=BiE 33= >Light seeps in through your windows and wakes you up. >That sucks, you can see why Mous hates being woken up like this. >You pull the still sleeping mare laying next to you closer, okay maybe it wasn't all bad. >Rainbow had stayed at your place every night since your talk with Fluttershy, finally able to know that she wouldn't be ruining a friendship in doing so. >Rainbow nuzzles into your chest as she wakes up "Five more minutes..." she complains. >You kiss the top of her head. "Come on lazybones, we both have work today." >She waves a hoof dismissively. "Buck work...I'm staying in bed today." >"I'll bet I can get you out of bed." you say as you play with her hair. >A small laugh is your answer. She asked for it. >You grab Rainbow by the flank and jump out of bed, ignoring her yelp of surprise as you do. >You make sure to lean Rainbow against your chest as you carry her out to the kitchen, her moaning at being moved not helping matters. >Mous is eating at the table when you get out. "Are you always out here before I am?" you ask. >Mous shrugs. "I get up when I hear you moving around so I can ensure I always get the best seat." >You roll your eyes and walk into the kitchen, Rainbow still leaning on your chest. "Anon, throw me an apple if your -that- set on moving me this early." >You pop an apple in your mouth and grab one for yourself. These Golden Delicious were the best. >You carried Rainbow back to your room after breakfast, she shifted her weight and fell onto the bed again. >Oh dammit. "I thought that getting some food in you would wake you up some..." you lament. >You can see Rainbow's grin from here. "Yeah, bad move on your part. I'm gonna have to lay here and let this food digest for a while before I get up again." >You lay down next to her."I got you out of bed once, what makes you think I can't do it again?" you ask. >Rainbow smirks at you. "I'm ready for you this time." >Luckily, force is not your only option. >You jump off the bed and head into the bathroom. "Okay, you just lay there while I shower, you know, naked and stuff." >You hear her shuffle around on the bed. "That...won't work Anon..." >You turn on the water and step in. "Sorry! Can't hear you over the sound of me vigorously rubbing my wet chest!" >You hear the something jump onto the floor and clop into the bathroom. You wipe the steam off the glass to see Rainbow grinning at you. "You're a terrible special somep0ny, bribing me with sex like that." >Forty minutes later, you're showered, laid, dressed, and walking out the door. >You kiss Rainbow goodbye as she takes off into the clouds. "So, does she taste like skittles?" you hear behind you. >Mous is standing in the doorway behind you, heading out as well. "Skittles?" >He gives you an incredulous eyebrow. >Oh. >Tasting. Rainbow. >"Haha." you say. >You walk ahead as Mous waits by the mailbox for Derpy. Something about giving her a hug he forgot about. >You walked by somep0ny on a stage as you got closer to town. He was ranting about chaos theory or something. >The library was abuzz in papers when you stepped in. >Papers were strewn about the floor, books sat open on ever piece of furniture available, a chalkboard with what looked like a time dilation equation sat in the corner. >"Oh, hey Anon!" you heard from the other room. Twilight came trotting out to great you. "You're just in time!" >A quick once over told you that Twilight had at least slept, no bags under her eyes and she was keeping balance pretty well. >"What is all this stuff, Twi?" you ask as you motion around the room. >Twilight's face lights up like a Christmas tree. "The Princess sent over a special spell that her magisters made and she wants us to help!" >You grab one of the pieces of paper laying around and start scanning it. "What kind of spell are we talking about?" >"Why, the spell to send you home, of course!" >...what? >A lump forms in your throat. >"S-She finished that?" you ask. >Twilight goes back to reading a large tome. "Not yet, but she says she has the base component down. It's our job right now to take care of the stability of the portal." >Stability, that means she already knows how to send you elsewhere and how to power it. >The hard part's done. >This portal nonsense could take a few weeks, a month at the most, but then what? >How much longer did you have here? >"R-right, I'll go work this out." you say. >You sit down at the desk and start crunching numbers based on the magical theory you know, but your heart isn't in it like it normally is. >How much longer were you going to be here? >Were you allowed to opt out? >Should you? >What would Mous say? >You admit that you missed your family, but you know that you'd miss Rainbow and all your other friends here if you left. >Shit, you had a GIRLFRIEND here. One who had been living with you a month. >It was no doubt that the two of you cared about each other, you didn't want to leave that. >But...at the same time, you didn't think that writing off your homeworld was the best mode of thought. >"How's it going?" you heard over your shoulder, causing you to jump. >Twilight stood behind you. "Uhh. Fine. Fine, take a look." you hand her the paper you had been writing on. >Twilight's face grows a shocked expression as she reads. "Anon, did you do all this right now?" she asks. >"Well, yeah." you say. "Why?" >"Anon, this is incredible! You've cracked the portal stability equation! How did you do that?" Twilight asked. >You turned in your chair. "Well, it was simple enough. I figured out what kinds of magic we'd need, probably special manipulation and maybe a time tunneling spell if time is different there than it is here, And then I just used general Arcane energy to bind them together." You look up at her. "Is that...special?" >"Incredibly!" she cried out. "Nop0ny has ever thought of combining different types of magic energy together! We always just kinda brute force it." >"Well, different ways of thinking, I guess." you say. >"This'll cut down on the time till the portal is done drastically! I can't wait to get you started on the other aspects!" >Waitwhat? >Oh god. >No. >Dammit, no. >You just cost yourself a month of time here! >Idiot! >You groan and put your head in your hands. >Idiot. Stupid idiot! >Twilight senses something is wrong and approaches you again. "Anon? Is something wrong?" >You talk through your hands. "Twilight, have you ever wanted something, and then later on your realized you didn't want it anymore?" >"Did something happen, Anon?" she asked. >You looked up and saw the concern in her eyes. "It's just...I've built this life here that I love and suddenly, this thing that I should want with all my heart comes along and is ready to take me back to my old one and...I don't think I want it to." >Twilight puts her hoof on your arm. "Well, I think you've answered your own question, Anon. If you love someplace, you don't try to leave it." >"But what about my family?" you ask. >Twilight gets a knowing look in her eyes. "Would your family want to see you again if you were going to be unhappy?" >"But...what about the spell?" you ask. >Twilight levitates the paper you wrote on over to her. "You've cracked something important, but we still have a long way to go before it's finished. And when it is...we just won't use it!" >You give her a bit of a look. "So, we're doing this entire thing just for its own sake?" >"Nope! For science!" she says. >Twilight let you off early today and you began to walk home. >You felt good. Really good. >You had always figured that staying in Equestria for a long while would be a possibility, but this was the first time you had -chosen- to stay. >Ah. And there was your main reason for staying flying through the clouds now. "Hey Rainbow!" you call out. >She doesn't yell back and shrugs at you. "Head back to the house when you're done! It's important!" >She nods and flies off. >You can fully appreciate Ponyville now that you can see it as your home. Fillies ride around in wagons, colts and mares wake through the center of town. >Some wave hello to you, some even say it. >But all of them have already accepted you. >And you them. -Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-0G_FI61a8- >You arrive at your house, it would be a few hours till Mous got home, which was good. >Rainbow lands next to you. "What's up Anon?" she asks. >You open the door and motion for her to come inside. >You shut the door behind you and turn to her. >You run your fingers through her hair. "Rainbow..." >You find yourself at a loss, how to you tell somep0ny that you didn't have to go back to your home dimension? >"Oh fuck it." you pull Rainbow close and kiss her as hard and deep as you can. >She's shocked for an instant, but she catches up quick. >You walk to your room and collapse on top of the bed, Rainbow already pawing at your shirt. >You spend the afternoon like that, intertwined in the language of lovers that communicates you're feelings and then some. >You both finish and simply lay there curled up in each other for a while. "Hehe...wow. Where did -that-come from Anon?" Rainbow huffed out. >You feel Rainbow shudder as you plant kisses up her wings and onto her back. >You stop at the base of her neck and whisper "Just happy to be home."