"You're crazy!" Trixie shouted, gasping in air as she threatened the downed Alicorn with a raised hoof. Luna had one hoof to her red and quickly swelling cheek, ears folded against her skull like a filly being scolded. "That's the only thing Trixie can think of! We just went through this, what? Two hours ago!? Get it through your skull this time!"
"We're sorry! We're so, so sorry!" Luna cried out, having just finished restoring the spells keeping her apparently very real friend alive.
Trixie pressed her head roughly against the other mare's and glared into her eyes. "Trixie. Is. Real! The next time you want to test it, don't try suffocating her! Just. Ask! Trixie will HAPPILY give you a black eye to prove it!"
Trixie's berating would have continued for some time still, if not for Luna licking her muzzle and crushing her in another tight hug.
"We are truly sorry for hurting thee, again. We promise to come to thee first if we begin to doubt thine existence."
Trixie sighed. "Fine, just don- stop that!" She wrenched herself away from Luna's grasp, blushing and rubbing the spot on her neck Luna had started to lick. "What is with you and the licking? Trixie's dealing with enough as it is without some random Alicorn chomping on her every few minutes."
Luna didn't respond to the outburst, simply licking her lips and giving a slight smile. "Thou tastes wonderful." She continued speaking as Trixie's face took on a red tone. "Do you know how wonderful it tis to taste something new after all this time? To feel heat from another source? Look around thee." Luna gestured to the bleak, void landscape surrounding them as she approached Trixie again. "We are the only soft and warm things here. Everything else tastes of dust, dry and bitter."
Trixie backed up, only to feel Luna's magic at her back. It wasn't enveloping her, but Luna clearly wasn't letting Trixie go anywhere for the moment. Luna's voice began taking on a manic edge, causing Trixie to feel like her hair was standing on end.
"But thou,-" Luna ran her cheek along Trixie's shoulder, reveling in the soft touch. "We have not felt something like this in an eternity. We have not tasted-" Luna's tongue pressed just below her shoulder blade, eliciting a squeak from her new companion. "-anything new in so long. Be it perfume, or sweat of another, it is...exhilarating. Does thee really think we would just hold back when the opportunity finally comes once more? Does thee think we-"
Luna cut off at the shivering of the pony she was now almost wrapped around. Luna's magic and wings had shifted to practically engulf Trixie in an effort to feel as close to her as possible. It was a comfort Luna could scarcely remember. Yet, the shaking, and look in Trixie's face was bewildering.
"Is, is something the matter?" Luna asked in a worried tone, letting her magic ease up in case she was hurting Trixie.
A few seconds later, Trixie's hoof crashed into Luna's muzzle.
This can't be happening. NONE of this can be happening to me!
Trixie galloped like mad, refusing to look behind her. Refusing to focus on anything but the large blue and green world in front of her she HAD to still be on.
"Help!" She began calling out, feeling sick to her stomach while a headache started up. "Somepony help!"
A calm voice to her right called out. "What is wrong?"
A brief look revealed Luna a dozen hooves to her right, easily keeping pace. She wasn't running, Trixie quickly surmised. She was wrapped up in a magic aura, legs not moving at all as she floated an inch above the terrain. Trixie shook her head and refused to look over again.
"Did we offend thee in some way?"
"Leave me alone!" Trixie banked left and away from Luna. Luna easily kept up however.
"We can't. The magic we use to keep thee alive only has a few miles in range, and-"
"I don't care! I want to go home!"
"W-what!?" Trixie heard a crack in Luna's voice. "B-but thou just got here!"
Trixie's mood flipped from terror to angry within seconds of Luna saying those words. As fast as she could, Trixie stopped running and turned on Luna.
"Are you stupid or something? Trixie doesn't want any of this!"
Luna looked back at her in disbelief. "D-does thee think we want this either? We wouldn't be here if we could help it."
"Send me back!" Trixie shook her head in frustration, her headache getting worse as adrenaline pumped through her veins.
Luna sighed and shook her head. "We can't."
"Back off!" Trixie hissed out as Luna began inching closer to her again. "You're an Alicorn, aren't you? Trixie bets you could if you tried."
Unheeded by Trixie's angry grunts, Luna continued to slowly draw closer. "Maybe, but even if we could, we wouldn't. Sending away the only other probably real pony we've encountered in an eternity? Time has, perhaps, taking some toll on our senses, but we are not that crazy."
When Luna was almost up to her, Trixie shakily swung again, hoof connecting with Luna's face. Luna reeled back for a few seconds before turning to calmly look at Trixie again. Trixie backed up a few hooves, starting to shake like a leaf.
"T-this has to be a nightmare...I-I can't, I c-can't- leave me alone!"
Trixie swung again as Luna adamantly approached a second time, only to find her hoof refusing to move forward. In fact, her whole body now refused to move.
"A nightmare?" Luna whispered out. A blue glow faintly shined out from Luna's eyes. "Thou knows nothing about nightmares. The things we could show thee..."
Trixie made a biting motion at Luna, the rest of her body refusing to listen to her. "I don't want this! W-what the hell is wrong with you!? I've been drugged, stabbed, suffocated, and now I'm supposed to just, what? Live up here!? Trixie refuses!"
A rumbling sound, like a small chortle emitted from Luna's throat and she stepped closer, ignoring Trixie's bared teeth. "Thou has been through a lot, yes. But, ah!" Luna let out a croon as she felt Trixie make good on her threats. Luna felt the sharp pain of teeth roughly attaching to the side of her neck, doing their best to cause her to bleed.
Pain, and clearly not of our own making. Luna thought. Exquisite. Just more proof, more sensations confirming that we are among others again.
"Clearly thee is unaware, but-" Luna wrapped her wings around Trixie, hooves reaching up to embrace her as Luna leaned into Trixie's teeth. "one mare's nightmare can be another's dream."
Defiantly, Trixie held onto the bite, feeling the slight metallic taste of blood in her mouth. But, try as she might, the situation became more and more awkward for her. The heat from Luna, her own inability to move, she just couldn't maintain her anger while feeling so overwhelmed. Her adrenaline began wearing down as another minute went by of struggling to no avail. Despite her efforts, Trixie was right back to before her outburst; still wrapped in the other mare's wings, hooves, and, most worrying, incredibly powerful magic.
With her rage dissipating came a bleak emptiness inside. An all encompassing feeling of weakness. Helplessness. Her grip softened on Luna's neck as she began to shake. A quick once over clarified her burgeoning fears. Luna's right cheek was red and slightly swollen from Trixie's first hit. A dried trickle of blood was still trailed down her mouth from the second. Even as she released Luna's neck, she could clearly see the damage done and tried cringing away.
A quick tug revealed her entire body was still held in Luna's magic, causing her to gulp and lower her ears to her skull. What would Luna, a clearly unstable Alicorn, do to her after all of this? She couldn't escape this, this wasn't a nightmare. This was actually happening. She was stuck with an Alicorn on a desolate waste. An Alicorn she had attacked multiple times, no less.
"P-please..." She whimpered out, starting to tear up at how pathetic she sounded. "D-don't hurt me. T-Trixie wasn't thinking when she h-hit you. S-she-"
Luna softly shushed her, rubbing her cheek against Trixie's. "Please do not be afraid of us. We would never harm thee. We are more than happy to have thou here with us."
Trixie felt her body being forced down to the ground. Her head was carefully placed against one of Luna's forelegs and, within moments, Luna was practically spooning her.
"U-ummm.."
A nuzzle briefly graced the back of her neck. "We do not care if thee hit us, or bite, or worse. Just so long as thou stays with us, we'll be happy and accepting of the contact. Now, rest. We can see how exhausted thy body is. We will speak again once thou has recovered a little."
She wanted to resist, but Luna's magic was still gently pressing against her. After several minutes, Trixie began to feel just how correct Luna was. Trixie's body still ached after the ordeals it had gone through over the last few days. Her mind felt sluggish and jumbled, and she could feel her thoughts leaping from emotion to emotion in agitation. This had been too much and it was all catching up to her. Still...
"Do Alicorn's sleep?"
"Yes, though it is not often needed. It will be perhaps another week before we really need to."
"Oh. Umm, Y-you won't do anything to Trixie in her sleep, right?"
Trixie shivered a bit as the tip of her ear was licked. "We won't hurt thou, thee has our word on that."
That's probably the best Trixie can hope to get out of her. Is Celestia secretly this clingy? And what unlucky soul has to put up with that?
Her mind wandered different paths for awhile as her body settled, eventually settling on thinking through the madness that started all of this. Trixie couldn't help it, that was just the last line of thought she had as sleep enveloped her.
Why... her mind's voice slurred out. Why did I pick such a bad time to visit the orphanage? If I had only arrived a few days later this wouldn't have happened. If only-