CHAPTER 35
THE MORNING AFTER
As sunlight drifted through her window, Derpy groaned and turned in her sleep silently begging the princess for even just a few more seconds of precious sleep. She still had at least half an hour left before having to get up, make breakfast and herself ready for her morning delivery route. Sighing a little, she stretched out her left leg and pulled the pillow on her right close to her, snuggling up to it as she tried to get some more sleep.
Strangely, the pillow felt a lot tougher then she expected not to mention a lot warmer. Nevertheless, she rubbed her cheek against it finding the strange warmth actually soothing. Things got more strange however, when the pillowed moved on its own and placed something that felt like an arm around her.
Still, that wasn't enough to bother her. She shifted a little and raised her head, stopping only when she felt a warm breeze hit her face. Finally disturbed by the strange occurrences, she gently opened her eyes and immediately saw a pair of orange ones staring right at her.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Her scream startled Scar.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Together:
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!"
The suddenly door burst open revealing a pony behind it.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!"
"GRAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Said pony brandished a golf club above their head.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Scar scrambled out of the bed and fell onto the floor. The pony with the golf club, quickly advanced on him. "You little creep!" The club was quickly swung downwards.
He screamed and covered his head awaiting the blow. "C-Carot Top, wait! Don't hurt him!" Derpy shouted before Scar could be struck. Scar uncovered his head and saw the club just half an inch away from the top of his head. Holding the club was a yellow earth pony mare glaring at him with angry green eyes.
"Wh-What's going on? Where am I?" Scar asked unable to recognize his surroundings.
"You're in my room Scar." Derpy told him still lying on her bed. "Remember? We got really drunk last night, and then we went here."
He concentrated and tried to remember the previous night. He remembered saying bye to his brothers, going into Scotch's Place, meeting Derpy and telling her about his problems, drinking with her, leaving the bar and remembering about his hurt wing, accepting Derpy's offer of a massage and more drinks, getting home, chatting and drinking-
He stopped at that memory because everything after that was a blur. But looking around from Derpy still lying on her bed covered in a blanket to his own state, his pupils shrunk as he felt a sack of bricks fall into his stomach.
"Oh...Oh crap..." His breaths became ragged as he clutched his head. "Oh no...No no no no NO! Derpy! Please tell me we didn't!"
As he panicked, Carrot Top raised the golf club higher. "H-Hang on!" Derpy cried out desperately trying to remember the previous night. "OK...OK. I remember us getting home. We were both laughing and talking downstairs, and...and I was scared we'd wake everypony else up. Then we...We grabbed some cider and went upstairs..."
"Oh crap..."
"We kept on drinking and got even more drunk...
"No..."
"We got in my room..."
"NO!"
"You got on my bed."
"NO!"
"I crawled on top of you..."
"NO!"
"I said I was gonna make you feel really good."
"NO!"
"I started massaging your wings."
"NO!"
"You kept moaning and telling me how good it felt."
"NO!"
"Then you flipped over on your back."
"NO!"
"You told me to massage under your wings."
"NO!"
"Then you went back to moaning."
"NO!"
"And then you..."
"NO!"
"Y-You fell asleep."
"Nuuuuuu-What?"
"You...You fell asleep." Derpy said wide eyed. "You kept moaning and moaning and then...started snoring."
Scar blinked twice, and Carrot Top lowered the club. "Y-You sure Derpy? You completely sure about that?"
"Um..." She scrunched up her eyes and started thinking. "Uh...I'm sure. After you fell asleep, I fell next to you and started sleeping too."
It took Scar several moments for this to sink in, moments where the weight in his stomach vanished. "So that means...That means, I fell asleep." A wide grin quickly broke out. "I fell asleep! We didn't have sex! Yes!"
It was only after about five seconds after he said it that he realized what he had said. "N-Not that you're not attractive or anything Derpy." he said quickly. "I-I mean I-you-I-you see-n-never mind..."
As he sighed and laid down once again, Carrot turned to Derpy with a questioning look. "So who is this guy Derpy?"
"Oh." She hopped off her bed and approached her. "Carrot, This is Scar, my uh...friend." She fidgeted nervously. "Scar, this is my room mate Carrot Top."
"Uh, hi." Scar greeted awkwardly with a little salute. "Sorry about the screaming."
Carrot sighed. "It's OK; I'm sorry about almost hitting you. I'm just glad you didn't wake up-"
"Mama?"
All eyes turned to the doorway where a unicorn filly stood clutching a stuffed bear. She had a violet coat, a blonde mane and yellow eyes which seemed familiar to Scar. He slowly turned turned to Derpy and realized the similarities between her and the filly. That, plus the way she looked at Derpy when she asked, gave him an idea to her identity resulting in his jaw dropping.
"What's wrong Dinky?" Derpy asked worriedly.
The filly clutched her bear tighter as she approached. "I heard you screaming and got scared. Are you hurt mama?"
Seeing her worried about her, Derpy pulled the filly closer. "Aww, I'm OK muffin. Auntie Carrot just scared me that's all." she said comfortingly. Scar pushed his jaw back up.
"I wasn't the only one." Carrot replied pointing at the pegasus who turned to the filly.
"Y-Yeah...Sorry about scaring you like that." He scratched the back of his head a little guilty about startling her. "Anyway, I'm Scar; I'm friends with uh...your mom."
Dinky tilted her head as if she were examining him and the smiled. "If mama likes you, then I like you. I'm Dinky."
Seeing Dinky smiling innocently in the embrace of her mother tugged Scar's heartstrings; he couldn't help but smile back at her. Derpy smiled as well seeing how Scar seemed to already like her daughter. "OK then, everypony hungry for some breakfast?"
The two other girls nodded, but Scar didn't. "Uh...Listen Derpy, I think I've done enough here. I don't really wanna bother you any more...Besides, my family might start worry about me." They've probably started a search party already...
"Scar, you didn't do anything wrong." Derpy told him letting go of Dinky. "C'mon, let's have breakfast together."
"Trust me; you're gonna love what Derpy's making." Carrot told him.
He opened his mouth to argue back, but then, his stomach growled causing him to blush and Derpy to giggle. "OK I'm in. So what're we having Derpy? Toast? Cereal? Pancakes?"
The wall-eyed mare smiled.
"Muffins!"
Scar had never had muffins for breakfast before, but, as he munched on one of Derpy's banana-chocolate chip muffins, he wished he did it all the time, or at least, have more of Derpy's. His muffin half-done, he reached across the table and plucked another one from a tray.
"I told you mama makes the best muffins ever." Dinky told Scar as she ate a muffin of her own. "Mama, can we have some more please?"
"In a minute muffin!" Derpy called out from the kitchen where she and Carrot where busy making another batch. The two mares sounded like they were talking about something, but Scar chose to ignore it.
Excited for another round, Dinky continued with her muffin. "So uh Dinky..." Scar began a little nervous. "You in like, kindergarten or something?"
"Uh huh. Ms. Cheerilee's the nicest teacher ever. Yesterday, she said that the unicorns in are class are gonna start using magic today. She said Ms. Twilight was coming in to teach us the basics." Dinky told him.
"Really? That's cool I guess." Scar said finishing his muffin. "So, can you do magic already?"
"Kinda; watch this."
Dinky turned her gaze to the lone muffin sitting on a tray about a foot away and concentrated, scrunching her eyes up to the point where they almost resembled her mothers. At first, nothing happened; Dinky propped her hooves on the table and concentrated harder, her tongue sticking out a little. The tip of her horn started to glow with a dark gold aura before sputtering and extinguishing.
"Aww." Dinky said sadly looking at the muffin which hadn't moved even a little bit.
Just then, Derpy came into the room and deposited a fresh plate of warm muffins on the table. "Don't worry muffin. You'll get it right some day." she said patting her daughter on the head and sitting next to her.
"Isn't Twilight like, Princess Celestia's student or something?" Carrot mentioned. "If you keep it up, maybe you can be her student."
"My teacher's teacher is the princess? I'm gonna be the bestest unicorn ever!" she cried out excitedly earning laughs from around the table.
Smiles on their faces, they continued enjoying breakfast together. By the time they were done, Scar was happy and full. As Carrot took the dishes away, Derpy fetched a small backpack and place it on Dinky. "Now, you be good OK?"
Dinky nodded and nuzzled her mom. Derpy gave her a kiss on her forehead before she ran off to school. "Bye mama! Bye Auntie Carrot! Bye Mr. Scar!"
Scar waved back at her before she galloped out of the house. Carrot emerged from the kitchen finished dealing with the dishes. "I guess I better go too. I have to get my stall up early today."
"OK. I'll see you later then." Derpy said happily waving to her room mate.
Carrot nodded at her and headed for the front door where she stopped and looked over her shoulder. She gave him a funny look leading him to raise a confused eyebrow in response. She held that look for about half a minute before shutting the door behind her. As soon as it did, Scar rounded on Derpy and asked the question he had been withholding.
"You have a daughter?!"
Derpy winced a little. "Sorry about that; I'm just a little surprised." he quickly apologized. "She's a good kid y'know."
She smiled feeling good about hearing about her daughter. "Well...You said your family's gonna worry about you right? You should go now. C'mon, I'll walk you out."
"Y-Yeah...Right..." Scar shuffled around nervous before being led to her front door. "Hey Derpy, thanks again for y'know, everything. I know things got all messed at the end, but I still wanna say thanks. I really had fun last night; you helped me get through a really tough time for me."
She smiled as they reach the doorway. "Yeah...I had a lotta fun too. I'm really glad your're not sad anymore."
Scar smiled and looked out the doorway. "I'm still not giving up on Rainbow y'know. I'm still gonna make things right again."
Derpy watched him gaze out of the doorway determined to make things right between him and his idol. "Y'know, if you're ever around, maybe we can hang out again."
"OK, but let's not get drunk again OK?" Scar replied leading both of them to laugh. "Yeah...That'll be great. I'll see you around Derpy."
As she smiled back, he gave her a little salute before taking off. As soon as figure vanished in the distance, Derpy sighed and entered her home, glad that Scar wasn't unable to see the look of worry on her face.
After flying for around a minute, Scar's wing felt a lot better than it did the day before. Derpy's massaged had apparently done wonders to it. Wanting a true test, he enlarged his wings and found, to his delight, that his wings still didn't hurt. He flapped several times and sped up towards the direction of the Everfree forest. With any luck, he's get there before the search party set out.
Passing over the trees, he spotted none of his family searching around for him. He continued on deeper into the forest eventually coming across the castle he called home. He touched down in front of the main door, which at the same time, opened."
"Solstice! Blues!" Scar cried out galloping to his unicorn brothers as they stepped out. Both of them halted as he stopped in front of them.
"There you are. Have you any idea how worried father was last night when you didn't return?" Blues reprimanded sternly.
"Heh. Nice to see you too bro." Scar said with laugh.
"We were all worried about you Scar. Why didn't you inform us that you were to spend the night in Ponyville." Solstice asked.
"Well...uh...I guess I got caught up in trying to clear my head." Scar answered hoping to end this conversation quickly. "Aaanyway...I think I'm gonna head on up to my room." he said passing between his brothers and failing to notice Blue's eyes widen. "I'll tell you guys more about it later so-"
He stopped as he felt something quickly wrap around his hind legs and snapped them shut. It then coiled around his torso and wings and yanked him backwards causing him to shriek. The next thing he knew, he was upside down and got a good view of what was holding him, something navy blue with light blue flecks. Sticking out of the end was a long tendril with the same coloration. He traced it and found it attached to the top of Blues' head. His blind, milky eyes burned holes into his orange ones.
"Is that alcohol on your breath?!" Blues exclaimed as Solstice backed up. He knew better than to get in the way of an angry Blues.
"I uh...you see..." Scar stammered unable to think properly due to the blood rushing to his head.
"So this is how you 'cleared you head'?" Blues shook him a few times. "You know how poor your judgement is when you're drunk! Please tell me you didn't get yourself into any trouble."
"I...I didn't, honest!" Scar answered hoping this would calm Blues down. "Besides, I wasn't alone! I was uh...with a friend."
"A friend? Was it with this friend that you spent the night?" Solstice asked.
The upside down pegasus quickly nodded at Blues. "Y-yeah. Yeah, we did get really drunk, but we didn't get into trouble or anything. We just talked and talked and then we decided to hang out at her place-"
"Her?! HER?!"
Celestia help me.
"YOU! TOOK! HOME! A! DRUNK! MARE!?" Blues shrieked punctuating each word with a jerk of his hair, making Scar swing around madly.
"AAH! WE! AAH! DIDN'T! AAH! DO! AAH! ANYTHING! AAH!"
Blues stopped and let his brother come to a rest in front of him. "Sh-she said herself that nothing happened!" Scar cried out not daring to mention that they had shared a bed. "She told me that I fell asleep before anything uh...happened..."
Blues narrowed his eyes at his brother who gulped. After a few moments of glaring, he sighed and gently lowered Scar to the ground. The hair surrounding his body retracted back into his mane returning it to its usually wavy state. "Very well Scar; I believe you." Scar sighed in relief. "But still...getting yourself drunk and spending the night in an equally drunk mare's home isn't something to be proud off."
"I know; it was a stupid thing to do. I'm just glad nothing bad happened. Besides, we can still be friends." Scar said picking himself up. "And she really did help me clear my head about my problem with Rainbow."
"She sounds like a good friend." Solstice commented.
"She is." Scar agreed. "Anyway, I should probably head inside and tell dad I'm OK right?"
"Yes, and you probably should mention how you spent your evening. I'm sure father has some words for you as well." Blues said heading inside.
"At least he's way nicer." Scar muttered as he and Solstice headed inside as well.
The door behind them quickly shut blocking out their view of the outside world. With seemingly no one watching, another pony touched down in front of the castle, a pegasus mare with a spade Cutie Mark grinning evilly at the castle before her.
Heh...we've got you now...