The Model's Secretary

On the morning of another one of Fleur's days off she and Shining Star were sitting by a table each having a relaxing cup of tea. As Fleur finished her cup she looked at her old friend and noticed a rather huge smile on her face. "Somepony seems to be in a very good mood."

"I have a very good reason to be," Shiny said as she, like Fleur finished her tea. "I got some more alone time with Ozzy and we got into some risque boundaries."

"I thought you and he did that a long time ago."

"We did but I was supposed to get a turn as the master, but we didn't get around to that for some reason, it was quite some time ago I can't remember."

"Oh right, you did mention something about how you had to head out before you got your turn," Fleur said as she remembered all of a sudden. "Had to leave poor Ozzy with all the laundry," she added with a laugh.

"Yeah, but this time I did the laundry. Honestly it was the least I could do for Ozzy, I was really rough on him trying to get him to cry out moonstone but he endured it."

"I'm not surprised he's quite tough when he needs to be," Fleur commented. "Good for him, and good for you Shiny, I thought you and Ozzy were never going to get around to that."

"Can you believe how much things have changed for the better ever since Ozzy came into our lives?" Shining Star asked as she recalled when she first met him and how it wasn't exactly a fond first impression.

"I know, he hasn't even been with us for a year but I can't imagine our lives without him," Fleur said as she also recalled the first time she met him and how he risked his life to save hers.

"I love him so much," Shining Star said.

"I feel the exact same way," Fleur said as she and Shiny started to feel like their heat was acting up.

"Shiny Fleur, are you two down there?" Ozzy called out from upstairs.

"Yes," they answered at the same time. Ozzy then came down the stairs in a rather fancy suit similar to when he went on his date with Shimmer Dress.

"I'm going to head to the market to get some food. Do either of you want something?" Ozzy asked and became a little unsettled when he saw the look in their eyes.

"Oh yes there is definitely something we want," Fleur said. "Don't you agree?"

"Yes, oh yes I do Fleur," Shining Star said as she and Fleur stood up and slowly approached Ozzy.

"Ozzy, you don't have to go to the market right now do you?" Fleur asked. When she and Shiny got closer to Ozzy he couldn't help but notice the look in their eyes, like tigers about to maul an antelope.

"Well it's just I meant to do it earlier but I put it off and I'm worried that if I don't do it now I'm going to forget it yet again," Ozzy said as he held up the grocery list when suddenly Fleur used her magic to make the list disappear. Shiny and Fleur then tackled Ozzy forcing him to the ground, each one pinning one of his arms, the two mares then began to kiss Ozzy sweetly right on his lips one after the other.

"I think you can wait a little longer before going to the market," Shiny said as she kissed Ozzy yet again.

"Something tells me I don't really have a choice," Ozzy said as he received another kiss this time from Fleur.

"Probably not," Fleur said. "We're really in the mood right now."

"I can see that," Ozzy replied. "So can you let me up now?"

"What for Ozzy?" Shiny asked as she and Fleur took a break from kissing Ozzy.

"Well if you two are in such a mood we should go upstairs to find the closest bed," Ozzy answered.

"Why don't we just do it right here?" Shiny said to Ozzy's shock. "Oh Ozzy don't look so surprised it's not like this would be the first time the four of us, I mean the three of us have done that."

"Oh yeah," Ozzy said as he remembered the first time he met Shimmer Dress. "I actually kind of forgot about that."

"And speaking of that time," Fleur said before using her magic to make her, Shiny's, and Ozzy's clothes disappear.

"That reminds me I got a call from her a while back," Ozzy said.

"You did?" Fleur said as she laid her head on Ozzy's chest to listen to his heartbeat as he told her the story.

"Yeah she wanted to thank me for introducing her to Jude."

"She's actually grateful for meeting that guy?"

"Shiny," Fleur said in an offended tone. "I think those two are good for one another, how long have they been dating again?"

"About a month, month and a half," Ozzy answered. "Time sure flies doesn't it, we shou-" Ozzy was cut off when Shiny gently placed her hand on his mouth.

"Yes it does Ozzy but let's talk about this later okay?" Shiny asked to which Ozzy nodded. Shiny and Fleur then got ready to continue but then there was a knock at the door. "Oh of all the rotten luck."

"I suppose I can get it," Fleur said as she got up off the floor and made her way to the door.

"Uh Fleur," Ozzy said after getting Shiny to ungag him.

"What?" Fleur then looked down and this time her face was the one that became red as a cherry. "Sweet Celestia I almost," Fleur said but stopped herself. Fleur then calmed down as she used her magic to put her clothes back on as well as Shiny and Ozzy who also got off the floor.

"Thank you Ozzy," Shiny said. "That would have been quite embarrassing." Fleur then answered the door and saw a gray pegasus hovering in the air with strange crossed eyes and a yellow mane and tail holding a large package in one hand and a basket full of muffins in the other. She quickly handed a rather large package to Fleur and clearly recognized her as she also got out a notepad, Fleur knew exactly what she wanted and signed it without being asked.

"Thank you so much," she said. "Here," she replied then gave the basket of muffins to Fleur who raised her hands.

"Oh no thank you you don't need to give me that," Fleur said as she moved her hands back and forth a little bit. "I'm happy to do those sorts of things for my fans."

"Actually," the mail pegasus said. "I was going to give one to you anyway as an apology."

"Apology?" Shiny asked as she got a closer look at the package to get a closer look at it.

"We were actually supposed to deliver this to a mister Ozzy Shore who lives at this address." Hearing that Fleur gave the package to Ozzy who took it right away and opened it revealing a book with a rather thick cover on it, on top of the book with the thick cover was a piece of paper and on top of the paper was a small case with a DVD in it. "You were meant to get that over a moon ago, but there was a huge mix up and only now were we able to find it and bring it here."

"Well, thank you," Ozzy said with a bit of a sad look and tone that the mares noticed, including the pegasus.

"Are you all right?" the pegasus asked. "Oh my name is Derpy by the way, but my friends call me Muffins, or Ditzy Doo, but I prefer Muffins.

"I'm all right, Muffins, for some reason that's weirder than Derpy or the other one."

"You think? Then you can just call me Derpy," she said.

"All right, well thank you Derpy I'm alright and I appreciate you delivering this."

"No problem," Derpy said. "Well I gotta go, your package wasn't the only one long overdue." Derpy then got ready to fly off but hit the side of the door instead. "I'm okay," she said as the others went over to her, she quickly shrugged it off and flew off back to work. "I'll be fine," she said while flying away.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Shiny asked.

"Yes, I'm fine thanks again for the autograph," Derpy answered.

"Your welcome," Fleur answered with a wave. "She seems nice."

"Yeah," Shiny added. "So what did you get Ozzy?"

"It's my father's will," Ozzy answered. "I'm getting a surprisingly large amount of money."

"Among other things," Fleur said as she pointed out the other things Ozzy got.

"Yeah," Ozzy said as he looked at the book and put the will and DVD down. "This is our old photo album." Ozzy then opened up the photo album and found a picture of his mother right away.

"Is that your mother Ozzy?" Fleur asked as she and Shiny got closer to see the pictures in the album as well.

"Yes," Ozzy answered as he tried to remember what few memories he had of his mother.

"She's beautiful."

"Thank you Shiny," Ozzy answered, still rather deep in thought. Before long Ozzy decided to sit on the nearby couch and the mares decided to sit on his sides. Fleur on his right and Shiny on his left.

"Are you alright darling?" Fleur asked as he placed her hand on Ozzy's chest.

"Yeah it's just, I haven't really thought about my past for a while and it's kind of an overload. I suppose taking a walk down memory lane can be a very exhausting journey."

"We can relate," Shiny said and then placed her hand on the other side of Ozzy's chest, Shiny and Fleur then lowered their heads each one placing their heads on one of Ozzy's shoulders. Ozzy then turned the page of the photo album showing Ozzy's father and mother together at their wedding. "She really is beautiful."

"Yes she almost looks as beautiful as Princess Celestia and Princess Luna," Fleur added.

"Or Princess Cadence and Princess Twilight."

"Who?" Ozzy asked.

"The former is the princess of love and the princess of the Crystal Empire, the latter is the princess of friendship who lives in Ponyville," Shiny answered.

"Crystal Empire?"

"Long story Ozzy," Fleur answered. Ozzy decided to ask about it later and continue looking over the photo album for now. He flipped through several pages seeing quite a few photos of his brother when he was very young. "And, that must be your brother Robert," Fleur said as she couldn't help but remember the unpleasant dream she shared with Shiny and Ozzy.

"Yeah, you wouldn't think a kid as cute as that would grow up to be someone like, well him." Ozzy then decided to flip through a little bit faster as he didn't want to look at the photos of his brother, or at least those ones. Suddenly Ozzy flipped the photo album a little more and found the very first picture of himself.

"Oh my gosh is that you Ozzy!" Shiny said as she stood up and grabbed the album to get a much better look.

"Uh Shiny," Ozzy said.

"Yes?"

"I wasn't finished looking through the album."

"Oh, sorry. You know how I am with foals." Shiny then gave the photo album back to Ozzy then rested her head on Ozzy's shoulder once again, snuggling her head more than last time to get more comfortable and this time putting her arms around one of Ozzy's.

"He is quite adorable though," Fleur said as she gently pinched Ozzy's cheek. Ozzy then turned the page showing several of Ozzy and Robert together.

"You know, it actually kind of looks like you two are kind of getting along in these photos," Fleur said.

"Yeah," Ozzy said. "I actually kind of completely forgot about how close we were when I was that young. Robert and I were actually the closest of friends but as we got older he drifted further and further apart from me."

"Why did that happen?" Fleur asked as she nuzzled her muzzle a little closer to Ozzy's head.

"I'm not quite sure," Ozzy said as he tried to remember. However that was rather hard as there were parts of his life he always tried not to remember and going back down memory lane after avoiding it for so long was rather difficult. "I guess it started around the time I finished kindergarten." Ozzy then turned the page and as fate would have the next few photos were him at kindergarten.

"Oh Ozzy you look so adorable," Shiny said in a bit of a baby voice. "I could just eat you up, come to think of it I just might," Shiny added as she placed her hand rather close to Ozzy's crotch, her voice going from baby to seductive. Ozzy turned the page and saw several more photos of his mother and one of his whole family together. He couldn't help but place his hand on that photo somewhat wishing to go back to the time when the photo was taken. Fleur, who couldn't help but notice that placed her hand on Ozzy's.

"Sometimes we all wish we could go back in time and talk to those who aren't here anymore don't we?" Fleur asked as seeing Ozzy like that reminded her of her late parents and the many things left unsaid between her and them.

"Yeah," Ozzy said. Fleur didn't really know what to say. She just moved her hand from Ozzy's hand to his chest and got a little closer to him. Ozzy then continued to flip through the album not looking very long at quite a few of them with the exception of the ones with his mother in it.

"I think you're around halfway finished," Shiny said.

"Yeah, though from the looks of the photos here there aren't that many happy memories left to find in this album." Ozzy stopped at a photo with him, Robert, and his father standing together dressed in black.

"What was that one taken for?" Shiny asked as she and Fleur also took interest in the photo.

"That was taken on the day of my mother's funeral. Dad wanted us to take a picture to remember just how sad we all were that day, I didn't understand it either. He started drinking around that time."

"Oh," Shiny said.

"And I think you remember the rest of the story, my father got into beer more after that and Robert became a drug dealer." Ozzy then flipped more and more through the album and saw less and less of photos he wanted to look at, with a few exceptions. Such as a class photo with him and Claire in it.

"Oh hey that's Claire isn't it?" Shiny asked as she pointed right to where she was in the photo.

"Yes, is it Shiny," Ozzy answered.

"You know we should really meet up with her again some time soon."

"Yeah we should," Ozzy agreed. Ozzy then flipped the pages of the album some more and stopped at a photo of him taken at graduation. "That was when I got out of high school," he said to Shiny and Fleur.

"You look rather happy," Fleur couldn't help but point out.

"I was getting out of school," Ozzy explained. After that Ozzy looked through it more until he reached the very last page of the album which was Ozzy standing outside of his old family home and it looked as if he was the one that took the picture.

"What's that picture from?" Shiny asked.

"That was the picture I took when I moved out of the family house. That was sort of my way of showing that I was starting over and that photo was the starting point of my new beginning. I left the camera at the house but I'm still rather surprised that it made it into this album."

"Well you've come quite a way haven't you?" Fleur said as her hand on Ozzy's chest started to rub it, Shiny then started to rub Ozzy's chest with one of her hands as well.

"Yeah I have." Ozzy then closed the book and placed it on the nearby coffee table. After he did that he stared at the DVD that came with the album rather unsure whether to play it or not. Before he could decide Shiny reached over and picked up the DVD case.

"I suppose all that's left is to watch this huh Ozzy?"

"I don't know, maybe we should just call it a day."

"Oh come on Ozzy, wasn't it fun to see some of those photos?" Fleur asked.

"Well some of them were."

"So who's to say that whatever is on that DVD won't be a little fun as well?" Fleur asked.

"Well, it might not be. But perhaps it's best to simply watch it and get it all done and over with," Ozzy answered. Shiny then stood up and walked over to the TV placing the DVD inside it for all three of them to watch. With the TV on and the DVD about to play Shiny then quickly returned to the couch and repositioned herself her head right back on Ozzy's shoulder to her as well as his comfort. As the DVD started to play the screen seemed rather blurry, it reminded Fleur of a rather low budget horror film that she watched with Ozzy.

"Is this some kind of movie?" Shiny asked.

"If it is, I don't think it's going to be a very good one," Ozzy answered.

"Are you sure you got the camera working," a voice from the TV said and suddenly the trio saw Ozzy's mother who was speaking. "Okay a light appeared I think that might mean the camera is working."

"Well how can we tell?" Another voice called out that Ozzy recognized right away as his father who tested to see if the camera was working when he looked at a rather large mirror that was placed on a nearby door, this allowed Ozzy and the mares to go get a good look at him while he was working the camera. "Oh yeah it's working," Ozzy's father said as he was getting the hang of the camera.

"Well can you put it down and help me with the last few party decorations then?" Wendy asked.

"Ah come on I still need to test a few things and get the birthday boy on film," Charles replied.

"Come on, you can put it down for a minute."

"I can put them up mommy," a young child's voice called out. Ozzy's father turned the camera and the video saw a much younger Ozzy shore.

"Oh my gosh Ozzy is that you?" Shiny asked.

"Yeah," he answered. "I think I'm about 4 or 5 from the looks of it, or me."

"You look so adorable Ozzy," Fleur said.

"You think?"

"Of course I do," Fleur answered.

"The decorations might be a bit too high for you my little wizard," Wendy said as she bent down a bit to talk to Ozzy.

"I can do it!" Ozzy said.

"Let him give it a try Wendy," Charles said and so Wendy decided to let the younger Ozzy put up the last of the decorations. As they continued to watch Charles went outside and the trio saw the backyard of the house was decorated rather nicely for a birthday party.

"Does Ozzy really need to put more decorations up?" Charles asked. "It looks fine enough as is."

"Of course I want us to give our all," Wendy answered.

"I think dad might be onto something mom, you seem to be going overboard," another male voice said. Once again Ozzy's father turned to who was talking and the trio saw a rather tall lean man.

"Your brother Robert?" Fleur asked.

"Yeah," Ozzy answered. Fleur as well as Shiny in fact already knew what Robert looked like because of the shared nightmare the three had what felt like a long time ago. But Fleur asked because she wanted to be sure, they continued watching and saw the younger Ozzy having finished putting up the last of the decorations running around the yard. But he wasn't really watching where he was going and as a result ran right into his brother, his head hitting him right between the legs.

"AUGH!" Robert called out as he fell to his knees and covered his crotch with both his hands. Ozzy couldn't help but burst into laughter and when he did Shiny and Fleur couldn't help but do the same as laughter can be quite contagious.

"Sorry Robert," the younger Ozzy said as he backed after he placed his hands on his head. Robert then stood back up still clearly in pain and also clearly very pissed at Ozzy. "Uh, I love you."

"And I'm gonna love beating you into the dirt!" Robert then chased Ozzy around who was running for his life.

"All right Robert knock it off," Charles called out in a commanding while also pleasant tone.

"Not until I kill him dad," Robert said as he was still chasing Ozzy around the backyard. "You hear that, you're dead Schnoz!"

"Robert, don't kill your brother," Wendy said in a not very serious tone. Ozzy's mother then made her way to where Ozzy was running and he ran behind his mother. "All right Robert settle down, he didn't do it on purpose and he's very sorry, aren't you Ozzy?"

"Uh huh, I'm very sorry Robert."

"It's okay," Robert said after sighing several times. "You didn't do it on purpose. And I suppose I can think up a couple things for you do to later to make up for it." After that the family sat down but Charles was still filming. After they sang Robert the birthday song he wasn't no time getting to his cake and his presents.

"Wow this is actually a pretty good gift thanks Ozzy," Robert said with a smile which rather surprised the Ozzy watching.

"Wow from what you told us about him it's kind of weird to see your brother actually acting like a decent pony, er human," Fleur said.

"Yeah," Ozzy said. As the trio continued to watch the party continued to go rather nicely, when suddenly Ozzy's mother answered the phone and returned to the others with a very depressed look on her face.

"Robert," Wendy called out. "I need to speak with you."

"Not now mom I'm in the middle of my cake," Robert said.

"It's important Robert," Wendy said.

"Whatever it is, I'm sure it can wait until after the party," Charles said. "Robert still has a party to deal with as well as his lady friend who still hasn't showed up yet."

"That's just the thing," Wendy said. "She isn't coming." Hearing that everyone looked towards Wendy.

"She was driving over here but she got into a serious wreck. She was bringing a friend who called me from the hospital that I just got off the phone with. She's going to be okay, but your girlfriend was dead on delivery." Hearing that Robert dropped his cake and ran off. Or at least he was until Ozzy got in his way.

"Robert?"

"Get out of my way Schnoz!" Robert said to Ozzy before pushing him down and running off. After that the screen went to black and the DVD stopped. When it finally stopped Ozzy didn't say anything and neither did Shiny or Fleur as neither were sure what to say. Before they could speak to him Ozzy stood up off of the couch and made his way towards the front door.

"Ozzy," Fleur and Shiny said at the same time.

"I. I really need to get and clear my head, I'll be back later okay."

"All right," Shiny and Fleur said once again at the same time. Ozzy made his way outside leaving Shiny and Fleur unsure what to do or say once again.

***

Ozzy, not really caring where he was going, simply decided to walk around aimlessly. It was a nice day for a walk which actually helped him out a bit. Ozzy walked around Canterlot for quite a while walking by the castle, Shiny's house, Fancy's house, and as Ozzy walked around a little more he found a small park that he never saw in Canterlot until now. When Ozzy saw it he thought it might be a good idea to walk through there as well, when he did he saw a park bench with another human he never met laying on the bench rather like he was homeless. As he looked at him a bit Ozzy couldn't help but feel like that was rather bizarre to see another human, since he came to Equestria Ozzy hadn't really seen another human with a few exceptions such as his old friends Claire and Jude.

Which was weird, quite a few other humans other than him had made their way into Equestria but he hadn't really seen a whole lot of them. Ozzy didn't want to keep staring because that would be rude and he wanted to get on with his walk but his legs were rather tired. So he walked over to the bench and quickly made eye contact with the other human who he managed to get a better look at. He was a tall lean Caucasian male in his 20's with black rather wild hair that went down to the back of his neck and green eyes. He was lying on the bench like a homeless man but was dressed surprisingly professional in a blue suit with a red tie and a white shirt underneath with his hands resting on the back of his head.

"Excuse me," Ozzy said and before he could ask the other human sat up to give Ozzy room to sit down moving his hands from his head to his lap. "Oh, thank you."

"Your welcome," the other human said with a rather stoic tone that matched his face. Ozzy then sat down and looked around a little bit as he still had a lot on his mind. "Gum?" The other human asked as he had put one hand in his pocket to get out some gum to offer to Ozzy.

"Uh, okay," Ozzy replied as he took one stick of gum. "Thank you again."

"You're welcome again, it's a rather strange habit I must admit. I always offer gum to those who have a lot on their mind." Hearing that Ozzy was rather shocked.

"How did you know I have a lot on my mind?" Ozzy asked, still quite shocked.

"It's all over your face. People are like books; they're very easy to read when you know how."

"I see," Ozzy said surprised and after a second he offered his hand. "My name is Ozzy Shore."

"Ace Sawyer, detective lawyer," Ace replied as he shook Ozzy's hand.

"You're a detective and a lawyer?" Ozzy asked once again, surprised.

"Yes, I catch bad guys and then I make sure they get locked up."

"That's clever," Ozzy said with a laugh.

"I thought so too, so why do you have a lot on your mind?"

"Huh?"

"If you need someone to talk to, I'm a really good listener. People talking to me about their problems is kind of my job, both of them."

"Well, I guess it couldn't hurt," Ozzy said as he decided to give it a try. "I was with my friends Fleur and Shiny who are a bit more than friends if you know what I mean?"

"Friends with benefits, if that's a nice way to put it."

"I was with them when I got a delivery," Ozzy continued as he would then explain about receiving the photo album and the DVD, and while it wasn't in too much detail Ozzy also talked about his old life including his father and brother to give Ace more of an understanding of what he was talking about. "For the longest time I've seen my father as a do nothing parent and my brother as a heartless monster, but recently I've started seeing both of them now in a new light."

"And a change in perspective can really affect us in numerous ways can't it?" Ace asked.

"Exactly!" Ozzy said.

"Now you're probably also thinking about how while your brother was far from the best brother or even a good one, perhaps you could have done things differently and made more of an effort."

"Wow you're good," Ozzy said once again surprised.

"It's part of my job, both of them."

"But it's probably stupid to think that because now it's too late to do anything about it."

"Are they both dead?"

"My father is but my brother is still alive. But he's been in prison ever since I called the cops on him, and beat the living shit out of him."

"Catharsis if ever there was from what you told me."

"Huh?"

"The expression and relief of bottled up emotions," Ace explained.

"Ah, yeah I guess it really was," Ozzy admitted.

"Let me guess when you heard about this place you thought a whole new world would be the perfect place to start over."

"Yeah I did, I've had some trouble here and there, some of it very troubling but all in all things have been going really great for me and my new friends."

"Ozzy, trust me when I say I know a thing or two about coming from a very shitty family and wanting to get as far away as possible to start over and follow your dream."

"Really? What's your family like?"

"The super abridged version is that my father was an idiotic selfish drunk that got himself killed in a car crash and my mother was an unreasonable controlling bitch queen that acted more like a puppet master than a parent. One day she went too far and enough was enough, so I left and never looked back."

"So you never went back?"

"No," Ace answered as he looked away a little bit before looking back at Ozzy. "I gave my mother a dozen chances to actually be a mother but she never took it and that was why I never looked back." After that Ozzy just sat there chewing his gum.

"I think I better get going," Ozzy said as he stood up.

"Okay, I hope I was able to help."

"I think you did, listen Ace maybe you and I could hang out sometime."

"Here's my card," Ace said as he reached into his other pocket and gave Ozzy his business card.

"Thanks," Ozzy said as he left the park while waving.

"You're welcome," Ace said as he waved back as he went back to his original position on the bench.

***

Shiny and Fleur were still at the house trying to get what happened out of their minds but nothing worked. The two of them were pacing back and forth but not too long after that Ozzy came home and right when he did Fleur and Shiny ran over and hugged him.
"Ozzy thank Luna, we were getting worried," Shiny said.

"Are you all right?" Fleur asked.

"Yeah I am, I feel better, I did a little more thinking on my way home."

"Really?" Shiny asked.

"About what?" Fleur asked.

"I'm going to go see my brother."