Cold
Twilight shivered slightly as she looked out her library window at the blizzard going on outside. It had been going strong for nearly an hour, and the weather team was still working hard to get it up to the minimum requirement. Normally the snow in Ponyville wasn’t bad, minus the occasional day-long snow storm. This blizzard, however, was caused by the fact that almost the entire Ponyville weather team had either taken a vacation or came down with a sudden outburst of Feather Flu the previous week. Meaning that a weeks worth of snow had piled up until enough of the weather team were back to make a storm, which happened to be today. While it was the first official snow fall of winter, it was also the worst, a total whiteout.
With a flick of her horn she fetched another blanket from her closet. While her tree had a natural insulation, it didn’t help the draft that came through very place imaginable. Not even the fire, currently roaring in the fire place, could chase off the lingering chill. She wrapped the blanket tightly around herself as she continued to watch the pearly white flakes fall to the ground. There was always something relaxing about snow. Even in blizzard conditions, it still managed to look graceful. Whipping around in the winds yet still shimmering and glittering elegantly. There was just something enthralling about it.
THUD
Twilight’s eyes and thoughts were drawn away from the snow outside and instead focused on a white pegasus that had just thrown the door open and walked in.
“Can I… help you?” She asked cautiously, wondering who exactly this unknown pegasus was that had burst through her door in the middle of a blizzard.
“Uh, yeah, for one thing it’s freezing out there, and for another I need a towel.” The pegasus replied. Her voice reminded Twilight of somepony else, but it was heavily muffled by a scarf around her mouth and neck.
“Okay, but who exactly are you?” She stood and went to her closet, extracting a white towel. She may not know who her visitor was, but she couldn’t just send them back out into the storm without at least letting them warm up a little.
“What? What do you mean who…” She trailed off as she looked at her own body. She had to bite back a laugh as she grabbed the towel out of Twilight’s magic. “Here, this should help.” She chuckled as she began to rub the towel across her body, white snow wiping away to reveal cyan fur and feathers. After a few seconds the vast majority of the snow was gone, leaving a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane.
“Rainbow!” Twilight shouted excitedly, running over to giver her long-term marefriend a hug, pulling off the scarf for a quick kiss.
“Hey Twi, I see you missed me.” Rainbow Dash chuckled as she tossed the towel to the side to return the hug, savouring the warmth the unicorn radiated.
“Of course! Now come in and close the door, you're letting all the heat out.” Twilight smiled and broke away from the hug, walking out to the main room and levitating a pillow for Rainbow in front of the fire. She lay down on one side of the large pillow, motioning for Dash to join her. Rainbow was more than happy to oblige as she closed the door with a firm thud and trotted over to the pillow, lying down on her half next to Twilight. The warmth of the fire felt good on her coat, slowly drying the moisture that the towel had left. She smiled as she felt Twilight’s body press into her side, the heating warming her more then any fire.
She reached a wing around the unicorn, drawing her closer as Rainbow placed her head on top of Twilight’s, carefully avoiding her horn. She sighed happily as more of the unicorn’s warmth began to envelop her, warming the wing draped around her back. It was warm, but the rest of her body still wanted more, asking in the form of a light shiver. Twilight felt this shiver and immediately extracted the blanket from its previous resting place by the window to wrap snugly around the two mares.
“Better?” She whispered quietly, rubbing her cheek deeper into Rainbow’s neck.
“Much.” Rainbow sighed, content with the new found warmth, both for her body and her heart. There was something about being so close to Twilight that always brought a smile to her lips and made her heart flutter. She liked it.
“Hey Twi?” Rainbow ventured, drawing her head back just enough to look Twilight in the eye.
“Yeah?”
“I love you.” Twilight just giggled and leaned up, kissing her gently on the lips for a second before drawing back.
“I love you too.”