Author's Notes:
I'd like to thank you all for sticking in this far! This has been a five month project I still haven't finished...
Warning: This is the last prewritten chapter I have currently and the next may not make my daily deadline...
Warning: This may also have some grammatical and spelling errors as my editor is an ass and won't speed up his reading... Please leave a comment if you find a mistake...
Chapter Four:
Sometimes Winter Isn't the Coldest
As the days rolled on Silver fell into another groove. Wake up and drag Luna to shower then breakfast and then go to the yard for a little while it was warm then come back for lunch and chess with Crystal, who always asked for an update, and then dinner and finally reading with Luna. It turns out the book was a lot bigger than they had thought. It had a magical property that let it hold more pages than it looked like. Apparently each book in the trilogy held a thousand chapters. Some very large and some pretty small but there was a lot of reading to do at their four chapters a night pace.
"Okay I think we're done for the night..." Silver said putting the bookmark in and setting over on the shelf. Silver sighed and looked down. He hadn't noticed that Luna's fore hoof was across his body. He looked over at the dark mare who was snuggled into his shoulder. His own fore hoof was wrapped around her and holding her side.
He lifted her hoof off and tried to roll her off his foreleg. She grunted as she rolled over. Silver sat up and leaned over the edge. He rested his head on his hooves and rubbed his eyes before sighing. This felt like foal sitting full time. He did that for a long time as well. Wasn't the best of jobs but it paid the bills for a while.
"Silver?" Luna whispered. Silver sighed.
"Yeah?" He felt hooves wrap around him and pull him back a bit.
"Here come sleep down here tonight. It's a little warmer." Silver felt cold but he thought he could make it through the night without the extra heat.
"You cold?"
"Yeah..." Silver laid back and pulled the blanket up over them. They laid back to back and soon fell asleep under the warm covers.
Silver awoke with a wide yawn. Smacking his lips he opened his eyes to see himself wrapped around Luna. He backed up and rolled out of the bed. Luna yawned and sat up on her haunches. "Come on. Shower time."
Luna crawled onto Silver's back and laid there as he walked off into the long halls of the prison.
Winter came quick and kept most of the ponies indoors and bundled up. There wasn't any heat in the building that rested on the side of the mountain. Fires were lit here and there and ponies that had magical abilities kept them going all of the time. Silver had his share of times at the fire and he even dragged Luna along when he had to go. She wasn't to happy about leaving the room but she stopped complaining when they reached the fire.
"Roll over..." Silver said to a shivering Luna. "Come one curl up and try to hold still." Luna tried her best to curl up into a ball and have Silver wrap himself around her. It was an extremely cold night and for Luna it was probably a frozen hell. He pulled the covers tighter around the pair and tried to warm her up with his breath.
"I'-I-I-'m so-o-o-so c-c-cold..." Silver frowned and hugged her tighter. There wasn't much more he could do to keep her warm. There was three sets of blankets covering them.
"I'm sorry..." He rubbed her back gently. "I can't light a fire in here..."
"I know..." She sneezed surprising the both of them.
"Woah there!" Silver laughed. Luna growled at Silver who just chuckled. They sat there for a while before Silver had an idea. "Luna?"
"Hmmm?" She mumbled.
"How much do you trust me?"
"What?"
"I said, how much do you trust me..."
"You're the only pony I trust right now..." She popped her head up and looked in him the eyes. "Why?"
"I think I can help you..." He rolled her over on her back and hovered over her trying not to crush her frail body. Luna blushed at the suggestive position before turning away and looking at him with one eye.
"I don't know how this is gonna help."
"Well I haven't told you the idea yet." Luna turned back to him and looked at him with utter confusion.
"What was your idea?" It was Silver's turn to blush as he lowered his head and whispered in her ear.
"Well, I kinda know a way to warm you up and fast... But I needed to know if you would trust me..." Luna's muzzled Silver.
"Of course I trust you." Silver lightly nibbled her ear. "What... Mmm..." As the night dragged on Luna wasn't cold any more.
Spring time came and everything warmed up and looked a little brighter. Even Luna seemed a little cheerier even though they had stopped sleeping together. Since it was such a nice day Silver decided it was time to drag Luna outside for once. He threw on his uniform and made sure Luna was dressed before he led her out into the open. It was a bright day and Luna was instantly blinded from the light.
"Ah! It hurts!" Luna yelled as she backed up rubbing her eyes. Silver wrapped a hoof around her and coaxed her to open her eyes.
"Open them slowly..." She did as he said. As her vision started to clear up she got a good view of the prison yard. Close to the building was a large set of lifting equipment that some ponies were working out at. Further away were two basketball courts and a few ponies shooting hoops. Out in the center of the yard was an open space where a few ponies were break dancing on a few broken down boxes. Further back sat two volleyball courts in sand. Over on the other side close to the building sat a lounging area were most ponies sat. She instantly headed for a nearby chair in the shade. Silver followed her and took a seat right by her more in the sun.
Gold trotted up to the pair with Motus and Steel close behind. He looked happy to see Silver. They hadn't talked much since winter went into full swing. Motus' mane was a yellow but it was hard to see behind her bright coat. Steel finally got her magic back and was abusing it by dragging a poor stallion by the ear.
"I see you finally got out of that cave you call a cell."
"Oh shush!" Motus said. She could be extremely violent when she gets pissed but other than that she is sensitive and a jokester. Silver learned this when a younger stallion tried getting her attention in the cafeteria. Lets just say the hospital wing had quite a few new ponies they had to tend to. "Can't you see he's hanging with his marefriend." Silver rolled his eyes.
"So what's up?" Silver asked the group.
"Well," Gold said sounding like a little filly. "we were going to play some volleyball but as you see we area little uneven on teams and I didn't want to dominate them to bad." This earned him a slug in the shoulder from Steel.
"Look we're playing a game wanna join in?" Silver looked at Luna who was reading My Second Life. She looked up to Silver and looked over to Gold and the mares.
"Go have fun." She said waving a hoof before burying herself back in the book. Gold's, Steel's and Motus' jaw hit the ground. Silver shrugged and looked to his friends.
"Did..." Steel said.
"... she just..." Motus continued her sentence before stopping herself.
"TALK?!" Gold said rather loudly making the few ponies in the chairs next to the group grumble in annoyance. Silver nodded and walked off taking the ball away from Motus.
"So you coming or are you just gonna sit there and gawk at Luna?" The group picked their jaws up and turned around to go to the court. "So stallions on mares?"
"Yeah." Gold replied.
"That doesn't sound fair... Oh yeah no magic and no wings!" Silver called back at the giggling mares.
"So what are we playing to?" Steel asked.
"That depends on when you want to give up!" Gold replied.
"We'll see about that!" Steel rushed ahead of the stallions. Silver laughed and rushed forward and waited for the others to catch up. Silver served first and the game started off pretty smoothly with the stallions winning all of them. After a quick break they got back to the court.
"Okay mares, I guess we could go easy on you for once."
"We won't go easy on you anymore!"
"Wait, wha-" A white ball slammed his face and knocked him back.
"Point for us!" Steel said pounding Motus' hoof. The new game went by as hell for the stallions as the mares dominated them with each ball. Some even popped as they hit Gold repeatedly. Silver sort of lost interest after a while and sat out to watch Gold get pummeled. He sighed and lowered his head with his eyes closed. He felt a soft hoof run down his back.
Silver looked up to see Luna watching the game. "Hey... Why you over here?" Luna didn't answer him she just ran a hoof down his back again before walking off. "Wait where are you going?" He stood up and followed her back into the cell block. She didn't stop until she reached their cell where she just laid down on the bunk. "What's wrong Luna?"
"Nothing just tired is all..." Silver sighed and crawled into bed next to her wrapping his hooves around her.
"You're a bad liar you know that?" She nodded and got comfortable.
Silver couldn't sleep tonight he just had the strangest feeling something was going to happen. It didn't take long but he saw it. Two large blue eyes popped over the edge glowing in the dark. They were Luna's alright. He half way closed his eyes to make itlook like he was sleeping. She crawled up and laid next to him. He was laying on his side limply hoping she would go away but she turned her back and scooted closer.
Silver got a little nervous but then again he kind of wanted to cuddle. She scooted closer and closer and then finally stopped just shy of his hooves. Then she backed up again bumping them just slightly. Silver wanted to luagh a little but then stopped himself.
Luna backed up rather forcefully the next time and Silver let instinct take over and wrapped her close to him. He didnt think about it and it just kind of happened. He wondered how long she had been sneaking up to sleep with him. Well, that was the first question, the second was why sneak around. Luna fell asleep rather quickly and he burried his muzzle into the back of her neck and soon he drifted off.
The next morning Silver woke to his expectations. Luna wasn't there. He crawled to the edge and peeped over to look into Luna's bunk. She was sleeping soundly in the far back.
"Hmmm... I wonder..." Silver mumbled to himself.
The day went on just like they always do and when it came time to hit the hay Silver curled up in his bunk and stared at the edge waiting. Sure enough at about the same time two large blue eyes could be found looking over the edge. She sat there a little longer than last night but soon she just made her way right up to him and planted her self close and stared. Silver was trying his hardest to resist the urge to look up.
Luna laid down and Silver latched onto her immediately and let the warm embrace of sleep take him.
As spring slowly turned to summer Silver began loosing weight and fast. His friends noticed and confronted him on many occasions but just couldn't seem to get him to eat enough. Sure he ate a bit of food but it wasn't a feast like he normally had. He never went back for twelfths on biscuits and gravy day and he didn't even go back to get extras on dandelion sandwich day.
"Come on man eat!" He just waved his hoof.
"Nah, some pony else can have it."
"This ain't like you Silver... You didn't even get a second helping of biscuits and gravy!"
"I know... I ain't that hungry..." Silver said finishing the last of his tray before pushing it away. Luna sat next to him just looking off in the distance. She hadn't said much since the volleyball game and even then it was only when they were alone. Silver couldn't look at her without have the pain of guilt throb in his chest. He felt bad for what happened that winter night. He asked if she trusted him but didn't ask if he could trust himself.
"Okay but don't cry to me when you start getting hunger pains..." Steel said slipping him an ice cream cup from last night. He just pushed it away and sighed.
"Come on Luna..." Silver tapped her on the shoulder and walked away. He sighed as he took the last step out of the cafeteria.