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"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

-Abraham Lincoln

Sparks of Hearts

She swung her forelegs over the edge of the cloud. It was a big cloud; a high up cloud; a cloud whose edge was remote and rarely visited. She could very easily fall. Without wings, she couldn't catch herself. No one would catch her.

She heard the faint fluttering of wings and ducked her head down, scanning the air. She caught a glimpse of bright red amongst the hazy dawn and made out the shape of a pegasus. She wracked her ever racing brain to figure out where she'd seen him before.

Oh, Right. That was the rookie she'd gone down on at A's request.

In her usual sneaky manner, she crept up behind him. She didn't like walking on clouds but it was in the job description. The edge of town didn't have the packed down feel of snow that the city streets had. It felt like she was on shifting sand and could plummet through any time.

"Hey there, Heart Breaker!"

The colt jumped and looked over his shoulder. "Oh. It's you." He blushed and then scowled. "What do you want?"

Azure Spark raised a brow. "Whoa, why the hostility?"

"I figured you'd be used to it," Heart Breaker replied with an edge. "seeing how you hang out with the like."

Sparky chuckled. "And so do you, greenie."

The colt turned on her with horrible determination in his eyes. "Four ponies died today. Three were because I wussed out. Nothing more than foals and all because of me, me! Well, no more because of me. No more. I'm out."
It gave her faint pangs of regret to try and tear away that beautiful resolve of his. She looked at him with a steely firmness. "You can't back out now, greenie. A knows your name. He knows your face. He knows you. If you leave, he'll find you."

Heart Breaker retorted venomously. "And so what if he does?"

"He'll kill you."

The colt turned away once more. "How is that worse than this? Four ponies, gone like that, the griffon's insane."
Azure Spark scowled and punched the pegasus hard enough to knock him from the edge. He fell a ways before his wings snapped out and caught him.

"The buck was that for!" he shouted.

Sparky put her hoof to her mouth in a gesture for silence. "First of all, voice down. If we're found by authorities, we're either jailed or killed by A. himself. Second, I'll be damned if I hear you talk about A like that again. He didn't kill you when you spoke out. He didn't kill you the second time you spoke out. He didn't kill you when you said you didn't wanna finish. He kept you alive, greenie. Don't hate the crazy griffin. Be thankful."

Heart Breaker lit down next to Sparky and stood there. The wheels in his head turned as he processed this new outlook.

Azure Spark carried on, "You're something special, we think. He throws around the lives of greenies like darts to a board. If he thought you'd leave and go blabbing, we wouldn't be having this chat. Mark my words, he has plans." She stepped up to him until they were nose to nose even though Sparky had to lean her head back and stretch to match his height. "A knows you better than you know yourself. He is a motherfucking crazy ass bastardo that took you under him and gave you a chance." Azure Spark stepped back while she quelled the occasional spark of stress and anger.

Heart Breaker seemed stunned to put it simply. He turned away and stared into the expanse of beyond stretching before them. The sun slowly crept over the horizon, that watery line of nothing which marked where the earth and freedom ended. But Heart Breaker could fly.

Sparky glanced at him. "So, you gotta stick it out. Okay?"

Heart Breaker nodded shortly in a way that may have been mistaken for a nervous twitch.

Sparky glanced at the lightening sky again and back in the general direction of A's estate. She sighed. "You can hang out here longer, if you don't get caught, but I need to head back." She knocked once on her horn. "This is good on the ground, but it can't help me fly."

She turned to leave and found her path blocked but the violet colt. He lifted into the air and held out his forearms.

"Hop on."

She raised an eyebrow. "I gave you a BJ, not a wedding ring."

He blushed and rolled his eyes. "I can't let ya walk all that way back home. You're only a bit younger than me."

Azure Spark narrowed her bright greens at the red-haired recruit. "I am twenty one years old, greenie."

Heart Breaker blinked. "But you're... wait... why are you so short-?"

Sparky cut him off by leaping into the air and screaming, "Greenie, catch me!"

"Whoa!" the pegasus yelped as he scrambled to grab Sparky from the air. "You said we had to be quiet!"

The unicorn crossed her forelegs. "Ya, so why aren't you? Yelling like that. Jeez. Well," she smiled, "whisk me away, greenie!"

Heart Breaker lifted higher into the air and scanned the airspace before flying off towards the estate. "My name isn't greenie, shorty."

"My name isn't shorty, greenie."

"Touché. ...Heart Breaker."

"Azure Spark, But we knew that."

"Well," Heart Breaker continued, "it's nice to meet you for real, Azure."

Sparky shrugged. "Guess it's nice to see something other than your dick. And ponies tend to call me Sparky."

"Why's that?"

An almost manic grin rolled over her face. "I like it when things explode."

"Oh."

The rest of the flight was spent in silence until they landed lightly on the roof. Heart Breaker set Azure Spark down and they both opened their mouths to say something, faces only an inch apart. Right on cue, as if he sensed a disturbance in the force, A. swung open the door of the roof steps and raised a brow at the scene.

His drawl snaked around the two, daring each to move. "Well, well, well. What is it we have here, Sparky and Breaker sitting on the roof?" He turned his attention to the smaller. "I told you to please him, not full out seduce him."

Azure Spark retained her neutral gaze as A moseyed on up to her and spoke by her ear in a whisper. "I don't believe I asked you to 'help' him stay here. If his name matches his talent, I can't deal with a broken hearted employee. If I need your help, I'll ask."

She nodded, staring straight ahead. "Ya, ya, I get it, boss."

A. stepped back and fixed his predator eyes on the pair before him. "It seems you two were very busy last night, weren't ya? Ah, don't shake your heads, you were macking on this fine bit of mare, Heart Breaker, don't lie."

Heart Breaker opened his mouth to protest but received a quick punch to the side.

Sparky grinned crookedly. "You know me, boss. One taste ain't enough."

A. chuckled. "Get to your rooms, the both of you."

Heart Breaker passed with barely contained words. Sparky got a quick and hard smack to the backside. They walked down the hallways-Sparky a bit awkward and with a grimace-until they reached the point the parted ways. Heart Breaker looked at Azure Spark with anger. "Why do you let him treat you like a whorse, Azure?"

She shrugged. "There's a roof over my head and a knife in my sheath. I have food. I have a chance." She turned the corner without another word. That was why, right, a chance?

They were misfits with a chance. A. saw something in them that no one else could. He kept them around, gave them a chance.

Azure plopped onto her bed and winced as her rump shot with sting. She laid down and sighed, little sparkles appearing around her horn while she cast another cloud walking spell. Her spells were never without the faint sent of ocean and gunpowder. She contemplated her words—a chance. That's what she'd said. She loved A. He was the father that her own didn't want to be. She was a lost and lonely child that was adopted by a disjointed family. She was at home. A. gave her a home. Foods, shelter, weapons, love, even if it was that kind of love, a chance. That's why she was here.

Right?

End

Why do I still not have ANY PICTURES, JEEZUS!

Alright mah dawgs school's almost over so I'ma be comin' out with a lot more man, that's just the WORD ya HEARD! Keep it real guys!