I woke up because Twilight’s fur tickled my nose. Nearly her whole body was wrapped around my head and I was breathing onto her belly. I carefully tickled her side until she let go of me and turned to the other side while giggling silently.
Only a few seconds later her breathing slowed down and her body relaxed while she entered dreamland again. I watched her cute little body for a little while before I stood up and stretched my muscles, it looked like my body was completely recovered.
‘Well… not completely.’, I thought as my eyes fell on the stump where my right forearm just abruptly ended. Nearly without any effort, my magical hand appeared for around two seconds, it had become second nature to me. I wondered how long I could force it to be active. I went to the bathroom so I wouldn’t disturb my marefriend in her sleep.
After a few deep breaths to calm me down and to focus, on my command the magic hand appeared.
‘1...2...3...4…”, I counted in my head while I felt it was getting harder to keep my hand from disappearing by each second.
‘5...6...7...8…’, while I struggled to keep it up, I suddenly focused on the mirror…
There was this strange creature looking back at me, black blobs wandered over its body while it was illuminated by its glowing blue claw…
“Monster…”, I addressed my reflection.
My breathing got fast and irregular. I forgot to count on while the black blobs started to form horns on my head and it looked like they were even escaping my body to form actual horns.
I smashed my magical hand into the mirror causing it to burst into thousands of pieces while my hand disappeared.
I was breathing hard while tears ran down my face.
Twilight appeared only a moment later.
“Stella, what happened?”, she asked concerned and used her magic to get the mirror shards off the floor so she was able to reach me.
“What am I? I'm not sure anymore.”, I whispered while she put her hooves around me.
“You're my wonderful marefriend.”, she replied. “A beautiful human woman who…”
“This is not what a human looks like!”, I interrupted her screaming, pushing her away from me.
I looked into the smashed mirror which showed my shattered reflection. There were no horns but I could easily make out the blobs wandering over my body. My glowing hand reappeared, pointing at my reflection.
“This is no human!”, I shouted.
“I don't care what you are.”, Twilight replied crying. “You are a kind and wonderful individual which has sacrificed so much to keep this world safe. I love you as you are, isn't that all that matters?”
I fell down on my knees sobbing.
“I'm so confused…”
Twilight drew me into a hug again and I felt her love for me through our connection, its warmth started to spread in my body.
“I love you the way you are.”, she repeated. “I will always love you.”
I slowly started to calm down. After a minute I hesitantly kissed her, but within a short time my kisses got more demanding. I wanted to feel her love, I needed it right now.
I picked her up and carried her into the next room where I fell onto the bed with her. I needed to feel her, to taste her…
She happily gave in to my desires and without the chance of putting up a bubble of silence, I was pretty sure half of canterlot castle must have heard our shared screams of ecstasy.
…
“I'm sorry for earlier… what I did in the bathroom.”, I whispered to her half an hour later as we laid next to each other and I felt both of our hearts were still racing.
“I feel lost again… I was the only human in this world, which was hard enough from time to time, but I was still part of mankind… part of others I had met in my life before.”
I took a few deep breaths and pulled her even closer to me. “Now I don't even feel human anymore, my own body feels alien to me.”
Twilight stretched her body a bit so she was able to give me a long and deep kiss. “I understand you feel confused about all that has happened to your body.”, she addressed me while she used her front hoof to stroke my cheek. “I have never heard of someone's body to go through so much change, I could only imagine how confused I would be if I suddenly… grew wings or something like that.”
Again she changed position, she was laying on my chest now, looking deep into my eyes. “Whatever happens, I will love you forever, there is nothing that could change that.” She sealed her words with another deep and passionate kiss.
“Thank you so much for being with me.”, I whispered to her with tears in my eyes.
“There was a time when I thought I could never love again; then I met you and my love for you grew so much stronger than anything I had experienced before.”
At this moment I wished Chrysalis had already given me the rings but I hadn't met her yet since she flew off. Instead, I pulled Twilight closer and we exchanged a very long series of tender loving kisses.
…
The doctor had finished her checkup and packed away her instruments.
“I'm really amazed by the great condition of your body.”, she addressed me. “I can't find any trace of the fatal wounds that had been reported to me by your changeling friend and the blobs wandering the surface of your body don't seem to have any negative impact on you… so far. I don't see why I should prevent you from having a wonderful Hearth's Warming Eve together.”
Both of us exhaled audibly, we had decided not to tell her about my breakdown this morning. Also, I hadn't told even Twilight about what I had believed to see in the mirror and the behavior of the blobs. I just wanted to have a nice holiday with her and to finally give her my “present”.
“Well, let's catch the next train home then.”, Twilight told me. “Chrysalis has sent me a letter, she is already at the library preparing for the holiday with her marefriend. They will be in charge of the whole event in our home, we can just relax and have a good time.”
I felt she wasn't happy about not being able to plan and organize it herself since it was her greatest joy doing stuff like that. I understood she wanted to concentrate on me instead and I was happy about her decision, I really needed her right now.