“I told you, I’m fine!” Twilight stated angrily.
“Nonsense, you are burning up. I am going to go and get you some hot soup from the kitchens,” Luna replied, the worry evident in her voice.
Before Twilight could protest, Luna was already out the door. She sighed; she was feeling kind of hungry, maybe it couldn’t hurt to let Luna dote on her for a little while. But that would be manipulative. I have to tell her the truth… But it’s so embarrassing…
Twilight hung her head as she laid there in Luna’s bed, silently arguing with herself. After quite some time, she began to nod off. Right as she was about to drift off to her peaceful dreams, Luna burst into the room, levitating a bowl with her.
“I’m sorry it took so long, Twilight. I had to go wake up a chef as I am not the best cook in Equestria,” Luna said with a nervous smile.
Twilight gave her a questioning look and asked, with mild concern in her voice, “You had to go and wake a chef up to make… soup?”
“I… err… well…” Luna stammered. “I-I wanted the best ingredients and for it to be the most delicious soup you’ve ever tasted, seeing as you are sick.”
Twilight sighed, resigning to tell Luna the truth. Before she could however, Luna pushed the soup into Twilight’s hooves with a bright smile. The bowl was so hot, it burned her hooves. Twilight jumped with a pained yelp, tossing the soup into the air which flew right towards Luna.
The princess cringed and Twilight looked away, but after a few seconds of not hearing any splash of soup landing on the princess, after which it would also be expected to hear a shriek of pain as the soup burned Luna’s head, or the clatter of the bowl hitting the ground, possibly even shattering; she looked back to see that the princess had caught both the bowl and the soup in her magical grasp right before it could even touch her glowing horn.
Luna looked up, surprised that she had stopped the soup from landing on her. Sneaking a glance at Twilight, she quickly jumped up and sat with her back straight, trying to make Twilight think that she hadn't just cowered in fear of a little bowl of soup.
“HA HA!” Luna bellowed, puffing her chest out with pride. “You thought you could best me, searing soup of burning pain? You had no idea that my cat like reflexes would save me!”
Twilight began to giggle softly, causing Luna to turn her head and blush profusely with an embarrassed smile. Twilight’s giggles slowly evolved into a full laughing fit which Luna slowly joined in on. As their laughter died down, Luna finally returned the liquid to its bowl and put it down in front of Twilight.
“I… err… meant to do that,” Luna said, shifty eyed. “After all, laughter is the best medicine.”
Luna giggled awkwardly, hoping that Twilight wouldn’t question it.
Twilight didn’t see Luna’s shiftiness, but she could hear the awkwardness in her voice. She let out a slow, calming breath before saying, with heavy sarcasm, “Suuuuure…”
Luna just sat there and smiled, her cheeks still pink.
“E-enough of this,” Luna said, shaking her head vigorously, her voice regaining a hint of seriousness. “You should eat your soup and rest.”
Luna lifted the soup into Twilight’s hooves again, this time making sure it was cool enough to hold and waited for her to eat it.
Twilight begrudgingly brought the bowl up to her lips and began sipping the soup. This is actually pretty good, she thought to herself. Still a bit hot though…
Twilight quickly gulped down the rest of the soup and sighed as she set the bowl back down.
“Oh, I almost forgot,” Luna said, jumping up and stepping closer to Twilight. “When I told the chef that the soup was for a sick pony, he also gave me a thermometer and told me to put it in your mouth to more accurately check your temperature.”
“Umm, Luna… I don’t thi-“
Twilight was cut off by Luna shoving the thermometer into Twilight’s mouth and held it there with her magic so that she wouldn’t spit it out. After a couple of minutes, Luna pulled the thermometer back out and turned it to see the number the mercury had risen to.
“I don’t think that you’re goi-“
Twilight was cut off again, this time by Luna shrieking in panic.
“Oh my, it’s worse than I thought!” Luna shouted as she ran to the door.
Luna turned back to Twilight as she opened the door and picked the mare up in her magical aura for the second time that night before sprinting out the door, Twilight in tow.