Saturday Dec 24 h
As soon as the girls left the room, Susan spun around to face Harold with an angry look. He took a step back and held up his hands in a placating manner as it was more than easy to see how angry the woman was. Not that he blamed her, he was upset with what his wife did himself.
“Would you like something to drink?” Susan asked, trying her best to stay calm as the girls really didn’t need to hear the two of them arguing.
“No, that’s okay, I can’t stay long.” Harold sighed, “Do you mind letting Cornelia stay for a few days?”
“I’m not letting her go back anywhere near that woman!” Susan hissed out, making sure to keep her voice low. Despite the low volume, the man still winced as if she was yelling full volume at him.
“I know it looks bad, but I really do care for Cornelia.” Harold sighed, “Elizabeth is a good woman, she really is, but sometimes she gets a little too angry.”
“Does she do the same to Lillian?” Susan snarled out, having to force herself from throttling this idiot. She had now lost all respect she even had for both Hale parents.
“No, and this is the first time she’s taken things this far with Cornelia. Like I said, she’s a good woman but she has some problems with certain people.” Harold tried to explain, only managing to enrage Susan more. Harold had heard the saying saved by the bell before, he just never thought it would ever involve him. The phone ringing though had interrupted the two, Susan storming over to answer it.
“Hello?” Susan asked, glaring at Harold while trying to remain neutral over the phone. “Sure, send him up.”
“I’ll get out of your hair.” Harold whimpered, only to freeze at Susan’s piercing glare.
“You aren’t going anywhere.” Susan said, “Tom is coming up and I think we all are going to have a nice, long talk.”
“I’m not sure we really need to all get involved in this.” Harold whimpered.
“You are lucky I haven’t already called child services!” Susan growled out.
The two were interrupted by the doorbell ringing, breaking up any further back and forth as Susan went to answer it. As she expected, Tom was standing there with a look of displeasure on his face. Stepping back to let him pass, she said, “Come on in Tom, I’m sure you might want to talk to Harold while you are here.”
“How do you know what I’m here for?” Tom asked, earning a curious look from Susan.
“I just meant you might want to speak to Harold after we tell you a few things.” Susan explained.
“We don’t need to get Tom involved in this.” Harold said, his voice sounded pleading.
“I wanted to talk to the girls first, but maybe I should talk to you both beforehand.” Tom said, sending a searching look towards Harold. “Let’s go over here and sit so I can show you something.”
“What is it?” Susan asked a little worried, as maybe Tom was there for something more. The three moved over to the television and Tom put a USB drive into the front of the BluRay player.
“Just play this first, then we can talk.” Tom said, “Just be warned, there are some things on there that might be a little scary. They’re safe, though I believe as they had protected Cornelia.”
“What are you talking about?” Harold asked, his question going unanswered by the other two as Susan started the video. If Susan was upset before, she was livid now as they watched the short, but horrible file Tom had brought.
“Only reason I haven’t already called child services is because of those two things.” Tom growled, glaring at Harold.
“She was involved with the stuff your aunt was, isn’t she?” Harold asked.
“What stuff?” Susan asked, even if she was pretty sure she knew the answer.
“Magic. When I was little I caught my aunt Cassidy and her friends transforming. She later explained to me about it when I confronted her.” Tom explained, “I told Harold about it, we were best friends, but it makes me wonder where that friend went to.”
“What do you mean? I’m right here!” Harold said, sounding offended.
“Was this the first time she has done this?” Tom demanded, pointing to the now blank television.
“They argue, and Elizabeth has smacked Cornelia a few times. I don’t condone it and I’ve tried to get her into anger management therapy.” Harold said.
“You should have called child services!” Tom snapped out. “So does Elizabeth do the same to Lillian?”
“No! No, she’s never yelled at or hit Lillian.” Harold sighed, “Cornelia isn’t my daughter, but I do care about her. Elizabeth was drunk and ended up having a one night stand with a man from Canterlot.”
“And that’s why Elizabeth hates her.” Groaned Tom, “I told you that woman was bad news, Harold.”
“She’s a good woman…” Harold said before an angry Susan interrupted him.
“If she hits her child like that she isn’t a good woman!” Susan hissed angrily. “If Cornelia didn’t beg me not to, I would have already been on the phone reporting that woman to child services!”
“I do my best to protect Cornelia and keep our family together. What more do you want from me?” Harold asked, his expression as broken as his voice sounded.
“I want custody of Cornelia.” Susan demanded, crossing her arms and glaring at Harold angrily.
“You can’t mean that!” Harold gasped.
“Are you sure, Susan?” Tom asked, a look of worry and pride warring for dominance.
“Either you sign over Cornelia to me and get family counseling, or I’m calling child services.” Susan said, very serious about it.
“Will you let Lillian and I see her?” Harold asked, getting a gasp from Tom.
“If she wants, but I’m not letting that happen again!” Susan exclaimed, once again pointing to the television in emphasis.
“Let me talk to Elizabeth, will you at least give me until Monday?” Harold asked.
“...Fine, you have until Monday.” Susan agreed reluctantly.
“Susan, this is a big responsibility. Irma already told me about you taking in Sunset, and now you’re taking in Cornelia?” Tom asked.
“It’s fine, but this isn’t going to work with Cornelia.” Susan sighed, the men staring at her in confusion. “The penthouse is nice and everything, but we need more rooms. I’m going to have to buy a house with at least four rooms and either a nice basement or a very large garage.”
“Well, I might have a solution for that. It isn’t as nice as here, and it isn’t a mansion, but a large house just went up for sale a few blocks down from me. I believe it has five bedrooms, the master having a bathroom itself and two bathrooms between the others. It has a nice finished basement that was used as an entertainment room, a nice attic and a three car garage.” Tom said.
“Do you think you can send me the realtor info if it has a sign and the address later?” Susan asked, “I’ll look into it.”
“I will, that sounds great.” Tom said.
“Are you serious?” They heard Cornelia sniff out, Lillian and Sunset right behind her. “I thought you didn’t want me for a second, then I heard you say you want to buy a house.”
“The penthouse won’t work, dear. Our family is getting too big. We also need more privacy.” Susan explained as she walked over to hug the girl tight.
“You heard all of that?” Harold asked, Cornelia shaking her head.
“Just a little.” Cornelia sighed.
“I wish I could stay, but Lily and I have to get back. Pumpkin, are you okay?” Harold asked as he walked over to Cornelia who reluctantly pulled away from Susan to give the man a quick hug. Harold kissed the top of her head before pushing her back to look in her eyes.
“I’m okay dad. I guess I’ll see you two later.” Cornelia sighed.
“See you later, big sis!” Lillian said, squeezing between the two to give Cornelia a hug.
“See you later you little fungus.” Cornelia said, hugging back just as tightly and whispering in the girl’s ear. “Love you little sis.”
Tom stood there and watched the man and youngest Hale leave before bringing up his other reason for being there. “There is one other thing I wanted to talk about while here. It concerns Will.”
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At least sunset new mom is doing something to help. Corny dad sounds like he will make excuses until he can't make anymore excuses for as long as he can.
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Eyup, Harold is pretty much just a coward in this universe. I debated having him finally snap over this and have him shot Elizabeth and then himself leaving Susan to take care of both Cornelia and Lillian, but I came to the conclusion that was a bit too extreme and decided on a different route. Pretty much the child services as well as Susan getting custody of Cornelia, if they do end up calling child services. They can't exactly submit the video as evidence and Cornelia doesn't want to testify at the moment so I'll have a few parts to decide on how exactly to go about it though either way Sunset gets her sister and the two can help each other with their problems and start healing Sunset's other wounds as well.
Well if that would be happening in Potterverse, I would be screaming "love potion" about Harold's behavior with Elizabeth
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I could also be screaming about Stockholm syndrome, blackmail, or some offshoot of Imposter syndrome ... but the explanation is probably much more simple:
Love makes people blind. This is a situation where Princess Cadance assistance would be appreciated ... but even ignoring the fact that Sunset would sooner make herself into a unicorn salami, than ask Cadance for help at this point in time, I don't think Cady would want to help. This situation doesn't require reigniting previous love, but snuffing out existing one, and even if this is within love god's domain and power, it's anathema to Cadance's character to kill affection in any way, shape, or form.
Harold has basically 24 hours to either make a hard decision and by signing off custody admit that he failed, murder Elizabeth or somehow make her change her heart ... I don't think even The Phantom Thieves can help with that one, so it's fools bet what will happen ... unless Elizabeth goes off the rails to the point where Lilian will pull of Twilight and gives her Cactus therapy
... from cacti point of view
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After all: No corpse -> No evidence -> No crime
Welp Tom has a familial connection to Cassidy, Posey's older brother was dating Cassidy. The net of connections thickens indeed.
... that house that Tom recommends... isn't it the same house that Elyon lived in and one in which Will slept in that one episode where two lurdens were stealing sketchbook
? Because the description is similar but I might remember wrong...
Well, that will at least make the situation with forging documentation easier, after all not many people tends to look deeper when there is a police commissar seal of approval.
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Maybe it just needs to increase his love for corny. Considering if he cared he do what was best for the girls instead of his wife.
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It does actually scream love potion, but sadly this is just the case of a coward who has been emotionally beaten down by his wife trying to make excuses for the image of the woman he sees in her even if she might as well be evil incarnate.
This pretty much is a case of love making one blind along with being whipped/emotionally beaten down to the point where he still sees Elizabeth as an angel even though she is more like a demon. I really don't think there is much that can even remotely possible redeem this woman. And Sunset probably would rather be unicorn salami than asking for Cadence's help at the moment. And as you said, it really wouldn't be likely that Cadence would be willing to snuff out love even if it was in her powerset.
I really, really thought about going the murder route then suicide, but I thought it might be going to far and would actually manage to traumatize Lily and Corny a lot worse than they are. I do like the cactus therapy idea though.
Sadly I don't think Lily would be doing that. Though no corpse no crime is true. 
Yep, the characters do have connections that I did want to explore in this part a little more but had to move them to the next part that will have more to do with the Canterlot group more though will still have SITCH in it.
Yep, it's the one I was thinking of so Sunset and Cornelia will be a few houses away from Irma as well as being closer to the Silver Dragon and Taranee's place.
Yep, and with blood tests there isn't much people can do to deny the connection between Susan and Sunset, though without help it would open up other questions that could have been uncomfortable.
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That might have helped a lot, though he might even be too far gone for that to work.
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Shame on me...
I must admit, I did not think about going the other way.
I mean ... it could work?
In the case of turning his love for his wife to zero (making him apathetic) or turning it into negative (active hatred), he will take action against his wife since nothing holds him back, but it is something Cadance would not do because of her morality/character.
Increasing familial affection towards his daughter is not against Cadance's compass so no issue here ... but it might backfire. We don't know his exact thought processes, and even with increased love for his children, he might still make a decision that keeping the family together is the best decision for good of his children if his feelings for his wife are still holding him back.
This is one of the weaknesses of amokinesis: even if you have no issue manipulating feelings, your target might still behave in a different way than you want/anticipate because of social norms, thought processes, or other elements. Love manipulation is not mind domination, it still leaves a free will and so the ability to do something stupid.
Long story short : Possible to achieve, but unpredictable reaction , mind and feeling manipulations are not exact science and there is big margin for strange side effects.
That is of course purely theoretical scenario since Cadence is beyond equation and the only person in this group that could ask for her is not going to do that since Sunset holds a more or less not deserved but understandable grudge.
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Yeah that won't get fixed until Celestia admits she was wrong. As for the bad guy who hurt Luna I'm sure the guardians would do whatever they could to help considering they want to the right thing but if they been misinformed to the truth they could make a big mistake.
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Ahh so it is Stockholm Syndrome (Emotional abuse does count towards acquiring this syndrome, who knew...) ... the worst-case scenario Harold can be declared mentally unfit so that should speed up processes in some places and stall in others ...
Technically destroying affection or creating hatred IS within Cadance's powerset ... the same way that causing and controling nightmares is within Luna's dream domain. They both just don't use it, probably find it distasteful, and in the case of Luna, she threw that part onto Nightmare Moon ... which is kinda bad since not acknowledging that part of gods domain sorta criples power level ... severely because it's like loving your right hand and hating your left to the point of being willing to amputate it. Celestia might have the same issue since she takes more after the "Nice and protective sun" aspect and sorta ignores the "Smoldering and wrathful" aspect.
Twilight might not meet this problem, both in the friendship department since her canon experiences were balanced in this aspect, and she acknowledges dark magic in her studies even if she's not practicing it so the magic domain is also stable.
).
Actually, this might be another reason for the existence of Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker personas: a rejection of parts of domains empowers their "shadows". (I still subscribe to the theory that Nightmare Moon is/was split personality caused by pre-Lunar Rebellion events instead of some kind of parasite or other outside entity, and by rejecting Nightmare Moon as part of the whole Luna basically cripled her powers more or less permanently
... I just had a realization that Twilight and Discord are the most stable members of the Equestrian Pantheon
... that is a terrifying realization
...
Hmm, sooo that house has an entertainment area, garage, and basement that could be turned into a laboratory, armory, and ritual chamber respectively
? Sweeeeeet.
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A HEALTHY COMUNICATION!!!!
And so once more heroes need to seek forbidden power that is not more rare or powerful than the legendary and mostly forgotten super-power of "Common Sense", but is no less important:
*Written in big neon-rainbow letters with accompanying sound effects and fireworks*
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Just noticed I missed this, I'm so sorry. I'll try not to not to but there may be a few.
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I wasn't really too sure what about what caused it exactly, but I guess it could be. If there is a fight over Cornelia, that might just be used against him.
Never knew that about Cadence's power being able to do that, but that means that there could be a universe with an anti-cadence. Well, Cadence that is evil that instead of making ponies fall in love, they make them hate each other. I could see them finding it distasteful since it pretty much is and something that is pretty bad. That is a scarily accurate analogy because looking at it like that is kind creepy. They should learn how to control their powers, both good and bad. I guess no matter how distastful or bad it might seem, there might actually come a time when it might actually be useful or truly needed.
Yeah, Twilight is somebody I really don't see falling into that problem as Twilight probably sees magic as magic instead of dividing it into dark or light, but rather gray. I kind of agree with the Nightmare Moon being a split personality in canon. I do like the thought of the rejection empowering their shadows though. The thought makes me come up with a few stories at some point. It would have been nice to see Luna accept that side of herself though and see Nightmare and Luna merge so Luna could use either form as needed.
As terrifying as that is, I actually agree with you and will say something I thought about thought probably won't show up in the story. I think Discord would be the Heart of Equestria. Yep, I think Q...I mean Discord wold be the perfect candidate for the Heart.
I was thinking Twilight, but I think the Elements would be like the previous Heart's creations. There's no way I'm going with the Elements origins from the cartoon as I really did not like that one bit. I still prefer the theory that Discord was Starswirl. 
Eyup, though with the basement and attic, Susan may make the garage off limits. Then again, she might cave in to the girls with enough pony pouts...they are more powerful that the puppy dog eyes attack.