Beep.... beep.... beep.... beep.... beep... beep...

I open my eyes and find myself in a hospital room, the soft beeps from the E.K.G. machine waking me up. Well... time for the routine. I look down to see that I'm wearing a green patient gown... well, at least I'm not naked. Next I look over to my left to look out the window and see that it's day time... nearly noon. I feel a numbness all over my body so I decide to heal myself. I raise my hand and bring it to my chest... only to have it caught by a blue aura. I look over to my right and see Luna...

"No."

"Uh..."

"No magic. The doctors say you have three broken ribs, a shattered knee cap, deep tissue lacerations and that your power is fluctuating uncontrollably, why is that Miles?"

"Uh... I held my power at its limits so they couldn't operate on me-"

"Exactly. You pushed yourself to your limits so now you don't get to heal yourself. I get to." She says as she levitates my hand to my side.

"O...K... so, when are you going to heal me-"

"When I understand your bones a little better. Now you lay back and relax." She says as she levitates a glass of water over to me and holds it to my lips. I take a drink from the glass, greedily gulping down the entire glass.

"So, are you going to be my care taker then?" I ask as she levitates the glass to the table.

"Only during the day when I can get away. When I'm not here, Storm or one of the others will be here with you." She says as she levitates a plate of hospital food over and scoops up some green stuff. She tries to feed it to me, but I keep my mouth shut. "Miles, you need to eat."

"Yeah, but not the grass-"

"Miles-"

"It’s disgusting!"

"Oh please. I've seen the food you ate back in Topaz, now open up." I shake my head and hold my mouth shut, getting Luna to squint her eyes. She opens my mouth with her magic and forces the spoon into my mouth. She closes my mouth and pulls the spoon out, forcing me to keep the pulp grass in my mouth. I chew the food and wince at the terrible taste, getting her to smile. "Thank you."

"Oh sweet Barbra that has to be the worst tasting thing in all of Terra, please don't make me eat another bite." I say after I swallow the grass... nearly puking it back up. She sighs and takes a small bite from the spoon and goes wide eyed.

"Okay... maybe no grass. Would you like anything the next time I come over?"

"Hm... spaghetti, with lots of noodles." She gives me a smile and kisses me on the forehead.

"Alright, spaghetti it is then." She says before she gives me a quick kiss on the nose.

"So..." I say as I pull myself up a bit. "How long was I out this time?"

"Just a day." Only a day... pretty good given my record.

"How is everyone?"

"Well..." She says as she looks out the window, looking a bit down. "Many were injured, several died... luckily the effects of that black sludge only lasted a few hours. I have a meeting tomorrow with Regina to discuss who this Steelwing is. Apparently, he's been making trouble for the United Griffin Colonies for some time now."

"Hmm.... be sure to let me know if you get a lead on him... I want my stuff back-"

"We have your stuff. Storm and Big Mac went back down and found all of it, it’s all back at your home now, along with most of the scavenged weapons from the dogs." She looks back out the window and stands up. "I'm sorry... I have to get going... I'll see you as soon as possible..."

"Promise?"

"Promise." She says as she leans her head against mine.

"Ego amare te."

"Ego amare te magis." She says as she crawls onto the bed and lays next to me. I wrap my arms around her and hold her as she leans her nose against mine.

"Ego amare te maxime." She leans in and starts planting kisses all over me. My cheeks, forehead, nose, everywhere except my lips. I try to kiss her, but she's avoiding my lips. "Is something wrong?"

"I... sorry. It's just, I'm a little scared your lips will break open."

"Oh, right. It's okay." I say as she starts to get off the bed, but stops when I grab her leg.

"Miles-"

"Hmm... no kisses. I think I should get a different form of love then." She laughs a little and reaches over, giving me a light hug. I wrap my arms around her and hold her lightly, stroking her hair slowly.

"I really have to get going..." She whispers into my ear as she holds onto me.

"I know... I'll see you next time." We hold each other a little longer before she lets go of me and gets off the bed.

"I'll be here tomorrow, with spaghetti..." She says as she starts to walk out the room, walking backwards.

"Only if you can get here without being in trouble."

"Don't worry about that, get plenty of rest. Drink lots of water..." She says as she tip toes her way out the door.

"I will. I love you. Now get going."

"Bye." She says as she walks out the door and shuts it, then opens it back up. "I love you too!" She says as she pokes her head back in and then pulls it back out. I laugh a bit as I lay back and try to relax, only to hear the door slam open.

"MILES!" Pinkie Pie yells as she runs into the room and leaps onto me, making me scream out in pain as she hugs me tightly.

"AH! Pinkie! Pain! Chest!" I yell as she jumps off, letting me double over as the pain throbs from my ribs.

"Oh... sorry about that." She says as others walk into the room. Everyone is here. The girls, Storm and Big Mac, the... kid girls, Spike and oddly enough Shining and Cadence. They all fill the room up, all of the adults taking a space around me as the young ones and Spike get up on my bed to my right.

"Aw...ow... hey... what's up," I pant as the pain subsides.

"We all decided to come and check up on you, how are you feeling?" Scootaloo says.

"Well... other than the slight pain in my chest, pretty good. How's Ponyville?" I ask.

"It could have been a lot worse." Shining says. "Thanks to you we were able to get most of the civilians back, though a few were killed in the process. The damage was minimal, only a few burned down buildings-"

"You really saved Ponyville." Cadence says, getting everyone to look up to me.

"Pfft, no I didn't. I was gone for most of the fight. Not to mention I got captured. No, Storm, Big Mac and Rainbow Dash are the hero's here, not me." I say, getting the three of them to blush from my recognition.

"Yeah, but without your training we wouldn't have been nearly as effective as we were." Storm says as he wraps a wing around Twilight, getting her to lean into him.

"Yeah, but that's beside the point. Let’s just say we all did our parts." I say, getting them to nod back in agreement.

"So... how long are you going to be in the hospital?" Spike asks, getting everyone to lean in.

"I'm stuck here until Luna can fix my knee-"

"Why would Luna be the one to fix your knee?" Shining asks, making my heart drop. Not even a day into our relationship and I fucking slip up in front of everyone. Luna is going to...

"Shining, you know why." Cadence says, making him think about it. Oh, fuck... does she know to?

"Could everypony wait outside really quick, I need to have a word with Miles." Shining says, getting everyone except Storm and Big Mac to leave.

"It’s alright guys. I've got this one." I say to them, getting them to nod and walk out the room. "So..."

"There are a lot of things that I wish to discuss with you, but this one’s a little more important than the others, what did you do to them?" Shining asks.

"I turned them into Spartans."

"So, is that why they disrespect the Princesses?"

"What did they do to disrespect Celestia and Luna?"

"First off, they no longer bow to them. And they speak to them as if they... well... it's a little too informal."

"Hmm... and?" I ask, getting them to both look at me with their mouths slightly hanging open.

"And?! They are royalty! They should be treated as-"

"That's where I need to stop you. As I said, I made them into Spartans. Being a person of that rank comes with several privileges, one of which is the ability to ignore ranks and office positions outside of the Spartan regiment. We only followed the Terradisian government because of tradition, not because they ordered us to."

"So... what does that mean here then? How do you see me and Shining then?" Cadence asks as she steps closer to me.

"I see you as civilians, just like how I see everyone else." Shining walks over to the window and stares out to Ponyville, thinking deeply about what I said.

"So... how does one become a Spartan?" He asks as he continues to stare out at Ponyville.

"Easy, a ranking member of the Spartan regiment has to deem you worthy to enter our ranks. Then you have to live through the training..."

"And this training, is it tough?"

"Look, I know where you’re going with this, and the answer is no. I will not train you-"

"Why not?! I'm the captain of the royal guard, I can handle-"

"Could you denounce Equestria as your home and country? Speak down to the Princesses? I see the resolve in your eyes to protect this country, and it's admirable. But because of that, you will never be a Spartan." He looks to me for a second before he looks back out the window. The room falls quiet for a bit before Cadence walks over to Shining and whispers something into his ear. He sighs before turning back to me.

"Alright, now for my next concern. You and Luna-"

"What exactly do you know?" I ask as I glance between the two of them.

"I know you love each other." Cadence says. "My special talent is true love, and I see it in the two of you... I've known about it ever since the invasion."

"OK... so, what happens now?" I ask as I stare back at the two of them, silently hoping for the best. They look to one another and have wordless conversation with each other. After what feels like an eternity or waiting Shining finally sighs and looks back to me.

"As much as I want to tell Celestia about this... I will not get involved in this. But... just promise me that you won't do anything that would-"

"I already know Luna's boundaries and will fully respect them. Though you may not believe it, I am a man of my word and I promise nothing bad will come from this... thank you."

"Yeah...well we need to get going. I'll come by another time to talk to you about a few of my other concerns." He says as he starts to head to the door.

Cadence walks up to me and gives me a small hug as she whispers "please don't hurt Luna again.... she needs you."

"I won't.... I need her to." I whisper back before she gets off and walks out the room, dragging a confused looking Shining along the way. I sit quietly in the room for a bit, thinking deeply about what just transpired, when the door opens again. I watched as everypony starts to wa.... did I just think every... pony? Oh sweet Barbra... she's rubbing off on me.

I lay on the bed staring at the clock is a dazed state of utter boredom. Everyone's visit from yesterday was nice, plenty of promises of visits and wishes of wellbeing. But it's been a few hours since I woke back up... and there is nothing to do! I look back out the window and start to watch the clouds go by... again.

TICK...

*SIGH* well... what else is there to do? I look back to the lamp next to me and press the button on, then off, then on, off, on, off-on-off-on-off-on-off.

TOCK...

The door suddenly opens, getting my hopes up for some kind of distraction. A nurse walked in, reading a chart. She's all white with pink hair that's up in a bun and has a mark of a red plus sign. She looks up from her chart and then back down to the chart.

"Sorry, wrong room." She says before she turns and walks out of the room.

TICK....

GAH! I need something to do! I'M SO BORED! I look down at my hands and contemplate healing myself to get away from this torment... no. I promised Luna I wouldn't, so I won't.

TOCK...

I think I'm going to destroy that clock if I hear one more fucking...

"Miles?" I look over to see Luna walking into the room, carrying a something wrapped in a deep blue cloth on her back.

"LUNA!" I say rather loudly as I sit up.

"Shhush! Do you want the whole hospital to know I'm here?" She says as she walks over to me and sets the bundle down on the end of the bed.

"At this point... no. Sorry, I'm just extremely bored right now.... what’s that?" I ask as I point to the bundle. Luna looks over to the clock then back to me.

"It's only eleven... anyway. I have brought you... spaghetti!" She says as she unwraps the bundle and shows me a ceramic bowl of spaghetti.

"Alright." I say as I clap my hands together and rub them together. I look around for a second before I ask "did you bring any forks?"

"Shoot! I knew I forgot something." She says as she sets the bowl down and looks around. "Just give me.... that’s gross Miles." When she had started to talk, I reached over and grabbed some noodles with my fingers.

"What? It's all good." I say before I lift the noodles up and bring them down into my mouth. Luna shakes her head as she walks around to the other side of my bed.

"Aright, either I stay till one or till five. If I stay till five I will have to take a nap..."

"I'm all for you taking a nap here... but are you sure you can handle that though?" I ask before I grab some more noodles and chow down on them.

"It's not like I'll be needing the energy, plus..." she says as she gets on my bed and lays her head across my stomach. "I think it'll be worth it." I smile at her and was about to stroke her mane, but stopped when I saw how messy my hands are. I reach over and grab some more noodles and present them to Luna. She gives me a look that says 'are you serious’, but shrugs and puts my fingers into her mouth. I feel her tongue work its way around my fingers as it pulls the noodles from my grasp. She then lifts her head up as she sucks up the noodles and sauce from fingers. I play with her tongue a bit before she lifts her head up again, sucking my fingers until they pop out of her mouth.

"Oh sweet Barbra..." I mutter as she chews the noodles and swallows them.

"MMM, delicious." She says before she lays her head back down... only to go wide eyed and start to grow red. "Uh.... Miles."

"Hm?"

"Think you can put that away?"

"Put what away?" I ask. She looks up and picks her head up and looks over at my.... oh, wow. I'm at full attention and saluting proudly. "Oh.... that. Sorry... uh...yeah, I don't know how to deal with that without a cold shower." She looks over at it and stares at it for a moment before I shuffle a bit, making her look back to me, with an even larger blush.

"I-It's alright... just.... let's just ignore it for now. I'll take this chance to read over your bones." She says as she closes her eyes and charges her horn. I see her aura field envelope my knee and start to make a numbing sensation start to emanate from it. I sit back and wait for her to finish up, watching her face focus so intently on the task at hand. It should be illegal to be this beautiful... " I think I can fix it now." She says as she opens her eyes and looks back to me. "But I'm going to take it easy at first. I'm only going to do your ribs for now, OK?" Part of me thinks she only wants to take it slowly so she can keep visiting me at the hospital... but the other part of me doesn't really mind.

"Go for it." She nods to me and starts to move her aura field from my knee to my chest. I grab the sheets as I feel her magic begin to influence my bones, forcing them to fuse back together. I watch as her face contorts a bit and suddenly envelopes my entire body, sending the healing magic everywhere. "Luna... what.... what are you doing?" She lets go of the magic and shakes her head a bit before she looks back to me.

"I-I'm sorry. I don't know what happened...I..." Before she finishes I reach over and feel my knee. It's perfect. I feel my ribs next and find them to be perfectly fine as well.

"Huh... well... at least my hospital visits are consistent." I say as I stand up and test out my knee by squatting a couple of times.

"I-I... this shouldn't have been this easy-"

"I thought you said you were a good healer." I say as I sit back on the bed.

"I... well...uh..." She stumbles as she tries to think of something. I laugh as I lean over and give her a quick kiss on the lips.

"You just wanted a reason to see me, didn't you?"

" *sigh* yes. It's just... I know that without a better reason... I won't get to see you as often as I would want to... please don't be mad." She says as her ears drop. I put my hand on the back of her head and pull her in for another kiss. "Does this mean you forgive me?" She mumbles from our lips. I respond by kissing her even more, pulling her in and holding her tightly. She puts her forelegs over my shoulders as she positions herself so she's laying on top of me. I push my tongue into her mouth and begin to tease her tongue, giving little licks and backing away before she could do anything. With a small chuckle, she pushes me out of my mouth and sends her tongue into my mouth. oh. It. Is. On. I hold onto her and roll over, putting me on top of her and making her give a small eep. I break our kiss and plant my lips on her neck. Sucking, nipping, swirling my tongue around, anything that makes her squirm. "M-Miles-AH...Ok-ok-ok-ok, you win, you MMM! Oh...keep doing thAT!" With a long lick, I stop my assault on her neck and quickly get off of her. "What's wrong? Why did you stop?" She asks, almost begging.

"Heh, I think it's time to go home." I say, making her ear drop as she gives me her pouty face. "Though I think I should stay under doctor supervision for at least a few more days, what do you think?" She brightens up from this as charges her horn up.

"I think that would be for the best.... don't forget the spaghetti." I grab hold of the bowl just before we teleport to my kitchen. I look around to see that it’s a complete mess. The sink is over flowing, the floor is covered in mud, there's red paste all over the cabinets, counters, fridge... everywhere, and Lupus is sitting in the fridge... eating...

"What the fuck is he eating?" I ask as I walk over to him. Luna walks up but turns around, gagging at the sight.

"Ugh...I believe it’s.... uuh... tripe." She says as she begins to walk away.

"What the fuck is tripe?" I ask as Lupus finishes up and trots out of the fridge, looking as proud as ever.

"Don't worry about it, let’s just clean this mess up..."

"Yeah, how did my place get so dirty anyway?" I ask as I put the spaghetti in the fridge and go to turn the water off.

"Well... it's not like I could cook over at the castle without getting everypony to notice." She says coyly. Damn girl... how do you manage to make such large messes? The clean-up doesn't take long, thanks to Luna using her magic to take care of most of it. By the end I notice Luna yawning a bit so I decide to lead her upstairs to take her nap. I was going to lead her to the guest bedroom but she went to my room without a word, dragging me along the way. She sets me down by the window as she begins to get under the covers. "Could you please close the blinds?" She asks as she lays down. I close the blinds and was about to leave the room when Luna levitates me onto the bed. "I thought we were going to take a nap together." She says as she rolls over to face me. I smile and start to climb over her to get to my dresser, pulling out my phone. "What are..."

"What time do you want to get up?" I ask as I go to the alarm clock.

"Uh... four..."

"Alright, four it is then." I say as I set the alarm. I put my phone on the dresser next to me and start to get under the sheets. Once I'm under I get on my side and pull Luna in close. She wraps her legs around me as she holds onto me, letting out a soft sigh as she begins to drift off to sleep.

"How many days do you think we'll get that can be like this?" She asks as she holds me a little tighter. I slowly start to rub her back as I think about the best way to answer.

"As many as we can get... but don't worry about that right now. Right now, you just get some sleep, alright?"

"Alright." She says as she loosens her grip. How many more days do I get to have like this?

Shout out to desert rose for picking what Lupus was eating! Thanks for reading hope you enjoyed it. And like always, Brony on!