//------------------------------// // 166. Oh no, not again! by Jonesly // Story: The Sun and the Stars: A Twilestia Prompt Collab // by Fuzzyfurvert //------------------------------// by Jonesly *** It was June 4 in Canterlot. Not that the date really mattered, it just happened to be a Wednesday in a month with no holidays. Celestia liked that, she was contemplating declaring June 4 a national holiday, depending on how the evening went. She was sitting at a table in the gardens, waiting for her date to arrive. Along the path, Twilight walked up. She stopped when she caught sight of Celestia. “You're... not wearing anything?” Celestia giggled, “Why do you sound so surprised Dear?” Twilight smiled back at her, “Well, it's just, I've become accustomed to you wearing things, either your regalia, or the various things on your head... no matter, you look very nice.” “As do you, now please, join me for dinner?” “I would be delighted to.” Twilight replied as she sat down to the candle lit table. Dinner proceeded as expected. Delicious courses devoured as conversation flowed around the mundane; Spike's grades at school; and the arcane; that new spell that did very interesting things as it flowed through the local leylines. Finally after a desert course that included no cakes, Twilight sought to wrap up their date. “Thank you for the lovely dinner,” Twilight said, standing up, “If you don't need me, I wanted to catch Luna before I went to bed and ask her about a certain constellation she's made that seems to be in the shape of a lightning bolt coming out of a cloud.” As she started to walk away, Celestia raised a hoof, her mouth open to call Twilight back... she paused, started to lower her hoof then got a determined look on her face. “Wait... not again. I have to say this while I still can.” Twilight paused on hearing the serious tone coming from behind her. She looked back to see Celestia with a very serious look on her face. The elder princess beckoned back the younger, gesturing at the seat across from her. She came back to the table and sat down. “It is a trite thing to say, almost a pun coming from me, but Twilight, you are my light. You have a way about you that makes every thing seem fresh and new. Even the old familiar routines in which we find ourselves are tinged with excitement for me. Before you came along, I was a hopeless mare. I had banished my sister to the moon, the student I relied on to save her and bring back my Lulu betrayed me and fled through the mirror. There was nothing to look forward to but an eternity alone, being consumed by the hollow feeling inside. Then you came along and changed everything.” Celestia took a deep breath and forged onward, “Over the years you've grown. What you haven't seen is that I've grown too. I've grown to depend on your company; to rely on your advice. I seek you out for advice on problems that I used to just ignore. You are the partner I've wanted, the partner I need. I love you with all my being. It took the combined intervention of both Luna and Cadance and a whole lot of Applejack... the drink, not your friend, to even get me to admit that I wanted you to be more then my student. I have never in my entire existence made a decision so wise as to come to you with my feelings. I love you Twilight. Make no mistake, I am old, very old. I have had many loves through the ages. Twilight, you are not my first lover, but you shall be the last.” Celestia paused, gathering her courage. She brought forth a box and opened it, a necklace sat in it, Twilight's cutie mark centered in the middle overlayed on top of a familiar sun emblem. “Please, marry me. Be mine through this life and the next.” Twilight looked at her with wide, panicked eyes. “I... You... We...” with a sudden flash of purple light, Twilight vanished from the table in a teleport. Celestia's face fell, “Oh no...” she whispered.