I Always Win

In Consideration of Pillow Forts and Princesses

In Consideration of Princesses and Pillow Forts

I suppose I can hardly complain, after all, that's the whole reason I'm here." Discord gestures towards the now clean space. He frowns as he adds, "Maybe I should have left it a mess. Everything is too... tidy." He grimaces at the word as if it leaves a foul taste in his mouth.

"W- what do you mean?" Fluttershy gathered the courage to ask, but her voice shook with as much fear as she felt. She had hoped he would just leave her alone, but here he was still very real and turning her safe haven into a place she'd sooner abandon. How would she be able to get him to abandon his efforts and discord some other pony so that she could reach her friends? When she think son this however, she'd rather have herself be corrupted than another pony. What right did she have thinking such a thing?It's be better for everyone if he didn't discord anypony. Fluttershy sighed. But I doubt that's an option...

Discord looked down at the pegasus curiously. It had been many years since someone bothered asking him such a peculiar question, everypony just assumed his mannerisms had to do with his chaotic nature and left it at that. "Surely you've realized who you're talking to? This cottage is simply too-"

"That's not what I meant...."

"Wh-why," She takes a deep breath and closes her eyes. She had to contain her fear, even if it was difficult. She had to get these words out. She needed to be brave. Rainbow Dash was brave, she just had to gather up the courage and forget that she was the opposite for a while.

Discord, who had been toying with a broken spring and altering a windvane into a miniature flowing bronze waterfall looked back at the bewildered pegasus whom the prissy Celestia had assigned to be his "reformer", in a sense anyway. If I didn't know any better I'd say she fully expects this little plan to work, phtt! As if that's ever going to happen.

At her words however, he straightened and unconsciously changes the bronze waterfall into a familiar maze and then a statue as his memories influenced it's shape. Discord scowls, changing his creation back to it's original form and sending it back to where he found it. He turns his gaze back to hers, cringing at the unpleasant reminder.

"Don't remind me. The ordeal is one I'd sooner forget." Grimaces Discord his voice coming from behind clenched teeth.

He turns to face her properly, only noticing the too-organized living space, he didn't know how it looked normally, but his magic couldn't have helped matters and it was beginning to bother him. "So you don't mind...?" He asks as he materializes the untidy room that they had been in before. She only shook her head. This couldn't be happening, and at any rate, if it was, she had more to worry about than house cleaning.

His expression almost made Fluttershy apologize to him, but she remembered as the words formed in her mind and stopped herself. It would also have been a lie, she wasn't sorry, not truly. Sealing him into stone was the only way to stop him, and she didn't like what he did to ponyville all that much. She hadn't liked it at all. If he is being genuine... then maybe this is my opportunity to make it up to him. I still remember that day all too well, but I also remember how he reacted to becoming a statue. She wondered, not for the first time, whether or not the process... hurt him. His response to her bringing the subject up however, made it clear that she probably didn't want an honest answer and he would have none to give freely.

"How then are they responsible for your reappearance?" Fluttershy asked again, his ramblings weren't bringing her any closer to the answer to her original question. She still had no idea how he got here or what he was talking about.

After a short pause Discord's deep red pupils found hers. She couldn't help but stare, captured in his gaze. She saw many things behind those eyes, but she couldn't rightly name any of them, whatever emotions lay behind them were concealed and if they weren't they were too complicated for her to understand. She did see one thing she didn't like however, and there was no room for free interpretation, it was calculated. He was testing her, but she already knew that from his toying with her earlier.