The Mare Who Loved Me (Boncord II)

"Angel Bunny, could you pass the cream please?" Fluttershy asked sweetly from across the table, in her cottage. A tea pot sat in the middle of the table with a place set for each of them. Angel hopped up up onto the table and began to push a creamer across the table.

Glancing down, into the open creamer, Angel gasped and jumped up in terror.

"Oh, my! What is it!?" Fluttershy cowered.

Angel tipped the creamer out onto the table and the cream poured out in all the colors of Discord's body.

"Discord! What are you doing hiding in there?" Fluttershy asked softly.

"It's just been so long since we last spoke." Discord said with a sigh as he re-materialized into himself and in a flash of light was sitting at his own place-setting at the table.

Angel shook a paw at Discord in protest.

"Oh, how I missed the little guy too!" Discord said as he tightly hugged Angel as Angel struggled for freedom.

"Discord I-" Fluttershy spoke softly.

"I know we can't go back to, you know." Discord interrupted.

"You know that-" Fluttershy tried to pipe in.

"I was just hoping you still considered me as a friend. You were my first true friend after all." Discord pleaded with puppy dog eyes.

"Oh, Discord." Fluttershy giggled softly. "Of course we are still friends."

Angel made a gagging gesture at the sentiment.

"Really? After everything I did?" Discord sighed.

"Of course. You are welcome to come by and talk any time you want. But you have to promise me one thing." Fluttershy offered.

"Yes?"

"You have to promise me that you'll stop using your powers to intrude on ponies personal lives."

"Scouts honor!" Discord appeared in a scouts uniform and gave a sincere salute.

"So are you still seeing Bon Bon?" Fluttershy cut straight to the point.

"Well. Sort of. It's complicated." Discord watched for Fluttershy's reaction and was relieved to see no jealousy or animosity on her part.

"Oh. How so?" Fluttershy asked.

"We both have the makings for something really very special. The spark is there, albeit not with the greatest timing. We are both still hanging on to things from the past but once we are past those things a great reward of passion and romance awaits us both." Discord explained.

"Wow, Discord- that's so insightful." Fluttershy smiled proudly.

"Well if I told you how I figured that out you wouldn't believe me." Discord sighed. "I really wanted to get her something very special for Hearts and Hooves Day but I just don't know what to get her."

"Oh, Discord. Do you know what the best gift you ever gave me was?" Fluttershy giggled softly.

"Hmm?" Discord raked his beard.

"All the quality time we spent together, silly. Why don't you take her out to do something nice?" Fluttershy suggested.

"Like what?"

"Well there's the Hearts and Hooves Day charity fundraiser ball this weekend. Rarity is organizing it. All proceeds go to the Help Rebuild Manehattan Fund. To help rebuild all the homes and businesses that were destroyed when that 35 hoof tall GammaWyvern attacked Manehattan." Fluttershy explained.

"I could have sworn it was only 20 hoofs tall." Discord contemplated. "But I know what Bon Bon will say. Fancy balls just aren't her scene."

"But everypony is going to be there with their special somepony!" Fluttershy pleaded as she passed a brochure over to Discord. "Even I'm going. Tickets are almost sold out but I have two extras. Princess Luna and Princess Celestia will be there. Princess Cadence and Shining Armor will be there to give a special commencement speech on behalf of the Crystal Empire! All the most important ponies of Equestria will be there in one place!"

"Of course." Discord said in a Eureka moment as he eyed the brochure over.

"I can't wait to see you two there!" Fluttershy said with a soft enthusiasm.

"Everypony is going to be there with their special somepony! Even I'm going" Fluttershy's words echoed in Discord's head.

"Wait, did you say that-" Discord said.

"Oh, dear! Look at the time!" Fluttershy interrupted. "I'm supposed to go meet Rarity to go try on dresses soon! I'm so sorry we'll have to cut this short." She apologized as she got up and urged Discord out the door.

Discord immediately found himself sitting at another tea party for three- this one in his head with his id and superego, dressed as a devil and an angel respectively.

"Come-on now." His superego lectured. "You have no place being jealous. You have Bon Bon now."

"I'm just curious who this new special somepony is." Discord sighed and then took a sip of tea.

"I bet he's a real jerk!" His id chided. "You should figure out who he is and have a little fun with him." he finished with a devilish smirk.

"But I promised Fluttershy-"

"You promised her you wouldn't use your powers to intrude on ponies. Get creative!" His id encouraged.

"I really don't think that would be in the spirit of the promise he made." His superego insisted.

"You're right. Besides. What kind of special somepony would I be to Bon Bon if I wasted all that effort hounding Fluttershy's new love interest?" Discord contemplated.

"But what if I'm right? What if he is a jerk? Don't you at least want to see who he is so you can make sure she's not seeing some loser who is just going to break her heart again?" His id lectured. "That's not jealousy. That's just looking out for your friends. You don't need to intervene. You just need to see that she's in good hooves."

Discord looked over to his superego, who had taken off its halo and was polishing it.

"What? I think he actually has a good point there." His superego said with a shrug.

"What kind of superego are you? You're supposed to be keeping me out of trouble." Discord complained.

"Actually I'm just a subconscious manifestation of your understanding of cultural norms. If you find yourself getting in trouble because of me then perhaps you should, oh I don't know, acquire more of that cultural understanding. " His superego chided.

"You watch who you're calling uncultured, pal!" Discord seethed as he huffed back.

"Fight! Fight!" His id cheered.

Discord shrugged his shoulders and then lunged angrily toward his superego. The whole scene vanished in a puff of smoke as Discord crashed into the ground outside and found Twilight Sparkle standing and staring down at him.

"Discord!" Twilight Sparkle called out sternly.

"Oh, Twilight. How nice to see you. Anything I can help you with?" He asked disingenuously.

"I'm sure you heard about that 40 hoof tall GammaWyvern that attacked Manehattan." Twilight Sparkle said.

"You know that thing gets taller every time somepony mentions it.." Discord twiddled his appendages nervously. "I heard you girls really did a number on it. Go team!" Discord clapped lightly.

"Well that's just the thing." Twilight eyed Discord intensely. "No trace of it was found after. The even stranger part is that there's no footprints heading into Manehattan. It's like it just appeared out of nowhere."

"Well that is strange." Discord chuckled nervously.

"Where were you when it happened?"

"Can we talk about this some other time? I'm a little disorganized at the moment because I just spent the last three days locked out of Equestria because somepony let some harmless little filly drain all the magic." Discord snapped defensively.

"Don't let me hold you up." Twilight held her hoof out to signal for Discord to continue on his way.

Discord started walking before Twilight stepped in his way again.

"Oh. One last thing." Twilight held a small plastic bag containing a single pink hair in front of her face and eyed it. "Weren't you with Bon Bon on that day?"

"In fact I was just going to meet her, right now. I'll let her know you said hi!" Discord said nervously as he snapped his fingers and disappeared.

"Bon Bon!" Discord shouted as he re-materialized next to Bon Bon who was watering some flowers in a planter along a path in Ponyville.

"There was a time when that would have startled me." Bon Bon said with a sigh as she carried on her business.

"We're in serious trouble! Twilight Sparkle started asking me about the GammaWyvern in Manehattan and she had one of your hairs and we're both going to Tartarus for sure now and by the way what are you doing this weekend?" Discord rapped out in a single breath before gasping for air.

"Calm down." Bon Bon put her watering pail down on the ground and turned around to face Discord. "Look. The only thing she can prove is that I was in Manehattan. Going to Manehattan isn't a crime is it? Let's just try to keep a low profile until her investigation comes up cold and then we'll be safe again." Bon Bon offered a comforting pat.

"What about the other question?" Discord pressed.

"I have nothing planned." Bon Bon said with a smile.

"Well I was wondering if you wanted to go to the Hearts and Hooves Day Charity Ball together. All proceeds go to the Help Rebuild Manehattan Fund." Discord held out the brochure.

"You know that's just not my scene. Besides I'd hardly call that keeping a low profile" Bon Bon said with a sigh.

"Lyra will be performing there." Discord said as he inconspicuously angled the brochure toward Bon Bon.

"Let me see that!" Bon Bon snatched the brochure away and eyed it intensely. "I guess this means she's back in town." Bon Bon pondered. "It would be nice to hear her perform."

"That's the spirit. Now if you'll excuse me..." Discord looked around and saw that they were near the Carousel Boutique. He quickly sauntered over and started staring through the window.

"What are you doing?" Bon Bon trotted over and watched curiously.

"Word on the street is that Fluttershy has a new special somepony." Discord explained.

"Really!?" Bon Bon planted her face in her hoof.

"Yes and I have no idea who." Discord answered obliviously.

"I meant as in I thought we were done with this business." Bon Bon grumbled.

"Oh, but we are. I just want to make sure she's not throwing herself at some jerk who's going to treat her poorly. Need I remind you that I helped you with this very same dilemma back in Manehattan." Discord pondered. "And for the record that's not the only reason why I want to take you to that ball."

"I was going to ask." Bon Bon sighed. "Don't forget the trouble that got us in. Why don't you just, you know, do your thing?"

"I promised her that I wouldn't use my powers to intrude on ponies and this will be far less troublesome. It's not like we'll be crashing around and destroying skyscrapers this time." Discord said smugly.

"And you don't think that by staring through windows and following her around you're breaking the spirit of that agreement?" Bon Bon pressed her face into her hoof again.

"Well are you going to return the favor or not?"

"Well what are you doing here?" Bon Bon quizzed.

"She's trying on dresses for the big event." Discord explained.

"Let me see." Bon Bon pushed Discord aside peered through the window. "Oh. Um. Hmm. Uh-oh. She likes thelittle black dress, huh?"

"Oh, no, what does that mean." Discord pleaded in fear.

"Nothing. It's just a black dress!" Bon Bon snapped defensively. "They're coming!"

Discord and Bon Bon quickly ducked behind some shrubs as Rarity and Fluttershy burst out of the boutique in mid conversation.

"And so we're going out for dinner tonight." Fluttershy said softly.

"Ooh! Where?" Rarity beamed.

"Well, uhm. I don't know. I was thinking hayburger." Fluttershy said nervously.

"Darling. An occasion like this calls for something a little more, shall we say, upscale." Rarity rolled her eyes. "Why don't you go to the Couteau en Argent instead?"

"Oh, my. That place is awful exclusive. Don't I need a reservation there?" Fluttershy sighed.

"Don't be silly, darling. Just tell them Rarity sent you and you'll get the finest table in the house." Rarity explained boastfully.

Their conversation continued as they disappeared down the path. When they were out of sight Discord and Bon Bon emerged from their hiding place.

"How does dinner tonight sound? My treat of course." Discord raked his beard.

"Do I really have a choice?" Bon Bon sighed.