Grim/Noire

TWILIGHT POV

The days that followed after Grim's announcement of world domination were hectic. Celestia said my friends and I should try to keep the ponies in Ponyville calm as hearing of the biggest threat to Equestria ever seen would inevitably worry some. Once everypony seemed calm for the time being, my mind wandered once again to a thought that scared me even more than Grim "Would we have to... kill Shining?" I heard at the back of my mind. This drove me to study intensely about mind control so I could bring my brother back or a least give me hope that he didn't willingly betray us. This often happened well into the night, even longer than I usually would study for and often led to Spike dragging me into bed. For his adorable size, he was kinda strong. However, that wouldn't tempt me into sleep as I knew as soon as I closed my eyes, nightmares of my brother killing innocents tortured my mind and I would wake up with only half an hour gone. Those nightmares continued for days and with the time until the attack drawing near, I could only grow more frustrated.

"Are you okay, sugarcube?" Applejack's voice found its way to me as I rose from my slumber. I looked to see that Spike hadn't even bothered to drag me to bed as I was still in my work desk with piles of books around but he did put a blanket o me. I wiped a stream of drool from my face and turned to face her. She wasn't alone though as she was with the rest of our friends, even Spike. "Sugarcube?" she asked me again.

I shook myself awake and greeted them all "Morning everypony!" I said with a forced smile on my face "How are you all?" Everypony looked at each other like I had said something wrong, causing my head to turn in confusion "What's going on? Did I say something wrong," Rarity gave a hearty sigh and went over to the closed blinds, revealing a hustle of ponies.

"Darling... it's 4 pm..." she said "We need to talk about all of... this,"

This time it was Rainbow Dash's turn to speak "I know we were all for you trying to save your brother after his... 'transformation' but this has gone on WAY too long. You barely sleep or eat, you haven't bathed in over two weeks and haven't gone outside ever since we were charged with damage control after Grim,"

Fluttershy came up to me and put her hand on my shoulder "What we are trying to say is please, don't destroy yourself over this. When we find Shining Armour, we'll hit him with the Elements and bring him back or force Chrysalis to undo whatever she did to him"

"AND THEN WE CAN THROW A 'CONGRATS ON NOT BEING A MIND CONTROLLED PUPPET' PARTY!" Pinkie added.

Now it was Spike's turn to console me "Just know that whatever happens, we'll be here for you," I silently got up and walked to a nearby mirror. My hair was a complete mess, with split ends hanging in every possible direction. My clothes were ruffled like I hadn't changed, which I hadn't. Finally my face; my cheeks were crusty with tears I had shed but didn't bother to wipe off, my eyes were puffy and red and on my forehead was a piece of parchment. I took the parchment off and looked at it with pain written on my face. On it was a drawing, a drawing I had made many years ago.

MANY YEARS AGO

"Hey, Shiny! Look what I made!" Shining looked up from his comic to see what I had drawn. It was a picture of me and him together. Our hands were joined and above it, Shining was labelled 'BBBFF' and I was labelled 'LSBFF'.

"That looks amazing, Twily but what does 'BBBFF' mean?" he said, tilting his head in confusion.

"Silly Shiny, it means Big Brother Best Friend Forever! It means we'll always be best friends even when you're at guard academy," I said without even looking at him "It needs something else though... Ah! I know! Shiny, close your eyes!" Shining obeyed and closed his eyes and I put the finishing piece on it "Now you can open them,"

When Shining opened his eyes, I swore he looked like he ate a lemon, squeezing his face to hold back his 'liquid pride'. A heart was drawn around the two of us "Now it fully cements our love for each other,"

"Yeah," he said, sniffing intensely "Yeah it does," he brought me into a bone-crushing hug and refused to let go.

"Ah! Let me go, BBBFF!" I squealed.

"Never LSBFF!" he responded.

"Twilight?" Spike said from behind me. By the time I had woke myself from my daydream, tears had begun to flow freely. I collapsed into a heap on the floor and my friends rushed to help me. They all embraced me as I cried and didn't talk as they all knew that all I needed was a big, warm hug.