Starlight Chronicles

by WanderingPhysicist

Flashback: Sharing Kindness

Main Characters: Fluttershy, ????
Cameos: Sunshine, Freya
Original Start Date: August 4, 2014

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Sunshine holds Kain in his forelegs. ‘There. There. It will be okay. Mommy is just having a tough time right now.’

His son keeps crying. Freya trots over and nudges her father. He puts a wing around her.

‘Dad?’ the young filly squeaks.

Sunshine leans down and rubs his head on Freya’s. ‘Sorry, sweetie. Mommy is very emotional from just having given birth to your brother. When her pet rabbit died...’

Freya nods, hugging her father tightly. She reaches up toward her baby brother. ‘Help mom.’

Her father smiles. ‘You want to take care of Kain so I can go be with your mother?’ Freya nods in response. ‘You’re a very good, brave girl, but mommy wanted to be alone for a bit. We should let her be.’

Freya frowns and whines. She looks up at the second floor landing.

In her bedroom, Fluttershy lays on her bed, sobbing into her pillow. A small puddle has formed on the bed and is starting to spill onto the floor. She cries so loudly that she does not hear somepony enter the room. A kind hoof is placed on her back.

‘It will be okay, Fluttershy. I am here for you,’ a friendly voice says.

Fluttershy looks up. With the tears in her eyes, all she can see is a purple blob. ‘Who-who are you?’

‘Let me help.’

The purple blob levitates tissues over and wipes her friend’s eyes.

‘Twilight!’ Fluttershy gasps. She instantly glomps her friend in a hug.

Twilight pats her friend on the back. ‘It is wonderful to see you too.’ She returns the hug as best she can. ‘I’m sorry about your loss.’

Fluttershy starts tearing up again. ‘A-Angel. H-he...’

‘I know. He was very special to you.’

‘He was one of my closest friends for so very long. I don’t know how I can go on without him.’

Twilight gently strokes her friend’s mane. ‘I am certain you can. You have a lovely family. All of your friends are here for you too.’

Fluttershy stops crying. ‘My friends and family… My fami-! UGH!’

The pegasus cringes as a sharp pain surges through her abdominal region. She falls over.

Twilight catches her friend. ‘It is just a cramp. Probably due to your recent pregnancy.’

‘You think?’ Fluttershy growls in pain. ‘You try squeezing a kid out of you. It is definitely not as easy the second time.’

Her friend laughs. ‘I would need a first time before I could even compare.’ She looks aside, towards a mysterious cabinet. ‘We should get on that. Don’t want to be five hundred and still the only mare without a foal.’

‘What?’ Fluttershy asks, regaining her composure.

‘Nothing!’ Twilight returns her attention to Fluttershy. She levitates a brush and starts to pull it through her friend’s mane. ‘Actually, your family is why I am here.’

Fluttershy’s eyes go wide. ‘Oh no! Are they going to take over the world or something?’

Twilight laughs. ‘Not yet! No,’ she chuckles, ‘I wanted to bring you a gift to celebrate your new foal.’

Her friend gasps. ‘Kain! My baby! I completely forgot about him!’ She starts tearing up again. ‘Here I am worrying about my own problems when he needs his mother. Stupid Fluttershy...’

‘You’re not dumb,’ Twilight corrects. ‘You were just preoccupied. That is why James and I wanted to stop in and remind you of all the people who love and support you.’ She hugs her friend. ‘We can’t survive without your kindness, and we are here for you.’

Fluttershy smiles at her friend.

‘Oh! I almost forgot.’ Twilight levitates a bag over. ‘I know this might seem in bad taste, but it really isn’t meant that way. I mean, I sewed it by hoof myself. After spending three hundred years taking care of James, you learn a few useful skills,’ she grumbles to herself.

Fluttershy raises an eyebrow, confused and curious.

‘Anyway! I made you a gift for your foals.’ She gives the bag to her friend. ‘I hope you like it.’ She cringes and looks away as Fluttershy opens the gift. ‘Don’t hate me!’

Fluttershy removes a small, white rabbit plush doll. She smiles and holds back tears. ‘Th-thank you. It is wonderful.’

‘I-I cast a few spells on it,’ Twilight stammers. ‘Just some basic wear and tear spells so it will never get dirty or ruined or torn or...’

Fluttershy cuts off her friend by giving her a big hug. ‘Twilight really is best princess.’

Twilight smiles and returns the hug.

Sunshine rests on the couch. Freya sits under his wing as they play with Kain together. They hear soft hoofsteps on the stairs. They look over to see Fluttershy coming down to the first floor.

‘I’m sorry,’ Fluttershy whispers when she receives their attention.

Sunshine gets up and carries Kain with him. ‘It is perfectly all right. You just take as much time as you need.’

Fluttershy smiles and kisses her husband. ‘What I need is my family.’

Freya wraps her forelegs around her mother’s leg and squeezes as hard as she can.

Fluttershy nuzzles her daughter. ‘Everything is okay now. Thank you so much for caring. You are mommy’s little angel.’

The young bat pony coos.

‘Are you sure everything is okay?’ Sunshine asks.

Fluttershy nods. ‘Don’t worry. I’m fine. I mean it.’ She reaches over and picks up Kain. ‘Let me take him. He is probably hungry.’

‘I can do that,’ Sunshine offers.

Fluttershy frowns. ‘He is still a baby. He needs proper nursing.’

Sunshine rolls his eyes. ‘If it were up to you, you would still be nursing Freya.’

Freya grimaces at the prospect.

‘It will only be a moment. Then we will be right back down to be with our lovely family.’ She nuzzles her son’s belly. ‘Won’t we, Kain-y-wainy.’

The baby laughs and hugs his mother’s nose. Fluttershy smiles. She spreads her wings to fly back upstairs, but her new rabbit plush fall from under her wing. Freya picks it up and looks at it. She holds it toward her mother.

Fluttershy smiles. She bends down, still holding Kain. ‘That was a gift from one of mommy’s friends. It is a reminder that I always have loving friends and family with me.’ She stands back up and lifts off the ground slightly. ‘You should hold on to him. He can be your Angel since all of you are my angels.’

Freya holds up the plush. ‘Angel?’

Fluttershy leans down and kisses her on the head. ‘That’s right. You are.’

Author's Note:

TWP/SCS Timeline: Kain is born. Angel dies. Twilight helps Fluttershy with her depression.

Freya Timeline: Gets her Angel doll.

Story Note: While this seems like an origin story for Freya's first doll (having seen how she got her second one earlier), I wanted it to be more about Fluttershy and her getting into her mother role.

Comments

[TWTulpa]

Poor Fluttershy. At least she has her family to cheer her up.

[Sphinx_Herald]

Sunshine hold Kain in his forelegs

It should be 'holds' so long as it's in the present tense.

‘Her I am worrying about my own problems when he needs his mother. Stupid Fluttershy...’

'Here' is the word you're looking for.

Sorry about that, I just find myself correcting small errors I spot a lot more often recently. Anyways, it's nice to see Fluttershy with her family. Keep up the great work! Until next time,
-Sphinx

[WanderingPhysicist]

4801726

I get the excuse that I wrote the chapter about 12hr before it was posted All errors are because I am still sleepy right now

[Patronum2000]

Fluttershy removes a small, white rabbit plush doll.

And that was my very unrealistic head cannon about angel destroyed

Also, can I assume that in the flashback chapters were you don't wright about Starlight and Satsuma they're outside watching through the window or something?

[WanderingPhysicist]

6212053 Flashbacks take place before Master Game, so Satsuma and Starlight would either be too young or not around at the time. Unless they are stated to be there, they aren't. (Technically, Satsuma was only in the very first Flashback chapter, depending on your view of biology.)

And the doll Twilight made just looks like Angel. It isn't actually him.