//------------------------------// // 26. PANCAKES!! // Story: Kill Me Now // by Golden Script //------------------------------// I heard the shower turn on and yelled up to the strange unicorn that had just entered my library “hey, how did you know where the shower is?” “I used to design places like this, I recognized this one because my great grandfather had shown me his designs when I was little.” “So your great grandfather made this place?” “Yeah, kinda cool, huh?” “I guess.” I waited a few minutes and he walked down. “So I can crash here?” “Yeah, hey you seem familiar; do I know you from somewhere?” “I don’t believe so. Maybe you know someone like me. I'm Fixinit, I make… things.” “Things?” I looked down at his cutie mark, it was a screw driver on a wrench in an X shape. “Yeah, like buildings, vehicles, toys, and other mechanical stuff.” He explaned. “Well isn’t that interesting. I'm twilight sparkle, I'm the local librarian.” “Well then, good to meet you.” We shook hoofs and I looked into his brown eyes, they looked like they were in so much pain, what had this pony been through? “You too. Say, why were you all muddy when you got here?” “I had to walk through the Everfree forest to get here, it wasn’t a pleasant trip. But I lived and I'm fine, so all’s well that ends well. Am I right?” “Heh, yeah, I guess you are.” I laughed at this guy’s sense of humor, again seeming weirdly familiar. “Well I gotta sleep; I’ve been awake for… two weeks now, that’s when I started my little journey. Getting a little shut eye here and there but all the same.” Then it struck me. Two weeks was how long Dillon was gone, did this unicorn have anything to do with him? “Does the name Dillon ring any bells?” the stallion stopped in his tracks towards the couch. He turned his head a little “no, why.” His voice was suddenly very serious. “Just... wondering, I had a friend that disappeared two weeks ago, that’s all.” “I'm sorry for your loss.” I could have sworn I saw a tear streak down his face before he turned back to the couch and curled up and fell asleep instantly. I then went to my own room and fell into a troubled sleep, about whom this strange unicorn was and if he had any connections to Dillon, and if so, how? I eventually fell asleep and dreamt about Dillon, this was the fourth time in a row. I would see him staring at me, a look of disgust on his face, then he would turn away and just walk, I would reach out to him and try to yell but my voice was turned off. Then I would cry. I would keep crying until the day came, but this time was different, this time instead of waking up in tears, Fixinit came from where Dillon had left, he lifted my chin and helped me up. We started walking, after about what seemed like five minutes but could have been two hours, I looked up at his face, he had a determined look on, like he was facing a challenge, like he was going to help me through whatever I was going through. I decided right then and there that I was going to let this stallion help me, that I would let him in, like I had promised myself I would never do again. Then I woke up. I went downstairs to find Fixinit already muzzle deep in a stack of pancakes. “Spike, didn’t we have pancakes yesterday?” “Yeah, but this guy wanted pancakes. So what was I gonna do?” “That was very kind of you. I’ll have some waffles though.” “This… is… the… best… meal… I’ve… had… in… weeks!!!” Fixinit said in-between mouthfuls. “I'm glad you like it so much, but slow down, you’ll choke if you eat too fast.” Spike swatted the back of his head with a wooden spoon. “Ow, fine.” And Fixinit started eating regularly. “Well, Fixinit, I have a library to manage, so if you have something else to do today I would appreciate it if you would go and do it.” I was going to let him help, but I wasn’t going to make it easy for him. “Well, I was going to wander today, so our plans will work well together. Actually I should leave now if I want to get through the entire town in one day. Farewell Twilight Sparkle.” He nodded his head in goodbye and left out the front door. ----- It had been 2 full weeks since Dillon had been to work and I was dragging behind on my shipments, I had had to start work earlier, at 10:00 instead of3:00 PM. If I didn’t finish this group fast I would plummet into debt that I couldn’t get out of, not without help anyway. That’s when I heard a knocking come from the door. Great, somepony broke a clock and needed me to fix it, just great. I opened the door and yelled “WHAT!” in the face of a brown unicorn with a brown mane and brown eyes, actually kinda weird if you ask me. He shrank back a little “I-I was h-here for the j-job. I must have come at a bad time. I'm sorry, I’ll go now.” He turned to leave. “No wait, I didn’t know you wanted to work, I thought you had a broken clock, come in.” I guided the stallion in, he was calming down “to tell the truth I've been behind on these here shipments, and I’ll take any help I can get. So if you would please start working we can sort everything out later.” “Sure, boss.” There was only one other employee who had called me ‘boss’ like that, Dillon, of course he was my only other employee but that’s beside the point. Then he went and started working on the clock I couldn’t fix, and he fixed it faster than I had fixed any of the other clocks. There was only one other being that could do what this guy was doing, Dillon, I started to think that there was some weird coincidences, but I pushed that thought aside and focused on my work, thankful I could have some help for a change.