1 - Other day
Fluttershy felt like she was the happiest girl alive.
She was humming a melodic tune while walking down the sidewalk that led to her home, anticipating the happiness of having Sunset Shimmer just for her all day long. Fluttershy had already reassured her friends, so she didn’t have to worry about them anymore, and her parents were camping out of town until the evening.
It was just her, her beloved, and an empty house. Just for them.
At the thought of that, Fluttershy raised the pitch of her humming and hopped lightly for the rest of her trip. ‘I’m going to give her the best afternoon she could hope for. First, I’ll check if she’s resting in her room. Then, if she’s not too tired, I’m going to snuggle the soul out of her. Ooh, maybe we could have some kisses too. However, I’ll have to make a proper meal later, something that she can eat from the bed. Maybe I could feed her? No, she would be against it. Well, I can still try, even if we could have a little argument. Nothing too serious, just a little fight between lovers. Then we can go to bed, have some cuddles, share some more kisses and...’ Suddenly, Fluttershy stopped on her feet. The following images of she and Sunset drove her blushing.
‘Well, My parents should be back by then, so I doubt we’ll have the chance,’ she thought before resuming her walking, entering the porch. ‘I swear, my fantasies used to be far more innocent once.’
Fluttershy entered her home as silently as she could. She didn’t dare make too much noise, in case her girlfriend was sleeping. Fluttershy approached the stairs tip-toeing but was stopped by her nose, catching a smell coming from the kitchen. Peeking from the doorway, she saw the girl of her fantasies in front of the stoves.
Sunset Shimmer was looking inside a big pot, one hand was holding the lid while she was using a spoon with the other. After tasting the content of the pot, she felt a couple of arms wrapping around her waist.
“Um, shouldn’t you be in the bed?” asked Fluttershy.
Sunset turned back smiling. She had tied a towel around her head in order to keep an ice bag on her left eye. “As much as I can enjoy being lazy for once, lying in bed for an entire day and doing nothing was driving me crazy.” She gave a fast peck on Fluttershy’s cheek and stared back at the pot. “Besides, I don’t want to let you do everything in the house as long as I’m here.”
Fluttershy giggled. “So, what are you up to?”
“Vegetable soup.”
“You have to fight the scurvy?”
Sunset looked Fluttershy quizzically. “I don’t have the scurvy.”
“Well, it’s still a big concern for most pirates.”
Sunset kept staring confused until realization hit her. “Oh, eyepatch jokes. Clever.”
Fluttershy giggled and enjoyed the closeness of the red-gold hair. “How is it?”
“Not as bad as this morning. Also, it has stopped pulsing since I put the ice on it.”
As Sunset focused once again on the dinner, Fluttershy tightened the embrace and sank her face into the hair. Sunset simply enjoyed it, but she heard Fluttershy mutter something very slightly. She could tell, though, that Fluttershy used a sad tone.
“What did you say?”
“I’m sorry.”
Sunset turned over to look at her girlfriend in the eyes. “Why so?”
“I… I feel like it was my fault. I know it was Rainbow Dash, but she did this just in order to protect me.”
“That’s just silly, Fluttershy.”
“It is not! You didn’t do anything wrong, but it was you who suffered the most yesterday.”
Seeing that Fluttershy was truly upset, Sunset embraced her as reassuringly as she could. “It was just a misunderstanding that we sorted out. There’s no reason for weep about yesterday and, honestly, I don’t even hold against to Rainbow Dash.” Then she kissed her. It wasn’t one of the passionate tongue-tongue kisses but just a long caring peck on the lips. One where you could look your partner in the eyes, as to say ‘I’m here for you’. “Everything is ok,” said Sunset as she was caressing that beautiful face in front of her.
When Fluttershy looked more calm, Sunset thought to change the subject. “So, all of you saw the other me at the bus station near the Crystal Mall, right?”
Fluttershy looked confused. “The other you?”
“Ah, yes. I didn’t explain it yet. You see, Twilight and I write often to each other and once she wrote me about several correspondences between our worlds. She also thinks that everybody here has a pony counterpart there. I had no idea the first time I came to this world, but that would explain some oddities I noticed during my visiting here.”
“So what you’re saying is...”
“That the girl you saw could be my human counterpart who was born in this world.”
Fluttershy’s mind went back to her rendezvous with the girls, remembering something similar. “And Pinkie Pie keeps striking,” she muttered, lost in thought.
“Pardon?”
“Wait. Do you mean that she is your exact copy?”
“I’m not sure. I mean, there should be some differences between the two of us. Besides, she is she, and I am me. I would like to find out more, but she probably doesn’t live around here.”
“She probably does, actually. Yesterday, after our... discussion on the phone, I met her at the White Tales park. That’s what made me believe in what you were saying.”
Sunset started to gather plates and spoons for the table, then she departed from the embrace as she focused on laying the table. “That is weird.”
“Why so?”
Caught in her reasoning, and in the table, Sunset said, “If she lives nearby, she should go at the CHS but we never saw her before. Furthermore, I checked at the orphanage and they told me there never was a Sunset Shimmer in their records.” As soon as she set the last spoon, Sunset realized two things: that Fluttershy was looking at her even more confused, and what she had just said.
“Oh, right. I never told you.”
“Told me what?”
“Back in Equestria, I...” Sunset bit her cheek, unsure about how to confide that part of her life.
Lastly, she took a deep breath.
“I’ve never met my parents.”
During the pause that followed, Sunset moved back to the kitchen, starting to cut some more vegetables. “My first memories are from an orphanage in Canterlot named Tomorrow’s Smiles. It’s where I spent the first years of my childhood, actually.”
Fluttershy understood that this wasn’t easy for Sunset, she was willing to tell her just because she was her girl. So Fluttershy took it seriously, she pulled a chair nearer and sat on it, looking at Sunset. “I would like to hear about it.”
“Basically, you could say that I was born in that orphanage. I was left there when I was just a few days old and nopony knew anything about my life before.”
“How so?”
“My keepers told me that, one night, they heard somepony knocking at the front door and then they found me outside, sleeping in a basket. They were nice ponies. The keepers, I mean. They always made sure of providing us a safe environment. They were very meticulous and wanted for us to be adopted as fast as possible. But they weren’t trying to be mentors or parents. I guess that taking care of dozens of foals turns you detached. Anyway, they were very available for us, and they even encouraged me studying magic.
“Here starts my fall, I guess. You see, I was very good at magic and having a lot of potential, recognized by everypony, meant a lot at the Tomorrow’s Smiles. It meant more attention, a better chance of being adopted by a caring family. There were even the rich and snobby families that looked just for incredible talents. We thought it was the best possible thing, at that age. So everypony was happy for me as I improved my skills, and I focused entirely on my studies. I became so self-absorbed that I turned out to be insufferable for the other ponies.
“I didn’t care, friends wouldn’t have brought me what I wanted. Instead, I put even more efforts into my studies and one day –” Sunset stopped to cut the vegetables, smiling at the distant memory. “– the day arrived. My keeper trotted into the room and called me up. As I reached her, she looked down at me with a radiant smile and told me that somepony wanted to see me in the other room. I knew what it was about, I could feel it, and I couldn’t be more excited. I was so impatient that I literally ran through the door.”
Sunset raised a hand to her face and used her palm to rub her right eye. “Sorry, the onions.”
“What happened then?” asked Fluttershy, smiling.
“In the other room...” Sunset stopped, thinking what to say next. “You wouldn’t understand,” she thought aloud.
When she realized how that must have sounded, she quickly backpedaled. “Don’t take me wrong, I just mean that I have to introduce her to you first. You see, Equestria is not just a land where ponies thrive, but also a kingdom. And I think there’s a ninety-nine percent probability that our ruler is the pony counterpart of Principal Celestia.”
“Really?”
“Princess Celestia, that’s her name, is a powerful and wise alicorn that lives in the Canterlot’s royal palace. She has ruled over the pony lands for millennia, driving us from the darkest night to the brightest day. She and her sister control the motion of the sun and the moon.”
“Really?!”
“Yes. Astonishing, isn’t it? Not for nothing she has earned the faith and trust from everypony. It’s even partly her merit if Equestria is filled with peace and harmony, yet she’s very humble and kind.
“So you can guess my disbelief when I found her in the other room. I was running in, looking for my new parents, and I found her. Princess Celestia was there waiting for me. I stopped abruptly on my hooves, literally mouth agape. I remember her giggling as she came closer, then Celestia asked me if I was keeping my mouth open wide perhaps because she looked like a piece of cake.
“It wasn’t the first time I had seen her. She really cares about her public relations, so she often pays visits to hospitals, orphanages, that sort of things. But that time, Princess Celestia had come just to see me. Because she was looking for a new protegee and wanted me as her new pupil. When she told me that, I was so euphoric at the moment that I cast the most difficult spell I knew back then, transforming a bonsai into a full-grown sassafras.” At the memory, Sunset started to laugh brightly. “Ahah, you have no idea of the mess that followed. Luckily, Princess Celestia was there to fix everything. And when she did, we all noticed that by casting the spell I had earned my cutie mark.”
Sunset closed the pot so as to let it boil over the flames. Then she approached Fluttershy and sat, over her lap. “In short, it was the best day of my life. My efforts were finally starting to pay off, I had a new family, the Princess herself wanted me under her wing, and I earned my cutie mark.”
“It’s a beautiful story.”
Fluttershy stayed there, taking her time to absorb everything that Sunset was telling her. She knew, though, that there was something more. “So, you have to cast a spell in order to earn your cutie mark?”
“Well, no. We’re used to believing that the cutie marks are meant to appear when we need to know more about ourselves, but usually, they appear when we follow a spurt of inspiration and let us flow into the harmony. Something like that. In my case, I assumed that Princess Celestia wanted to test my magic so I flung myself into it and gave all I had. Just for a moment, I felt like nothing could go wrong.” Sunset sighed. “Which may be the reason why everything went wrong from there forwards. Becoming the personal student of Princess Celestia fed my ego and all my bad traits. I became even more self-absorbed and mean, putting myself above everypony else. I always counted on myself to achieve my goals, without thinking about the consequences. I even started to treat Celestia as something that belonged to me.”
Sunset took a deep breath, before concluding the story. “Until… she banished me from the castle.”
Fluttershy opened her eyes widely. “Did she kick you out from your house?”
Sunset looked away, embarrassed. “I hadn't left her with many choices, to be honest. She busted me while I was breaking the rules – and the law – and I still had the nerve to have a row with her. Frankly, with that attitude, I should have seen it coming.”
She ended her statement with a tune of bitterness as if she was about to blame her old self once again. Then, she felt a gentle hand pulling her from her cheek, spinning her head towards the most beautiful girl she ever saw.
“You’ll be a much better per- pony when you go back,” said Fluttershy, “and I’m sure that she’ll be happy to see you again. You earned your redemption, and you have five friends that would follow anywhere if you needed.” She blushed a little. “Well, actually four friends… plus me.” Fluttershy watched Sunset in the eye. “I love you, Sunset.”
Both Sunset and Fluttershy went silent, thinking about the things that were just shared. It was an important moment for them as a couple, and they were glad to have faced it. Giving each other snuggles, they put themselves into a more comfortable position. Sunset then, astride over Fluttershy, hugged her and drove her closer. Returning the hug, Fluttershy started to kiss Sunset over her chin. Sunset kissed back over her face until their mouths found each other. Then they shared a kiss, one of the long, passionate, tongue-tongue kisses.
Sunset Shimmer was at her desk, busy on finishing the homework for school. It was the downside of spending the entire Saturday with her boyfriend, but it was all worth it. Besides, she had almost finished.
‘So,’ she thought, ‘if the cos of this angle is one-half, then the sin is...’
Her mental computing was interrupted by a buzz from her phone. Checking it, she saw that Bobby Hard had just sent her a message.
‘Hey bae, do you wanna hang out tomorrow?’
‘Tell you later. Doing homework now.’
As she sent the message, a doubt occurred her.
‘Shouldn’t you study as well?’
‘Why? You’re the smart one XD.’
Sunset smirked and put down the phone while she mentally lectured her booby boy. She didn’t make it back to her homework before her phone started ringing. Her smile grew a little as she saw the name on the display, then she answered the call.
“Hi, Mom.”
“Hello, Sunshine, are you busy?”
“Nah, just doing some homework.”
“And don’t you ever dare to take it seriously.”
“I give it more credit than you do.”
“My point stands.”
Sunset shook slowly her head as she looked up. She still had no idea of how her mother could keep her job with that attitude.
“How was the meeting? Is it over?”
“Luckily, yes. You have no idea how boring it can be dealing with grown-up stuff.”
Sunset sighed, “Come on, Mom.”
“Fine, I called you to know if you wanted something in particular for dinner. I’m going to the mall now, so think quickly.”
“Uhm, Pizza?”
“Really?”
“Let me rephrase that. How about a pizza and movie night?”
“Sounds nice, are you sure you don’t have to study tonight?”
“My worst grade on the report is ‘A’.”
“You convinced me.”
“Also, I baked some cake in the afternoon.”
“I love you so much!”
“Thanks, Mom, totally not embarrassing to hear at my age.”
“What can I do? My daughter is so lovable.”
“Mom, stop it.”
Sunset could hear her mother giggling on the other side of the call. She couldn’t help but chuckle too.
“I’ll be there soon, little Sunshine.”
“I’ll wait, ciao.”
Sunset and Fluttershy were eating dinner in the living room when Mr. and Mrs. Shy arrived back home, carrying heavy backpacks from the camping. Fluttershy immediately greeted her parents happily, then both of them gasped as they saw Sunset’s black eye. The latter had removed her eyepatch before, in order to eat more comfortably.
“Goodness, dear. What happened to you?” asked Mr. Shy.
Sunset opened her mouth to answer, but no sound came out of it as she gave a thoughtful look to Fluttershy. Her expression went flat for a moment, then she looked down and started to speak quietly.
“It… it was my fault. I know how much Fluttershy hates to find the dirty dishes out of the dishwasher.” As Mr. and Mrs. Shy looked at her bewildered, Sunset let out a sniff. “I should have been more careful.”
Fluttershy looked at her confused. “What are you talking about?”
“Oh, eh.” Sunset turned her gaze away. “N-nothing?”
Fluttershy kept spinning her head between her girlfriend, who was suddenly acting like she was afraid of her, and her parents, who were now looking at her with incredulous eyes. When she understood what Sunset was doing, Fluttershy gave her a stern look.
At that point, Sunset snickered.
“That wasn’t funny,” said Fluttershy with a lecturing tone, as her parents breathed loudly in relief.
Mrs. Shy came nearer the table while her husband was bringing all the bags upstairs. She took a seat beside her daughter and said, “Please dear, I know you meant no harm but try to not scare us like that.”
Fluttershy quickly turned her head towards her mother. “Mom, don’t tell me you actually believed her.”
Mrs. Shy looked down embarrassed. “Um, not really. But she acted very well.”
“Haha, at least I know I’m still good at pretending.”
Slightly annoyed, Fluttershy gathered her flatware and went to the kitchen, leaving the other ladies behind. As soon as she was far enough, Mrs. Shy lowered her voice in order to not be heard. “You were pretending, right?”
Sunset thought about it for a moment, then she whispered something in Mrs. Shy’s ear.
As Fluttershy was coming back from the kitchen, Mrs. Shy raised her voice a little, sounding somewhat high pitched. “Uhm, so. Ahem, of course, it was a fun joke.” She couldn’t help but speak with a funny smile. “Besides, you would have been more subtle otherwise. You could use a wink or something like that.”
Making sure that Fluttershy was watching, Sunset winked two times at the elder woman, who gasped putting a hand over her heart.
“My baby, how could you?” Mrs. Shy spoke with the best indignant tone that she could muster, but her inability to look directly at Fluttershy betrayed her. She realized that as she saw the deadpanned look from her daughter. “I’m sorry,” she said with a sheepish smile, “she convinced me it would have been fun.”
Ignoring the laughs from her girlfriend, Fluttershy gathered the remaining flatwares and went back to the kitchen once again, instantly followed by Sunset. The former started to talk while filling the dishwasher. “I resent knowing that you think I could ever lay a finger on you.”
“Interesting choice of words,” said Sunset before kneeling closer. Then she whispered slowly and in a low tone added, “because I remember you laying more than a finger on me.”
Fluttershy didn’t reply, she just blushed madly as Sunset’s face was just an inch away from hers.
“Speaking of which,” continued Sunset, “do we share the bed tonight?”
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Glad to see a sequel still loved to see the reactions to the others on finding out the truth.
Wonder if Rainbow punched herself after finding out everything.
Did you get his permission to do that?
7535730 Yes, he asked for my permission.
7535878 OK. Just checking, because sometimes they don't and it causes problems.
MORE PLZ!!
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OHMYGOSH, AWESOME!
7535695 reactions of the girls in the next chapter.
Question to everybody: Do you think that the intro is too hard to read? I used no spacing because Pinkie is writing but I'm not sure...