Fourteen months after the embarrassing fan fiction incident, Octavia was walking out and about, completing her shopping list. She walked up to Bon Bon's stand and readied herself for a slew of gossip and questions about her significant other, Lyra.
"Well, hello there Octavia, darling? How is Carrot Top, oh right, she lives with that Derpy, I really must go see her sometime, oh dear, I simply forgot to ask, have you seen her recently, I know you are very mad, but, darling, you must simply try to get over your feelings for her and move on, I mean, it isn't healthy for one to dwell upon it. As I was saying to Lyra the other day, and bless her little heart,-"
" Bon Bon."
"-And by doing so, you can completely erase the name Maudlin. However, the concierge wasn't too happy with the use of freeze dried chicken, and well, I stamped my little hooves and told her that everypony couldn't have their way, and you know what she did? Took the chicken and slapped it across my b-"
"I'm here to pick up my order."
"Oh yes, silly me, forty knock-out drops?"
"Yes. And I owe you twenty."
"Is it for.."
"Yes."
"Even with the restraining order?"
"Yes."
"Oh dear me, I'll have Lyra stop by after work and talk with her."
Octavia quickly scooped up her candy and trotted to the local library to pick up her latest copy of The Art Of War
"Do you have any form of ID?"
Octavia noted that security was particularly tight whenever alicorns were about. She slid her carting license over and the purple alicorn gasped.
"You're the Octavia?"
The alicorn handed her a scrap of paper and a quill.
"Can I pretty, pretty please have your autograph? With a subtext, A home is a home even if it's a bathtub. I have seventy copies here in the back room, and let me say that it is the most popular book you star in, and we're receiving a shipment of seventy more sequels next week!"
Octavia held up a hoof.
"Did-di-who wrote the book?"
"You and Carrot Top of course. Proofread by Lyra. And, you should get back together with Vinyl, I mean, it's almost kismet!"
Not wishing to cause a disturbance, she calmly wrote out her autograph, much to the obsessive fan's joy and calmly trotted to Derpy's house. Calmly, she rung the muffin shaped doorbell and listened to the noises of the ponies living inside.
"Momm, there's another fan at the door!"
"You have two mothers. To whom are you speaking to?"
"Umm, Ditzy, Derpy, Miss Hooves, Mrs. Hooves, I dunno, both of you?
(Octavia assumed that they looked at each other for a moment.)
"Dinky, sweetie, ho-"
"Go and answer the door, and give the usual hash. Ditzy, I need to speak to you in my private office."
The door opened to show a slightly more than annoyed unicorn.
"Hello, you've reached the residence of Dinky, Ditzy, and the famed author, Carrot Top. How can I help you?"
"I assume that you are Dinky."
"Yeah?"
"Where's Derpy? I need to punch her in the face."
"There is no Derpy. Just Ditzy."
"Don't lie to me. Where is she?"
"Fine. How did you know?"
"She attended a fan fiction reading and took Carrot off my hooves."
"Fine. Wait here."
Five uncomfortable minutes later, Derpy walked out.
"Come in, ever since my drone spotted you at Golden Oaks Library, I've been expecting you."
Octavia calmly walked in, but her purple eyes betrayed her seething anger. She somehow calmly threw a paperback onto the coffee table.
"You have fifteen seconds to explain this."
"Carrot Top's fan fiction has found it's way into your sweet hooves, once again."
"But why?"
"I told her to."
"BUT WHY?"
"She couldn't pay the rent."
Octavia shot a deadpan look at Derpy."
"Somehow, a one shot is twenty chapters long."
"Yes, thanks to the miracles of a lengthy introduction, large print and footnotes."
"Why? Why for Celestia's sake would you need hoofnotes?!"
"Footnotes."
"But why?"
"To explain who the many and varied characters are. And the unfortunate outcome of your failed romance."
Octavia facehooved, and Ditzy walked in and said, "Hey, honey, when you say that Carrot needs to be taken out for a walk, do you mean,-"
"Once around Ponyville and buy her a brand name cherry scone, so she knows it's good to support the big brands and to avoid the small ones like the fires of hell."
"Okay, come out Carrot Top!"
Carrot shyly poked out her head. She looked so sweet, so innocent, so kind, and so loving that Octavia's stone heart almost melted. The fiend's head snapped up on the sight of Octavia standing there. She bounced over and crashed into Dinky, which made her spill all of her hot coffee onto the floor, and made Dinky cry. Ditzy slipped on it, but Faust knows how, and crashed into the wall behind her, and the rare, priceless painting fell onto her head. When Dinky saw this through her tears, she began to hyperventilate.
Derpy then screamed, "Can we now get back on topic? Dinky, stop crying and get a new coffee. Ditzy, throw that trash away, I've always hated it."
Nopony replied.
"Thank you. Now, Octavia has come here for one intent. Vengeance, and the destruction of Carrot Top. (She glared at Carrot Top, as if it was her fault, even though it was Octavia's idea, Derpy's publishing firm, and the unfeasible public.) She has paid her rent with the publication of the famed fan fiction. It is now the most popular book on the market. So popular, that by now, she is required by public opinion and by law, to marry and love Miss Vinyl.
Octavia nodded, until she realized what Derpy said.