“Remind me why we have to do this, again?” Vinyl asked as they stood in front of the apartment complex.

Octavia smiled gently. “Because you promised me.”

“Right,” Vinyl huffed. “Let’s get this over with.”

“It will be all right.”

Vinyl just laughed bitterly. “Yeah, if you say so.” Still, despite her gut telling her to run and take Octavia with her, she followed her in.

Octavia looked over the nameplates besides the buttons before humming. “I can’t find any Sassaflash here.”

“Look at the nameplate with Whirlwind. She never changed it,” Vinyl replied with a shrug.

The grey mare found it on the second floor and pushed the button next to it. Seconds passed by and nothing happened, just before the speaker in the wall cracked.

“Who’s there?”

“Sassa open the door. We need to talk,” Vinyl said.

“Why should I?”

“Because we should talk about this and how we all can still live peacefully together,” Octavia cut in and Vinyl facehoofed.

“You brought her with you? Hell no, Vi!” Sassa growled.

“Please, Sassa. Open the door. It’s just talking, alright,” Vinyl said with a roll of her eyes.

Silence. It stretched over a whole minute before a buzzing sound opened the door.

“Come in.”

Vinyl hesitated, but Octavia quickly pulled her in behind her, leaving her no choice but to face the problem ahead.

Unlike their apartment, Sassa’s had no elevator. Doing everything she could, Vinyl tried to buy time. Much to Octavia’s anger.

“If you don’t stop dragging your hooves, my dear, the only hoof you will feel in bed from now on will be your own,” Octavia glared at her.

Vinyl gulped at that, and doubled her speed. It barely put her at a walking pace, but Octavia figured that it was the best she could hope for, given Vinyl’s reluctance. The two walked side by side, down the hallway and to the stairs. According to the buzzers, Sassaflash lived on the second floor, so they had to go up.

For Vinyl, each step felt like it was the next on the road to Tartarus. Not literally of course, but she just knew each and every hoof they moved closer was a hoof moving toward a shit-storm that was about to take place. She didn’t fret for herself, but for Octavia. If Sassaflash did something, if she attacked her, Vinyl was in no doubt that she’d beat her to an inch of her life.

Vinyl just didn’t know if she’d stop there.

A kiss on her cheek stole her attention. She looked over to see the grey mare that was by her side smiling at her. Vinyl blushed a little as she nuzzled her muzzle against Octavia in a ‘thank you’ gesture.

They moved up the stairs from the first to the second story and exited down the hallway.

“Room two-twelve right?”

“That’s the one,” Vinyl confirmed, doing her best to sound more confident than she felt.

She wanted to say more. To tell her to stop this madness. She was too slow though as her lovely earth pony was already knocking on the door.

It didn’t even take a second before the door was ripped open and a pretty angered Sassaflash stormed forward, muzzle to muzzle with Octavia.

“What the hell do you want, prissy?”

Octavia was taken aback for a second. She took one more as she collected herself before saying, “Sassaflash, we’ve come here to talk to yo—”

“No duh, grey prude, I want to know the hell you want to talk about!”

“Maybe about your childish reactions and that flirtatious behaviour you keep up?” Vinyl cut in.

“Since when was that anything bad with you?” Sassaflash raised a eyebrow.

“You should feel bad about it,” Octavia found her voice back. “She is my marefriend and you will not change anything with this ridiculous and inappropriate behaviour!”

Sassaflash laughed, ”Said the prude.”

“Sassaflash, she wanted to come and talk to you in a friendly manner, not to fight. Can’t you at least respect that?” Vinyl asked, not believing the words that were coming out of her mouth.

Sassaflash blinked, twice. Amazed that the great and mighty Vinyl Scratch had just said something like that. She grinned at Vinyl, a girl that spoke of something very bad. “You know what? You’re right Vinyl. Where were my manners. Please, come in Octavia, Vinyl. Let me get you two something to drink.”

“I told you she’d be reasonable, Vinyl, we just had to ask nicely,” Octavia said with a smile as she walked past Sassaflash.

Every single instinct in Vinyl’s head said things had just gone from bad to worse. But now that Octavia had gone inside, there was no way Vinyl could not follow. As she walked past Sassaflash, she whispered, “You better not be planning anything.”

The first Vinyl noticed when she stepped in, was that Octavia was frozen in the hallway between the bedroom and the bathroom. Why, she noticed soon enough.

“Oh, hey Vinyl. Long time no see,” Cloud Kicker laughed before jumping past Octavia to hug the white unicorn. “Hm, you grew up quite nicely, Sassa wasn’t lying.”

“Told you, Cloudy,” Sassa giggled. “I’m sure Vi would like to say the same about you. After all, it’s been so long since all three of us got together last.”

“Seriously? Your plan was to invite Kicky so you could make me weak?” Vinyl asked, her voice betraying herself.

“So self-centered just like always. The world doesn’t revolve around you Vi. I didn’t even know you were coming, Cloudy just knows a mare that can give her a good time,” Sassaflash said. “Some mares know a good thing when they experience it.”

“And some mares know when to shut up and not try to betray a years-old friendship!” Vinyl spat back. “What we had was not love!”

“Really, so when I had you screaming my name, that was what exactly?”

“You know it was never love or anything like that! It was just… a small fling in the bed from time to time and we both knew it!”

“SHUT UP!” Octavia suddenly yelled. “Both of you!”

Both mares stopped their bickering and turned their head, staring speechless at Octavia and Vinyl’s jaw dropped. “Tavi?”

“We’re not here to fight you, Sassaflash, we’re here to make amends; to show you that what we have is real, and not something that’s going away. We want to be your friend, not your enemy.”

“Well, you know how I like my friends,” Sassa said as she walked up to Octavia.

“Sassa, what are yo—”

Vinyl’s muzzle dropped open when Sassaflash pushed her lips against Octavia’s. The kiss lasted for two whole seconds, two seconds before Octavia’s mind realized what the hell was going on and pulled away in horror.

Sassaflash just looked at her with a disappointed look on her face, “Ehh, four out of ten. You really could do better, Vinyl.”

“What in the wide world of Equestria is wrong with you?” Octavia suddenly asked. “If this is what friendship involves with you, I say no. I’m only Vinyl’s and that’s final!”

Vinyl was still in shock while Cloud Kicker finally found a voice to speak. “What is going on here? I don’t get it anymore.”

“Kicky, you should leave,” Vinyl said. “This may get ugly.”

Cloud looked between Vinyl and a still grinning Sassaflash. “I’ll see you later, Sassa.”

Sassa just grinned. “This is quite comical. So much for not starting a fight, huh?”

Octavia moved between Vinyl and Sassaflash as Cloud kicker left. “Maybe we should start over.”

“Want another kiss?” Sassa asked. “I’m sure I could teach you more.”

“NO!” Octavia and Vinyl both yelled.

“Too personal?” Sassa grinned.

“Sassa. One last chance to talk this out,” Vinyl growled, rubbing her temples. “Otherwise our whole relation ends right now and here.”

“What was that again with not starting a fight? Right now you are about to do just that.”

Octavia blinked and Vinyl could see that she was slowly about to lose her temper, ”Alright you primitive pegasus. We came here to talk this out peacefully. If you can’t stop with this and trying to pull Vinyl into this we will leave immediately,” Octavia said.

“Primitive pegasus?” Sassa blinked. “Did you just insult me?”

“No, I think that was the actual pretty matching description of how she sees you,” Vinyl chuckled.

Vinyl had no idea how long it took. All she noticed was Sassa taking a pretty ugly expression on her muzzle before her wing unfolded and snapped forward.

“What in the-” Octavia was cut off as the wing hit. Straight over her muzzle.

“Tavi!” Vinyl yelled as the grey mare stumbled back, a hoof on her muzzle.

“You two come here. To my place. You insult me, yet you say you want to be my friends. Fuck you. Both of you,” Sassaflash growled.

Things went from bad to worse. In the next second, Vinyl was on the pegasus and smashed her to the ground. “How. Fucking. Dare. You. To. Attack. My. Marefriend. You. FUCK!” Vinyl emphasized every single word.

Her rage made her strong, but that strength came at a price. She didn’t notice when Sassaflash placed her back hoof on her chest and pushed up with all her might. Vinyl was sent flying into the wall from the strong kick.

Vinyl hit the wall hard. She fell to her head in a crumpled mess before getting back to her hooves and powering her horn, ready to take this fight to the next level.

Once again, Octavia jumped between the two. “No!”

The two glared at each other, angrily. Octavia didn’t move out of the way though. “Vinyl, you were right, we should not have come. Let’s go, she is not worth it.”

Vinyl blinked before ceasing her magic and looking at Octavia. “Let’s go eat something. I’m starving.”

She quickly took Octavia’s side and walking towards the door, leaving a stunned pegasus behind. “You can’t just leave!” Sassaflash yelled.

“We can,” Vinyl chuckled. “My mare said so and I obey.”

Octavia looked back once at Sassaflash. “I asked her to come here so we can move on with our lives. As we walk out the door, we put our pasts behind us and move on to a brighter future, together. I am sad that we could not make amends, but at least you see that now, as do we.”

“Fuck you too!” Sassaflash shouted as they walked out the door and shut it behind them.

As they walked down the hallway, Octavia swore that she heard Sassaflash crying.

Author's Notes:

I know this chapter is short, and I'm really sorry for it.
But anything added felt like bad fluff, so this is it.
The next chapter is longer, pinkie-promise!

And nopony breaks a pinkie-promise!

Wtf?