Author's Note

Chapter didn't come out like I had hoped. It feels a little dry and I don't know how to fix that. The next chapter is already being made and feels a bit better.

I hope the last section is alright. I had an idea but had issues putting it to paper.

Chapter 2: First night

A sudden jolt woke Spike from his slumber. Judging from his view being blocked by the copious amounts of carpet, and the taste of said carpet on his tongue, he pieced together that he just rolled off the couch. He didn't want to move, but he had no choice as he had things he needed to do, like paperwork. Why did it have to be paperwork? Spike knew that he would have to deal with paperwork as a teacher, but he didn't know he'd have to read a stack nearly as thick as his head.

With a groan spike picked himself up off the floor, the odd woody tasting floor. His body was protesting a bit as he slowly stretched to wake himself up slightly. He made his way over to the desk with all the paper on it and began to look over the papers a bit. He wanted some idea of what he was going to be reading before sitting down, for what he assumed would be hours without moving.

"Dress code, Teacher's code of conduct, payment... This all seems like pretty mundane stuff. So why the huge stack?" He asked aloud before heading to the 'kitchen', if it could be called that, for a drink of water.

The kitchen was no more than a small counter, a few cabinets, a sink and a couple of electric burners. It could get the basics of cooking done, but nothing major. He would have to see if he could get a toaster oven at least as he did enjoy cooking a bit.

With the taste of carpet out of his mouth he looked out the window to take a breather. He was surprised to see that he had only slept so much. He expected to have slept until noon, but he could tell that it would be noon in a hour or two. He could see a few students in the athletic area running along a track, flying through hoops made of clouds in the sky and other activities. He could see in a few windows that class was definitely in session, and it made him smile a bit.

With a sigh he moved over to the desk and began to go through the papers. Once he started reading he understood why there was so many sheets. This was written in such a way that it indeed seemed more like a bill rather that paperwork for a teacher, but the subject matters was in fact teacher related.

Most of the stuff he was reading about he expected would rather be in a little handbook. He soon began to skim through the materials, to save time, but made sure to read a section carefully if something caught his interest.

Had made a small dent in his paperwork when he heard the front door open, making him turn to see who it was. It was, of course, Mrs. Silvermane and she had a tray of food in her hand.

"Hey there kid. Brought you some lunch," She said, making Spike look back out the window, surprised to see that it was already noon.

"I see you already started on the paperwork, that's good. Well, leave the tray on the coffee table and I'll return it once class is over. I hope you don't mind but a student or two may come here to get a look at you. They know you're here, but they know nothing about you. Not your name, gender or species. Their first reactions are always priceless," She said before she left the tray on the coffee table.

Spike took a little break and headed to the couch, to eat his lunch, as Mrs. Silvermane headed back out to class. On it was a hay burger a chocolate milkshake and a side of hay fries. While it wasn't something he hated, he wished there were some gems in it. Oh well.

He couldn't help but laugh as the first bite of his hay burger proved him wrong as there were some shredded gems in it. He thought that there wouldn't be anything that would accommodate dragons here, but that line of thought must have been the years he spent in Canterlot with uptight, narrow-minded a-holes speaking.

He finished his meal in short order, his hunger making itself known after first tasting the shredded gems, before returning to the paperwork. He powered through the paperwork as the minutes seemed to turn to hours. He soon made a sizable dent in his task, which made him quite happy.

Over the course of his task he found several interesting details about the school. While it SEEMED to be female only it was actually co-ed. The dress code did entail a uniform what people wear is entirely up to them, with a few restrictions. Said restrictions were you must wear undergarments and you must wear clothes over them. You may wear kinky (he was a bit surprised to see such a word in a legal document) underwear but your clothes must be considered humble, or a t-shirt and shorts at the very least. The midriff had to be covered and no short shorts basically. This applied to teachers too. The only exception to the rules is if the dean allows it.

What really confused him was the missing section of documents that spoke about relationships. The only reason he knew that it should be here is that everything else was here and when he was going for his degree to teach he remembered there being a section about dress code and student to student, student to teacher and teacher to teacher relationships. Mainly that section was short and said don't date students if you want to keep your job. He would have to ask Mrs. Silvermane about this when she got back.

He was so focused in getting his paperwork done that he didn't hear the going on of the world around him. So by the time he was done and signed the last document he heard muffled music.

~Well, sounds like somepony is having a party.~

As he got up he saw a tray of food on the coffee table just like before, but the food was different. When he looked outside he was shocked to see that the sun was already setting.

~By Celestia's mane! Just how long was I reading all those documents?!~ he thought to himself.

A low growl made him blush slightly as his stomach was making itself known. Returning his attention to the food on the coffee table he sat down, only to find it cold. With a shrug he picked up the metal tray and began to blow a fire gently underneath the tray, trying to heat up the food as there was no microwave in the small apartment.

After about a minute the tray was more than a bit warm, and the food warmed up a bit. He waited for the tray to cool a bit before putting it back on the coffee table and digging in. The food was slightly warmer than room temperature, but it didn't make him gag at least.

He took the time to look around the apartment from his spot. It had four rooms; bedroom, bathroom, 'kitchen' and living room. He hadn't gone in either the bathroom or bedroom yet as he hadn't the need to. The living room had a few bookshelves, the wooden coffee table, simple couch and a chair. It was quite homely if he did say so.

Soon enough the door practically burst open with Mrs. Silvermane laughing her way through the doorway. It looked like she was trying to hold down her laughter as if she was in a library and someone was tickling her with a feather. Her laughter quickly died down when she saw Spike.

"You're just eating now!? You're food must be cold! Come on. Pinkie Pie just cooked up some pastries. We're going to get you some," She said as she was practically dragging him out of the couch.

"Hang on! I have some questions bout the paperwork!" Spike said as she managed to pull him out of the couch, but couldn't make him budge when he was standing.

"You can finish your paperwork later. Let's get you some warm food."

"I'm already done with the paperwork. It just seems that a few things are missing."

Mrs. Silvermane stopped on a dime at his words, before turning to the desk and went wide-eyed. "Well color me impressed. Not many get through the whole stack in that amount of time," She said before turning back to Spike. "Now you said that it seems to be missing something? What?"

"Well, it seemed to be missing a section on intraschool relationships," Spike explained.

"Really? Huh, that's odd. Well, after class tomorrow go to the administration office and they can get you a copy."

Before the elderly unicorn could try to pull him out of the apartment he held up a claw to stop her. "Ok, but I'd rather wait on meeting the students. I've already warmed the food with my fire, and if what twilight told me about Pinkie's parties are true then it would be a bit much for me right now."

Mrs. Silvermane let out a sigh as she started to finally realize that he didn't want to go this time. "Alright, alright. I won't force you to go. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tired after her party," She said before she went and closed the door. "So, while you eat, care to give an old mare some company?"

Spike smiled softly before sitting on the couch and continued eating. The talked about random events that happened around Equestria and random stories. After some time she asked him a serious question. "So tell me, how do you know Twilight?"

Her question had caught him off guard as he wasn't expecting to answer such a question so soon. "Well, before I answer that, may I ask what you know about me?"

"Well, I didn't know anything about your past until this morning when I read your file, or what I was allowed to see, during lunch. You're name is Spike Wyvern, you came from Canterlot, you're eighteen in less than a week and you have no previous experience in teaching. What really get's me is the amount of restrictions regarding your file. I've seen more than my fair share of files in the past, and no one has so little in their file," She answered, the last little bit had a tone of suspicion in it.

"Well, I met Twilight before she REALLY got into her studies. We knew each other for about ohh... six months before she buried her nose in her books, and when she did that she stopped talking to EVERYPONY." -Spike chuckled at the end-"As for all the restrictions, let's just say I bumped into a royal on accident. If I was a pony he'd probably had just gotten irritated and yelled at me for not watching were i was going and walk off, but being a dragon it didn't end so well. He accused that I attacked him and I was imprisoned. After a week of no trial my folks managed to contact someone with ample power and had the charges dropped and me released. Unfortunately he didn't have enough power to cut through all the red tape and remove the incident from my record, so he just buried the rest of my file in a mountain of more red tape so practically only the princesses can see it," Spike lied through his teeth.

Mrs. Silvermane sighed after hearing his false story and nodded. "Normally I'd call your tale a lie if you came from anywhere other than Canterlot. With the sheer amounts of bigots and assholes there I don't doubt your story for a second."

"Yeah, don't know how the princesses even deal with being there all the time," Spike said, happy that his well rehearsed lie was successful.

"I think the thousand or so years they've been alive might have something to do with that," She answered with an upbeat tone.

Spike chuckled at that. "I'll believe that," He said with a sigh before he began to relax.

"Well, I'm going to go to bed. I'll wake you up when it's time to go to class, and I hope you have a clean suit," She got up and headed for the bedroom.

"Ok, and I do," He said before pushing his tray to the far side of the coffee table. He thought about undressing before falling asleep on the couch, but eventually pushing the thought aside. The suit wasn't exactly in good shape, and it wasn't like he was going to go to work in such a suit, so a little more damage wouldn't really matter.

He got a glass of water so he could take his meds before laying on the couch. He couldn't fall asleep until the music died down a little.

"Sugarcube, ah've got to ask; are ya feelin' ok?" Asked an orange earth mare.

Twilight looked up from her cup and instantly recognized her friend Applejack. "Oh, I'm fine Applejack," She lied. She was far from ok, ever since Spikes arrival.

"Twilight, ah can tell something's been bugging ya. In class ya didn't even attempt to answer a question from a teacher. Ah'm sure ah ain't the only one who's noticed. Ya don't look sick, so please talk to us," She said as she placed her hand on twilight's shoulder.

Twilight let out a sigh and nodded. "Applejack, we all know that after Mrs. Silvermane's 'incident' that she is too unwell to teach. We all know that we would be getting a new teacher very soon. I was prepared for the teacher and everything, or so I thought." -Applejack opened her mouth to say something but Twilight resumed talking.- "I honestly thought that I would never see him again." The party had already quieted down so her last sentence gathered the attention of a few more mares.

"Him? Is it a lover?!" Asked a white unicorn mare rather excitedly.

Twilight blushed at her friend's reaction. "Wha... No! I mean no, Rarity. He's not a lover. We haven't spoken in about fifteen years. The last time we spoke was right before I took being Celestia's student seriously. I had actually forgotten about him, but soon after I saw him all those memories came back... Why... Why can't I get him out of my head?" She asked as she was now staring at her cup again.

"Well, maybe you loved him back then and just didn't realize it," Came a rather shy voice from behind Applejack.

Twilight looked over to her yellow pegasus friend and shrugged. "I don't know Fluttershy. Funny thing is is that he recognized me before I recognized him," She said before letting out a sigh.

"Oh come now darling, surely there must have been something between you two! After all if he remembered you as quickly as you say then there must have been something!" Rarity said as she had trouble containing her excitement, wanting her friend to get to the juicy bits of what she assumed was puppy love. "What did you two do during the time you two knew each other?"

"Well, I would often help him with his homework... But now that I think about it he did seem to catch on rather quick and... It cant be.. can it?" Twilight asked herself aloud now getting lost in thought.

"That's our egghead. Helping out someone older with their homework," A blue pegasus said with a grin as she sipped on her drink.

"For your information Rainbow he's younger than me," Twilight said softly.

"Wait a second. How much younger?" Applejack asked, being close enough to clearly hear what she said.

"... He's three years younger. If I remember correctly his eighteenth birthday should be sometime this week," She answered, not really sure how much info she should give them about spike.

"Whoa, hang on!" Rainbow Dash said before getting a little closer to twilight. "He's only seventeen and he already has a teaching degree?!" She asked in disbelief.

"I know. What do you think has been bothering me? He's three years younger than me and HE is going to be teaching ME! I thought... I thought I was supposed to teach him.." She trailed off, looking back down into her drink.

"Darling, wait a second. You said you helped him with his homework, but he seemed to catch on quickly. Is it possible that he didn't need help but wanted to spend time with you?" Rarity asked with a hopeful grin.

Twilight's blush returned as that was the thought that crossed her mind earlier, but she didn't want it to be true. "The thought did cross my mind earlier."

Rarity let out squeal as she was getting her thirst for romantic gossip quenched tonight. "Did you two talk about anything other than homework?"

Twilight's blush deepened as she realized that they in fact rarely talked about his homework. They spent their time talking about other things and only confronted his homework when he had questions.

Rarity let out an even louder squeal when Twilight's blush practically handed her the answer. "I can't wait to meet him tomorrow!" She exclaimed as she now twitching from her level of excitement. She now felt like Pinkie Pie did when she got to organize a party.

"What's going on everypony?" A pink earth pony asked as she hopped on over.

"Pinkie, I'm tired so I'm going to go to bed," Twilight lied as she made a b-line for the door.

"See you later then," Pinkie replied with a smile.

After Twilight left Rarity began to explain to Pinkie what had just happened. The night eventually died down and everyone turned in to get some sleep as tomorrow was a new day and they had classes, not to mention to meet a new teacher.