Regretful Decisions

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It was a late starry evening as the final train from Canterlot was arriving in Ponyville Station. IT wouldn’t take long for the ponies that were traveling home to leave their cars. Actually, it was just a singular pony that got off the train as she was one of the only patrons on it. The grey earth pony with the pinstripe mane and tail sluggishly exited her car with her instrument case on her back. Octavia could see her reflection in the window pane in front of her and the long night of playing for Fancy Pants’ Canterlot Garden Party had been quite the event. It was quite enjoyable for her, but still tiring nonetheless. “Come on Octy… Home isn’t that far away,” she said to herself as she started the trot from the station.

After about twenty minutes of walking, Octavia had unlocked the door and started making her way inside. “Hello? Vinyl I’m home! You wouldn’t believe how exhilarating tonight’s pieces were. I got to play one of my favorite Beethooven Symphonies tonight!” she said with a tired excitement flipping the light on. She was a bit confused by the lack of acknowledgement. Surely Vinyl hadn’t gone to bed yet. It was only half past midnight and she knew Vinyl routinely stayed awake into the wee hours of the morning. Come to think about it, the lights were usually on too. She scanned the room before she noticed a note on the table.

“Hey Octy!

Sorry in advance but I won’t be home when you get back from the Canterlot Garden Party. I got a last minute gig in Fillydelphia and had to leave immediately in order to make it there in time to get everything set up. I hope you played well and I know you must have been super excited to play one of your favorite pieces(Yes, I did actually read the itinerary). I stocked up on fresh veggies and stock so you can make some of that favorite soup you like. Rest well and I’ll see you when I get home.

With Love,

Vinyl”

P.S.... Don’t forget about the package arriving in the morning. I know we’ll both be looking forward to a chance to relax with it when I get back.”

Octavia smiled as she sat the note back down on the table and then moved to set her cello over in the corner out of the way. She had to admit that she was looking forward to that. The life of a musician was never easy, and much less so when you’re one of the premier cellists in Equestria. She then stood on her hind legs and let out a stretching yawn as the night was finally starting to catch up with her fully. “Haaa, all of that can wait until the morning. I’m exhausted,” she said to herself before heading up to the bedroom flipping off the light as she did. She didn’t even bother flipping the light on as she entered the room and immediately slipped under the covers. It didn’t take long until she slipped into her slumber.

***

Octavia could hear the birds singing already this morning as she began to stretch out her hooves. After a long night of performing that good night’s sleep was exactly what she needed and she felt ready to tackle the day. She looked out the window to see Celestia’s sun high in the sky and she smiled until she saw the Ponyville clock tower. “Oh, it’s one o’clock already? I must have been more exhausted than I thought,” she sighed. She looked over next to her to the empty space on the bed next to her. This was starting to become more and more of a thing now. It wasn’t Vinyl’s fault, and nor was it her own. It just so happened that they’d been getting called to performances at exact opposite times from each other.

Octavia was ashamed to admit it, but she was starting to feel very lonely. She would still wear her smile in public and make things seem like they were fine. Most of the time they were after all. Every once in a while though she would have some of these darker feelings rising up in her and they’ve been doing so more and more recently. She clutched her sheets close to her before falling back onto her bed. She really wished her relaxing supplies would get here soon. She could really use some comfort and security right now. “Wait a second… The note last night said that they were being delivered this morning!” Octavia sat up with an excited expression. “That means they should be here by now!” she said, throwing the covers off of her and rushing down the steps and then opening the door. However, what she saw stopped her cold in her tracks.

“Oh nononon no…” she said looking at a box that was very clearly labeled in big bold pink and black letters. Silly Filly Adult Foal Diapers. “Oh Sweet Celestia… How long has this been here?! Did anypony else see? I knew I should have gone for the discreet shipping... “ she said looking at the label on it. The delivery slip on it was clearly marked as delivered at nine this morning… Without wasting any more time Octavia grabbed the box and darted inside. She could already feel the wave of different emotions welling up inside of her.

“Four hours?! I never even heard them knock… Why would they just leave it there and not leave me a note to pick it up at the post office!?” she said as she slumped next to the door. “I knew I should have been discreet…” she added as she started to sob. “This is all my fault… I should have just listened to Vinyl… but I didn’t think we could afford the extra cost… and now… now we’re going to be laughing stocks of Ponyville.. There’s no way that nopony else saw these…” she hiccuped. “I could just say they were mine… but then I’ll never get called to perform anywhere again… Vinyl will get pulled away because she won’t be able to be associated with me… and maintain her own image… and I would be alone… I could say that they were Vinyl’s… but… then I would ruin her career, and destroy everything that we have… and she would hate me for the rest of her life... then I would still be left with nothing…”

After what felt like an eternity, Octavia finally shook her head and started to calm down. “Come on Octy… get yourself together… You’re better than this… You’re one of the best cellists in Equestria and a high-demand performer… You can’t let your emotions get the best of you like this… For all you know, no pony was paying attention enough to realize what you ordered, except for maybe the mailmare. Everything will be fine… Just enjoy some relaxation time, and have some of your favorite soup. You’ll feel a whole lot better…” she said to herself as she lifted the box up onto her back. “Oof… I don’t remember these being this heavy before…” she said as she took them upstairs. She was going to have to put them in the dresser anyway.

Once back upstairs she looked back out the window, half expecting to see everypony watching her every move, but in reality, everypony was still doing their own thing without a care in the world for what she was doing. She let out a small sigh of relief. “Wow… I can’t believe I got that worked up over that. Thank Celestia Vinyl wasn’t here to see that melt down… I think that would have gotten me a bigger scolding than the last time,” she said to herself.

She opened the box and began to pull out the packages. She had ordered the Royal Darks this time around, and she was kind of surprised they used the pink lettering for the box considering these diapers were more of a deep lavender with some indigo trim. It could have been a logo thing. Octavia and Vinyl were just drawn to the moons and the planets that were on them and a moon on the landing zone that looked similar to Luna’s cutie mark. The two of them had always been more akin to the night because that was when a majority of their performances were so it just made sense. The Universals were a close second though. The little filly inside of her just loved the pinks and the blues on them and had already decided that those would be the next batch that they would order.

She opened the pack and she started to stack them nice and neatly in their supply drawer. She’d forgotten just how many diapers came in one of their full cases and by the time she got to the last pack she had two of the drawers full. “Got it… our dresser will only hold seventy diapers… still this should last us a few months at least before we have to resupply again… Now, time to relax,” she said as she opened the pack that she sat on top of the dresser. She figured she might as well use the pack that couldn’t fit first rather than trying to rearrange the ones in the drawer later.

She took one of the diapers out and made her way over to her bed before grabbing the powder as well and set it on the nightstand so she could reach it without risking it getting on the tapes. These diapers were expensive and she wasn’t about to let one go to waste because powder kept the tapes from sticking. She unfolded the garment and she started to slide it under her, trying to position her tail right for the tail flap. Once she was comfortable with it, she gave herself a small dash of powder and then brought the front of her diaper up and taped it shut. She then sat up and reached behind her to get the tail tape nice and snug and then she wiggled a bit on the bed sheets. The crinkles that were sounding from her had already made her forget about the traumatizing event earlier that day and she felt much safer now.

Now that she was all padded up, it was time for her to make her soup. With a bit more of a waddle to her step, she crinkled her way down the stairs and back into the kitchen. She opened up the refrigerator to look at all the ingredients that Vinyl had gotten. “Vegetable Stock, check. Corn, check, though I’ll have to cob it. That’s okay though… it’s fresher that way. Let’s see, Carrots, Peas, Tomato, and potato, yup it’s all here!” she said excitedly as she grabbed a pot and placed it on the stove. Once it was on the stove, she added the stock and set it to medium to let it simmer while she was working on the vegetables. She’d found that cooking the broth on high would actually cause it to lose some of its flavor from heating it up too quickly. Using a medium heat would also allow the flavors of each vegetable to at its uniqueness to the dish without overpowering others.

Octavia wasn’t sure what it was about this particular soup, but it always made her so happy to make it. Sure it was just a garden variety vegetable soup, but it always helped put her at peace. The earth pony began to hum and sway a bit to the beat of her own tune. It was soft and pure, and sounded like a combination of Chopone and Brahms, and the soft crinkles from her flank acted like a soft cymbal background to go with the chopping board snare drum while she was cutting her vegetables.

Once she finished preparing the vegetables she slid them off of the board and into the pot and then turned the pot down to low to really let the flavors meld together before adding a pinch of salt and pepper. “Alright… let that simmer for twenty minutes and just have some me time while I wait,” she said to herself again as she moved back to the living room and pulled her cello out of her case. She looked to be deep in thought for a few moments as she was plucking on different parts of strings until she found what she was looking for, and then started to recreate the melody that she was just humming.

At this point she was starting to cross her hooves a bit. She realized that everything she drank last night was starting to catch up with her, and with everything that had gone on this morning she hadn’t even thought about the bathroom yet. Now, her body was very much reminding her of her shortcomings but she paid no mind to it. In fact, she stopped crossing her hooves all together and let her hindlegs bow just a bit as she continued her melody, and she was rewarded with an all too familiar warm splashing sensation as she let the floodgates open. She didn’t know how long she had wet for, but she knew that she was happy. Everything that was bad in the day had gone away, and with a small sniff she knew that more was to come. “Smells like the soup is ready,” she said, propping the cello up in it’s stand.

With that taken care of she looked down to inspect the damage and just as she’d come to expect from these diapers in the past, despite what she would consider a sizable flood there was barely any indication that she was wet at all except for some very slight discoloration where the white padding was now slightly off white and some of the shapes were starting to fade. “Uh Oh, looks like you didn’t make it in time Octy… good thing there’s room for more… we’d hate to waste it,” she spoke to herself before heading back into the kitchen.

When she got back into the kitchen she went to grab onto the pot and almost immediately dropped it with a shriek of pain. “Yaaeeiik!” she said putting her hoof in her mouth. She hobbled over to the sink to turn the tap on and ran her hoof under some cold water for a few minutes. “Stupid! Stupid Stupid Stupid! You should have known that it was going to be hot! Why do I always have to mess up the simplest things… this is soup… I make this all the time… I should have known to grab the potholder first,” she said teary eyed. She looked back over to the pot. Thankfully none of the soup had spilled in her moment of stupidity. This time she remembered to turn the stove top off, and grab the pot holder and she took it off the heat. Perhaps now she could relax for the rest of the day without worrying if anything else was going to go wrong.

The Appointment

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Octavia sat up in her bed after another long night's rest. Vinyl still wasn't home yet from her trip to Fillydelphia, and it had been a few days. Usually Vinyl's performances were a lot like hers, one show and done, but that didn't appear to be the case. Still she couldn't help but wonder if everything was okay. She felt a squish between her legs reminding her of the protective garment she had worn to bed the night before, though she was fairly certain that she had put it on dry before bed. She pulled the covers back and it was indeed a bright yellow and almost all the patterns were faded. "I must have been more tired than I thought I was…" she said, pushing herself out of bed.

She looked at the calendar and then the clock on her nightstand. "Still have a couple hours before my appointment with Tenderheart. Plenty of time to get cleaned up," she said to herself. Without wasting any more time, she made her way into her washroom. She was getting ready to undo the tapes of her diaper when she felt a familiar twinge. She relaxed and the soft hiss echoed through the bathroom as she pushed the capacity of her garment to the limit. She didn't see the point in taking it off just to squat over the toilet. She was already wet, a bit more wasn't going to hurt.

With a sigh she made her way over to the shower and got the water running. She then undid the tapes and balled up the used garment before disposing of it. When she got into the shower, the temperature was perfect. She let the water cascade over her as she thought about the events of the past week. Today was the first day that she was going to be leaving the house since the incident. Part of her thought it was silly that she was so worried about what other ponies thought and how that might affect her, but at the same time it absolutely terrified her. Ponies can be just as hurtful and degrading as the could be supportive and caring. Was she really over thinking it, or was she right to be worried? Was it going to be worse because she hadn't left the house since then? Would that make ponies think even worse of her? She was really starting to wish Vinyl was here. She'd know how to handle this… Shoot, if Vinyl were here they wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.

It wasn't until the water started to run cold did Octavia realize how long she'd been standing there. With a sigh she used what remained of the lukewarm water to wash herself. She cursed herself for letting herself get to the point where she couldn't even take a shower correctly. She turned off the water with a disgruntled groan before stepping out and began getting ready for her appointment. Just because she felt horrible on the inside didn't mean that she had to look horrible on the outside. She did have the reputation of a prim well-kept pony to keep. Besides, her problems were her own. There wasn't any reason to try to involve anypony else with them to help. She'd figure it out eventually. She always did. She put on her signature collar and tie and took a deep breath before walking out the door.

She had to hold her hoof up to the sky for a moment to let her eyes adjust to Celestia's sun before she could see where she was going. Much to her relief most ponies were just running about their own business. Lyra however had come over from her stall with Bon Bon when she saw her step out.

"Hey Tavy!!! How was The Canterlot Garden Party? I was going to ask you about it yesterday, but you didn't answer when I knocked," Lyra commented.

That comment immediately made Octavia blush. She never heard Lyra knock yesterday, which meant that she had come that morning. "Yeah, I got home much later than I anticipated and ended up sleeping way past the time I usually wake up," Octavia replied.

"I see…" Lyra said. "Well, you're going to have to tell me all about it later. Bonnie's finishing up the last couple stand orders and then we have a delivery to Trottingham so I need to get going," she said before giving Octavia a small, friendly hug before beginning to head back to her stall. "Oh, and Tavy. Do make sure to take care of yourself as well. Equestria would be deeply saddened if something happened to one of our best musicians and friends," she finished before trotting back.

Octavia waved back to Lyra as she started to make her way to the Ponyville Clinic. "Right… take care of myself…" she said in a whisper to herself. "That's not always as easy as it sounds..." she finished with a sigh.

It didn't take too much longer until the bells of the clinic signified her arrival. She sighed once more as the distinctive aromas of the medical clinic filled her nose. Most ponies were put off by then, but she found them enjoyable. She looked at the ponies that were in the waiting room and while none of them even acknowledged her presence she could feel the judgemental eyes on her. "No Octy… everything is fine. Just act normal and everything will be fine," she said under her breath as she approached the counter.

"Welcome to the Ponyville Medical Clinic," the tech behind the counter started. "Oh Miss Melody! Nurse Tenderheart is expecting you. Just got a few forms for you to sign and you can head on in,” she smiled, setting the forms on the table for her.

“Really? But what about everypony else here?” Octavia asked.

“Most of them are here to see other doctors.” the tech replied.

“Right, sorry,” Octavia said before signing the forms and heading through the small halfdoor that was opened for her to go in.

She was led into the exam room and a mint green mare was waiting for her. She took her vital signs and jotted everything down before telling her that Tenderhoof would be with her in a moment. Octavia would spend her time in the room looking at all of the plaques on the wall and the different diseases and conditions that ponies should know the warning signs of. There was an assortment of them, but her eyes fell on one. The one that said Know the signs of Depression. “I know most of those all too well…” she said as she heard the door open.

“Good afterno-ooon!” the sky blue earth pony said as she came into the exam room.

“Good afternoon to you as well, Tenderheart. How are you doing today?” she said standing up to give the nurse a brief hug.

“I’m doing great! A bit slow, but otherwise pretty okay. How’s my favorite musician doing? Has it really been a year already?” Tenderheart asked in disbelief.

“I know right? Time just flies by when you’re performing a lot,” Octavia replied with a smile that was a bit more genuine than the one that she was wearing when she had entered the office.

“It does! I can’t wait until I’m able to go to your next one! Your music is always so sweet and serene. I just can’t get enough of it!” the nurse replied.

“You have no idea how much those words mean to me,” Octavia finished.

“Alrighty, all of your vitals look good, so let us begin,” Nurse Tenderheart said as she started to administer the exam. She would start by testing Octavia’s eyes and reactions before moving to physical reactions and reflexes. “Everything’s looking good so far,” she commented. She then moved her stethoscope up into her ears and began to listen to Octavia's chest. “Your heart sounds good,” she said checking things off of the medical list, and off of her own mental list as well that she was keeping track of. “Now for your lungs,” she said, moving the stethoscope. “Alright, breathe in and hold…” she instructed. “And release…” she continued, moving the scope another time. “And in… and release,” she added before moving to Octavia’s back and repeating the commands. Nothing of note or concern there either… Tenderheart thought to herself.

Truthfully she was hoping that she could try to pinpoint an issue to which she might need the package that she had seen by her front door a few mornings ago without having to ask and embarrass the poor mare. If she couldn’t get any ideas though… She was afraid she was going to have some tough questions before the end of the exam. “Alright, I need you to lie on your back for me, so I can get a feel for your shoulders and your spine. X-ray has been backed up all week so I can expedite it by getting a feel of your general structure. If nothing is showing any extra pressure, out of alignment, or exhibiting any pain then we can skip the x-ray all together,” Tenderheart explained.

Octavia nodded and she rolled to her stomach. She felt Tenderheart’s hooves begin to move along her shoulders and knead into them. Judging from this, Tenderheart could have very easily been a masseur of sorts. Tenderheart moved from one shoulder over to the next tracing her shoulder blade and her collarbone a bit, making the mare shiver. She then started pressing in intervals down her spine, checking for tension and any spots that light pressure might prove to be painful. Satisfied with her results she stepped back from the grey earth pony. “Good news, I feel I have enough data that we can skip the x-ray. I wasn’t able to detect any abnormalities within your spine or main skeletal structure sooo we’re good!” Tenderheart said with a smile.

“Unfortunately that means it’s time for the more uncomfortable part of the exam… Roll to your back please?”

“Do we have to do this part? It’s so embarrassing…” Octavia asked, blushing a bit.

“Tavy, you ask me this every year, and every year I give the same answer... “

“We’re both mares and it’s nothing you haven’t seen before,” Octavia said with her.

“Exactly, and if it means we can catch early stage polyps and unusual growths we can treat them sooner and not have them turn into possibly more serious,” she said as Octavia sighed and relented. “I’ll make this as quick as I can,” she said as she went to work on the mare. Overall she was highly satisfied with Octavia’s health, and it appeared that she took good care of herself for the most part. Which only further fueled the nagging questions in the back of her mind. “Everything appears to be in order,” she said, setting the soiled instruments aside for them to be disinfected. “See, that wasn’t so bad now was it?”

“I wouldn’t exactly call it exciting,” Octavia countered.

“Of course not dear, I’m your doctor not your lover,” she said with a small laugh getting a glare from the grey pony.

“You know what I mean, Tender!” she said, her face turning redder by the minute. She then saw Tenderheart make sure that the door was locked and stepped on some sort of magical charm. From what she could tell it looked like it sealed the door and then a minty green aura. She then saw a look on Tenderheart’s face that she wasn’t expecting to see. She had that look like she was about to give somepony some very bad news and kept biting her lip. Octavia was growing more confused by the moment. Hadn’t Tenderheart just said that she was in good health? Why did she look like she was about to tell her she was going to die in six months?

“Tavy… You know you can come to me with anything right?” Tenderheart started. Her voice wasn’t quite as firm as it was a few moments ago though as she was still trying to make up her mind whether this was a good idea or not. Octavia hadn’t mentioned it, so it wasn’t an issue… but at the same time… what kind of doctor would she be if she didn’t at least make sure there wasn’t anything hidden going on in her body? Something that would take more than an hour or two to detect.

“Of course Tenderheart! I trust you with my life! Quite literally in this instance… Besides, I wouldn’t let a pony I didn’t trust get anywhere near those parts of me, much less with access to a bunch of surgical equipment,” Octavia replied, making both of them chuckle a bit. Then Tenderheart’s face went back to the worried look as she rubbed one hoof across the other.

“So… you don’t have any outlying symptoms or anything that you feel you might need to tell me about? Nothing at all?”

Octavia just kind of gave Tenderheart a blank look for a moment before shaking her head. “Not that I can think of. Everything has been pretty okay for the most part. I mean, There are times when I’ve been feeling a bit lonelier than normal, but that’s about it… Why do you ask?” she asked the nurse pony.

“Well… you see…” Tenderheart started before taking a deep breath. “Alright… there’s no easy way to say this without it being awkward so I’m just going to come out and say it. I saw that package the other day, and I know that was your cutie mark on the box…” Tenderheart said, pausing as she waited for a reply.

Octavia meanwhile had felt all the blood drain from her as she heard the words that Tenderheart spoke… Oh nononono… not her of all ponies… she probably thinks I’m some kind of freak now… she thought to herself as she could feel her emotions starting to well up again. She couldn’t bring herself to even look at the pony in front of her.

“Tavy…?”

“Well! What are you waiting for!? Lay it on me already!?” Octavia burst out making Tenderheart step back a bit.

“Lay what on you? What are you talking about?”

“That I’m freak! And now because I overslept everypony in town knows I’m a freak! And now you and everypony else are going to laugh at me for eternity, and I’m never going to.” she said as she felt herself get embraced into a tight, warm hug.

“Tavy, I would never say any of those things about you and I’m sure as Celestia going to make fun of you…”

“Then why would you even bring it up!?” Octavia yelled, pushing Tenderheart away.

“Because I’m your doctor Tavy. Do you know how many severe medical conditions have incontinence as a side effect!? A part of me wanted to check on you that very morning when I saw it and make sure everything was okay then!”

“Well I can very much assure you that I am fully capable of…”

“Then why? I promise that you can trust me to be not only polite and professional, but caring as well,” she said, putting a hoof on her shoulder. “I worry about you Tavy. A lot of ponies worry about you. More than you realize. So… Do you wanna tell me what is going on then?”

Octavia wasn’t sure what to feel right now. Right now at this point in time… she felt betrayed… Her own doctor had just exposed her secret to the world… Well… okay… maybe not to the world… she didn’t need to be a unicorn to know that flash was likely an aura of silence on the room. Plus, it was only herself and the nurse in the room anyway, and to top it off… it wasn’t Tenderheart’s fault at all. How could she blame Tenderheart for a mistake that she made? Here she was trying to make sure she was okay, and she as Celestia nearly bit her head off… She began to calm down a bit and took a deep breath.

“Alright… but nothing I say leaves this room.”

“Of course Tavy… Even if I was that kind of mare, I’m bound by doctor-patient confidentiality. Everything you’re about to say is safe with me, and I will not judge you in the slightest,” Tenderheart replied.

“Okay, so… everything kind of started several years ago. Now that I think about it, it wasn’t too long after Vinyl and I became a couple and we started living together. Not that I ever regret that decision… on the opposite. The life of one musician is hard enough to juggle. Everypony has all of these lofty expectations of you, and all it takes is one little setback,” she said before motioning to the door. “Like not paying for discreet shipping and over-sleeping for a few hours. To make everything come crashing down. Ponies don’t see the hard behind the scenes work we do. The traveling, the set up, the ponies that it takes to make every show possible. They only see... the show.” Octavia said gesturing with her hoof before putting it back down.

“Everypony always expects me to be perfect. When I walk in for rehearsals, I’m the one that the conductors look to for things to get done right on the first pass. I’m the one that’s expected to help others learn their parts and play them in time. I’m the one that’s required to stay late if things aren’t done correctly, and even if it’s a grand performance, I’m still the one that gets blamed for the little mistakes because I ‘obviously didn’t work hard enough with the others’. I guess over time that just started eating at me. I would look forward to coming home to Vinyl, but she could sense that something was wrong… much like you did… and Vinyl showed me something. Something she did to take her mind off of all the problems that she was facing and just let herself relax,” Octavia continued before placing her hooves over her mouth from the implications of what she said… “Please… don’t tell Vinyl I said anything… I don’t want her to get upset with me… at least any more than what she’s already going to be from the mess I’ve made of things…”
“Not a word…” Tenderheart replied. She was going to say more but she didn’t want to interrupt too much until Octavia finished.

“I wasn’t sure what to expect at first, and I was… probably about as shocked as you were when you saw my package when I saw Vinyl come out of the bathroom wearing a diaper. I didn’t even know that she had them at the time! Naturally I was curious about it… and honestly asked a lot of the same questions that you asked me, come to think of it. But she said she only did it to help her relax and take her mind off things. Eventually she talked me into trying it with her, and the first time I tried a diaper on… it felt… well there really aren’t enough words to describe it. Safe, secure, warm, cozy, and surprisingly comfortable, and using them felt even better,” she said, blushing a bit from the soft smirk that graced Tenderheart’s face. “Hey! You said no laughing.”

“I’m not, I’m not! I just find that bit really, really cute. Please, continue,” Tenderheart replied.

Octavia nodded. “After that night, it became something that Vinyl and I would start doing to destress after shows. We would make sure that we got some of our favorite foods the night before... enough vegetables and stock to make a delicious vegetable soup and Vinyl loves it when I make noodles in the broth, and then we would spend the entire next couple days in our padded relaxation time, taking care of each other and showing each other unfiltered love and attention. Lately though, we’ve been getting pulled further and further apart. And things have been feeling lonelier and lonelier to where I’ve been wearing them a lot more as a way to help cope with it,” she said with a pause.

“There’s also been mornings where it’s been hard to get any sort of drive to get up and move around, but I know I have to because others depend on me to do so. So I try to put a mask on so that no pony else can tell that I’m hurting, and sometimes… like the other day after I discovered that I’d left that clearly labeled package of diapers by my door for four hours… that shell will break and I will just cry and start berating myself for my own stupidity. Then adding to it that I burned myself doing something so simple as making soup, I had a second break down in the kitchen, and then last night for the first time since I was a filly, I apparently had several accidents overnight, because I remember the diaper I put on last night was dry, but when I woke up this morning… it was almost leaking…”

“Tavy… Why haven’t you told me about this? About any of this? I could have helped you!”

“Well, last night was a one time thing… and I thought it might have just been because of how exhausted I was and it was everything from the entire series of events catching up with me. That probably would have been something I came to you about in the future if it was something that started happening on a regular basis. Like you said… there’s a lot of bad things with that side effect.”

“That’s true… but Tavy everything that you just told me are all symptoms of acute depression!”

“I am well aware… and… that was why I was ordering more… We were out, and I was just coming off a soiree at a charity event for the princess followed up with just enough time to get prepared for the Canterlot Garden Party. I was planning on spending a long week with Vinyl but when I got home on Sunday night, she’d been called to Fillydelphia and she still hasn’t been back yet…”

“Now now, I’m sure everything is going to work itself out. But what you’re going through you are not going to be able to get through on your own. There are a lot of ailments that you might be able to get by with handling on your own. Depression is not usually one of them. Have you thought about antidepressants?”

Octavia immediately shook her head. “I know many performers that used antidepressants ended up worse off with them than they were without. It might be a bit unconventional… but diapers are more comfortable and way less dangerous. I don’t have to worry about any potentially lethal side-effects of wetting myself…” she said, unable to help her blush when she said the last phrase.

“I definitely understand where you’re coming from and I’m not going to pressure you into doing anything. However, if you get to a point where you feel this method is no longer working for you… come back and see me and we’ll work something out. And don’t be afraid to lean on your friends. They all care about you and they aren’t going to care if you decide to wear a bit of padding around your flank now and again so long as they get to keep having their friend,” Tenderheart replied.

“Thank you Tenderheart… I… I actually already feel a whole lot better just getting to talk about it… I’ve been holding everything in for so long because I always felt I never had a choice.”

“We all have a choice, Tavy, and that includes you. Don’t be afraid to be who you are. Not what everypony else wants you to be. Now, just to be on the safe side, and to calm my own nerves on the matter, I want you to come back in a week to get some bloodwork done and to let me get a few urine samples. Especially since you’ve mentioned already having at least one legitimate accident I still want to make sure that there isn’t anything else going on. I’m also going to up your scheduled visits from yearly to quarterly. Depression isn’t something to be taken lightly,” Tenderheart said as she turned the door handle, thus unlocking the door and canceling the silencing aura.

“Alright. I hate needles, but I suppose if it needs to be done, I’ll be here,” she said as she stood up and started making her way towards the door. “And Tenderheart?”

“Yes Tavy?”

“Thank you, for making me do that… I… I didn’t know how much I really needed that,” Octavia said with the first genuine smile she’s had in public in a while.

“Any time dear. That’s what I’m here for. Take care of yourself, and I’ll see you next week,” Tenderheart said returning a smile of her own before she departed to take care of the file.

The bells of the clinic went off once again as Octavia departed having set up the appointments that Tenderheart wanted her to set up and she looked up to see the sun still in the sky by definitely farther west than it was. “Well, that took longer than expected, but… I actually feel pretty okay with that,” she said to herself before starting the walk home.

Petals of a Rose

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It didn't take long for Octavia to make her way home from the clinic. Her mood was already a million times better than it was when she first left the house. That talk that she had with Tenderheart and getting all of that off of her chest problem to be exactly what she needed. She wondered if Lyra was going to pop by again, but then remembered that hey and Bon Bon had a delivery to make. Trottingham wasn't exactly close so they'd probably be starting there for the night.

She shrugged and started unlocking the door. As she walked inside she noticed that the mailbox was quite full. "Oh, I guess I forgot to grab it yesterday. Looks like Derpy's been here today as well," she said as she collected all of the envelopes and took them inside.

She sat down on the sofa and started to go through all the letters that they got. She sat the ones for Vinyl in a small stack and sat them on her turntable that she practiced with. When she started going through the letters for her, one of them immediately caught her attention. The first thing that she noticed was the fact that there was no address on the envelope. Just her name. That meant that or was placed there by somepony that wasn't the mailmare. The second thing that she noticed was the fragrance that was on the paper. It was a very floral aroma and was quite soothing. She opened the letter and pulled out the paper from inside.

"Octavia,

This is Roseluck, and I hope that you are doing well. I saw something by your door yesterday that was… well the last thing that I expected from a pony like you. NOT THAT THAT'S A BAD THING!!! I just mean you didn't seem like the pony that would be into something like that. I know that discovering that they left that package like that was probably a shock, and was quite careless on the pony delivering the package. However, I did want to let you know that no matter what other ponies might think you are not weird, and you are definitely not the only pony in Ponyville that indulges herself in such a way. I would love to discuss this more with you face to face, but only when you are ready to do so. When you are, just come by the shop and ask me about our 'floral bandanas' and I'll know exactly what you mean. I hope to see you soon…

R.L."

Octavia's jar dropped as she read the letter, feeling the blush on her face as she got over the shock of the letter. "No… way… Roseluck!? Her off all ponies? She's so outgoing and joyful with so much personality. I would have never thought she'd be that type of pony!" Octavia said to herself before her eyes went wide with realization. "Oh, that must have been what she meant," she said with a giggle before her nervousness started to come back a bit. "But… What if this is all a ruse? What if she's really just asking to come see her so she and whatever friends she gathered could make fun of me… I don't think Rose would be that mean… but what other things could she be hiding that I don't know about her?" she said, looking at the clock. Octavia remembered what Tenderheart had said and decided that she at least has to try to trust Roseluck. After all, Roseluck had never done anything to wrong her before so that had to be worth something right?

"Well, it's only three… if I remember their flower stall is open till six," she said, pushing herself up and straightening her collar. “I suppose I could at least go and pay the flowershop a visit. Besides, after a doctor’s visit like that I’m kind of craving some ice cream right now. I can always swing by Icy’s place if she’s still open when were done,” she said to herself as she started heading out the door.

The flower shop wasn’t actually that far from Octavia’s house. In fact, it was only three doors down towards the market place. She pushed the door open and was instantly greeted with the pleasant smell of lavender and vanilla. She took in a big sniff of the aromas and she let out a comforting sigh. “Ahh, I always love walking through those doors,” she said with a smile. This was far from the first time she’d been in this store, and would likely not be the last. She was quickly greeted by a pale magenta earth pony with a lime green mane and tail from behind the counter.

“Oh! Hey Octavia! Did you need some flower pieces for another performance? What kind of gig is it this time?” the pony said with a smile as she pulled out a notebook and a pencil before looking back to Octavia with a smile.

“Hey! Good afternoon Daisy! It’s great to see you again as well. I’m actually not here to place an order today,” she told her friend. She felt her heart twinge a bit when she saw the disappointment in Daisy’s face.

“Aww,” she said, setting the pencil down. “Did we get something wrong on the last one? I though the last arrangement came out amazing!” Daisy said with concern.

“Oh Daisy, the last arrangement you girls did for me was absolutely beautiful, and I can’t wait to order from you three again. I know that you’ll never disappoint me,” she said, watching the mare give a sigh of relief. “I’m actually here to talk to Roseluck about something though. Is she around?”

“Oh! Rosie’s in the back! Let me go get her,” Daisy said before pushing through the door. “Rosie!!!” she heard before Daisy got out of hearing range.

At this point Octavia’s heart was thumping in her chest… She wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. She started to hoof lightly at the ground and looked around her sheepishly, almost expecting everypony else to know exactly why she was here. There was nopony else in the shop at all. It was late enough in the afternoon that most ponies had already bought what arrangements they had needed for the day. She began to wonder if she should just leave… as long as she left before Rose came out she could use an excuse that something else had come up right? Unfortunately for her a soft voice could be heard calling to her and she looked up to see that soft yellow mare looking at her with those big chartreuse eyes.

“Octavia? Hello?” Roseluck said, waving a hoof in front of her face. “Are you even in there?” she asked, watching Octavia shake her head and giving off a small giggle. “There you are! Daisy said you were wanting to talk to me?” she asked while Daisy went back to the counter.

Welp, so much for trying to back out, she thought to herself before looking at Rose and nodding. “Yeah I was. I got a… brochure in the mail either yesterday or today about a um…” she said before feeling the words get stuck in her throat. Before she could say anything though she heard Daisy pipe up.

“Brochures? But I don’t remember sending out any brochures this week… and I would know! I usually write them!” Daisy said before noticing the immense blush that was now on Octavia’s cheek and the scowl that she was now getting from Roseluck.

“This was a special brochure that I made specifically for one of our favorite customers,” Rose said, trying to cover for Octavia just a bit. Rose knew exactly why Octavia was here at this point, but she was just waiting for the phrase to make sure that this was something that she actually wanted to do. “It offers very personal arrangements,” she told her sister.

“Oh… That’s weird, you usually run those by me first so that I can get the patterns right for them,” Daisy replied before shrugging.

“Yeah… I was actually here to inquire about the Floral Bandana… arrangement…?” Octavia said before looking back to Daisy as she heard her spit out the water that she was drinking. The look that Daisy had on her face was one of shock, knowing, and… did she…. See a bit of excitement in her eyes? No way… she must have just been seeing things…

Roseluck heard the reaction as well and gave her a much harder scowl, making Daisy shake her head and get back to counting the seeds she was working on before Octavia came in. Still she couldn’t help but let a part of her feel a tiny bit giddy. She knew exactly what that phrase meant and why she was here… and a billion questions started running through her mind.

After that Roseluck gave a very soft smile to Octavia before nodding to her. “Of course. The Floral Bandanas are actually quite popular around here. Please, come back into the back with me and we can discuss some of the personal matters that go into these particular kinds of arrangements,” she smiled, holding the door open for Octavia to enter.

Octavia herself smiled sheepishly at the two sisters before gulping a bit as Roseluck opened the door. She followed her through that door and then back through another door into a consultation room. She still wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, but at least so far nothing bad has happened. Perhaps this wasn’t going to be that bad after all. She heard the door click behind the two of them and then Roseluck locked the door behind them to show that the consultation room was occupied.

“So I assume that you got my note? I’ll be honest I’m kind of surprised that you actually showed up. After I dropped it off I honestly felt kind of silly writing it, and wondered if it would be in poor taste so soon after an unfortunate delivery… but I had already dropped it off, and I really didn’t want to be seen going through your mail to try to get it back. I… didn’t really feel like getting arrested today,” Rose said scratching the back of her head.

“Wait, so you didn’t want me to come?” Octavia asked hesitantly.

“What!? No! I mean yes! I mean… Ug… words are hard. Of course I wanted you to come to me, Octavia.”

“Please, we aren’t in a formal setting. Octy or Tavy is fine,” she reminded Rose with a smile.

“Right, sorry,” Rose blushed. “But Of course I wanted you to come. I just had second guesses about whether I should have written the letter or waited, or just ignored it, but I just happened to be on my way back from the flower stand in the market when I saw you looking distraught at the box and looking around. You looked… broken… and I couldn’t stand seeing one of my friends like that,” Rose added.

“Wait, you saw that? I wonder how many other ponies saw that…” Octavia blushed herself looking away.

“That really doesn’t matter at this point. What does, is to make sure that you are okay, and to make sure that you’re not alone in these things,”

“That does bring me a bit of relief to know that, but I must say that you weren’t a mare that I expected to be into diapers.”

“Oh, I’m not. I haven’t worn them since I was a foal,” Rose spouted off callously.

The tone behind the remark made Octavia pull back a bit. It sounded like condescending sarcasm and immediately her mind started going to ‘worst case scenario’. What if she had only brought her here to make fun of her. “I don’t understand… You called me here to help, and to say that I’m not alone, but then counter with that you don’t wear them and haven’t since you were a foal? What exactly are you trying to tell me?”

“Whoa, Whoa… easy there girl, let’s take this back to Lardo for a second here,” Rose countered. She giggled a bit as she saw Octavia’s jaw drop a bit from her word choice. “What? I took choir in school so I do know a little bit about music.”

“Just get to the point. If you’re going to make fun of me just get it over with so I can go home…” Octavia said courtly.

“What!? Why would I make fun of you? What kind of friend would I be if I let anypony do that to you, much less did so myself?”

“I was wondering the same question… but if you don’t have anything to do with diapers then that still doesn’t answer my question. Why did you bring me here to talk about something that you have no interest in!?” Octavia stomped.

“Octavia please calm down and let me explain! I never said that I wasn’t interested in diapers Tavy, I said I didn’t wear diapers.”

“What’s the difference? That sounds pretty similar to me!”

At that point Roseluck raised her eyebrow at Octavia. “Tavy… you do know that there are two sides of the spectrum right?”

“Spectrum? What spectrum? There’s a spectrum of ponies that wear diapers?”

“Yes, actually,” Rose replied. “You have your ponies that are like you. We call them littles. They are the ponies that enjoy wearing and using diapers among other possibly foalish activities to take them to a place where they can relax in a worry free environment.”

“Uh hu… wait, I’m not little! And I’m most definitely not a foal! I’m a grown mare that just happens to like diapers!”

At this point Roseluck facehoofed. “Will you just let me finish explaining before you keep jumping to the weird conclusion that I’m trying to make fun of you when I’m just trying to explain things?”

“Fine,” Octavia said, sitting in the chair and resting her head on her hoof. She was far passed annoyed right now and was ready for this mistake to be over with so she could go home and not come back to this flower store for a very long time.

“Thank you. Now like I said, you have ponies that are like you, and then you have ponies that are like me. We’re called caretakers,” she said as the moment of realization started to set in for Octavia. “Ponies like me help take care of ponies that identify as littles or if they just want to stay padded for a while and make sure that they don’t have to worry about anything else for the duration. I love helping other ponies relax, and you’d be surprised just how many ponies here in Ponyville I help do just that for! Though… don’t bother asking who, because I won’t say. When ponies come to me for that they are putting a lot of trust in me to keep them protected so There’s nothing anypony could do in order for me to rat them out,” she commented.

Hearing all that made Octavia raise her head back up a bit as all the pieces started to fit into place. She felt briefly relieved that her friend hadn’t called her out here to humiliate her, but then she immediately started feeling sick and couldn’t bring herself to look Roseluck in the eye. This was her friend… how could she have thought so poorly of her own friend to think that Rose would do all of those nasty things to her… She should have known that Rose was going to be supportive. That was the only thing that Rose knew how to be! And she yelled at her! Octavia could already start to feel the tears build up again.

Roseluck herself noticed the long profound silence herself before noticing the tear herself. “Tavy?”

“I’m sorry Rose… You were putting yourself out there to try to help me… and instead of trusting my friend I immediately presumed the worst, and then when we started talking… I thought my fears were coming true and I just started lashing out…” she said, letting her tears flow… “I don’t deserve a friend like you…”

The words that Octavia spoke… broke Rose’s heart. She wasn't sure what happened, but she could tell that at some point in Octavia’s life, somepony had hurt her, and hurt her badly. She wasn’t about to pry right now, but she did do the one thing that she felt she could. She walked over to the gray mare and wrapped her hooves very tightly around her neck. “I won’t pretend to know everything that’s going on in your life… but one thing that I do know, is that you are a good-hearted pony and you more than deserve every friend that you have, and that includes me… so don’t ever say that you don’t deserve friends, because that is simply just not true.”

Octavia felt the hooves around her, and her eyes shot open briefly before she melted into the hug. Roselucks soft coat against her own reminded her of Vinyl’s when they would snuggle together and she leaned into it. She only barely heard what she had to say, but when she did she looked up to her with a smile before she felt one of Rose’s hooves wipe the tears from her eyes. “Come on now little one,” she heard Rose tell her. “No more tears.”

“Thank you,” Octavia said to Rose as she pulled away from the hug as she wiped the rest of the tears from her eyes. “But I am still a bit confused… Why did you want to tell me all of this?”

“Oh, well I figured that part was obvious. I am offering to be one of your caretakers for when Viny’s not home,” Rose replied.

“Oh…” Octavia replied blushing immensely. “I… I don’t know about that…”

“I promise that I’m not going to get in between you and Vinyl. It can be whenever your shows pull you apart like they have been recently.” Rose added with a smile.

“Still… This is all very new to me.” Octavia replied.

“Tell you what… It's almost 4 o’clock now. Why don’t you come over and spend the night here and give it a shot over night. The store is closed tomorrow so if you enjoy it, we can extend it through tomorrow. If you find out that it’s not a side of things that you enjoy, then we can just drop the idea and I won’t ask you about it anymore,” Rose offered.

Octavia thought about the offer good and hard. “Well… I was going to go get some ice cream from Icy’s place, but after that, I suppose I could give it a try. I mean, it would beat staying home… alone again for another night…” Octavia answered.

Rose’s eyes lit up at the mention of ice cream, and more so when OCtavia accepted her offer for the evening. “Perfect! Hey, I have an idea. Why don’t you tell me what kind of Ice Cream you love, and I’ll go get it from Icy’s and you can go home and pack a bag for this evening. Bring what your comfortable with. I don’t know how quickly you go through diapers or if you use them at all. Some ponies just like to wear them, but bring an amount your comfortable with plus two. Don’t worry about the rest of the supplies I have plenty, and anything that you might like to play with.”

“Play?” Octavia inquired.

“Oh Tavy… I have so much to show you,” Rose said with a smile unlocking the door. “So… see you at six?” Rose asked, pulling the door open.

Octavia smiled as she pushed herself up from the table and started walking towards the door herself. With a small nod she replied to Roseluck. “I’ll see you at six,” she said as she started making her way out of the shop.

Roseluck smiled back to her and gave her a friendly way goodbye, but before she could turn to close the door Daisy was already on top of her practically pouncing on the cream colored pony. “Glack!! Daisy!”

“What’d she say! What’d she say! What’d she say!” Daisy asked excitedly, trotting in place directly on Rose’s back, electing a soft squeak from the mare as she hit a nerve. “Hehe… sorry,” she said in response to the glare that she was now getting.

Roseluck rolled her eyes a bit and then lightly pushed Daisy off of her so that she could stand up before taking a deep breath. “She said yes,” Rose said, watching Daisy’s eyes light up again.

“So that means…”

“Yup! You’ll have a new playmate tonight!” Rose smiled.

“Yay! Oh this is perfect! Octi is the… wait… TONIGHT!?” Daisy proclaimed, getting a nod from her sister.

A Bouquet of Fun(Part 1)

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Daisy stood behind the counter bagging the seeds and making sure they were separated so that Lily could plant them first thing in the morning when she harvested the day’s batch of flowers. With a bit of care they should be ready for repotting and selling in about a week. She still couldn’t believe Roseluck had managed to not only talk Octavia into joining them, but she was joining them tonight! A part of her was excited, but another part of her was nervous. Sure they got along in a casual sense, but would they get along during something like that? Daisy thought she was pretty easy to get along with and she liked Octavia! She just didn’t want to accidentally do something. From how Rose talked this was her first time doing anything like this.

“Hey Rosie… Tavy does know you’re planning on me being with her right? I don’t want her to get shocked when she gets here and possibly get upset that she’s not alone… if it’s too much of a problem I can sit out tonight,” Daisy started. “It’s not like we don’t get to do this every other night. I mean, we do live together!”

“What’s this about having company tonight?” another pink earth pony said walking into the room. Her coat was just ever so slightly darker than Daisy’s and her main was a golden blonde color with a white lily above her right ear. She then noticed the seeds. “Oh! Are those for me?”

“Yup! And Yup!” Daisy said with a smile. “Octavia is coming over for a night of fun tonight, and I just finished sorting these for you,” she finished.

Lily Valley nodded with a smile before looking toward Roseluck. “I’m assuming that Octavia got your message that you left her and that would be the reason for her visit tonight?” Lily asked.

“You would be correct. Although I wasn’t sure if it was actually going to happen at first or not. For some reason she had it in her head that all I was trying to do was make fun of her. I don’t know what happened to her, but I could tell by the way she was acting that somepony had seriously hurt her on an emotional level before,” Rose commented.

“Well she is a world famous musician,” Lily started. “I'm sure there have been a few that have tried to get with her before and failed. I don’t remember hearing about any sort of falling out like that… I know that she’s currently dating Vinyl isn’t she? Although come to think of it… I have seen her alone a lot more often recently… you don’t think there’s something going on there do you?”

“Other than the fact that they are both musicians with completely different audiences, not really. I think it’s a product of that fact. With different audiences they get pulled to different venues. Though I know I can’t wait for them to try to do something together again. Can you imagine Octavia going wild on her cello while Vinyl is laying down a sick beat?” Rose asked with imaginative excitement.

“Honestly Rosie,” Lily started, “I can’t see Octavia getting wild about anything. Though that said, I also would have never pictured her to be the diaper pony type, but I know that box all too well,” she said looking back at Daisy who immediately giggled and blushed.

“Guilty as charged,” she smiled.

“Come on girls, let’s get this place picked up a bit and make it look presentable for her. You girls remembered to pick up the actual house as well right?” Lily said.

“Actually if you two could clean up… I have to run down to Icy’s real quick before she closes. I kinda promised Octavia I’d have Ice Cream waiting for her when she got back,” Roseluck stated.

“Oh! Oh! Oh! Bring me one of those banana cream sundaes that she has! Those things are absolutely amazing!!!” Daisy piped in.

Roseluck giggled at Daisy and nodded before looking at Lily. “Want anything while I’m there?”

“I suppose I could go for some Vanilla oat swirl. Just a pint should be fine,” will have this place picked up by the time you get back. You should hurry though, it’s almost four thirty now. Doesn’t Icy close at five?”

“I’m going, I’m going. I’ll be back soon,” Rose replied.

***Meanwhile***

Octavia found herself walking out of the flower shop completely flabbergasted about what had just transpired. This was in no way how she had expected any of this to go. Well, maybe she did in a way, but not quite. She had half anticipated Rose inviting her to a playdate, but she figured that she would be padded as well or that they could talk brands and what she found were either more comfortable, more absorbent or both. But to offer to be her caretaker was something she never considered. To think that there were ponies that enjoyed taking care of others… she supposed it made sense since there were ponies like her. According to Rose there were more than she thought.

Her thoughts continued as she kept walking home. The more that Octavia thought about it, the more she began to realize a few more things. The first thing that she realized was the diapers themselves. Silly Filly was a company, and they wouldn't make all of their different brands of adult foal diapers if there wasn't a substantially larger market for them. To think that she was the only pony that ordered from them was silly, now that she thought about it.

She saw that she was approaching home, and she immediately remembered something else. All three Flower Sisters lived together. Her eyes went wide when she realized that meant that they would all three be there tonight. How could she have forgotten about that? Does Daisy and Lily know that Roseluck does this? Does she keep it a secret? Do all three of them participate? If so, to what level? Just what was she actually getting herself into?

The more that she thought about everything, the more she could feel something welling up inside of her. Something that she hadn’t felt very often anymore. She unlocked the door and stepped inside and once she did she could no longer contain this feeling as she trotted in place and squealed loudly in excitement. “Oh this is so exciting! I never in a million years thought that I would ever be doing something like this… Honestly… if somepony had told me last week that my secret was going to get out and that I would have more friends because of it I would have pretended to not know what they were talking about…” she said aloud to herself as she zipped upstairs to start getting her saddle bag together.

There was just one problem when she got upstairs though. She had absolutely no idea what she was supposed to bring. Diapers obviously, but Roseluck said something about supplies. She said that she had enough, but she couldn’t help but wonder if she should bring any or if it was a test for her. Was she actually supposed to bring supplies? And if so what kind? She’d never done anything like this before, so she didn’t have any idea what she was supposed to be doing. She would just have to guess?

She then remembered something that Rose had told her. Think about how many diapers she felt would be enough for the evening, and then add two, if she was a pony that used them. She thought to herself for a moment. As much as she tends to wet, and the fact that she actually wet the bed last night, she thought that she should probably bring three for play time and one to put aside for bed. So following Rose’s advice, she packed a total of six diapers, and that actually ended up filling her saddle bag quite a bit. In fact, she had just enough space to close her saddle bag, though the tops of them were visible in the small gap that was left at the top. Octavia blushed a bit and wondered if she should take one out. She shook the thought out of her head though. “No, if Rose told me to bring two more than what I thought that I would need, then that’s what I’m going to do. I would rather have more than not enough. Besides, so what if other ponies can see the diapers? It’s not like they didn’t see the entire box of them sitting outside a couple days ago,” she said to herself.

She then started to make her way back down and back into the living room to look around for anything else that she might want to bring. She didn’t have a lot of room left but she might be able to squeeze one more thing in. She thought about snacks. Surely she was going to need snacks while she was there, and she didn’t want to eat all of The Flowers’ food. That would be mighty rude of her. She then remembered that Rose was going to Icy’s to get ice cream for this evening. With a squeak once more she felt like she was ready to go. She was about to rush out and over there immediately before she looked at the clock. “Aww, it’s only Five o’clock? I was certain that it took longer than that,” she said to herself blushing a bit as she realized just how much of a hurry she was in to pack everything up. She guessed she was looking forward to this more than she thought.

At that point she saw the rest of the mail that was sitting on the table that she had forgotten about when she had gotten Rose’s note. She giggled to herself for a moment before she sat down on the sofa and started to go through them again. Surely going through the mail would take care of that hour. Especially since a few of them were performance requests. She started to reply to them, looking at the schedule of performances that she already had lined up.

As much as she would have loved to accept more performances… She looked at the calendars and almost every one of them were on days that she and Vinyl would actually be home together. Not to mention one of them clashed with a performance that she had already promised Icy that she would do for the gala that she was hosting at her casino in Las Pegasus. That would be her first time performing in Las Pegasus, so she was kind of excited for that one. As much as she didn’t like letting ponies down, she would have to decline. If she wanted to be able to have time for the one that she loved then she was going to have to make the time for her.

After she finished filling out the RSVPs politely thanking them for the opportunity and respectfully declining the invitation, she looked up towards the clock. Much to her delight it was five fifty-six! By the time she got down there it would be around six! With a giddy smile she rushed out the door. A moment later she sheepishly opened the door once more. “I… guess it helps if I actually grab my bag,” she said with a giggle as she threw it over her back and then zipped back out the door.

Within a few minutes she had made her way back down to the flower shop, and collected herself a bit before she knocked on the door. To her shock, but not really to her surprise, Lily was the one that answered the door. “Hey Octavia! Rose told me that you would be coming by tonight! PLease come in and make yourself comfortable. Rose actually just got back with the ice cream now and she’s sorting everything out. I hope you like Vanilla Oat Swirl. Rose said that you left in such a hurry to head home after your talk you two had that you forgot to tell her what flavor you wanted, so she had to guess.

“Vanilla Oat Swirl will be fine,” she said with a smile and heading inside. Her heart was thumping in her chest. She knew that there would now not only be one unusual pony seeing her as filly, but three… she presumed Daisy was here somewhere.

“If you’ll follow me, I’ll take you to the part of the place where we actually live. Most of our living space is actually upstairs. That way we have the most possible space for our store without needing a second building. Trust me, you don’t wanna know how much taxes and expenses hike when you have two places you’re trying to care for,” Lily said as she started to lead her up the steps. When she got to the door, she paused for a moment. “Now… I know that Rose has already talked with you, but I personally need your affirmation that you understand that what happens behind this door… does not leave this house,” Lily said, waiting for her answer.

“Of course Lily! I wouldn’t have come here if I was going to blab all over about it. Rose already told me how seriously you take privacy. That said… will you be…”

“Oh myself? No, I might partake in a few of the caretaking aspects of it, but overall it’s just not for me. The one time I tried a diaper on, it was comfortable at first, but got itchy fast and I got a horrid rash, so I’m pretty sure my skin is too sensitive for it, and Celestia knows I wouldn’t be able to handle changing one,” she said opening the door, satisfied with Octavia’s answer.

Octavia followed Lily inside. She frowned slightly at her answer but she understood it. She supposed a part of her was hoping that all three of them would be able to have fun tonight, but staying healthy was important as well, and Octavia was intimately familiar with how annoying and painful rashes could be. What she wasn’t prepared for though was walking into the room and seeing Daisy in a floral print pajama top wearing a Classic Silly Filly diaper around her waist. She could see Daisy’s eyes light up when she entered the room.

“Tavy!!” the overgrown filly said as she waddled up to her as quickly as she could and gave her a big hug. “Oh! I’m so happy that you were able to make it! I… hope that it was okay that I joined you for play time tonight…” Daisy said happily, though sounding a bit hesitant on the last part of that statement.

“Honestly… I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t hoping that at least one of you two were going to be sharing my attire for this evening… I remembered when I got home that all three of you lived together, so I was… both scared and hopeful? If that makes sense?” Octavia said as Rose came out of the back.

"Hey Tavy! Are you ready for a night of fun?" Rose asked, setting Daisy's ice cream in front of her.

Watching Daisy's eyes light up at the frozen treat made Octavia's heart melt, and watched as she quickly dove in. "I am, though like I was telling Lily… I'm both kinda nervous and kinda excited," Octavia admitted.

Rose giggled a bit. "That's completely normal for first timers coming into the fold. That said, I need to know what your ground rules are before we get started."

"Ground rules?" Octavia asked, confused.

"Yup! Almost every little has things that they love and things that they refuse to do. There are some like Daisy that enjoy the full experience, and others that only 'dip into the pond' so to say," Rose replied.

"Oh… well, since I've never done anything like this before… and to make it easier on everyone I suppose I could just follow Daisy's rules for tonight. We can adjust them going forward right?" Octavia asked.

"Absolutely! Finding that balance of what you enjoy is the most important part of this. This is for your relaxation after all, so anything that stresses you out just won't do at all," Rose smiled. "Daisy usually likes to go for the full experience, aside from foal food. Most of that is beyond nasty anyway. I can't believe we ate that stuff when we were actually foals," Rose giggled a bit in her hoof before looking towards Octavia again. "Are you sure that's something you want to try for the first night?"

"That's fine. It wouldn't be fair if I left Daisy all by herself now would it?" She said with a smile giving the adorable mare a nuzzle.

Daisy smiled at Octavia and would have returned the nuzzle, but right now she had ice cream, and that was more important. "I would have been happy to just have somepony to play with, but that's even better! You're the best Tavy!" Daisy said, throwing her a very brief hug before going back to her sundae.

"Alright then. If that is what your decision is, I will go over the rules. First and foremost, Daisy's play age is three. For tonight, that will be your play age as well. There will be bibs at feeding time," she said before looking at Daisy. "Speaking of, looks like somepony forgot theirs," she said with a giggle.

"Sorry Mamma," she said, pausing as Lily rolled her eyes and affixed the bib for her.

Octavia raised an eyebrow at that. Not Lily's reaction but Daisy's reply. She didn't have to wait long for an explanation.

"Secondly, while in little mode, my name is momma or Nana, and Lily is Aunt Lili. Rule number three, bathrooms are for bath time only, and will be locked for the remainder of the event. Good little fillies are already wearing the potty and don't care what kind of accidents they have. Rule number four is that diaper changes will occur when we suspect it might leak, or if a stinky has been made. I'll be lax on rule five tonight, since this is your first time and I don't know how much foal speak you actually remember. Rule six is you get two timeouts to ask questions about different parts of the experience, but these timeouts cannot be used to go to the potty. You're not old enough to know how to use the potty yet. And finally, rule seven is bed time is when the adults say it's bedtime. Any questions? This will be the last chance you have for tonight to change any of the rules. Once we put your diaper on, all rules will be enforced," Rose told her.

Octavia contemplated the rules that were set forth for her. They were all pretty straightforward, though she was concerned about them being set in stone. What if they tried something that she doesn't like? She supposed that was what the timeouts were for. Octavia nodded. "That sounds good, so as long as that if we discover something that I don't like I can use a timeout to put that on a no list of sorts," Octavia replied.

"Hmmm, normally I would say no to that cause that's what this is for, but since this is literally your first time doing this with others, I will allow it for tonight, and extend that courtesy for the next two play dates. Anything else?" Rose asked.

"No, I think that these will work just fine," Octavia said.

"Perfect! Come over here and lay down and we'll get you into your proper attire for the night. I'll have a few more questions for you as well, but you can nod your head yes or shake your head no," she smiled.

Octavia nodded before moving over to Rose and followed her instructions. This was happening. She was actually getting her diaper put on by another pony, and she didn't feel upset or scared… in fact… for the first time in a very long while, she felt… safe. She didn't feel worried about anything. She watched as Rose opened up her saddle bag with a pop and she giggled.

"Well, it looks like I've got my work cut out for me tonight," Rose giggled as she pulled out one of the diapers. "Royal Darks, good choice. Pretty absorbent as well," she added as she started to unfold it. "Rump up… that's it!" she said, sliding the back of the diaper under her. She looked in the saddle bag once again for some powder but then remembered that she told Octavia not to worry about supplies. She briefly got up and went over to a small cabinet and pulled out a thing of powder and a tube of what looked to be ointment.

"What's that for?" Octavia asked.

"Well, the powder helps keep moisture off of your skin. The tube is rash cream. Since you're going to be in a diaper all night, it's important to use both," Rose answered before sitting back behind her and started applying the cream. She smiled as Octavia shivered a bit before adding the powder and taping up the front of the diaper. She then pulled Octavia up into a soft hug as she let her hooves drift to her rump and secure the tape over her tail. "Alright! Effective immediately, you are now in little mode. Now I'm going to hold up some items, and either nod or shake your head if you want to use them tonight.

Octavia nodded in understanding as she watched with interest as she wiggled in her very comfy padding. She didn't know why, but diapers always felt better when somepony else put them on her. Granted she only had Vinyl to be the only other pony to compare to, but it felt so snug and happy… she watched as Rose started to hold up things. The first thing that she saw was a pacifier. She wasn't entirely sure how far she was willing to go yet, but the pacifier matched the royal darks so she nodded. She was a bit surprised when she felt it pop into her mouth almost immediately afterwards. She gave it a few tentative suckles before she smiled and relaxed even more.

She watched again as Rose lifted up a few more things. A bottle... that she nodded to, a really cute blanket that had a bunch of pretty flowers on it… how could she say no to that? Finally she saw Rose hold up a pair of onesie pajamas. They seemed to match the same floral pattern that Daisy's nightie was. She nodded vigorously until she noticed something. "Wait… if I'm wearing that, how am I going to get changed?" she asked, briefly dropping her pacifier.

Rose immediately answered by turning it around with a cheeky grin, knowing full well that meant Tavy was planning on using them tonight. "It's got a flank flap specifically for that," she said with a smile, picking up the pacifier that Tavy dropped. “Uh oh, somepony dropped their binkie, We’ll get you another one,” she said, setting that one to the side.

Octavia nodded and smiled as her stomach let out a loud growl. She blushed immediately as Rose giggled at the event.

"Sounds like our little filly is ready for her ice cream,” Rose giggled. “I guess the new binkie can wait until afterward. Do you think you're big enough to feed yourself or do you want mama to help?" Rose asked.

"Hey! You didn't offer to feed me!" Daisy protested.

"That's because I had to get ready for our guest. Besides, I feed you every night," Rose countered. The blush on Daisy's face made her pink coat much darker.

"Well… I'm sure if we sat next to each other… she could… maybe feed us both?" Octavia offered, which elected a hopeful stare to Rose from Daisy.

"I don't see why not. Lily, can you fetch Tavy’s from the kitchen and bring it to the table? I think I left it there by accident," she smiled, as Lily nodded and went to fetch the desert. Honestly it'd been a while since she'd seen Daisy this excited for a play date. So far they seemed to be the perfect pair though, so it was easy to see why. Once Octavia broke out of her shell, she was very easy to work with and open to suggestion. She wasn't sure how the rest of the night would unfold out what she would discover about herself, but so far things couldn't be going better.

Rose motioned for Octavia to sit next to Daisy by the table, and she pushed the chairs closer together. “We’ll wait to put your onesie on until after you eat, just to make sure that we don’t have to wash it early from a couple of messy fillies,” Rose said with a smile.

Rose pulled up a chair next to them, and by this point Daisy already had most of her ice cream gone. She picked up the spoon in one of her hooves and took a bit of the ice cream up with it. “Who’s gonna open the hangar for the airplane? IT can’t get in if you don’t open up!” Rose said with a giggle as Daisy tried to lean out for the spoon, only to whimper as it was pulled away from the last second.

“Rosie!!!” Daisy pouted

Roseluck couldn’t help but giggle a bit as she watched her sister make her adorable face before giving her the tasty treat. She quickly gave her another spoonful before she took Octavia’s Ice cream and started to bring it to her.

A part of Octavia wanted the full experience of being a bit of a troubling eater, but one she wasn’t sure if Rose would like that too much and she didn’t want to step on their hospitality, and secondly, and probably more importantly to the moment… This was ice cream! She wasn’t about to waste perfectly good ice cream cause she wanted to play with her food a bit. She was certain she’d have more opportunities later on for that. For now she simply opened her mouth like a well behaved filly and let Rose feed her.

This went on for a little bit until the dig of the spoon signified the empty bowls. “Goodness, my two little fillies were hungry,” she said as she watched Lily bring back out the pacifier that Octavia had dropped.

“Here we go, I washed this one for you and should be good to go again… I have to admit it looks pretty adorable on you,” Lily said as she popped it back into Octavia’s mouth. It was about that time that she heard a hissing sound. “Goodness Tavy, already?” Lily said with a giggle but was confused when Octavia shook her head. She looked down and sure enough all of Octavia’s prints were still there. She then looked over to Daisy who had her patented look of relaxation on her face. “Wow Daisy, I think you set a record for the longest you’ve stayed dry. Were you just holding it until Tavy got here?” Lily asked with a giggle.

Daisy couldn’t help but blush a bit as she had been caught red hoofed. She’d been needing to go for a little bit but she wanted to wait and do it with Octavia, but she just couldn’t hold it any more. “Sowwy Aunt Lili,” she answered.

Octavia didn’t know why, but she felt… happy and appreciative that Daisy had waited for her before she had wet. She would also be lying if she said that Daisy wasn’t one-hundred percent adorable next to her right now. She watched as Rose reached her hoof between Daisy’s legs to check her.

“That can still hold a good bit more. I don’t think you need a change yet,” Rose said before looking at Octavia. “Are you ready for your onesie now Octavia? After that we’ll take the two of you to the play area we have set up. It’s nothing fancy… but it’s the best we can do with our limited space and budget,” she said with a smile.

Octavia smiled and gave Rose a nod. “Great, come over here and stand on your hind legs,” she was instructed and she did as such. She was used to standing like this because of her cello so she already had impeccable balance on her hind hooves, though the thick poofy diaper between her legs was thrown off a bit. The crinkles that she heard as she waddled her way over made her happier than she’d felt in a very long time.

“All...righty then… left hoof…” Rose started as she put Octavia’s left hind hoof through the leg hole of the onesie. “Right hoof,” she added as she pulled it up her legs pushing her diaper up against her a bit as she threaded her front hooves in as well and then pulled the zipper up in the back that locked it in place.

Octavia smiled as it was zipped up. The onesie was hitting her in all the right ways. It was just tight enough to be nice and snug, but it wasn’t so tight that it was restrictive and even with it on, it was still very obvious that she was wearing a diaper from the bulge in the back of it. She trotted in place excitedly now that it was on. “Play time?” she asked excitedly. She wasn’t sure what she was going to play, or how, but one thing she did know. She hadn’t gotten an opportunity to just play… for longer than she could remember. She was a little bit worried that she wouldn’t be any good at it.

She didn’t have to wait long though as she felt a weight on her back as she felt Daisy lay across her. “Play Time! Play Time! Tavy gives pony ride to play room! Wee!” she heard Daisy yell and she giggled, wiggling a bit to try to get Daisy to at least get in a more comfortable position to where she could hold her better. When she couldn’t she looked back to her.

“Sure! But gotta turn a bit… hard for me to carry you like that!” Octavia said with a giggle.

“Hehe, oops, okie!” Daisy said as she adjusted so now that she was sitting on Octavia’s back just like a cowpony!

Octavia couldn’t help but blush a bit as she felt Daisy’s soggy diaper squish against her back. She didn’t mind it at all, but it was just another new feeling for her to take in and she started to take off in an excited trot to the play room.

“Okay, okay. Slow down fillies, before somepony accidentally gets hurt. We don’t want to cut a night of fun short because somepony got an owwie do we?” Rose asked.

“No momma…” both Octavia and Daisy said in unison, making their eyes go wide and giggle a bit as they looked at each other with a smile. Daisy instantly wrapped her hooves around Octavia’s neck in a hug as Rose unlocked that door.

When she followed her in, her smile turned into a look of awe. Rose might have said that this didn’t look like much, but the pastel pink and blue walls, the foam puzzle piece carpet, the giant chest of toys off a ong the wall, the only thing that Octavia didn’t see was a changing table, or any foal furniture that was adult sized for that matter. Maybe that was what she meant by that. Well, she definitely knew what she was getting them for Hearth’s Warming now!

“Timeout!” Octavia said, remembering the rules.

“”Aww…” Daisy said in disappointment. A feeling that faded quickly when she felt Octavia give her a nuzzle.

“Is there something that you don’t like Tavi?” Rose asked.

“Quite the opposite Rose! You shouldn’t sell yourself short! This place is amazing!” Octavia proclaimed.

Rose gave Octavia a small laugh. “While I appreciate the thought. I know that this isn’t actually all that much. It’s just a bit of paint and is nowhere near as extravagant as some of my other clients have built.”

“But it has just as much heart and love, and I haven’t seen anypony else's but yours. And I think this room is perfect just the way it is!” she said with a giggle and lightly bouncing Daisy on her back, getting a startled eep from the filly. “Hehe… time in!” she giggled a bit more rushing in the room before turning to Daisy. “So, what do we wanna do first?”

“Ha! That’s easy!” Daisy said with a giggle before rushing up to Octavia and booping her on the nose. “Tag! You’re it!” she laughed before sprinting to the other side of the room.

Octavia was completely caught off guard by the little stunt and had to shake the surprise right off of her face. “Why you!” she laughed as she started to give chase.

Rose smiled warmly as she watched the two of them as she made her way over to one of the corners out of the way. She wanted to remain in the room or at least close by in case one of them did actually get hurt. Accidents do happen when ponies are having fun after all, and being the caretaker it was her job to make them feel happy again. Not to mention she was fairly certain that she was going to be changing at least one diaper soon if she knew her sister at all. “Alright girls, be careful now. This room isn’t as big as you think it is,” she reminded them, though it mostly went unnoticed.

Octavia was having a blast running around. She was full of energy and couldn’t remember a time when she felt like this. So far this evening that feeling had been a very common trend and she was looking forward to feeling it some more. She had managed to catch Daisy a few times until she felt a small tickle in her bladder. She stopped running for a moment and let her legs bow out just a bit as she squatted. She was just about to let loose her stream until she felt daisy pounce on her once again. She let out a small oof from the weight bit nomed on Daisy’s ear and started rolling across the floor with her before landing on top of her. With a soft sigh, she felt the dam part and her diaper started getting warm and soggy. Daisy quickly pushed her off of her with a laugh, and after about another thirty seconds of giving her thirsty padding a drink, she was ready to play again.

“Let’s play pretend!” Daisy said excitedly. “I haven’t gotten to play that with another pony in forever!”

“Okay! What do you wanna play?” Octavia asked before starting to get another feeling in her stomach. One that she was quite familiar with as her eyes shrank a bit and she blushed. She hadn’t anticipated having to do that while she was here. In fact to this point she had never done that in a diaper at all. She’d honestly been too scared to try. She thought back to the rules that Rose set for them and remembered that she said that the bathrooms were completely off limits once she agreed to the rules and the diaper went on… but she also agreed to let her change the rules if she discovered something that she didn’t like. She could feel the pressure starting to build a bit more. Her thoughts were pulled back though when she saw Daisy waiving a hoof in front of her face.

“Yoo hoo! Equestria to Tavy!” Daisy giggled. “Did you hear anything I said?”

“Oh… um… no, I’m sorry. I um… got a bit distracted…” Octavia said, rubbing her stomach a bit.

“Oh, is that all? Just let it out! You’ll feel way better! Trust me!” Daisy said with a smile.

Octavia couldn’t help but blush. It didn’t seem that Daisy minded that much, and she did say that she was wanting the full experience. Plus, she couldn’t really say that she didn’t like something that she’d never tried before at least once. Making up her mind a bit she widened her stance a bit and let her tail flag as she started to grunt. At first it felt like nothing wanted to move, but then she felt the pressure give and she felt the back of her diaper start getting heavier as she started to push more into her seat. With a couple more grunts she gave a soft sigh as she felt the mess that she had made in her diaper.

“Feel better?” Daisy asked.

“Actually… Yeah! It’s not the best feeling in the world, but it’s far from being bad… Anyway, pretend?”

“I knew I liked you! Besides, I just went too! Hey! Let’s go see if we can get momma to play with us! I wanna pretend that we are brave knights! And we have to go on an adventure to take down the big mean dragon that’s terrorizing the mountain! Momma gets to be the big dragon!” she said to Octavia before hearing Rose behind them.

“Oh momma’s gonna be the big mean dragon alright!” Rose said with a laugh. “The big dragon that says it’s time for a diapee change.”

“No! No change!” Daisy protested!

“Come on now Daisy, you don’t wanna get a rash like last time do you? You weren’t able to play for a week because of it,” Rose countered.

“Momma! Not in front of Tavy!” Daisy pleaded.

“From the smell of it, and the giant bulge in her jammies, it looks like Tavy needs a change as well,” she said, watching Octavia blush.

“I wouldn’t mind… if we needed to wait a little bit longer… It’s… actually not that bad…” Octavia said.

“Tell you what. Let momma change you, and then momma will be whatever you want her to be for your adventure time. Deal?” she asked her two fillies.

Octavia and Daisy looked at each other, then to Rose, and then back to each other again before nodding to each other. “Okay momma!” They said in unison once again as they followed Rose over to the changning corner.

A Bouquet of Fun(Part 2)

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Octavia watched as Rose started to change Daisy. She didn't go out of her way to see what the damage was, but she didn't have to wonder about the smell. She also listened to Rose coo and give loving encouragement to Daisy about how good of a foal that she had been this evening and it all made Daisy beam and light up with happiness. It was so adorable to watch and see that she completely forgot that both ponies were adults. When she did remember, it didn't really matter to her. She watched Rose clean up Daisy and then finish up the change before popping a binkie into Daisy's mouth to keep her entertained. "Alright Tavy, your turn!" She heard from Rose, blushing heavily now.

Suddenly her nerves were on fire and she couldn't move. She didn't even think about the fact that Rose was going to be changing her before now. Well, that wasn't entirely true. She had known that. She'd just forgotten about it. Now though, Rose was going to open up her diaper and see the massive mess that she made. She took a small step back before she felt Rose's hooves around her. "I know what you're thinking Tavy, and it's okay. I really don't mind any of this, and no pony here is going to think any less of you for it. Besides your diaper can't be any worse than Daisy's," she'd heard Rose say before she felt a second pair of hooves around her as well.

She then giggled when she felt Rose tickle her lightly before hearing Rose speak again, continuing her light tickles. "Now, let's get our 'tinky little filly changed before she gets a rash," she heard. Octavia nodded before sitting down and letting back, blushing a bit as she felt everything smush against her. She was… both shocked and mildly ashamed of how good that actually felt. She then felt the buttons pop open from the flap and Rose began talking to her. "Phew, you certainly loaded this one up. Maybe I spoke too soon," she heard Rose tease, feeling the tapes get pulled back.

The blush was clear as day on her face, but everything felt… right… Rose used the front of the diaper to clean most of the mess away and the wipes felt much better than she was willing to admit on certain parts. To her surprise, Rose didn't take long to get her cleaned up and into a fresh diaper. "All clean! Now… what did you girls want momma to be?"

“Well! I was thinking Tavi and I could be warrior ponies from a small town! And you could be the big bad dragon that we have to fight at the end!”

“Or a temple!” Octavia said! We go through the lair to get to a temple! With all sorts of traps and stuff!”

Roseluck smiled at the two of them. “I think I might be able to manage that. Just remember to be careful, we don’t want anypony actually getting hurt!”

“Yes Momma! Now, everypony close their eyes and count to ten! Then we can imagine that the room looks like however we want it to for pretend time!” Daisy said with a smile.

Octavia did as she was instructed as everypony started counting aloud. When they got to ten, it was just Daisy and Octavia standing there. Everything felt the same, but different at the same time. The onesie that Octavia was wearing looked a lot more like a set of armor that did nothing to cover her diaper, and Daisy’s was the same way. They were standing aways from what their pretend village was to the point where they could barely see it. She heard Daisy speak up first.

“Come Music Note. We must press forward. We’ve lost too many already. We must defeat the dragon guarding the Temple of Porcelain Throne, and then destroy the throne, to remove its curse from our land!” Octavia heard raising an eyebrow. Her name wasn’t Music Note… It then clicked in her mind what was going on. Oh! Pretend! Duh! she thought to herself.

“Very well, Flower Petal. Let us move with haste then. The longer we stay here, the more of our friends will get flushed away,” Music Note replied, hearing the clank of her armor in addition to the crinkle of her padding. This entire scenario was silly, and she loved every second of it. She couldn’t wait to see what Rose would be like when they got to her.

The two of them would venture forth, down the wandering path that led into a forest of sorts. She was surprised that she was able to envision this with her. She’d always had a creative mind, but usually it was for the music and sound side of things. Art and the imaginative wasn’t her strong point, or so she thought. This was definitely proving to be an experience for her.

Just as they were starting to get down to the bottom of turn though, she heard something. She had little time to react as a pair of ponies wearing masks jumped from the bushes next to the path. “Your possessions or your lives! IF you’re not fast enough, both!” she heard them yell.

“You picked on the wrong ponies you thieving bandits!” Music Note heard Flower Petal shout back at them. “We’re going to put an end to your wretched pillaging!”

“Ha! Says the pony that can’t even keep her pampers clean!” The cream colored one said. Octavia had a brief lapse of character as she heard that come from Rose and was confused as to why she would say something so mean before realizing that Rose herself had assumed a role. It just caught her by surprise because she thought she was supposed to be the big bad dragon. It supposed that it made sense that she would be the other obstacles that they would face as well. She was also surprised to see Lily playing as well since she said earlier that some of this stuff wasn’t to her liking. Octavia shook her head briefly before returning to her role.

“Now you listen here! I’m not going to stand here and let you disrespect my friend like that!” Music Note said before standing on her hind hooves brandishing a rapier in one hoof and a magical orb above the other.

She heard the other pony utter an incantation under the breath in a language she couldn't understand, and she saw her eyes light up. She then blushed greatly as she felt her diaper start to warm and sag. She looked down to see that it was now a bright yellow and the pictures had faded.

Music Note grit her teeth and looked back to the pony that was laughing at her and she charged up the orb that she was holding and flung it at her. She may not be a unicorn, but this was imagination land! Anything was possible! When the pony dodged as she was expecting, she was already upon her. With a light bonk of her sword, Music Note watched the pony feign hurt before falling to the ground. "Now Flower Petal! While she's distracted!"

Flower nodded and started doing a series of somersaults towards the cream colored bandit before doing a final jump and landing her padded rump right on her face. The cream colored pony was in a daze as they ran off triads the temple and the layer of the dragon.

"That was close. Hopefully we don't run into any more on the way to the temple!" Music now said as she took off running. Her gait was just a bit wider now that she had soaked herself, but that only made her happier. The Porcelain Throne wasn't going to corrupt her!

Flower took off behind Music Note with squishy crinkles of her own putting distance in between them and the bandits before they woke up. Once they were far enough away, they stopped, panting. "Phew, think that's far enough?" Flower asked, before placing her hoof on the sagging diaper of her friend and giving it a squish. "Goodness, that spell did a number on you. You think you can make it through the temple? You're soaked!"

"Not any more so than you!" Music countered. "Besides, there's no time for breaks. The longer we wait, the more ponies forget happiness exists," she said, walking up to the door of the temple.

Roseluck meanwhile, aside from playing the part of the bandit kept watch from the corner of the room, watching them make their way from the toy box to where the stuffed animals were. That was where herself and Lily had ambushed them. Both of the fillies were quite soaked after the encounter, but Rose felt they could easily survive a few more uses, especially after the nice close up view that she ended up getting off Daisy's diaper. She made a note to get Daisy back for that later. Besides, she didn't want to interrupt them when they were getting along so well.

Lily smiled as she walked up behind Rose. "So, is this going at all how you envisioned it when you wrote that note?"

"Honestly," Rose started. "I had no idea what to expect tonight, but seeing them hit the ground running like this makes my heart soar. I was honestly expecting Octavia to be a bit more timid, but she dove right in. I have a feeling we're going to have an extended stay through tomorrow," she said back to Lily who let out a small laugh.

"And here I was hoping for a nice relaxing day at the lake," Lily said. "But a second day of caretaking I guess wouldn't be too bad. Just remember, I don't do changes. That's all you big momma," Lily giggled.

Rose could only roll her eyes in response before giggling with a nod. "Yes Lily, I know. What you help with already is perfect enough," she said nuzzling Lily. "We should get ready for the temple run. It looks like they are about ready to go in," Rose told her, moving over to where the changing supplies were, expecting the adventure of the two fillies to end up around there.

Meanwhile, at the doors of the temple, Music Note looked for a way to get in. She couldn't really see any clear knob or lever that looked like something that would work. "Um… Flower? How are we supposed to get into the temple?"

"I don't know, but I bet it has something to do with these runes around it…" Flower said, moving up to the door. "likay yamura almar' , yajib ealaa almar' awlaan 'an yanfajir… what in the hay does that mean?" She asked, looking back to Music Note.

Music Note, however, felt a building pressure in her stomach. It was almost as if she were starting to get a tummy ache and she felt her tail flag. She grunted hard. Brrrrt, was the sound that came from her diaper as she felt her seat grow heavy once again. She continued grunting, her stomach feeling better the more that she let out. She stood there panting for a second before noticing the runes on the door were now blinking before turning a solid green and the temple door opened.

"Huh… that was unexpectedly convenient. Though maybe we should call you Brown Note instead of Music Note now," Flower teased.

"Oh please, it's not like yours will be any better by the time we're done. Now, let's not waste any more time. The longer we stand here, the more the throne's influence grows. We have to stop it from turning everypony into mindless adults that don't know how to have fun anymore!" Music said as she started moving forward. She wouldn't admit it out of character, but she was growing to love that full feeling that a messy diaper had around her waist. She never would have tried it if she hadn't come here for the night, but she would definitely be doing it more often at home.

Flower started following Music Note into the darkened hallway, wrinkling her nose a bit as she did. Honestly though, she was quite happy. Here she was going down this dark temple corridor with her friend. Tonight was turning out to be more perfect than she could have ever imagined. "So…" Flower said, looking around. "How are we supposed to figure out where we're supposed to go?"

"I don't know…" Music Note started. "I kinda figured this would be a straight shot," she continued as they exited the hallway into a room of doors. With a gulp she sat down with a squish. "It doesn't look like it's going to be that easy though."

Flower looked at the doors, her nose winking even more at the fresh assault of the pungent odor coming from Music's diaper. She knew that they couldn't stop for a change though. They didn't bring any changes with them for one, and secondly, this temple was the last place she wanted to stop for a diaper change. Instead she took in the fact that there were seven doors. Two of them were blue, two were pink, and then one each was white, yellow, and brown. "Well, I think the two matching colors will just lead back to this room. I don't wanna know what we'd have to go through to get back. So that leaves the white, yellow, and brown… what do you think?"

"Well, porcelain is white, so I bet if we go down the white door it will take us to it?"

"That would make the most sense… but what if that's it! What if it's not supposed to make sense?" Flower asked. "What if we're supposed to go through the opposite color?"

"But there's no black. The other colors are pink, blue, yellow and brown," Music replied. "Are there any runes on these ones that might say something?"

"I mean… I can look, but I probably won't understand them," Flower said, stepping over to the white. When she did she felt a pressure plate sink being a white light illuminated around her almost as if it were scanning her before going silent. Flower looked around her. She couldn't really see what the spell might have done, but she did notice pressure plates in front of the rest of the doors now. "That was weird. I'm not entirely sure what it did though…"

Music Note looked around a bit more until she saw Flower's diaper and something clicked in her mind… "That's it!!! Flower… go straight on the pressure plate in front of the brown door. If my hypothesis is correct, then it should do nothing."

Flower raised an eyebrow at first but shrugged her shoulders and went alone with it. She felt the pressure plate give and the same light envelope her as before, but like Music had theorized it didn't do anything.

"Great! Now, go stand in front of the yellow one..." Music instructed. When Flower did, she watched the yellow door slide open. "No way… that is…" Music said, stepping on the brown plate herself to confirm her suspicions. Sure enough, that door slid open as well. "I don't know why somepony would set it like this, but apparently how these doors open is determined by the state that our diaper is in. Neither of is are in a clean diaper, so the white door wouldn't open. You're only wet so the yellow door opens for you, and because of the first door I'm quite stinky myself so the brown door opens for me. The other rooms are likely changing rooms. Pink is for mares and the blue is for stallions," Music said.

"If that's true… Do you think we should utilize those rooms? I know you probably want a change," Flower replied.

"No time. The longer we stay here. The more his influence spreads, and the more adults get infected to be mindless slaves of it's system," she said before joining Flower on the yellow plate. When she did both the brown and yellow doors closed. "Huh… that's odd. I thought for sure they would stay open. I'm just as wet as I am stinky."

"Maybe they override each other," Flower responded.

"Then I guess we'll have to split up then. We can cover more ground that way anyway."

"Are you kidding me?!" Flower proclaimed. "That's like… rule number one when going into places like this! We can't split up," she added before taking a step back, bowing her hind legs a bit and grunting hard.

Music watched as the back of Flower's diaper expanded, unable to take her eyes away from the action. With a few more grunts the bulge in Flower's diaper rivaled her own. Or at least it had, until she sat down on it when she came into the room. She then watched Flower stand on the brown platform and the door opened. Music followed her and the door remained open. They looked at each other and nodded before going through the door.

The hallway wasn't very long, but it was very dark. Neither pony could see very well so they stayed close to each other. The sounds of the crinkles and the slight bump of their shoulders letting them know that the other was still there. "How much further do you think we have to go… I can't see a thing. Music heard Flower ask. She then realized something. The orb that she used earlier! She pulled it out and it had a slight blue glow. It wasn't much, but it helped them see a little bit of what was in front of them.

"I don't know, but this should help a little bit. I am a bit concerned though… wasn't there supposed to be a dragon guarding this place? Everything so far has seemed way too easy. The only thing we had to do in order to get through doors is things we were going to go anyway, and we haven't found a single traAAAAAHP!" Music said, before falling down into a hole as the ground gave out from under her. Thankfully it wasn't very long of a drop, but she did land on her rump, which smushed everything against her even more. She shook her head a bit to regain herself before looking up.

"Aaaand that's rule number two for adventures… never tempt fate… it doesn't like it and always finds a way to win…" Flower said, looking down to Music with a giggle. "Hold on, I'll find something to get you up with," she finished before zipping off.

Music Note watched Flower disappear before she had a chance to say anything. She let out a sigh. "I guess I'll wait here," she said in frustration. As she turned to sit down though, something caught her eye. It looked like a hooflet of some sorts, and was still very, very shiny. She picked it up and looked it over. A piece of jewelry never hurt anypony right? She put it on and immediately she felt different. She looked back and she had a set of wings. "No… way!!! A hooflet of Pegasus flight!? Awesome!" she said, feeling a splash on her diaper as she felt it sag even more. She giggled before flying up and out of the pit.

Flower was just starting to come back with some vines that she found in a makeshift rope. When she saw Music on the other side she was confused. "What!? Wait… How!?" she asked.

"I found a hooflet of Pegasus Flight!!!" Music replied.

Flower threw the rope she made down. "Hmph. Fine then… I didn't wanna help you anyway."

"Aww come on Flower… don't be like that. I didn't know that was going to be down there. Plus! Now we do have a rope in case we need it. We don't know what else is down here," Music said gliding over the gap. "Here, get on. I'll help you get across," she said. Show also couldn't help but giggle when she felt Flower's full diaper squish on her back. She then flew back across the pit and then landed. "There, now we can continue," she added.

"I don't know…" Flower started. "My hooves hurt… carry me please?" she asked giving Music her patented pleading eyes.

Music simply rolled her eyes with a giggle. "Fine, but you're carrying me out!" she said through her giggles. She took off down what was left of the hallway and found themselves entering into a large central chamber. In the center of it stood a large white chair-like-thing made of porcelain.

"WHO DARES ENTER MY LAIR!" The two ponies heard as the object began to transform in a blinding light replaced by a cream colored dragon with rose colored fans along its spine and on its wings. "YOU! MORTAL PONIES THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT THE MIGHTY PORCELAIN THRONE!!! SOON ALL OF EQUESTRIA WILL BOW BEFORE ME! PONIES WILL BECOME MINDLESS ADULTS THAT WILL DO MEANINGLESS TASKS FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES!!" the dragon that used to be the Porcelain Throne said to them.

Flower was the first to respond. "That's never going to happen, foul beast! We're going to put an end to your reign of boredom and anti-funzones!"

"Yeah! We're not going to put up with your tyranny any more!" Music Note yelled in addition.

"OH REALLY? A COUPLE OF PUNY, STINKY FOALS ARE GOING TO STOP ME? THE MIGHTY PORCELAIN DRAGON!? I THINK NOT!!" the dragon said, throwing her head back and unloading a wave of water from her maw.

The two ponies dove out of the way. Music Note pulled out the orb and the rapier before charging it up. "VerThunder!" she yelled, calling down a raining storm of lightning.

Flower saw Music Note starting to attack and she knew that she would need to hold onto the dragon’s attention if her friend wanted to have any shot of bringing it down. She could only hope that her friend would do enough to it that they could defeat it before it took the two of them down. She charged in after the dragon, getting a raised eyebrow from it.

“You’re joking right? At least that one had enough smarts to try to stay away from the creature ten times your size,” the dragon said as it tried to swipe it’s paw down on top of the pony. Unfortunately for the dragon, a bright orange blotch appeared right on the ground where her paw would eventually land and the pony was able to dodge the attack… “What? How? How were you able to forecast my move? That shouldn’t have been possible!” she said before getting another blast this time from what seemed to be more of a radiant energy.

The dragon started to turn her attention back to the mage pony. She was further confused. That pony had wings, not a horn. How was she using magic? She was going to get to the bottom of this. It had to be because of some artifact that she had stolen from her hoard. She was about to strike at her when she felt a sharp pain in her side and felt herself compelled to put her attention back on the pink pony that was attacking her.

“Your enemy is me, you big meanie of a dragon!!” Flower said as she started wailing on the giant creature.

As she did, the dragon happened to catch something else out of the corner of her eye and then looked up. There was a bar above her that was labeled “The Porcelain Throne” and it was shrinking every time that she got hit. She managed to feel a few more spells land on her and a few more stabs as she started to swat back at the ponies. They were actually proving to be quite elusive, but she could also see that when she did land a hit on the one in the back, it hurt. She wasn’t the only one with health bars it seemed. Wait… was the mage’s going back up? Blast it… she could heal. That gave her an idea though. If she was healing, then she wasn’t attacking. She was getting really good at dodging her attacks and so was the other pony around her. “Hold Still you pesky varmints!” the dragon said before lifting up and then dropping on the ground, blasting the ponies away.

It took all that music note to not go carrening backwards, but it seemed that Flower had no such luck as she had been sent rolling. “VerHeal...VerHeal!” she said, throwing a double cast of healing on the tank. “We got this Flower! She’s almost down! We’re at the home stretch. We just got to push a little bit more!!”

It was then that the dragon got an idea. “Yes puuuush,” she said her eyes blinking out for a second as an aura washed over them. Immediately both ponies felt a gutwrenching pain and their tails flagged once again as the both dumped a second sizable load into their diapers, making it much harder for them to walk, let alone fight.

“Don’t give up!” Flower said panting. “We’re almost through this! We must stop her! We’re so close!” Flower charged back on, but albeit a bit slower than what she was before, as she grabbed the attention of the dragon once again.

“I’m not! In fact! I’m finally fully charged..” Music Note started. “Engage!” she said nearly teleporting up to the dragon and initiating a series of strikes on the dragon with her rapier. First it was a jab, then a series of slashes forming a ‘Z’, and then finally a series of lethal jabs before jumping back. “And the finishing touches… VERHOLY! Followed by… SCORCH!” Music note yelled before the final blast came down. After a few moments of wobbling, the great dragon fell and the evil temple had been cleared. Then, the room they were in slowly started to warp until they were back into the playroom giggling and laughing, Roseluck having a giggle fit as well after she had been defeated.

“My My,” Roseluck started. “What powerful little adventurers we have here tonight. We’re definitely going to have our hooves full tomorrow. OF course… right now we need to deal with a couple of other things that are almost over full. Come on you two. Let’s go get you a bath and get you ready for bed. We have all day for you tomorrow to play assuming that Octavia wishes to stay?” Rose asked, phrasing the last bit in a question directed towards Octavia.

“Are you kidding? This is the most fun I’ve had in years. Of course I’ll stay for another day tomorrow! Though if I do, Lily, could I have you do me a favor and run by the house with me tomorrow so that we can one, get more supplies for tomorrow and I can get the mail in. I at the very least want to make sure I respond to any requests I might get for performances coming up. I don’t want my clientele to think that I’ve completely forgotten them after all,” Octavia said, looking at Lily.

“Of course, though you don’t have to come if you don’t want to. IF you do though, we’ll make sure that you get just long enough of a time-out so that you don’t have to walk through Ponyville in your diaper. Even if you only live three doors down,” Lily giggled.

“I appreciate it,” Octavia nodded.

“Right, now that this is settled… Bath, both of you, before we need to air out this room for a week!” Rose said, ushering them towards the washroom.

“Um Rose…” Octavia started before her eyes went wide for a second, catching herself before Rose looked back to her. “Sorry, I meant momma… Um… can I… ride on your back? I think that might be fun to ride like Daisy did!”

Rose couldn’t help but giggle as she leaned down for Octavia to get on. She couldn’t help but let out a small oof as she stood up though. Octavia was just a bit heavier than Daisy was. IT wasn’t uncomfortable, but it was definitely noticeable. However, this didn’t mean that she couldn’t give her a few pony rides, and Octavia seemed to really enjoy it. It was a good thing that they were going for baths though, cause she knew they were both going to need it. She started running the water for them. “Alright, let’s get this off of you, and get you mostly cleaned up with the showerhead before we start letting the tub fill up. That way your backsides are clean when you sit in the tub. While you two are taking your baths, I’ll go get your bed and your bottles ready.

“Bottles?” Octavia asked.

“Of course dear. You didn’t think we’d let our fillies go to bed without milk would you?” Rose countered.

“No,” Octavia smiled. “I suppose not,” she replied.

“Good, now both of you lay down,” she said as they followed her instructions and she undid their diapers. She’d dealt with Daisy and other clients long enough to know how to contain the mess fairly well, and despite how full they were, she was able to still get a good bit off with the front of the diapers and wipes. “Alright! Into the bath.”

Both Octavia and Daisy nodded before they got into the bath and they felt Rose pull the showerhead over and begin washing off their backsides with it. Octavia relaxed as she could feel everything wash away from her and she relaxed. She had forgotten how relaxing a shower was. She whimpered a small bit when she felt the water stop before realizing that Rose had to clean Daisy as well. It wasn’t until she felt the water beginning to rise that she sat down. When she did, she dropped a bubbling bath bomb into the tub and instantly there were pretty purple bubbles everywhere. She relaxed even more when she felt the water get higher before she heard Rose shut it off. The water was up to the brim of the tub!

“Alright! You two play nice now. Momma’s going to go get everything ready with Aunt LiLi,” Rose said before walking out and closing the door behind her.

Lily was quick to appear behind her. “You know, I can’t really say that I’ve ever seen Daisy this happy with one of her surprise playdates before. I’m still completely shocked over just how much Octavia was willing to do! It’s almost like her foalish inside was dying to come out and play but it didn’t know how!”

“Indded it does,” Rose smiled before looking back to Lily. “Sounds about like somepony else I know,” she said with a giggle.

“Hey! It’s not my fault okay. I loved the ‘being little’ aspect and not having any responsibility for a night. But you and I both know I physically can’t do that. The last time I wore a diaper, that rash took a week to heal properly,” Lily sighed.

“I know Lily, and I know of several ways that I can help you out with that, including talking about several ways that you can be a little that don’t involve you wearing a diaper. That’s a conversation that we can have later though, at a time where we both aren’t beat from the day. Let’s get Tavy and Daisy their milk and put them to bed so that we all can turn in for the night.

After about twenty minutes Rose came back into the bathroom to find that both Octavia and Daisy were still playing in the water with an assortment of Daisy’s toys. She also let her jaw slack open a bit as it had looked like a tsunami had gone off in the bathroom. Water was everywhere! “Girls!” she spoke firmly, getting their attention. “I understand that you were both wanting to have fun, but look at this mess! IF anypony tried to get out of the tub you could have slipped and gotten hurt!” Rose explained looking back to the two mares in the tub who were both wearing pouty faces now. Rose sighed again. “Come on. No pony was hurt so nopony is in trouble. I think this is a good spot to end bath time though,” she said, pulling the plug.

Rose smiled as she got the two of them out of the tub and started drying them off before put them both in a new diaper, and put time into matching floral onesie pajamas before taking them to Daisy’s room where instead of the walls blocking under Daisy’s bed, they were up along the side, forming a crib.

“Oh wow! I didn’t know you had a crib Daisy! That’s so cool!” Octavia said pouncing into it immediately. “Oh, this must have been expensive though, cause if I wouldn’t have seen it, I would have just thought this was a normal bed from the frame!”

“Yeah… well,” Rose started. “This was the one thing that I managed to splurge on, and that was primarily because it was Daisy that wanted it. Daisy is my sister so I wanted to make her happy. So I put back every last bit I could in secret until I could afford it and surprised her one morning.”

“Aww! That’s amazing! And adorable!” Octavia said before falling back onto the bed, almost immediately into a comfy spot. “And comfy too!”

“Hey! You don’t get to be comfy without me!” Daisy said, pouncing onto the bed next to Octavia and then snuggling in close to her, giving her a nuzzle. “Nightly night! New little sis,” she smiled leaning her head against her shoulder.

“Good night, new little-er sis,” she giggled as Rose handed both of them a bottle of milk and then pulled the other rail up. “Good night you two, Sleep tight! Don’t let the bed-bugs bite!” she added before shutting out the light and closing the door.

When Sour Turns Sweet(Part 1)

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The next morning when Octavia woke up, she found something rubber in the corner of her mouth. She reached up with her hoof and pulled the empty bottle away. She smiled as she looked into it before setting it down. It was then that she became aware of a set of hooves that were still around her from last night and she looked over and saw Daisy still sound asleep. She was also becoming increasingly aware of a damp spot between her legs and when looked down and saw a wet patch in her pajamas.

That was… actually a bit alarming. Not enough all where she would panic about it right now and risk waking up Daisy, who had a similar wet spot, as well as an odor that she'd become quite familiar with coming from her. At least she hadn't done that in her sleep, though she did feel a pressure and knew that it would be coming soon. Still, this was two nights in a row that she'd had an accident, and last night it was apparently bad enough that she soaked through a fresh diaper. Definitely going to have to tell Tenderheart about that next week, she thought to herself.

About that time she heard the door open up. "Good morning sleepy heads! Who's ready for another day of fun?" She heard Rose say, drawing out the word fun before taking a sniff and wrinkling her nose. "Phew, it definitely smells like you two had a goodnight sleep," Rose said, approaching the bed and dropping the rail. "Goodness, you're both soaked to! I should call you my little super soakers."

"Rosie…" Daisy said in a stretching yawn before rolling over onto her back with a squish. She blushed immediately when she felt it and giggled.” Okay… maybe it is that bad…”

“Come on, let’s get you two changed. OR at least, let’s get you changed Daisy and Octavia cleaned up so that she can go home to get more supplies and check her mail like she asked last night. Let’s get you both on the floor so that we can get the sheets off the bed. Definitely going to need thicker diapers for you two when you go to bed,” Rose said rubbing Daisy’s nose with hers, making her giggle.

Daisy sat up before sliding off of the bed as Rose started undoing her jammas and Octavia followed suit. As she stood up, the pressure from the milk overnight continued to grow a bit more. She had already saturated this diaper anyway, and was about to be changed, so a little more wouldn’t hurt. AS soon as she heard the rip of Daisy’s tapes getting pulled off she grunted as she pushed the mucky substance into her diaper quite rapidly once it broke loose.

Rose heard the mudslide as it happened and looked up to Octavia. “Goodness… I guess somepony didn’t want to feel left out,” she said waving a hoof in front of her nose as she continued to change Daisy. Before long she had Daisy cleaned up and in a new diaper before repeating the process on Octavia, minus the new diaper. “There we go! Good as.”

“ROSE!!” The three ponies heard Lily shout almost in a panic from the other room. The three ponies instantly made their way into the living room when they saw a creamy yellow unicorn with a bouncy mane and tail that… looked like she had seen better days. She had several cuts and bruises and quite a bit of swelling in her face and she was very clearly crying.

“Lemon Hearts…?” Rose asked Rushing over to her and pulling the crying mare inside before wrapping her in a very tight hug. “What in Equestria happened?”

“It's Eiffel… he was cleaning last night and he discovered where I keep my little stuff. I came home this morning from an overnight shift to find him tearing up one of my diapers and my favorite onesie tattered in pieces. When I asked him what he was doing he got belligerent, demanding to know why I had these things to begin with. I… tearfully explained everything the best I could but he didn't care. He continued to ruin everything I worked so hard to get. He told me that I would never be allowed to participate in anything like that ever again. When he said that, I broke it off with him, saying that if he couldn't understand me, then he didn't deserve to be with me. And… then…. And then…" she said as she started crying again, wincing a bit.

Octavia watched hurt Lemon Hearts was, both physically and emotionally and before she even realized it she was wearing a viscous scowl. Moved up and joined in the hug that the flower trio were giving Lemon before looking towards Rose. "Rose, take care of Lemon here, I'll be back soon. Lily, I'm going to need you to come with me… I'm going to need somepony with me to prevent me from doing something I might regret…"

"If you're planning on what I think you're planning, we might want a guard then cause I'm as likely to go off as you are," Lily said as they both made their way outside. They didn't see a guard, which wasn't all that uncommon in Ponyville. The elements of harmony live here thankfully when they rounded the corner they saw a guard down by the train station. "Lily, go grab him and meet be at Eiffel's with any luck you'll get there before I ring his neck," she instructed.

Sure, Octavia was normally a timid mare. But if there was one thing that the last few days had taught her, it was that it was okay for her to be herself, and she wasn't going to sit by idly and let someone else literally put a hoof on somepony else for doing the same. Sure, she didn't know Lemon Hearts that well. She'd only met her at a few social events that she played at, but that didn't mean she didn't consider her an acquaintance, and she wasn’t going to let anypony else treat her like that.

She made her way up to the front door of the house that the Two of them were staying in and knocked on the door. “Has the Freak come crawling home?” she heard from inside as she watched Eiffle open up the door. “Oh, Octavia it’s you! To what do I HLK!” she heard, cutting him off with a swift buck to the chin. If she had been angry on the way over here, hearing him actually say something like that to Lemon Hearts, or rather aimed at Lemon Hearts made her blood boil.

“Ouch! Hey! What the buck!?” Eiffle said as he stammered back into the room. “I don’t know what I did that made you angry, but I can say that you have one heck of a kick,” he said, trying to act all cool before noticing that he had yet to clean up the ruined foal supplies. Honestly, he wasn’t planning to. He was going to make Lemon Hearts clean it up later when she got home. Let it sink in that she was his, and he wasn’t going to allow this any longer.

“Don’t, play coy with me, Marebeater. I know exactly what you did to Lemon, and I know exactly why, and I’ll be the first to tell you how utterly despicable you are!’ Octavia shouted.

“Wait, you’re actually defending that freak? She deserved everything that she had coming. Freaks like her just need some sense knocked into them from time to time until they learn what they are doing is wrong.”

“Except it isn’t. She has every right to be happy and to do things that make her happy!” Octavia yelled back.

“Oh, I get it now, you’re one of her freaky friends! Well, lets just see how popular you are when I make sure all of equestria knows just how much of a freak that yahoof!!” Eiffel said cut off once again with another buck, this time catching his tongue in the process.

“You shut the buck up and you listen, and you listen good… If it wasn’t for the fact that I already had Lily on her way back her with a guard that should be here any minute, I would be more than willing to make you feel just as hurt and heart broken that you made the one pony that trusted you with her safety more than anypony else. A trust that you betrayed and she’s currently battered, bruised, and probably still bleeding a bit, though I’m sure Rose has her bandaged up by now,” Octavia started as Lily and the guard had already returned, the guard quickly getting in between the two arguing ponies. “And it’s all because you did this to her.”

The Stallion scoffed. “She brought this upon herself for being a diaper wearing freak, and you’ll be the same! Everypony’s going to find out! I’ll make sure of…”

“Dude,” the guard interupted. “Almost everypony in Ponyville knows what she does at this point,” he stated bluntly. “She forgot to pay for the discreet shipping and left the package outside all day a few days ago. It’s also not like houses aren’t made with windows. The difference is, we don’t care. She ain’t hurting no pony, and if it makes her happy in her alone time, or if others want to help her be happy, that’s their own business. If it was something that you didn’t like, then maybe you could have simply said as such instead of destroying things that don't belong to you,” the guard continued, pointing to the pills of destroyed merchandise. “The tattered products on the floor, and the fact that you’ve yet to deny inflicting harm on Lemon Hearts leads me to believe that everything that Miss Melody is saying here is true. I’m going to need you to come with us, and we can let Celestia sort this out,” The guard finished, instructing another that had joined in to take him outside.

“Now, Miss Melody… You know that I am going to have to write a citation for those hits you landed on him. I can’t have you getting off scot free now can I?” He said turning to Octavia and scribbling something down.

“What ever do you mean? I did nothing of the sort! Why he simply tripped and fell face first into my hooves that I just happened to be extending to stretch with considerable force,” Octavia said with a smirk.

“Riiight,” he said, ripping off the citation.

Octavia rolled her eyes a bit before looking down at the fee before blinking her eyes a bit. She had to shake her head once more and look at it again. “Really?” she said to herself, putting it in her saddle bag. Why even write it if there wasn’t a fine! Still, she wasn’t dumb enough to say that outloud. If this guard didn’t want to fine her for giving that pony a swift kick to the teeth then who was she to complain?

She watched the stallion continue to struggle against the guards. At this point, they had called in a locked chariot and we're in the process of loading him into it with many ponies looking over the scene with disgust. When Eiffel tried to use this to her advantage, a lilac colored pegasus with gradient blue mane and tail and a scar on her left wing spoke up. "The only pony here that is acting obnoxiously disgusting is you," she said, watching him get loaded up and the guards hauled him away.

The pegasus walked over towards Octavia and extended a wing to her. "Hey, you okay? We performers gotta look out for each other, you know?" she says with a smile.

"Thanks Wind Dancer, but I'm fine. It's Lemon Hearts that I'm concerned about. She's the one that was on the wrong end of his hooves. I'll probably have to make a trip to Canterlot soon to say my piece though, considering I'm pretty sure that he's missing a couple teeth now," Octavia replied, also with a smile.

Wind Dancer nodded. "I'm any case, make sure you're taking care of yourself as well. I can't have my favorite instrumentalist unable to make an appearance at my festival in a few weeks," Wind added before she took off. "I have a few things that I need to take care of, but we should catch up later! If you're not, ‘busy’. If you are, I totally understand and I'll stop by next time I'm in town," she said, zipping off into the market.

Octavia waved goodbye and started making her way back towards her house. It wasn’t long before Lily had rejoined her as well. Today definitely hadn’t started off how either of them had planned, and Octavia couldn’t help but feel in the back of her mind that there were going to be drastic consequences for her outburst. She should have just gone home and gotten what she was supposed to… but she felt it with every fiber in her being that she needed to stand up for Lemon Hearts. She… probably could have done so without bucking Eiffel in the face. She was honestly surprised that she didn’t get arrested herself.She supposed she was lucky that Eiffel didn’t clean up any of the evidence to what had happened so it collaborated with the story that Lily would have told the guard. “Octavia!” she heard from next to her, making her jump a bit.

“Are you alright? You’ve been very quiet for the walk back… Not to mention jumpy…” Lily noted.

“Yeah, I’m fine. I guess I’m just worried that I overdid things a bit. Honestly that guard should have arrested me as well for bucking him in the face! That was totally uncalled for and made me no better than he was when he was beating up on Lemon!”

“Now you hold on there just a minute. What you did was completely different,” Lily replied.

“Really… How so?” Octavia responded sarcastically.

“Well you were standing up for Lemon Hearts for one. Most ponies are willing to look the other way when you’re standing up for others and defending what is right. Sure, you probably didn’t need to kick him in the face, but honestly… that’s a lot less than what he did to Lemon. Though I do have to say, that’s a pretty good fat lip after two kicks. You’re definitely a pony that I wouldn’t want to make angry. You’re definitely not the kind of pony I would have expected to be able to do something like that,” Lily admitted.

“Yeah well, my cello isn’t exactly light, and then Vinyl’s equipment on top of it, it’s pretty easy to get pretty strong pretty fast being in the life of a musician,” Octavia said.

“Oh I bet! I can’t imagine just how much work you both have to put into doing just even one show. Let alone the multiple shows a month that you two have been doing here recently!”

“It is a lot, and most ponies don’t ever think about the preparation. They just see the show, and they get all excited for the show, and once the show is over they go back to their normal lives and wait for the next one to roll in. It’s a lot of work, and I guess that’s kinda how Vinyl and I started well… Wearing diapers again,” Octavia said, blushing a bit as she said that out loud. The guard did say that it wasn’t really a secret anymore, and honestly that kind of felt like a giant weight had been lifted from her even more.

“Honestly, that was kinda the same conclusion that Rose and I came to as well when we saw the package. In fact, I was the one that told Rose to write the letter. She wasn’t sure at first if it would be too forward of her to do so after what had happened. Though even I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting you to go as far as you did on your first night,” Octavia heard from Lily before raising an eyebrow at her. “Not… like that! And that’s certainly not a bad thing! We just weren't sure if you were going to be up for the full experience so fast. That’s usually something ponies work toward and not just dive in. Last night was the happiest I’ve seen Daisy on a playdate in a while. I was even having fun, and usually I’m only there to help with the menial stuff for Rose.”

“That really makes me happy to hear. I could tell that Daisy was really enjoying herself, and seeing her that happy really made me happy and just made me want to keep going and keep playing. It was the same kind of feeling I get when I’m playing in front of a crowd and they do a standing ovation and start cheering at the climax of the songs. Something like that only really happens when I’m doing a mix with Vinyl though. There are a lot less opportunities for that in the classical music that I usually play.

“Oh Octavia. Don’t sell yourself that short. Jeeze you didn’t become one of the most famous musicians in Equestria because no pony liked you or the music that you play! Most ponies just have more respect than that and know that in a classical setting, there are very structured applause points. It’s done like that specifically so that an applause doesn’t start during intended silence to set up an oboe solo or something of the like,” Lily said, sharing what little bit of knowledge she had on music with Octavia.

Octavia herself went a bit slack jawed when she heard Lily say that. That wasn’t a level of musical intricacy that she was expecting from the flower pony… or any pony that wasn’t in the music industry for that matter. “Wow! I didn’t know you knew about musical etiquette!” Octavia said, unlocking the door to her house. With a quick look in the mailbox she picked up what letters she had and then stepped inside with Lily.

“Huh. This is quite the cozy place you and Vinyl have here. It’s nice and simple. I actually like it a lot!” Lily said.

“Yeah, with both of us rarely being home, we didn’t see much of a point in decorating it with anything fancy. Just the basic necessities! Would you like something to drink while I gather my belongings? I’ve got tea, some juice… and more HayWire! Energy drinks than I could ever imagine! I don’t know how Vinyl can stand those things!”

“HayWire! Energy!? I love those things! The Mango Pinapple one is the best! I’ll take one of those if you have it!” Lily said excitedly.

“I’m sure we do. It’s one of the sickly sweet ones if I remember correctly. The other one she likes is so bitter it makes coffee seem like pure sugar.” Octavia said, rolling her eyes a bit.

“Yeah, the original flavor isn’t the best, but they’ve come a long way!” Lily said as she watched Octavia head into the kitchen before coming out with one of the energy drinks. “Although I do have one question… Pinkie pie doesn’t know you have these right!? Normal Pinkie is okay… but you do not want to see that mare when she’s had an energy drink. Oh who am I kidding, you couldn’t see her. She’d be moving faster than our eyes could see,” Lily said looking over her shoulder.

“You know, if it was anypony else you said that about, I would have laughed at that. But with Pinkie Pie that is entirely possible," Octavia said. "Wait here, I'll be down in a second," she added before moving upstairs. She opened the drawer that had her diapers in. She briefly regretted opening all of the packs now and putting them away. That way she could have just given one of the packs to Lemon. She could do that anyway sure, and she was planning on it, but she didn't know if they would for her or not. Lemon was just a tad bit bigger than she was, so she assumed that they would be fine, but she also didn't know how she liked them to fit. Eventually, she finally settled on bringing fifteen more diapers and that took up literally all of the space in her saddle bags. She had to get out a second set for changing supplies and snacks. The fruity gummy kind.

When she came back down it was Lily's turn to go slack jawed. "Wow, you're really planning on putting us through the ringer aren't you?" she asked giggling at the amount of diapers she was bringing.

"Oh, no this is way more than I'm planning on needing, but I figured after what just happened Lemon would need some of her own to take home afterwards, so whatever isn't used I'm planning on giving her. Between what's here, and what's still at your place, that's nineteen total. So even if we share that would give Lemon ten to twelve to take home with her," Octavia smiled.

Lily returned a warm smile of her own. "That's very thoughtful of you. I'm sure Lemon Hearts will appreciate a gesture like that for a while. Especially since I know those aren't cheap," Lily replied.

"It's worth all of it and more to see a pony smile," Octavia finished. "I think that's everything. We should probably head back," she said before starting to head through the door. "Oh, the mail! I completely forgot! Let's see… show request, show request reminder notice, oh. This one's from Vinyl. Probably saying she's been extended again," she said, opening it up. She became noticeably more excited as she read the note. "Vinyl's going to be coming home tonight! She'll be on the late train though. I'll have to leave her a note for where I'm at," she said before grabbing a quill and some parchment.

"Vinyl,

I will not be in tonight when you get home, but worry not, I will be home in the morning. After a small accident, I discovered something truly amazing! Something that we could do together ourselves or with our new friends, which is where I will be. Little Tavi will be staying at The Flower Sisters' house tonight. Oh! And we're going to have to order more diapers sooner than expected… I'll explain in the morning.

Love,
Tavi."

"Alright, now we should be good. We'll just leave this here and…" Octavia says standing up and heading to the door, Lily following in hoof behind her.

When they got back to Lily's house, they went in to find that Rose was rocking a bandaged and padded Lemon Hearts. She wasn't sobbing anymore, but the look of hurt still plain as day on her face. She didn’t want to fool herself into thinking that something like this would be fixed in one night. Octavia considered herself lucky. IF she was being honest with herself, she was expecting the kind of reaction that Lemon got from Eiffel from everypony else a few days ago, and that began to eat at her a bit as well. Or at least, it started before she realized that Eiffle was actually the only one that treated Lemon any differently. No pony else really gave two thoughts about it, other than making sure Lemon was okay once they heard Eiffel being a jerk.

She also remembered that the guard said that he was pretty sure everypony knew about herself already when Eiffel threatened to tell everypony that she was a freak as well. She shuddered a little bit when she remembered that word. It was the same word that she used to describe herself yesterday, and had she ran into Eiffel yesterday and he had said that, he probably would have shattered what little bit of psyche that she had built back up. She wouldn’t call herself out of the woods… she was still very much worried about how this was going to affect her career and that other ponies actually thought about her. As a performer it was her duty to be a role-model to Equestria. What if she was setting the wrong example?

“Octavia, are you coming? We have to get you ready,” Lily said with a smile and a diaper on her back for the grey music pony.

“Wait, Lily, are you about to change somepony!? Stop the presses!” Rose teased lightly, though the loudness made Lemon Squeeze a bit more. “Sorry…”

“Not at all, This hardly counts! I’m putting Octavia into a diaper so that you can continue to tend to Lemon Hearts. I will take care of Octavia and Daisy. You focus on making Lemon Feel better, and once she’s fully calmed down, and feels comfortable doing so, then she can join the other two in the playroom,” Lily said with a smile. “Now, come on and let’s go!”

Octavia nodded and followed suit, pausing briefly as she passed by Rose and Lemon to give both of the mares a tight hug. Once she was back in the playroom, Lill patted for her to lay down. “Same Rules as yesterday?” Octavia heard Lily ask her.

“Absolutely, that was a lot of fun! I can’t wait to see what we can do today!” she said with a giggle and a wiggle as she felt Lily applying cream to her diaper area.

“Alrighty then. The rules from yesterday will carry over, and once this is on, the potty is for adults only,” Lily instructed, getting a nod in reply as she finished taping up the diaper on the wiggly filly. “Goodness, we should call you Wiggles!” Lily said with a giggle as she patted Octavia’s rump. “Alright. Go play with Daisy for now. I’m sure Rose and Lemon will be here soon.”

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Octavia made her way over to where Daisy was sitting and immediately she saw the mare perk up and give her a hug. "I was worried you wouldn't come back," Octavia heard from the pink pony with the green mane. She returned the hug and pulled Daisy close.

"Of course I was going to come back. After last night, how could you think I wouldn't?" Octavia asked Daisy.

"Oh, it had nothing to do with last night," Daisy countered with a giggle. "I knew you'd want to come back and play again. But I'm not going to lie with the look on your face when you left here and when to Eiffel's I was kinda expecting you to get arrested for strangling him to death or something. Not that he wouldn't have deserved it."

"Hey I have more restraint than that!" Octavia retorted.

"Not if what we did last night was any indication," Daisy giggled, patting Octavia's diaper. "Didn't have much restraint at all. If I remember correctly you were as stinky as I was," she said, poking her tongue out.

At that statement Octavia googled and pushed forward, knocking Daisy over and falling over on top of her, and started rolling around the room with her. She could hear the initial squeak of surprise and then the orchestra of laughter followed. That was, until they rolled over a block. "Yaeeek!!" Octavia squealed out, getting the attention of Daisy and Lily.

"Tavi, you okay?" She heard Lily ask. She immediately let go of Daisy and looked to where her leg had rolled over the block. It had rolled with her a bit and she caught the corner of it. She watched as the spot began to turn red a bit. It really started to sting a bit then and Octavia was starting… to feel an urge in the back of her throat and her eyes started to tear up. With as much restraint as the foal she was would have, Octavia let the tears flow.

Lily had Octavia in her hooves nearly instantly and started rocking her lightly and cooing. "Shhhh… it's okay. I'm right here… did my little Tavi get a boo boo?" She asked, giving her a small nuzzle. "Let Aunt Lili see it," she instructed and held out the injured hoof. It was but a light scrape, and it probably didn't hurt anywhere near where Octavia was letting on that it did. She could definitely tell that Octavia was a performer. "Aww, this isn't so bad. Here, let's get you a bandaid, and you'll be good as new," Lily said, leading Octavia into the main bathroom with Daisy following.

"Alrighty, let's see. Will be better if we use a wrap. While the cut isn't deep it's just a bit longer than the bandaids I got," Lily said as she began wrapping the cut before securing it in place with a clip. "There we go, good as new! Just gotta be a little more careful is all. Perhaps you two can use that as a reminder to put the toys away when you're done playing with them."

"Yes Aunt Lili," both of them said.

When Lily got everyone back to the playroom, Rose and Lemon had already made it there as well. Rose saw the bandage on Octavia's hoof and looked to Lily. "Got a bit too rough did they?"

"Nah, more like they found a toy that they forgot to put away the hard way," Lily says with a small giggle and a light bump against Octavia.

"Ah, well, Lemon Hearts is ready to join you two so it's time to have some fun quality bonding," Rose smiled and nuzzled her sister.

Octavia nodded before carrying some blocks over to Lemon Hearts, including the one that she'd just hurt herself on. "Play?" she asked.

Lemon looked at Octavia. The hurt in her was still very present but she did manage a small smile from behind her binkie. She didn't respond verbally but she nodded and accepted the blocks. She sat them on the ground and she began building. At first it looked like she was just laying blocks down, but then the other two realized that she was laying a foundation.

Octavia's eyes gleamed a bit when she saw this and began looking for a spot to add on. She started doing the same and then started building a wall. Daisy started doing the same on the other side and soon all the walls met in the middle. Lemon smiled and then with a small spell of her horn, the blocks grew.

The three ponies now found themselves in a small fort. Lemon Hearts smiled a bit more as she took out her binkie and spoke. "Let me show you how it's done," she said with a smirk.

Rose and Lily watched on and the two of them stepped forward. "Lemon Hearts… don't you think this is a little big for the room?"

"Room? This isn't a room momma. You're silly! This is Fort Foal! And we're from the land of Pampara! You two are the mean adults, come to invade the fort and take our lands!" Lemon said, putting her binkie back into her mouth.

"Why do we always have to be the bad guys?" Lily asked, looking at Rose.

"Because we are the adults, and to fillies and colts grown ups are always the bad guys. We are the ones that usually enforce the rules after all," Rose responded, turning back to the fort and assuming her role. "Fort Foal! The time has come for you to drop the embargo that you put on Mustania. We cannot sit back idly anymore and let you continue to drain the land of resources and horde them all for yourselves."

"You're just jealous that we're living more prosperously as foals in our fortified castle than you adult ponies are up there in all those fields. Fields that you could be growing your own crops in, and tiling yourselves rather than taking the ponies from Fort Foal to do it for you. We're done giving in to you, Fire Flower!" Lemon Hearts yelled.

"Really now?" Lily replied. "Have you ever wondered why her name was Fire Flower?" She started while Rose was swirling her hooves together and an imaginary swirl of fire appeared and swirled into an orb and an imaginary army appeared behind them. "It's not because of the flowers she grows… but because of the spell she can cast!"

"I was hoping that it wouldn't come to this…" Rose replied, before throwing the fireball at the main gate. "Attaaaack!" she yelled, grabbing as many stuffed animals that she could for her spell components.

Octavia had to duck down in order to dodge the initial attack. "Fire the cannons!" she yelled as pillow cannonballs started raining down. They seemed to have a very minimal effect though as there seemed to be some sort of shield around them.

"Music Note! They're too strong! What do we do!?" Daisy asked using the pretend name for Octavia that they used yesterday.

"I don't know Flower Heart, but we didn't just return from defeating the Porcelain Throne only to get overrun at home. We must think of something… What do you think, Creamcycle?" Music asked.

Lemon Hearts raised an eyebrow at Octavia before leaning in. "Creamcycle? Really? That's the best you could come up with?" she asked as she watched Music Note blush, smile, and shrug her shoulders. She then giggled a bit looking back at her. "Why, we do what got us here to begin with. We must protect the citizens. If you two can defeat a giant monstrosity on your own, defeating a small army should be a piece of cake, especially with a little bit more help," she said, pulling out a small staff and in doing so a small fairy appeared. "Flower, you keep their attention. Music, fling as many spells at them as you can. I'll use my fairy to keep you two alive and help clear the weaker stuff. Let's go!"

The three ponies got down to the main level to find that the gates had been breached. They all three looked up to the sky for a second as epic battle music started playing out of nowhere. Then looked back at each other, shrugged, and then charged forth. Flower Heart surged forward as she channeled dark energy through her greatsword and claws erupted from the ground. They didn't seem to do much, but they definitely got their attention.

Music Note followed suit, throwing a small jolt out. She used that to set up her next ability, which was to call what appeared to be a crystal out of the sky and explode on the ground. This spell would harm the enemies but leave Flower untouched. A couple more of these and the group that was around Flower had fallen and then moved closer to the gate.

Creamcycle followed close by as to not get separated, but far enough back to not get caught in the crossfire. Flower had taken a couple hours, but it wasn't anything that she couldn't take care of. They encountered a couple more groups of soldiers along the way that posed little threat to them though. When they got to the gate though, they would face their first real challenge. In between them and the gate was a giant animated teddy bear.

"Mr. Snuggles!? Why are you siding with them!?" Flower yelled out.

"I'm sorry Flower Heart… I had no choice…" the teddy bear replied before a dark blue zone appeared on the ground. Music and Cream got out of the zone, but Flower didn't see it in time and the long arm of the bear came down and crushed her. When the leg moved Flower remained motionless on the ground.

"I don't think so," Cream said as she twirled her staff and with a smack on the ground Flower disappeared from where she was and reappeared next to Cream.

" Phaaaaaa!" Flower gasped, shaking her head violently. "Thanks," she replied, turning to Mr. Snuggles. "I wish it didn't come to this…"

"Hey! Try to stay out of the blue zones of death this time okay?" Cream asked, partially sarcastically and partially legitimately.

"You got it," she said before turning around and plunging into the teddy with a leap. Hey weapon struck true and she got its attention. An array of attacks and spells would go off as they started weakening the teddy bear.

Music Note was paying attention to the health bar and continued to dodge the blue zones of death. The bear was proving to be a bit of a challenge in that regard, but it wasn't really all that threatening otherwise. Once it reached a point on its health, Music Note yelled. "It's time to finish this!" she said, diving into melee range and engaging with her rapier. She then dove back and called down two additional spells, the later of the two darkening the skies as it came down. After it stuck, the teddy bear let out a deafening roar of pain before it reverted back down to its original size.

At that point, Flower instantly picked up Mr. Snuggles. "Mr. Snuggles, I'm so sorry. I didn't want to hurt you… you've always been my favorite teddy…" she said, her eyes already turning glassy.

"I am sorry…*cough* Flower… I… was not… *cough* under my own control…" he started, "Go… Beat the Fire Flower… Avenge me…"

"Mr. Snuggles? No hold on!!! We'll get help! We can still save you! You're not evil!" Flower said as his body was being enveloped by light.

"You… were always… my… favorite…." we're the last words that Flower would hear before the base faded into the aether. Quietly she began to sob until in turned into a full fledged wail of hurt and pain.

Music Note immediately pulled her into a hug. "Mr. Snuggles was a great bear. He will be sorely missed. But we have a job to do, less more of our friends fall victim to their games," she told Flower.

Cream also nodded. "We should move swiftly. We have an opening!"

Flower sobbed for a few seconds more before she released Music Note from the embrace and turned to the gate. The only thing that could be seen in her face now was a blind rage. She tilted her series back and a dark energy overtook it as her eyes turned red. She began to channel the inner darkness inside of her and her power level grew because of it. She marched past soldiers swinging her sword at anything that got close.

When she finally got to where Fire Flower was, she charged in and swung hard, way harder than she actually intended and she heard a very loud yelp. She also saw her bounce off an object before crumpling to the ground. Immediate Daisy was out of character and realized that they were way too close to the wall and Rose was now on the ground. "Rosie!!!" Daisy screamed. "Lily, go get ice. Tavi, Lemon, help me get Rosie onto one of the nap pads," she said, starting to lift her up.

"Why did you hit her so hard Daisy?" Lemon asked curtfully.

"I don't know!" Daisy replied, starting to actually cry now. "I didn't mean to. I was just acting out the part, and I got carried away… Come on Rosie… please be okay…" she said as her sister lay motionless.

Octavia didn't have a lot of medical training, but there were fundamental things that everypony knew. She sat her head, ear down onto Rose's chest and she could hear her heart beating. It was slow as was hey breathing but it was steady. "She's going to be okay. Though she might need to see Nurse Redheart though, to make sure she doesn't have any head trauma," she said as Lily came back into the room with ice in a rag. She placed the rag onto Rose’s head and the Rose began to wake and move.

“My head…” she said before shaking it a bit before feeling the ice on her head and she held it there with a hoof. Thankfully outside of a splitting headache right now, nothing else seemed amiss. She then looked towards Daisy who immediately pinned her ears back. “Daisy… what in Equestria had gotten into you back there? You’ve never hit me that hard before…”

“I’m sorry Rosie!!! I was playing the part… and I was angry… and hurt… and I lost myself in myself… and I didn’t realize until after what I had done…” Daisy cried, laying her head over her chest.

Rose draped her hoof over the pink pony and pulled her close. “Hey… hey… I wasn’t hurt…. This time, but we do have to be careful. That playroom isn’t that big, and it probably wouldn't have been as bad if I hadn’t also clonked my head on the wall.”

“Honestly,” Lemon Hearts started. “That was probably mostly my fault for setting the play castle up so close to the wall to begin with. It really put a hamper on what space we had… I’m kinda surprised we didn’t break anything.”

“Nah, we all got a bit carried away a bit. We were just having fun and maybe pushed a teensy bit too far,” Octavia commented as her stomach growled a bit. “You know… in all of the excitement in the morning… I don’t think we ever had breakfast. I think now would be a perfect time to remedy that,” she went on to suggest.

Lily looked over to Rose. “Are you sure you’re going to be able to handle the rest of the day Rose? That was quite a wallop.”

“Yes Lily, I’ll be fine. It’s not the first time I’ve had a little hit me in the face. They are usually throwing a tantrum though. AT least you three are well behaved for the most part,” she said, pushing herself up and letting her vision right itself before she started heading out into the hall and down into the kitchen, the rest of the ponies in hoof behind her. Lily however, made her way to the living room instead. “With a group this big we’re gonna have to use the table for breakfast. I know it ruins the immersion, but… I simply can’t afford the fancy grown-pony highchairs that they make.” Rose admitted to them.

“While immersion is nice, we’re here because you’re the best caretaker in Ponyville Rose. One of these days we’re going to find a way to make it up to you,” Lemon Hearts told her as she sat down with a puff and a crinkle at the table.

“Aww, Lemmy, you’re making me blush! Although… we have been playing all morning so…” Rose started before sticking her hoof at the base of their diapers and patting them gently. “Wow! We’ve been playing for hours and my little foals are still dry! We might be ready for big pony pants now!”

“Hmph… No!” Lemon Hearts said, turning her snout away in faux disgust. “No Big Pony Pants! Just haven’t had to potty yet!”

“Okay… Okay… Let’s see… What would be a good breakfast for my foals… I know! How about some nice Blueberries and Cream Oatmeal! The perfect food for cleaning out those digestive tracts!” Rose said with a smile. She barely had the pot on the stove for the oatmeal before she saw a flash in the other room and a clammer of an assortment of things. She knew that flash, something had teleported into the room, and considering Lemon Hearts was the only unicorn here and was still at the table, that ruled her out. Not to mention she didn’t know if Lemon even knew how to teleport to begin with. That was an advanced spell after all.

“R...Rose…. You might… want to come in here…” she heard Lily stammer.

Rose took her sister’s words seriously and grabbed one of the frying pans that she wasn’t using in her mouth before moving from the kitchen into the living room. When she got into the living room though, she dropped the pan herself as she saw a white alicorn standing in the room. “P...P...Princess Celestia?” she spoke in shock. “To what do we owe the honor?” she asked, her heart racing a million miles a minute. The princess herself had just teleported directly to them, and that usually meant something very bad…

“Greetings Miss Roseluck and Lily Valley. I am here on an urgent matter. I was looking for a Miss Octavia Melody and a Miss Lemon Hearts. I was told that they would both be here. I would like to speak to them immediately,” The Princess commanded, the pony’s eyes shrank to pinpricks, and her already racing heart was going faster as she pinned her ears back and leaned away from the princess. She also couldn't help the small puddle that was starting to spread from around her.

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Rose took a few steps back from the princess, and only then did she realize the puddle that she'd left on the floor. She blushed hard when she saw it. She then looked back to the kitchen where the three girls were eating breakfast. They had no idea what was going on here, but she knew that wouldn't last. She also knew that even if she wanted to stand up to the princess and defend her friends and family, there was no way that could happen. Celestia was an alicorn, and she was a simple earth pony. "I know I can't stop you princess, so I won't even try. I will say though that I am disappointed that the monarchy sides with a mare-beater in situations like this… just know that if you go through with this, you're endangering the lives of every single pony that wants to feel young again…" she said, stepping to the side.

Princess Celesta looked at the cream colored mare dumbfounded at what she had just heard the pony say. She tried to hold it in a bit, but soon the giggles that were inside her broke out into laughter. "Oh…" she started. "You think… you think I'm… wahahahaha… aaaahahahahaha ….oohoohoo… hoo… ha…" she said finally calming down.

"My apologies… I just… I've never been that misinterpreted before… though my humorous on the matter probably didn't make things any better…" she told Rose. "Rest assured my little pony. I am not here to administer any sort of discipline. I am simply here to speak with them about what transpired. No more, and no less. I have no reason to administer punishment for a pony being themselves, so long as they aren't hurting other ponies in the process," she told the mare. "Though between you and me… you might want to go clean up…" Celestia added, pointing to the puddle.

Rose let out the breath that she was holding after the princess started laughing. The explanation that she gave made her feel both better and worse at the same time. "That is quite comforting to hear, princess… it's just… you have to understand where we're coming from. Most ponies rarely see you or your sister outside of Canterlot unless you're addressing a problem or arresting somepony… It's kind of earned you a fairly negative reputation outside of Canterlot," Rose told her.

"I see…" the princess started. "I will admit, that is a bit unsettling that so many of my subjects see my arrival or presence in their city in such a negative perspective… Though I guess technically I am here to deal with a problem, just not in the way that you are thinking. Whenever a case of a violent pony comes in front of me, I always check to make sure the victim, or victims are okay. I do so by speaking with them directly, and get a sense for their body language in addition to their words," she added, walking past Rose and into the kitchen.

The kitchen immediately became quiet as the princess walked in and noticed the three mares all padded up in their diapers and appeared to be in the process of breakfast. However, they were now staring at her with pinpricks for eyes and their hooves moved down in an attempt to cover themselves. "Hello Lemon Hearts, Octavia, Daisy. This is quite the interesting little get up you three have here," she said pulling up a chair to the table. As she did, she could hear a loud hiss from the pale yellow mare next to her and the blush on her cheek told her everything she needed to know. "I will try to be quick, so I don't interrupt playtime too much. I just wanted to talk about what happened this morning."

"Wait… you're taking his side!?" Lemon shrieked at first.

"Wow… Rose wasn't kidding…" Celestia says under her breath. "No my little pony, I'm not. I came here today to learn more about you and to make sure that both you and Octavia both are okay from the stallion's violent episodes. I can see Ms. Hearts, that you have several wounds that have been treated. May I see them?"

"I would rather you didn't… a couple of them are in some very personal spots, and the others were a pain for Rose to get the bandages to stay put. I would rather not make her reapply them…" Lemon countered.

"I can easily reapply them with magic, but I do need to see them unfortunately to get an idea of their severity. That way I can get a proper idea for sentencing for Eiffel," Celestia told hey.

"The rest of his life should be good enough…" Lemon said sourly.

"Unfortunately I can't make that call without seeing the wounds," Celestia confirmed.

Lemon Hearts finally relented and backed away from the table. She blushed hard as she realized just how much her diaper was sagging now, and the princess was going to see her in a very, very wet diaper. Lemon started with the bandage around her barrel and showed a decent sized laceration that stung quite a bit more now that air was getting to it. Then the bandage on her neck, revealing another cut and some bruises before then unwrapping her swollen eye. "There are two more but…" she blushed hard looking at her diaper.

"Would you like me to change you?" Celestia asked, nearly making Lemon Hearts fall into said padding. She wasn't expecting the princess of all ponies to be that forward. "I'm going to have to see the wounds anyway to document them," she said before lifting the saggy part with her magic. "Besides, it looks like you could use it," she said before hearing an echo of hissing now. That actually made Celestia blush a bit herself.

Lemon Hearts blushed even more, especially when she felt the squishy padding get pushed back into her, before laying back into the tile. She watched as Celestia moved forward and started undoing her diaper. When she did, she noticed a little bit of red on the inside that had been diluted more to an orange now and she looked towards the mare's slit. There were a few cuts on her labia but they didn't go very deep.

Celestia shuddered when she saw that, and further did so from the smell of the fresh pee that was in the diaper. She'd either been kicked or bitten and neither were pleasant feelings in that location. Celestia was actually surprised she had any control at all at this point. A pony's marehood was designed to stretch and accommodate, so for it to actually get cut meant the force of the kicks or bites had to be hard. She also noticed a much larger bite mark by her tail, and there was another smell that she picked up too. One decidedly male. It made sense. Celestia's horn lit up and then suddenly Lemon could hear Celestia in her mind.

"We will have this next part of the conversation here, out of respect for your privacy," Celestia told her.

"No offense princess… but we're way past when my privacy matters at this point… my mare bits are on display to everypony in the room." Lemon retorted.

"Is that not normal for group playdates? One would have thought they would have seen that already and this would be nothing new. But I do have a very serious question, and I need you to be truthful to me. Did Eiffel force himself upon you before you got away? I can smell 'him' coming from you." Celestia asked.

Just when Lemon Hearts thought her blush couldn't get any brighter, Celestia surprises get yet again. She knew that Celestia could also read any of her thoughts right now with the magic she was casting, so hiding anything would be impossible. Lemon looked away from the princess and then nodded.

"I see…" the princess said before teleporting some wipes and a pastel blue diaper with Luna's cutie mark printed all over it. She began to very gently wipe the mare clean, paying extra attention to the cuts on her slit to make sure they were nice and clean before sealing those up with her magic. She then let that wave of magic wash over the pony and her wounds were no longer. She then slid the new diaper under Lemon Hearts and taped it shut, though it was a little bit snug. "Huh, you must be just a bit larger than my sister. Hopefully that's not too uncomfortable."

"It's a little tight, but it's worka…" Lemon started before realizing what the princess said. "Wait… Luna's a little!?"

"Not entirely, but she has been having control issues since her return… After being on the moon for a thousand years, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to potty train her again. She was hard enough to train the first time," the princess explained. "There ya go. All clean," she said, turning to Octavia.

"As for you Octavia. I heard that you had a run in with Eiffel as well? I would like to hear what happened from you," Celestia said.

"Honestly, it's pretty straightforward. I was already here, I'm fact I had just gotten changed out of a rather full diaper, but hadn't put another on cause I was planning on running home real quick and I didn't want to walk all throughout Ponyville wearing a diaper. Just because I accidentally left a clearly labeled pack of diapers outside for everyone to see and they know I wear them now, doesn't mean everypony wanted to actually see me wearing said diaper," Octavia said to Celestia, watching her nod.

"Rose had just finished and I had just grabbed my saddle bag when Lily called Rose in a panic. That's when Lemon Hearts showed up, looking like she'd been beaten to within an inch of her life. When she explained what happened, I marched right over to Eiffel's house, saw the destroyed pile of diapers and her little supplies, and bucked him in the teeth. If the guards hadn't shown up when they did. I was going to make Eiffel look like Lemon by the time I was done with him," Octavia finished.

"I see…" Celestia started. "Well… there will have to be a punishment for that… as while it was well deserved violence, it was still unwarranted violence. For your punishment, you are going to have to come to Canterlot in the weeks and play for my sister's birthday bash and you will be diapered the entire time. That way Luna doesn't feel bad about being the only one there wearing one," Celestia said. "After the party, you will be Luna's playdate for the next week."

Octavia couldn't believe her ears. That's a punishment? She thought to herself, confused. She was expecting something more like a fine or community service… Well… I guess technically this is kinda community service, she thought again with a giggle. "Agreed… but I will need exact times… I wouldn't want to be late."

"You won't be, don't worry," Celestia said. "As for Eiffel. I can assure you," she started looking towards Lemon. "He will get what's coming to him. "Like turning him into a mare and letting the guards loose on her," she finished, that last part going directly to Lemon.

It was about them that Rose had finally made her way back to the kitchen after cleaning up her little accident in the living room. Rose let out a sigh of relief. "Phew… no pony is dead or arrested…" she said, getting quite the offended look from the princess. "Kidding!!! Kidding!!! Sorry, I couldn't help myself," she said noticing the very different diaper that Lemon Hearts was wearing. "Lemon… did you make a stinky for the princess?"

"What! No!!!" Lemon blurted out. "I mean… not yet… I was only wet and she needed to see the injuries. She also fixed them!"

Rose couldn't hide the look of shock that she had before looking back to Celestia. "What? I couldn't let her suffer and they were mostly just cuts and bruises. And with some of them being in an area subject to contamination, I didn't want them getting infected. So, since I was healing those already, I figured why not. That being said, I think you have a couple of other fillies that need a change now, so I think I'll leave you to it."

"Awwww, I wanted to get changed by the princess!!!" Daisy blurted out grumpily.

Rose felt her jaw drop as she heard Daisy basically just equate the Princess of Equestria to a common foal sitter. "Sorry princess. I'll make sure my little ones are better behaved in the future," she said glaring at Daisy.

"Oh it's perfectly fine. I should have expected as such when I offered to change Lemon in exchange for getting to see the wounds that she had. Although if you could get me a few of their diapers, I would appreciate it. Luna will notice if too many of hers come up missing, and they are just a tad bit smaller in the waist than they are," Celestia requested.

"Sure thing! Come on girls, let's go back to the play room where the supplies are. Most of the oatmeal is gone anyway so I'll have to come back in here and clean up," Rose instructed. The three fillies led the princess back towards the play room and she began to clean up the kitchen. That was until she saw Daisy stop and start to squat. She was getting ready to call Daisy out but it was too late. Hey tail flagged and a giant bulge appeared in the back of hey diaper under her tail.

"Phew," She heard Celestia tease, relieving her spirits a bit. "I think you might give my sister a run for her bits," she giggled following them into the room.

As they were out of the Rose kinda fell back against the fridge, hard enough it made Lily peek her head in. "Rose… you okay?"

"Did… All that really just happen? Princess Celestia… randomly appearing in our house… revealing sides of them I'm sure her sister would have rather remained private… and changing the others?" Rose asked.

"Seems like it. Wait… Celestia is changing their diapers!?" Lily asked, shocked.

"Apparently. Speaking of, where did you go? Celestia appeared and you just poofed."

"I went and hid in the bathroom. I didn't want to have the same welcome that you gave her by making a puddle. I'm surprised she didn't try to diaper you after that," Lily commented.

"She probably thought about it, but didn't want to make things any more awkward. She didn't really take too kindly to the news that outside of Canterlot her arrival strikes fear into ponies," Rose stated.

"I mean… Can you really blame her? Just like how she can't really blame us for our thoughts because it's what we see, we can't really blame her for being upset by it. Can you imagine walking into a city and instantly being feared? Sure everypony is respectful to her but I'm sure she notices that undertone. She's basically getting a first hoof experience of what her sister felt a thousand years ago," Lily responded.

"I still can't believe all of those old Mare's Tales are actually true! I never thought anything more about it until Nightmare Moon came back last year," Rose said, standing up and moving the bowls to the sink.

"Thank the stars that Twilight knew what was going on and actually believed the story. Otherwise Luna would still be Nightmare Moon, and we'd be living in eternal night. I mean, the stars are beautiful and all, but how would we have been able to grow our flowers?"

"Yeah, but to think… if Celestia would do that to her own sister, just remove her from existence for a thousand years… then what would she do to a normal pony? We don't live forever like they do. We'd die after the first year…" Rose said.

"Actually it's more of a stasis than anything…" a voice said from behind them.

"Princess Celestia!!!" They both said before Rose's ears drooped back again. "How long have you been there…"

"Long enough to confirm how my subjects actually feel about me, and to get a better understanding of why… I never meant for any of this to get this far out of control…" Celestia said with a sigh, stepping into the kitchen. "You have to understand… a thousand years ago, when my sister fell… I only had two options… banishment or execution… Many ponies back then thought that banishing her was too nice. They wanted me to kill my own sister. I never had it in my heart to even contemplate it. Unfortunately, once I banished her, we lost attunement to the elements. I couldn't bring her back if I wanted to, and I had. Several times. Not even I knew how long the banishment was going to last, and I certainly didn't intend it on being a thousand years…" Celestia said, hanging her head.

Hearing the princess talk about what must be such a sensitive topic for her gave the two flower ponies pause. They didn't want to interrupt too much. "I'm sorry princess… we didn't know…"

"I know… there was no way that you could. Up until two years ago the take was told as a legend. The only pony alive today that is from that time is well… me. Several generations of ponies had passed before my sister returned so few ponies ever believed she existed at all. They even refused to believe me when I would correct them the first few years telling me that it was better this way… Now, the only thing I've accomplished recently is apparently making the entire kingdom believe that I'm a tyrant that only shows up when administering punishments… I don't even know how I got that reputation because I've never publicly administered a punishment. I try to keep them as descrete as possible…"

"If I may, Princess… if you're concerned about that, you could always just kind of go out more. Go to different events. You know, ones that you aren't required to be at. Show the ponies outside of Canterlot your benevolence that you show there. Ponies will warm up to you more if you just come around more often than just to arrest somepony," Rose interjected.

"You know, that's a really good idea. Luna did say that the ponies here in Ponyville helped her fit in when she came here for Nightmare Night a few weeks ago. That helped boost her confidence… I can see why Twilight likes it here now. There are a lot of good ponies here. I'll have to stop by for a casual visit one day. I remember I tried that once before and I got… pulled away… to deal with a problem… but the ponies in Trottingham were quite relieved at my presence. Still, I must be getting back to the palace. The guards will begin to wonder if something is wrong soon," she said before lighting up her horn. "I will keep your suggestions in mind," she blurted before she disappeared into the aether.

Lily turned to Rose after the princess teleported away. "Well… that went as well as it could have… if not incredibly awkward."

"To be fair, we kinda made it awkward when the princess heard us talking about her, but I agree. I'll have to wait and see about what the princess had to say though. It's going to take a bit more than a few words for me to change my opinion. She is still an alicorn after all, and we have every reason to be wary every time she's in town,"

"I'm honestly kind of wondering what else the princesses might be hiding. If the Mare in the Moon was real, then what other legends or myths that we tell ponies about are real as well," Lily said as they finished the dishes. "You should probably go check on your littles," Lily smiled.

Rose nodded back to Lily before turning the water off and heading back into the playroom. The three fillies were all cleaned up and were playing with the dolls in the corner of the room. "Hey girls. Doing okay?"

Lemon Hearts was the first to nod. "Yes momma! We're playing pretend again, but with dolls this time so no pony gets hurt!"

"Yeah! We just stopped the attack in the castle and now we're getting ready to launch a counter attack!" Octavia chimed in.

Rose was relieved. She was so worried that the princess showing up was going to put a damper on everything. She was almost certain when she came that somepony was going to get taken away. But that wasn't the case at all, and Daisy, Octavia, and Lemon Hearts were all still having fun. All three of them continued to play like there wasn't a care in the world. "Alright, let me know if you need anything," she smiled.

"Juice! I'd like some juice please!" Daisy said before getting similar responses from the other fillies.

Rose just chuckled a bit. "Alright, three bottles of apple juice coming right up," she says, leaving the girls to themselves.

Octavia looked back to the other two. "I still can't get over the fact that Celestia actually came to talk to us about what happened!"

"Tell me about it!" Lemon Hearts responded. "It was embarrassing enough to have the princess actually see us in our diapers, but then I went and wet myself right in front of her! And then she changed me! I know she was just trying to take a look at what Eiffel did but still!"

"I didn't think it was that bad. Once she's in the house she's just another grown up," Daisy replied. "Besides, I certainly didn't make it easy on her."

"You got that right stinky!" Lemon chided with a giggle.

"I still can't believe that I'm going to have to play a recital wearing a diaper for Princess Luna, or that I'm going to be her playdate! A playdate with the princess is going to be so much fun! Provide we actually get along. Otherwise that would be more like a nightmare. Still, she didn't seem that bad when she was here for Nightmare Night," Octavia replied.

"Eh… she was still pretty scary honestly. I mean she used her magic to come in on a lightning storm! And I think I've heard rock concerts quieter than her voice," Daisy countered.

"Perhaps, but this was her first nightmare night after being gone for a thousand years, and considering it was born from her namesake, well… of her other form anyway, she had no idea what to expect. I mean… would you know how to act if you just poofed for a thousand years?" Lemon Hearts asked as Rose returned with their juice. "Thanks momma!" she added, starting to drink from her bottle.

"Thanks momma," Daisy said to Rose before looking back at Lemon. "I suppose not, but I can't imagine being home for that long anyway. That had to be boring and lonely," she said looking at Lemon's current diaper. "I mean, it's no wonder she's trying to be a foal again. That's the quickest way to not be lonely anymore."

"Unless you're me apparently," Lemon commented.

"Nonsense Lemon! You're not alone! You have us! And we'll always be here for you… except for that week I'll have to be gone, or I have other performances scheduled but hey, you're invited to all of them," Octavia smiled.

"Yeah! What she said! And even if she's out of town, I'm always here! Lily handles all of our out-of-town deliveries so I'm almost always home and I wear diapers every night so if you wanna come over and be little then you're more than welcome to join," Daisy added with a smile on her own.

"Aww, you girls…" Lemon said, smiling herself with tears in the corners of her eyes. "Come here," she added. She leaned forward and pulled the two other mares into a hug. As she did, she could feel the oatmeal from breakfast knocking at her backdoor. With a smirk she pulled the hug in tighter and started grunting. The back of her diaper bulged out quite a bit before she sat back down.

Octavia and Daisy both heard the grunt from the hug and couldn't help but watch the seat of Lemon's diaper expand. Daisy was almost certain that it was going to leak as tight as it was, and couldn't help but giggle when she was done. "Feel better?"

"Yup! Now, where were we? This castle isn't going to avenge itself!" Lemon smiled, contently playing in her full diaper.

The girls would continue like this until later in the evening. Playing, napping, getting changed, it was all a fun part of their day. As the last diaper was getting removed for the night, Lemon Hearts smiled. "I can't thank you girls enough for being here for me. After the morning I had, I really needed this. Plus I got to make a new friend today to boot!" she said, giving Octavia a boop on her nose.

Octavia would start to feel a tickle in her nose from said boop, and after a few more moments, "Aaaahchu!" the mare sneezed before rubbing her nose and hearing the giggle fits of the other two. "Ha ha ha… very funny…" she said before booping both of them in return getting the exact same reaction. Her breath hitched a bit as she stopped a laugh. "You know… that is kind of funny," she said before all three of them started laughing.

"Same time next week?" Daisy asked hopefully.

"I'm free, how about you Tavi?" Lemon replied.

"I should be good. I'll have to double check my performance schedule when I get home to see where I'm performing and if I can get back in time," she replied.

"Well, if you're available, you know where to find us!"

"Sure do! Thanks again for everything, and make sure to tell your sister I said thanks again for inviting me! I had a blast. I should really get going now though. Vinyl's supposed to be can't tonight and her train should be arriving soon. I would like to meet her at the station," Octavia smiled, pulling Lemon Hearts and Daisy into one last hug. "See you again soon!" she said, washing as she departed through the door.

Home Sweet Home

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It only took Octavia about twenty minutes to get to the train station to wait for Vinyl. The time was approaching nine in the evening, and Vinyl was supposed to be on the next train in. She could see the train in the distance and waited anxiously for it. Both a perk and downside of bed in on a flat stretch of land was you can see a long way to the horizon.

She started to reflect over the past week, and despite how it started, it ended up being one of the best she's had in a while. She was still in disbelief of how everything had gone. She still wasn't entirely sure how she was going to explain everything to Vinyl, but she knew that she would be mostly understanding. She still couldn't believe she did something like that herself.

"Boo!" Octavia heard from behind her, making her jump and almost latch on to the bit of the rafter that was hanging over them. She then looked down at a minty green unicorn that was now laughing hysterically.

"Wahaha... wahahahaha… wooo… sorry Tavi… I didn't know anyone other than Fluttershy could jump like that! Haha," the mare said to her.

"Very funny Lyra…" she started, looking up to the clock. "Considering it's too late for a delivery. I'm going to assume you're either waiting for Bon Bon, or you were following me just to scare me," Octavia said, feeling Lyra help her back to the ground.

"Yeah, I'm waiting for Bonnie. She had a trip to Fillydelphia and is coming back tonight," Lyra answered.

"Oh. She must be on the same train as Vinyl then. It should be here any minute," Octavia commented. She then noted the odd smile that Lyra was giving her. "What?"

"So… did you have fun with the sisters?" Lyra asked, making Octavia nearly fall over in shock.

"You knew?" she started before pausing for a second. "Nevermind, I'm sure everypony knew after I finished with Eiffel."

"Oh girl, you don't even know! The way you bucked him up has spread all over town! That was the most priceless and most wholesome thing we've had happen here in a bit. I mean, who knows when the next weird monster is going to attack! Like a bug bear that's actually a bug! Wouldn't that be crazy?"

Octavia would raise an eyebrow at that. "I think your cutie mark is wrong Lyra. You should have been a theater pony with ideas like that," she says with a giggle from both of them.

"You know it's true though, as crazy as things have been," Lyra laughed.

"Right, and the next thing you're going to say is that this is going to happen during a wedding, and that Bonnie is a secret agent."

"Na, Bonnie is legit. If she were an agent, I'd know," Lyra said as the train rolled in.

The two ponies would laugh a bit more as the train crept to a stop and ponies started departing. Most she paid no mind to, other than an occasional nod in passing. After a few minutes she spotted Vinyl and nearly pounced the white unicorn.

"Oof, yes… I'm happy to see you too…" Vinyl said, waiting for Octavia to get off of her so she could breathe again. She would give her a nozzle before standing up and realized something. "Wait a second… who are you and what have you done with Tavi? Normally you're home asleep right now and you never have this much energy at night!"

"Yeah, yeah. I'll explain everything once we're home. The events of the past week are kinda weird to explain," Octavia started.

"Weird? More like awesome! Octavia finally broke her shell. She's like a completely different pony!" Lyra proclaimed before spotting Bon Bon. "Oop, there's Bonnie! Gotta go, bye!" And without giving Octavia a chance to interrupt or comment she was gone.

Vinyl immediately raised an eyebrow. "A whole new pony huh? Hopefully not too much of a new pony," she started. "Perhaps we could start at the beginning. The walk home is a good place to start, otherwise that's gonna be a boring, silent walk, and you know how I handle that much quiet," Vinyl commented.

"Yes, and I think a late night rave is the last thing that ponies want right now. Except maybe Pinkie Pie, but she's the local party pony. She's always up for a party," she said, getting a look from Vinyl.

"Sooo…?" Vinyl asked as she started walking.

"Sooo… starting from the beginning… you remember that note you left me, reminding me about the package that was coming?"

"You forgot, didn't you?" Vinyl blurted.

"More like overslept… and then once I remembered I had a bit of a breakdown… after getting it inside that is. Though at that point it had been outside for about four hours, so the damage had already been done," Octavia admitted.

Vinyl would sigh a bit. "I told you that you should have paid for the discreet shipping. I knew that something like that was going to happen. You and I both know that when you're home the world doesn't exist before noon," Vinyl said with a small laugh. "Four hours, huh? Welp, I guess that cat's out of the bag."

"Yeah, I spent the entire rest of the day and the entire next day padded and started inside and never even looked outside until I had my appointment with Tenderheart. Of course, Tenderheart was one of the ponies that noticed the package and I explained everything to her after she pried at it for a few minutes," Octavia started.

"That doesn't sound very professional of her… a doctor shouldn't try to pry into the personal life of a pony. That's not what they get paid to do," Vinyl replied.

"Actually it was quite so. I was a bit irritated by it at first, but she said that she didn't care that I was wearing them, but she was concerned as to the why. The only thing that she was really concerned about was that I was still in control of myself. She knew there were a lot of severe medical conditions that require the use of diapers because a pony loses control of themselves."

"It's called incontinence, and yeah… I can see it. Did she drop it after that?" Vinyl asked.

"Kinda. I started going into all the feelings that I felt and went into why I felt the way I did and how they help relieve stress for the both of us and…"

"Wait, you told her about me too!?"

"She asked, and I'm not going to lie to the doctor," Octavia stated.

"Gee, thanks for being honest. Might have to start calling you Applejack," Vinyl said, annoyed.

"Sorry… but I was just being honest with her. I told her how it de-stresses us, and how it helped us cope with the long absences between each other when our schedules are opposite like they were for the past couple weeks. I told her how it feels being performers, especially the famous ones, and how everypony expects us to be perfect and how they only see the show. Ponies don't see everything that we have to do to prepare for it. This helped us deal with that pressure in a way that didn't involve antidepressants. You remember how Shooting Star got after her doctor prescribed them to her," Octavia said.

"Tavi… you don't have to explain it to me. I'm the one that talked you into trying diapers to begin with, remember?" Vinyl said, tapping Octavia's head teasingly.

"Yeah yeah… but she understood for the most part. She did however want me to do some tests to make sure that I don't have anything starting, and it's probably a good idea, cause the last few nights I legitimately wet the bed. I was wearing a diaper so the sheets were dry, but I was definitely quite soaked,” she admitted to Vinyl. They were now starting to come up onto their house.

“That bad huh? I mean, I know that when I go to bed and I’m wearing a diaper my body kinda goes into a different mode where it just doesn’t care. It knows I’m protected and just like, I’ll just sleep through the signal. Maybe you’re just getting used to it and your body is starting to have the same effect. It could also just be from the stress of the past few days. Having to deal with the package, and then having to explain everything to the doctor.”

“Oh, it didn’t stop there. Lyra approached me and talked about it for a bit.”

“Of course she did. Lyra are two of the biggest littles in town, and just about everypony knows it. I think the only other that might come close is Daisy,” Vinyl interrupted.

“Speaking of…”

“Wait… Really?”

“Yeah, when I got home from the doctor’s office I checked the mail, and there were a few requests for shows, and some mail for you,” she said, unlocking the door and turning the lights on. “I set it on your practice turntables for you. But when I was sorting it out. There was an odd envelope with a floral smell, and there was no address on it. Just said ‘To Tavi’. So I opened it up and it was Rose inviting me over to have a talk,” Octavia told her.

“Ah, so she offered to be your caretaker then. She used to be my caretaker for a bit before we both started taking care of each other. Considering that it’s Thursday, I’m presuming that you just left there before coming to the station. Since The Flower Sisters are usually closed on Thursdays to entertain guests,” Vinyl said presumptuously.

“Yeah, I went over there that evening, right after the doctor’s appointment and we talked… nearly made some really bad decisions and poor word choices and probably would have lost a friend if she didn’t keep my anxiety from getting the better of me. I don’t know why, but I had my mind all made up that she was bringing me there to make fun of me and to tell me that she would no longer be having the flower sisters do arrangements for a foal. I don’t know why I’ve always been assuming the worst in ponies recently, but so far everypony that I thought would make fun of me or cancel things because they found out about my little secret, didn’t even care. Tenderheart just wants to make sure I’m healthy, and The Flower Sisters gave me somepony to have fun with when you are out on shows… If that’s alright with you… Rose made it perfectly clear that she doesn’t want to get in the way of us, and I am not going to let that,” she started before a hoof appeared on her mouth.

“I’m not going to get mad because you and Daisy had some padded playtime. Shoot I wouldn’t even be mad if you two fooled around a bit.”

“Vinyl!”

“What!? I’m being honest. It’s not like we aren’t all mares. It’s not like they can knock you up or anything! It would be like getting that special package at the spa when we’re in heat,” Vinyl said, watching Octavia roll her eyes a bit.

"You're hopeless," Octavia said with a laugh. "But this story gets even better. So Rose makes the offer that if I like giving up the responsibility, and liked the playtime that she offered, I could stay today. So I did. Well, after Rose changed me after a morning stinky."

"Stinky? You actually did that!?" Vinyl asked, shocked.

"Well yeah. I mean I let Daisy set the rules and I only thought it would make sense to start with the full experience and then adjust the experience as I found things I didn't like. After the first time I made a stinky, I found that I didn't mind it. Especially since I wasn't the one that had to clean it up. I don't think I could do it myself though," Octavia admitted.

"Yeah, it's not as fun when you have to clean it yourself. Trust me," Vinyl said. "Anyway this morning?" she asked, wanting to know more.

"As I was getting changed, or right after actually. Lily called Rose in a panic and Lemon Hearts was at the door and she looked like she'd been beaten up pretty bad."

"What!? Who the buck would lay a hoof on Lemon? She mostly keeps to herself and is relatively quiet most of the time!" Octavia heard Vinyl say with about as much anger as she had when she first saw Lemon.

"Yeah, that was about my reaction to, except after she told us that it was her boyfriend, and he'd done it to her after he discovered her little stash. He had destroyed all of her little stuff and then beat the shit out of her when she broke it off with him. So I went to their mouth, and bucked him in the mouth twice before the guards got there and prevented me from doing more."

"Dayum girl, you got some spice in you now. Next you'll be saying that you want some dubstep in your classical songs."

"Vinyl, I've told you before I would be all for that if we could sit down and figure out an arrangement for it. But we've barely had time for each other, let alone trying to write something together," Octavia told her.

"I know, I know. So what happened after the guards got there?" Vinyl asked.

"They arrested him, and I got a written warning, and I thought that was going to be the end of it."

"You thought?"

"Yeah, after Lily and I got back and resumed playtime, Princess Celestia popped in to ask Lemon and myself about what happened. She got a visual recollection of the wounds Lemon had sustained, and asked me about my involvement. She smiled and said that Eiffel would be dealt with accordingly and she ended up changing Lemon. And get this, she apparently used one of Luna's diapers! The Princess of the Night wears diapers too!! How adorable is that!" Octavia proclaimed.

"I suppose that depends on whether it's out of want or need. She might not think it's too fun," Vinyl responded.

"I think it's a bit of both. From what Celestia said when she teleported it in, a thousand years on the moon had basically unpotty-trained her, and she was having to get readjusted and retrained. She hasn't been taken too well to it. Though what did make me giggle is that apparently Lemon is a bit bigger around than Luna, cause her diaper just barely fit," Octavia giggled.

"Honestly, that kinda makes sense. Not a lot to eat on the moon, and while Lemon Hearts isn't far by any means, she definitely hasn't missed many meals," Vinyl replied. "Not to mention, both the princesses look like they barely eat to begin with. I don't know if it's just their alicorn metabolism or what."

"Perhaps, though the princess did say that I wasn't going to be able to get off scot-free for attacking Eiffel," Octavia admitted.

"I'm not surprised… What's the fine? I'm sure we can budget something out for it," Vinyl said reluctantly.

"Well, it's not a fine persay. Celestia wants me to perform for a birthday party for her, and she wants me diapered for it."

"Wait, what!?" Vinyl asked, confused. "The process wants you to perform in public wearing a diaper!? Is she crazy!?"

"It gets better."

"Better?" Vinyl said, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah! She wants me to be Luna's playdate for the following week after that!" Octavia said excitedly.

"You're joking… you're joking right?" Vinyl asked, still trying to wrap her head around all this. She watched Octavia nod enthusiastically, and then gave a soft smile. "You know, whatever you actually talked about with Tenderheart, and that little bit of fun you had today… was really good for you. You're like a whole new pony… a new pony that I am super proud of four finding a way to break that shell, and really start having fun. You should come with me to my next rave and let that mane fly," Vinyl said.

"I might just have to take you up on that offer, and I think tomorrow we should start working on that colab," she said before leaning up to her ear and whispering. "Padded," she added, making Vinyl bust out laughing. "What!?"

"Ra...ahaha.. Reaheheheally!? After… after the entire conversation we just had… you felt the need to whisper that!?" Vinyl proclaimed, unable to contain her laughter.

"I was trying to be sexy…" Octavia said with a pout.

"I'm sorry… I'm sorry… I just thought it was funny cause of how you timed it. That does sound like a fun way to spend the day tomorrow though… I'm down!" Vinyl smiled. "That being said, it's after eleven. We should probably get some rest, and after what you told me, we should probably get you padded up before you go to bed," she said making her way upstairs.

Octavia followed Vinyl up to the bedroom and sat her saddle bag down. She fished the powder and wipes out and then set them on the dresser. "Oh, and before I forget. We will have to order again sooner than expected. After finding out that Eiffel destroyed Lemon's little stuff, I gave her a pack of our diapers until she could get back in her hooves."

"Typical Tavi. Always wanting to help out. That's fine though. We don't go through them that fast, and it's not like we can't really afford them. We're both raking in the bits from our shows," Vinyl replied, pulling a diaper from the drawer. "On the bed please,” she instructed. Octavia was quick to oblige as she laid back and assumed the proper position for diapering. She was already fairly clean, and she had expected no less from Rose. She was always really good about not leaving any traces. She did begin to wonder though how their reputations were going to be affected now. After a fiasco like that there was no way that most of Ponyville didn’t know that Rose was a caretaker for littles now.

With careful, practiced precision, Vinyl slid the diaper underneath Octavia’s rear, and had to hold back from diving into such a sight in front of her, but she knew that if she started that now the two of them would never sleep tonight, and the train ride here had been long, bumpy and tiring. She didn’t think that she would be able to do her marefriend justice tonight, so she simply gave her a kiss before applying some powder and folding the front of her diaper up and securing it shut. She looked up and was getting ready to tell her that she was finished, but Octavia herself had already fallen asleep. Vinyl smiled. “I guess playtime was more tiring for you today than you thought,” she smiled before diapering herself to look just like her marefriend, and slipping into bed with her. This was going to be interesting to deal with for a while and Vinyl wondered what other surprises lie in store for them in the future because of Tavi’s little mistake. With a soft kiss on her snout, Vinyl snuggled into her hooves, and the two ponies would remain like that for the rest of the night.

Indiscreet Shipping

by IceStorm

Regretful Decisions

The Appointment

Petals of a Rose

A Bouquet of Fun(Part 1)

A Bouquet of Fun(Part 2)

When Sour Turns Sweet(Part 1)

When Sour Turns Sweet(Part 2)

When Sour Turns Sweet(Part 3)

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