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// B10. The Boss-Man Cometh 
// Story: Geoverse Part Six: A Season Of Adventure 
// by GeodesicDragon 
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I knocked on the door and waited. This was something I had been meaning to do for a while, but my new duties had got in the way. Needless to say, as soon as a day off became available I was all over it like a moth to a flame.

I knocked again, this time being greeted with a rather angry voice shouting back at me.

"By Luna!" they said as they opened the door, "Just hang on for a second, will y—"

"Hey, Vinyl," I said cheerfully, "what's up?"

A loud bang was my answer as she promptly slammed the door in my face. I could hear panicked hoofsteps echoing down the hall as she ran to Celestia-knows-where to do Celestia-knows-what.

"What the heck is her problem?" I muttered, "Hey, Vinyl!"

"Just a minute!" she shouted back, "I'm busy!"

"Are you cleaning up in there, Vinyl?" I mused.

"Of course not!" she replied, "I'm definitely not cleaning up my messy house simply because of the fact I have a Prince on my doorstep! Don't be stupid!... your Highness."

I groaned and facepalmed before opening the door and stepping inside Vinyl's house. I'd been here before, and I knew about how untidy the place could get. But at the same time I didn't care. As I entered she paid me no attention, instead preferring to run around the house with her horn glowing, picking up various items and taking them somewhere else.

"Vinyl..." I said firmly, "just stop it already, because I seriously don't give a damn about the mess."

She didn't reply. I decided that I'd have to be more forceful.

"Vinyl," I bellowed, "I command you to stop what you're doing!"

She skidded her hooves across the floor as she tried to stop, only to fall face-first onto the floor. She muttered incoherently into the floorboards as I helped her up.

"I'm sorry, Vinyl," I said, "but that was the only way to get you to listen to me. Just relax, will you? This is a social visit, not a fucking inspection, all right?"

She nodded and fixed a smile on her face.

"Okay then..." she replied, "boss man."

We both laughed at that and she led the way into her spacious kitchen. She took a six-pack of cider from the fridge and leapt onto a stool. I sat down and we opened two of the bottles.

"Social visit, huh?" she asked, "Now why on Equestria would you want to visit little old me?"

"Because I'm secretly in love with you," I replied, "and I'm planning on leaving Twilight to be with you."

Vinyl almost dropped her bottle as she gasped in shock. I couldn't see it behind her goggles, but I knew that her pupils had shrunk to the size of pinpricks. Stuttering, she tried to speak... only to stop when I burst out laughing.

"Gotcha!" I chuckled, "I figured I'd try to prank you, like you did to me sometimes when I was working at the club."

Vinyl composed herself and chuckled.

"Good one, Geo." she muttered, "I honestly thought Twilight was going to kick the door in and... hey! I never played a prank on you while you were working for me!"

I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Oh really?" I replied, "What about on my first day, when you got Snowflake to act as a drunken patron and told me to eject him?"

"Oh yeah," Vinyl snorted with laughter, "I remember that. Seriously, though, I wasn't expecting him to take the task so seriously. But hey, at least you learned you could fly!"

"Oh, I flew all right..." I deadpanned, "straight into a wall."

I glared at her for a moment. She looked at me nervously before a large grin came to my lips and I laughed. Vinyl laughed with me and we clinked the bottles together before chugging them down.

"And let's not forget the time you swapped the names of the drinks around in the manual." I said, "I got so many angry patrons that night, I seriously contemplated quitting."

"Oh lighten up, Geo," Vinyl replied, "I prank all of my new staff during their first week. It helps to keep them sharp and ready for anything that the job throws at them."

"Like bottles?" I asked, "Because Celestia knows I've had more than my fair share of those thrown at me."

Vinyl opened another bottle of cider.

"It can be dangerous," she said, "but don't you sit there and tell me that it was all bad. There were a lot of good times as well."

"Yeah..." I mused, "all the laughs we had with the staff and some of the patrons. Hell, even some of the bad shit that happened led to a happy ending. Such as when you got threatened by that crazy stallion with the broken bottle."

Vinyl raised an eyebrow at me.

"I remember being scared out of my mind." she deadpanned, "I also remember you kicking him in the face and knocking him out. How the hell is that a good thing?"

"Because..." I grinned, "when I got home that night I told Twilight about it and she was furious that I'd endangered myself. But then we made peace... and had the best sex we've ever had."

Vinyl turned crimson as she stifled a giggle.

"Too much information, Geo," she said, "but I'm glad some good came of it... and if you make the joke that I know you're thinking of making, I swear I'll buck you upside the head."

"Damn," I pouted, "am I really that easy to read?"

"You are," she chuckled, "but I still love you for it."

I raised an eyebrow at her. She saw me staring and a look of horror slowly spread across her face.

"Oh, crap..." she muttered, "I've just blown it."

"What the hell are you talking about, Vinyl?" I asked, "Blown what? Make some sense, dammit!"

"I was hoping to keep this under wraps," she sighed, "what with you being married and all. But the truth is... well, I think it would be better if I showed you, rather than told you."

She suddenly lunged forward and grabbed my face before bringing her lips to mine. She held the position for a full thirty seconds while slobbering all over my face. Eventually she released me and put on a massive grin.

I was stunned. I sat in horrified silence while Vinyl slicked her mane back and gazed at me intently.

"What..." I finally stuttered, "what the fuck was that?"

"Isn't it obvious?" she replied, "I love you, Geo. I know you really love me as well, so let us run away and be together forever!"

"Are you fucking demented?!" I snarled, "I've got a wife and kids to think about! I only said I loved you as a joke, and now all of a sudden that makes it okay for you to try and play tongue wrestling with me? I thought you were cool, Vinyl, but you've just managed to obliterate any respect I had for you."

I got up from the stool and stomped towards the door. As I laid my hand on the handle I turned and glared at Vinyl, who was still grinning mischievously.

"Before I leave," I said, "is there anything you want to say?"

"Uh yeah," Vinyl replied, "there is, as it happens."

She cleared her throat and looked me dead in the eyes.

"... gotcha."