April 7, 2020
Two months before the war
Dear Rainbow Dash,
I hope that this letter finds you and that I hope you are doing well. It has been months since we last saw each other and I have been wondering if it was something I’ve done. I don’t know if what we had for the past three years was I wasn’t sure if what we shared these past few years was the same for me as it is for you.
I’m sorry, I’m not really much when it comes to writing what I’m trying to convey but I’m trying to find the words to put it in writing so please bear with me. I guess I should probably sort myself out from the beginning and get right to the point. I love you. I loved you ever since I first saw you and the Wonderbolts toured our city of Gibraltar. When we first met, exchanged conversations, when we showed each other our skills in flying. You, a natural flyer and I, a pilot sharing that sky. It was then that I knew we had a connection I never thought I could have to any woman, much less a xeno pony. Or at least I felt that connection.
My father often told me that members of our family could always tell who the person they’ll spend the rest of their lives with by a connection they feel within their soul. I never really understood that until the day we first met. I felt that connection and I was wondering if you ever felt the same. I certainly thought you did after the many moments we shared these past few years.
I thought about you every aching moment ever since that day. After I first asked to court you (or as you would put it, hang out). After our shared moments of flying. After our nights we shared roaming the streets of San Roque.
That all changed the day you left without a word. I wondered why? Why would you suddenly leave? I thought for long why you did so, that was until I heard a month later of the news about human-pony conversions. I made connections that you were in the military and a national hero. Was everything we had simply a lie? To spy on us? To learn our weaknesses and evaluate our worth? I thought hard if what I have felt for you was even real or was it just magic you bewitched me with.
In the end it matters not, for even after all this brought to light I still could not let you go, no matter how hard I tried. My soul burns for you, my heart aches for you, my mind is filled with you. I was hoping to one day ask for your -hand- hoof in marriage. I would offer my being just to see you again. I would even go so far to take the offer of conversion just so we could be united. But if you are to tell me that none of that means anything to you then I will respect your wishes and we shall part our separate ways.
With all my heart,
Carlos
Two weeks later
Dear Carlos,
I'm sorry that Please understand, I didn’t mean for any of this to happen. I’m sorry for the way things turned out. I’m sorry for what I did, leaving you behind without even a note. I’m not really good at sappy, uncool stuff like romance and love. I usually leave that kind of stuff to Rarity. I mean, I am Rainbow Dash; the fastest flyer in all Equestria, Wonderbolt and Bearer of the Element of Loyalty! And yet here I am, can’t even give a guy a straight answer.
The point is, it wasn’t your fault; it was me. What we had, that connection was real. I love you. And it’s what scares me. What we shared, I felt it too, more than you realise. It has taken me to places where I never thought I could experience. It’s uncool of me to say this, but I was scared. That last night we shared, when you took me into your arms. I never felt so high in my life. And coming from me that’s a lot. But when that morning came, I just panicked.
I was told when I was a foal that I could never be a mother, so I never thought I could ever be in a relationship. But then when I first met you over the orbital platform and you had that stupid look on your face, I felt something I couldn’t describe. Then we flew across space, then your home of Gibraltar, the night walks we had, our night when we… I was scared out of my mind. Me, in a relationship, with a human no less. I went back home trying to sort myself out. For months all I could think about was you. It all changed just a week ago, and it was then I knew I couldn’t deny my feelings for you anymore. Coincidentally, it was the same date you wrote the letter (sure I received it a week later, but that’s not the point). That day I realised what couldn’t be possible, happened. And my heart leapt out of me.
When I read your letter I knew I wanted to see you again, to be with you. I wanted to be your special-somepony. But then this whole thing with the news came up and I was called to military service, and they put restrictions on travel across the portal, I didn’t know what to do!! Luckily, they didn’t restrict the mail and delivery service which was how I got your letter.
I hope that this whole mess blows over and we won’t get into something dumb like a war. If that happened, I reeeeeeally wouldn't know what to do. But as soon as this whole thing sorts itself out, I will take the first ticket back to Thera, grab you by the collar, and walk you down the aisle myself. Yes you idiot, my answer is yes; I will marry you. And I could finally share to the world our love for each other because nothing, not even Celestia’s sun will stop me from my love for you, if my name isn’t Rainbow Danger Dash, the Element bearer of Loyalty!
Love with Loyalty,
Rainbow.
As Rainbow Dash delivered her letter to a certain grey wall-eyed pegasus, she stared out to the open, holding a hoof over her belly.