Sleep was nice. It was something of a hobby to the Skyborn, naps during any hour she could get to herself were like little treats. She usually found pretty comfortable places to sleep, but something about this ‘bed’ she was on made her not want to wake up.
But she still stirred awake.
She grumbled at the sleep that left her, attempting to threaten it into coming back to her. However, her combat with a concept faded from her mind as she felt her ‘bed’ rise and fall. Her eyes moved up and traced the green hoodie. Up some more. Dark skin and a cute jawline. A little more. Spike’s lips.
Lips.
She kissed him.
Rainbow jolted but didn’t move, instead going for a slow rise off of the young man’s chest. She looked at where they were, they hadn’t left the living room, the couch having become their resting place for the night. A blanket was on the floor, food and drinks were on a nearby table and there were DVDs all around.
Last night slowly came back to her as she covered her face a little, after making out for even longer they couldn’t ignore their stomachs anymore and actually ate something. She called Spike a good cook, but man, when he wanted to, the man could make something ridiculous.
They both agreed her wings sprouting from her back would go unspoken.
Her fingers slid down her face to the television, it was still on and playing some soft music while on its standby mode. She remembered watching a bunch of movies, eating, drinking, getting drunk, and blacking out.
At least she must have blacked out because she couldn’t recall where the blanket came from.
Her eyes fell onto the still-sleeping form of her new boyfriend. …it was strange thinking that…Spike was her boyfriend. Before this day she didn’t know if would believe it if someone had told her that this is where she’d find a better beau than whatever that last guy was. And then the how came back to her. Her shoulders dropped as she looked at Spike, she never once considered how he must have felt being left out, never asked how he felt, never even thought to stop by and hang out with the guy. Sure she was going to do that all now but that didn’t change what happened before. He said to drop it, but it wasn’t something that she could just let go of.
Rainbow raised her hands back to her face and lightly slapped her cheeks. She was NOT going to do any of this out of pity! She liked Spike, she really did, he was an awesome guy, sweet to her and any girl he met, the kind of guy you can rely on and that’ll rely on you. All of these things swam through her mind as she locked eyes with his lips.
It helped that he got an A+ in kissing.
She thought about kissing him awake, but something about that made her feel weird, so instead, she reached out and poked his lips, they were rough, like a pillow in texture and cushion. His breath and lips were hotter than she’d ever thought they could be, but it wasn’t so hot she worried about getting burned. It was the kind of warmth that would come from sitting on the couch while a fire was lit during winter. Cozy! That was the word she was looking for. His lips were cozy, his chest was cozy, Spike was a cozy boyfriend.
…
Something about that sounded undermining…she’d keep it to herself.
While she was lost in thought, the tracing of Spike’s lips began to drag him from sleep. Rainbow snapped back to the world and took her finger back quickly as he groaned and groggily opened his eyes. He blinked a few times and Rainbow Dash just watched him come to the same realization she went through.
“...we kissed.”
“A lot.”
Spike sat up and looked at Rainbow with clarity, they took up the centermost part of the couch, very close to each other, just a single lean forward and they would be touching.
But they stayed that way for a bit, just looking at each other again, seas of thoughts wordlessly flowing around them until Rainbow Dash leaned in and kissed him.
Spike didn’t shy away or flush like he did before, only returning the quick kiss, both of them staying leaned in close into the other.
“...breakfast?”
“What time even is it?”
Spike blinked and his tail swiped his phone off the ground, Rainbow blinked and a playful thought ran through her as Spike cringed as he opened his phone.
“What’s up?”
“Twilight called me 40 times.”
“Woof.”
“I also got a call from Miss Tia and a text from Miss Luna, they both say hi and they’ll handle Twilight. “ Spike hummed but blushed when Rainbow leaned against him to look at his phone.
“Mooncakes huh?” Rainbow gave Spike a look and he quickly closed his phone. “Hey I ain’t gonna judge man, they’re hot.”
“To be clear, Button did that when he had my phone once.”
“And you never changed it?”
Spike remained quiet while blushing. Rainbow’s smile curled up and she crawled up further on the young man until she had him pinned. “Blushing Spike is cute.”
“And vicious Rainbow is scary.”
Rainbow Dash laughed and got up off of Spike. “Okay, okay, I’m done.” She turned and gave him a less playful smile. “So? Breakfast?”
Spike stared at her for a moment before chuckling and standing up. “Coming right up, what are you feeling?”
“Pancakes.”
“FlapDash returns.”
Rainbow lightly shoved Spike and the dravyernian boy laughed as he moved to the kitchen. “Ass.”
Spike looked at her and smirked before looking at the floor of the living room. “Do me a solid and pick up everything? Even if Twi isn’t here I take pride in being clean.”
“Got it tiger.” Rainbow bent down and rolled up the blanket, stood up and looked back at Spike for a moment as he started pulling stuff out of the cabinets.
“...have you ever checked me out?”
“Nine hells!” Something clattered as Spike dropped a bowl. “You’re gonna give me a conniption if you keep saying things like that with no build-up!”
Rainbow just kept looking at him, and the longer she did the more his cheeks flushed.
“...yes.”
“When?”
“Are we really talking about this right now?”
“I mean…when would we?”
“...you have a point.” Spike sighed as he disappeared under the kitchen counter. “Track, during gym, while you’ve jogged by in the morning, that one time last year when you and the girls came over while I was studying, it was before you got drunk by the way.”
Rainbow hissed at that memory, she and Pinkie had stormed into his room and bothered him for about ten minutes before passing out on his bed.
“Not proud of that night…so you think I’m hot?”
“Dash, half the campus thinks you’re hot.”
“You didn’t answer my question.”
“...yes, you’re hot.”
Rainbow Dash watched Spike stand back up, his ears were the same shade as his face now. Seeing him blush made her oddly giddy, she had to fight the girly feeling of jumping around though. She’d do that later.
“Thanks Spike.” She giggled as he began mumbling and grumbling while continuing his cooking preparations. She turned and set the blanket on the couch, moving and picking up the cups, bowls, and plates, bringing them over to the sink in the kitchen. She turned her eyes to Spike as she turned to go back to the living room, his back was to her and it made her want to poke him.
So she did.
“Yipe!” Spike jumped as a finger touched the back of his neck, he turned and Rainbow had her hands behind her head and whistled. “Do you wanna talk about something?”
“What? All I did was touch you.” Rainbow looked at him and her mouth flattened at his tone.
“Yeah well, don’t.” Spike sighed and opened the fridge to pull out a set of eggs, when he stood up Rainbow had her arms crossed and her brow was furrowed. The two stared at each other for a moment.
Rainbow was the first to look away, her shoulders dropping a bit.
Spike blinked and set the eggs down before sighing heavily. “Sorry…”
“No, don’t. I’m sorry.”
“Rainbow, look at me.” She didn’t. “Dash, please look at me.”
The athlete looked at him finally.
“Neither of us need to be sorry.” Spike stepped over to her and leaned around the counter next to her.
Rainbow groaned and leaned on the counter alongside Spike. “...does it make you uncomfortable? The way I am?”
“Not really, it's just how you are.”
“You seem bothered by the questions and stuff…”
“I’m not bothered by it, it just catches me off guard.”
Rainbow Dash looked away for a moment but turned to face him again. “Don’t tell anyone about what I’m gonna say, okay?”
“I’ll take it to my grave.”
“...I like body heat.”
Spike blinked. “Huh?”
“It’s like…I want to be close to people because it's comfortable. Hugging people, leaning on my friends, laying on Fluttershy’s or Pinkie’s lap, stuff like that is cause…I like the warmth that comes from people.”
Spike nodded slowly and rubbed his chin. “Your love language is contact.”
Rainbow tilted her head. “Love language?”
“It’s uh, like the things you do with people that shows you care about them. You don’t like to hug and lean on people you don’t know well right?”
“Nah, just my friends.”
“That’s what’s called ‘love language’ not everyone has one, and not all of them are obvious. I have one too.”
Rainbow thought for a while and looked Spike over. “You do? Is it one of those not obvious ones?”
“Tail.”
Rainbow blinked and looked down at his tail, it was somewhat curling around her leg and when she looked up at his face Spike was blushing. “I like this love language stuff.”
“But the point I’m making,” He raised his finger at Rainbow and she focused on what he was saying now, even as his tail still held onto her leg. “Is that different people show how they care differently, you also run at a different pace than me. I prefer a slower run of things, I want to make sure that things are secured. I got this way after years and years of figuring out who I am. So the way you are isn’t bad, it doesn’t make me like you less and any frustration I let out was…”
Rainbow had hung off his words so when he slowly began to trail off she found it strange, he was eloquent, despite what he thought of himself Rainbow thought he was one of the smartest people she knew. But she only just kind of figured out what he was thinking, and as he seemed deep in thought it was up to her to pick up the pace.
“Is it because of how fast it all happened?” Spike’s eyes refocused onto her and a face he made just yesterday flashed again before her. “I get it, when I walked through that door we were still just friends and taking jabs at each other. We’ve got a back and forth thing going and it's hard to drop. I admit that, I almost snatched your phone when you were on the phone with Twi, that’s not cool usually but it's just kinda the way it was with you, AJ and Pinkie. We just act, but now that’s not always cool. Especially after what we talked about yesterday.”
It was Spike’s turn to look away for a moment, as true to his feelings those words were, he wished he had said them differently.
“I’m not gonna act like I studied social…whatever, but I do know what it's like to deal with a relationship changing. Me and AJ started going out in high school, yeah? Well if you asked anyone else literally nothing changed beside the fact that I tried kissing her. Which she didn’t like, at least not in public. But she never said that to me, she just pushed me off and we argued, because that’s how we always did things. But neither of us, like, picked up that something had to change if we were going to work out, they didn’t change so…” Rainbow kind of trailed off before moving on. “But we’re still tight, I’d fucking kick anyone’s ass if I heard them say some shit about Applejack. But like…I learned from that, so every other relationship I got in changed from what whatever we were before. Like with that asshat Jet, we were like bros, but when I gave him a shot I tried being closer and not so much like a bro anymore. Things nosedived cause he’s a fuck though.”
“You did talk about that once, something about trying to…”
“In his words ‘Keep me with the company I should have.’” They both just rolled their eyes at the words. “But yeah like that, when I dated Gilda we stopped butting heads and tried to be more comfortable with each other. But we didn’t say anything to each other, we just kinda…hoped the other person would get it.”
“So…that’s why you just…say stuff?”
“Better than saying nothing ever in my eyes. I’m not patient enough to wait and hope for someone to understand my wants and needs. You were right, it's just who I am, and I wouldn’t change that.”
Spike nodded at her, he found learning from Rainbow was interesting, the way she spoke and moved, leaning back and then standing up straight when she got excited or figured something out. The way her eyes shot about as she spoke, only to land on his again. All her motions made her very interesting to watch.
He certainly was interested in her lips as well, but now wasn’t the time.
“I get that, I’ll admit…I hadn’t thought about how we’d have to change…”
“It’s not something that just ‘poofs’ into your head, gotta get that experience in.”
“Which you have a lot more in.”
“That was a dig wasn’t it?”
“If it was, are you gonna do something about it?”
Rainbow and Spike looked at each other for a moment before they both laughed, Spike turning and getting back to making breakfast. “So? You want to be, like, vocal about everything?”
“That’s the idea.” Rainbow stepped over and stood behind him while he started cracking eggs. “You don’t like being touched, right?”
“Not exactly, I like physical contact, I’m pretty big on hugs and stuff myself. It’s my back overall that I don’t like getting touched.” He turned on the heat on their electric stove and set the pan down before getting to mixing the necessary ingredients. “Something about stuff happening where I can’t see it bothers the hell outta me.”
“So I can’t grab your ass?”
Spike was happy he froze instead of jumping like before, he was slowly getting used to Rainbow Dash and that worried him a little. “Excuse me?”
“What? I’m sure you've got a soft butt, like 95% sure.”
Spike grabbed the bowl he was using to make the mix and turned to give Rainbow an expression that asked a very loud question.
“You just seem the type to have a great ass.”
“I don’t think I want to consider that further.”
“It's a compliment.”
“Obviously.”
Rainbow poked his forehead and Spike stuck his longer than usual tongue out at her.
“But to answer your question seriously…I’m not sure how I feel about it. It seems a little fast to be thinking about the way you’ll manhandle me.”
Rainbow shrugged. “Fair. Guess we’ll see how it goes.”
“Quite…wait I should ask, do you have an issue getting…touched?”
“Nah.” Rainbow leaned back on the counter again, still standing directly in front of Spike at this point.
He stopped his mixing to ponder her words. “Really?”
“I mean…I feel like you’re not the type to walk up to me and just-”
“Please put it in a way that won’t have me precooking this batter.”
“...grab my ass?”
“That works.”
“Yeah, you just don’t seem the type so it’s not something I worried about. But like if you ever do decide to get the stones to do that, I don’t mind as long as it’s not something the world has to see. So keep the kinky behind closed doors.”
“I will keep that in mind.” He turned back around and continued making breakfast while Rainbow stared at the back of his head.
“But getting back on track, so it’s just don’t touch your back.”
“Specifically, don't sneak touch my back, I don’t mind if you like, rub my shoulders or hug me from behind, it's the secretly doing it thing that makes it uncomfortable.” He got the words out when Rainbow stepped closer to him and wrapped her arms around him.
“Is this okay?”
“I-its good.” Spike blushed and continued what he was doing, at least until he felt Rainbow’s face against his neck.
“How about this?” She nuzzled his neck, her lips brushing against his dark skin, making him flush even deeper.
“Y-yeah.”
Spike could feel her heart beating against his back, among other things that were on his back. He was allowed to focus on what he was doing while Rainbow Dash continued to hold onto him, just watching him make their breakfast for the remainder of this time.
When breakfast was finally done, they sat down and ate, neither speaking, but both of them carrying the same thoughts in their minds. They had a lot to say, Rainbow had made a good point of it, getting out what both of them are comfortable with and what they want out of the relationship would be the healthiest thing here.
Spike was focused on finishing so he could talk, his eyes landing on Rainbow Dash deeply enjoying the pancakes. He smiled at that and swallowed. “Guess I’m the designated cook between us.”
Rainbow looked at him and nodded, she grabbed a glass of apple juice and chugged it down before speaking. “Hell yeah, I mean, if you want. I can’t cook for shit, but if you ever don’t feel like cooking I can go grab something.”
“Speaking of that, what about the car situation?”
Rainbow hummed at that, they both had cars, however- “I don’t really drive mine unless I’m going pretty far. I took a drive like last week out along the coast, but she’s been sitting back at home for a bit. So I guess we’ll take yours local?”
“And hop in the hotrod for casual drives out of town?”
“I like that idea.” Rainbow grinned and stuffed her face with pancakes again.
Spike chuckled and took his time drinking down his own glass before getting up and taking care of dishes while she wrapped up. “Anything else before we sit and talk shop?”
Rainbow Dash muffled some kind of affirmative before loudly swallowing. “Kissing! When can’t I kiss you?”
“That's a part of ‘shop’ but honestly? I don’t really care about stuff like that, Twi is a prude but mom and dad sure as hell aren’t.”
Rainbow walked over and handed him the reminder of the dishes. “I get that it's a part of what we’ll be talking about, but it's really important. Cause I like kissing you.”
Spike blushed, again, that was happening a lot around her, at least she was blushing this time too. “I like it too.”
Rainbow giggled before shaking it off and leaning against the counter, it was getting lots of attention today.
“What do I taste like?”
Spike almost dropped a glass on the floor. “You are-” He looked at her and she looked fairly bashful about the question, he paused and scrubbed the cup. “...electricity charged strawberries.”
“...wow.”
Spike felt a jolt run through him as Rainbow kissed him on the cheek.
“Thanks tiger.”
“What’s up with the nickname, not that I mind.”
Rainbow hummed and tapped a finger on her lips. “Can’t call you Spikey, that’s not really my thing. I could call you other stuff but tiger just seems to fit, no real reason.” She turned and tapped the finger that had been touching her lips to Spike’s, getting another blush from him.
“Let me work, woman.”
She simply laid her top half on the counter and gazed at him while he cleaned.
No words or teasing, she just looked at him.
“You like staring at me don’t you?”
“Yeah…I just like seeing you in motion, I never appreciated all the little ways you’re different from me.”
“You mean Skyborn to Dravyernian?”
“That too.” She reached out and her fingers traced his jaw, he jumped a little at her touch but thankfully had finished the dishes. She ran two fingers down along his jaw until they came near his lips. “Your skin is almost like leather…it's softer but sturdier than anything I’ve felt before...”
“Can trace that back to draconian ancestors, magic does strange things as time goes on.” He turned to her as her hand came up to his cheek, slowly moving up and through his hair. The action and tenderness of her touch drew a low rumble out of his throat.
“I didn’t say anything yesterday…but I didn’t know you purred.”
“It’s not purring exactly, it's not a buzz or anything.”
Rainbow stood up, making Spike’s head turn up as she stood very close to him and continued to run her fingers through his hair. The same rumble came from his throat as he stared up at her through lidded eyes.
“Sounds like purring.”
“Fine, I purr.” He stared up at her as she examined his eyes.
“I didn’t know they changed colors.”
Spike’s eyes faded from their deep green to a slightly more teal color as he stared at her; she wouldn’t have ever noticed it if they weren’t this close. However, no sooner did she mention it than they quickly turned back.
“It's a response to stimulation, a chemical reaction to excitement, anger, sadness, that kind of thing. Course I try to keep a cool head so they don’t tend to change much.”
“Cool…”
Rainbow looked down at the shorter male whose face was being held up by her hands. She just leaned down and kissed him, not really surprising Spike as he returned the embrace. She kissed just a bit deeper now, exploring his lips with her tongue, Spike didn’t back away or flinch, instead he put his hands on her arms. She felt him pull her hands away and she slowly broke the kiss, though she remained close enough to continue if Spike wanted to.
“We…should talk first.”
“...later?”
“Later.”
Rainbow made a face, she really liked kissing Spike, her cozy boyfriend was like temptation wrapped up in a cute guy with a bunch of cool stuff decorating it. But she’d be patient for him, even if it wasn’t her usual deal.
He was worth it.
Spike led her back to the couch, Rainbow quickly picked up the DVDs though as they had lain forgotten on the floor. They both sat down and now the floor was open for…anything really.
Spike began. “You mentioned liking contact, does that mean you don’t mind PDA?”
“Nope, I’m all for it. Usually I’m not into gushy stuff, but something about feeling the warmth of someone else just makes my day. And you’re like a fireplace on a cold day. So yeah, BIG into PDA. What about you?”
“No issues here, just as long as anything touchier stays being a closed door.”
“I get that.”
Spike hummed and leaned back on the couch. “How are we on the ‘L’ word?”
“Lesbian?”
“Love, you airhead.”
Rainbow snorted a laugh at Spike as he rolled his eyes.
“Haha, sorry man, but uh…not yet. You know? I feel like it's fine for us, fourteen years of knowing each other makes up for the year Rarity claims is enough time you should wait. But we don’t know if that’s what this is yet…right?”
Now that was a question.
“...I’m not sure. But I do agree, maybe not after a single day of dating.”
“Okay um…how do you feel about people knowing about us?”
“Tell the world.”
“Wow, didn’t take you for the type.”
“I don’t have anything to hide Dash, if I did, I’d make it clear.”
“Glad we’re on the same track.”
“What about the dating situation? Do you want to go on actual dates?”
“I mean…yeah? Like I don’t really care for fancy shit, you know? But going out to the beach or something is cool.”
“I’m pretty partial about plans and stuff, but I get you like to just pick up and go. I’ll give it a shot if I can.”
“That…that means a lot.”
Spike and Rainbow smiled at each other as she reached over and took his hand.
“How do you feel about drinking?”
Spike groaned. “Can’t stand it.”
“How!? A good cold brew is fuckin’ great.”
“Because it actually makes me sick.”
Rainbow blinked.
“What can I breathe Dashie?”
“...fire.”
“And what can alcohol do?”
“...you’re not gonna like, explode or something, right!?”
Spike raised a hand to calm her down. “No, nothing like that. The fumes and everything just messes with my stomach and throat. If it’s fairly low in percentage I can drink it, it's just not my thing otherwise.”
Rainbow relaxed a bit. “That’s good, I like you so I don’t want to see you blow up.”
“Thanks. Okay uh, how much time do you want to spend together?”
“...all of it?”
“...really?”
“Yeah, I mean, I get that we’re both busy and stuff. I’ve got my sports career and Wonderbolt stuff, and you’ve got…how are you making money?”
“Oh, I’m an editor.”
“For who?”
“Yearling.”
“...shut up.”
“I’m serious.”
“...shut the fuck up.”
“I can literally call Daring, like now. She’ll have my tail, but I can do it.”
Rainbow just stared at him. “How have I never known this?”
“Because I go by a pseudonym, it was one of the requirements to work with her, considering I can’t actually talk about anything that comes my way.”
Rainbow did her best to manage her breathing as she looked at Spike. “You’ve been talking to my hero for how long?”
“Two years, I wanted to work earlier but she gave me the boot and said to apply later. I did and now I’m here. Not sure I want to do this for the rest of my life though…”
She just stared at him some more before shaking her head, obviously he was being as vague as possible so he couldn’t talk about much. “Okay um…but like I was saying. Any time I’m not working, training or hanging with the girls, I want to be with you.”
“It's not hard to find me, I always have my phone on me or I’m at home.”
Rainbow nodded and began to rub her thumb across the back of his hand. “...what about…sex?”
Spike’s heart dropped to his feet and smoke began to billow out of his nose. “I- uh- wha?”
Rainbow didn’t tease him or laugh, she was genuinely considering this.
Spike’s mind worked into a frenzy as he stared at her, trying to constrict his thoughts into something coherent.
“Early.”
Words failed him.
“T-too early.”
That was better.
Rainbow nodded, her eyes locked onto their hands, still locking together. “Thought so…”
“...Dash?”
“I…it’s something with the body heat thing…”
“Ah…skin to skin…”
“Yeah…”
Spike took a deep breath before letting it out slowly. “It’s something…I’d like to do at some point. I’ll be honest about that.”
She smiled at him again, appreciating how straightforward he was being.
“You’re hot, as we’ve cleared up, and if we get that close I wouldn’t mind at all.”
“But not now, or anytime soon. Yeah, that’s fair.”
“I get the feeling there’s something you aren’t saying.” Spike raised an eyebrow.
“...it’s not a big deal to me? Like it's just another thing we’d do together. I know lots of people are really awkward about sex, waiting till marriage or not liking to talk about it. But…I don’t really think it's something to shy away from. If you can do something like that with someone, then you can do basically anything with them. Rarity says I’m ‘Sex Casual’.”
“That sounds about right.” Spike nodded and took Rainbow’s hand up with his and brought it to his lips, kissing the tips of her fingers. A small squeak coming out of Rainbow. “I’m…I guess ‘Sex Nuetral’? I agree that it’s important, but I don’t think I’d need sex in a relationship to enjoy it.”
“Like if the person you’re with doesn’t ever want to have sex you’ll be good?”
“Kinda? More like I can be with someone without ever wanting to have sex with them, Fizzie and I-”
“Fizzie? Wait, Fizzle? You mean that dude that hangs with Garble?”
“Yeah? Oh…did I not mention that?”
“NO!” Rainbow groaned and her head fell back. “Now I KNOW you have a great ass, you fit all the notes!”
“I demand a detailed explanation on that at some point, but yes, I’ve dated guys before.”
“Guys as in plural?”
“Snails discovered lots of stuff about themselves, one of them is that I wasn’t their type.”
“Man I’m out of like every loop.”
“To be fair, I promised to keep it quiet.”
Rainbow nodded at that. “Okay, so I get that part. So you want to have sex with me, but just not yet. You’re fine with me being really casual about it, even if you’re not always up for it?”
“Got it in one.”
Rainbow nodded and began humming. “What’s it like kissing another guy?”
“Like kissing another girl.”
“Fair.”
“Anything else?”
“Man I’m drawing a blank, you got anything?”
Spike swiped his phone with his tail again and flipped it open. “I could look up a list of questions.”
“Sure, fuck it.”
Spike chuckled and start rolling through questions, focusing on the ones that hadn’t been answered or weren't stupid. Rainbow let his hand go and sat up to focus on him. “Okay answer these in order. Where would you like to go with me? Do you want me to compliment you? Where and how can I support you? If you could describe our relationship in a word - what would it be? Is there a behavior I have that irritates you?”
“In order? The beach or just the coast, I’d like to chill with you next to the ocean for sure. Yes, please, but seriously I’d appreciate anything you’d say, jab or not, I know you don’t mean much by them. I’d appreciate if you’d stop by for my games and when I’m training, just being there will seriously help. Cozy. You’re sassy, but it's cute as long as you don’t do it too much.”
“Gonna tackle one of those, cozy?”
“Like a fireplace.” She spun around and laid her head in his lap.
“Marshmallows included?”
“You’re such a nerd.”
Spike smirked down at her and Rainbow laughed as he went back to his phone.
“Here’s one that might need its own though, what would you prefer we be? As a couple I mean, do you want us to be casual, focused on our relationship and building it towards something? Do you want to be open or exclusive? Because I wouldn’t know the first thing about that.”
“Same man…let’s stick to just us. Those are questions for Future Rainbow.” She cracked her knuckles and laid her legs out across the couch properly. “Anything else?”
“Uh, What do I mean to you?”
“That’s a deep one.”
“It's on the list.”
“You’re…the first person I’ve felt totally at ease with in a long time. AJ and me share a lot, Fluttershy knows a lot about me too. But I feel like I’m learning things about myself with you and that you won’t judge me…”
“I’d never judge you.”
Rainbow smiled at that but it fell as Spike gave a confused blink.
“Huh…it might be listening to us…”
“Whatcha mean?”
“Is there a question you want to ask me but haven’t because you’re afraid of the answer?”
Rainbow Dash’s eyes widened and she turned away from Spike for a moment, taking a breath and looking back up to see his concerned eyes boring into her. They were being open with each other, keeping this to herself would spit in the face of everything she’d said up to this point. She needed to be upfront with him, he deserved it.
“...you won’t think I’m soft for wanting to sleep with you right?”
“...you are so fucking stupid.”
“I’m being serious!”
“No I don’t care if you want to nap on me, with me or around me. Why is that a concern?”
“Because it’s really mushy and girly and fucking squishy! I’m Rainbow Dash, not squishy, the cool and awesome track star!”
“Those words-”
“That sass isn’t cute right now.”
“Noted.” He leaned down and kissed Rainbow Dash softly, she groaned but returned the first after a second. He pulled back and she whined. “You’re still cool Dashie.”
“Damn right I am.”
“You’re also really cute.”
“Fucking bastard, kiss me now and I’ll only think about killing you.”
Spike laughed and kissed Rainbow again, her mood brightening as she closed her eyes, the two of them exploring each other’s lips again.
And then Spike’s phone went off.
“Gods fucking dammit!”
Spike let out a loud laugh as Rainbow sat up and flopped back against the couch, he tempered himself slowly and answered his phone. “H-hello?”
“SPIKE!”
Spike jumped away from his phone before returning it to his ear. “Hi, Twi.”
“Why didn’t you pick up your phone!?”
Rainbow slowly reached over and Spike relinquished his phone happily. “Because we were watching movies and chatting.”
“But I called–”
“Forty times, Twilight you live in the safest neighborhood in the area, your brother is a cop, I’m the fastest Skyborn in the city, AJ is a call away and Spike has literally been hit by a car and only gotten scratched. If something happened, we could take care of it.” Rainbow looked at Spike and he silently clapped, the Skyborn giving him a wink.
“...I know you’re right…but I can’t help worrying about him…” Twilight’s voice was quiet on the other side, Rainbow took a moment before sighing.
“I got it Twi, that was my bad. Just relax, trust him okay?”
“Okay…could you put Spike back on?”
She handed the phone over without a word, Spike took it back and smiled at his girlfriend before putting it to his ear.
“Hey, sis.”
“...you know I have faith in you, right Spike?”
Spike paused, he looked at Rainbow and they shared a look. For as frustrating as Twilight was, she would always be his sister. “Yeah…I know. I love you.”
“I love you too Spike.”
“Take care of yourself and don’t stay up too late.”
“I’ll try.”
“Eat more than two square meals a day and make sure you keep your eyes in front of you and not in a book.”
“Now you sound like mom.”
Spike laughed and Rainbow giggled as well.
“Take care sis.”
“Take care little bro.”
Spike hung up and let out a breath he didn’t know he was holding. “...I need to talk to her when she comes back, don’t I?”
“...I mean…I wasn’t going to make you but…holding onto all of that isn’t healthy. You said it's okay, but it's kinda not.”
“I know…I know…but that’s a problem for Future Spike.”
Rainbow smirked and the couple shared a fist bump.
“So what now?”
“Well we could go back to making out, which I’m always up for, or we can do those quiz things I saw on that question site.”
“Sounds like a wonderful waste of time, let’s do it.”
They snuggled up close to each other and started rolling through the number of random couple quizzes on the only slightly sketchy site. Rainbow Dash was leaned entirely on Spike and his tail had completely curled around her waist. They laughed out at one of the answers they got from a quiz and started talking about what could have been nothing at all. But it was a small part of what would be whatever it was they were building together.