The soft pitter patter of rain on the roof was the waking call to the young Pegasus. Fluttershy sat up, the large satin blanket falling from her chest down into her lap, revealing her plain white tank top. She yawned, stretching her arms straight up to get ready for the start of the day. Fluttershy smiled from a nice night sleep despite being in a foreign place surrounded by ponies she knew nothing about, and a stallion who seemed, terrifying, to say the least. She slept quite well, not a peep disturbed her that night, maybe she felt safe locked away in the room, but, she was locked from the outside, so that didn't make much sense. Or maybe Sombra cast some kind of spell on her, easing her muscles into a relaxing nights sleep. Either way, she felt well rested and ready for the day. As she swung her feet around, she looked around the room, it was definitely at least twice the size of her room back in her cottage, maybe even three times the size. Her little feet slid inside the bunny slippers on the floor next to her bed, suspecting the stone floor of the castle to be cold, it was only the morning time, and it was raining outside, both made floors quite cold. She stood up taking a stretch of her spine and stretching her wings out behind her, unfurled each wing was just slightly larger then her body, but her wing span wasn't even as large as the average pegasi, her wings where actually small in comparison.

She took very gentle steps over to one of the windows, careful as not to wake anyone, she was a morning pony, and knew that many other ponies did not enjoy the morning quite like she did. But with so many animals in her house, she always woke up early so she could get some time to herself before everyone woke up. Fluttershy pulled the large velvet curtains back, they where to big in her opinion, velvet weighed a lot, and they where not fun to pull back into there holders. Her face began to beam again when she saw the little window seating hidden behind the curtains, what a treat indeed. How she would adore to sit down, wrapped in a blanket, reading a book. Just listening to the rain roll down the glass.

Unfortunately, she did not know when the door would unlock and she would have to start on the chores, that was a part of the job after all. She went to her luggage and started to pull out a pair of baby pink sweat pants, along with a light green sweater, with a doe stitched on the front. She really enjoyed wearing soft, warm clothes, especially when she was cleaning. Besides, she would die of embarrassment if Sombra, or any of the guards, for that matter, saw her in her pjs. She was a little embarrassed by the fitted white tank top, nothing underneath to cover her breasts, leaving them in plain view through the thin layer of fabric. Not to mention those itty bitty pink shorts, short enough that you could even see the bottom of her cutie mark poking out. For a moment she wondered, 'What if Sombra saw me like this? I wonder what he would think?' Her face started to gush a bright pink before she shook her head, 'no, no Fluttershy, you can't think things like that.'

As she shook her head, her eyes caught sight of the necklace, carefully layed out on the vanity table. She set her clothes down on the bed, walking over to the vanity table. It was beautiful, rich, gold with sapphires set in, blue as the depths of the ocean. It was a choker, the sapphires went around the neck, and in the center hung a heart shaped pendant. The gem on the pendant was huge, and probably cost a fortune. Her delicate fingers ran across it, before slowly, carefully picking it up. 'Why on earth would he leave this in my room?'

As she held it, she rolled it over to notice an inscription on the back:

My dearest C,
You are my everything, you are the wind in my mane, the kick in my step, the love of my life.
Never stop being you.
Love, K-S

The words where very snug on the back of it, as if he wanted to write more, but nothing would fit. Fluttershy's voice was soft, not really talking to anyone, because there was no one to talk to. "K S must be for King Sombra... That means, he was in love with a pony at one point." She gasped, "He... Had a special somepony..."

As she whispered to herself, she heard the door rattling and she whipped around just as it opened.

"Fluttershy! You can't sleep in, you have to get to wor..." Sombra was stopped as she laid eyes on her, definitely not sleeping, that was for sure. Her beautiful baby pink hair tied away from her face for once, showing both of her lovely eyes. Her legs... They had beautiful curves, and a little pink from her cutie mark stuck out. It looked round, maybe some kind of circle, or oval was a part of her mark, though he had no guesses as to what it might be. Her shirt, now that, caught his attention, it was almost as if she was wearing nothing. It hugged onto each curve, shrinking at the waist, and expanding across the vast area that was her chest. The only curve that wasn't being hugged was her cleavage, but that didn't mean you couldn't see it, besides the shirt was pretty low cut. The castle was usually pretty chilly in the morning, which, you could probably guess was the reason her nipples where hard, making little pokes in her shirt. 'Oh god, I have so many bedroom chores I can just imagine her doing right now...'

He groaned, not meaning to stare, but he wanted to take the whole sight in. "Please... Put some clothes on..." As he spoke, Fluttershy's cheeks began to flush a deep red in color.

"I-I was just about to, b-but can I ask," Her voice was very soft and quiet as she lifted the necklace up. "Wh-who is C?"

Anger furled Sombra's brows as he stomped over to her, Fluttershy started to cower, afraid he might hit her. "Give me that," he grabbed the necklace and pulled it out of her hands, "now put some damn clothes on, I'll be downstairs to give you your tasks for the day."

He stomped his way out of the room, steam practically rolling off of him, due to his anger. Sombra slammed the door shut, as Fluttershy whispered out, "I'm sorry for mentioning it, I didn't mean to hurt you..."

Fluttershy sighed, walking back over to the bed. She slowly stripped off her tank top, followed by her shorts, stopping for a moment just to look at her cutie mark with a smile. Three pink butterflies, that meant everything to her, a sign saying that her talent was with animals. She started to pull up her sweat pants, trying to remember if she knew any royal women from Sombra's time that had names starting with C. Though by the time she had her sweater on, it was time to call failure on the idea of finding out who Sombra's mysterious love was.

Well, Celestia and Chrysalis both had C names, but Fluttershy couldn't imagine Sombra and Celestia together... And Chrysalis? She shuddered at the thought.

As she finished getting dressed she headed downstairs, greeted by Sombra, tapping his toes on the floor, arms crossed. The first time she had noticed that he had a much different presentation then yesterday. His hair was a bit messy, he hadn't any shoes... Nor a shirt, Fluttershy blushed at the sight, his lovely abs bordered by his black silk robe, and matching pants.

"You're late," Sombra grumbled, briefly looking her up and down, 'clothes huh, change her from a fine piece of filly to a sack of potatoes, just like that.'

"I didn't mean to be, like you said, I needed to change," Fluttershy tried to smile a little bit, ease the tension.

He sighed, "fine, but you need to get to work, I need you to clean the dishes, cook me breakfast and start moping the floors, then I'll have more tasks for you to do, I can't think on an empty stomach."

"I thought this job was just cleaning?"

He looked down at her, mouth turning down in a frown, "The job is a caretaker, you take care of whatever I need you to take care of. If you have a problem with that, I have plenty of other applicants who would be more then happy to take your place."

Fluttershy swallowed, her back starting to curl a little bit, she had got the job, she couldn't let Celestia down now. "No, no, that's fine, I was just... Ummm... Double checking." She turned to the right, and started heading off.

"Kitchens the other way sweetheart," Sombra grumbled, taking a seat in his leather arm chair.

"Oh, oops, didn't know that..."