Confessions of an Immortal Time Lord

One Thousand Years of Solitude (Part 2)

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"That's it. I can't make it. Leave me, Tia. Leave me to die, save yourself!" I whined (very manly) as I fell on the ground, exhausted after what seemed like hours of running.

"Come on, Doctor!" the white mare poked me with a hoof. "We've been running for some five minutes, no more! The airship will leave without us!"

I groaned and rolled over, breathing heavily.

"Gimme a minute, Tia, I just need to catch my breath," I tried to reason the vigorous alicorn.

"Oh, come on!" she exclaimed. "You were much more enduring last night."

Well, she had a point, that mare. I smiled to myself.

"You're right, my dear, but that's exactly the reason why I can't move a limb right now," I replied, placing my head on my hooves.

A few minutes of sleep wouldn't hurt, would they?

Apparently, to Celestia's mind, they would.Or else, she wouldn't have lifted me in the air with her telekinesis and dragged me behind as she resumed trotting towards the port.

The Air Port. Get it? Get it? It's like an airport, only an Air Port! For Air Ships, you see?

...Anyway, yawning and rolling in Celestia's magical grip, I managed to occupy a comfortable position.

Suddenly, the Princess slowed down.

"What's wrong, Tia? Exhausted?" I wondered mockingly.

Not noticing my sarcasm, Celestia just came to a stop and rubbed her chin.

"I just... I think we forgot something... Something very important..." she said, looking around.

"Nah," I shrugged as I rolled onto my back, still being in the air and all. "Just shrug it off. Nothing's wrong, Tia. Just look at the beautiful moon and-"

"I forgot to raise the Sun!" she yelled and lost hold of me.

And, of course, I fell on my spine again.

Possible injuries count: 2

"Ouch," I mumbled calmly. "So, what's the big deal? Raise it," I said with a shrug.

Celestia frowned and shook her head.

"Doctor, raising the Sun and the Moon is what we alicorns do in private," she addressed me, turning round and heading back to the castle.

"Oh, come on, screw privacy! I'm your coltfriend, for your sake!" I reasoned the mare as I followed her. "Besides, we won't make it to the cruise in this case."

"So we won't, in this case," Celestia replied casually. "Those cruises are annual. Besides, I always give you your privacy when you isolate yourself in our room with the latest issue of Playcolt," she added.

I gulped, wondering how she knew it.

"Point taken," I immediately agreed and hastened my pace. The sleepiness left me in an instant.

We headed for the castle.

The moonlight was enveloping us in a very romantic way, warming me up inside. Even though I swore to myself that I'd never let a mare in my life, I did. And I think it was totally worth it.

I smiled as the Moon lowered down, letting the Sun rise up high and let the world bathe in its warmth. The Sun-

The Sun...

The Sun.

I suddenly realised that something had gone terribly wrong and looked at Celestia in fear.

She simply stood before the castle gates, her gaze directed at the celestial body. At her celestial body. Her eye twitched.

"I have somepony to talk to," she hissed and galloped inside, magically opening the gates.

And, as usual, I just crashed into the closed door as I tried to follow her.

Ouch.

Possible injuries count: 3

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When I reached Celestia's chamber, I could hear angry voices from behind the door. I sighed since I knew very well whose these voices were.

That was the familiar sound of two sisters arguing.

"How could you ever think about raising the Sun in my place, not to mention doing it!"

That was certainly Celestia's angry voice. Her most angry voice - there are a few degrees of it, actually.

"I wouldn't have done it if you had been following your royal duties, sister!"

Now that was Luna's angry voice...

"I was just on my way to the castle to raise it!"

"Oh, maybe you just forgot about it? Because you rutted with your Doctor so much that you can't remember a sinhle thing?!"

Well, that was partially true, may it be said in Luna's defence...

"You... I'm not expecting you to lunch today, sister," Celestia hissed.

"I didn't want to come in the first place," Luna replied in the same tone.

After a moment of awkward silence, the door opened and hit me on the head.

Ouch again.

Possible injuries count: 4

Not noticing (or, better to say, pretending not to have noticed) my eavesdropping, Celestia nodded in my direction.

"Let's go have lunch, honey," she said and descended the stairs.

Before following her, however, I looked into the room and gave Luna a reassuring smile.

The blue alicorn merely frowned.

"Come on, Luna, Tia can be a pain in the flank sometimes, you know that," I said with a wink and trotted down the stairs to the kitchen, leaving the younger princess alone with her thoughts.

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The awkward silence became slightly easier to bear after eating a plate of hay fries and drinking a cup of invigorating tea.

Have I told you just how much I love tea? I love it will all of my heart and soul. I feel sincere (and mutual) longing to the substance and, I must say, I can't survive a day without it.

Now that I think abut it, it resembles my love to Tia...

Anyway!

Celestia sighed and took a fruit from the plate. A yellow, oval fruit.

"That's- that's a banana, Tia..." I said, remembering an old inside joke from the times when I was still in human form. An unpleasant one. Literally, I'd been searching high and low for the infamous Moon Cannon since I began dating Celestia but fortunately hadn't found a sign of it.

"Yes. Yes, it is," the royal mare replied seriously. "Anything wrong with it?" she wondered as she took a gentle bite.

"No, nothing... Confound those humans..." I whispered under my breath. Unfortunately, too loud for Celestia to hear.

Her ears jerked up and she chocked on the banana. In a sexy way, though.

"Humans? Have I misheard, darling? Where do you know about humans from?" she wondered suspiciously.

I thought it was high time we talked about the elephant in the room. Or, better to say, the Time Lord in the room.

(If you still hasn't guessed, that's me. If you has, though, you're really shrewd.)

"Um, you know, I've been one for quite a long time..." I tried to maintain a casual tone.

...Wrong tone.

Celestia raised her brow, prompting me to provide an explanation.

And that was exactly what I did.

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"I... I've been sleeping with a Time Lord?"

Well, I'd awaited such a reaction. I knew that sooner or later it had to be revealed to her.

"Yeah, you can feel proud, sweetie," I replied to Celestia's outburst, trying to maintain calmness, trying to charm Tia with my brand Charming And Disabling Time Lord's Smile [TM].

"I... thought you were a simple pony..." she speculated, shaking her head, looking down at her hooves.

"You... do realise that simple ponies don't live for hundreds of years, right?" I asked with a not-amused glance.

Celestia rubbed her chin.

"Now that you mention it..." she mused aloud.

"Besides, we Time Lords are... bigger than simple ponies," I whispered seductively in her ear.

"What? I think your body is the same size as..." the white mare began but then blinked in understanding. "Oh, I get it. A certain part of your body..." she said with an almost invisible blush.

I nodded with a sly grin.

"Come on, Doctor!" she scolded me (in spite of herself, may I say). "Let's be patient and wait until nightfall."

Nightfall.

Now that we noticed it, looking around in panic, the world became dark again. The Sun lowered into its cosy bed behind the horizon and the Moon took its royal place upon the sky.

"Luna..." Celestia hissed angrily. "What does she think she is doing?!"

She rose from the table and swung the door open, running to her sister's chamber.

I sighed and followed her. I had a bad, bad premonition about all of this.

And you know why?

Because I know the future so goddamn well.

And it's not bright.

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Next on the Confessions!

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"No, don't touch it!"

"Why shouldn't I?"

"NO!"

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"Hello, Doctor. It seems we meet again."

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Author's note.

I must give up smoking. I really, really need to. Also, please comment.

Peace.