Celestia's sun beckoned the baby dragon's eyelids open. And that's when he became rudely aware of the blank space in bed next to him. Spike pulled his claw out of his mouth and sat up.

"Twilight?" he rubbed his eyes. He could hear some sort of commotion near the foyer so he hopped out of Twilight's bed and began curiously walking towards it.

The smell of gemstone pancakes hit his nostrils immediately.

"Good morning sleepy head!" called Twilight.

"Hey, what time is it? Did I oversleep?" Spike took a seat at the crystal counter top directly across from where Twilight was cooking breakfast.

"You looked so peaceful I didn't want to wake you," Twilight flipped the batter over to the lesser cooked side. "Besides you wake up and cook me breakfast all the time. I thought it'd be a nice change of pace for me to cook for you again."

Spike actually didn't mind cooking for Twilight. Even if he did Spike would never complain to Twilight about that. He just wasn't much of a complainer in general. The way he saw it, Twilight gave him life. And that's about the highest praise he could give anypony in Equestria. He reminded himself of that daily.

"Thanks, Twilight!" Spike stuck his long slender tongue out to ready his lips for the gem filled cakes Twilight had just set in front of him.

"Eat up. We have a big day ahead of us," the Princess of Friendship set some maple syrup and butter in front of her dragon as well as a glass of milk. She stared intently at her assistant as he sloppily devoured his pancake breakfast.

She spoke again: "I thought we could restock the ink wells, and buy new quills on our way to completing our daily friendship checklist."

"The checklist!"

The purple baby dragon almost spat his mouth full all over Twilight. He was about to perform a daring jump off of the back of the chair he was eating at.

"It's ok, Spike. I have it right here," Twilight unfurled the scroll revealing that item number one "Eat breakfast" had already been ticked off.

"Oh..." Spike silently admitted to himself that he liked to be the one to check the items off the list.

Shortly soon thereafter Spike finished his breakfast and took to washing the fine royalware carefully in the sink like always. He was never completely satisfied until he could see each individual scale in the reflection of the plate. He wanted to say "looking good Spike, looking real good!" but knew that Twilight was watching so he just set it on the dry rack.

He did the same thing for Twilight's plate and royalware after she finished eating.

When he was finished he turned to ask Twilight something. Something that was still on his mind from last night.

Twilight could sense her baby dragon was apprehensive. She would always notice whenever Spike was thinking about something. And barely anything got past her.

This time was no different.

"Is something wrong?" Twilight asked.

Spike opened his mouth. He was embarrassed by what was about to come out of it.

"Twilight about last night...", Spike trailed off. "Do you think you could keep my, well you know- a secret?" Spike took off his gloves and apron and set them meticulously down next to the sink he had just been working at.

"Spike, nopony has to know about your accidents except for me," Twilight was careful with how she handled this request. Because unbeknownst to Spike it had already been denied! The only other pony who knew about Spike's bed wetting was Fluttershy. Still she bit her lower lip and looked away before Spike could catch on to the fact that perhaps other ponies knew.

Twilight began to recall the event in her head:

...

"How long has this been going on?" Fluttershy calmly asked in her sing song voice.

"It's been going on two weeks now, at least two to three nights during," Twilight sounded exasperated. "I'm sorry to inconvenience you with these questions Fluttershy. It's just- you're good with kids right?"

Fluttershy didn't like to brag but she smiled in approval of Twilight's assertion.

"I just didn't know who else to turn to. And poor Spike he's so sensitive about all of this- if he found out I told anypony else about his accidents it would mortify him!" Twilight didn't like not having all the answers, but she knew better than to deny herself counsel when she needed it. And she knew she could always rely on her friends. She couldn't keep routinely washing Spike's sheets time and time again. She needed a real solution.

"Awwww, don't worry Twilight," Fluttershy put one of her hooves on Twilight's shoulder. "Spike's secret is safe with me," Fluttershy assured.

The yellow pegasus pony continued: "Bed wetting is nothing to get worked up about. Most children go through phases where they simply can't hold it while they sleep. I imagine baby dragon's are no different. It's just a phase and I'm sure it will soon pass." Fluttershy offered her friend a warm smile. "If you'd like I could lend you some child rearing books that talk about nocturnal enuresis at some length, and-"

"That would be wonderful!" Twilight cut her friend off seemingly on impulse at the mention of the word 'books'.

Fluttershy, undeniably a bit jumpy after Twilight's outburst, regained her stamina to walk over past some of her animal friends to where her book shelf was.

"Excuse me, friends," Fluttershy squeezed carefully past a group of squirrels that were chatting at the base of her book shelf.

"Let's see..." Fluttershy began scanning her shelves. "Nope... nope... nope, definitely nope." The purple alicorn watched with anticipation. "Ah here we are!" Fluttershy flew up to a shelf that housed a book titled 'Nocturnal Enuresis: Stages, Development, and Treatment'.

"Oh and you might want to look at these two, also."

Twilight floated two books in front of her with her magic: 'The Magic of Child Rearing' and another one titled 'Foals, Fillies, and Colts'.

"I hope those help." Fluttershy was worried that just maybe she wasn't being helpful enough. She flew back down to where Twilight was gladly placing new books in her bag.

"Oh, Fluttershy I can't thank you enough. These are very helpful thank you!"

"Don't mention it Twilight. I'm happy to help," Fluttershy glanced out of her cottage's front window and looked to see Spike playing with her chickens. Fluttershy giggled at the sight of Spike and Elizabeak playing tag. "Though you might need to add 'give a baby dragon a bath' to your list," Fluttershy, noticing the piece of parchment she recognized as Twilight and Spike's list protruding from her backpack, pointed a hoof at Spike playing in her front yard covered in mud.

"Well," Twilight put a hoof up to her mouth. "I guess we should be leaving then. Thanks again, Fluttershy. I'll have these back to you as soon as I'm done reading them."

"Just remember to try to be as supportive as you can. There's tons of troubleshooting ideas in those books." Fluttershy wanted to offer some more advice of her own. "And don't worry, my lips are sealed. Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye," Fluttershy went through the motions.

The two elements of harmony had themselves a nice hug and Fluttershy waved her friends a goodbye from outside her front door. The sun was just about to go down.

"Bye Fluttershy!" Twilight called out to her after lifting Spike from Fluttershy's chicken pen.

"Bye Twilight! Bye Spike!" Fluttershy giggled at how dirty Spike looked.

"Bye Fluttershy! Bye Elizabeak!" Spike smiled as he waved back.

The chicken clucked a farewell.

Twilight placed her assistant on the ground next to her. He was far too dirty to ride her on the way home.

"So did you get what you needed from Fluttershy's?" the purple dragon tried to wipe the mud off of his face while he spoke.

"Oh, yes..." Twilight didn't like to do anything without Spike's knowing but this time was for his own good. "These new books on rare Equestrian species should prove useful in helping with our understanding of animalian magic," Twilight lied.

"Good. I can't wait to see what cool new spells you create!" Spike loved watching Twilight do what she does better than any other pony he knew.

"Alright. But first we have to give a certain somepony a much needed bath," Twilight hinted.

Spike pouted on their walk home that particular summer evening. The gradient of the sunset sky silhouetted their bodies as they walked.

...

Twilight bit her hoof, subtly.

"Thanks Twilight," Spike said, "for not telling anypony I mean." He hugged her leg in thanks. Then he looked at her inquisitively. "You ready to go? Second item on the list says we need to drop off Owlicious for his monthly preening at Fluttershy's." Spike professionally rolled the scroll up in his claws.

"Oh, erm, yeah Spike," Twilight forgot about having to go to Fluttershy's this morning!

"Let me just brush my mane, and grab Owlicious."

Twilight teleported herself to her room where she quickly stuffed her bag with a hairbrush, Owlicious' treats, and three carefully hidden books about child rearing...

Author's Note

Oooooooh! I'm telling Spike on you Twilight. :3

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