6 Days later, early in the Morning.

Deep in the Castle, the Door to Princess Celestia's Bedroom slowly and quietly opened. A tired and exhausted looking Blaze could be seen sticking his head out of the small door gap. He quickly looked back into the Room and saw Princess Celestia in a deep slumber on her bed. He looked to the left and right of the Corridor to see if there were any Guards who could see him, but nopony was there, everything was quiet. He stepped out of the Room and quietly closed the Door. He then continued by walking towards the Castle Gardens, as this was the fastest way towards the Barracks.

As he arrived at the Entrance to the Gardens, he once again looked for any ponies who may spot him. Nopony was to be seen so he continued on his way and entered the Gardens. As he ran past the Statues in the Gardens though, he could hear a familiar voice behind him.

"Blaze!? Blaze, is that you, buddy?"

Blaze stopped and looked back to see Thunder who stood next to a Statue which Blaze ran past a few seconds ago. He must have not seen Thunder earlier.

"Thunder? What are you doing here!?"

Blaze became nervous and looked around to see if there were any other ponies around who could see or hear them, but nopony to be seen. Hopefully he was actually right this time.

"Funny, I was about to ask you the same, pal. What is a Solar Guard like you doing in the Gardens this early? Shouldn't you be sleeping? Or at least be at the Barracks right now?"

Thunder looked both confused and intrigued. Normally he and the other Lunar Guards would be going back to the Barracks in about 1 hour to swap Shifts with the Solar Guard. He couldn't exactly understand what Blaze would be doing up this early.

"Oh, I...Yeah, I was going to the Barracks right now, actually."

Thunder followed by staring at him with an unbelieving face.

"Alright, alright! I...I was...busy"

"Busy? By the looks of it you didn't get a single second of sleep tonight. How busy exactly?"

Blaze began sweating and tried putting on a false smile, but he himself was sure noone, not even Thunder, would fall for it.

"Very, very busy. It...wasn't exactly Guard work tho"

That caught Thunder's attention. What could keep him busy allnight if it wasn't work for the Solar Guard...?

"Oh? What do you mean it wasn't Guard work? What else could you have been doing allnight?"

Blaze didn't answer at first but as Thunder once again started starring at him and stepped closer to him he began talking.

"I...I was with...ugh..."

Blaze knew he had to tell Thunder about what happened last night.

"I...was with Princess Celestia..."

Thunder looked so confused, his face could have just as well been a giant question mark.

"W-what? What do you mean?"

Deep inside Thunder had a suspicion of what might have happened but he didn't dare to say it himself, afraid of it not being true and sounding completely ridiculous.

"I...we..."

Blaze looked down to the ground and took a deep breath.

"...We love eachother."

Thunder practically froze for 5 seconds as he heard that. He couldn't believe it. His friend and The Princess of the Sun...in love...this was too weird but also too good to be true...or was it?

"W-w-what? WHAT? WHAAAT!?"

Thunder's reaction was exactly as Blaze would have expected him to react to it.

"Yeah...We've been meeting privatly for a few weeks now. I've been lucky to not get caught by other ponies...until now at least."

Thunder still couldn't wrap his head around the fact that his friend and one of the Princesses were in love. What was worse is the fact that they probably had sex last night.

"I...I can't really understand any of this..." Thunder scratched his head. "Why? Why you? I mean, not that you are a bad choice or anything, but she's...a Princess...and..."

Thunder was promptly interrupted by Blaze who had forseen questions like that.

"Look, I don't know when it all started exactly, or why it started. One day she just wished for me to visit her in the evening and since then we both "like" eachother."

Thunder tried to focus on what he was saying but he could only focus on one thing...

"...So...did you two have Sex?"

Blaze blushed at that question. He somehow knew that topic was sure to come up but not that promptly or directly.

"W-why would you ask?"

"Well, for one you look like you've just ran a marathon, then you also have very messy hair and you also dont wear your armor, and we both know you normally always wear your armor."

It was then that Blaze actually noticed his messy hair and the fact that he must have left his armor in Celestia's Bedroom.

"Oh..." Blaze thought for a second and sighed, "...Yeah, you're right..."

Thunder wasn't sure how to process all of this properly. He was lost in thought for what felt like an hour to him but was surely only about 10 seconds.

"Huh...I mean...That's...great...right?"

Blaze shrugged.

"I guess so, yeah."

Thunder scratched his Head once again.

"So...you and Celi then, huh?"

Blaze nodded

"Seems so, yeah."

Thunder looked away from Blaze all of the sudden.

"Well... at least you are successful with loving a Princess and all that..."

Blaze knew exactly what he was going on about. He walked up next to him and laid his right hoof around his neck.

"Hey...I'm sure Luna will love you if see gets the opportunity to see who you really are. I'm sure of that."

Thunder turned his head back to Blaze.

"Yeah, right. And how am I, a Lunar Guard private, supposed to get a chance like that?"

Blaze walked a few steps while thinking about his question.

"Hmm...I've got an idea. Since me and Celestia are "good friends", I might be able to organize a meeting between you two."

Thunder's face suddenly turned happier with every passing second.

"You...You could do that?"

"I can't promise anything of course, but I can try."

Thunder's face was filled with joy all of the sudden.

"WOW! AWESOME! THANKS MAN!"

For one moment it almost looked like he was going to hug Blaze but Blaze quickly interrupted him.

"Sssshhhh! Not so loud! I can't let anyone hear or see us!"

Thunder quickly shut his mouth but you could still see the happiness on his face.

"Oh...yeah, right. Still, thanks alot buddy."

Blaze looked around to once again see if there were other ponies around.

"Yeah, yeah, no problem. Look, I gotta go now, normally I'm supposed to be sleeping in the Barracks right now. I'll cya later"

With that, Blaze turned around and ran towards the exit of the Gardens.

"Cya! And thanks again!"

Thunder looked after him for a few seconds and then turned around to continue his usual patrol. He tried to focus, but no matter how much he tried he couldn't stop thinking about Luna. He just hoped that she has feelings for him too.