Something Between Us

As the sun rose, Zipp stuttered as she tried to go back to sleep, but it wasn’t possible, her alarm rang and it caused her to groggily wake up. She went to turn off her alarm when she noticed something on the side of her bed that wasn’t there before. It was a lovely looking vase with five roses in it and a small note. She went ahead and grabbed the note and saw it was from Hitch.

As she opened the letter, she felt a sharp pain on her head which caused her to press her hoof to it, that’s when she noticed that her head was banged up, as she felt around, she noticed a small wet spot and when she brought her hoof down, she saw on her silver hoof a small splash of red. Seeing this, she instantly grabbed her phone and opened the camera, putting her camera on selfie mode, she gasped at what she saw, sure enough where she touched was bandaged up, and where she felt a bit of wetness were a few splotches of blood, she slowly took off the bandages, hoping the damage wasn’t too bad, but to her surprise, there was nothing, her head was completely clear.

Shifting to herself, with a bit of confusion, she grabbed the letter and opened it, as she read the note it filled her with love and hope:

“Dear Zipp,

It’s me, Hitch, your sister told me that you needed help when I arrived at the Brighthouse, I was originally going to the Brighthouse to ask for your help cleaning the beach because of the mess Sunny made, but when I saw what happened, I instantly took action and helped you, you had a massive gash on your head, but it should be healed by now (thank Discord for that) so you should be ok, but please be careful, don’t force yourself too much and rest if you need it, I won’t be mad if you have to take time off. If you do decide to come to work, then please wait till I get there. I want to come to check up on you, so I will be at the Brighthouse at around 9:30ish. I really hope you are feeling ok.

Love, Hitch

“He said love…” Zipp said in her head, a small blush creeping onto her cheeks, “Wait, 9:30!” she suddenly said out loud, as she quickly grabbed her phone and turned it on, in bright white numbers, it displayed 9:15.

Realizing she had less than half an hour to get ready, she instantly threw off her blankets and hopped out of bed before rushing downstairs, where she saw Sunny making some breakfast, with Misty helping and Izzy waiting at the table.

“Hey Zipp, how are you feeling?” Sunny asked as she flipped a pancake up in the air which was quickly caught on a floating plate that had five other pancakes stacked up, “Good catch Misty.” Sunny said, smiling at her.

“Thanks," Misty replied as she floated the plate over to Izzy, before getting another plate in her aura and was ready for more.

“I’m fine, but more importantly, where is Pipp!?” Zipp said fantastically.

This made Sunny worried and she softly said, “She is taking a shower, she got in about five minutes ago, are you ok?”

“Yes I’m fine, I just need to do something before Hitch arrives!” As she finished saying that, she ran to the bathroom and gently pressed her ear to the door, sure enough, Pipp was in there happily singing as she was taking her shower. Gently she turned the knob of the door and it was locked, this didn’t worry her as she quickly flew back up to the second floor and grabbed a lock-picking set.

She then flew back to the bathroom and as softly as she could picked the lock. Once she was successful, she opened the door as softly as she could and then quickly got in without making a sound. Zipp was very much happy that the shower had blackout curtains because otherwise, this would have been impossible. Making her way around, Zipp managed to get to Pipp’s phone, which she then opened and went to her pictures. She scrolled through many selfies, in her head she was constantly saying “No, no, no, no, no, n— Oh wait, yes!” she found the video, and she made sure it was the right one before promptly deleting it permanently.

Once that was done, she checked the time on the phone, 9:29 is what it showed, seeing that she got out of the bathroom without making a sound and happily trotted back to the kitchen.

“Sooooo, is everything ok?” Sunny asked as she saw Zipp sitting down, Misty floated a stack of pancakes to her which Zipp happily ate.

“Yup, everything is all better now,” Zipp said through a mouthful of pancakes. “Everything will be just fine now,"

As soon as she was done with her pancakes, she got up and was about to head upstairs to get her things when the doors to the Brighthouse opened, and in walked Hitch with Sparky on his back. Sparky instantly got off of Hitch and ran to Zipp and gave her a massive hug on one of the legs, and then went on to give Sunny, Misty, and Izzy a hug too before plopping himself on a chair.

“Hey everypony, wow, Sunny, that smells so good,” he said as he lifted his nose to get a better whiff of the pancakes.

“Hitch!” quickly and without even thinking, Zipp ran to Hitch and gave him a hug. As soon as her baring caught up to what she did, Zipp immediately stopped hugging him, a small blush was on her and she noticed that Hitch also had a small bush and wasn’t making any eye contact with her, “S-sorry, I just wanted to t-thank you for helping me out and tending to my wound.” she said with a bit of a shaky voice.

“N-no problem, a-anyways, you look like you are feeling much better, or am I wrong,” Hitch said, with a shaky voice and putting a hoof behind his head, trying to maintain eye contact to no success.

“Y-yeah, I’m all good, I saw your letter and the roses, I also saw that Discord helped, thank you, you two,” Zipp said, still with a shaky voice, also trying to maintain eye contact with no success.

Thinking to himself, he wondered what letter and what roses she was talking about and then once she mentioned Discord, he instantly realized that it was Discord helping him out a little, “Thank you, Discord.” Hitch said in his head.

“You’re welcome, Hitch.” was the response he got not a second later also in his head.

Internally rolling his eyes, Hitch tried to think of what he would say next, “Y-yeah, I wanted to hopefully make you feel better when you woke up and let you know that there will be no hard feelings if you do decide to take a break today, it’s slow at the station at the moment, so you don’t really have to come in unless you want to help with the paperwork.”

“I would love to help you, though we are not going anywhere until you eat, you coming in like that makes it very clear that your tank is empty,” Zipp said playfully.

Almost on cue, Hitch’s stomach rumbled hard which brought another small blush to him, this caused Zipp to laugh and Hitch joined in the laughter.

“Awww, so when’s the wedding?” Instantly both Hitch and Zipp turned and saw Pipp smiling and giggling, she had a towel over her mane and her coat was still a bit damp, Sunny, Izzy, and Misty were also giggling to each other as they saw everything.

Seeing that Pipp wasn’t recording, Zipp only glared at Pipp, her face was bright red, looking back at Hitch, she also saw Hitch was bright red, his face was frozen from shock, and all that came out of his mouth was a small whimper.

Sunny went ahead and flipped a pancake to Hitch which hit him on his face, instantly snapping him out of his shock.

“Ouch, hey that’s hot, you could have hurt me with that!” he said sternly.

“There's the Sheriff we know and love.” Sunny playfully.

All the girls, except for Zipp erupted with laughter and Misty used her magic to get the pancake Sunny threw, she placed it on a plate that had five other pancakes, “These are yours Hitch, come and eat, before you head back to work.”

After all that was over with, the girls and Hitch along with Sparky finished their breakfast and everypony headed out to work. Izzy took Sparky since she wanted to teach him about arts and crafts, which meant that Hitch and Zipp walked together to the sheriff’s office.

Once there, Zipp and Hitch started filing paperwork, losing themselves as they sorted through old cases and new cases, once they were finished, the sun was starting to set and the day was coming to an end, both Hitch and Zipp were exhausted, and as they looked at each other and suddenly looked away, both blushing and not knowing what to do or say now that they are all done with work and are still alone.

“I will be taking my leave then, you’re welcome for the help,” Zipp said before she got up and was about to leave.

“Y-yeah, have a good night Zipp,” Hitch said, as he saw Zipp leave, he then felt a sharp pain on the back of his head.

As Hitch rubbed the back of his head, he heard Discord yell in his head, “What are you doing, this is your chance, Hitch!”

“You know I can arrest you for assault on an officer right!?” Hitch said out loud as he looked up.

“W-what?” Zipp asked as she stood in the open door. Concerned, she then suddenly lets the door close and turns around, confusion clearly on her face.

“Oh, ummm, nothing, I was just practicing, y-you know, just in case somepony attacks me, hehe!” Hitch said in a frantic, sheepish tone in his voice and trying hard to look away from Zipp, but a second later he slumped down and sighed hard, “Well actually, I wanted to tell you something, I just didn’t know if I should have said today or another day, but since you are leaving tomorrow for Zephyr Heights, I might as well say something, I guess.”

“Y-yeah?” Zipp replied questioningly, looking at Hitch with worry and a hit of hope.

“W-well, it’s just…” Hitch said, trying his best to say the words, but his mouth started getting dry.

After a minute of him not saying a word, Zipp got a little sad, her face started to frown a little and her wings drooped also, “it’s just what?” she asked, her voice a little shaky.

After not receiving a reply, her wings fully droop to the ground and she hangs her head down. Zipp felt as if she was about to cry, she didn’t know what to do or what else to say, but then she heard Hitch walking towards her and gently lifted her head to meet his gaze and without hesitation, kissed her.

Suddenly those tears were no longer of sadness, but of happiness, her wings shooting up and her entire body going stiff, she closed her eyes and leaned into the kiss. The kiss went on for five seconds, but it felt eternal.

“S-sorry…” Hitch said trying his best to not sound embarrassed, “I-I will go and put myself into a cell, I could count this as sexual assault since you didn’t give conse—”

He was suddenly cut off as Zipp dove onto him and kissed him, she let her body rest on his, and without thinking, Hitch wrapped his hooves around her.

This kiss lasted longer than the last one, at least a little over a minute before they unlocked their lips. They both just stared at each other, Zipp then just gently laid her head on his chest, a contented sigh escaping both of them, as they both laid there for a minute before suddenly a voice broke the silence, “Well, well, well, looks like I was right.”

Both Zipp and Hitch instantly jumped and untangled themselves and looked in the direction that the voice came from.

There they saw Pipp, Izzy, Sunny, and Misty at the door, Pipp had a smug face, Izzy had a little bit of a shocked face as well as covering Sparky’s eyes, and Sunny had a calm and caring smile, making it seem as if she was happy at what she saw and Misty was hiding her face, blushing hard and clearly embarrassed at what she saw.

The four mares stared at Hitch and Zipp, when suddenly Zipp fainted in Hitch's arms, clearly embarrassed to no end.