Sweet and not so Sweet
prolog
It was a lovely Sunday afternoon and they had met for their usually weekly get together. It had taken some time for Discord to win back the little pegasus's trust after he had been tricked by Tirek into betraying her and the others. He watched her smile as the he put on a little show for her with a dancing tea set, she may not have noticed but he had been mimicking the choreography from Beauty and the Beast. Oh how he had missed that smile the thought of her hurt expression still burned in the back of his mind but he tried his best to forget it ever happened. Hardly his best moment. He loved making her laugh and this was the first time he'd been able to get a genuine smile out of her in months, up till then they had all been politely forced to humor him, but not now, now was real.
"And there's that lovely little laugh of yours, so adorable", Fluttershy stopped and looked up at his dopy smile. "Are you ok?"
Discord shook his head "No I'm fine I just missed spending time together like this it's nice". Fluttershy's face fell for a moment. Shoot! Way to go Discord think of something fast before you lose her again. "Oh I know how about a game" he chimed summoning up all manner of playthings he could think of.
"No It's ok I'm fine" The insincerity of her words cut like a knife. She had let him back into her world easy enough but winning back her trust, her friendship… at times he wondered if he would ever be able to get that back. A sudden knock at the door broke the awkward silence and snapped Fluttershy from her trailing thoughts.
"Now who could that be?" Discord puzzled. Fluttershy went over to the door to find a young stallion out front with a bouquet and a smile on his face. "Hi Fluttershy you remember me?"
She puzzled for a moment. He was an earth pony with a light brown coat and dark green mane. His eyes were sky blue and his cutie mark a sturdy oak tree. He saw her puzzled expression and offered some assistance, "It's Greenhoof, from the spring harvest fair? You remember?"
"Oh yes of course I don't know how I forgot I'm so sorry" Fluttershy apologized slightly mortified by her forgetfulness, "I've just had a lot on my mind lately and…"
"That's ok" Greenhoof smiled, "it happens" He held out the bouquet to her "I uh, I grew these in my nursery you said you wanted to see some of my flowers so I thought I'd bring you a few before I went back on my way to Canterlot"
Fluttershy looked surprised for a moment but smiled as she took he flowers from him. A real smile not a polite one, Discord had become familiar enough with her body language to know the difference. Discords glare did not go unnoticed, Greenhoof jumped a bit when he noticed Discord sitting in the living room with the tea set splayed out on the table like a crime scene. "They're lovely Greenhoof I'll go find a vase for these and be right back" Fluttershy's sweet voice drew his attention away from the strange creature. He had heard she was an animal tamer, surly that terrifying beast was one of her pets, how amazing he thought as he watched her wander off in search of a vase. Beautiful and talented. Suddenly his musings were broken by a rather unpleasant voice.
"So who pray tell are you" Discord spat. Greenhoof stared at him wide eyed. It can talk! Discord towered well above his head, his foul presence filling the threshold. "I-I'm a friend of Fluttershy, I met her at the fair last week and I just thought I'd say hi before going back home…"
Discord was clearly unamused as he swiped his snake like tongue over his snagle tooth in contemplation. "Well…" he hissed "I hate to break it to you lover boy but she has plenty of friends already, she doesn't need any more" and with a snap of his fingers Greenhoof was rolled up snug as a bug in a rug and rolled down the trail leading up to the cottage. "Arrivederci!" he called out before slamming the door shut. Well now that that's over with.
"Where'd Greenhoof go?" Fluttershy inquired and she floated in with the vase of flowers in hoof. "Oh" Discord replied, "he said he had somewhere more important to be and hurried off" he lied.
Fluttershy looked a bit down trodden as she placed the vase on the end table by the sofa. "Oh, well that's a shame"
"His loss" Discord replied as he snaked around her to meet her face. She looked away from his eyes. What would it take to get through to her again? He silently placed a curse on the flowers while she wasn't looking and killed them. When she looked back to see they were dead she let out a slight gasp. "What happened?!"
"Well clearly that fool doesn't know much about plants after all" he smirked handing her a bouquet of his own to replace Greenhoof's gift, "for you, all your favorites" he said.
"Except for the sticker burs" she replied as she took the flowers from him. "Oh my apologies those are my favorite not yours" he corrected and with a snap of his fingers pinned them to the tux he was suddenly wearing. "Well what do you think?"
"They're… lovely" she smiled though her eyes were sad as she placed them in the vase. "come now Fluttershy please, I've said I'm sorry a thousand times what do I have to do to make it up to you!?" he blurted out then quickly regretted what he had just said.
"Discord I think it's about time you went home"
"But Fluttershy I…"
"Please just go"
Authors note: I don't usually write these but lots of people do so here's mine. Let it be known I'm new to this fandom but after watching MLP I fell in love with fluttercord and it's quickly become one of my favorite ships of all time. In part it may have to do with my love of mythology after all my favorite mythical couple is Hades and Persephone (mind you I'm not a huge fan of Greek myth I just love those characters) to me this couple pays its own homage to classical story telling in their being so different and yet to perfect at the same time. Also on another note, I when Fluttershy says sticker burs she's referring to a type of weed that grows spiky seed pods that get stuck in your feet and hurt like a bitch. Not everyone calls them that I've learned that the name varies slightly from place to place.