Bad habits

Canterlot, a city located in a mountain near the center of Equestria, the capital city of the country. A dreamland for the majority of ponies who hasn't been there, and why not? built from an Islamic design brought from Saddle Arabia, taking into account the waterfall of the mountain while it was Constructed so the flow of water through the city was natural and most of the time clean, every aspect of the city made it look like any house in it was a castle worth for any king.

But there are the downside's, apart from being easy to locate for any enemy the pony empire had challenge in the past, its own magnificent location is bound to natural repercussions: since the place its too high, breathing oxygen is harder that most places, so traveling to Canterlot in summer is known as a bad decision for professional travel and tourist guides.

Other of the repercussions was the change of temperature at night, something that was actually disturbing the young and weak scales of a twelve years old dragon who was running through the streets of the capital. This purple scaled young dragon's name is spike: a young child that had made his decision to serve a unicorn who give him the best present of his life in the past, life. If not for the raw magical power of the unicorn known as Twilight Sparkle, he would be a rotten dragon egg by now.

And what was he doing now this late at night? well, its quite simple, her friend Twilight had just finished all the ink they had back in the Canterlot studio, the problem was that she needed a least half a bottle more of ink to finish her essay before morning. So here he was running from house to house looking for anypony who is still up that can give him some ink.

Meanwhile, the protege of the ruler of the land Princess Celestia, the fourteen-year unicorn by the name of Twilight Sparkle, was eating her dinner, one that was made hours ago by her 'number one assistant' as she called Spike. her dinner was composed of a cheese salad and mashed potatoes, something healthy and pretty normal for the citizens of the city, but for the unicorn that was tasting it, it was a food which exquisite flavor was more worth than the way she paid him his services.

This was her first bad habit ever since they started to live together, even when she knew the basics of making food for herself, any thought of improving her cooking skill was dismissed the first day she tasted something made by him.

"How does this taste so good?!" she thought while eating unrelentingly "I have eaten with the princess before, and not even the royal chefs could achieve this intoxicating feeling"

Her mind was drifted from her questioning when the door slammed open and then shut without a sound, the sound that followed was a series or little thuds, little recognizable thuds.

"Spike it's that you? I'm upstairs!" Twilight shouted, "did you find some ink?" she added.

The child drake was panting his way upstairs, he had been running non-stop for more than half an hour and now the only challenge left for him was getting the ink back to her.

"I... have your... ink... Twi " he said between pants just a couple more of steps and he could get some rest. Luckily for him, Twilight noticed how tired her assistant was, so she helped him by magically dragging him to his destination. "thanks, I almost fainted" he added.

Twilight took the bottle of ink his assistant was holding and put it on the workbench at the corner of the room alongside three rolled scrolls, from which one of them was empty and ready to be worked on. After that she took a look at him, he was tired, on the verge of sleep, his eyes half-lidded, he was doing his best to keep awake and she knew well why he was trying so hard.

"It's alright spike, this was the last thing I needed from you today, you can go to sleep," she said "I'm gonna teleport you there, so close your eyes tight. have good night spike, I love ya".

"love ya too Twi" he said snoozing before being teleport to his little bed.

Three of the morning in Twilight's studio, a workbench full of books and two candles to illuminate the room, three scrolls rolled up and sealed, packaged in a blue saddle bag. The mare known as twilight was sleeping on the bench, using an open book as a pillow, a trail of saliva getting dangerously close to the pages.

Quite steps went her way down, getting nearer and nearer to her.The sleepy figure of Spike making his appearance near her side.

"I knew she would do this again, I had to talk her out of this habit of sleeping in her studio" he said quietly before reaching a claw to her fur Cold, wow, maybe... oh i see the window of the observatory is open, the cold of the night got here; can't help it, I was too tired to remember her to close that window. I better take her to bed, the last thing she'll want is to get sick he thought.

Grabbing her by her back he holds her bride style into her room. A funny sight to say the least, the purple body of Twilight was almost the double of his size. The fact that Twilight purred at his touch and body warm didn't help either.

After some grunting and more steps that Spike thought at the beginning he reached their shared room, once he got to put her in bed he let out a muttered groan of sleepiness and victory before trying to go back to sleep.

And he tried without avail, something, to better say, someone, was holding him: it was Twilight's magic who took hold of him, followed by her hoof who got him into an unconscious snuggle. Spike thought first it may be a reflex from her, but then were the questioning:

'do I try to escape from her grip? what if she wakes up? this could get embarrassing and maybe she would no get back to bed... uh, what should I do? ' the little dragon questioned, his internal rambling was stopped when twilight shifted her hoofs and started mumbling.

"so... warm, don't... go" she cooed.

Spike hummed and snickered at his friend actions 'Looks like I'm stuck here for the night huh? well it's not so bad either... he thought before something started concerning him, ' I hope this don't get to be something usual for us like the food... or the shared baths or... maybe I should start making a list just in case... wait, a list? wow, Spike, you had been too much time with this filly

Twilight shifted again and tightened the hug, giggling at the scratchy touch of the unpolished scales.

A year had passed And the royal Canterlot library stood proud, being still one of the best libraries in the country. Even when it has been five years since it had been used as a house for a unicorn and her little dragon assistant, who were sharing the bed again( thanks to two well-trained puppy eyes that were used three ours back). The only amusing thing in the matter was that Twilight wasn't sleeping.

It wasn't because she hadn't insomnia, actually her brows were getting heavy and more that one time she had dozed off just to wake up immediately; The actual deal was quite simple: she needed to try five new spells that only could affect a creature that was already at sleep. The first spell was to see the subject's dream, other for reaching memories between the unconscious mind, a lucid dream, and a nightmare dream spell, the last one being the reason she didn't tell spike about it at the first place. After 2 hour's and a half she just needed one spell to finish.

"inducing deep sleep" Twilight muttered while her horn's magic concentrated once again in her little friend, which started to snore right after the spell was cast on him. "It worked?! it did right?" she cheered loudly, trying to wake him up at first. But she knew that some shouts and cheers weren't gonna be enough proof to the test.

"Maybe some tickles would work" she said before holding spike in the air with her magic and proceeded to do the afford mentioned action. She stopped after a whole minute of ravaging his body with tickles; the question was still in the air, he was already in deep sleep or did the spell worked and no matter what she does he would not wake up?.

"Well I could try to hurt him, if not was the case that I'll need a spear to pierce through his scales, and two doctors later... come on twilight think, there might be another sensitive spot..." She recoiled in her last words when she spotted spike tongue lolling out a little "his tongue, that may work! he had said before that his tongue can be as sensitive as the one of a snake some days, the only thing I nee-"

Twilight insomnia was making her presence now, taking the better of her magic and her hold on the drake, which felt on her chest and belly, his serpent tongue landing in her nose.

"Ugh, this is disgusting! stupid body need's now my muzzle its full with the odor of spike's saliva... well... wait... its more like a fragrance... how weird" She thought out loud, sniffing his best friend smell. "It's like food that has been on fire, it's a little addictive too" she explained not caring anymore of her previous tests.

' I can't figure the smells... it's something delicious that's for sure, wait I know, its the panc-' Twilight self-consciousness got back just in time for her to achieve she has been tasting spike tongue directly from his mouth.

' Oh dear Celestia, what I'm doing!?' She panicked shifting her four hoofs in all directions 'I drifted my mind and my body took actions while I was away. This is so wrong spike is my best friend we are like brother and sister, um, and Celestia told me to take care of him, well even when he is the one taking care of me, and I'm just deliberating instead of- WHY I CAN'T STOP?'

After a couple of seconds of panic, Twilight managed to calm her breath and her hoofs, she took spike into a hug, deepening the kiss. her wide tongue tasting his whole mouth, his pointy teeth giving her a sensation between joy and fear while her hug tightened searching for tasting him more.

'Maybe it's my hormones, mmm no it can't be, Spike's scales are heat sponges, that's why I ask him to take showers with me in my estrus day's. mhn, What if is because of the fatigue? it would explain why I can't focus.' Twilight stopped for a moment, taking her time to swallow the excess of saliva in her mouth making a loud slurp sound. 'But even it is insomnia why does he taste so good? there must be an explanation for this: magic residual effects on his body? mhhmm mhhm dragon's natural body secretions? maybe.... may... '

While Twilight's self-questioning went deeper her lack of sleep finally got and took the chance to knock her off, her mouth finally departing from spike one, after minutes of a symbiotic kind of state.

A year and a half later

It was a turbulent night in the streets of ponyville, once again the shenanigans of a pony made havoc against the village, the only exception in this case. was that a dragon was the responsible this time.

A dragon named spike, that happens to be sleeping in his basket at the moment, after a whole hour of cry and sorry's sent to the air. His best friend was still awake, watching with pleasure that he finally managed to get some sleep and rest; she proposed the idea of share the bed for the night, but he refused.

"I'm just another brute dragon... I don't deserve the love of this village of even yours... please just let me alone, that would be the best from all this village after I repair all this disaster, I'll be on my way to a cavern hidden in one of the corners of Equestria." Were the last words she managed to take from him.

Twilight composed herself in her haunches, waiting, she knew that after all the trauma and tears there would be another thing coming for his dragon. Spike shifting and heavy breathing only confirmed her assumptions. 'He is having a nightmare' she thought, getting out of her bed and reaching to be close to him.

' Not on my watch young dragon' her horn illuminated an alteration spell on her way to the dragon's dream ' you would not listen to me if I tell you now, but maybe if you thinks it's your self-conscious you will give me a chance. Spike, you aren't a brute neither a savage like most dragons, you are loyal, kind, generous, you are so honest with us sometimes that it even hurts'.

"And don't you ever say again that you don't deserve my love" she said with a mocking tone "you have been my best friend since I was ten, you were there for me every time you could, and even when I'm the oldest: I keep telling myself that at this rate you'll be the wife in the relationship for all the cares and spoils you gave me".

Twilight started to get even more close to him before she knew it their faces were inches apart, his heavy breath now were soft coos that landed on her muzzle. ' yeah... you could be my wife... you could be mine...' Twilight's lips mimicked her thought while she was caressing Spike'lips. The little foreplay shifted to little soft peaks, which transformed into a soft tender kiss, which at the end evolved into a deep kiss.

After some tongue fondling spike's body started to flinch in a response to the activity against his sensitive flesh, making Twilight stop her advance and teleport to her bed. ' oh my dear Celestia THAT WAS CLOSE, maybe he didn't wa-'

"Twilight are you still up?" Spike's voice made her skin go white; luckily for her, the fur made it impossible for any creature to notice.

"Yeah... I'm just a little amazed with everything that happened today... for a moment I though you finally got some sleep"

"Actually Ii did, it was a short one, but it made me rethink some things... is that offer of sleeping with you still on sale?"

"Later for you Mr. now you have to pay me a king like breakfast if you want it" she joked, already moving aside to give Spike a place in the bed.

"Then we have a deal miss Sparkle" he said cheerfully, making his way to the soft warm spot left for him. Without thinking it twice he embraced Twilight, "I'm sorry for what I told you early. nevertheless, I want to be a better dragon for you and all of ponyville, and I promise you twi: this was the first and last time I let my instinct take a hold of my mind".

Spike's eyes were tender and full of determination, she just stared at them for a while smiling before giving him a soft kiss on his forehead.

"I'll look forward to it, now we better get some sleep, have a lot of work and repairs to do tomorrow".

"Have a good night Twilight, love ya".

"I love you too spike".

Twilight decided to enjoy herself for a long time before going to sleep. What those words really mean for us? she thought 'Spike I have never felt true love, and you have been so much time with me that I don't know if this is true love or.... necessity. Every time I took advantage of you, it feels almost unnatural, and those words, you are mine... '.

"you are mine, and mine only" Twilight muttered, a shiver crawling trough her whole body. ' Is so weird, and at the same time so exciting... maybe I should tell him...' Twilight had her doubts, telling your best friend that you alter his dream's and take advantage of his unconscious body, not the best idea.' Perhaps the best could be to make some test first. what if it's some dragon magic making her move?'

Twilight yawned and shifted, getting more comfortable within the hug to sleep better. the next days are gonna be rough for her little assistant.

Her dragon.