He woke up in a cold sweat as he sprung up in a panic, his eyes were looking every which way, and he was breathing hard. Though he couldn't remember the nightmare, he got the sense that it wasn't the same kind of nightmare he had before. The feeling he got from even thinking about it only seemed to make him get a little more panicked.

After a few moments or so he finally managed to calm himself down and get his breathing back under control. He looked beside him to see Luna smiling in her sleep, and he knew that it was difficult for her to dream walk while she herself was asleep, but he couldn't help but wonder if he had even been fitful during his sleep. Though he was glad he didn't wake her up, even after the night that they had, mostly because if she had woken up while he was still asleep having the nightmare then she would have entered his dream to help him.

While he knew that might sound strange or dumb, especially if you suffered through nightmares, but this was one that had frighten him to the core that he knew his brain had blocked even the fuzziest memory of it as soon as he woke up. But if she had entered the nightmare, it would be an almost guarantee that he would remember every detail, and she would also know what the nightmare was about. Which he knew would not only worry her but his other marefriends too.

He wanted to get up and be alone with his thoughts, try to calm down even more, but as he looked out the window from the bed he saw how late it still was. So after another moment he laid back down and stared at Luna while she continued to sleep comfortably, too afraid to close his own eyes to sleep. Eventually, though he started to nod off, before he did he gave the beautiful mare next to him a peck before fully drifting off.

---------------------------------------------------A Few Hours Later--------------------------

"Please wake up!" He heard someone call out, and if felt as if the whole room was shaking.

It didn't take to long after that he realized the room wasn't shaking, he was shaking as Luna tried to wake him up. At first, his body didn't respond no matter how hard he tried, almost as if he were completely paralyzed. Though after a few more attempts, and a little more shaking from Luna, his eyes flew open and almost headbutted Luna when he sprung up.

"Oh thank the heavenly sky!" Luna said, wrapping her hooves around him and he could tell she was crying because his shoulder started to become damp.

"W-what happened?" He asked, and as he spoke he realized how out of breath he was and his voice was strained.

"You wouldn't wake up!" Luna said as she unwrapped her hooves to look at him, tears freely flowing down her face. "I-I tried to wake you by kissing you, a-a-and you....."

At this point, she had lost all control and he knew whatever had happened to him while he was sleeping freaked her out really bad. He brought her in close whispering that he was okay, that he was sorry for scaring her. They stayed like that for what he knew must have been at least two hours, but he didn't care, he just wanted to make sure that she was alright.

"Luna, what happened to me that made you this upset?" He asked after it seemed she had calmed down, though as he asked the question he could hear her choke back another sob, until she finally looked at him, her eyes puffy and red.

"Y-you wouldn't w-wake up, a-and I thought you w-were just exhausted, a-and that's when I-I kissed you to try to wake you up. B-but when our l-lips met..." Again she had to hold back another sob.

"What?" He asked, his voice still strained as if he had yelled at the top of his longs for hours, but for some reason, his throat felt bruised.

"You weren't breathing..." She had finally said it, and everything felt like it was upside down, and he felt nauseous, but looking at her and he knew that there was something else. "I-I tried everything, b-but you just wouldn't breathe, t-that's when I-I started to shake you."

The situation didn't really process with him, how could he just stop breathing like that? How long was he not breathing? How long was she trying to revive him? He still had a kind of knot in his stomach, like she knew something else, something she didn't want to tell him so as to not make him panic, that's what he got from this feeling. That's when he saw her, tears still streaming down her cheeks, but her eyes weren't meeting his.

"W-what are you looking at?" He asked, and she tentatively raised her hoof and barely touched his throat making him give a slight yelp of pain.

"I-I'm s-sorry....." Though her voice trailed off in the distances, only he knew that he was going into a daze as he got up and went to the bathroom.

As he got to the door, he paused not wanting to see but he knew that he had to know, to confirm it with his own eyes. He took a breath and walked into the bathroom and turned towards the mirror clenching his eyes. He forced them open, and nearly puked at what he saw.

"W-wha..." His thoughts were racing.

In the mirror he saw bruises on his neck, making him shiver and turn pale white. Especially since the bruises looked suspiciously like hooves, as if somepony had actually tried to strangle him in his sleep, and if Luna's story was anything to go by they had succeeded. Though that didn't really make sense to him.

How long did he go without air, or better yet how come shaking him had revived him instead of any of the normal methods? As far as he could tell, Luna did, in fact, try to resuscitate him through the normal ways. He could tell by the slight bruising on his chest that he did in fact received CPR.

He walked out of the bathroom and sat on the bed still in a complete daze and his mind was in complete turmoil. The same questions kept popping into his head. Why was he still alive? How long had it been before Luna woke up and found him not breathing? How did somepony walk into a Princesses room and managed to strangle someone to death without being noticed? How come he didn't at very least wake up and struggled?

Hooves wrapped around him, though he didn't really care at the moment who was trying to comfort him. For as far as anyone knew he had been lying there dead caused by strangulation. Even if he had been strangled only a few moments before Luna had woken up, he still had stopped breathing.

"I-I swear I-I'll...." Luna had started to say but seemed to know not to finish her sentence, after all, they only had the bruises to go by. "I'll a-ask the guards i-if they saw anything."

Still, in a daze, he nodded and watched as she walked out of the door leaving him alone with his thoughts. But before she left, he couldn't help but think of their night together had turned from them having a good time with each other, to someone trying to kill him. That's when it hit him, as he thought of who and why somepony had tried.

It felt so long ago since it happened, almost felt like it had been years when in fact it had actually happened less than a year ago. The three Stallions who had jumped him and broke a few of his bones. He had remembered that one of them said something about them not liking humans, or at very least they had said something similar. But it sounded as if the Stallion was talking about a group of ponies other than the three of them didn't want him around.

Though that didn't make much sense, ever since then he hadn't heard anything else about a group like that. But if they were real and they had wanted to actually kill him, why not try before now? After all, if this was the work of that group why chose to try to kill someone in a heavily guarded area of the palace, even though they seemed to have gotten through anyway?

That's when it dawned on him, though he tried to push it aside because he knew that couldn't have happened. But it was the only explanation to how it could have happened, even with the guards. Somepony had managed to bribe them, or a worse thought was that some of the members of the castle staff could be apart of the group.

"T-the guards say that no one came up last night, and I sent one of them to fetch a nurse." Luna stopped when she saw the expression on his face. "Brandon, a-are you okay?"

"No..." he said as all the emotion started to filter in as his daze seemed to finally go away, and he finally broke down not able to tell her his revelation.

Once again she had embraced him, which only made the sobbing and crying worse. Though she just held him there, and let him cry into her shoulder as he had done only a few minutes before. Eventually, she realized that he wasn't going to stop anytime soon, and she did one last thing to try to get him calm down, she started to hum.

Well at first it was a hum, but then as she continues her melody she started to sing to him in such a loving and caring voice. Though he was still too dazed and confused to really be able to appreciate or hear the lyrics, it did seem to start calming him down. The more she sang the more he stopped crying, and soon he was able to really hear what she was singing about.

She was singing about how even the most cheerful and bright pony could have their dark moments. While the song didn't seem all the impressive or that hard to be remembered it did have a comforting tone to it, or maybe that was the one who was singing it. After the last verse, she placed a hoof under his chin and gently lifted his head to make eye contact, that's when somepony cleared their throat.

"Um, sorry to interrupt but when the guard told me what happened I rushed right up." A mare with a gentle smile said.

"Yes, thank you for coming Nurse Tether. Do you mind if I stay by him while you do your examination?" Luna asked.

"I don't see any problem with that." Nurse Tether answered as she walked up to him after Luna had sat down.

Tether went through all the standard test, though she was a little hesitant about doing his heart rate and blood pressure after they told her what numbers are normal for him she continued. After taking his temperature and looking into his ears and mouth, the nurse then began to examine his bruises. At first, she had a confident smile, but that quickly faded into a deep frown as she examined the bruises around his throat.

"This makes no sense, with how deep these seem to be...." Tether trailed off for a second. "I think we need you to come down to the infirmary so that the doctor can do more test."

"Wait why? I mean isn't he healthy?" Luna asked, knowing he couldn't.

"Well yes, but with those bruises there could be damage, permanent damage on the inside. The sooner he sees the doctor the better, so I'll go back and set everything up. Just make sure that you're there Mr. Jenkins." Tether said as she finished putting her tools away and started to walk back to the infirmary.

"T-that doesn't sound good. A-are you okay?" Luna asked once again, though she already knew the answer.

"Let's just get going." He replied in a hushed voice.

Once they got to the infirmary the doctor quickly came and started his own examination and other test. The doctor kindly asked Luna to leave while he did more complicated test, which she quickly glanced at Brandon who nodded that he'll be okay for a little while. So she stepped outside the infirmary and leaned against the wall giving a sigh and holding back another sob.

"I would ask how you're doing, but I already have a pretty good guess," Celestia said as she walked up, concern in her voice.

"Yeah, I'm doing better than Brandon right now," Luna said, closing her eyes and taking a breath.

"Well that doesn't surprise me, but really Lulu talk to me, please." Celestia said, sitting down next to her and she looked into her sisters' eyes she gave a sigh.

"I-I feel numb right now, worried but numb. But really Tia I'll be fine once I know he's okay." Luna said, making Celestia nod.

"That's good to hear, and you know I'll always be here for you," Celestia said giving her sister a little nuzzle.

"I know Tia, and thank you," Luna said giving a nuzzle back, and after a few moments of silence Celestia spoke up.

"So... how was last night though? Did everything go over okay?" Celestia asked, making Luna get a deep blush.

"Y-yeah, everything was wonderful last night." Luna managed to say, avoiding her sister's questioning eyes.

"Hmm, so anything special happened? Like did he sing for you, or did you sing for him?" Celestia asked, which made Luna blush, even more, knowing what her sister had just implied.

"N-no one sung last night no, w-we just ate dinner and came back to the castle the long way," Luna replied.

"Hmm, I see. Well on a different topic, some of the guards think the castle is haunted." Celestia said.

"What would give them that impression?" Luna asked, though as soon as she did she wanted somepony to smack her upside her head.

"Oh, some of the guards heard this weird moaning last night. I mean I went to go investigate it and all too, just to be sure." Celestia said with a little smile, as Luna sat there frozen.

"W-was it the wind or something? O-or maybe the old crystal mine below the city?" Luna asked.

"Please, we both know what I'm talking about. I mean you were practically using the Royal Voice." Celestia said. "I mean even through all the soundproofing and all, just about everypony even within fifty feet could hear you."

"I-I...uh..." Luna tried to say something, anything but she was at a complete loss for words.

"Oh come on now, we're sister's you can tell me." Celestia gave her a confident smile.

"We're in a hallway Tia, I don't think we should talk about this here...." Just she finished Celestia's horn flared up and teleported them both to somewhere more private.

"Make yourself comfortable, I want to hear how your first time went." Celestia said, sitting down on her bed, and as Luna looked around she knew that this was, in fact, her sister's room. "Come on, I know you want to tell somepony about it."

"Y-you're such a pervert, you know that?" Luna said, her cheeks were burning.

"Hmm, yeah that's true, but what can I say? I just want to hear about how he made you feel, how different it must be given his size and shape difference. Though given that this was your first time ever, I know you wouldn't have anything to compare it to. But still, how long did it take before he made you cum? How long before it took him?" Celestia asked, making it much worse.

"Tia please stop..." Luna tried to say before Celestia started again.

"Oh, is that what you said to him? Or maybe that's what he told you, to please stop?" That's when Celestia's grin turned into a full-blown smile. "Did you let him fill you up?"

"W-what..? Tia just please stop, I don't want to have this conversation with you." Luna said, backing up.

"So, not only did you let him pop your cherry, but you let him cum inside, didn't you?" Celestia asked, making Luna back into a wall.

"T-that's none of your business," Luna replied, her ears folded back and she was trying to avoid any and all eye contact.

"Well, your answer tells me everything, except for one thing," Celestia said, giving her younger sister a perverted smirk making her gulp. "How many times?"

"What are you talking about?" Luna replied.

"How many times have you thought about what happened to Brandon since we started talking about last night and you two having snu-snu?" Celestia asked, and Luna could tell she was holding back a bit of laughter.

"N-not that much, I suppose," Luna answered, still feeling weary from what she knew her sister had actually meant at first when she asked that question.

"Good, because I'm betting the doctor is only halfway done with his examination." The way her sister had said that made her make a break for the door, and just in case she fired up her horn which quickly fizzled making her stop in confusion. "Sorry about this Lulu, but I really do want to hear a little more about what happened last night, even if it makes me look like a complete perv."

Author's Notes:

Oh, hello there dear reader. I have a question for you guys, would anyone like to come over for dinner? I'm making brai.... I mean barbecue hamburgers.