Author's Note

Summary: Sunburst excuses himself rather abruptly during one of Starlight's lectures at school. A disgruntled Starlight tracks him down and demands to know why he left. But she gets an answer that's a bit more than she bargained for.

Warnings: PWP, school sex, no penetration just lots of stimulation.

A/N: Not much to say about this one, the plot is really paper-thin (seriously if you blink you'll miss it!) and has no connection to the others in the series. Trying to get in the grove of writing smut again after a long break from it. Timeline wise, this can be assumed to be after the season 9 finale and before the time skip.

Pull Me Closer

Of all the places, she finds him on the south side of the school building. It’s a shadowed little nook and she only went there as a last resort when she couldn’t find him anywhere else on the grounds, but there’s no mistaking the unicorn stallion with messy red hair and sideburns who’s propped against the stone between two towering columns.

He looks like he’s brooding, she thinks as she approaches, clipboard clutched to her chest. He’s leaning against the wall and looking rather intently at the ground. She’s not entirely sure if he just didn't notice her or if he’s being distant on purpose—but with Sunburst, it was most likely the latter.

Starlight is not the kind of mare to let things go without an explanation. She isn’t sure what it was that upset him during her lecture on magical history she gave to the first-year students at the end of the day, but she’s been with him long enough to know when he was in a bad mood and was no longer put off by them.

And besides, she wants an answer—straight from the horse’s mouth.

She stops a few feet away from him, he still hasn’t looked up and she clears her throat awkwardly.

“Sunburst.” She says his name clearly, but he still gives her the cold shoulder. Her cheeks puff out with annoyance. “Sunburst.” She repeats with more force, her annoyance building with every second he doesn’t look her way.

He shifts, which is the most movement she has seen from him so far, but it bothers her even more somehow. What’s his problem?

“Was it really that bad?” she huffs out, brows drawn together as she stomps her hoof against the stone floor. They had been dating for a couple of months now, she thought he might be at least a little more supportive, even if she didn’t go to a fancy magic school to study the material like he had or was barely on his level when it came to magical knowledge. “I did my research! I studied well into the night to get everything right! I don’t see why you had to—”

“That’s not it,” he cuts in, though he’s now purposefully looking away from her.

“Then what is it?” she presses, taking another step forward. She really wasn’t in the mood for any guessing games. Did he have any idea how embarrassing it was for her when she nearly finished her presentation and he just…stood up and left? “If you don’t tell me, I’m not going to understand!”

He turns to her, briefly staring at her before sharply turning away once more. She watches him swallow for a moment before his lips part. “…Never mind.”

She tries not to let it get to her—she really does. But Sunburst knows how stressed and tired she is, how much she worries and cares about every creature in the school, Starlight thought that he would at least talk to her to ease her nerves if nothing else. And she can’t decide if she feels angry or disappointed about his dismissal. He’s teased her before, but this wasn’t the same, something is very obviously bothering him and he won't even trust her enough to tell her what.

She breathes in slowly and lets it out in one long sigh. “…You know I’m going to worry about it right? Whenever you say things like ‘never mind’ or ‘it doesn’t matter’ it makes me worry more because I know you’re hiding something! If I upset you somehow then I have the right to know!”

If he really wants to be alone then she would let him, but she didn’t want this kind of tension to follow them back home, either. At least if it was out in the open, she could apologize or fix it or something. It was better than letting her mind go in circles, reviewing every little thing she ever said or done to him, wondering what it was that made him withdraw. Besides, it took her twenty minutes to find him, she wasn’t going anywhere until she got an answer.

And yet Sunburst remains stubbornly quiet, not moving a muscle, his shoulder leaning against the building and not meeting her eyes. She didn’t want to fight, despite being angry with him, because she knows that prodding him would only make him retreat more into his shell until he breaks from it with a shout and a barrage of angry words, such a blowout generally leads them to not speaking to each other for a full day sometimes, and since they were working closely it wouldn’t do them any good. That isn’t something that she wants and she doubts that he does either.

With one more glance in his direction and another sigh, the head-mare turns around. “Write a report about my presentation with everything I got wrong by Monday,” she pauses and adds with a smaller voice, “and you don’t have to come to any more of my lectures, if they bother you so much, alright?”

Before she can walk away, she feels something yank at the edge of her blazer and she stops with a small jerk of surprise. She looks at her side and sees the golden aura of his magic on her, she’s surprised that he was capable of such magical output.

“I said that wasn’t it,” he speaks from behind her, and she thinks that his voice sounds a little strained. “This isn’t…this isn’t something I should tell you about, let's leave it at that.”

Any lingering resentment she was holding onto fades away at those words, quickly replaced with concern. He sounds more awkward than normal; his words don’t carry the gentleness that she’s used to. Her concern makes her reach out to him. “Sunburst? Are you alright?”

She feels terribly guilty all of a sudden. She’d been so worried about her own embarrassment that she didn’t even stop and consider that Sunburst might have left for other reasons, he even said so! She wanted to kick herself for being so selfish.

At least he wasn’t trying to hide from her anymore, and Starlight takes advantage of that to step closer and nuzzle his cheek gently, trying to convey that she was there for him with the simple action. He responds with a gentle hug, but she feels his muzzle lowering from her cheek all the way down her neck in a slow but purposeful matter until he stops at the collar of her shirt, his motions are oddly soothing.

“Sunburst…?” she tries again, but her voice is softer than before.

His nuzzling stops momentarily, and his hoof slides over her shoulders, down her back…

And with a small squeak of surprise escaping her throat, she finds herself all but pressed right up against him, she drops her clipboard as she puts her hoof between them out of instinct, but it ends up pinned against her chest in the process. A flush swiftly turns her face to match the color of his hair. “S-Sunburst?”

“Don’t…move away,” he breathes into her ear, his words almost hitched. She could almost feel his heartbeat where her hoof rests up against his chest. “I just need…”

He doesn’t elaborate, but the near pleading tone of his voice is enough for her to follow his wishes. She likes being held by him—that was something that the mare discovered long ago—but this is not quite the same. This warmth is…different. It’s…

It’s cloying and she can almost feel it like a hot pressure that surrounds her—like he’s radiating the heat himself. She squirms, once, and the sharp gasp in her ear makes her own breath catch in her throat.

When did Sunburst ever make noises like that? She feels something almost like a shiver that wants to course through her, but she’s not cold. She’s far from cold.

They simply stand like that for a long moment, his heartbeat against her chest, his breaths shallow and tickling the curve of her ear. And her face growing hotter, as though she’s channeling in that abundance of heat that he’s giving off.

It’s strange, but now her heart is beat is increasing as well. This is nothing like when they shyly held hooves and when they kissed that first time, or the second or the third or the fourth.

He seems desperate somehow—his grip is unrelenting, as though he’s afraid she might just vanish if he releases her. And she doesn’t understand, but even with her mind racing for answers, she cannot find the words to ask.

He rarely touches her—most especially in public—and it’s usually fleeting. They don’t kiss for long, he usually gets awkward about holding hooves, and embraces are more or less initiated by her. This is different, the way he’s holding her, the hat, his breath lightly tickling a few stray hairs of her mane against her face, he’s close and he’s not moving away.

After what feels like forever, she finally manages to make her mouth work long enough to ask, “Sunburst, is s-something wrong?”

She feels his hoof sliding up and down her clothed back. “Something…might be wrong with me,” he mumbles and his breathy voice makes her goosebumps form along her body beneath her work clothes. She opens her mouth to speak and she feels him giving a sudden jerk; like he was trying to push her down. But before she could fall, he retreats just as quickly. “I…”

Starlight is unsure of what to think. Was he sick? Should he take him home? Those are the obvious things that come to mind, but there’s a part of her that tells her that wasn’t it. So, what does he—

“I want to touch you,” he interrupts her thoughts, his voice lower than before, and the shiver she fought tingles straight up her spine without warning, her eyes growing wide. “I need to…”

The words sound so strange to her ears. They almost sound like something that couldn’t come from his lips, and yet she’s certain that she didn’t mishear them.

Before she can bring herself to respond, she feels him move—edging them both toward the side of the building and still keeping his grip taught around her. “Starlight,” he speaks her name in a needy manner that she is completely unfamiliar with, but that is strangely nice to her ears. “Please…”

“I…” her own voice, she realizes, has grown hoarse. Swallowing hard, she tries to break the words free. “I…can help?”

By now, he nearly has her all but pinned up against the side of the stone building, she braces her forelegs against the wall to keep her balance, his chest pressed tightly to her back, his hooves on her hips, and one of his legs rubbing along the side of hers. The warmth from her face begins to spread, reaching her ears and her neck. “I need you,” he responds in that same husky tone, leaning in far enough that she can feel his lips brush her cheek as he speaks. “That room was stifling…I couldn’t take it…I had to get…out.”

His words are full of contradictions. He wanted her, but he ran away instead? But what did she do to get him like this? She was sure she didn’t do anything flirty or provocative, did something else drive him out?

“Then…it wasn’t my fault?”

The pause that follows her question makes her insides tighten a little bit further with uncertainty.

“It’s your fault,” he responds as he presses his warm lips right beneath her ear. “And mine.”

Trying to understand Sunburst was usually difficult since his mind is lightyears ahead of hers, but he normally made sure to explain things to her in a way she understood—even if it meant being blunt sometimes. Now, she only felt more and more confused with every word that passed through his lips.

Lips felt good against her skin though…

“But, what…did I do?” She really wants to know, but her voice almost cracks when she feels his hips move forward against her backside. He pulls away slowly, and she can feel…something stiff pressing up against the small of her back through her skirt.

“You…” his breath is hot on her neck, his red bangs brushing her skin in a way that makes her tense in his grasp. “Talked…captivated me…made me want…”

She shivers and braces herself when she felt her grip on the stone slip for a moment, his voice making her weak in the knees. “Want?”

His breath releases in pants, the hooves around her hips finally loosening their vice grip. “Want you,” he says with a firmer tone than before, and in the blink of an eye, his hooves are under her skirt, cupping underneath the small mounds of her breast.

For a moment Starlight is too shocked to react. She isn’t familiar with being touched there, but she can feel the heat from his hooves, feel it flooding into her. And it’s making her squirm.

“S-Sunburst?”

He answers with his actions, by biting her ear and using his magic to pinch the sensible tips of her breast at the same time, and she gasps out in surprise from the sudden shock that lights up in her. “A-Ah!”

“Please,” he repeats, licking the offended ear and leaving a short trail of wet kisses down along the juncture of her neck and jaw. “I can’t…”

She knows what he’s pleading with her for and part of her is hesitant in giving in to his wants, but Starlight can’t deny that even if the sensations are new and strange, it feels good. He has never touched her like this before, and for once he’s not shying away or shutting her out.

“Mm,” she responds with a tight breath of her own, arching into that strangely addicting motion of his magic and hooves over the springy flesh. “I…I like that.”

And she’s not making it up for his sake either, his hooves feel good where they massage her breast. He is not as hesitant as he was when he would hold her hoof in his, or brush it along the side of her face. She likes this change.

It’s not long before she can feel even more confident in his touch—or maybe it’s desperation, she’s not sure—but he’s growing firmer and more eager in his ministrations. Her breath is getting shorter as a result, the heat moving and expanding within her.

“I won’t go too far,” he says as if reassurance to her. Starlight nods but she’s too lost in the sensations to really hear his words, but she really doesn’t care. She knows Sunburst cares about her—and she trusts him.

With his declaration, he starts moving too quickly for her to really follow what is going on—especially when she’s facing the building. His hooves leave her perky tits and start lifting her skirt almost frantically, but his magic is still stimulating the sensible mounds. She moans and her body feels hot, her bangs are clinging to the side of her face with the moisture of her sweat collecting at her temples.

“Starlight,” he speaks her name again, and this time it sends a wave of heat through her—which only intensifies when she feels a draft before his groin is pressed directly into the back of her tail. The stiffness she thought she felt before is definitely there, but it’s not restrained, and she can feel his pulse against the curtain of hair that separates their skin.

Sunburst groans into her ear as he rubs the hardness up against her backside, pushing her further into the wall. Her tail twitches and flags at his movements, she feels him trying to brush the long hairs out of the way.

The area under her tail feels damp. And hot. She wonders how she didn’t notice until now, but she feels it when he tugs at her tail impatiently.

“Sunbuuurst,” her own voice takes on a needy edge and she sways her hips against his as if that will help somehow. All it does is provoke a strained noise from him, and he slides his hoof over her exposed flank, the shudder that goes through him passing straight to her.

This is definitely the most touching he’s done and the most intimate they have ever been, but Starlight is not alarmed. Sunburst is bringing out something in her and she wants to experience new things with him. If he can make her feel good, she wants him to feel good, too.

It doesn’t occur to her that they’re in the back of the school building, together in a manner that is certainly inappropriate for the academy grounds. All that exists is this heat and him and the press of his body against hers.

He moves again from behind her, little grunts escaping him as he pulls back slightly from her backside and jerks his hoof around her tail. Then, a moment later, he releases a sound she can’t quite identify—almost like a sharp hiss—and the hairs on the back of her neck instantly stand up on end.

His breathing has somehow grown even harsher and his grasp on her hips is unwavering as he shifts—and then she feels it.

Her voice raises a little as she flattens herself into the stone wall, legs quivering. What was hard and pulsing is now touching her rear, with no cloth or barrier between them, and the heat is just too intense for her not to react. One of his hooves snakes around her waist while the other appears at the wall next to her head, and she can literally feel his heavy unsteady breaths as he just marginally moves his hips up against her.

“Ngh…you feel so…”

He trails off between gasps and grunts and other low-pitched noises as he slides himself against her, his cape draping over them and hiding the actions beneath from direct view. She cannot even form words well. The heat is so tight, the throb of him against her is making her feel so strange, but she needs—

“M-More…!”

Starlight is not even sure about what she’s pleading for, but she knows that she needs him to keep going. She needs to feel more of this.

And he obliges wordlessly, grunting out against the back of her neck as he increases the pace of his thrusts. The hoof bracing against the wall once again lowers, moving to hold her chest to keep her steady as he moved.

Starlight is so lost in the motions that when he stops a whine escapes her throat almost immediately, but from one moment to the next, he’s moving his hard length from between the cheeks of her backside to the heat between her legs, stroking the wetness she felt earlier. The sensations are so overwhelming that her whines turn to cries of pleasure.

“Y-Yes!” he moans out against her skin as if responding to her, the jerking motions of his hips increasing, but losing more and more control as the seconds pass. “That’s it…that’s…”

Sunburst cuts off with a loud groan as Starlight's thighs press together tightly around him, bringing him closer to her folds. With a jerk his heated flesh prod against a sensitive nub of nerves and she tenses up, a strangled noise catching in her throat. It suddenly feels like everything is just too much, even though she wants more, and she can’t make sense of everything but somehow, she just needs…!

He is moving even faster. She doesn’t know he could move so fast, but he is and she feels so much and her back arches and she feels like she’s going to come apart at the seams! Especially with the way, he was grinding on that sweet spot so relentlessly, driving her closer—!

“Star…Star—!” His voice is so strained that she thinks he sounds like he’s in pain, but he’s not stopping. And she doesn’t want him to. The metal of her horseshoes all but scrapes at the stone wall as she fights for air, and he’s clutching her body to hold her solidly against him as he bucks her into the wall over and over.

Then, like she had been hit by an avalanche, Starlight could no longer determine what was even happening. He tenses first and she feels it and she feels a huge throb against her folds just before he cries out her name and his body shakes and trembles almost violently from behind her. Something overtakes her completely when he presses so harshly against her sensitive nub, sending her body, her mind, her entire consciousness suddenly flooding through with white and pleasure and exploding a myriad of dancing colors in front of her eyes.

Starlight doesn’t know how long it is before she feels like she knows who she is and where she is once more, but she finds herself half-collapse against the wall of the building, Sunburst’s warm weight pressing over her, and feeling like she just ran for her life. She heaves for breath, taking in all she can to refill her needy lungs. Her body feels sweaty and sticky but there’s the relief and unmistakably nice, warm feelings running through her.

That was just…with Sunburst, she shared this…incredible moment.

“I’m sorry,” his voice suddenly rasps out after a short groan when he shifts against her, his limp length still trapped between her legs. He takes several breaths before he continues. “I knew…I was going to lose it if I stayed around you…you shouldn’t have come looking for me.”

She blinks, certainly not expecting those to be the first words out of his mouth.

“You’re an idiot,” she says, her voice still not completely back to normal. “For being sorry.”

Maybe Sunburst didn’t have all the answers, after all, she thinks. While this was definitely new to her, and probably for him too, she wouldn’t take it back if she was given the opportunity. It’s special and it means something, and she instinctively knows that.

“…You’re not upset?” His voice sounds oddly surprised. “After I just…”

Starlight can hear the underlying shame in his tone and she doesn’t want that. She wasn’t him to be as pleased about this as she is.

“I feel closer to you,” she blurts out and feels her cheeks heat up a bit. “I like that feeling, it’s so much better when you don’t try to shut me out or shy away from everything.”

She turns in his slackened grasp, moving to press her lips rather clumsily to his cheek, and seeing his puzzled expression she can’t help but smile. “Please, don’t treat this like a bad thing? I’m glad it happened, I’m fine…I’m better than fine, I promise.”

He stares at her for a long moment, with that same quizzical twist to his features, and then leans down to bump his forehead against hers. “You drive me crazy. You’re so unpredictable. You’re…” he breaths out against her skin, almost like a contented sigh. “…everything I could ever want.”

The last of his words are so unexpected that Starlight lets out a startled laugh, and she asks half-jokingly and half-seriously. “Who are you and what did you do with Sunburst?”

His lips curl into a smile and he lets out a snicker, leaning closer, and kisses her on the mouth. It’s gentle and very sweet, Starlight all but melts against him and she pouts when he pulls away. “What? Didn’t you say that I always shut you out?”

She huffs, “Oh, you’re such a…” she stops, blinks, and looks around her with a blush on her cheeks. “M-Maybe we should continue this conversation somewhere more private.”

“Starlight, no one comes to this part of the school.” He says with a raised eyebrow.

“I rather not risk it,” her horn glows and she gave him a wink. “Besides, the wall is uncomfortable, I rather we continue this in my room.”

And then they were gone in a flash of turquoise magic.