"Don't be silly," Spike replied politely "I'd hate to be a bother,"

"Well, you'll bring me an awful lot of bother if you go walking about in this storm." Harshwhinny replied as she picked up her plate and dumped what was left of her food into the trash before putting her plate in the sink and patting Spike's shoulder "You getting sick would trash my schedule."

"But you always take the week after the games off," Spike replied in confusion.

"You never know when some drama queen's gonna make trouble," Harshwhinny replied as she put her arm around Spike's neck and lead him back into the living room "Besides if you get sick and I need you at work I'll be stuck with a replacement, and having to deal with an idiot this close to the end of the games will drive me crazy. Come on, just for the night?" She looked Spike in the eye and gave him a pleading look.

"Oh alright, put the puppy eyes away." Spike chuckled, "Just for the night, I'm sure the rain will cool down enough for me to get home by morning," Harshwhinny gave him a smile and patted his back.

"Good, now that that's settled why don't you go grab your bags?" Spike ran off to do just that as Harshwhinny picked up hers and made her way to the stairs, "The guest room's upstairs," She called before dragging her luggage upstairs. She made her way into her room and left her luggage next to the door before rushing to her desk. There were stacks of paper on it, she ignored them and grabbed the parchment that had been waiting to be delivered since the Hearts and Hooves day of the year before last. It had randomly jumped around from hiding in her desk at work, to home, to Spike's desk, before being frantically retrieved and stuffed back into her's. She was going to give it to him after he lit the fire at the games, but had lost her nerve before even leaving her own room and had tossed it on her desk.

"Which room am I staying in?" Spike asked from the hall.

"The one with a small wooden sign on the door," Harshwhinny called back as she stuffed the letter in her desk, Spike looked at the four rooms, one of which was open. The open door belonged to Harshwhinny as she had been in a rush to get the letter out of any possible sight. One he figured was her bathroom, the other was her at home office. He spotted the small wooden sign on the door next to Harshwhinny's and made his way to it. The sign simply read, "Enjoy your stay."

"I'll try," Spike commented to the door before opening it. He looked inside it and shook his head, "This room is half the size of my entire apartment," he shook his head before walking in, "I need to upgrade."

When Spike had made himself at home, Harsh walked into the hall and took a deep breath before knocking. "Come on in," Harsh walked in to find Spike had placed his two bags on the dresser and was digging through one. She waited for him to find his prize and once he did, found it was a bag of chips. "Soggy chip?" Spike offered as he opened the bag, the bag was a little wet but the chips themselves had survived the rain, Spike leaned the opening towards her so she could grab some.

"Maybe one or two," Harshwhinny decided as she took a handful.

"Your definition of one or two is much different from mine," Spike said as he put his hand into the bag and began munching. "So," Spike motioned around the room with the bag, "Since when do you have guests over?"

"Actually, it's usually for my mother," Harshwhinny said as she looked around the somewhat dusty room "But she doesn't come for visits nowadays, she got herself a midlife crisis and...well let's just say I hopped off that ship before it even started sailing," there was a moment of silence before she changed the subject "So how's your family?"

"Well Twilight decided I was to be the new Celestia in the sense that I get a letter from her and the girls at least one a week telling me about their friendship lessons. I'll be seeing them at the end of next month, I've been invited to Smolder and Ocellus' wedding."

Harshwhinny smiled at that. "Oh? You know I hear it's customary to bring a date with you to a wedding,"

Spike turned red for a second before laughing. "Oh ha ha, laugh at the dragon." Spike said as he rolled up the bag and stuffed it back in his bag "Well since I'm spending the night I would like permission to take a bath before you embarrass me with more facts." Harshwhinny moved out of the way and pointed to the door across the hall, Spike grabbed his pj's, a bottle of scale-polish from his bag, and went on his way.

Harshwhinny waited until he had close the door to smile. "Yes," She whispered "I've planted doubt. If he's in a rush to get a date for that wedding, he'll certainly agree to take me. When he does I'll request a practice date for...some reason I'll think up later. Then on that date I slip him the note and the emotions of the moment will overwhelm him." Harshwhinny laughed before shutting herself up "Alright gotta buy some time, gotta keep Spike up and about," Harshwhinny rushed out of the guest room and into her home office, "I have to have something, anything to keep him busy when he gets out." She had a mess of work laying around the office, after a moment she found something that was bound to keep him up long enough for her to get a shower and make her plan, "It's perfect," She decided. She scurried around for a moment and pulled out a sticky note, she wrote a quick note to Spike, placed it on a large binder before picking it up and making her way back to the guest room, dropping it on the dresser so that he'd see it when he entered into the room. "This should buy me some time," She muttered before making her way back to her room to begin working on her plan.

Author's Note

Random Smolder and Ocellus shipping just thrown in cause I think they'd be cute together.