"Mom, Mom, Mom!" Twilight Sparkle shouted as she ran into the den, where her mother was reading by the fire.
Chuckling at her little filly's enthusiasm Twilight's mother said smiling and waving. "Right here dear."
“Mom, I need mistletoe!” Twilight shouted hoof raised pointing at her mother.
With an amused glance her mother asked, “What would you need mistletoe for sweetie?"
“It’s a secret!” Twilight replied.
“This wouldn’t have anything to do with that book about Hearth’s Warming I saw you reading because its coming up soon?”
“Maybe?”
“Twilight…”
“Mom please it’s really important and I promised not to tell anypony!”
Now, Twilight’s mother was no fool, she knew when Twilight was lying, just a trait every mother has and this didn’t seem like Twilight was lying. Twilight needed mistletoe for something and she wasn’t about to tell her what that something was.
“It’s not for you is it?” Twilight’s mother asked worried her baby was jumping into something she didn’t fully understand.
“Nope! It’s for Shiny!” Twilight shouted, then gasped, “Oh no mommy please don’t tell Shining I told you.”
Then again Twilight was never good at keeping things secret.
“Did your brother ask you to help him find mistletoe?” Twilight’s mother replied wondering what was going on in Twilight’s head.
“No he just told me he likes somepony and I read in my book about Hearth’s Warming that ponies caught under mistletoe
have to kiss or its bad luck and I thought I would find some and give it to him so he could maybe get a kiss from Cadence.”
Twilight gasped again and covered her mouth with her hooves, mortified at her outburst. Twilight’s mother just grinned, amused at this turn of events.
‘So he finally noticed her, it’s about time! Took that hard headed son of mine long enough. Anypony would have to be blind or my son to not notice the way she looked at him. Poor Cadence was about to give up too.’
Twilight’s mother lit her magic grabbing the mistletoe out from the doorway to the den. Twilight seeing where her mother had acquired her desired item blushed.
“Here you go Twilight just bring it back please.” Twilight’s mother said transferring the mistletoe to her daughter’s magic.
“I will thanks mom!” Twilight said bolting from the room mistletoe in her magic.
"Dress warm!!" Her mother shouted after her.
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Shining Armor cantered down the lane towards the Royal Library, nodding to the guards as he entered. He was a colt with a mission, one of dire import. He needed to find Cadence and talk to her before he left for boot camp.
“Cadence?” Shining Armor said coming into the Royalty section and seeing Cadence there studying on the Crystal Empire.
“Yes?” Cadence said looking up from her book to see who was calling her. “Hi Shining Armor, it’s good to see you! Do your parents need me to watch Twilight?” Cadence asked seeing who it was.
“Uh, No. Not that I know of. I just wanted to talk to you about something.” Shining said thankful to have been able to find the object of his search so quickly.
“Oh, what is it?” Cadence said curious as to what her crush wanted to talk about.
“Uh, you see, ever since you started-“
*bang*
The two ponies looked to the doorway to see Twilight barreling in and skidding to a halt right in front of the two. Mistletoe in her magical grasp.
“I finally found you Shiny!”
“Twily?! What are you doing here?”
“I’m here to-!” Twilight stopped noticing Cadence standing there looking amused at her and her brother.
“Uh hehe.” Was all Twilight said rubbing the back of her head looking sheepish.
“Uh, listen Cadence; I’ll just talk to you later?” Shining Armor said looking away; a bit downtrodden at his chance to talk to Cadence alone was ruined.
“Hold on Shining Armor. Don’t want to get bad luck do you?” Cadence said blushing and pointing to the mistletoe that was hanging over the two of them thanks to Twilight’s magic.
“What?” He said looking up at the mistletoe.
Cadence stepped towards Shining. “Yes, Shining if a Stallion and a Mare are under mistletoe together they have to kiss or it is bad luck for the two of them.”
“Yeah big brother I learned that in my book about Hearth’s Warming!” Twilight put in.
“Oh if that’s the case I guess we can’t have a princess running around with bad luck can we?” He said stepping closer to Cadence.
“Of course not, and we certainly can’t have the future captain of the royal guard going into boot camp with bad luck.” Cadence said in response.
The two ponies were nose to nose now looking into the other’s eyes.
“Meet me tonight at the cafe down the street from my place?” Shining Armor whispered to Cadence right before he leaned in and kissed her softly.
“Sure thing.” Cadence said after they broke the kiss.
Shining Armor stepped back, smiled at the princess, tossed Twilight on his back and bolted. The mistletoe still in Twilight’s magic bobbing after them.
“Took you long enough, Shining Armor.” Cadence said to herself blushing and looking forward to her date this evening.
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Shining Armor walked into the den after putting his sister to bed. The pair had a long day after leaving Cadence. The two just played the day away enjoying the snow and festive atmosphere and by the time it was bedtime for good little fillies. Twilight was exhausted and had forgotten about her promise to give back the Mistletoe. Shining carried it with him to give to his mom while he told her of his date with Cadence.
"So did it help?" Twilight's mother asked as she took the mistletoe from him.
"I guess you could say that, considering I have a date this evening. which I have to get ready for!" Shining said puffing out his chest and then leaving to get ready for said date.
"Took you long enough Son." Was all his mother said at his retreat as she hung it back over the doorway and smiling, remembering all the kisses and happiness she got from her husband because of a little bit of mistletoe.
