Paperwork, a never ending flood of ground wood flakes with carbon black letters soaked into them. It didn’t matter what they had on these blasted sheets of mind numbing boredom!!

I want out!! Fresh air!! My office was too stuffy!!!

Damn, I needed to check the thermostat again to make sure the heat wasn't perpetually on and the vents weren't backed up. I set my glasses down on the fine cherrywood office desk, it was one of those desks with a dark lacquer finish that was probably the best purchase I made with my bits, it was a perfect place to pass out during the dreaded crunch season when tax returns came in. Thankfully this year I made sure to bring a small foldable futon with me so now I could pass out from exhaustion and not feel like I was ten thousand years older than I was when I got up the next day.

My eyes stung and I rubbed them with my hooves, taking extra care not to stab myself with them. The damn things could be sharp for no reason then feel like velvet the next. Caused by magical mumbo jumbo that unicorns talked about all the time but I didn't care to really listen to it.

Ugh… Chiffon Swirl was right, I was becoming bitter in my old age. Well not old, old, I was a 132 single mare with enough spunk to keep everypony on the tips of their hooves , I had plenty of time. The stress working this job had made nearly all my hair turn white, now I looked ten times older than Swirly even though I was only two years older than her.

My beautiful pink mane was now white grey and wrinkled skin was my world now. I looked out the window, it was very late at night causing the overhead lamp to cast dark shadows in contrast of the night sky. I checked the clock on my desk, 2 in the morning.

I sighed heavily, well it wasn't as bad tonight, I might be able to go home tonight if I didn’t have anymore paperwork left. My in box only had a few papers left!! Thank the Princesses and all that is harmony!!!

Freedom at last!

I felt my body wiggle with excitement, my bed! My royal sized four poster goose feather bed! Sweet heaven awaits, and if I can survive long enough maybe even get to use that vibrator I had bought eight months ago…

I needed a marefriend or coltfriend, maybe a plan on retirement sometime soon or maybe I can step down for the next election.

Sorry mom, I held off on having those grandfoals you wanted. Not that I didn't want them! Honest! I wanted four little fillies and colts running around the yard with the love of my life draped over my shoulder.

Course Swirly shows off that cute colt Carrot Cake all the time just to spite me, she knew I hadn't had any in over seventy years and there she goes rutting around with him and their little herd.

I ground my teeth before letting out another long sigh and placing my glasses back on my snout. Now that the world was clearer I finished up the rest of the forms in no time. With pep in my step I hummed happily as I went about locking everything up, nopony was here but me tonight but it didn't hurt to lock up vital paperwork like deeds and social security information in the vaults.

I checked around my office, nice and tidy the way I like it as opposed to being littered with stacks of paper. Need to go check the boiler room and the vents so this place doesn't catch fire. Maybe if I get a successful funding rally going for the restoration of Town Hall I wouldn't have to worry about this place catching fire. The roofs may be fireproof but the wood underneath sure wasn't.

Harmony above is this place spooky at this late hour, the main audience chamber was almost pitch black and a few windows casted long shadows where there was light!

My office happen to be on the third floor and I walked up two flights of steps everyday, so exercise wasn't excessive but it didn't help the blubber on my belly from disappearing anytime soon. Curse you Ink Spot for having those delicious lokum sweets every time I see you in the Rec. Department, you know I can't help myself. I've always liked gummy sweets ever since I was a little filly, and you know how to play me like a fiddle...

I opened my satchel that carried personal belongings. I didn't have much just the regular; lip balm, the Emergency Dragonfire Slip used for medical emergencies or bad accidents (the thing was magically tuned to the pony in question to monitor vitals, if abnormalities happened it would send itself off to the nearest ER with coordinates, or it could be torn manually to alert mediponies that somepony was badly hurt and needed aid), hormone suppressant cream for when my heat comes around, my journal which I kept notes on projects and ideas I wanna propose to Ponyville. As well as my personal thoughts on various things that have popped up over the years, I had fourteen of these little booklets at my house.

Pretty sparse considering how old I am. And finally the flashlight I was looking for, which I shook and pressed the large button. I blinked away the sudden blindness of being a dummy and looking directly into it while turning it on.

“Gah!” I yelped, slamming my eyes shut and dropping the flashlight. I'm so ready for bed if I'm being this clumsy. I rubbed my eyes growling at the annoyance of my retinas burning.

I blinked trying to make the red yellow spots in my vision melt away, my office door closed and already locked so I was out in the pitch black. I picked up the now on flashlight and placed it in my mouth since walking on all fours and carrying a flashlight was difficult. I didn't want to tumble down the stairs, I like having perfectly functional limbs, thanks.

It was quiet and dark… did I mention it was dark? Well it is, and I'm a little scared of the dark but didn't want to turn on the lights since I would have to turn them off for power preservation and that's just a endless loop of walking down the hall to turn them on only to turn them off because the door was three flights down.

Right, boiler.

It was particularly chilly since a snowstorm was scheduled to start a week from now, ending the autumn season and jumpstarting the festive Hearth's Warming season. I shivered a bit as I clopped down the creaky wooden steps, my usual uniform collar wasn't going to cut it for the rest of the week. I have been dying to try out that beautiful winter fashion scarf and hat that Rarity Belle had made me. She was sweeter than the Apple Family on Hearth's Warming and a great match for Twilight.

The second floor was ignored since the boiler was in the basement, I hummed to myself to keep the chill of both my own fear of the dark and the actual cold of the less air conditioned audience chamber at bay. Winter meetings were held in the long room since the vents actually blew enough heat in to keep it warm, sitting on a freezing floor can quickly change my mood to happy to unpleasant.

I sometimes considered buying pants for the occasions I did have to sit my butt out in this cold room, might get a few funny looks but my marehood was sensitive to all that cold and it hurt because of it.

‘creak’

I felt ice run through my veins as I nearly screamed, oh harmony. I do not do scary dark places, please please please don't let this be some ancient evil Twilight and her cohort somehow attracted. I wanted to go home and sleep! I didn't want to be chow for an ancient evil!!

I swung the flashlight back and forth through the dark of the main floor, nothing moved, only small shadows made my heart race when I thought they moved but when I shone the light on them they disappeared. I gave a nervous chuckle, feeling sweaty with the sudden spike of adrenaline of my own paranoia. We seriously needed to get this place fixed if the wood is creaking by itself.

Then I turned the light back around toward the even darker steps into the basement, a supply closet and the boiler room plus a small bathroom for the janitor was down there. Soap Bubble had gone home waaay before me so I knew she wasn't down there, she had a filly to look after.

“Okay, Ivory… you can do this… you are a big mare.” I said with a shaky breath and headed down into the even darker basement. Quick, quick, quick! Ohhhh harmony, too dark and too scary for me nope, nope, nope… the boiler seems to be working okay, yay, turn this valve here and it's off! Now run back up the stairs like a scared filly!

The clatter of my hooves was the only thing I could hear as my butt wiggled from the adrenaline pumping through me. Harmony, I hated going down there by myself.

Now to the door and I'm scot free! And not in this terrifying place!

I turned toward the door and right in front of me in the dark was a… something. Oh is that blood?

Oh… oh dear…

I felt myself go woozy with the overwhelming feeling of terror of seeing something or somepony in the dark.

“Uh… hi??” It said, sounding more confused than I was terrified.

“DON'T EAT ME! PLEASE! I'M ONLY A HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO!! I HAVEN'T HAD FOALS YET!! I'M JUST A ELECTED OFFICIAL!!” I screamed shrilly, backing up to the wall and pressing my back to it. But that exposed my belly, but if I turned around my plush rump would get torn in half but my head was on the front of my body!! I’M TRAPPED!! So I balled up, placing my hooves over my head in some weak attempt to keep sharp things away from my head.

I squeezed my eyes shut, hyperventilating and tensing waiting for that different kind of cold and the weird warm feeling of my blood draining from inside me to the outside me.

“Woah, woah, woah! Calm down, lady? I'm not going to eat anyone.” The deep voice of the thing said, I could hear the creaking of wood underneath their whatever they stood upon moving further away from me which I took as a hopeful sign of my good luck! Maybe I won't die!!

The flashlight had fallen and rolled away from me leaving a long eerie cascade of light that stretched the shadows strangely. I peaked my eye across my hoof to look at the dark shadow, since its voice was deep I was going to take a wild guess it was masculine in nature. It stood tall, like almost the size of a minotaur tall, it had the vague shape of one too especially in the torso area.

In the minimal light their fur was a dark reddish brown… wait… not fur. He was hairless?? So really dark red skin. As my single eye looked up towards the face in the dark, a swath of midnight black surrounded the dark red skin of their face. Their face was… squashed really flat but at least symmetrical so it wasn't as terrifying as before.

I grabbed the flashlight and turned it toward the tall figure.

“Hey! Ow!” he barked which made me quickly drop the direct light from his head as a massive arm rose to shielded his face.

“S-S-S-Sorry…” I stammered like I was hyped up more than Pinkie on several cups of coffee and two batches of sugar cookies. My whole body shook and my breathing was just as bad.

He was wearing… well when I say wearing I mean the clothes on his frame were barely hanging on and there was splotches of red across the torn fabrics. He had several large gashes across his sides and upper torso and was gingerly holding the side of one with his hand.

He was bipedal, standing on his hind legs like minotaurs would. He looked hurt but you never know with all the crazy crap that goes on here in Ponyville. We already had a massive Centaur destroy our town once.

“Can you tell me where I am? Who you are? And why you look like some pastel artists wet dream?”he asked though he didn't sound aggressive and it terrified me even further.

Ohhhh boy, I wasn't cut out for this, Twilight would at least have her powerful alicorn magic to back her up. I had flab and years of sitting on my butt to back me up.

“I-” my voice cracked horribly making my good speech voice come off as weak. Damnit, I wish I wasn't such a freaking scaredy cat!!

I cleared my throat still tensing and waiting for the inpony like leap and flash of fangs.

“I-I am Ivory L-Locket, M-Mayor o-of-of pony-Ponyville.” I felt tears rolling down my cheeks, I was going to get foalnapped and tortured.. oh Celestia…

“Um… okay…” The tall thing said, did I mention this thing was huge? Because he was like three heads taller than me. I wasn't the tallest pony nor was I shortest either, and here I was facing a giant.

Pull yourself together!! You aren't dead yet, show some courage!!

I shakily stood up, my hind legs were weak. Combination of how tired I was and my fear of the dark, plus the new strange creature talking to me I was exhausted. I think it said something about my stamina when I got tired after a league of jogging. To many sweets and sitting on my rump doing paperwork!

My hoof was shaking as I held the flashlight, still pointing it at the tall thing. I slowly started to skid to the side where the main chamber's light switch was. I fumbled around before turning on the lights. They sputtered a bit before clicking on setting the large room alight.

I was now standing to the side of a tall minotaur like creature who looked very hurt. He has the obvious and kind of blush inducing slim, muscular body with a rich reddish dark skin. The only visible hair on his body was the top of his head which was midnight black and long, down to his hips. He wore clothes even though they were so damaged they might as well had been wet rags against his skin.

He was covered in grime and blood and looked like he had been mauled by a Ursa Major with thick red lines of what looked like scrapes, rather than claw marks, that ran across his sides and front!

He was wincing as he stood there, holding his side which was bleeding past his hand and down his leg.

“Holy shit, you are a pastel pony thing! I thought I was hallucinating things!” he exclaimed his dark brown eyes lighting up with what I think is curiosity… or it could be hunger.

“Man… I don't feel so good. I don't know what you are little pony thing but um, I think I died.” He said slowly as he limped toward me before swaying and collapsing on the floor, managing to land on his rear with a loud ‘oof’.

“Fell off the cliff and I thought I died. But I woke up here, in that room over there.” He said pointing his large hand towards the ground floor meeting room.

There was a small trail of blood droplets from the room that indicated he had just come from there while I was down in the basement.

I panicked, now from a mix of fear of him in general and not knowing how to treat wounds! He was clearly hurt and.. maybe…. Not a pony eater.

Oh harmony what do I do!?

I didn't say anything, as I seem to have lost my voice. My jaw worked in cycles unsure of what to do, I glanced to the door. I could run, escape and raise the alarm to let Princess Twilight deal with this creature.

Or I could be the nice one and help a wounded creature… Fluttershy would give me The Stare if I left somepony hurt.

Swallowing thickly and sweating so bad that my back felt like I had water dumped on it making the frosty air even colder, my teeth even chattered.

“I-I'm going t-to come near you. D-Don’t e-eat me..” I stammered, the creature just nodded looking pale and bleeding on the floor.

“Okay Ivory… just… check if he is okay…” I whispered to myself as I took a shaky step forward, then another.

I made my way closer gaining more confidence with each step and by the time I was there he was eye level with me. His squashed face became clearer in the overhead light, his snout was very strange as it wasn’t as jutted out like mine was. He did have fur, it was just really really thin as I could see the tiny black hairs on his neck and shoulders. His eyes were narrow and less expressive, his cheeks were rounded but not in a fat sort of way, just that his cheeks were full.

He was… sorta handsome in a weird exotic way.

“A-Are you alright? I d-don’t know how to h-help.” I muttered, which the large creature let out a equally tired sigh.

“I'm fine… just a side cut, I scraped my whole front half on the side of that cliff. What exactly are you?” He asked, which prompted me to take a closer look only to cause panic to flair within my heart.

That was a really deep cut, like most of his side had been split open. How was he not screaming his lungs out, oh harmony that was a lot of blood.

“Oh no, oh no, oh no, s-sir you are bleeding a lot. Like a lot, too much.” I said trying not to scare him or make him aggressive if I told him that he needed medical aid bad.

“I don't really feel it… huh..” he said looking down at it and blanched.

“Oh.”

“Weird, must be why everythings been getting colder...”

I scrambled in my satchel looking for the emergency dragonfire slip everypony needed to carry at all times. There it was!!

I took it into my hooves and tore it in half releasing a green light that quickly disappeared out the window. The paper reformed the moment I placed them back together ready for another use.

“P-Please don't panic, you are going to lose a lot more blood if you do.” I said still very nervous to be close to him but he was clearly losing strength with the amount of blood pouring from his wound.

“Weird. I'm going to die… again?” he said calmly still breathing normally. Ponyville General was only five minutes away from town hall, I just needed to keep him awake… that's what you do when somepony was bleeding right? PRESSURE!! WE NEED CLOTH AND PRESSURE!!

I nearly threw my satchel in my haste to look for my expensive shawl, the yellow one I liked to wear when my green one was in the wash.

I held up the fabric, and folded it as fast as I could and looked at him and his wound. Well he wasn't going to eat me right now, but he might when at full strength. I didn’t want to see somepony die regardless.

I don't know what was worse, my death or theirs.

I pried off his hand and quickly pressed the folded yellow cloth against the rather large wound. I held it hard against the wound which he took in a sharp breath and I could see fangs in his two rows of teeth and I felt my legs go weak. Spike was the only thing with fangs here in Ponyville and the dragon was still a baby.

I squeezed my eyes shut again and just held the cloth against his wound waiting for the mediponies to arrive. He was becoming a little delusional as he muttered things to himself and then something odd happened.

He pet me with this dopey look on his face. His hand was covered in blood so it got in my mane and coat but he gently rubbed my ears and I almost moaned in pleasure.

The sensitive tissue of my ears was stimulated completely, sending electric shocks down my spine enflaming the feeling of euphoria of having your ear bit when in the act.

Now a really conflicting fear and a strong subconscious desire to find out what those fingers could do. No wonder Lyra had been obsessed with minotaurs for nearly two years before finally settling down with Bon Bon, I could see the appeal.

Harmony above Ivory are you thinking of sex while somepony is bleeding out on you??? I was way too repressed I think.

The next two minutes were a blur as the front door slammed open and several mediponies came rushing in. There was gasps and some cries of fear but seeing the blood a good few of them hardened their expressions and moved me out of the way.

I was left on the sideline my mane and upper head covered in coagulating blood. The ponies spoke so fast and moved around the creature quickly.

I was breathing hard from the excitement, the terror, and my own exhaustion leaving me a little more than drained. A ER nurse gave me a wet rag to clean my face of the blood and asked me if I knew this creature, where it came from, and why it was here.

I answered the best I could but frankly I knew as much as she did. I was asked if I wanted to accompany him to ER. I just nodded dumbly, too worn out to really think on if I wanted to go home and forget this or go with this new strange creature.

The sickening feeling of a teleport spell warping the air and space around me. Then there was a sharp cracking noise like thunder and we were now standing in the ER lobby. I wobbled as my whole being did figurative somersaults from the displacement, I think I left my stomach back at the town hall…

I gagged as bile burned my throat, battling the horrible vertigo that comes with teleportation to keep my light dinner snack down. How unicorns could deal with teleportation all the time was beyond me.

The smell of antiseptic and bleach filled my nose as the flurry of movement happened all around me. The creature was placed on a gurney and rushed into the surgery wing, magic flying everywhere as ponies shouted his condition and what needed happened.

I heard crushed lower ribs, what sounded like spleen rupture, lost a lot of blood. I sat down roughly on the cold tiles of the ER wing, feeling utterly drained. There was a lot of wide eyes around me as they looked at my bloody grey hair and my nice beige coat that was sopping wet from the sweat I worked up.

Well… now what?

For the first time I was lost on what to do with myself, I was usually pretty confident and clear on what I wanted to do. Now though, I was torn between wanting to pass out, go home and forget this highly stressful night, or staying here to make sure the giant was okay.

I wiped myself up with the rag that was given to me and walked over to a nearby chair near the surgery wing.

I sat down and stared at the floor, feeling way too drained to have strong emotions right now.

Another nurse came to question me, and I replied the same way I had to the first. I don't know anything, and I found them bleeding to death. I was locking up for the night.

I passed out shortly after, one minute I'm sitting on the hard chairs of the waiting area, the next I'm being shook awake by none other than Twilight Sparkle.

She looked tired and ready to pass out too since she was woken up so early to make sure things were safe.

“Hey.” She started as I rubbed my eyes and adjusted my glasses. She gave me a nuzzle on the cheek, she and I had become friends since she was now a princess. As being princess came with governmental duties, she was in the main office as much as I was, so growing close was inevitable

“Hey.” I yawned, looking around blearily.

“So the human is stable.” She said sitting on the bench next to me.

“Human?” I asked, then eyes widening as I realized she was talking about the creature.

“Oh, the giant! That's great to hear! I.. I… I'm glad they are okay…” I said said feeling the whole incident and terror of dealing with a dying unknown creature hit me as a few tears rolled down my cheeks. Twilight gently nuzzled my cheek again, murmuring a soft question of if I was okay.

I nodded, maybe a little to hard.

“There was a lot of blood, and and… I was so scared… y-you know how I'm scared of the dark they were j-just there suddenly.” I started, feeling the stress starting to vent from me. I usually could put on a good poker face when the time came for a speech. Tonight was a bit different, and the shock caught up to me. A lot of tears were now rolling down my cheeks, ruining my makeup.

“Ivory.” Twilight leaned her head against mine as a wing wrapped around my back. I shook with a few sobs letting out all that panic and terror from me, funny how such a young mare like Twilight could give off such a confiding aura. I was the older mare, older by many years and I was crying like a filly.

“I-I'm okay.” I said sniffing loudly and rubbing my face with the now slightly damp rag.

“What the hay is a human? You said he was going to be alright? He isn't dangerous is he?”

“Yes a human, I've met them before in another world. He looks a lot different than the ones I've seen but he looks like one. I managed to get Sunset Shimmer to send me copies of medical books of humans so I probably saved his life with those. You saved his life by sending that EDF, he would of died if not for you letting them know.” Twilight gave me a tired smile and lightly bumped her head against mine.

“As for how dangerous he is, I don't know. Humans can be very nice, very mean, or something of both. Sunset was very lax on discussing human nature, just know they are a chaotic bunch that try and follow order most of the time but usually disregard whatever they feel like is not necessary to their goals. Though, generally humans can be nice… I'm not making any sense am I?” she giggled sheepishly.

“What happened to him?”

“He showed all the signs of high impact blunt trauma, it's a miracle that he had only broke his ribs and his left arm. That tear in his side is what would of killed him if he had been left alone. He'll recover with the transfusions we are giving him.” She said looking over to the double doors of the surgery wing.

“Ah…” I said softly, a small tinge of relief touched my heart now knowing that he was going to be okay and that he wasn’t going to eat us.

“You… you think I could see him? I was in a panic when he popped out of the woodwork in the darkness… I just want to visually see that he is okay.”

“Of course, he is in room fourteen now, just don't wake him. Magic can do some strange stuff to humans so we need to monitor him. Then I can walk you home.”

“Right.” I said gently, then I looked over to my friend giving her a small smile before heading off into the recovery wing. Being mayor had its benefits, I didn't get questioned why I was in the recovery wing or why I was walking down the hall to room fourteen.

Because I really didn't know myself.

Maybe it was because that having something almost die in your hooves could make you care, even if things happen so fast. That was several weeks of stress balled up into a bloody package, still... part of me was glad that I didn't run. That I had done the right thing and helped rather than flee like a mouse in front of a cat.

I needed a drink, something hard. Too bad the only alcohol was cheap wine from the market and cider. Most of the good stuff was down south or further up north. Mainly in Canterlot proper, but it was super expensive.

The door to room Fourteen was open and a nurse was checking the human’s vitals to ensure nothing was out of place. She smiled at me and I smiled back and nodded to her, then after she was done she left.

The massive human was on a minotaur hospital bed, the clothes he had on were removed and a blanket covered him up to underneath his chest. Large patches of white gauze covered his shoulder and a few places on his head, he had a weird green bag and IV drip being slowly drained into him. He was breathing slowly and sound asleep most likely under a sleeping and pain nullification spell. Pressurized oxygen tubes were inserted into his nose making sure he got enough air to recover.

I looked at him up and down as I made my way into the small room and sat down on the chair next to the bed.

It was so strange seeing something… so alien. Yet somehow familiar.

He must be at least six feet and five inches. I was only three feet and seven inches standing at full height. I was tiny compared to him. I scooted the rolly chair a little bit forward and gazed down at his hand.

I gently lifted the appendage up, amazed at how his palm engulfed my hoof with such ease. The large hand was attached to a slightly muscular arm that was all the same rich reddish brown, freckles and small moles speckled his skin.

It was puzzling, feeling something that had not apparent fur and how smooth his skin felt despite not having soft fur like my own.

I set his arm down, feeling heat bloom in my cheeks. What was I doing? I needed to go home and sleep.

Yet I sat there looking at the human, absorbed in the details of him. Maybe this is how Lyra felt when she talked about humans and hands. It was fascinating because how exotic it was, what with those dexterous looking fingers just made to grab things. Us ponies had to rely on magic to hold onto things, otherwise the hooves we had would be near useless.

I glanced up to the human's face making sure I wasn't waking him, his breathing was still slow and steady. I leaned down and gave his skin a soft sniff, pure curiosity driving me to do this.

He smelled like salt water, lush forests, fabric softener, and wood smoke. Were you anyone else but a pony you probably wouldn't get that smell, they were extremely subtle but I could smell them. There was also the copper smell of blood and iodine.

“I'm glad you are alright. Even if you scared the stuffing out of me. I wouldn't feel good knowing I just ran away and left you there to bleed out.” I mumbled, more to myself than anypony else.

I adjusted my collar and ascot, feeling awkward now just staring at this large human.

“Well…” I said standing up and coughing into my arm feeling my throat go dry.

“I guess goodnight… and um… get better.”

I stiffly turned myself and started to head to the door and feel myself blush. Harmony, that was awkward as all Tartarus. Even if he couldn't hear me, I felt stiff and unsure what to do since the human scared me half to death then nearly died. I think I got more grey hair from that.

I looked back at the tall human once more before heading out the door back to Twilight. As I walked slowly back I thought about that moment in his delirious state where he grabbed one of my ears and rubbed them, I hadn't felt that kind of pleasure in years. My job occupied most of my life and by the end of the work day I was way too tired to try and date or even relieve myself with the toy I bought.

Maybe I needed to step down for real. I was being consumed by my work and I really did want those foals I screamed about while thinking I was going to die.

The warm image of me loving on a newborn filly that had my pink bubblegum hair and was super wavy like mine popped into my head.It was one of the things I didn't get to experience and one that Swirly was working on right now. Last time we talked she was trying to get herself a few foals.

Even though I was the mayor and was well liked and even loved, it was kinda lonely. Very lonely, I didn't even have fish to come home to and my bed was the only thing that kinda mattered in my house. It's a nice one, being mayor gave me a hefty sum as payment since it is an important job. A big empty house that was there most of the time just to show off to guests when I could pull myself out of the office.

I was so relieved when Twilight came around since she could focus on the outside stuff while I dealt with the nightmare of a bureaucratic system and making sure disasters were taken care of.

It made my job just a bit easier since I didn't have to leave and let the paperwork pile up in my absence. But at the same time I went out less and now was confined to the office more often.

A double edged blade in this case.

Twilight was talking to one of the doctors, she still looked tired even though she was pointing out a few book with several medical looking titles. The doctor was just nodding his head.

“So make sure when he wakes up that you be as calm and reassuring as possible, he most likely doesn't know about this world and its inhabitants so he might freak. A slow acting calming spell would probably help if things get hairy, he won't be able to move much what with his side all tore up.”

“Yes, Princess.” The doctor replied and took the books in his magic and floated them over to rest on his back.

Twilight looked over to me and smiled trotting over to give me a nuzzle which I returned.

“You okay? You look like you've seen more than one human.” She asked and teased lightly but there was some concern in her voice.

“I'm… I'll be fine, just don’t really know how to take this all in. I saved them but at the same time my body was saying run and it's all so confusing. I think I need sleep.” I grumbled closing my eyes and sighing.

“That's okay Ivory, you did a pretty good job of handling it. When I was a human for a short time the first thing I did was scream and panic for about ten to twenty minutes, then more so when I saw my first human.” she chuckled, a light blush graced her cheeks.

“You were a human?” I asked incredulously.

“Yep, the portal I used to get there had a very powerful adaptation spell and converted my body into that of which was most intelligent. Humans happen to be the dominant species on their world, and they have things you couldn't even dream of. All this technology and not a drop of magic in sight, it was incredible and terrifying.” she chuckled again rubbing the back of her head.

I blinked at her, feeling a tiny bit jealous that she went on so many dang adventures while I could barely get out of the office.

I needed a good night's rest.

“Twilight… could you… um.” I hesitated feeling weird to ask the princess this. “Do you mind if I take a day off or two, this whole incident just reminds me that I'm going to crash hard if I keep this up.” I sighed heavily feeling more tired than ever.

“Oh! Sure, Ivory! I'm not going to deny you a break, I can handle things today, you should get some rest and recharge. Take a relaxing bath since you still got a bit of blood in your mane still.” She smiled understanding my need for a small break. I lightly touched my grey white mane and scrunched my face as I felt the drying crust of blood in it.

“Well I'm ready to go home, I need to clean myself up and get some sleep.”

“Alright give me a minute.”

…

The walk back to my house was a quiet one, with me sluggishly dragging my hooves and talking to Twilight.

She really was a nice mare, I thought about asking her on a date at some point but the Princess status was a tad bit intimidating. She and I would probably be a good match, I got along with her great, we both loved antiquing and I had a love for old foreign history while she had a love for old magical history. We could talk for hours and not run out of anything to talk about since we shared our thoughts and opinions.

She really was nice, and I was lonely.

I glanced at her which she was enjoying the early morning dusk watching the stars as we made our way through the near deserted streets of Ponyville. She was pretty, and now royalty.

I sighed heavily.

“You've been sighing a lot. You got something on your mind?” she asked distracted for a second before turning her purple irises towards me.

“Oh, n-nothing really…” I diverted, feeling my cheeks flush. “Just some dumb things.”

“Really? I don’t think you have dumb thoughts, you are really intelligent.” She praised easily giving me a smile.

My house was in view now and the tall second story cottage there on Yellow Star Street, only two blocks away from the town hall. I pulled my key from my satchel the moment we got to the steps leading up to the house.

“I… I wanted to ask you something. But I don't know if it would be proper now since you are a Princess now.” I gazed at the massive crystal castle in the distance where she and her dragon now lived.

She gave me a lopsided smile in the same kind of category that said I was being silly.

“I'm still me, Ivory, I haven't changed from being a normal everyday pony. Even if I do get into trouble more.” Twilight laughed. Her very pretty laugh.

“Y-You know I'm like a century older than you but… um.” I felt my tired brain freeze up a little with the confession, I wanted to tell her about two months ago but I kept stalling.

The scare, really did make me realize how lonely I was.

Twilight's expression was still a smile but curious confusion on what I was talking about filtered through it.

“Even, so. Recently I… have feelings… towards you!” I stumbled feeling like a high school filly again with my nervous confession.

“I like you… and I wanted to um… go out. To dinner maybe, o-or a movie! I-I heard those were very good.” I panicked feeling my cheeks get hotter and hotter.

Twilight's face went through a sequence of various emotions, shock, surprise, confusion, happiness, nervousness, and a few others I couldn't place my hoof on.

“I uh, well if you d-don't want to i-its fine. The whole scary incident j-just realized how lonely I feel and and-” my tired brain was panicking feeling really stupid, and might of made things super awkward.

“No! No no no!” Twilight said stepping forward and hugging me to keep me from escaping.

“I! I would love to go out to dinner and a movie with you and, we.. we can talk about this. It just so sudden and.. and I'm sorry for not seeing it sooner.” Twilight said nuzzling my cheek. I closed my eyes feeling my lip tremble, and a happy cry escaped my lips as I gave a non-believing laugh.

“I just, since we have grown so close as f-friends I kinda realized I liked you. I'm not as young as you, so I might not be as ‘hip’ as your younger friends o-or herdmates if you have them…” I said placing my face into her neck and hugging her back.

“I'm in a relationship with Pinkie, she… she really likes me and that was a whirlwind of emotion to figure that out” She chuckled kissing my cheek and then forehead.

I rubbed my eyes again feeling relieved.

“That's fine. Do… do you want to come in with me? Help me clean my mane?” I asked flushing a little as we separated and looked at one another.

Twilight's mouth opened and closed a few times her cheeks blooming into a warm blush.

“Y-Yeah, I don't have to be anywhere.” She stammered her left ear flicking in nervous excitement, she grinned at me as I opened the door.

I turned on the light to the inner entrance hallway, my unused living room was to the immediate right. The steps to the second floor was in front while the dining room was to the left and down the side of the stairway was the kitchen, downstairs bathroom, and my own away from work office. I rarely stepped hoof into a lot of these rooms.

The smell of settled dust seemed to cling to the air which I gave her a small apology for the dusty smell. She waved it off and kissed the side of my neck and cheek, her scent mingling with mine giving me small shivers.

“You don’t mind taking a bath with me, y-you are a lot more awake than me and um… yeah.” I blathered feeling my cheeks go hot, communal baths weren't uncommon but this was Princess Twilight Sparkle I was asking and I certainly didn't know proper royal etiquette. I mean I knew some but asking an alicorn to bathe with you wasn't on the list of political questions asked at university.

“Y-Yeah I'm fine with that Ivory, I’d be happy to do your mane.” She said as I returned the greedy kisses to her neck and cheeks. It was too early for the mouth but didn't mean I could kiss her neck and mingle my scent with hers. I could smell Pinkie Pie on her too, the soft smell of sugar and light perfume, Pinkie didn't wear perfume often but when she did it was always just light enough it mingled well with her other smells.

Twilight smelled like a library, cedar, ionized air, and her own scent which was a soft nighttime like smell.

Like a balm for a rough night.

Which is exactly what she was, a perfect balm for me.

The climb to my master bathroom didn't take long, though Twilight seemed just as greedy with the affection. So there was a few moments where the bigger mare pressed me against the wall, her alicorn status was changing her body and it was now slowly becoming bigger. She already passed me in height she was a nice four foot three inch alicorn. That wasn't including her horn which had gotten longer too, I might have a bit of a subby streak in me for larger ponies.

Nothing hardcore but that rush of not being able to fight back and become surrounded by them was overwhelmingly arousing.

This felt good, the trust bonding of all the kisses and gentle loving movements. Ponies who wanted to be closer always did this, because it made us feel closer especially to those who we harbor feelings for. Reciprocation of my gestures made my heart do little jumps of joy because Twilight wanted to be closer too.

After the bath was drawn we both sat in the water her belly pressed against my back and wings draped around my torso. The only downside was that I could barely see past my nose but I didn't want to look too nerdy with those massive glasses I had in my bedroom so I got those half moon glasses that made me look sophisticated. It was probably why I was afraid of the dark since I couldn't see anything more than a inch from my nose. Just blurry blobs of things.

The warmth of the salted bath water and Twilight's gentle breathing against me lulled my aches and stress. I was struggling to stay awake now and Twilight seemed to sense this, because she poured water over my head and scrubbed the nice mix of shampoos I owned in with her hooves and magic.

I sighed happily as I was pampered, it had been way to long since I had somepony to touch me and pamper me.

“Thank you Twilight.” I said between splashes of water and the tender ministrations of her hooves.

“It's no problem Ivory, I'm happy that I could do this for you. I love Pinkie, and I really like you so hopefully you two would like each other. Pinkie can be a bit excessive sometimes, but she really is very sweet.”

“I figured, Pinkie has always been nice to everypony so. The only times I've had problems with her is when I was cranky from work, which seems to be a theme.” I said turning slightly to give her a smirk.

She snorted with a short laugh, shaking her own wet mane.

“Oh I know all too well about your cranky nature, I'm just glad I haven't been in the blast zone.” She snickered.

“I'm probably going to be immune from that from now on, since you know…” she moved my mane away from the back of my neck and kissed it.

Making my whole body shiver and giving me a tingly feeling in the tips of my hooves.

“Y-Yes.” I stammered, wanting those kisses to continue. “I don’t think I could be cranky at you, y-you are one of the ponies I go to for decompression.”

“Aww, thank you Ivory~ good to hear I help you out, close your eyes”

I closed them and felt the hot water pour over my head in a soothing gentle way that made me incredibly sleepy and safe feeling.

Twilight made me feel safe.

She made sure to get all the soap out of my mane and then work on my tail since tail care was just as important as mane care.

“Help? You don't just help Twilight, you are a lifesaver sometimes. When I ran for election I didn't expect this dinky town to become so hectic.” I chuckled, sighing in happiness and some pleasure as Twilight worked her way down my tail.

“I would of had many a panic attack if it weren't for you.”

Twilight pressed her belly against my back again, her large wings covering the entirety of me save for my head.

She and I talked about little things for a while longer before I could barely keep my eyes open which by then we got out of the bath and dried up. My large cool bed was comforting in a way as it was always super soft to lay on.

Twilight pulled the covers up over me, but I mumbled at her.

“No… stay… please?” I asked, sleep was already taking me as I said this. Twilight leaned down and whispered that she would and kissed my forehead.

Last thing I remember was the shift of the bed and feeling warmer than I would of being by myself.

…

I was sore, you know the kind that when you lie in bed for to long your back begins to ache. I woke up because of that, my vision more blurry than normal as I stretched trying to make the ache go away so I could continue to sleep.

Small pops of my bones left that relief of pressure on them as I rolled onto my back to stare at the ceiling. Or the grey white blob above me, I could barely make out anything so I rubbed my eyes and let out a long sigh.

I was awake now, my body seeming to have been fed up with that thing called sleep despite my brain's protests to return to the land of the dead.

I rolled to my other side, finding the bed empty but messy of having an occupant for the night. I blinked trying to figure out why it was like that, the slow grinding of my brain’s gears beginning to turn.

I took a deep breath, and I could smell Twilight’s scent from the bedsheets. I blushed hard realizing in my stressed and sleep deprived state I had confessed to Twilight last night how much I liked her.

It was too early to tell if this relationship was going to work out, she did want to feel close to me since I sort of smelled like her. We went through that whole process of sharing each other's stronger scents to feel more at ease.

I turned my head again to the somewhat open door leading out of my bedroom. I grumbled that Twilight had left or was up and wasn't here so I could cuddle her.

The pang of loneliness touched me at the thought, making me sigh heavily. I reached over to my bedside table lightly feeling out for my ‘at home’ glasses. They were rather nice I will admit but they were a little silly looking on my head, my grey white hair fell across my face as I put on the black wireframe glasses. My natural curls and waves less bouncy since I went to bed with my mane a little wet.

I looked over to the closet mirror, one of those new slide ones with the full body mirrors.

Seeing myself.

My hair was a bit frazzled and I had some dark half circles under my eyes. I was breathing slowly while my phthalo (yes, that is a real color!) blue irises scanned my half covered body in the blankets.

I was small, like I had said before, I wasn’t the biggest pony. I looked like a filly curled up on my king size goose feather bed, I held out one of my hooves examining it. Short, round, soft looking and cute to a lot of mares and stallions. I was well groomed, my coat had a nice soft sheen to it that said I took the best care of it which I tried very hard to do.

I never want to walk into Town Hall looking like I had wrestles with a Ursa major and barely survived.

I lifted the covers off myself showing my round features, I ate a little too many sweets to show off the minuscule muscles since my belly showed no sign of physical conditioning. Which meant my hips were quite ample and my butt big, thankfully it didn't show up in my cheeks since I still had my mother's good looks.

Following along my barrel down towards my hind legs were my two small breasts which had two dusky dark tan nipples which covered most of my navel.

I had all my femininity in the right place between my hind legs. Unlike most mares I was molted with a lighter whitish grey specks that ran around my hindquarters and a little up my back. I had tiny pinkish spots across my coat in general showing that my mother was a dark pink mare with light white mane. My Father had the flaming pink hair that I inherited but it seemed moms hair color was shining through more than anything.

My hoof slowly ran down my chest and belly between my breasts and between my legs, where I lightly touched the soft nub of pleasure that was nestled at the top of the lips of my sex. Another shiver ran through me, I stopped moments later retracting the hoof.

I hadn't felt that kind of pleasure in months, it was hard not to just go to town on myself but I think I could hear Twilight downstairs. As much as I wanted to be with Twilight, I couldn't rush things.

‘We go at her pace Ivory.” I whispered, looking at my sideways figure in the mirror. I was getting on in years but at least I looked somewhat attractive.

Pulled the rest of the covers off and rolled onto the floor, my hooves hitting the ground before I could fall fully. I stood up on my hind legs and stretched again, hearing the soft pop of my bones. Then landed back on all fours again and made my way downstairs, I could smell pancakes which made my stomach growl.

Oh harmony I haven't had an actual breakfast since… I couldn't remember when. It was usually toast, or oatmeal, and that was just shoved into my face fast enough to get moving to the morning meeting.

I had bought strawberries not but a day ago on my way home after I suspiciously got off work early. I was just going to eat them raw but if she was making pancakes of them I think I might kiss her.

I drooled a little and quickly rubbed my face to remove the tiny excess slobber from my lips. I turned down the hallway into the modest sized kitchen I owned which was connected to the dining room, it didn't have a lot of color since I was only in here for short periods of time anyways.

It's kinda sad that my job has become my life, but ever since the influx of ponies hearing about the beautiful crystal castle and countryside view a lot of ponies decided to buy up a lot of real estate. A lot of them just came to ogle the new princess, which I was ‘the demon with the white mane’ when tourist came trouncing through the office to take pictures of Twilight Sparkle. We had highly sensitive documents here in town hall, and a group of rampant ponies could destroy or even worse steal from a desk.

We had a track record of being one of the most peaceful places in equestria with crime being only a 0.3% of kingdom wide crime which hovered around a 4%. Ponies are conflicted bunch, always having a very sharp contrast from being incredibly nice to positively mean.

Twilight was indeed in the kitchen, humming a happy tune that followed no real cadence. Her hair was tied back with one of my hair ties, and she was flipping a flapjack from the cast iron skillet I owned with her spatula.

A plate was already on the table another was empty but had fork and knife laid down next to it.

She bounced to her own music as she added more batter to the skillet making a audible ‘hisssss’ in its wake.

“Love is in bloom hmm hmm two hearts becoming one hmmm hmm hmm huuh!” she sang cutely, I felt my heart take a heavy dose of that and nearly died at how freaking cute that was.

Oh harmony, what a dork, not that I could say much since I tried to be spooky at Nightmare Night in a clown costume but thems the breaks. She turned around setting a plate of flapjacks down and eyes widened when she saw me.

“Oh! Ivory, I was actually about to go wake you up, I called you out today and had Summer Wisp take care of the management duties. He should be able to handle things since he is a hard worker and vice president of the town committee.” She explained giving me a bright smile, and I was thankful that I had glasses on because it would of directly blinded me.

“So I got the day off too! I wrote everypony a letter on instructions for the next day or two since we deserve a break don't you think?” She came over and nuzzled my cheek, which I pulled her into a tight hug.

“Thank you Twilight, I needed this.” I said softly in her ear which she nuzzled underneath my chin taking care not to stab me with her horn. Her wings wrapping around me enveloping me in her wholeness.

“It’s nothing really Ivory, I know the need for breaks sometimes and I've been overworked too. I made pancakes! It's one of only things I'm really good at cooking, Pinkie usually makes dinner when I'm over or she is. Since I burn a lot of things.” she chuckled with a faint blush on her cheeks, I rubbed my nose against her's for a brief second, before pulling back from the wonderful hug.

“Twilight, I haven’t had a real breakfast in ages, you are a miracle worker by my standards.” I said eyeing the food and the growl in my stomach increased in audibly. She gave a cute laugh as I rubbed the back of my head with a blush.

“Let's eat then, everything is ready~” she hummed merrily, her wings fluttering as she pulled the chair out for me and I sat down and waited till she sat down too. With a quick flick of her magic, the stove was off and the pans were scrubbing themselves in the sink.

Show off.

I wanted to be a unicorn when I was really little because I love magic, but earth ponies didn't have a lot of options with magic. I could of made myself a foci but that would of cost more than my eight years in law school combined. Sure school had always been affordable but it did have some debts to it, four hundred Bits was a lot for a young mare practicing law by herself.

I had gotten my cutie mark in middle school after I had diplomatically resolved the issue between two clubs over who could use the track field for afterschool activities. I knew then I would make a excellent leader and decided to study law and its practice when I got out of highschool.

I was still jealous because I wanted a magic cutie mark, not some dumb sealed scroll representing a bill. But I digress, I was happy doing what I was doing even though I felt entirely burnt out about it.

I gave a quick prayer to Harmony that Twilight and I would be happy together before taking a bite and groaning in pleasure because of the actual real food in front of me.

“Are they that good? You haven't even put butter or syrup on them!” Twilight laughed brightly, which I stopped and politely coughed. Adding the needed condiments along with a large helping of whipped cream I restrained myself long enough to make sure Twilight had her things ready to go before digging in.

Sweet Celestia on a heart shaped bed, this was good. Real non bland flavour!! Actual food and not from the take out place in downtown!

“Why wasn't I informed about humans before? You'd think since I'm mayor I would know this stuff.” I asked between bites, and slowed to watch Twilight pop a bit of pancake in her mouth then lick the fork for extra syrup that was left over. It wasn't erotic in the slightest but she was very cute, but my mind took it into an erotic context.

I tore my gaze away trying hard to not look like I was some love struck filly. I had stared at Twilight before in the office when she was working with me, just how her lips pouted just a tiny bit or smiled when she read something. The way she moved her mane out of the way when she talked or was looking down.

At first I thought I was being one of the tourists and ogling the princess, but the more we talked over the last two years the closer I became to her. Fear of my age often scared off a lot of suitors, being over a hundred wasn't uncommon but being single over a hundred was. Ponies often got into small groups of lovers or friends when they were young.

I did too at one point, but my work my dedication to my studies often isolated from others. Even some of the more serious students at UC had been off at some point talking with their marefriends or coltfriends or even both.

Reminds me of the first time I had sex, and how awkward and emotionally draining it was since the stallion I had finally gotten into bed was nice but he and I didn't click very well. We had to many disagreements and my temper flared a few times at him, which just left me emotionally drained afterward.

I couldn't hold a relationship long because everypony said I was married to my job. I guess they were right. I was lonely, tired, and burnt out from everything.

I couldn't even smile some days because I was burnt to a husk.

“Well it's not really public knowledge, since The Princesses are struggling with a gate to pass reasonable supplies to their world and finally get trading going. There is a large school there that is being turned into a embassy, kinda sad but the government over there says that another school would be constructed in the meantime. It's an alternative world, there are almost copies of us living out their lives.” Twilight said excitedly, her eyes sparkling when she talked about a subject she really wanted to blab about.

“So.” I said, pausing long enough to chew my stuffed cheeks of their contents.

“You are saying there are just look alikes in that would but they look like that big guy?” I asked frowning, and trying to imagine Twilight as a massive human. She giggled as she saw my look of concentration, leaning over to nuzzle my cheek.

“No, silly. They are like us but not really like that giant in the hospital, he's a special case since he doesn't look like he's from that world. I might need to write the princesses a letter about dimensional space fluctuations making objects or even people pop out of the woodwork. I’m just glad that you managed to save that human.” She said taking bites between her sentences.

“Dimensional what now?”

“Small cracks in the universe, sometimes when teleportation or long distance gate magic becomes old it can fray at the edges of reality leaving the weave of reality to have tiny holes. Which stuff can fall through, usually it's not very big stuff, a bit or two disappearing from the floor, can’t find your hat and you turned the house upside down to find it, it probably fell through.”

“So that's why I can’t find the papers I need sometimes? I had form 4-O disappear on me three weeks ago and that backed everything up.”

“No, not everything like that falls through cracks, did you check the file I sent you that week? There was a confusing error in the form so I had to reprint the paper.”

“You did!? No I didn't, I was freaking out that we didn't have it!”

Twilight belly laughed, making my heart flutter and giving a nice euphoric feeling that I could hear such a pleasing sound.

“Well now I know why Blue Ink was crying and the financial team was looking like they had been stabbed.” Twilight said with mirth, leaning over to me who was rubbing my temples due to my own inability to look at my inbox for important things. She gave me a tender kiss on the cheek, she smelled like strawberries and sugary syrup which made me hungry but a different kind of hungry.

“Another wonderful frantic day in the office.” I grumbled, leaning into her nuzzling and returning the gesture.

“You know it Ivy~ while it's a nightmare most of the time it does have some satisfying results when you get that plan for a building done just right or when the tax information and stocks are going in your favor. Ponyville is growing by the day, I'm partially the reason why but if we plan everything right Ponyville should remain as beautiful and green as when it first started.” she pulled out a odd device that was about the size of a dinner plate, flat and rectangular in shape.

She pulled out a black pen but not quite a pen since it had no tip or feather, and simply looked like a small black stick. The black square lit up after tapping the rectangle, making me flinch.

“Right, so breakfast is about done. Was there anything in particular you wanted to do today Ivory? The Equestrian Network is still very new but I can pull some of those movies up to see what's playing, oh and some fancy restaurants! Though I wouldn't mind just going for a donut at Donut Joe's before we head off to see that movie. They are fantastic by the way! I've seen one already with Pinkie and even while I was over there!”

“Wait wait!? Equestrian Network!? What the hay is that!?” I exclaimed feeling like I had missed a memo and the meeting started without me.

Twilight understandably looked confused too then facehoofed groaning.

“I'm so sorry Ivory, I forgot to tell you. I was visiting Canterlot and it slipped my mind entirely. The Princess needed to show me some of the ropes of kingdom management and introduced me to this. It's very new, and one of the things from their world! They call it a tablet, and its hooked up to a electromagnetic signal that revives data and information in things called ‘servers’! Sunset was very nice in explaining how to use one of these things! Come here I'll show you!” Twilight nearly burst out of her seat to show me the glowing rectangle.

There was a picture of me, Twilight, and the office team on the ‘tablet’. Over the heartwarming picture were these tiny pictures that looked like things you normally see.

One was a calculator, a letter, a sphere that looked like a imaginary world, a photograph, a book, and a notebook. Twilight grinned at me as she pressed the black pen like thing to the photograph icon, which I flinched again as a new image popped up.

It was a small row of tiny photos, which amazed me how they got so small. She pressed the ‘pen’ to one of them and a smiling image of Princess Celestia who was out of center, Princess Luna was standing behind her holding a similar device looking more confused than anything and Pinkie Pie who was a blur in mid air.

Rainbow Dash's face was watching the pink blur in the middle of saying something. Overall it was very cute and I giggled at the chaotic moment Twilight took the picture.

“I tired to take the picture with my hooves these things aren't really made for them.” Twilight giggled, taking a moment to lean her head against mine before swiping the pen to the side and another image appeared.

This one was of a ‘human’ and the four Princesses standing with the tall creature, she was elderly and in a very nice business suit that was a cream color. She had short reddish hair and soft pale almost unseeable green skin, a very nice gold necklace with a ring hanging from it was around her neck.

“That's their leader Madame Joyce Murdoch, she is the president of the nation that the main portal is anchored at. On the right there you can see Sunset Shimmer, she was originally Princess Celestia’s student before me.” Twilight pointed out a unicorn mare who was a honey amber color with red and bright yellow mane that looked kinda like how haybacon looked like, her cutie mark was also unique as it looked like her namesake with the red and yellow motif.

“Sunset initially had been an enemy when she stole the Element of Magic tiara, but after reformation she is a very close friend of mine. After the whole ordeal and our world and magic was exposed she went to their government and initiated contact between our realms. It's not really widely known but they've been in contact with us for about seven months, mainly we have been looking into building a better portal between our worlds so we can trade more easily. Like I said earlier magic is very sparse over there and they have need of it to solve things like cancer, a few incurable diseases that we solved with magic but they couldn't with their tech. The Equestrian Network went up about two months ago and it's already being filled with information, not a lot, a few businesses looking to sell over there, scientists and their studies, among other things.”

“Wow.” I said sitting fully in my chair, completely blown away by the whole thing. “So that's why you requested that week off huh? Well shoot, I wish I knew about it maybe I wouldn't of lost some of the color in my coat if I knew that humans were here.”

Twilight laughed sheepishly as she blushed. I smiled at her, leaning over to scoot my chair closer to her and rest my head against her's.

“I wouldn't mind going to that place in Canterlot, The Plaza I think it's called. It’s got live music almost every night, and a full bar and menu and its formal wear only…” I gave her a sly grin as I pressed my nose into her neckline.

“I would love to see you in a pretty dress for a beautiful mare. I know I'll dress up fancy.” I said gently into her ear, causing the purple alicorn to turn a little more red and her eyes to dilate.

“T-The Plaza sounds good! Um, Mare in the Stars is playing tomorrow night at the Canterlot Cinema, d-do you want to go see that one? It's a romantic comedy.” She said a little breathlessly, ears were my weak spot too Twilight. This made me feel mischievous and I nibbled the tip of her ear, the wings on her back leapt out standing to attention. She held a hoof to her mouth when I heard the tiny vibration of a muffled groan of pleasure.

Ponies like myself and quite a few others were very affectionate when it came to wooing somepony, nibbling, biting, nuzzling, all in the name of enticing the other into a relationship. Twilight and I were already close friends, I was also touch starved and Twilight seemed to be happy to receive the attention so I may be laying it on a tad thick.

Being without somepony to hold in ages can really make you a little reckless when it comes to such things. I wanted to love on her because I really liked her, even if she was only twenty five. I was much much older than her, so I didn't want to overstep my bounds.

So if she asked for me to stop I would.

“I haven't seen any cinema before so you pick, I'm sure it'll be wonderful regardless!” I chirped, I really was excited to see the movies. I heard excellent things about them and they were much more entertaining than reading from what I was told.

“R-Right.” Twilight said tapping her tablet a few times then looked back up at me with a small twinkle in her eye.

I took another bite of my slightly cold pancake and gave her a wink.

“Are we going to see that human today?”

Author's Note

You know Ivy, you could of asked me sooner you know. I really was crushing on you while we still just friends, and don't fret so much about your age! Everypony is older than me, Pinkie has like four years on me!

I thought I was really overstepping my bounds there! You don't just ask your princess if you just want to get together!

But you did, and you did it so cutely I just had to! It so totally reminded me of how Shiny asked Cadence out, you did better than him since he just blurted out 'GO OUT, PLEASE?!' while we were at dinner. Cadence laughed so hard the wine she was drinking came out of her nose!

Look I stalled, mainly because I've been out of practice. You even know I haven't even been with anypony since you two came along, nerves got the better of me.

I know, but I'm super glad you did!

Hey, looks like I'm going to be recapping on what happened to me before I passed out, so scoot over scroll butt or sit in my lap.