private A Kismetent Honeymoon

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@Budding Night

 

(OOC: It's alright.)

 

Sterling noticed the nervousness and innocence from her eyes as she stood in front of the camera. In an assuring tone, he spoke, "Don't worry Evie. This is just for you and me. And for our foals!" He continued, pointing at the sparkling water fountain and saying, "Why don't you stand by the fountain that stands before the Neighffel Tower. You could just stand there if you want, or do something creative! Your choice!" 

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@Sterling Crimson

 

Evening blushed, she didn't know how to pose for cameras, she didn't particularly LIKE posing for cameras. Evening walked to the fountain and stood next it, she looked into the camera and smiled sweetly. From behind the camera, in the bus, she swore she could a flash, like one from a camera, but Sterling hadn't taken a picture yet, I don't even think his flash was on..

 

The flashing soon stopped, instead she could now see Passion in the window, grinning out the window. It made Evening uncomfortable, but paid her attention back to Sterling's camera, waiting for him to take a picture.

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@Budding Night

 

Sterling was now set to take pictures. He wondered why he heard flashes even though his camera didn't take any pictures yet. Nonetheless, he ignored the thought and now began to take pictures of Evening by the fountain. "Don't worry Evie. We'll be keeping these pictures for ourselves. They won't be shown off to the world, and even if it were, it won't be me who's showing it. I respect your privacy Evie." Evening was so stunning as she posed in front of the fountain. This would be the Evening their foals will see. Their foals would be so wowed and proud. 
 

After taking the pictures, Sunshine approached the couple and then spoke with a calm warning, "Sterling. We must get going now. We have many more places to see." After taking his pictures, Sterling called for Evening to walk with him as they began to return to the bus...

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@Sterling Crimson

 

"Thank you.." she whispered and she had ran up beside him to board the bus. As they walked on together, she could feel somepony looking at her, she turned around to only catch a gimplse of Passion looking at her, but as soon as Evening saw her looking she had looking down at something beside her, it was a picture of the Neighfful Tower close up, near the top. But it only showed half the picture for the other half was under a folder. Passion slipped the whole picture under the folder with her hoof, looking suspicious as ever.

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@Budding Night

 

Sterling was heading back to the bus now. He sat beside Evening as the bus began to drive away from the iconic Neighffel Tower. It was nearing lunch hour, so the tour was headed towards old Mareis. "The next part of our iconic tour of Mareis will take place at the old town of Mareis. Standing tall even after half a millennium, it shows the world of Mareis before and after the Prench Revolution that sought to overthrow the monarchy and bring eternal freedom and equality to all citizens. It took much sacrifice and cost, but none of what you see in Equestria would be possible without the Prench Revolution! We will now stop at some of the many trinket shops in Mareis! Have a look around and feel free to buy some souvenirs!"  

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@@Sterling Crimson

 

Evening ooh'd, she loved old places, especially in an elegant place like Prance, MAREIS even. She turned her head and looked outside the window behind her. The old structures looked beautiful, even if they have been standing for Celestias knows long.

 

(I dunno what to put )

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@Budding Night

 

Sterling recalled the Prench Revolution in his core courses for history. He remembered the oppression he felt from all his peers as they continued to poke fun at him for every little misstep he made. He knew the oppression was worse in the days before the Prench Revolution, but for somepony like him who couldn't be himself in front of his peers without a derogatory statement, it certainly got close. He was reminded of one friend from long ago in Manehattan University. Oh how they played on the piano together all sorts of Prench music. If only he could chat with her again. Ever since their last adventure, he hadn't seen her since, and he so much wanted to talk with her again for a friendly chat. 

 

Sterling soon washed those thoughts away as the bus stopped at the Marisian shops. Sunshine had just told the tourists to enjoy the shops for a bit before they continued their tour. He walked out of the large bus and took a deep breath. It was the smell of antique wood combined with paint. He loved the smell; it made him feel like a refined Marisian. He waved to Evening as she walked out, "Evie! Let's check out some of these shops! Maybe there's something we can buy as a souvenir!"

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@Sterling Crimson

 

Evening smiled happily in agreement, she joyfully pranced over to her husband and folllowed him, looking around in all the windows at all the possible souvenirs. The wood had a.. strange but lovely smell to it, like it was old and new at the same time, the new smelt a bit more like turps, though. "Wow" she complimented as a whisper "Doesn't it smell.. lovely?"

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@Budding Night

 

Sterling smelled the aura emanating from the souvenirs after Evening whispered to him. He agreed with Evening with a whisper, "I can smell it too Evie." Sterling then continued, hoping to use this opportunity to do some French flirting,  "It smells lovely indeed. But nothing smells as nice as you when you're done showering." Sterling then licked on Evening's ear to show his undying affection towards her.

 

Now turning his head to the souvenirs, he found what looked like a miniature statue of Neighpoleon. He looked he was about charge at something, probably enemy troops from Prancia as he learned from his history. Although he never liked Neighpoleon as a model for him, he sure appreciated his oft misplaced courage and his military prowess. He pointed at it and then spoke to Evening, "Hey Evie! How would you like this statue to sit at one of the counters in our living room? It'd be a great souvenir to symbolize our determination when we were nearly sunk against Raven."     

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@@Sterling Crimson

 

Evening had giggled and blushed had his French Flirting, to a lot of ponies it would seem utterly cheesy and stupidly silly, but she found it really uber cute. I guess these things just counter like that, when you love someone with all of your heart. She closed an eye when he licked her, she loved it when he showed her undying love for her, it made her feel so nice inside.

 

When Sterling introduced her to the Napoleon statue and its symbolization, she lit up happily

"That would be so great!" she said, fakely smiling "Even if it'll live in our hearts forever, it would be lovely to have a reminder" Okay, fine, that was partly a lie. She actually kind of strongly disliked being reminded about it. Raven tried to shoot her, and while she cowered in fear, telling herself goodbye Sterling had jumped in front of her and took the bullet for her..

 

She was amazingly upset when this had happened, her one love may have just died in front of her, for her. She had a rage inside of her, she was going to lash out and let her monster out, and.. kill Raven, but she felt too weak to do anything but cry and lay ontop of Sterling's limp body, heck, she had even let the blood go into her coat and mane, she hadn't cared for she thought he was dead, but he was just in a coma all along.

 

Had the hospital, she literally hadn't left his side for weeks and weeks, she just cried endlessly at his bedside as the machine struggled to keep him alive, she had heard the nurses talking about what they would do, they did all they could do and couldn't keep him alive from the machine forever. Evening had cried so hard over that, she couldn't bear that he would have to die, she couldn't bear living on without her lover. To her knowledge, because she couldn't bloody remember, this would've been the second time she had been depressed, she had considered being with him if he did die. She could remember telling herself see'd have to live with it if he did, and then the machine's beeping went flat.

 

Her whole life felt like it was just wrenched out at that moment, it was so horrible to feel that way, to watch him die. Then she'd kissed him and everything was fine again. Now they were standing there, together, on their honeymoon, and everything was happy.

Edited July 20, 2013 by Budding Night

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@Budding Night

 

Sterling looked at the Neighpoleon statue again. He wondered why it was priced so cheap once he looked at the price tag. When he looked at the other statues around, he realized why. He could see that the face of Neighpoleon was shaped terribly and completely lost the audacity that Neighpoleon was purported to have. He placed the statue back on the table and continued to look. He then found a metal replica of the Neighffel Tower. It was built to scale and could also fit perfectly on the counter at their living room. He compared it with the Neighffel Tower that stood proudly in the distance. He knew Evening would like this more, especially since the statue did look very ugly by all means.

 

"Hey Evie. How about this tower? Maybe this would be nicer on our living room. It's metallic and it's an excellent replica of the real thing! Plus, you were telling me how much you loved the Neighffel Tower!" Sterling spoke happily as he awaited her response.

Edited July 20, 2013 by Sterling Crimson

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@@Sterling Crimson

 

(I kind of rushed that last post because I wanted you to know Evening's pain through it because I wasn't able to post it at the moment of the happening. You didn't need to not get it )

 

Evening stifled an utterly quiet sigh of relief under the breath as Sterling moved on from Napoleon and onto the Neighfful tower. She gave him one of her real smiles

"Sounds great" she said "I suppose it would be just nice to be reminded of our lovely honeymoon more than the evil pony Raven was" as she finished, she looked down and shifted her weight, she didn't know if Sterling particularly liked being reminded of that evil pony, she could only ever imagine the pain he went through when he was shot and thrown into a coma..

Edited July 20, 2013 by Budding Night

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@Budding Night

 

Sterling had to agree with Evening there. He was a stallion who wanted to be remembered for his determination, and that was why he wanted to get the Neighpoleon statue. To show a sense of determination and courage in sacrificing himself for Evening. At the same time though, he remembered... he did that out of love, not for courage. He recalled his father telling him once, recalling his voice, 

 

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for his friends." Evening wasn't just a wife. She was his best friend. Somepony who he didn't want to be swept off the face of Equestria. And his instantaneous response to Raven's gun shot showed that deep down, he really did love Evening with all his heart. It was to his father, the greatest form of agape love he ever saw. He remembered him saying that to him on the night before wedding day... Sterling then replied to Evening, 

 

"It may be a bit more expensive, but I really love how accurate this model is. Plus, it's made of metal, just like the real tower!" Sterling then excitedly bought the tower for what was equivalent to 20 bits. It was wrapped safely under a gift wrap and he then placed it safely inside his saddlebag, making sure that it wouldn't break inside.

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@@Sterling Crimson

 

(Getting close now..)

 

Evening was, secretly, very very glad that he had shunned the Napoleon statue, even if there were better quality ones that he didn't see. The mare was also quite glad that he couldn't seem to argue about it, perhaps he didn't really like the mention of Raven after all, even if he did suggest getting the poorly made statue because of it. Evening started to argue with herself, maybe even he didn't mind being reminded of it because of the sacrifice he made for her, maybe it reminded him of their undying love that they had, either separately or together.

 

Evening pushed it away, she smiled as he put it in the saddlebag. She turned around and looked out of the window to see another flash, the same one as the one before, she put her hoof up to her eyes as the flash came. When she looked back, she saw it had came from the bus, but the only thing she saw was Passion Glow showing some of her photos to Sunshine, they were happily chatting as Sunshine looked out of the windows at her bus passengers every so often. She didn't like this, not one bit. She felt in her gut that something was going on with that mare because she had denied her offer. Evening didn't like it, she was actually starting to get a bit terrified.

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@Budding Night

 

Unfortunately for Evening, Sterling didn't recognize Passion Glow selling pictures of Evening to potential suitors. He was too busy marveling at the Neighffel Tower he just bought for his honey bun. Sterling was so happy to be with Evening and he showed it with all his heart. He decided to play around with Evening some more with some licks and sniffles on her mane. "Oh Evie... I wuv you. Remember that moment when I carried you all the way back to the ship while Vanye kept you asleep? When you got awake, I saw you crying. We snuggled together and we gave each other comfort in our struggles. That's what I want to do now. Snuggle snuggle snuggle." spoke Sterling with the cutest possible voice he could make as he continued to sniff on Evening's mane and hug her from the back. 

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@@Sterling Crimson

 

Evening giggle, yes, she remembered. That terrible dream she had, she also remembered. She giggled it off, she was here with Sterling now and that dream was long gone. She snuggled Sterling back, trying not to make too much of a show and embarrass herself, but she didn't really mind that much otherwise, she was where home was, with Sterling. The sniffing and licks on her mane were ticklish, she continued to giggle and smile cheerily until her cheeks started to hurt. She'd never experienced that before, being so happy it actually hurt, it was such a peculiar feeling.

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@Budding Night

 

Sterling continued to snuggle Evening tight as they continued to walk through the streets of Mareis. They had just found their first souvenir in a model Neighffel Tower. Now they wanted to keep looking around for tasty breads and exotic salads to try at the small cafes. Sterling walked into a particularly bustling cafe, filled with ponies eating at the booths. Its food looked delicious to say the least, probably why there were so many ponies Sterling thought. He motioned to Evening at the Le Bistro, saying enthusiastically,

 

"Hey Evie! Want to try out this cafe? We can try out their salads and breads if you want!"