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// Just an average day... Maybe? 
// Story: Whoah... That was... Unexpected. 
// by Majorminor 
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"Hold shtill Shcootsh thish will be fashter if you did!" Rainbow Dash complained with a mouth full of orange feathers at the shivering filly. "Ptui!!! Are you cold or something?" Scootaloo was shivering slightly and it was getting on Rainbow's nerves now.

"No... I just... Ahhhh... I never knew preening could feel so good! Especially when someone else does it!" Scootaloo said dreamily. Rainbow just rolled her eyes playfully. She definitely wasn't about to tell Scoots that this was normally only something that lovers would do to their special somepony. Sometimes mothers would do it, but once their kids learn how to do themselves, it was very rare.

"I've never had any pony preen me before, you're lucky..."

"..."

"Oops... Did I say that out loud?"

"Yes."

"Oh. Darn. Welp." Rainbow Dash tried to change the subject by resuming Scoot's preening, but failed drastically.

"Why hasn't anyone ever preened you? I thought mothers did to their young when they couldn't do it themselves." Scoots stared at Dash for what seemed like a millennia, until Dash finally spoke up...

"A. I don't wanna say. And B. Who told you that?"

"A. I told you everything about me, so you owe me, plus we're sisters. And B. Cheerilee.

"Fine... I-I-I l...' she choked on her tongue, trying ever so hard to ram itself down her pipe and shut her up. Choking her to death or not.

'I... Don't have a family... And you are (like I am to you) my only family-" (were sisters, now more mother/daughter bond) "-and are more important to me than being able to fly."

"A coincidence you should say that... Yesterday I was thinking about a similar thing. And I would rather have us be there for each other, than be a lonely pony with the sky."

"Very wise words from such a handful!" She gestured at Scootaloo, receiving a joking frown and a nudge on the arm. "...Awww man... Now look what you've done!". Scootaloo looked up at Rainbow Dash, sitting there... Her magenta eyes glistening with barely noticeable tears. She began to tear up herself, only she had less 'control' ever her emotions, She bear-hugged Rainbow and slowly yet happilyly wept into Rainbow Dash's now damp fur.

"Am -sniff- I unc-cool for c-c-crying?"

"Nah Scoots, crying is cool... Most of the time. And anyway, any friend or family of mine is just as cool as me! No matter what they do."

"Thanks RD. Huh... Funny, a year ago I'd fall to the ground wide eyed and frothing by the mouth after hearing you say something like that to me."

They then sat there for a few minutes (that felt like mere seconds) before hearing a near silent sniffing noise come from behind them... They both turned around and immediately wiped their eyes. Then RD's instincts instantly came into play.

"We weren't crying and anyone who says we were we will deny i-" wait a minute "-WHO THE HELL ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU IN  OUR HOUSE!"

...

Rainbow gasped at the voice that responded...