Celestia and Luna stood face-to-face in the castle’s hallway, a couple of maids bowing as they walked by. Luna cleared her throat. “Well?” Celestia asked.
“Well what?” Luna returned.
“I’ve got work for you to do. Aren’t you going to come up with some ‘great emergency’ in order to avoid-”
“Oh, Sis!”
“Here it comes…”
“Apple Bloom is, uh, worried about her cutie mark!”
Celestia burst a vessel as blood filled her eye. “SHE ALWAYS IS! THAT’S ALL SHE EVER DOES!” Celestia huffed and puffed and tried Cadence’s method of coping with stress. It wasn’t working. “Y’know what?! Forget it! Go! Fucking. Go! I’ll just tell the orphanage that you were ‘too busy’ to allocate any funding to them!”
The hallway was empty, save for Celestia. Luna had left long before Celestia could finish.
“… I wish I could fire her.”
I read this particular passage in a comment on Derpibooru. Is this based on said comment, or was someone quoting your story?
Unnecessary curse word, otherwise a fun, silly short read.
You're one to talk Celestia. Sister returning? Send Twilight. Discord escaped? Send Twilight. Crystal Empire returned? Send Cadance, Shining, Twilight, pretty much any pony without any experience with said ancient kingdom.
Whoa, whoa, WHOA! Calm down, bitch, calm down! Whoa! Alright, we'll figure this out, man! Jesus!
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What she's not being a bitch. She's stressed. 1,000 yrs carrying the weight of Equestria unnescessarily all on her back. Doing a job that is lethal to mortals, in more ways than one. And she needs her sister to step up to the plate and help lessen her burden. But instead, in every thing that could have made Equestria a better place, and given her a 10 - 12 hr break (rather than her normal 4 hr one between 10 hr shifts).
Her sister, whom she has worked (to the overlooking of 6 untrained fillies who are barely old enough to be considered mares, that she sends to almost certain death all the time) to make the world one that she would be proud of and would accept her. Turns around, and doesn't do anything to help. At all. Alliance with Saddle Arabia that would have benefited Equestrian economy? Nope. Griffons where causing problems, lets send Blue Blood instead. Now, Orphanages need help? Let's screw Scootaloo, and ponies like her!
So yeah. Stressed, super stressed. Not a bitch.
You did fire her. For a thousand years, remember?