An Interesting New Job
Characters: Spike, Twilight Sparkle
Genre: Comedy
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Twilight was...torn, to say the least. Part of her was somewhat, let's say, disappointed in her assistant's new choice in vocation. It had started with him doing a favor for a friend when Snips was unable to take his girl Twist on a date on their anniversary. He'd asked Spike to keep her busy while he tried to work something out, and while it had, somehow, saved Snips' rear from the fire, it had sparked a very odd business plan for Spike, who soon had a bunch of other stallions asking for his help. Spike would befriend the mares, and accompany them to places the stallions didn't want to go. The whole thing seemed, well...Twilight didn't want to say it, but it struck her as being like, well, 'the oldest profession'. But, it was legal and Spike was his own pon-er, dragon.
Beside, it's not like there were really any complaints. In fact, aside from their initial annoyance at their significant others, Spike's customers seemed to be happy spending time with him. Whether it was when he took Flitter to the art show while Thunderlane was 'Sick' during a playoff game he had a few bits on, going to a public botanical garden grand opening with Sassaflash on the same day as the Canterlot Derby Caramel may or may not have had tickets to, or attending a Classical Music concert with Golden Harvest when Written Script had to attend a business conference with his boss, not a single mare had a problem with Spike himself. In fact, most of them had a great time with the dragon
But even with all that, even if a part of Twilight was off put by her long time friends new job, an even larger part of her really mad at her supposed "Special Somepony", Flash Sentry, who she had found had recently employed Spike's services to accompany her to a small expo at the Canterlot Academy for Higher Learning instead of coming himself. She knew he wouldn't be quite so interested, but she had hoped he would at least try to look into some of the things she liked as she had for him.
But, more than anything, she was actually surprised at how good a time she was having. She'd known Spike his entire life and while she cared for him deeply, he'd long been like the little brother she'd never had, she'd expected to be bored out of his mind, making some sort of snarky comments, but he was acting like a whole other dragon.
He actually stayed awake and looked interested at the lectures and panels they'd attended, they'd carried on long conversations of their own on what they'd learned over every meal. They conversed over arcane sciences, spell crafting and application, and numerous other things that, as much as she'd dislike admitting it, would have probably flown so high over Flash's head they'd hit the moon. Heck, it was less like she was talking to the usually snarky dragon and more like she was speaking to somepony with a doctorate in mystic sciences and a few other fields as well.
And even aside from the intellectual interaction they shared, their time together was incredible. Dancing, dinner, just plain fun all around. He'd even somehow introduced her to the famous astrophysicist and cosmologist Near Endless Horizon, who was so friendly it was as if he and Spike had known each other for years
A part of her, unknowingly, wondered something almost every one of Spike's 'customers' had wondered...
Why aren't I dating Spike instead?