Chapter 8 - All's Well
A gentle knock on her door interrupts Octavia’s current bout of crying. “Go away,” she screams at the door. Turning back to her bed, she buries her head into her pillow as a fresh round of tears start making their way down her face. Sobbing, she doesn’t hear the door open.
“I thought you were stronger than this,” a scratchy voice says.
Sniffling, she looks up and sees the last pony in Equestria she expects to. With her shades resting on her head, holding the unruly blue mane back, Vinyl Scratch stands there with her cocky grin. “Seriously. So you finally saw your ‘friends’ for what they are. That’s no reason to lock yourself in your room all day and throw a fit.”
“What do you want, Miss Scratch?”
“I came to see if you wanted to go get a cup of coffee and talk some things out. We’ve got a lot to discuss.”
Finally realising that Vinyl is in her room, she looks to her questioningly. “How did you even get in here?”
“Your mother let me in. As for the lock on the door,” she trails off, horn alighting with magic. “Now, pull yourself together. We’re going to go out. You wouldn’t want to appear so unkempt now would you?” A hint of sarcasm tinging her voice.
Wiping her eyes, Octavia sniffles a couple of times, eyes red and puffy from crying. “I can’t go out, I’m a wreck!”
Levitating a brush with a purple treble clef on it, Vinyl floats it over to Octavia. “Better start with that mane. Unless you’ve decided to become a DJ,” she adds, a grin tugging at the corners of her mouth.
Scowling at Vinyl, Octavia takes the brush and begins the arduous process of brushing it out in an attempt to restore it to it’s normal state. “Why are you even here, Vinyl?” she asks, curiosity getting the best of her.
“Well,” she says, “I figured you might like to grab a cup of coffee with me. We’ve got a few things to talk about.”
Sighing with resignation, Octavia nods numbly before setting the brush down and getting to her hooves. “I suppose we do.” Trotting out of her room, Octavia leads Vinyl through the manor and out the door. “Where exactly did you want to go?”
Grinning, Vinyl walks alongside Octavia. “There’s a little coffee shop about 5 minutes from here that knows me.” Lapsing into silence, the two mares make their way down to Java Journey. Upon seeing Vinyl enter the barista shouts out, “The usual, V?”
“Sure, plus whatever this one wants,” she says, fishing a small bag of bits out.
Looking at the signs above the barista station, Octavia mulls over the expansive menu. Feeling a little out of her element, she looks back to the pony taking orders and says, “I’ll just have a herbal tea please.” Paying for the drinks, Vinyl and Octavia go and collect them before heading to a table.
“So,” Octavia said hesitantly, “what did you want to talk about?” Taking a sip of her tea, she watches Vinyl.
“Second chances.”
Startled, Octavia says, “Mine or yours?”
“Both,” she says with a sigh. Looking at the cup before her she pauses before looking up to meet Octavia’s eyes. “We both need a second chance. Who knows, we might make a new friend out of it.” Shrugging, she takes a drink of the strange brew before her.
“Why would we need a second chance?” Octavia asks, curiosity piqued.
Pondering how to respond, Vinyl takes a moment before talking, slowly at first. “Your world, as you know it, seems to have had the bottom drop out. Plus as irritating and insufferable as you are, I think there’s a decent mare somewhere in you.”
Snorting in derision, Octavia rolls her eyes. “Thanks for the kind words and vote of confidence. What makes you think that there is, as you say, a ‘decent mare in me’ anyway?”
Looking up to meet Octavia’s gaze she says simply “You’ve been trying to correct your mistakes.”
Opening her mouth to retort, Vinyl’s answer catches her off guard. Slowly closing her mouth, she mulls this over. Slowly nodding in understanding of Vinyl’s statement, she asks “And what about you?”
Pushing her drink around in an attempt to delay answering, she mutters “I need to work on forgiving other ponies. Mainly you.”
“It seems we both have things to work on,” Octavia says mutedly.
Nodding in agreement, Vinyl looks to the grey mare hopefully “Do you think we could maybe start over? I think we could both really use a friend right now.”
Nodding shyly Octavia smiles weakly, “I would like that.”
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nice end!
Interesting and creative story.
But the ending feels kind of missing something. Are we supposed to overlook that Vinyl is jobless, left the school and is about to lose her flat?
Will these things stay unresolved?
Except if you plan a sequel, than just ignore my rambling.
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Thanks!
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waves hooves in a mystic manner
Ambiguous endings are ambiguous!
In all honesty though, I did leave it open for the possibility of a sequel, as a couple of people have asked me for one. But to be fair, I'm not really feeling it. So one of two things is bound to happen. First, I write a sequel in the future. Not sure when, but it is a distinct possibility. Second, the entire thing gets a re-write in the future. Now, that is going to happen to try and smooth some things out (like my use of punctuation), but I might add more in to clear it up and/or write an additional chapter.
But for your curiosity, I was planning on addressing those concerns. First, the job. I was planning on having the connections of Octavia's Father be used to secure Vinyl a job and have her work her way back to the top of the heap. In addition to that, she would be starting to produce albums and work with other artists on their albums. Second, schooling. I did mention that she dropped out and went back to the Canterlot High, the city's free high school. While not as fancy as Canterlot Prep (or future focused, ie. music specific classes), it offers a good solid education. Third, housing. Ultimately there was going to be a scene in which Vinyl packs up her turntables and records and heads off to Ponyville. I decided against that as this story needed both characters and I new as soon as I sent her off, she would drop out of the picture.
But sadly, the well of inspiration has dried up and I was getting tired of working on this story. I felt myself stagnating as I tried to force things along. Hopefully, by working on other stories, I'll get those creative juices flowing again and be able to bring some experience in writing back to this story and give it the polish and shine it deserves.
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First I want to thank you for obviously taking much time to think and write about my concerns with your story
Just want to make sure I still love this story despite the rushed last chapters (it's in my favourites actually)
I completely understand you and your problems and no matter for which way you decide I'm looking forward to it and future stories from you.
Btw with your response to my comment you made me curious enough to follow you
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I appreciate the follow and I'm glad I was able to answer your questions :). I love it when readers ask me these as it sometimes forces me to look at the story in another light. Sometimes that's great and other times, it just leads to a confused me!
As it stands, I'm 99% certain that a rewrite and an sequel will be occurring. I don't know when however. The rewrite will be to try and just smooth things out and that's going to come with experience. The sequel... I'm working on ideas, but I don't want to rush it and end up being miserable because I feel like I have to produce something. I want it to be fun.
The good news with those, is that I'll be announcing things through blog posts!
Hot dang. How does this not have more upvotes!?
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What. That means all three of the stories that you have written are in my favorites. 
I need to make a prize for that.. hm... I know! 
I can make a Best Author box on my page. And guess who's going in first!? Shortskirtsandexplosions!!!!
Kidding. It's you, of course, who else?
Best story! (Bit of a rushed ending but I read your conversation with Marwile, so all my comments/questions have been answered on that note
This is going directly to favorit-
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I can totally understand SS&E getting it :P
But seriously That is awesome :D I'm honored to be the first of hopefully many to grace your user page :D
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I just realized that there is one or two authors that've achieved that.... 
Now I gotta go search through and figure out who.
Many? ^-^ Probably not. The only way to get up there is to have every story that an author has written in my favorites
.... Oh.
Hmmmm..... now that I think about it, there's plenty of authors that have just one story that I'e fav'd... I'd better make it like, three stories at least x.x or that'd be a lot of authors.
i still love this man.
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Thanks. It was fun to take her in a sightly different direction than normal.
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I'm not going to lie, bitchy Octavia was a lot of fun to write. It's most certainly feasable to see her as such, and pretty easy for her to slip into.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it!!! :D
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It's been a while since I wrote this, but if I remember correctly, Octavia grabbed the letter saying Vinyl had been emancipated. In this case, her place of employ was listed on there (don't remember if I noted that or not). Tavi sees where Vinyl works, but not the capacity in which she works. Since her father owns the club, she pull some strings, gets Vinyl fired without realizing what she does. Or, at least that's how it went down in my head.
7207898 Yep, matches what I read too.
I find it a little strange just how easily forgiving Vinyl is, plus she's acting as if she's taking on some measure of guilt or wrongdoing when Octavia hasn't quite started her journey on becoming a decent pony.
Still I am enjoying this ride, and I am curious to see where this goes. Also if there's going to be any shipping involved later.
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Thank you for all of the comments! So, I do plan to continue this with a sequel at some point. I love these two and this dynamic has been a fun one. As for how quick Vinyl is to forgive Octavia, she's been through a lot (especially with the loss of her parents), and Octavia is trying to make amends. She's willing to give Octavia another chance.
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I guess I'm just being more cynical. I'm not saying that Octavia shouldn't be forgiven, just that it seems like she's doing a little TOO good of a job "forgetting" the sins of Octavia. Then again I guess that Vinyl is just a better pony than I am @.@
Just remember: Moar chapters = Moar comments =P