Little Things Make Big Mac Things Happen

by eemoo1o

Shower Smoke (and the art of a romantic evening)

Author's Note:

You know that meme (ETA: I’m an idiot, it’s “the Jack-o pose”) where characters do a downwards-dog pose and if they can do it successfully it shows if they’re a bottom or not?

You can betcha buttons that dynamic is here. Somewhere. Maybe not. Maybe it’s more prominent in the previous snippet. Yeah, I don’t know, I’m kinda getting carried away with it without much of a plan, but hopefully it’s enjoyable nonetheless.

This was where the Sex tag mostly comes into it more explicitly, because in my original version it rather steamy… oh, sorry. Smoky. But, I decided against it and changed it. There’s still innuendo, much like in the first snippet.

A/N inside of an A/N: Also, as I’m writing this, I may as well admit that I’ve added a last minute time-skip/continuity error from the last chapter, as I forgot that Royal Retirement exists.

Daybreaker had had the scare of her life when she heard Big Mac’s yowl from halfway across the orchard. Applejack and Granny Smith had gotten up from the bench, and Daybreaker had frozen mid-sentence. Then - before Applejack and Granny Smith could even act... or they had already, Daybreaker hadn’t really paid them much mind - Daybreaker disappeared in a bright red flash and reappeared next to her darling Big Mac with Applejack and Granny Smith a couple of feet away from them.

As Big Mac had tried to get up, failed, and tried again, Daybreaker had gasped and rushed to him and wrapped her forelegs around him as she landed with twitchy wings from her drumming heart. “I know, darling, I know.” She’d said to him, but it was a blatant lie to make him feel just a bit better. From just one glance at his teeth clamped around his wobbling lip and watery eyes, she’d wished to burn every apple tree to the ground and then make him King of Equestria just to make him feel better and avenge his injured-whatever.

Of course, that would have been impulsive, not helpful on the matter, and definitely not in her dear Big Mac’s best interests.

“We hafta get ’im to the hospital!” Granny Smith had assessed upon first sight of Big Mac’s displaced hind leg, and that was all the cue Daybreaker had needed to immediately disappear in another flash right to the lobby of Ponyville Hospital, leaving Applejack and Granny Smith to walk.

For what the situation was, Daybreaker believed she had reacted rather calmly. She had only screamed at five stoic nurses - which only one out of the group had cried; Shedcart, or something, she had been called - and made only two doctors pass her dearest Big Mac over to another one of their colleagues to handle, and even then she had only deemed seven unworthy of handling her poor stallion.

Well, by technicality it had only been six doctors, as come the seventh, Big Mac had been given some painkillers and called her over to reassure her that he would be fine, that she should calm down, and that Doctor Horse had treated him for many broken bones - ribs, usually, or ripped tendons, or pulled sides - for years.

Slowly and hesitantly - acting purely on her darling half-lucid Big Mac’s word alone, and not the sorry sight of a few of the hospital staff cowering in the corner with their hooves over their heads and white uniforms charred - Daybreaker had reframed, and held her darling’s hoof all the way until he disappeared behind the operation theatre’s doors after his hip-reduction, or whatever it was blasted called, had proven to be unsuccessful.

Daybreaker had panicked more than Big Mac when Doctor Horse had declared the need for an operation. Of course, as her dear Big Mac had begun sobering up, he had worried a little and gripped both her hooves with widened eyes.

In all honesty - funny, that was typically Soarin’s job - Daybreaker believed that she should have done more. She blamed herself for letting any amount of fear reach Big Mac’s beautiful eyes. She should have banished Doctor Horse to the moon, and let that wretched gothy Sister of hers mercilessly devour him whole! Daybreaker inhaled deeply at that thought in an effort to calm herself.

Daybreaker had admittedly pined, paced, and panicked in the waiting room while Applejack and Granny Smith had been no help whatsoever.

When Daybreaker had finally decided to sit down, Granny Smith had placed two callused green hooves on hers and smiled with her wrinkly lips to reassure her. “Don’t you go worryin’ yaself none,” the elderly mare had said. “These here doctors are nothin’ but professionals.”

Daybreaker had smiled, but warmed her hooves to that Granny Smith had to reel back and hiss through her dentures, before lifting her only slightly-burnt hooves to blow on. Applejack hadn’t found that even remotely entertaining, and had only scowled and glared before stating that she’d go and get some ice and then left the waiting room.

“Aw...” a terribly vexing voice of a particularly obnoxious stallion had then cooed, “somepony needs a hug!”

Oh, and Soarin had been there. Fantastic. That had been exactly what Daybreaker needed. In reply, she only groaned loudly and pulled at her cheeks with her hooves.

Sunburst - and Twilight Sparkle, probably, if she wasn’t on her sleep-break - had been too busy in Canterlot delegating with some Trainsylvanian leaders by the names of Tom Tankington III and Pippin Purse Railman Jr. about the lack of railroads-aplenty throughout all of Equestria to visit.

Or something like the hippogriffs and griffons fighting over who would get rights to trademark anygriff, everygriff, and the like. Or, it could just have easily been about stamps.

Daybreaker didn’t really know. She had only barely skimmed over Sunburst’s letter that had come in the mail just a few days later.

As for the rest of Big Mac’s friends, Shining Armor and Moondancer had been caught up teaching a class at the Friendship School - the same had gone for Flim and Flam, too, but Big Mac wasn’t exactly the fondest of those pesky salesponies, so Daybreaker would have even let them pass the threshold of the hospital even if they were free - and Zephyr Breeze and Cheese Sandwich had been on some lousy friendship quest in Ponesylvania.

Which had unfortunately left Soarin on his break from playing with the Wonderbolts.

It had been a grating three hours in that waiting room for Daybreaker, having been surrounded by three dithering idiots. Well, Applejack was only half a dithering idiot, so that technically made only two-point-five dithering idiots, but the point was still recognisable.

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Daybreaker helped Big Mac up the farmhouse stairs only a couple of hours after his successful hip reduction. His left leg was in a cast, and his flank had been shaven in a square shape.

When they made it to Big Mac’s bedroom, she kissed him on the forehead and used her magic to gently position him onto his bed - on the left as she faced him, which was the side farthest from the window, to be exact - propped up his poorly leg with a particularly puffy pillow, smoothed out his mane with a hoof, and then took off her horseshoes to lay next to him with her legs tucked under her lithe barrel reservedly.

“Are you alright, my little pony?” Daybreaker asked, and it was at that moment that she realised that the two were on each other’s side of the bed, and that she could faintly feel the Big Mac-themed dent in the mattress from atop the covers. There wasn’t a doubt in her mind, either, that Big Mac couldn’t feel hers. It felt wrong. Taboo, even. “Would you like more pillows? Blankets? Some snacks? Soup?”

In a flash of brilliant red, Daybreaker teleported someone’s piping hot, untouched bowl of soup and a spoon from the fancy cutlery drawer in the corner of the Apple family’s kitchen. Granny Smith might have been peeved, later, if the spoon was to be used without her permission, but a screaming old lady was never a threat that Daybreaker - as Empress, princess, or simple unicorn civilian - couldn’t conquer.

But, Big Mac said, “Nope,” and so the bowl of soup and fancy spoon was gone in another flash of red.

For the next couple of days, Big Mac remained in bed unless it was to stretch his legs or to use the bathroom by verbal law of Daybreaker and his family. Apple Bloom had visited to tell him about her day or to curl up beside him with a book or magazine once or twice, and it was usually Applejack who would ask him what he wanted for lunch or supper, or if he wanted something for entertainment, and it would be Daybreaker to do all of the above.

For the days that had followed Big Mac’s return home, Daybreaker had taken the task of filling in for Big Mac to do some chores and harvest apples. As an alicorn, it had proved quite easy for her, and - from what Big Mac was told by Daybreaker and his family, and the compromised view from his bedroom window - come the second day, the entire orchard was almost completely apple-free.

Daybreaker entered Big Mac’s bedroom and closed the door behind her, and the darling red stallion looked up from his book Link Trammel 32IA: Dr. Neigh. He frowned, and his brows knitted together.

One of Daybreaker’s hooves instinctively found the small bruise on her hot-white cheek. “Oh, Apple Bloom threw an apple at me. Nothing to worry yourself over, dear.”

“Ah’ll make sure t’ talk t’ her ’bout that,” Big Mac said, closed his book on a folded corner, and placed it on his nightstand.

“We were - how did she put it? - messing around,” Daybreaker nudged off her shoes and rested herself beside him. Big Mac’s countenance eased, so she rested her head gently on his side and continued: “How’s your book so far? That’s the... first one, correct?”

Her beautiful Big Mac smiled. “Eeyup.”

“Is it a good reread?”

“Eeyup.”

“Oh, I’m so glad!” Daybreaker let loose a fanged smile. “I’m well aware of how boring just one equally boring scene can be.” Her millennium on the sun sprang to mind, and then the time she was cast into a marble statue of herself, and so she shuddered slightly, her white-hot coat bristling. “Well aware.”

A large hoof ran against Daybreaker’s spiky vermillion helmet, took it off - there was a light clank - and revisited her head tenderly. Big Mac’s shaven hoof met Daybreaker’s fiery mane - which had been cooled down to a mere tickle of pleasant warmth long before out of love and caution - and she eased into him.

“Today was fine,” Daybreaker said quietly. “Applejack has gone out with that Rainbow-bolt mare, just so you know.” A heat rose to her cheeks as she felt one of Big Mac’s hooves trace her face and neck. He could have hit her then and there if he so wanted, and she’d let him, but wouldn’t have, as he was far too kind and she was far too trusting, and they were both far too in love with one another. “Apple Bloom’s out with her friends. G-Granny’s...” she paused, taking in the sensation of her scalp being gingerly kneaded, “taking a nap.”

A soft, bass humming made a beautiful tune around the room as his other hoof met her chest. Another clank after her neck-piece was removed. One of Daybreaker’s hind legs rose like a dog’s to tattle of her complacence and ecstasy as that same hoof travelled to the in between of her chest and belly. If she wasn’t careful, her lengthy tongue might have lolled out of the side of her mouth and slathered the covers in drool.

If anyone - particularly her Sister, or any other villain - walked in on them now, and found a lovestruck puppy made out of melted butter in the place of a has-been wolverine, Daybreaker would have been done for. Not that she cared anymore. Her Sister had already seen her collection of framed photos of Big Mac back when she had been sent by Discord to take her Sister down instead of Sunburst and Co..

It should have been Big Mac and Co., really. As Daybreaker had said before, and she’d say many times again: Big Mac was her favourite.

Daybreaker sniffed. Being cooped up in a room for a prolonged time definitely made things - particularly ponies - rather musty.

So, Daybreaker came to a decision: she slowly nudged her way out of Big Mac’s sweet caressing, after having to struggle past the tough embrace of sleep, and blearily made her way to the bedroom door. Then she paused, and returned to her darling Big Mac to apologetically nuzzle him. “Care to join me in the shower, darling?”

And that was that. She helped Big Mac across the landing to the bathroom, and let him rest on the closed toilet as she undid his bandages and adjusted the temperature of the shower to a degree tolerable for the both of them. Then, she assisted him across the side of the bathtub, and pulled the shower-curtain around.

Personally, Daybreaker found the water a little chilly, but whatever Big Mac said would go. It was his happiness that she found most important over all, given everything. The water seemed hot enough for him, and that was what counted. Smiling, Daybreaker ignited her horn and set Big Mac down in the bathtub.

Just as Daybreaker’s horn defused, it ignited again and the bathroom window opened. There was a moment of hesitation, before she dunked her head under the water. Smoke filled the bathroom, and tangoed with the steam until they both hit the ceiling, but both ponies went unharmed.

This hadn’t been the first time they had showered together, of course, so several immunity spells were cast onto Big Mac in caution. If anything happened to him because of her, Daybreaker didn’t think she would have been able to forgive herself.

Daybreaker grinned as a flat amber mane attached itself to the side of her face and neck; Big Mac was staring intently at her, so she fluttered her orange lashes suggestively. “Please, darling; hasn’t anybody told you that staring’s rude?”

Big Mac - the silly little thing he was - turned away shamefully and covered his bright blush with a shaven hoof. His freckles were almost completely gone. Daybreaker smiled, her fangs glistening with a mix of saliva and water as she leaned down to the beautiful stallion before her.

His emerald eyes met her amber and red ones. She let her smile and eyelids droop naturally as she edged closer and closer. “Comfortable?”

Big Mac nodded. “Eeyup,” he said softly, resting his once-raised hoof next to his flank, mirroring the other. As he stared up innocently again through the veil of smoke and steam - this time biting his bottom lip - Daybreaker felt herself melt into him.

Fine! She admitted it. He had her completely tamed. On a leash. Reduced to an idolising pet. Whatever you wanted to call it, it was true.

Daybreaker closed her eyes and stuck her head under her dear Big Mac’s chin. Her long horn met his cheek as they nuzzled, and her ear flicked to the sound of Big Mac chuckling. An icy cold unlike the chill of the shower’s stream ran through her spine: what was so ridiculous to him, that he felt the need to laugh?

Resisting the urge to turn into a massive hissy ball of flames, only to be put out by the steam and water, Daybreaker inhaled deeply, and pulled away to check Big Mac over. “What? What is it?” Her tone bore a sharp edge of accusation.

“Nothin’,” he said, but grinned nonetheless. “Jus’ that” - oh, so there was something to it, “-ah’m waitin’ fer ya t’ not act like ah’m gonna break th’ second ya touch me.”

Daybreaker reeled, her back hitting the less-than-tepid water as she did so. In an inevitably failing effort to save face, she fought her way through a horrendously uncouth string of bumbling: “Well- I- uh- you- I- absolutely not- I- er...” her amber and red eyes set on Big Mac’s entertained grin, and her verbal bug ceased, and her face found its way into a practised smirk by muscle memory alone. “You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?”

“Eeyup.” That one signature word came as an answer. If it always came from someone else, it would have been insufferable, and that someone else could have been burnt to a crisp without much of a second thought by now. But Big Mac’s voice was a donut glazed in honey, powdered with sugar and then dunked in deluxe vanilla ice cream - the kind with the itty-bitty brown bits seen in it so you knew that it was fancy - which meant that Daybreaker only wanted more of it. He could have said anything, something completely nonsensical and pigheaded, even, and she would have listened to every word of it.

Every single word.

Everything about dear Big Mac was addicting. To no fault of his own, of course. Daybreaker had once thought that it had been because he was her first true friend, but now it was evident that she had been falling in love with him. She still was, in a sense. The second she thought she couldn’t love him more, she was instantly proven wrong. It was a surprisingly heartwarming feeling. No longer was it scary, but pleasant and addicting.

Big Mac’s smile, for one, was something Daybreaker strived to see at least hourly. The smell of his scent - that of apples and hay, and easily obtained through sticking her nose in his mane or against his strong neck - was absolutely intoxicating. She craved it; it was a sickness for her. A beautiful sickness.

Daybreaker sniffed, and all she could smell was the sweet scent of smoke. That seemed to be the one downside to showering with the gorgeous stallion before her: his smell was dampened. No matter. It would come back. It had to, eventually.

In a dazzle of red, Daybreaker placed one of the bottles of shampoo in her own hooves. After squeezing out an adequate dollop, she returned the bottle to the metal rack and smiled. Big Mac frowned, and his brows creased together.

“What?” She asked, as she began to lather Granny Smith’s rose-scented shampoo into his wet mane. “You’re not allowed to smell pretty, now? Treat yourself, darling!” After all, if it was up to her, Big Mac would have had at least a dozen - no, scratch that; a baker’s dozen - servants waiting on him, flank-and-shoulder.

Big Mac remained silent, though, before he slowly closed his eyes. Humming in content, the stallion tilted his head back and let Daybreaker work her hooves into his scalp. He sighed. Before long, he was covered in a thin layer of soap suds, and her delicate hooves left him.

“My turn...” Daybreaker trilled in song, turning around, sitting, and presenting him her back.

For such a strong stallion, Big Mac was so gentle when he touched other ponies. Creatures, sorry. Daybreaker coated one of his hooves in Granny Smith’s rose shampoo, and he dug both of them into her back. The pleasure - almost completely sensual in nature - of his large hooves pressing into her muscles and large feathery wings was indescribable.

A moan escaped her lips, and she arched herself backwards and further into her darling Big Mac’s touch. “My! By me, darling, have I ever told you how good you are with your hooves?”

“Eeyup...” the expectedly bashful response barely made itself known over the splatting of the shower’s unkempt stream. It made an amused grin spread to Daybreaker’s whole face. Oh, how she loved him.

Spreading her wings a little more, Daybreaker laughed breathily, and said, “I don’t think you get enough credit, my dear.”

“Nope,” Big Mac disagreed, and she could tell that he had given one quick shake of his head.

“Don’t give me that,” she scoffed, and twisted her whole body around to face him. She let her posture go slack, but remained towering over him. It only served to give some painful insight on their size difference. A playful smirk curled her lips upwards as their noses touched, allowing themselves to breathe in one another’s air. A complex notion, but the ordeal seemed to pump butterflies into her chest. “You deserve much, much more than what you think is just! And sometimes it hurts to see or even hear of ponies not treating you like-”

Big Mac didn’t let her finish. He snorted through his nose and gave her a stern glare. She had been silenced.

A wickedly prideful grin split through Daybreaker’s face, letting her round, snake-like tongue drop out and dangle like something deliciously obscene as she chose her next words widely. Her tongue wasn’t snake-like because it was that of a snake’s, per-se, but rather it was a perfect snake of a tongue. It was round and long and thinned the further it came to an end - definitely unlike a regular ponies, but that was corruption and power-ups for you - and as it was so cunning and sneaky during the more intimate or mischievous of opportunities, sometimes Daybreaker believed it might have even had a mind of its own.

An impossible thesis, but Big Mac certainly had no complaints at most times.

A bright blush coated Big Mac’s face like thick paint at the sight. He was well accustomed to Daybreaker’s little quirks by now. He leaned back a little, as if bracing himself for something that Daybreaker’s wasn’t going to let come until his leg was completely healed.

Daybreaker oozed with love now, and she was sure that - if she were Discord, with chaos magic at hoof - she would have had enormous, throbbing love-hearts for fiery amber pupils. A changeling could have only gorged silently. If one was present, that was.

“You know,” she let a small laugh escape her as she twisted back around, “I love it when you do that. You’re getting so good at it.”

“Thank ya.” Daybreaker could tell that her darling Big Mac was smiling. To what extent, she was unsure, but its presence was beautifully known in the inflection of his voice.

“You’re very much welcome,” the smile was infectious, and soon she too was grinning as Big Mac resumed his deep massage into her wings and back. “Lower, please.”

Big Mac heeded, and his hooves went down her spine and pressed into her skin. Daybreaker hummed in delight, both a blush and a look of content spreading across her timeless face.

“Thaaat’s it...” Daybreaker drawled, feeling Big Mac’s miracle-working hooves slide up over his head to her shoulder blades, and then back to the small of her back. There was a sudden wince when he pressed in between her shoulders, and soon the smiley atmosphere disintegrated.

“Ya tried yer hoof a’ some buckin’, di’n’ ya?”

“Once or twice,” Daybreaker spoke through the last moment of silence before there was a horrendous crunch sound as Big Mac pressed his hoof quickly into the area, and before anything else was known the pain had disappeared.

“Eeyup,” the grinning, and somehow all-knowing Big Mac said. “Happens ev’ry time.”

“Wow,” Daybreaker twisted herself around to face him, and they grinned at one another. A half-soapy wing tenderly caressed Big Mac’s half shaven flank as they grinned at one another. Then, she kissed his forehead one-two-three times. “You really know your stuff, don’t you?”

“Eeyup,” upon saying this, Big Mac giggled into his hoof, and Daybreaker felt her heart flutter. Big Mac’s joy would never cease to draw an instant reaction of pure adoration out of her. His laughter was a beautiful noise; it could make even the gloomiest crack a smile.

Daybreaker kissed her darling’s chin, lips, nose, and forehead - he had giggled once more at the penultimate location - and then asked for him to turn around. The question was only half rhetorical, he replied with his musical “Eeyup”, and she used her bright red glimmer to gingerly turn her beloved around herself.

As Daybreaker used her magic to drizzle Granny Smith’s rose-scented conditioner into her wet hooves and allowed the stream of the water to wash her wings and back, Big Mac craned his head back to look at her with one of his dopey smiles; she kissed him on the forehead. It was an obligation, by now. “Love you, darling.”

“Ah love ya, too,” Big Mac smiled. “Now ’re ya gonna get to it or what, Sugar?”

Daybreaker had to catch her tongue before it lolled out again. The water was washing most of the soap from her back, by now. “I really do love it when you’re like this... you know that, right?”

“Eeyup!” Of course he did. She told him every week.

“I know,” Daybreaker proclaimed, “but I’m just so proud! You’ve come such a long, long way.”

Big Mac’s smile grew, but he remained silent. A comfortable lack of words filled the air around them as Daybreaker’s white-hot hooves ran through through her darling’s shaggy barley mane.

Just the colour of it always seemed mesmerising to Daybreaker; while only a colour that was simply simple to the uncultured swine, accompanied by the red apple coat and grassy eyes that matched the cutie mark on his flank, to Daybreaker it was a reminder of pristine sunshine as it beat down on the luscious hayfields of Equestria, refreshing them with an ardent goldenness only ever seen in those luscious hayfields. And Big Mac’s hair.

“Did you know,” Daybreaker began, almost uncharacteristically wistful as she continued massaging the conditioner into Big Mac’s scalp, “my mane used to be pink?”

Big Mac gasped softly. “Nope.”

Of course he hadn’t known. No one but Daybreaker and her angsty little Sister did. “It was!” She exclaimed. “As pink as Dee-Dee’s coat!” Pausing her task, she took a moment to think. At last, she smiled: “And my eyes were purple, too!”

Her darling Big Mac gave one of his deep laughs. “The pitcher yer paintin’ sounds mighty purdy.”

Daybreaker took this opportunity to teasingly poke at him: she gasped loudly, and dipped herself backwards with a wet foreleg draped across her eyes; by now her orange eyeshadow and mascara had almost entirely washed off; “What? I’m not pretty now? How dare you!”

“Eeyup,” Big Mac said mischievously, and so Daybreaker prodded his shoulder playfully.

“After just under a hundred years it started to do the whole magic thing,” her nose scrunched, “you’ve seen it with Sombait and - wait - didn’t it happen to you when you guys and Sunburst defeated Nightmare Moon?”

“Nope,” Big Mac replied.

“Just Sunburst, then?”

“Eeyup.”

A comfortable silence set over them again. From time to time, they’d talk, and then settle into silence once more. That was how they conversed, is all. But, that was fine. They had each other. What more could they ask for?

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[redandready45]

Daybreaker is best waifu!