Love You to Death

Special thanks to my proofreaders/editors: Fluttershy3_66, RDopeth and Shysoldier94

Chapter 04

"You see, we can all see what our subjects wish upon the moon."

"Oh I didn't know... wait...," he knew that voice, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, Princess Luna?" Dilectus said as he turned quickly to face the Alicorn that didn't even move from his side nor showed any expression towards the startled unicorn.

"Err I mean, you scared me, and I …umm… why did you come to visit me, Princess? Or do you want some tea? Or maybe just some water? Or maybe-"

"Please don't worry thyself with us; we were just flying around when we heard thy voice."

The unicorn placed a hoof to the back of his neck nervously, "Was I speaking that loud?"

"Actually, no, but as we said, we can hear what is wished upon our moon and I must see that thou has the loudest voice of all, your wishes are really... how can we say, strong, so to speak."

"Wait wait wait... so you listen to EVERYthing?"

"Well sometimes it is hard to discern the voice because we hear a lot of ponies at the same time, but we must say that thy voice is the most frequent."

Dilectus felt that his cheeks flushed a crimson red, he lowered his head shamelessly.

He could hear Luna taking a step closer and feel her hoof on his shoulder, "But no need to fret, we feel honored that there is somepony who enjoys our night with heart and soul. Even your name reflects it."

"Well, uh, thank you Princess Luna; I really like your..." he raised his head again and saw the Princess' face rather close to his. Her mane flew calmly with the breeze. The moon stood right behind her, creating a silver aura to the Alicorn. Her gorgeous teal eyes seemed to glow in the darkness. It pierced his very soul.

'Damn, what am I thinking now?' he asked himself. With a quick flick of his neck, he shook those cursed thoughts away,

"...your peaceful night."

"And we thank thee. Now..." she unfolded her wings, "we must go, but please remember... Don't let your fears prevent you from being who you are." and flew away, quickly vanishing into the dark sky.

Dilectus stood stiff en in place as if he were a board.

'She was... so... close. Ugh no this madness, how could I be feeling something for her and of course she wouldn't want me - she's a princess after all. Yeah I'm just exaggerating... I have to sleep.'

Instead of falling asleep peacefully, the unicorn hid himself under his blanket and quickly drifted off.

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"Ugh, damn birds go away... just five more minutes," an annoyed voice approached from under the blankets. The sun was lighting the whole room and some birds were on the balcony singing happily. "Okay, okay, I'll get up.", Dilectus kicked the blanket away and sat on the bed. He scratched his eyes and glanced at the clock when he realized something, "Oh no! I have ten minutes before my class!"

He got up, magically grabbed his satchel and opened the door of his room. He rushed downstairs to find his mother with a confused look on her face.

"Son, I thought you wouldn't wake up on time. I called you a thousand times..."

"Oh I didn't hear you and I forgot to set my alarm. I gotta go, bye."

"Bye...," the front door closed loudly, "Have a nice day, sleepy head." Lumen said with a giggle.

Dilectus was trotting as fast as he could but it just wasn't enough, "I guess there's just one way." He lit up his horn, trying to focus on teleporting himself to the school even though he didn't usually practice this kind of magic and had several bad experiences with them.

He couldn't show up late with the excuse of oversleeping. "I'll have to give it a try" and in a blink of the eye he was there in front of the gates of the school.

He suddenly felt the a strong pain in his whole body; he felt as if he was burning, "Oh it buuuurrrnsss," he fell to the ground and rolled from side to side as if he was in flames. It at least seemed like.

"It really burns doesn't it?" a female voice came from behind. He stopped his comical act and noticed that it was the same mare who sat next to him yesterday.

"Oh hi, don't worry I'm fine I just..."

"Don't practice it much, right?" she laughed wholeheartedly, "It happened to me a lot of times before and look at me now, teaching ponies to safely use teleportation and move things without hurting anypony in the process." she said adding a smile.

"Heh I always skipped those classes. They were sooooo boring and... no I mean, not that you aren't a good teacher or that I think that you are less important than anypony in school, I didn't mean to offend you in any way...," the school's bell rang right on time, "and oh look it's time to go err sorry," he said while trotting quickly to his room.

"Phew, oh what have I done... oh well, I think she doesn't hate me... much." It was then when he noticed that he had forgotten something. 'And now I'll never see those books again, must have been vaporized on the way... damn is there anything else to make this day worse?'

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The morning classes went faster than he expected much to his enjoyment.

Before he knew it, it was time for lunch. Dilectus was about to leave his room when he noticed somepony entering on the room from the back door, it seemed like a student but he wasn't sure, "How may I help you?" then he noticed who it was, "Oh... hello?"

"Hi, I think you forgot something..." she used her telekinesis to place Dilectus' satchel on the top of the table.

"Oh, thank you, I thought it vanished when I teleported. I can't believe I didn't lose these books. Thank you so much and, uh, sorry for earlier today."

"No, it's okay I'm used to ponies saying this, you just gave your opinion that's all..."

"Really? I just felt like I offended you somehow so..."

"Hey don't worry, how about you and me get some lunch and you try to talk a little for a change."

"Um, I think I can do that."

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The teachers' refectory was strangely empty. Just a few ponies were having their lunch silently. Both unicorns moved towards one of the empty tables and sat one across from the other. The mare's horn started glowing as a strange hole appeared floating next to her. Dilectus watched as she took out some food from it and placed it in the table as the hole closed again, "Let me guess, a magical storage?"

"Not exactly. I just created a portal to my house where I could get what I wanted, a storage system like that wouldn't be very appropriate to store organic things."

"I guess you're right. I never got the hang of these things, always ended losing a lot of stuff in time and space. oh well..."

The white coated mare giggled softly, "I did that a lot too, but I paid attention to my classes, you know?"

"Yeah," Dilectus answered while rolling his eyes.

"Say, aren't you going to eat anything?"

"I don't think so, I woke up late as you could guess and didn't even bring some bits with me."

"Yeah I noticed that, especially because of your mane..."

Now that Dilectus noticed that he hadn't even brushed his mane, and he knew how bad his mane was in every morning. He rested his head on the table as he placed both hooves as if trying to hide his mane, "Well that's embarrassing..."

"Nah, I understand, but hey I've never seen such a messy mane in my whole life."

"Aww come on."

"Ok ok I'll stop, but hey you can have lunch with me if you want."

"Ah no don't worry yourself I'm fine really."

"Or I can lend you some bits then so you get something for you?" she insisted.

"Thanks but there's no need, really" he replied.

"Are you sure? You still have the whole day left and you're not gonna eat anything?"

"Yeah, I'm good, don't bother yourself with me."

The mare left out a sigh and said, "Okay then, but that's your last chance to change your mind."

The unicorn stallion mumbled something incomprehensible.

"Alright then, not going to ask anymore."

The mare ate her lunch as Dilectus kept there in silence, "Hey, you okay there?" the mare asked but no answer came for the stallion.

"Hello~o are you there?" she nudged the unicorn on the shoulder that then got his head up with a startled expression and quick breathing.

"What happened?" he asked confused with his eyes red.

"You feel asleep out of nowhere."

"Oh... That's me without coffee." he said as he placed his head on the table once again, but as he did so, the bell rang.

"Well you could have some if you asked." The mare said between her laughter as she trotted towards the cafeteria's exit before he could say anything back.

"Hey I just...," Dilectus raised his head but couldn't see the unicorn anywhere, "Oh she's gone. Well, time to go...," he said scratching his eyes with his hoof. He grabbed his satchel and went to his classroom. There on his table he found a cup of coffee and no signs of the pony that could have left it there when he realized who it was.

'Well, thanks then.' he thought as he drank the coffee.

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'Classes are finally over. Time to go home.' Dilectus thought of letting out a deep sigh. After the lunch break, black clouds covered the sky little by little. Then suddenly, it began raining and hadn't stopped since then. He could create some sort of shield to not get wet but it wasn't wise to walk home because of the thunderstorm.

"Well guess I'll have to teleport myself home..." But, he was reminded of his last experience earlier that day and he was far too tired to try anything like that now, "Or I can stay here for a while."

"I can teleport you if you want."

"Gaah, why does everypony like to scare me like that?" Dilectus frantically turned to see the white unicorn mare once again.

"I'm sorry, but hey, they will close the gates soon so it would be better to get going. Right?"

Dilectus was about to say something when she interrupted, "And no, you're not going to decline my offer, come on just tell me which house is yours."

"Alright, my house is number 12..." and before he could say anything else Dilectus found himself in front of his house, "What the... oh, ok." He opened the door and entered, looking around he found his mother asleep on the couch.

"Ugh well I just want to sleep now." he muttered to himself as he went to his bedroom and threw himself on the bed.

'Wow, she really is a nice mare, ' he thought while staring at the ceiling when a thought hit him 'Funny thing is... I don't even know her name.'

A.N.: (Dilectus Noctis = Beloved Night)