Rainbow Dash lay awake in bed, staring up at the wooden ceiling above her as she listened to the sounds of the crickets chirping outside. It was a peaceful night, she was warm and snug under the covers, and the pillow beneath her head was almost as soft as the clouds she loved to sleep on.

It was almost a perfect night, but one thing was bothering Rainbow Dash: her foreleg was fast asleep, and she couldn’t move it around to wake it up. Because it was trapped under the sleeping frame of the Great and Powerful Trixie.

Rainbow Dash had already tried to simply pull her foreleg out, but Trixie was as heavy as she was stubborn. She had tried to nudge the other mare off of her foreleg, but whenever Trixie would start to stir in her slumber Rainbow Dash had to make a hasty retreat. She had simply waking Trixie up… but she couldn’t disturb that cute, peaceful face snoring away into her chest.

“Maybe I’ll get used to it after awhile,” Rainbow Dash mused quietly to herself. “… Wait, this is my writing leg. Will it still work if it doesn’t get any blood for a night? Where’s Twilight when you need her?”

“The Great and Powerful Trixie is far superior…”

Rainbow Dash jumped at the slurring sound of Trixie’s sleepy voice. She turned to find that Trixie was still snoozing away without a care in the world and decided that Trixie must have just been talking in her sleep. “… Wait, she responded to Twilight’s name by-”

“Got lucky last time. This time Trixie’ll beat yoooou…”

Rainbow had to suppress her laughter at Trixie’s automated sleep-response to her friend’s name. She also felt her heart aching from the overload of cuteness coming from her partner… though she didn’t know if that could also have been the result of the lack of blood going to her foreleg. Regardless, it reminded of the dilemma that she was still in.

“I can’t sleep like this,” Rainbow Dash grumbled as she extended a wing and brought it to Trixie face, sitting up so that she could tickle the edge of Trixie’s nose. “Maybe this’ll make her roll over a bit…”

Trixie’s snoring stopped and her face scrunched up as the feathers on Rainbow’s wing brushed up-and-down across her muzzle. She kicked a foreleg in front of her face, just missing Rainbow’s wing and making little noises that sounded like a mix between groaning and whining. Rainbow Dash had to bite her lip as she once again felt her heart beating faster.

“Ah… Ah… Ah…” The warning hit Rainbow Dash too late. As predicted, Trixie did indeed roll over… into Rainbow’s wing, and just before she unleashed the sneeze that was building up, before rolling away and laying down on her back. She was still on Rainbow Dash’s foreleg.

“… That didn’t go as planned,” Rainbow said as she held out her mucus-covered wing and gagged. She grabbed the bed sheet and wiped her wing clean. “Okay, last resort.” Rainbow Dash lay back down again and rolled closer to Trixie, wrapping her free foreleg around her so that she was embracing the showmare.

Trixie smiled and nestled herself into Rainbow’s hold. Rainbow Dash grinned and rolled over further, prompting Trixie to do the same. She rolled her just a little further, gently easing her towards the other side of the much-smaller-than-her-own-bed…

“Oops.” Rainbow Dash acted quickly and flapped her wings, holding onto Trixie to stop her from falling onto the hard, wooden floorboard beneath her. Rainbow moved Trixie over the bed and gently lay her back down, landing beside her and letting out a silent cheer at her free leg.

Looking over at Trixie, it seemed that the showmare was still fast asleep, blissfully unaware that she had ever taken her partner’s appendage hostage and almost suffered a splintered behind as a result.

The feeling was starting to return to Rainbow Dash’s leg, and gave a pleasant sigh as she sank back into the covers of the warm bed and snuggled up close to Trixie.

“Hey.”

Rainbow Dash groaned and waved her leg into the air.

“Wake up.”

Rainbow’s eyes slowly opened, revealing blurred darkness above her that slowly took shape. She could see the ceiling of Trixie’s trailer, and the face of the Great and Powerful one herself. “Whaisit?” Rainbow asked as she yawned. “It’s still early… I was having an awesome dream…”

“Too bad. This is an emergency.”

Rainbow rubbed her eye with her forehoof and gave a muffle grunt as a response. “What kind of emergency?”

“You’re sleeping on Trixie’s foreleg.”

Author's Notes:

"Only 800 words? You're pulling my leg!"

... Okay, terribad pun aside, this chapter is not the latest one I've been working on lately. It's just a cute little image I concocted in my mind this morning that I wanted to get down in writing. Think of it as a lil' bonus chapter whilst I just finish up the next one :3