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// 2 Months 
// Story: My Little Rainbows 
// by The PatioHeater 
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It has been two months since the three Rainbows were born. Rainbow Swirl is not sure if she has slept.

Sass was with Rainbow one afternoon, like a lot of them before. Rainbow needed all the help she could get, triplets were hard work after all, and she lived on her own ever since her husband left her.
They were sat in the grass in the garden, watching Swirl, Shine and Dash try to fly around and get into the large oak tree, with little success.
Dash had managed to get a little way up the trunk but couldn’t get any higher and fell, but she never cried when fell, just shook it off and tried something else.
Shine, on the other hoof, fell not half a foot and ran straight back to her mummy, bawling her eyes out.
Rainbow didn’t mind, in fact she loved it when it happened. Not her daughter hurting herself, of course, but comforting her when she did was a wonderful feeling that took over her mind and heart.
Shine came galloping towards her as fast as her little legs could carry her and buried herself in her mother’s chest. Rainbow wrapped a leg around her and hugged her. Her heart still pounded every time she did. The hype of daughters hadn’t quite died down yet.
“Oh Shine, don’t cry,” she pleaded. “Let’s have a look shall we.” Rainbow moved her daughter’s leg to look at it. It was nothing but a small graze.
“Aww, c’mon. That’s nothing. Shall I kiss it better?” she asked hopefully, there was something about the act of kissing a wound better that she found very desirable to do. But no, Shine just cried harder.
Rainbow snorted. “Typical, isn’t it Sass?” she asked but expected no answer.
“Um-hm,” she said with a little shake of her head.
Rainbow yawned, really loudly. “Y’know Sass,” she said through the yawn. “I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in so long.”
“I know what ya mean Sugar. When I had Honey I didn’t sleep for a week, and when I did finally sleep it was only a few hours.”
Rainbow let out a derisive chuckle. “I don’t mean to be rude, Sass, but not only was Honey your second child, she was only one. And you had a husband to help you.”
“Heh. Like he did much,” she jested.
“Sass. I have three of them and nopony to help whatsoever. And do you have any idea how loudly they snore?!”
“They… snore? That can’t be good. You should probably take them to the doctor.”
“Nah, it’s fine. It runs in my family. My Mum, my sister, my brother. We all had a little… err… throat thing, when we were young, but we grew out of it.”
Rainbow looked down at Shine, who had now stopped crying and was now doing something which her mother was most envious. Sleeping.
“But anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah! Not only do they snore, but Rainbow Dash has wing spasms every so often, and it makes an incredibly high frequency fluttering noise. It’s terrifying when you’re asleep and get woken up by it. And the night time feedings are such a task as well. Three little things, draining the milk from ya all at once. I’ve never felt so sore in my life!”
“Uh- huh,” Sass said tiredly, she has heard nothing but moaning coming from Rainbow for the past two months and couldn’t be bothered with it anymore. Although the bit about breastfeeding was new.
Rainbow looked up. Horror quickly came to her face. “Rainbow Dash! Spit that out!” she shouted as she saw her daughter with a butterfly grasped between her gums.
Dash didn’t understand what she had said, but the voice was loud, so she assumed what she was doing was wrong and let go of the butterfly, which flew away very quickly. Butterflies were never seen again in Cloudsdale.
“Good girl,” Rainbow said in a congratulatory way, making Dash smile as it was a much friendlier tone. Dash ran up to Rainbow and worked her way in between Shine and her mother. She made a strange kind of gurgle sound before nestling down against her sister, in a rather rude manner, almost lying on top of her, and fell asleep.
Rainbow bent her neck and nuzzled the top of Dash’s head. “How come you always sleep perfectly fine in the middle of the day but never at night?”
Dash squirmed against her mother’s touch, trying to get away from it, with limited success.
“Alright. Fine! I’ll leave you alone then. It was your fault anyway, you were the one who wanted to lay next to me. But hey, suit yourself.”
Rainbow kissed her on the top of her head as a final act of affection before leaving her alone, but something made her not retreat her head. Her eyes narrowed as she tried to look closer at Dash’s scalp. She rubbed her lips against the fidgeting filly a little more before pulling her head back with a huge smile on her face.
“YES!” she whispered in celebration.
“What’s got you so happy all of a sudden?” Sass asked curiously as she saw her friend’s new emotion.
“Feel her head. I think she’s finally growing hair!” her voice squealed quietly at the last few words. She was getting a little worried about having a bald daughter, but this was a good sign.
Sass gently rubbed Dash’s head, she was met with much angered groaning as Dash tried to bat away the inquisitive hoof, but this didn’t stop the determined Sass. She felt the start of some hair forming.
“That’s good. I was thinking she would never get any.”
“Same here!”
“Now all you can hope for is if it’s also rainbow coloured.”
Panic flooded Rainbow’s system. “Oh Celestia. What if it’s not? I would have to change her name, wouldn’t I? But I like Rainbow Dash, it suits her so well!”
“Don’t worry, Sugar, it’ll be fine. It’s unlikely that it wouldn’t. I mean, you have rainbow hair, the other two do, and you all have blue coats. I don’t think there is any of their father in them.”
“I should hope not. He doesn’t deserve to be involved with a hair on Dash’s head, let alone all three of them.”
Rainbow grimaced as the image of her adulterous ex-husband came to her mind. She never thought she could ever hate anypony so much as she did him.
Her mind swam back to his walking out on her almost a year ago.



Rainbow had been feeling terrible now for a few days. Always sick after waking up, a constant feeling of tiredness now matter the time of day, she soon decided to go to the doctors.

One day, she got up and actually managed to hold onto her stomach. For a little longer than usual anyway. She galloped into the bathroom and quickly allowed her body to try and rid itself of the thing causing it with the most horrendous noise imaginable. Once she was finished she could hear her husband’s voice shouting from downstairs.
“You alright?” he shouted with little sympathy.
Rainbow spat the residue from her mouth before replying. “Yeah. I'm fine,” her voice was almost sarcastic.
“Do you think you should see a doctor?” the colt downstairs shouted again.
“Yeah, maybe. I just don’t seem able to shift this damn bug!” Rainbow pushed herself onto her hooves and proceeded to brush her teeth, just to try in vain to get the taste out of her mouth. Afterwards she went downstairs to see her husband.
“Good morning!” she said with as chipper a voice as possible before kissing him on his crimson cheek, and getting tickled slightly by his start of a beard.
“Morning. Did you have a good sleep?” he asked, his voice now much friendlier.
“Well, besides from the horrible sick feeling keeping me up until three in the morning, yes.”
“You should really go see a doctor. It can’t be good to feel this dreadful for as long as you have.”
“Yeah, I know. I will have some grub then get going. I have to go to town anyway for groceries and that so I might as well.”
“And make sure you don’t forget,” he spoke with much authority, as if he was talking down to her.
“Yes sir!” she said sarcastically with a salute before trotting off into the kitchen. Her husband chuckled to himself and then followed after her.

Rainbow opened a cupboard to look for some food. “Do we have anything good to eat? I'm tired of that boring old diet cereal.”
Her husband ignored her, but instead spun her around to face him and surprised her with a pleasant and passionate kiss.
Once finished, he pulled away to look into Rainbow’s rose coloured eyes and smiled sweetly. She looked at him and smiled back… briefly. In an instant her face soured and contorted as she released her stomach all over her husband’s face, showering him in horrible, viscous, yellow fluid.
Luckily, he managed to shut his eyes and mouth in the nick of time. He risked opening his eyes again, and he saw his wife leaning on him, doubled over, and gasping for breath.
Rainbow would look back at this memory fondly, she would even wish she could have a picture of the precise moment it hit his face, just so she could enjoy it whenever she liked.
“You’re-.”
“Going to the doctor’s, I know.” She picked herself and washed her face. Her husband followed suit.
Moments later, the two of them left and headed towards the Doctor’s Surgery. Unfortunately, they had to walk; Rainbow had tried flying but it put far too much strain on her stomach.

“Well Doc, what’s wrong with her?” the husband asked eagerly.
“Hm,” the Doctor mumbled as he rubbed his chin with deep thought. “So, you say this has been going on for…”
“Four days now,” Rainbow filled in.
“Right. And you say you’ve been exhausted for all of them?”
“Yep.”
The Doctor’s brow furrowed. “Well… I have theories.”
“Yes?” Rainbow urged him to continue with her anticipated voice.
“There just theories for now. I don’t want to get you all worked up for no reason.”
“What?” Rainbow replied nervously, her mind thinking horrible things.
“Oh don’t worry, nothing bad. I just don’t think I can act without evidence. And on that note, I would like to take a blood sample.”
Rainbow jumped back out of her chair, knocking it over in the process, and pressed herself against the wall. The terror in her eyes was worrying, and she never broke eye contact with the doctor.
The Doctor gave her a confused look before the husband explained.
“It’s a needle thing. She hates them.”
“Ah. That explains it.” He stood up from his chair to go and comfort Rainbow, but she just kept backing away from him until she got trapped in a corner.
“C’mon, honey. It’s just a little needle,” her husband tried to comfort her, but with no success. In fact, he made it worst as she started to whimper.
The Doctor knelt beside her and took her hoof in his. “Rainbow Swirl, don’t worry, I won’t force you.”
His hoof reached secretly into his lab coat pocket and retrieved a small blood sampling needle. He quickly and sharply jabbed her in the leg.
Rainbow yelped.
“That wasn’t that bad now was it?” the Doctor asked condescendingly.
Rainbow looked down at her leg and saw the small vial fill with her own blood, and then fainted.

Rainbow woke up a small amount of time later and saw the sight of her husband looking worriedly at her, but then he sighed with relief as he saw her eyes open.
When aware of her surroundings, she lunged forwards and wrapped her forelegs around his neck. Her eyes were still wide with fright as she hugged uncomfortably tightly.
“W-what did he do to me, Red?” she asked still terrified. Her heart began to race, pounding frantically, and near painfully, against her chest as her body shook uncontrollably.
“Don’t worry Swirl, he just took a little blood sample.” He rubbed her back in an effort to calm her down.
“I'm sorry Rainbow, but you know you would never agree to it.” The Doctor went to pat her on the shoulder in a friendly manner, but she just jumped at his touch with a small gasp. The Doctor retreated from the situation.
“Okay, anyway, I should have some results for you in a couple days. I will give you a call as soon as I have some information for you.”
“Thanks,” Red said as he helped his wife to her hooves. He started walking out of the office with Rainbow under-wing.
Rainbow didn’t say goodbye to the Doctor, instead she glared evilly at him for as long as possible until the door closed behind her and her husband.

It had been two days since her blood was forcibly taken from her by the doctor, and Rainbow still didn’t feel any better. If anything she felt slightly worse.
She was on her own in the supermarket, picking up some supplies for her and her husband. She was trying to reach something on the top shelf, but because her stomach still hurt every time she tried to pick herself up into the air she couldn’t reach it.
She had just about given up on having fine coffee for the week when a friendly hoof reached out in front of her and took the packet of coffee for her.
Rainbow followed the hoof as it brought the coffee down and into her trolley. She then noticed that the hoof belonged to the Doctor. She was still very sour about the whole surprise blood sampling thing, so she barely looked at him, quickly averting her gaze in a moody fashion.
“Thanks,” she murmured quietly and bitterly.
“Look, I'm sorry about the other day, but you know as well as I do that taking you by surprise would have been the only way,” he tried his hardest to sound apologetic, yet his annoyance was still apparent.
Rainbow didn’t say anything, she never liked admitting that she was wrong.
“And by the way, the results came back.”
Rainbow suddenly perked up and drew her full, nervous attention to the Doctor. “Really? What did they say?!”
“Well…” the Doctor said quietly as his gaze fell to his hooves.
Rainbow gasped. “Oh no. what is it?” she asked, although she didn’t want to hear the bad news.
He looked back up with a huge smile.
“You’re pregnant.”
Rainbow’s face froze as the pleasant shock of not hearing anything bad hit her. “What?” she said emotionlessly.
“You’re pregnant!” The Doctor practically jumped for joy after giving the good news.
Rainbow finally heard his words. “I-I'm… pregnant?” her voice started quivering with excitement.
The Doctor nodded happily, he loved this part of his job.
Rainbow started shaking as happiness built up. Seconds later she released it and started bouncing around emitting a high pitched squeal of absolute joy.
“Yes!” she shouted over and over again, drawing the attention of all the other Ponies around her, but they didn’t judge, they were made happier just by the sight of her.
Rainbow spun around and kissed the Doctor’s cheek. “Thank you so much!” she told him before bolting out the door to head home to tell her husband the outstanding news.

“RED!” Rainbow shouted as soon she barged the door open. “GET YOUR FLANK DOWN HERE!”
Red poked his head over the banister, his face would have be red from physical exertion if he wasn’t already red. He was also coated in sweat.
“Rainbow? What are you doing back so early? And why are you shouting like that?” he panted.
“Oh nothing,” she said nonchalantly. “I just heard that I'm PREGNANT!”
Red choked on nothing. “What? seriously?”
“YES!”
Red said nothing more for he decided to lunge over the banister, swoop down to his wife and embrace her in a tight hug.
“I'm really pregnant. I'm gonna have my own child,” Rainbow spoke with tears starting to form and fall from her beautiful eyes.
“This is… wonderful,” his voice shook with doubt.

A while had passed, the two of them just stood, rocking back and forth in each other’s loving grasp, with Rainbow crying slightly.
“Red?” Rainbow whispered.
“Yeah?” he whispered back, not really recognising he was being spoken to.
“Why are you so sweaty?”
Red tensed up completely and his heart pounded against his chest. “Err… I was working out.”
Rainbow was so happy that she believed him.
Looking back, she realised one major flaw in his story… he never worked out.


It had been another two weeks now, and Rainbow had grown a slight bump. She was being led by Sass across the town centre with a scarf wrapped around her eyes, which Rainbow couldn’t but help think was incredibly dangerous, considering the altitude of Cloudsdale.
“Where are you taking me Sass?”
“Don’t worry, Sugar. We’re almost there now.”
Rainbow couldn’t help but giggle with giddy excitement, she loved surprises.
Sass stopped suddenly, causing Rainbow to nearly trip.
“Here we are, Rainbow!” Sass undid the scarf and stood back with a flourish.
Rainbow looked up at the building presented before her. Her mouth dropped to the floor.
Sass laughed. “I thought you’d like it.”
“Seriously? Cloud 9? This is, like, the most expensive spa in Cloudsdale!” she spoke excitedly.
“I know, but me and the girls thought we needed to celebrate the good news, so we pulled together and got us in here for the day.”
Rainbow turned and jumped onto Sass to hug her. “Thank you so much!”
“You’re welcome, Honey. Now we just need to wait for those other two to get here.”
Rainbow let go of Sass and started bouncing on her hooves excitedly. “Who else is coming?”
“Cloud and Dove Wings.”
“Aww, that will be nice. Dove deserves to be pampered.”
“What about the rest of us?” Sass pretended to be insulted, but it didn’t work as she started smiling instantly.
“HI!” shouted a dark blue mare, waving a hoof frantically in the air. She was being followed by a sunny yellow mare who also waved, although less enthusiastically.
“Heyya Cloud. Hi Dove!” Rainbow shouted back and waved before trotting over to them and taking them both in a hug. “Thanks so much for organising this!”
“It’s our pleasure Rainbow,” Dove replied. “And besides, we all get something out of this.”
“C’mon girls,” Sass started sternly. “We can get all this outta our systems later. Let’s get inside and have us some massages.” She shuddered with anticipation as the idea came into mind, she couldn’t wait.

“Hello, and welcome to Cloud 9. How may I help you?” said the receptionist with an unbearably airy voice, and to top things off she was wearing just a little too much makeup.
“Hi there, Darling. I'm Sass, we should be on the register.” Sass was so confident with her words.
“Hold on a moment please, let me just go and check.” The mare behind the counter turned and went to find the appointment book.
Sass leant down to Rainbow’s ear. “I think she’s got a face on her makeup,” she whispered.
Rainbow had to hold back her laughter as the receptionist returned, but this only made it harder to do so and so she brought up a hoof to her mouth to assist.
The mare dropped the book on the counter with a loud thud. “Okay then, Sass… Sass… Sass…” she muttered to herself as she tried to find the name. “A-HA! Here it is! Sass and three others.” She rang a bell on the counter top and summoned a spa worker.
“Yes?” said the stallion as he walked through the doors. He was very tall. Dove nearly swooned at the sight of him.
“Please can you take these customers off to the gold section.” Her smile as she said this was eye cringing.
“Gold section, ay?” He looked at the mares in the lobby, all of whom were staring dreamily at him. “You lucky mares. Please, follow me.” He turned elegantly, creating a little draft with his flared wings.
Rainbow and her friends watched him as he started walking, transfixed by his rugged good looks and strong, powerful legs as they moved his body forward. He was nearly through the door before they realised they should be following and not just watching. They quickly trotted after him.


The four mares were lying on the massage tables, being massaged away to heaven. They could see where their money was going.
Rainbow couldn’t believe how much she was enjoying this, she didn’t even know it was possible to feel so good.
“Oh Sass,” she said dreamily.
“Yeah Honey?” she responded with just as little focus.
“This is the best gift ever. Thanks so much,” Rainbow tried to say, but her words were muffled by her own lack of coherence at that point.
Rainbow’s eyes suddenly widened from their previous, almost closed state. She felt incredibly wrong. She had forgotten her glasses. She felt so exposed without them.
She groaned and gestured for the masseuse to stop, who did so courteously. Rainbow pushed herself into a sitting position.
“Sass, I need to go get my glasses.”
“Okay,” she mumbled, waving a hoof in Rainbow’s general direction. She didn’t even think about questioning the need for glasses at a spa.
“Will you be here when I get back?”
Sass couldn’t respond anymore, she was too far gone into the realms of bliss.
“Sass?”
“I’ll tell them where you’ve gone, and we will still be here. I don’t want you to miss out on our finest massage,” said the masseuse politely.
“Thanks. I shouldn’t be long.” Rainbow jumped of the table found her way to the reception area.
“Is everything alright, Miss Swirl?” asked the receptionist with an ear gratingly happy tone as she saw the pregnant Pegasus leaving early.
“Yes, everything’s fine, thank you. I just need to pop home for something. I shouldn’t be too long.”
“Okay, I will see you when you return. Take care now.” She smiled broadly.
Rainbow wanted to punch her, she was infuriatingly cheerful. But she resisted the urge and smiled back before leaving the spa.
She put on a fast pace, wanting to miss as little of her spa day as possible.


Rainbow was enjoying her walk back immensely. She liked being pampered and all, but the crisp fresh air made was a pleasant break, revitalising her before she got lost again in heaven.
It wasn’t too long a walk, she was back in little over half an hour. She walked through the front door of her house, humming a tune.
“Hey Red? It’s just me. I forgot my gla-.” She stopped dead in her tracks. She saw the sight of her husband, in the living room, having sex with the mare next door.
She was so angry thoughts escaped her. Her body had frozen completely with such rage, the sight and sounds of the two Pegasi only fuelling her inexorable wrath. Every grunt coming from her husband was like another betrayal, and that mare she once considered a friend had a new place in her heart. A place where only hatred and lava existed.
Rainbow did something she hadn’t known possible until just then. She raised her hoof and swung it around. A whip of storm cloud formed and cracked a bolt of lightning right between the beast with two backs making a mess on her carpet.
They stopped abruptly, both panting as their breath was being caught. Red knew exactly who it was, he didn’t even turn around to face her.
“Hello dear,” he said menacingly.
Rainbow ignored him, instead she stormed up to the pair and grabbed the mare by her mane. She pulled her hard, nearly ripping out a huge clump of hair from her ugly head. 
She shuddered as she accidentally glanced down at the disgusting sight between those two Pegasi; it made the whole thing more real. She couldn’t look at either of them as she tried to compose her thoughts.
Once thinking clearer, she turned her gaze to the mare she had by the mane as she raised her to her eye level.
“Get out of my house you stuPID WHORE!!!!” Rainbow roared at her right in her disgusting little face.
Her mane seemed to spark with electricity as she dragged the mare through the living room and threw her out the door with phenomenal strength. Her body quaked as she watched the heap of Pony collide with the hard road outside, making a delightful crashing sound which Rainbow found so incredibly satisfying.
Red sighed exhaustedly at Rainbow, but not because of the vigorous workout he had just been doing. He turned slowly to face her. “I thought you’d be home later,” his voice was quiet and emotionless.
“I thought you’d be loyal to me,” Rainbow retorted angrily.
“I was. For the first year or so. But then you got frigid. I had to get action from somewhere, now didn’t I?” he spoke with such anger and condescension that Rainbow could have punched a hole straight through him.
“Actually, I seem to recall that it was YOU that went frigid. I remember asking you many a night, but no, you just said you were tired and went to sleep. 
“I was tempted so many times to cheat, and it wouldn’t have been hard, I’ve seen the way colts look at me. And who could blame them? But no, unlike you I can keep a vow. Unlike you I have strong enough willpower to overcome such stupid temptations. Unlike you, I am LOYAL.  But hay, I bet you don’t even know what loyalty is.” Rainbow visibly shook as each of these words left her lips.
“Well, unlike YOU, I know an opportunity when I see one.”
This was one step too far for Rainbow. She raised her hoof and brought it down with all her might and anger against Red’s traitorous face, with the tip of her hoof cutting his cheek badly.
Red tapped his hoof against his cheek and winced in mild pain as he felt the fresh, tender cut. He looked at the blood on his hoof and then to Rainbow. A rage boiled inside him now. He stood up and walked in front of her. He drew his hoof back and then launched it forward.
Rainbow stumbled backwards, clutching at her eye. She could already feel it becoming bruised.
“I didn’t even want children.”
Rainbow’s mane lit up with lightning. Never before had she been that angry.
“You. Absolute. Unfaithful. Bucking. Bastard.” Her heart pounded, adrenaline coursing through her body in such massive quantities she felt like she was going to erupt into flame.
“Yeah yeah, I know,” he said as if bored with her.
“You would have made a terrible father.”
“And YOU would have made a terrible mother,” he growled at her.
This was the last straw for Rainbow. She raised herself up onto her hind legs to bring them down again and crush his idiotic head. But Red was too quick for her as he moved his hoof to punch her again, only this time in her chest.



Rainbow stumbled backwards and fell to her haunches, clutching at her chest. She found it hard to breath for a moment, she thought he had done something with more permanent damage, other than just winding her terribly.
She couldn’t believe what he had just done, she stared at him in disbelief, and he wore an evil smile. She could feel tears starting to form in her eyes. She looked back to her now ex-husband, her eyes glazed with tears that started spilling down her cheeks, yet her voice retained a powerful and commanding tone.
“You are to have nothing to do with my child. I do not want any money from you. I do not want any contact with you. I do not want you to even know my child’s name. As from now, you are no longer allowed to say you have taken any part in my child. You are not allowed to ever see or speak to my child. As of now, my child has no father.
“Now, get the buck out of my house. I never want to know of you again.”

Red said nothing, he just smiled with relief and walked straight out of the door without so much as a thought to look back.

The door swung closed gently and clicked into place. Rainbow remained sat on the floor motionless for a while. It was some time before she did anything.

“My mum bought me that rug,” Rainbow said out loud to herself. “I really liked it as well… And now I have to burn it.”