Of Strawberries and Lemonade

by Sam Cole

Epilogue: Much, Much Later

Epilogue: Much, Much Later

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The pages turned as one sought to remember. It had been such a long time now, far far too long for what had been lost to them. Picture after picture filled the tome, all of them once cherished memories, and now reduced to painful reminders.

“Spike my dear?” A voice called out to the large form.

“In here…” Came the slow reply. “I was just looking at them again.”

“Three thousand years later and you still miss them,” Luna chuckled. “You’ll get the hang of immortality in time my love.”

“I have plenty of it,” Spike chuckled. “Do you remember this day? When Rarity and Twilight finally tied the knot?”

“Yes. I remember Rarity had 12 nervous breakdowns from the dressing room to the alter.”

“Was it only 12?”

“Yes dear,” Luna laughed. “Remember this day?”

“The day Twilight discovered that portal to a human world? That was a horrible ordeal,” Spike chuckled.

“Or how about the day they became superheroes?”

“I miss that costume,” Spike nodded.

“It wouldn’t fit you now dear.”

“Honey, 90% of the houses in Equestria don’t fit me.” Spike laughed. “What about this day? The day Shining took home the gold for the Equestrian Games.”

“I remember that. And here’s the guards taking it back,” Luna smiled. “Goddess that was so mean of Tia to hide it on him.”

“She did warn him,” Spike noted.

“Uncle Spike? Aunt Lulu?” A voice called out to the pair. “What are you guys doing?”

“Hey Sparky,” Spike greeted kindly. “Come on over, I wanna show you a few pictures of the greatest mare’s in Equestria, your moms.”

“How did they come together?” Charity Sparkle, otherwise known as Sparky, asked as she took a seat next to her giant draconian uncle. “They never got around to telling me. It was always ‘Sparky don’t do that!’ or ‘Sparky let him go!’ I kinda miss them now is all…”

“I miss them too hun. They were both so amazing. You’d have loved them if you got to know them before you were born. But that’s not what you asked. It all started when somepony got sick, and had to miss out on work. Who would have thought that one incident would lead to the true love of two very dear friends? That was when your mom, Rarity...”

Comments

[DerRotSpassvogel]

Heh, for a second, I forgot Rarity took over for Cadance's hairdresser because she called in sick. That last line made me think it was the start of an episode of "How She Met Your Mother."

"Kids, in the summer of 2 LR(Luna's Return) a pony with a yellow umbrella trotted past a spa in the Crystal Empire. Bear with me, because this is a very minute detail and this story will take about eight years to tell."

[Web of Hope]

Very cute epilogue.
The last chapter felt a bit rushed, but whatever. still good

[DashingHeart]

And so this is the end. A beautiful tale indeed. Yes, both the final chapter and the epilogue seem a bit rushed, but that makes little difference to me. Every time I close a good book, and even more when the ending is bittersweet like this one, I have this mixed feeling of sadness and joy. Sad, because everything has to end one day, and joy, because I enjoyed a good story which brought me many smiles. With all its flaws, I still believe that Of Strawberries and Lemonade was your best piece yet, and one of the best Rarilight Romance I’ve read. The upcoming sequel to Damn it Twi may change that soon enough though. Anyway, thanks you for this lovely story, Mister Cole. You never disappoint.

[Sam Cole]

3118115 Okay, first, thanks for liking the first four chapters. Now to your critiques: Yes, it is rushed. I can't help that and personally even I didn't care for this chapter. I will say that. Heck I'll agree with you about chap 5 as well. But because I introduced certain elements to the story, I had to carry them out.
Originally I wanted to keep this as canon as possible, and the trickle of news did affect this story. When Amy Rogers posted that Twilight wouldn't outlive her friends, I had to struggle to headcanon that. So this whole last chapter is just exploring hedcanon (isn't that all any fic is doing?) about their world. Also, I personally believe that without a survival instinct, an immortal would not even be capable of love.
So yeah, while I admit the concepts are not the best, hopefully I was able to make them a little easier to swallow. Oh, and as for Spike? He deserves that after all of his work to woo Rarity. He deserves the best mare in Equestria.

[Seether00]

Spike may want to edit out some of the more lurid details.

[lilmagi]

3118806
Fair enough, but that is a perfect example of why you should take things outside the episodes, with a grain of salt. The whole "Twilight won't outlive her friends" doesn't have to mean how you interpreter it. It may very well mean that they won't deal with death in MLP (being a kids show and all).
If you already had a certain vision for your story, adding things to it to just please 'cannon', may very well make it a weaker story.
In any case, thanks for the honesty. For that, even if I didn't like how it ended, I will at least leave you with an upvote.

[Gimlas]

This story was pretty nice! It was a pleasure to follow it chapter after chapter, thank you!

[BrackMadar]

finally got the break to read this two final chapters, they where lovely Sam it was such a fun story, it was a pleasure to follow it from start to finish

[JetstreamGW]

3552389 so? "Sister" is still accurate. You don't have to specify in-laws. Especially when you're super close.

[raw19]

Twilight x Rarity? Spike x Luna?! Hellz-the fuck-yeah?!!

It's always a mite depressing reading endings like this, no matter who's fic it is. Makes me happy i'm not immortal, as i'm positive i'd go stark-raving-mad. Glad to see that Spike got his slice of happiness in the end, though.

This fic was awesome and i really enjoyed all the emotion showed in it, as well as the humor. I'll admit chuckling when Spike ruled out Daring Do as not being a love-letter candidate due to being fictional. The things we learn.

But, i'm glad i found this story. It was well written and most excellent.

[pulcheriopolis]

4479246 and then there is the fact the Japanese word (I guess you could say word) for Lily (In romaji(basically latinized or romanized Japanese)) yuri tends to be used for girls love.

[Eclipse Moonshine]

Freaking adorable. XP

[Rhythmic Gravity Chance]

I should have finished reading this ages ago.

Oh, well on to the next dust covered story.