This Hearth's Warming, Bonbon wants to finally introduce her parents to Lyra. And also to make a happy announcement.
Now with an extended ending!

This story is a sequel to As Hard As Velvet

It’d been a moon since Twilight and AJ’s visit to Canterlot where Twilight had learned things from her mother’s past and where she’d proposed to Applejack.

Now Twilight's parents and a surprise are coming for a visit. Twilight and AJ are hopping that questions that were unanswered before will be answered.

^[1]Apologies to Babylon 5 and the Ψ Corps.

The bags are packed, the passports acquired, the tickets bought. Today's the day. But not every trip is a vacation, and anticipation feels a lot like anxiety. This surgery is a very big deal for Rarity, and it could be the biggest test of their relationship yet. Can they weather this storm?

Proofread by GaraTheAuthor
Cover by Rawrienstein

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Twilight's in a bit of a pickle. On one hand, two years of marriage with Rainbow Dash have been absolutely wonderful. On the other, well... two years of marriage have passed without a single thing happening in the bedroom.

Why? Well, that's one mystery even she can't seem to solve.

Then Scootaloo comes home from school and asks Rainbow a question that makes everything crystal clear.

Rainbow has no idea what she's talking about.

Apple Bloom has a broken leg. Due to her settler upbringing, Granny Smith knows she needs to shoot her.

Big thanks to The Music Man for going over this.

Twilight Sparkle, even after discovering friendship and being elevated to The Princess of Friendship has still maintained her love and affinity toward books. At every opportunity she gets, when not interacting with friends or family, she has her muzzle in a book. It’s her comfort zone, she feels secure and happy.

But truly happy?

Fluttershy had friends before Twilight Sparkle came to Ponyville to oversee the Summer Sun Festival. In spite of these friends, she’d rather have stayed in her cottage surrounded by a plethora of woodland creatures than actually interact with her fellow ponies, even her friends, sometimes. Now after several years of the group becoming closer, Fluttershy had come out of her shell, at least most of the way. But she could still be insecure and to herself quite easily.

But does she really want to maintain that shield of isolation?

Now something happens to open their hearts to the next stage of friendship. And discovering that a close friend may be the answer to making their lives complete. Filling a void that neither acknowledged that was there. And they’ll have to admit to feelings they never let themselves acknowledge.

If these feelings are admitted, then there is an issue to overcome:

This story is a sequel to The Derpy I Know and Love

It’s theorized that our universe is just one of an infinite number of universes. Some parallel and some not quite parallel, some identical (I am frightened at the prospect that there’s someone out there as screwed up as I am) and some completely alien.
This story is not in the ‘Equestria Girls’ universe. It is MLP:FIM set in a parallel universe that is slightly different. In this universe, the mane 6 were always human. There are no half-pony forms nor is there any contact with the MLP:FIM universe. Magic is not known to this world other than the stage type like Trixie performs.

Also, not everyone’s family situations are the same, as you will see.

This is perhaps how ‘The Derpy I Know And Love’ would have turned out in this universe.
It was inspired by the above art work.

Illustration created for me by: A Dash of Delight
https://adashofdelight.tumblr.com

Contains Movie Spoilers

Derpy arrived home after yet another long, grueling day at the post office, wanting nothing more than to unwind with a nice cup of tea and some muffins.

She never would have expected Twilight Sparkle to interrupt her rest, nor did she expect the events to follow when the Princess of Friendship wanted to talk about a deed that had gone unnoticed.

Cover art by FluffyXai and used with permission.

Top featured on 12/8/17

During a trip to visit with her family in Canterlot, Princess Twilight Sparkle sees a picture on the wall at the Royal Guard Headquarters. The picture and the caption blows her mind.

Twilight Velvet tells her daughter about a past that she hadn’t hidden but never had brought up before.

The things about her mother, Twilight never expected. Including who she is really married to and how her father fits into this. Since everypony is coming clean about themselves, Twilight introduces her marefriend of 3 years… Applejack.

The Sex and Gore labels are for mild implied sex and brief gore.

Applejack is afraid to love. After what she went through when she lost her parents, she had decided not to get in a situation that would set her up for that pain again.

Rainbow Dash has always tried to be cool about her feelings. But she finds out that the old saying: Those who hesitate are lost is painfully true. Plus she will have to live with the ultimate shame; That of Rarity telling her "I told you so" for the rest of her life.

This is like the first story of my series  Bookends  in that it is a short (yes and rushed) story to see how it is received. That way I know if any sequels are to be attempted.