Of Chaos and Generosity
‘’And… that, is that!’’ Rarity declared as she finished tying the last ribbon with a flourish.
She stepped back and took in the dress. It was midnight-blue with golden streaks, looking like fallen stars in the night sky. The collar had a moon-shaped brooch carved out of a white diamond, and the dress would hug tightly around the body of the wearer, without being uncomfortable to wear.
All in all, a perfect match for its intended wearer.
‘’Indeed it is.’’
‘’Darling,’’ Rarity didn’t bother to turn around, ‘’don’t speak into my mind like that if you’re not going to show up in person.’’
A pop was the only warning she had before her love had wrapped his body all around her. Despite the size difference between, he managed to make it fit and, Celestia help her, comfortable.
‘’Hello love,’’ Discord purred into her ear, making her shiver slightly.
‘’Darling,’’ Rarity replied. ‘’Not that I mind it, but why are you wrapped around me?’’
Discord - somehow - managed to shrug. ‘’Just felt like it,’’ he answered evasively.
That was a lie. Discord might once have been a good liar, and maybe he still was, but not to Rarity. She could see it; were she so inclined, she might even say she could feel it.
‘’What happened?’’ she asked without preamble.
Discord craned his neck and looked her in the eyes. ‘’Nothing happened. Oh look, you’ve got something on your nose!’’
Before Rarity could say something to that, he drew her into a long kiss, and for a good minute all was forgotten as Rarity enjoyed Discord’ s tongue doing all manner of things tongues shouldn’t be able to do inside her mouth.
‘’Delightful as always,’’ she breathed when they finally broke apart, ‘but you still haven’t answered my question, darling.’’
Discord hummed. He didn’t answer.
‘’Discord…’’
‘’It’s nothing,’’ he sighed, before unwrapping himself from her body and laying himself down on the ground, which made it that Rarity was now laying on his chest.
‘’It is not,’’ Rarity retorted without missing a beat, ‘’or you wouldn’t make such a problem out of it.’’
‘’Wouldn’t I?” Discord mused. ‘’I love you,’’ he said suddenly.
Rarity took it in stride; Discord’s way of speaking was chaotic, and she loved that about him as well. ‘’I love you too,’’ she replied sincerely.
Discord lifted his head up and planted a kiss on her horn, near the tip. Rarity involuntarily shuddered.
‘’It was stupid,’’ Discord finally began speaking his mind. ‘’I was just minding my own business, when all of a sudden Blueblood, of all people, appears.’’
Oh joy.
‘’He was a massive prick, as usual,’’ Discord continued, ‘’demanding that I do something for him?’’
Curious, Rarity asked, ‘’What did he want you to do?’’
‘’I don’t know,’’ Discord replied, ‘’I didn’t listen. I just told him no when he was finally finished speaking.’’
That probably didn’t go over well for Blueblood, prick that he was.
Rarity snorted very unlady-like. ‘’And how he did take that, might I inquire?’’
‘’Not well at all,’’ Discord deadpanned. ‘’He got five words into his first sentence before I had enough of him and sewed his mouth shut.’’
‘’Painful.’’
Rarity, at that moment, noticed that Discord’s goatee looked rather raffled. Without a second thought she grabbed a comb from a nearby desk with her telekinesis and floated it over to her.
‘’What are you doing?’’ Discord questioned amusedly as Rarity began to run the comb through his beard.
‘’I’m trying to fix this mess, darling,’’ Rarity replied.
Discord hummed. ‘’Are you referring to me or the goatee?’’
Rarity looked him straight in the eyes. ‘’You are not a mess, love,’’ she said. ‘’And even if you were, I’d still love you.’’
Corny, and apparently Discord thought so too, because he rolled his eyes, even as Rarity felt the body she was laying on heat up slightly, which was a sign she’d touched him.
‘’How flattering,’’ he said. ‘’You do know I can fix my goatee in a second, if I want to, right?’’
‘’But it would lack my personal touch,’’ Rarity argued as she continued to work on it.
‘’That it would,’’ Discord agreed, before reaching out with his claw and digging into her mane!
‘’DISCORD!’’
‘’What?’’ he innocently replied. ‘’If you get to mess with my hair, so can I.’’
Rarity wanted to smack him for that comment, but he was right. ‘’Fine,’’ she allowed. ‘’But if you mess it up…’’
‘’The couch,’’ Discord sighed, before beginning to work on her hair.
For a time - Rarity had no idea how long, with no clock in sight to check the time - they worked on each other’s hair. After Rarity was finished with Discord’s goatee, having styled it in a rather nice braid, she began to work on his coat, and soon enough she felt Discord do the same to her.
Thus time passed, until finally Rarity was done and happy. ‘’Voíla!’’ she exclaimed as she pulled the comb away with a flourish.
‘’Done!’’ Discord said a second later.
‘’Darling, arrange for a mirror, why don’t you?’’ Rarity requested.
With a snap of Discord’s claws, there was a mirror next to them.
Discord, Rarity saw immediately, had done his best.
Her mane had gone from the style it usually was to a very intricate collection of buns and braids, looking more like something one would wear at a high-class ball than in everyday life. Her coat, meanwhile, had been given a once-over that Aloe and Lotus would be equal parts jealous and proud of; it was shining like it had never done before.
‘’Love, this is exquisite!’’ she exclaimed. ‘’What a wonderful job you have done!’’
Discord grinned. ‘’Thank you, thank you,’’ he said. ‘’The same could be said for you, though.’’
Rarity had worked on his coat as best she could with her limited equipment (a comb and her horn), but it was far from her best work. Still, the hairs were smooth and shining, and that was the most important part.
‘’Thank you, love,’’ Rarity said as she looked up at him.
‘’No, thank you.’’
They kissed, and everything was alright in the world.