the prismatic pegasus for quite a long time. The feelings, as far as she could tell, had begun to grow when Rainbow had quit the Wonderbolt academy, just to be with her friends. Even if the gesture had been completely debunked when Spitfire accepted Dash back in, Twilight still took the action to heart. Her friend was willing to give up her dreams if they had even the slightest possibility of hurting her friends.

After that happened, Twilight realized that Rainbow Dash was the type of stallion she always dreamed of taking as her groom. And in that action, opened up the lavender mare's sight to being romantically involved with a mare. She had heard ponies joke, saying that they'd "go gay" for their best friend, but she took the saying to truth. Now, the time since then, her feelings had only grown stronger, and more desperate; just for all of her hopes to be smashed to pieces by her first time getting drunk.

Solemnly, Twilight raised her head to look her former friend in the eyes. "I'm sorry, Rainbow. I truly am. But before you storm off..." Twilight choked back a sob. "Before you storm off, there's something I need to tell you."

Rainbow blew her mane out of her face in annoyance. "Well?" she sneered. "Spit it out!"

Twilight sighed. This was going to be extremely hard for her, especially knowing that there was no possible way that Rainbow would reciprocate her feelings. "I- I've liked you for a while now, Dash. As more than a friend. It was starting to get to me. Then I had to go and get drunk, and-"

The cyan pegasus recoiled in shock. Twilight liked her? Is that why she practically raped her? That was her excuse for her actions.

"Twilight!" Rainbow stopped her there. "Don't go making excuses as to why you did what you did! Even if you did have feelings for me, that doesn't mean you should go and rape me to express them!" she screamed at the now visibly crying mare.

"Rainbow, I didn't rape you. Please don't say I raped you," sobbed a distraught Twilight, almost begging the pegasus in front of her.

The pegasus, in turn, just glared back at the Princess. "You had sex with me. No, wait. You forced me to have sex with you. That's rape." Her voice had become disturbingly calm. Twilight just looked back at her,a defeated look in her more bloodshot eyes.

"I'm sorry," she mumbled, over and over again. "I'm sorry."

Rainbow didn't stick around to listen to the apologetic mare. She swiftly turned around, and flew out off of Twilight' s balcony, the door smashing shut behind her.

And Twilight, heavy with a broken heart, just collapsed into her floor and cried.

Rainbow Dash plowed into her cloud house, not even bothering to close up the hole left behind her. She sped right to her room, and collapsed into her soft bed, and began to sob. It just made no sense to her. Why did Twilight take advantage of her like that? Of all the ponies she knew, Twilight was the one she had least suspected of ever even thinking about sexually using somepony.

But she had raped her.

Looking back on the night, rape did begin to seem like a strong word to describe the night. Twilight didn't hurt her in any physical way. And Rainbow supposed that she herself could have done more to stop Twilight. Relatively, Rainbow hadn't been hurt any more than when she was bullied back in flight school. But there was something way different about this.

Something in her, something strong, was trying to prevent her from hating Twilight at all costs. It was to the point that she felt heart broken, not only because Twilight had used her, but also because... because why? Was it that she lost a friend?

Slowly, Rainbow's mind began to formulate exactly what her feelings were. Slowly, the pegasus realized, that perhaps she did think of Twilight as more than a friend. But a lover?

She didn't know. The knowledge that Twilight harbored feelings for her made the situation even more difficult.

Another thing that bothered her, one of the many, was as to why Twilight was even drunk in the first place. She was not the type of pony to even drunk often, let alone randomly get dunk at one of Pinkie' s weekly parties. Dash briefly considered the possibility that Twilight was faking it, but the thought quickly vanished. The confusion that the alicorn had the morning after was too genuine to be fake. But why did she get dunk?

A studious mare such as Twilight would know the symptoms of getting a buzz far before she was incapacitated as she was. Twilight would have known she was getting drunk, and consciously continued drinking, an act that as far as Rainbow thought, she would never do.

Twilight freaked out whenever the smallest thing was wrong, even more so now that she was a princess. Twilight normally would have worried about what Celestia would have thought of her getting drunk first, and undoubtedly she did think about it. That led Dash to one conclusion.

The entire evening was planned.

It all made sense. Twilight didn't think she could ask Rainbow out while she was sober, so tried on alcohol to do the work for her. It even explained the sex. Instead of asking her out, Twilight's clouded mind expressed her love for the pegasus physically. But the penis? That was the one thing that Rainbow couldn't rationalize, so she merely put it out of her mind for the time.

Rainbow didn't know how long she lay there on her bed, time was meaningless. Over and over again, she repeated the events in her head, sorting through them, and finding dozens of reasonable explanations as to why they had occurred.

As she worked through all of the possible explanations and rationalizations for the actions of the lavender alicorn, Rainbow heard a timid pat on her cloud door. She walked out of her bedroom and to her front door, opening it to reveal a visibly upset Fluttershy.

"H-hey Shy," crooked Rainbow Dash, surprised at how raw her voice sounded. "What's up?"

A tear rolled down her muzzle as she hesitantly spoke, "Are you okay, Rainbow? Nopony has seen you in days, and you look like you've been crying."

Rainbow cocked an ear in confusion. "Days? But I was just at Pinkie's party last night!"

Fluttershy longed genuinely concerned for her friend now. "Dash, Pinkie' s party was two days ago."

The realization hit Rainbow like a ton of bricks. Now that she was thinking about it, she was starving, and smelled like horseapples. Also, she had spent two whole days trying to find a way to explain Twilight's actions in a way that allowed the two to still be friends. Perhaps, if Rainbow was trying that hard to forgive the alicorn, maybe, maybe she liked Twilight back.

"I'm fine, Shy," she said, still thinking about the new realization. "Just a little... under the weather."

The yellow pegasus didn't look convinced. "Well, okay Rainbow, if you say so, I won't pry." She began to look upset again as she spoke again. "But, that's not what I came here to talk to you about."

"Oh?" Rainbow said absently. "What then?"

Fluttershy bit back a sob. "Rainbow, Shining Armor died earlier today. Twilight's brother is dead."