10-10-13
Another month of life down, another month spent with Anacrusis. Recently, his language has expanded dramatically. He used the word “Bombastic” (Properly, I might add) the other day. I honestly hadn’t even heard that word in a few years up to that point. I actually had to go get the dictionary (Away from everypony else, of course) to remind myself what it meant, and then it made sense. The little pocket dictionary we keep in the bookshelf was missing. I don’t need two guesses to know who took it. I guess I know what I’m getting some special colt for his first birthday.
In other news, Flutterheart’s officially pregnant again. I swear, I said a special little prayer hoping that I gave her a filly. I have no idea what she’ll do to me if it isn’t.
Missing a dictionary,
Trey
“Alright, so Anacrusis is headed off to summer camp for the weekend, and I’m going to be spending the weekend in Canterlot with the girls. Flutterwing’s friends will be over around 7. Dinner’s in the fridge, there’s a movie at 8, although there are some in the cabinet if they don’t want to go see that one. You know where the boardgames are, and-”
“Flutterheart, I got this.” said Trey, putting a hoof up, smiling at her.
“Are you sure? I mean, Twilight totally had this planned ahead of time before Flutterwing wanted to have the sleepover and-”
“Don’t worry, honey, I got this.”
“Are you sure?”
“Positive.”
“Really? Because I can cancel if you need the help! I don’t want to leave you swamped and-” she started, before Trey quickly kissed her, silencing her to nothing but a gasp and sigh.
“I got this.” he said, giving her another kiss. She stepped back, smiling at him, picking her saddlebags up, hoisting them on her back.
“I’ll feel a lot better if the cottage remains standing when I get back. Can you at least promise me that?” she asked, giving him a mischievous smile.
“How many kisses is that worth to you?” he asked, flashing her the same smile.
“You’ll get none if the cottage isn’t here.” she said, giving him a little nuzzle before giving him another kiss. He gently put his neck next to hers, hugging her.
“I’m going to miss you.” he said, rubbing her back.
“I won’t.” she said, giving a small, sly laugh.
“Yoohoo! Fluttershy!” yelled Rarity from outside the cottage.
“Sounds like you’re all set to go. Have fun!” said Trey, giving her a quick kiss.
“I’ll do my best. I love you!” she said, nuzzling his nose.
“I love you, too. More than anything. Have fun! Bye!” he said, giving her another quick kiss before sending her out the door. He watched from the window until she disappeared from view.
***
The doorbell rang, sending Flutterwing galloping to the door, skidding across the floor.
“Oh, hey, Cherry!” she said, welcoming Chocolate Cherry into the house. Since Anacrusis was gone for the weekend, she was more than happy to spend some quality time with Flutterwing as well.
Cherry hugged her, closing the door behind her as they trotted off to the living room. Trey smiled at them, reading in the other room, waiting for the other guests to appear. Soon enough, the doorbell rang, sending Flutterwing rushing to the door before Trey even had time to get up.
“Yay! Butterscotch!” he heard her say, shortly before a butterscotch colored filly with an equal colored mane trotted in. Her mother waved goodbye, giving Trey a small nod before trotting off. They retired to the living room again. Trey decided to loiter by the door, waiting for the doorbell while keeping an eye on them. They were having fun starting a game of cards, giggling about some names Trey assumed were some colts at school. Perhaps Flutterwing would get her first special somepony soon. He heard a small, timid knock at the door, promptly answering it to find a small, white filly with a beret staring up at him in fear.
“Now, Easel, there’s nothing to be afraid of.” said her mother, reaching down to nuzzle her in comfort. Trey gave her a friendly smile, calling Flutterwing to the door. Easel put on a big smile and galloped in to meet her.
“She’ll warm up, don’t worry.” said her mother, giving him a friendly smile.
“Oh, I’m not worried. They’ll have fun, I’m sure.”
“Is Fluttershy not in?”
“She’s spending the weekend in Canterlot with her friends.”
“Oh. Well, good luck with that. Don’t let them wear you down.”
“Are you kidding? I’m a teacher. This’ll be easy.”
“Well, good luck with that. I’ll come around and pick her up in the morning. Have fun, Easel!”
“Yes, Mommy!” she yelled from the living room.
***
“Daddy, come play with us!”
“What? You fillies will do just fine on your own. Besides, I don’t want to win.” he said, looking for an excuse to let them have their own fun.
“But...” started Flutterwing, beginning the onslaught of the puppy dog eyes she’d inherited from her mother.
“No, don’t do that.” he said. She continued to widen her eyes.
“Please?”
“Hnnnng....” he muttered, trying to avert his gaze.
“Pretty please?”
“...fine.” he conceded, trotting off to the living room.
***
“And the topic is...slimy!” said Trey, throwing down a card. Flutterwing, Cherry, Butterscotch, and Easel threw their cards in the pile. He gathered them up and layed them out, reading them off.
“Slimy...let’s see...we have...Manes.” he said, reading the first card. “Not unless somepony hasn’t heard of good hygiene. Then there’s...mold. That’s a good one. Let’s see...trumpets. Well, now, that just isn’t fair.” said Trey, sending the girls into hysterics. “We’ll just toss that one out.” he said, throwing it into the “reject” pile.
“But wait! What if the trumpet got covered in slime?” asked Cherry, pleading her case.
“It didn’t say ‘Slime covered trumpets’, did it?” he said slyly.
“Well...no, but use your imagination.”
“Psh. It’s Summer, I’m on break. I’m not going to use my imagination for a while. DENIED!”
“Aw...” she said, laying her head low.
“And, last but not least...oh, come on, really? Stallions? Was that the best you could do?” he said, to which the girls laughed again. “Stallions. No. Just...no.” he said, tossing it into the reject pile. “So we’re left with manes, and mold. I think we know the obvious answer. Mold it is.”
“Yay!” said Easel, gathering the card.
“Wait, she has 5 already? I only got three...” said Butterscotch.
“I was so close...” said Flutterwing, spreading out her 4.
“I feel terrible.” said Cherry, who didn’t have any winning topics at all. Flutterwing laughed at her as Trey whinnied at his two.
“Wanna play again?” asked Flutterwing.
“You fillies go ahead. I think I might go watch some TV.”
“But...I want you to play with us...”
“Yeah, you’re like...the cool dad.” said Cherry.
“Well, thanks, but you fillies need to have some fun without me! I can’t be there for everything! What if you wanted to talk about all the cute colts?”
“Well...”
“And makeovers? Aren’t those common? And pillow fights?”
“Makeovers? That sounds fun!” said Flutterwing.
“Yeah!” said the girls, as they clamored upstairs. Trey trotted to his room, turning on the TV, hearing the fillies laugh upstairs.
“Nothin’ to it.” he said to himself, flipping to “Dr. Whooves”.
“Daddy?” he heard Flutterwing yell.
“Yes, Little Flutters?” he answered, trotting to the staircase.
“Um...something’s wrong. We need your help.” she said, as he heard the other girls laugh.
“What happened?”
“I don’t know how to explain it. We just need you to fix something.”
Trey raised his eyebrow. “Alright then.”
He trotted upstairs, pushing open Flutterwing’s door, seeing nopony there.
“Hello?” he asked, trotting further inside. He heard loud laughter as he was suddenly tackled to the ground, Cherry and Flutterwing laying on his back, preventing him from moving.
“Get me the comb!”said Flutterwing, as Butterscotch used her magic to give her one.
“What are you doing?” asked Trey, fearing an answer he knew was coming.
“It’s a makeover, silly!” said Cherry.
“Oh, no, no, no...” he said, struggling against the weight of the two ponies on top of him.
“It’ll be fun!” said Flutterwing, using the comb to braid Trey’s hair.
“No, please stop...” said Trey, sighing, laying his head on the floor, awaiting the end of his doom.
***
“There!” said Flutterwing, hopping off of Trey. Easel held a mirror up to his face, revealing a long braid, complete with glitter and some fresh blueberry-mango-peach-melon-strawberry-carrot-cucumber-grape hair spray, infused with aloe vera, Keratin, and assorted vitamins and minerals for long-lasting strength, shine, and brilliance. He had a small amount of blush on his cheeks, and a horribly mangled attempt at lipstick smudged on his upper lip and nose.
“You’re beautiful, Mr. Trey!” said Butterscotch.
“Yeah, Daddy!”
“Yeah...” said Trey. “...B.E.A. Utiful.”
“You girls want to go to the movie now?” asked Flutterwing. Trey’s eyes opened wide in fear.
“Yeah!”
“I’m not going out looking like this.” said Trey.
“But you’re beautiful, Daddy!”
“Uh...yeahno.”
“But...”
“I can’t go out looking like this.” he said.
“Please?” asked Flutterwing, giving him the puppy dog eyes. The other three followed suit.
‘Dammit.’ thought Trey.
***
“So, uh...you look...beautiful.” said the ticket vendor, stifling a snicker.
“Yeah, my daughter’s got some amazing makeup skills.” said Trey, in a ludicrously high-pitched voice, trying to make a joke out of the entire situation.
“Don’t worry, I’m sure your wife will be EAGER to kiss you once you get back home.”
“Heh. We’ll see.” he said, accepting the tickets. “Come on, fillies.” he added, rounding them up, trying to quickly shuffle through the lobby.
“Ay! Mr. Trey! You look stunning!” yelled one of his students. “Can’t wait to see you in Summer band like that!”
“You’re going to fail REAL fast!” he yelled back, giving him a snarky smile. They both laughed, and settled in to their respective theaters.
***
“You uh...look beautiful.” said Frosty Freeze, giving each of the fillies their ice cream.
“I did that!” said Flutterwing, beaming at Frosty.
“Oh, is that so? I wish MY daughter made me look as pretty as you.” he said to Trey. Trey simply gave him a small shrug.
“Yeah, why don’t you just ask her? I’m sure she’ll be glad to do it.”
“Heh. No.” he said. Trey rolled his eyes.
“Ready to head back home, girls? Everything’s fixing to close, anyway.”
“Yes, Sir!”
“Thank you, Mr. Trey!!!”
“Oh, it was no problem. Let’s just hurry and get home before it gets too late.”
“Everypony said you were pretty, Daddy! Did we do a good job?”
“Apparently. Now, let’s get home and get ready for a pillow fight.”
“Yay!” shouted the fillies in unison.
***
The familiar sizzle of hay bacon wafted about the cottage as Trey, still clad in the braided hairstyle, cooked up breakfast. Chocolate Cherry slowly trotted in, rubbing her eyes.
“Oh, hey Cherry. Finally woke up, eh?”
“Yeah, The other three are still dead on the floor.”
“Well, they’re going to miss out if they don’t wake up.”
“Perhaps you need to wake them from the dead, like Neighkenstien.”
“Payback for the braid and lipstick I suppose.”
“Yeah, sorry about that.”
“It’s all good. You ponies were happy, that’s all that matters.”
“Yeah, that’s the most fun I’ve had in years. Thanks a lot, Trey!”
“Eh. I just got drug around everywhere. Thank Flutterwing for the fun. Speak of the Devil!” he said, as Flutterwing slowly dragged her hooves in the kitchen, flopping her head down on the table.
“Hey.”
“Mmmm?” asked Flutterwing, moaning.
“Bacon.” said Trey.
“Bacon.” she said, trying to smile.
***
A loud thud banged against the front door. Trey opened the door to find Derpy laying on the mat, rubbing her head.
“You alright, Derpy?”
“Oh, yeah, just fell! I really need to be more careful...” she said, smiling.
“Oh, hey Mom!” said Cherry, trotting up and hugging her.
“Cherry!” Derpy yelled, hugging her tight. “I missed you!”
“I was only gone one night, Mom.”
“Well I still missed you. It’s not the same making muffins alone.”
“You made muffins AGAIN?”
Derpy smiled. “Yep! Chocolate chip flavor!”
“That...actually sounds pretty good. Need some help finishing them?”
“Maybe...I kinda made a mess in the kitchen and I don’t remember how to clean it up.”
Cherry rolled her eyes and smiled at Trey and Flutterwing. “Guess I’ll see you later, then. Thanks! It was fun!”
“Anytime, Cherry.”
“Can I join, too?” asked Derpy. Trey laughed.
“Of course.”
***
“The cottage is still standing!” yelled Fluttershy, stepping in the door. “Treyngel? How’d everything go?”
“You tell me.” he said, appearing from around the corner. Fluttershy gasped.
“Daddy’s beautiful!”
Fluttershy smiled, trying to stifle laughter, partially for how ridiculous Trey looked, but partially because of how sweet she found it that he put up with it. Not to mention how adorable Flutterwing was trying to be.
“Just don’t even ask.” he said. Fluttershy blushed a little, trotting over to him to give him a huge, tender kiss.
“Just one?” asked Trey. Fluttershy smiled and gave him another one as Flutterwing looked on.
“Don’t worry, it’s worth more than a kiss.” she said, turning to hug Flutterwing.
“Mommy, do you like how pretty I made Daddy?”
Fluttershy nuzzled Flutterwing’s nose.
“Of course. You should do it more often!”
“Oh, sweet Celestia, no...”
Fluttershy laughed as Flutterwing beamed in excitement.
Sorry for how overdue this chapter was. I made the chapter a little longer than average to try and compensate. Now that I have a job and summer classes, I'll do my best to get new chapters out of all my current fics. Once again, I'm sorry for how late this one was. Enjoy!
Trey
All I have to say is
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!
Hahaha, this chapter was amazing. I felt sorry for Trey
love it like all of the other ones
I absolutely LOVED this chapter man! Keep it up! I like the chapters at this length as well, It feels more comfortable here. Not to short and not to long.
Reading this story always manages to put a smile on my face and diabetes in my pancreas. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Wait a second... Vegetarian ponies... eating... Bacon? Isn't that like... pseudo-canibalism, maybe?
I think i just got a little sick....
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AFTER FINISHING THE CHAPTER: A great chapter as ever, but i still can't get over that little detail.... Bacon?
Anyway. We still never got to see Annie's cutie mark.... And i want a picture of "Beautiful Trey" now.\
-The Librarian
688680 I have been through that before, with my five year old cousins. It isn't as much of a nightmare as people might say. I wore heels- not high heels, mind you, but HEELS- for a week afterwards, just because they stole my shoes, and hell. They matched my nails.
I'm still a bit miffed my aunt didn't show me the wonders of fingernail polish remover at the time. It was after that week that she finally showed me.
690148 It says hay bacon. It is bacon, made from hay. They just call it bacon the same way I call pig bacon bacon.
oooooooooooooh god
Id be lying if i said i didn't miss this story.
690148 I believe the previous chapter talks about Annie's "Manly mark"
that.... was hilarious.
Trey's misfortune reminds me of Daddy Daycare
Hey beautiful XD
What were they up to?
Where did Fluttershy and her friends go?
What do you have against bacon?
Meet Bacon, the only omnivore in Equestria that's a pony. Her brother, Bakon, whom I am yet to draw, isn't
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HAHA!
697175 They went to Canterlot, remember? And I have nothing against bacon. But it's hay bacon. I was trying to make a sly joke there with the whole "Hey. Bacon." in contrast to "hay bacon" but yeah. Glad to see you can still sneak off to this site.
698704 Keep them coming, man.
Not you, silly
And again, taking for ever to write the review...anyways, here we go!
This chapter was interesting in the fact that it didn't advance the plot a whole lot. It was pretty much just a nice little feel good chapter, but thank God you wrote it. The sweet little chapters like this can melt most anyone's heart.
The diary entry was interesting this time around, as it wasn't the typical “daww” diary, but it was nice that it took the route of revealing little details about the story that until now we only had big picture ideas about. Also, I thought it was kind of funny how Anacrusis unintentionally out smarted his father. It would be funny to see that happen in public at some point (after this chapter, I'd think Trey could take any level of embarrassment)
Also, I personally enjoyed the thought of Fluttershy ragging on Trey if he didn't give her a filly (non-canonically speaking of course) Maybe something along the lines of “You're....going....to give me a FILLY!”
Fluttershy was funny with being so worried about Trey and the kids. It clearly fits in with her personality of over worrying about things. I'm a bit surprised she didn't start listing off the numbers for the hospital, fire department, P.I.B., etc.
“I'm going to miss you,” he said, rubber her back
“I won't.” she said, giving a small, sly laugh.
I'm not sure I got what this was suppose to be. Was Fluttershy just trying to be funny, or was she trying to tell Trey she would be having too much of a good time with the girls to miss him? Not terribly important, just seemed like an odd thing for Fluttershy of all ponies to say.
Amusing how Easel's mother also apparently didn't think Trey would be able to handle the kids. Must be something about mothers.
Trey is such a sucker for puppy dog eyes. Hope he gets that fixed before Flutterwing hits her teenage years, or Fluttershy will have reason to worry.
Yeah, Trey is definitely the type to be the “cool” dad. It's definitely heartwarming for the reader to see such a clear display of love and joy between father and daughter.
On an unimportant side note, Trey, a high school band director, not letting trumpet be put in the slim pile. I mean, some kids to keep their horns clean, but I've heard horror stories from band directors...just saying.
Also unimportant, Dr.Who for the win!
Getting back on track, Trey is a very patient father apparently. Can't imagine many fathers who would act calmly after hearing about something needing to be fixed, more or less after being tackled to the ground, but I guess that is what makes his character so likable. Also, he was held down by two fillies? Yeah, I'm not buying that. Clearly Trey was just being a very understanding and tolerant father.
I liked the over kill on the description of the hair spray, added a little bit of a subtle comedic effect. Sounded like something out of a commercial.
Going out in public like that, now that is funny. Just coming from a guy who has worn minimal make up for the stage before, I would never, ever go out in public looking like Trey, no matter how much my off spring begged me. But again, it's one of those things that makes Trey so likable as a character. I am also slightly hoping that at some point in the future Trey's students bring this little incident up one way or another, for humor's sake.
The dynamic between Chocolate and Derpy is a bit unusual, but overall I find it to be well done. You find a way to keep the classic Derpy character while still creating a sense of love between her and Chocolate. That dialogue does beget to question, who really is the care taker in their relationship. Might be a bit of a give and take between the two of them. Who knows, but it might be something to explore at some point. Seems like it could make for a good short story. Just a random idea.
I doubt there is any amount of “dawww” in the world to properly explain how sweet and beautiful the last scene between Trey, Fluttershy, and Flutterwing was. Hilarious, but beautiful. Also, Fluttershy's apparently developed a bit of a sense of humor. “Of course. You should do it more often!” While there hasn't been too much focus on Fluttershy in these later chapters, it is still nice to see subtle developments to her character as she has clearly become more confident about herself since delving into motherhood.
I think this chapter really does come down to a brilliant mix of comedy and love. It wasn't the most epic, M. Night Shyamalan plot twisted chapter ever, and I think that's perfectly fine. Obviously you can't do these feel good chapters all the time, but when you do write them, I really do enjoy them. Bravo!
As always, I continue to look forward to your future writings.
~Nocturne
777000 Before I thank you, I must say, how does it feel to be the 777,000 comment on Fimfiction? One of the best reviews on such an eventful comment day.
Yeah, I intended for this chapter to be a short feel-good chapter. There hasn't been much focus on Flutterwing OR Flutterheart, and I feel that i have, indeed, not been using them to their full potential, instead relying on the father-son relationship I fantasize over. I will definitely try to use them more in upcoming chapters.
As always, I love your reviews, man. My only complaint is that I wait so long to read them. Then again, I'm taking a while to get new chapters out. having a job sucks sometimes.
Trey
777462 I'll see what I can do to expedite the process. Ironically enough unemployment leaves me with extra free time on my hands to write reviews
So uh... Is this going to update any time soon? Cuz I kinda need my fix man...
817802 Need your fics?
818241 Ah... I see what you did there
And yes. Yes I do.
I'm working on the new chapter. Not sure where I want to take it, though.
Stayed up all night reading this. I have no regrets
829665 Did you read the first novel, Flutterheart?
830436 of course i did. twas a heart warming story
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