Wrong and Right

Shining Armor closed the dishwasher, turned the knob to the ON position, gave the kitchen one final once over, and headed for the bedroom. Dinner had been satisfactory in the taste department, though the conversation had been a bit on the quieter side. He knew Rarity wanted to talk about what had happened, but the young woman clearly wanted to do so on her own time, on her own terms. That was fine with him. It wasn't like he was looking forward to it himself.

He found her right where he'd expected to. She was propped against the headboard on the side of the bed she'd claimed as her own once he'd given her the key to his place. She had changed into her familiar bedtime attire of a set of lilac pajamas, a subtle sign that she intended to stay the night. Her hair was up in her usual sleeping bun and her red spectacles were perched on the bridge of her nose. Her tablet was propped on her knees and she seemed hard at work designing some new piece. The pencil in her fingers practically flew across the paper in her creative frenzy. He recognized from her posture and the intent look in her eyes that he shouldn't say anything just yet. Designing was the way she de-stressed best, after all. Interrupting her emotional purge could be dangerous, as he'd found out the first time he'd attempted to make a move while she was in such a mood.

Instead, he stepped into the closet and changed into his own flannel pajama pants and a plain white t-shirt. That done, he walked towards the bathroom to continue his usual bedtime ritual.

Rarity's hands stopped suddenly, and she turned the tablet in his direction without looking at him. "Well? Be honest."

He stopped and took in the rough sketch's curves and flourishes. "It's... a dress?"

A pair of dazzling blues flicked his way dangerously.

"It's a very nice dress."

Rarity tried to maintain the serious look on her face, but found she couldn't help but smile. "Oh, you adorable moose." She sighed as she reached up and removed her glasses. "What a pair we are."

As she placed the tablet, pencil, and her glasses on the nightstand, Shining Armor decided that this was the sign that he needed to sit down. He sat heavily at the foot of his side of the bed and looked back at her. "So..."

She settled back on the headboard and hugged her knees to her chest. "So..."

They sat in silence, neither quite sure where to begin.

"Oh, this is ridiculous!" The pale beauty threw her hands in the air in frustration. "We knew this was going to come out sooner or later."

"I guess both of us were just hoping it would be later." Shining Armor shook his head. "The question is; what do we do now?"

"It all depends on Cadance, doesn't it? She's in control of the time-table now." She bit her lip. "Do you think she's going to tell Twilight?"

"Honestly? I don't know. I've never seen her like this." He looked at his reflection in the black screen of the turned off television set. "After what she told me? About the cabin, I mean? It's making me wonder if I ever really knew her at all."

"It does tend to sour the... romantic spontaneity of our initial affair, knowing that she intended for you to sleep with one of us from the beginning." She shook her head. "Imagine if someone else had come down to the hot tub before me. Would Fluttershy be sitting here now? Or Pinkie Pie?"

Shining Armor couldn't help but chuckle at the image of the bouncing pink party girl sitting in solemn reflection on his bed. "I don't think that would've happened."

"You sound so sure."

"Of course I'm sure. Do I really seem like the kind of guy who would throw himself at just any hot young thing in a bikini?"

"Cadance certainly thought so."

"Well then maybe she didn't know me very well either." He sighed and lay back on the comforter. "Maybe it's because she was the first woman I ever fell in love with, and I fell for her so young, but I never really found myself attracted to other women."

This time it was Rarity who laughed. "I call shenanigans, darling. You might be a gentleman, but you're still a man. And all men lust."

"Of course I lusted." Shining Armor laughed with her. "But there's a difference between lust and love." He stared up at the ceiling. 'I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you and say that if Fluttershy or Sunset or even Pinkie had come down and made a move on me that night that I wouldn't have had sex with them." He smiled. "But I guarantee they wouldn't be sitting where you are right now."

"Guarantee, hmm?" He heard her move and suddenly her face was beside his, her feet now pressed against the headboard. "So I really made an impression on you, didn't I?" She smirked as she cut her eyes at him. "What was it? The suit?"

"That. And that you told me that you loved me."

Rarity stiffened. "Yes... well. Confessions in the heat of the moment don't count."

"But it was true, wasn't it?" He turned and looked at her. "That you loved me?"

Rarity blinked slowly. Finally, she nodded in acquiescence. "From the moment I met you, I knew you were special. I'm hardly the first girl to crush on her friend's older brother. But you..." She bit her lip again. "You were something else. Something unexpected."

"I was?"

She looked away, and this time it was she who stared up at the ceiling. "I used to do this all the time when I was little, you know? Lay here on the bed and gaze up at the ceiling. My father put those cheap glow-in-the-dark stars up there and I would just lay there and stare up at them for hours. I would lose myself in them, imagining myself in the fairy stories and medieval romances my mother would read to me at bedtime. I know it sounds silly and old-fashioned, but I always dreamed of being one of those princesses in the stories, cursed with a sleeping spell or trapped in an impregnable tower. I wanted to be them, because the prince always came for them. The prince..." She looked back at him, the slightest trace of tears in her eyes. "...or the knight in shining armor."

His lips found hers in a tender, upside down kiss. They breathed in one another, and when they parted he rested his forehead against hers. "See that? That's why you're here."

She smiled as she quickly wiped her eyes. "I knew that I never stood a chance with you, of course. You were so devoted to Cadance… Honestly, it only made me want you more. I must confess that I had given thought to seducing you before that night, but I always managed to talk myself out of it. I knew it was just a girlish fantasy. I knew that if I ever did anything unwanted, you'd be gone from my life forever. And I'd probably lose one of my best friends to boot." She reached up and stroked his cheek with a finger. "That night in the cabin... I was just teasing myself. Getting as close to you as possible. I knew the best case scenario was getting you worked up just enough that you'd flee inside to... relieve yourself."

"You're such a tease." He chuckled, blood beginning to flow downwards as his mind flew back to that night.

"Of course." She rubbed her nose against his. "You wouldn't be the only one in need of relief in that scenario, you know. There I'd be, all alone in that big, hot Jacuzzi. Alone... and desperately horny." She added in a whisper.

“Babe.” Shining Armor groaned. "You're trying to distract me."

"Is it working?" She winked.

"Rarity."

"I know, I know." She turned away and threw an arm over her eyes. "I can't help it that I get like this around you. This has never happened to me before." She was silent for a moment. "Was it like this for you? With Cadance, I mean?"

He considered. "Kind of. But it's different with you."

"How so?"

"With Cadance, I felt like I was always under this tremendous pressure. Like I had to constantly prove that I was worthy of her. Deep down, I always felt like she was way out of my league... and that she thought that, too. Being with Cadance, whether we were out on a date or just relaxing at home... it was like a competition. I could never relax." He shook his head. "Even when we were in bed together. We could never just have a slow screw or a quickie before work. I had to give my all every single time, because deep down I believed that the one time I didn't give her the best orgasm of her life..."

"...She'd go and find it with someone else." She finished for him.

"And then she did."

Rarity's hand reached down and took his, interlacing their fingers. "When you told me, I knew that it was then or never. Whether the two of you worked things out or not, I knew that if I didn't take my shot then and there, I'd never get the chance again." She giggled. "In my wildest dreams, you never gave in so easily. I must be better at seduction than I ever realized."

"Don't get me wrong; you're really good at it. But in that particular moment... I just felt something. Here I was, reeling from everything, from my world being shattered, and trying to just... lock it away, deep inside me. And then suddenly here's this brilliant, beautiful woman offering to share herself with me. Offering to help me." He smiled. "So it made perfect sense to kiss you."

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"After the week was over, after we'd managed to get everything out of our system... did you ever consider texting me? Or calling? Before I texted you, I mean?"

"To be honest with you? No." He felt her stiffen and tightened his grip on her hand reassuringly. "Mostly because I had to deal with Cadance. You have to remember; she was the first woman I'd ever had a relationship with. She was my first break-up. That was rough."

She relaxed slightly. "So if I hadn't wished you a happy birthday...?"

"I'd probably still be wallowing around, hating life." He traced his thumb down hers. "You helped me. Again."

"I had to do something. I hadn't been able to stop thinking about you since we'd said good-bye. I was running out of ways of cleverly asking Twilight how you were doing." She threw her arm back across her face dramatically. "I was going crazy! I couldn't sleep without dreaming of you. Your smile, your voice, your laugh..." She peeked out playfully. "The way you look without a shirt."

Shining Armor laughed.

"After yet another shower ended with me as a mewling, post-orgasmic mess on the tile, I said that enough was enough and sent you a simple happy birthday text. And you!" She lunged forward, snatched a pillow, and brought it back into his face with a liquid smoothness that impressed him even as he laughed. "You could have ignored me! Or just said thank you! Or any number of things. But no! You had to keep being the sweetest, most caring man I'd ever met! You just made everything worse. Because suddenly I'm not just playing with myself thinking about your muscles or how good your sweat tastes. Oh no. Now I'm thinking of romantic walks on the shore." She emphasized her point with another strike with the pillow. "Picnics in the forest!" Another hit.

"Shrimp alfredo and lazing in bed together?"

"YES!" She struck one final time before collapsing beside him, laughing fit to burst. "Frankly, it's a miracle I didn't come over a long time before I did."

"Why did you come that night? In that outfit?" He asked, tossing the pillow away before she could resume her assault.

"It was part of a fool-proof last ditch effort to get you out of my system completely. I’d asked Cheerilee to set me up on a date with one of her friends. Well, a date in the very loosest terms…"

"Miss Cheerilee?" He gaped at her. "Canterlot High’s librarian?"

"Oh stop. She's barely twenty two. We're good friends outside of school." She hugged herself. "I knew that if a one night stand with an older man couldn't break me of you, then nothing could. I put on that outfit so that he'd know my intentions right from the start."

"What happened?"

"I got to the hotel where we'd agreed to meet... and before I'd even killed my engine, I remembered that you lived only a few blocks away. I didn't even think twice. And..." She waved her wrist in a circular motion. "Here we are."

"Here we are. It's a total mess, but here we are."

The two stared at the ceiling together for a few minutes more, basking in the comfortable silence.

It was Rarity who spoke first. "I... I want this, us I mean, to not be a secret anymore. I want everyone to know. Let them judge how it began all they want. They'll just have to accept what it is now."

"And Twilight?"

"Oh, she's going to be upset. With both of us, mind you, but especially with me. There's no avoiding that. Even if we had come out right at the start, she would've been angry. But she's your sister and my best friend. She'll just have to learn to live with the fact that I love you." There. It was done. She'd said it at last. "I feel right saying that now. When I'm with you, I feel... I feel like I'm home. And I think that's what love is supposed to feel like, so... I love you. Damn everything, but I do. I know it's going to be hard, I know that it's going to change things with Twilight, but I don't care. I don't care if it's wrong or if it’s right... I just don't care. I can't keep pretending that I don't love you."

Shining Armor said nothing.

She turned to face him. "It's alright if you can't say it, now or ever. And if you think things will be easier with everyone if we just break it off, then I'll understa...!" He'd cut her off with another kiss, and she melted against him.

He broke away just enough to whisper "I love you" before kissing her again, punctuating each longer kiss with a small one. "I love your creativity." He said again as his hands grasped her cheeks and pulled her closer. "I love your caring."

Rarity inhaled sharply when she felt his tongue make contact with hers, and she responded in kind. "I love you." She moaned each time their lips split the slightest bit. "I love your sweetness." She kissed downward, kissing the crook of his smile, his chin, his jaw. Her feet pushed against the headboard, forcing her further down. "I love your strength."

Shining Armor mirrored her, kissing down the hollow of her throat, slowly sliding further up towards the head of the bed. The pair turned onto their sides as they kissed and licked their way along each other’s bodies, paying no mind if their lips were touching flesh or cloth. Their hands crawled across one another, grasping and stroking and pulling at whatever they found.

Shining Armor was taller, so he ended up reaching his goal first. After placing a perfunctory kiss on the waistband on her pajama bottoms, he easily hooked his fingers in the elastic and pulled them down her long, lithe legs. When they were down past her knees, she parted her thighs easily to reveal her already practically soaked slit. Shining Armor kissed her there just as tenderly as he'd kissed her above, gently tasting her arousal and groaning at the familiar bouquet that was purely and simply Rarity.

Rarity sighed at first contact, but refused to just surrender and allow herself to be pleasured while not reciprocating in kind. She nuzzled Shining Armor's erection through his pajamas, worshipping it with small kisses and licks. When her crafty fingers found the waistband and pulled the cloth down, she giggled when his thick cock practically bounced free from its confines and booped her on the nose. Literally salivating, she eagerly closed her mouth around him and hummed at the familiar taste of cock-flesh. Her tongue circled his tip lazily as she drew him back and forth in a languid, easy pace.

Side by side in a relaxed sixty-nine, the two lovers cherished one another, tasted each other. Shining Armor's hands caressed Rarity’s thighs and kneaded the firm but pliable flesh of her rear, used his grip to pull her pussy closer, allowing him greater access to her sweet nectar. He was addicted to the taste, to the tactile feel of this artistic goddess given earthly form.

Rarity's own hands grasped at the hard muscle of his ass, very nearly drooling at the feel, the texture. She'd fallen for a Renaissance statue come to life, she realized.

Shining Armor, still frightfully tense from his earlier state of arousal, was shocked to feel that he was already getting close to the edge. His hips began to pump of their own volition, and Rarity’s approving moan created an extra vibration in her hot mouth as he worked with her own movements to force just a bit more of himself towards the back of her throat.

Rarity's eyes rolled into the back of her head when she felt the tell-tale clench of muscle in her man's posterior muscles. She knew that tensing, knew what was coming. Her neck continued its slow bob along his cock, matching his small thrusts stroke for stroke, but her tongue began to spin faster, edging along the rim of the tip and flicking at the slit that would soon deliver her reward.

Shining Armor forced himself away from her quim and gasped, desperately trying to stave off the inevitable. "Rarity, I..."

Rarity pulled herself free of his dick for only a moment. Only long enough to gasp out a quiet "Give it to me" before again taking him as deep as she could.

Shining Armor bit back a curse as his back seized. He felt his balls pulse, shooting their payload into his woman's waiting mouth.

Rarity somehow managed to hum, giggle, and moan all at once at the familiar salty taste of her man's cum as it hit her tongue. She swallowed reflexively, never stopping her easy, lazy blowjob even as she felt him tense once... twice... three times, each delivering a lesser load of semen. She ran her tongue over the slit, gaining a few lingering drops and earning her a quiet shudder of post-orgasmic pleasure from the object of her affections. She released her iron-tight grip on his ass and let his softening rod fall from her lips. "I trust that was worth the wait." She kissed his penis’ tip and smiled.

Shining Armor was momentarily at a loss for words. "I've... I haven't cum that fast since my first time."

"Flatterer." Rarity laughed airily. Her own sex still throbbed with want, but she was patient. She knew her own needs would be tended to in due time. "You needed that."

"I needed you." He surprised her by sitting up and quickly repositioning himself over her. "But you need something to."

"Oh, tosh, darling." She smiled with hooded eyes as he gazed down at her. "Giving is its own reward." Her eyes widened when felt his fingers caressing her heated core. "Of course, it would be rude to say no... Ah!"

Her playful banter was silenced when his index finger rubbed a practiced circle around her clit. "Shhh..." He leaned in close to her ear, playfully nibbling at her lobe. "Just lie back and let me make you cum."

Rarity was saved from letting out a very un-ladylike ‘yes, daddy’ by a shuddering moan as the older man above her began playing her pussy like a well-tuned harpsichord. She clenched at the comforter beneath her as he worked her towards her climax. It wasn't hard. Driving him to orgasm always tended to turn her on immensely. If there was one thing she should be thankful to Cadance for, she realized, it was the strength of Shining Armor's finger game. He was an expert at finding her clit and reading the writhes of her body, the pace of her breathy moans, in order to deliver her to a lightning fast climax, a long, drawn out, body-wracking orgasm, or anything in between in the spectrum of physical love. Whatever the mood called for.

Tonight, Rarity just needed to cum. And fast.

Shining Armor stared into the blue depths of her eyes, clouded with pleasure, and read her will as easily as a book. His fingers spun and squeezed at her bud, relishing every moan, every whispered curse. "Tell me when." He told her as he lowered his face to her still clothed chest, kissing and lapping at the hard nubs that poked up from the fabric like exposed nails.

"Al-almost...ah!" Rarity's teeth clenched and her eyes shut of their own accord as the first spasm struck. "Don't tease me tonight. Please."

“Anything for you.” He promised, his voice muffled as he coated her top in spit from his ministrations.

“Anything?”

He tore himself away from her breasts and looked into her eyes once more. “Anything.”

“Kiss me.” She commanded. She started cumming the instant his lips touched hers. The previous young men she’d taken to bed had blanched at the idea of kissing her after she’d brought them to climax with her mouth. But not Shining Armor. He took any opportunity to kiss her, no matter the circumstance. When she felt his tongue touch the back of her teeth, she arched up against him. Her hands beat futilely at the bedspread or grasped desperately at his shirt, his hair. She cried her orgasm out into his mouth and he gulped it greedily, never stopping his finger’s movements.

All too soon, he felt her begin to relax. He slowed his fingering accordingly, letting her ride out the last waves of her climax. He broke the kiss, and the two lay there panting together as Rarity got her wits back. “You good?”

“Darling, I’m spectacular.” She giggled breathlessly, her pale face ruddy with post-orgasmic blush.

He pecked her chin once before leaning in to rub his face in her hair. “I love you.”

“I love you, too.” She kissed his cheek. “But we do have a busy day tomorrow, so…”

“Right, right.” Shining Armor stood, pulled his pajamas back on, and stretched. He shook his head as she pulled her bottoms back up and reached for her phone. “Taking one of those post-sex selfies?”

She laughed as she rolled onto her stomach. “Just checking the networks, darling. Getting it out of the way so we can just cuddle.”

“I do enjoy cuddling.” He stepped into the bathroom and finally began the pre-bedtime routine. He’d just managed to finish squeezing the toothpaste from the tube when he heard Rarity’s gasp. He poked his head out and saw that she was still in the same position, her eyes glued to her phone. “What happened? Some celebrity die?” When she didn’t respond, didn’t even move, he started walking towards her. “Rarity?”

She turned to face him at last. She hadn’t removed all of her make-up yet, and twin trails of eyeliner ran down the pristine ivory of her face. Etched on that face was the most shattered, positively destroyed expression he’d ever seen.

He knew at once that he never wanted to see that look ever again.

“It’s… it’s Twilight.” She sniffled as she handed him her phone. When he took it, she buried her face in the blankets and finally let go, weeping and shaking.

Shining Armor stared at the text on Rarity’s phone. It was indeed from his little sister.

She knew.

And she was not happy.