One-Shot
Every Thorn Has Its Rose
Written & Edited by Seven81493
Preread by Garbo802
Every thorn has its rose.
A mother had once said that to her filly. It had meant that no matter how bad things seemed, something good was bound to come your way. It was strange motto, but it certainly got its point across. So why am I telling you about this? Well, let me tell you a little Hearts & Hooves Day story...
Today was a busy day for Roseluck. The cream colored mare with the rose colored mane had been spending the past few hours selling bouquet after bouquet of flowers to mares and stallions alike. Hearts and Hooves day had once been her favorite day of the year. But nowadays, she just wished she could hide under a rock on this accursed day. It was still going far better than last year, though. The year that some drunk stallion had tried to take advantage of her in front of everypony.
She had been lucky that Twilight Sparkle had been there to knock some sense into him. Literally. She had taken a bottle and used her magic to wallop him on the back of the head. But she was getting off track. It looked like one of her closest friends was approaching her stall, and here she was, mulling over how unfortunate her life had been up to this day.
“Hey, Roseluck!”
It took a second for her to form a smile at her friend’s greeting, and she couldn’t blame herself either. Her friend was here to get something for her marefriend, while she was stuck alone on a day that was meant to be one of love.
“Hello, Lyra. What can I get for you?”
Her aqua colored friend put a hoof to her chin in thought, before giving a wide smile. “Can you give me some pink and purple roses?”
It took a second for the realization to hit Roseluck. “Oh! For Bon Bon?”
“Yep! We’re celebrating our third anniversary today, and I wanted to get something that matched her to a T.”
Roseluck gave a forced smile, and grabbing some pink and purple roses, hoofed them to her friend. “There you go! Have a nice date, Lyra.”
“I will, and thanks, Roseluck!” yelled Lyra as she galloped off, leaving a few bits behind in her wake. No doubt to another date she was late for, Roseluck joked to herself. Lyra always had issues being on time, and she suspected today would be no different for the lazy unicorn. She could only imagine the fierce yelling her friend was going to endure from her marefriend. But once again, Roseluck was getting off track. It looked as if another mare was making her way to her stall. This time though, she gave a legitimate smile to the pony who had saved her flank the previous year.
“Hey, Twilight. What can I get you?”
“Well, Luna and I have an anniversary dinner set up for tonight, and I need some flowers that would match her personality,” the lavender mare explained.
Roseluck nodded her head before the realization came upon her like a brick to the head.
“Wait. You’re dating Luna? As in, the princess of Equestria?!”
Twilight gave Roseluck a smile, and she couldn’t help but return it. She had never heard anything about the relationship, but maybe that’s because Luna didn’t exactly visit Ponyville all the time. In fact, the last time she had even come to Ponyville was more than a year ago. It had been the first Nightmare Night since she had returned. So it was safe to say that that was when Twilight had picked up a mare as lovely as Princess Luna.
“Yeah, she was really grateful that my friends and I had freed her from herself. So a little over a year ago-”
“On Nightmare Night?” Roseluck interrupted, certain she was correct.
“How did you-?”
“Well, that was the last time she came to visit, so I just put two and two together,” Roseluck swiftly explained, leaving Twilight stunned.
“Yes... well, anyways. After the festivities came to an end, she said she wanted to thank me personally. So I took her to my house, and she thanked me. A lot,” she finished with a smirk.
Roseluck couldn’t help but giggle at Twilight’s vague explanation.
“So I waited a few months, and then last year on Hearts and Hooves Day, I asked her on a date,” Twilight continued. “She said yes and well, here I am!”
“Here,” began Roseluck as she took a bouquet and hoofed it to Twilight, “give her these.”
“What are these?” the ever inquisitive mare asked as she placed a few bits on the stall.
Roseluck gave a smile at the lavender pony before replying, “Dark Blue Summer Nights. Give her those, and you’ll be set.”
“Alright, thank you, Roseluck!” Twilight yelled back towards the stall as she galloped away from it.
Yet another mare gone to see her significant other. If jealousy were a disease, Roseluck would have spread it to everypony she knew by now. But that was going to change, she finally decided. She was going to get a date, no matter what it took. But first, she had to finish her work for the day...
“Miss? Are you alright?”
Roseluck was broken out of her stupor by the masculine voice, and looking up, she saw an unfamiliar pony.
“Hello, sir. How can I help you?”
“The name’s Davenport,” he responded curtly, but not before continuing with, “what’s yours?”
“R-Roseluck,” replied the stunned mare. Somepony actually wanted to know something about her? Maybe he was just being nice, she concluded.
“Well, Roseluck, I’d like to buy a bouquet of red roses,” he said, placing a few bits on the stall, which Roseluck collected with a sigh.
She was right. It was just another stallion buying something for his marefriend. So she simply grabbed a bouquet of red roses and hoofed them to him.
“Here you go, Davenport. You have a nice day.”
Roseluck watched as Davenport span the bouquet around in his hoof, most likely making sure there was nothing wrong with it. She was still watching when he hoofed the bouquet back to her. Great, there had been something wrong with it, she thought to herself.
“For you, Roseluck. Happy Hearts and Hooves Day.”
Had she just heard him correctly? Had a pony actually bought a bouquet of flowers just for her? That had to be the nicest thing anypony had done for her in a long time.
“But... why?” she questioned, immediately feeling very stupid for having done so.
“Because nopony should feel alone on Hearts and Hooves Day, and well, because you’re really pretty,” he finished lamely, getting a giggle out of her.
“T-thank you,” she replied tearfully through her giggles, incredibly happy that somepony had done such a thing for her. “Say, would you like to go out for some dinner later, Davenport?”
“I think I’d like that,” he replied with a huge smile adorning his features.
Roseluck gave a contented sigh, and smiled right back at him. “It’s a date then!”
“Alright, just come to my store, ‘Quills and Sofas’, when you’re done here.”
“I’ll be there,” she replied ecstatically as Davenport trotted off.
Roseluck looked to the sky and silently thanked Celestia. Maybe what her mother had told when she was little had been true all along.
Every thorn has it’s rose...
And with that, I leave you with a Roseluck song, and the Author's Notes.
Okay, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to read my fanfic, “Every Thorn Has Its Rose”. Now is as good a time as any to explain the title. Since “every rose has it’s thorn” means that there is a negative quality to everything, I decided to write the opposite. For every bad thing that happens to you, something good will eventually happen. Thanks again for reading!
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DAVENPORT IS BEST PONY!!
2091024 Don't know why that didn't get deleted. I definitely deleted it.
2091032
What I love about this is that if this was one of my stories, Davenport would be so OOC. It's interesting for me to read other people's uses of him that don't portray him as a womanizing, profit-obsessed, functional alcoholic like I do.
I love his character so much.
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2091312
Yes indeed.
Evidently Davenport is the opposite of me: he perks up this time of year. Good for him.
Who the hell is Davenport? Nevermind, anyway a very, very perfect little one-shot, serriously well thought of and written. I'm a fan of Twiluna as well as Lyra/Bon-Bon and I'm glad to read to read this fic, you made my day, thank you very much good sire
2091383 All I know is that he works at "Quills and Sofas," so he's a legit character, albeit very unknown. So Andrew wasn't lying when he said this character is pretty much never heard of in fanfiction.
2091405 Did you enjoy it, oh bestest friend?
2091455 Very much! It was quite cute, and I only wish guys were more decent like Davenport where I live; he doesn't hide that he finds her cute, or tries to act all, uh, "swagger"-ish (ugh, just writing that made me want to smack myself). He does something to make her feel good for the holiday. That's all a girl wants. To feel sort loved on this day, even if they before hated it. I wish there was more to it, obviously, but that just shows how much I enjoyed it.
2091405 Huh......cool, I think
Truthfully I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did! For just one thousand something word I loved it! The only thing was I'm not a fan of twiluna shipping. But that wasn't very relavent to the story so I didn't mind. And when I hear the name Davenport I instantly think LOST but I dont remember why.
Maybe this Hearts and Hooves day will make things for the better in my life?Guess I'll see(If my thread of fate doesn't buck me in the face
.)Nice one-shot
Every Rose Has It's Thorn - Poison
Sequel now!
Finally a Davenport fic! FINALLY!
And Roseluck too? You're like the hipster of bronydom
In a good way.
And here, as a thank you for the story. Sexy timez is here:
Huzzah!
Thank you. I will forever keep the image of Twilight chasing a drunk stallion around town walloping him with a water bottle.
2092140 Oh no, not water. A glass bottle
This one's a simple one, and boy oh boy after reading the heinously bad "To the Beat of Love", I'm glad I actually read a fic where everypony acts like... y'know, PEOPLE.
I'm not really a fan of Twiluna... or LyraXBonBon. So I rolled my eyes at it. (Simply hanging out together doesn't mean they're dating. GRAHHHH WHY CAN'T TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME GENDER JUST BE FRIENDSSS GRRARRRRRARRRAAARRRHHHHH)
Then again, that's what you get when a show has a mostly female cast with most of the fandom being a buncha 20 somethings with their heads up their asses. I probably shouldn't leave that statement in my post, but shit, someone has to say it. Maybe I'm just tired of shipping in general. Who knows.
But besides that, this quick, simple little fic hits a lot of notes right. First, the pacing is brisk and to the point. Character dialogue is believable, and character interaction is engaging. When Roseluck and Twi converse, the reader can imagine a similar conversation occuring in real life. I kind of wish there was some more inner monologue from Rose's perspective. Like, is there a reason she hates H&H? It's one thing to feel lonely around the holiday, but it's a holiday in which everyone buys all the red roses. She's making some good money here.
But money can never fill a void as empty as me.
...Shut up, Rose, you depress me. And don't even gripe about all those couples making out back there. Or about how hard you tried to get guys to notice you. Or about how you've never had anypony for H&H. Like, ever.
....
....Here, Rose, gimme a hug, I'm sorry. The rest of us are lonely too.
2092261 Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
It's rare that people give such in-depth reviews, so seriously, thanks.
Short and cute read, good job.
Short and sweet not bad, I really liked it
Really good story man
I thought that was adorable and a really well written one-shot!
Dang. Now I want to see more. You wouldn't be against that, would you?
2091712 As soon as I saw that a guy named 'Relevant Heavy Metal' commented, I knew this was coming
2092654 Well, Roseluck has quickly become my favorite BG pony, so who knows?
2092396>>2092503>>2092577>>2092627 And a collective 'THANK YOU!' to the four of you!
I'm glad you enjoyed it, but since I've gotten a few people wanting more, I have a question for you guys. Sequel or not?
2093226 Sequel definitely.
2093226Of course!
Very cute story man. And I love the originality of the ship (not to mention Roseluck gets almost no love as it is, so it's nice to see her get a story).
Definitely a thumbs up.
2093226 I'd support and read a sequel to this
2093226 I wouldn't mind a sequel, that we actually be quite awesome
Dat title...
Poison: Every Rose Has Its Thorn?
2095339 Yeah, but whereas that means for every good thing, there's something bad about it, mine means the opposite.
2095344
I kind of figured that.
When I saw the title, I just thought of "Poison" because of the relation to the song and this fic.
I liked your fic, it was well done.
2095429 Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
I liked this. :D
(If only things happened to me like that...)
Not bad.
2095527 I'm glad you enjoyed it, Roseluck!
You're my new favorite background pony. As soon as I saw you commented, I had to reply!
Very nice
i don't know what i was expecting becouse i thought it could have gone on longer, you know with the date and all but i really liked it
Every thorn has its rose is a great saying and this story fits it perfectly
roseluck was down on her luck and when she last expected it someone comes and shows her some love very sweet
2095754 That's sweet! I'll have to read more of your stories.
great story but why did it have to be a one off.
happy hearts and hooves day everyone
D'aww! Maybe someday they'll have a shop called Quills, Sofas, and Flowers.
A firmly okay story.
Not something I'd normally read, but it was short so I thought - Why not? I'm glad that I did, and that's a nice choice of song.
So yeah, roses have thorns. But not all plants with thorns have roses attached. So the logic...
Spoilsport.
...or you could ignore me and just enjoy the story.
And now that song is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day, thanks for that
Anyway its a cute little story, not much meat to it but it doesn't really need it.