Blurry visions pooled in Midnight's head. They started out as nothing, just colors that swirled and danced together. Slowly, they began to take shape, electric blues forming hair, whites melting into skin, black and red blending into clothes to form Vinyl. His brain registered that she held him closer in her sleep, but his conscience didn't notice, it was lost in REM sleep. She stood there, in his head, smiling her amazing grin, hands behind her head while she did so. Slowly, Midnight's mind eye looked her over, her tantalizing blues in her hair, her amazing red eyes, her soft hands on his worn, saddened skin, almost breathing life back into him. The peace he felt with her, the unquestionable love for his true family, calmed him. His brain noticed a tightening of his own embrace, but it was rubbish to his thoughts and desires.

Slowly, her short shorts began to slide down, dissipating as they hit the ground of where ever they were. Her tank top covered her flower, if just barely. The normal grin that was on her face had been replaced with a seductive smile, her hands gliding down to lift her top. His brain noted the increase in heart rate and proceeded to calm it down, to allow sleep to continue. As her top was lifted off, what lay underneath was not the beautiful body Midnight had been expecting, but a black hole that swallowed him like the massive jaw of a hungry dragon.

He was on his back, a shadowy figure walking in the rain, ominous storm clouds gathering and dancing above in the night sky. Wet hair, all colors of a beautiful sunrise moved in soft waves, the storm cloud’s rain mingling with her tears. Midnight felt himself be lowered as Celestia gave her child one last, ashamed look. "Mommy loves you. Mommy loves you..." She whispered before turning back the way she came. Baby Midnight cried out, reaching his tiny arms out and opening and closing his fingers, wanting to feel mommies skin again, be held in her arms, and fall asleep to her melodious voice. A dark shadow appeared behind him from the doorway.

"Who's there? What's this? ... Aww, you poor thing. Second one this week..." The shadow said, lowering down to grab the basket  handle and carry him inside. However, the shadow didn't stop falling, only enveloped him in its darkness. His brain assumed that another memory was going to surface, only to be ignored by his conscience once again. Midnight looked around, he was sitting on the first stairs that lead to the second floor of the orphanage, at least, the seven-year-old version of himself was. Midnight was picking at his dinner as usual, until a small Vinyl Scratch walked over and sat next to him. Adult Midnight smiled, happy that a nice memory decided to play so vividly in his mind's eye for a change.

"HI!" Vinyl said, sitting down next to Kid Midnight. He mumbled a response, continuing to play with his food. "What's your name?" Vinyl asked, facing Kid Midnight.

"I'm Midnight Sun..." He said just over a whisper. Vinyl smiled.

"That's a cool name. I'm Vinyl Scratch!" She said, extending her hand for a handshake. Kid Midnight looked at her hand for a moment before returning to pretending to enjoy his meal. "What do you like to do?" Vinyl asked, retracting her hand. Kid Midnight continued to remain silent, hoping she would just go away. Vinyl felt a twinge of annoyance flare in her, but after what she read, she was determined to befriend him. "How long have you been here?" She asked. Kid Midnight still pretended she didn't exist, almost done with his dinner. Vinyl sighed. "Do you know your parents?" She asked.

This finally earned the attention of Kid Midnight, who stopped eating and turned to look at the floor she was sitting on. "No... but I can remember her a little, if I try." Kid Midnight said, still quietly.

"What's she like?" Vinyl asked, softly lifting his head to have their eyes be level with one another.

"Like I said, I don't remember a lot, but she has amazing hair that moves, the prettiest voice, and she was nice." Kid Midnight said, at normal volume.

Vinyl smiled, “I don't know who my parents are..." Vinyl said, losing her smile.

"I'm sorry... uh, can I ask you something?" Kid Midnight asked.

"Sure. What do you need Nighty?" Vinyl asked. Kid midnight was surprised by her nickname, Adult Midnight chuckled.

"Uh... do you want to be... friends?" Kid Midnight asked slowly. "

Of course!" Vinyl said with a triumphant smile. Kid Midnight and Adult Midnight smiled at her acceptance.

"So that's how you two met..." A soft, velvety voice came from next to Adult Midnight. He smiled and turned to face Princess Luna and hug her warmly.

"Hey Auntie. It's been a while." Midnight said.

Luna hugged him back, “It certainly has, Nighty." she said with a warm smile. "I'm glad to finally see this memory." Luna said, breaking the hug.

"I'm glad to see it again too. I've been having nightmares all night." Adult Midnight explained as Kid Midnight and Vinyl began laughing.

"I'm sorry to hear that." Luna said with a small frown.

"It's fine, now that you're here. Speaking of which, why are you here?" Midnight asked.

Luna gave a small shrug and turned her attention to the two friends on the staircase as she began speaking, “No reason, I was flying the moon over you and thought that I would drop by to see how your first day was. Good I take it?"

Midnight smiled. "It was incredible! I'm finally backed with Vinyl." Midnight said, a giant grin spreading over him. Luna smiled as well.  

"I'm very glad to hear that. I was wondering when you would lose your virginity."

Midnight was about to respond when he fully registered what she said. "Wait, what?! What do you mean, I haven’t lost that yet!!" Midnight stammered out quickly.

"Oh? Aren’t you in bed with her as we speak?" Luna asked, looking back to her flustered Nighty.

"Well, yeah, but we didn't do THAT! I mean, she's my baby sister for Celestias sake!" Midnight almost yelled, embarrassment warming his cheeks. His brain took a moment to wonder how he was able to feel the warmth on his face in a dream. Luna began laughing, only furthering Midnight's confusion.

"I was just joking Nighty. I know you haven’t slept with her yet." Luna said, smiling at Midnight, who felt like an idiot.

"Wait, what do you mean 'yet'?" He asked.

Luna looked at him confused yet again. "Well you love her don't you?" Luna asked him.

Midnight opened his mouth to answer, but closed it again.

Inside Vinyl Scratch's Deepest Thoughts

Colors shook erratically amongst her mind in deep sleep. They had no distinction from one another, they were all one and at the same time, apart. Slowly, dark blues and blacks formed hair, whites molded itself into skin, faded blue molded into pants, and there stood Midnight Sun. Vinyl ran forward to embrace him, loving the feel of his chiseled form on hers. She closed her eyes, loving his warmth, when she opened them, they stood naked. Vinyl felt her heart race at the thought, but before she could see anything, black swarmed around them. They dragged Midnight away, leaving her bare and confused and afraid.

When she could see once more, she looked around and recognized the home she was in after Midnight had been stolen away from her. She hated this place. It was not a home, it was a hell made real on Earth. They had seemed nice enough when they adopted her, kind, inviting, and understanding. But it changed when the "father" came home from work and hit the bottle. Sadly, the bottle wasn't the only thing he hit. She didn't know what caused him so much stress, but he would constantly beat his wife, and he verbally assaulted Vinyl, somehow knowing better than to dare hit her because of the nice government support she raked in every month.

One night, Vinyl had enough. She hid cameras around the house so well, even "mom" didn't know they were there. After a rather worse night that dear old "dad" flew off the handle, she showed the footage to the police and the orphanage. While she didn't know what became of the two after that, she knew that she could be somewhat happy again. Vinyl didn't want to come back to this place, not even in her dreams. She closed her eyes tight and forced her mind to go somewhere, anywhere else than this horrible place. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around, relieved that she was no longer in that infernal place.

But she soon wished she could go back. It was not a memory that had wormed her way into the theater of her head, but rather a revelation. She stood in a dark room, a single light shining down on a very young Midnight Sun. While she knew the setting would be different in real life, it was disturbing to witness nonetheless. He sat in a chair, holding a knife to his wrist. Vinyl slowly approached him, trying to get a better look of his face. His emotions were clearly fighting inside himself, no one emotion winning for very long. The knife went from ready to cut to nearly being dropped from his right hand. After the free-for-all of emotions finished inside him, he readied the knife to do its work.

"I'm sorry baby sis..." Midnight mumbled before he closed his eyes and slowly slid the knife over his left wrist, clenching his teeth as his skin split and red flowed slowly from the wound. Vinyl stood there, unable to look away but wanting nothing in the world to look somewhere, anywhere else than the sad, lost child form of her best friend. Every time the knife moved across his wrist, Vinyl felt more tears force their way out of her wide eyes, silent sobs shaking her body like a plastic bag in a hurricane. Midnight finished the last drag of the knife and stared down at his wrist.

Vinyl stared only long enough to see tears mingle with blood before she was able to tear her eyes from him and close them as tight as she could. She fell to her knees and sobbed, feeling like she could have done something to help her best friend out of the dark place he had been in. But it was far too late to help him, too late to stop the scars from opening. But she would be damned if it was too late to heal them completely. She cried for what seemed like a long time, before footsteps could be heard growing closer to her. Vinyl calmed down enough to look up and see who had come to see her. And she could hardly believe her eyes.

"Hello Vinyl Scratch. I am Princess Luna. Though you may have heard of me." Princess Luna said. Vinyl stood up and composed herself as the Princess closed the distance between them in long, powerful strides.

"P-Princess, it's an honor to meet you." Vinyl said.

"I could say the same for my nephew's best friend." Luna said with a warm smile.

Vinyl laughed a little, “He told you?" Luna laughed as well.

"Even if he hadn't, I would have found out from his dreams. He missed you terribly while you two were apart." Luna said, sitting down on a chair that had formed itself below her. Vinyl sat as well, not wanting to use energy to stand after what she saw. "He dreamed of you frequently, actually. He would always have a large blush on him when I entered his dreams that involved you." Luna explained, smiling at the growing blush on Vinyl's face.

"Not to change the subject, but why and how are you here? In my dream?" Vinyl asked.

"I am the Goddess of Night and all things that encomponies. I often go into my subject's dreams to see what they truly think." Luna explained. Vinyl agreed, it DID make sense after all.

"Fair enough, but why my dream?" Vinyl asked, curious as to why it had to happen this night, of all nights.

Luna smiled. "You are in bed with him, are you not?" Luna asked in an innocent voice. Vinyl blushed again and gave a nervous laugh.

"Yeah, uh, I guess I am." Vinyl said awkwardly.

"Don't worry Vinyl, I know it's not in a romantic sense. Although, I'm not completely against the idea." Luna said with a mischievous grin towards the end. Vinyl began stammering, trying to explain her way out of the topic when Luna rose from her seat. "Well, look at the time. I should be off. I would like to know how my nephew's first day in a 'normal' life was." Luna said before disappearing.

Vinyl's Apartment

Vinyl's eyes shot open as she rose quickly from her bed. She looked around in a small panic, subsiding once she saw it was all just a dream. Except for that Princess Luna part. She was pretty sure that really happened. Eventually, her eyes fell on Midnight, softly snoring as he slept. Vinyl smiled as she watched the steady rise and fall of his chest, eyelids twitching every now and again. She ran a soft hand across his chest, not sure as to why, but she looked at him as... well, an adult now. A stranger, a rather attractive stranger, than her big brother. She had never noticed before, but he was quiet attractive. Vinyl looked at the clock and sighed. 3:00 a.m. is too early to be checking out your best friend. She lay down and was quickly back asleep.

***

Vinyl woke up to the wonderful and surprising smell of breakfast being cooked. She sat up and stretched, the clock now reading 10:17 a.m. 'Much better time to wake up at.' Vinyl thought to herself before noticing that Midnight was no longer at her side. Another glorious smell wafting from the hallway announced that he was making breakfast. She slowly forced herself to rise and shuffle down the hallway, yawning and rubbing her eyes as she went. Another amazing smell filled her senses, one of freshly made coffee. 'Oh, thank Celestia he made coffee.' Vinyl thought to herself as she began to pour herself a mug.

"Well, good morning to you too." Midnight said playfully, flipping the omelet with expert training.

Vinyl was surprised he knew how to cook, let alone flip an omelet without looking at it. "Where did you learn how to do that, Nighty?" Vinyl asked groggily. Mornings were not her favorite time of day, but she wasn't as tired with Midnight here.

"Well, sometimes when I couldn't sleep at Canterlot, I would go down to the kitchen and watch the chefs’ work. After a while, they started showing me how to cook myself." Midnight explained, placing two omelets on plates and walking over to Vinyl, placing one in front of her.

As Midnight sat down, Vinyl took a bite and moaned in pleasure. "Wow, Nighty, this is AMAZING!" Vinyl said.

Midnight chuckled, “Didn’t anyone teach you not to talk with your mouth full?" he said playfully. Vinyl shot him a glare before swallowing.

"Pff. It's not like you mind Nighty. Or what you’re focusing on." Vinyl said, earning stammering from Midnight as his eyes rose to her face in an attempt to explain. Vinyl smiled. 'Maybe that IS how I feel...' Vinyl thought to herself.