Spike was sleeping in the large underground cavern the Elements had made for him, He was the official Castle Guard, of course that had been in his youth, but now a day's he usually stayed inside, He had arthritis, and on some occasions his legs would give out and he'd crush parts of the huge City that had once been Ponyville, an to avoid large law suits he had been confined to the cave, of course his friends still visited him every day, and they all made sure he went for picnics and walks with them, they just had to be with him so Twilight and Rarity could catch him and make sure no hare came to the town, or more importantly him. It was one such day that Fluttershy came to visit him, Time had not been kind on the old Dragon

"oh, is that you Rainbow?" he asked with a Smile

"No, its me Spike" Fluttershy said sweetly to him

"Pinkie? I don't remember you having wings?"

"No, Spike it me Fluttershy" She said as she tapped his scales, checking for loss ones.

"Fluttershy?" Spike asked and after a small period of time the name clicked in his head "OH! Im sorry Flutershy, how longs it been? A year? Two?"

"I was here last week Spike" Fluttershy said sweetly, having gotten use to working with Spikes dwindling memory. "How are you today?"

"oh.....I'm fine how are you Rainbow?" Spike asked, Fluttershy sighed

"That was even faster than last week." she flew up and,using a magic wash cloth, went from scale to scale, polishing them one at a time. By the time she was done and had gotten back into Spike line of sight he said something that caught her completely off guard

"So hows Starlight doing?" he said in a merry tone. Fluttershy froze, a tear formed in her eye, but she quickly wiped it out and turned back around to Spike with a Smile

"Oh, she's doing fine" She lied "I'm sure she'll be coming back from the Hospital any day now." she turned to finish Spikes cleaning when he continued

"Hows Fluttershy" he asked causing her to freeze "It's been awhile since I've seen her, tho she does have a lot of animals to care for, but I'm sure she'll come see me sometime" he said happily, unaware of the tears slowly pouring on his hand, after a few minutes of organizing herself, she flew out of his view and did the back of his neck, after a few minutes she finished and was about to the Chefs to grab one of Spikes specially made meals when he saw her and said jolly

"Oh! Fluttershy you've come to visit me" she froze and turned to him

"You.....you......you recognized me" she said

"How could I not recognize you?" he said happily "How ha...." he cut off when he saw her crying "oh are you alright?"

"You recognized me?" she said threw tears "you haven't recognized me in years" she sobbed as she hugged his claw, Spike stared blankly at her for awhile, trying to figure out why a pony was crying on him.

Author's Note

poor Fluttershy.