If We Were Queens

by Lucky Seven

If you could only wait for me, I'd come around...

“You’re just the worst...”

Those words played through her head all night. In the end, their plan had been thwarted. They were left without their magic. They had failed. They had been humiliated. It had been the worst night of their lives. And yet, those four words hurt her more than any defeat could. Without their singing voices, all they had was each other. Sure, they had been through some tough times together, but they always ended with those same words.

“You’re the worst.”

Was she truly the worst, or was it simply Aria’s frustrations being taken out on her? Either way, she didn’t have time to give it further thought as she heard a rapping on the door. “C-come in…”

The door creaked open ever so slowly, and Sonata suddenly found herself wishing she had just sent the person who knocked away. “Sonata, are you okay?”

“Why would you care? I’m not worth your time, I’m the worst…”

“Ugh…” That was a sound Sonata had grown more than used to. It meant that her friend was annoyed, and she couldn’t blame her. After all, having to put up with someone who was the worst couldn’t be fun. “I hate seeing you cry, ya know?”

“W-what?” the whimpering girl stuttered out, wiping a few tears onto her sleeve. Aria let out a sigh, her expression spoke bounds to Sonata. “Are you… sad?”

“Well duh! I might be a little mean, but I don’t like making my friends cry,” she admitted. A small smile tugged at the corner of Sonata’s lips.

“I’m your friend…?”

“Of course you are, why would you think any different? Ugh, sometimes you’re just the worst…”

Sonata had to giggle at that, and Aria rolled her eyes. “Look, I’m sorry I called you the ‘R’ word, I was just really frustrated…”

“It’s okay, Aria, now I know you didn’t mean it,” her blue haired friend smiled back. Before she could get up to leave, she found herself in a tight embrace. It was one that she slowly but surely returned. As a few of Sonata’s tears landed on her shoulders, she pulled back and wiped away the tears with her fingers. “T-thanks…”

“Don’t mention it, loser.”

Maybe she was the worst, but she was Aria’s worst.

---

Later that week, Sonata was looking for Aria. She wanted to do something with her friend, something fun for a change. Ever since they had been defeated, all they seemed to do was watch TV and talk. She was determined to change that and do something exciting. Like go to an amusement park, or go see a movie in the theater! Ooh, that was a good idea, she thought to herself.

After a few minutes of looking, she found Aria in the most obvious of spots, her own room.

“Aria, do you wanna go see a movie?”

“Depends on what kind of movie,” she replied without looking away from her TV. “It better not be any of that sappy romance crap…”

“Well… what if it was upbeat romance crap?” Sonata shot back, giggling. Aria simply chose not to respond, and after a few seconds she felt a thud to her left. “Whatcha watching?”

“Full Metal Jacket, you wouldn’t like it.”

“Well what’s it about?” The question sounded too innocent, and Aria laughed devilishly.

“War. Death. Destruction.”

“Well if you like it, then I’ll give it a try!” Sonata exclaimed, stunning Aria. Before their defeat, Sonata had always stayed away from movies like this one, but she was willing to watch it just for… her? “After all, we’re besties, aren’t we? Or in your case, ‘worsties’,” she laughed at her own joke.

Aria pursed her lips for a few moments, but eventually a smile found its way onto them, the first in ages. “Yeah. We are.”

Maybe sitting at home and watching TV with Aria wasn’t such a bad thing after all.

---

It had been a few days since Sonata had spent the night watching movies with Aria, and the two were currently at Canterlot High. It was lunch period, and along with them sat Adagio. Sure, Sonata’s tacos were good, but the food Aria had ordered just looked so...

“Sonata, you’re drooling all over the table.”

“I can’t help it, Adagio, Aria’s food just looks so good!”

“Well then why didn’t you order it, loser?” Aria rolled her eyes. “You want a bite?”

“Yes!” Aria winced at the volume of Sonata’s voice, but nonetheless held out a fork with a piece of chicken on it. Her friend quickly gobbled up what had been offered to her and licked her lips. “Mmm… that was really delicious!”

“Obviously not as delicious as Aria finds you, Sonata,” teased Adagio. Aria blushed heavily, while Sonata simply giggled.

“S-shut up!”

“Admit it, you’d much rather taste her than that chicken,” Adagio smirked at the groan Aria gave as a response. “Relax, I’m only kidding. How have your chats with Sunset Shimmer gone, Sonata?” She quickly changed the subject to avoid Aria’s wrath.

“Oh, they’re going really super duper good! She’s the one who got us back into the school, actually!”

“Well… I can’t say I like her, but I must thank her for that. Life with just you two was driving me mad.”

“Aw, don’t be like that, Adagio. ‘Sides, me and Aria have the best time hanging out. Right, best bud?”

“Right. The best.” The response was short, but Aria’s smile betrayed her. Maybe hanging out with Sonata wasn’t as bad as she used to think it was.

---

“I can’t believe you, of all people, got a job. It’s only been a month since we tried to take over the world, did the manager just forget about us?” Sonata tittered at Aria’s comment. “How is it, anyways? It looks like it’s really boring."

“Well do you really think I’d find the Taco Shack to be 'really boring'?” Sonata air-quoted the last two words and Aria rolled her eyes so hard it was a miracle her head didn’t go with them.

“I guess not. Can I get a taco now? I’ve been waiting for like…” She quickly pulled out her watch to check the time, “twenty minutes.”

“Oh, sure! Gimme just a sec, bestie!” Sonata exclaimed, bounding towards the kitchen. After what felt like another five minutes, she returned with quite possibly the best looking taco Aria had ever seen. Placing it down in front of Aria, she gave a salute. “Here ya go!”

She was hesitant to take a bite - Sonata was well known for her pranks after all - but when she finally did she didn’t regret it in the least bit. “This is just…”

“The worst?” Sonata guessed, this time with a look of sadness.

“The best,” Aria corrected her friend, who quickly wrapped her in an enormous hug. Somehow this hug felt… different than the others they had shared. It was the best...

---

“Alright, I know it’s been like three months since the battle of the bands, but I have a surprise for you!”

Sonata was holding a box out towards Aria, who looked very hesitant to take it.

“You know I don’t like surprises, Sonata. Surprises are stupid,” she replied nonchalantly, flipping through some channels on the TV as she did.

Leaning towards her closest friend, Sonata smiled widely. “I just know you’ll think differently about this one!”

“Whatever. Let’s just get this over with…” Aria groaned, snatching the box from her friend’s hands without a care. “It’s bad enough that you hang out with Pinkie Pie all the time now, but the fact that you’re picking up on her habits is just the worst…”

“Everything is the worst to you, you big buffoon,” Adagio made her presence known to her friends. “Just open the box, Sonata worked very hard on this. Surprisingly...”

And so she did. Wrapping paper was ripped from the box, and it revealed itself to be covered in the softest velvet she’d ever felt. “Only you would pick something this sappy, Sonata.”

“Just hurry up and open it, Ms. Grumpy Pants!”

“Alright, fine!” Aria shouted back as she flipped the box open. What laid inside shocked her. So much, in fact, that she dropped the box to the ground. “S-Sonata, how did--”

“Twilight Sparkle made new ones for us!”

Aria’s eyes glazed over and she grabbed the pendant out of its box, clutching it tightly between her hands. “It feels… warmer than before,” she choked out.

“That’s because she made them work with the power of friendship instead of dark energy,” Adagio commented with a chuckle. “That pony is simply too smart for her own good.”

“But then… why’s it already warm?”

“Ugh, sometimes you’re even dumber than Sonata, Aria…” Adagio groaned out with a facepalm.

Then it clicked. It was powered through friendship, and right now, her feelings for Sonata Dusk were stronger than ever. Throwing her own personality out the window, she lept to her feet and embraced her friend in the tightest of hugs. “Thank you…”

“It was nothing… bestie…”

Sonata would have been content with just standing there and hugging her friend, but it was Aria’s turn to surprise her with a peck on the cheek. “Wrong, we’re more than besties.”

Gasping, Sonata shouted, “You mean we’re SUPER BESTIES!?”

“Ugh. Sonata, sometimes you’re just the worst…” Aria muttered out before planting a quick kiss right on her friend’s lips.

“I’m not much for sappy moments, but you two are rather cute together,” Adagio teased them. To her credit, Aria didn’t groan or blush. Instead, she asked Sonata a question.

“You doing anything Friday night?”

“I am.”

“Oh…” Aria sounded incredibly disappointed. “Well then what about--”

“I’m spending it with my new girlfriend!” Sonata squealed out, and Adagio couldn’t help but laugh as she threw herself at Aria, knocking her over in a tackle-hug.

“All in all, I think I might actually be happy that we lost,” Aria managed, just barely. She wasn’t one for sappy moments, and the last five minutes had provided enough of those for an entire year.

“You? Happy? I never thought I’d see the day. Now are you going to put on that pendant and sing or are you just going to stand around like a fool?” Adagio snickered, expecting Aria to give some witty retort. Instead, the punk girl simply did as she was told and wrapped the pendant around her neck.

“I actually wrote this song a few days after we lost, but I wanted to keep it a secret. Without our voices, I had no way to sing it. But thanks to you, I do now,” Aria smiled at Sonata, a single tear escaping her eye and rolling down her cheek. Taking a deep breath, she began her song, and to her delight it was in perfect key.

‘Wait, if you could only wait for me, I’d come around,
And take, whatever light you’d shed then we, might come around,
Come what may, if we were queens for a day, could we, would we…
Light the way, and the pain I’ll take away, could it be...’

Author's Note:

Alright, the song at the end is not my own creation. Just gonna get that out of the way right now to avoid any confusion because I do realize it's sort of an obscure song.

That's the song, and it inspired this story entirely. I was actually planning on making this a series of short drabbles, but the idea of putting them all into one chapter seemed like a better idea. The reason it's split into several different moments in time is because I thought it would be more fun if everyone could have their own interpretation of what happened between those moments.

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed it! I am going to write a sequel to this, by the way.

Finally, all comments and criticism are appreciated, yada yada yada.

Comments

[Shigo96]

D'aaaaaw so cute

[Bookish Delight]

Upvoted for cuteness. Rarely do I get to see a Dazzlings story that makes me smile on purpose.

The only thing I would suggest is a bit more subtlety. This here prose is constantly batting me over the head with mallets labeled "The Worst" and "She May Be An X But She's My X." Even if you're going for a character arc, go ahead and replace some of that Rainbow Rocks/Early RR Fanart stuff we've heard a million times with more of your Aria (and your Sonata)--how you want her to be. Things like Sonata and Aria's movie scene, and Aria's change in demeanor near the end, were good examples. They felt fresh and I liked 'em.

(I promise I'm done editing this message now.)

[Lucky Seven]

6227536 I didn't check it until the editing was done, so it's fine lol

Anyways, thanks for the critique! It definitely shed some light on something I need to get better at. I often say that when writing fanfiction, you should make the characters your own up to a certain extent, but it's a lot harder when you're actually writing it. Perhaps I'll go through and make some changes, much like how you made some changes to your comment :P

EDIT: I've removed and replaced a few instances of "the worst" with other things I personally think Aria would say.

[The Accursed One]

Just like What's a "Waifu"?, this story was great. Glad you're back to writing, Seven

Definitely deserves the upvote and fav.

[Midnight_Streak]

Happy to see some great stories comming from you again. I personally think you do fantastic with one chapter stories (considering "Every Thorn Has Its Rose" is one of my favorite stories probably on the entire site) definitely hype for a sequel to this!

[SkycatcherEQ]

6227536
I can agree with this. And (as usual) stated more eloquently that I could have. ;)
Short and sweet. (Fast, but that was the intent it seems.)

The time lapses between the scene breaks was sort of a fresh take as well and allowed the fast pace to work more naturally, imo.

[Lucky Seven]

6228338 Glad to hear that my decision to go with time lapses paid off in the end. I was honestly a little hesitant to do it when I was starting, but it allowed me to write the scenes I really wanted to without much of a loss of pacing.

Also happy to hear that you enjoyed the story, and I hope you enjoy the sequel when it comes out!

[MissytheAngle]

Why is it that I thought of this when they kept saying "You're the worst"??

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hehehehehi'msorry

Good job, stupid.

[Candle_Jack]

Very cute sir, and well done as always.

While I do think more time could be devoted to the blooming of the relationship, it wasn't too fast and it was well paced, so good job on
that my friend. Other than that, I don't really have much to say, there weren't a errors as far as I could tell. Great job!

[Twinight]

"War.death.description"
LoL that made me laugh so hardXD

[dragonjek]

Sonata had to giggle at that, and Aria rolled her eyes. “Look, I’m sorry I called you the ‘R’ word, I was just really frustrated…”

?

[Lucky Seven]

6229663 "Retard"

[dragonjek]

6229673 Ah. I thought I was missing something in-story, my bad.

[Lucky Seven]

6229685 Nah, my main intention was for people to come up with their own word for that, but "Retard" is the fall back because it sounds to me like something that may make Sonata cry.

[JustAnotherTimeLord]

I think placing a whole bunch of snippets together worked well with showing the development of their relationship and the hatching of a new Aria (or you can get fancy and call it her character climax or something) was a pretty good idea, but I felt this story needed a little more detail and time spent between scenes. Not all of them, mind you, hut some scenes just didn't feel like they had enough power to them to really kick in the idea of these two becoming "besties."

If I were to point at specific scenes, the dinner scene and Taco Shack scene just didn't feel right. They certainly tried to stand out, like the dinner scene declaring that she didn't find hanging out with Sonata to bad, and also starting the trend of Aria saying something about Sonata was "the best," but it seemed so . . . trivial. The situations didn't seem to warrant a major relational epiphany, and yet they someone carried some unknown and greater importance. That may be a connection I'm personally not bridging, but I stand firm in saying that they didn't do it for me.

And unfortunately, that made the concluding scene not feel right either. It was a very cute story that had me smiling, but I have qualms with how you developed the story. Otherwise, it could have been a very fulfilling and enjoyable read.

[seventeen]

I also like the breaks between! It suggests that time passes so we don't have to watch this all happen in one long sitting; further, as you know it allows us to fill in blanks (even with nothing, since that could've been their every interaction that was documented) but blanks can be revisited in the sequel you're thinking of!
Adagio's brief but consistent presence is nice too (it's sad in fics where they split apart) since she's funny and not too mean
short, simple, sweet... it's magical

[The Nameless Pony]

The opening was really good and hooked me in straight away. And even though it was a short story I really liked the way their relationship built up. And like seventeen said, the gaps in time work well and support this building of their relationship. Great!

[Plain Hunter]

That was so adorable!

[Princess Glitzy]

Cute. This story's been put into my group Romance is Magic.

[bigdogcop]

any one else thinking of green day's when i come around? any one?

[Damien Darkside]

Good read fam

[Lucky Seven]

7379318 Hey, thanks!

[ShipM8]

Really great i love it

[LackLustre]

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