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// Epilogue 
// Story: Love Sickness 
// by XenoPony 
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Two mares stood in the doorway of Sugarcube Corner, the cafe around them utterly trashed. Tables, walls, and dining booths were all covered by a colorful mixture of icing, sponge cake, jams, and pie filling, along with the remnants of broken streamers and balloons. Spilled drinks mixed into a rainbow concoction around the cake-spattered battlefield and half-eaten food littered the tables.   

"Here, now ya clean up this mess," Applejack ordered as she thrust a mop into the hooves of the pony next to her and slid over a bucket of water. "An' not a peep outta ya 'til it's done, y'hear."

"Seriously, AJ... I was drunk okay, I admit it!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, throwing open her wings and forelegs. "This isn't my mess to clean up anyway!" 

Applejack raised an eyebrow. "Oh, then whose is it?" she questioned, and Rainbow smirked. 

"It's Pinkie Pie's, she promised that if I did the trick then she'd clean up. You know it's one of the only things she can do way faster than me," the pegasus boasted.

The smugness that formed on her wife's face, however, made Rainbow pause. "Oh, ah wouldn't be too sure 'bout that." 

Rainbow craned her neck to see where Applejack was looking, her eyes finally coming to rest on Pinkie Pie laying sprawled out on a table, her hooves and muzzle stained by cake, in addition to her slightly distended belly.   

"P–Pinkie, what are you doing, I thought you could clean this," Rainbow exclaimed, darting over and hovering above the stuffed mare. 

"I'm sorry, Dashie... But when nopony showed up to the 'Twilight is now a dragon party,' I kinda may have gotten carried away and eaten all the food I took over to the castle too," Pinkie Pie admitted before a belch escaped her mouth. "'Scuse me," she added with a giggle. 

Rainbow face hoofed. "Seriously Pinkie, she didn't need a dragon party!" 

"Well, looks like both of ya are gonna have to clean it up, ah want this place spotless, every piece of cake, frosting, and pie off them there walls, ya hear?" Applejack ordered, and within seconds another light blue pegasus appeared at her side. 

"Did somepony say pie, I was just going to get Rarity her bath minerals from the spa and heard you say something about pie?" Soarin perked, almost prancing on the spot like a giddy colt.  

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, before glaring at her wife. "You know just because we're married doesn't mean I'm your slave." 

"Yer right about that, Dash. But if you want all the perks that come with this mare, ya gotta do as ah tells ya." Applejack winked, interrupting Rainbow's hover as her wings went stiff and she fell beside Pinkie Pie, cheeks burning.  

"Another score for Pinkie Pie, you two are so perfect for each other it's unreal," Pinkie cheered, thrusting a hoof in the air before doubling over as her stomach grumbled. "Oh, okay, way too much cake!"      

"You have to clean up pie, I can help with that, Rainbow. I always was faster at making them disappear then you," Soarin boasted.   

"That's why you were over the weight limit five times in a row, Soarin!" Rainbow called back, and the stallion's ears folded as he bit his bottom lip.  

"What, Spitfire shouldn't have brought so many, it's like she lives to mess with me," he muttered to himself. 

Beside him, Applejack chuckled. "Knock yerself out, sugarcube, she could use all the help she can get," she told him, patting his withers.

"Good to see you have faith in me, AJ. Some things never change," Rainbow huffed before her wife once again called out.  

"No problem, my little Dashie." The farm pony's teasing tone was insufferable enough to force Rainbow to sit up and glare again. "Oh, an' if it  ain't done by the time ah'm back, then ya gotta clean the bathroom too." 

Rainbow's eyes went wide as dinner plates, her wings flaring. Never before had she ever moved so fast.