[Spike stands stock still long after Rarity retires with a relish rapture.]

.... D:S

First Applejack and now Sweetie Belle?

Does she think I like girls who can casually accidentally murder me or what?

... Well okay between her and Apple Bloom...



[then Spike realizes that Rarity did not strangle him for daring to be interested in another girl]

................................

<=D

now i just have to repeat this success in horribly awkward social situations with apple bloom!

can't wait.

GYUH-HUH-HUH!

er um. i mean omigosh they had dragon-donkey babies didn't they oh wow.

Look... I wouldn't want to totally ruin your chances in Canterlot by having everyone accuse you of being a... you know.

But sure! DO visit! <=D

Because even if we don't um. End up uh. T-together.

We can still be friends... right?

... gyuh-huh-huh...

um i mean.

Gosh there's no way I'm the /only/ one!

[looks slightly guilty due to various incidents similar to but considerably less loathsome than the Hayseed comic incident that Draco refuses to say ever happened.]

Well Rarity, I uh. Well like...

It'd be kinda /weird/ for a dragon and a pony to get together anyway wouldn't it?

... and I'm just a kid... I don't know if it's like. Legal.

Faust says I was what, eight when we moved to Ponyville?!

So I'm what ten now? If the freaking episodes follow a chronology roughly synchronous with --

[shakes head]

Point is, I was hoping /you/ would be very lucky! But... I'm probably too young for you for the foreseeable future, and we're /totally/ different species, and...

Nonono, wait!

Applejack. Really? I mean she's got those freckles sure and woo those legs --

[shakes head]

No! Not Applejack. Apple Bloom! Because.

Shoot I dunno, she's cute? And if I tell her no she'll probably take a hammer to my head or something?

But Rarity, listen! You're a wonderful beautiful mare! And maybe sometimes you're a little weird or a little scary but so is Twilight and /she's/ got a boyfriend!

I can't pick because I don't want to hurt anyone! I mean, I know you're not really all that interested in me and I really appreciate that you put up with me anyway, and Apple Bloom /obviously/ has something going on with me and I /really/ don't want to hurt her feelings, and.

And well.

I love you.

You're the first filly I ever saw who I just fell in love with right away! ... and maybe that was because I was staring at the diamonds on your ahmm BUT STILL I was NEVER given a reason to feel otherwise!

At first I guess it was kinda shallow because you're really beautiful and always have hundreds of gemstones sitting around, but the more I thought about it...

You're charming! You're smart! You have a cute voice! You wake up, you go outside and kick flank, and you look good doin' it!

You're... well, you're the best, Rarity! And you always /look/ your best! And you've never been afraid to tell everyone!

[looks down embarrassed and kicks at the ground like Luigi]

............................. Is this like a joke or something?

Of course I do! You're beautiful! You know that! [blushes]

I, I mean, thanks to Twilight's big mouth and that whole giant dragon thing you kinda know about the um.

You know the uh.

That.

Huh? Oh! No not at all!

I'm just leaving Twilight and Peter alone for a bit 'cause they've got a kinda personal chat going on. I wouldn't've eavesdropped but I was kinda in the house when they started talking so there was no way out without letting them know I was there. :x

[sees your face and looks both ways]

Down here. I just sweeped it, I swear it's clean.

[opens a hole in the lawn leading to one of Twilight's various secret rooms]

What's wrong, Rarity? D:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knTf6aX1gYA

Play

Sure sure! I'll do that after this big long discussion that takes place at no particular time that my player's having with himself so he can practice the subtleties of Rarity's tone!

And it's funny because in that discussion the boutique is kinda trashed and it's being pinned on you and here you are fleeing and telling me to run too! Gyuuh-huh-huh!

... Huhuh...

.. Yeah, I'll admire her from a distance until she doesn't look like the Reaper.

[BAAARF]

Uuuugh! This one BUUUURNS! ;__;

[looks at it]

... Uh?

Hey Twilight! Lookit this!

[finds Twilight to show it to her]

I can only make out a couple words. I think it's a threat! [said in a "hey neat" voice]

Uuugh, I hope it's not from Gnarly or whatever his name was...

[Spike serves Twilight coffee and legally requisitioned graham crackers.]

[he's still a little irritable after Apple Bloom caught him brushing his Cadance's hair, but he hugs Twilight since she looks so pitifully kawaii.]

[he also sets down a Soarinade for Rainbow Dash.]

Fluttershy doesn't think she's such a great flier but in a jam she does just fine winging it.

[Spike is in his room throwing darts at a Twilight poster.]

Stupid big fat grumble bumble...

[WA]

[ZOOBIE!]

[Spike blinks]

What...

... what am I doing.

[face burns with shame, takes the darts out, takes the poster down, puts back the photo of himself and Twilight on a roller coaster or w/e]

[quietly leaves that room and meekly waddles over to Twilight]

Um...

Twilight?

Um, I was kind of a real ass today...

[looks down]

I'm sorry.

(( i c. ))

(( wait what they got in the guard and they're twelve? ))

(( i must have missed something ))

[hides shovel behind back and smiles like noooothing happened]

SURE SINCE /SHE/ IS BUSY BEING THE GODDESS OF LOOOOOOVE!

[walks down with a miner helmet and full explorer gear, shovel over shoulder]

[pouts at Twilight and gets the light in her eyes on accident]

I'll be BACK.

[carefully walks past Rarity... accidentally bops her in the face with the shovel]

EYAAAAHHHH!

Omigosh I'm so sorry ;__;

[Spike continues to sleep soundly for the moment.]

[he reaches out and touches Rarity and smiles.]

Muuunununun...

[Rarity's cutie mark is now a pillow.]

Now who in the world has the nerve to knock at this hour --

[when Twilight says "Rarity" Spike zooms over and opens the door and bows]

Come on in, Lady R -- OW

[he bonked his head on the ground]