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Potential

Love and Muffins

A Derpy Doo in the Vogonverse Story

Chapter 2 ‘Potential’

The days had turned into a week, and the week became two, and then three. During that time Derpy had learned that they were not on Equus, but instead they were simply someplace else. The revelation of that didn’t bother her as much as she believed it would. Instead, she found herself feeling at home here. Tim was a good stallion, kind, sweet, understanding, and the fact he was making muffins for them every morning didn’t hurt.

She looked at the walls of the home Tim was sharing with them. Dark wood paneling hung on the walls, making the rooms darker, but the curtains on the windows worked to brighten the room quite a bit. That was just this room. Over the time they’d been here Tim had managed to clear, and open, two more rooms giving her girls the chance to have their own rooms again. She knew that her daughters loved having their own rooms, but part of her very nature as a Pegasus wanted to have them close by.

She understood that they were different. After all, both of her daughters were unicorns, wonderful fillies that filled her heart with joy, but they weren’t quite wired like she was. She needed to ensure her foals were fine, she wanted to make sure there was no trouble to harm them, and she needed to be alert for threats. Having them in separate rooms made this harder. It was still okay, she could deal with it, but it made it harder for her to protect them like she wanted to.

She smelled something drifting into her room, and she followed the scent until she was in the kitchen. Once again Tim had made muffins for them, but he had also made those strange little waffles he called Eggo’s. She heard the sound of hoofsteps, and saw her daughters. Dinky yawned, as she neared the table. Her youngest had a terrible case of bed mane, her pajamas that Tim had gotten her looked all crooked, but she quickly found her seat, found a muffin, and practically crammed the entire thing into her mouth.

“Morning!” Tim shouted.

“Guffp Murphin!” Dinky replied back with her mouth full.

Amethyst walked toward the table, and where her mother, and her sister, were mostly dressed she was being a little lazy and showing up in a pair of panties and an oversized t-shirt. Derpy looked at her daughter, saw stretch, and then levitate a plate of waffles, and two muffins, toward her. She took a seat, opened up a jar of honey, and started to drench the waffles in it. Derpy watched Tim as he neared the table. He stopped, saw Amethyst and instead of saying something he just smiled, fixed a plate, and took a seat.

Derpy fixed her own plate, still uncertain if she should be concerned about her daughter coming to breakfast in the state of dress she was in. Like most Pegasi she noticed things, and one thing she had noticed since being here was that humans seemed to like being clothed most of the time. It didn’t make a whole lot of sense to her, after all it was far more comfortable to simply run around without clothes, but it was part of their culture.

She glanced Tim again, and he stopped cutting up the waffles. Instead he looked at everypony at the table, and grinned, “You know, this is nice. The house hasn’t been this full in a long time. It almost feels like all of my family is back in the house with me. To be honest, Amethyst you’re pretty well dressed like how my little sister Charline used to dress when she came to breakfast.

Relaxed now that she understood that what Amethyst was wearing was acceptable Derpy began to cut into her own breakfast. She started with the Lemon muffins, and while they were nice she wanted to teach Tim how to make Lemon Surprise muffins. When she finished she gathered the dishes, walked toward the dishwasher, and began loading it. In truth, she liked having something that washed the dishes for her. It was kind of spoiling her, but it was something she could deal with.

Tim walked behind her, putting up the honey, and then he stopped. She turned to see him giving her one of his gentle smiles, and he handed her a piece of paper. She opened it and a wave of relief flooded through her. She hugged him tightly, and he returned it, knowing that she’d let go when she was good and ready, and not a moment before. She practically jumped up and down, and part of her wanted to take off flying and share the great news about what had happened!

“I got it! I got the job!!!!” she shouted.

Her daughters made their way toward her.

“What job?”

Tim looked at them and then at Derpy who was still riding up on cloud nine.

“Your mom put in for a mail carrier position. Our local post office was hiring, and since she had experience she decided to put in for it. I told her she didn’t have to do it, but she wanted to.”

“Really? Mama you got a job?”

Dinky looked at her mother, eyes full of wonder, and then she caught her in a tight hug. It was one that her mother happily returned and then she was caught in another hug by Amethyst. The two held onto her for a bit before they finally let go of their mother.

“So when do you start?”

Amethyst smiled, waiting for her mother to finish reading the paper. Derpy looked back at it, her smile still bright, and Tim couldn’t help but feel proud for her.

“On Monday… Monday! That’s three days away!” Derpy cheered and then she looked at Amethyst, “What about you? I want you to finish school.”

Amethyst looked somewhere else other than at her mother, “Ummm… yeah, I’ve thought about it, and I guess that I could put in for one of the colleges around here.”

Derpy looked at her, closed her left eye, and looked at her daughter with her good right eye, “You need to. I want you to finish school. It’s important, and I want you to not have to work so hard.”

Amethyst knew that it was hard for her mom to really express herself. It wasn’t that her mom wasn’t a smart mare, Derpy was, but she knew that Pegasi usually relied on body language, signals from one another. That was how most of them communicated. She couldn’t do all of the signals that her mother could do, but she understood what her mother was saying.

Realizing that there was absolutely no way of getting out of trying to apply for schools she nodded. Derpy seemingly happy with her daughter’s response looked to her youngest. Tim had said that his friends in the Education System were looking into getting Dinky into school soon, but that it might be at the beginning of the school year. That meant that she would have to be out for another few months. But then Tim told them about digital schools. He explained that several students, both those going to Universities and those going to public schools, tended to go to the online schools instead.

It tended to be about as easy to get into, and Dinky would still get interactions, but those interactions would be with ponies across the world. She had agreed to it, and her daughter was usually in a seat, with goggles on her eyes, gloves on her hands, and she was interacting with ponies that her mother couldn’t see. It bothered her, a little, but from what Tim said no pony could hurt her, no pony could do more than say words to her, and she could mute them if she wanted to.

It still felt wrong, not having her interact with other ponies, but Derpy knew that it was important for her foal to get an education. She needed to get the education so that she could grow up and be a productive mare with a bright future. She desperately wanted to see her little Dinky succeed, and she wanted the same for Amethyst. She practically floated in the air for a moment. Tim was being sweet, kind, and nice to all of them. He wasn’t asking for anything, and he was being so good to her foals.

That made her really think about him. He was good to her foals, he treated them just like they were his own, trying to be good to them, trying to make sure that they had food, water, clothes, and he was doing everything right. She took a look at how he looked. He was overweight, she could see the way he filled his street clothes as he called them, and they told the tale of a man who enjoyed cooking, and eating, and the occasional sweet.

Even so he wasn’t afraid of hard work, she’d seen that, and that was part of the reason she was watching him. Pegasi dating was so different than Earth Pony dating. Earth Ponies liked to take things slow, except for Pinkie Pie she shook her head as she thought of the party mare. She was certain that Pinkie had some Pegasus in her blood, it was the only way to explain how she enjoyed doing some things faster than most Earth Ponies.

Still, thinking about them she looked at Tim and she wondered if he was like them. Earth Ponies had dating rituals that took time. They liked to know the other pony would be able to share the burden, and they wanted their families to know them. Family was important, but so was the flock, and of course a flock had to be okay with a potential suitor. She stopped the line of thinking. As a Pegasus was considering him, she really was, but she wanted to do this right, get to know him, follow the Earth Pony way, even if some of them were kind of backwards.

“Good news!” he shouted.

“Oh?” she asked.

He walked toward her, and brought over a flat black screenie thing he called a monitor. He turned it on a moment later it showed a huge school. There was hundreds, no thousands of ponies there.

“Dinky’s been accepted. This is Ludus 1887659, and they’ve accepted her. Dinky, you’ll be starting school tomorrow, and if you like going here they said that they can keep you enrolled in the virtual school,” he said.

Derpy watched her daughter look at it and then at a pair of goggles. She slowly pulled the goggles on, and then she looked around.

“Wow! This is so cool! There’s ponies everywhere!” she started to walk and then she felt something pulling.

“Woah, wait a moment, these are from the department of Education, so they basically have to be hooked up to the console. That said, I did some talking to a couple of friends, and we’re pretty sure that we can set up a treadmill for you to walk on for the simulation of going to class. Although you really don’t need it. You will however need these,” he said as he held out a pair of gloves.

Dinky pulled up the goggles to see the gloves and she slid them over her fingers. When she did they resized to fit properly, and then she put the goggles back on. Timothy had her reach up and press a small place on the side of the goggles and then they readjusted for her. They also had something slide out and enter into her ears. She grinned as she moved her head around, and she stretched out her hand. Derpy noticed it looked like she was giving someone a hoof bump, and then a moment later she was sitting down.

“What’s she doing?” Derpy asked.

“Oh, well, she isn’t officially in the school until tomorrow, but they’re letting her sit in on the class today,”

He pointed to the screen and Derpy could see the teacher. She could see about forty other students, and after he pressed a button she could see Dinky herself sitting there among them. She watched the screen, feeling better that she could see her daughter, and see the school foals there with her. She breathed out a sigh of relief and then looked back at Timothy. He grinned at her, brushed a bit of stray mane out of her eyes, and she blushed brightly as he did.

Before he could say a word she gave him a kiss. After all, a kiss wasn’t too fast, at least she didn’t think it was.

Author's Note:

(AN: Okay, so it's been a while, but I had to do an update. Thanks everyone, and I will be trying to update my stories a little more often.)

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