Question of love

by logisticbumm

Why?

“why do I have to be so stupid?”

Spike lay on his bed staring at the ceiling. He had just spent a whole day with rarity. It was a wonderful day. They had gone out to hunt for gems and had ended up having a picnic lunch. Spike had even managed to dig up some extra pretty amethyst. Spike had felt like he was on top of the world. But then he had begun to think of telling rarity how he felt about her. He had managed to say it to. He had said “Rarity, I know you may not have the same feelings for me as I have for you, but I think you are the most amazing mare ever and I love you.”
Then it had gone wrong. Rarity had stared straight at spike and took off running. He had tried to follow her, but she moved much too quickly for the drake to keep up with. She had even forgotten the gems they had dug up.
Sadly spike had trudged back to town. He left the gems on her front step with a short note apologizing. He could only think he had done something wrong. With the note in place spike continued home.
Now he was lying on his bed, wondering how he could have messed up.

“I bet it’s because I’m a dragon. It’s probably because of when I grabbed her on my birthday. Yeah. That’s it.” Spike gave a half-hearted smile.

He could feel a weight in his chest slowly falling.

There was a knock at his door.

“Spike, you have a visitor.” It was Twilight.

“Give me a minute.” Spike groaned and pulled himself of off his bed. He glanced at a small mirror that hung in a corner of the room, relieved to see no tears. He slowly opened his door and made his way to the main sitting room.

He was quite surprised by the mare waiting for him.

“Hello Spike…”

Spike had not expected to see rarity at all, especially this soon.

“Hi.”

Rarity turned to Twilight “Would you mind giving us some privacy my dear?”

Twilight nodded and gave spike a look that said she had no clue what this was about.

Once she was out of earshot, Rarity turned back to Spike. “I wanted to apologize for my, ah, sudden disappearance.”

Spike put up a weak smile and waved a claw. “That’s OK. You don’t need to apologize.”

Rarity shook her head “but I do. That was no way to treat you. It was very unlady-like of me.”

Spike shook his head, a small grin still on his face. “Really, it’s ok. I said I was ok if you didn’t have the same feelings as I did. I just kinda felt the need to get that off my chest.”

She turned her head to the side as her face began to turn red. “ah, actually, that wasn’t why I ran.” She opened a bag she was wearing.

Spike raised an eyebrow as she pulled out a gem. It was a the fire ruby that he had given her. “I… When you told me how you felt about me… I… well, I felt my heart skip a few beats. I realized just how much you mean to me.” She looked at the floor. “I feel so terrible for how I’ve been treating you spike. You’ve been wearing your heart on your sleeve, and I’ve…I’ve…” her shoulders began to shake as small shimmers fell from her face.

Instinctively, spike grabbed her in a hug and tried to calm the sad mare. “shh, shh, it’s ok. It’s ok Rarity. You haven’t done anything wrong. This is my fault. I shouldn’t have said anything. “

“Oh, spike, don’t say that!” she looked into his eyes with a fierce look, tears still streaming from her eyes. “If you hadn’t said anything, I wouldn’t know that… That I love you!”

She shoved her face into his, their lips connecting. Spike was so surprised he sank backwards, rarity landing on top of him. After a few seconds, Rarity broke the kiss.

Seeing the look on spike’s face, rarity couldn’t help but laugh. “Spike, dear, you look so cute when you’re surprised.”

Spike could feel his face turning red. “So, you aren’t angry at me?”

“Oh, heavens no.” rarity wiped the last of her tears from her face.

“Good.” Spike leaned forward and kissed Rarity again.

“Are you two done in h-”Twilight paused, then smiled. “Never mind. Get me when you two are done.”

When the two had held the kiss for what seemed like forever, spike pulled away.

“Rarity, I have a question.”

“Yes Spike?”

“Will you go out with me?”

“Oh yes Spike!”

Spike and Rarity stared into each other’s eyes. A smile played on Spike’s lips. “It’s funny…” a tone of sadness flickered through his voice. “I had a dream. A dream that one day, I would show you how much I love you… but…” Spike looked into Rarity’s smiling face, ingrained in his mind. Slowly he waved a claw and everything around him faded to the dark surroundings of his cave. He closed his eyes with a sigh. When he spoke it was to himself in a low whisper.

“Why.”

“Because you were afraid.”

Spike turned his face to look at the speaker. It was Luna. She moved and sat next to him.

“You were afraid of the rejection, I think.”

Spike looked up, staring through the only hole in the cave’s roof, at the moon.

“It was a mistake Spike.”

A tear hit the ground, ringing through the cave like a chime in the wind.

“But, you can fix it.”

Spike laughed. “No.”

Luna looked at him, startled. “No?”

“No. Had I said anything, I may have ruined the rest of my life, or… worse. I could have ruined Rarity’s life.”

“But…”

“Princess, why do you think I've stayed away. Rarity is married. I can’t say anything. It is not in my nature to be destructive, especially
when it comes to the things I love.”

It was then Spike saw the other pony. Standing near the mouth of the cave was an ivory Unicorn with a purple mane and tail. Tears stained her cheeks and caused her makeup run.

“Why?”
It was her turn to say it. He sat there, tight lips, looking from the ground to her and back. After what felt like an eternity, he spoke.

“Because you deserved better.” He let out a breath slowly. “You were on your way to the height of your career.” He looked her in the eyes and swallowed the fear in his throat.

“I cared too much to do anything. My love for you was my downfall.”

He could almost hear her heart breaking.

“Spike, how could you ever think I would say no? I only married because no one had heard from you in seven years. I thought you had either moved on or were living with dragons.”

She moved over to him quickly and gracefully. Putting a hoof to his chin, his head was lifted to hers.

“You’re a silly dragon, But” She smiled, "you’re my silly dragon.” She kissed him.

Spikes eyes widened. But he instantly pulled away.

“Rarity, you have vows you are bound to. I won’t make you break them.”

At this, she laughed. “My husband is having an affair with five other women right now. I think it is time I got a divorce. And , who knows, I might just have my eye on a very handsome drake.”

Spike blushed.

“I’ll be here when you're ready Rarity. I’m always here.”

Rarity nodded. She turned to Luna.

“Well princess, it would seem I have some paper work to file. Shall we go?”

Luna nodded.

As the two left, Spike could only smile and whisper a single word.

“Why.”

But this why was not one of questioning nature or anger, but one of joy.

He finally knew.

She cared.

Author's Note:

Any input on my writing would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
-Logistic

Comments

[Thebravenorse]

Some errors (But not many), but besides that your story brought a smile to my face

[x-Kiryu-x]

Aggggggh, the feels!

[Nightmare Haunt]

The baby dragons smiled.

[logisticbumm]

4184536 Thank you

[_Dawnstar_]

Really like the story, but it did felt so sudden and sped up about Spike and his feelings for Rarity at the beginning. But overall, it was really enjoyable. Well done

[Didlsbrony4evah]

4185016
It is really hard to focus on making a proper comment with your avatar distracting me so.

Stupid, sexy Misha...

[logisticbumm]

4186611 glad to distract.

[Zane Wolfe]

This... I enjoyed this. You earned a follower.

[logisticbumm]

4188138
thank you! I hope you enjoy any future work I do.

[TheAmazingPeanuts]

Good story I give it a nice 7.1/10

[Jack Kellar]

Your writing style is... cluttered. With a small hint of beige prose. Nothing too bad, just try and be a bit more articulate with your sentences.

As for the story, I'm middle-of-the-road on it. It feels extremely rushed, but it's cute nonetheless. I've seen better, but also much worse.
Rewrite this with a better syntax, and I'll gladly thumb it up.

[DanvilleBengal]

I think the compactness of the story really make it for me, syntax errors be damned (I'm not a grammer nazi, I can deal with some because I'm mentally correcting obvious errors. Our minds do that on their own.) And it does spotlight something that we don't really see often---how Spike is able to let somepony go. In this case, he knew that he still loved Rarity, but he also knew that her happiness and comfort is much more important than his own. We all know the adage: If you truly love someone, let them go. Because if the love is true, it will come back to you.

Obviously we found out it was true love all the time. It just took some time to figure it out.

What really bugged me was this: Was it really a dream? Or was it a memory? The way that Rarity and Spike conversed at the end seems like it's a memory, because it would have really sucked if we discovered that the whole story was just a dream in Spike's head and when reality comes in, we show him desolate, isolated, and lonely.

It definitely gave the Sad tag

[StardustSurvivor]

this was just beautiful, i'd ask for a follow up story but that might be asking too much

[Mystery Derpy]

Who in the hell disliked this
My feels are broken now but i love this story

[logisticbumm]

4199873 I'm guessing they just hit the wrong button :)

[logisticbumm]

4197426 it was neither dream nor memory: It was draconian magic at play- a fantasy created by spike to cope.

[logisticbumm]

4197936 these two will be back in my writing, just not a follow up. Though I may just have to do one.

[Ignaltus]

Beautiful.

[Equestrian Ghost]

This is cool.

[DualKitsune]

Loved it! It moved me. But I am a sucker for sad scenes and happy endings...and sad scenes. Also it's 1 in the morning here. BUT STILL!!
It's good. I would like to point out however, that there are many, many, times where you FORGOT TO CAPITALIZE THEIR NAMES. Seriously.... Don't do that. Anything but that. Well, not anything...but that's a pretty easy one..

But back to it...five mares? Well, damn.

[HorrorYen]

I call naming the baby/babies

[Raichu]

I guess I'm glad he had a happy ending.

[Hillbe]

orig00.deviantart.net/a30d/f/2017/055/2/7/fashionably_resting_by_hillbe-db0abdt.jpg

[Lore Horse]

At this, she laughed. “My husband is having an affair with five other women right now. I think it is time I got a divorce. And , who knows, I might just have my eye on a very handsome drake.”

I wish to know, who is this bastard? He deserves to have his nuts removed.