Trixie and Maud: Heart of Stone

by TheCrimsonDM

Chapter Ninety Two: Sunshine and Rainbows

The morning went by quietly, with Trixie unable to stop grinning at Maud. The memories of the night before were still very much vivid in her mind, and she enjoyed reminiscing about them. Maud had started breakfast today while Trixie was asleep, otherwise she would’ve reenacted what they did last night already.

Trixie couldn’t help but notice a slight bounce in Maud’s step, it was almost impossible to pick up for other ponies, but for Trixie it spoke volumes about Maud’s mood. It was nice knowing that she could still make Maud so happy. At that moment the future was looking bright.

“Lulu, do you mind if I ask you a question?” Maud asked, as she flipped a pancake.

Trixie raised an eyebrow. Maud asking questions, now that’s odd.

“What’s on your mind, honey?” Trixie asked, something jumped in her heart as Maud looked back at her. Maud had a slight smile and Trixie’s face heated up, she looked away embarrassed. It was amazing what one night of lovemaking could do for them, Trixie felt like a filly again.

“Once we get everything settled, would you like to have kids?” Maud asked flatly.

Trixie stopped, her mind went blank and she shook her head clear for a moment. “What did you say?”

“Do you want kids?”

Trixie looked down at her empty plate. Well, I wanted them before… and I’d certainly love to have a kid eventually. That might be long off for us though. Ugh, not to mention this whole princess thing, I mean what am I supposed to do with that? Still…

“Yes,” Trixie said. “When we get married, and everything settles down. I’d love to have kids.”

“Good,” Maud replied. “Now I have another question.”

“What is it?”

“When are we getting married?”

That was a question that Trixie hadn’t exactly planned for. She looked away and her smile faded. Oh my sweet Celestia, haven’t we set a date yet? I could’ve sworn that we had set a date? I even thought that we had plans already set up and everything.

“Um,” was the best Trixie could say. “Didn’t we plan this already?”

Maud put the final pancake onto the tall stack. She lifted the plate with her mouth and set it on top of the dining table, she then went over and grabbed the syrup, the strawberry jam, and the butter. After setting those on the table, grabbing a plate, and setting down a pancake for each of them she sat down across from Trixie.

“I set up plans,” Maud explained. “You didn’t want to intervene much. But those plans might not work anymore.”

Oh, crap. I did kinda push all the work onto her didn’t I? All I wanted was for her to have a perfect wedding, but that meant not screwing it up with my own plans.

“My parents won’t join, I need to make the invitations, and I still need to get permission from Applejack to use her gazebo,” Maud explained.

Trixie stared blankly. Maud looked down at Trixie’s plate and frowned. “Sorry, Lulu.” Maud stood up, trotted quickly to the stove, and poured a cup of coffee for Trixie. it took less than a minute for Maud to prepare the coffee in just the way that Trixie liked it, before setting it next to Trixie’s plate. Maud then retook her seat. “So what do you think?”

Trixie shook her head. “I, well…” Trixie took a nervous sip of coffee. I had no idea what she was planning. It must have really hurt when her parents disowned her.

“Okay,” Trixie said. “We can take care of all of that today, I’m sure. Question is though, should we get married before Twilight’s reunion party, or afterwards?”

Maud shook her head. “I don’t know.”

“Well that’s the important part, heck for all I know, alicorns have to get married in some special way or something. I really don’t want a crowded wedding,” Trixie said. Though, I can remember when I did want that. It would be kinda nice to be treated like a princess.

“Celestia doesn’t have to have anything with our wedding if you don’t want. I can tell her off if you want me too,” Maud said, there was a bit of hesitation and she added, “But she would bring us some really nice gifts.”

Trixie grinned. “You just want something shiny, don’t you?”

Maud smiled. “She has access to the kinds of gems I can only imagine.” Maud’s eyes sparkled and she looked up dreamily. “All those rare ores. All mine…”

She just wants a shiny rock…

The knocking at the front door distracted Trixie, but not Maud. Trixie could swear that Maud was about to start drooling. Trixie got up, and trotted to the door. She used her magic and dragged the coffee with her, along with the plate, and the syrup. She had already started eating before she reached the door and opened it with a mouth full.

Twilight Sparkle stood at the other side of the door with a kind smile, and saddlebags over her jacket.

Trixie attempted to ask the princess what she was doing here, and aside from muttering incoherently she also spit some food on Twilight’s chest. Twilight frowned, and narrowed her eyes. Trixie giggled nervously, drank some coffee and smiled.

“I know it’s early,” Twilight said. “But it’s not that early.”

“Um, sorry about that,” Trixie muttered lamely. “Wanna join us for breakfast?”

“Are you two up to anything mischievous in here?” Twilight asked with a raised eyebrow. At the shocked look from Trixie, Twilight added, “What?”

Trixie shook her head. “The only mischief we are up to, is our wedding plans. Ugh, we can’t organize worth-“

“Organization! I can help!” Twilight exclaimed. “When do you want to get married?” Twilight trotted into the building. “Oh and who do you want to invite? I could personally offer an invitation to Celestia if you want.”

Maud gave Twilight a frown, and looked at Trixie for an explanation. Trixie shrugged. “What can I say? Twilight likes planning things.”

After breakfast was over, the trio retired to the living room, where Twilight sprawled out on one of the couches. She looked exhausted but satisfied. Trixie snuggled up next to Maud.

“So what brings you here today?” Trixie asked.

“I was just bringing over a gift from Celestia, and then you offered breakfast,” Twilight replied. She stretched her forelegs out. “Those were the best pancakes I’ve ever eaten. Even Pinkie can’t cook that good.”

Maud smiled and looked away, her face turned a slight shade of pink. “Thanks. My sister tried to copy my recipe but she’s better at cooking cupcakes.”

“Well whatever you did it was amazing,” Twilight purred.

Watching the princess shovel pancakes down her throat reminded Trixie of the good old days. Twilight always did appreciate a good meal more than the others, but then again, Twilight also used to have a little belly. Her belly only grew after her schooling was over before she moved to ponyville. Of course, becoming an alicorn through normal means came with the surprising benefit of gaining an healthily thin appearance.

Seriously, ponies are supposed be thicker than that.

Twilight sat up and using her magic, opened the saddlebags. She pulled out a pure white crown that glimmered brightly in the sun’s rays. The crown floated over to Trixie before setting down on the coffee table in front of her. Twilight grinned.

“What’s this?” Trixie asked, she felt a lump rising in the back of her throat.

“Your first crown,” Twilight replied. “I’ve got the rest of your... princess attire in here. It’s all white with purple gems to complement your fur. If you don’t like the colors we can get new ones.”

Trixie gulped. “How much did this cost?”

“What do you mean?” Twilight asked.

Trixie couldn’t take her eyes away from the crown, she couldn’t imagine just how many thousands of bits this one piece of jewelry could have cost.

“Twilight,” Trixie said cautiously. “This surely cost a lot of money. How much?”

Twilight shook her head. “I… I don’t know. I didn’t ask Celestia how much it cost. I just know that she gave me my princess stuff, and that she gave me all of this for you as well. I guess I could go and look through the records, Lemon Hearts should be able to help.”

Trixie sunk back into the couch. “You don’t even know how much these costs? And you are still wearing them?”

“Well, yeah. I mean, I didn’t know how much my tower in Canterlot cost, but I still lived in it, didn’t I? Why should it matter how much these things costs?” Twilight asked, confused.

Trixie just lowered her head. She felt her body begin to shake, and she fought it. She wanted to scream at Twilight for not knowing many bits she wasted on things, but she didn’t want to offend the princess’s offering. Instead pushed her discomfort aside and accepted the expensive gift. “Thank you, Twilight.”

Maud leaned over, grabbed the crown with her mouth and gently set it on top of Trixie’s head. Maud smiled and said, “You are my princess.”

Fire raced across Trixie’s face, and she hid her face behind her hooves. “Maud, I am not a princess… not yet.”

Twilight rolled her eyes. “At least Celestia is giving you time to adjust. With me she shoved me into my coronation before I could even blink. It was almost like she was afraid of something.”

“She was probably afraid that you would opt for returning to being a unicorn,” Maud said flatly.

“That’s preposterous, an alicorn can’t stop being an alicorn,” Twilight said dismissively.

Trixie moved her hooves down. Uh oh, that doesn’t sound good.

“She offered Trixie the opportunity to go back to normal. Apparently they’ve done it several times before, I believe that Luna mentioned the name Lemon Hearts when referring to it,” Maud explained flatly.

Twilight’s eyes widened. “What?”

Everypony was quiet for a moment, Twilight set the bags down on the floor. Twilight flew into the air and curled her hooves angrily. “You mean to tell me, that I could have returned to my normal life as a librarian? I didn’t have to become a princess? All of the crap I went through was-“ Twilight grabbed at her own mane and pulled. “UGH! This isn’t fair. I knew there was something fishy going on. I’m going… I’m going to… I don’t know what. But I’m going to do something!”

Twilight flew to the door and stopped just short. “Thank you for telling me about this. I thought that I had seen an alicorn version of Lemon Hearts over at the fair. But I blew it off thinking that it was impossible… by the way all that stuff in the bags is yours.”

After that, Twilight swung open the door and flew outside into the snow. The door shut hard behind her, and a cold breeze swept through the house. Trixie shivered. Maud pulled her into a warm embrace.

“I think we’re going to be in trouble,” Trixie said.

“Celestia shouldn’t have lied to her,” Maud replied.

“Yeah, forcing responsibility on Twilight like that was wrong. Twilight was never great at handling responsibility, she’s made some really bad decisions but I think she’s getting better,” Trixie said.

“Lulu,” Maud said quietly. “Read my mind.”

Trixie raised an eyebrow. “What?”

“Read my mind,” Maud said again, there was something in her eyes, a soft almost pleading look.

Reaching out with her mind, Trixie felt Maud’s thoughts open up to her. She saw an image of herself, wearing the princess crown, and lying on her back on the bed. Meanwhile Maud was doing things that made Trixie’s cheeks burn, and heart race, and she wanted it more than ever before.

Trixie quickly got up off the couch, looked through the bag and smiled. Even if I don’t want to wear these in public, me and Maud could get some use out of them.

After their second bout of lust, they attempted to get clean in the bath, that only led to another sudden burst of affection and love. After the bath, time had sped by all too quickly and Trixie found herself suddenly in charge of story telling again, this time Maud stayed just out of sight behind the curtain on the stage wagon as Trixie told her story to the gathered crowd. After that was over, the pair almost collided into a ball of tangled limbs and sweaty embraces for a fourth time, but they stopped short as Rainbow Dash landed on the edge of the stage wagon.

“Um, you two are out in the open. You do know that right?” Rainbow Dash said.

Trixie grinned sheepishly and rolled away from Maud. “We were just… playing.”

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “Yeah, and I’m an earth pony. Whatever, I didn’t come to tell you guys how to be proper or anything, I mean, I’ve done some things in Twilight’s castle that she might kill me for if she ever found out. So I understand.”

Trixie felt her face heating up. Rainbow Dash wasn’t the only one to abuse the shear size of Twilight’s castle before. To distract herself from those pleasant memories Trixie coughed nervously and said, “So what did you come here for?”

“I wanted to check up on you two, but it looks like everything’s going okay… Wanna hang out or anything?” Rainbow Dash asked awkwardly.

Trixie looked back at Maud, and frowned. Trixie let out a sigh. “Me and Maud are kinda busy right now… how about I meet you somewhere in a few minutes?”

Rainbow Dash lowered her head, her ears folded back. Her voice came out quiet, and almost timid as she said, “Sure… can you meet me at the park after your done rutting each other?”

Trixie’s mouth hit the floor, and Maud stood up. Maud stamped a hoof. “Language, Rainbow Dash.”

“Oh come on!” Rainbow protested. “You two were about to screw out in public and you’re telling me to watch my language? You can’t do that!”

Maud frowned. “I just did.”

Trixie sat down. At first, she was shocked by the term Rainbow Dash had used and how uncouth it was. After the initial shock wore off however, she found the situation between Rainbow Dash and Maud to be highly amusing. She giggled. The two ponies arguing before stopped short and stared at her, and after a moment Rainbow Dash joined in the laughter.

“Heh,” Maud said. “This is silly.”

The fires of passion had burned down to cinders after Rainbow’s appearance, and Trixie stood up only to realize how sore she was. Another moment with Maud was probably not in their best interest, right now.

“You know what, Rainbow,” Trixie said. “Maybe we should hit the park now.”

Rainbow Dash smiled. “Sounds awesome.”

“Hmm,” Maud said. She looked at Trixie and stared long and hard before finally saying, “You might be right. A break would do us good.”

“Then it’s settled,” Trixie said joyfully. “To the park!”

The trio walked to the park, it was after all, only a short distance away. Several children played in the snow, building forts and tossing snowballs at one another. Trixie smiled at the happily playing children. One day she’d have her own little filly who would go about playing like that.

“Trixie,” Rainbow Dash said as they reached a table with benches on either side. Thankfully it had been cleared of snow, and they could sit down without worrying about getting wet. “Let’s crash here.”

After taking her seat, and Maud joining next to her, Rainbow Dash sat across from them and leaned over on the table. Something in Rainbow Dash’s eyes betrayed her worry. Trixie could only wonder at what was up with Rainbow Dash, and only wanted to help her friend.

“I just needed to say a few things, and they’re kinda serious,” Rainbow Dash said. Trixie nodded, and Rainbow Dash continued. “First, I just wanted to see how you are doing emotionally, like how have you been feeling today?”

Trixie smiled. “After last night, and with breakfast this morning, I’m doing great. It’s been forever since I’ve been so warm and happy.” Maud leaned over and laid her head across Trixie’s shoulder. Trixie nuzzled the top of Maud’s head and added, “Today was a good day.”

“That’s good, because I’ve been scared. After you ran away and stuff… I just felt like I’d pushed you over an edge that I really shouldn’t have. I should’ve been by your side the whole time, ya know?” Rainbow Dash explained.

Trixie’s smile faded a little. Of course she would feel guilty. After my first suicide attempt she had promised to be my friend, and she was part of the reason I sunk so low a second time. I can’t blame her though, she had every right to be angry with me when I betrayed Maud. There was no way she could have known that I was so close to the edge.

Trixie let out a small sigh. “Rainbow Dash, it’s not your fault. I don’t blame you at all.  In fact, seeing you here now is really nice. I’d like it if you came over more often. I know we don’t exactly have much in common, but we could probably still find some fun things to do.”

Rainbow Dash smiled. “You really mean it? You don’t blame me?”

Trixie nodded.

Rainbow Dash’s face lightened up and she let out a sigh of relief. She beamed at Trixie, and Trixie couldn’t help but smile right back. Rainbow Dash noticeably relaxed in her seat, Trixie hadn’t even realized how tense the pegasus had been until now. Trixie couldn’t blame her though, it seemed like during the past couple of days Trixie had been wound up so tight that she must’ve come off as a lot more crazy and dangerous than she actually was.

“I was so worried that you were going to hate  me, especially after what you did to, Flutters,” Rainbow Dash said.

Trixie continued to smile, even though that comment made her want to frown. “Don’t worry about that. She’s a completely different deal.” She was quiet for a moment before asking, “What have you been up too lately?”

Rainbow looked up and to the right. “Well, I’ve been spying on AJ, she’s been leaving town a lot lately, but I’ve yet to catch her leaving.”

Not only did Trixie’s diversion tactic work, she also found some juicy gossip on her cousin. “Oh, yeah? What else?”

“Well, she was gone for four hours yesterday, and when she returned she had a heart shaped box of chocolates. She ate them all, while grinning like Twilight does when she gets her hooves on a really old dusty book. Of course AJ threw the box away before returning home,” Rainbow Dash explained, “So she’s clearly hiding something.”

Trixie leaned in. “You think she’s dating somepony?”

“I don’t know, but that makes sense. Lucky her though, if she’s dating somepony that means she found a stallion,” Rainbow Dash said.

Trixie raised an eyebrow. “Why does it have to be a stallion?”

“AJ is straight,” Rainbow Dash replied, with a tone that implied she'd made double sure, and didn't want to go into details.

“Oh… that makes sense. That would make it hard for her to fall in love, especially considering multiple marriage is frowned upon now. It makes things harder for mares,” Trixie replied.

“Yeah, AJ lucked out. Most of us mares don’t get stallions to call our own,” Rainbow Dash said bitterly.

“My mom tried to have stallions by increasing the protein in her diet,” Maud added.

“Clearly that didn’t work,” Trixie half-joked.

“She had me,” Maud said flatly. “So, no it didn’t work.”

Trixie grinned. “That’s good because if you were a stallion, me and you would never have met.”

Maud snuggled a little closer. “I’m glad.”

“Yuck, you two are always so cuddly,” Rainbow Dash said, she made a pretend vomiting motion.

Trixie rolled her eyes. “You’ll grow up eventually.”

“Speaking of dates and what not,” Rainbow Dash said. “We got help from the Wonderbolts when we were searching for you. Guess what I got to do?”

“What?” Trixie asked.

“I got to ask Spitfire out!” Rainbow Dash said excitedly.

“How did that go?”

Rainbow Dash placed her hooves behind her head. “She said once I beat her in a race she’d go out with me on her next vacation. So I challenged her to a race then and there; it’s pretty obvious who won.”

“Sorry to hear that, Rainbow Dash,” Trixie said apologetically. “I know how fast the Wonderbolts are. Don’t get your hopes down though, you’ll beat her next time.”

Rainbow Dash dropped her hooves and looked shocked. “You… what? No, I won the race. How was that not obvious?”

Now Trixie bounced up and leaned over the table even more. Maud was pushed back. Trixie stared with wide eyes at Rainbow Dash. “You beat a wonderbolt in a race!”

Rainbow Dash smirked. “Well, duh. I am, after all, Rainbow Dash. And when I’m allowed to use my Rainboom, well…” Rainbow Dash frowned a little. “Her sonic boom thingy was pretty cool too, though it might’ve started a small fire.”

Trixie sat down hard. “You two are monsters.”

“Nope, we’re just awesome,” Rainbow Dash grinned. “But then again, being a secret alicorn is pretty cool too.”

With a sly smile, Trixie pointed to herself. “I got a crown now. But you know, that’s standard fare for a,” She leaned in to whisper, “princess.”

Rainbow Dash pulled back. “No way, that’s awesome. Okay, you know what, you are obviously cool enough to join my fan club.”

Trixie raised an eyebrow. “Oh, don’t you mean that you're cool enough to join my fanclub?”

“You have a fan club?”

Trixie thought about it. She had a large following of ponies who were interested in her stories, both adults and foals. So it only would make sense if she had a fan club now. Of course, she couldn’t be sure about that. She found herself actually wanting to find out if she had one now or not.

Carefully choosing her words Trixie replied, “I think that question answers itself.”

Rainbow Dash laughed. “Okay, I didn’t expect that. Well, let’s join eachothers fan clubs.”

“Deal,” Trixie said while sticking a hoof out.

Rainbow Dash bumped hooves with Trixie and as they pulled away they both erupted in laughter. Maud was quiet as ever, but the smile on her face, and the softness in her eyes told Trixie that she was enjoying this. Trixie reached out and felt Maud’s emotions, the warm energy coming from Maud was filled with joy. Today really had been a great day, she didn’t think that anything could ruin it for her.

When she got home that night, Maud made dinner, and Pinkie came over to join them. Applejack showed up, but instead of prying about her possible coltfriend, Trixie asked her about what she’d been up too. Applejack answered that she was helping out a friend she had made during Trixie’s disappearance, and that was all she’d say on the matter.

After dinner, AJ stayed out on the couch while Pinkie went back to help her friend. Trixie knew that Pinkie was going to Fluttershy’s again, and she could only hope that Pinkie’s presence was truly helping. Trixie and Maud quickly retired to the bedroom, though they weren’t planning on going to sleep anytime soon.