“Oh my Celestia, that was amazing.” I pant. I'm getting used to many of the uses of language here in Equestria.
“Yes, I'm awesome.” Rainbow says, she turns to me and gives me a kiss, “And you were pretty awesome yourself.” She coos.
I lay back. She hasn't let me get much sleep tonight. Not that that is a bad thing though. I grab her and hold her. I kiss her some more. Nothing better in this world than kissing my special somepony. I'm holding her. I think she's about to fall asleep. I snuggle closer to her. I'm just about to nod off myself when I feel her sigh heavily. Mentally, I'm yanked right awake with that. I wait for her to say something.
“Sparky?”
“Yes, my dear.”
“We need to talk.” About the four most loaded words in existence. It has the same meaning here as home, and anywhere else.
“Have I done something wrong Rainbow?”
She shakes her head violently. “No... nothing like that. We just need to...” another sigh from her, “talk.”
I squeeze my forehooves around her and bring her closer, I nuzzle her for a moment. “You can talk to me about anything, you know that Rainbow Dash.”
She pushes away from me a little bit, so she can look into my eyes, impossibly big, incredibly beautiful cerise eyes gaze into my steel gray eyes.
“Are you sure? Are you going to get mad at me?”
I have to think for a second, and I decide to give her the most honest answer I can. “I may end up getting mad, Dashie. But I love you, so you can consider yourself already forgiven even if I do get mad.”
“You promise?” Her voice is really small.
I kiss her, after a moment, I break away for breath. “Yes, Dashie, I promise.”
“I don't know what I'm doing here. This relationship thing. I don't know.”
I'm confused, I've been really happy having her in my life, I've been really happy with her as my special somepony.
“Whatever do you mean Dashie?”
“I'm serious, I'm always playing it by ear, I'm never sure what to do. When you put your wings around me, when you touch me, I feel... I feel love, I know that. But I'm scared.”
I smile at her. “My Dashie? Scared? You certainly don't act that way.”
She moves away from me. “But I'm terrified. I'm afraid that I'm going to say something wrong, or I'm going to do something wrong, and I'm going to make you upset, and you won't want to be with me anymore.”
“That's not going to happen, Dash, I am in love with you.”
“But what does that mean?” she asks plaintively.
“That is a hard question, what is love.” I have to think about this for a moment. “I can't give you a complete answer to that Rainbow, but I do know this. When I'm not around you, I think about you, I miss your touch, your smell, your voice. When I'm with you, everything is right with the world.”
She looks at me plaintively, “But I've never had any kind of serious relationship in my life. I've had friends, and I know what it's like to have friends. I know what makes them my friends. What makes me so special to you?”
“I've been in love before. You know that. In fact, because of our link, you know more about me than anypony in Equestria. Do you remember how I felt about my wife?”
Her voice couldn't possibly get any smaller, but it does. “Yes.”
Oh, I get it now. “And you know how all consuming my love was for her. And you wonder if I feel that way about you?”
She looks down. She's silent for a long time.
“Rainbow?”
She looks back up at me. Her eyes are full of tears.
“Is that what you are worried about?”
She nods slowly. Tears start to fall. I kiss her eyelids, I can taste the saltiness of her tears.
“Rainbow, I know how I felt about my wife, and my love for you. Well, it's different. But it's no less intense.”
She sniffles. And rubs her nose with her forehoof. “So, if I were to get sick the way she did, what would you do?”
I hug her tighter, and bring my wings into the hug. “I would be just as frantic to heal you. And if you were to die. Well, do you remember what happened to me when she died?”
“Yes, you stopped eating, your daughter had to force you to drink anything, you were a mess.” A small smile from her. “You very nearly died didn't you?”
“Yes, I went from two hundred fifty pounds of muscle to less than a hundred pounds. My daughter had to heal me and force me back into the real world.”
“How long did it take for you to stop hurting from losing her?”
I looked at her, now it's my turn for tears. “I never stopped hurting.”
“Do you think of her when you are with me?”
Now that's a prickly question. “Rainbow, when I'm with you, there is nopony else. When I'm not around you, I think about you, and about her. I miss her, and anticipate seeing you again. A big comfort in my life is knowing that I will see you again. There is nothing better for me to see you.”
She thinks about my words for a minute. That minute stretches longer and longer with her eyes closed. For a moment I think she's fallen asleep on me. Finally she speaks. “I feel the same way about you Sparky. I've never had a romantic relationship with anypony. In fact, you got my virginity. I'm twenty one years old, and I feel blessed by Celestia herself to have you in my life.”
She sighs, then continues. “You are the most important pony in my life. I'm afraid you will leave me, you can jump from universe to universe. You are, to my view, nearly immortal.” I'm taking in breath to dispute that, I can die, and I'll age, I will die of old age, eventually, she puts a hoof on my mouth. “I know you won't live forever, but you will live a long time after I'm nothing but dust. Are you going to decide it's time to go to a new universe, and forget about me?”
I once again wrap her with my hooves and wings. “Rainbow Dash, I plan on staying in Equestria for a good long time. I don't have any plans to go anywhere. And I'm going to stay with you, for as long as you'll have me.”
“So, you want to get married?”
That caught me off guard. I wasn't planning on any marriage when I entered Equestria. But I can't deny how I feel about this mare. “You want to get married?”
She looks down. “Yes.”
I shift out of the bed, I bow down in front of her. “Rainbow Dash, will you marry this old pony?”
She grabs me. And kisses the pure hell out of me. “Yes, Sparky, I will marry you.”
We both hug for a very long time. After a while, she pulls away and looks at me. Her eyes are sparkling. “You ready for another go?” She purrs at me.
“You know it.” She smothers me with her mouth. I think we are going to keep going until sunrise.