Sleepless nights
“Whaaaaaaahhhhh!”
When the foal started crying for the seventh time that night, Rarity simply couldn’t take it anymore. “Quiet! Please for the love everything good, be quiet!” she yelled, ripping her sleep mask from her head and tossing it into a corner while she got up and stalked over to the crib. When she looked down at her foal, she felt the same rush of love she always felt when Fluttershy entered the room; in this case however, it was overshadowed by a lack of sleep that had been building up for nearly fifty hours and a desire to claw out her own eardrums so she wouldn’t have to deal with the constant blaring anymore.
In spite of that, she ever so gently lifted little Emerald from his supposed resting place with a gentleness that bordered on reverence. Perhaps if she aped Fluttershy enough, the little colt would quiet down enough for her to get forty winks. Usually that didn’t even cover the briefest of beauty sleeps, but right now she was willing to take whatever she could get.
She should have taken Pinkie or Twilight, or even Applejack up on their offers to look after the little one, but no, she had to be stubborn and imply that nopony could take care of a foal as well as their mother. Her own mother, though a little crude, had done a fine job with her, after all.
The problem was that she wasn’t a mother. Or she was, but not in the ‘eleven months walking around like a cow followed by twenty hours of the most excruciating pain known to ponies’ kind of way. “I beg of you, Emerald, please stop your incessant whining! What do you want? A bottle? A diaper change? More cuddles?!” Rarity grew increasingly desperate with each question.
Her knowledge about foals began with feeding them and ended with a diaper change. She simply did not possess the required amount of empathy to intuit what it was the little foal needed. “Hush! Quiet now, Emerald.”
Despite her harshness of tone, the little colt briefly stopped, swiveling his tiny ears in her direction. She let out a sigh in relief which was short lived when his cries began anew, seemingly even louder in volume than all the times before. She was about to snap and she knew it. After this, she was going to need an entire bathtub of ice cream to calm down herself, but such a thing could only happen once her living alarmclock finally went back to sleep.
What she heard next was like a blessing from Celestia herself; a set of hooves hurrying up the steps to the bedroom. Rarity all but flung herself towards the sound carrying her young foal along in her magic.
Fluttershy was exhausted. But for the first time in a long while, it was the good kind of exhaustion. After eleven months of feeling bloated, nauseous and generally sick, she had felt spent to the point of debilitation; not at all helped by the almost daylong labour which had brought their little bundle of joy into the world. When the girls had offered her and Rarity two first-class tickets to a luxury spa-resort, she had found it hard to refuse. Nevertheless, she would probably have turned it down were it not for Rarity; a foal needed their mother, especially in those early months when everything was new and big and scary. She had gone only because her marefriend had insisted, and it was ever so hard to say no to her.
The crying had reached her ears even before she entered the boutique, which had made her pick up the pace, worried that something might have happened. The crying briefly halted when she opened the door, but began anew shortly after. Fluttershy dumped her saddlebags in the hallway and almost flew up the stairs.
She found Rarity in the door opening, crying tears of joy, or perhaps relief. “Darling!” the hysterical unicorn exclaimed, hugging her tightly. “I was afraid you would never come back! You need to do something! ANYTHING! I have tried everything I could possibly think of, and even some things I wouldn’t have thought of, but I simply cannot get him to sleep and he has been crying without interruption. I can’t take this anymore!”
Rarity fell apart in her arms, crying as loudly as their young foal did, making him quiet down for a few seconds to listen to the cries that were so similar to his own. Fluttershy merely let out a soft breath, relieved that this was the extent of the damage. She had felt a little guilty about leaving Rarity behind, but everything was going to be alright now.
“Shhhhh,” she cooed, patting her crying marefriend on her back. “It’s okay, I’m home now.” She lead her still-sobbing marefriend to the bed and plucked her foal from Rarity’s magic with her wings. Rarity had curled into a ball upon the bed and Fluttershy lay down behind her, cradling Emerald close to her chest while wrapping her other wing around her marefriend.
With that settled, it was only a matter of calming them both down, for which she had just the thing.
She began to sing.
“Hush now.
Quiet now.
It’s time to lay your sleepy head.
Hush now.
Quiet now.
It’s time to go to bee~d.”
Emerald was more receptive to the song than his unicorn mother was, having heard it nearly every day while he was still in the womb. His wailing gave way to mere sobbing, which in turn gave way to hiccups and then finally content cooing.
"Drifting off to sleep.
Leave this trying day behind you.
Drifting off to sleep.
Let the joys of dreamland find you~”
“Hush now.
Quiet now...”
Slowly but surely, Rarity began to calm down as well, and by the time Fluttershy had repeated the refrain three times she was greeted by a pair of dainty snorts and snores. She smiled and gave her young colt a gentle nuzzle before placing a kiss on the tip of her marefriend’s ear. She scooted a little closer to the two ponies she cared about more than anything in the world before letting sleep claim her as well.
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YEEEEES. *happy dance* This was beyond adorable!
that was cute
we need more baby stories!
yes please make this story into a longer collab story because i want to see more of this family doing fun stuff together
Yes please! Steel and yourself could do WONDERS with this!
So much dawww.
Wait a sec.. Steel hasn't even finished Green yet, and you want him to buddy up with you to write even more Flarity?
...I like this idea.
4576589 said it!
I would love to see more of this. Absolutely adorable, and poor Rarity's reactions and thought processes were delightful.
Please keep writing, I'll keep reading!
Aside from the weird genetics of 2 mares (XX) producing a colt (XY), not a bad story. Nobody drop the "it's magic" argument on me.
Edit: I must have been half asleep when I thought this post up. Ignore it, except for saying it was a good story.
4577507 They often do drop "magic" or "potion form Zecora" as the excuse because it's the only way they can justify adding OC children to the inter-mane6 ships they make.
Commence read.
Cute and fluffy.
Though I shall also agree with the final part.
4577596 Well, Twilight is an alicorn, and the sex change spell they faked in magic duel, while it may not be possible for a unicorn, would likely be possible for an alicorn. Just saying it's not much of a stretch.
4578629 There would be an incredible amount of change that would have to occur, down to the genetic level. If ponies start regenerating lost limbs, then it would be more plausible.
4578636 Well, no. You'd have to make some physical changes, and reconfigure the DNA of the reproductive organs on a temporary basis. There are actually some studies in place now involving placing female ova dna into blank sperm cells. And you know Twi, once she gets an idea, she'd study it until she had a solution. This is the mare who finished a spell Starswirl worked his whole life on, after all.
4578656 send me a message when humanity has discovered a way to transform X chromosomes to fully functional, flawless Y chromosomes instantaniously.
4578671 Will do
4578682 *is totally going to print out this exchange on paper and pass it down his family for however many generations it takes*
One little thing.
It should probably be "... And almost flew up the stairs."
Other than that, it was great.
4578904
Fixed, thankies.
4578685 Do that! Although I think it's a little closer than your children's children's children. There is, after all, interest in allowing people to have children who are otherwise unable. I'm curious though, do you apply this kind of critical thinking to all of your entertainment? Or just magical lesbian babies?
4578671
It's not instant, but it's doable. (The real problem is keeping the chromosomes stable enough to create the Zygote outside of the womb).
This was completely adorable!
I would so love to have this turn into a longer story.
Even though i can't wait for the next Green chapter i wouldnt mind
Steel Resolve spending some time on this one aswell!
4577507 ...Sperm donation?
Why do authors only use this lullaby?
4584604
There's no need to post it twice.
In this case... because it made sense...
I think I would like to see this story expanded upon with Steel Resolve involved. Perhaps as a sequel to "Green".
Although I must admit part of me feels rather uncomfortable with the idea of Rarity being this incompetent as a parent.
And I would have preferred a more detailed description of what this Emerald looks like.
DO IT
DO IT
DOITDOITDOITDOITDOIT
4587709
From the sound of things, the baby isn't even a month old yet, and Rarity has been a first time mother...for less than a month.
This isn't incompetence, this is not having any idea what the bleeding hell I'm doing and oh my god why won't it stop crying what do I do what do I do where is Fluttershy I am in so over my head right now!
I'm sure the point was for it to be a bit ambiguous, but there was no explanation of where Fluttershy was, or the details of her pregnancy in a marexmare relationship. (though I suppose the latter wasn't the point of the story).
that was heart warming well done
Author's note- Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes...yes! I'm usually not one for shipments, but this is so... describable. Under tracking j.i.c.(just in case.)
I cant get him to sleep!
Fluttershy, help me!
Ooh, you're good!
Rarity's emotional sequence: