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But They Were Both Bottoms - garatheauthor



When Rarity's business trip leaves both Twilight and coco without their doms, they turn to each other for company.

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Chapter 2

Twilight was not a morning person.

She usually fought the day kicking and screaming, refusing to budge until the back-up, to her back-up alarms, was blaring. Something which Sunset just absolutely loved.

However, today was different. Today her eyes fluttered open and for once she didn’t despise the sunlight which edged into her room.

She blinked, clearing the sleep from her vision.

The spot next to her was empty. coco must’ve already been up.

Twilight found herself missing the company. It was rare that she ever got to be the big spoon. It was honestly a pretty refreshing change of pace.

She sat up slowly, looking over at her alarm clock.

Eight in the morning, a whole two hours before her first alarm was set to go off.

She reached over and flicked it off before climbing out of bed.

Have you ever felt this refreshed?

Honestly, she couldn’t recall a time she’d felt this good about waking up.

Maybe coco was actually onto something here.

Twilight shook her head. She was a grown woman and she didn’t need a bedtime.

Still she couldn’t deny the results. Maybe a self-imposed and rigid… sleep schedule could be beneficial. It was definitely something to consider.

Slowly, she became more and more awake. That’s when she heard a very familiar sizzle below her and Sunset’s ‘bedroom’. She sniffed the air, testing it, pleased to be greeted by the delicious smell of pancakes.

“coco?” Twilight called.

“I’m down here,” she called back.

Twilight walked over to the edge of the ‘room’, looking out upon her apartment. Light flooded in through its east facing windows. It was unusually pretty, as everything just seemed to magically twinkle in the sunrise.

How the heck have I not noticed this before?

She looked over the edge and right down at coco.

coco was dressed in her bedtime attire, a pair of cute panties and a plain white T-shirt. Not really the peak of fashion, but hey, what Rarity didn’t see, wouldn’t hurt anyone.

“What are you cooking?” Twilight asked, drumming her fingers against the banister.

coco looked up and smiled. “i’m uh… making blueberry pancakes. i hope you don’t mind.”

“Oh noooo…” Twilight rolled her eyes. “A beautiful girl is making me breakfast. Whatever will I do?” She yawned and stretched her arms above her head, popping an especially stiff joint in her shoulder. “Though, I didn’t know we even had pancake mix.”

“You do. i found it in the back of your cupboard…” coco cleared her throat. “Next to a rather interesting assortment of herbs.”

Twilight chuckled nervously. “Yeah… that’s uh… it’s a friend’s… it’s Rainbow’s!”

coco smirked “Mhm, and i’m a cop.”

Twilight pushed away from the railing and walked down the stairs, into the main living quarters of her and Sunset’s studio.

“Do you cook breakfast often?” she asked.

coco nodded. “Miss Rarity has me do it three times a week.”

“As part of…”

“Of my contract?” coco asked, flipping a pancake.

“Yeah.”

“Three breakfasts and three dinners a week,” coco stated, motioning with her spatula. “Then she does a couple herself and the rest is just easy boxed meals.”

“Huh.”

Twilight went over to the fridge and grabbed a carton of almond milk.

“So, what’s your plans for today?” she asked.

“Well, make breakfast, get dressed, get a few personal things done, and then head to work at around three-ish?”

“Are they putting on a production tonight?”

coco nodded. “It’s going to be our first show we’ve done where they’re actually planning to use some of my designs.”

Twilight grinned. “Congrats, coco.”

coco flushed. “It’s only a couple of characters, nothing major.”

“Still that’s pretty impressive. It’s nice to see that you’re actually getting somewhere with your diploma. I know the industry isn’t easy to break into.”

coco nodded slowly. “You and Sunset should come see it sometime?”

“Is it still that really gay musical?”

“Yes, but we made it gayer. The new director is enby and they added a whole bunch of new stuff to it. It’s practically a brand-new show.”

“We’ll have to see it sometime, then,” Twilight said as she poured herself a glass of milk and took a sip. “How much are tickets?”

“Do you honestly think i’d charge a friend?” coco asked, smiling.

Twilight snorted. “And do you honestly think me and Sunset aren’t going to financially support ours?”

coco pursed her lips and nodded. “Fair.”

she flipped the pancakes out of the pan, adding them to a small stack on a plate next to the stove. Once the tower was topped off, she turned off the element and put the frying pan in the sink.

“How about you?” coco asked. “You have any big plans for today?”

“Well I have a coding project due Monday that I should probably get finished with. Beside that…” Twilight shrugged. “Probably play some video games, see if the girls are up to anything.”

coco grabbed two plates from the cupboard and split the pancakes between them.

“How many years do you have left?” coco asked.

“Hopefully, I’ll be done by the end of this one.”

“You must be excited?”

Twilight shrugged. “To be completely honest, I’m actually a little terrified. The job market isn’t what it used to be.”

coco offered a plate to Twilight who graciously accepted it. Her eyes brightening at the sight of coco’s hard work.

Holy shit, these pancakes were utterly perfect. Like a real-world version of something a restaurant would use for an advertisement campaign.

“How did you get these so perfect?” Twilight asked, snatching up the maple syrup and drizzling it over top.

coco bowed her head humbly. “Lots of practice. Lots and lots of practice.”

Sunset would probably love pancakes like these.

Twilight could imagine it now. Her waking up to the smell. The smile on her face when she was presented with them. It was a pretty appealing fantasy.

Then Twilight’s mind immediately dived into the gutter as she imagined Sunset grabbing her by the collar and force her fingers down her…

She flushed.

Not the time and place, Twilight.

She cleared her throat as she noticed coco staring at her redden complexion, and took a seat at the apartment’s enamel-topped island. “When will you be back in tonight?”

coco hummed. “I don’t know, the show usually ends around eight, so… maybe around eight-thirty, nine-ish. That is, if you want me to stay another night?”

Twilight beamed. “Of course, it was nice having you over. You’re not the only one who gets kind of lonely on their own.”

“Did you have something in mind?”

“I was wondering if you wanted to watch a movie tonight?”

coco bit her lip. “I don’t know. I think that’d be kind of cutting it pretty close to eleven.”

“It’s a Friday.”

“A bedtime is a bedtime.”

“Maybe you could ask for an extension?”

coco nervously rubbed her arm. “i guess i could try… but no promises.”

Twilight nodded and turned her attention towards the pancakes, letting the matter drop for now.


The pencil glided along the artbook’s paper, drawing a slender line upon the page. This connected with several other lines to create the frame of an individual. Upon this frame rested the outline of a new design, a costume for a period piece set nearly two thousand years ago.

The figure was nothing more than a figment of a person, but it was a figment clad in mighty armour with a proud helmet adorned with horse hair resting upon its mannequin-like head.

“What are you working on?” Twilight asked.

coco looked across the table at Twilight, who was busy typing away at her own project.

“Umm, creating a costume for a play that I really want to work on,” she said. “How about you?”

Twilight hummed. “Trying to get this thing to run. I’m having absolutely no luck and can’t figure out what the fuck is going on.” She growled and got up. “I need to take a break.”

coco watched as Twilight moved towards the fridge. she then returned her attention to her own work, switching pencils to begin shading. The previously colourless armour now took on the grey of a well-polished steel.

The design wasn’t half bad, if coco said so herself.

“How about you?” Twilight asked. “You’ve been at that for like half-an-hour now.”

coco shook her head. “it’s only been twenty-eight minutes. I’ll take a break in two more.”

“Thirty minutes exactly?”

“It’s how long Miss Rarity wants me to work on my assignments for.”

“Assignments?” Twilight asked, cocking a brow.

“Everyday she wants me to perform certain tasks,” coco said with rehearsed ease, “And while she’s gone, she’s instructed me to work on my designs for at least half an hour a day.”

“Huh? Is that a twenty-four/seven kind of deal?”

“It can be.” coco nodded. “Miss Rarity thought it would give me some focus and help instill some productive habits.”

“And?”

coco looked up. “It worked wonders. Most of the time i don’t even notice the half-an-hour go by. Now, it’s not uncommon for Miss Rarity to have to pull me away from something because i’ve been at it for two or three hours straight.”

she looked back at her design and switched over to a red pencil crayon, using it to colour in the helmet’s horse hair. This warrior was getting more and more fearsome with each passing second. she even added a few splotches of blood to really solidify his intimidation.

When she looked back up, she noticed that Twilight was still looking in the fridge. Though she now seemed kind of lost, aimless even.

“Are you alright?” coco asked.

Twilight tensed and pulled back with a can of diet Coke. “Yeah, yeah, sorry i was just thinking is all.”

“About what?”

“How often I loss focus while working on a project… like…” She gestured to her computer. “I’ve been working on this, on and off, for about two weeks now. I just… always bail on it when it gets too frustrating. I don’t know, I used to be so motivated with this stuff but I guess I kind of lack that passion now.”

“Have you tried talking to Sunset about it?”

Twilight nodded. “She thinks I’m just getting burnt out on academia.”

“And?”

“I don’t think that’s the case.” Twilight shook her head. “I love learning, I just don’t love learning this anymore.”

“I think it’s surprisingly common to regret your degree,” coco said.

“But to regret it four years in?” Twilight sighed. “I can’t bail on it now.” She nervously drummed her fingers against the can. “Maybe what I need is some help with keeping myself focused.” She cracked a nervous smile. “It seems to be working wonders with you?”

“You’ve been bringing up twenty-four/seven stuff a lot since i got here.”

Twilight nodded. “I guess you’re just proof of how well it can work.”

coco chuckled. “It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, Twi.”

“Oh yeah?”

“i literally have to do all the dishes, all the time. You have no idea how many we go through in a single day.”

Twilight frowned. “Huh.”

“And don’t even get me started on what i have to do when Rarity is feeling dramatic.”

“I can imagine that’d be a bit of an ordeal.”

coco stuck out her tongue. “You’d be surprised by how many late night ice cream runs i’ve had to do since me and Rarity started dating.”

Suddenly, coco’s phones rumbled, vibrating against Twilight’s dinner table.

coco reached for it and noticed that it was a text from Miss Rarity.

Yes, coco’s phone did in fact say ‘Miss Rarity’, and yes, her texts also had a very special ring tone. One which made coco sit up a little straighter and caused her pulse to quicken. This was a noise which preceded both a lot of rewards and punishments.

Thankfully this was one of the former.

You may.

That’s all Miss Rarity’s text said. Though it was in a reply to a request from coco to extend her bedtime for movie night.

Twilight looked up from her laptop. “Who is it?”

“Miss Rarity.”

Twilight beamed. “And?”

“She says that i can stay up a couple hours later for movie night.”

“Nice! I know just the thing to watch.”

“Oh, what is it?”

“It’s… a surprise.” Twilight smiled. “Something to look forward to after you get off work.”

coco grinned. “i can’t wait.”


Twilight absent-mindedly toyed with her hair as she chatted on the phone with Sunset, curling it around her forefinger. This was a habit she’d had since she started developing a crush on her and not even dating the girl seemed to make it stop.

“So, how’s Manehatten?” she asked.

“Absolutely amazing,” Sunset responded.

“What have you and Rarity been up to so far?”

“Well we did a bit of sightseeing, walked Central Park, got some pizza, and did a little bit of shopping on fifth avenue.” Twilight could practically hear the shrug. “You know standard tourist stuff.”

Twilight snorted. “Rarity only did a little bit of shopping?”

Sunset chuckled. “I managed to help her show a little self-control.”

“She stole my credit card!” Rarity shouted loud enough for Twilight to hear, causing her to snicker.

“I returned it!” Sunset shouted back.

“Only after we got back to our room!”

Twilight shook her head. “How’s the convention?”

“Really great,” Sunset said. “Went to a couple of panels, prowled the booths, you know standard convention stuff.”

“When is Rarity’s?”

“Tomorrow, sometime in afternoon.” Sunset sighed. “I’d tell you when but I think I lost my con booklet.”

Rarity laughed. “Again?”

“You’ll have to livestream it for us or something,” Twilight said.

“I’ll see what I can do,” Sunset replied.

“So…” Twilight pursed her lips. “Did you meet any cute girls?”

“None cuter than you.”

The line was cheesy.

It still made Twilight blush. “S-shut up.”

Sunset chuckled. “Works every time.”

“But for real…”

There was a moment of silence. Then Sunset cleared her throat. “I may have seen a couple of girls that made me really glad to be gay.”

Twilight grinned. “Thinking about doing any con hook ups?”

“Phh, nah. None of them even seem that interested in me, to be completely honest.”

Twilight heard Rarity bark a single note of laughter. “You’re such a liar. You practically had to beat them off with a stick.”

“It’s not my fault! It’s like they can sense I’m a top or something.”

Rarity laughed loudly. “Like that’s really so hard, Miss Plaid and Biceps.”

“Shut up!”

“So, are you going to have some con sex, or what?” Twilight asked.

“Well me and Rarity are sharing a room.”

“And a bed!” Rarity added.

“But we prefer to call it bible studies. You know, keep it on the downlow.”

Rarity snorted loud enough to be heard. “We’re very passionately going over those verses! Isn’t that right, Sunset?”

Twilight could hear Sunset chuckle and mutter something under her breath.

“Well keep me posted on your… studies,” Twilight said.

“Will do, hun. Love you.”

“Love you too, babe.”

With that the line went dead.

Twilight shook her head and returned her attention to the dinner she’d been working on. It wasn’t much, considering that she didn’t really cook all that often. However, she tried her best to be a courtesy host for coco.

Tonight’s dinner was just some simple cold cuts, bread, and cheeses. All of which were picked up from a local artesian deli.

I bet coco cooks some really nice meals for Rarity. Why don’t you do the same for Sunset?

She shook her head. coco was right, she really did have twenty-four/seven stuck on her mind.

The appeal of it was all very understandable. However, Twilight really didn’t need that kind of lifestyle.

Did she?

Let’s take a tally of your life. You don’t have a job, you sleep until noon, and you’re stuck in an academic rut…

Yeah maybe you do need a bit of an attitude adjustment.

Twilight chuckled and rolled her eyes.

You need an academic advisor not a twenty-four/seven domme. Let’s be honest here.

Then she promptly frowned.

Of course…

Her mind couldn’t help but turn to sex. And as those thought came to the forefront of her attention, her cheeks brighten.

The idea of Sunset just approaching her, the smolder in her eyes as she took control and put Twilight so seamlessly in her place. Being turned into a mindless little…

There was a knock at the apartment door, saving Twilight from her own overactive imagination.

“It’s locked!” Twilight squawked, then quickly realized what she said. “I MEANT UNLOCKED! IT’S UNLOCKED!”

There was a pause at the door as this information took a moment to compute, then the knob slowly turned.

coco lumbered into the apartment, looking absolutely dead upon her feet. she discarded her jacket upon the coatrack, with little regard, and her purse was merely dropped on the floor.

Twilight winced. “Long day?”

coco nodded. “Uh huh…”

“Do you need a drink?”

“Water… water would be nice.”

Twilight quickly moved to the cupboard. “Are you sure you don’t want like a beer or something?” She noticed coco stick out her tongue in disgust. “Or wine? We have plenty of wine.”

“I can’t drink wine…” coco said.

“Because you’re twenty-four/seven?”

coco waved her hand and snorted. “No, because i’m trans. Alcohol and HRT don’t go well together.”

Twilight mentally facepalmed. She probably should’ve known that.

“Water it is then,” she said.

As Twilight poured the glass, she held her gaze on coco. “Want to talk about it?”

coco walked into the living room and slumped against Twilight’s sofa, sinking into it. she groaned in frustration and massaged her forehead between her forefinger and thumb.

“It’s just… some people can be such fricking idiots at time.”

Ouch. Stronger words had never been spoken.

Twilight stifled her laughter as she made her way over, bearing a glass of water.

“What happened?”

“Alright so, one of the costumes which was vital to a third act song, mysteriously went missing at the beginning of the show. So, in a frenzy they had me quickly throw together something to replace it. Now, the original took me twenty hours to design, craft, and sew. I had three to finish its replacement. Three measly hours before that dress had to be on stage.” She shook her head and growled. “It was a frickin’ disaster. It looked absolutely terrible.”

“What happened to the original?” Twilight asked.

coco laughed. It was a bitter sounding hackle. “The lead actress borrowed it for her date and forgot to bring it back.”

“Is she going to get in trouble?” Twilight asked, taking a seat next to coco.

“Probably not,” coco grumbled. “Because the director and her are having sex. She probably borrowed it for their date.”

Twilight offered coco the glass of water. she gladly accepted it, taking a gentle sip.

coco shook her head. “i’m sorry… you shouldn’t have to listen to me vent.”

Twilight carefully draped an arm over coco’s shoulder. “Shhhh… don’t talk like that. I’m your friend, coco. If I’m not here to listen to you vent then what good am I?”

coco smiled and leaned against Twilight. “Thanks, Twi.”

“Hey, any time.” She motioned to the kitchen. “Are you hungry?”

coco nodded slowly. “Starving. i didn’t have time to eat at work.”

“Alright, well I bought us a whole bunch of cold cuts and stuff. I hope that’s okay?”

coco smiled. “It sounds perfect.”


“Open the pod bay doors, HAL,” the woman on screen said.

coco shuffled in her seat, gently readjusting against Twilight. The two of them were snuggling on the couch.

Twilight was acting as the bigger spoon, allowing coco to nestle against her. One of Twilight’s arms was draped over coco’s abdomen, squeezing her gently. The other was underneath coco, allowing her to place a pillow against her shoulder, which coco rested her head upon.

As coco looked up at her, she noticed that Twilight was utterly engrossed by the film. Her eyes were wide, her jaw slightly slackened, and her gaze unbroken and locked on the TV.

Meanwhile, coco found the film rather hit and miss. The acting was solid but the story was confusing to a mind which didn’t dabble too often in sci-fi. coco hadn’t even heard the term ‘hard science fiction’ until Twilight had mentioned it while describing this film.

Still, coco was nothing but a people pleaser, so she caved at Twilight request and here they were.

“Why isn’t the robot letting her back in?” coco asked.

Twilight blinked, her gaze flicking to coco. “Uh, the robot has another mission on file which is conflicting with it’s publicly known objectives. So, to protect this secret mission it needs to do away with the humans who threaten it.”

“Isn’t there like laws of robotics or something? I remember watching a robot movie about that.”

“Well HAL isn’t a robot,” Twilight explained. “Plus, that was Iron Soul and not Ganymede Rising.”

“HAL’s not a robot?”

Twilight shook her head. “He’s an artificial intelligence.”

“Oh, of course…”

coco had no idea what the difference was but Twilight’s matter-of-factly tone had made it sound as obvious as night and day. So, coco accepted that as an answer.

“It’ll all get explained by the end, I promise,” Twilight said.

coco nodded and reached for the bucket of popcorn nestled against her stomach. she picked up a kernel and tossed it into her mouth.

A second later, Twilight’s arm moved across her body before she delved into the bucket herself, grabbing a few pieces to eat.

This was nice. coco was glad that Rarity allowed her to stay up past her bedtime. This movie was exactly what she needed after the hellday that her job had put her through.

Of course, at the thought of that, she felt a knot of frustration tighten within her gut, as her blood began to rapidly cool.

Twilight’s arm settled back into place and she squeezed coco again. This instantly warmed her back up to what was deemed normal for mammals and made the worst of her frustrations bubble away with a gentle little cooing.

“Everything alright?” Twilight asked.

coco flushed. “Huh, what makes you think something’s wrong?”

“You got really tense there for a second.”

coco sighed. “Just still thinking about today.”

Twilight reached over and gently ran her fingers through coco’s hair, softly caressing it. “I’m so sorry, hun.”

“Did you just…” coco looked over. “Did you just call me hun?”

Twilight flushed. “Well, yes…I uh…um…” She cleared her throat. “I’m sorry, I won’t do it again.”

“No, no, no, i liked it. It was very cute.”

coco leaned over and gave Twilight a little peck on the nose, etching out an adorable little squeak from her.

“You know, Rarity warned me about something,” coco said, grinning playfully

“What’s that?” Twilight asked, glancing down at her new found hun.

“She said that you were a bit of a dork.”

Twilight frowned and stuck out her tongue. “Jerk.”

coco snickered softly and turned her attention back to the film.

“You know something’s been bugging me,” she said.

“What’s that?”

coco tilted her chin towards the screen. “Is the captain gal, played by Spitfire?”

“It’s her mom actually.”

“Huh.”

“Yeah she was apparently kind of a big deal back in the 70s and 80s.” Twilight munched on a kernel of popcorn. “Though, things apparently kind of went downhill after she turned down a role in Star Wars.”

“Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” coco commented.

Twilight cocked a brow. “Spitfire acts?”

“She’s testing the waters. i heard she got the role as Daring Doo in the upcoming movie.”

“No way.”

“That’s what my connection in the costume department said.”

coco glanced up and noticed that Twilight’s eyes were practically twinkling.

“Are you a fan of Daring Doo?” she asked.

“It’s probably my favourite fiction series in the entire world.”

“Huh… i didn’t take you for much of a fiction reader.”

“Oh, I’m not, but Daring Doo is my one exception. It uh… it holds a pretty special place in my heart.”

“Oh?”

Twilight nodded. “Back when I was a kid, I was really close with my brother. I didn’t have many friends.” She rolled her eyes. “Shocker, right?” She then sighed. “Anyways, one summer he decides to try and enroll with the royal cadets, which meant that I’d be losing my only friend for probably a good long while. However, before he left, he bought me the first Daring Doo book as a going away present.”

coco couldn’t help but grin at the story. “Oh my gods, that’s so sweet.”

Twilight chuckled. “Yeah he’s… he’s kind of a big softy.”

“i wish i had… well i wish i had siblings.”

“Only child?”

coco nodded. “Mom said she didn’t want to go through labour again. Something about me being nine-pounds, all of it in my head.”

Twilight whistled. “I can understand her position on that.”

“Yeah no, i couldn’t imagine going through that.” coco shook her head and looked back to the TV. “i’m so sorry, i’m distracting you from the movie.”

Twilight chuckled and kissed her on the neck. Her lips were soft and warm, gently caressing her skin. A warm breath soon rolled across, sending a pleasant shiver up coco’s spine.

“It’s fine,” Twilight said. “I’ve seen it a hundred times before.”

“Why did you pick it then?” coco asked.

“Because it’s… it’s one of my favourite films and I wanted to share it with you.”

“Oh,” coco cooed, garnering another kiss from Twilight.

Twilight smiled. “When I was a kid, I watched it with my dad. So, you know, mixed in with some really good memories.”

“Aw, that’s so sweet.”

When coco looked over, she noticed that Twilight was nervously biting her lip.

“Do you like it?” Twilight asked.

“It’s very…” coco clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth, searching for the right wording. “It’s interesting but i’m… having a bit of trouble understanding some of the science-y things.”

“Yeah, Ganymede Rising was a very technical writer and the director was known to be a perfectionist with a fetish for realism.”

coco nodded.

“Don’t worry,” Twilight said. “It all gets cleared up in the final act.”


coco didn’t even make it to the final act.

she had tried her very best, but her body was not used to staying up this late. So slowly, but surely, she lost her battle with her heavy eyelids as they eventually snapped shut and she was overcome by sleep.

By the time Twilight noticed, it was too late.

If she wanted to get off this couch, she was going to need to wake coco.

She looked from coco, to the bedroom plateau, and then back at coco again.

It just wasn’t in her heart to disturb such a restful sleeper. Especially one who looked so adorable, her expression peaceful and chest rising and falling in shallow puffs.

So, Twilight turned off the TV and asked her robot to shut off the lights. And once she closed her eyes, she was out within a matter of minutes.

Author's Note:

If i accidentally capitalize coco's anything make sure to let me know. English is hard and its even harder to unlearn it. :P

Been told that i should probably mention that trans woman can drink and coco is both a) a little misinformed (trans woman can have little a drink) and b) she is cautious.

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