//------------------------------// // Wearing your heart on your sleeve // Story: T.I.M. of EQUESTRIA // by Winter Eclipse //------------------------------// "Y..yeah I guess we do need to talk" I was nervous as hell. I kinda figured what she wanted to talk about. "I think I know what it is you wish to talk about." I watched as the color on her muzzle change from blue to purple and I instantly thought it was adorable. In all honesty, Luna had to be the most beautiful mare I've ever see in my time here. I was out of my element with the situation I was in. I wasn't articulate or very good at discussing my emotions. Hell, I haven't really spoken to another female since my wife abandoned me. "Tim, since the night you revealed that it was your actions that saved me, I have started having these feelings for you. I have never experienced them before." Luna had stopped speaking and was looking at her hooves. When she looked back up I could see a change in her eyes. "Tim, I believe I have fallen for you and I would understand if you do not feel the same way Tim, but I..." Didn't have a chance to finish her thought. I closed the distance between us, gently pulled her head up and kissed her. Her moan of approval was all I needed. I finally broke the kiss when I needed to take a breath. "Sorry, I've never been good with words." She laid there with her eyes closed and breathing heavily before she looked at me. "I will not complain about that." After a moment of quiet she spoke again. "So you share my feelings?" "I would think after that kiss, my feelings where apparent Luna" I said with a smirk. "But, I will ask that you have patience with me. I had a family once. Wife, kids, the whole nine yards, but they all abandoned me when my illness got worse. My wife dropped me off to get a procedure done and said she would be back before it started. I...never saw her or my kids ever again. That broke me in a way I'm not sure I'll ever recover from." I had dropped my head down when I finished. "Tim, look at me." A hoof placed under my chin gently lifted my gaze up. "I have chosen you to give my heart to. Something you must understand is that once a alicorn makes that kind of decision, it's for eternity." I looked at her in confusion. "What do you mean by that Luna?" "It means that if you so choose to love me in return, you would become immortal and spend eternity with each other." My mind shutdown because of her words. She wants to spent eternity with ME? Why would she do that? I'm nothing. Just a unlucky human that ended up here. It was then that my thoughts turned to what happened in my past. What would happen if she left me like my wife did. The internal debate I was having was interrupted by a pair of soft lips against mine. "I know what you are thinking and it will never come to pass. I would never abandon you. If you chose to be with me, only death could separate us and even then our bond would endure. The afterlife would await us to be together once again" she told me after breaking the kiss. "Are you sure about this? To want eternity with someone not of your species. What would your sister or the rest of the country think." "Tia considers you a friend and my kingdom will 'get over it' as the youth of today likes to say" Luna stated giggling. Without thinking I wrapped her in a hug and layed down with her on top of me still giggling. "I take it that you have made your decision?" "Yes, I want eternity with you, but promise me this. I will give you my heart as long as I'll always have yours." Luna's smile grew brighter and she started to nuzzle me. "That is one promise I shall always keep my love." We spent the rest of the night together cuddling and such, but that's as far as it went. The next morning was going to be the test. Luna wanted to tell Celestia about our new status at breakfast and I was nervous about it. "Sister will be happy for us Tim. I have no idea why you think she will want to harm you" she commented as we made our way to the private dinning room they used for themselves. "It's because she's your older sister and will be protective of you. She'll probably think I was trying to take you from her" I muttered to myself. Luna started flat out laughing at me then. "She is protective of me yes, but I believe she will be happy for us Tim." "I hope so, because we're here." I looked at my new marefriend I guess is the word. "If I don't make it back, please remember me." Luna shook her head at me still smiling. Walking in Celestia was sitting at the head of the table. When Luna sat to her right, I was sitting right next to her. Celestia was watching us with a raised eyebrow. With a smirk on her muzzle, the interrogations began. "What is this I see? Has my sister finally found her a stallion or should I say man" she asked with a even tone to her voice. Uh oh I thought. I'm dead.