//------------------------------// // to Freedom // Story: Waking Up // by Omegathyst //------------------------------// It was time. Early in the morning, Johanna woke up to see two pegasus guards outside the door to Pipp’s room. With Pipp curled up against her, gently snoring away, Johanna sighed as she had to nudge her wife awake. Pipp’s eyes fluttered open as she got up and stared at guards. “Can I at least put on my makeup?” Pipp groaned, wiping the crust out of her eyes with her hooves. “Ten minutes,” one of the guards decided before they both left. “Damn,” Johanna grunted. “Feels like all this shit moved so fast. Talk about a short honeymoon.” “Oh hun, I’m royalty. We’re getting a much better honeymoon than this,” Pipp assured her. “After all the news stations get their interviews in, we can go to the Zephyr Heights spa and get you the treatment you deserve.” “Do you...think they can do human nails?” Johanna asked. “They can certainly try,” Pipp remarked as she jumped off the bed, applying makeup to her face as Johanna got off the bed and walked towards Pipp, crouching down to be eye level with her. Over the three days they’d been married, Johanna hadn’t had the chance to press her lips against the pegasus’ presumably silky and fruity lips. When Pipp finished applying a basic amount of makeup to her eyes, Johanna reached her hand out and tilted Pipp’s face towards her. “Yes?” Pipp whispered, her eyes on Johanna like a moth to a flame. Johanna was caught in her gaze in the same way, leaning forward and pressing her lips together as- “Time’s up,” the guard said, but then Johanna thought back to Zipp attempting to interrupt them, and grinned a second before she kissed Pipp anyway. The texture was nothing like any of the men or women Johanna had kissed in the past, rather, it felt like kissing a peach. A soft, heavenly scented, sexy peach. Johanna had just placed her hand against the back of Pipp’s head when she heard somepony loudly clearing their throat right behind her. “Listen, we’re comi-JESUS!” Johanna flinched and nearly knocked the stuff off Pipp’s desk as she turned to face Queen Haven herself, her narrowed eyes and tight frown closer than Johanna would’ve liked. “You two had enough time to break that poor mattress,” Haven rolled her eyes. “Unless you want me to change my mind about you, I’d suggest you two go with us. Be excited, you don’t have to be cooped up in here anymore.” Johanna turned to look at Pipp, rolling her eyes and grinning at her before getting up and following Queen Haven and the guards. As Pipp walked on Johanna’s left side, Johanna placed her hand on Pipp’s shoulders, scratching between the shoulder blades as she passed by Zipp. “Hi Zipp,” Johanna nodded. “Sup dude,” Zipp trotted over, walking on Johanna’s right side as she looked up at the human. “So, you and Pipp are really going to announce your love to the world, huh?” “Ha, I guess we are,” Johanna chuckled, feeling her heart pounding and her head spinning as she processed Zipp’s words. “Wow, this is really happening. Zipp, if you’re upset, me and Pipp can totally lay on the down low till-” “Jo, it’s fine,” Zipp sighed. “I know I was pretty freaked out to have an alien woman who knew everything about us crash land in Equestria and marry my sister, but to be fair, that last part was kind of my fault.” “Oh yeah, it kind of was,” Johanna laughed. “So um, no hard feelings?” “No, but it’ll still take time to get used to,” Zipp told her. “And you seem to be a pretty cool sister-in-law, so who knows?” Johanna nodded, feeling warmth blossoming in her heart as Queen Haven and the guards led the human and two pegasus daughters to the doors. There was a lot of buzz Johanna could hear beyond the doors, voices chattering amongst each other to the point of not being able to hear a single word. Queen Haven stopped right at the doors and slowly looked over to Pipp, and then to Johanna. “You ready?” Haven asked, pressing her hoof against the door. Johanna thought to the moment she saw Pipp ‘flying’ in the air, singing Glowing Up and capturing her heart on the screen. Never did she imagine having the short mare by her side as her wife, getting to shout the news to the Equestrian world. Heh, maybe the real world if she was seen in the cartoon, but she highly doubted it. Taking a deep breath, squeezing Pipp as the pink pegasus stared up and grinned at her wife, Johanna nodded. “I’m ready.”