Tracks 12 & 13: My Road / Bring Heavy Rock To The Land
Limestone’s days passed in a blur of work at the quarry, practicing with Pinkie in the basement, and seeing Flash whenever possible. She hadn’t felt so busy in years. But as days turned to weeks and eventually became a month or more, she also found herself brooding less over the minor setbacks in her day-to-day life than she could remember in a long time, if only because she didn’t have time enough to focus on them.
Somehow things only got busier when Flash booked them a spot in an amateur music night at the club where they had practiced. Limestone felt good about having a concrete date and a couple more weeks to work on the one complex bass line Flash had given her, but the date still came roaring up on them faster than she could prepare. In fact, their final practice session on the night before the show eventually descended into a debacle of frustration and thrown burritos, followed by some shamefaced mopping of the club.
Very late that same night, Flash and Limestone talked briefly over the phone, expressing their regrets for how things had gone and looking forward to seeing each other at the show.
On the morning of the show, Limestone stood alone on the back porch of her house, holding a steaming mug of coffee and staring down the sunlit road to the quarry. She startled as she heard the back door open, and she turned, raising her eyebrows with surprise at who approached her.
“Marble?”
Her youngest sister shrunk back at the attention, as if trying to hide behind her own coffee mug. She was dressed in the same sort of shapeless potato-sack outfit as usual, and Limestone couldn’t help but think that she’d look like some kind of homeless waif if it wasn’t for the mug and her new pair of tennis shoes.
Limestone frowned. “Well, are you gonna say something, or are you just here to invade my private thinking time?”
Marble seemed to give this a great deal of consideration.
“Ugh. What is it? Can’t you see I’ve got a lot to think about here? Everything’s changing for me. I’m hanging out more with Pinkie and Maud so we can get the songs down, I’m letting Dad cover more shifts so I can practice bass…” She took a swig from her mug, savoring its bitterness. “I’ve even got to decide if I’m going to enroll in community college in the Spring, or next Summer, or Fall. And the show’s tonight! So I’m busy, Marble. Do you mind?”
The girl cracked a tiny, timid smile.
“What? What’s that supposed to mean? Why can’t you just say something for once?!”
“I’m proud,” Marble whispered.
Limestone stopped. “You’re… proud of me?”
Marble nodded, and her smile grew deeper. “Mmm-hmm.”
Limestone shook her head. “So it doesn’t matter that I’m a walking train wreck half the time, and I have no idea what I’m doing with my life? I mean, where are Flash and I going after this show?”
Marble looked down at her coffee and took a small sip.
“Or maybe I do know,” Limestone said. “Or I can guess. He’s a good guy on the edge of some big changes in his life. I guess I’m really not so different. I don’t know if those changes are going to keep us together or split us apart. We’re both still trying to make up our minds about what we’re doing.”
“Mmm-hmm.”
Limestone eyed her sister. “Well, what about you? Maud’s got her college thing, and Pinkie’s Pinkie, and maybe I’m getting my act together, but where are you going?”
Marble shuffled a couple of steps closer. Then: “Watching.”
“Marble, I don’t want to scare you off, but you’ve gotta do more than just watch at some point in your life. I mean, so what if you’re not as determined as Maud is, or as Pinkie as Pinkie is? You have to do something if you want something different to happen. You…”
Limestone trailed off. Marble’s smile deepened.
“You’re watching me,” Limestone said quietly. “Because I never have been like Maud or Pinkie. Because I went through homeschool too, and I didn’t really do anything but hide myself away from the world once it was over.” She raised her eyebrows. “And maybe you and me are a little more alike than we’d like to admit.”
“Mmm-hmm.”
Limestone took another bitter swig of coffee. “Well I guess I’d better make good with this boy, then. And we’d better play a decent show!” She hesitated. “Do you want to come tonight? I mean, do you even like the sort of stuff we play?”
Marble gave her a cautious smile and a nod. “You guys rock,” she whispered.
On the night of the show, Limestone and Pinkie drove together to the club. Pinkie’s drum kit took up most of her back seat, so Maud offered to drive everyone else.
The two of them parked on the street outside the club, hauled Pinkie’s kit up to the back entrance, and knocked. Mr. Stripes let them in and eyed the girls as they lugged the heavy instruments, but declined to offer help.
On their way through the backstage area, they passed a few musicians who Pinkie seemed to know: one girl tuning a good-sized cello; a couple girls bickering next to a full-sized keyboard on a stand; and even one girl with large, poofy hair, who seemed to be practicing guttural growls to whatever she was listening to on her earbuds.
Eventually they found Flash tuning his guitar while sitting on an amp at the edge of the stage, which had been curtained-off by heavy black drapes hanging from a track near the ceiling.
He jumped up and set his guitar down. “Oh, hey guys, do you need a hand?”
“Not now,” Limestone grumbled, half-dropping Pinkie’s kick-drum to the floor.
“Hey! Watch it, sister!” Pinkie shouted. “That’s a genuine Pasty!”
Flash gave them a plaintive frown. “I’m sorry; I didn’t hear you guys come in.”
Limestone pointed at his amp. “Maybe ‘if it’s too loud, you’re too old?’”
The two of them locked eyes for a long, tense moment, before both of them chuckled and broke into grins.
“That was lame,” Flash said.
“It’s all I’ve got right now.” She looked over at the curtains. “How many people do we have out there?”
Flash pointed his thumb toward them. “Check it out if you want. It’s not a bad turnout for an amateur music night, and it’ll only get bigger; it’s still a half-hour till they kick things off.”
Limestone walked over and poked her head out between the curtains. She frowned as the first thing she noticed was her family sitting front-and-center near the stage. Maud and her Dad gave brief nods, Marble gave a timid wave, and her Mom gave a weary look that was consistent with Pinkie having coerced her into coming. But Limestone looked past them and estimated that the place was about half-full; mostly with a mix of CHS students and kids from the community college.
“I guess we’d better not screw this up,” Limestone muttered.
“We could,” Flash said, directly behind her. Limestone jumped, and pulled her head back behind the curtain. “Sorry,” Flash said. “I just mean… this is for fun, right? No pressure if it doesn’t go well. It doesn’t say anything bad about you. Or about us.”
Limestone frowned. “I need to do this. I don’t care if you fret half your notes wrong, or if Pinkie screws up the time; I need to play my best tonight.”
He smiled, and took her hand. “I know. I can’t tell you that I totally understand, but I know.”
She squeezed his hand. “Thank you. For making this happen, and for calling me out when I go off half-cocked about dumb stuff. I…” She looked away. “At some point we should really figure out what’s coming next for us.”
“I know.” He let go of her hand. “I mean, I don’t know. I guess it’s what we want to make of it. But don’t give up on it until we find something we can’t deal with together. I’m not.”
Limestone grinned. “You sound pretty serious there, Charlie.”
He rolled his eyes. “One of these days, I’ve gotta get you to stop calling me that.”
“That one might cost you.” She followed-up her words with a wink.
Flash smiled. “You gonna tell me what it costs?”
“I will if we can pull this off tonight.”
“All right then, Limestone Pie; we have a deal.”
They shook on it, and smiled, and each held on for longer than a business handshake would require.
The first act to go up on the stage was the poofy-haired girl, who bellowed, groaned, and shrieked along to a couple of tracks she put on over the club’s sound system. Watching from off to the side of the stage, Limestone couldn’t deny that the girl had killer stage presence and seemed to know what she was doing, but it was like she simply couldn’t sing, and was doing everything she possibly could to draw attention from that fact. Worse, Limestone watched as her family ended up covering their ears and looking at each other with disapproval. All except Maud, who sat impassive as always.
The girl with the cello went up next, and even though Limestone found her music boring, she felt much more comfortable watching her family’s reactions to that one. Her mom even started bobbing her head in time to the music.
After several minutes of the cellist’s short set, Limestone felt a hand on her arm. She turned, seeing Flash leaning close to her and looking serious. “We’re next,” he whispered.
Limestone felt a surge of adrenaline and nervous energy. She gave Flash a smile and a nod, then put her hands on the black bass slung around her neck.
“Limestone, even if this doesn’t go well, I…”
Maybe it was the nerves that got the better of her, or maybe it was the anticipation of going out and playing in front of her family that emboldened her—but either way, Limestone very quickly reached up with both hands, gripped the back of Flash’s head, and pulled him down into a brief kiss. And the watchword here was brief, because no sooner did it happen then they heard the crowd begin to applaud, and Mr. Stripes was upon them, separating them and shooing them out toward the stage.
Limestone and Flash staggered out into the crowd’s sight, blushing and looking at each other with wide-eyed uncertainty. They seemed to notice the crowd only as an afterthought, and it took several seconds of standing there motionless for Limestone to realize her dad had stood up and was applauding them loudly.
Oh Dad, if only you knew, she thought to herself.
Pinkie bounced out from backstage, gave them a big wink and a grin, then headed over to her drum kit. She started a drumroll…
...and that was the thing that brought Flash and Limestone’s concentration back. They smiled at each other briefly before Flash headed over to his place at the other side of the stage. That left Limestone to step up to the microphone at the front of the stage, gripping her bass hard.
Pinkie ended the drumroll with a cymbal crash. Limestone licked her lips, then thumbed her bass’ volume knob all the way up.
“Tell them our names!” Pinkie stage-whispered from the drum throne.
“I’m Limestone,” she said into the mic, savoring the way it made her voice boom through the club. “He’s Flash. She’s Pinkie.” She paused, giving the room a look that fit somewhere between a smile and a snarl. “And we’re here to rock!”
Flash opened with a divebomb that gave Limestone goosebumps; Pinkie came in with a strong midtempo beat; and Limestone hammered out a series of deep notes that made the whole building shake. Adrenaline coursed through her veins as she sucked in a deep lungful of breath and started bellowing the song’s lyrics, some of which still would’ve made her blush if she hadn’t been overwhelmed by the deafening sound and thunderous vibration of their music.
She and Flash locked eyes, and he moved closer to her, bobbing back and forth while giving her an overly-theatrical “mean-rock” grimace. Limestone smiled as much as she dared while fighting to make sure her aching fingers kept in time with Pinkie’s relentless beat.
They blazed into their second song without a break. It was even faster than the first, and its staccato riffs taxed Limestone’s weary arms. She was sweating bullets by the time it soared into the homestretch with a short, frenetic solo by Flash, and she resigned herself to plucking out a couple of recurring notes while struggling to catch her breath as she let Flash and Pinkie finish up the heavy lifting.
They ended with a bang, and found themselves standing in silence, watching the quiet audience’s stunned faces.
Then the whole place lit up with cheers and clapping. People jumped to their feet, pumped their arms, and roared at them for more. Limestone watched in shock as her family joined those standing. Maud grinned, Dad whistled and cheered, Mom gave a polite clap, and Marble…
Well, Marble whooped and hollered louder than anyone, throwing her hands up in the air and clapping, and joining the chorus screaming for more.
Limestone turned to Flash and found him smiling wide. “Not done yet,” he said over the din of the room. “Still got one song, right?”
“Yeah, but first, one thing.” She gave him a deep smile. “That kiss really sucked.”
Flash laughed. “Oh yeah. Totally.”
“Wanna try again?”
He winked at her. “Practice makes perfect, right?”
“Shut up, Charlie,” she said, letting her bass hang low across her chest, and pulling him in for a longer, warmer, and much more electric kiss than their brief travesty before. The feeling it gave Limestone was nothing like the bone-shaking sensation of her jackhammer or bass, but nonetheless it stirred something within her that she found just as compelling.
For their part, the crowd roared even louder at the sight.
“Hey! We’re trying to play a show here!” Pinkie shouted, jarring them back to attention.
Flash looked sheepish, and put his hands back on his guitar. “She’s right, you know,” he said with a smile.
Limestone smiled as she rolled rolled her eyes. “Always so serious with you guys.” She turned back to the crowd. “All right, we’ve got one more in us. Are you ready?”
They shouted that they were in no uncertain terms. Marble in particular seemed ready to come tear it from them if they would not give it willingly.
“Pinkie… hit it!”
And she did, kickstarting their sonic declaration of life, of hope—of a romance that defied all expectations.
For once again, as one, Limestone and Flash rocked.
At last we come to the song(s) that inspired this. It has just as much slow burning buildup as the story does, but I encourage you to check it out; IMO it's the perfect coda to the story itself. Just be sure to crank the volume at 2:40!
Also, the ever-talented Bluegrass Brooke has created something for your viewing pleasure in hand-drawn and digital versions! 
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8052310 Thank you for seeing this all the way through from a random little Writeoff entry forever ago to what it is now.
8051915 - Arranged marriage? Then it's a good thing I mentioned Mori-sensei in my last post. Her current series (A Bride's Story) deals with exactly that.
Coffee made a ton of good points in his reply so I'm not going to repeat them. In a situation like that, you have to kind of go at the romantic angle a little backwards due to likely outside pressure, and the bulk of the story's time should focus on the two coming to know each other, feel each other out (in every sense of the word). In other words, you're doing heavy character building first and foremost. If you're lucky, they'll have some genuine compatibility and romance will come out of it naturally.
I agree with Coffee that I hope you go forward with it, and if you decide to write it I'd be glad to lend an eye.
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I love satisfying happy endings. Thanks for letting me be part of the process.
8052398 Thank you for being part of it!
Your take on the Equestria Girls world has been deep and moving, and I was glad you were willing to bring that perspective to this.
This was a great story. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. Great job.
8052497 Thank you for all your encouragement throughout!
This was a lovely little story, and a very unconventional pairing that almost certainly would only work in the chaos that is the Equestria Girls universe. Well done.
8052513 Thank you sir!
Don't tempt me to try pairing them in the prime-universe...
8052552 See, it barely even counts in the prime universe, because Flash Sentry's character there is basically "I AM A NAMED ROYAL GUARD".
"Woohoo."
Good to finally hear from Marble, and to see the culmination of Flash's persistence and Limestone's gradual relaxation. Nice bit with the coffee as well. Even bitter things can be loved.
Thank you for one of the most novel pairings I've seen on the site.
Okay, that was a great ending. I don't really know what else to say but that it was great. I really enjoyed this story and everything in it. Here's to hoping for a sequel of some sorts, because this was awesome!!!
8052398 I agree with that. I'm currently about four chapters in and that's before the marriage is even proposed. The story is all around the fact that they have to have an arranged marriage or war will break out. (Prince and a Princess) However, their relationship is the key focus once the ball starts rolling, its just getting the ball up the hill is my current problem. I plan to keep going with it, and thanks for your kind words. You and CoffeeMinion.
8052149 Dude, this stuff is deep because the characters are well-written here. I think you should be proud of such great characters you've written here.
8052512 Your welcome.
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I'll throw one of my favorites into the hat:
I think I see what you did there. ^^
Oh my God Marble would you JUST SHUT UP FOR A MOMENT
I'm kidding of course. That bit was adorable. ^^
Bit of a double-edged wish, that one. Possibly a bit dangerous for two characters who have a history of bad luck. ^^ But maybe that's a good omen, too!
This was really enjoyable, And to me, very timely as I've felt very similar to how Limestone feels for most of this story. You're in this little spot in life where the monotony seems to set in and you're not old but don't consider yourself young anymore. Not really certain where you want to go in life or if you want to risk trying something new. Glad that Limestone is at least giving things a try.
This was a nice story. They ended up making a cute couple as far as initial dating goes. Here's hoping that they add more members to their band and go places. After all, you don't need college to rock out and go on tour.
If I had any real criticism of the story it would be that honestly the stakes are never that high for the main characters. If they didn't end up together by the end of it they'd probably just go back to doing whatever it was they were doing before, if only a little wiser. If anything, the folks who would be most effected by them not getting together would be Limestone's sisters who need to be shown that it's possible to get past your insecurities and find what or who you want in life even if it is just a boy.
Will this relationship or band stick? By the end of it, like most romance stories we don't really know but, we can safely say that they are off on a nice footing albeit with Limestone having to work past some of her issues. They have a chance. Sometimes that's really all you can hope for.
And in the end they have a moment where they decide that it's:
Wow, wish I had found this like last month.
So this is what happens when Jane Austin and AC/DC meet My Little Pony Equestria Girls (perhaps with a side of the Bronte sisters and Ozzie Osbourne thrown in for flavour?). I do hope you will write another romance story, it doesn't have to be this couple, nor even MLP, though you seem to have such a good grasp of the poniverse that you'd probably do very well with any story set there. Do keep the metal though...
I'm willing to bet you could even take the prime-universe's version of Flash and make something way more interesting of him than, as KingMoriarty put it "I AM A NAMED ROYAL GUARD." , though I don't suppose he'd ever have a circumstance to interact with Limestone or the Pies or even the Mane 6. But there is a world of secondary characters and OC's to choose from. Or, do you think you could do a shipping of Big Mac and Marble pie that is actually worthy of the two of them?
Anyway, must go see what your other stories are like now...
8127865 Thank you for the kind words.
I have written some other romances but this is the first where I tried to go to this level of depth with the characters and the development of their relationship.
Unfortunately I don't quite have another romance like this sitting around, though I've got some other stuff with certain similarities.
Time Enough For Wub is probably closest, though it was written just prior to my big push to finish this and it helped me realize what it would take to do this justice. The One Where Discord Gets All The Mares was aiming at romance but it doesn't really get into the characters' connection until the very end. The Power Of Love is romantic in a sense, but probably more dark and tragic than anything else (and similarly, darkness and tragedy reign in Love, Or Something Like It, which is pretty much the opposite of romance despite what it looks like at first). Then I also have a history of doing entirely farcical sendups of romance such as Strange Obsessions and The Brief, Torrid Love-Affair of Fernando the Straw and Madame le Flour.
Hopefully one or more of those will suit your fancy!
8093640 You make an excellent point about the sisters potentially having the most to lose. I agree that, by the end, our heroes have probably gained what they needed to in order to grow as people and move on with their lives. That's part of why I'd originally envisioned that they'd break up prior to the show; they would've realized they were probably heading in different directions in life. I mean, you can see hints of that in the story if you look closely, even though I ultimately pulled back from it. They still would've end up playing the show as a way of saying goodbye and celebrating the fact that they'd helped each other, though.
But by the time I got that far, I realized that there's also something to be said for taking a relationship that isn't perfect and working together and making it work, even when things like the possibility of physical distance and unclear long-long-term-goals get in the way. Because if people can establish mutual respect and derive enough genuine enjoyment and personal growth from spending time together to make it worth dealing with each other's issues... and if those issues aren't so fundamentally terrible as to preclude their ability to participate in a relationship that's an actual two-way street... that's pretty decent!
8135329 your welcome :-) glad I could help
8135328 Well, no relationship is perfect. Even the best of them have their hiccups. Ultimately they at least have a start and seem to like one another well enough. It was fun traveling down the road with them.
I bestow Jørn's blessing upon this fic.
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(But really, great story here. You managed to get me invested on a pairing I had no prior interest in, and you treated their relationship aspect with the kind of maturity it needed. Lovely work.)
8182984 Thank you so much!
Ah, it would be cool to share with Jorn that his work inspired a story like this. I mean, he'd probably react with a pretty strong WTF if anything at all, but one can dream. 
Well, okay then.
So, who was the screamer?
8194787 Thanks for the review!
It's Marble who's going cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs at the end there.
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No, I mean the death growl singer. :B
8196369 Ohh, sorry. It's Adagio!
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Oh! Clever. And I'm right in thinking it was them singing terribly in the open mic scene too, right?
8196462 Shoot, I didn't make it super clear during that scene, did I.
I'd meant for it to be the Crusaders. It reads about equally well if interpreted as being the Dazzlings, though.
Death Of The Author! You decide!
8196576
I guess it's funnier if it's the former. :B
This is very well-written. Limestone is probably my least favorite Pie sister, but you gave her more depth and soul than we saw in the one episode where she had lines. I love how each of the sisters are foils for each other. Pinkie always wants to make everyone happy, Limestone is constantly aggressive and abrasive, Maud is likely on the autism spectrum and has difficulty showing emotion, and Marble is completely withdrawn and painfully shy (she may be on the autism spectrum as well).
The parents as portrayed in this story are equally fascinating. As I said before, I love the way you write Igneous Rock, and he gets better in each of his scenes. Unfortunately with the way this family turned out, someone had to be the "bad guy," and that falls to Cloudy Quartz in this fic. It makes sense that Limestone takes after her mother.
I think Limestone needs someone like Flash in her life: a nice guy who isn't a total pushover. If she didn't end up dating Flash or someone like him, she could end up with someone as mean as she is, which wouldn't be pleasant for anyone. I wouldn't mind reading a sequel to this story, but it ends on an optimistic note, and that's satisfying enough.
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This is wonderful to hear, and thank you!
I love writing the Pie family. None of them quite know how to interact normally with the world around them, and they all overcompensate for that in their own ways. I choose to root the sisters' struggles in anxiety with perhaps a side of depression, as I think it's possible to come up with a fairly unified interpretation of all of them by doing so. But I can totally see room to interpret them differently, especially with Maud and Marble possibly being on the spectrum.
I'm glad the parent dynamic worked as well. I confess having selfishly written Igneous as slightly idealized (but still flawed) so I can explore mostly positive father-child relationship dynamics, because I'm a dad and I need somewhere to write about that stuff. Unfortunately that kinda leaves Cloudy to get the short end of the stick, being the more obvious catalyst of everyone's issues. But hopefully it's clear that Cloudy isn't all bad, or at least that Igneous isn't perfect...
As for a sequel... I dunno. I do have a part-formed idea for something set maybe 10-15 years later that would show them working through inevitable changes and bumps that come up in a truly long-term relationship, but I'm not sure if that's ultimately more satisfying than just letting them end as they do here: riding off into the sunset with everything going well.
I will probably keep writing more Pie family, though. There's one specific idea I have that I don't want to give away because I think it would rock if I could pull it off.
You can has review!
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Thank you very much for that!
Anyway, good story, thanks for writing
I wasn't sure in the first couple of chapters about how self-aware the characters were and how openly they discussed that, but after that it settled into a nice rhythm. Limestone playing bass is an interesting image and I can't deny it fits.
...Actually, she's 100% bass player material, isn't she? The moodiness of John Entwistle and Rachel Bolan, the fire and bluntness of Evil Jared Hasselhoff, and an awful lot of William Murderface. Maybe even some Varg Vikernes too
The supporting cast were great, too, as others have said you made Cloudy less pleasant than most of her portrayals, though you also minimised the amount she was in the story so I think that's fine. Death Metal Adagio was a nice addition for the ending, too
I wasn't sure about the penultimate chapter, with the freak out at the burrito place and then getting a bit heavy with where everyones' lives are going, but it certainly makes sense that Limestone's only thinking about that for the first time, and Flash has never figured out what he wants to do.
I'd be eager to read more of Limestone; I think I saw you'd written at least one other with her so I might check them out too. Thanks for writing this
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I feel like I managed to keep this accessible while taking some detours that I needed to through personal stuff. Honestly a lot of this was rooted in personal things. I tried to leave it all on the page, as it were. Up to and including Dat Bass 
Thanks for reading, and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Oh and yes, I do have a couple more Limestone fics out there! Baby Limestone Rides to War and Rise of The 420: The Musical are both on FimFiction, as is a short drabble called "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken" in my shorts collection. Those are all a lot more silly than this, though. Perhaps not coincidentally, they feature Pony!Limestone rather than Human!Limestone.
I've got another full story with Human!Limestone called Bra Quest! that still has yet to be edited and make the jump from its current rough draft on the Writeoff site. One of my goals with Bra Quest! was to do more justice to Cloudy as a character. Sadly, I ran out of time to fully do that in the current draft, but it's got bits and pieces that I can expand on when I (finally) edit it.
8914036 I got the impression some of Flash's anxieties came from a personal place, though I don't think they got in the way of the story. The only bit I wasn't sure about was Limestone freaking out when walking into the burrito place; that felt like it might have come from personal experience as it felt a bit out of place from what we'd seen of her in the story so far.
At your suggestions I read Rise of 420, which wasn't really my thing, and Bra Quest, but with that one I think you got Cloudy at the price of Limestone. Limestone didn't feel out of character, but there weren't many opportunities for her to show her character, if that makes sense? Drabbles and foal stories I'm afraid aren't my cup of tea. Though I appreciate the drabble title - and I think with the adjectives in that order it's a House Martell reference rather than a Hammerfall one?
Do you think you'll write more Limestone in the future?
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I never quite know where inspiration will strike next, but yes, I have every intention of continuing to write Limestone.
Thanks for checking them out.
8926902 That is good to hear!
Absolutely fantastic, as much as I would love to see more of these two I love how the story ended. I wouldn't say no to a sequel but the pacing, direction, theme, and tone of this story was spot on, bravo.
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I’m glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for your kind words.
I do have occasional thoughts about what a sequel might look like. I’m not sure if it’ll happen, though. If it does, I can’t guarantee that it would be the same kind of story, or even if Flash and Limestone would be its central characters.
I think there’s probably a story to tell about where Marble goes from here, but I could see her journey being messy and difficult to say the least. I also planted a tiny little story seed about something that could happen with Pinkie, which I think would be really fun to develop further, but I’m not sure if the resulting story would be an actual “sequel.” The other idea I’ve had would pick up with Flash and Limestone maybe 15-20 years later, but I fear it would start to venture pretty far outside the realm of fanfiction... and it would probably be a lot heavier than this was, thematically. I like leaving these two at the place they end here because you see them at their best and happiest; whereas if I did that story, I would have to show them after life had taken more of a toll.
Of course someday I also need to ship their pony counterparts...
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Well as someone who's currently about 100k words into a shameless SunsetxGilda crackship epic of my own, I have zero room to talk about story length, but I'd be happy to see where a story about Marble Pie would go. You made LimestonexFlash feel like a reasonable and completely organic relationship, so I trust your crackshipping skills at least as much as my own.
That said I agree that a timeskip Flash/Limestone would probably not work as well. Having a story in the same universe with their relationship being a thing in the background as Marble or Maud have their own romance might work well though.
This story was brilliant! I loved it. Definitely adding to favorites!
On a side note, it reminded me, especially that ending, of two of my favorite visual novels, Kira☆Kira and Deardrops.
Gotta love those musical romances!
Excellent story. Just the right amount of conflict, sass and fluff.
Leave it Maud to echo my thoughts once again.
Stretching that metaphor was the first one. If curious.
Well, that was enjoyable. It was a fun ride for sure. Not sure what to saw really, I'm happy for Limestome amd Flash. Better ship than Flashlight imo. XD
This fic is funny. Cute. And has its little drama moments that never overstay their welcome. Loved Igneous and Quartz, the Pi family make for some good reading material.
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I've got another EqG Limestone story waiting in the wings, which I think (if I can recall my own release schedule) is going to drop next month.
Thanks for checking it out, and I'm glad it worked for you!
D’aww that was cute! It wrapped up very well!
ah, really nice to finally see how the LImestone/Marble dynamic works. few words, lots of understanding, very nice.
ooh, especially fun since this is through Limestone's perspective and she'll have no idea who Octavia, LyraBon, and the third one I sadly cannot recognize myself right off the bat are
love this Pinkie line!
very nice!
it's interesting how these two chapters themselves actually feel like the dénouement, with the previous two chapters being the climax. both the anticipated first kiss and the anticipated musical performance are downstream of the growth and self-discovery Limestone undergoes in the story up to this point, and that is something i really like. and ugh, saving Marble for this last section was the perfect choice, not to mention how perfect and precious your Marble is