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// Closing Act: Come and Go 
// Story: One Last Hearths Warming 
// by DakariKingMykan 
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CLOSING ACT


Sun didn’t bother to tell her kids about Jangles, not wanting to upset them at their young ages. She wanted them to have a good and happy Hearths Warming.

“What happened to Mr. Jangles?” asked Lily.

“Is he ever coming back?” added Woody.

Sun could only handle it as best she could. “I’m not sure we’ll ever see him again. We can just hope that he’s gone someplace better, where good things happen to good ponies.”

The kids bought her story, but only Sun and her folks knew the truth.


Sun would go out every day she could to visit her real father in the hospital, feeling she wanted to make his last moments special.

Coin Jangles looked so happy, even in his declining moments.


Sadly, he didn’t make it to Hearths Warming!

…Early in the morning, December 23rd, he died in his sleep. Sun was positively heart-broken, so were Twilight, Starlight, and Spike.

When the rest of Twilight’s friends heard, they felt equally as hurt. They knew Jangles well too, and were devastated to hear of what happened to him.


It was very hard for Sun to keep a brave face over the holidays, even when her husband came down from Canterlot to join them.

Sun told him what had happened, and made him promise not to tell the kids.

Every-Pony still did their best to have a good Hearths Warming, and not let Jangles’ passing affect them too much…

…But each and every night, each and every one of them, even Steel and Bookcase would say a prayer to him, and praying he was indeed in a better place now.

The Funeral was held just before New-Years, and Steel and Bookcase watched over the kids so Sun and her husband would attend the service, along with Twilight and co.

Even though it was still early, Sun opened the envelope her father had left her. It turned out to be a will he made out. He had given her his home in Ponyville as a little get away place, or if she ever thought of moving to Ponyville sometime.

He had also enclosed to her a cheque which amount to his entire life savings and retirement pay.

Sun felt so touched that she cried a few tears. She would deal with the house another day; after she rested up and found time.

As for the money, rather than keep it, because she and her husband were already financially fine with their careers. She decided to donate the money and start a new charity funding to help find cures for cancer.

She did it all in the memory of her birth-father, but she didn’t tell anyone, again, for the sake of her children.

Only her adoptive folks, her husband, and Twilight and Friends knew.

Hearths Warming would come and go, and it couldn’t be ignored… even during the holiest, brightest, and jolliest time of year, anything could happen-- good or bad.

All anyone could really do was to be prepared for them, and learn from them.