Author's Notes:
Thanks to Deadinlight for beta-reading and helping me edit
Chapter Three: Date? What Date?
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“So now I have a date… Well I guess that means I have to get dressed up… But everything looks the same to me… Well I could get some help from my neighbor? Or go as I normally do… But I also have to keep an eye out for that unicorn that escaped… Celestia damned it all… No, tonight is all about me, and not about my work for the city… I deserve this…”
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Shadow Eyes walked to her neighbor’s door and knocked on it, after a bit the mare she was hoping for openned up the door.
“Oh! Blinding Sunrise! Nice of you to come over. Is something the matter?” asked the mare and Shadow Eyes smiled lightly.
“I have a date, Light Step, but I need a little help with picking out an outfit for it. Do you think you could help me?” asked the blind mare and the other mare, a sandy colored earth pony mare with green eyes, bit her lip, she needed to make sure her husband’s meal was ready, otherwise he would hurt her again. Her husband had been careful to muffle her so she couldn’t cry out, but…
“Could I ask a favor, Blinding?” asked Light Step and Shadow Eyes tilted her head but smiled.
“Sure, go ahead, wait… Did your husband hurt you again?” asked Shadow Eyes and Light Step bit her lip as she refrained from answering the question.
“Can I help you after I finish making my husband’s dinner? He is going to be home soon and I don’t want to upset him” she said and Shadow Eyes took a deep breath before nodding.
“Of course, I’ll see you in a bit”
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After Shadow Eyes had left and returned home, she silently fumed, it seemed that Light Step’s husband hadn’t learned his lesson…
‘Still,’ thought Shadow Eyes as she stewed in her disappointment ‘that means that he is probably beating her, and I am just not hearing it’
A few hours later there was a knocking at Shadow Eyes’ door and she walked over and opened it revealing the Light Step and her husband, a earth pony stallion with a black mane and tail, and brown fur, the blind mare frowned.
“Aren’t you going to invite us in?” asked the stallion and Shadow Eyes clenched her jaw for a moment before motioning for Light Step to join her inside, and just before the stallion did she moved back in the way. “Excuse me, but I do—”
“This is my house, and I don’t want you here, I asked your wife for help, not you, and if you don’t like it you can just leave, I know you still beat her, I just don’t have any proof, or you’d already be in prison” the stallion tried to force his way in and was pushed back by a wave of magic, this one coming from outside and when the stallion turned he saw a unicorn stallion standing a little ways away.
“What do you want?” asked the earth pony and the unicorn stallion glared at him.
“I do believe that the mare said she doesn’t want you there” said the unicorn stallion, with her magic field, Shadow Eyes was able to make out who it was, and it was the stallion that had asked her out, so with a blush she backed up and closed the door before the earth pony stallion could slip in.
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“Is that the stallion who asked you out? He is attractive” said Light Step and Shadow Eyes blushed. “Just don’t get blinded by that… I did…”
“Then why do you stay with him? If you know he is a brute, why do you let yourself get hurt?” asked Shadow Eyes surprised and Light Step smiled mirthfully.
“Who would want a broken mare like me?” as soon as Light Step said that Shadow Eyes, under the guise of Blinding Sunrise argued that she wasn’t a broken mare, that she was just a mare in a bad situation but the encouragement was ignored. “So, you wanted me to help you pick something for your date? Let’s get to work” said the earth pony mare and Shadow Eyes looked downtrodden but nevertheless obliged as she led her friend into her room and started to try on her dresses in front of her…
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“I think we found it!” said Light Step as Shadow Eyes stepped out in a light blue dress that sparkled in the light, it was form fitting around the barrel but flared out at her flanks with a split on the right side, the awkward part was that her glasses clashed with it so she was stuck without them. However her eyes seemed to be alluring while she wore the dress, it made them stand out, in a good way.
“R-really? You don’t think that it makes my eyes stand out?” asked Shadow Eyes knowing that her eyes usually had a way of unnerving ponies.
“Your eyes look beautiful” said Light Step and Shadow Eyes frowned.
“But ponies get… Unnerved by my eyes…” said Shadow Eyes as she rubbed her foreleg nervously as Light Step tutted about her and helped her with picking out the rest of her outfit…
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Time until her date drew closer, but she wasn’t thinking about that, currently she was dodging rocks and other assortments of projectiles as a familiar unicorn stallion, dressed in a familiar fashion kept throwing things at her.
“I don’t have time for this!” said the unicorn as he threw a large section of sidewalk which Shadow Eyes caught and managed to stop a few inches from her face, but not before a piece of it succeeded in cutting her shoulder, while she was busy trying not to harm any innocent civilians the stallion got away.
“Tsk… I’ll get you yet, asshole” she said before she trotted off into an alley way and cast her illusion spell…
‘Damn you to Tartarus’ she thought…
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Shadow Eyes raced back to her apartment and showered as quickly as she could. Just as she started to relax in the shower, there was a knock on her door, eyes shooting open and she stumbled out of the shower…
“O-one moment!” she yelled as she wrapped herself up in a pair of towels, and when she got to the door and opened it…
“Am I… Sorry I guess you—” started the stallion
“No, I’m sorry, Rich Quick, I had to work late, I only just got back, I was trying to get ready for our date…” said Shadow Eyes and Rich Quick smiled but shook his head.
“You don’t need to make excuses, it’s OK if you don’t want—” Rich didn’t get a chance finished as Shadow Eyes tsked at him.
“If I didn’t want to go, I wouldn’t have accepted in the first place” she countered as poked him in the barrel, her towel shifting slightly causing her to fix it. “Look, I have to finish getting ready, unless you want to skip the date entirely?” she asked with her eyes half lidded and a smirk on her face causing the stallion in front of her to blink in surprise of her forwardness.
“N-no, I would like to go on the date, I did reserve us a table somewhere…”
“Alright, then let me get ready for the date” said Shadow Eyes and Rich Quick smiled before starting to turn away, “Where do you think you’re going?”
“I was—”
“Get in here, you can wait in the living room, or you can always change your mind” said the mare as she turned around flicking the stallion on the nose with her tail as she trotted to her bedroom.
“That mare wants me” said Rich in awe, before sitting on the sofa for a minute before deciding the date could wait and trotting into the bedroom and pressing his lips to hers. Shadow Eyes grinned...