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// Derpy's First Dream 
// Story: Derpy's Firsts 
// by dragonpony111 
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	Both parents fell asleep with Skybreeze in her somewhat comfortable hospital bed, and Bolter right next to her in a stiff chair. After some hours had passed Bolter woke up with a slight pain in his back, and he stretched out in all directions to relieve it. Skybreeze was still contently asleep as she was tired out from giving birth to their foal. Bolter then left the room and walked over to the nursery. Standing there in front of the large glass window he could see Derpy sleeping in her crib among all the other foals. However she didn't look all that peaceful. Behind the pacifier she was sucking Derpy seemed to have somewhat of a frown on her face, and she was fidgeting in her blanket as though she was experiencing a nightmare. One of the many nurses of the hospital happened to be passing by and Bolter reached out to get her attention.

"Uh excuse me, but would it be alright to take my daughter back to our room? We have been asleep the past few hours without her."

"Sure that would be no problem at all. Which one is yours?"

"Derpy. She is the little gray filly on the end there."

The unicorn nurse entered the nursery and floated Derpy out with her magic. Bolter received Derpy by carefully cradling her with his wings and began his walk back to their room.

"There there Derpy. You don't need to worry daddy has you now."

Bolter could feel that Derpy calmed down upon being snuggled between his wings as her fidgeting stopped. If he could see her face as well he would have watched her frown turn into a content smile. Now that he was back in the room with both his wife and daughter sound asleep. Bolter made his way back to the chair he slept in, and shifted the sleeping filly to his forelegs as he gently plopped himself down taking care not to disturb Derpy. Bolter placed his hoof on Derpy's chest and could feel her tiny pulse as well as her chest move when she breathed. As he did this though Derpy instinctively reached up to wrap her little legs around Bolter's. He almost cried when Derpy did that and fought hard to keep back any tears. This was Bolter's first time alone with Derpy even if she was sound asleep, and he was filled with nothing but pure joy to finally hold his own little daughter. He thought he would have preferred a son but now that Derpy was here Bolter couldn't be happier.

For the next hour Bolter just calmly rocked Derpy back and forth in the chair. He removed the hoof Derpy was holding to scratch an itch on his snout, but as soon as he did Derpy squirmed around a bit as her smile disappeared and she waved her forelegs around searching for daddy's hoof. Upon his itch being relieved Bolter quickly brought his hoof back to Derpy's chest and rubbed it softly. His filly then settled down again as she rewrapped her legs around Bolter's hoof. Her legs were so tiny that her hooves could barely reach one another. Bolter could feel his leg getting tired from holding it in that awkward position after awhile. So he tried quickly switching it out with an empty formula bottle that was sitting on a table beside him. Derpy wasn't fooled though and almost as if it were a reaction she tossed the bottle away, and it landed loudly on the floor as it bounced a few times before rolling underneath the bed.

All the noise and commotion from the bottle bouncing on the floor woke Derpy up, but surprisingly not Skybreeze. As she slowly lifted her eyelids and blinked a few times to adjust her pupils to the light; Derpy's eyes searched around for a few moments before locking on to Bolter's. She gave him a puzzled but frightened look as she was expecting to see her mommy.

"Hey there Derpy. I'm your daddy. There is no need to be upset, and mommy is right over there."

Bolter turned Derpy towards Skybreeze and pointed a hoof at her as he said mommy. Derpy let out a few struggled whimpers as she reached both hooves out to Skybreeze. Bolter turned Derpy back to him and comforted her by brushing Derpy's mane.

"Not now Sweetie. Mommy needs her rest to take care of you. I promise when she wakes up you will be the first pony to know, and then we can be with her."

Derpy giggled and then she reached up toward Bolter who put her over his shoulder. Derpy grabbed onto his mane and snuggled into it as she yawned (Dropping her pacifier onto Bolter's mane in the process.). Bolter remembered he did accidentally wake the filly up from her nap and noticed she was still not fully rested. After cleaning the pacifier with a foal wipe and slipping it back into Derpy's mouth; In his softest voice he whispered to her:

"Now go back to dreamland my little Derpy, You have a big day ahead of you."

Derpy sucked on the pacifier as she drifted off back to sleep. Bolter felt tempted to bring Derpy back to the nursery so he could get some more sleep himself, but the father knew Derpy was too scared when she was without either him or Skybreeze.  Somehow he eventually managed to nod off despite the fact he was sitting in an uncomfortable position in an even more uncomfortable chair, and with his Daughter tightly tugging at his mane. After more time had passed Bolter was woken up. This time by Derpy's tiny ruffled wings which were brushing up against his face as they buzzed. This was usually a sign that a baby pegasus was having a pleasant dream. Bolter didn't know what a foal who was barely twenty four hours old could even dream about (Derpy just dreamed about hugging her mommy and daddy.), but he was just glad it wasn't a nightmare.

When Bolter turned to look at her Derpy's wings tickled the tip of his nose, and he had to quickly bring his other hoof up to prevent an oncoming sneeze in fear of waking her again. Doing his best not to disturb Derpy he carefully pulled his mane from her hooves replacing it with his leg, and brought her down in his lap in a much more natural position so her wings wouldn't tickle him as much. It was obvious to Bolter that Derpy was born with attachment issues, but he knew in time Derpy would grow out of them (or so he hoped).

"Sweet dreams Derpy."