Rough Draft, Only still up for Nostalgia and Re reads

Midnight stretched, then glanced out the window. The sun was nearing setting. Remembering his talk with Twilight Sparkle, he rose, and trotted out the door. Walking through Ponyville, seeing smiling, welcoming faces, his heart lifted. With his new happiness, he picked up the pace and trotted towards the library.

*****

Arriving at the tree, he was about to knock, but heard Twilight call from behind the building. "Back here Midnight! We're practicing outside for now."

Shrugging, he walked behind the large trunk. There, Twilight had set up a chalkboard, stones of varying sizes in a row, and several books on a small table.

"What's all this for? I thought you teaching me the basics?" She grinned at him. "I am. Believe me, this is easy. My first magic task was to hatch a dragon egg!"

Eyes wide, Midnight nodded slowly. "So what's my first lesson? Turning the rocks into pie?" She laughed. "No. You'll just be focusing your magic and lifting them. As it gets easy, you'll move on to a larger rock ok?"

Focusing, he nodded sharply. He pushed on what felt like some invisible wall in his mind, but nothing happened. "How do you do it Twilight? How do you even get your magic to start flowing?"

"Well, my special talent is magic. All I have to do is think about it, and it works. What's your special talent? Maybe we could channel your magic through it."

He glanced down to his side, looking at his microphone cutie mark. "Singing. Whenever a song really means something, has emotion behind it, I sing it like I'm living it. It feels powerful. Could that get my magic running?" She smiled. "That's exactly what it should do. Happen to have that kind of song under your hoof?" He thought for a minute. "I think I have just the one." Slowly, he started to song the words.

I've heard there was a secret chord,
That David played
and it pleased the lord,
But you don't really care for music
Do you?
Well it goes like this,
The fourth the fifth,
The minor fall, the major lift,
The baffled king composing,
Hallelujah

And he kept singing, weaving the notes in the air like a gossamer web. As he let the melody flow, his magic enveloped him in a black cloud. Still singing, he focused on the smallest rock. He lifted it no problem. He moved up to the next size. There was no difficulty here either. He kept moving up, until he reached the largest rock. It was about the size of Big Macintoshs wagon. He gulped, but lifted it anyway. It was above him in the air, when he reached the end if the song.

The rock started jerking around, and he could no longer control it. His magic gave out, just as the rock paused above him. Almost in slow motion, it began to fall. He searched his head for another song, and started to belt it out. He reached out with his magic just as Twilights horn began to glow. The both grabbed the rock simultaneously. With two powerful magics pulling it, the rock simply exploded. But in that instant, when their magic was mingling, the rest of the world was lost to them. They saw everything about each other. Every thought, every idea, each memory.

As the images of Twilights mind left him, Midnight felt regret, and happiness. He didn't want to violate her privacy like that, but he was elated. There was somepony who knew everything he ever was or hoped to be. Somepony who knew who he truly was. As that realization struck, his magic took its toll and he passed out.

*****

Cracking one eye open, Midnight saw Twilight in a bed adjacent his. Surrounding her were Applejack, Rarity, the cyan pegasus whose name he still couldn't remember, and the yellow Pegasus from the picture.

"Oh boy! You're awake!" Midnight turned, and saw Pinkie Pie smiling at him from the root of the bed. "How long was I out?" The black unicorn asked. "Only a week. But compared to how long Twilight's usually out after some magic explosion, you're doing great."

The cyan pegasus drifted over. "Hi there. The names Rainbow Dash. I saw the rock explode in the weirdest way. It was all black, but glowed purple. What were you two doing that caused that boulder to blow up like that?"

Midnight thought back to the incident. "Twilight was teaching me magic. I lifted the rock, but lost control. She used her magic to grab it, but so did I. As soon as our auras touched, it exploded, and I passed out." He left out the whole "saw into each others deepest darkest secrets" part. He hadn't come to terms with it yet.

As the other ponies looked at each other, Twilight gave out a groan. "Wha? Where am I?" The others rushed to her bed, comforting and explaining what had happened. Midnight stayed silent. He didn't know how Twilight would take to what had happened.

"Wait, is Midnight alright?" Suprised that Twilight cared at all, he sat up and looked over. "I'm right here Twilight. I'm so sorry about what happened. Are you okay?" She looked at him slightly dazed, then smiled widely. "I'm fine Midnight. And I don't blame you. I should've been paying better attention."
Her friends quickly tried to persuade her otherwise, but she shook her head firmly. "No. I wasn't watching like I should've been. This is my fault and mine alone."

Midnight was about to object, but the doctor came in right before he could. He bustled then out, gave them tests and such. After what felt like hours, he said that they were free to go, and sent them out with their friends.

As they exited the hospital, Twilight pulled Midnight aside. "We need to talk. Meet me at the library tonight." Midnight nodded, and she trotted off. He licked his lips nervously. How could he be around somepony who's every secret he knew, and she knew all of his?

*****

Midnight slowly walked through town towards the tree that was Twilights home. He knocked on the door, and waited. A small, purple dragon with a green frill greeted him. "Hey there. I'm Spike, Twilights assistant. She's in the study. She told me to tell you to go see her as soon as you got here."

Thanking the little dragon, Midnight trotted towards the room in the corner of the tree. "Hello Midnight." Twilight was standing by a desk, facing him. "I can't tell you how sorry I am that I did that Twilight. If you never want to see me again, I'd completely understand." She smiled, like she never wanted to smile at anything else. "Why wouldn't I want to see you? You know all about me. Everything that makes me who I am. I know all the same things about you. Why would anypony want someone who understood them completely to go away?"

This was not the reaction Midnight had expected. He'd been slightly happy as it happened, because some of his secrets were lifted off his shoulders, but he was afraid that Twilight wouldn't feel the same way. But now that he thought about some of the sadness he'd seen in her, he understood why she felt the same way.

"I don't know Twilight. I thought you'd be mad at me for invading your privacy like that." She looked sad at this. "Does that mean, are you mad at me?" He looked up, and saw her eyes see shining with tears.

"No! Twilight, having somepony know those things about me is the greatest feeling in the world." He walked over, and let her lean on his shoulder. "It's alright. I'd never be mad at you Twilight. I know so much, how could I hate the pony that I could never leave?"

Her head came up and she met his eyes. "Never leave me? But why? We just met." He had been building himself up to say this all night. "Twilight Sparkle, you and I complete each other. If I left, knowing my other half stayed here, I wouldn't be able to bear it."

Her tearstained eyes closed, then her head nuzzled further into his shoulder. "Thank you Midnight. I feel the same way. I've never even imagined that I could want something so badly, let alone want somepony this way."

Midnight closed his eyes and laid his head over hers. "Midnight?"
"Yes Twilight?"
"Would you sing to me? Something simple. The reason I didn't see the rock falling was your voice. It was so beautiful. It made my heart race." He thought for a moment, then started singing in his soft baritone.

Goodnight my angel
Time to close your eyes,
And save these questions
For another day,
I think I know
what you've been asking me,
I think you know
What I've been trying to say,
I promised I
Would never leave you,
And you should always know,
Where ever you may go,
No matter where you are,
I never will be far away.

"Midnight?" Twilight looked up at him. "Yes Twilight?"
"I love you."
"I love you too."
She smiled, and fell asleep on his shoulder.

He stood still, not needing sleep. As he waited in the moonlight, with the pony he loved asleep on his shoulder, he could only smile. He'd been in the new town less than two weeks, and he already found the pony he'd never forget. With that thought in his mind, he cleared his head, and watched as Twilight dreamed.

*****

Twilight woke up with a start. She was in her bed. But last night? Was it a dream? She was about to cry, but heard a soft melody drifting upstairs.

She walked down the steps, and saw Midnight standing by the table. Breakfast was set out. "Did you do this?" He nodded. "You were so tired, but I couldn't sleep at all. I figured you'd be hungry when you woke up." Her stomach rumbled in assent to this.

"Well then, let's eat." She took her place at the table, then began munching on the carrot pancakes he'd made. Once they finished their meal, Twilight helped Midnight clear the dishes, then they left the library.

There was no real destination in mind. They just wandered side by side. Through the park, glancing at the nature around them. As the sun neared the center of the sky, Midnight started to drift. He was starting to tire. Twilight noticed. "Hold on."

She focused, and her magic began to swirl. Suddenly, a leaf floating down from from a tree above them became a large green blanket. "Let's just rest here in the sunshine." They both laid down, and as Midnight fell asleep, he reached out a hoof, and placed it over Twilights back.

Lying there, Twilight knew that this was the best feeling on earth. Safe, in the arms of a pony you knew as well as she knew herself. She dozed right next to him, not caring who saw them.