Later that morning…

Mise was busy cooking away in the kitchen, having cleaned up the dishes from the night before, as he was scrolling through his MyStable feed when he saw an article that made him turn pale. He opened the article and started reading the article.

“Famous star cellist, Octavia Melody, and her celebrity chef boyfriend, Mise En Place, hit giant bump in their relationship when a fight ended in tears and tire marks when Melody ran off in the middle of the night. The current status of their relationship is unclear, but what is clear is that it doesn’t look like they’re going to be making up anytime soon, stay tuned for more…” Mise read as he quickly shut off his phone, closing the article

“Oh this is not good….not good, at all…my question, who blabbed to the paparazzi?” Mise said as he continued to cook breakfast for him and vinyl. Mise continued doing this until something hit him and he looked up from the stove and stared off into space “someone blamed to the paparazzi...that means….oh boy...the fans…” Mise said ominously as he became worried.

Vinyl walked into the kitchen wearing a pair of shorts and a bra, not caring about what she wore as usual, in her mind it was ‘my house, my rules’ “So you hear about that article someone wrote about you and tavi?” Vinyl asked as she poured a cup of coffee as mise nearly dropped his spatula “how’d you hear about that?” Mise asked turning around

“What are you talking about, Half of Canterlot already knows about your fight last night, didn’t you read the name of the article writer?” Vinyl said as she opened the article and showed that it was written by very popular gossip critic named ‘Trenderhoof’ and was published in on his personal and public blog as Mise facepalmed epically

“i'm so fucking screwed….” Mise said as he picked up a frying pan handed it to vinyl “i want you to take this and knock me out, here go ahead, right here on my head” Mise said bending over and pointing to the back of his head as Vinyl shrugged and whacked him in the back of the head “your head sounds hollow” Vinyl said chuckling as Mise groaned in pain.

Elsewhere in Canterlot…

Artemis was sitting at the table with a stack of pancakes the size of his little sister. “Mmmm! Pancake friday….best of the week…” Artemis said as he started pouring gratuitous amounts of syrup and butter on top as his phone buzzed with a notification from MyStable “What the? I wonder what it is this time, probably just vinyl blowing up my feed as usual.” Artemis said as he pulled out his phone and checked his notifications. “Junk, junk, junk, ju-.....oh hello?” Artemis said as he saw the article.

Artemis opened up the article and as he read it, his eyes went wide and subconsciously was bending the fork in his hand, contorting it into bent metal “WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!!!!” Artemis screamed at the top of his lungs, scaring the birds off the roof like a cliche TV scenario as Diana and Selene came running in, worried about what Artemis was yelling about “Dude!? What the heck are you yelling about? You literally scared the crap out of me!” Diana said with a faint blush on her face as Selene had her arms crossed “and I nearly swallowed my lipstick, what has gotten you in such an uproar!?” Selene asked angrily as Artemis got up from the table. “Take a look for yourself.” Artemis said showed his sister and mother the phone.

The pair started reading the article as their jaws hit the ground and their faces were filled with expressions of anger and sadness “I-I can’t believe this! What the heck happened!?” Diana asked concerned. Before Artemis could answer, his phone was thrown to the ground by his mother. “HOW DARE HE HURT MY DAUGHTER!” She screamed. Diana quickly ran behind Artemis not wanting to feel her mother’s wrath. “Now I know where I get my scream from.” Artemis said. “Where is he, I’ll kill him for this.” Selene said angrily.

“Mom as much I would love to see you commit the murder of my best friend, I think I’ll go talk to him first.” Artemis said. Selene really didn’t want to listen to her son, but she took a deep breath and nodded. “Fine, but he better have a good reason for this.” Selene said crossing her arms. “He’d better, I’m going to head out I’ll call you later.” Artemis said walking to the door. “Artemis, call Aunt Riveting on your way there, see how Octavia’s doing, alright?” Diana asked. Artemis nodded and left the house. “Alright Mise, you have some explaining to do.” Artemis said with a angry look on his face.

Over at Mise, Vinyl, and Octavia’s house, Vinyl was wrapping Mise’s head in bandages as she chuckled a bit “I don’t see why you’re so mad, you told me to hit you and I did! What's the big deal?” Vinyl asked. “The big deal is, is that I wasn’t serious but I should have known that you’d take any chance to hit me in the head with a cast iron skillet.” Mise said begrudgingly as Vinyl cut the excess bandage and tied of the clothe “There, you’re head is all bandaged, now quit complaining and finish cooking, you’re still working for us regardless of you being Tavi’s boyfriend.” Vinyl said angrily.

Mise just rolled his eyes as he went back to work, flipping pancakes and frying up bacon and eggs. “This day couldn’t possibly get any worse….damn it, I just jinxed myself…” mise said as he heard a knock at the door “Speak of the devil…who’s it his time? Octave? The police? A crazed fan or group of fans? Let’s find out, shall we!” Mise said sarcastically as he walked to the door and opened it to find a very pissed off Artemis “oh, you were my next guess, this is even worse than the previously mentioned…” Mise said as Artemis was confused by the statement. “What are you- oh nevermind, now I’m only going to ask nicely once, Why did you make my sister cry?” Artemis said glaring at Mise.

“Oh I was wrong, it can get worse...Artemis, come inside and take a seat, this is a long story and I don’t feel like standing here for forty minutes explaining everything.” Mise said as he stepped aside and gestured for Artemis to come in. Artemis paused for a second, but soon nodded and walked into the house as Vinyl walked in “Arrow! Hey bro! What brings you here?” Vinyl asked. Artemis looked at her with a deadpanned look. “Oh duh.” Vinyl said facepalming.

“Anyway, can we please get this over with? I want to have this conversation as little as I can.” Mise said sitting down in his arm chair as artemis sat down on the couch adjacent to Mise. “Ok, Artemis, I know you’re fuming, as you should be. But if you give me some time, maybe you can see one side of this because that article does neither me nor octy justice.” Mise said as Artemis crossed his arms and sat back. “Mise just tell me what happened, stop beating around the bush.” Artemis said.

Mise nodded and proceeded to explain what happened that night from his point of view, starting with his conversation with shard then to him coming home, then his initial fight with octavia, and lastly the fallout from the result of the fight and everything that lead to the point that they’re at now. When Mise finished he looked at Artemis who still had his arms crossed and his eyes closed. “Is that everything?” Artemis asked. Mise simply nodded. “Everything that I know about, but like everything, there's still another side to this whole thing, you still need to talk to Octavia and ask her side of things. I tried but she’s just gone ghost on me, so i’m stuck where I am…” Mise said looking down a bit.

“I don’t think I need to hear Octy’s side of things, I understand perfectly.” Artemis said in a strangely calm tone. “Yeah, i'm fuc-wait what? You understand? What do you mean?” Mise asked shocked by this unexpected reaction. “Let me tell you something, do you know why me and Vinyl always go to Octavia’s concerts, no better question do you know why Vinyl goes to Octavia’s concerts even though she can’t stand Classical music?” Artemis asked looking at Mise with serious look.Vinyl knew exactly where this was going.

“I would imagine it's because you and her care deeply about Octy and would rather see her happy than be comfortable.” Mise said taking a shot in the dark. “You’re right, but there’s another reason. Vinyl did something similar to what you did years ago.” Artemis said. “Really? What did she do?” Mise asked looking at Vinyl who was sitting quietly. “You know our story we were inseparable, we would play, sing, and pull pranks on each other all the time, but as we were going up, we hit a slight bump in our friendship. For a whole month Vinyl didn’t show up to a single one of Octavia’s Cello performances.” Artemis said looking down.

“I see, and I can see where that might have led to, so how did you three end up fixing it?” Mise asked. Vinyl began to hug herself. “Mise it took 3 years before those two began talking again, it was Octavia’s last concert for the year and she called Vinyl telling her that I saved a seat for her, but Vinyl was with another one of her friends and said she couldn’t make it this time. Octavia didn’t take it well and ended their friendship right then and there.” Artemis said. By this time, Vinyl was crying and Mise’s eyes were wide, his mind swirling with the thought of Octavia cutting ties with him, causing his stomach to churn. “I….huh….oh f-fuck…” Mise said as he sunk deeper into the armchair.

“Look Mise, I was hoping I would never have to tell you this, but ever since that day Octy has had abandonment issues. My mom even let her live with us because Octy thought I was going to leave her next. I made sure not to leave her side, of course I couldn’t just leave Vinyl alone she was doing just as bad as Octy.” Artemis said looking at his sister who was still crying. “I...I left her alone….I didn’t meant to, but I did. That girl is more than my best friend she is family, she’s my sister. Those three year were the worst part of my life.” Vinyl sobbed.

Mise looked down, staring at the ground “And i’m her boyfriend...i don’t know where that ranks in relation to you two, but what matters is i've fucked up, and i know it's not your fault, but that information about her abandonment issues could have been vital in preventing this whole thing. Is there any way that I can fix this? I don’t care how much ass i have to kiss, I just want Octy back here where she belongs.” Mise said with genuine pain in his voice. “Well here's an idea, stop running off all the time. I’ve noticed that you’ve been going off to places unknown without her and the only reason I passed it off was because I thought she was okay with it, but apparently I was wrong. And the whole telling you about her abandonment thing, Mise tell me with half the stuff you do, would you have remembered?’ Artemis asked.

“I already plan on putting behind many things about me, and i’ll tell you why in a minute. But to answer your question, i would have still gone and done those things but i would have made sure she was with me except for two of them. The trip to the Griffonstone mountains, but you already know all about that…...but the second, the second would have been to Africa.” Mise said as he sighed and pulled out his phone. “and the reason why I couldn’t have taken her with me on that….is because of this.” Mise said as he showed Artemis a digital representation of the engagement ring idea his cousin sent him. Artemis looked at the picture and sighed.

“You are an idiot, but I can see why you wanted her to stay away. Mise if you really want that ring on Octy then you’re going to have to ask her sooner than later, but not right now I’m heading to Aunt Riveting and Uncle Octave’s and something tells me they won’t be too happy to see you. Also, one more thing..” Artemis said. Mise looked up “I’m aware, and what’s up?” Mise asked. Artemis went over to Mise and punched him in the jaw.

“I understand why it happened, but NO ONE makes any of my sisters cry. You get one more chance Mise, One.” Artemis said walking to the door. “Thank you Artemis, you want another shot?” Mise said non-sarcastically, turning his head. “That was just a warning buddy, that and I don’t like hurting people. Like I said no one hurts my sisters, so watch what you say and do to Octy from now on.” With that Artemis left the house. Mise sat there holding his jaw as he got up from his chair and walked to the door.

“Where are you going?” Vinyl asked as she looked at Mise. “I'm going back to my place and i’m preparing for war.” Mise said. “Are you drunk again? What war? And why can’t you do it here?” Vinyl asked, now on edge about Mise’s actions. “Do you want your front lawn to look the French countryside in 1916?” Mise asked as Vinyl was confused as to what he meant “I have no idea what that means. You know what go do what you have to do, I’m following Arrow’s example and going to check up on Octy.” Vinyl said plainly as Mise nodded “alright, and to explain, i’m going to set up a trench and tunnel system, i need to prepare for any attack in retaliation from this whole shit storm.” Mise said as he walked out the front door and ran over to his house.

Meanwhile, in a the city next to Canterlot in a tall black apartment building, a young man felt his phone vibrate. Curious as to who would be calling him at this time he took the phone out of his pocket and answered. “Hello? Oh, Aunt Riveting, what can I do for you? ...uh-huh...right...I see...I’ll be right over.” He ended the call and looked out at Canterlot from his apartment window. “I should have guessed this would happen…” He shook his head and gathered his things before leaving the apartment and jumping into a large dark green hummer. “You'd better have a good explanation for this Octavia, I don't care what this guy did, you're not getting off easy.” the young man said as he drove off

Back in Canterlot, Mise was busy at work with an excavator moving hundreds of pounds of earth in line sprayed down on his lawn. “I don’t care, there were thousands of them and one of me, plus if they had heavy earth movers in 1916, I’m sure they would have used them too.” Mise said talking to himself as he did many times before whenever he was by himself and or working. He quickly finished up digging a trench that was almost 8 feet deep and 2 feet wide. He quickly got to work setting up sandbags and barbed wire. His lawn looked like a real-life version of a WWI battlefield defense. To most it would seem like pure madness but to Mise it made sense.

Before Mise could continue work on his fantasy battlefield, he heard the distinct sound of female voices and heels clicking on pavement “yup, I'm officially boned, well i knew this would happen eventually” Mise said as he picked up a pickelhaube helmet and put it on. He climbed one of the ladders and took up a position against the sandbags and looked out.

“When I get my hands on that little dumbass, I'm going to kick him so hard his testicle will be lodged in his throat!” Indigo said angrily as she and the rest of the girls of the group marched down the street to Mise’s house. “Yeah! We’ll teach him to neglect Octy like that!” Midnight said as she clenched her fists. The group soon arrived at the residence and were shocked at what Mise had set up “yup, just when I thought he couldn’t any crazier, he goes and does this!” Rainbow dash said gesturing to the set up

“Mise! Get your ass out here! We know you’re in there!” Aria said as Mise didn’t respond and instead decided to take up his postion with an air powered paintball rifle. As he stuck his rifle out, the spike from his pickelhaube poking over the sandbag barrier, and just before Mise could fire the first shot, a voice called out “Sorry about this girls.” The group all looked confused before multiple clangs of metal were heard and they all fell unconscious, revealing Shard holding a shovel behind them with Ditzy staring at him angrily.

“You could have tried to actually talk it out with them you know?” She pointed out in annoyance. “Hey, you told me to stop them without using my sword, this is kinda what I do. Besides, I don't think any of them were willing to listen to reason anyway.” Shard explained as he threw the shovel down and looked to where Mise was hiding. “You can come out now, it's just me and Ditzy!” Shard said crossing his arms as Mise stood up still wearing his pickelhaube and WWI German uniform, his rifle slung over his shoulder “don’t question the outfit because I got no good answer that makes sense outside my head. I'm guessing you two read the article too?” Mise said climbing out of the makeshift trench.

“Yeah we did.” Ditzy confirmed. “But unlike most people we didn't take it at face value and actually came to see what really happened, then we saw this mob and this strange display and knew shit was about to get messy.” Shard finished as he began dragging the unconscious girls out of the front yard and into a hidden location so no one got suspicious...and so he could have a head start once they all began hunting him down for revenge.

“Well I greatly appreciate your desire to find out the story, and it's a good thing you showed up when you did, at least I didn’t have to deploy the tear gas.” Mise said pushing aside a gas canister. “Ok now I don't blame you for the shovel.” Ditzy whispered to Shard. “So, what actually happened between you two anyway? I know Roden is going over to get Octavia's side of things, but I figured we'd hear yours.” Shard asked.

“Wait, who's Roden?” Mise asked. “Octavia's older brother, around your age if not older. Think of a guy who knows the stuff Treble knows but is actually sane.” Ditzy explained. “Also, he is way more protective than Artemis.” Shard added. “But he's a pretty chill guy, he looks at both sides so you don't have to worry about him holding you at gunpoint or whatever. Anyway, tell us what happened.” Ditzy finished as they both folded their arms and looked to him expectedly. “Alright, well grab a sand bag and take a seat, because it's a long story of sorts. But it all started after your talk with me and the whole Principal Cinch statue thing…” Mise started as he went on to explain his side of the story starting with when he got home all the way to his talk with Artemis earlier that morning “and here we are, 8 feet in the ground.” Mise said finishing up his long winded tale.

Ditzy nodded while Shard stared at the ground in deep thought while scratching his chin. “Alright, I get it now.” He said quietly before pulling out his phone. “Rayleigh, get tea ready, we've got guests coming.” He spoke. “Of course Master Shard, is this about that thing with Mister Place and Miss Melody?” A British voice spoke from the other line. “Yeah it's about that, make sure the house is clear too, and tell Ruby to go play with friends while we sort this out.” With that he hung up and looked to his friend. “Come on, you'll need a place to lay low for awhile, and a place for you and Octavia to talk things out once Roden is done with her.”

Mise nodded and dusted himself off “thanks shard, remind me to send you and ditzy on a vacation of your choice, so uh? How much of a chance do you think this Roden person has of getting through to Octy?” Shard laughed and shook his head. “Dude, the guy is a licensed therapist that deals with psycho analyzing criminals and maniacs for a living, plus, he's her brother, if there's anyone on this earth that can get through to her that isn't Vinyl or her parents, it's him.”

Mise nodded and smiled “good, this guy sounds like he’s our best option. Come on, let’s get back to your place before they wake back up.” Mise said gesturing to the pile of unconscious girls in his garage. “Yeah, probably best. You're better just riding with us, the tank will just attract too much attention.” Shard said before walking over to his own car while Ditzy followed him. “That was my plan to begin with.” Mise said as he walked to the passenger’s side of the car “Oh, and before you say, Ditzy gets shotgun.” Shard added quickly. “Damnit!” Mise groaned and walked after them.

Over at Octavia's parents’ house, Octavia was sitting on the couch eating her breakfast that her mother had prepared as he father was outside trying to exhute some of his anger by chopping firewood and shooting ducks or rabbits that passed by. “Mom, do you think that anyone back in Canterlot has heard about what happened?” Octavia asked as she took a sip of her tea.

“I don’t sweetie, but I did get an email with an article about you and Mise attached to it. Apparently someone leaked the story to the press.” Riveting said as Octavia nearly dropped her tea “they did, WHAT!?” Octavia said as she facepalmed “10 bucks says Vinyl sold me out...again…” Octavia said as she heard a couple cars pull into the driveway.

Outside...

Down in the driveway, two cars, artemis' and a dark green hummer, pulled into the driveway, side by side as the occupants of both cars looked at each other through the windows before getting out.

“Hello? Can I help you?” Artemis said said as he got out and looked at a slightly older guy with medium long straight green hair and emerald eyes. He wore a green hoodie with grey jeans and a pair of green and black sneakers. He also wore a grey and green striped scarf that covered the bottom half of his face, hiding his mouth and nose. “Unless you know where Octavia Melody is then no. But I'm guessing since you pulled into her parent's driveway you're looking for her too.” The older guy said in a neutral tone.

Artemis looked at the guy with slight suspicion “yeah I am, im her brother artemis, who are you?” Artemis asked suspicious of his presence. The guy looked at him slightly surprised before answering. “I'm Roden Godswell, and I'm Octavia's older brother.” Roden said still in a calm and neutral tone. “If that’s the case, Roden, then why haven’t I ever heard of you? Octy’s never mentioned you before and neither has Vinyl.” Artemis said.

“You know she lived in another city before moving to Canterlot as a child, right?” Artemis nodded. “Well, I also lived there and we knew each other our entire lives before she moved away and we were unable to maintain contact. Vinyl didn't know who I was until a few days ago, I only moved into Maretropolis two months ago, and I wanted to surprise Octavia, I just wished we could have met under better circumstances. Her mother called me earlier asking me to help her with this, that's why I'm here.”

“I see, well as much as I would want to keep it as being the only brother she has, i guess it's only sensible that she had close childhood friends outside me and vinyl. Sorry we got off on the wrong foot.” Artemis said extending his hand. Roden shrugged and took his hand before they both shook. “It's alright. Pleasure to meet you. Now, I believe there are far more important matters at hand, such as our precious sister who has been harmed emotionally?” Roden said while pointing to the house.

“Nice to meet you too, and you’re right. Let's get inside, the sooner we talk this over the sooner we can start to resolve this.” Artemis said as he made his way through the driveway and up the stairs. Roden nodded and followed behind him before ringing the doorbell. “I'll get it sweetie.” Riveting said quickly before Octavia could answer the door. Once she reached the entrance to the house she opened it and sighed in relief. “Oh thank God you're here Roden. And Artemis, I wasn't expecting you, I'm assuming you're here to talk to my daughter as well?” She greeted.

“Nice to see you again Aunt Riveting, and yeah, I read an article about what happened and talked to mise, so now I want to hear Octy’s side of the story.” Artemis said as Riveting nodded and smiled as she let the two into the house “she’s in the living room.” Riveting said as she went back to the kitchen. Before Artemis could walk in Roden grabbed his shoulder and held him back. “Listen, I know that you really care for Octavia and want to give her advice on how to handle this, but I need to ask you to leave this to me. I'm not saying you can't be here or you can't say anything, just let me take the lead and this will get done much faster.” He spoke in his neutral tone.

“Why should I just let you do this?” Artemis asked. Roden pulled out a business card and Artemis began to read it. “Dr. Rodens Therapy Practice...Hmm, seems legit...fine, but know that I speak my mind as I feel necessary so i'm not going to stay completely quiet.” Roden nodded. “I understand. Now let's go, the sooner this is done, the better it is for everyone here and everyone reading.” Artemis looked at him strangely before Roden let go of him and began walking into the living room.

Octavia was sitting on the couch as she was finishing up her breakfast. “That really hit the spot, i might just come back here regularly just for mother’s cooking.” Octavia said as she got off the couch and turned to leave before she saw Roden and Artemis walking in “R-Roden...A-Artemis...w-what are you two doing here?” Octavia asked nearly dropping her plate.

“Taking care of our sister.” Roden answered as he opened his arms. Octavia set her stuff down and rushed into his and Artemis’ arms as they hugged her tightly. “It's good to see you too octy. Now i’ll take your plate, Roden go ahead and do...whatever doctory thing it is you do.” Artemis said taking octavia’s dishes and walking into the kitchen.

“Gladly.” Roden said while turning to Octavia. “Now, sit down and make sure you're comfortable.” Roden took the TV remote and turned it off to avoid distraction and closed the door to the kitchen to block any noise coming in before sitting down next to his sister and looking her dead in the eye. “Now, start from the beginning, what happened and how did you act?” Before she could answer he put a finger to her lips and gave her a serious look. “No bending any details, no leaving gaps and no brushing past anything. I want the full unabridged story.”

Octavia nodded as Artemis walked back out and sat on the couch with Roden “well it started a few hours before mise had come home later than usual that night…” Octavia said as she began to relay her side of what really happened that fateful night, everything from wanting to repay mise, to waiting, to deciding to come to her parents house and everything else that lead up to the point at which they were at, sparing no detail “and here we are now.” Octavia said wiping away a couple tears. Artemis wasn’t as surprised as he thought he would given how he knew about Octavia’s separation anxiety but he was relieved that the two stories matched up.

Both Octavia and Artemis looked to Roden who had his eyes closed and was rubbing his thumbs together. “I see…” He spoke quietly before standing up and looking down on Octavia with disappointment in his eyes. “Octavia...I'm disappointed in you.” He said firmly. “What?!” Both Octavia and Artemis exclaimed. Roden shook his head and pointed at her. “I know Mise has done things that have hurt you emotionally, I know how separation affects you, however, this is just as much your fault as it is his.” He stated firmly. “How?” Octavia asked confused. Roden just sighed and went down to eye level before staring into her eyes. “Because you never once confronted him about any of this, you never spoke up, you let him think everything was fine and because you held it in the feelings got worse and worse until eventually you exploded and lashed out at him when he didn't even know there was a problem, all because you couldn't talk about your problems with him.”

“Oh, he’s good….if I may add my two cents as well. I’m not so disappointed as I am upset that you could have helped avoid this by telling Mise about your separation anxiety but you didn’t. You know he thinks higher of you than anyone else in his life, I know he would have understood because he said so himself when I had this conversation with him earlier today, but I am pleased that both your sides of the story add up.” Artemis said.

“Exactly.” Roden said before turning back to Octavia. “Look Tavi, I know how hard it is to be separated from someone you love. More than you know.” Roden suddenly looked up and shook his head to clear away his thoughts. “The point we're both making here is that you weren't honest with Mise until it was too late and you acted out of pent up stress and anger. Now, do you really think how you acted was really justified?” He asked with a softer tone.

Octavia looked down, fixated on the ground, for the first time in all this she realized how she was just as much at fault as mise, and that she was inflicting just as much pain on him as he did on her. The feeling was heartbreaking, she didn’t want to look up, she couldn’t look up, the weight of the shame she felt was too heavy as tears began to hit the hardwood floors of the home.

When Artemis moved to comfort her Roden held him back. “Don't hug her. Don't give her that comfort, she'll start to feel as if everything is ok again and keep hiding her real emotions. We need to let her sort out her feelings mentally and then we take her to Mise so they can sort this out between them.” Roden said as artemis let his words sink in.

“Alright, I guess that makes sense. I guess, it's just my brotherly instincts kicking in. plus I hate seeing being anyone in pain, physically, mentally, or emotionally. Maybe that’s why Vinyl is like the way she is, have I just been encouraging bad behavior in my sisters?” Artemis said as the folds of his mind began to unravel.

“No, this is just something that requires her full attention and she needs to focus, she can't do that if she's trying to be comforted, that will only distract her mind.” Roden explained as he let go of Artemis who just watched as Octavia sat there crying.

The three sat there as seconds turned to minutes, and minutes turned into almost an hour of silence, with occasional check up and beverage and snack refreshment from Riveting. Pretty soon Octavia had finally calmed down, the tears had stopped falling, her sniffling slowing down as she slowly looked up at Roden and Artemis “alright, now that i’ve gotten that out of my system, what do we do next.” Octavia asked wiping away her tears and blowing her nose.

“Now, we go repair your relationship.” Roden said simply as he motioned for the two to follow him out of the house. “Mise is currently at Shards house, it'll be away from the public eye and the house will be empty save for Shard, Artemis and myself if you should need us.” He explained as he unlocked his hummer. Octavia nodded “arrow, if it's all the same with you, i’m going to ride with roden, it's been a very long time since we’ve able to spend 1 on 1 time together, we’ll see you in canterlot.” Octavia said as she climbed into Roden’s hummer as the trio pulled out of the driveway and drove away. Artemis watched as Octavia and Roden left with a serious look on his face. “Artemis, you ok?” Riveting asked. “Yea, tell me do you trust that guy?” Artemis asked. “Yes why?” Riveting asked confused. “No reason, I’ll see you later Aunt Riveting.” Artemis said getting in his car.

Author's Notes:

hey everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. i'd like to thank my two friends and fellow PoME authors, PyraFlare Bullet and CosmicAlchemist24, for helping me write this chapter.
Roden and Shard belong to Pyra and Artemis belong to Cosmic