Everyone should have a favorite color. Even if Pinkamena might find it unnecessary for what she desires.

Trigger warning: Child mortality.

An exercise in abstractism.

After many, many years of no contact, Fluttershy's mother, Sky Heart, has invited her to dinner at her house in Cloudsdale. Fluttershy is reluctant to, due to her mother's past abuse towards her, but she agrees. Maybe she can reconcile with her, and things between them will be better. It's wishful thinking, but Fluttershy is hopeful.

She brings Discord with her, because if she's going to be mending long-broken bonds with her mother, she wants her to meet her friends. Yes, even the ones that are immortal lords of chaos. But, as Fluttershy finds out, things won't go as she hoped.

(This oneshot takes place at least a few months after Twilight's Kingdom, and was written before season 5 came out. Reading my other story, Teenage Angst in Cloudsdale, would help give you a tiny bit of background about things referenced in this story, but it isn't necessary. Any Fluttershy/Discord is meant to be platonic, but you can read it as romantic if you want to.)

Lately, Discord had taken up gardening.

It was, admittedly, an unexpected hobby for the spirit of chaos and disharmony to pick up. But he'd easily justified it to himself--and everypony else who dared question--with the answer that chaos is being unexpected, and that true chaos is doing things that no one would have guessed, and so he was living perfectly up to his own nature.

He had created six unique varieties of flowers; they were completely unique to his little garden. Nowhere else in Equestria did one grow.

Discord has been reformed for quite some time now, and so far, everything seems to be going fine.

Fluttershy doesn't think so, however, so she sets off to talk to him.

After all, what are friends for?

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Discord sits in a tree overlooking Fluttershy's cottage, as he has done for the past several days. Twilight Sparkle finally decides to confront him on this. Their friend has been returned to them after a long absence and they should be happy, right? Right.

Rated T for themes.

Sometimes growing up means more than just time passing. For some, it means letting go of what they hold dear and moving onto greener pastures. And for others, it means becoming what they never wanted to be in the first place.

Thanks to my editors Maskedferret, Door Matt, Razalon The Lizardman, and Titanium Dragon for all their help!

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Fact can be stranger than fiction. When Discord's biology proves that again, Fluttershy has announcements to make.

EDIT: changed title from Recovery to Healing

Ever since the Tirek incident Fluttershy has just gotten worse and worse. She's grown depressed and keeps her feelings pent-up inside, barely leaving her cottage. But this proves to be too much for her and after one stray thought, everything that's been piling up inside spills out.
When Discord sees just how much he's hurt her, he takes it upon himself to heal all the damage he's caused.
The process will be long and slow, but he needs to be there for her and assure her nothing like that will ever happen again; he needs to prove just how much she means to him.

Canterlot... For centuries, Canterlot was the shining gem of Equestria, the pinnacle of pony society. Now, it’s a reminder, a bleak and monolithic warning to the world. 

Changed by the chemical and technological poisons that plague the mountain, an abomination of nature, I wander the greatest disaster Equestria has ever seen. 

... I will escape eventually, and when I do, I hope my friends still see me as Twilight Sparkle, and not the monster that hides among the ruins. 

Fluttershy abuses her adorable powers in an attempt to seduce Discord. Will she succeed? Probably not.

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