Ryan awoke in his own bed, much to his surprise. Last time he checked he was trapped in some kind of hive for weird bug-people. Of course, he had no idea how he got here, or even how he got out of being captured. His first assumption was that Luna must have found him while he was asleep. She can track people down when they're asleep, right? Never-the-less, he needed to make sure everything was in order.

"Brain, status report."

I wouldn't recommend moving.

"What?" He asked in confusion, trying to sit himself up. A sudden shockwave of pain surged through his body, causing him to collapse back down to the bed. He couldn't figure out why, but he felt like he had just spent a whole day at the gym. Every muscle in his body was sore and his bones felt like they were about to crumble.

"Shit...What the fuck happened last night?"

It was a hell of a struggle, but you managed to break out of the hive. Wasn't long before Luna found you.

His mind traveled back to the hive again. He could just vaguely remember breaking out of the room they had him in. He remembered beating down the two guards to save...

"Silver!" He yelled, not knowing if she made it out or not.

Calm down, she took off before that group of bug guards showed up.

Ryan couldn't seem to remember much about the group of guards. Them showing up was pretty fuzzy in his mind. After that though, everything just went blank. "What happened?"

You made a valiant effort, good sir...but you got fucked up. They beat you down pretty good, but you managed to bring a good number of them down with you.

"So I'm not a complete bitch."

I wouldn't say that.

The bedroom door opened and Ryan tried to lift his head to see who it was, but his neck was pretty stiff and moving it seemed to hurt more than getting a baseball to the testicle. Not testicles, not both. Only one. Just charging head on right into ol' lefty.

Luna walked over to the bedside, taking a seat on the edge. She was happy to see that he was awake, but she could tell that he was in a great deal of pain. "Good morning, Ryan."

"How's it going mooncheeks?"

She giggled at the nickname he had given her. "I'm certainly doing better than you. How are you feeling?"

"Like I got hit by a bus." He replied nonchalantly, turning his head to face her. She had an odd look about her, like she was staring down at someone who was about to die. "You alright there, sweetheart?"

She nodded, a soft smile spreading across her lips as a single tear ran down her face. "I'm fine, dear. I'm just happy that you're back and you're perfectly healthy."

Luna placed one of her hands on his chest, she could feel the gentle beating of his heart. "I thought I had lost you."

Ryan shot her a cocky smile. "I already told you once; You can't get rid of me that easily."

She sniffed, holding back just how much she was truly hurting. The battle was a long one and it almost resulted in her losing him forever. There was no time for this though, she needed to figure out what was going on in that head of his. "Well I'm glad. And, you have a visitor as well."

His brow raised at her. Who could possibly be here to see him? "A visitor? If it's your sister, then he can go right to hell."

"Don't you mean She?"

"I said what I meant."

Luna snorted and looked towards the door. "Alight then. You may come in now."

The door opened again and Ryan could feel a bit of movement on the bed down by his feet. Before too long a small changeling was hovering over his head. "Hi, Ryan!"

"Silver!" Ignoring the pain in his body he reached out an arm and pulled the little one into a hug. One that she happily returned. "It's so good to see you. I wasn't sure if you made it out or not."

"Of course I did." She said happily. "I had you watching over me."

Gay!

Luna could hear his brain speaking and figured this would be as good a time as any. "I'll be back in a moment. There's something I need to do."

She rose up from the bed and made her way back out to the hallway. Once out she closed the door and took a breath, closing her eyes and focusing on the spell she was about to cast.

When she opened her eyes again she was in a barren wasteland, surrounded by crumbling buildings and destroyed vehicles. There was a layer of thick black clouds above her that roared with thunder and lightning as rain poured down on top of her.

"It's nice isn't it?" A familiar voice picked up from behind her. She turned around to see the mental image of Ryan sitting on top of an old semi-truck, basking in the rain. "To some people an area like this would be considered an eye sore. But, I like it. It's peaceful, empty. The rain just makes it all the better too. How it slides across your skin, sending little tingles through your body. It's like a little slice of heaven."

Luna smiled up at him. Of course he would enjoy something like this. She couldn't blame him though, it was peaceful and the rain was a nice touch. As much as she would love to hang out in here for a while, she needed to figure a few things out. "How much does he remember?"

"Not allot." He replied, hopping down from the truck. "As far as he knows; he got out of the chair, kicked some ass, then got the shit beat out of him."

She nodded. "Will he remember anything else?"

"Not a chance. I made sure of that."

"And what of the beast?"

"Back in his cage where he belongs."

There was a pause between them before Ryan made his way over to Luna. "I know it's hard to understand, but there are some things that are better left forgotten. The guy's got enough memories haunting him for several life times." He stopped once he and Luna were close enough to make out each others eyes. "I just don't want the fucker to suffer any more than he already has."

Luna's gaze dropped to the ground, she couldn't help but think about what had happened when they found him.

Ryan stabbed Chrysalis' own broken horn deep into her throat, leaving a pool of thick green goop to seep out of her neck and onto the floor. When her body had finally stopped convulsing, he looked up at the group of thestrals that stared at him with wide eyes. He started growling like some kind of animal and lunged up at them, fists swinging and teeth bared.

Luna called out to him, begging for him to stop. He wouldn't listen though, he just continued to attack her guards. It didn't take long for them to start fighting back.

She had to grab Ryan in her magical grip to stop him from hurting anypony else. She begged and pleaded with him to calm down, but his mind was too far gone for her words to have any meaning.

Hit him...

Her eyes widened as she heard the voice from within Ryan's mind speaking to her, telling her to hurt him.

You want Ryan back? You wanna put an end to all of this madness? Hit him! Knock him the fuck out!

She closed her eyes and let out a silent apology before punching Ryan directly in the skull, knocking him unconscious the second her fist connected with his head.

"It was a bitch to get that guy back where he needed to be, even with him being dazed from how hard you hit him. We got lucky, I wouldn't have been able to overpower him other wise."

Luna sniffed again, doing her best to hold back her tears. She just couldn't seem to cope with the idea of Ryan being lost from her forever. Seeing him in that state was horrible, but him being that way for the rest of his life...It hurt her, it hurt. It hurt her heart knowing that he could have been stuck that way and there would have been nothing she could do about it.

Ryan could see that she was upset and placed a hand on her cheek, gently guiding her gaze up to him. "Hey, try not to think about it too much. The important thing is; He's back and everything can go back to normal."

She nodded, using one of her arms to wipe the developing tears from her eyes. "You're right. I shouldn't think about it. Ryan is okay and that's all that matters."

"That's the spirit!" He shouted as thunder echoed from above them. "Now get your sexy little ass outta here. You got a man to go see."

Luna smiled, her body becoming covered in a bright blue glow as she removed herself from Ryan's mind. "Thank you..."

He sighed and looked up at the sky, watching the rain as it fell down on to his face. He was going to climb back onto the semi so could continue to enjoy it, but another flash of blue light entered his vision where Luna had been previously standing.

His eyes traveled back to that spot to find a face he was pretty happy to see. "Well, well, well. If it isn't the blue menace herself, Lulu."

The younger looking version of Luna placed a hand on her hip and playfully rolled her eyes at him. "Yeah, whatever cock-bite. Do you wanna insult me or have a little fun in the rain?"

"Don't think I can't do both." He said with a shit-eating grin on his face. "I am quite the multitasker."

Luna opened her eyes to find herself standing back in the hallway just outside of the room she shared with her mate. She could hear him and Silver talking to each other an laughing every so often. Feeling a little nosy, she peeked her head in to listen to what they were saying.

"Really, I don't understand why some clubs and stuff have dress codes." Ryan started explaining. "I mean, do they want me to go in there with a one thousand dollar suit just to get smashed and ruin it?"

Silver started giggling at him as he continued.

"I can't imagine that the guy who made it was just like; I make the finest suit that you wear to the club. You do a jaeger bomb and you spill! Then you puke...Then you do cocaine and you wake up!"

At this pint Silver was rolling around on the bed laughing. She didn't know what a jaeger bomb or cocaine was, but the way he delivered the joke and how he yelled as if he were mad just made it funny to her.

"You grab your girl then she pukes and pees down your back...Not a pleasant experience."

That girl sucked...and she wasn't even good at it.

Silver could hardly breathe as she continued with her giggle fit.

Fuck! Why is she so adorable!?

Luna was doing her best to hold in her laugh before making her way back into the room. "How are you two doing?"

Silver got back up and calmed herself down. "We're fine. Ryan's funny!"

"Yes, yes he is." Luna commented.

"Yes, yes I am." Ryan simply said. Not for ay particular reason. Mostly just to be an asshole. "How you doing over there sexy?"

Luna raised a brow at him. "Are you sure you should be talking like that in front of the child?"

He thought about it for a minute and realized his error. "Right, at this age they're supposed to think that people of the opposite gender are gross. Allow me to rephrase that." He cleared his throat then raised his hand, sticking his thumb up and then turning it upside down. "Boo! Boo! Go away!"

...She is gonna cut you!

Silver collapsed onto the floor, once again entering a ridiculous laughing fit.

Ryan inched his way to the edge of the bed to look down at Silver. "And like that, the bed is all mine again."

Luna rolled her eyes and made her way over to Silver. "Are you alright down there?"

Silver somehow managed to recompose herself and get back to her feet. "I'm fine, it was just funny."

She giggled. "Would you mind giving me and Ryan a few minutes to talk?"

"Not at all." Silver said with a smile before making her way out of the room, leaving Luna and Ryan to be alone together.

Luna walked over to the bed and took her spot on the side again, sitting right on the edge and looking over her mate. She could still see a good amount of red in his eyes, but it was clearing up nicely.

He looked back up at her, slightly confused. "So...is there any reason in particular that you wanted us to be alone? Am I going to be raped?"

The princess laughed. "No, I just felt like being alone with you." She continued to look down at him, her eyes speaking a thousand phrases of her love for him. She leaned down and kissed his forehead. "You should get some rest. You still have a bit of healing up to do."

Ryan took a deep breath. "Yeah, you're probably right. Mind giving me a little help with that. I'm not exactly tired."

"Of course." Luna's horn started glowing and in an instant Ryan's eyes started to become heavy. Before he knew it he was asleep with Luna just looking at him with caring eyes. "Good night, love. Sweet dreams."

Author's Notes:

Yes, this chapter is a bit shorter than the rest. I just kind of felt the need to make a small filler to keep everyone at ease and fill you all in on what had happened, while also making this slightly more comedic and hopefully a little heart warming and cute.
Regardless of how it came out, I hope you all enjoyed it. Feel free to leave a comment below, comments make me feel special. And I will see you all in the next chapter.
Adios.