The butterfly effect

After some deep thought, creame also known as creamy came a to conclusion. "Sure, i will sleep in another room this once you seem really distressed Ms Rarity and besides..." she gave spike a quick glance "i trust him" she finished with a smile looking back at rarity.

A smile, an innocent one at that. Oh, how Rarity Hated that. That just made her feel worse if posible. After some mild talking among the ponies and dragons present, everyone went to a room while also agreeing to stay on rotative guard to protect the damsel in distress each with the obvious exception of Spike and Rarity, since the former did need the sleep afterall.

After spike opened the door towards twilights room with Rarity still in his claws he then with one claw closed the door still keeping his fair maiden close to his chest with the other.

No words were said as spike laid her gently in twilights bed, while he himself laid next to her, in this case in his own bed. A bed, that like his old basket was next to twilights.

After some minutes of silence, Rarity asked in a craking voice : "Spike can you... Can you please hold me as i sleep this once?" Spike, surprised but not convinced just looked back at her and he could see her. He could see the tears running through her face, the mascara stainning the sheets. "Please...." she insisted. Spike just... Just could not let her like that.

With a defeated sigh, he conceded obviously not totally onboard of being close to her in this vulnerable state for both his and her comfort. Afterall sleeping cuddled to the crying form of a person you used to love romantically while you currently have a loved one, is to say the least uncomfortable.

With a satisfied sigh, Rarity cuddled closer and closer, his heat.... She craved it, she craved so much in fact that she went as far as trying to intertwine their tails despite knowing spike's situation. He silently just pulled his tail back, a move that did NOT go unnoticed by her. "He...he rejected it?" she tought, covering her mouth as more tears left her eyes. As she was in deep thought she could not bare it anymore and so she asked

"Spike..spikey ...where.... No... How...when did you meet this mare?" he raised a brow briefly but relaxed and with a defeated sigh conceded. "Well... I guess i could tell you but...why now? I think its better if we just focus on sleeping for now, you had a rough day afterall" he answered with a tone that was full with concern and affection for the mare. Words from his lips, that to her ears felt like pleasure and her spine could not help but feel a tingle.

"Dear... I cannot sleep. If my mind gets distracted with a... Sweet story of love perhaps i can relax myself enough so i may sleep a little" she lied so convincingly to him.

"Well...

--------------------------------------------Back then: 4 years ago--------------------------------------------------------------------

"It all started after i gave you that fire ruby, on my 14th birthday and while it was true that i wanted to give it to you i was stil...dying to eat one, since well... They taste great and i did still owed myself a birthday gift anyway. However they costed money and the locals mines had none left.

"At least none of decent quality. So i tried searching for jobs. Tried playing the fire starter in a local blacksmith here in ponyville. It didnt work out, they paid so little it would take me at least 10 years to buy one back so i obviously noped from there. From there on out, i searched for multiple posible jobs here in poniville and in some i failed and in some i did got them but they didnt pay enough in my opinion so i kept searching.

One day however twilight, just like before on my current birthday was called for a meeting, this time in the Crystal empire regarding some trading agreements, since apparently apples, carrots and the such are a top priority in nation that basically has little to none "organic" vegetable and fruit growing lands, being it most compromised of "crystalized dirt" . So anyway i decided to go with her, to see if could find something to gain a bit or two there since i was a "local hero" there."

Having arrived twilight went to the castle and i just looked here and there, on how to make a bit. As i was starting to get annoyed at how crsytal ponies at the time just refused to give me work because of anti-child explotation laws claiming again and again "OH HEAVENS NO!!!, WE WOULD NEVER HAVE A ADOLESCENT, LESS ALONE A HERO SUCH AS YOURSELF WORK!!! But dont worry though, just tell us how much you need and we will help you out, its the least we can do but why do you need the bits sir spike? Oh... A sapphire ruby for your birthday you say? Well i would be happy to help" they always finished with a warm smile after that,changing very quick from 100 to 0.

"As my pride and fear of going all big and greedy prevented to take those bits, i was giving up that is until i met her"

"Creame?" asked rarity.

Yes, her. At the time that i was giving up on this task of getting money out of work in the crystal empire my last try was in a boutique of sorts, since i do have knowledge of tailoring and clothes, thanks to you that is. At the time creame was a... And exchange student of sorts from Dunk junction and she overheard my conversation with the owner of the establishment. She however did not took it well.

"Did not took it well?" asked rarity.

"Yes. You see i did not know this at the time but... This little "blank flank adolescent mare" needed money, a lot. Not only to cover her fees for learning all the way there but also her mother... Was ill and while they were not poor they were not rich either so they had trouble with bills, her father being dead and only having her mom as family did not help, that and apparently she at the time like a lot of ponies and families in equestria hated the idea of me a... Dragon an... "Outsider" to say it nicely to not only get acepted by ponies let alone be praised but was now also getting free bits if i wanted to?. She just... Lost it."

"HUH!?, WHAT THE HAY?!" she screamed in anger

"What?" asked in surprise both spike and the owner as they looked in her direction.

"THIS LIZARD HERE GETS STUFF FOR FREE?!!! JUST BECAUSE?!!!"

The owner gasped "CREAME LA MOUDE YOU WILL NOT INSULT SIR SPIKE IN MY PRESENCE!, APOLOGIZE RIGHT NOW!!" The owner screamed in sheer anger.

"NO!!, I REFUSE!!, ITS ONE THING TO TOLERATE HIS EXISTENCE AMONG PONIES !!! BUT YOU MEAN TO TELL ME I SHOULD JUST PUT UP WITH HIM NOT ONLY BEING LOOKED LIKE A HERO BUT ALSO GET STUFF FOR FREE!!! ARE YOU BUCKING KIDDING ME!!?" she could not filter herself.

The owner gave an incredulus look and got so red veins started to pop in her face from the sheer anger "THATS IT, GET OUT AND NEVER COME BACK CONSIDER YOURSELF BANNED FROM ALL BOUTIQUES IN THE CRYSTAL EMIPRE!!!"

The filly was now regretting openning her mouth as she recoiled back shocked and scared "W-what? B-but, a-all? N-no please w-wai-" he stammered as tears started to appear on her face

"THATS RIGHT!! WHAT? YOU TOUGHT YOU CAN JUST INSULT THE NATIONAL HERO TWICE AND NOT GET PUNISHED FOR IT?!! MOST PONIES HERE LOVE HIM, IF IT WASNT FOR HIM WE WOULD BE SLAVES!!!, ONCE THE OTHER TAILORS OF THE EMPIRE KNOW OF THIS I BET YOU WOULD BE BANNED INDEFINITELY FROM ALL BOUTIQUES OF THE NATION!!! Having said that the mare just huffed indignant and turned to me. "Im so sorry you had to see that Sir Spike, please allow me to at least give you some clothers for your troubles wait for me here".

As i i turned back confused and hurt by all of this i saw her face.Iit was the most heart breaking scenery ever i had scene at the timem she was crying her eyes out in silence in a fetal position going back and forward like a foal being curled up in their mothers forelegs while she mumbled incoherent words.

"This is not real... This is not real.... Mom how will i.... No....no.... No....but i.... This lizard... I just... " And then she just started sobbing incontrollably and soon after the Owner returned. "Here sir spike, this are high quality tuxedos, they should fit you for a while until you grow larger" as the manager turned to her side she scowled at Creame "you are still here? Get out" she said death calm like an ice queen almost.

The young mare just looked at her and then at me, and implored her "im sorry, im sorry please... Please i need this this is my dream!! And it will help me get a job so i can my moms hospital fees!! Please dont throw me away im begging you!!" she begged.

"Get . Out" the mare remained firm.

I could almost hear her heart breaking as she despaired and just look back at me, slowly forming a scowl that turned into a growl "YOU!! ITS... ITSS.... ITS ALL YOUR FAULT, I HATE YOU BUCKING LIZARD!!! She screamed in despair as she just runned away from the store while sobbing.

"Im really, really sorry for that sir spike, do you want me to call the guards?" the mare sweetly asked but i... Was just paralized i had strong mixed feels about what i witnessed a lot of them but i just said "no", i did however asked "who... Who is she?" because for some reason she reminded me of you and i... Hated the idea of seeing you cry, the fact that... She had problems, real problems at that did contribute to my worry for her altough i did felt, hurt.

"Well i think it was... Creame la moude? But... Sir spike, you should worry not about her, a mare with those views, attitude and utter lack of respect towards you is just a waste of your time,as well as mine". As i just nodded to her, i took the clothes and went of the store to find the mare weeping in a pond near by.

Now, i know this next part will sound wrong as buck but hear me out. I curious but worried watched from a distance, and at some point she just "gave up" and went walking back to the train station going back to her hometown and house to try better luck probably so...i...asked some "fans of me" to follow her so they could find where she lived.

"What?!!

"ITS NOT WHAT YOU THINK!!... Geez. I just wanted to help her so....i thought : "well she need bits, definately more than i do... But even if offered to help ...she would think im making fun of her or be disgusted at the idea of me a dragon helping her at all! So... I made a plan. In this plan in wich i would swallow my pride and "beg" for money to citizensthat i would collect and once it was a good amount and i knew her address thanks to my "fans" send it anonymously to her house.

"Oh!... Oh ok... I... Get it now. Still spike... Asking random ponies to follow a lady home even if to help said pony is... Very brow raising to say the least. But i get it, you were always such a dear afterall.

Yeah, so anyway they found the adress and i had the bits, so i asked one of the mare fans, to leave the money with my letter in the front door of creame's house or somewhere visible but that made sure no one took it besides her and it would all have worked out if... The mare was more cautious when she went back to leave the money. Turns out when she was about to leave the letter and money in her front door at night (so the money was not stealed away from some passing neighboor) she was... Discovered and well... Creame freaked out and recognized her as the "funny looking mare that seemed to follow me yesterday but went away so i didnt look into it too much but now is at my front door in the middle of the night almost stalking me with bags in her back" and basically beat her flank then proceeded to interrogate her cop style.

Only to find out about the money, my letter and the plan. But strangely enough according to the crystal mare she just started to cry while laughing at first from disbelief but then from happiness and gratittude said mare then came looking back for me all the way from Dunk junction to thank me. When she met me back the first she said was:

"I have no words for your actions. I-i just...thank you even after everything i did you... You just.... I thought dragons were scum but.... But you.... She was saying until she took a big breath to calm her nerves to say the next words if posible please... Let me take a photo of you!!

"Huh? come again?" asked present Rarity and Past spike.

"I want to take a photo of you and me! To always remind me, and my mother and everyone in dunk junctions hospital that dragons can be friends! and that you are a hero!! my mothers...no, my hero!!! she said with a resolute look and a blush adorning her cheeks i of course accepted and as soon as the historic photo was taken and we looked at it that same second her flanked glowed with a green and purple flash and a cutie mark of a beautiful camera of cream and blue just like her furr and mane appeared on her flank

Present rarity gasped: "She got her cutie mark because of you!? "

Past creame gasped : "Oh.... my.... Celestia!! You... my flank.... me.....i.... I LOVE YOU!! She then went and bear hugged me, kiss my face again and again and find her calling: photographs and social change. The rest considering the gig she and i have since 2 years now, you can imagine the rest.

Rarity was swooned by the romantic story but was also guilty and jealous because of what that mare had with him and what she was about to do now....