April 5th, 2013
Derpy "Ditzy Do" Whooves awoke with the sun shining in her window. As she tried to get to her hooves she noticed that she had fallen to the floor during the night...again. She hopped to her hooves, not letting a simple bump get the mail-mare down. She walked over to the bed and nuzzled the colt who lay there. The tan colt slowly woke up, waving his hoof in a shooing motion. She smiled at her success and began to walk to the kitchen.
After she arrived, she took out a pot from the cabinet located under the stove, and placed it upon the nearest eye. After turning the stove eye to a medium heat setting she walked over to a cabinet on the other side of the kitchen, opening the cabinet, she retrieved a box of oatmeal. After dropping about a cup of the oatmeal into the pot, she picked the pot back up and filled it with water using the sink next to the stove. Placing the pot back upon the lit eye, the mare covered the pot and walked to wake up her daughter.
Her daughter was much more receptive to the nuzzling. She had awoken quickly and bounced out of her bed. As her daughter readied herself for her day, derpy walked back to the kitchen, not before telling her daughter to hurry because breakfast was almost ready.
The brown haired colt had somehow snuck to the kitchen without Derpy noticing. He greeted her with a kiss and walked over to the stove eye, lifting the top off and began stirring the mixture with a wooden spoon. Derpy had found a gem when she discovered the colt, who called himself "The Doctor," lying in the Everfree Forest. She had been very wary of him at first, because of how he had acted, always talking about time and something he called a TARDIS. But he had never given her a reason to mistrust him.
She had been with him ever since, but it was still a surprise when, almost 5 months later, he proposed to her. On the anniversary of her former husband's death, Ditzy Do was entwined with "The Doctor," who by that point had taken the name Clockwork Whooves, in the bond that was marriage.
After eating breakfast and cleaning up after her family, Derpy walked to the front of her house. She grabbed her mailmare hat from the hat-rack beside the door and placed it on her head. When she heard a chuckle come from behind her, she turned around to face Clockwork. She smiled and asked him why he was laughing. He walked over and turned her hat around so it was facing the proper direction, then kissed her and told her to be safe.
Derpy had every intention of being safe. She had a family after all, why would she want to be unsafe. She returned the kiss and walked out the door. Once she had cleared the porch of her house she spread her winds and flew upwards. Derpy loved flying, almost as much as she loved how Clockwork would blush whenever she told Dinky how she met her husband. She loved the feeling of the wind rushing against her mane. She felt truly free up here. The only thing keeping her grounded was her love for her daughter and husband. They were a rather strange family. An Earth Pony, a Pegasus, and a Unicorn. They were happy though, and that was all that mattered to Derpy.
A few minutes of flying and she was at her job. "Cloudsdale Freight," plastered in big blue letters on the side of a small building. Of course, this was only the Ponyville branch. The building in Cloudsdale was so large it was once used to host the Grand Galloping Gala, when the castle was undergoing renovations to the ball room.
She picked up her first delivery assignment from the front desk. It was a simple delivery. A small shipment of books from the Canterlot library to a "Miss Sparkle, Twilight." that pony was always being shipped books, but whenever she would go to see her, twilight would alway be busy with, what her assistant, Spike, had called, "Personal Matters." It was none of her business but she would always hear somepony moaning in the background and the sighing of a male pony. She never pressed the matter, but today she decided to do just that.
Surprisingly Spike gave in and allowed her to come inside. She made her way casually to where Spike had told her Twilight was. What she saw was Twilight kissing a colt, but not just any colt, HER colt.
Derpy stood in disbelief for a few moments before running back outside and flying back to her house in tears, leaving Twilight Sparkle and the colt, both not even noticing her. Her already poor vision was made worse by the saline tears. She nearly clipped Rainbow Dash, who's only reaction was to tell her to watch out and cheer up. The words only made it worse.
When she had arrived back at her house, she immediatly ran into her room, slammed the door, locked it, the preceded to throw herself onto her bed face first and sob into a pillow. Not five seconds had passed before Clockwork opened up the door using a house key. He immediately walked over to her and sat down beside her on the bed, doing his dead-level best to comfort her and find out why she was crying.
Derpy, enraged that he would do that to her, yelled at him about what she saw. She told him that she hated him, she wanted him to leave. He did his best to keep her calm while trying to explain that it was not him. Derpy knew her eyesight was poor but there was no way she could mistake it. The colt had an hourglass Cutie Mark, just like Clockwork. The colt had the same manestyle, spiked and frizzy, as Clockwork. The brown colt even had tan mane, just...like...clockwork.
Realizing her mistake Derpy immediately spun around and begged for forgiveness. Her husbands only response was to pull her into a tight hug, and to tell her that he loved her, and nopony else. Derpy wept, not just because she had wrongfully accused her husband, but tears of joy as well, she had never been so at peace.
The rest of her day went along as normal. She finished up a few more special deliveries, and went along her normal mail-routes. She stopped by Sugar Cube Corner to purchase herself a cinnamon muffin for lunch. Pinkie Pie was her normal hyperactive self, but she didn't question the mailmare's choice for lunch.
Derpy had completed most of her route when she saw her husband talking to the colt she saw with Twilight. Derpy was forced to do a double take when she saw him, she thought she was seeing two of her husband. Walking over, Clockwork introduced the colt as Time Turner, the local watchmaker and clock repair-man. Clockwork explained that he worked with Time Turner on a special project in Canterlot. After her husband introduced her to Time Turner as "Ditzy Whooves," Time Turner greeted her like she was the Princess, he took a short bow and picked up her right hoof to kiss it. Clockwork chuckled when he saw how Derpy reacted. She recoiled slightly but allowed him to kiss her hoof.
After they had been introduced, Time Turner looked at his watch and preceded to run off exclaiming that he was going to be late. Derpy assumed it had something to do with his job or Twilight. She thought nothing of it as she began to trot home with her husband. Along the way back to their house, Clockwork stopped to enjoy the scenery. Derpy was not sure what her husband enjoyed about the dirt and grime, but as long as they were together, it didn't matter what they were doing.
Upon returning home, Derpy walked into the kitchen and began to work on a dinner. She decided that simple Daffodil sandwiches would be delicious. Clockwork picked out ripe daffodils, clipped and cleaned them. Dinky was hard at work in her room, and Clockwork told Derpy that it would probably for the best if they left her alone for now, at least until dinner was prepared.
After their meal was prepared, eaten, and cleaned up after. Derpy decided to go to bed early. Clockwork followed her to bed. As they went through the customary preparations, brushing teeth and the like, they both crawled into the queen sized bed. Derpy closed her eyes, relaxing and de-stressing herself. The last thing Derpy remembered was her husband leaning over and whispering in her ear.
"I love you, Ditzy Whooves"
She smiled as she slowly drifted off the sleep, the last thing she heard were the words of her precious husband echoing in her mind.
"I Love You..."
"Love You..."
"Love..."