The hangover. Vinyl's mortal enemy. The one thing that Vinyl had dealt with more than anypony else in Equestria. She didn't open her eyes until she was sure she was under a blanket, and she had her shades. First one, check. The shades, not so check. Wait, where were her shades? Oh god, please say that nopony other that Tavi had seen her eyes. She felt near her head, and her shades had just fallen off while she slept. Good, that's a relief. She pressed them back to her fave, and opened her eyes. First thing she saw, a triple Fleur De Lis cutie mark. her head was, oh god. She quickly rolled out of the bed, and onto the floor with a thump.
"Owwww, my head. Why do I do this to myself?" Vinyl hated her panicking instincts. They always did something bad for her hangover. Okay, what had happened last night and how would she explain this to Octavia. Octavia, who was also in the bed?!?!?! What was going on? Why were Vinyl and Octavia sharing the same bed with a Duchess?! What was going to happen when one of them woke up?! Calming herself, she was trying to stop herself from doing something stupid. She failed. Instead of leaving a note, or waking Tavi, she ran out of the room. They were at Vinyl and Octavia's apartment. That was good enough, I guess. She stopped, relived that there would not be any royal guard patrolling around the place. Then, she heard a knock. She thought too soon, it seemed, because there was 2 royal guards at the door.
"Hello, miss Scratch. We are wondering in Madam De Lis is alright." Vinyl had no idea how to handle this situation.
"Erm, give me a second. I just woke up, but she is still asleep. Should I wake her up or-" She trailed off, giving the guards space to answer.
It was the second guard who spoke up. "No. Let her sleep. She doesn't get much at the castle, after all. Her main job is to keep miss Platinum under control. She was actually made into a Duchess because of her political skill. And something about Celestia wanting to see her more often or something. It's not our place to know." The second guard looked familiar, she had seen him with Twilight back in Ponyville once, like on a date or something.
"You want to come in? I have some food somewhere, and I make a mean dandelion pudding." She was always one to brag about her pudding, even though she would burn water and freeze the stove if she tried anything else.
The first guard began answering. "It is our duty to make sure Madam De Lis is alright." But the second, more familiar guard, cut the other one off.
"So, yes." The First one shot a glance at the familiar one. The name, the name, the name. Flash Sentry! It was hard to remember names in her hungover state, but she did manage to remember his name.
"Come in, I guess." Vinyl moved out of the way, allowing the two guards in. "I can get started on the food, I get hungry when I'm hungover." Whoops.
"So you two were drinking last night?
"Us three, actually."
Octavia had just woken up, with a pretty bad hangover. She felt the warm body to her left, and opened her eyes to see Vinyl. She did not see Vinyl. Far from it. Duchess Fleur De Lis?! Normally, if she caught Vinyl in this situation, she would hit her marefriend in the head with a cello. She knew Vinyl would never do something like that. She would use a small stack of disks, and break them. Not the compact ones, either. Octavia never thought that this would be something that she would do, but she did. Her hangover hit hard at that moment, being alarmed awake by the sight. Like someone before her, she fumbled out of the bed, her hooves missing the ground. She hears voices from the living room, one of them being Vinyl and two deeper ones. Guards, maybe? There was a sleeping Duchess in front of her. She remembers some of last night, The three of them had been drinking together, so why was Vinyl not in the room? Octavia decided to step out. Once she did, she heard a guard speaking.
"So you two were drinking last night?" Octavia spoke up.
"Us three, actually."
"Octavia. Your awake. So, yeah." Vinyl was blushing, like Octavia felt herself doing as well. There was an awkward silence, until who she recognized as Flash Sentry spoke up.
"So, am I missing something? What's so awkward?" This snapped the two mares back to reality.
"Oh, it's nothing." Vinyl, having the most wit in the room, responded nearly instantly. "I'm just going to start on the pudding."
"Your making the pudding? That's nice." Octavia absolutely loved Vinyl's dandelion pudding, even though she could kill whatever ate anything else that she made. No, really. Vinyl had once fended off a dragon with a pie she had burned down the kitchen to make. Vinyl trotted to the not-so-burnt kitchen, leaving Octavia alone with the two guards.
"Are you sure there's nothing that you should say before something happens?"
"Well, I should really ask Vinyl about this." And with that, she walked after Vinyl into the kitchen.
"Um, Vinyl. About-"
"Don't worry about it. We were all drunk, and we just did what we did, not caring about status."
"Wait, were you, well, with us?"
"I woke up first. I know, weird." Vinyl seemed very confused that she would wake up first. "And considering the smell, and where my head was, we should not bring this up in the future."
"What about the guards? They're getting nosy, and I don't know what to do. Help me out here, Vinyl."
"Okay, okay, okay. We can find out a way to handle this. Just-" She was cut off by the guards in the other room.
"Did you sleep well, miss De Lis?" Flash, being the more socially adept one of the two.
"You could say, it was a pleasent night, I would assume. Damn this hangover." Fleur was awake now, obviously remembering last night to at least some extent, but not all.
"Do you have an idea of what you did? The musicians won't talk in front of us."
"Oh, nothing. We got drunk, came here, and probably fucked. What do you want from me?"
"Geez Fleur, you still have no restraint. At least there were no stallions, could you imagine?" Octavia noticed how the unfamiliar guard had not said anything, or done anything to make any sound. Was he still there? Yes, he spoke up.
"Could you imagine if anyone caught wind of this? You could be in serious trouble, you know. Your lucky that we got here first."
"Speaking of which, where is Silverbolt?" Fleur inquired.
"How do you think we kept the other guards back at the castle? You know he's good with a wrench." Flash replied. So, they were the personal guards for the Duchess. No wonder they didn't flip at hearing that they had fucked. Octavia could tell that Vinyl was listening as well. That was a relief.
