A lone changeling had been spending the last few years in Ponyville, taking only the necessary amounts of love when he needed. He had taken the guise of a brown stallion with a messy mane and tail. As Time Turner, the changeling opened a clock shop in town and had started building his first true friendship with one of the flower mares, Rose Luck. After the fiasco with the royal wedding, ponies became very suspicious of their friends and neighbors, scared that the wedding was only the first in a series of attacks. Time Turner had been able to play things off so far, until one of his former hive members showed up suddenly.

For a prompt by LoyaltoRainbowDash for Write Club.