At The Heart Of Winter

It was late in the evening. Spike was returning from helping Fluttershy in the woods and was back in a hurry, and Twilight was finishing her letter to Princess Celestia. In the midst of writing the letter, she was conjuring up an attempt on how she would show the feelings inside to her dragon.

A loud thud of the door emerged throughout the Library. Twilight didn't notice, she was already emersed in both concluding her letter and putting the final touches to her plan. Spike creaked up behind the pony while wiping his brow with his claw,

"-Gotcha!" Spike whispered while jolting Twilight's hips.

"EEEEP!" she squeeled.

"SPIKE.. You almost gave me a heart attack!"

Twilight seemed quite annoyed, but all the dragon could do was ponder sorrowfully at the floor while biting his nails.

She still had a cold grimace on her face.

"Aw, I'm sorry" she said remorsefully. "I've just had a lot on my plate this afternoon"

"I know! I had the best lunch ever, Fluttershy made some..."

Twilight giggled, interupting midsentence and smiled at Spike, appreciating his humor and attempts to lighten the mood.

"What I mean is.. I just bit off more than I could chew with these-"

"Ah not for me, she served me all kinds of food, such as-"

Spike quickly realised that he did indeed bite off more than he could chew, at the pretty feeble attempt of another gag. Twilight just stared at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Anyywayy, how was it with Fluttershy?" Twilight asked, breaking the moment of awkward silence. The dragon looked up to think of what to say.

"Err yeah, it was great.." he said hesitantly. "..to be honest though it was quite boring standing there for ages."

"Oh okay, how come you're all hot and bothered. You look like you've ran a mare-a-thon.."

"Err.. I.. I don't know. I thought I'd get back to see you. Y'know, see how everything is." Spike spitted out.

Twilight thought for a moment, something was up with him. But she had no time to think about that now. She had to get this letter sent right away, and ponder more about her wandering thoughts about soon being with Spike.

"Would you like to do the honours?" Twilight offered, even though she needed her dragon to send her weekly letters anyway.

Spike gave a concealed chuckle, "With pleasure!"

He snapped up the tip of the parchment with his claws and with a measured blow the paper soon vanished into thin air, releasing green-ish sparkles and the harsh smell of burning. After that Spike soon sat down next to Twilight. It was quite obvious that he was absolutely shattered after running all the way back from seeing Fluttershy. With his tongue almost falling from his mouth, the unicorn soon caught on..

"Aw, I think it's time my baby dragon went to get some sleep.." Twilight sighed.

"..you look exhausted."

"I think you're right, y'know. I have been running around all day."

Spike then lept up from his chair and gave an almighty yawn. He streched is arms so that his bones cracked, being somewhat pleasureful to him.

"Not coming then, Twi?." Spike suggested.

"Oh, I wish I could, but I'll come up as soon as I've finished my work here. Shouldn't be too long now."

Twilight wished she could come to bed, with Spike. She needed to think over if tonight was meant to be the night. The way nopony but Spike calls her Twi, the way he's always there for her when nopony else was. It just seemed the perfect time for them both to blossom in love, but Twilight wasn't good in these type of situations, and she knew that. Spike was - is - her first love, and hopefully her last, she also knew that if she couldn't have enough courage to show her feelings then she never would.

The confused pony thought furiously about this for what seemed aeons - which was actually about 10 minutes. She took a deep breath as her brain surged with pain for a split second, it was time for her to go to bed. A cold breeze washed over.

"Oh yeah, it's winter.. still." She thought to herself, after realising this she was relieved that she could snuggle up to her dragon in his warmth.

Twilight cantered across the library and up the stairs, trying not to make too much noise and wake up Spike. The unicorn then stuck her head around the wall. He was fast asleep, from the fact of the large bulge beneath Twilight's sheets and the fading of low, grunting snores from the dragon.

She gave a subtle smile to sleeping Spike from across the room, and plodded over the bedside and clambered in. The pony shuffled closer to the dragon, the cute snoring progressively increasing in volume. Her hoof reached out, stroking each individual scale down his back. She liked it, making every stroke become harder, she loved it. The pony was now up against Spike, almost hugging him. Her fur against his rough, sensuous scales.

"This is it! There's no going back now.." Twilight thought to herself. She was right. This was it.

Her hind legs wrapped tightly around Spike's body, the warmth from him rippled throughout the lower part of the body, and rested her head onto Spike's, rubbing it against his prickly face. Each touch becoming increasingly pleasant for Twilight. She stayed like that for a few moments before forming a massive hug around the dragon, he responded back by unconciously snuggling back into her - he liked it.

They both stayed like that for a couple of minutes, the warmness increasing from each passing moment of being together. Soon though it became quite uncomfortable for Spike, almost being smothered by every limb of Twilight. He opened is eyes, wriggling to try and rub the sleet away even though it was inevitable being caged in by the unicorn. The dragon then sensed something unusual, he turned around only to be nose-to-nose with Twilight, his eyes wide awake at this point.

"You alright, sleepy head?" The unicorn said, rather seductively and half-eyed.

"Err.. Twilight.." Spike mentioned.

".. What's going on?"

"I.." She looked down for a moment, trying to muster up more courage.

"..I thought it would be nice be close to you, you're just soo huggable."

She gave a wide, but fragile smile.

"Okay... Can I ask you something?" Spike asked.

"Sure, anything."

"Can we, erm.. be like this? I kinda like it. Wellm, I really like it." The dragon queried while looking upwards, he was quite shy asking this question.

Twilight's heart sank at this moment, her body being heated some more by a feeling, but not physical. It was love.

"Of course, Spike.." she replied.

"..Can I tell you something?"

"Yeah?"

The pony then stiffened her grip on Spike, their snouts pressing harder together. The dragon then wrapped his claws around Twilight's hips as they both gazed into each others eyes. Spike loved the feel of Twilight's fur, added by the fact that they were sharing this moment, together.

"I.. I love you..." she said hesitantly.

"...I mean, I always have. But never like this, it's only been until recently that I've acknowledged how much I appreciate what you do for me, always.."

"Well, I am your assistant Twi." Spike butted in.

"..Not like that, I mean when you're always there for me when I'm down.."

Twilight looked away for a moment, until refocusing her gaze upon the dragon.

"..What I'm trying to say is, I've picked up your feelings towards me and I feel the same way back. I want to be with you Spike, no matter wh.."

Spike placed a finger over Twilight's mouth, she had an almost afraid look on her face.

"Shhh Twi, those first three words were the only ones you needed to say, because I love you back and i want to be with you.

The finger slowly dropped, and the unicorn slowly lifted her hoof and rubbed Spike's cheek lightly. Spike did the same, using the back of his claw onto Twilight's face. Their noses rubbing softly against each other.

A couple of minutes passed. The lovestruck duo finally broke their gaze and lifted up both of their faces and quickly pressed lips on one another. With closed eyes, both Spike and Twilight moaned with pleasure at both of their first kisses. It was immense. Their tongues playfully touching, despite the pony's being a lot larger than his, it was still more satisfactory than he'd ever dreamt. They both then pulled away for a gasp of breath, saliva trickling down onto the pillow.

"I really, really do love you Twi."

"I know you do, Spikey. I know you do."

They both then returned to the tight cacoon-like hug they were in before Spike and Twilight embraced their first kiss. Escaping the cold of winter to reminisce in the warmth of each other. Falling asleep, Twilight now knew that Spike is not only her #1 assistant and best-friend, but her lover.

It was her dragon...