I woke up... Staring up at my stuccoed ceiling, it was a few minutes before my alarm would go off as usual. I switched it off my mind still wandering, wasn't I just in some sort of a library? Going to sleep in a pile of books...?
No, it was gone... I shook my head with a chuckle, just a dream... I briefly considered getting up just as a soft, warm purple armful rolled over onto me, Twilight...
I held her tightly breathing in her scent and stroking her silken mane thankful again this morning and a hundred times everyday she had messed up that spell sending her into that empty field that one fateful night as I was crossing it on my way to work.
She stirred snuggling against me. "Mmm... Do you have to go to work tonight?" She whispered.
"I do love, sorry."
She opened her eyes to look up at me. Those beautiful, hypnotic amazing eyes pressing forward to kiss me softly. "Aww..." She stretched sensuously against me kissing me again with need. "Well... At least we can make it a good morning..."
I grinned and embraced her with wild abandon our passion carrying us from the bedroom eventually to the bathroom and shower. Everyday I questioned my sanity even from the first moment I beheld her...
A small purple Unicorn swaying in a blackened circle, just the sight of a pony with a horn was strange enough! I stood there shocked until she opened her eyes and looked at me. 'Help me please...' She whispered before fainting dead away.
What could I do? Leave her? No. Call someone? I couldn't imagine anyone would believe me, not to mention I wasn't sure what would happen to her... So I did the only thing I could, hefted her up onto my shoulders with some difficulty and staggered my way back home.
I called in sick and tried my best to nurse her back to health. Kept her warm gave her water but mostly just stared at her...
The next night she still hadn't awoken but seemed no worse. I left water and what little fruit and vegetables I had and went to work. I rushed home fully expecting there to be nothing there, that it had all been a figment of my imagination...
But there she was still lying on the couch, not exactly as I had left her though and as I entered locking the door and putting away the groceries I had bought specifically for her I could feel her eyes on me.
Every time I looked back though her head was down. I made dinner for two with no meat probably the first time ever I had done so. I put the plate I had made up for her on the TV tray beside her and took a seat a short ways away.
"What’s your name?" I asked quietly.
Her eyes flew open and she stared at me in shock a moment as if just realizing I could talk. "T... Twilight Sparkle..."
"I'm Rick, nice to meet you... Sorry, I might be going crazy here... I... Never mind."
I started to eat as did she still watching me warily.
And that’s how things started. Questions, so many questions hers and mine. She had an unquenchable need to know... Everything! Thankfully I had Google. I hated to keep her cooped up in my small condo, she went through my books within a few weeks and started on my movies. I made sure she knew they were works of fiction. She was horrified enough by the news!
As full of surprises as she was there was always one more, a day or two after we met properly her horn lit up with a strange glow and a piece of fruit levitated to her mouth! After a lot of explanation I learned in her home of Equestria she could do amazing things with magic, but here it seemed her powers were very weak. She could barely levitate a full glass of water, I was still amazed and marvelled at it every time she used it.
Time passed as it always does and we learned more and more about each other somewhere along the line I moved from being amazed by her to liking her to falling in love...
I couldn't understand it, resist it or bring myself to share my feelings with her... But somehow, I don’t know… It just felt… Right. Like we belonged together…
Our first kiss was totally unexpected, we had been watching a movie close together sharing a blanket and when the movie ended I looked down and she was looking up at me biting her bottom lip looking unsure suddenly she pushed forward kissing me for several long amazing seconds...
She blushed heavily after we separated and fled to the washroom, I just sat there my mind racing until I knew what I had to do. I knew what I wanted... When she opened the door ten minutes later I was waiting kneeling there before her I smiled at her gently cupping her face in my hands and kissed her long and slow. One thing led to another and... Well I didn't sleep alone after that.
Three months we had been together when that happened, another passed and we were happy. So happy but I knew her heart ached for her home, family and friends. Even if this Princess Celestia came for her this very night when I was away I wouldn't regret a second of our time together...
I got ready for work and stood behind her at the computer while she searched through thing after thing. I had a strange feeling... A foreboding like I would never see her like this again...
I shook it off and rubbed her back softly kissing up her neck to gently nibble her soft ear making her gasp and giggle.
"Rick!"
"Have a good night love, miss you already..." I whispered to her.
"Love you." She whispered back craning her neck up so we could kiss.
I headed to the door turning to watch her a moment longer with a smile before exiting locking the door behind me.
When I turned I stopped in shock, the parking lot was gone... The street, houses even the ground was gone! Only a vast sky full of stars was all I could see.
"I believe I have mentioned before how envious I am of you and Twilight have I not Rick?" Came a voice from above me.
I turned to look up and everything came flooding back... "Luna!" I looked back towards my... Well the condo in my dream but it too was gone. "It was all so real..."
"Indeed, your mind makes it real. I rejoice to see what could have come to pass had Twilight ended up in your realm..."
"Shouldn't Twi be here too...?" I asked looking around.
"Indeed she would be if she were asleep... She did touch the dream realm but not for long." She smiled.
"I should have known." I chuckled.
"Sadly I cannot reach any of the Crystal ponies in the dreaming, only you and your companions... But no matter I am sure you will..."
"This is it!" Twilights voice echoed loudly throughout the stars and they began to fade.
"Luna..."
"Take care, be careful..." He voice a whisper as everything faded and I awoke...