Chapter 16 - Feelings towards Oneself
Chapter 16
Feelings towards One's Self
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The train slowed down to a stop.
“Ponyville!” the conductor shouted as the doors opened.
Twilight turned to the small filly next to her, laying into her side, who had fallen asleep during the ride.
Twilight gently nudged Diamond and she stirred.
“Come on, Diamond. We’re home,” the alicorn said, getting up, focusing her magic and levitating all their luggage.
She’d spent at least half the trip looking for Diamond’s luggage that Rich had put on before getting her to actually agree first.
There was a lot of luggage, considering she was only taking Diamond in for a few days until her returned.
The two ponies trotted out onto the platform and headed out, across the town towards the direction of Twilight’s library.
As they walked, small yawns came from the foal carrier as Scootaloo and Sunset woke up, stretching.
“We home?” Sunset asked, looking around as she and her sister bobbed up and down with each of their mother’s steps.
Twilight nodded, then noticed Diamond was looking extremely anxious.
“What’s wrong, Diamond?” she asked, concerned as to why she was so worried.
“Ya know, azide fwom you hawing t’ weaw diapees,” Scootaloo snickered, but a glare from her mother silenced her.
Diamond looked to the ground. “What if somepony from school sees me?”
“Um, dey won’t,” Scootaloo said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. “Is Toosday. Dey’re aww in schoow wight now.”
“Don’t worry, Diamond,” Twilight said, wrapping a wing around the anxious filly. “You don’t have to tell anypony yet. You can do it in your own time. Or not at all if you want.”
Diamond’s response was a small nod.
When they entered the library, Spike was waiting for them.
He blinked in confusion when he saw Diamond and frowned.
“Why’s Diamond Tiara here?” he asked, clearly trying to act interested, but Twilight noticed the angry growl in his tone.
Diamond apparently noticed it too, because she squeaked and hid behind the purple alicorn, trying to make herself as small as possible.
“It’s good to see you too, Spike,” Twilight said, hoping her tone told him she’d noticed and wasn’t pleased. “Filthy Rich caught up with us at the train station before we left and asked if I’d take care of Diamond for a few days while he finishes some business in Canterlot.”
“And you said “yes”?” Spike asked, clearly not pleased to know the Earth Pony would be staying for a while.
Twilight nodded, her expression firm. “Yes. And before you start on her, Spike, she learned her lesson.” More than I even wanted her to.
Spike glanced at Diamond’s flank and noticed her Cutie Mark.
“Whatever,” he said, turning away and walking further into the library, not noticing the difference between her new Cutie Mark from her old one.
Twilight looked down to Diamond Tiara, her face soft. “Do you want a hoof unpacking?”
Diamond shook her head. “I’ll be fine.”
Twilight led her to the spare room, leaving Diamond’s luggage by the bed as two small foals’ tummies rumbled and headed back to her own room, to give the girls their feeding.
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When Twilight had left the room, Diamond Tiara went back out and headed for the bathroom. She could still remember where it was from when she and Silver Spoon had convinced Scootaloo and her friends to bring them along to Twilight Time.
She went to the sink, turned on the water and splashed her face.
After drying her face, she turned around, only to see her reflection in a full-body mirror hanging on one of the walls and saw her Cutie Mark.
Tiara glared at her reflection. “You deserve this, you know,” she said to it, pointing a hoof. “You never stopped, did you? Oh, no, you just had to keep making fun of everypony. You were always so much better than them.”
She snorted.
“You were never better than them,” she said, her face pulled back in a snarl. “They were the ones always better than you. You don’t even remember what your special talent is, do you? No, of course you don’t. When you got your Cutie Mark the only thing that matter was that you had yours, while everypony else didn’t.”
She walked up to her reflection, and looked away, before looking back again.
“You deserve this new Cutie Mark. It shows you’re just daddy’s little princess. Only popular because you’re family’s rich and that makes you oh so much better than everypony else.”
She sniffled, letting her tears fall from her eyes, trail down her cheeks and pool on the floor at her hooves.
“You never deserved any of the good things you got,” she sniffled again. “You did your best to embarrass Apple Bloom at your Cute-ceañera, you insulted Granny Smith on Family Appreciation Day at school, you turned Babs Seed against her own cousin, you made fun of Scootaloo’s not being able to fly just so you could win a stupid competition, tricked the CMC into letting the fact that Twilight teaching them herself go to their heads and made sure it blew up in their faces and then made Scootaloo after she became a baby cry just to have a little fun.”
She stomped her hoof and glared at her reflection.
“You got off easy. You deserve far worse for what you did! The fact that you’re now stuck wearing diapers for the rest of your life in nothing compared to what you should have had happen to you.”
She lay down on her stomach and closed her eyes, her tears streaming down her face.
“You’re nothing, Diamond Tiara. Just a filly lucky enough to be born into a rich family. Nothing more.”
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Twilight and the girls looked to the door of the room as they heard Tiara insulting herself.
The girls had stopped suckling when shortly after she started and were looking uncomfortable, no doubt ashamed for how they’d treated Diamond Tiara before in Canterlot and after getting home.
Twilight sighed as she looked to the door.
Oh, Diamond Tiara, she thought, shaking her head. Is that really what you think of yourself now? Nopony is nothing and I think you’ve been through more than enough. Why can’t you see that?
At that moment there was a knock from the door.
Twilight looked to her foals. “I’ll be back in a little, okay?”
They nodded, not really hungry anymore as Twilight got up and went door stairs.
She got downstairs to see Spike waving goodbye to a brown Earth Pony stallion and closing the door, holding a letter in his left claw.
“Who’s the letter from, Spike?” she asked as he got came over to her and noticed his was frown in confusion.
“Filthy Rich,” he said, giving the letter to her.
Twilight frowned. “Odd. It hasn’t even been half a day yet,” she said as she opened it and started reading. “Why would he...?”
She trailed off, her eyes widening at what she read.
Dear Princess Twilight,
If I’m right you should be receiving this letter hours after we met in Canterlot Station.
I am afraid I have run into trouble with one of my business partners and have in a way lost control of my company.
I will be able to get it back, eventually, but I have to go around to several different cities, including Manehatten, Fillydelphia and even Trottingham to regain back control of the company.
However, this means I cannot take my daughter with me. I have no idea how long this will take me and that is no way for a filly to live.
So, until my return I have given you legal guardianship of my daughter until further notice.
I also cannot afford to pay for any of Diamond’s expenses, so I do hope you will be able to manage on your own.
I will try to ensure I handle this as swiftly as possible, but even at my best, and that is if I am extremely lucky and celestia is watching over me, it will most likely take me at least six months, maybe seven.
Hope things are going well, please give my love to Diamond,
Filthy Rich
“Uh, Twilight? Twilight?”
Spike was nervous. Twilight was staring at the letter, her left eye twitching erratically.
Twilight teleported out of the library, reappearing on the top of the mountain where Fluttershy had stopped that dragon from blanketing Ponyville in smoke while it was sleeping.
“DAMN YOU, FILTHY RICH, YOU UNDER HOOFED SNAKE!” she shouted, using the Royal Canterlot Voice, her shouts echoing across the sky all the way to Canterlot.
After she’d calmed down she teleported back to the same place in the libaray she’d been before, to find Spike standing there, waiting, the letter in his right claw.
He nodded. “Totally understand why you did that.”
Twilight sighed. At least it explained why Diamond had so much luggage. She was going to be here for a long time.
“Um... Y-your Majesty?”
Twilight and Spike looked up to see Diamond standing at the top of the stairs from the bathroom, tears in her eyes.
“I-if you don’t want me here, I... I understand,” she looked down as she started walking down the stairs. “I’ll just find somewhere else to stay until my daddy gets back. Maybe somewhere in the Everfree will be okay.”
Just as she was about to reach the door, Twilight extended a wing, blocking her path.
Diamond looked up at her fearfully, thinking she’d done something to upset Twilight even further.
Twilight sighed, then gently wrapped her wings around the shivering filly, and held her in her hooves.
“Diamond, while the way you father got me to foalsit you until his return was... It could have been handle better, don’t think that means I’ll not keep my word.”
Diamond looked up at Twilight, her eyes begging for forgiveness that she still didn’t seem to know she didn’t need.
“I promise I’ll look after you until he returns,” the alicorn told her softly, moving a strand of Tiara’s mane from her eyes.
Tiara sniffed. “Pinkie Promise?”
Twilight smiled, let go of Tiara and started the motions, “Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.”
Tiara lunged into Twilight, catching her off-guard. The force knocked Tiara’s tiara off her head as she held onto the purple mare, sobbing into her fur.
“Y-you— You really mean it?” she managed to make out.
Twilight smiled and put her hooves around her, closing her eyes. “Of course, Diamond. I am one of your princesses after all. I couldn’t just abandon one of my subjects when they need me, could I?”
Tiara sniffled. “Thank you.”
Spike picked up Diamond’s tiara. “Why do you even wear this thing? What kind of pony needs to...?”
He trailed off as he looked at Tiara holding onto Twilight, sobbing into her fur, her diaper now visible without her tiara’s illusionary spell once more.
“Oh...”
After a while, Twilight pulled away from Diamond and looked to the stairs.
"Diamond, I need to finish feeding the girls," she said, stroking Diamond's mane once. "Will you be okay unpacking? Spike can help you?"
Spike was about to protest, but a look from Twilight shut him up before he even spoke.
Tiara hadn't noticed Twilight's look at Spike, she'd been rubbing her eyes at the time.
"No. I'll be okay," she said, looking up at the older mare and gave a small smile, the first Twilight had seen since meeting up with her and her father. "I'll be okay on my own."
"Okay," Twilight said, getting up and heading back towards her own room. "I'll leave you to it."
Spike and Tiara stood in the living room in silence for a few minutes, niether moving or saying anything.
"Um... here," Spike said, breaking the silence as he passed Tiara's tiara back to her.
She took it, placing it on her head and her diaper disappeared.
"Thanks," she said in a small voice.
"Yeah, whatever," Spike said, folding his arms as he looked away. "And I'll help you unpack, okay?"
Tiara said nothing but slowly made her way to the room Twilight had given her, Spike following behind.
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seriously, OUCH!!! Well at least he's not dead or anything. At least Diamond has figured out that in the end no matter WHO YOU ARE we all die, so we all are the same when and where it counts. She's just learned a little to well and with her past actions bringing it all into stark reality it's skinning her alive emotionally and psyochlogically.
JEEZE, you've actually made me feel sorry for her
! NICE STORY! so looking forward to more of this!
Okay, I read my last comment, and I was pretty harsh. So all I want to say is that I hope nothing bad happens to DT's dad any more. Even DT and her dad don't deserve something that ruins their lives forever. That's just my thought.
I can't say I didn't see something like this coming after the last chapter, but this is still starting to get a bit ridiculous. At this rate, Twilight's going to become the princess of motherhood or something by the end of this story.
4191185 to be honest, I didn't see your last comment. I was comforting my dad so you must have posted it while I wasn't viewing the sight
4191199 well, I might make diamond see twilight like her mother figure after a while, but no, she will not be the princess of motherhood
4191216 Well I got two dislikes from it so I'd rather not re-post it. I did send you a private message, don't know if you read it.
So, how long til everyone finds out that Diamond Tiara is going to be staying with Twilight for a long time?
4191593 next chapter
This was a very good chapter. Keep it up
the feels too were to much for me.
I'd never thought that I would say this, but I actually feel sorry for Diamond Tiara. Awesome story so far dude, keep it up.
4190774 Holy Formatting Batman
Excellent chapter.
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this story is gonna be awkward for me to read now.....
but ill still read it.
What an emotional chapter. Very well done!
Next chapter should be some reconciliation between Silver, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Babs Seed.
The fact Filthy set everything up ahead of time before approaching Twilight makes this seemed a bit forced. I honestly would have preferred it to happen after they got back with a frantic Filth Rich showing up to explain things to Twilight face to face after he got the news in Canterlot for a bit more drama. Add in the fact that Filthy's letter seems almost word for word what I wrote in my last review... yeah, it feels forced.
4195738 okay, but you do know babs is in manehatten right now, don't you? I'd seriously have to bust my chops thinking up a reason why she's in ponyville
4196686 Two words, School Break, if the schools in Equestria are like the schools here then a viable excuse is that Babs is visiting because of Spring Break or something along those lines.
I am thinking, that, after that incident with the foals and the cutiemarks, Filthy doesnot want DT.
Of course that is just a confused theory.
This story has been a real gem to read thanks for all your time and effort.
This current chapter is great I get what you were doing and I like it.
Diamond is like the Eric Cartman of this series and you made it possible to feel sorry for her. Nice real nice.
I am looking forward to what happens next
Thank you
4199237 no. filthy literally has to go to multiple cities to gain full control of his company back from a backstabber.
he does want diamond. he ask twi to look after her because he's not sure how long it will take to regain his company and will constantly be traveling from city to city.
Diamond would not be happy or healthy living like that for celestia knows how long. he will also have to carefully manage his money, and providing for a filly would make that impossible.
i hope that clears things up for you
4201556 okay. I made that up in my attempts to understnd the events in the past two chapters.
One question: since Filthy has to go around, why did he give Twi legal guardianship? why not just look after DT for a long period of time and not have legal guardianship?
4201834 because he needs to be sure nothing will happen to tiara and, in his hast to ensure he kind find somewhere she can stay and the stress brought on by the massive task looming over him, he thought that was the best course of action.
besides, if he fails (i may or may not make that happen
) he wouldn't be able to support tiara and foal protective services would take her away
4201845 ok, i think i got it now
I'm expecting a joke chapter with Twi going "YOU get to be my daughter, YOU get to be my daughter, EVERYPONY GETS TO BE MY DAUGHTER!" XD
Just saying, I've been liking this, I just have a funny picture of Twi being Oprah now.
Hey, Granny Smith.
Yeah?
You're my daughter now!
Woo wee! I finally hit the big time!
better twist if FILTHY RICH was kill or murder or something like that.
It's better to be wealthy in spirit then in money.
Why do I see a bit of Diamond Tiara and Spike shipping??
I like it, its very cute
Huh. Didn't see that whole thing with diamond tiara coming, but it's a nice change of pace from other stories I've read
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Unless you need to buy some food, that is. Or water. Or clothing. Or medicine.
Let us just say that in today's society, at least American society (since that is the only one I have first hand knowledge of) money is pretty much essential to live. I have been homeless, (thankfully only briefly through luck and hard work) and have worked with several chronically homeless people as well. Until you have had to skip all your meals for several days, then you can say that money isn't important.
I am aware that I may be coming off a bit harsh, but it is a big pet peeve of mine when people say that money isn't important. You can't even leagaly live off the land homesteading without paying property taxes. Trust me, I have looked into it.
I do kind of feel bad for diamond tiara, though she wasn't my favorite character in my little pony, But it just hurts ya know?