Twilight had turned the library over to Spike for the day. Informing him that it would be his responsibility to see that it was in a passable condition when she got back. She was off to an important meeting with all three princess's in Canterlot. He was to help out everypony who came into the library today, and that he would have the whole place to himself to make sure it was well taken care of.
Almost as soon as Twilight had left the young dragon in charge of the Golden Oaks Library Spike already had his first customer of the day. Who as it turned out wasn't a customer, but a member of the Ponyville Postal Service. The grey blue wall eyed mare came into the library quickly carrying a large stack of parcels putting them down on the floor gently, she looked around the library and said, “Hey, Spike. Is Twilight around she needs to sign for these new books she got for the library.”
“Hey, Derpy. No she's not around she left me in charge though can I sign for them?” Spike said walking up to the large stack of books to try to steady them a bit. He was surprised she had gotten it inside with out it falling over.
“Oh, that's nice of her. I guess it couldn't hurt things.”Derpy proceeded to pull the checklist from her saddlebag and hold it out for Spike.
Spike took a quill from the table in the library and signed as elegantly as he could. As he waved Derpy off he was a little surprised she had left without causing even a single incident, but when she opened the front door again she kicked the door back shut behind her. Giving the slightly wobbly stack of hardback books the additional push needed for it to fall over and come crashing down on the young drake.
Shaking his head he looked over the messy pile of books in the center of the library. Twilight would never stand for that when she got back, so he quickly started to pick them up and cataloging them as he went much like he had seen Twilight do several times before usually with his help. Doing it by himself brought any resentment he might have felt fall away from him. Putting the last book onto it's shelf about an hour had passed. Thus a new set of ponies had come into the library.
This trio was a lot less friendly it was lead by a certain Button Mash who was followed by Snips and Snails. The trio had been giving Spike a lot of trouble as of late since Button and Sweetie Belle had begun dating. Spike took a deep breath and gave them a bright smile saying through gritted teeth, “May I help you gentleponies”
“Yea, Spit. You can stop spending time around my girl.” Button said with a scowl over his face.
“Oh, come on, Button. I don't even see her that often.” Said spike trying to hold back his feelings of wanting to just punch him and bring this to an end.
“Yeah, well too much for my likes. Boys, mess up the library he's all on his own today,”said Button. A turn of his head the young colt was going back out of the library leaving Snips and Snails to do the dirty work. The pair quickly got to work dumping several things across the floor and starting to pull books off the shelves with magic.
“Oh, come on guy's that will take me hours to fix. Weren't we friends once.” Spike said as the other two just shook their heads and left the library.
Spike started to clean up the Library again but in the middle of his cleaning the door opened again and an angel's voice came from it. “Twi-light, Are you home I need some new fashion books.”
Rarity came into the Library looking around only to see Spike in the center of the mess and trying to clean it up. “Oh, hey, Rarity. Yeah you should be able to to get some on the third shelf above the fireplace.”
“Oh, but, Spikey, What happened?” She looked down at Spike who had a bit of bruises over his head while the whole place a tatters. He was just lucky they didn't knock down any of the bigger stands of books.
“Rarity, your sister's boyfriend happened. Him and his goon squad did this to the library and I don't know if I'll get it back to new before Twilight get's back.”Spike said looking down tears starting to form at the corners of his eyes.
“Don't worry, Spikey Wikey, I'll help you clean this up. I don't think he'll be bothering you again either.” She said with a bit of determination.
The pair worked in tandem and the library was restored to brand new status before Twilight was any the wiser. Rarity got her books and Spike thanked her profusely and before she left he said, “Ummm, Rarity, are you busy tomorrow?”
“Not at all Spike,” said the beautiful fashionista.
“Well would you like to have dinner with me tomorrow in Canterlot?” said spike with a bright smile and a simple look up at her.
“Canterlot, are you sure, Spike? I do have a big work load to get back to.” She blushed a little bit at the thought of going all the way there for a romantic date with the young drake.
“Yes, I can even make sure we're back on the last train.”Spike said as he continued to shift his feet anxiously.
“Well, Alright. I don't see the harm. And I'll have you to protect me won't I, Spikey.” she said with a bright smile and closed the door to the library behind her.
Spike just nodded letting out a big sigh of relief that she had said yes to the date. One other pony came through the door that day, and it was Twilight who was very pleased with the state the library was in when she got back.