//------------------------------// // When two minds deny what the heart wants. // Story: Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust. // by FoxofRarity //------------------------------// Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust By. Nightmare Moon Ch.37 Disclaimer- Arthur's note at end. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust. “Yes Lauren, you called for me?” Asked the Son. Lauren’s horn glowed to make her voice and that of the Son’s invisible to Gold Sky’s ears who at this moment is asleep with his head on her shoulder. “You look worried Lauren, is there anything you wish to share.” “The first month of his wife’s pregnancy passed and so far it looks like her child will be a healthy one.” Lauren smiled briefly. “She will be a mother. A fine mother.” “That I know Lauren and you’re right as always. But now I have a question I want to ask.” “Yes.” The Son sat next to Lauren and placed a hand on Gold Sky’s head. “He’s grown attached to you hasn’t he?” Lauren nodded. “Have you grown attached to him?” The Son asked. Lauren placed a wing over Gold Sky. “No, I haven’t grown attached to him in form or way. But the main thing I worry about is the moment he sees his child.” “Ahh, I see what you mean. A father who sees his child but yet can’t be there to guide and protect it.” “Exactly. Gold Sky accepted the fact that he’s dead. He accepted the fact that can’t go back to his wife. He accepted the fact that the Heavenly Paradise is his new home. And he accepted the fact that he finally moved on knowing that through his death his wife is alive and well. But it won't matter if he moved on. The minute he lays his eyes on his child, is the minute his spirit starts coming apart and will end with his heart losing the will to live…he’ll die spiritually.” Lauren sighed deeply. “Perhaps or perhaps not, but the right moment is coming and if it comes before his wife gives birth you will guide him back with your wisdom, I and the Father forever trust your judgment just like you forever trust our judgment.” The Son smiled at Lauren. “How will I guide him?” Lauren saw the Son getting up. “He sees you as a maternal figure that alone should give you the answer.” The Son left Lauren and Gold Sky. Lauren softly nuzzled Gold Sky on the head. “Hard part if need be…is saying good bye.” *** Applejack first took a seat, she already told Big Macintosh about her relationship with Rarity but her precious gem now sees the true meaning of their relationship. Applejack wanted to use Rarity and stuck by the unicorn for two years because of her stubborn trait. Commitment has never been a trait that Applejack was willing to take, all she wanted is Rarity’s beauty to be hers and nopony else’s… Until she heard We’re done. “Look y’all there is something Ah want to tell you and before everything else do you Pinkie Pie swear not to tell anypony what I’m going to tell you, especially Spike.” Applejack took off her hat. “I Pinkie Pie swear.” Twilight rapidly did the motions of the promise. "AH!!!" She poked her eye, again. “You can trust me Applejack, I will never tell anypony.” Fluttershy spoke meekly. “Ok, before I fully start, Fluttershy please don’t freak out…” Fluttershy interrupted Applejack. “Why?” “Just don’t all right.” Applejack took a deep breath. “Me and Rarity are dating.” “Really!!” Twilight squealed in false curiosity. “WHAT!!” Fluttershy yelled. “More like were dating.” Applejack said to herself. Fluttershy’s mind now went into total frenzy to sort this new bit of information. “So wait. Twilight is in love with Rarity and Pinkie thinks that Rarity and Rainbow Dash are dating but in reality Applejack and Rarity are dating. So…THIS MEANS TWILIGHT USED HER MIND MAGIC ON RARITY, FORCING RARITY TO MAKE LOVE TO HER!!! HOW DARE SHE!! HOW DARE SHE!! Stay calm.” Fluttershy hid behind her mane to subdue her growing anger. “But the main reason Ah came here is tell you about a terrible thing that happened to Rarity.” “Wh-what happened to her!?” Fluttershy asked nervously. Applejack swallowed some saliva. “She was raped.” Twilight performed her practiced shocked face and Fluttershy went cold at hearing that. “Rar…Rarity…g-go-got raped.” Fluttershy became cold with shock, guilt, and truth. She wanted to mentally hurt Rarity in order to get Twilight for herself and planned to destroy one or two of Rarity’s favorite dresses. Applejack decided not to tell them that Rarity said it was Gold Sky who raped her. “Before you ask me who raped Rarity, the answer is Ah don’t know. Whoever it was must have scarred Rarity into never talking, she’s been getting help I think, because for a couple of days I haven’t made any contact with her. Until she came to me and told me we’re done.” Twilight used this moment to stealthily enter Fluttershy’s distracted mind to prevent any connections from being made, she can see the guilt rising inside of Fluttershy, but more importantly for doing this is that she knows Fluttershy’s deadliness is on par with the Razor. But more importantly is the dream she had…Fluttershy gave in to her Lust and Twilight will do anything to prevent that. Fluttershy wanted to say something but Applejack raised a hoof. “But what makes me feel so bad is what Ah didn’t do. Ah supposed to comfort her but Ah didn’t instead Rainbow Dash found her in her damaged state and took care of Rarity. Ah finally arrived but out of stupidity Ah left her side to deal with a certain matter which again as before Rainbow took care of Rarity…and they kissed.” Applejack’s ears dropped. “Ah am a terrible marefriend.” Fluttershy came to place a hoof on Applejack’s shoulder. “Applejack don’t talk like that, you couldn’t have known that Rarity would get raped…” Tears formed in Fluttershy’s eyes but no sadness can be seen or heard from her face and voice. “It’s not your fault and you should be thankful for Rainbow Dash taking care of Rarity, sure I understand that you may be upset that they kissed but you can’t blame them. Rarity needed the comfort love provides, so if I go out on a limb here, Rainbow got to her before you did.” Applejack looked at Fluttershy “Humph, Ah hate to say it but she’s right, Ah should be thankful for Rainbow Dash…and Rarity deserves to be with a mare like Rainbow Dash instead of a gutless mare like me who only wanted Rarity because of her beauty.” Twilight played along. “So for how long have you and Rarity been dating?” “Two years, Twi.” “Two years! So for two years the rest of us were totally in the dark about this.” Fluttershy exclaimed. “Yeah.” Applejack said in a cool manner like she had nothing to explain to them. “Why?” “Because Rarity was afraid of what all of you will think about her. Ah, well frankly Ah didn’t care what y’all think but you know how Rarity can be sometimes, she thought if you found out about our relationship all of you will think of her in a dark light and Ah guess Pinkie Pie confirmed that.” “I understand Applejack. Still we are your friends we will never and I mean never think of you and Rarity in a different light. We love both of you very, very much.” Fluttershy softly nuzzled Applejack on the cheek. Twilight decided to have the satisfaction of seeing Applejack come clean about the true reason she’s dating Rarity along with seeing Fluttershy’s comforting demeanor disappear at hearing the truth. “Well Applejack, earlier today Pinkie Pie asked me to mail two letters to Rarity and Rainbow Dash.” “Pinkie did what?” “Pinkie asked me to mail two letters that are actually reservation tickets to the fanciest suite in Canterlot plus it comes with a complete spa package. Now before you ask…” “Why?” Applejack asked. *Sigh* “Pinkie decided to say she’s sorry to Rarity and Rainbow Dash by getting them the suite. In her terms, the reason she did that is so both of them can spend some intimate time together, however, Rarity has no idea that Rainbow Dash will be there and the same applies to Rainbow Dash. So it’s going to be a surprise.” Explained Twilight. Fluttershy’s ears perked up in an adorable manner. “W-w-we got to stop them! Come on girls if we hurry we can stop both of them and prevent this Pinkie Pie style of an apology!” Fluttershy jumped into the air to fly out but Applejack seized her by the tail and pulled her down to the ground. “Applejack, what are you doing!?” “All right the truth comes out.” The lavender unicorn happily thought. Applejack spat out Fluttershy’s tail. A look of tormented revelation formed on her exhausted face. “There is something Ah need to tell both of you…honesty has always been a powerful trait of mine so it’s time that Ah come clean that will show y’all the real me.” Twilight kept her rising joy from taking over. “Uh what do you mean by that?” Applejack can see the sympathy on Twilight and Fluttershy faces and all of that will change, especially Fluttershy. “The only reason why Ah’m dating Rarity is for her beauty…” Applejack stopped. “I-I don’t understand Applejack.” “Rarity is the most beautiful pony in all of Equestria, so that’s why Ah’m dating her because all Ah wanted is her beauty. Ah wanted the whole world to know that Ah’m with the most beautiful pony and she’s mine, mine, Ah just wanted everything her beauty has to offer.” Applejack paused to see the damage with no point of turning back. “Before we started dating Ah always kept a weather eye on her so Ah can approach her when she’s going through a time of tribulation, a time when she’s weak and vulnerable…a perfect time to swoop in and take advantage. One day Spike left Rarity’s boutique with the usual happiness he’ll get for helping Rarity. But what Ah noticed is the sadness in Rarity’s eyes after she waved good bye to Spike, which to me seemed like the perfect time for me to move in. Ah asked her out on a little date, she looked at me with great surprise while Ah waited for her to start asking a ton questions about my reasons for asking her out but she didn’t. Skipping the details after our little date Rarity invited me inside her boutique and Ah sure as shoot was certain we were going to get it on…” Fluttershy heard enough. “Applejack, so all this time you just wanted to use her?” Fluttershy asked while her ears dropped. Applejack closed her eyes and nodded. Fluttershy’s anger rose. “How dare you! How da…huh?” Twilight placed a hoof on Fluttershy’s shoulder. “Now Fluttershy lets not say things that we’ll regret later.” But Fluttershy slapped Twilight’s hoof off her shoulder. “No, Twilight! I will say what I need to say! Applejack! You disgust me!! You just wanted to bed Rarity which I guess after you’ve done the act you will leave her the minute you wake up. Answer me Applejack…ANSWER ME!!!” Applejack nodded. “You uh wretch! Rarity got raped and yet you were barley by her side! From the guilt I can see in your eyes, I can tell that Rarity loved you very much despite the fact that you’re a twisted shallow excuse of a friend!” Fluttershy decided to just spill out her anger. “You know what Applejack. I hope Rarity and Rainbow Dash do have a wonderful intimate time at the suite! I hope that they look into each other’s eyes before locking lips and join together in physical union because in the end of the day Rainbow Dash will always be a better mare than you!! Rarity deserves to be with Rainbow Dash!! I should have talked Rainbow Dash into dating Rarity when I first noticed how she’ll just look at Rarity with loving eyes and stiff wings from a cloud above the Carousel boutique! But instead Rarity ended up dating somepony like you.” Fluttershy stormed out of the library slamming the door shut behind her. Fluttershy, flew up to land on a cloud that is high in the sky so nopony can see her. She buried her face into the soft cloud and started to cry. The yellow Pegasus cursed herself for having intentions to hurt Rarity in order to get Twilight’s heart, her good friend Rarity went through the most hellish nightmare and yet she wanted to hurt her mentally. “How can I be so heartless? Oh Rarity I didn’t know you went through something so, so horrible. I should have never sent Spike in, I’m so sorry Rarity…I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to hurt you. Please forgive me, please forgive me.” Fluttershy's cries turned into sobs. Twilight relished what happened, she calculated an eighty one percent chance that Rarity is going through some internal conflict in deciding whether to stay with Applejack because she knew Applejack wouldn’t be coming here. But now that Rarity knows everything about this pseudo-relationship with Applejack she will once again become vulnerable to a greater degree. All of which Twilight will make her move. “Applejack you know Fluttershy didn’t mean what she said.” Comforted Twilight. The Earth pony placed her hat back on her head. “No, Ah deserve every word and nothing less. Rarity deserves better.” Out of nowhere Applejack chuckled. “Ja know what’s funny Twi, of all that time Ah spent with Rarity only once Ah told her Ah love you. Only once and that was to coax her so we can make out which we did…Rarity deserves better. Rainbow Dash is the best mare for her.” Twilight titled her head. “So let me get this straight. Basically what you’re telling me is…you are letting go of Rarity. Because all you wanted was her beauty and to really point out the fact. You stayed with her all this time until now because Rarity’s beauty really meant that much to you?” “Guilty as charged Ah guess.” Applejack admitted. “Your stubbornness never fails to amaze me Applejack.” Applejack shot Twilight a hearty smile at hearing those words. “Applejack now that you’re no longer with Rarity do you plan to see other ponies?” Twilight asked. The Earth pony placed a hoof under her chin to think. “There’s Caramel, cute guy really but he’s already taken. Then there's the Great and Powerful Trixe and Ah will like to give her the true definition great and powerful if you know what I mean Twi, but Ah haven't heard anything about Trixe. Uhhh, maybe Golden Harvest she is really good looking!” “Isn’t she married to Dr.Whooves?” “Yeah but who cares.” Applejack made a sly smirk. Twilight slapped her forehead with a hoof. “Well since you’re going to ruin marriages to get what you want, how about you go after Octavia, eh. I bet to your standards she’s almost equal to Rarity’s divine beauty!” Applejack’s facial color flushed completely. “YOU KIDDING!! ARE YOU KIDDING!!!! Twilight Ah finally figured out Gold Sky. He’s a weak pacifist who can’t even defend himself to the pathetic point that his wife has to fight his own battles but if Ah were to even get near Octavia which Ah don't want to do ever…Ah bet he’ll come back from the dead to destroy me!!” The Black Rose told Twilight to continue on with the deception. “Back from the dead? What in the name of Equestria do you mean by that!?” Applejack’s ears dropped. “Gold Sky is dead and Octavia is pregnant nuff said. Thank you for listening Twilight, you’re a good friend and thank you for not judging me. Bye.” With that Applejack left the library Twilight rolled her eyes, no need for her to continue her guise so she decided to go check on Spike. Her horn glowed to open the door of the spare room Spike slept in. “Spike.” She called out. The young purple dragon just moaned. “Oh Spike!” Twilight climbed into the bed and took Spike into her loving arms. “It’s alright, big sister Twilight is here, she will protect you from the big bad night dragon.” Twilight hugged Spike tight. Spike felt love wash all over him, it is moments like these in which he thanks Princess Celestia for giving him a loving sister. He pressed himself closer to Twilight so her love can cause him to think less of fair lady Rarity. “I love you Twilight…I love you so much and no matter what I will always be with you.” Twilight’s cold heart melted. A rare occurrence indeed. “I love you too Spike…I love you too.” Twilight kissed Spike on the head before falling into a well deserved sleep. Her plan is once again flawless. *** “Hmm?” Tank blinked a few times while Princess Luna raised her eye brow. Luna has been trying to figure what kind of fruit or vegetable Tank will like to eat. Ever since Rainbow Dash brought him to the palace Luna has been quite curious about this reptile. “I wonder…will you like some kiwi or spinach?” Tank blinked slowly again. “Wow, you’re really hard to read.” Luna just stared at Tank. After a few minutes Luna made up her mind. “I’ll just get you some spinach. Nod if you like the sound of that.” A whole five minutes passed for Tank to nod at Luna. Luna patted Tank on the shell. “I see we will be getting along in no time!” She placed him on her back and took him to the kitchen so he can have some delicious greens. *** Princess Celestia felt Octavia’s heartbeat slowing down to solid beats but what she felt the most is the piercing glare of those beautiful grayish purple eyes. “Celli! You did this on purpose!! You knew my mother will be here so that is why you brought me here to this restaurant!” The gray mare growled. Celestia used her motherly tone. “Octavia please listen to me, I did not know that your mother will be here. You must believe me because I am trying to help you heal so why would I expose you to something that will hurt you.” No words came to Octavia. “I-I…I” Not one word. Celestia scooted her chair close to Octavia. “Octavia, I will never do anything that will hurt you. If I knew that your mother was here I would have never brought you here in the first place, I would rather lose my wings than to ever harm you.” Octavia looked at Celestia with shame; she acted out of place by accusing Celestia of trying to inject her mother into her life. “I’m sorry your majesty please forgive me.” Celestia accepted Octavia’s apology and began to lovingly stroke her face. “May I?” Octavia asked. “Of course.” Celestia took the gray mare into her arms and embraced her with comforting love. From the stage Octavia’s mother saw her daughter for the first time in many, many, many years. All grown up…so beautiful…so elegant…her daughter…her only child…Octavia. Octavia’s mother trotted off stage and made her way to the table her daughter and Princess sat. Making contact for the first time. “Oc-Oc-Octavia… it’s me y-your mother.” The old mare said in a voice of long maternal pain. “Please Princess Celestia, please, I don’t want to talk to her.” Octavia knew Celestia can hear her thoughts. “Please, I will explain everything. I promise.” “All right.” Celestia got up and stood in front of Octavia’s mother who bowed down in deep respect. “My dear subject may you please rise so you can tell me your name.” The old mare rose up to her hooves. “My name is Harmonic Breeze your majesty.” Celestia turned back to look at Octavia who closed her eyes in order to break eye contact. Harmonic Breeze tried to look at Octavia but Celestia extended her wings to block Harmonic Breeze's view. “Your majesty with your kind permission I will like to speak with my daughter.” Harmonic Breeze took a step to the right but Celestia took a step to the left to prevent her from getting near Octavia. This went on until Harmonic Breeze saw that her majesty Princess Celestia will not allow her near Octavia. “Your majesty why will prevent a mother from being with her daughter?” Celestia sighed. For one she never enjoyed being harsh to any of her dear subjects but if she allowed Harmonic Breeze near Octavia, there will be no doubt that Octavia will slap her mother out of bottled up resentment. “Because your daughter has no desire to speak to you or even acknowledge you, so now the real question is why can’t YOU accept that.” Celestia declared in solid true tone. “B-b-but she’s my daughter…” “Who.” Celestia moved her head close to Harmonic Breeze “Has no desire to see you.” The old mare opened her mouth to speak but Celestia went on. “Save yourself from the embarrassment that you will inflict upon yourself if you persist in trying to reach for the unattainable. I will put you in your place if I need to that is my one and only warning.” Harmonic Breeze frowned. “I’m sorry your majesty.” She backed away and left. Octavia’s anger leaked out from the bottom of her hooves, for this is the first time she sees her mother ever since that day of witnessing great infidelity when was just a young foal. “Thank you Celli, you don’t how much thanks I owe you.” “We should head back to the palace. Come, we will teleport back.” *Poof* Both mares reappeared back in the gardens. “Celli can I please have a couple of minutes.” “Of course.” Octavia sat down on the soft grass, she couldn’t believe that after all these years she will run into her mother. “I can’t believe this, I just can’t believe this. I run into that mare in a time like this…I lost Gold Sky, I’m pregnant, and I don’t know what to do but yet I run into her! Damn you fate!” “Celli I’m ready.” Octavia breathed out. The Princess of the Sun walked into the gardens with every step she took a flower grew, she unfolded her wings so they can touch the bushes causing beautiful roses to blossom. Celestia stopped a few paces behind Octavia. A small but loving smirk formed on her lips. “Huh?” Octavia suddenly saw daffodils, roses, tulips, and sunflowers rising up from the ground around her. “They grow because I asked them to.” Celestia voiced while seating down next to Octavia. “Wow, the flowers grow because you ask them to…I’m honored to be in presence your majesty!” Octavia bowed down low before Celestia. “Octavia please get back up and think of me as your friend who wants to help you…you're making me blush.” Celestia covered her cheeks. “I’m sorry your majesty, err, I mean Celli.” Octavia sat back up, scooted closer to Celestia so she can build up the courage to remember the moment she turned her back on her mother. “Celli, I felt you enter my mind nights ago. Before you ask what I know you’re going to ask, Gold Sky and I were connected to each other’s minds, allowing me to hear every single thought that passes through his mind. So because of that I felt your passive intrusion the moment you entered, but let me tell you that what you saw is only the tip of the iceberg.” *Deep breath* “Celli, can you please tell me the most important virtues mares are suppose to honor the minute they become wives.” Celestia tilted her head slightly but nonetheless answered the gray mare’s question. “A wife is always to be by her husband’s side through sickness and through hell, she is to love her husband with all her heart, she is to honor her vows, and be faithful to him unless death do’s them part.” Octavia scoffed at hearing the last virtue. “My mother ignored the last virtue and because of that my father became a broken stallion. Well, in the beginning when I was born my parents practiced true love. Happily married with a child and prosperous careers, a dream many desire to have. My father, Allegro Note made violins and my mother Harmonic Breeze sang with the voice of an angel. Both of them cared for me with great love, father with his affection and mother with her brilliance. But all of that came to a sudden end when my mother’s career rocketed upward towards the stars with no end in sight. She’ll spend days away from home, so many in fact that I thought she moved out. So I became father’s ultimate priority; he placed me above everything else, he’ll spend way less time making violins and more time taking care of me. Eventually he stopped making violins altogether. I tried to convince him to continue making violins but he said that why should he be making violins when he can be using that time to be with me. Oh the wonderful times I spent with father, basically he raised me like a single parent. Waking me up with a kiss on the head. Giving me the pleasure of his incredibly delicious pancakes. Taking me to school every day while ignoring the stares all the mothers will give him because seeing a stallion dropping off his daughter at school is just so not normal but he didn’t care beca, oh you wanted to say something.” “Octavia, since your father stopped making violins how were both of you able to support yourselves?” Celestia asked. “Mother will mail us half the money she made in her performances, I, never saw so many bits in a letter before. I grew very close to father. Our bond became stronger than anything that I can think of at that time. I loved him so much that he will have to tickle me so I can let go him when he’ll hug me before I went into the classroom.” Octavia smiled. “Daddy’s little girl…one day I asked him why he rejected every advance from mares who will approach him. You see I completely forgot about mother now because I only saw her for like a couple of days every month. Anyway back to father, I asked him why he rejected the advances from mares.” Octavia’s smile got bigger. “What did your father tell you Octavia?” Celestia eagerly asked. “Father said he only has one mare in his life and…it’s me.” Octavia felt Celestia stroking her face. “AWWW! That is so sweet!” The Alicorn doted on the gray mare. “Father’s day became my favorite day of the year because I can go on forever telling my classmates how awesome my father is…I saw my life as the perfect life anypony can have. With my daddy.” Octavia’s smile slowly disappeared from her face as did the joy in her voice. “She will be talking about her mother now.” “Celestia you yourself once said that even the perfect life will have one shade of unhappiness. Well that little shade presented itself as a poster advertising my mother’s performance in Canterlot. I showed father the poster and instantly his eyes lit up. He missed mother so much which caused me to see why he rejected the advances from other mares. A faithful husband is true to one mare and to one mare alone. HUMPH! Father got a picnic basket filled with food and rushed me to brush my hair to look good for mother. He tried his best to control himself…father just wanted to see mother.” Octavia paused, every emotion she felt that day came back to her. “A stagehand showed us the room my mother was staying in, w-we-we-we…” Octavia stopped, tears flowed out from her beautiful eyes and the young pain came back. “Octavia if this is hurting you then no need for you to continue telling me about your mother.” Celestia covered Octavia with her wing. Octavia wiped her tears away while shaking her head. “I made you promise Celli and I will keep that promise. My father and I went inside…mother lied below a stallion giving it his all to her. Her screams, her moans a-are forever imprinted in my head.” Octavia’s voice shook with each word. “Before my eyes I witnessed my mother having sex with another stallion. I looked up to father and what I saw is the breakdown of himself. I could feel his body going cold and pain rising to levels that I couldn’t imagine, he dropped the picnic basket and from the loud thud mother realized that witnesses are here. The stallion on top of mother saw father and me; he quickly got off of her telling my mother that she told him that she wasn't married and must now watch his back for the rest of his life because his employer does not enjoy breaking up families. Couldn’t believe that a fool with a job like that will even care about me and father but I guess his boss killed him. Anyway father took off his wedding band and just threw it at her, he turned around. But mother called out for him…I can see the conflict going on inside of him, he just wanted to die right there on the spot. My father became a broken stallion, she broke him, and she broke him mentally. Allegro Note my daddy cried, no he sobbed, when forced himself to depart from mother. She is the first mare he fell in love with so that is why the knife went in deep.” Celestia stopped Octavia. “Octavia please, you told me enough, I don’t want you to feel any more pain. This isn’t helping you…” Octavia cut off Celestia by placing her head under Celestia’s chin. “I never told Gold Sky about my mother and now I will never have the chance so I might as well tell you.” “I’m sorry Octavia. Go on then.” “Mother called out for me. She asked me to stay with her; she said that I could have the good life with her, together both of us will be happy. NO, is what I told her, no, I will not be with a gutless wretch like her because I already have the good life and that good life is with my father. I slapped her hooves away from me, I gave her my scorn, my hatred, my ANGER, and I warned her to stay away from me and from father because I am no longer her daughter. I am Octavia, daughter of Allegro Note. And a filly who by a cruel rule of fate is born to a mother who can ignore her maternal instinct when fame and money is handily in reach. A mother’s love is supposed to be powerful. Just like you Celli when you were taking care of Gold Sky, just the way I saw you cry at my wedding and Gold Sky saying his vows…I can tell that your love is never ending. I turned my back towards Harmonic Breeze, walked away and I never saw her again until today. Father on the other hoof changed completely. He cried for many nights, I will always go by his side every night and hug him so he can stop crying. It worked most of the time but he will always be sad, but one night I cried too because I couldn’t stand my father being in pain. He heard me and I guess he had an epiphany right there. He only has one mare in his life now. Me. A father’s love is powerful because he must be strong for his children…my father loves me, he provided for me, and always made me his ultimate priority above everything else. My father changed for me.” Octavia’s voice cracked because the memories of her father flashed before her eyes. “He wiped away my tears and took me into his arms, he told me that he is never going to leave me. I’m all that matters to him and nothing will ever change that. The daughter becomes the father and the father the daughter. Father went back to making violins, his business did good and that's when he made me my cello and thought me how to play it. But still he tried his best to hide the damage from me. Life once again became good with that shade of unhappiness waiting to come in at the worse time. Years went by, I grew up to became a fine mare and a musical legend. I remember every morning my father will help me put on my bow tie, whenever he finished he'll look at me with loving eyes and tell how much he loved me. He raised me from the minute I was born and to his last breath. Celli my mother not only broke his heart she racked him with so much sadness that it caused his body to turn frail...allowing cancer to come in and take him away from me. H-he died two days before my wedding. But not before he gave Gold Sky his blessing. My father loved me." Octavia pressed her face against Celestia's chest. "Thank you Princess for listening." "Of course." Celestia lovingly stroked Octavia's mane. Luna came to a balcony overlooking the gardens. "Ah there they are, look Tank, down there is my sister Celestia and Octavia." "Do you hate your mother Octavia?" Celestia asked. "No. I don't hate her, she is my mother. I forgave her because my father told me that never are we more like the Great Spirit than when we forgive. Father forgave her...that right there showed me what a true stallion is." Luna from above smiled at seeing Celestia comfort Octavia. "Isn't this sweet Tank, look at those two bond, here have a slice of apple." "Will I be a good mother Celestia?" Celestia sighed. "Octavia you will be a good mother and don't cry, be strong just like your father." Octavia nodded but this time she didn't feel Celestia enter her mind. "Plagued with agony again, well I guess she won't mind if I do this." Celestia told herself. Celestia took hold of Octavia's head with her fore arms. Octavia did not know what's going on. Celestia slowly moved closer to Octavia. Octavia came to realize what's happening. All she can feel is Celestia's warm breath striking her with with coy rhapsodies, magenta eyes reflecting stored love, and soft lips coming closer to her. "Oh my...Tank, I think you might want to look at this." Luna said. Octavia closed her eyes and Celestia did the same. Their lips met and locked. Peace came to the gray mare. Celestia once again enjoyed another kiss with Octavia. After a few minutes the kiss ended and Celestia got up to make her way back to the palace. "Octavia, I did what I did to help you and nothing more, do not think of this as what you might obviously think. I'm here to help you." Celestia went into the palace. Octavia placed a hoof on her lips and smiled. "Thank you Celli." "Damn..." Was all what Luna could say about what she just saw. As the Princess of the Sun walked, a thought came to her head. "Cadance I know what you're thinking so I'll say this in advance...shut it and please if you are not doing anything else come down to the gardens. Because Octavia is in need of your wisdom." "Yes Tia I'm on my way." Princess Cadance responded. Celestia went to her room so she can remember the infinite power of her maternal instinct. --- My dear subjects if you didn't understand the meaning of this chapter's title, it is like this. The two minds are Octavia and Princess Celestia and the heart is Harmonic Breeze. The next chapter will be mostly be about Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Spike.