//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: Hey Batty, Batty 2 // by My Only Weakness //------------------------------// You lay in bed in shock and anger of what you just heard coming from the other room. I can’t believe she would do something like this! Would she do this? Would she just throw away three years like that? “Anyway thanks for coming over captain.” Night Watch It takes awhile for the door to shut but once it does, you roll over so you're facing the bedroom door and wait. Once you’ve decided that an appropriate amount of time has past you get off the bed and open the door. Once you're outside the bedroom, you see Night Watch in the kitchen with her back to you, humming to herself as she cleans the kitchen counter. You walk towards the sofa to read the newspaper, but your hoofsteps catch the attention of Night Watch and she turn around to face you. “Hey hot stuff.” She greets you, to which you ignore “Hey! Babe?!” Once you sit on the sofa you grab the newspaper and start to read it, but you were only able to read a few words before the paper was knocked out of your hooves. “Hey! I was talking to you!” Night Watch says, obviously annoyed. “Oh! You were referring to me as ‘hot stuff’.” “Well yeah, who else was I referring to?” “I dunno, your captain maybe!” you say very loudly. “What are you talking about?” “Don’t act like you don’t know what you did. I’m not stupid.” “What?!” She says “I mean as big and strong he is I can’t see why you wouldn't love him” You say, turning away from her “I mean even his eyes ar-” Before you’re able to finish your sentence you are tackled to the floor with Night Watch standing over you. “What are you talking about!?” Night Watch shouts in your face, her mouth contorted into a harsh glare, directed at you. “I heard you two! What he was saying to you!” “We weren’t doing anything! he was trying to tell me that I have been promoted!” “Like tartarus! He was going on about he couldn’t believe what was happening, how he wanted it for awhile, not you getting a promotion!” you look up at her, glaring daggers back at her, all the while you didn’t even realize a paper on the counter that Night Watch quickly goes to grab and shove into your face “Right here! Read right here!” She shouts, shoving it in your face. “He said he wanted to give me this for a while!” Looking at it you can manage to make out where her hoof is pointing to, a large line of text in black ink bright as day reading: “We are delighted to inform you, Night Watch, of your promotion to Captain of the Royal Night Guard. Congratulations!” You suddenly feel like a piece of shit, for a very good reason, as she gets up off of you and starts to walk to the bedroom, leaving you and the paper of truth on the floor. You quickly scramble to your hooves as you try to apologise to her. “N-Night Watch…. I-I’m so sorr-” “No! I’m not hearing it!” she cuts you off, storming into the bedroom and slamming the door behind her. You sit back down on the sofa and put you face in your hoofs. You’ve never been so angry with yourself in your entire life. After a short while of mentally beating yourself up, you look to the bedroom door and begin a slow trot towards it. Once you reach the door you place your forehead on it and start to think of how you’re going to apologise. Your heart starts to crumble as you can faintly hear Night Watch sobbing. You just can’t stand the sound of Night Watch crying so you knock on the door a fewa times. “Night Watch?”, no reply “Night Watch… baby…”, still no answer. You slowly open the door to see her sitting on the far end of the bed, which is her side anyway. You walk over to her slowly to which she doesn’t acknowledge you. “Night… I… I’m so sorry” you say “I… I shouldn’t of jumped to conclusions… I…” you couldn't finish your sentence because you start to choke on your own words, as your eyes start to tear up you end up silently weeping into your own hooves. There was a long silence as you struggled to get your next words out, all the while your tears are running freely down your face. “Why?” Night Watch finally says. “W-What?” “Why would you think such a thing?” she says with anger and sadness filling her voice, as she turns towards you, you can see her eyes, bright red and puffy from crying “Why?” Your body is trembling from mental pain and sorrow, your mouth quivers, trying to hold back from saying anything that could make this whole situation so much worse than it already had become. “I… I… I just don’t want to lose you. It’s been a little over three years since you found me, and… and I was terrified of losing you to someone else. I mean heck, even I questioned myself when i misheard whatever he was saying to you, but, I couldn’t chance it. I love you too much for that and I-” you couldn’t finish your sentence once again, but this time it was because a pair of lips locked with yours, cutting off whatever other sappy stuff you had to say. The kiss ended quick, with Night Watch pulling back and locking eyes with you. You find yourself getting lost in her beautiful pink eyes again, like you always do, as she says quietly, but just audibly, “I love you and only you, don’t ever forget that.” She leans in and hugs you tight, and you can’t help but hug back. After a hug that felt like an eternity, you both look each other in the eyes, a smile upon both your faces, and share another quick kiss. You notice a tear starting to roll down her face, so you wipe it away for her and give a little kiss on the forehead. “I’m so proud of you” you say. “For what?” she says, wiping her eyes. “You got promoted!” you say happily, in which she looked away in a blush “So, I think we should go out and celebrate.” “A-Are you sure. I mean we just had a massive fight.” “Yeah. I’m sure. I owe you that much. So what do you wanna do? Go to a fancy restaurant for dinner, have a walk around town, or we could just stay here and relax. We can do anything you want tonight.” Night Watch puts her hoof to her chin and starts to think about what she wants to do. After a minute of thinking she says “Lets go on a walk.” “Really?” you say stunned “I’m giving you a chance to go to the fanciest restaurant in town.” “Don’t worry. I know a spot that only I know about, and you will love it” she says softly and walking past you. “So come on, lets go.” You follow her out of the house and into town. Neither of you said anything the whole time you were walking through the town. You wanted to ask many times where she was taking you but you know that her answer would be, “you’re just gonna have to wait and see.” She took you to the edge of the town, then extended her wings and flew into the air, which you proceed to the same. You follow her, flying over many trees, looking out into the darkness beneath you, you spot out a small glow in the distance, to which she flies over to and begins her descent above. You look down at it, it’s a small clearing with what seems to be a pond, when you touch down, you feel at peace, the whole area welcoming you in. “This is my favorite place to go when I’m feeling down, it has an effect that cheers me right up” she says to you, but you’re too lost in the beauty to hear her. There are a few trees that you identify as weeping willow trees, swaying in the breeze, the pond, now looking like a small lake, adorned the middle of the clearing, lily pads decorating the surface with many small creatures around, living their lives like normal. However, as if calling to you, you looked up to see an uncountable amount of lightning bugs lighting up the whole area, watching over them. “Hey, Equestria to Cass? you there?” Night watch is now waving her hoof in front of your face, to which you acknowledge her. “Y-yea. Where did you find this place? It’s amazing” you say, still awe-struck at the sight. “I found it about three years ago, when you had to leave after your leg healed up. I was so upset I just flew and flew, and then I found this place, it…  called for me, welcomed me, and it helped me. So, after I found this place I decided to go back to your apartment and… well, you know the rest.” You lay back on the grass, feeling the breeze through your fur. “Come here, lay with me” you say to her. As she does so, you wrap your forearm around her neck, and pull her close. She nuzzles your neck which makes you chuckle a little since you were kind of ticklish there. After a little nuzzle fight you both look up at the night sky and watch the stars holding on another in each others arms. After awhile you start to notice that the lighting bugs start to form a heart up above you. “... thats got to be coincidence… right?” You ask, looking Night Watch. “I don’t know” She says looking up at the bugs “but it’s so beautiful.” As you look at Night Watch, who’s looking up at the sky you just can't believe that you managed to keep a girl like her for so long. Just thinking about how happy she makes you everytime you see her makes you realise that you want to spend the rest of your life with her. “Hey!” Night Watch says waving her hoof in your face again “You’ve been zoning out recently. Is something wrong?” “Huh? oh it’s nothing, don’t worry” you say giving her a reassuring smile. After what feel like hours of looking up at the constellations, you see a shooting star go by in the night sky. “Quick, make a wish!” you say, after pointing it out to her, as you both close your eyes and think of a good wish. I wish that i’ll never have to leave you. You wish to yourself, and as you look over at Night Watch, her eyes are clamped shut… must be a pretty big wish. It must have taken at least three minutes before she opened her eyes again. “That looked like a pretty long wish” you say mockingly. “Yeah, well it was a long wish.” “What was it?” you ask. “I’m not gonna tell you otherwise it won’t come true.” She says, poking you in the shoulder After spending more time cuddling and look up at the stars, Night watch uses her hoof to turn your head to bring you face to face with her, as she leans in, she whispers “I love you.” To which you reply, “I love you too.” She started to lean in, and you met her halfway, plating your lips on hers, as you two kiss under the stars in bliss, completely unaware of an unknown presence, one that’s been stalking you two since you first left home. “The time grows close” it mutters… before sinking back into the shadows it once came from.