Chapter 4
Keeping a secret in a small village?
Twilight Sparkle arrived home to the Book and Branch Library in the same manner she had departed, in a purple blink of Unicorn teleportation magic. Having been born the most powerful Unicorn in a thousand years had some benefits. It had saved her from walking down the streets of Ponyville with a basket in tow, and thus becoming the inviting target for the inevitable flood of dreadful questions about the origin and breed of her skinny niece.
Wearily she set the basket carrying her sleeping niece upon her bed and was soon on the bed herself for some well-deserved rest. 4 hours of sleep is simply insufficient for a pony to stay awake throughout a stressful day. It didn’t help that her udder between her hind legs was tender and full.
Not long after her head had received some fitful rest, an annoying and rather insistent hand began to prod her into consciousness. Twilight Sparkle opened one beady eye. It was enough to stop Spike from prodding her again.
“Wisp made a mess. I think we need to clean her up”
Spike had never been more correct. It smelled and terribly so, yet somehow she had slept thought that repugnant stench. It was expected of course. Foals made messes until they were toilet trained. Yet as expected as it was, it annoyed her. “Alright,” Twilight let out a long sigh. Her short temper was likely caused by sleep deprivation. “I’ll clean her up and her basket. Go out and buy some diapers.”
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“Welcome to Carousel Boutique, where our fashion is chic and our dresses unique.”
“Hi Rarity,” the purple dragon greeted as he entered the premises.
“Oh Spike, what brings you here?” The alabaster Unicorn asked.
“I need to buy some cloth.”
“Dear me, one simply cannot go into the dressmaker’s shop armed only with the general desire to buy cloth. There are many types cloth, many different grades of each type.” The Unicorn answered. “Perhaps I should begin with a simple question. What do you want to use the cloth for?”
Spike hesitated. “I need cloth for diapers. I went to the general store, but Berry Punch sent me over here because she didn’t stock any.”
“Diapers,” Rarity put on her red rimmed glasses and begin looking through an array of hang labels. “Muslin cloth would do,” she said as she levitated out the appropriate bolt of cloth. “Are you buying for Pinkie Pie? I didn’t know Mr and Mrs Cake needed more diapers for Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake.”
“No, I’m shopping for Twilight.”
“And why does Twilight Sparkle want diapers?” Rarity inquired as her magic took hold of a pair of scissors.
“Ummm…” Spike hesitated. “We got a newborn foal at the library, and Twilight just got back from the hospital. She sent me to buy some diapers because she is too exhausted to come herself.”
The fashionista didn’t know what to think of it. Her first reaction was to deny it. Twilight Sparkle would never get herself pregnant unplanned. All grown mares in Equestria took Heat Suppression potions every spring till the end of summer to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Rarity simply could not believe that Twilight Sparkle could be that careless. She always seemed so tied to her schedules.
It must have been shame, the Unicorn decided. Such deep, dreadful shame that even such a powerful and usually controlled Unicorn as Twilight would hide her pregnancy from her best friends. Rarity vowed not to judge. Twilight had already gone so far as to give birth in secret without anypony the wiser. It must have been terrifying going through such an ordeal without family or friend close by. Rarity was not going to push one of her best friends to hide forever in shame because of a careless mistake.
“Who is the father?” she inquired softly.
Spike hesitated again. He answered only because it was Rarity who was asking. Love did strange things to a dragon. “Shining Armour.” He answered. “I’m actually not supposed to tell.”
‘Her own brother?!‘ Rarity gasped in palpitating silence, she very nearly called for her fainting couch but somehow found the strength to steady herself. This was too much, simply too much. But in hindsight, it was obvious even to a blind mare. Certainly, Twilight seemed overly fond and protective of her older brother at the wedding, but never in all her days did she imagine that Twilight would cross the line and seduce her own brother.
“Does her sister in-law… Does Princess Cadance know?”
Spike didn’t answer immediately, and his silence was damning. His subsequent answer merely confirmed her suspicions.
“No. I think Twilight is afraid to let Cadance know. She’s thinks that Cadance would banish Shining Armour to the moon or something.”
“I see.” Rarity could not say she was at all surprised. If she had caught her stallion cheating, he too would be banished to the moon, if it were within her power to do so. And if he was cheating with his own sister….Rarity felt a shiver run through her. It was a pity too. Shining Armour seemed like such a nice stallion. He honestly did appear to love Cadance, and any mare would be lucky to join their herd. Yet the evidence was all there to be seen, looks could be deceiving. This made two stallions whose looks could not be trusted. Was high Canterlot society littered with such stallions like Prince Blueblood?
“Twilight is kind of worried to show Wisp around Ponyville. Wisp, that’s the filly’s name by the way. She is worried how ponies are going to react if they found out.”
“No pony will find out from me. Although I believe most ponies in Ponyville would accept the foal regardless of her birth.”
“I told Twilight the same thing, but she didn’t believe me. She was going on about gluing on a fake horn onto Wisp.”
Rarity was taken aback. Glue on a fake horn? Did the poor dear have some disfiguring birth defect? Yet she knew that she shouldn’t be surprised. The Unicorns of Canterlot were rumoured to be inbred, as they kept their marriages and titles of Royal lineage to themselves. As for Twilight’s newborn daughter, well the poor dear didn’t have a chance. She was hopelessly inbred.
“As one of her best friends,” Rarity declared. “It is my place to support Twilight in her moment of need. I will personally put to task any pony that would dare say a poor word against Wisp.”
“You will?” The dragon was surprised. “I mean even if Wisp isn’t, you know, like other ponies.”
“The manner of how Wisp was born may have much to be desired, but the foal is blameless. She has no control over who her parents are.”
Spike didn’t know what to say. Maybe all that worry of raising a Changeling foal in Ponyville was so much stress over nothing. “That…that is the most understanding thing I have ever heard.”
“Here Spike, take the cloth.” Rarity smiled. “I have cut several sheets to the appropriate size.” A soft white bundle floated into his outstretched claws.
“How much do I owe you?”
“Nothing, nothing at all. Take it as my gift to Twilight. We did miss giving her a baby shower.”
Spike nodded his head in thanks and walked out of the Carousel Boutique. It was only when he was outside, halfway towards the Book and Branches Library that he wondered “Why throw Twilight a baby shower?”
-pulls the couch from out of nowhere like usual and pushes it over to dayland- here you go. -pulls out another couch and faints at the thought of the misunderstanding-
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Right, I forgot about that . I shall add the fainting couch.
I'm sorry, Lady Rares, but I must confess: It was I who stole your fainting couch not three chapters ago! Verily, I throw mineself on thine forgiving nature and beg of thee for forgiveness!
Yeah, this is interesting and unique, so I'll keep reading. Noticed a few more grammatical errors, but they're relatively small compared to many others, so I shall not go Nazi on you. Yet. (Find a pre-reader, if you can. Might help.)
~ Magical Trevor, Minstrel of Equestria
657554 Just because we're supposed to infer something doesn't mean that that's correct, though. Just stating a few things I hope/expect the author to explain in further detail at SOME point. Not necessarily in the new chapter or anything, just... something to think about.
Oh boy. I can only imagine what the others would think as well. Especially if Rarity is the one who tells them...
rarity wow .....just........wow
I have that feeling. You know the feeling that something really good is about to happen, but for all the wrong reasons.
Yeah, that feeling.
That's funny, I thought Rarity would enjoy something that'd conceivably come out of one of her novels.
Forbidden love?
That. Is. The.....
Not worst thing?
Oh boy, here we go!
Make Rares the one to inform the rest of the mane six. Thats going to be one real funny conversation
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Oh Rarity enjoys it.... after a fashion. She is being suitably horrified but will keep on trying to find out more. It is a secret that no pony must know. So she must know every detail of this forbidden incenstual love triangle.
Handsome stallion married to a young living goddess, yet even a goddess is not enough and he cheating on his immortal wife with his own sister. For a small village this is probably the most interesting thing to happen in a while.
Spike... F$%#.
Damn I think I face-palmed so hard I re-fractured my broken nose.
Very nice story my good sir
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Twilight, talk to Celestia. Spike, shut up. Jeez…
I like this. Can't wait for more.
659317
Gets up, chloroforms superPinkBrony, and pulls him onto the couch. And the teen rating is... Lenient.
657609 You're right that is so akward, Rarity had better keep her dang mouth shut about it OR ELSE!
Also I suppose Chrysalis either dosen't know the first thing about foals or she completly forgot, because no one sends somepony a baby without any sort of supplies or at least diapers.
I'm just surprised Spike knows what a baby shower is, yet doesn't have a clue about what a bachelor party is about.
Oh well, that's what happens when you've grown up with just girls.
659390 what if Chrysalis didn't have any supply's? It seems that she and her changelings are not well off and may not have access to such things which ponies take for granted.
659349 I'm pretty sure she just said she had no milk because she wasn't lactating. In most species that doesn't occurs unless the female is pregnant. Since Twilight wasn't pregnant she wouldn't be lactating.
659530 They probably had a baby shower for Ms. Cake.
659729 Well if worse came to worse I would think that Chrysalis would steal the supplies needed. But maybe she just didn't feel like it.
659802 according the the nurse, Chrysalis was starving. She may not have had sufficient strength to successfully attained the necessary supplies undetected. Additionally she could have surmised from her interactions with Twilight at the wedding that Sparkle would be able to easily attain and afford the necessary supplies without risking the foal. Consider this, if Chrysalis had tried to steal the supplies and got caught then what would have happened the the filly?
...*shudders* Rarity you're sick...
Twilight makes best mom!
HOLEY CRAP SPIKE YOU MADE IT SOUND LIKE TWILIGHT HAD A BABY YOU IDIOT
660017 someone needs to give Spike a lesson in tact... and keeping his mouth shut.
>>abilene1
I think that's the point. But yeah, from the moments the words left his mouth I was mentally saying, no SCREAMING, "BUCK YOU SPIKE!" It was Spike's mistake, not the author's. The author did it on purpose!
Well this is just going to turn out insane
Miscommunication... yeah, this is now most awkward fanfic I've read to date.
659530
Well, this is set well after the wedding, so it's not inconceivable that after the bachelor party misunderstanding Spike could've looked a few things up to make sure something like that doesn't happen to him again.
And as Slaughterstone mentioned, there's that precedent involving the Cake twins as well.
Haha. So cute. Rarity misunderstanding like that...
This is going to end with screaming, fire, swearing and the laughter of thirsting gods.
So all in all...damn good fic!
Laughing so hard.
In so many ways this is a little on the creepy side (Perhaps a bit too descriptive for my tastes with a few things...) for some reason, but it's still interesting enough to want to keep reading.
I smell shit, and it isn't the baby. Let's hope no one accidentally knocks the tray it's sitting on into this giant turbine.
Spike.....you idiot lizard!
OH GOD WHY ARGH THIS IS LIKE A WELL-WRITTEN TRAIN WRECK. I WANT TO LOOK AWAY, BUT I CAN'T!
And begin the misunderstanding shenanigans in 3, 2, 1 . . .
Spike... what have you done?
Spike forgot to mention that they found her on the doorstep.
Thumbs up to Rarity for not noticing her friend being (not)pregnant for twelve months.
"She was hopelessly inbred."
*snort* *ppffft* BWAAAHAHAHAHA
*wipes eyes of tears*
Ohhh my god...
Spike, this is why you don't talk. At all.
This is... purely genius XD
I have favorited and I will follow...
OHhh my god that chapter...
~Rosalynn~
This is going to be one of those stories, isn't it?
I have to read the rest of it now...
FUCK!
Goddamn it spike
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........Oh for the love of all that is........-double face hooves-
Hey Twi don't worry no one thinks that wisp is the spawn of Shining Armor and Chrysalis
"Oh that's goo-"
Instead they think the spawn of Shining Armor and Yourself, that's better right? -Hears strained screech of disbelief then a thud.- Twi? -sees she is out cold-......I'll take that as a no =w=''
I would keep reading...
But one problem.
the chapters are TOO. FKING. SHORT!
The fision has been mailed!
3:30 am. What do you mean, you should sleep? Whats this sleep thing you speak of? seriously though, spike should really try not to swoon at rarity so much.
I can just imagine how Twilight is going to react to this...
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Twilight might even choose to let this misinterpretation stand. Better to have totally inaccurate rumours flying around than for the truth to come out with the consequential arousing of the torch-and-pitchfork brigade.
Keeping a secret in a small village. Hmmm... This fic is very impressive. You know what would be an interesting subversion of normal expectations? If Rarity kept her misunderstanding to herself, and kept the secret so very well that she actually managed to correct herself before giving anypony else a mistaken impression.
I have no such hope. Turning the page; next chapter!