//------------------------------// // 27. Rainbow Dash // Story: Kill Me Now // by Golden Script //------------------------------// We finished our work a bit late but we finished none the less “ok, you can leave now. This shipment is finished; we’ll get started on the next one tomorrow. Um, what’s your name again?” “I'm Fixinit.” “How appropriate.” “Well, it’s pronounced Fixinit (fi-xeen-it) but everyone I’ve met has called me Fixinit (fixin-it), so I just go by the latter.” “Well, Fixinit, I'm glad to have your help today. Here’s a little something.” I handed him a small brown sac full of bits “it’s the least I can do for your help.” “I'm sorry, sir but I can't take your money, I don’t work here.” He handed them back. “Do you want to?” “I am currently looking for a job.” “3 PM to 8 PM, 250 bits a week and you’ll work the week days.” “That sounds great, sir.” I shook his hoof and he left. “I swear, the parallels are uncanny.” I mumbled to myself when he was out of earshot, I then walked back into the shop and finished the daily chores. ----- I spent the day just wondering about that new stallion, what he has to do with Dillon, why he showed up when he did. Occasionally a pony would come in with a book request. I would help them and get right back to thinking. He came back around 10 at night; I wondered what he had been doing. “Hey, Dill- I mean, Fixinit. What were you up to out there?” “Oh, my girlfriend wanted to have sex and how could I deny her that pleasure?” I felt the blood rush to my cheeks “I'm just yankin’ yer chain, I don’t have a girlfriend.” My cheeks drained slightly “then what were you doing?” “I got a job.” “Where?” “The clock repair place.” “That’s where Dillon worked, you sure you don’t know him?” “Never heard the name in my life.” I stared into his eyes and saw that same look from the night before, he was holding a huge secret that was tearing him apart inside, I debated if I should ask or not, he made the decision for me “Ima go take a nap.” He galloped to the couch and laid down facing the back so I couldn’t see his face again. He fell asleep and I went upstairs, determined to actually get some work done now. ----- Today I had ditched my plans to train on my moves for the Wonderbolts to help a friend through a hard time. Twilight’s boyfriend had just broken up with her and she had crashed and burned. She was a wreck, her mane got crazy, she didn’t sleep much, and she sometimes got that look in her eye. But I was the element of loyalty, if I didn’t help her and stay by her side, then I obviously wasn’t fit for this role. But that’s just what I was going to do, stick with her to the end. I was just arriving at the library at 10:30, today was my day to help her, me and the rest of our friends have kinda been taking shifts, first rarity would stop by, then fluttershy, then applejack, and so forth. But today was my turn, and I was going to introduce her to some other stallions. That’s how I was going to pull her out of this rut. That’s why it came as an even larger surprise when a stallion opened the door. “Whoa, who are you?” I was confused, had twilight beat me to the punch? Did she already have a new special-somepony? “I'm Fixinit. Who are you?” “I'm rainbow dash. What are you doing here?” “Oh, I'm just crashing for a few days. Until I get back on my fe- I mean hooves.” “Ok, well I need to see twilight.” “Oh, sorry, come in.” he backed out of the way and let me in. “Why, hello, rainbow. You need the next book in the daring doo series? I’ve had it on hold for the past month.” “No, I don’t need that one yet; I'm only halfway through the last one. I came because this was my day to try and get you out of this hole that Dillon put you in.” I spat his name like venom. He just went and left her, after she had opened up to her, in my book that was as bad as it could get. “How thoughtful of you, what will we be doing today?” “well I was going to show you around,” I looked at Fixinit “show you all the other fish in the sea,” I looked him up and down “but it looks like you already got you a prize winner,” I bit my lip “and a pretty good looking one at that.” Of course I was just joking; I only wanted to see how these two would react. As I predicted, they didn’t have the same reaction, twilight sorta turned away and tried to hide her face in her mane, while Fixinit got this really suggestive look on his face, like he was ready to go right now. This wasn’t what I was expecting, I thought he would deny that they were together, but when that didn’t happen I gasped “wait, you two are really… wow, Twi, I didn’t know you had it in you.” “What? We aren’t going out. Who told you that?” I could only smirk at this, this is what I wanted to get from one of them, I just expected it to be him and not her. Fixinit got this really stallionly, deep voice “well, baby, we would make a great couple.” He put his hoof around Twilight, she threw it off. “Stop it Dillon.” Only too late had she realized what she had said, she put a hoof over her mouth as Fixinit got this almost surprised look on his face “I-I-I mean Fixinit.” “Ok, who is this Dillon guy, cus this isn’t the first time you’ve called me by his name or asked me about him. So I want to know who he was.” Fixinit was slightly agitated but mostly concerned, He obviously didn’t know who Dillon was or what he had put Twilight through.