Dawn wasn’t home yet, she said she’d be home within two hours and she wasn’t! These were the thoughts spinning around Cobalt’s worried head as he waited for his marefriend to get home from what she had described as a “Job interview with the Princess.”

He was about to grab his scarf and begin the walk to the castle to find his mare before he remembered that Dawn could handle herself, she went to the gym and did martial arts lessons. She’d be perfectly safe out in the streets of Canterlot at night!

His magic reached out and grabbed the door handle, his scarf coiling around his neck in his cerulian glow. Then he remembered that she was also carrying a sword and pulled his scarf off again.

“She’s probably just gone to visit Legacy and make sure the shop is alright.” Cobalt muttered, beginning to pace in worry again. “Y-Yeah, she’s with Legacy.” His method of reassuring himself wasn’t at all going to plan.

Cobalt had grown into an even more handsome stallion than he was when Dawn first met him. He still wore his round glasses but now with a slightly weaker prescription, occasionally pushing them up his nose with a hoof.

He forced himself to go and make a cup of coffee to take his mind off his marefriend not being home yet. It didn’t work very well, but now the colt was caffeinated and overthinking things as he drank the hot liquid.

And the coffee finished him off, Cobalt quickly found himself outside, wearing his scarf, trotting quickly towards the castle, his horn lit up to provide light in the darkening streets. He was completely unaware of Dawn exiting the castle at almost exactly the same time. Cobalt was determined that he would find his marefriend.

Dawn on the other hoof was taking her time, her legs still just a little bit wobbly from sleeping on them, she walked along the cobbles, using her wings to keep Xiphis from slipping off her back. For now she was stuck with her thoughts and her quiet hooves on the cobbled street. She hadn’t been expecting to be away this long and she certainly didn’t expect Cobalt to come looking for her in his worry. If anything, the sudden appearance of the blue stallion in the distance perplexed and slightly amused her.

As he trotted down the road, Cobalt’s Marefriend came into view picking her way across the cobbles and he beamed with elated joy and relief that she was safe, albait armed and looking drunk.

“Dawny!” He cried, running forward to greet her, nuzzling the surprised mare’s cold cheek.

“H-Heya Coby, what you doing out here?” She asked, returning his affectionate gesture with vigour, but still having no idea what this handsome colt was doing out in the cold.

“Well… you were late…” He began, trying to hide his worry for her behind a manly steel. “Oh screw it… I was worried for you…” He squeaked, trying to hide his embarrassed blush by nuzzling her cheek again.

“Awww!” Dawn cooed, her cheeks going a little rosy too. “That’s so sweet of you, coming to find your marefriend out in the dark.”

“S’nuthin much.” Cobalt mumbled, “Are you alright? You look all wobbly.”

Dawn nodded and started walking towards in the direction of their apartment block, telling him the story of what’d happened between her and the princess, how the sword that Cobalt was now floating beside them actually had a personality that could manifest with a body in dreams. Overall, Cobalt had become more and more perplexed by the mare leaning against him to the point he didn’t even realise that they’d reached their destination.

Dawn smiled as he clumsily hid his embarrassment at not understanding a word Dawn had said to him before he tapped in the passcode to get into the apartment complex 4779 and pushed the door open into the hall. Cobalt held the door open for his marefriend to walk through before following her into the tall building.

The pair waited for the lift to come down, still chattering about what Dawn had done when she was out. Eventually the trundley box arrived and they stepped into it together, Dawn stood close to Cobalt, she wasn’t very fond of elevators but feeling Cobalt’s presence next to her, his slow breathing gently pressing his ribs against her side and occasional twitch ridding her of her nerves in the moving box and allowed her to stay inside without a second thought of discomfort.

The lift slowed to a stop at the seventh floor, the pair separated out of the small kiss they had shared and walked out of the lift together, leaning against each other’s shoulders. Cobalt floated out the key to their abode and opened the door to the spacey apartment. Dawn smiled as she walked into their private space and ruffled her feathers before tossing the scarf she was wearing onto the rack and jumping onto the sofa, Cobalt grinned and floated his scarf onto the rack, placing Xiphis on their table before sliding onto the sofa with his marefriend.

“So Dawny,” He purred into her ear, placing his hooves around her waist. “You think the Princess likes you?”

Dawn couldn’t help but blush, she was in a rather compromising position now with the bigger stallion wrapping his hooves around her. “Y-Yes I think so Cobalt.” She murmured after a few moments.

Cobalt smiled, tracing a circle on Dawn’s belly with one of his hooves, making the little mare squirm, “Good, do you know if you’ve got the job?” He asked.

“Well I need to d-do the training first,” Dawn stammered, nuzzling his cheek. “Will you stop that till we’re in bed? I’m hungry.” She protested as Cobalt’s hoof drifted lower on her body.

“Sorry! Sorry…” Cobalt said, removing his hooves from her ticklish belly and putting them around her chest instead in a warm embrace. “I just got a little excited…”

“You can be as excitable as you want later boo, but right now, Dawny want sandwich.” Dawn cooed, putting her hooves on his.

“Your wish is my command, m’lady.” Cobalt snickered and slid out from behind Dawn before trotting into the kitchen, “Any requests for this evening Love?”

“Nope! Surprise me!” Dawn replied to the colt, snuggling into the sofa and letting her wings fan out behind her. Dawn relaxed, the day’s trials and tribulations were over and now it was time for her to lie down and cuddle with a dopey colt till she fell asleep in his embrace.

A couple minutes later, the aforementioned colt walked back in to where Dawn was spreading herself out, a pair of sandwiches on plates following him in his magical aurora. This was both a positive and a negative for Dawn, on one hoof, she now had the dopey colt that she wanted to cuddle within cuddling range. While on the other hoof she had to sit up and fold her wings in so he could sit down next to her.

Dawn drew herself up and stretched her forehooves high above her head, scrunching up her muzzle as he sat down with their sandwiches. After she was satisfied, Dawn put her hooves down, placing her hooves in her lap and waiting for sandwich delivery.

Cobalt didn’t make her wait for long before floating the sandwich down to her. She grinned and took it from the plate hungrily, biting down on the fluffy bread and daisy filling. She beamed at Cobalt’s unnerving ability in sandwichcraft and how he managed to make it so very tasty even though it was just two slices of bread, some butter and a hoofful of daisies.

After they had eaten, Dawny felt positively great. She was warm, full of sandwich and had a dopey colt with his hooves around her. Life couldn’t get better in her opinion. After lying on the sofa in quiet mirth for a while, Cobalt nuzzled her ear.

“Do you want to do anything else this evening? Go on any more adventures?” He purred, holding his hooves comfortably tight around her barrel.

“Nu-uh.” Dawn said childishly, her forehooves curled under her chin. “I just wanna lie here and be the little spoon.”

Cobalt’s quiet chuckle made Dawn’s cheeks glow before she felt him shift behind her to get more comfortable with her wings tickling his belly. “You always say something like that, anyway, tell me about this ‘training’ you were talking about with the princess.”

Dawn snuggled against her coltfriend, “Well it’s mostly physical stuff, like swordplay and the like, there’s also some more dream magic things that Luna wasn’t sure that I could learn ‘cos I’m obviously not an unicorn.” She explained, putting her hoof to her forehead where a horn would sprout if she were an unicorn.

“Swordplay? How you gonna do that darling?” Cobalt asked, tapping her forehead, “No telekinesis.”

“They’re gonna teach me how to do it with my hooves.” Dawn replied, pushing her head against his hoof endearingly, not at all trying to hide her cheeks flushing from the dopey colt. “So I don’t need telekinesis.”

Dawn stretched out on the couch, trying not to get her wings in Cobalt’s face. “When we gonna get a new lampshade for the bulb in here after you knocked it off?” She asked, Cobalt was rather prone to using his chemical licence to get some of the more illicit chemicals available to schools and, for lack of a better word, play with them. A couple of weeks ago, he had been toying with a way to launch a brick across a room and had managed to nearly brain Dawn with the sailing projectile which smashed the bulb in their main room and ruin the shade they had on the light fitting. Dawn was not impressed with her friend when he had managed to get her off the ceiling.

“I’ll get one soon Darling, I’ve not had any time since we I started at the school.” He said, looking up at the bare bulb swinging above their heads as he slid his hooves around her belly, making her squeak at the sudden tickly presence.

“Oh yeah, about that. Anything interesting happen at work today?” Dawn asked, lying her head back on cobalt’s shoulder and letting her wings hang down limply at her sides.

“Nah not really, another boring meeting that I didn’t actually need to attend, more random ponyfeathers with kids not behaving and one of the unicorns having a magical outburst.” He said, sighing. “Working in a school is a lot harder than I thought it would be and I’m not even a teacher.”

“Dear dear.” Dawn murmured into his ear, using a free hoof to gently stroke his cheek, “You’re doing great.”

“Yeah yeah, best labbie an’ all of that.” He purred back, nuzzling Dawn’s ear. “I get to blow something up tomorrow so that’s a bonus.”

“As long as you don’t send a heavy object sailing through the air, I’m sure it’ll be all fine.” She teased him, rolling over against him so she was facing towards her stallion. “Don’t fling a brick at anyone, alright?”

Cobalt’s ears folded against his head, sheepish. “Shuddup.” He grumbled, looking away from her like a foal given a telling off, Dawn’s amused smirk just added to his embarrassment as she tittered to the stupid inside joke they shared.

“You know i’m just playing with you Coby, all fair competition Darl’.” Dawn drawled, nuzzling against Cobalt to plant a kiss on his nose.

The pair lay there in comfort together until their clock chimed eleven o’clock, demanding that they went to bed in some reasonable time. Therefore they did, snuggling under the covers together until Dawn fell asleep in Cobalt’s sleepy embrace.

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Dawn opened her eyes on her bright white dream, the sterile environment only marred by the little black speck off in the distance that was her door.

She wasn’t really in the mood for a her own mind tonight and thought she’d go and find some interesting pony’s dream to peek in on, so she glanced at her door and beckoned it over, it rushed towards her almost infinitely fast, stopping just in front of her nose. She was getting faster at bringing her door close enough to touch.

The starry expanse was as beautiful as it was any night, the bubbles glinting in the ethereal light that seemed to come from both nowhere and everywhere at once. Dawn skipped past a few, peering through the glassy membrane at the small scene playing out inside. Dawn quickly noticed a couple of the other members of the dreamguard off in the distance all gathered around a bubble, touching it one by one to venture inside.

Her curiosity piqued, she felt herself almost dragged towards the bauble the other guards had launched themselves into. The bubble was way different to the others, its translucent surface marred by what looked like a thick grey smoke obscuring the dream.

Dawn sat and stared at the bubble, her head tilted in confusion. Almost before she could stop herself, Dawn had her hoof hovered above the glassy surface of the bubble, about to touch it to enter the dream held within the translucent sphere. She sat there with her hoof hovering, just about to touch and enter the dream.

She’d just seen four full fledged dreamguards enter this dream, their swords weren’t drawn but that didn’t mean it wouldn’t be any less dangerous venturing into the obscured orb.

Dawn hesitated with her outstretched hoof nearly touching the orb, would she get in trouble for following the guard into somewhere that might be dangerous? Or would she be able to pass it off as learning how they operate through operation.

Before she knew it, Dawn had pressed her hoof to the bubble and watched as the dreamscape seemed to melt away into nothing.

Dawn felt a jolt go through her as her eyes adjusted to the murkiness in the dream, the pony was probably dreaming about a fire, that’s why it was so smokey. Dawn drew in a breath and instinctively started coughing hard as the acidic tongues of smoke burned at her lungs, lowering herself down close to the ground, she crawled beneath the haze in search of the dreamer or the guards.

As she was crawling away from the source of the blaze, the sounds of crackling fire and the wisps of ash floating in the air died away to the point where Dawn could stand up without choking. Eventually she came to a long corridor emblazoned with regal tapestries and paintings of ponies that looked like they had enough money to pay off the entire Equestrian deficit.

There was little smoke in the corridor, letting Dawn stand up and breathe effortlessly. She trotted down the long corridor, spying a grand door down at the end. It didn’t take her long to trot down the dark straight, there were no windows in the hall and the only light came from the gas lamps adorning the walls, spaced out in a seemingly patternless way.

From under the door, Dawn could hear muffled conversation between ponies, unable to make out any words through the thick wood of the door. Dawn stopped herself opening the door and just barging through, the dreamguards could be on the other side and she knew that if they caught her in somepony else’s dream again there would be repercussions Dawn wasn’t too enthusiastic about facing.

On the other hoof, the little grey mare held the greatest folly of curiosity which was doing it’s best to take her over as her forehoof reached out to grasp the doorknob. The moment her hoof came into contact with it was the last Dawn saw of the door as her vision was interrupted by flash of blinding white and she found herself in the hooves of her coltfriend, gently nuzzling his chest in her sleep.

Dawn yawned and wriggled a forehoof free of Cobalt’s warm embrace to rub the sleep from her tired eyes, he was still sound asleep, breathing slowly with a smile tugging at his lips. She settled down into his side, cuddling against his soft fur and lying her head against his shoulder.

What Dawn did not see was the pair of turquoise eyes staring at the young pegasus from just outside the window, she was just too rapt by listening to her coltfriend’s breathing and feeling the gentle pressure from his ribs press against her body.

Nothing else mattered to her at that moment besides the gentle beating of Cobalt’s heart beating slightly out of rhythm with hers, nothing in the world.

Author's Note

Aaaaaaaa please stop me from making this about Dawn and Cobalt! I need to get the guard in now. That's the next chapter I promise okpleasedontkillme...

Anyway, besides my inability to write, Happy reading