I am Jude

{Eli}

I was headed to go raise the moon. I ran into Ivy and she looked frantic and this concerned me. "What's wrong Ivy?"

"I have lost my damn mind!" Ivy exclaimed.

I was taken aback by this statement because that's exactly what Jude said when his powers were unlocked. "Okay Ivy calm down, as you can see Bunny-Na's not here although I'm not sure if his magic would work on you if you go on a demon rampage."

"Yeah I doubt that," Ivy said, "I don't have that type of magic."

I chuckled, "Okay sure. So what's going on?"

Ivy took a deep breath and let it out, "Apparently, I can hear Jude's thought's now."

My jaw dropped in disbelief. "Yeah, I'm not believing that, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. I'd like to see you prove it. Listen, I have to raise the moon and start Night Court. Can you watch Jude until I get there?"

"No!" Ivy shrieked.

Before Ivy could shriek again I put my hand over her mouth. "Deep slow breaths okay?"

Ivy nodded and she did what I told her to. I breathed a sigh of relief when she calmed down.

"Okay then," I said, "I'll ask Milo to watch him. Logan's not hurting him again if I got something to say about it."

Ivy nodded. "Works for me!"

* * *

After Night Court, I met up with Ivy so we could go to Jude's room. Before we even got close to his room, Ivy shouted, "Absolutely not Jude! I'm not getting into bed with you tonight! Eli's here, you can sleep with him."

"I didn't say anything Ivy!" Jude shouted.

"I heard you thinking it Jude!" Ivy shouted. "Yup, I've gone insane. Oh that's right, me and the bunny are in on the joke!"

My jaw dropped when I saw this. "Well, I think that confirms it."

"No, Eli's not crazy!" Ivy shouted.

"Again, I didn't say anything!" Jude shouted.

"Again," Ivy snapped and then shouted, "I heard you thinking it!"

At that moment, Milo came out of the room with a confused look on his face. "Okay, what's going on? How can these two argue when they're not in the same room?"

"Well it seems that Ivy can hear Jude's thoughts now," I said.

"Oh come on now," Jude shouted, "you know you want to!"

"Not today you don't!" Ivy shouted. "How about I hog-tie you and put you out in the hallway, is that sexy enough for you?"

Milo snorted, "Well now, Jude did say he wasn't in the mood today. Now I know what he's in the mood for! I've never seen anything like this happen before."

I laughed, "No kidding."

I saw Rainbow Dash come around the corner and she paused when she saw the display for Jude and Ivy arguing without being in the same room. "What's going on Eli?"

"It seems that Ivy can hear Jude's thoughts now," I replied.

"Is that why they can argue without being in the same room?" Rainbow Dash asked.

I nodded. "Yup!"

"Wow," Rainbow Dash said.

"Oh you want to make me scream huh?" Ivy shouted. "Well this is as close as you're going to get!"

Rainbow Dash cracked up, "At least Oliver and I can keep our arguments to ourselves by communicating by thought. This is something else. They do realize people can hear them right?"

I shook my head. "Apparently not, you know those moments you wish had something to record this with?"

Rainbow Dash smiled. "Oh yeah, I know exactly where you're going with this. And I totally agree and I don't envy their situation at all."

I chuckled, "That makes two of us."

After a while of Jude and Ivy's shouting match it was starting to get old. It was as if Milo could sense everyone's annoyance. He used his magic to cast what I call the 'End the Argument' spell. It's a spell that Princess Cadence taught him. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on his own personal relationship so it wouldn't work if me and him are arguing. Milo cleared his throat. "While this augment has been a nice spectacle to watch, I think you guys need to be separated for a bit. Don't you agree Ivy?"

Ivy nodded. "Works for me, I'm going to go take care of Leo. Humph!"

Everyone who was outside of Jude's room laughed as Ivy stormed off in anger.

* * *

{Jude}

I couldn't believe what just happened between me and Ivy. Bunny-Na hopped on the bed next to me and thought, I told you! Do you think we're joking now?

"I'm getting chastised by a bunny," I said, "wow."

Eli came into the room laughing his ass off. "You two sure made a spectacle of yourselves. Good job! Very entertaining! Round of applause!"

"Ha, ha Eli!" I snapped.

"Man, I wish I had something to record that!" Eli said barely getting the words out because he was laughing so hard. He finally stopped laughing, "Thank goodness Milo has the 'End the Argument' spell that Princess Cadence taught. Too bad it doesn't work on his own personal relationship. As you can see, it really comes in handy."

"This is not funny!" I growled.

"I think it is funny," Eli laughed, "I really wish I had a camera for that."

"Yeah," I said, "now I know how it feels."

Eli started laughing his ass off again and it didn't look like he was going to stop laughing anytime soon.

I rolled my eyes and thought, Well, at least it's just Ivy that can hear my thoughts and I just had to piss her off. Good job Jude! She's not going to want to hang around me for a few days.

At this moment, I couldn't bear to look Eli in the eyes because of feeling embarrassed. I laid under the covers and put my head underneath the pillow.

"Oh come on Jude," said Eli, "it's not that bad."

"It is, if people are laughing about it already," I said, "I think I'll just stay here and not show my face around the castle for a few days."

I felt Eli sit down on the bed and I tensed up when he put a hand on my back. "Honestly Jude, couples are going to fight sooner or later. Believe it or not, Milo and I have our fair share of arguments. You and Ivy just so happened to have a rather unique one."

I groaned, "I know that Ivy and I have had a lot more arguments in the past before too. But this argument is probably going to go down in the history books."

I could tell from the sound of it Eli was trying so hard not to laugh again. I thought, Yup I'm not showing my face around the castle for a while.

"It looks like you're going to have to make it up to her somehow," Eli said. "So what are you going to do about it?"

"Usually a romantic dinner does the trick," I replied, "but I don't think she'll want to be seen with me out in public for a while."

Eli raised an eyebrow. "Who says it has to be in public? It could be here and it could lead up to what you wanted from her today."

I could feel my face turn red at that thought. "I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. Man, I'm an asshole right now."

"You'll figure something out, I'm sure of it," Eli said.

At this moment, I wasn't sure what I was going to do to make things up to Ivy. All I knew is I had to find some way to make amends with her.

* * *

{Ivy}

I had just given Leo his bottle and I couldn't help but feel crummy about the argument Jude and I got into the other day. We sure made a spectacle of ourselves. I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't want to be around me for a while.

I paused in my thinking when I heard footsteps and Jude's thoughts along with it. Man, I messed up big time! I'm not sure if this is the right time to even apologize to her. She probably doesn't want to see me. I don't blame her if that's the case.

I sighed, "It's okay Jude. You can come in, I made an ass of myself too. To tell the truth, we both could have handled this better."

Jude entered the room and sat down on the bed. "I'm sorry Ivy."

I looked down. "Yeah, I'm sorry too."

Jude scooted closer to me and he grabbed my hand. We looked at each other, Jude winced in pain and grabbed his side. Jude thought, Lovely, I wonder what injury or if I have an injury this time?

I panicked, "Jude let me see it, I won't know if it's an injury until I do."

I know a normal reaction to pain is to find a way to lessen it. Grabbing the area where the pain is that's the natural reaction for that. It's a good thing I put Leo in his crib. I can send for a servant to take care of him while I take care of Jude.

Jude slowly pulled his hand back from his side. I stared in horror because there was a pool of blood on his shirt. I tried to touch the wound but it was impossible to do that because it burned me when I did. Jude screamed in pain and thankfully, his scream didn't wake Leo up.

I'm taking him to the hospital and I don't care if he's kicking and screaming when I do. I thought. Fortunately I didn't have to worry about Jude kicking and screaming because he fell over on the bed and I panicked even more when I saw him pass out on me.

* * *

{Rainbow Dash}

As soon as I heard about what happened with Jude, I dropped everything and went to the hospital to see him. When I got there, I was greeted by one of the doctors who was tending to Jude.

"What's the status on Jude?" I asked.

"Well, Prince Jude has an injury on his side that's very tricky to deal with." The Doctor answered. "It keeps glowing every time it's touched and it seems-"

Before the Doctor could finish his sentence, I heard Jude howling in pain. The Doctor covered his ears with his hooves. "Boy Prince Jude's got a set of lungs on him!"

"Can I go see him?" I asked.

The Doctor nodded. "Yeah, he's down the hallway in ICU room #3."

I nodded and practically galloped towards Jude's room.

* * *

{Ivy}

I sat down on the chair next to Jude's hospital bed. He squeezed my hand pretty hard and howled in pain as he did it. I kept looking at the wound on his side and it looked like someone had taken a knife and stabbed him and ran the knife down his side. The strangest thing was that it happened out of nowhere. Not to mention the wound was hot to the touch and it glowed every time someone did touch it.

As the doctors and nurses were trying everything in their power to ease Jude's pain and help heal the wound. Eli and Samantha came into the room and they examined the wound while I nervously waited for a verdict. "So what's happening to him?"

"This time, it actually looks like the wound is caused by his out of control magic," Eli said.

"Is his magic killing him?" I panicked.

Samantha put up her hands and motioned for me to calm down. "Calm down Princess Ivy, I don't think that's what's happening here. In this case, Prince Jude's out of control magic is helping him."

This statement puzzled me. "Wait, what? It's… helping him?"

Samantha nodded. "Remember what I said about Prince Jude's magic could either push Logan out or kill him?"

"Okay," I said.

"It's one of those two things that could be happening right now," Samantha explained. "I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the wound Prince Jude has is creating an out for Logan. The problem I have with what I have as you can see is that it's painful."

"Do you know if Zecora can help?" I heard Rainbow Dash ask.

I turned around and saw her. Samantha tapped her chin thoughtfully. "Hmm, I don't know. You did say she makes some pretty potent stuff. I mean Prince Jude stayed knocked out even when you did the Royal Canterlot Voice in my realm. I take it whatever Zecora gave him, did that?"

Rainbow Dash nodded. "Yup, it was supposed to keep him calm and barely aware of things. She did say she wasn't sure if it would make him sleep, but as you can see, it did. I'll ask for her help again. This time I'm telling her to overdue it as much as she wants to."

The fact that Rainbow Dash was going to help relieve Jude's pain, comforted me a little bit but not much.

* * *

{Rainbow Dash}

Amidst all of the chaos going on I decided to do something positive for a change. I figured even Color Rain was only a one-year old and mastered teleportation spells moments after she was born, I figured she would be able to start talking like an adult no problem. So Oliver and I decided to go ahead to teach Color Rain how to talk.

"What do you think her first word is going to be?" Oliver asked.

"Well it's going to be mommy, duh!" I said.

Oliver raised an eyebrow. "Oh? What if it's daddy?"

I shook my head. "Nah. I don't think so."

"Wanna make a bet?" Oliver said.

"Okay, what do you have in mind?" I responded.

"If her first word is daddy," said Oliver, "then you have to keep a lid on Color Rain's teleportation hide and go seek for a week."

I raised an eyebrow. "And how would I do that?"

"Bring your child to work week," Oliver suggested.

"Okay, if her first word is mommy," I challenged, "you can't use your magic and you have to do things like a normal human for a whole week."

"Fine then, you're on!" Oliver and I agreed and we sealed the deal with a hoof/handshake.

I looked to see Color Rain looking at us with confusion on her face.

Um, what are you guys talking about? Color Rain thought.

"Oh, what we're talking about is you being able to make sounds with your mouth instead of communicating by thought all the time," I explained, "You know, like the sounds you make when you're playing teleportation, hide and go seek."

Color Rain nodded and thought, Oh okay.

"So let's begin by showing you how to say mommy and daddy," I said, "the rest of the sounds should follow after that."

I spent the next fifteen minutes teaching Color Rain how to say Mommy and Daddy. Color Rain tried to copy me but all that came out of her mouth was normal baby babble. After a while Color Rain sat down with a frustrated look on her face, I'm sorry Mom, but this is really hard.

I sighed, "It's okay Color Rain. Besides, it's only your first try. I think I just expected more of you because you did teleportation moments after you were born."

Oliver rolled his eyes. "Seriously Rainbow, just because we have an overachiever in the family doesn't mean she's going to learn everything on the first try. If I recall correctly, you still have trouble with your horn at magic practice."

I looked down because I knew Oliver was right. I still can't quite get down using magic through this stupid horn I have now. I still can't believe I became an Alicorn.

"Yeah, you're right," I said, "okay Color Rain we'll try again tomorrow."

Color Rain nodded and thought, Okay.

* * *

The following day, Jude was released from the hospital so he could continue his recovery at home. Occasionally, Jude would howl in pain so loud that the side of the castle where Jude's room was at could hear it. I don't blame him because the wound on his side was very painful for him. Because Color Rain knew Jude was injured so she would play her game of teleportation hide and go seek away from where Jude was.

Even still I decided that it was time to try and teach Color Rain to talk again. For some reason, Oliver and I made the mistake of teaching Color Rain to talk in a room that was in the same area close by Jude's room.

I showed Color Rain how to make the sounds again. She tried as hard as she could to copy me and then after a while of not being successful, she sat down frustrated. In the middle of the lesson, Jude howled in pain and it freaked Color Rain out.

What's wrong with big brother Jude, Mom? Color Rain panicked in her thoughts.

"It's not-" I started to say. Once again, Jude howled in pain. As soon as that happened, Color Rain teleported out of the room and flew in the direction of Jude's screams.
"Color Rain, get back here!" I shouted, flying after her.

No! Color Rain thought, Big brother Jude's in trouble and I want to go help!

"Color Rain seriously," I said, "your brother's fine, calm down!"

No! Color Rain thought.

I chased after Color Rain and Oliver was trying his best to keep up. With Color Rain panicking she shouted her first word, "JJJJJJJJJJude!"

I gasped and almost ran into the door of Jude's room when I heard Color Rain say his name. I wasn't sure if Oliver was shocked by it or not because he was too busy laughing his ass off. When Color Rain entered Jude's room she shouted, "JJJJJJJJJJJude!"

My jaw dropped. As soon as Jude heard Color Rain say his name, his eyes shot open and he sat straight up, looking at Color Rain in confusion.

"Uh, what happened?" Jude said he looked to Oliver for an explanation. "Why does mom look shocked?"

"Well we were teaching Color Rain how to speak," Oliver barely managed to say.

"No way!" I gasped.

"You would think that a child's first word would be either mommy or daddy but-" Oliver said. He couldn't control his laughter at this point.

"Jude!" Color Rain said.

Jude's jaw dropped and he looked stunned by Color Rain just said.

"Okay, so you mean to tell me that Color Rain's first word is…" Jude said.

"Jude!" Color Rain said. She realized that she said a word with her mouth and she started to say Jude's name happily, "Jude, Jude, Jude!"

"That's not fair!" I said. "Her first word is supposed to be mommy or daddy not Jude!"

Color Rain looked at me and tilted her head. She thought, Why are you upset with me? I said a word. Isn't that the whole point of talking?

I sighed, "Yes that's the whole point of talking. I didn't expect that to be your first word."

Oliver was laughing so hard and once again he barely managed to speak, "To think we actually made a bet on what Color Rain's first word was going to be. Looks like we both lose on that one!"

"Very funny Oliver!" I growled.

"Wow, wait until Finn hears about this!" Oliver laughed, "Oh yeah, this is going to give him more material for his next show!"

Jude started to laugh but then he grabbed his side in pain.

I looked at him and frowned. "Okay all laughing aside, I Jude needs to rest some more. Come on Color Rain, let's go."

Okay, you get better big brother Jude, Color Rain thought, please don't scare me like that again.

Jude grimaced and nodded. "I'll try my best but I can't make any promises."

Okay. Color Rain thought.

As I followed Color Rain outside I couldn't help but feel embarrassed by Oliver's non stop laughter about what just happened.