I Don’t Even
“No.”
“Oh come on Pete.”
“I said no.”
“Just one time.”
“I already told you, there’s no way in hell you’re getting me to do it Jay.”
“Come on just one line.” Jay begged.
“I will not reenact all your favorite scenes from House.” Pete told Jay sitting on the edge of his bed.
“Please it won’t hurt anything.”
“Only my pride.”
“Give me legitimate and well thought out reason why you shouldn’t.” Jay said.
“Because I’m this close to punching you in the gut.” Pete responded raising his fist.
“But-”
“Don’t ask again. Just because your favorite show isn’t here doesn’t mean I have to suffer for you.” Pete told him.
“Well then what am I supposed to do for fun?” Jay asked.
“How about you read a book for once in your life?” Pete told him.
“I’ll have you know I’ve read plenty of books.” Jay said.
“Were any of them not pop-up?”
“Oh ha ha, you do remember I am a doctor? Do you know how thick the textbooks are for medical students?” Jay asked.
“I don’t know, did you ever use them to actually study?” Pete countered.
“You know there are at least twenty-five chemicals in here that I can use to kill you?”
“JAY!” Twilight shouted from the doorway.
Pete just rolled his eyes. “Twilight it’s okay, Jay’s just joking.”
“You call that joking?” She asked with an angry glare.
“Trust me we’ve had far worse.” Pete told her.
“I don’t think you-”
Pete interrupted her by leaning down and whispering something to her.
Twilight eyes widened and she got a huge blush. “Now, imagine that but add in every swear word you know and some you don’t know.”
Twilight just sat down mouth hanging open. “That- that’s terrible.”
“Yeah, but consider where we’ve been living for the longest time that’s pretty tame.” Pete told her.
“That’s no excuse, that’s still terrible.” Twilight told him.
“Like telling someone’s biggest secret terrible.” Pete countered looking at her.
Twilight staggered slightly. “Pete I- I just-”
“Twilight it’s okay.” Pete interrupted. “I am still upset about that whole thing, but like I said. I’m willing to try and forgive you.” He told her, she got a small smile. “That and you’re one of the only unicorns here that I trust to teach me magic. I mean no offense, but I’m fairly certain your brother would just try to beat the knowledge into me.” He said.
“I’m sure he wouldn’t do that.” Twilight told him.
“I don’t know. I’ve seen how he trains the guard.” Pete said. “I didn’t know you could make macaroni art such torture.”
“What?” Twilight asked confused.
Pete shook slightly. “Please don’t ask about it.”
“Okay…so how’s the practice I told you coming along?” She asked.
“Yeah, about that.” Pete said skittishly rubbing the back of his head. “You remember that rock you told me to work on levitation with?”
“Yes, I do.” Twilight said before he eyes narrowed slightly. “And what do you mean by remember?” She questioned.
“Well it’s kind of- you see it’s- I mean… I really have no idea.” Pete told her.
“How can you have no idea?” Twilight asked.
“Well I was trying to levitate it, I couldn’t, I got angry, there was a flash a light and poof it was gone.” Pete explained.
“Magic doesn’t just go poof Pete!” Twilight said with a hint of anger.
“Well I was here.” Jay told her. “And I’m fairly certain that I actually did hear a poof.” He continued.
Twilight looked between them, halfway between anger and confusion. “Alright I’ll do a short magic scan to see what happened in here.” Twilight said as her horn started to glow. “And I’ll tell you exactly what-” Twilight stopped mid-sentence her face becoming more and more confused. “But, that’s not.” She stuttered.
“What is it? What happened?” Pete asked.
“Honestly.” Twilight started. “It’s enchantment, not a spell.”
“…What do you mean not a spell? And what the heck is enchantment?” Jay asked her.
Twilight’s horn stopped glowing. “Well it’s complex spell laying where you imbue an object with magical properties.”
“So what does that mean?” Pete asked standing up as he started to walk around. “I don’t see what’s” *WHAM* Pete started to jump around on one foot. “What the hell was that!”
Twilight rolled her eyes. “That would be the rock.”
“What do you mean?!” Pete asked sitting down on the bed. “There’s no rock there.” He said pointing to the floor.
“That’s the enchantment.” Twilight said as her horn started to glow. A rock shape was suddenly outlined on the floor in a violet aura. “Here’s your rock.” She said levitating it over.
“…What?” Pete asked looking at the still glowing outline.
“Do to your stress you did more than a levitation spell and imbued the rock with some magic giving it the ability to distort the light around it.” Twilight explained, getting an even blanker look from Jay and Pete than they normally had. She sighed “The rock has an invisibility enchantment on it and now you can’t see it.”
“Oh.” They both responded nodding.
“So is it invisible forever now?” Pete asked.
“Well if left to on its own it the spell would eventually burn out and the rock would be visible again, but with an enchantment like this it would probably be years before that. Another magic user could dispel it pretty simply though. I’ll just go ahead and get on that.” Twilight said her horn glowing slightly brighter.
“Wait.” Jay said stopping her. He looked to Pete.
“No we are not going to put it under Matt or Liz’s pillow so they always get a bad night’s sleep and don’t know what’s causing it.” Pete told him.
“Dang am I really that obvious to read?” Jay asked slightly amazed.
“Only because of how long I’ve know you.” Pete answered.
“Alright fine.” Jay said with a sigh. “… What about Armor?”
“…I’m game.”
“You are not doing that to my brother.” Twilight told them with a slight glare.
“Twilight allow me to explain something.” Pete started. “How do you plan on stopping us?” He asked her.
“Well I’ll just dispel the enchantment on the rock.” She told him.
“Really, what rock is that?” Pete asked her.
“Well that’s easy the one right-” Twilight said starting to move her levitation field only to find nothing in it. She looked back at Pete.
“You see while you were distracted we managed to retrieve the rock and put it in a place you will never-” Pete started then Twilight levitated the rock out from behind Pete’s back. “…Well that didn’t go as planned.”
Twilight’s horn began glowing brighter and with a small flash the rock turned visible again. “Now that we’re done with that why don’t we-” She started before seeing Pete staring intently at one of his combat knives he had grabbed from the side of his bed. “What are you doing?” She asked him.
“Trying to give my knife some sort of elemental enchantment.” He told her still staring at the knife.
“That’s not how enchantments work you can’t just-” With a bright flash Twilight was cut off.
“…Did it work?” Pete asked looking at the knife. “I can still see it.”
“Well only one way to test it out.” Jay said picking up the knife and walking over to one of the windows. He gently pushed the knife through the curtain, which promptly caught fire. “Hey it works!” Jay exclaimed.
“I- but- you- what?!” Twilight stuttered. “How did you do that? You can’t just will up a fire enchantment like that!” She told the two of them.
“Well apparently I can.” Pete said with a small smirk. “All I did was try and force my magic into the knife while thinking fire a lot and then poof, instant fire knife.” He said with a laugh.
“I can’t believe that this actually worked for you.” Twilight said rubbing her temple.
“Hey part of me still hasn’t completely accepted the whole magical talking pony thing, but you don’t see me complaining.” Pete told her.
“That’s because you have a fire knife.” Twilight told him.
“…Okay that helps.” Pete said as Jay tossed the knife and Pete caught it by the handle. “This knife just became so much more awesome.” He said with a smile.
“Just don’t go around being reckless with that.” Twilight told him. “I will take it away from you and dispel it.”
“Yeah, yeah, I know.” Pete said twirling the nice around his finger before it slipped off and started falling towards the bed. “oops.” Pete said. Twilight gasped suddenly and started to panic as a hand grabbed the hilt of the knife an inch above the bed. Pete just looked at Twilight with a smug smile. “Really, you really think I would just drop this? I’m a knife expert.” He declared.
“That wasn’t funny.” Twilight said with annoyed.
“I beg to differ.” Jay told her with a laugh. He suddenly got a quizzical look on his face. “Oh dear.” He said.
“What is it Jay?” Pete questioned.
“You know what I just realized?”
“What?”
“We never put out the curtains.”