"Good evening Princesses." I say as I enter the throne room. I notice that there are quite a few more ponies in the room though. Octavia, Vinyl, Twilight and her friends are all accounted for as well. "Good evening everypony." I add, understanding that there is about to be something big is about to happen. 'This is it' I think to myself. 'You are about to lose your friends and your marefriend right here and now. Too late to regret anything now.'

"We are very pleased you could join us this evening." Princess Luna says with, a happy tone? Looking up all I see are smiles everywhere.

'They all seem so happy, but why?' I thought once again to myself. 'I physically harmed another being in a fit of rage, I should be banished after that. Are...are they all happy that soon I will be gone?' A powerful sadness rushes through me and I almost feel like crying, until I'm tackled-kissed by Octavia. 'For such a well refined mare with such noble upbringing, she sure kisses passionately in public.' I can't help but think.

As Octavia releases the stranglehold on my lips, I notice Pinkie has pulled out a cannon. Out of nowhere. "It's party time!" She yells as she pulls the string causing a cacophony of light and sound to explode forth. As my eyes readjust, the throne room is now decorated in the stylings of a party.

"I, I don't understand, why is a party being thrown? I broke Claudette's nose and probably broke several bones in her face, I should be punished, not given a party. What is going on?" I am genuinely confused. Everypony looks at me like I am crazy, what the hell is going on?

"We are sorry, we should have explained first but we let our emotions get the better of us, and we started without first putting to rest your fears. You see normally you would be correct, there would be a punishment; a fine with a public apology where possible. However, you did so in a highly emotional situation in protection of your marefriend's honor against your family. Add to that they seemed to have left out quite a few details; and the fact that Claudette took all that time and effort to come here and try and ruin you, and you have a whole different legal matter."

"Had you gone any further you would be punished, but the only 'crimes' you have committed were: The defense of your marefriend's honor, which should be rewarded not punished, and defense against a criminal stalker who, as it turns out, was on cocaine. So your 'punishment' is this party. Besides, ever seen the penalty for insulting the crown and falsifying information in order to gain access to Equestria? We can assure you that you will probably never see them again." Luna finishes with a smile. This is a huge relief, I didn't mess up so terribly that I threw away everything. A sense of relief washes over me as you stand up.

Then a thought hits me. 'I guess for the first time, not even her wit will get me in trouble over this.' A smile graces my face as this thought spreads through my mind. My friends had protected me.

Suddenly, music starts to play, and the party is off. 'I have some really great friends.' I think to myself blissfully. After an hour the music slows down. "Seems like it is time for couples to dance." Octavia says as she stands in front of me, and I realize something.

"We are the only couple here aren't we?" She just nods at my statement.

Blushing I turn to her and say, "I can't dance to save my life."

Twilight decides to boost my confidence. "You couldn't be worse than me."

"Besides, it's just waltzing, surely you can waltz?" Tavi added.

"No, I never learned to dance." Tavi stares at me a moment before simply grabbing my hand, and dragging me to the dance floor.

"Follow my lead and you will be just fine." At first it was horrible, but as the songs went on I became a decent dancer. We danced the night away in bliss. As the party wound down around eleven PM, Princess Celestia returned. Turns out she had to deal with the legal issues surrounding Claudette. It seems that her admittance to what she did came with her to Earth and they needed the full story to begin pressing charges. I would probably never see her again, though now I had a record on Earth for 'completely justifiable assault due to psychological and possibly accidental chemical influences.' I was, however, free.

After another hour, at about midnight, I decide it's time to head on out. Octavia decides to join me for the walk home. The usually busy streets of upper Canterlot are empty, the day crowd having gone to bed, and the night life taking their spin down in the 'party district'. Ten minutes later, Octavia speaks up.

"Sorry that your dear little sister had to go away forever, I know how much you used to love her, before the drugs that is."

"It's fine, she threw away the right to be my sister a long time ago. Thank you though, for everything. If it wasn't for you I would have probably ended up doing a lot more then hitting her. I used to not really have anything to lose, now I have you." It's all I can say. Tavi however, has something more to say.

"That is awfully sweet of you. So, what did you get me for my birthday?" I stand stock still. Of all the things I could have forgotten, it had to be her birthday. I knew it was coming up, but with what has happened, I never went to get the gift. "Should I take that as you forgot from all the stuff happening? I can understand, a lot has happened. I forgive you on the condition that you make all my meals tomorrow."

"Deal." I say with a small laugh. It was a pleasant surprise that Octavia would be so lenient on me; then again with everything that happened, maybe things won't be so bad. That night, Tavi spends the night with me in my guest bed. A few more days pass.

It's a wonderful Thursday afternoon. I'm off to meet with Tavi to practice music together. As I arrive I have a strange feeling, the kind off feeling one gets when something big is about to happen. Almost like a feeling of... anxiety. I shake it off and continued to her door and knock. I hear hoofsteps rushing to the door. I assume she quickly peered through the eye hole to see who was at the door. Upon seeing me she quickly opens the door just a crack. 'This is odd.' I wonder as she doesn't budge the door further.

""Hello Sam, sorry to say but I am currently having some problems. Do you mind coming back another day for practice?"

"What's wrong Tavi? Are you okay?" As I say this I move closer to try and get a glimpse at her. Something is definitely wrong. The little I can see of her is ragged, like she didn't have the mental state to tidy up before company arrived. That didn't happen.

"If something is wrong you can tell me and I will help if I can." I hear some shuffling, she is definitely thinking about something. At this point, if she won't at least talk to me I would-

"Okay, come inside but please be quick about it." Okay, won't have to plan for emergencies then, good. She backs away and quickly opens the door. As I enter she shuts it and does something I don't expect. She locks her door. In Equestria I have never really known anypony to lock their door. So the fact that she does so is mind boggling. What has her so spooked? She then grabs my hand and drags me up her home to the second floor and straight to her room.

She then quickly opens the door and almost throws me inside. I have never been inside her room. It is sparsely decorated though. There are only two pictures in her room. One of herself, Vinyl and me, and one of just the two of us. Her bed is quite large, a King size bed with silken red sheets. The curtains are drawn but are definitely of high quality. I don't have much more time to see the room as my attention is drawn to Tavi. I then see what she is wearing a shawl. Had she been asleep? Is she okay, and what is that strangely alluring smell in the air? Also, why am I getting excited?

"I am going to be blunt here, I am in heat. If you want to help, I suggest you understand that this will create a strong emotional attachment between us. And according to the scientists, we may or may not be similar enough to have children, so, only help if you are serious about us."

'Oh, well fuck. I was not expecting that. She quite creatively put me in a compromising situation. I love her, but currently she is dealing with the heat. If I were to-'

"Time's up, you aren't running so I apologize as I simply use you to our blissful hearts' content."

'Fuck.'

Author's Notes:

Next chapter is clop, I will separate clop chapters from the others for those that would rather not read them. There will be a brief explanation as a foreword on the next chapter unless I give it a summary as a part of the story (I will note this). As for why I did not release the clop chapter immediately... I want to make certain I didn't mess up anything in the chapter after it.