I am Jude

{Jude}

The next time I opened my eyes, I found myself in Ivy's arms. I noticed that I wasn't in pain and I felt warm and comfortable.

This is a nice change of pace, I thought, I'm not in pain, and I'm being held by Ivy. No offense to Eli and Milo, but it's always better with Ivy.

Ivy chuckled, "Aww, you're so cute you know that? I do agree this is nice to see you like this. You look absolutely adorable."

"Yeah and I'm not moving either," I said, "How long have you been holding me?"

"About 24 hours now," Ivy answered.

"What?" I gasped. Before I could start panicking, Ivy shushed me and got me to stay calm.

"Honestly Jude," Ivy said, "I've been taking care of Leo and I stay awake for long periods of time."

Upon hearing that, I felt guilty about not helping Ivy take care of Leo more. "Don't worry about that Jude. Right now, you need to focus on recovery and no you're not a bad father by not helping me take care of Leo. Actually I found out that's normal for that to happen. Leo just started crawling the other day. I wonder what his first word is going to be?"

"Yeah, at least he gets to grow up as a normal baby and doesn't do teleportation hide and go seek. I wonder if his first word, will be just as comical as Color Rain's was?" I said.

Ivy laughed, "According to Oliver, he and Rainbow Dash actually made a bet on it. If her first word was mommy, Oliver wouldn't be able to use his magic for a whole week. If her first word was daddy, Rainbow Dash would have to keep a lid on Color Rain's teleportation hide and go seek game for a week."

"Wow," I said, "Looks like they've both lost that one."

"Yeah," said Ivy. "I have no idea what they're going to do about it."

I shrugged. "Your guess is as good as mine."

* * *

That night, I still felt no pain and I was in a warm and comfortable spot at first. Then I felt Ivy's magic overtake me. I could tell by the way she touched me what she wanted from me. I heard her thoughts too. I wonder if he can make me scream like he does Eli and Milo? I doubt it, because I'm the one that makes him scream.

I was puzzled about why Ivy would even want that from me. But since she's offering I figured, I'd take her up on it. I climbed on top of her, and did exactly what I do when I'm with Eli and Milo. Since she wanted me to scream, I was going to do my best to make her do just that.

When I thrust into her, she kept telling me to do it as hard as I could. So, that's exactly what I did. I succeeded in making her scream, because she screamed bloody murder just like Eli and Milo do when I'm with them. "Oh Jude!" Ivy kept screaming over and over again.

The strange thing was, we both orgasmed at the same time. I had no idea that could happen. After that happened, I rolled off her and we just laid in the bed staring up at the ceiling.

"Hmm," Ivy said, "I didn't think you could make me scream, but you did."

I chuckled, "Yeah that came as a surprise to me too."

I snuggled close to Ivy and she held me in her arms. "I'm just glad you're not in any pain still."

Right on cue, the wound on my side started to act up. Great, perfect timing.

Ivy panicked when she saw me grab my side. "I'm sorry Jude I didn't mean for that to-"

"No, it's okay Ivy." I stopped her from completing her sentence. "I'm pretty sure anything could've caused this. It's not your fault, considering my wounds tend to act up at random times."

Ivy nodded but it didn't look like my answer satisfied her. I don't blame her for that either. Why does it have to be me?

"Jude," said Ivy, "bad things happen to people all the time. Sometimes things happen that you can't control. I understand your frustration. If it helps to keep you from thinking the 'why me' question, just talk to me okay?"

I felt Ivy hug me, and it felt comforting to know that I had someone like her to talk to. I always feel things are better with Ivy. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind talking to Eli and Milo either, but it seems that Ivy is my best friend. Ivy put her head on my shoulder as she hugged me.

"You know something Jude?" Ivy said, "Things are always better with you too."

As we lay on the bed talking to each other, I found that it helped get my mind off the pain I was experiencing.

* * *

{Eli}

I was in the library doing some research. I tried my hardest to find out any information on who and what Logan actually was. So far, my findings matched what Samantha told me. From what Rainbow Dash told me about her, Samantha was actually one of the ones that helped track down creatures that were stuck inside the Machine and sent what was called six-man breakout squads. I'm going to assume that's exactly what Rainbow Dash did when Jude asked me to start following her around. She had different names when she was on those assignments too. I'm also going to assume that the different names were to help keep her real identity a secret.

Well, I guess if you're working a job like that and if the seekers found out where all of the agents were in the machine, all of those agents would be dead by now. The organization called the Sixth that Rainbow Dash worked for, must've known about this and took that security measure. From what I was told, agents that are working different assignments have different forms for when they were working inside the machine and outside of the machine. It was interesting to me because it seemed that the Sixth covered all of their bases on safety. There were a lot of other security measures the Sixth put in place too. Like something called a pocket dimension. Those were realms the agents used for various things, traveling to different locations inside the machine, training with their weapons and other things.

Samantha told me that Rainbow Dash regularly trained in her pocket dimension, mostly for safety reasons when she was pregnant with Color Rain. Everyone was overprotective of Rainbow Dash mostly because of out of control partial sonic rainbooms she was doing at the time. According to Rainbow Dash, Oliver sent her friend Gilda to babysit her even when she was in her pocket dimension. That was probably because of the fact that Rainbow Dash actually did a partial sonic rainboom inside of her pocket dimension and put herself in the hospital because of it.

I was after I had finished up with Night Court, and I had been doing my research for at least two hours now. Well, at least Milo's not here at the moment so I can do my research in peace, because I'm not in the mood for sex. I'm fairly certain that's what's going to be on his mind the next time I see him. That's always on his mind. Sometimes I wonder how he can do his job as a prince of Equestria's Royal Family. But somehow he manages to do it.

After a while, I was starting to get tired. Probably because I hadn't been sleeping much because of what's been going on with Jude lately. I can't seem to stop worrying about him. Mostly because of the demon god named Logan that is possessing Jude at the moment.

Now more than ever, I'm determined to stop Logan and save Jude.

"I know when somepony's worried, but I think this is going overboard, don't you?" I heard Princess Celestia say.

I gasped when I saw her, "Your highness!"

I stood up and bowed to her. She giggled, "No need to bow to me Prince Eli. Last time I checked, you're also royalty."

"Oh. Right," I said, "Sometimes I forget that. I'm trying to get used to not being a servant for anyone now."

I sat back down.

"I see," Princess Celestia said, "You know, Princess Rainbow Dash did tell me, you worked for the machine as something called a Firewall?"

I nodded. "Yeah, I was basically someone who took care of things that the machine viewed as threats. Mostly to fight agents that came from an organization called the Sixth. Rainbow Dash was one of them. She was actually a pretty good fighter and she was annoying at the same time. Her teasing me about stupid stuff is what got on my nerves."

Princess Celestia laughed, "Well, I guess if you're somepony's sibling even if it isn't by blood they tend to get on your nerves."

"No kidding," I said, "Jude seemed to get a real kick out of our dialogue before and during the fight. Although the element of stupidity line I said to Rainbow Dash was definitely a classic. Jude couldn't stop laughing about it. As did the other agents that were with her at the time. They couldn't stop laughing for two hours straight after I said that."

Princess Celestia smiled. "What was the line exactly?"

"I'm surprised the elements of harmony didn't make a seventh element," I said, "the element of stupidity made just for you Rainbow Dash!"

Princess Celestia burst into laughter at that. She cleared her throat to compose herself, "Well, I can see why the agents that were with Princess Rainbow Dash were laughing for two hours straight."

"Yeah I know, Rainbow Dash's friend Gilda, one of the ones that was laughing two hours straight seemed to think that was comedy gold," I said.

"Well, I don't blame her," Princess Celestia said, "she is correct on that one. So, I hear you're worried about this demon god named Logan that's possessing Prince Jude?"

I sighed and nodded. "Yeah. I'm trying my hardest to figure out a way to get Logan out of him. He's not taking Jude from me if I got something to say about it. I'm pretty sure everyone else feels the same way. Especially Jude's wife Ivy."

"Yeah, I understand that," Princess Celestia agreed, "if something like that happened to my sister, I would do everything in my power to save her."

"But, you sent her to the moon when she turned into Nightmare Moon," I pointed out, "Are you sure you wouldn't just do that again?"

Princess Celestia looked away. "Good point, I have a feeling I'll always have that hanging over my head now. Just like Princess Rainbow Dash didn't really get any closure about what a happened at that stupid engagement party with Pinkie Pie."

I heard about that engagement party and what Oliver told me about Pinkie Pie's determination to have Oliver and Rainbow Dash marry her even after that. According to Oliver, Pinkie followed Rainbow Dash to an assignment she was on and put her life in danger. Only Rarity apologized to her and it was after the machine was shut down and Princess Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Fluttershy were all dead.

"Yeah," I sighed, "from what I know of, Rarity was the only one that apologized to Rainbow Dash. The thing that still ticks me off about it, was that she waited to apologize until after the machine was shut down and everyone else that was involved in that died. Jude told me that she even pulled out her fainting couch when she did it."

Princess Celestia gasped and her ears went straight up to show how shocked she was by this. "Wow, I would think that somepony like Rarity would be serious when she apologizes. That's not the Rarity I knew before the machine came along! That machine really messed with everypony's mind when it kidnapped them."

"I don't blame Rainbow Dash for not accepting her apology. I don't think she ever will at this point," I said.

Princess Celestia nodded. "I can agree with that one Prince Eli."

Then Princess Celestia did something that made me really uncomfortable. It always happens when a woman does it to me. She gave me a flirting smile.

Oh boy, I thought, I hope she's not interested in me. She's going to be a hard one to let down. I hope she's not going to be another First Mother. Nope, no thank you. I don't care if she's an Alicorn or not.

I started to pack up my things and put them in my bag I had brought with me.

"Um, Prince Eli," Princess Celestia said, "I was wondering, if you don't mind, would you… Be willing to accompany me to the Grand Galloping Gala next week?"

I choked. "Um, sorry princess I hate to break it to you but I'm already in a relationship with Milo."

"I didn't mean it had to be a date or anything like that," Princess Celestia quickly responded, "You know, we could just go as friends?"

I deadpanned and thought, Great. Now what? Just friends, and in an atmosphere like the Grand Galloping Gala? Yeah no.

I didn't know how to respond to her. I mean, not only is she a princess but she's also an Alicorn. I don't know if I should be cowering in fear or her or not. "I'm sorry princess, but I'm going to have to pass on that."

"Oh okay," Princess Celestia said. I could tell by the sound of her voice how disappointed she was with my response.

I didn't say anything else, as I walked away as fast as I could.