//------------------------------// // Chapter 17 - "Privacy" // Story: My Little Caboose: Blue is Magic! // by DarkWing //------------------------------// Tucker’s eyes slowly opened as he let out a sore groan, back still hurting from the night before. He slowly sat up on Rainbow Dash’s bed and let out a yawn before he rubbing his eyes and looking around the room. Everything in the room was blue. There were a few posters on the wall, but it was barren of anything other than that. He got out of the bed and approached the large window perched in the middle of the wall and looked outside. The sun was just rising. Tucker’s mouth opened slightly as he witnessed sunlight bouncing off all the buildings that were set upon the clouds. "Pretty cool view, isn't it?" Rainbow Dash asked, yawning lightly. "Huh? Oh yeah it is pretty cool." Tucker said, turning to look at Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash put her front legs above her head. "Did you have a good sleep?" Rainbow Dash asked, jumping out of the bed. "Not really, had a tough time falling asleep." Tucker groaned. "How about you?" "Well you kept tossing and turning so you pretty much kept me up all night." "I get that a lot. I guess an apology is in order, isn't it?" "If you want, but it won't help." Rainbow Dash said with a laugh. "Good, I hate apologizing anyways." Tucker said, stomach growling. "Ugh, got any food?" "You can go to the kitchen downstairs and make something. I'm going to go take a shower." Rainbow Dash said, about to walk into the adjacent room. "Psh, please. Cooking is a woman’s job." Tucker said, then found himself knocked on the ground by a pillow. "Don't be an ass." Rainbow Dash said, rolling her eyes. "Alright." Tucker pouted, leaving the room. Tucker then found his way to the kitchen. He looked around and noticed a couple cabinets, an oven and a fridge. He walked up to the fridge to see what was inside. There was a lot of produce lining the bottom shelf and the other shelf had some bottles of milk, a jar of jam and little much of anything else. Tucker wasn't too happy about eating any of that so he went to check the cabinets. The first cabinet had some hay and wheat, the second one had two loaves of bread. "Where the hell does she keep the good stuff?" Tucker muttered. Tucker then grabbed the bread and cut a couple slices out of it, he then grabbed the jam out of the fridge and spread it over one of the slices and slapped them together. He took a bite out of the sandwich and he smiled. He shoved the rest of the sandwich in his mouth and let out a happy burp. Now that he’d had something to eat, he stretched once more and went to find Rainbow Dash. When he got to the room, the sound of the shower had stopped. Tucker then opened the door to the bathroom and felt a searing pain shoot across his face and he was sent flying into the wall. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" Rainbow Dash yelled furiously. "I thought you were done showering so I was going to see what’s going to happen next." Tucker said, feeling his nose which was now bleeding. "I didn't expect "beat Tucker" to be on the agenda. Well actually, I was, just not like this." Rainbow Dash made direct eye contact with Tucker and squinted at him, which made him shake nervously for a split second. "What did you expect? I just got out of the shower!" Rainbow Dash yelled. "I didn't even dry off yet." "What difference does it make? It's not like you wear any clothes anyways... you're pretty much naked all the time." Tucker said. Rainbow Dash brought her hoof back, about to punch him in the throat. She put her hoof back on the ground and sighed, still glaring at Tucker. "It's the principle of the matter." Rainbow Dash said, calming down. "How would you feel if I walked in on YOU in the shower?" "Well, actually I-" Tucker started with a smile. "If you want to die, finish that sentence." Rainbow Dash said. Tucker stared at her for a couple seconds and shook his head. "No, I think I'm good." Tucker stuttered. Rainbow Dash turned and went into the bathroom and slammed the door extremely hard. Rainbow Dash felt her heart racing, not because of the anger, but because Tucker had walked in on her coming out of the shower. After a few minutes of Tucker sitting and rubbing his neck in silence, Rainbow Dash opened the door and looked at Tucker, who flinched at the sight of her. "Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you. Not yet at least." "Okay, cool. Good." Tucker said, getting up, starting to walk over to Rainbow Dash. "I'm still mad at you though, so if you say one thing." Rainbow Dash started. "One. Thing. I will not hesitate to slam your head into the ground." Tucker started to laugh, but then saw the seriousness in her eyes. "Fine." Tucker said weakly, laugh dying in his throat. "So what are we going to do now?" "Well, I didn't really plan for anything, but I guess I could show you around Cloudsdale." Rainbow Dash said, tapping her chin thoughtfully. "My wings are still hurting though, and it doesn't help that my face feels like it was put through a shredder." Tucker whined. "Well, I can't say that you didn't deserve it..." Rainbow Dash said, then let out a laugh. "Should we go see what the others are doing?" "Sure thing." Rainbow Dash and Tucker walked down the stairs and got to the door, Tucker opened it and took a step out, but was dragged back in by Rainbow Dash. "What are you doing?" Tucker asked. "I just thought that since your wings seem to be damaged, you wouldn't want to fall from this height." Rainbow Dash said. Tucker walked up to the door and looked down. "Oh shit. I completely forgot." Tucker said, a smile breaking out on his face. "Would you mind carrying me down?" Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes but smiled in return. "Fine, but only this once. We're not going to be making a habit of me touching you." "Damn." Tucker said, chuckling slightly.