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// Unexpected Complications. 
// Story: What's going on, and why do I feel fabulous? 
// by Ditz 
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“Of course, it had to be her!” Rarity began with gritted teeth.

‘What’s wrong with her? Besides the obvious, of course.’ I asked the suddenly timid mare.

“I-It’s just… Oh, how do I explain it in terms you can understand…” she shuffled steadily on the same spot not knowing how to bring the subject.

My patience began running thin, I cleared my mental throat and pointed at the door, I’m sure that she managed to hear me, but she didn’t go to the door I pointed at.

“I hope you know I can’t see what you “do”.” she hissed in an annoyed tone, hopefully not enough to break her Pinkie promise. She was good.

We made our way to the door and stared at it. In fact, we stared at it for quite some time.

‘Will you just hurry up already!?’ she jumped at my outburst and quickly (but somehow softly) knocked at the door with her hoof.

“THIS BETTER BE IMPORTANT.” Jacquelynn’s angry voice could be heard from the other side, Rarity gulped at the sound but managed to get her courage to knock again.

“I’m coming, geez!” not soon after, the door opened, and there stood a groggy looking Jacquelynn, her hair was a mess, and her eyes showed an obvious annoyance at the early wake-up call.

“Hi…” Rarity finally began after a full minute.

‘Smooth.’ I felt a sharp pain in my head and groaned, apparently she could hurt me while inside her head. ‘Figures.’

Feeling her nervousness slip away, she gave a content smirk and turned her attention to my friend and asked.

“I’m sorry to bother you darling, and I know us ladies require enough rest to be dashing in the morning, but I require your help, you see, I don’t have the “tools” required to begin my morning routine, and I was hoping if you would be kind enough to let me use yours.”

Jacquelynn just stared with mouth agape.

‘Well, I have to hand it to you. You broke her! Kudos.’ I chuckled but quickly received the same pain for my efforts.

“Wait. Darling? Us ladies? Nick, are you alright?” she began freaking out and grabbed Rarity by the withers and shook her vigorously.

Not surprisingly, Jacquelynn froze on the spot, obviously stopped by Rarity’s magic, she managed to move her eyes and glared at Rarity, probably thinking it was still me.

“Listen.” Rarity began. “This is Rarity speaking, I’m sure you are worried about Nick, but he is fine, he wants me to tell you to let me borrow your beauty supplies.” she then put Jacquelynn down and quickly added. “Please.”

Jacquelynn proceeded to make a mad dash behind the door, hiding from Rarity’s black magic. “Are you telling me that idiot is trapped inside your head or something?” she insults me while still keeping a careful eye on Rarity.

‘Tell her I said “fuck you”.’ I instructed Rarity trying to get an insult in return.

“He says… Hi.” I face palmed causing her to wince in pain. Surprised, I proceeded to do it again and managed the same outcome, soon after I felt the now familiar sharp pain hit me and chuckled, grateful that I could hurt her much in the same manner she could hurt me.

“Anyway… Can I?” Rarity pleaded giving her best smile.

“Sure. But I want to see how you do it.” she began trying to make a deal with the unicorn.

“I… Alright, but don’t interrupt my work, please.” we were then led to her bathroom where I noticed the lack of products that Rarity heavily sought.

“Where a-” Rarity began, but stopped when Jacquelynn opened the door to her bathroom closet, we stared at what seemed to be countless unopened beauty products.

“When did you get all of this crap!?” Rarity voiced my thoughts to Jacquelynn who just shrugged and proceeded to sit on the edge of the tub.

“Proceed then.” she instructed and crossed her arms waiting for Rarity to continue.

Magic surrounded some of the containers on the closet and began floating down to eye level where Rarity began to read the labels.

“Need any help with those?” Jacquelynn asked moving closer to Rarity who noticed her and too suddenly, backed into the wall.

“Don’t get close to me!” Rarity snapped surprising both of us.

‘What’s wrong with you?’ I ask her curious. ‘Why did you do that!?’

‘SHE HAS A CRUSH ON ME! OKAY!?’ she responds angrily.

‘What? How do you know that?’ I knew that Jacquelynn was a bit different in comparison to other women, but Rarity’s revelation was a bit too much to not question.

‘Trust me, I have experience with this, and I noticed it especially when she… “Polished” my horn!’

Suddenly at a loss of words, I began to think of excuses for her, but every time I tried, I kept going back to her obsession of the character, I realized that now that she had not only Rarity’s body in the real world, but her mind as well, she had an actual chance and she wasn’t gonna waste it.

‘Xenophillia! Really!?’ Rarity’s intentions suddenly became clear; she wasn’t going to let the crazy human near her even if it meant harming her. At this point I had to intervene.

“Jacquelynn!” I began using Rarity’s mouth, surprised to suddenly be in control, I fell on my rump not realizing I had to keep myself on my hooves, I had no idea what had happened, but I disregarded it and decided to act first, ask questions later.

Jacquelynn stopped on her tracks and did that bewildered stare that I had gotten accustomed to in the past 24 hours before saying anything.

“Nick? Is that you?” she asked approaching me in a more relaxed manner.

I waited until she was near me and crouched before saying anything, I figured I would have to talk to Rarity first in order to get some privacy.

‘Don’t worry, I’ll keep out of this. Do what you have to do.’ total silence overtook my thoughts, and sudden relief washed over me, having my head to myself was a nice change of pace.

“Yes, it’s me. Now listen…” I lost my train of thought, I was having a hard time talking about something that was basically new in the world, it was sort of a touchy subject.

“What?” she half-laughed trying to dispel the awkward mood the room had taken.

“I know… How you feel about Rarity.” I felt a huge weight being lifted off my shoulders after I said that, I figured it was from Rarity herself, but she would never break a Pinkie Promise. Right?

“I-I-I don’t know what you are talking about!” realizing that she had begun panicking, I patiently waited until she finished her little outburst.

She never finished, and instead, proceeded to move herself to a corner in the room, hiding her head between her legs trying to tune me out. Knowing that she needed some time to herself, I headed outside.

‘You can’t leave! I still need to finish preparing myself!’ Rarity whined, reminding me that she was still inside my head. 

‘Great, you are back. Listen, I know you want this, but she needs to think things through so let’s leave her alone.’ I explained hoping she would understand.

'I understand, but can I at least take some of the hair products and take them upstairs?’ she asked hopeful.

‘Fine. But you climb “The Evil Stairs of Doom.’ there was no way in hell I was gonna try doing it on my own.

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Rarity did her mane in complete silence, she seemed to be giving it the finishing touches, and I was surprised to see that she had taken only 30 minutes, or at least hoped so; I tuned out most of her actions by this point.

“… try, Nick?” I heard my name and tried to turn my attention to her trying to give my best to show I was paying attention.

‘Wha-?’ she simply groaned and repeated her question.

“Getting up the stairs by yourself. How come you don’t try, Nick?” I snickered trying to avoid her gaze, but only being able to see through her eyes it didn’t do me much good.

‘I- I just didn’t want to get into an accident, what if I broke something?’ I reviewed my response and decided it would be just enough to get her attention away.

Despite looking slightly unsettled by my response, she continued. “But I saw, remember? In fact, from I can remember you give up on even t- Ouch!” 

‘Just drop it.’ I had never been the fighting type, but getting lectured by some “frou frou” pony who spend her time being overly dramatic over everything wasn’t on my list of “things I want to do with a pony”.

“Excuse me? I think somepony has the wrong idea here.” I groaned realizing that she had heard my mental complaint, but the damage was done, and I figured that just like with Jacquelynn, I was not going to waste the chance to give her a piece of my mind.

‘Wrong idea? Oh, you mean being over the top for everything, nearly forcing your friends to do things they don’t want to do, knowing of the feelings of a certain dragon and not taking into consideration how much said dragon likes you, not to mention your stuck up attitude!’ I closed my vision to calm myself, my outburst had caused Rarity to become silent, but I knew that one of her known outbursts was coming.

“Nick, all of those things you mentioned are indeed true, and I am not proud of many things I’ve done in my life, but I always try to think of my friends before doing anything.” she stomped her hooves on the floor and stared at the mirror.

“But besides that, what makes you think you know me so well, did your human “cartoon” give you much of an insight on my life before Ponyville? My struggles to get where I am? Maybe I act the way I do to differentiate myself from anypony else, and maybe I’m just trying to bring more attention to Ponyville by using my “stuck up” attitude to get an out of nowhere, yet wonderful little town some more respect!”  she was still looking at the mirror, but I had noticed that she had an angry look in her eyes, but what really caught my attention were the slowly falling tears that were silently dripping to the floor.

I was at a loss for words, she had unknowingly poured her heart to me in an attempt to justify the guilty feeling I had given her with my accusations.

Several minutes passed without anyone saying anything, the lights of the bathroom giving the only faint sound, choosing to attempt to attack the tension in the room, I finally spoke.

‘Listen. I’m sorry, I didn’t know. I was being a… Well, a’

“Jerk? Yes, you where.” I felt that “dick” was a better word to use, but I decided to leave it out and focus on apologizing instead.

‘You are right. I never try to do anything, I’m afraid I will fail, it’s the sad truth, is that what you were getting at earlier? Well, there you go!’ I retorted in a poor attempt to redeem my outburst.

So much for an apology.

“Get a room, you two?” both of us jumped at the sudden third voice in the room and turned to see Jacquelynn staring with an amused look in her face.

“It’s hard to find an insult for you two.” she complained and came into the bathroom.

“How much did you hear?” Rarity asked sheepishly.

“Enough. Sorry about my buddy.” she crouched on the floor and placed her arms around Rarity in an attempt to give a hug, but quickly broke it at Jacquelynn’s sudden flinching.

“I know, you are afraid of me and what I feel, don’t worry, I’m fine, and I won’t attempt anything, okay?” Rarity relaxed and allowed her to give her a hug.

“Oh yeaaaaah…” Rarity broke the hug and stepped as far as the small room let her.

“What? You can’t blame a girl for enjoying a hug.” 

‘Freak.’ I commented.

‘Shut up. You aren’t much better than her. I just wanna go home, to get away from this dreadful place, especially you!’

Next thing I knew, everything was silent and I was back in control of Rarity’s body, I glared at Jacquelynn who was sulking at her actions.

“Too much?” she asked giving a sheepish grin.

I facehooved in response.

“Great, this can’t get any worse.” I facehooved once more. “Damn it!”

I had sealed my own doom.