Don't Give Up

Don't Give Up

Chapter 8

Emotions and Toxins

Rainbow Dash was awoken by a bright, purple light shining just above her face. Grumbling slightly, she allowed the world around her to come into focus as sleep left her body, a purple unicorn coming into focus with it. She was in a bed, Twilight standing next to her, horn glowing as she did... something.

“Twi?” Dash mumbled, turning her head slightly to get a better look at the purple mare.

“Oh, you're a wake, that's a good sign.” Twilight answered, though she seamed distant, as if distracted.

“Something wrong?” Dash asked, concerned about the tone she had heard.

“Oh no, it's fine, everything's fine.” Twilight answered a little too quickly, giving Dash a small, cute smile.

“Whoa,” Dash thought to herself, “She can be pretty beautiful when she smiles. Wait... what?” Dash repressed that thought for a while longer, deciding to instead focus on what was important. “So, what happened?” She asked, though she still found herself thinking about the gorgeous mare beside her.

“Well, I can only assume you started a hallucinating, seeing as you thought I was a cactus, then you passed out, you've been out for about an hour now.” Twilight answered, looking over some notes she was levitating in a purple aura.

“Huh...” Was all dash said, still very distracted by what was possibly the prettiest mare she had ever seen, it was as if she had been blind every other time she had looked at her.

“Dash?” Twilight asked, noticing her cyan friend staring at her.

“What?”

“You alright? You seem distracted.”

“I'm fine, just... you're beautiful.” Dash spat out, not really thinking at all. There was something about being in the presence of Twilight that made her mind shut down.

“Oh no.” Twilight said, quickly floating over a test tube and examining it. It looked clear, though when she added a drop of something red it quickly turned violet. “I thought so. Alright, Dash, I need you to stay calm, and whatever you do, try to suppress any... urges, you get. Trust me, it will end badly.” Twilight said, taking a step back from the rainbow maned mare.

“Something wrong, Twi? Do you need to lay down? There is plenty of room in this bed, you know.” Dash said, her mind could think of nothing except the mare in front of her.

“DASH! I need you to focus, this should pass in a few hours, but until then I need you to focus!” Twilight said, backing up to the closed door.

“I am focusing, Twi, I'm focusing on you.” Dash said, slowly standing up from the bed.

“That's what I was afraid of.” Twilight mumbled to herself, before opening the door with her magic and stepping into the doorway.

“Twi? Come on, stay with me.” Dash said in a low, seductive tone, walking over to the purple unicorn.

“Sorry Dash, but this is for your own good.” Twilight said, before stepping all the way out the door and slamming it shut in the pegasus's face, securing it with a locking spell.

“Twi? Come on Twi! Let me out!” Dash called from the room, though Twilight ignored her, walking down the stairs to the first floor of the library, where she could have some peace and quiet.

“Okay, Twilight, breathe, you can do this, you just need to breathe, and ignore her, that shouldn't be too hard, right? You knew this would happen from the first blood test, you prepared yourself for this. It's not her talking, she doesn't want what she says she wants... but why do I feel like I do?” Twilight ranted to nopony in particular as she collapsed on a couch.

“Uh, Twilight? Why is Rainbow Dash locked in your room? And why does she keep saying that you know you want to?” Spike asked, climbing down the stairs from the second floor.

“Not now, Spike, doesn't Rarity need your help or something?” Twilight asked, a little more then annoyed at the interruption.

“Rarity always needs my help for soemthing, but you said I had to stay here today and help clean, remember?” Spike said, a feather duster in his claw as he walked over the the closest book shelf.

“Great, Rarity needs you, go help her.” Twilight said, her horn glowing.

“But you said that I... needed to stay.” Spike finished to himself, having been teleported mid sentence to a path leading directly to Carousel Boutique.

“Good, now that he's out of the way, I can have some real peace and quiet.” Twilight nodded approvingly and stretched out on her couch.

“Twi?” She heard Dash call again, though this time it sounded almost sad, like Rainbow had woken up, alone and confused. Like a foal calling out to their mother after a bad dream.

“Wow, that was over fast, I could have sworn that would have been a more powerful aphrodisiac. Oh well, at least it's over with.” Twilight thought, walking back upstairs and unlocking the door to her room. As soon as she did so, however, she was blinded by a rainbow mane as she was tackled to the floor.

“There you are, took you long enough.” Dash said in a low, lustful tone. She was standing over the toppled unicorn, looking down at her with hungry eyes.

“Dash! What are you doing?” Twilight screamed, started by the sudden attack. Rainbow simply smiled as she leaned down, her muzzle millimetres from Twilight's.

“Something I've wanted to do for a while.” She said, her voice low and rougher then normal.

“Dash...” Twilight pleaded weakly, “Get off, please, don't do this.” Twilight tried to prepare a teleportation spell, though she was finding it hard to focus. Feeling every breath the cyan mare above her took on her face, her rainbow mane flowing over her shoulders, surrounding their heads, blocking out the rest of the world.

“Are you saying you don't want to?” Dash whispered, leaning down right to Twilight's ear.

Twilight couldn't answer. While half her mind was screaming at her to say 'no' the other half was telling her to accept it. The other half of her mind wanted it, and she couldn't understand why. This was wrong, ever fibre of her being felt wrong for even thinking about letting Dash do what she wanted, but still she lay there, paralysed with confusion, stuck in her own thoughts.

“I'll take that as a 'go ahead'” dash purred, nibbling a bit on Twilight's ear. That was all it took to snap Twilight back to reality.

“NO!” Twilight screamed, throwing Rainbow off her with a quick flash of magic. Rainbow Dash landed on her bed, bounced off it and flew into the wall, a loud smack resonating from within the room.

“Sorry Dash, but it's for your own good.” Twilight said, before closing and locking the door again, this time adding an extra, magical layer of soundproofing.

“I can't...” Twilight thought as she galloped away from her room as fast as her hooves could carry her. Nearly tripping on the stairs, lost in thought as she finally made it to her couch, immediate laying down and burying her burning face in a pillow.

“What was I doing? Why was it so hard for me to say no? Why did I lock up like that? I don't know! I'm so confused... I know that wasn't the Dash I know, that was the chemicals talking, not her, and yet, I came so close to just letting her do what she wanted. What is wrong with me?” Twilight screamed into the pillow, confusion fuelling her rage at herself.

She screamed and screamed, she didn't know why she was so angry, and that confused her, and she hated being confused. Slowly her screams turned to muffled shouts, then into even quieter whimpers. Until all that could be heard were her shaky breaths as she cried into the pillow. She couldn't understand anything, not her emotions, not why she felt the emotions, she couldn't even fgure out how long she had been crying like that before finally falling asleep.