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// Sleep N' Tell 
// Story: The New Life with Lies 
// by BrightKnight 42 
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The New Life with Lies
By: BrightKnight 42
Edited By: ultra1437

Chapter 6: Sleep N' Tell
The Royal Gardens 

The four were just sitting there enjoying each other's presence, when Shining Armor came walking in. He saw that his wife was asleep with Princess Celestia and his so-called 'sister,' and Princess Luna, who was now awake. He just stood there like a statue and stared at how his wife was so forgiving about how they both deceived everypony in Equestria.

Luna saw him standing there, so she got up slowly so she would not wake up either of her mothers or her aunt, and walked over to Shining Armor. Luna looked down at Shining Armor and asked, “Good morning Sir Armor, how was your night?” 

“My morning is fine Princess, but I have a question for you. Has Cadence really forgiven you and your… mothers?” Shining Armor spoke, looking past Luna to see his still-sleeping wife.

“Yes and much more, but I can’t go into details on the rest of that right now. I promised mommy and mom I would not tell anyone right now, until they talk to you and your family about what has just happened and what will happen yet.” Luna's voice was but a whisper, and she turned her gaze on the three sleeping mares. “And it will be funny when you find out,” when she finished, she had a small content smile on her face.

“What do you mean it will be 'funny' when I find out?” Shining Armor replied, cocking an eyebrow in confusion.

“Just wait and see, now if you don't mind, I am going back to sit with my mothers, until they wake up. Then I will go to bed, because knowing them, they want to be together. So there might be one court for now, I don’t know when, but it will be just one.” Luna explained quickly and quietly, as she turned back to face him.  “But I will give you a choice, you join us and be here with your wife... or you can go and do your own thing. It won’t count as forgiving us by just being here as family, but that is up to you.” After she finished, she lightly moved Celestia off of Twilight with a wiggle. Because the loss of warmth, both ponies started squirming lightly, trying to find their source of heat. She sidled in next to Twilight and put Celestia on her other side, sighing contentedly between the two as both Twilight and Celestia moved closer to her, trying to regain their warmth.

Shining Armor just stared and the three alicorn snuggled into each other and shared each other's warmth, it just put a smile on his face at that moment. He moved over to Cadence and sat next to her smiled and gave her a kiss on the forehead and fell asleep with her in his embrace. Luna saw what he did and smiled and fell asleep in her parents embrace.




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Twilight woke up to see her wife not on top of her like she normally is, but to find Luna between herself and Celestia, sleeping peacefully. That just put a smile on her face. Just seeing that Luna wanted to sleep in between her parents just made her happy, but what made it saddening was she had to wake up her daughter and wife to deal with day court and the nobles.

Then Twilight looked over to Cadence and saw Shining Armor cuddling with her and that just put a bigger smile on her face just seeing he has calmed down and came to spend time with family.

Now, Twilight started to get up, but in the process she accidentally woke up Luna. Luna shot her mother an odd look, silently asking why her mother was up before her. She was usually the first to wake up since she was 20, if she fell asleep in the middle of her duties, she was always up within an hour or two, but to have her mother up before her... then something was wrong.

“Mommy, is there something wrong? I am usually up before you or mom.” asked Luna, her voice nothing more than a whisper, as she looked at Twilight questioningly. 

“Oh! Morning sweetheart, and there is nothing wrong I just have a small habit of waking up early to look up at your moon to see if you are ok, but I’m in the process of breaking it.” Twilight huffed in indignation slightly. “It gets annoying after a while with you here. It had its positives though, it helped me know that I am always watching you and you are watching me, and that goes for your mother’s sun as well. It also lets me know if i'm in trouble, all I have to do is focus on the sun or moon with my magic, and your mother will be there to help me. It works the same way for you and her as well. ” Twilight answered her daughters question and reminded Luna about the signal if one of them are in trouble.

At that moment, Celestia woke up and walked over to Twilight, kissed her, and then collapsed to the ground, still half-asleep. After spending a minute on the ground, her brain seemingly jumpstarted and she jumped up, fully awake and continued where Twilight left off, “She is right Luna, it is very rare when one of uses it anymore, but we still use it if needed.”

“I know mom.” Luna replied, giggling at her mother's sudden awakening. “But are you two ready for today? Because we have Nobles to deal with, and since we hid from them yesterday I think they will be a little more angry today than yesterday, don’t you agree?” Luna questioned, a similar look on her face.

“Yeah, you're right,” they both answered simultaneously. Both Celestia and Twilight looked at each other and giggled a bit.
Only Twilight continued, “and we will get through this without any trouble; the only time trouble will show up is if Blueblood shows up with accusations, and if he does I know he will have people there to support him. Since we erased everything that was proof that we are family, except our 6 prized possessions, he might succeed. Unless we prove it somehow, and the only other pony that knows the truth is Cadence, and we have to keep her secret until I tell my family and we ether have to do that now, or hold off court even more than we are now...”

`“Yes, I know, lets just hold day court, so we can prepare for the day and prepare for Blueblood and his followers. So come on, let’s let the guards know not to let ponies in yet if that is alright with you, honey?” Twilight asked, turning to look at Celestia.  

Celestia then nodded in confirmation. “Yes it is.” Celestia replied as she stood up and walked out with Twilight and Luna, leaving Cadence and Shining Armor to enjoy their peace and quiet.

To be continued…