//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: The Final Day // Story: Spike De Lis // by That Drunk Pony //------------------------------// Spike woke up back in the courtyard. He looked around in hopes to find the mirror mare. He was confused since she said that she would meet him again, but never told him when she would come. As if on cue, a magical aura ensnared Spike. Spike began struggling, but it then began to spin him around. When he stopped spinning, he was taken to a weird part of the garden. It was like a little filly’s tea party. Spike noticed that there were now two tall ponies hiding in cloaks. Spike was worried because he thought there was only one mirror mare. The silence of the two made it feel eerie. “Um. Hello?” Spike asked in hopes one of them would not just sit there drinking dream tea. “Hello Spike. You’re probably wondering why we summoned you here.” The first cloaked pony said. Spike only nodded in agreement as he felt their pressure on him. The second then said, “Relax Spike. We are here to help you out.” Spike asked, “Help with what?” The first answered, “With your little love problem.” Spike was thinking to himself, ‘They must mean the two mares on my mind. I wonder how they even knew that? Maybe she is a part of my mind after all. Like a conscience or something.’ The second then asked, “So Spike, how do you feel about her?” “Which her are you talking about?” Spike returned. “Spike. You know which one I am talking about.” Spike thought to himself, ‘She must mean Fleur.’ He responded, “Well I don’t know. I like her as a friend I guess. I mean she is important to me and all, but it’s hard for me to imagine being with her I guess.” “Why would it be hard? Are you scared she may reject you?” the first asked. “Reject me? I am pretty sure she loves me too. I just don’t want to ruin our friendship that we have.” Spike said looking down. “Spike, that isn’t a good reason to not go after a mare that you’re clearly in love with! You need to have courage that things will be alright between you. I am sure she does love you too. She gives you all the cute gestures and glances.” The second one replied. Spike then began thinking again, ‘Fleur has been giving me subtle hints. I haven’t even noticed this whole time even though with this small time. She is probably suffering a lot if she fell in love with me so easily however. Or maybe she really does love me and felt a connection.’ Spike then said, “I guess that is true. She has been giving me a lot of attention this entire vacation.” The first then added, “She is the one who made you feel happiest here right? She is the reason you are so relaxed and having fun. I know because I have seen for myself that pure joy on your face.” The second piled on, “She is the clear one for you Spike. You know it in your heart.” Spike began thinking about the entire vacation and slowly was convinced that Fleur was the one for him, but what about Rarity. He thought about it, but in actuality he never knew if she liked him that way or not. The feeling of doubt for Rarity began growing the more he talked to the two ponies. It was driving a nail between him and Rarity. The second mare then asked, “Spike. Are you willing to wait forever as she gets snatched up by another stallion? You are the perfect choice for her. I can already see how the love between you two will blossom. I can feel the strong connection between you two, but lately it has been waning. This is why we are here to help you find your true love.” Spike kept thinking more and more of Fleur over Rarity, until his mind was mostly convinced that he loved Fleur as if their words were enchanted to make him love Fleur. “Alright! I am going to do it! Tomorrow I will let her know how I feel and make her the happiest mare!” Right on time, the dream began collapsing, which meant Spike was waking up. Before he woke up he wanted to thank the two. “Thank you both. I feel confident now! I will tell Fleur how I feel!” The two mares looked at each other and wondered, “Wait Fleur? Who is that?” Just then the dream began collapsing around the two mares. Spike woke up in his bed, well relaxed and ready to go. The sudden feeling of empowerment and courage has overtaken Spike. He followed his usual morning routine, but really took his time to look really good before he confesses his love. He quickly rushed out of his room and headed out the castle, before he was stopped by Celestia. Celestia excitedly asked, “So Spike! What has you so energized this morning?” “Well I had a dream from the mirror mare! She helped me decide on what I should about my… problem.” Spike didn’t want to arouse suspicion by the princess, but his pause didn’t help. “The mirror mare eh? It’s nice that you still believe in her after all these years.” Celestia chuckled. “Hey! I don’t believe in her! She just came to me in a dream!” Spike felt slightly annoyed by Celestia treating him like a child still. “Well you’re coming to breakfast right Spike?” Celestia nudged. “I think I’m going to skip breakfast. I need to go somewhere quickly. I’ll see you later at the party!” Spike said as he quickly rushed before any other questions were asked. The last thing Spike wanted was to have an awkward chat with Celestia or Rarity. He still felt a small connection to Rarity, but he has decided that Fleur is the one by what the Mirror Mare said, which he believes to be his subconscious decision. As Celestia saw Spike run away, two cloaked mares appeared from the shadows. They first asked, “Celestia. We have a report for you about the mission. Should we share it now or?” Celestia replied, “I’ll have that report now.” They reported to Celestia, “The mission was a success, but we had a little complication at the end.” Celestia wondered, “Complication?” The tall cloaked pony replied, “He said something about Fleur. We don’t know if that is a nickname or something for Rarity, but that is what we heard.” The short one then added, “I could feel how strong his love energy was for her though. It did seem odd that there were two forces of love energy though. After our talk though it looks like he got it all sorted out.” Celestia doesn’t know what to make of it. The only pony with the name Fleur in it is Fleur De Lis, but she is a celebrity and is always going on tours around Equestria. She doubts it’s her. Well whatever it is, Spike sure did seem determined. Celestia then addressed the cloaked ponies with delight, “Well I guess it was a success then! Now we just need to finish the final part of the plan so everything can come together.” The two were both excited to hear this and then left to do their individual parts. Celestia remained opening up a piece of paper that was a copy of Spike’s plans for Rarity. “Don’t you worry Spike, we are going to help you out and make this happen. This shipping thing Cadence taught me is so much fun!” Celestia said as she dashed off. Spike was happily strolling through Canterlot planning how to confess to Fleur and ask her to the dance. Looking back on how everything happened since Spike first met Rarity, it did seem like she wanted to just be friends. “I guess everything comes into perspective when you’re not blinded by love.” Spike then went out to different shops to get a present to his newly found love. Spike first went to Fleur’s home at Fancy’s home. He knocked on the door and a maid came first. Spike asked, “Is Fleur home? I am friend of hers.” The maid responded, “I’ll go get her. What is your name?” “I’m Spike.” he happily said. “Ok. It’ll just be a quick moment.” She said and then dashed off. She soon returned saying, “I apologize, but she doesn’t wish to see you right now.” Spike was hurt, but he got this far so he decided to go see her anyways. “I’ll go see her now.” The maid protested it, but Spike was determined. He quickly found her room and opened it brashly. Spike then said, “Hi Fleur!” Fleur was hiding under the covers saying, “Go away Spike!” All Fleur could think about was how stupid she was to go and kiss him out of the blue. She knew he loved Rarity, but she just couldn't hold back. Even knowing that she was deceiving him, she just let her emotion take over. “Why!?” Spike asked in return. “You’re just here to pity me.” She then thought to herself, ‘He probably just feels bad for me.’ Spike was confused, “What? I’m here to ask you to join me at the garden party?” Fleur thought to herself, ‘Even after how yesterday ended he still asked me out!’ removed the covers and excitedly said, “You still want to hangout! Then let’s go! As friends of course...” The maid then said, “But the party doesn’t begin until evening and you’re not even properly ready?” Fleur then blushed, “Well that is true. I guess I’ll see you there then!” Spike then said, “That’s great. Can’t wait to see you there!” Spike then left and went to seek the perfect present for her. After finding the perfect gift, he returned in the late afternoon back to the castle. He was fortunate that no other pony was around. They were probably already headed to the party. Spike entered his room, leaving the door wide open, and quickly got changed. Just before Spike left, the door suddenly shut itself. Spike turned to face the door and saw Rarity at the door. Spike’s colors drained from his body for a second, until he realized in his head, ‘What am I so afraid of? I didn’t do anything wrong.’ Rarity then spoke to him, “So this is where you were hiding from me?” Spike didn’t say a word back. “You look dashing Spike, but I think my present will look even better on you.” Spike uttered out, “A- a present for me? Why?” Rarity chuckled, “For being such a wonderful assistant these past few days.” Spike sighed, “Well thank you then. So where is it?” Rarity then gave Spike a white box with a gem encrusted purple ribbon with green highlights. Spike carefully opened it and saw a new outfit for him inside. It looked a lot better than what he was wearing. An all white tuxedo with a purple tie. Spike felt fancy now. He immediately put on the new suit and it was a perfect fit. The almost gave an aura around him. Rarity then asked, “Do you like it?” Spike responded, “Yes! It’s amazing, but I guess since you made it that it’s always amazing.” Rarity then replied, “I’m glad you like it.” Spike was in awe as he watched himself in the mirror. Rarity then added, “I have one more present to give you Spike.” “Oh and what is that?” Spike said posing at the mirror. She tapped Spike on his shoulder and as Spike’s head finished turning around, it was met with somepony’s eyes staring into his and his lips touching something soft. Spike began feeling like he was floating on clouds. He then realized he was kissing Rarity, but he just couldn’t pull away. She had ensnared him in her web of love and he wasn’t able to escape the sticky threads around him. Rarity then pulled away and said, “I hope you enjoyed that too.” Spike just stood there motionless. Rarity took that as a sign that he loved it. “I’ll see you at the party Spike. Don’t be late.” She said with a wink and then left the room. Spike collapsed onto the floor. What does he do now? All of that courage of his convictions has all just collapsed as he did when he dropped to the floor. “Rarity loves me?” He whispered to himself. His heart was now torn in two. His love for Rarity was still alive, but what about Fleur? In the few days he has known her, he can’t remember when was the last time he had that much fun. He was back to square one. Maybe even back to square zero. He had to lay down everything and his options. Rarity definitely has feelings for him and Fleur is not confirmed yet. They are both beautiful. They both care about him. Fleur has been more fun, but he has known Rarity longer. Spike’s head began overworking and fumes were leaving his head. He yelled, “WHY DO I HAVE TO MAKE SUCH A DIFFICULT DECISION!!?” Just then the door opened again. A soft voice asked, “What difficult choice might that be?” Spike froze and didn’t want to acknowledge who was behind him. He then turned and saw it was Celestia in her usual get-up. Spike let out a heavy sigh of relief, which bothered the princess. “So what has you so worked up Spike?” “Oh, it’s nothing your highness. Just some girl troubles.” Spike admitted. “Girl troubles? I thought they fixed those already?” Celestia accidentally slipped out of her mouth. “What was that princess?” Spike questioned. “Oh nothing. So what girl troubles are you having?” She said to quickly get back to the topic she wanted. Spike brushed her previous words off and continued, “Well I have this girl that I liked for a long time.” Celestia immediately thought in her head, ‘It’s definitely Rarity.’ “I guess I might as tell you that it’s Rarity.” Spike said not noticing Celestia’s mini celebration of a quick pump in the air. “I wanted to impress her this vacation, but then things didn’t go as planned. I wanted to spend time with her, but things always got in the way.” Celestia kept nodding because she already knew most of these things. “But then I met another mare.” Spike said. Celestia immediately stopped her nodding and shook her head in disagreement. She didn’t know anything about this. Who was this mare? “She showed me how to have fun at the Fancy’s party and we even got to share a moment as the fireworks went off. It really cheered me up and I guess these past few days, when I wasn’t able to be with Rarity, I was with Fleur.” Celestia immediately thought, ‘There goes that Fleur name again. So it was another mare, but nopony is named Fleur outside of the model, but that’s impossible. Must be a visitor to Canterlot.’ She then asked Spike, “Who is this Fleur exactly? A visitor from somewhere else?” “No she is from here. Her full name from what she told me is Fleur De Lis.” Spike said. Celestia was shocked. ‘The model Fleur De Lis!? REALLY!!? How did that happen? I must know now! But how do I go about asking without being suspicious.’ Spike then continued without warning, surprising Celestia, “Well Fleur and I had a lot of fun these past few days.” Spike then began explaining in more detail to Celestia and she was drawn into every word. Spike then asked her, “What should I do now!? I mean I thought my love for Rarity was long gone and I was just friendzoned, but now she kisses me and I already invited Fleur out!” Even Celestia wasn’t prepared for this. She really wishes Cadence were here right now, but she is probably already attending the party. Celestia then decided to share a little of her own wisdom to Spike. “Spike. You don’t want to hurt either one right?” Spike nodded in agreement. “Well Spike, you can either go back to the girl you’ve always known very well in Rarity, who you also knows has feelings for you or go with Fleur and try to have an adventure with her. I think the only way to make the right choice is to act on your feelings in the moment. When you reach the party, whoever makes you feel right just let your instinct take over.” This was Celestia’s way of saying she had no idea how to help, but Spike bought it and just let his instinct take over at the party. “Thank your Princess. I’ll go do that.” Celestia felt a little bad about not being able to help Spike, but at least he feels better. Surely this can’t backfire in any way. “No problem Spike. Now give me a kiss on the cheek.” “Aw fine.” Spike jokingly complained. “I’ll see you at the party and don’t worry. I’ll have your back. Just whistle loudly if it goes sour.” Celestia said to help him feel secured. Even Celestia knew how dangerous mares can be, when their hearts are on the line. “Ok. Thanks again. I’ll see you there.” Spike said as he waved. He then continued his preparation for the party. He looked at the present he bought for Fleur. It was a rare starlight pink sapphire in a heart shape, where light is trapped into the jewel using magic enchantments on top of a lovely necklace. “Whoever I give this to, will be my final choice. No holding back Spike.” Spike promised to himself. He left the room and headed for the party, which may just be his final dance. Spike entered the party, not recognizing any pony. It was mostly high society ponies around and foreign officials. Spike then noticed Fleur sitting at a table. She looked amazing. That maid did a great job on making a model look even better. She motioned to him to come over. Spike then heard Rarity calmly calling to him to not upset the atmosphere. It was decision time. As he looked at Fleur, but heard Rarity, his heart was tearing. Even his instincts failed him. Luckily for him, Rarity was quickly distracted by a group of ponies complimenting Rarity on her designs and she lost track of Spike as Spike lost track of her too. This made his option to go to Fleur a little easier. He then was greeted by Fleur, but then she noticed something was off about Spike. “Are you alright Spike?” “Yeah! Of course I am!” he said suspiciously. “Spike. I can tell when you’re lying. What’s wrong? Are you nervous being around me or is there something else?” Fleur said as a little joke to lighten him up, but it had an effect on him. Spike then noticed Rarity in his sights and immediately jumped from his chair. “I need to go to the bathroom! I’ll be back in a sec!” he said as he sped off. Spike didn’t even hear what she said and found the nearest bathroom. He hid inside the only single bathroom for both sexes thinking to himself that this was crazy. Just then he heard a knocking on the door. He said, “Sorry it’s occupied.” They knocked again and Spike said angrily, “Hey! It’s busy!” He then heard Rarity’s voice say, “Are you ok in there Spike?” Talk about bad timing. Spike quickly had to come up with an excuse, “Yeah, I’m fine! Just had some bad food earlier. I’ll be out in a minute. Let’s meet up at the fountain at the end of the garden!” Rarity had agreed and left. Spike sighed heavily and didn’t know what he was doing. Maybe he should just run away and go back to the land of the dragons. He could never return to Ponyville after that. It’s like he would be exiled from there even though he didn’t really do anything wrong. Just can’t be near Rarity. She would probably go berserk if she saw him again after leaving. “NO!” Spike suddenly said. I can’t just run away. I have to make a choice or they both will end up hurt and no pony will be happy. I can’t live with this, besides these two will get over it. Well Fleur I guess doesn’t really know my feelings, but whatever. I still need to do this!” Spike then left the bathroom after consoling himself. Some ponies were looking at him as if he were crazy. He then decided to head to Fleur, but was stopped by noticing Cadence. “Cadence? What are you doing here?” Spike said shocking Cadence. Cadence wasn’t expecting her cover to be blown. She decided to confuse Spike. “Spike. I can’t talk right now. I am on a top secret mission and I need you to keep quiet. Don’t worry no pony is in danger here. I just need to make sure things go well.” Before Spike could respond, she shooed him away. Spike was confused, but then continued to Fleur, but she was gone. Just then it went dark. A pair of hooves covered his eyes. “Guess who?” A familiar voice said. “I know that’s you Fleur.” He said slightly annoyed. “You got me.” Fleur said admitting defeat. Spike then began to chuckle. “Finally you give me a smile. I thought you were just going to be stressed out all day.” She then grabbed Spike’s hand and took him saying, “Come on Spike! I know somewhere more fun than this!” She took him to the balcony that overlooked the fountain, which had a great shot of the moon and the whole party. She always knew the good spots. Spike’s smile quickly turned into one of amazement. It was clear to him that she was the one in that moment. She proved it just now, by how she makes him feel. He felt at peace finally. He then decided to confess to her at that moment. The words in his head kept saying, ‘No holding back.’ “Fleur. I have something to tell you.” “Oh and what’s that?” she said still playing around. “I told you how I was working hard to get Rarity’s love this whole vacation.” Fleur realized that this was a little more serious and began listening. “Yeah?” “Well, I decided to give it up.” Spike announced. Fleur was both happy and sad he said that. “Why? Did she reject you?” “Not exactly. I just decided that there is somepony I wanted more. A pony who makes me feel happy and at peace. Like I can trust you with all of myself.” Spike says as he rummages through his pockets for his gift. He then hands it over to her. It instantly clicks in her head what was going on. Tears began forming, but Spike continued anyways. “Fleur. I love you.” he said as he held out her present. She was happy beyond belief, but the words of trust hurt her too. With her voice shaky she replied, “Spike. I am so happy to hear this,” Spike was happy to hear this, but that turned quickly. “but before I can accept your confession I must confess something to you too.” Fleur paused for a second and admitted, “I have been lying to you.” Spike was confused. “This time we spent was fun, but it’s been part of a job of mine.” She then continued, “I was supposed to distract you away from Rarity. You see Fancy has had his eye on her for quite some time, but when you appeared, he noticed the bond you too shared. He decided to split you both up by using me to keep you from her and doing whatever it took to separate you both.” Spike couldn’t believe what he was hearing, but it made sense. “I am so sorry Spike. I-”, but she soon realized Spike wasn’t even listening anymore. “Spike? Are you alright?” She asked. All he could do was start chuckling to himself. Tears then ran down the side of his cheek. He then said, “So this whole time it wasn’t my fault or some divine force stopping Rarity and myself from doing things, but Fancy and you.” He then crazily added, “This is a joke right!?” “Spike… I’m sorry. I had to tell you the truth.” “Why would you tell me this now. Did you want to crush my feelings that badly. Are you really that cold?” Spike responded in a darker tone. “You’re wrong!” Fleur returned. Spike lifted an eyebrow in curiosity to how he is wrong. “I do love you Spike! Well… I fell in love with you. I never had so much fun in my life with anypony else. Even on that first day, I felt so happy. I think then was when I began my feelings for you. When you showed me that list, it hurt. Not just because you were so in love with Rarity and how much I wished that it were me, but because I was deceiving you the whole time. You confessing to me just made me have to spill the whole truth to you. I wanted you to accept me for all I am and have no secrets.” Spike felt torn again. On one hand she does love him, but on the other she betrayed him the entire time. For all he knows, he should be with Rarity. At least she didn’t hurt him. Spike then walked to the edge of balcony and noticed Rarity being cornered by Fancy. His first thought was that, ‘She was already taken because of how dumb he was.’, but then he noticed that she was in distress. “Rarity’s in trouble!” he said to Fleur. Fleur then noticed it as well. She may have failed Spike, but she can at least help him get Rarity she thought to herself. Spike wondered what to do. If he went around, it might be too late. He then went with a crazy idea. Fleur asked, “What are you doing?” Spike simply replied with, “Something crazy!” as he ran towards the end of balcony to jump over. He immediately regretted it, but was lowered down softly with Fleur’s magic. She yelled at him, “SPIKE! THAT WAS RECKLESS!!”, but he just responded with a simple thank you. Fleur grabbed her chest and said to herself, “The reckless dragon that I love.” She then headed down the stairs herself. Spike saw Fancy was leading Rarity away further into the garden away from everypony’s sight. He called out, “Rarity!” Fancy said in spite, “Not that annoying little lizard again.” Spike replied, “Hey! I’m not a lizard!” Fancy covered the path by magically moving the plants. Fancy chuckled as he was now kidnapping Rarity. He then stumbled onto the cliffside. He turned around, but then a quick blaze of fire burned down a path for Spike to come through. As Spike walked through the fire, he said, “I’m a dragon.” Fancy then retorted, “What’s a little dragon like you going to do against me?” Spike thought to himself, ‘Hmm what can I do? I showed up, but now what?’ Fancy then grabbed him with his magic and slammed Spike to the floor. He then said to Spike, “You’re weak. You already lost! I gave Rarity a potion where the next one to kiss her at midnight will get all of her love and admiration.” Spike had no idea what to do. As Fancy continued slamming him, a memory hit Spike. He knew one thing he could do. Spike then put his hand to his mouth and blew as hard as he could making a loud whistle. Fancy was confused. “Is that all you could come up with? How pathetic. Well I can’t play any longer.” Fleur then showed up. “Spike!? Are you alright!?” Fancy then ordered, “Oh Fleur, I’m glad you’re here. Can you dispose of the garbage? I have more pressing matters.” Fleur then retorted, “Spike isn’t garbage. He is more than twice the gentlecolt you ever were!” Fancy then chuckled, “Did you actually grow attached to that lizard?” He then got serious, “Don’t forget who owns you. What of your poor sister? What if I suddenly stop funding her treatments?” Fleur wanted to fight back, but she couldn’t. “Now be a good assistant and get rid of that garbage ok?” Fleur had such fury in her eyes, but it soon turned to fear as she saw an even more furious Princess Celestia rising from behind him along with two other cloaked ponies. Celestia then said in a thunderous voice, “WHO DARES HURT SPIKE!!?” Fancy’s bravado then disappeared in an instant. Everypony in the area heard it and came to the scene. Fancy dropped Spike instantly and tried to speak, “W- well your highnes-”, but he was cut off immediately. “Fancy Pants! For not only hurting a personally invited guest as well as someone, who I call family, as well as drugging a mare, blackmailing, and many other heinous crimes. You will be put away for a long time as well as freezing all of your assets for further investigation.” Celestia said with a malicious intent, but restrained herself as best she could. The guards then took Fancy Pants away. Rarity woke up right afterwards one minute after midnight. “What happened?” She asked groggily. Fleur then said before the others, “Spike here rescued you from Fancy Pants.” This shocked everypony, but a quick wave of the Princess let everyone know to be quiet about today. Spike wanted to object, but Rarity then hugged Spike before he could utter anything. “Thank you my Spikey-Wikey! I always knew you were such a gentledrake.” She then kissed Spike, which was Fleur’s cue to leave. Spike only had a quick glance, before he noticed she was gone. With the party over, everypony had left and the clean up crew came in. Spike, Rarity, Celestia, and the two cloaked ponies all headed to bed. The two cloaked ponies revealed themselves as Luna and Cadence in front of Celestia. Cadence was the first to say anything. “Well that was one crazy turn of events.” Luna then added, “And after setting up everything to be perfect. I even made the moon into a full one just for tonight just for Spike.” Celestia sighed, “At least everything turned out well. I’m glad that I showed Rarity Spike’s plans. She was so happy to hear that and went to work on that stunning outfit he had.” After a quick silence, it was broken by Celestia, “Did you see how happy Spike was to be hugged by Rarity!?” Cadence and Luna both agreed excitedly like a couple of teenage ponies in high school. As the gossip circle went on, Rarity was fast asleep. Spike, however, was looking outside the window. “What a crazy vacation.” He said to himself. “Well at least it’s all over now.” He looked around the room and noticed a small envelope that was addressed to him. It said “To: Spike”, but that was it. He opened it and a note was inside. “Here is a little memento from me to you Spike.” Also inside was a picture of Fleur and Spike in the teacup ride with him being hysterical. Spike chuckled to himself. He then said to himself, “I wonder where you went Fleur. I still need to thank you after all.” With that Spike went to bed. The next morning he and Rarity rode the train back to Ponyville. Before it took off, Celestia personally saw them off and Spike thought he saw Fleur too, but it was probably his imagination. The ride back was oddly silent. Rarity wanted to say something, but how Spike was acting, it felt like it would be best if she just left him alone for a little bit. They then entered Ponyville and all of their friends were waiting for them there. Pinkie of course had a party ready for them and they were prepared for that. Seems that everything went well. Spike was officially with Rarity and everypony is happy for the new lovely couple. It then became late into the evening as Spike and Twilight headed home along with Rarity. He described the entire experience, while leaving details about Fleur out for Rarity’s sake. They dropped Rarity off and now it was just Twilight and Spike. “So Spike. That was quite an adventure you had for only a few days.” Twilight quipped “Twilight, I did leave some details out, but there is something that is still bothering me.” Spike said. Twilight asked, “What’s bothering you?” “When Rarity kissed me the second time, I didn’t feel anything.” This shocked Twilight. “I mean… I guess what I’m trying to say is that… I guess I still love Fleur. Even before she gave out her reason for working with Fancy, I was still in love with her. It’s why I was laughing when she told me the truth. My mind wanted to hate her, but my heart and body wanted to still love her. I am just a terrible dragon aren’t I.” Twilight was still baffled. “Are you sick Spike?” “No I’m not sick or crazy or have some concussion from being slammed so many times.” Spike replied. Twilight didn’t know what to say. “Well let’s talk about this tomorrow. I want to know all the details of course.” “I kind of expected that. Don’t worry. I’ll tell you everything eventually. We got time.” Spike said as they entered their home. Spike just wanted to have a nice stress free sleep. Of course that wasn’t going to happen. This should have been his perfect ending, but it was all wrong. That’s all he could think. Eventually it ate at him, until he decided that he couldn’t lie to himself. He had to see her one more time. He looked at the time and there was still time for the late train to Canterlot. He snuck out and headed towards the station. Unfortunately for Spike, it seems somepony was following him as well.