Trixie and Maud: Heart of Stone

by TheCrimsonDM

Chapter eleven: friendly farewell

Trixie woke up feeling exhausted but satisfied. She looked around the room feeling a little more disoriented then she usually did in the morning. The room was a filled with pink, the walls, the floor, and even the bed she was in. The bed was also much larger than hers was, and the pictures on the walls were of Maud and Pinkie Pie.

A single photo of Trixie stood on a nightstand next to the bed. The photo was from when she first met Maud, she was scared of everypony, and paranoid of everything, but Maud had calmed her down and made her feel safe, the photo was taken so that the two could always remember there first time meeting. Trixie looked scared in the picture, and by contrast Maud looked as stoic as ever. It reminded Trixie of just how far she has come since first arriving here.

Trixie was inside of Maud’s room, lying in her bed, all of this felt so surreal to her. The memories of last night were replaying in her mind. Her face lit on fire as she realized just what she had done with Maud. Not to mention how much of it they had done.

Maud had placed Trixie’s medicine and a water bottle next to the picture for them. After taking her medication Trixie walked awkwardly to the door, every one of her muscles ached, including ones she didn’t know she had. Inside she was a chaotic mess of joy, shame, and nervous to boot. She wasn’t even married to Maud… yet.

Just outside Trixie smelled the fresh air in the hallway and became painfully aware of how badly Maud’s room smelled right now. The scents of sweat and… other things filled the air, and Trixie didn’t smell any better.

She closed the door softly and tried to sneak her way to the bathroom for a quick shower. As she approached the door, it swung open with Fluttershy walking out. Trixie tried to avoid looking into her eyes. Fluttershy turned beet red and looked down at her own hooves. Fluttershy was still wearing the old cloak. It made Trixie proud to know that Fluttershy had truly appreciated the gift.

Trixie walked past Fluttershy trying to pretend that she didn’t notice Fluttershy holding her breath.

After taking a nice hot shower Trixie felt a lot better, and much cleaner. She looked at herself in the mirror and looked deeply into it. She no longer saw a monster staring back at her, nor did she see a broken pony. Now she saw herself as the pony who was loved, by friends, new family, and a very special gray mare. She could now say with certainty that she did deserve to be loved, and that she would make up for what she had done, someway, somehow.

Outside in the living room Trixie found everypony meandering about the tiny room. Half the ponies looked up at her, and then quickly looked away their faces turning a deep shade of red. Maud looked as bored as ever, but Trixie could feel Maud’s emotions. Maud was amused by something, something she found absolutely hilarious.  Trixie remembered Pinkie’s warning and decided against trying to read her mind to figure out what.

She then felt an immense wave of embarrassment coming off of everypony in the room, except from Maud and Rainbow Dash. The overcharge of emotion was almost enough to knock Trixie over. She looked around, everypony was avoiding her gaze except for Rainbow Dash who was hovering in the corner snickering. Trixie didn’t like this feeling, like everypony was avoiding her. It was reminding her of the past.

Trixie looked at Rainbow Dash and demanded, “What are you doing?”

Rainbow Dash began laughing. “Pfft why don’t I ask, what you were doing, all, night, long?”

“I… uh… guess you heard us”

Rainbow Dash stopped laughing just long enough to say, “Ya mean we heard you. Maud was as quiet as a rock.”

A spike of anger filled Trixie at Rainbow’s insult aimed at her adorable rock pony. “That’s only because her mouth was too busy- Kissing me. I mean she was kissing me all night.”

Rainbow Dash fell from the air and onto her back laughing too hard to breathe, and yet she still managed to somehow add, “Yeah, I bet, her mouth was busy, bwahahaha.”

Trixie decided the best course of action was to shut the hay up. She was simply digging herself into an ever deeper hole. She found a nice little spot to sit next to Maud and stayed quiet until Rainbow Dash calmed down.

As it turned out the train picking up the six ponies was arriving today, and all of Trixie’s new friends would be leaving soon. She didn’t want to see them leaving so soon. But she realized that they all had lives in Ponyville to take care of. It was far too kind of them too wait for Trixie to wake up before leaving. The party last night was one of the most wonderful things anypony had ever done for her.

Standing at the train station Maud and Trixie stood in front of their six friends. Trixie made a mental note that the little dragon Spike was on the train waiting for them already. He must have come in on the train so he could pick up Twilight in person.

Trixie didn’t want to see the only friends she had leave her, but she was going to be brave for them and see them off properly. Maud laid a caring hoof on Trixie’s shoulder, she seemed to sense her lovers distress. Trixie gave her a small thankful smile before returning attention to the six ponies ahead of her.  The air had become somewhat silent and was quickly approaching awkward as none of them wanted to be the first one to say good bye.

Applejack stood strong and brave as she was the first one to speak. She tilted her hat down covering her eyes. “Well were gonna be off soon. Ah better see you in Ponyville soon though, ah wanna show you how delicious our apple pie is.” She turned and walked onto the train.

Rarity spoke next, she had tears running down her face ruining her makeup. “It was nice getting to know you, Trixie, next time you’re in Ponyville be sure to come by the boutique. I will… make… you… two.... each a… beautiful dress.” She then let out a wail as she sobbed, walking back into the train. Stopping only long enough to blow her nose into a handkerchief.

Fluttershy was still wearing Trixie’s old cloak. She tugged at the clasp a little with a hoof. “Are you sure you want me to keep this?”

Trixie nodded towards her saying. “Of course I do. If you keep that cloak with you, then I will know that you’re always safe. Besides I have an even better one now thanks to Maud here.”Maud’s cheeks grew a lovely shade of pink at the compliment.

Fluttershy smiled. “Oh thank you. I promise I will cherish this most wonderful of gifts forever.” She then walked off into the car, she looked a little more confident while wearing the cloak.

One of the train attendants walked to the door. “If you don’t get on now, were leaving you behind.”

Twilight Sparkle turned around and looked him dead in the eyes. “I, am, The, Princess, Twilight, Sparkle. You shall wait for me to be done, and be grateful for it.”

Trixie took a step back in fear along with the attendant who walked back inside looking very worried for more than just his job security. Twilight returned her attention to Trixie. “Sorry about that, I’m just sick and tired of not having enough time to do what I want. So I’m making time.”

Trixie made a mental note to never get on Twilight’s bad side. Twilight then added, “If you ever want help with that horn problem of yours, just let me know, I will do my best to help you use your magic again. After all you’ve done for me, it’s the least I could do.” She looked back at the train and said. “Well I’ll leave you three alone, and make sure the train doesn’t take off. Good luck, Trixie, Maud.”

Rainbow Dash was looking very worried now, she glanced back at the train and back to Trixie. She closed her eyes and said to herself. “Oh buck it.” Rainbow dashed at Trixie and embraced her into a tight hug saying. “Don’t you ever try and break your promise again. Because I will find you if you do, and save your rump all over again. And be safe or whatever… see ya both later.” Rainbow Dash then let go, there were tears in her eyes as she turned and streaked inside the train to join her friends.

Pinkie Pie smiled softly at the two and said. “It was nice staying with you two, even if it was a little weird. We had fun though, and I won’t forget you Trixie. Please consider my offer, and come visit me soon… see ya later.” She looked a little down, her hair even looked a little deflated as she turned to leave inside the train.

Trixie watched her approach the train and felt pressure building up inside of her. She clenched her eyes shut and stopped fighting it. Trixie galloped toward Pinkie Pie and tackle hugged her. Although unlike Trixie, Pinkie Pie didn’t fall over from the tackle, rather she caught Trixie in an embrace. Trixie sniffled a little. “I’ll come visit you, I Pinkie Pie promise. And… I love you… sis.”

Trixie felt very small in Pinkie’s legs, and Pinkie stroked Trixie’s mane a few times while saying. “I love you too, sis. When you come to visit I’ll set up an awesome party, and we’ll have a cake eating contest, and you can meet Gummy, and we can all have fun again.”

Maud wrapped an arm around the pair and they stayed in a group hug for a few seconds.

It was a little painful when Pinkie Pie let go and walked onto the train. Trixie stood there watching the train doors shut. Maud walked up and stood next to Trixie brushing  against Trixie’s side. Trixie watched the train begin to roll off and then to her enjoyment a pink head sticking out of one of the side windows began shouting. “And we’ll play hide and seek, and we’ll eat Spike’s famous nachos, and Rarity will make a dress for you, and we’ll go to the gala, and we’ll be the best most awesome party ponies EVER. See ya, Trixie, Maud!”

Pinkie continued shouting about all the things she would do with Trixie until the train was gone and out of sight. Trixie turned to Maud and noticed Maud staring blankly down at Trixie’s cutie mark. Trixie then asked her. “Um… is something wrong?”

Maud replied flatly, “No.” There was the slightest curl in Maud’s lips.

Trixie and Maud began walking home together. With how happy she was, Trixie couldn’t avoid asking, “What are we going to do now?”

 Maud then explained. “Pack for our trip to Ponyville.”