The door bell rang as Fluttershy entered first. An almost instant response came from the shop.

"Welcome to Carousel Boutique! How may I help you?" Rarity said enthusiastically as she trotted out from the backroom, wearing her orange-framed glasses. She greeted her friends as they entered before the shaking Jonathan. "Goodness! Why aren't you wearing anything?"

Jonathan tried to answer, but was cut-off by Twilight. "Jonathan here touched Poison Joke and lost his clothes. Don't ask me how."

"By Poison Joke? How he ended up in the Everfree forest?" Rarity asked, confused.

"Rainbow Dash tried to have some fun with him." Fluttershy said, feeling pity for the still slightly shivering human.

"Jonathan's very hungry right now and so Rainbow tricked him to believe there were apple-pies waiting for him at the direction of the path, not paying attention that it headed for the Everfree forest." Twilight continued.

"He needs some clothes." Fluttershy stated. "If you don't mind that is."

"Poor dear, Jonathan was it?" Rarity's eyes lighted up, realizing what kind of opportunity she had in front of her.

Jonathan looked around the boutique, noticing the seemingly endless number of beautiful and colourful dresses. He turned to look at the white unicorn and saw the look in her eyes. "Oh no.."

***

Rarity didn't take long to learn to make a pair of pants and a shirt. They were similar to ponies' clothes, with some alternations and longer sleeves. She had hard time to stay with Jonathan's demands of 'simple' and 'not colorful'. After numerous colorful outfits and frustrated sighs, she had to succumb to his requests.

"Is this good?"

"That looks very good!"

"But it's so dark and.." She looked at the outfit she had made. With some advice from Jonathan, she had created a similar black hooded shirt with thicker covers to protect from the cold. The pants were also black and heavily stuffed, but had a few streaks of crimson in it. Rarity had insisted them to have some detail than just plain black. "..simple."

"They are perfect! Just my style." Jonathan said enthusiastically. "Thank you, Rarity. You did amazing job and you have never even made clothes for a human before!" He continued from behind the dressing wall as he put his new clothes on.  "And they fit perfectly!"

"No problem, dear." She said humbly. "I just hoped they would've been more, stylish."

"Everypony.." His speech faltered for a second as he noticed what he had said. "..has their own style, mine's just slightly darker." His thoughts however were thinking about something else "Did I just say 'everypony?"

"Yes, slightly darker." Rarity answered sarcastically.

"Hey, does anypony else smell.." Twilight said, sniffing the air. "..smoke?"

Silence filled the room. They all watched at the stream of black smoke, hovering closer from the kitchen.

"Sweetie Bell!" Rarity yelled and ran to the kitchen.

"Hi sis'! I heard that your customer was hungry and I wanted to.."

"Yes yes, now please give me some water before the house burns down, would you?"

The three visitors silently listened and glanced at each other.

"That's so nice of her." Fluttershy said softly, the little filly just tried to be helpful after all.

***

While Rarity was trying to save her boutique from a kitchen fire, the trio made a quick exit. Fluttershy left back to her cottage to take care of her animal friends. She was interrupted in the middle of serving food for them and she needed to continue. That left Twilight and Jonathan to travel to Sweet Apple Acres.

"I've been meaning to ask." Jonathan took the glasses off and inspected them in his hands. "How do these work? I mean, my eyes are negative and so I shouldn't be able to see any better with reading glasses."

"Well, that's simple! They are enchanted with a spell that detects and adjusts to the wearer's vision, be it plus or negative." Twilight said, seeming eager to tell him more. "Of course, like I said before, those are enchanted with a rather weak spell, so they can't adjust too far."

Jonathan let the enlightening information sink in, or at least tried to. "Very simple indeed. It's like I see magically enhanced glasses everyday."

Twilight ignored the sarcastic response. "How you see with them?"

Putting the glasses back on, Jonathan then gauged their effectiveness. "I can see quite well, but not as well as with my original ones." He squinted his eyes slightly. "The farther objects appear to be slightly blurry."

"Well, I could make you a more powerful pair if you want."

"You would do that? For me?"

"Of course! Every friend of mine should be able to see perfectly!" She responded with a warm smile.

"I.. I.. Thank you, Twilight." Jonathan smiled from ear to ear, feeling happy and warm inside after a long while.

"No problem, Jon."

A loud stomach groan was unleashed, Jonathan hugged his stomach in an attempt to silence it. "How about we get something to eat?" His stomach reinforced this with yet another groan. "Please?"

The late-afternoon sun was shining over Ponyville as they continued walking towards the Apple-family farm.

***

Right from the front gate, Jonathan could smell the freshly baked apple-pies. Applejack was outside hauling the last apple cart back to the farm after the last apple-buckings of the year and was surprised to see the duo.

"How'dy Twilight! How'dy Jonathan!" The orange mare greeted as she freed herself from the cart. "What brings 'ya to mah farm?"

Even though she was a few dozen feet away, Applejack could hear the stomach groan.

"Is that good enough for an answer?" Jonathan asked, hugging his stomach.

"Yea, Ah reckon Granny Smith has baked some pies fer dinner." She paused and took a lingering glance at the Apple-family house. "Wanna join us?"

"Would I?" Jonathan said, relieved to finally get his insane hunger away.

"Gladly AJ." Twilight responded. The new guests followed Applejack inside.

***

The evening went nicely. Jonathan predictably ate quite a few pies and a one too many. Big Macintosh and Granny Smith both took the foreign guest warmly in. Applebloom just kept hammering questions at the human and almost forgot to eat her own food. Jonathan was quite taken by the constant asking of the little filly, he had always been rather good with kids and as such, they shared a few laughs. They all had a good time.

"Thank you for the invite, Applejack. Be sure to give my thanks to Granny Smith as well." Jonathan said, feeling much better with his hunger gone. All three were standing outside. The evening went so fast that it was dark when Twilight and Jonathan were leaving.

"Sure, Ah'll tell her." She answered. "And Jon, Ah'm sorry fer the apple. Ah was just scared of never seeing anyone like you and.."

"Don't worry about it Applejack." He said to the awkward looking orange mare. "I think I would've done the same in your position."

"Thanks Jon." She said, relieved he didn't hold a grudge.

"Well, it's getting late. We should head back." Twilight said, glancing at the starry sky.

They said their farewells. Twilight and Jonathan started to head back to Ponyville on the dimply moonlit path.

"I can only say one thing." Jonathan stated. "I've never had so much fun in my life."

She smiled and felt happy that he was feeling better. "I had fun as well."

They talked about the evening and the dinner, before Jonathan thought about an important thing. "Where am I going to sleep?"

"Good question, I hadn't thought of that during the day."  It was already late evening. She didn't want to disturb anypony this late and there were no hotels or other accomodations in Ponyville. Those were the luxury of bigger locales, like Canterlot. "The only place remaining is my place."

Jonathan almost fell on his face, stunned by the straight-forwardness of the statement.

"I do have an extra room and there are no accomodations in Ponyville."

Jonathan gathered enough words to agree. "Well, it's a lot better than sleeping outside." He paused for a second. "Or in a barn."

The purple unicorn giggled. "I wonder how Spike reacts to you."

"Spike?" He asked. "Wait a second, that name was in the dream I had when I was at the clinic." He thought to himself. How had he dreamed of a name he now heard for the first time? And why on Earth did the name feel familiar like the other names did?

"Yes, he's my number One assistant and a very good friend. He helps me at the library."

"Wait, you live in a library?"

"Yes." She took a short pause. "I like to read books."

"I see..."

***

"Spike! I'm home!" Twilight called as she entered her home.

"You could've told me you live in a library that's inside a huge tree."

Snickering, Twilight slowly turned to look at Jonathan. "I didn't think it was worth mentioning." She said sarcastically.

Jonathan rolled his eyes. "Everything here is worth mentioning, for me at least."

As he entered the library, Jonathan was taken aback by the sheer number of books and shelves. There had to be hundreds if not thousands of books here. Every single inch of free space in the shelves and walls were occupied by books. For a few seconds he didn't even notice the little purple and green dragon standing right in front of him.

"Hi! I'm Spike!" It said to him.

"Uh, hi?" A certain phrase came to his mind. "You're a dragon, right?"

"Spike, this is Jonathan." Twilight said.

"He's tall." Spike said, blatantly stating the obvious.

"I used to be taller, until I took an arrow in the knee." Jonathan said, his face remained neutral.

Both Twilight and Spike looked at him with confusion. "What?" They said in unison.

"Oh nothing, just a joke where I'm from." He gave a smile at the two. "Oh my God that was a bad one.."

"Riiight.." Spike stated, taking a few over-dramatic steps away from the human.

"Anyways, Jonathan. Let me show you to your room." Twilight said, waving a hoof.

Jonathan followed Twilight to a smallish room. It had one small round window and little decoration; just a full bookshelf, a warm carpet, a dusty writing desk and a bed. The bed was quite small; no way he could fit himself on it without one or two limbs dangling off the edge of it.

"I know the bed is small, but there is only one size." Twilight said, looking at the tired, yawning human. She yawned as well in response.

"It'll do just fine. I bet it beats hay." He walked over to the bed and sat on it, feeling the soft cushioning. "I won."

Twilight smiled. "Good to know." She yawned again. "I think it's time to sleep. Good night Jon."

"Good night Twilight."

She closed the door. Jonathan's guess was right, he couldn't lay on the bed without his legs dangling off the end of the bed. However, being tired after the winding day made his eyelids feel heavy and his free-floating legs didn't bother him that much. Closing his eyes, he wondered what new things tomorrow reveals and he quickly fell asleep.

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A/N: Longer than usual. I just couldn't stop writing before I got to a reasonable ending scene. And with longer text the chance of mistakes are higher, I apologize for any that slipped my pre-readings.

And like always; comments, feedback and reviews are welcome and appreciated!