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// Chapter Nine (Final) - Two Eyes, One Heart 
// Story: Two Eyes, One Heart 
// by Tropical Applejack 
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Before leaving the bakery, Dash had made sure that this trip would be unlike the others; it would be clear this time. There'd be no lightning to worsen Pinkie's fate or bring Dash the same. While Pinkie had a job that didn't necessarily demand her sight, Rainbow Dash was not so lucky. Without being able to see, Dash would only be able to swing blindly in the hopes of hitting the clouds. No doubt she'd be fired soon after and also have to give up her dream of being a Wonderbolt. So yes, of course she deemed it necessary to double check and triple check with the weather team. No storms for the next month.

Applejack trusted Rainbow Dash to do just as good a job, if not better, as Pinkie's guide. She had to; after all, Pinkie clearly meant the world to that pegasus. The lovers set off slowly for the meadow. Rainbow took it extra slow. No matter how badly she wanted to get there as fast as possible, she knew she shouldn't do that, so she didn't even try. Instead, Dash let Pinkie have all the time she needed and then some. After an hour and a half of walking cautiously rolled by with small comments like "You'll love it!" and "Oop, watch your step, Pinkie," the big, lone tree in the meadow came into view.

Rainbow Dash tightened her grip on Pinkie's hoof lovingly. "We're almost there. Feel the breeze? That's us... tangled in the wind, Pinkie. We'll find a way forward just like we found this tree again."

"Golly, Dash... I had no idea you could be such a poet."

Dashie's cheeks turned pink. "I'm just trying to keep the spirits up. Thanks for coming out here with me."

Pinkie nodded as they neared the tree's base. Pinkie couldn't feel the breeze the way Dash did. Sure, they loved each other, but how easily could a relationship be held between one who couldn't see and one who could? A blind puppy and an adopting mother? Only one answer was seen in her mind; it wouldn't be easy. She yawned sleepily as Rainbow stopped her before her head hit the trunk.

Rainbow Dash pointed at the tree for a few seconds with her free hoof (The other was still holding onto Pinkie's own front hoof.). She then promptly facehoofed herself for being dumb. Right... she couldn't see. Dash lifted Pinkie's hoof and touched it to the bark. Over the past couple weeks, she'd used her free time to peel all the burned bark away. She went a step further by doing something Pinkie wouldn't expect. Pinkie rubbed her hoof over a heart-like shape and felt the plus sign in the middle of it. She moved her hoof to the left to feel that letter marking Rainbow Dash's name. "R" she searched for, but she didn't find it. Pinkie Pie instead felt a "P" engraved in the tree. She turned her head to the pegasus, who was now eagerly awaiting her reaction like she had done herself a couple weeks ago before all the mayhem. "Dashie?" Pinkie asked. "Did you..?"

"Twilight would be proud to see I put something in alphabetical order for once," Rainbow Dash chuckled. Pinkie moved her hoof to the right of the plus sign. There it was... an engraved "R." But wait... was that slash just the natural bark? Was the heart really depicting "P + P forever?" Pinkie Pie doubted it, but it hurt knowing that she would never know for 100% positive whether Rainbow Dash was lying or not. Her hoof went limp, and she broke down crying. Pinkie's body curled up into a small ball as she shivered like she was in the midst of that awful storm again. Rainbow Dash knelt down to comfort her. The pegasus wrapped her wing over the saddened, pink pony, but there was no indication given that Pinkie even knew she was there.

Somepony tapped Dash's shoulder, grabbing her attention. Rainbow looked up to see Princess Luna towering over her with her head held high and a soft smile on her face. She beckoned for Rainbow Dash to stand up, and the weather pony did so. Luna discreetly whispered something into Rainbow's ear. The ear perked. "Really?" Dash excitedly asked for confirmation, and Luna nodded in response. Rainbow took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and bowed her head down. "Do it."

There was a bright flash seen through her shut eyes. Both Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie lost consciousness.

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Pinkie rubbed her head, still in a tizzy from whatever hit her. The party pony's eyelids fluttered opened. Blades of green grass greeted her as she pushed on the ground to stand up.

"Huh?"

She waved a hoof in front of her face to make sure she wasn't just remembering what grass looked like. A flash of pink met her gaze. Pinkie Pie looked around with a smile bigger than any other she'd had in all her life. She could see the plains around her! She could see the heart of the tree in front of her! She could see Rainbow Dash sleeping in the grass and Luna standing next to her! ...That last one sent shivers down her spine. She was just sleeping, wasn't she?

Rainbow let out a loud yawn as she spread her wings out and stretched her body out as she got back on her hooves. A sigh of relief escaped Pinkie's mouth, and she felt happy knowing that Dash hadn't given up her life to give Pinkie her sight back. Instead, Pinkie's jaw hung open when Dash turned to look at her. One of the pegasus's eyes, the right one, had a glossy film over it. Pinkie then put a hoof over the left eye attached to herself. She couldn't see her hoof. Before Pinkie Pie could say anything, Rainbow tackled her lover to the ground and tightly wrapped her hooves around the pink mare. "An eye for an eye," she whispered. Pinkie Pie was free of any doubt that Rainbow did what she did for herself. She did it for the benefit of both of them.

As Luna took her leaving, flying into the sky, Pinkie too could feel the breeze that Dash spoke of. Things still wouldn't be easy (just like they never would be), but now the two of them stood together in the world. In this moment, however, they laid on top of one another next to a single heart. The blue and magenta of their eyes seemed to mix in the same way their love was made in Sugarcube Corner and - soon - here: warm... and perfect.