Thorax had just returned to the changeling hive and noticed that the door to his room was open. Walking inside, he found a familiar face looking through his stuff again.
"Ocellus didn't we talk about this?"
"Sorry, Thorax but I just couldn’t help myself. I just wanted to read more of the letters that Trixie sent you."
H gave her a knowing smile, "Wanting some ideas on how to tell somepony at school how you feel about them?"
She blushed a little. "Ah... maybe."
He shakes his head before escorting her out, "Ocellus, it’s late. Go to sleep; you’ve got classes tomorrow."
"Okay."
"You can take some of those letters if you want. Just don't show them to anypony, okay?" he said as Ocellus rushes back inside and takes a stack of letters, before leaving.
"Thanks."
Ocellus left the room as Thorax shook his head. Looking back at the pile of letters Thorax then divided them by who sent them. Once done, he found that two-thirds of the collection was from Trixie. He opened a few random letters from Trixie and found that she had been in love with him since the day of his transformation, and had been sending him one message each day.
Thorax let out a heavy sigh. Had he known that Trixie liked him for so long he would have gone to her first? It didn't seem fair to this mare, not to at least reply after so many letters, but he was with Twilight right now. However, she had said that she was not sure about her feelings about him. He had felt the love inside Twilight for him grow stronger these last few encounters; however, it was nothing like the love Cadance felt for Shining Armor. Twilight's love for him was more like a high school crush than anything else. The week was almost up. What if Twilight said that no? What then?
Thorax brought out a blank sheet of paper and began to write.
Dear Trixie,
The next day,
Cadence had just arrived at Canterlot and was hoping to meet up with Twilight before she headed back to Ponyville. She found Twilight's friends at the train station. However, she noticed that Twilight wasn't with them. They said that Twilight's Mom told them Twilight still had some business to take care of in Canterlot and asked them to leave without her.
Curious, Cadence headed out to find Twilight. As far as she knew, Twilight's only reason for being in Canterlot was to date Thorax. Did something happen? She had to find out. If something did happen to Twilight, her mother in law Twilight Velvet was going to be the mare to know what that was especially since she was the one to tell Twilight's friends to head on back without her.
Going to Twilight's parents’ house was a short walk for Cadence. It had been a while since she had been there. She hoped that whatever was happening to Twilight was nothing too serious. She knocked on the door. Twilight Velvet opened the door and greeted her daughter in law with a hug.
"Cadence! What are you doing here?"
Cadence brakes the hugs and wakes inside, "I heard that Twilight was going to be staying in Canterlot for a little while longer. And I was wondering if you might know why?"
"Well, it is better if you look for yourself," Twilight Velvet led Cadence further inside the house until they found Twilight sleeping on her bed with her dad trying to wake her up.
"What happened?" Cadence asked.
"I’m not sure," Twilight Velvet said with a concerned look, "All I did was ask her if she loved Thorax, and then she fainted right then and there. She has been like this ever since," Cadence gives Twilight a look over, "Was it something I said?"
Cadence uses a quick spell on Twilight to see that she is just sleeping. Satisfied with her results, she came to the only conclusion for this, "I think that the whole idea of dating has finally sunk into Twilight's head." She looks back at the mother, "She never dated somepony she liked before,"
"Will she be alright?" The father asked,
"I think so," Cadence looks back at Twilight sleeping form, "But what I am more concerned about is if she can stand thinking about Thorax without fainting?"
"What?!" Nightlight said, "You're the Princess of Love, and you don't even know?"
She shrugs at this, "This is a new one to me, but I guess that she’s not used to the idea of having deep feelings for Thorax. I could do some training to strengthen her, but first, we need to wake her up."
"Well, we tried everything we could think of."
Cadence then remembers back to a time when Twilight refused to get out of bed and an evil grin comes to her face, "I think I know of something."
"Go right ahead then Cadance."
Meanwhile not too far away at Canterlot throne room,
"Go away, Discord," Celestia said as she reads a scroll in front of her,
Discord float next to her with a cut out paper pony doing tricks on his claw, "Why? I’m not doing anything to intrude on your royal duties, Celestia." He then moves next to her to see what she is reading, "Does this have something to do with yesterday and not having that belly laugh you were hoping for during Twilight's date?"
Celestia pushes him away with a hoof, not taking eyes off her scroll, "No. You are just bothering me."
"Now Celestia we both know what it would be like if I was bothering you, and this is nothing like it."
She gives him a sideways glance, "That is what worries me. Why are you still here? I thought that you had a tea party to attend with Fluttershy?"
"That would be the six o clock tea time, and it will be exactly 5:15 at the sound of the scream," Discord said while looking at a pocket watch in his claw.
"What scream?"
Just then a loud scream was heard outside of the castle, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"That one," Discord said, putting the watch away. Celestia and guard ponies look at the direction of the sound before looking back at Discord,
"Discord what did you do?"
"I had nothing to do with that one," He lay down on top of Celestia's throne back support, "I just had a feeling that a little chaos was going to be made at that time."
She shakes her head as she rolls up the paper and moves onto another one, "Why did I let you out again?"
"Because you are a nice pony, that’s why."
"True. But I thought that you would spend most of your time with Fluttershy and not around the castle."
"Oh come on Celestia. Even you have to admit that this old castle would be boring without me here." he pats her head to switch she replied with swatting him on the nose with a scroll,
"CADENCE!" Twilight said as she calmed down her breathing while rubbing the side of book in her hooves, "For the love of Celestia! Don't ever do that again!"
Cadence blows out a match, "So long as you don't faint again."
"I fainted?"
"Yes, you did. But enough of that Twilight. We’ve got some work to do."
This confuses Twilight as she puts the book back on her shelf, "What do you mean?"
"Do to a new development with your feelings for Thorax. I must help you get used to the idea of being his lover."
Nervous at to what she is implying Twilight start to back away from her, "I don't believe that’s necessary."
"Twilight this is for your own good," Cadence said as her horn started to glow. "Now hold still."
"No, thank you!" Twilight ran outside the room with Cadance right behind her.