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Rainbow's Perspective

I sat frozen on the bed next to my friend, who only trembled against me as I processed what she had just said.

"I love him, Dash!" She sobbed, clutching onto me as my eyes went wide. "I love him so much."

She... she loves him? I played it over and over again in my head as Lyra cried against me softly, her tears staining my coat. I never knew that Lyra had those kind of feelings for him, but then again I never gave it much thought. I was always too focused on the Wonderbolts, hanging out with Lee, or saving Equestria from some doomsday plot. Did Lee know about this?

Did other mares feel this way about my coltfriend?

I mean, I can see why so many like him. He's friendly, helpful, and he has something about him that just... it draws you in, I'm not sure what it is though. I think some of my friends liked him, I've seen Rarity give him a few looks every now and then back when we weren't dating, but now, she had gotten a bit distant from him. I've seen some mares give him looks, but one look at me and they looked away. You never mess with a pegasus and her stallion, it can be dangerous.

Even though a part of me wanted to reprimand her for what she was saying, I couldn't help but think of how she said it... I could hear how scared she was, she was terrified, and I bet it had to do with the fact that pegasi tend to be overprotective of their mates. She was scared of how I was going to react...

I was scared...

I forced back my instincts and asked, "Lyra..." I heard her breathing hitch, "why... why do you love him?" I had to know, when did she start loving him?

... how long has she loved him, was the bigger question.

She never moved her head up, but she did answer my question. "I... since... since he spent the night with me that one time." She said, shivering fiercely. "You know I can't use my magic all that good... right?" I nodded my head, "I've been... been having nightmares ever since I graduated, I'm... I'm trapped in the dark and I try to use my magic to light up the dark but I can't! I always wake up terrified, and I've been scared of the dark ever since..." I heard her swallow, coughing before she continued. "Lee, he spent the night with me when I invited him over to watch a movie, before you two had started dating... I had fallen asleep watching a movie and... I had a really bad nightmare, when I woke up the house was covered in darkness..." she held onto me, "I was scared, Rainbow..."

I could understand that, I wasn't scared of the dark however, but, I knew Lyra was terrified of it. It felt so odd seeing Lyra like this, she was my friend, goofy and nuts, seeing her so scared... I didn't like it, I wanted to comfort her, tell her everything was okay, that I wasn't mad at her. But I was still frozen in indifference, fighting against my instincts and feelings on what to do.

"There was a storm outside, the power had gone out and... and everything was dark, so dark," Lyra continued, unaware of what I was going through at the moment. "Lee... he... he heard me screaming and helped me..." A sniffle, "Lee kept me safe, he held me in his arms and told me everything was going to be okay." Suddenly, Lyra pulled away and I finally got to look into her eyes. I saw only terror, longing, fear... "He didn't make fun of me like other ponies did... he just... he just hugged me and told me it was okay."

Lee... why are you so sweet? I wondered, even though I already knew why. Lee was unlike anypony I've ever met, caring, a jerk, loving, helpful... He's everything you want in a guy... and more...

"I started feeling... like this since that day..." Lyra had an ashamed look in her eyes, turning away to bury her face in her pillow. "I'm sorry, Rainbow... please don't hate me for this." She cried.

Lyra... Could I hate her for loving my coltfriend? I haven't met anypony who felt this way about him before, not before or after I started dating him, and laid claim to him... and now that I was faced with this, I didn't know what to do...

"~Follow your heart~"

I heard Prism's voice ring out in my head, follow my heart... I thought... Follow my heart. I gave one look at Lyra, then put my hoof on her shoulder. "I'm not mad at you, Lyra..." I told her, speaking from the heart as I added, "confused, maybe, but mad... no, never."

The mare turned her head ever so slightly towards me, one of her golden eyes glancing at me with a tiny bit of hope in them. "Y-you're not?"

I shook my head, "I'm not." I told her, I wasn't mad, confused, and possibly a bit curious, but not mad. She's my friend, how could I be mad at her for liking Lee? I didn't want to be one of those jealous mares... I wasn't going to hate her, I couldn't. "Its just... weird, I guess." When Lyra didn't say anything, I continued. "I'm going to be honest, I thought you were with Bonny, at first."

Lyra shook her head no, "Bonny... she's... she's not into mares." Lyra said, wiping her eyes. "She's dating Dr. Whooves, she's actually hoping to get into his herd." She admitted.

"Herds..." The word crossed my mind, pegasi and earth bound ponies had different words for that, unicorns called it a Coven, earth ponies referred to it as a Herd, and pegasi called it a Flock. Basically, when ponies, specially when two ponies loved one another, they sometimes ended up liking another pony and decided to bring them into the mix. It balanced out the gender issues in Equestria, where there's about four mares to one stallion. Sometimes it worked out, sometimes it didn't.

Lee, in the first few months when he was telling us about his world, he said there wasn't any herds, as the majority of the population frowned on such a thing, and stuck with one male and one female. Their gender balance is pretty even, and the roles were pretty weird. but he also said there were a few exceptions, but they were few and far in between. And the reason humans didn't do it was because of jealously, and it was considered a social taboo.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when Lyra asked me, "Rainbow..." she started, looking even more fearful, and maybe a tad embarrassed. "Do... do you think... maybe... that I could..."

I gestured for her to continue, could what?

"Join your flock?"

"... my... my flock?" I gasped out, did... what!?

She nodded, her cheeks turning a hint of red. "Yeah, I... you and Lee seem so happy together... and..." She wiped her eyes again, brushing aside some of her mane and saying, "I wish I could have that..."

I gulped, my gut twisting into a knot, she wants to join my flock?! "Lyra, I... my flock? I mean... I haven't, Lee and I haven't even, we..." I was confused, it was such a simple yes or no question, and here I am stuttering like an idiot. Now that she asked, my mind went straight towards Lee and I and... and our... We haven't even had sex yet!

Lyra seemed to pick up on that, I was no doubt a blushing mess. "Rainbow... haven't you and Lee... ya know." She clapped her hooves together a couple of times. Quiet, yet subtle way of asking if we've had sex or not. I shook my head, growing more embarrassed. "I thought..."

I sighed, I might as well tell her. "Lee and I... I mean... its not that I don't want to, its... I'm not sure if he'd want to." I admitted, I know that's a stupid reason but... I was actually rally scared to talk to him about that.

"Why would he not want to?" Lyra asked me, giving me a confused look. "He loves you, Rainbow Dash, you're not giving him enough credit." She touched my fetlock, giving it a caring squeeze. "You two should talk about that, I'm sure he wants to as much as you do."

I stared at Lyra for a moment, sighing. She's right... "I'll... I'll talk to him..."

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Lee's Perspective

"Wait, hold up." I said, staring at my alicorn friend. "You... you want me to... do what again? The perspective change threw me for a loop."

Celestia looked confused, extremely confuzzled! "What? Perspective change?"

"I said you want me to what now?" I repeated, crossing my arms as my bat pony guards and Magma trotted into the hospital single file.

"Lee, I want you to take Lyra under your care," she told me, her tone serious yet caring. "She's... she going to need somepony close to her to help her through this drastic change."

Bonnie could do that, couldn't she? I was about to ask, but Celly beat me to it.

"Bon Bon can't do it alone, she is one pony..." Celestia informed me as I just blinked, "Lyra is good friends with both you and Rainbow Dash, I am asking that you help her through this."

I sighed deeply, clasping my hands in front of me and asking, "You told us she's gone from being magicless, to being on par with fucking Twilight Sparkle in terms of magic, how can Dash and me even help? I'm not magical, and Dash isn't either! Not in the sense I'm thinking of." I wasn't against helping Lyra at all! Don't get me wrong, but how can we be expected to help her with this? She's gone form being handicapped in the magic department to almost crossing the threshold and becoming an Alicorn!

I felt a wing on my back, and saw Luna appear. "We trust in you and Rainbow, you two have been able to do some amazing things when confronted with a problem." Luna chirped in a soft happy voice, patting my back before moving to stand by Celestia's side. I just sighed.

"I'll... talk with Rainbow about it, but stahp dropping shit into my lap like this, jeez!" I threw my hands into the air, I swear they do this just cause they can. Shaking my head, I turned around and started back towards the room where Lyra and Rainbow were. "I'll see you guys later." I said, sighing as I made my way down the hall.

Taking care of Lyra... that'll be interesting, assuming Rainbow is up for it. I don't doubt she'll say yes to helping her, I wanted to help her to. She... she risked her life staying behind to help me, when I told her to run... why did she stay? I told her to run, to get out of there, but she stayed and almost died...

I'm not ungrateful, I'm... ugh, I don't fucking know.

After making a left turn, I saw Rainbow up ahead exiting the room, closing the door behind her before turning to face me. She gave a smile, and I returned it. "Lyra doing alright?"

"Yeah... she... she's alright, she just wanted to be alone for a bit." Rainbow quickly said, smiling nervously as she turned around, heading towards the exit of the hospital.

I tilted my head as I followed her, giving a quick look inside of Lyra's room to see her turned around with her back facing the window. I sighed as I followed the cyan mare, a tad bit worried. I smell something off. "Hey, Rainbow." I called out to her, she kept moving, in fact it looked like she was speeding up. Okay, if I didn't know something was wrong, I do know, I know plot devices when I see one! I gave chase after the mare, following her through the exit and outside just in time to watch as she flew away. "Dash, what's gotten into you?" I saw her fly towards the castle and bit my lip. "The Chase it is then." I told myself as I started running down the streets, grabbing my sword sheath to keep it down while I ran.

I followed the cyan blue line as she flew over the rooftops, and eventually out of my sight. I cursed, turning and running down an alleyway, after passing by a pony selling cabbages, unfortunately for him, I ended up knocking over the stand.

"My cabbages!" He cried.

"My bad!" I called, reaching into my pocket and tossing a small bag of bits his way before resuming my chase after my girlfriend. The cool air rushed by me as I darted down the alleyway, and emerged out onto another one of the streets, and I managed to look up in time to see Rainbow fly right into our room at the castle. I turned towards the castle, and started for it as I heard wing flaps.

"Sir?" I heard Breeze call me, looking back I saw her land before me. "I... I have to apologize."

I stopped, turning around to face her. "For what?" Why was she apologizing?

She looked ashamed, wings slouching and her eyes looking at the ground. "I should have stayed with you during the battle, and I didn't, you were injured because I left your side... I am not fit to be your guard." She told me as she reached into her robes and pulled off a small badge, and hoofed it to me.

I stared at her, was she seriously doing this? I sighed softly, eventually I knelt down and took it from her. She winced, probably expecting me to agree, but instead I took the badge and clipped it back onto the front of her robe. "I'm the one who told you to go and fight, and I'm glad you did." Breeze gave me a shocked look, I continued, "because of what you and the others did, a lot of people were kept safe from those mutant freaks... and I'm thankful for that."

"B-but, I... I-" I shushed her, shaking my head.

"No butts, unless you're getting laid." I told her with a grin. "I want you to tell the other guards what I said, because you guys are damn good guards... and don't let anyone tell you any differently." I gave her a serious look, "Understand, Gentle Breeze?"

She seemed to be taking my words in, and eventually she nodded. "I'm... yes, sir I understand..." She bowed her head. "Thank you for sparing me your wraith."

I chuckled, much to her confusion. "The most wraith you're going to see from me involves cheese, a pillow and one liners from a bad movie." I told her, laughing softly. I then turned towards the castle, looking up at the tower. "I have to go see about Rainbow, methinks it'll be a bit personal, so if anyone asks where I am, I'm with Rainbow Dash." I told her, getting a wing salute in response. "Till later~" I sang, dashing off towards the road.

Whew, I never thought running could be so tired... half the time I've joked about asking Twilight to find a spell to turn me into a pegasus so I could fly. That'd be tits, but I doubt it exists.

Then again... magic.

I made my way to the castle, rushing towards the stairs and past the guards who gave me nods and salutes. Why salute me? I'm not military or anything, unless Celly gave me some title I wasn't aware of behind my back. I didn't deserve any titles, I'm awesome enough as it is, I mean, adding anything more and the world would be fucked up!

I made my way into the castle, passing by a few maids and trying my bestest to not be blinded by the fucking crystal abomination that is this castle. I know you wanna be flashy but this is too much! Feels like I walked into a bad Twilight movie... oh wait, all Twilight movies are bad.

Sparkly fucking Vampires, they're supposed to be terrifying monsters, not sparkly little shits! I cursed, shaking my head as I made my way up the stairs.

What could be wrong with Rainbow? Why wouldn't she talk to me, and why did she leave so suddenly? Did Lyra say something? Or did Rainbow... Ugh, sometimes I wonder how I've made it this far in life without dying from frustration or some shit like that. I hope those two didn't have a fight, if that's the case then it'll make what I'm wanting to talk to her about even harder.

Oi.

I stopped for a moment at the floor where me and Rainbow were staying with our friends, after taking in a few breaths I made my way over to our room and grasped the doorknob, briefly stopped by the wonderment of why ponies, creatures with hooves in general, use door knobs to begin with. Seemed counterproductive, but that was just me.

After turning the knob, I opened the door and went inside, spotting Rainbow sitting on the bed. I stopped for a moment, thinking of what to say. "Rainbow?" I started, fucking brilliant way to start this off... IM-BEE-CILE!

She didn't move, only blinking as she looked down at something in her lap.

I sighed softly, moving into the room and closing the door behind me, closing it with a soft click before making my way over to Rainbow. I took my sword off, placing it at the foot of the bed as I sat down net to Rainbow. "Dashie?"

I saw her eyes flick towards me, and I saw something in her eyes, I saw a tiny bit of fear in her eyes. "Lee..." She put whatever it was in her hooves away before turning to look at me, her eyes locked on my own. "Do... do you love me as much as you say?"

My eyes blinked, and I just stared at her for the longest time. Why was she asking something like that? I did love her, what brought this on? I reached out to touch her face, placing my hand against her cheek and gently brushing aside her mane, I stared into her eyes before leaning in close, keeping eye contact before I kissed her. Not an intense kiss, but a gentle kiss, one that expressed what words couldn't. Rainbow returned the kiss, her lips parting as she deepened the kiss. She moaned quietly, and it lasted a few seconds before I pulled away.

"Rainbow... I love you, so fucking much." I told her, climbing down off of the bed and settling down on my knees in front of Rainbow, looking up into her eyes. "As cheesy as this is all going to sound... just listen to me." I took her hooves in my hands, our eyes locked when she gave me a nod, a faint red tint on her cheeks. "When I told you that I love you, I meant it, I still mean it every day I say it to you." I started, rubbing her fetlocks with my thumb and feeling of the fur around them. "Ever since my girlfriend left me... I never thought I would find someone to fill that void in my chest, and I never thought I would meet someone so... amazing, awesome, and beautiful as you are." I told her, I could feel my heart beating faster in my chest, I ignored it. "You help me day by day, and you're the main reason I get up every morning, just so I can see that wonderful smile of yours... you stayed by my side for four years, and we've even fought side by side against some pretty dark shit." I took a shaky breath, staring at the girl I loved more then life itself. "I don't ever want to lose you Rainbow, I love you... and nothing will ever change that."

The room was silent, save for our breathing. I never broke eye contact with Rainbow, I still didn't. I really did love her, far more then I could ever express to her. Everything I've ever experienced with her, everything we've done together, they were all times that I'll cherish till the day I die. I loved her...

Rainbow took her hooves away from me, I was scared for a second cause i thought she may have thought I was lying, but instead she slid off of the bed and into my lap, straddling me before she put her arms around me and placed her lips on my own as she closed her eyes, my own following shortly. Her lips parted and I felt her tongue running across my mouth, begging for entry. I didn't hesitate to let her in, the spicy taste of Rainbow soon filled my taste buds as she deepened the kiss as much as she could.

I fought against her with my own tongue, battling her, and despite her tongue being slightly bigger them mine I won out. I leaned her back against the bed, cupping her face with my hands as she groaned a little bit, her arms wrapped around the back of my head and pulling me closer. She tasted so spicy, but not enough to the point of pulling away. I wished the kiss could have lasted for a bit longer, but I had to break away to breath.

Our eyes opened, and I stared into those magenta eyes I loved so much. Both of us were breathing heavily, and I saw something in Rainbow's eyes that she no doubt saw in my own. Her eyes were half lidded, her wings were halfway extended and I could smell something musky in the air, and a little bit of wetness on my pants...

"Lee..." Rainbow gasped, swallowing as her hips started moving against my lap...

Oh my...

Author's Note

Sexy times is incoming