"You know," Cozy said as she lay sprawled atop Flurry, using her as a blanket to keep herself from touching the damp grass beneath them. "There's something I always wondered. Did you plan all of this from the start?"
"Hmm?" Flurry paused in her soft stroking of Cozy's mane. "Plan what, exactly? You know I always have many plots in motion."
"Us falling in love." Cozy shifted and repositioned so that she could look Flurry in the eyes. "When you asked the other princesses to unfreeze me, were you planning on things ending up like this?"
"Would you rather that I had or that I hadn't?" Flurry asked. "If our love had been planned, would it have made it any lesser?"
Cozy shrugged. "Don't know, don't care." She pressed a kiss against her neck. "I just wanna learn more about your plans and how they play out. You know how much I love hearing you plot."
"Fair enough." A moment of quiet as Flurry formulated her response. "Hmm, that wasn't the explicit goal, I would say. It certainly wasn't in the proposal I presented to reform you."
Cozy snorted. "Yeah, that probably wouldn't have gone over well. Then again, you lied through your teeth in that proposal, so that doesn't count."
"It doesn't," Flurry agreed. "I wasn't lying to you when I took you here to this hill the day we released you. I really did want your help becoming a ruler, and I meant it when I said you'd be a great vizier. That was the position I wanted to give you, at first. But there was more to it from the start."
"I figured," Cozy said. "I'm the only person you actually tried to make devoted to you. I know how much you prefer to give people other things to devote themselves to, so I must have been a pretty special case for you to break that rule."
"I couldn't think of anything else," Flurry admitted. "At least, that's what I told myself. You only cared about power, so I thought that I could only reform you by redirecting that devotion towards somepony who would become the most powerful being in the world one day. I knew I was taking a huge risk when I decided to make you obsessed with me, but I was convinced that it was the only way."
"That does make sense," Cozy said. "I'm sensing a 'but' there, though."
Flurry nodded. "But I can't deny that I was obsessed with you before I even had you unfrozen. I spent so long studying your first couple attempts to conquer Equestria, and all the different ways you tried to subvert the princesses for years after they released you the first time to try to reform you, wishing that I'd been old enough to understand what you were doing when you were doing it, instead of having to wait until we were both the same age."
"I was pretty amazing," Cozy said, tilting her chin up in pride. "So you were obsessed with me, and didn't wanna admit you actually had a crush, so you made up that vizier thing to give yourself an excuse to hang out with me?"
"Maybe." At Cozy's knowing smirk, Flurry sighed. "Alright, it's likely I had a huge crush on you and fooled myself into thinking that turning you was just a power play. It's amazing how dumb a pony can be at sixteen."
"Well, we're nineteen now," Cozy pointed out. "We have a lot more wisdom, and control over our own thoughts. I don't think you'd make the same mistake today."
"You have a point." Flurry's lips twitched up into a small smile. "We're adults now, and past making those foolish decisions." She leaned up to kiss Cozy. "Now I know exactly what I want, and how to get that from you."
Cozy's eyes smouldered as she raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Why don't you show me, then, Your Majesty."
And so Flurry did, and so they both swore their love to one another once again, knowing that it had not been planned, but was destined nonetheless.