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// Aftermath 
// Story: Lost and Found. 
// by Sugarcube66 
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An hour later, Twilight slowly took the little baby off the drip and lifted her up into a sitting position, holding her arms to keep the sleeping child up, to check her over with the signs showing to be on the good side. The child's pink skin had brightened up a lot, and even seemed to be on the same shade spectrum as Cadance's coat, but still brighter by a few colors. She gently picked the baby up and began to snuggle the little girl, who smiled gently despite her sleeping form.

She smiled at the bright smile that crossed the baby's face. She carried the child to her seat, where Sunset was looking down at her hands, thinking hardly. Twilight sat down, laying the baby in her left arm, while she gently touched Sunset, who gasped out and looked at her girlfriend with shock. ''Why are you spacing out, Sunset?'' Twilight asked slowly, as she placed her right arm under the child's bum and began to rock it.

''Just thinking; why are these children so sad.............I mean, the older sibling was clearly attacked just prior to when we arrived....and the younger in malnourished. Wait a second....'' mumbled Sunset, as she looked at the baby's fuzzy two-toned hair and skin tone. ''They look nothing alike...so are they siblings?''

''Maybe not, when the older sibling wakes, I'll ask the doctor to preform a DNA test.'' said Twilight, as she gently passed the baby to Sunset. ''I wonder what their names are, we can't keep calling them 'older sibling', 'younger sibling' or 'child' and 'baby'....'' She leaned on Sunset's shoulder, frowning a little as she looked at the baby. They couldn't exactly ask the baby, for obvious reasons and the older child was still unconscious, even though she was now out of surgery.

''Yeah..., it's sad.'' mumbled Sunset, as she leaned on Twilight's resting head, as a tear rolled down her cheek and onto the baby's face, causing her to awaken and cry out. Sunset gasped out and began to fumble around, not used to babies. ''What am I meant to do? What am I meant to do!?...I never dealt with a baby before!''

''Give her here.'' Twilight said, calmly. Sunset nodded, with panic in her eyes, giving the crying baby to her girlfriend, who gently began rocking the baby. She took a deep breath and began singing the short lullaby that Fluttershy had taught her a month prior to calm Flurry Heart down when she wouldn't fall to sleep. ''Hush now, quiet now. It's time to lay your sleepy head. Hush now, quiet now. It's time to go to bed...'' She slowly stopped singing, as the infant fell to sleep.

''Whoa...'' mumbled Sunset, before picking up a bit of a voice. ''How...did you? Do you happen to know a infant in Equestria?''

Twilight smiled at her girlfriend, as she rested the infant back in her arms. ''I happen to, my brother recently had a baby girl and because I'm her aunt, I often go over to the empire to foalsit her for them as she's a bit powerful with her magic and flight, even though it has calmed down since when she was less then a week old.''

Sunset nodded, before a thought went through her mind due to what Twilight had said, magic and flight. It made it sound like Twilight's niece was a alicorn, but that was impossible, Sunset's beliefs and thoughts told her but she had to make sure. ''Magic and flight?...........Your niece wouldn't happen to be a alicorn, would she?''

''She is. My sister-in-law is a alicorn, and so somehow, her genes were passed onto my niece, Flurry Heart. Being an alicorn newborn, her magic and flight are both more powerful then that of a newborn unicorn and pegasus, like Pumpkin Cake and Pound Cake. Though she isn't the only young alicorn that I know...''

Sunset blinked, but decided not to question what the last part meant. Instead, she decided to ask about the cake twins. ''...So the cake twins are fraternal twins in their races as well?...But, I would have thought Mr and Mrs Cake were Earth Ponies....judging by the way they act; earth ponies tend to be down to earth and focused, with the exception of Pinkie Pie. Pegasus tend to be active and sporty, with Fluttershy being the exception to that one and unicorns tend to more mature and studious. So it is easy to tell the type of pony they are, even in the human world. With the obvious exceptions.''

''They are.'' Twilight giggled, especially when Sunset's perplexed face appeared in her view, as she thought about what Sunset said about the pony races in the human world, it did make sense as even in Equestria, the races were stereotyped like that. ''There's unicorn and pegasus blood in their genes that were somehow passed to the cake twins, and they are powerful for infants...Pinkie says she has a lot of trouble foalsitting them, especially the first time she foalsat them.''

''I can just imagine.'' Sunset giggled, she thought about what her own parents told her prior to her leaving Equestria that she once made herself invisible as a foal, and ran around the house and garden, and nobody could find her, even her twin brother, who was weaker at magic. She quickly told Twilight the story, while stroking the baby's hair with her fingers.

Twilight smiled, glad that her girlfriend managed to cheer up. She got up, causing the baby to stir slightly but fall straight back to sleep, much to their relief. She then spoke softly to not reawaken the sleeping infant, as she walked towards the door.''Well, we should head to the doctor and sign out. It's been a long day, but before we do, how about we check to see if we can visit the little one before we head back to your apartment.''

Sunset nodded in agreement, she too wanted to see if the little child was alright, especially because of how severe her wounds were when they discovered her. The condition of the child worried her greatly and just looking into Twilight's eyes showed the exact same feeling was running through her girlfriend's mind, but with a little extra that Sunset couldn't put her finger onto.

The two girls walked out of the little room, to look for the doctor that had checked the small infant over and eventually came across him. He smiled at them and said gently, as to not upset the baby again. ''Are you here to sign out?''

''Yes, and no.'' stated Twilight, slowly. ''We want to ask if we could see her older sister, even if it's just a quick peek. We just want to know that she's okay.''

The doctor nodded, with a display of sadness on his face. ''She's not awake, so I can't let you stay long but as long as you are quiet, I can let you have 5 minutes to see her. If she wakes up though, I'll let you have longer, but she'll have a headache due to hitting her head on the pavement when she was attacked.''

The girlfriends nodded, and the baby seemed to wake and nod with them for that moment. The doctor let them across the hall towards the left part of the building, where the little child slept. They walked into a room, which was lit only by a small candle resting on a nightstand. The dark skinned child was sleeping sound, but with her face creased with pain and perhaps fear from the nightmare she was clearly having.

''The poor thing...'' whispered Twilight, feeling sorrow for the child that looked so alike to her very own daughter. She walked over and gently stroked the child's now neater locks. ''I hope you awaken soon, sweetie...maybe then we'll discover more about you...and the infant.'' She smiled a little when she noticed the child relax, like the dream had faded; but gasped when the child's turquoise eyes weakly fluttered opened.

Painfully, the little one sat up and stared directly at the two, as well as at her 'baby sister', blinking before weakly grasping out. ''...Wh-where am I....? W-who a-are you and why d-do you h-have a h-hold of D-Drweam...Chaser....'' Her voice was so raspy and weak that it was hard for the couple to make out what she was saying, besides a couple of the words; but they both knew what she meant. The little one was obviously not trusting of adults; especially after what she said next. ''G-give her to me!''