Drunken Rain

Diamond Frost stumbled down the path, it was nearly one in the morning and she was coming back from the nearby tavern a drunken mare. It had been pouring hard for at least an hour casing her crystal body to shiny brightly from the water.

Although she was shivering violently from the cold and tears were unnoticeable being mixed with the rain water. She had spent most of the night strangely silent by herself in the corner of bar throwing back drink after drink.

This was very unlike her, drinking a lot not talking to any pony. But tonight was important...This was the night she hated the most, when Diamonds heart had hardened and turned to Ice.

When she had learned, she had been a toy to the stallion she adored, a play thing that was then casted aside when no longer needed...or wanted. So here she was soaked drunk and heartbroken stumbling home with dark thoughts feeling her head.

Pale walked through the pouring rain, getting more and more miffed by the second. He had been in the tavern and fell asleep, so the mare he had eyes on had left. He was pretty sure she was with another stallion anyway.

It was really getting cold- the rain was soaking through his fur and he still had a half hour walk back to his house. 'Sod it.' He thought. Pale found a tree with pretty good rain cover in the park. He lay under it, shivering and trying to warm himself up.  

He saw something shining nearby. Curious, he approached it. Why, it was a crystal pony! He went up to her, definitely not in a flirting mood.

"Excuse me friend, but I found a tree that's perfect for keeping the rain off. If you don't feel like walking home, that's a good spot to have a kip. (British slang for sleep.) Hope you don't mind sharing though."

Diamond turned to look at the voice speaking to her, on any other night she would have smiled and flirted with such a handsome stallion. But not on this night, on this night she smiled a soft and smile her beautiful rose colored eyes shining softly in the street lights and said in a slightly slurred voice that sounded like the chime of a silver bell. "That would be lovely..." she says shivering even more as she takes a stumbling step towards him.

Pale noticed this mare was stumbling a little. Did she have something wrong with her? Probably drunk. He guided her to the tree quite easily, making sure to keep her from falling over. They got to the tree, and he sat under it, sighing with relief at being out of the bloody rain. 

He didn't really want to flirt with this mare. She was beautiful, but he could tell by her eyes and voice she'd been hurt. She'd be emotionally unstable right now, and Pale didn't really like hurting mares. He made sure whenever he chatted one up that he made it clear that he wasn't interested in going out with them as a coltfriend-marefriend thing. 

Pale turned to this new mare. Might as well talk to her.

"Well, my name'a Pale Moonlight. Nice to meet you, friend."

Daimond smiled at Pale "Its lovely to meet you Pale, My name is Diamond...Diamond Frost.." She says slowly as if unsure of her own name.She laid her head in her hooves watching the rain as it formed a puddle nearby. "So..What has you out on a night like this..?" She asked softly.

Pale looked at Diamond.

"Nice to meet you too, Diamond. I'm Pale Moonlight. I'm just out for a laugh, you know? Not much to do, so I go to the tavern, have a drink, see if I can get a chance with the mares.~" He thought a moment, then quickly added : "Of course, I'm not trying to charm you or anything. Just saw your coat shimmering in the rain, and I figured you'd be cold once I saw what it was."

He watched the rain pour down. Wow, it was really bucketing it. Pale was glad he was out of the water, and even had some company. Granted, it was morose compony but that's better than no company at all.

"Say, are you alright? You seem a little down friend. Something troubling you?"

Diamond flicked her eyes up at Pale smiling for a moment before it vanished. "Tonight...is the anniversary of a night I wish I could forget....a night I wish never happened.." She says sadly. Diamond was not one to talk about her past often, and never with a complete stranger.

But the booze had made her talk and even now as her face flushed and a hot wave of tears rolled down her cheeks, she wished she could go back in time and make sure it never happened, go back and make sure the beautiful kind funny mare had lived and that she, a cold hearted seductress never existed.

Pale wasn't really listening at first. However, she piqued his interest at this little day of hers. He really had to listen when she started to cry. He would've tried to comfort her if he could be arsed, but he was cold and wet and just wanted to go home. However, she was crying and needed help, and he wouldn't want to hurt her just because he was a touch miffed.

"So, does this have anything to do with Sombra? I heard about the Crystal Empire. It sounds terrible, though I can't really sympathise since I wasn't there. I'll admit, I have regrets myself."

He was thinking- back to young Pale. The little colt, his brother's punchbag. It was a nightmare- being insulted, hit, degraded...day after day after day. He ran off, but he occasionally wondered what things would've been like if he'd stayed. Would things have worked out? Or would he have ended up like that Fluttershy mare, so quiet and insecure? Well, in fairness he was pretty insecure anyway but it didn't matter.

Diamond flinched at the name, like all crystal ponies she feared the cruel tyrant even if she was privileged more then the other Crystal Ponies. No how often she had been around him since she had dated his second hand stallion.

The dark memories from her past started to effect her, her mane and tail lost its shine and fell flat her mane now covering half her face. Her coat grow to a greyish blue and no longer looked crystaly and her eyes faded to an almost grey color themselves. Diamond Frost looked like a completely different mare, Her stunning beauty almost seemed to melt off her to the point that she looked like she aged 10 years in an instant.

Pale noticed the sudden change in Diamond. He debated over what to do- he could hug her, but that might send the wrong message. He decided to just pay her on the back.

"If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine. We can talk about something else."

He looked out from the tree. Still pouring down with rain, so they weren't moving anytime soon.

(Sowwy, not much to say.)