Big Mac had been with mares before, but being a mare for a stallion was something entirely new. There were new feelings, new sensations—and that was just her physical body. He is a good stallion, can you deny it? Mac sighed and lifted her head to look around. "Okay, this time we will manage to leave." She leaned over and nudged Jade.

"I heard. Can you turn me down a little?" Jade rolled to his back, showing the erection he sported to the air and Mac. "You leave me set to simmer and I may just have to come all the way to the boil. Uh… that's all I got, pun wise."

He wants you to lower his- "I know what he wants, Night." Mac thought about Jade as being more relaxed. "How is that?"

"That is like ice water… a little more warmth, please." Jade was clenching his teeth a little. A fraction of a second later and a mild warmth flowed in. "Oh, there we go." He rolled over and climbed to his hooves.

"We both need a bath." Mac couldn't believe how matted and dirty Jade's fur was. Don't look in our mane, trust me. "Right now." On her hooves, Mac barely slowed for the door and led Jade out and down hallways until she got her bearings. Luna's bedroom was Mac's Target and she didn't care who or what got in their way. It wasn't until she got to the doorway that Mac realized she had reins in her mouth. She froze and looked to Jade, eyes tracing the reins to his bridle.

"What?" Jade grinned. "Oh stop giving me the shocked look, you liked taking my reins. What are we doing here? The guard rooms are-" He was cut off as a blushing Mac yanked on the reins and pulled him into the royal suite of the Princess of the Night. "You can't be serious, we could wake…" The bed was empty, yet the night-attuned glass ceiling showed barely the softest glow rather than the moon's bright light. Jade barely had time for all this to sink in before he sank in, Mac yanking him by the bridle into the huge bath.

Mac started fiddling with the flow knobs in one corner of the bath, getting the gunk that was starting to leech out of their coats and hair out of the bath as quickly as possible. "Your fillyfriend has a few perks, one of which is the royal bath." Mac froze suddenly as a lot of things sank in. You… we, are his fillyfriend. We are also Luna's. Is it really a problem? "I guess not." Mac closed her eyes and took a deep breath; then she coughed. "Luna's name we are stinky."

Jade watched Mac start sorting through various bottles to one side of the bath. "Night talks to you a lot, doesn't she?" He lowered himself down deeper into the water, finding it oddly relaxing to just spread his wings to cup some air and just float, neck and head above the surface.

"I guess she does, but there is more to it than that." Mac selected two bottles, paddling over to Jade. "She became a part of me… a good part." Mac carefully popped one bottle open and poured the thick goop inside down into Jade's mane. "Up you get, let's get you pristine and clean. Luna wouldn't forgive me if I got her bath dirty and didn't at least get you clean for it."

Surprised at the turn of events, Jade adjusted himself and pushed his wings down, floating high enough that his mane and back were out of the water. "Just 'Luna' is it?"

Realizing her mistake, Mac blushed. "Force of habit." Kiss him, go on, you know you want to.

"She just spoke to you, didn't-" Jade didn't get any further, Mac had her lips pressed to his and all he could do was press against her. At least he tried to, but with both of them floating they ended up parting ways. "Hey, silly water, I was enjoying that!"

"So was I." Mac paddled a little to get to Jade's back. "But we are here for a reason." Cupping her wings down, Big McIntosh reached up and set her forehooves to Jade's spine. "Just hold still." Her hooves worked the goop in and spread it out. "Come on, up into the shallows."

Jade Sight found himself quite enjoying the attention, found it just as nice to return it and scrub the funk and dander free. "Uh Mac," Jade was working the second shampoo into Mac's tail when he found a little more than he bargained for, "how long have you been a mare?"

So relaxed was Mac that she barely noticed the question, but deep in her mind something gave her relaxed consciousness a poke. "Huh? What? Oh, almost two weeks." She looked back over her shoulder and blushed at where Jade was looking. "What? What is wrong?"

"Nothing, relax." Jade began sluicing water over Mac's plot. "You need to talk to Princess Luna about… ahem, grooming." He couldn't keep the blush from his face any more than he could keep the feeling of pride from his chest. Mac was leaking.

"I was a stallion." Mac felt about as comfortable as she could, the stallion with her knew everything about her new life. "It… it was not easy, at first. Night Reign is inside me, part of me. She helped ease me into this." You big softie. "It is just so comfortable doing things as a mare, and I have her to thank for it, but sometimes I stop and realize how things have gone, how quick it has been."

"In those moments, how do I make you feel?" Jade was using one wing-claw to hold Mac's tail up, sluicing her plot down.

With a little focus Mac drew one of those moments over herself, but it was less covering and more revealing. Her body felt odd still, she was too small and everything in the world just a little too big. "Come up here."

Dutifully, Jade let Mac's tail down and waded through the shallower water to stand before her. "Here?"

"No, turn sideways." Waiting for Jade, Mac looking into his eyes and saw something amazing there. "Turn more…" She watched his lines—his not-a-mare physique—as he turned. It was not what Mac would have been completely into as a stallion, but Jade had something that made her insides tighten. "I like it. I like how you are a bit sleeker than I was, built for movement and grace."

" 'Sleeker'?" Jade's eyes widened and he turned back to look at Mac. "I will have you know I am big for a stallion."

"Nope." The word felt good to say, tying Mac into her old self and pulling the corners of her snout higher. "I was big, Jade." Lifting a hoof, she pressed a hoof to Jade's withers. "Your height," the hoof raised, and raised and raised, "my height."

Jade's eyes were about as wide as he could get them. "Your brother? You were as big as he is?" It was hard to believe, but there was no reason he could think of for Mac to lie.

"Eeyup, nearly as big as Princess Luna herself." Mac drew her hoof back down and dunked herself in the water. Squirming as the water sluiced off, she stepped fully clear of the bath. "She… she made a pass at me once, when I was a stallion. I think it was more play than a real attempt."

"Princess Luna does like games, but I have never seen her like this with a pony before. When you are around she looks brighter, happier." Jade mimicked what Mac had done, rinsing off and stepping from the water. "Just how I feel…"

Ask him to say it properly; if he says it right, tell him you love him too. Mac blinked. "Jade, say it properly." She wasn't completely sure about what Night Reign meant until she looked into Jade's eyes and saw a bared soul.

Jade was trapped in Mac's gaze, she demanded the truth from him and he wanted more than anything to say it, but he couldn't. Then part of him bucked that restriction and his mouth was opening,"I love you. I can't help it, I can't stop it, I can-"

Mac cut in on the stallion. "I love you too." There, and I didn't have to push you.

"Did she tell you to say that?" Jade's heart was teetering over a precipice, he didn't know if falling would be good or bad.

"She… Night did, but I ignored her." Like you always do. "Like I sometimes do. Jade, I don't know if I can pick between you and Luna…"

"Then don't." Jade laughed. "We need to go to Princess Luna, together." He tilted his head up and saw soft, silver light filtering through the magically night-tuned glass ceiling. "And she holds court now."

"We can't go yet," Mac lacked the spells of a princess, and reached for the towels that hung near the bath with one wing, "we aren't dry."

It wasn't long before two bat ponies were dried off, their manes and tails worked with brush and comb until they shined. Mac pushed open the bedroom door and led the way out. Turning back to Jade she saw his bridle was gleaming, the reigns hanging back over his withers.

Luna pushed you to him, you love him, and her. Mac gave a small nod. I am not sure just how much Lula has changed since I… was imprinted, but I don't think she will begrudge you Jade. "Are we really discussing this, Night?" Of course we are, your heart is important.

"Night!" Sooty's voice was clear in the hallway. "Nighty night! Get over here and tell me everything." Sooty looked up at Jade. "I guess it is 'congratulations'?"

A hoof landed squarely in Sooty's side as Cave shoved Sooty over. "I told you to leave them alone, Soot." She turned a bright smile on Mac and Jade. "Going in to see Her Highness?"

"Yeah, I… we, need to talk about things." Mac looked across to Jade, but movement in the corner of her eye pulled her gaze down. "Cave, bite."

Cave Spin yelped as Sooty wrapped his snout around her foreleg and closed his mouth. "Get off!" She jerked her hoof up and almost brought it down on Sooty before realizing that her shod hoof would do real damage to his face. "Ugh, just get back up."

"Yes dear." Sooty got to his hooves, head bowed and stood like a chastised foal. "Sorry dear, I promise not to make a fool of us in public again, dear."

With each saying of "dear" Cave's face blushed brighter and brighter. "You little… I told you to keep quiet about it until after-" Cave's forehooves flashed up to cover her own snout as she turned whiter than a sheet.

"Congratulations." Mac patted her mollified friend on the shoulder as she advanced on the big doors. "Come on Jade, I am sure Cave wants to pound Sooty pretty hard after that." Mac! She giggled at how indignant Night sounded in her head.

"Coming, dear." Jade gave Sooty a wink before following Mac to the door.

The big doors opened and Mac walked forward only after Jade had reached her side. Within the room Princess Luna sat atop the throne of Equestria and wore the biggest smile anypony had seen on her snout in a long time. "McIntosh, Jade. Please come in."

Jade shook his head, still trying to get used to the bridle that was his tight companion. He turned to look at Mac and the awkwardness of being bridled was gone. Walking as evenly as he could at her side, he stopped at the bottom of the dais. He saw the problem quickly, Mac had frozen up. "Princess Luna," Jade puffed out his chest, "I wish to state my official intent to pursue McIntosh's hoof."

"Jade!" Mac spun to face Jade.

"Wonderful, I was hoping you two would work out." Luna beamed at Jade, then tilted her head to Mac. "McIntosh Apple, Night Reign, I give this my blessing of course. However, I too intend to seek her hoof." Luna looked at Jade again. "How does this sit with you?"

"Luna!" Mac blinked. Calm down, they need to go through this. You love them both. It wasn't a question, Mac realized. She gave a sigh and nodded to Night.

Jade leaned a little to the side, until he touched Mac's shoulder. "I think there are three ways for us to progress." He grinned grimly. "You give up your claim, or I give up my claim. Or we share."

Mac gasped. Oh stop, they are posturing like young stallions over you, this is pretty awesome. "Over us…" Fair enough, us.

"Sharing? You expect the Princess of the Night to share?" Luna stood up in the throne, spreading her wings wide and her power wider. Resplendent and mighty, the Diarch smiled and then settled back down. "Okay!"

Author's Note

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