The Prompt:
Black and White
There was something soothing about paperwork.
Not that Twilight Sparkle would admit that to her friends. They would probably laugh at her, or at best they'd give her that look they always did when she said something 'egghead'-ish. But paperwork WAS soothing! It was nice and easy, just go down the list and fill in each blank, all neat and tidy and well-defined. Like taking a test you already knew all the answers to.
Which is partly why the scritch of errant ink across the page annoyed her so much, after the gust of wind and loud shout from one of her friends completely disrupted her pleasant filling-in.
"Twilight! What the hay?"
Rainbow Dash came swooping in, through the door at the least, and stayed in the air, above Twilight's table, with her nose only an inch from Twilight's, and her eyes narrowed in anger and disbelief. Twilight glanced down at the mark on the otherwise very neat and tidy citizenship papers, and then sighed and set down the quill. "What's wrong, Rainbow?"
Rainbow landed on the table, legs slightly out in a defensive stance. "Pinkie's planning a party for Bon Bon! I thought she was still in jail, but Pinkie says you're letting her out! Why? She's a changeling!"
Twilight blinked. "... So? There have been other changeling citizens before, Rainbow Dash, and Bon Bon hasn't hurt anyp--"
"Seriously?" Rainbow kicked off into the air again, flapping her wings and scattering paperwork everywhere. "Don't you remember what they did to you and Cadance?"
Twilight winced slightly, and Rainbow looked aside, before landing on the table again. Twilight spoke more quietly. "Of course I remember, Rainbow. But Bon Bon wasn't part of that army, she doesn't even like Queen Chrysalis."
Rainbow hesitated just a moment before speaking again. "... So, where's the real Bon Bon? I mean, I barely even know her, but still."
"Oh, there isn't a real Bon Bon, I mean there is, but it's the one we know. She just made up the pony when she got here, she didn't take anypony's place. Oh and before you ask, no, she's not eating anypony's love. She just eats food, they can do that. Apparently."
Rainbow scrunched up her muzzle at her followup question being blocked. "But what about Lyra?"
"Huh? What about her?" Twilight tilted her head slightly.
Rainbow blushed slightly. "Uh, they're, you know.... doesn't Bon Bon eat her love?"
Twilight looked at the table, and then at the floor, and used her magic to levitate one of the fallen pages up. "They're roommates, or that's what she reported. I'm pretty sure changelings, ones that eat love I mean, don't use friendship, it has to be romantic love."
Rainbow stared blankly at Twilight for a moment, but then just shook her head quickly. "...Anyway, come on Twilight, she's a bug! They're evil, you can't just let them be citizens. She's not even a pony!"
"Rainbow, it's just not that simple! Bon Bon's a friend of mine, she has been since only a little after I moved to Ponyville! Besides, what about Gilda?"
"Gilda's a changeling too?!" Rainbow leaped backward again, into the air, poised as though she were about to bolt off toward Griffonstone at the very idea.
Twilight frowned. "No, but she's not a pony. She's still an Equestrian citizen."
"But that's-- Alright, whatever, you got me. But really, she's not-"
"Or Cranky, remember his wedding? Or the cows on Applejack's farm, or-"
"Okay okay!" Rainbow landed properly on the floor this time, and then looked at all the scattered papers as if noticing them for the first time. "Oh, uh, sorry. So, I guess you're going to do it anyway, right?"
Twilight nodded as she gathered up the papers in her magic.
Rainbow glanced aside. "I'm still going to keep an eye on her."
Twilight smiled a little. "That's fine. Come to Pinkie's party, you'll see she's still the same Bon Bon you already know. She's a nice person, Rainbow, she and Lyra both." She looked down at the paperwork, and then back to Rainbow. "Maybe if you help me fill this out, you'll feel better about it. Even if you don't trust her, trust me, okay?"
Rainbow's wings twitched, and she looked up at the window for a moment, but then shrugged and rolled her eyes, sitting down next to Twilight with a thump. Twilight patted her friend with her wing, and then took up the quill again.