Things to be mended

[Fenris]

Fenris had decided to drop the armors to the smithy right away as Sunset would be leaving in two days and he would like to have her done by then. He was looking for the plume of smoke that would signal where there was a smithy, the smoke was slightly different from what usual house would produce.

He was slowly circling above Ponyville rising higher as he suddenly spotted the telltale smoke. He rose a little higher before stopping the beating of his wings and started to glide towards the smithy, hopefully Zathra's.

He stumbled when he landed due to the sudded flare of pain from one of his forehooves, but he did manage to stay upright and once he had taken a few careful steps he realised that walknig normally didn't hurt, but the impact from the landing had. well hopefully he would have time to rest for a while.

He walked to the open door looking in to see Zathra with his back turned, he didn't seem to be doing anything at the moment, so Fenris cleared his throat, realising how dry it was, before starting to talk.

"Hello Zathra, haven't seen you in a while."

[zathra]

Zathra was about to start hammering a piece of metal, when he heard a voice behind him. He thought the voice sounded familiar, put he couldn't place who it belonged to.

Zathra looked behind him to see who it was, and much to his surprise, saw Fenris. Zathra gave him as much of a smile as he could muster, he knew he liked Twilight too, and was slightly nervous to tell him that they had kissed, even with as small as it may have been.

Zathra realized he had been standing there for awhile, he had been doing that a lot lately. He shook his head, he needed to stop worrying about that.

"So Fenris, uh, what brings you here?" Zathra went to smile, but then suddenly noticed that he was wearing armor. Just the fact he had somehow missed that made Zathra realize just how distracted he was.

Zathra didn't say anything, and waited to see his answer to Zathra's question, he figured it had something to do with that.

[Fenris]

Fenris smiled as he stepped further into the smithy before dropping the armor pieces he was carrying and unbuckling his own armor as well, letting it drop on the ground. He then stretched his back letting out a small groan and sigh of relief before turning to Zathra.

"Well I actually had a work request for you." He nudged the armor pieces with his hoof.

"These would need to be straightened out and polished before day after tomorrow if possible." He then turned to pick up his own armor hefting it on a nearby chair.

"And few of the scales on my armor would need to be reforged, there's no need to hurry with this one as I'm not going anywhere in a while." He grinned as he thought about his main reason for staying.

"Pretty nice place you got here." He remarked as he looked around the smithy noting the usual toolf of the trade.

He actually knew fair bit about smithing, mostly from his time helping the two unicorn scientists crafting the exoskeleton for his wings, but he was never thought about trying it himself.

"So, how have things been going for you?"

[zathra]

Zathra nodded his head after hearing the request. "Well... i can definitely get the first set of armor done... but i'll have to drop what i'm working on right now.... but i guess i can make an exception, since it's you, and this really doesn't have to get done right away, but give me a minute, please?"

Zathra went back to what he was doing, and began hammering on the red hot metal for a few minutes, before getting back to Fenris, and remembering his question.

"Sorry about that, how have things been for me? W-well... why don't you tell me how thing's have been for you first? Since i have to get that armor set up anyways, i'll be listening though, so just keep talking, alright?"

Zathra picked up the armor and began to set it up so that he could work on it, trying to do it quietly so he could hear Fenris talking.

[Fenris]

"For me, Huh? Well there's hasn't been nothing that unusual, getting used to the weather patrol duties and to my job as a waiter and spending the rest of the time wandering around Ponyville." He sat down on the floor observing Zathra closely as he continued.

"Well I did visit the library the other day, to loan some books to read..." There was a smile on his face at the thought, it was what he had intended to no, nothing else.

"And well... Twilight asked me out..."

[zathra]

Zathra stopped what he was doing right after hearing Fenris say Twilight had asked him out. A million questions popped into his head, but he tried to keep himself calm, turning to look at him.

"O-oh? She... asked you out?...." Zathra gave his next words some thought. Would he keep his date with her a secret for now? Or should he go right out with it?

Zathra shook his head and smiled after standing there for a bit. "Really Fenris? That's... great. S-so, how did it go? What did you two do? W-when exactly was this?"

Zathra shut his mouth, he'd asked a lot of questions at once, so he figured he should at least wait for some answer's before talking again.

[Fenris]

"It was few days back..." He stopped for a moment before continuing.

"We went to a clearing at a hilltop that I had found when I had been flying around... " His voice faded away and he shook his head as slight blush appeared on his face at the memories.

"And well... I had seen her before, when I was still living in Canterlot, never had the courage to go talk to her back then though." He grinned at Zathra.

"She was my first crush..." He admitted.

"So imagine my surprise when she told me that the feeling had been mutual... even back then..." He shook his head though there was a wide smile on his face.

"We ended up spending the night on the hilltop and I walked her home in the morning..." He knew that he had skipped quite a few details, but he kinda wanted to keep those to himself.

[zathra]

Zathra listened to Fenris, nodding his head slowly. Zathra finished setting up the armor, going to pick up his hammer and dropping it after hearing Frenris say he'd known Twilight since that long ago. His heart sank hearing the rest of what Fenris had to say. Even Zathra, who couldn't romance his way out of a wet paper bag, could tell the two ponies we're much closer then he and Twilight had been.

He shot up, forcing a smile, though it was easy to see it was forced, and Zathra quickly turned around, putting on the hammer, and giving the armor a few whacks.

As he was hitting it, he slipped, hitting an already dented area, and bashing it in further.

Zathra's jaw dropped. He'd just made his job a /lot/ harder. No way would he be able to finish this by tomorrow.

He panicked, unable to think straight. "Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no! Crap! Dammit! Shit!" He just stared at the armor, at the mess he'd made, unable to do anything else other then babble stupidly.

[Fenris]

Fenris looked at Zathra as he walked to the armor and started smithing it. After a few hits he stopped however and started babbling almost incoherently. Fenris blinked a few times rapidly before approaching and placing a hoof over Zathra's shoulder as he noticed what had happened.

"Maybe I should have jsut kept quiet..." He sighed and removed his hoof.

"Sorry, I didn't really think things through..." He took another look around the smithy trying to figure out what he should do.

He could offer to help, but knowing his current condition he also knew he would be more of a burden than actual help. This made him sigh again. He could just leave, but that was out of the question for him.

He then steeled his gaze and turned to look at Zathra, he knew he would be really hurting tomorrow, but he intended to fix this.

"Zathra, is there anything I can do to help? I know a fair bit about the theory behind smithing, a byproduct of making the exoskeleton for my wings, so I guess I should be able to help around the simpler tasks."

[zathra]

It took a minute for him to realize what was happening. Zathra flinched and quickly looked back at Fenris when he was touched, shaking his head, clearing his mind.

Zathra did a double-take when Fenris offered to help, but nodded and began thinking of what he needed doing that he thought Fenris could help with. What did he need? Zathra really needed a few hour's alone, to think, but he knew that wasn't happening, not now anyway's.

He looked back at Fenris after thinking for a minute, pointing at the armor. "I need you to get that off the stand while i go get the other stuff i need, alright?"

Zathra turned back to gather the stuff he needed, but looks back quickly at Fenris. "And it's.... it's fine..... so..... so long as you and Twilight are happy, it's fine, got it?" Zathra hurried back to finish what he was doing, spending more time then he needed on purpose, to buy him more time to just think.

[Fenris]

Fenris nodded at Zathra and started to move towards the armor stopping when he heard Zathra speak up again. He turned to see Zathra walking away and he let out a sigh. Why hadn't he thought about what could happen at all and just blurted it all out like that. He knew how Zathra felt about Twilight and still he had done it, without a second thought.

He turned to look at the armor in front of him and lifted it off the stand rather clumsily maneuvering it to a different place. He could feel his muscles tensing as he did so knowing full well that he would pay for this tomorrow, but he didn't care, he had unintentionally hurt his friend and he would fix this. He would need to figure out how...

He sat down on his haunches next to the armor looking slightly forlorn.

[zathra]

Zathra finished gathering the things he needed, and looked back at Fenris, seeing how depressed he looked.

Zathra sighed, then forced a smile, sure he was a bit sad, but there was no reason for Fenris to be unhappy too. Zathra walked over to where Fenris was, keeping his forced smile on his face. "Fenris, please, i.... it's fine! R-really! A-actually.... i-i already g-got to.... u-um.... g-go on a date w-with Twilight...." Zathra's smile became a little less forced, remembering what they'd done, but just in case Fenris and Twilight hadn't somehow, he didn't want to tell Fenris they kissed, at least not for a bit.

Though, not he was curious, had they kissed...? Now he had to know, maybe there was still hope that Twilight liked him more then Fenris? He took a deep breath, before speaking again.

"Well... um... i'm not sure what else you can do to help me.... but... u-um... e-erm... d-d-did.... um.... y-y-you and T-t-twilight...... kiss...?"

[Fenris]

Fenris looked at Zathra as he spoke and when he asked about had they kissed he felt a slight blush rise to his face and he looked away. Realising that he had kinda answered him he turned back to him not wanting to lie, since that wouldn't accomplish anything.

"Yes... we did..." He scraped the floor with his forehoof.

"Few times actually..." He was smiling bashfully, but then he felt the smile slip from his face.

He was looking at Zathra wondering how he would react, but soon turned his gaze back to the floor in front of him.

"I... I hope you'll feel better soon... I'll just... go..." He stood up and and started slowly walking towards the exit.

[zathra]

Zathra's face went from hopefully to complete disappointment in a matter of seconds.

He tried to force a smile again, looking over at him. "F-fenris! P-please, m-me and T-twilight.... w-we kissed too.... *his smile becomes more truthful as he remembers the date, but shrinks remembering that he wont get to feel that again.

Zathra turns back to Fenris. "Fenris... j-just don't worry about it.... a-and i-i'm sorry... y-y-you'll have to w-wait m-m-more then a day... t-to get this it.... it won't t-take any longer then two... a-and you can half 30% off of it...."