“Oh please don’t be there, please don’t be there,” Derpy said, she was a grey pegasus with a blond mane and beautiful golden harvest eyes, she was special though, while her eyes were golden, they also were crossed. Due to this, many of the ponies called her names and she had a very bad childhood, but she was happy. She had friends and a good job as a mail mare. And thankfully she had a day off. While she was happily relaxing, she hoped today of all days was the day she wouldn’t find a letter. She always delivered one letter a week to her house, unfortunately for her, it was a love letter. She never liked the thought of a secret admirer, so she always anticipated when opening her mailbox.

“Hi Derpy!” a voice behind her said, making Derpy shriek and fall.

“Sorry, didn’t mean to scare ya,” Derpy opened her eyes and saw (partially) a teal-colored pony with mint colored hair with white highlights.

“It’s okay Lyra, I was just thinking,” Derpy said, getting back up on her hooves.

“About the letters again? What does it say?” Lyra asked, coming up to the mailbox.

“I don’t know, I haven’t opened it yet,” they both looked at the mailbox for a while before Lyra went up to the mailbox.

“Well, what are you waiting for? Open it.”

Derpy took a few more steps and carefully put her hoof on the door. She looked back at Lyra who nodded her head and opened her mailbox, looking in and seeing the letter. She took it and breathed in, but soon turned around to Lyra and held the letter to her.

“You read it, I just can’t see all of the mushy stuff he said this time,” Derpy said, hanging her head in defeat.

“Alright, if you're sure,” Lyra said wondering what all the fuss is all about, “I’m sure Lyra, please just read it,” Derpy said forcingly.

“Alright,” Lyra read through the letter out loud, “My dearest Ditzy Doo, I know this is a bit far out there, but these letters are just not working out for me…”

Derpy looked at Lyra with the hope that these letters may stop coming to her.

“I have thought about you ever since the letter delivery, and I want to meet you in pony, to let you finally see my face, to show you how I feel. Please meet me at the hill where the stars shine the brightest, after the Festival of Hearts. I can’t wait to see you, your secret admirer” Lyra finished and saw that Derpy was blushing, many thoughts went through Derpy’s mind at that very minute.

“OMC, this pony wants to see me! I can’t believe it, no pony had ever wanted to meet me before, maybe this pony does like me for me,” her thoughts were broken by a concerned Lyra calling her name.

“Honey you don’t look too good, you’re a bit flush, maybe we should…” she was cut off by a frantic Derpy pulling her to her face where they were muzzle to muzzle.

“We need to figure out who this stallion is and we need to figure it out now!”

Lyra was taken aback by her words, never had Derpy raised her voice except in determination.

Derpy took out a box with all of the previous letters that her admirer sent, Lyra looked at the box and was confused that she had kept track of the letters.

“I thought you were uncomfortable with the letters he sent you,” Lyra said looking in the box.

“Yes, I do feel a bit uncomfortable with the letters he sends, but I’m always organized with my letters,” Derpy said shuffling the letters around.

This wasn’t that big of a surprise to Lyra, ever since she was a mail mare she had become so organized with everything.

“So, how are we going to find out who this stallion is?” Lyra asked as Derpy took a few of the letters out.

“We are going to find out by looking at the letters he sent previously, that way we’ll find out about his character and who he is,” Derpy said smiling at her plan.

“That’s a pretty good plan, Derpy, but how will you know who he is when we find out his character?” Lyra asked as more letters came out of the box.

“You know my sixth sense Lyra, you know I know the ponies of Ponyville by their letters better than any pony,” Derpy said, taking the last letter out.

“Yes, but are you sure you can guess who he is by words on paper?” Lyra asked doubting her sixth sense, Derpy ignored her comment and read one of the letters instead,

“Dear Ditzy, I just want you to know that I saw you at the market and you looked ravishing with your hair up, I hope I can see you tomorrow like that, it was different to see you without your hair in your eyes I might bump into you tomorrow so I can see your beautiful eyes on mine. Stay like you, your admirer.” Derpy took a minute or two to look at the letter then she looked at Lyra with a reassuring smile, “This means that he is thinking of me as beautiful with my hair up, and it also means he is very descriptive with his words, and since he saw me at the market and was going to see me again, this means he goes out a lot,” Lyra looked at Derpy with eyes of astonishment, she did have a sixth sense in ponies letters.

“Wow, you do know ponies by their letters,” Lyra said amazed,

“He sent a letter about himself so I could guess who he is, I just ignored it like all of the others,” Derpy said, realizing what she was doing to these letters. Had she just ignored the letters this pony, this pony who liked her, had sent, she found the right letter and read it, “My dearest Ditzy, I have sent these letters for a month now and have learned much about you, but now I think it’s time you learn about me. To summarize, I am a strange pony who you see at times you have talked to me before while ordering a muffin, but I also am a pony with a brown coat, I also have blue eyes, and I think fondly over you, this probably won’t help you much, but I know you can figure it out. You are a really smart pony and I hope to find you soon.” Once Derpy finished her letter she remembered why she ignored these letters, and Lyra knew it, too.

“Wow, he wants you to know him,” she said as Derpy looked nervous.

“This is why I hate love letters,” she said, “They always seem like stalkers to me when I read them all,”

Lyra now understood why Derpy didn’t want to read the letter today, now she knew why she was getting nervous about meeting him. Lyra held Derpy in her hooves to comfort her.

“Don’t worry Derpy, whoever this pony is we’ll find him… or her.” Saying these words made Derpy get out of Lyra’s reach and panic at the thought of the admirer being a mare.

“OMC! What if it is a mare! What will I say if it is! Will I be able to? Will she be mad at me? Am I overreacting? Maybe I should just calm down and think again,” Derpy calmed down at her own words and breathed in, after a few long breaths she walked to the letter and thought.

“Well, we have a bit of a clue on what he or…” Derpy shuttered before she continued, “She looks like. Now we just need to go out to the festival and ask a few questions,” Lyra looked at Derpy in a determined manner as they walked to the door, “Well then, let’s go find this stalker!” Derpy looked at Lyra with a ‘look’ that indicated Lyra should shut up right about now.

The Festival of Hearts was unfortunately very busy for Derpy and Lyra, they couldn’t find the direct pony the letter described, all around them were different kinds of ponies with brown coats. They took a break for a while to catch their breaths, leaving Derpy to give up hope.

“It’s hopeless Lyra, we’ve asked all around for clues and came to another dead end.” She said slumping down and crossing her forehooves.

“Don’t worry, we’ve only searched for at least half of the ponies at the festival, and we still have more to search around for,” Lyra said trying to cheer her friend up.

“We’ve narrowed it down to at least four ponies, the sales pony,”

“probably worried I am going to ruin his shop,” Derpy said looking at the flaws of all the contestants,

“Okay, how about G Strings?”

“Probably will think I’ll ruin his music,”, “Well then how about Island Wonder?”

“Was making fun of me when I was young,” Lyra rolled her eyes at Derpy’s remarks and thought of an idea.

“How about looking at the positives of the last pony,” she said, trying to help her friend out, Derpy thought about it for a second before nodding her head.

“Okay, what about Crescent Moon?” Derpy put her hoof on her chin to think about the pony.

“Well he’d never made fun of my eyes, and he use to be my partner in flight training, and we always got along, but we drifted apart after training, maybe it is him?” Derpy smiled at the thought of Crescent Moon liking her, making her blush and noticeable.

“It seems like we have a winner,” Lyra said smirking and making Derpy blush with embarrassment. Derpy then had a horrible realization as her blushing turned to disappointment.

“What’s wrong? Did he do something wrong in your past?” Lyra asked, looking concerned at some bad thoughts of what he could do.

“No, it’s just, I think he might have a mare friend,” Derpy said, saddened by the thought. Lyra looked at Derpy and tried to think of what to do.

“Hey, at least that crosses out one of them from the list,” Derpy felt a little bit better knowing this but was still pretty sad not knowing who it is.

“Maybe I should just face it and find out who he is tonight,” Derpy said getting up from the bench and walking away.

“Are you going to freak out when you know who he is?” Lyra said questionably.

“If he knows me that much, then he’ll bet I will,” Derpy said turning around and walking to her house, waiting for the biggest surprise she’d ever receive.

Nighttime usually made Derpy relax, with the stars aiding her way to the tree that she loved so much, following the North Star to the hill she saw her first meteor shower, but now the walk to that hill is making Derpy more nervous by every step she took. Thoughts running through her head as she tried to imagine who this stallion (or mare, shutters) is.

“Does he want to talk? Will he think of me as boring once he meets me? What if he doesn’t like me and just wanted to make fun of me, I can’t have that happen again.”

Her mind drifted off to that awful day when she thought the stallion she had a crush on liked her, but she was heartbroken when he met her to say that no pony would ever like her in front of his friends, and they all laughed leaving her to give up hope that all ponies would just hate her for who she is. The thought kept running through her head.

“What if he is like the colt I liked, it may just be another pony in Ponyville telling me that I’m nothing and no pony will ever love me,” she found the hill where her questions were about to be answered, but she found no one sitting there.

“I knew it, he must’ve been too scared and ran away, or he just was leading me on to this very moment just so I can have my heart broken again,” Derpy said as she looked up to the sky getting the bad memory in her head.

“Again? Well I guess if it was that bad then I shouldn’t have sent those letters,” a voice called out behind Derpy, she turned around and (Thankfully for the bright huge moon) saw a tall stallion with a brown coat, just like in his letter, with a darker color of hair spiked up, making Derpy remember the mohawk phase of Equestria, he also had an hourglass for a cutie mark, nonetheless, he was a handsome stallion that Derpy couldn’t get by, she wondered why this pony of all would send the letters to her. Derpy realized that she hadn’t said anything while he was standing there, suddenly something snapped making Derpy mad at the stallion who had sent the letters, making her remember all the words it said

“WHY IN TARTARUS WOULD YOU DO THAT TO ME!” she shouted, making the stallion flinch and back up from her.

“Alright not the reaction I was looking for,” he said, she noticed he had somewhat of a Trottingham voice, making her more confused why he would be here and not there, she lowered her voice but was still in a stern manner.

“Have you been spying on me or something? Because if you are, your letters of not being a stalker are going in flames from your lies,” Derpy said crossing her hooves as she hovered above him.

“Ditzy if you could please let me explain then I could-”

“No! let me explain. Do you know the restless nights I had trying to figure out who you were? I couldn’t even focus on my job, which you probably already know by now, but why would you do that?” Derpy’s voice calmed down as she let her words sink into the odd stallion, she was mad but reasonable so she went quiet so he could explain.

“Well, I didn’t know you would react this way,” he said, not sure how to put his words into place.“But if it leads you to that much discomfort, then you should’ve told me, but why didn’t you?” he asked making a sympathetic look causing Derpy to want to take back all of her words.

“I just didn’t want to reply, it was hard for me to tell you to stop, from your first letter I tried, I did, but then I kept reading your words and it caught up to me that you liked me, and I didn’t want to break your heart knowing what I said would do that. So, I read the letters and put them in a box at my house, hoping you would just stop noticing me, which I guess didn’t work apparently.” Derpy looked at the stallion with sorrow in her eyes, she looked at him and saw he didn’t look hurt by her words. While feeling sympathetic, she still had one thing on her mind,

“What is your name?” she asked wondering why she didn’t think of this sooner.

“Time Turner miss, pleased to finally meet you,” the stallion said holding his hoof out to introduce himself,

“Charmed as well,” Derpy said in a sophisticated manner, making Time Turner laugh, she began to snicker, too. Then she sat down and patted him to sit down as well. Time Turner was surprised about how fast her mood changed but didn’t waste any more time before plopping down beside her smiling. They smiled while looking up at the stars, making Derpy relaxed and contemplated what she could ask next,

“How long?” she finally said causing Time-Turner to swerve his head to meet hers.

“Pardon?” he asked.

“How long? I mean when you started liking me?” Derpy said, looking directly at Time-Turner's eyes, making her slightly pink in her cheeks. Turner saw her and started blushing himself, trying to think of the words to say.

“Well, if I have to say from the start, I guess ever since I saw you crash into me. Do you remember that day?” Time Turner finally asked, waiting for her answer. Derpy thought about it for a while, trying to remember the day she crashed into some pony someday. She remembered crashing into many things but not into any pony. Derpy shook her head, making Time Turner laugh quietly.

“I thought you might not, but let me tell you that you did. And when you did, I felt something I have never felt for any pony before, like there was some kind of ticking time bomb that burst of pure joy.” Time Turner began to get excited describing how he met Derpy, it made her nervous but smile at his words.

“So that means you must work at a clock shop then, doesn’t it,” Derpy said looking smug at her comment. Time Turner looked at her with astonishment and wonder,

“Ho- how did you know that?” he said, still amazed at her action.

“It’s just a talent I’ve always had, you said you worked somewhere where the time is always right so I figured it out through that. It’s like a-”

“Sixth sense?” Time Turner said, finishing her sentence, Derpy smiled and nodded her head. They both stared at each other, Derpy looking at his blue, beautiful eyes. She never knew how nice they looked, at first glance he just looked like a normal pony. staring at him, Derpy could see many of the wonders in his eyes, but she also saw a bit of pain, her sixth sense kicking into her (from some of the letters he sent he seemed mad and hurt when discussing his parents for a sentence or two), she could tell in only a few minutes, he had a rough childhood. Parents never home... abused siblings, and he ran away due to too much. All of this made Derpy see him with new eyes, she tried to focus her left eye but to no avail. She noticed he was laughing and blushing to make her smile at what she was doing.

“What, what is it?” she asked, still keeping a happy smile making him blush a bit harder.

“Oh! It’s nothing,” Derpy didn’t look convinced and her eyes proved it.

“It’s just, you always look so adorable when you do that. trying to fix your eyes and all, it just makes me realize how much more I want you.” Derpy blushed at his comment, she felt so happy. And yet, so sad. The words “Trying to fix your eyes” kept ringing in her ear. All the thoughts of that stallion who mocked her about her eyes and how no pony would love her. These thoughts made her sadder by each word and second thoughts of Time-Turner.

“Miss Ditzy, are you alright?” there they were, the words she had remembered from her mother after that awful day. It was the day in which she thought some pony thought of her more than klutzy, and she came back with the same words over and over again.

“Did you think I would like you? Ha! She thought I did! Let me be clear, you will never find any pony to like you, you’ll always be lonely, no pony loves you!” Derpy grew tears in her eyes, causing Time-Turner to quickly react.

“Ditzy you're crying! Was it something I said? Something I did?” Derpy now was starting to wail and Turner went up to hold her.

“It’s okay, what did I do, hmm? Did I make you cry? What can I do to make it better,” Derpy looked at those blue emerald eyes and was feeling a bit better. She sniffed and embraced him, making Time Turner blush with happiness. Derpy calmed down and carefully contemplated her words, and wondered with one question.

“Are you just saying all that, or do you mean it?” Time Turner looked at Derpy with worry.

“Now why would you think of a thing like that?” Derpy looked away from his eyes and thought about what to say.

“I guess, it’s just…” she sighed, she didn’t know if he could understand what she goes through, she didn’t know if she could tell, but she also wanted to get this dark past out of her.

“Have you ever been told no pony would love you?” Derpy finally said looking up and seeing a concerned Time-Turner.

“Why would you ever ask that?!” he said, making Derpy have second thoughts of her question.

“I don’t know, I just wondered because someone told me that before, and I kept thinking about his words and if you really like me or just making fun at me and-“

“W-wait, you mean to tell me some pony told you no pony would love you? Well, that’s just messed up. I swear I’ll…” Time Turner looked at a scared Derpy, realizing what he said must’ve frightened her.

“Sorry, I guess I got carried away there,” he said, blushing in embarrassment, and Derpy took a while to say something. She was just so amazed that he would defend her, she couldn’t help but smile with thanks at his words, and he noticed it.

“It’s ok, I’ve never seen some pony defend me before. I was just… astonished.” Derpy couldn’t keep her miss-matched eyes off his, they seemed like he had so many secrets to tell, but she also saw many things he wanted to tell. Things she would have to ask. Derpy blushed hard. She realized it was getting late, so she would have to leave. But she couldn’t, both for the reason he was still holding her, and also because she didn’t want to. She didn’t want to leave the grasp of his warmth, but tomorrow would be a busy day and she needed to get a good rest. Her mind was made up and she left his glance,

“I think I should go, I have a busy day tomorrow delivering mail to all the ponies and what-not,” Derpy said sounding sad to go, she looked up at a disappointing Time Turner, she felt bad but knew it was for the best, she got up but was pulled back down by a brown hoof.

“Wait! Are you sure you have to go?” Derpy stared at him once again, not wanting to let go. “I know you don’t want me to, but you also have a workday tomorrow, too. So I think we both should just go home,” she said, not wanting to look at his sad glow, “Well, at the very least, I could walk you home,” Time Turner said standing up and taking her hoof. Derpy didn’t know if she wanted to walk home with a stallion she just met.

“Ok, but I should warn you it’s a long walk,” she said trying to get out of it. “Well, that’s even better. Gives us more of a chance to know each other, come on let’s go!” Time Turner said trotting away, making Derpy confused at how he was so positive. It took her almost half an hour to get here, and that was by flight, but she also was a bit relieved, she wanted to learn more about him. So many questions were about to be answered for her.

It seemed like only a few minutes before Derpy and Time Turner left the hill. Derpy asked so many questions, she thought she had run Time-Turners brain dry, but he answered each of them fluently. Derpy already knew a bit from his letters, though there was one question that made him think.

“So, who was in your family?” she asked.

“Well, I had a mother and father, obviously, but I had a big brother and sister who…” Time Turner paused, contemplating what to say. Derpy saw this and instantly felt bad asking that.

“I know,” she said, causing Time-Turner to swerve his head in surprise.

“You do, really?” he asked, still getting the comment to his head.

“Sixth sense remember,”

“Oh right! Well, I’m glad you do, it’s hard to tell ponies about them when all they did was ridicule me, hurt me, even locked me out of the house with no dinner or anything for the night. My parents were never home so my big sister had to foal-sit us, in which she never did, always was writing to her friends with her unicorn magic, so that left me with my, unfortunately, athletic wrestler, brother. You can probably guess how that turned out.” Time Turner didn’t shed a tear, but Derpy could tell he wanted to. She leaned up next to him, making him blush with embarrassment.

“Hey, I know what it’s like to be abused my parents did exactly what your siblings do. My dad was never home, and my mom was ill so she had to take many drugs, making her mad, Especially at me. I never blamed her for it, I blamed the illness and the doctors who prescribed them to her. Anyway, I always wondered if they thought of me more than just who I look like. More than an abused child. I tried to talk to them after I graduated and found my place, but when I couldn’t find them, I made the worst assumption that they…” Derpy stopped in her tracks, making Time Turner wonder what it was, but afraid to ask.

“D-do, do you think they did?” He finally muttered. Derpy sat down on her haunches to think of what to say.

“I don’t know, I couldn’t find them. I searched everywhere within a 50-mile radius but I couldn’t even get other ponies who knew them well to find them. I just gave up recently. I still wonder why they left, but other than that I never could get a lead.” Derpy hung her head. She had never mentioned this to anypony before, but something about Turner made her feel like she could say anything to him. she felt his fur on hers making her blush, looking to see he was, too. Once again getting lost in his eyes, she smiled and felt warmer than she ever had been.

“You know, there are more things I find in common with you than any pony I’ve been around,” Time Turner said, making her blush more than ever.

“Me, too.” They both got up from the ground and shared the awkward moment with silence as they continued until they reached Derpy’s house.

“Thank you again for walking me home, I hope to see you again,” Derpy said, unlocking her door and stepping inside, she stopped at her threshold and turned around.

“Um, I have one more question to ask you,” she said stepping closer to the edge of her door.

“Well, ask away,” Time Turner said in the cheery way he used to be.

“Well, of all the ponies you could fall for, why me?” Turner was taken aback by this question, he seemed so calm about the others, but this seemed to shock him most of anything, he was also blushing very hard, making him look cute to Derpy.

“Oh! Um, well I guess it’s because… uh, hehe” he said stammering. This made Derpy smile even wider,

“Oh my Celestia he is so cute! No pony has ever been this nervous in front of me! I feel like I should say something, but what?” She thought she looked at Time Turner, who was still stammering and thought of saying something, but he beat her to it

“I think I like you because... this.” Derpy looked confused at his comment, Turner noticed that she didn’t understand.

“I mean… you. You’re different, you’re not afraid to just go for it. When you put your mind to it, you just do it.” Derpy blushed so hard at his compliment. She tried once again to fix her eyes straight and say something, but he spoke before her again.

“And another thing,” he said sternly, “Don’t change those eyes, they’re beautiful, they represent how different you are. They say it’s stupid, but I think it’s… stupidly adorable. And I love it.” Derpy looked at Time Turner with astounding wonder, no pony had ever called her eyes beautiful. Let alone stupidly adorable. She liked it. Then a thought ran up in her head, “Wow, he does love me… wait… he does love me!” she looked at Time-Turner and was getting nervous to ask.

“T-Time Turner, d-do… do you… love m-me?” Derpy stammered, she didn’t look at Turner until after a while, but when she did, she saw that he was more nervous than ever. He was sweating in the head and it made Derpy regret every word she said, she then looked at his eyes for possibly the 10th time tonight, seeing the clear answer. She saw that he wanted to say yes, but he was nervous too. She saw his mouth wanting to say, “say something, you idiot” but all she saw were tiny movements. She did not need a clear answer, she knew he loved her and made the first move she thought. Derpy leaned in and kissed Time-Turner. Staying still but soon feeling the passion he brought back. Sitting there, in the moon princess Luna provided, Derpy felt right, she felt like this was meant to happen, her sixth sense may not be able to tell the future, but she can tell that she and Time Turner would be happy. And no muffins in the world could keep her like this. While the happiness in her was wide, Derpy also had the strangest thought, “I wonder if anypony else had as weird a heart and hooves day like me?”

Author's Note

OTP is here to stay, I will ship it any way!!! I can't help it, Derpy reminds me so much of myself, so I had to do a chapter about her. The favorite ship be favorited! it could take me hours to talk about how I love these two together, however, I felt that this chapter sums it up to an extent, but there are many more I want to tell.