Adagio was acting mad, but she was really disappointed and painfully jealous. Sonata, didn’t want to leave but Adagio was pulling her by the hand.
Halfway down the path to the gate, Sonata stopped and easily pulled her hand free of Adagio’s grip. She was, after all, the strongest of the three. Sonata then turned around and stood there looking back at the happy lights coming through the windows of Aria’s house.
She was thinking how happy Aria was. She felt the joy of being with the children. Not just playing with them but they looking to her as family and an adult that they loved.
It made her happy, a happiness she’d never felt before, even at an all-you-can-eat taco bar. She was feeling Aria’s happiness, even if it were just a sample of it vicariously. She looked at Adagio.
“Dodgy,” there were tears in her eyes as she reached to her neck then handed her choker with her gem to Adagio, “I’m not going either.”
“The hell you’re not, Nat!”
“I want what Aria has!” demanded Sonata, “I want a husband and a family! I want children!
I can’t have that in Equestria.
And a predator is always starving, I don’t want to feel that way ever again. I want to be happy. As happy as Aria!
I’m sorry Dodgy.”
Sonata quickly kissed Adagio and hugged her before Adagio could react. However, before Adagio could say anything, Sonata ran to the still unlocked door and went into Aria’s house, closing the door behind herself. There was excited noise from within.
Adagio stomped off madder than she’d ever been, which was saying something. She went straight to CHS where she went through the portal and was determined she’d never return to this world that’d taken everything from her.
Her voice.
Her powers…
And now her sisters!
As she went to step through the portal, she realized she hadn’t moved from the spot in front of Aria’s house.
It’d all had played out in her mind.
Adagio was looking down at Sonata’s gem. There were tears pouring down on her hand and onto the gem. In her long life, she’d never been this sad and lonely as she felt now. Nor had she ever cried this hard.
But Sonata was right, she realized that she’d always felt sad, incomplete, angry and hungry.
Try as she might, she couldn’t get her feet to take her out the gate and into the street.
She just stood there crying a paroxysm of sobs. Looking at the door and hearing sounds of joy from within.
Then with a great force of will, two gems fell to the sidewalk. And with all the strength of the siren, her heel came down on them. They were pulverized to dust. Adagio bent over and scooped up as much as she could, her foot scattered the rest.
She’d have to apologize later for the crack in the path.
As Micro, Aria and the girls were hugging and welcoming Sonata. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the front door opened.
Adagio was standing in the doorway still crying. In her hand was a bit of red crystalline dust which she poured out then wiped her hand clean. Aria and Sonata realized what it was. A breeze blew it away before it touched the porch.
Aria and Sonata noticed Adagio’s choker was gone.
“May I come in?” said Adagio, tears pouring down her cheeks. “I really don’t have anywhere I can go now. And I don’t want to be without any of my sisters again!”
The sisters hugged Adagio with tears of joy. Two little girls hugged the Aunts and Micro put his hands on the newcomer’s shoulders in welcome.
Adagio had never felt such joy in her long life!