Friendzone
It took several hours for the two pegasi to limp into Ponyville, and by that time, night had fallen once more. Sentinel was in the lead, and Raindrop was still trailing behind, uncertain.
Sentinel had kissed her. And she hadn’t even given him a concussion afterwards. She just...didn’t know how she felt about that.
Both of the pegasi headed for the hospital. They were both injured in one way or another, and Sentinel was a lot worse off than Raindrop. He still hadn’t managed to get his wings up off the ground, and they were constantly trailing, unmoving.
Sentinel pushed the front doors of the hospital open with a heave of his forelegs, and then collapsed right there in the doorway, giving a long sigh and then just laying his head on the floor, closing his eyes.
“Uhm...nurse?!” Raindrop called, as she stepped over to the fallen guard, nudging him with her nose in a weak attempt to stir him.
A nurse came stalking out from one of the doorways, frowning and then slipping over to the guard, kneeling at his side, inspecting his wings. “What happened?”
“Disagreement with a hydra,” Raindrop said with a helpless smile.
“Help me get him to a bed,” the nurse said hurriedly, and Raindrop nodded, slipping to Sentinel’s side to help support him as the nurse did the same on the other side.
With the two of them, they managed to get the guard back on his feet, and then into a room, pushing him up onto a bed.
Raindrop withdrew then, and stood in the corner, watching, holding a hoof against her freshly-bleeding shoulder wound. The nurse began to remove the guard’s armour, piece by piece, setting it aside in a neat pile and then inspecting his wings.
With a worried look, she hurried out of the room to go and get supplies.
Raindrop stepped over to the bed while there was a lull in the activities, and raised a brow at Sentinel. “Are you awake?”
A muffled mumble answered her. “Do I have to be?”
“You look as bad as I feel,” Raindrop stated, shaking her head at him and looking at his wings.
“That bad, huh?” he asked weakly in response, stirring slightly and lifting his head to peer back at her.
Raindrop nodded mutely, lifting a hoof to gently arrange the guard’s wings into a more comfortable position.
“I meant what I said,” Sentinel said after a moment, watching her. Even though his gaze was a little ‘off’, and he was obviously in pain, he seemed lucid and aware of what he was saying.
“You said a lot of things,” Raindrop pointed out, frowning as she set his wings down neatly.
“No...about trying to make me not die...I still remember that you left me in those tunnels the first time around,” Sentinel responded, watching her expression.
Raindrop shook her head, looking down at her forehooves uncertainly. “I was angry...and you weren’t exactly trying to make nice.”
“And yet, this time, you didn’t even hesitate to take on a full-grown hydra just so I wouldn’t get eaten,” the guard said with a smug smile.
“I was scared you’d come back as a spirit and haunt me. Then I’d have Sentinel twenty-four-seven and wouldn’t be able to hit you to make you shut up,” Raindrop pointed out with a shake of her head.
“Oh come on. Just admit it, Raindrop,” Sentinel said with a weak wave of a hoof.
“Admit what?” Raindrop asked, lifting her gaze to stare at him, mystified.
“Admit that you liiiike me,” Sentinel sing-songed, grinning.
“Why are you being stupid? You’re not even drugged up yet,” Raindrop stated flatly.
The guard rolled his eyes, grunting as he shifted to stare at her further. “Why is it so hard for you to admit that you don’t want to see me die?”
“I don’t want to see you die,” Raindrop stated immediately, “The girly, high-pitched screams of your final breaths would haunt me forever.”
Sentinel rolled his eyes again, shaking his head. “So that’s how it’s going to be, huh?”
“Yup,” Raindrop responded immediately.
“Any reason why?”
Raindrop paused a moment to collect her thoughts. “...You kissed me.”
“It was a friend kiss,” Sentinel said dismissively.
“We’re not friends,” Raindrop stated flatly. “Ergo, we cannot have a ‘friend’ kiss.”
“So what was it then if it wasn’t a friend kiss?” Sentinel asked, raising a brow at her.
“I...I don’t know.” Raindrop shook her head as she admitted that to him, looking down at her forehooves.
“So we’re not friends, we’re definitely not romantically involved, we’re not acquaintances...what exactly are we?” Sentinel queried, perking an ear back at her.
“I...I just don’t know,” Raindrop protested, her ears pinning back, her gaze shifting uncomfortably.
“I can’t leave this bed, you know. So if you want to run away and go hide somewhere like most fillies do in this situation, feel free,” The guard stated, watching her with interest.
Raindrop rolled her eyes. “You know I’m not that kind of pony.”
“Do I?” Sentinel asked, raising a brow. “I thought you were the kind of pony who could take a friend kiss without getting all crazy.”
Sentinel’s flippant tone grated on Raindrop’s nerves, and she growled at him. “I swear, I’m going to go back on that whole silent deal we had where I didn’t cause you bodily harm.”
“We had a deal?” Sentinel asked, blinking.
“It was silent!” Raindrop rebuked, her tone exasperated.
Their conversation was broken up by the nurse returning with a doctor, with bandages and bottles of ointment clasped in their hooves. Both of them immediately set about medicating and bandaging up the pegasus’ wings, splinting them to keep them from moving, and giving him a shot of local anaesthetic so they could set the bones where they’d become misaligned.
Sentinel watched Raindrop throughout the procedure, his gaze unwavering. Raindrop tried to return his gaze, but after a few moments, was unable to, staring down at her hooves instead.
And then the doctor and nurse were done, and the two pegasi were left alone again.
“Well? What’s it gonna be?” Sentinel asked, raising a brow at her.
“I still don’t know,” Raindrop stated flatly, glowering at him, moving to stand closer to the bed, inspecting what the nurse and doctor had done to his wings. “And every time you ask me, the urge to hit you rises.”
“Oh come on,” Sentinel said, exasperated. “I was deliberately flirting with you and dropping little hints because I know the first thing you girls do with a male you don’t really like, is friendzone him, hard. How is that you haven’t friendzoned me?”
Raindrop shook her head slowly at him, her ears splaying back. “...That isn’t the truth and we both know it.”
“Nope. Want that friendzone,” Sentinel insisted. “It has benefits. Like cake, and cookies, and a lack of violence.”
“We both know what you did, Sentinel,” Raindrop said with a shake of her head, her tone soft. “You started something...”
Raindrop trailed off for a long moment, unsure what to say.
“Ugh, are you going to get all sappy and emotional and girly on me?” Sentinel asked, staring at her, aghast.
Raindrop growled for a moment, glowering at him. “I’m female, remember?”
“Oh, sorry. Easy to forget sometimes, my mistake,” Sentinel quipped, grinning at her.
“You’re not making this easy, Sentinel,” Raindrop whined, her ears flattened against her skull.
“It’s real easy, see, you friend zone me. Then, I’m only your friend and that’s it. Everyone wins!” Sentinel pointed out matter-of-factly.
“Quiet, you,” Raindrop protested, lifting her hooves to rest over his mouth, so he couldn’t speak.
Raindrop looked down into his eyes for a long moment, and then went to say something, before thinking better of it.
“It...it wasn’t a friend kiss,” she stated, slipped her hooves to the side and then leaning in to kiss him full on the mouth, her soft lips meeting his own.
Sentinel didn’t try and stop her at all, just letting her hold the kiss as long as she wanted. It was a warm, long affair that last far longer than a ‘friend kiss’ ever would.
Raindrop drew back when she deemed it was sufficiently long enough, and looked down at him, tears in her eyes. “I-it wasn’t a friend kiss...A-and I just need time to think...”
And before Sentinel could respond, Raindrop had turned and bounded away.
“So...not friendzoned then?!” Sentinel called after her.
Raindrop gave a helpless giggle in between her confused sniffles as she pulled open a supply closet and hid herself inside, curling up in the corner away from the world. She needed time to think. Needed time to figure out exactly what she and Sentinel were to each other.
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D'awww...
Also, final sentence: "figure out exactly what her and Sentinel were to each other." -->she
Double update!? FUCKING SQUEE!!!!!
I'll answer her question..... he's your guard that's your relationship.
Silent deal? I think you want tacit. (Tacit meaning an unspoken, understood rule, agreement, etc.)
Anyways, WOOHOO! FRIEND ZONE! 8D (With benefits... /bricked)
944811 Raindrop doesn't know that word.
That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
944817 She doesn't? I am SHOCKED dear sir! SHOCKED! (XD Meh, it's okay, it's just with how it's worded, tacit sounds MUCH better. It's an underused word. Like Paradigm!)
I'm still not sure why Sentinel would want to be more than friends with Raindrop anyway to go this far but outside that I'm loving every paragraph of this.
I get the distinct impression that Raindrop's ex isn't going to be happy about this... new development.
You know, once he gets over the whole Changeling issue.
the shitstorm cometh
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWw
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945225
So by going for the "friend zone" Sentinel was able to NOT end up in the "friend zone"?
Seems legit
945515
What if that actually works......
>>Scootz.
If that works, then the good guys everywhere will need to hear of this brilliant breakthrough. And I myself will need to test it XD
945645 Maybe the entire story is just a front for imparting that wisdom on bronies everyone?
yeah, probably not.
945684
Someone should research that, just in case it's true.
I would, but I'm too popular with the chicks to be friendzoned.....
Just kidding. The real reason is that they're all whores.
944817
YES !!!!!!!!!!!!! Sentinel X Raindrop !!!!!!!!!!
XD Shipping
Aw c'mon, what about Raindrops's boyfriend? Is she going to cheat on him behind his back? She seems to have forgotten about him.
945877 The same boyfriend that called her a monster, and viciously rejected her? I wouldn't blame Raindrops for forgetting him.
945707 my only issue with Friend Zones in General is that it is way too easy for a girl to get out of it if she ever ends up there. Likely cause it isn't as funny to watch a girl try to get a guy who friendzones her without any sexual thoughts running in his mind as it would be the other way around just because of the nature of men being to get as many mates as possible.
Love is in the air
... If Raindrop falls/realizes the love she may or may not have for Sentinel her boyfriend will come and mess things up... I know it.
Sentinel is such a goofball.
945225
I lawled so hard
Sentinel, you're such a stud.
Obviously it hasn't occurred to her yet that this can't end well. Being a changeling was what caused trouble in the first place. Just because someone likes you, even knowing that you are a changeling, doesn't mean that the love-sucking problem business is gone... This is going to be one heck of a strange story at this rare.
946098 I would fault her for it, but the biggest thing that bothers me there is the lack of story plot reasoning for it. It would be totally rational of her to think that he never wants to see her again and also to wonder if being a changeling and needing "love energy" (pardon the cheesiness) had anything to do with their relationship.
Yup, Raindrop is 100% tsundere.
Friend-zone. If I was Raindrop, and I figured out he was aiming for friend-zone, I wouyld make his face a fist-zone, or hoof-zone as it were, Jus' sayin'
Feeling sexually frustrated tension with a former enemy and she locks herself in the closet. Yeeeeah, I think we all know what happened once Sentinel fell asleep.
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“It...it wasn’t a friend kiss,” she stated, slipped her hooves to the side and then leaning in to kiss him full on the mouth, her soft lips meeting his own.
Sentinel didn’t try and stop her at all, just letting her hold the kiss as long as she wanted. It was a warm, long affair that last far longer than a ‘friend kiss’ ever would.
Raindrop drew back when she deemed it was sufficiently long enough, and looked down at him, tears in her eyes. “I-it wasn’t a friend kiss...A-and I just need time to think...”
i'm loving it
I actually feel bad that she has the gall to broad-horn her lover, for whom she undertook this fool's errand in the first place. He didn't make her a Changeling, his reponse was normal given the circumstances and now he'll never know this fickle drab, this sixpenny damnation of a cotquean cornutes him and doesn't give a fig for any pain he may feel. Frankly, I think I hate your protagonist. And I used to be the biggest fan of your last epic series.
And I say all this while doing cuck scenes in non-pony contexts. It takes skill to make me hate stuff I enjoy.
Shine? I think your girl was just taken from you.
Love it
The part where Raindrop runs away and Sentinel says "So... not friend zoned then?" reminds me of that scene from Buffy during the musical episode where Spike sings about buffy wanting to leave him alone, and when shhe runs away, he says: "So... you're not staying then?"