What If: My Second Life

CHAPTER 2: Do you Believe In Magic?

Author's Notes: I'll say this again guys, you are all FREAKING AWESOME! Thanks for all the good feedback everyone! It makes me really wanna keep going with this. I feel bad for copying Coal but he said we cool. And also, I'm not taking EXACT quotes from the original, "My Second Life," That's just plagiarism. But, I'm glad you guys are liking this! Hope you keep on liking it! Also, like I said in the last chapter, the First person/Third person from Jace will be on and off as I see fit. This chapter, Third person.

Jace and Coal walked with Rainbow Dash until we reached the library that Twilight lived in. Coal was first to break the silence. "Dash, are you sure about this? I mean, we wouldn't want to freak your friends out.."

Dash laughed. "I mean, you two are different, but your awful nice! I mean, I don't even know you and you offered to carry me on your back Coal!"

Coal blushed a bit and smiled. "Aww, It was nothing Dash. I mean, Jace helped too.. I got tired and he took you off my back. Honestly, I would have collapsed if it wasn't for Jace here."

Jace smiled and blushed a little. "Honestly, it was nothing.."

Dash looked up at him and smiled. "Well, thank you as well Jace! You guys are cool with me!" (BEST.DAY.EVER.FOR.THE.THIRD.TIME)

Soon we all got to Twilight's library and Dash knocked on the door. "Twilight? You in there?"

"Yeah!" Came a response. "Come on in!"

Jace and Coal looked at each other with worried looks and Rainbowdash saw the distress on their faces. "Erm.. Well.. Do you promise to not freak out with my new friends here? There uhh.. Not from around here.."

The sound of laughing could be heard from behind a door. "Common Dash, stop kidding around!"

"She's not kidding..We're not from around here.." Coal said with a nervous look.

Was that the voice of a stallion? Twilight's mind raced with who it could be. "Just get in here."

Dash shrugged and opened the door, walking inside before the two friends walked in. Twilight had her nose..Snout...Thing..In a book and didn't look up. "Alright let's see these fri-" She looked up and saw the two humans standing right in the middle of the room. She gasped and fell over, freaking out. "What are you?!"

Jace explained. "Well, we're humans from Earth... We were brought here by something..We don't know what..I think we were in the forest all night..But I swear, I can speak for Coal when I say that we would never hurt any pony!" Coal nodded and smiled at Twilight. "Sorry we gave you a scare...But Dashie did give you a good warning."

Twilight sighed and Dash helped her up. "That's what you get for making fun of me Twilight!" She said with a chuckle.

"I wasn't making fun of you! I was just having a bit of fun.." She said, smiling and looking at the two humans. "Well, it's nice to meet you two!" Coal held out his hand for a hand..Hoof shake.

Twilight shook his hand and Jace did the same. "Likewise Twilight."

"So..You two said you didn't know how you ended up in Equestria?"

Coal nodded. "Yeah.. I was driving us home from work last night and we got into a bit of an argument..I wasn't looking and got hit by a truck..We should really be dead..." (DAMMIT COAL. I'll strangle you later for making these ponies feel bad..)

Both of them had looks of concern and they stared at us with sadness and disbelief in their eyes. "Well, honestly, Coal and.. Uhh.. What was your name?" Twilight asked Jace tilting her head.

"Oh, sorry.. My name is Jace.. But some people call me Craimer.."

Twilight smiled and nodded. "Thank you..But.. I don't know what could have caused all this to happen..But.. You said last night right? What time do you think?"

Jace looked over at Coal who looked down and folded his arms. "Uhhh... I get out of work at 10:00 and we talked for a bit while driving... So..I would think about 10:10 - 10:15 really. (YES. I took that part from the original story to make sense)"

Twilight's eyes got wide and she started to pace a bit. She looked like she was holding something down that scared her a bit. It was actually starting to scare Coal and Jace.

Dash spoke up. "Oh for bucks sake Twilight! They just said they could have been dead and your worried about the stupid time?! What is so important that you needed to know something as small as the time?" She asked, sounding quite annoyed.

"Because Dash, that spell I tried last night actually worked! The spell was actually to bring something from another world so I could study it, and these two must be those objects!" She said, looking relieved and happy. "I was so upset last night about that ordeal.. That's why I was so down when you came to visit me Dash!"

"That actually explains a lot.. But.. Something that's kind of bugging me.." Jace said, looking confused. "Why us?"

Coal looked at Jace with the same expression. "Good question.. Why us?"

Twilight shrugged. "Guess you two were lucky at the time...I mean.. You did tell us you could have been dead if this didn't happen.."

Coal nodded. "True.." He whispered.

"Oh, I'm so sorry you two! I didn't mean for this to happen.. I'll look through my books to see if there is anything to take you two home." She said, starting to go through her library.

"Well..Actually Twilight.." Coal started, "We don't really want to go home.. We actually want to stay if that's alright with you.."

Again, that look of concern and shock. Jace didn't know what their response would be, but he hoped it would be good. Coal was thinking how many times they had shocked these ponies with what they were saying. He was thinking more than five hundred.

"B-But don't you two have families to get back too? They must be worried!" Dash said, looking at the two with a frown.

"Well..Not really.." Jace said. "I live alone after I finished school..So..I really don't have anywhere better to be.."

The ponies then turned their attention to Coal, who sighed. "I honestly don't have much to go back too. I mean, if you two want to hear a long explanation of why I don't want to go back, take a seat and listen.."

The two sat down, wanting to hear about Coal's life. Jace was interested in this since Coal and him haven't seen each other in about 6 years. He leaned against the wall and listened.

"Well..My life is actually not that full of fame or anything. I actually never got along with anyone in my world.. Except for Jace.. Who I stupidly got mad at for a small thing." Jace looked down, still remembering that day that happened. He felt like a complete ass for doing that to his best friend. Coal continued on with his story. "Well.. After that incident.. I never really looked for friendship at all.. I just wanted to be alone a lot of the time and I actually had trust issues with people. It got so bad with the trust issues that I started to not even trust myself. I think it was the nasty stuff that I had gotten into at a young age but, I really don't want to get into that. When I was young people didn't know that I had a lot of emotions inside of me that never got to be talked about since I didn't really make any friends. Most of these emotions were negative... As I grew older, those emotions changed to anger. Before this I couldn't get over my angst and I would break down crying to make myself feel better, but that was a sign of weakness. That anger changed me in a bad way. I would see people and instantly hate them for just existing...That was me for at least three years. When I was sixteen I got over that hate but had to deal with the constant depression. I didn't have any friends at that time, not even what our world calls a lover. All I had was my parents and my dog. There are people who don't even have that and I never appreciated what little I did have.. I didn't want friends or a lover at that time. But, we got older and drifted apart.." He looked over at Jace who had his head down, still listening intently. He knew Coal was looking at him, but just couldn't look up to meet his eyes. Coal continued on, "As for a lover.. Well.. Girlfriend I should say, that didn't really appeal to me either. During this point, the rate for divorce was really high and I thought that if I had gone through with a full relationship, it would end in divorce. Most people got together because all they wanted was sex.. I didn't want that though, I wanted love.. That's all I wanted. But, I guess that was too much to ask for seeing as though I never got that. All they wanted was the physical pleasure of a relationship and company. I honestly did not want that at all. I wanted someone who I could call my best friend, someone to hold when times got rough. Someone to be there for me and I would be there for them.. But, all the girls around me were just selfish, mean, bad mouthed harpies.." He let out a breathe and looked down again.

"Really what I'm trying to say is that I didn't want friend's or a relationship because I couldn't trust myself to like anyone.. For a few years I was happy with just being lost in myself. I didn't want anything out of life and life didn't want anything outta me. I went through the same thing, day after day for those years and I was content with doing it. There came a point in life where I knew what I did want, but I never could get it. It was like life was showing me how much it didn't care about my wants. At that point I had total given up on finding love.. All I really wanted was an equal. Someone that would be there for me. I wanted a family of my own but, I just couldn't trust myself to look for love. I had standards in life and I didn't want to loose them just to be with someone. Not just someone..But the right someone. Someone who would sincerely love me the way I loved them. I don't know what brought up these feelings girls, but I'll tell you what, it left me confused. Over a span of five months I got slowly more and more depressed.. I didn't find myself content anymore.. I found myself sad, plain and simple. I was really lonely, until Jace came and found me... I actually think now I can answer Jace's question about why us.." Jace looked up to look at his friend. Jace has tears running down his cheeks for not being there when his friend was in this bad funk. "I think it's because inside I was still lonely, and so was Jace. Neither of us really had anything to live for back on Earth, except for maybe my mom and dad but I can't live my whole life for them. I love them for being the ones who stood for me, but I can never confide in them. I want to tell them that I'm safe in a way that involves not going back to Earth.. I don't want to go back." The things going through Coal's mind right now was that he had never told anyone this back on Earth. But he was telling this to two ponies that he had just met not even a day ago..

"I feel as though me and Jace could do well here..We both feel happy here in a way that being on Earth could never have made us feel. I feel like I could finally start a family here, I don't care if I have to adopt, but for once in my life, I have found hope. Hope that I can make something out of myself other than a complete idiot. And..That's basically my life story..I'm sorry for taking so long there is just a lot that I have gone through in my life and I hope you girls don't think too poorly of me now..." Coal slowly looked up to see the girl's faces. They had tears streaming down like you would not believe. He couldn't talk and lost his breathe. The two ponies he adored so much and would die for, were crying for him. He looked over to look at Jace, who was crying as well. In all his time of being his friend, Coal has never seen Jace cry before. But, this was the first time he's seen him cry and it was for him.

"C-Coal..That is the most s-saddest story I've ever heard.." Twilight choked out. "Yes, yes, of course you and Jace can stay here! I would feel like the biggest jerk in Equestria if I didn't.."

Dash didn't say a word and just got up, and walked away. Not looking at anyone, just leaving.

Coal sighed and looked down. "I hope Dash doesn't hate me now.."

Twilight shook her head and recomposed herself. "No Coal..It's not that. Dash just doesn't like to see any pony see her cry, and it was a really sad story. But.. I'm curious now. How could you tell that story and ever cry a little for yourself?"

Coal chuckled and sighed. "Well Twilight, honestly I have no more tears for myself. I found that I was just a sad little kid who didn't belong and I figured that out fast. I cried enough for myself and I've run out of self pity. I hate myself more than anything or anyone. I've made so many bad decisions in my life.. I just need to make at least one good one and stay here."

While this was going on, Jace had composed himself and went outside, following Rainbow Dash. "Dash? You out here?" He looked around and saw nothing. He sighed and walked back into the house. "Umm, Dash left." Jace was walking in on Coal and Twilight hugging.

After a while, they both moved away from each other. "Thank you Twilight, I'm sorry for doing that but.. Hugs always made me feel better when I was sad. You're a great friend Twilight."

"It's no big deal Coal. I'm just glad to make you happy." She looked up at him with big purple eyes. Jace could see Coal just melt with that stare. He thought to himself, 'Ohhhh, he's fucked if he falls for that every time.. SHIT. I think I'm fucked for falling for it!'

"Uhm... Coal? You alright?" Twilight asks snapping him out of his trance.

Coal shook his head and chuckeld a little, rubbing the back of his neck. "Hehe, yeah.. Sorry about that. I tend to stare off into space a lot."

She laughed a little. "Don't worry about it, it happens to me all the time." He attention was then set on Jace. "And what about you Jace? Do you have a story?"

Jace looked down. "Not really.. If I told you it would make you fall asleep. I had a pretty boring life to be honest. I didn't really do a lot but sit in my home and do nothing. The only thing I really was good at was being a DJ, but that's pretty much gone now. I didn't have much to live for, but now I do being here. Same thing with Coal, I never found love. I didn't have trust issues but just simply, I enjoyed being single. I don't think I could really handle a lover if I tried. I'm not really a 'people person.'"

Twilight smiled. "You seem to be talking to me just fine!"

Jace looked at her and then gave a small smile and a slight blush. "Well, yeah.. I guess so.. I really hope it's this easy to make friends around here. I wouldn't want to have a hard time making friends." He said, with a light nervous chuckle.

"Well, my other friends will become your friends in no time! They just love making new friends!"

Coal smiled but that smile faded. "I'm still worried about Dashie though.. I don't want her feeling bad for me.. That would just make me feel worse!"

"She'll be fine Coal, trust me. And why do you call her Dashie anyway? The only pony I heard call her that was our friend Pinkie Pie."

The next few minutes consisted of telling Twilight what happened when they first got here. She stopped them once through the whole story. "Wait, Jace was dying?! WHY?!"

Jace stopped her. "Calm down Twilight.. I got worked up and I started having what's called an asthma attack. Asthma is a condition where the airways to my lungs become inflamed and swelled if I overwork myself. I overworked myself to much when my mind was racing, and my heart started pumping like I was running. My asthma kicked in and I couldn't breathe because my muscles were squeezing the airways more. I have something called an inhaler with me at all times to stop it from happening." He pulled out the inhaler and pulled out the medication bottle. "This contains the medication that I need. So if I have trouble breathing, I push it down and get a dose of the medicine that I inhale. It helps unbind the airways."

Twilight moved over towards Jace and looked at the contraption. "Interesting.. How does it work?"

Jace reconstructed the inhaler and shook it, putting the nozzle to his mouth and pushed down the aluminum bottle, getting a mouth full of the medication. He breathed in and held it there, blowing out the air again. "Just like that. Coal was the one who saved me from dying from an asthma attack when we first came here."

Coal smiled. "I wouldn't let my best friend die now would I?"

"Well, aside from all this, I need to go pick up my assistant Spike from another one of our friends. Whenever he gets free time, he always spends it with our friend Rarity. He's developed a thing for her."

"Well that is really cute.." Coal said with a smile. "Does she have feelings for him in the same way?" Jace looked over at him. (You sir, are an ass.) He could tell by the look Coal gave him meant, 'Indubitably.'

"I don't think so.. I don't even thinks she knows this to be honest. She's busy with a new colt friend of her's. Spike took it hard but he goes over there just to be close to Rarity."

Jace sighed and restrained himself from Face-palming. Coal looked like he was about to go out on a rant about how everything in this world was going to turn into a giant clop fiction. (If you get this you've either read the chapter, or your Coal himself)

"That's really sad.. Hope he's taking it better now..."

"He is..I think his love for her is platonic in nature. After all, he is still a baby.."

"That's really odd that he's still a baby but can still have those kinds of feelings." (Now it was Coal's turn to give me the look of, 'your an ass' and Jace's face was 'true story')

Author's Note: I have ended this off like this because I lost the passion to write now. Don't worry, I know a lot of people like this series and I'm not going to stop! There will just be times that nothing will really change and I'd have to skip ahead a few weeks. Also, I have taken the advice with the characters speaking and I believe to have fixed that problem. Happy reading!