It was a Bright and Sunny day at a Canterlot festival as the Great and Powerful Trixie performed for the crowd of ponies gathered around her. The herd surrounding her "ooohed!" and "aaaahed" with each impressive feat of prestidigitation the showmare successfully pulled off, their adulation driving her on to greater and greater heights of accomplishment!
At least, that's what was going on in her head. It was so much more pleasant to experience that than the flat stares that she refused to see, or the constant whispers about recent...indiscretions that she refused to hear.
Buck up, girl, Trixie scolded herself, You knew there'd be days like this. Lately, however, she'd seemed to have nothing BUT days like this, and all because of what had gone down in that podunk little Ponytown or whatever it was called. She couldn't believe how fast word had spread, and her professional reputation had taken a serious hit for something that she didn't even see as really her fault. It had taken all she had just to get even small festival bookings like this one, and they were usually desperate for acts!
Still, something good HAD come out of it all. Out of all the little towns she'd visited, Trixie had certainly never expected to meet the Mare of her Dreams in Ponyton, of all places!
Of course, they'd been at odds to begin with, a sad consequence of the challenge portion of Trixie's show, but when she'd seen how the unicorn had handled herself magically...Such Power! Such Skill! Trixie had already found her attractive, but in that instant she had known that they were destined to be together, forever!
If only I'd gotten her name, she lamented, and not for the first time, before pushing such distractions aside and continuing on with her show. The crowd had waxed and waned over the course of the evening, and was rapidly thinning out, but she needed all the bits she could get. If it meant suppressing her desire for the special magical unicorn that had haunted her dreams for weeks now, then she would do it. After all, there was always tomorrow! That could well bring that longed-for day when she beheld her one true love again, and finally learned the name to put to the mare who had given her life new meaning on the very day it had all been taken away. And she would have a magical name, too, a name like--
"TWILIGHT!" A shrill voice cut into her routine. A hyperactive, somehow PINK voice rang out, stealing all the attention of Trixie's audience from her. "LOOK OVER HERE!! A magician! Doing magician-y things! You should LOVE this! Hey, she looks familiar..."
Trixie couldn't believe her Large and Perceptive Eyes! Right here, at the back of the crowd, as if conjured up by her very own longing, came the actual mare who had stolen her heart, along with five others she (barely) recognized from Ponypolis (or wherever they were from)! It shouldn't have been that surprising, after all, this WAS a very popular festival in the capitol city of Equestria, but still, what were the odds?
"Trixie..." Twilight Sparkle murmured, her soulful eyes widening with both surprise...and a yearning she had kept secret and hidden, from both her friends and even from herself. How many sleepless nights had Twilight lain awake, struggling with these unfamiliar feelings, wondering when she might see the blue magician again? How often had she considered setting forth, to find her and see if she was alright? To set out upon a new adventure of friendship with her, and, perhaps, something else, something deeper, the true shape of which Twilight was only beginning to sense...And now, here she was, and gazing back in her direction with what looked like the same intense longing in her purple eyes.
Trixie made a choice, right then and there. True, she was in the middle of a performance, but if she were honest with herself, she'd lost the crowd a while ago, and she didn't want to risk losing her love, as well. The show must go on, but True Love waits for nopony! So, she leapt from the stage, galloping towards the small group, so intently that she missed the banana peel a certain baby dragon tossed away when finishing his snack. Trixie slipped on it, and went barreling right INTO the Love Of Her Life!
Twilight Sparkle blinked...and turned around, watching Trixie cradle the stunned white unicorn in her hooves.
"NO!" Trixie bellowed, shaking the white unicorn, whose blue eyes were swirling around in a most fetching way, "My love! WHO has done this foul deed to you?!"
"Um, YOU did," the blue Pegasus Trixie vaguely recalled humbling said, "And since when is Rarity your 'love', anyway??"
"Oh, is THAT her name?" Trixie mused. "Yes, it is fitting...and worthy of my Great and Powerful Love! I shall shout it from the rooftops! I shall--"
"Waitwaitwait!" interrupted a fuming Twilight. "You're in love...with Rarity?! But...WHY??"
"Are you kidding?" Trixie responded. "Did you SEE her amazing feats of magic?? What grace! What style! My curtains never looked better than they did draped on her!"
"Her---what??" Twilight spat. "But, I...I wrestled a Star Bear into submission!"
"My, my, my," Trixie drawled. "SOMEPONY is awfully full of themselves..."
Twilight rolled her eyes as Trixie magically hauled the still-dazed Rarity onto her back, galloping off at top speed, laughing all the way. "Come, Charity, my love...You belong to me, now!"
Her eyes narrowing, Twilight felt another one of her moods coming on...
"Um, what do we do, Twi?" Applejack asked.
"I'll tell you what we do, Applejack! We get on with the rest of our lives and never speak of this again! Fluttershy, Sweetie Belle is YOUR little sister from now on!" Twilight screeched, almost drowning out the small "Yay!" from Fluttershy. The rest were uncertain, but orders were orders, so they all returned home to Ponyburg.
And Trixie and Charity lived happily ever after!