The Librarian and The Showmare

by Bakmah Genesis

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The sound of shouting jolted Trixie awake from her sleep. She looked around to find fresh pancakes sitting on her tray. Spike sat on the couch, rubbing his temples as he listened to the shouting outside. Trixie could make out Twilight, but there was another mare there she couldn't figure out.

"Wh-what's g-going on?" asked Trixie in a hoarse voice. Spike's head shot up, relaxing slightly as he saw Trixie.

"Rainbow Dash came in, saw you, and attempted to kick your flank while you were sleeping. They are now having a shouting match over you," said Spike in a bored, annoyed tone. The dragon stood and grabbed the plate of pancakes. He sliced off a piece and held it out to her. "Don't thank me. I am not happy about this."

Trixie gulped before opening her mouth, taking the bite. For the next half hour, Spike fed Trixie with an annoyed expression as the shouting match continued. It wasn't until Spike finished and set the plate to the side did the door kick open. A cyan Pegasus that was obviously Rainbow Dash by the colour of her mane stormed in, Twilight not far behind.

"I don't care if she is on her death bed, I will not let her stay here in Ponyville after what she did!" said Rainbow Dash as she stormed toward Trixie. The azure mare couldn't do anything more than shrink into her covers for protection against the pegasus.

Twilight stepped in front of her. "No, Rainbow! She is in my home and is in my custody. I don't care what you have against her, but you are not throwing her out! She is too weak as it is that she will probably die within minutes out there."

"And maybe she deserves it!" shouted Rainbow. Twilight froze. A pure blank expression across her face. Rainbow grew slightly concerned by this change and behavior. "Twi-"

SLAP!

Rainbow stood in complete shock as she grabbed her cheek. She turned to look at Twilight, finding the lavender unicorn staring at her behind eyes of pure rage.

"No pony, no matter what they have done, deserves to die like that. I will not have you saying things like that. Not in my library, not ANYWHERE!" shouted the unicorn, her mane billowing in an imaginary wind. Rainbow shrank away from her while the other two occupants of the room stood in shock.

"I-I'm just going to put this plate away," said Spike, slowly backing away to the door. Neither mare except Trixie seemed to hear him. The azure mare silently begged him not to leave her alone with the two others. The drake shrugged with a sheepish smile before closing the door behind him.

Trixie's glance darted between the two occupants in the room. One who looked like she could vaporize whoever looked at her wrong at the moment and the other who cowered in the corner, fearing what may happen to her.

"M-may somepony stir my fire?" Asked Trixie, hoping to break the tension. She sighed in relief as Twilight's mane went back to normal, the mare taking a deep breathe before trotting over to the fire with a light smile.

Rainbow blinked at the sudden change in mood. She turned to Trixie for an explanation, the azure mare shrugging back at her. "S-so Trixie....h-how have you been?" asked Rainbow, shifting in her spot a bit.

Trixie swallowed a bit to wet her throat for the task of speaking. "F-fine. The y-year could have b-been better, b-but oh well." Trixie shivered as a wave of cold air blew through the library, a sign of the front door opening.

"Twilight!" Three filly voices called out. Twilight and Rainbow visibly winced at the sound.

"Rainbow, can you keep an eye on Trixie while I go make sure they do not come back here? I don't want other ponies finding out about her until she is of good health." The lavender unicorn sighed as she made her way around Trixie's bed and towards the door.

The two mares sat there in relative silence, Rainbow shaking out a wing every now and then. "I am sorry about what I did the last few times I was here," said Trixie, staring at the pattern on her blanket. Purple stars of a certain unicorn's cutie mark adorned the square quilt work.

"Sure you are," mumbled Rainbow Dash.

"What? Crawling to the doorstep of my supposed 'worst enemy' while on my death bed is not enough of an apology?" asked Trixie before she started into a coughing fit, using the blankets to muffle the sound of her coughing.

"Well..." Rainbow looked away, her ears splaying back. "I guess it is." She let out a long sigh. "I...still do not trust you, though. Not after what you did. But, I guess I can be okay with you being here, for now."

Trixie sighed before giving her a small smile. "That is all I ask for. Though, I am hesitant on leaving once I am healed and back to my normal self in a week," said Trixie, looking off to the side.

"I don't see why you don't want to go back to whatever you do." Rainbow shrugged. "I mean, travelling all over Equestria must be awesome! I hardly ever leave Ponyville."

"Because Trixie is not wanted," said Trixie darkly. "I made one mistake, and that mistake caused me to get rejected." She growled. "It didn't help that before the mistake, I was called out and humiliated for a simple business trick that everyone knows! Build your fake character and not be afraid to hold it up high because it represents what you are for. Others took my character, my advertisment, too literal. A group of ponies at one of my shows started it." Rainbow's ears splayed back as she realized she was talking about her.

"The whole Ursa Major thing was just to attract ponies?" asked Rainbow.

"Yes. I would bring ponies, and then tell the tale of how 'The Great and Powerful Trixie' defeated an Ursa Major. Once it was all done, I would go back and see how many bits I made off from telling a story. I am not a magician, Rainbow Dash, I am a storyteller. I tell the stories of a fictional character based off what I would like to accomplish. You and your friends, however, refused to see this." Trixie sighed as she stared at ceiling. A small smirk appeared on her face. "Obviously, I'm so good at my craft, I made The Great and Powerful Trixie seem more real than she was."

"I...guess you're kinda cool," said Dash, scratching behind her head. Trixie laughed.

"Don't force yourself now." The azure pushed herself up so she was facing Rainbow. "All that was over a year ago. All my bitterness is not directed at any of you, but more to me for acting so stupid and thinking myself as Holier Than Thou. My fictional character got to my head and created this whole mess. Its my fault and my fault alone." Trixie sighed as she laid back down. “I’m going to go to bed, tell Twilight not to disturb me when you get the chance,” she said, closing her eyes.

Rainbow nodded as she stood. She made her way out of the room, quietly closing the door behind her. Once in the lobby, she looked to see Twilight rubbing her temples as the CMC zoomed around the room, checking out the shelves.

Walking up to her, Rainbow leaned into her ear. “Trixie wants to be alone for awhile to sleep.” Twilight’s ears perked as she turned to her.

“Sleeping, already?” She scratched her chin. “Well, our fight must have exhausted her or something. Well, I’ll just have Spike bring some water in and set it next to her bed for her.” Rainbow nodded as she turned to look at the fillies running around the room. "They're trying to find a book to help get a cutie mark. I decided to just tune them out," said Twilight with a sigh.

Rainbow laughed. "That's the best thing to do when it comes to those three." She sighed. "I'm going to head off to work. I'll let you tell the girls whenever you want," said Rainbow as she walked towards the door. Twilight smiled and waved goodbye. She let out a small chuckle as she turned to see what the girls were doing.

She froze as she watched Scootaloo balance herself on a large stack of books, swaying side to side as she attempted to keep upright. She let out a scream as the books fell out from under her, getting tossed all over the room as well as the shelf of books she was looking in.

"Better tell Spike he has to reorganize," said Twilight with a sigh.

Comments

[Manes]

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At the top of the chapter. Might wanna get that fixed.

[Crystal Static]

Not bad, I want more though...

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[Exterminate Regenerate]

4536214 ...I Don't Get It. What's With The Gif?

[ThePrimoChocolatePony]

4536600 that's just his comment signature. I already asked that same question

[Frankie2]

Well, at least the CMC aren't trying to be Cutie Mark Bounty Hunters...yet.

[Bakmah Genesis]

4536819
Thats next chapter.

[Frankie2]

4536870 Oh dear!

[Exterminate Regenerate]

4536669 Thank You, My Dear Acquaintance!

[Crystal Static]

4536600 I was using it as a comment signature for a while, but I actually stopped using it...

~Crystalline Electrostatic~

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Excuse me. *Walks up to Dash and punches her in the face*

Loved the chapter. More, please?

[Exterminate Regenerate]

4537452 Jolly Good!

[Autum Breeze]

should've expected dash to react badly.

but really, dash? You'd willingly let somepony go out to die? Harsh!

i look forward to more.

i can't give this another like, so here's a twismile instead

[vampyr-pony]

OMC! i cant like it enough times!!!!

[Mooncalf]

*sigh* Why is it that in all these stories, Dash has to be a violent bully? I mean, when has she, canonically, assaulted another without provocation?

I can see that it helps advance the plot, and was great to see Twilight go all Mama Bear instead of waffling, but still. I think fanon has carried this a bit too far.

Still a nice chapter. A bit basic premise so far, but I expect it to pick up.

[LuminousSpark]

4540552
Well, while she's never physically attacked anyone with provocation, she has always had sort of a "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality, especially in the earlier episodes. With that said, it wouldn't be surprising if Rainbow reacted towards Trixie, the same mare who humiliated her, AJ, and Rarity, caused two colts to lead an Ursa Minor into the town due to her boasting, drove Twilight out of town, and enslaved all of Ponyville, in a more violent manor than say...if Gilda showed back up in town. Granted, saying that Trixie deserved to die for her actions is definitely going too far, which she did an almost immediate 180 on, especially when Twilight laid the Pimp Slap across her face.

[Mooncalf]

4685732 Given that Gilda physically assaulted Pinkie Pie and made Fluttershy cry without provocation, while Trixie only humiliated Dash after the latter openly provoked her and tried to ruin her show, I'd say that she'd have more reason to punch out Gilda.

Sorry, it's just that Trixie so very, very often gets set up as a villain and a target and a punching bag for the 'heroes' to wail on, while the authors forget that the 'heroes' have done a lot of bad things too (which is either glossed over or forgiven). It just makes the 'heroes' look bad to me.

[LuminousSpark]

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Well, you got to remember that when it comes to the ponies in this world, almost all of them see thing's only in black and white, with no gray area at all. They only see good beings or bad beings, with no neutral grounds. Because the mane 6 do way more positive things than negative, it causes them to be able to get away with the negative things a little too easily.

Now, I get what you're saying. I like Trixie as well, and I like seeing stories where she redeems herself, but it's not believable if she just shows up after everything that's happened and the rest of the main six are all hugs and forgiving. Pinkie might though, but that's Pinkie for you . Now the other extreme of kill on sight is stupid as well, since the popular headcanon is that everyone is taught to never kill another being for any reason. Now Im withholding on where this sits on that meter since we've only seen Rainbow's reaction, which as I stated, started to change imediately after Twilight pimp slapped her and seemed to change more so after talking to her.

[Crystal Static]

Hurry up with new chapters!

~Crystalline Electrostatic~

[GodOfBBQ]

Alright you have my attention with this story fella, or fellet if you're a girl. I'll have my eye on this story, don't leave me hanging.

[Knight N Gale]

So is this story dead...or what?

[Knight N Gale]

4536870 so is this story dead...or what?

[Frankie2]

So, when is that next chapter coming out?

[Angius]

A FAIR WARNING

The author is still active, and yet has no common decency to mark this fic as being on hiatus or cancelled. It most probably will never be updated again, and most certainly won't be finished.

With that warning, you can move along to greener pastures now.