"Twilight?" I ask quietly, testing to see if she is awake too. She does not reply, she's asleep. "Twilight!" I shout in a whisper like tone so as to hopefully wake her up. When I do not hear even stirring I get quite worried and turn over in bed to shake her. I prod her blankets a bit only to find her not there! This is when I start to panic, I get up quickly ready to search for my marefriend, then I hear water running and, humming?, well at least now I know where she is, that humming is distinctly Twilight's voice. I walk into the bathroom to investigate, and when the door shut, the humming froze. I can just imagine her in a panicked state as she thought of all the various scenarios where it isn't me but one of the maids.
"Luna," she cautiously calls out, "Is that you?"
"Yes it's me," I reply.
The humming starts up again, cautiously this time, but gradually gaining back it's full confidence. "May I join you?" I ask. "So as to make our nightly activities faster? It would be much appreciated if I didn't have to wait for the water to heat back up."
Then the humming froze again. I can practically see her blush, and I'm nowhere near the shower! So adorable! "S-Sure," she cautiously replies back.
"Alright," I alert her "I'm coming in!" I step into the shower with her. It seems as though she hasn't yet washed herself, and either just got in or was enjoying the hot water. She's not looking at me and it's very clear she's blushing hard. "Good evening my dear!" I greet, loudly in hopes of getting her attention through whatever insecure thoughts she's having. It worked. She blinked and looked up, "How are you tonight?" I ask in hopes of getting her mind off of just how intimate the moment we are sharing is.
"Good evening, Luna," she replies. "I'm good, how are you?" she asks.
"Good," I default to. Maybe a bit of light teasing is in order, "Even better now that I get to share it with you," I say. She blushes and looks down again, but instantly looks straight back up.
"Thanks," she replies. "My evening just got better too," she says. I smile and give her a light peck on the lips.
"Would you like me to put the soap on you, dear?" I ask. She takes a moment to think about the weight of what I just asked, then blushes and looks away.
""That would be nice." Goodness, was she trying to imitate her friend Fluttershy?
"I'm sorry what was that?" I ask politely.
"That would be nice." WOW! I didn't know she could get that quiet.
"Please speak up dear, I can't hear you," I request.
"THAT WOULD BE NICE!" And now she's trying to blow out my ear drums with her best try at Royal Canterlot Voice levels. I'm sure the surprise was showing very clearly on my face, she blushed and looked away again.
"Well," I start, while I levitate shampoo into my hooves. "Since you asked so nicely," I say with just a little bit of sarcasm thrown in there, just to tease.
She tries to turn around as she realizes the implications of my sentence, but a quick spell keeps her backside facing me. Her blush was so deep it was up to her ears! "Just relax, Twilight, I'm not going to hurt you!" Twilight gasped and tried to turn around again, only for me to stop her again, she tried to force out some hasty apology if it seemed that it looked like she thought I was going to hurt her, only for me to turn her head around and pull her into to a deep, loving kiss, that Twilight only took a second to melt into. "I was only teasing, dear," I said. She blushed, turned back around and relaxed her body.
"Thank you Luna, I needed that," she said.
"No problem, I would be a pretty bad marefriend if I didn't try to make you feel comfortable around me..." "Now." I started, "Are you ready for me to start?"
"Yes, Luna, go ahead." I started out by getting more shampoo since the last batch had washed off long ago. I started massaging into her mane where she leaned into the gentle ministrations. Carefully, I continued my mane massage until her mane glistened because it was no longer dirty. Then I moved down the back her neck. carefully massaging around areas I felt tension. "L-Luna, where'd y-you learn to m-mass-sage like that?" She inquired in between pleased grunts. I continued down her neck till I was at her shoulders 'till I replied.
"You tend to pick up a few things over the centuries, I don't actually remember where I learned how to do this, just that I never forgot."
"Well I'm glad, this massage is most pleasing, thanks," she said. "All this Princess business has been really stressful lately," she whined out, while also emphasizing princess by spreading her wings out shortly.
"Do you need help with them? Your wings I mean."
"Huh? What do you mean? I can fly straight for longer periods of time now, if that's what you mean, although it has been getting a little difficult recently, I wonder why," she inquired quietly to herself, but I knew the reason. She hadn't been cleaning them properly.
"Well!" I exclaimed abruptly as I moved on from her shoulders to her back. "That actually answers my question, it seems as though you've never preened them!"
"Preen? You mean like what birds do?"
"Well, sort of. More like what pegasi do. Commonly a pegasus will go through it's own wings when needed and take out loose feathers and straighten the rest of them. Since we're alicorns it takes less time to actually straighten them because we can magic em' straight."
"Oh, I see, that way you don't get loose, broken, and uneven feathers creating more air resistance then you should have!"
"Exactly!" I was done with her back and was now ready to teach her how to preen her wings. "Here, I'll show you since you never had pegasi parents to show you how."
"Thanks, Luna!"
"No problem Twilight, just think of it as part of this massage. So, you're gonna have to open your wings for this." Twilight complied quickly, always eager to learn new things. "Now when you do this yourself you'll probably have to use your muzzle to find the loose and broken ones, magic just doesn't have the right feel going around the feathers. So, you stick your muzzle in until you find bad feathers and grip with your teeth and pull," I explained to her as I did the process for her to watch. There was a little yelp of surprise as I pulled the feather out, but no complaints, so I continued on...
About an hour after I had gotten in with Twilight we both got out, both of us looking clean and refreshed, the hot water meant to come to my bed chamber lavatories completely spent.