Dawn's mind kept thinking back to the recent battle with Grogar and her Twilight and her friends as remembering the war she fought in back in her homeworld which ended in death and destruction only leaving her alive.
Dawn then made a promise to herself to never pick up her sword again as she was still haunted by her demons and what she'd done when fighting in the Great Equestria war.
“You’re gonna have moments like that,” Captain Vladimir had said. “When you're not here, but you still got ponies around. Let them help you pull yourself out of ’em. Okay?”
Dawn made me nod again. “This is gonna get sorted, Dee-dee. It seems a lot and it seems scary, but,” he grinned a grin and joked, “we haven’t lost you yet.” which made Dawn smile.
"Dee-dee, listen I wasn't going to tell you this as I've been worried about how'd you'll respond but... Grogar and Carapace have escaped capture, I will do everything in my power to protect you and that starts right now." Vladimir said his gaze turning fierce before loosening up.
"Vladimir why would you go to such lengths for me when we hardly know each other?" Dawn mumbled.
"Dee-dee anypony in your situation would do this for another, and seeking safety from their enemies after surviving the complete devastation of their homeworld to find out that they need more protection from them." Vladimir declared openly before taking a sip of his drink.
"Oh, thank you Vladdy for cheering me up, I don't know what I'll ever do without you," Dawn said sliding her hooves from across the table and rested them on top of Vladdy's hooves affectionately.
Vladimir felt blushed at the immediate display and grasp her home with his smiling up at Dawn. "We're taking this one day at a time."
“We don't have time!" Dawn Al but yelled at the bat pony Captian before apologising to him.
"Vladdy, listen to me. I like you. You’re a good pony. So listen to me now, when I tell you I need to get out of your universe now. Save yourself because there’s no saving me."
"I'm only gonna drag you and the rest of your friends down, if you’re anywhere near Grogar he WILL take you down with me permanently.” Dawn said looked down at her cream & blueberry-cherry pancakes
Vladimir’s special pancakes were really that good. “Look at me,” Vladimir said. Dawn turned her gaze to his face. “I'm not blind to shit especially when it comes to you,” he declared firmly. “You need to let me go.” Dawn implied as she let go of his hold… Vladimir did not want her to go of his hoove.
Captain Vladimir then made a speech that made Dawn hung on his every word. “We’re going to defeat Grogar and then I'll take you out on a date before we decided to take this to the next level. Vladimir said taken a if bite out of his own strawberry covered sauce pancakes.
“You’re the nicest Stallion I’ve ever met,” Dawn whispered. “And this is a bad thing?” he did not whisper. “Can’t you see I’m trying to protect you?” Dawn asked pleading for him to understand her.
"Vladdy I don't care about what could be us right now, I just want you safe and your friends away from danger and if that means staying away from me then so be it!" Dawn says pushing her hooves away from his breakfus table.
Vladimir got up from the table and stood in front of Dawn stopping her from leaving his home.
"Are you quite finished, I'm never going to leave you alone again Dee-dee and we will stop Grogar that I promise you, together if we have too, we're taking this one day at a time."
"When do you become such a romantic?" Dawn said as Vladdy wiped away her tear away from Dawn's cheek with his wing.
"Since the day my eyes saw you, you've been the only mare on my mind day and night that I feel this desire to be with you constantly, That Shining and Valiant have been teasing me about it." Vladimir bend his head down and placed a kiss on her muzzle as he let out a growl of pleasure.
"I'm going to be involved with you romantically but it's hard not to want you in other ways," Vladimir said whispering in Dawn's ear.
As Vladimir happily watched his soon to be special someone turn a different hue that the buring in her face and the side of her neck.
"... I..would like that but can you wait...until Heart & Hooves day then you can have me all to yourself." Dawn said her voice muffled by his fur but Vladimir had excellent hearing and understood Dawn's words perfectly.
"I'll look forward to it, but I'll warn you now there be no sleeping when I get going," Vladimir said with a chuckle before leaving to go to the restroom.
When suddenly Dawn felt her eyes roll from the back of her head, when she started having fitting on the floor before blacking out completely but she could have heard Vladdy's panicked voice from across his kitchen.