Nightmares of the Heart

“I promised Pinkie I’d go stop by and help her out, she had a big party last night and she’s ‘all Pinkie’d out’.” Twilight said later in the morning.

“Oh can I come with you?” Celestia asked.

“Sure, it’s not like I can stop you.” Twilight replied.

“Well then let’s go! It’s been awhile since i had a chance to work with my hands.” Celestia giggled.

At Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie was surprised to see Celestia, but was otherwise unphased by her appearance.

“Thank you sooooo much for coming Twilight! I can only stay Pinkie-like for so long. A hangover is bad enough, but waking up on a cloud and having to wake up an equally hungover Rainbow Dash to help you get down is not fun.” Pinkie said, falling off of the counter as if she were a liquid. Suddenly popping up on the other side of the counter, she continued.

“And you brought the princess with you! It’s so awesome, maybe if she helps bake with us then the pastries will be like divine in flavor and taste so much better because they were made with such princess-ey hands!” She said all in one breath.

“Uh, Pinkie? You woke up with Dash?” Twilight said. Celestia was nearly dumbfounded by the pink woman’s speech patterns and speed. The only reason she even understood any of it was because politicians and noblemen tend to have quick tongues as well. But this? this was just unmitigated randomness. And apparently Twilight made sense of it.

“Oh come on you don’t know?” Pinkie giggled.

“Oh trust me, everyone in Ponyville knows by now. But, like, in her bed?” Twilight responded.

“Well duh, where else are we gonna sleep? The clouds that Valkyrie use for bedding is literally the softest stuff you can ever get, not even cloud pillows are that comfortable.” Pinkie said. “OH! speaking of clouds I had this really cool idea this morning where i use clouds to make cupcakes but i’d put stuff in it to make it like cotton candy or icing kinda like how discord did it but without all the chaos everywhere else but when I tried to grab some on the way back here they just poofed away!” She continued.

“Well only a Valkyrie can just go up and touch clouds unless you’re using magic or a cloud-walk spell. ANyways, we had better get started.” Twilight said. If Celestia hadn’t had years of practice keeping her composure up, she’d have to pick her jaw up from the floor. SHe had no idea what the hell Pinkie was saying, yet Twilight understood it like it was normal.

“Twilight... how could you follow what she was saying?!” She hissed in the girl’s ear when Pinkie led them into the back.

“You couldn’t? That’s how she normally talks, usually faster actually. Why?” Twilight responded.

“Your brain must be able to process information at such speeds it’s like slow motion or something... All I got out of that was what you said.” Celestia said.

“I don’t think it’s that extreme, I’m just used to it.” Twilight shrugged.

“Okie Dokie Lokie then! I need to get twenty-three batches of chocolate chip, double chocolate fudge, white macadamia nut, oatmeal raisin, sugar and peanut butter cookies; Five batches of apple family style apple fritters, forty-nine batches of cupcakes and twelve cakes done.” Pinkie listed off.

“Slow days coming up or something?” Twilight asked, rolling the sleeves of her shirt up to her elbows as she snapped, spun her finger around and made a ‘come here’ gesture to the room in general and stacks upon stacks of baking trays and bowls began levitating onto the various counters. Twilight wasn’t even paying attention to them.

“It’s sunday so everyone’s going to be enjoying their last day of the weekend and sleep in, except for you of course.” Pinkie giggled.

“When does the bakery open up?” Celestia asked.

“Oh it opened two hours ago. Most of this stuff will just go on the shelves but some of it was specially ordered. Do you know how to bake, Princess?” Pinkie replied.

“Nobody really knows this, but I used to bake the best pastries in the old canterlot. Nobility and ‘royal pride’, or whatever the noblemen called it, apparently shouldn’t need to bake their own pastries so i’m a bit out of practice.” Celestia said, following Twilight’s lead with her own turtleneck.

“Ok then! I’ve already got half of the cupcakes and cookies in the oven about ready to come out so do what you can and remember, there are no mistakes just delicious accidents!” Pinkie exclaimed.

Celestia was in awe at the kitchen, it was much larger than it looked from outside. That wasn’t the reason she was in awe though, it was what Twilight and Pinkie were doing inside of it. Batter and spices and utensils and trays and bowls and everything you’d ever see needed to make a pastry was flying around the room. There was literally an entire counter full of bowls mixing cupcake batter on their own.

Twilight was working side by side with Pinkie, rolling dough and working with her hands just as hard as her magic was. Celestia soon got over it though, and helped where she could. She would monitor everything, making sure the magic didn’t slip up or traffic trays between ovens or something like that, but she really wasn’t all that useful. Eventually, Twilight got tired so she took over the physical aspect for her but the girl kept her magic going strong.

“Well it’s about noon now so we really should get going. We’re filthy.” Twilight said after a few hours.

“Oh of course! thank you so much Twilight! I never would have gotten eeeeeeverything done so quickly like that. You two go and have fun and come back sometime between Ten and Midnight and I’ll have something special made for you as thanks for helping me so much!” Pinkie exclaimed in her holy-crap-how-the-hell-is-twilight-following-her manner of speech.

“Take care Pinkie, and we will.” Twilight said. “We really need to get cleaned up.” She continued, looking the two of them over. They were practically covered in flour and icing, every inch of their bodies smelled like on pastry or another, Twilight’s shirt was probably never going to get that blue food coloring stain out without magic and their hair was coated in a concoction of batter, dough and cottage cheese for some reason.

“We do.” Celestia agreed with a giggle.

Once home, they found Spike reading a book about pyrotechnics.

“Spike, I told you not to read those.” Twilight sighed.

“Hey, I like explosions and fire. Sue me.” Spike shrugged, earning a giggle from Celestia. He looked up at them and fell out of his chair laughing.

“Yeah we’re gonna go clean up... Where are the Crusaders?” Twilight said.

“Sleeping in the guest bedroom, they tired themselves out today. THey actually did chores and stuff.” Spike said.

“Alright. Do me a favor and make some lunch alright?” Twilight asked.

“Sure.” Spike said.

“Come on.” Twilight said and led Celestia to the bathroom. “Towels are in the cabinet, left is hot right is cold and I’ll bring some clothes for you to wear.” Twilight said as she opened the door.

“It seems a bit big for just one person.” Celestia said in a joking voice, earning a blush from Twilight.

“We just started a few hours ago, I think I’d probably pass out if we went that far so soon.” Twilight said awkwardly.

“I was joking.” Celestia said.

“I know, doesn’t hurt to think about it though.” Twilight said, leaving the room.

Half an hour later, Twilight found herself nearly passed out with blood nearly spraying out of her nose as Celestia walked into her room covered by nothing but a towel.

“The clothes don’t fit...” Celestia said apologetically.

“I know... I don’t know your size so I kind of thought you’d just use magic to make it fit...” Twilight said after she composed herself. Celestia facepalmed.

“I’m still filthy.” Twilight said, hurrying past Celestia and into the bathroom for her own shower.

“I’ll just go sleep on the couch downstairs.” Twilight argued.

“I’m not kicking you out of your bed, and if you sleep on the couch downstairs i’m going to join you there as well.” Celestia argued back.

“Huh?”

“Oh come on, I don’t get to cuddle up with my best friend who also happens to be dating me now? That’s cruel, Twilight.” Celestia said.

“Oh... I guess I didn’t think of that...” Twilight said.

“That bed is big enough to have the both of us sleeping comfortably and then some, it’s not like it’s too small or anything.” Celestia said, sitting on said bed.

“I guess you’re right...” Twilight mumbled.

“Oh come on don’t be so shy, I liked when you were bolder earlier today.” Celestia said.

“Well that was during the morning and the day when we were out and about, now it’s sleeping together in pajamas.” Twilight said.

“It’s a good time to be intimate I should think. If you’re really that uncomfortable with it you don’t have to, but i refuse to let you sleep anywhere but your own bed tonight.” Celestia sighed.

“Oh fine, you win.” Twilight said, throwing her arms in the air and plopped down on the bed.

“This is one luxury I must simply have my dear, snuggles are right up there with peace on my royal ‘have to have’ list.” Celestia giggled as she wrapped her arms around the girl.

“Good night.” Twilight said with a giggle as she snapped and the lights turned off.

“Sweet dreams.” Celestia said, kissing her on top of the head.