The Prince and the Poet

by BrawnyBold

Doing Things Differently (Blueblood)

It was morning and Blueblood never felt more relaxed as he lodged on his bed. He thought that's one benefit of getting hurt from water skiing, he gets to sit on his flank all day. What made things better was that Nightglider was one of his temporary servers until his hindhoof gets healed. If Blueblood needed anything, he simply had to call out and Nightglider will immediately come to help him.

'I have to thank that reckless pegasus for causing my injury.' Blueblood thought. 'I missed being pampered like this.' Blueblood looked down to see his signed cast. When word got out that Blueblood was injured, almost all of the villagers visited him and signed his cast with messages about him getting well soon. Blueblood felt a bit better as these commoner ponies were willing to see him even though he doesn't know them that much.

Blueblood's thoughts were interrupted when he heard the door opening.

"Hey Feather!" said the voices from the door. Blueblood turned to see a trio of mares standing in front of the entrance. One mare was a light red earth pony and her brown manes were tied up with a red bow. The second mare was a light green unicorn and her blonde manes were tied up with a green bow. The third mare was a light purple pegasus and her light blue manes were tied up with a blue bow. Blueblood remembered in Feather's letters that the mares' names were Swoon Song, Fond Feather, and Dear Darling. He had seen these three mares as they often wink and giggle at his direction when he trots down the town's street. Blueblood knew that as a prince he was quite attractive, but he didn't expect Feather to be attractive enough to get these pretty mares' attention.

"Hi girls," Nightglider said. "What are you three doing here?" Nightglider was confused when the trio of mares gave angry glares at her. She gulped as it was making her nervous.

"If you must know, we're here to pamper our precious Feather Bangs." Swoon answered.

"Indeed," Dear added. "Ever since we heard about Feather's accident, we gathered as much supplies as possible to help him feel better while he recovers." The green mare used her magic to levitate a brown picnic basket.

"Healing requires a lot of attention and care." Fond included.

"Oh, well thanks for coming." Nightglider said while smiling. "I could use all of the help to comfort Feather." The three mares continued to glare at Nightglider.

"We believe that Feather will recover much faster if we take it from here and you leave." Swoon commented.

Nightglider felt a bit offended from receiving such a comment towards her. Blueblood noticed this and thought of something.

"It's alright, girls." Blueblood called out. "Nightglider can stay. It's the least she could do and it never hurts to have a mare who can fly fast and get supplies if I need them." The mare trio turned back to glare at Nightglider but then their expressions went calm.

"Very well," Swoon said. "If Feather says you can stay, you can stay."

"But we'll do most of the work while you can just retrieve stuff if we need them." Dear said.

"Yeah," Fond added.

Nightglider couldn't help but smile at Blueblood for sticking up for her. Blueblood would normally accept the opportunity of making a troublesome pony leave. But Blueblood decided to let it slide as he needed to rest up.

The mare trio began their spoilage on to Blueblood. Swoon started with feeding Blueblood some grapes that were extremely sweet when he chewed them. Dear went behind Blueblood and started rubbing his shoulders to make him feel more relaxed. Fond used her wings to hold a large paper fan and fanned Blueblood to make him feel the cool breeze. Blueblood could already feel less pain on his hindlegs as he was so occupied with the mares' pampering. Since the three mares were so focused on Blueblood, Nightglider decided to tidy up his house.

"Are you feeling better, Feather?" Dear whispered to one of Blueblood's ears.

"It feels so nice, Dear." Blueblood responded. "I appreciate you three for taking such good care of me."

"Ponies can excel at anything if they have the right motives." Swoon said. "We're really motivated to see you recove from that horrible accident." Swoon said her last sentence loud enough for Nightglider to hear. Nightglider glared at Swoon before the pegasus turned back and resumed washing some dishes.

"The accident wasn't that bad." Blueblood commented.

"Oh no, you accident was terrible!" Dear included. "Anypony who can give you these kinds of injuries obviously shows no concerns about your safety." Nightglider heard that sentence and she just continued to scrub hard on the dirty dishes.

"But not to worry, Feather." Fond said while still fanning. "We'll be here to take extra good care of you."

"Alright," Blueblood said as he laid back to enjoy his special treatment. It was around lunch time when Blueblood's stomach began to growl.

"Can one of you bring me some lunch?" Blueblood requested.

"I've got just the thing!" Swoon said in excitement. She reached for the brown basket to pull out what looked like a perfectly wrapped hay sandwich with its' crust completely cut off."Here you go! One hay and jam sandwich, just the way you like it!" Swoon took one half of the sandwich and brought it near Blueblood's mouth. "Open up and say 'aah'!" Blueblood wasn't sure if he should eat something he hasn't eaten before, but he also didn't want to get suspicious for turning down stuff that Feather usually likes. Blueblood took one bite from the sandwich and chewed it in his mouth.

'Wow! This sandwich tastes really good!' Blueblood thought as he enjoyed the tasty combination of the fried hay and the sweet tasting jam. Blueblood continued taking bites from the sandwich halves that Swoon was feeding him.

"I'm glad that you like it, Feather." Swoon said. "I made the sandwich myself."

"It tastes delicious, Swoon." Blueblood praised.

"Oh thank you, Feather." Swoon said while blushing. "In the meantime, is it alright that you call me by another name?"

"What would that be?" Blueblood asked.

"Mrs. Bangs." Swoon said with a wide smile.

Blueblood paused from what he just heard from Swoon.

"W-what was that?" Blueblood asked nervously.

"Or you could call me 'honey', 'sweetie', or even 'wife to be'." Swoon batted her eyelashes.

"Swoon!" Dear and Fond yelled at the same time.

"What?" Swoon said while acting innocent.

"That's not fair to have Feather call you those kinds of nicknames!" Dear complained.

"Why not? He already claimed that he enjoyed what I made." Swoon replied.

"The sandwiches were made from our combined effort, Swoon!" Fond spoke. "As in we get equal credit for taking care of Feather!"

Swoon, Fond, and Dear started growling and glared at each other. This made Blueblood extremely uncomfortable from seeing mares act in such a way for a stallion he was impersonating as.

"Um, could I get some tea, please?" Blueblood pleaded. The three mares turned to Blueblood and he flinched as he was afraid of any bad outcomes for speaking up.

"No problem, Feather." Swoon said as she turned to her friends. "How about we put this aside and get Feather some tea? We wouldn't want Feather to be afraid when he should be getting better."

"I'm willing to do just that as long as you don't try anything to make Feather fall for you. I also want Feather to recover from his injury." Dear said while glaring at Swoon.

"So we're all in an agreement." Fond said as all three mares nodded as a sign that a truce has been made.

Blueblood sighed internally as he was able to avoid getting involved in a cat fight between the three mares.

"Nightglider! Could you get Feather some tea?" Swoon requested.

"I'm on it!" Nightglider said as she began preparing some tea for Feather. The other three mares went back to resume taking care of Blueblood while Nightglider was making tea. After several minutes, Nightglider finished and carried a small tray with a steamy cup of hot tea towards Blueblood. She carefully trotted in a slow pace to make sure not to spill any tea.

"Alright, Feather," Nightglider said as she made it to Blueblood's bed. "Here's your tea!" Nightglider moved closer before she accidentally tripped. This caused Nightglider to spill the tea from the cup. The glob of tea was about to fall towards Blueblood's lap and Blueblood was terrified when it was about to reach impact. Before the tea was about to splash on to Blueblood, the tea instead splattered on a small yellow force field made of magic. Blueblood was confused from how the force field appeared as he wasn't able to use any magic without a horn. Blueblood turned to notice that the source of the magic shield was Dear as she was fast enough to conquer up a magic barrier to prevent the tea from spilling on to him. The other mares sighed in relief as the tea didn't burn Blueblood.

"That was a close one." Dear said as she turned off her horn and the tea spilled on to the floor.

"I'm so sorry, Feather!" Nightglider pleaded. Feather's fanmares stood in front of Nightglider while giving her angry glares.

"What were you thinking?!" Swoon said with lots of anger. "You almost burned Feather thanks to your clumsiness!"

"I-it was an accident! I swear!" Nightglider pleaded some more.

"An accident, huh?" Dear said suspiciously. "You mean like when you launched Feather up in the air to make him break his hoof!"

Nightglider couldn't help but tear up as her guilt was increasing.

"You're only making it worse for Feather!" Fond added.

"Enough!" Blueblood cried out to get every mare's attention.

The three mares felt nervous as they saw how angry Blueblood looked.

"Nightglider didn't do anything wrong! The tea was just an accident! Nothing more!" Blueblood said. "Same goes for that water skiing incident, it was just an accident as well!" Blueblood paused to let the three mares soak that in.

"B-but she was the one who caused your injury." Swoon said.

"Why do you think I let her take care of me?" Blueblood responded. "At least she's owning up to her mistake and I deeply appreciate it."

A part of Nightglider felt touched to hear such a thing from Feather.

"You girls on the other hoof, are not making things better for me as well." The three mares were shocked from what they heard. "I understand that all three of you like me and want to be my marefriend. The only problem is that all three of you are acting like the complete opposite of what I want in a marefriend."

After Blueblood's last sentence, the three mares were paralyzed as they didn't know how to respond. All three of them quickly galloped through the door, leaving Blueblood and Nightglider the only ones in the house. There was an awkward silence between the two ponies as they didn't know what to say.

Blueblood was extremely baffled from what he just said to the three mares. Never in Blueblood's royal life had he stood up for another pony. He always thought that butting into others' matters was extremely pointless. That was until Blueblood got to know more about the ponies around here and he felt bad for Nightglider for unintentionally causing all of this. Blueblood's thoughts were interrupted when Nightglider spoke up.

"F-Feather," Nightglider said with hesitation. "I appreciate you for telling those mares off. I didn't know what could've happened if you didn't speak out."

"N-no problem," Blueblood spoke with nervousness.

"I still thought that I deserved to be yelled at since this was my fault to begin with." Nightglider lowered her head.

"Like I said before, you had no idea this would happen to me." Blueblood replied. "If you did intended to break my hoof, I would've filed charges against you to make sure you received the proper punishment. But look where we are now."

"For what it's worth, I appreciate you understanding." Nightglider said while bowing.

"It's no biggie." Blueblood replied.

"So is there anything else I could get you? I'll make sure to be more careful with taking care of you until your hoof gets better."

"How about getting me a simple glass of water?" Blueblood suggested. "That won't burn me if you trip again and it spills."

Nightglider giggled from hearing Blueblood's humorous request.

"One glass of water coming up!" Nightglider said as she flew to the kitchen area.

Blueblood laid back down as he tried to relax. Although Blueblood would love to be pampered by some attractive mares, he settled with a good friend taking such good care of him.

Author's Note:

Sorry for the late update!

Comments

[Player 4]

The pampering part was cute

[Yoshifan30]

"B-Blueblood," Nightglider said with hesitation. "I appreciate you for telling those mares off. I didn't know what could've happened if you didn't speak out."

Wait nightglider knows his real name How did she figure that out?!

[Yoshifan30]

So blueblood is Still recovering from that injury so Nightglider still helping out but the those three girls Came in to help about which it's nice until They got a little hostile on Nightglider And I gotta say these girls are very vicious man but blueblood Finally said something and defended Nightglider from them and they need to calm the heck down too but anyway It was cool to see blueblood Defense somebody I hope in the end he will learn something and not being a jerk when he gos back to his body

[BrawnyBold]

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No, I just forgot about that little detail. I fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Uknikorn]

I really really loved this, Great☆Work!