//------------------------------// // 67. Reconciliation by Hyzaku // Story: The Sun and the Stars: A Twilestia Prompt Collab // by Fuzzyfurvert //------------------------------// by Hyzaku *** Princess Celestia glared harshly at her former student. Her eyes burned with a potent mix of anger and resentment. She simply could not believe what Twilight had just said. Were it any other pony that had uttered those words, they would have been accused of treason and rightly sentenced to never be allowed to eat cake again. Although it was the appropriate punishment for such a crime, Celestia would never go so far as to deny her precious Twilight Sparkle the joy of cake. Instead, she glared at the fallen lavender princess in an effort to buy time to think of a less damaging, but still appropriate punishment. Tears streamed from Twilight’s eyes as she pleaded once more for mercy. “Celestia, I’m sorry! I didn’t know!” Celestia replied, her tone as sharp steel. “You keep saying that, Twilight, and yet you were clearly aware of what you had done when you informed me about your latest adventure.” “But it was just laying around out in the open!” Twilight retorted. “Anypony could have read it!” “And that is why I left it in that old castle, so that no pony would read it. You know as well as anypony how dangerous the Everfree is. That forest is a better deterrent than any lock has ever been.” Twilight stomped on the floor with one of her front hooves out of sheer frustration. This argument had been going in circles so long that she had lost count of how long she had been there, suffering under Celestia’s disappointed glare. “How many times must I tell you that I’m sorry before you believe me?” The sight of her precious Twilight collapsed into tears upon the floor was like a knife twisting in Celestia’s heart. She was angry, no doubt, but no amount of outrage or disappointment was worth seeing Twilight like this. Celestia had wrung both of their hearts for far too long already, it was time to put an end to this debacle. It was that very moment that she had an epiphany. Celestia knew the perfect punishment for this transgression. “Twilight, for the treacherous act of reading my and Luna’s personal diary without permission, I sentence you to have your diary read by me.” Twilight’s tears stopped. She stared at Celestia in utter confusion. “What?” With a flash of golden magic, a small lavender notebook appeared before Celestia, held in the air by her magic. Twilight’s eyes went wide. “Where did you get that? I thought I had lost it!” Celestia grinned slyly. “You left it in your old room here at the castle when you moved to Ponyville. I’ve been keeping it safe for you, but now, I shall read your most personal thoughts, just as you have read mine!” Celestia flipped the diary open to a random page, failing to notice the steadily increasing blush spreading across Twilight’s face. With each line she read, Celestia felt her own cheeks warming with red. This was not at all what she had expected to find. She continued to read page after page of the lewd thoughts and lustful fantasies Twilight had stored in her diary. After several minutes of awkward silence, Celestia had become acutely aware that her wings had become traitors to her mood. With a flick of her magic, the diary closed. Twilight watched as Celestia closed the gap between them. When little more than a hoof’s width was separating them, Celestia came to a stop. Her visage slowly shifted into something that Twilight had only ever dreamed of. The silence was broken by a warm, inviting voice. “You know, Twilight, I wish you had told me about these feelings of yours much sooner.” — Twilight swallowed nervously — “If I had known you liked that, we could have been having so much more fun with these roleplaying sessions.” Celestia quickly stole a kiss from her lover. “Excellent job on the tears tonight.” Twilight beamed a contented smile. “Now then,” Celestia waved the diary in front of Twilight, “which one should we try first?”