Scootaloo stuck her hands in her pockets and did her best to look annoyed. Diamond Tiara and Sweetie Belle were chatting idly about their night. She wouldn't show it, but she had been quiet pleased with the way the night had gone, and she couldn't wait to get her girlfriend home.

She scowled slightly as they finally arrived at Diamond Tiara's home. "This is our stop." Sweetie chirped happily.

"Our stop?" Scootaloo asked putting emphasis on the first word.

"Yeah, Daddy said that Sweetie could stay with us tonight." Diamond Tiara said.

"Well, you gals have fun." Babs said. "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

"So, do whatever we want?" Sweetie asked with a grin.

"Pretty much." Scootaloo snickered.

"Goodnight." Diamond said as she quickly pulled Sweetie inside, no doubt anxious to see what else their night had in store for them.

Scootaloo smiled as she held her hand out to Babs who hesitated slightly before curling her fingers around Scootaloo's.

The two walked mainly in silence for a while before Babs spoke. "So, how long we been datin', babe?" she asked.

Scootaloo merely looked at her and raised an eyebrow.

"I didn't mean I don't know, I just... I was... I-"

"Shut up and kiss me, dummy." Scootaloo said with a smile and a roll of her eyes.

Babs smiled widely before closing the distance between them and locking her lips with the smaller girl. They kissed for but a moment, although it felt like several hours to both girls. "Thanks." Babs said, her voice barely above a whisper.

"Don't mention it." Scootaloo said as she felt a blush spread across her cheeks and a warmth fill her chest. She never would have admitted it but, she had just given her first kiss to Babs.

They walked in silence as Babs slowly leaned into her girlfriend and hummed to herself. She reached her free hand up to hold onto Scootaloo's forearm. Scootaloo sighed as she spoke again, "So... you're birthday's coming up..."

"Don't worry about it." Babs said. "I know you ain't got a lot of money... I don't need anything other than you bein' there."

"I'm gonna do something... somehow..." Scootaloo said quietly.

"Hey," Babs said, "don't worry about it. You just bein' my girl is all I want right now... I came all the way back from Manehatten to be with you, so long as your mine, I don't care about anything else."

"I just wanna give you the best." Scootaloo mumbled.

"I want the best." Babs smiled. "That's why I'm with you."

There were several minutes of silence as the two merely walked as closely together as they could, just enjoying one another's warmth before Scootaloo laughed quietly, "You came all the way from Manehatten to be with me? I thought it was cause your dad got that job at the power plant."

"That just made coming back to you more convenient." Babs laughed quietly. "Besides, I would've found a way back to you no matter what." she said.

Scootaloo nestled her nose into her girlfriend's hair and smiled. The pair finally reached Babs house on the outskirts of town. It was a cozy little house with a large seed emblem hanging above the door.

Scootaloo leaned in greedily for one last kiss once they reached the door. Babs smiled and quickly pecked her girlfriend on the lips. "Goodnight." she said as she squeezed Scootaloo's hand one last time.

"Night." Scootaloo said as she watched her girl enter the house.

Scootaloo had made it half-way to her own home when she spotted her. A tall girl with a large hat and a cape stood in her path. Scootaloo subconsciously reached into her pocket to grab her knife. She had never needed it before and the town they lived in was nice, but she always felt safer with the steel gripped within her palm.

The girl in her path smiled when she got closer and she removed her hat to reveal her face. Large blue eyes and silver hair shown under the street lamp.

"Trixie." Scootaloo greeted the girl as she realized that Trixie had been waiting for her.

Trixie smiled at her. "Hello," she said, "how was your date?" she asked.

"Have you been spying on us?" Scootaloo asked, her hand gripping the steel within her pocket more tightly.

Trixie laughed slightly as she shook her head. "No, your dear friend Applebloom mentioned your double date tonight." she said. "I just thought I would ask you about how it went, that's all."

Scootaloo relaxed slightly. "It went fine." she said in a clipped tone.

"I also heard that a certain girl's birthday was coming up soon." Trixie said as she stared at a piece of her hair she had grabbed between two fingers. "It'd be a shame if her girlfriend couldn't manage to get enough money to do something nice for her."

"Forget it." Scootaloo said as she attempted to walk past the older girl. "I'm not doing anything your paying me to do. Don't think anybody's forgotten what you did to the Rainbooms during the battle of the bands."

Trixie laughed slightly as she stepped in the smaller girl's path again. "First of all, we all did bad things during the battle. I don't see why everybody's so stuck on what I did."

"Because they didn't have to use magic to get you to act like a bitch. That's just your nature." Scootaloo said.

Trixie stepped back for a moment, as if she had been slapped, before grinning once more. "Second," she continued as if she had never been interrupted. "I'm not asking you to do anything. I just want some innocent information." she explained.

"How much?" Scootaloo asked, still considering running past the girl and telling Rainbow that she had been harassing her.

"Two hundred dollars." Trixie smirked. "My shows have been paying very well lately, and I'm more than happy to share the wealth. All I want is a tiny little piece of information from you."

Scootaloo took a deep breath, ready to insult the girl and leave, but she was stopped by an image appearing in her mind. Babs holding a wrapped box, opening it to reveal something amazing inside, tears in her eyes as she hugged her young girlfriend.

She stopped and looked at Trixie hard for a moment before shrugging. "What do you want to know?"

There was a knock at the door. Sunset took a deep breath as Pinkie launched off of the couch to answer the door. She was nervous for her friends sake, and she hoped against hope that Twilight would stand in the door with flowers and chocolate and a hastily scrawled love letter for Pinkie.

When the door opened, Twilight held none of those things. She held instead, an unsteady gaze, her eyes bloodshot with large dark bags beneath them. Sunset felt her heart skip a beat. Whatever the princess was about to say, was far from good news.

"Hey, Pinkie. Hey, Sunset." Twilight said as she entered the apartment.

"Twilight," Pinkie said quietly. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"It was a long night, Pinkie." Twilight said as she attempted a weak smile at the girl. "I'm sorry I couldn't make it last night. I had something important to take care of."

Sunset made to exit to her room to allow the hopeful lovers to speak in private, before a pleading glance from Pinkie stopped her in her tracks.

Don't go... said her large blue eyes, and Sunset felt compelled to stay.

Pinkie returned her gaze to Twilight before smiling fondly. "That's alright." she said. "We kind of had something important come up here too." she explained as she motioned for them to sit on the couch.

"Is everything okay?" Twilight asked.

Pinkie grinned and shook her head. "It is now." she said.

An awkward silence overtook the three as they all sat in Sunset's living room staring at each other. All of them were lost on what to say next. "Would either of you like something to drink?" Sunset ventured.

Twilight shook her head, and Pinkie seemed oblivious to the fact that Sunset had spoken. She kept her soft gaze set squarely on Twilight's face as a small smile and light blush lit her own face. "Twilight..." Pinkie said quietly.

"Yes?"

"Our... sessions..." Pinkie started.

"Those need to stop." Twilight said quickly.

Pinkie blinked in surprise. "What?" she asked.

"We can't keep doing that, Pinkie." Twilight said. "I have a confession to make."

"Twilight-"

"I have somebody... in my world..." Twilight looked Pinkie in the eyes. "I had a lover in Equestria... I felt like our sessions were cheating on her so... I told her everything last night."

Sunset's jaw dropped and Pinkie quickly blinked away tears. "You never told me..."

"I know and I'm sorry." Twilight said as a few errant tears of her own slid down her cheeks. "I should have told you, but I was just having so much fun-"

"It was all a game to you." Pinkie whispered.

Twilight shook her head as more tears spilled from both girls' eyes. "No." Twilight said. "You don't under-"

"Oh," Pinkie cut in as she lowered her head and hid her tear-filled eyes. "I understand completely. You just used me for your own pleasure." she said. "Y-you just wanted to get your kicks and you never even considered my feelings." Pinkie sniffed loudly.

"No, Pinkie I-"

"I don't want to hear it." Pinkie said. "I don't want you here anymore right now." she said as she stood and walked towards Sunset's bedroom. "You can leave or not, but I'm done looking at you."

Twilight quickly reached out to grab Pinkie's hand. "Pinkie, please listen I-"

"I'm done listening to you." Pinkie said, never facing her ex-lover. "I'm done... I'm done with people playing with my feelings and using me for their personal pleasure and then throwing me away when they get what they want!" she was yelling now and Sunset felt tears stinging her eyes at the sound. "I'm done with people using me and I'm done with pining over people who're just gonna hurt me! I'm done being in pain because every time I think I've found somebody who loves me, they just throw me to curb like fucking garbage! I'm so done, with always, always, always, being the one hurt... but mostly... I'm done with you..."

Pinkie jerked her wrist away from Twilight before walking away. Twilight stared after her for a moment before burying her face in her hands and sobbing loudly.

Sunset quickly crossed the room and sat on the couch next to her friend.

Twilight simply bawled for several minutes and Sunset didn't know how to react. Should she hold her distraught friend? Should she keep her distance for Pinkie's sake? She eventually decided to go with her gut and wrapped her arms around Twilight. Twilight wasn't a bad person and she would never intentionally hurt anyone. She had just made a terrible mistake.

"I didn't want to hurt her." Twilight whispered as she cried into Sunset's shoulder. "I didn't want to hurt either of them."

"I believe you." Sunset said.

"I'm so sorry." she cried. "I'm sorry, Pinkie..." Sunset knew that Pinkie couldn't hear her, but she hoped that saying it somehow made her friend feel better.

Rainbow stared at the hole in the wall where her poster had been previously as her rage continued to build. She had just left for a quick walk around the block, and already somebody had broken in to her house and stole from her. She punched the wall next to the poster and looked around. She knew she should have locked the back door. She knew someone had been following her and her friends (and Adagio) and she knew that someone had been targeting her, but she didn't lock the door.

She swore loudly at her open back door and herself as she realized what had happened. Somehow they had found out about her box and they were planning some way of using it against her. She knew she shouldn't blame Adagio this time, there was no way this was her fault, but she couldn't help but feel that in some way, this was her fault.

Adagio had obviously been one of the people to wrong whoever had done this, so it must have something to do with her. Rainbow sighed angrily, which came out more of a roar than an actual sigh, and picked her poster off the ground. She laughed slightly as she realized something. There was no way anyone could prove that the box or the contents of it belonged to her.

She giggled to herself as she figure out the real problem. She shouldn't be mad that someone took her box, she should be mad that they had the gal to break into her house that she shared with the love of her life. She should be livid that someone dared to enter her happy little home with any malicious intent.

She laughed loudly when she began imagining the things she would do to the person responsible for it all and then she began thinking of Adagio.

They were not good thoughts.

Adagio felt herself shiver as a chill went up her spine. Something bad was happening, she was sure of it.

Rarity pulled the blanket tighter around all three of the girls on the couch. "Are you alright?" she asked.

Adagio nodded as she leaned into her friends. "I'm fine, just a shiver." she said. After a week straight of watching their show, the girls had finally finished the series and all of the movies in the entirety. They now stared at the screen as another animated character bounded across the screen with a silly grin on his face and a straw hat upon his head.

It was not nearly as engrossing as the last series they had watched, but it was entertaining in its own right. "Y'know, I've been wonderin' somethin'." Applejack said as she turned to the siren. "Why are you different?" she asked.

Adagio blinked once in reply. "What do you mean 'why am I different'?" she asked.

"Well, as far as what I seen from the other dazzlings around town, they act about the same as they have been." Applejack said. "Sure, they ain't tryin' to hurt no one, but their personalities don't seem that different from how they were before their gems were destroyed, but you... you act like a completely different person." she explained.

Adagio considered the question for a moment. She had noticed that. Aria and Sonata had grown to be more caring, but they didn't seem to have changed significantly. Aria was still a grouch and Sonata was still a ditz. So why had she changed so much. The more she thought about it, the less sense it made.

Aria and Sonata had discovered love with each other, while she had been out stalking the Rainbooms and plotting her revenge. How had she changed so much. It would make sense if she had just stopped acting evil and returned to her normal self, but she hadn't done that. She hadn't felt anything in her change when their crystals were destroyed, hell she hadn't felt any different until she realized she was hurt when she heard Rainbow and Fluttershy exchanging confessions of their love.

She would have to look into that...

Author's Notes:

Did Havok just hint that she was gonna give y'all more insight into Adagio's past? I think she did.

Sorry for the lack of updates the past couple of days, I've been a little under the weather. Nothing major, but enough that I couldn't focus on writing. Also, sorry this chapter is a little shorter than usual, but there was nothing more I felt to do in this chapter. Every chapter I kinda have a mental checklist of everything I wanna tell the reader, and after I check everything off that list I end the chapter, so next chapter will probably be longer.

Thanks to my commentators, y'all have really stepped it up a notch the past couple chapters and I absolutely love the long comments you've been leaving. As usual, anyone who wants to leave a comment can feel free and those who don't, feel free to not say anything at all, if you're reading the story you're appreciated, comments or otherwise.

I regret eating that Mexican food a few days ago nothing.