Rewrite the Stars

Spike woke up very early on the next day. He barely could open his eyes when his heart already started to pound heavily and he was grinning from ear to ear. Knowingly that today was the day Rachel was coming today.

“Yippy!” Spike howled in excitement, he jumped out of his bed to get ready for the big move in. He bolted out of the bedroom, rushed across the castle to the bathroom and took a quick shower. Twilight and Starlight were still asleep, so he pretty much has the castle to himself to get everything ready.

After taking a shower and done all his early morning chores and made Twilight and Starlight’s breakfast, Spike quickly headed out to town to pick up a few things he needed to get before three o clock.

Spike first went straight to the post office just as it was opening by Derpy.

“Oh, hey Spike,” The grey pegasus greeted Spike with a smile, “what can i do for ya?”

Spike smiled. “Morning Derps, I’m here to pick up a package.”

“Ooh okay, lemme open up shop first.” Derpy said, fumbling to get the keys from her pockets. “Ugh, I have in here somewhere, gimme a sec.”

Spike nodded with a chuckle. “Misplaced keys again?”

“Uh huh.” Derpy nodded, her tattered blond hair sliding over her lazy eye, one she didn’t mind having. She pushed her bangs out of her eyes before continue to hunt for her keys. “If I lose these keys, I’m gonna be in serious trouble.” She worried.

Spike thought about it for a moment before giving her a pat on her shoulder to move aside. Derpy moved and watched Spike carefully to see what he was doing. Spike extended out his pinky claw, inserted the claw into the keyhole, jiggled his finger a little before the gears turned and the door opened.

“There you go.” Spike grinned as he backed up.

“Wow! You got it open with your pinky!” Derpy awed at that. “How did you do that?”

“Practice,” Spike smiled and that was all he was going to say. In truth, he gets bored while living at the castle and he’s practiced lock picking with his nails on the doors. He never once needed a key ever since. (And not to mention he could just kick the door with ease) And when he’s hungry late at night and Twilight and Starlight kept locking the treasury from him and he really wanted gems.

So much for controlling his greed.

Derpy led Spike inside, turning on every lights in the post office as they went in. After getting all the lights and stuff situated, Derpy got over to her front desk, adjusted her hat before looking at the dragon with a smile.

“How may I help you today?” She asked, her voice much clearer and slower than she was speaking to him moments ago. Her work voice.

Spike chuckled at her deminier before clearing his voice. “Yeah, I have a package for me, I would like to pick it up.”

“Oh, okay.” Derpy said, going into her files before headed to the back as other ponies were coming in to get their mail or sending their mail out.

She comes back moment later with a frown. “I’m sorry Spike, but it seems that the package hasn’t come in yet.”

“Um...come again?” Spike asked.

Derpy double checked the system before whimpering in sadness. “I’m sorry, but your package isn’t here yet. It seems the mail pony got it confused and shipped it to the Peaks of Peril by mistake.”

Spike’s left eye twitched. “So… the kirins have it?” inside of that package was a very expensive art set in complete with new embroidered paint brushes, paint that was made by liquefied gems, a rich fine sketchbook that was enchanted so she would never have to go off and buy paper again to draw, a portable easel that could collapse so it’s easy to move, all in a simple satin felt travel case. Spike literally had to go through the depths of Tartarus, do almost impossible favors, left him nearly bone dry in his trust funds just to get that as a House Warming present for Rachel.

Though she told him he doesn’t have to, Spike tends to spoil his girlfriend. Especially buying something ridiculously expensive as a new art set.

“I can get somepony to retrieve them, but it’ll take about a week to do so.” Derpy explained. “I’m so so sorry Spike, I just don’t know what went wrong.”

Spike had a calming smile on his face, but his body started smoking. “Okay then,” Spike said as calmly as he could. “Please get. This. Fixed…”

Taking a page out of Fluttershy’s and the Kirin’s message about managing their anger, he excused himself from the premises, flew beyond the Everfree Forest to where no pony could get hurt.

And pretty much went to fucking town on a several trees. Burning them, beating them with his fits, taking a fallen log and used it as a bat on a few and cursed like a mad sailer.

He gets it, the mail gets lost or misplaced all the time. Yeah he’s pissed but it’s no pony’s fault….

After calming down, Spike flew back to town, noticing it was almost time for Rachel to get here.

He raced straight to the flower parlor, hoping the flowers he ordered was there. And sweet celestia they were.

“Here you go!” Rosy, the florist, hands him a bouquet of an bouquet arrangement of black and crimson red roses, Rachel’s favorite roses.

“Thank you.” Spike said, handing her the last of his bits, grabbed the flowers and went to the train station.

Spike got to the station fifteen minutes before the train would pull up. He hummed a song to pass the time. Though the mail situation was annoying, it wasn't as important as this moment. Him and Rachel….she visited him more than a hundred times and Spike a lot more, but this was different…. Rach was moving in, he'll have her by his side. This major step into their relationship.

Spike nearly let the bouquet slip from his hand by the amount of nervous sweat.

“Holy shit balls, Spike, get it together…” Spike grumbled to himself as he got ahold of the flowers. There was no reason for him to be nervous, he and Rachel are great together….

Fearing of screwing up hung over his head.

Just as he was on the verge of having a total freak out, the train finally rolled in.

The doors opened and the first person out was her…

“Hey big guy.” Rachel let out a rumble deep from her chest when she rolled in. Wearing the dino shirt she was able to salvage from the cruise, wearing her ripped jean shorts, dark leggings and her high heeled boots. She carried her duffle bag and a large suitcase in her hands as she walked off the train.

Spike walked up to her as Rachel dropped her stuff. They ran into each other, spike scooped her up as Rach wrapped her legs around his waist. He spun her around and kissed her deeply.

Rachel moaned softly between his lips, her arms draping over his shoulders as she pulled back. “So...here we are.”

“Yeah,” Spike whispered back, getting adjusted to his hold on her before using his tail to grab the flowers with his tail and carried it over to where Rachel could see. “Got these for you.”

“Oh!” Rachel giggled, grabbing the flowers and smiled at him. “Thank you baby, I love them.”

Spike chuckled before setting Rachel down. He went to her bags and picked them up for her. “Shall we go home?”

Rachel nodded before they left the train station and made their way towards the castle.

“So, how was the trip?” He asked her as they walked.

“Tiring.” Rachel sighed, shaking her head. “After the twins got me out of the room, I went to pick up my final check when some assholes ganged up on me at the bar.”

Spike’s brows risen when he heard that. “What do you mean they ganged up on you?”

Rachel nodded. “I was talking to King when some ponies ganged up on me, saying that i have no right to be in the bar. That it was a pony establish bar or some shit. What was worse, I served them drinks all the time and they told me that.”

“Did they touch you?”

“They tried to, but I busted a bottle over one of their heads and split.” Rachel shrugged.

“That was weird,”

“I know!” Rachel sighed. Shaking her head. “Now I’m here, away from crazy assholes.”

Spike nodded at that. He was glad she was here to get away from that.

When they got to the castle and opened the doors…

“WELCOME HOME RACHEL!!!!!”

Automatically, Spike and Rachel duck and cover.