In the Dead of Night, in the Cold of Winter
Double Diamond pulled his jacket closer to himself, shuddering softly, trying to put his muzzle deeper into the double-fleece folds beneath his scrawny chin. His right hoof bumped incessantly against the floor, his hands deep inside of his pockets, his gloves laying forgotten at home. It was the middle of winter, but a chill still ran through his spine, cooling him deeper still.
He hadn’t noticed while under Starlight’s thrall, but Our Town was… cold. Uniquely cold, opposed to anywhere he had hit the slopes. There was a bitterness to the air that was palpable, like the bite of a bottom-shelf gin, a touch of juniper that assaulted his senses on top of the cold that filled the streets in the bitter winter that they had found themselves in. But the cold of the rest of Our Town paled in comparison to the cold of Starlight’s house. It was as if its former occupants presence still lived within it, that calculated destruction of everything that her neighbors held dear still lingering in the air like gunsmoke.
He wanted to be literally anywhere else. On the highest peaks above the wasteland that surrounded them. At the lowest depths of the seas that seemed so far away. Unfortunately, he had a job to do here, but thankfully, the warm presence of a friend made that job somewhat easier.
He and Party Favor had been tasked with the long-postponed search of Starlight Glimmer’s abode, and though Favor seemed just fine on the surface, their surroundings cooled his easy smile into a hardened expression not unlike that he was forced to wear underneath their former leader. He had brought a collection of scrolls, carried haphazardly in his arms, and let out an uneasy sigh as he dropped them upon Starlight’s former desk.
“Okay, I think I’ve got something,” Party Favor said softly. He ran a hand through his bouncy, curly mane of hair, letting out an airy little laugh, a desperate attempt to lighten the mood.
“Whacha got, dude?” Diamond asked, one ear flopping down as he tilted his head.
“Genealogy records. Starlight was detailed, I’ll say that much. Wasn’t just our cutie marks she took away. She took away our pasts, our feelings, our thoughts and desires. And now we’re gonna get them back.”
Double Diamond swallowed. His memories of life before Our Town were… muddied. That much was true. Perhaps the answers were in those scrolls. Who his parents were. If he had any siblings. Where he had once lived. His cutie mark had brought back his purpose and gave him flashes of what his destiny could be, but… it wasn’t complete. This would complete the puzzle. And yet…
“Do we even want them back?”
Party Favor blinked. “Huh?”
“Our lives before,” Double Diamond said. “What if we were… Y’know, or somebody we knew was, y’know, a bad person? Came here to get away?”
“Bad like what?”
“You know, dude,” Double Diamond sighed. “Train robbers, or pimps, or pushers, or y’know, something like that. What if somebody turned out... bad before, and they came here to get a second chance? That’s what Starlight sold to us, right? No more nightmares? No more doubts?”
“No more dreams,” Party Favor muttered. “No more self. It’s better for us to know. Hey, maybe Night Glider was a Wonderbolt. Don’t you think she would deserve to know?”
Double Diamond leaned back into his chair, adjusting his hat over his head, a thick cloud of vapor pooling from his mouth as he let out a breath into the deep-chilled air. “I guess. I dunno, man. I just feel like… I dunno.”
“Feel like what? Your girlfriend wouldn’t like you if you turned out to be some kinda bad person before you guys even met?”
“...Kinda? It’s a bit of that, and a bit of, like, I dunno, y’know?” Double Diamond stuck his icy-cold hands in his pockets, shivering a bit.
“For what it’s worth, dude, you don’t seem like a drug dealer to me.” Party Favor glanced through another document. “Though if you were, you’d probably only give out something... fun. Nothing hard, nothing that’d hurt anybody. Snowboarders are supposed to party hard, right?”
“I guess…”
“C’mon, dude, it’s probably okay,” Party Favor said. “Let’s get this done, alright? Then you can go back to your hot-as-hell girlfriend and call it a day. How’s she doing, by the by?”
Double Diamond sighed, the oppressive cold getting just a bit better as thoughts of Night Glider filled his mind. “She’s doing great, dude. The weather team thing’s working out just fine. It’s really nice to, like, wake up in the morning and have somebody holding you, y’know? Something to keep ya going, or make ya wanna sleep in until noon?”
“Yeah,” Party Favor said, smiling wistfully.
“And like… she’s great,” Double Diamond said. “We both love doing action stuff, we’re both really athletic, and she’s like... Goddess, she’s tough, she’s hot, she looks out for me, but she’s also, like, vulnerable and stuff, and I do my best to give back everything she gives me.”
Party Favor smiled, warmly, though Double Diamond saw a twitch of sadness in his eyes. “Yeah…”
A beat passed. An awkward one.
Double Diamond cleared his throat. He glanced at the impressively tall stack of scrolls before him, and placed an idle hand on top of one. “You want some help looking through these?”
“It’s what you’re here for,” Party Favor said, chuckling under his breath. “Can’t discover my dark and twisted past without a friend here to help, y’know?”
“I’m sure it’s not that dark and twisted,” Double Diamond said, taking a scroll in hand, starting to unwind it. “I’m sure you were a chill-ass hombre, man. Most likely you got caught up in... something, I guess, and had to get away. Maybe an illegal balloon ring or something. Or a rap for public indecency.”
Party Favor laughed. “Yeah, that does sound like me, huh? Or maybe I fell in love with some fella and he broke my heart, and I needed a new start! Man. That would be… That would be kinda tragic…”
Double Diamond swallowed, unwinding the scroll fully, peering at its contents. Names, histories, familiar relations… they were all listed very carefully, in alphabetical order. Danger Close… Deep Slumber… Dill Pickles… He was starting to wonder who came up with these names, before he heard Party Favor let out a small, almost sad sigh.
“Dude, you okay?”
Party Favor said, giving Double Diamond a wide grin. “I am, just… you and Glider seem really happy together, and I’m just… stuck. Honestly, I don’t think anybody in town’s really my style. Think I might head out one of these days. I love you guys, but…”
“But what?”
“I dunno if I can live the rest of my life here,” Party Favor said.
“Party, there’s bound to be plenty of fresh meat when we revitalize this town come spring,” Double Diamond said. “I mean, not like, fresh meat or anything, but, like, dudes, like, dudes who… Aw, man, am I being, like, homophobic or - ”
“No! No, you’re not,” Party Favor said. “You’re just… being you. It’s okay, I get what you’re saying. And maybe you’re right. Maybe if I stay in town, I’ll find the right stallion for me. But… I don’t know how long I’d have to wait, y’know? And there are places like Coltstown in Whinny City, or Uptown in Manehattan, and I hear that they’re really friendly to…”
Party Favor swallowed, giving Double Diamond a wry smile. “Friendly to guys of my persuasion, y’know?”
Double Diamond peered through the names, but focused on the discussion. He really didn’t want to see his name, but as the alphabetically ordered names wore on, he knew he was getting closer. Dovewing… Dream Weaver… an uneasy feeling beginning to well in his chest, an uneasiness he felt physically, fidgeting in his chair. He didn’t want to know, but he needed to know, and his mind began racing with all the possibilities, including the most dangerous one, that –
“Double D?” Party Favor asked.
“Y-Yeah?”
“You’re sweating. You okay, dude?”
“Yeah, just…”
Double Diamond swallowed. He had to say it. It needed to be said. “I’ve just been thinking.”
“Dangerous when you do it.”
“Yeah, right? Anyways, like, I’m so happy with Glider, and like, she’s perfect for me.”
“What’s wrong with that?”
“Well… What if, like… I’m related to her?”
A tense silence filled the air. Party Favor’s smile was gone. It was the first truly honest expression that Double Diamond had seen all night. There was a look of some sort of realization in Party Favor’s eyes, a comprehension of all of Double Diamond’s fear and nervousness, a discovery of a thing that they both hoped was terribly untrue.
Then, a faux smile crossed Party Favor’s face, and a playful, fake laugh fell from his mouth. “Seriously? That’s what you’re worried about?”
“C’mon, like, it’s not funny and you know it, dude!” Double Diamond protested. “Like, seriously! We remember nothing from before Starlight! What if, like, we came into town, like, together, and like…”
“You do realize how far-fetched this is, right?” Party Favor said, still smiling widely, patting Double Diamond on the shoulder.
“Y-Yeah, but… it’s possible!”
“It’s also improbable,” Party Favor said, giving Double Diamond’s shoulder a squeeze. “Don’t sweat it, Double D. I’m one-hundred percent sure that if Glidey is your sister, or cousin, or, hell, was your mom, that you’d still remember that! Starlight wasn’t here that long…”
“How can you be sure?”
“I’m pretty sure, Diamond. In fact, let’s make a bet.” Party Favor flipped a five-bit coin onto the desk. “If you’re not related to Glidey, I win. If you are, I lose, and I’ll double what you get. Deal?”
Double Diamond swallowed. The already-freezing air around him seemed to get colder still. His numb fingers shook as he reached into his pocket to procure a match for Party Favor’s bet, and his nervous lips broke into a tepid smile as he placed it onto the desk. “S-Sure…”
“Coolio! Now, you’ve got, what, the b-u to d-u scroll there? So your name’s prolly on the bottom, right?”
“R-Right…”
“Well, go on! Let’s see what it says!”
Double Diamond smiled, nervously, and scanned the page. D… O… Double Diamond… His age… His tribe… His place of birth… His family members...
His family members.
Double Diamond closed his eyes, and thought of the three principles that he lived his life by. He did this on dangerous slopes, and it had a way of bringing him security, even in the face of the worst conditions. No regrets. No fear. No worries. Let’s rock. He opened his eyes, and took a look at Starlight’s little list.
His face went pale.
Double Diamond dropped the scroll. Party Favor blinked, picked up the scroll, and ran his eyes over it. There was a beat between the two, the realization hitting them like ten tabs of acid and a bathtub of absinthe. Thirty bits joined the ten on the desk, tossed mindlessly by Party Favor’s shaking hand.
They were dead silent as they left the building, the moon still high in the sky, their work left unfinished.
“Holy shit.”
Party Favor and Double Diamond stood before the latter’s home. Well, Party Favor was the one who was standing – Double Diamond, instead, had taken to pacing back and forth in front of the door, vapor pouring from his mouth like a dragon’s breath, his heart pounding in his chest and his eyes refusing to look up towards his own abode. “Holy shit,” Double Diamond said under his breath, stopping for just a moment to look up at the moon. The tears that were forming in his watering eyes lit up in the moonlight. “Holy shit.”
“You gotta tell her,” Party Favor said.
“And what then, dude?” Double Diamond snapped. “Hey hon, did you, like, have a nice day?! Mine went great! Me and Party Favor dug through Starlight Glimmer’s archives and I found out that you’re my sister! That’s right! I’ve been fucking my sister! Oh, she’ll love that, dude!”
“Calm down,” Party Favor said.
“I can’t calm down, dude! Goddesses above, like, I told you this would happen! I told you! When she finds out, and she’s going too, because I can’t fuckin’ keep a secret from her, it’s the end! The end of us! And it should be, because, like, what kind of sad, lonely fuckin’ loser ends up sh-shaggin’ with his sister?! Who would abuse somebody they’re close to like that?!”
The tears flowed freely now, shamelessly, becoming ice cold in the freezing winter air, and Double Diamond soon felt the familiar warmth of another body holding him as Party Favor pulled him close into a hug. He hesitated to embrace him back. He didn’t feel as if he deserved his love. “You didn’t know,” Party Favor said. “You had no way of knowing. Glimmer took that from us.”
“No,” Double Diamond says. “N-No, I only have myself to blame, we shouldn’t have put it off so long, long enough to… to have something. Sh-She’s not even here and she’s still taking, still taking, still…”
“Shhhh.”
“Goddesses, dude, what do I do?”
“You tell her.”
Double Diamond swallowed, but the lump in his throat didn’t go away. “No,” he croaked.
“You gotta. It’s the only way forward from this.”
Double Diamond sniffed, reaching up and wiping his tears against his sleeve. He couldn’t just… lock this knowledge away and throw away the key. There was nobody in town who could take this revelation out of his brain and throw it into the garbage where it belonged. If he put it off now, Double Diamond thought to himself, it would come back to haunt him later. He looked down into Party Favor’s eyes, and saw the strength in them, the steadfast encouragement.
“Party Favor?”
“Yeah, Double Diamond?”
“I… I’m scared.”
“I’d be too,” Party Favor said, giving Double Diamond a tighter squeeze.
“No, not of telling her. Well, yeah, like, I am, but… I’m scared because I… I kinda wanna stay with her. Even if she is… y’know, my sister.”
Party Favor was silent. Double Diamond choked on his own words, and had to spit out more.
“D-Does that make me a bad person?” Double Diamond said. “That I wanna s-stay with her? That I… I still wanna fuck her? That I still want to stay with her forever and ever? She… She gets me, man. She gets me more than anybody else ever has, and nobody else ever will, like, get me the way she does. I don’t wanna lose that. I don’t wanna lose something that I can’t promise I’ll ever have again. Does that make me a bad person?”
The silence in the air was palpable.
“...No.”
“No?”
“No. You guys are adults. It’s okay... if she’s willing to stay with you.”
Double Diamond swallowed, looking up towards the moon again. “Do you think she will?”
Party Favor said nothing, but squeezed Double Diamond a bit harder.
“C’mon, dude, I… I need something here.”
“I don’t know,” Party Favor said. “All I know about her is what you tell me. The past few months have been nuts for all of us. I’m sure she’s nice - she’s dating you. And you’re the best friend a guy can ask for. Especially somebody like me. I haven’t told anybody else about… well, about how I swing. And when I told you, I felt like the earth was gonna open up and swallow me. But…”
Party Favor smiled up at Double Diamond. “But you comforted me. You didn’t throw me away. You didn’t start being all uncomfortable around me because of what I am. So… if she’s anything like you, she’ll probably do the same.”
“You really think so, dude?” Double Diamond asked, sniffling a bit, feeling his tears start to freeze on his cheek.
“Yeah.”
The two gave each other one last tight squeeze before separating. Double Diamond was hesitant to leave, but he knew that Party Favor was right. There was only one way forward. One more person who needed to know that Double Diamond and Night Glider were siblings. Nothing would be the same after this point. They both knew this, and Double Diamond could feel that fact twisting in his chest.
He glanced up at the stars again. It was late.
“Heard it was gonna snow tonight,” Double Diamond said softly. “I should, like, head in. Face the music, I guess.”
Party Favor sighed, patting Double Diamond on the shoulder. “Good luck, Double D. Hopefully you guys… You guys will figure it out.”
Party Favor started to walk away. He stopped a moment, looking back at Double Diamond, and opened his mouth as if to say something, but seemed to think twice of it, shaking his head and moving on. Double Diamond looked up at the house, it’s single story feeling as if it was dwarfing him, threatening to swallow him whole. The light from inside it’s symmetrical windows, normally warm and inviting, seemed cold and distant now. It was time.
He approached the door, placed a shaking hand on the icy doorknob, and held it there for a moment, taking one last deep breath. It was a habit he had picked up on the slopes, a means he had devised of dealing with even the most devilish drop. When the freezing air of winter filled his lungs, and when that mantra he ran through combined with it, Double Diamond felt as if he could take on the world.
The tallest mountain, the steepest slope, the longest jump. This threatened to eclipse all of them in its promise of danger. He could turn away now. Go to Party Favor’s house. Ride the night out, figure out another plan. Double Diamond almost did. His hand relaxed on the doorknob for just a moment.
But he tightened it twice as hard again. No. Either he did this now, or she find out on her own later. Double Diamond took a deep breath through his nose, but his nerves refused to steady. That little mantra ran through his head again and again, begging him to take the plunge into the house.
Fuck it. Fuck it.
“Here we go,” he muttered.
The house Double Diamond shared with Night Glider was spartan, but warm and welcoming. A crackling fire lit the hearth, the only source of light and warmth within the place, filling the room with more than enough heat to keep its occupants from freezing in the winter air.
The old furniture of Starlight’s era as leader had been almost totally replaced or upgraded, courtesy of one of Canterlot’s more affordable furniture shops. A well-worn bed lay in the corner of the house’s single room, its heavy comforter and warm sheets splayed out halfway onto the floor. All these comforts of home did little to assuage Double Diamond’s mind, for Night Glider was laying upon the couch, eyes closed, listening to some sort of serial on the radio.
She grunted, stretching out her arms and legs, her hooves kicking a bit against the arm of the couch. “Hey you,” she said, her voice low and somewhat sultry, a thing Double Diamond would have found impossibly tempting in better circumstances.
“Hey,” he said, low and quiet.
“How’d the search go? Can’t believe we delayed it this long.”
Double Diamond swallowed. “It was… like, uhm… informative.”
Night Glider sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes, rolling her shoulders back as she crossed her legs. Goddess, she was beautiful. She hardly had the rock-hardened body of a professional athlete, but she was dainty and flexible, with hourglass hips and a small, perky bust, her legs long and just thick enough to squeeze. And this beauty shone through to Diamond no matter what she was wearing - in this case, a plain white tee and boyshorts, the latter being little more than a pair of briefs she had borrowed from him.
Double Diamond’s heart sank, and he had to tear his eyes away. She was still beautiful in his eyes. He still wanted her. He wanted his sister, and the shame brought a redness to his face that she misinterpreted and giggled at.
“Don’t get so excited, tiger,” Night Glider said. “I look like such shit right now.”
“No! No, you look just, y’know, fine, it’s like, y’know...”
“Relax, I’m just teasing you. Get your coat off. C’mon in.”
Double Diamond stood steadfast by the door, his hands in his pockets, tapping his hoof against the hardwood floor. He caught a glimpse of Night Glider’s confused gaze in his direction, and averted his eyes, focusing on the floor. “Hey, babe?” he said. “Can we, like, talk?”
Night Glider’s smile faded, just a bit. “Yeah, always.”
Double Diamond took a step, took his zipper between his fingers, but stopped himself short. He felt frozen, his breath catching in his throat, words starting to fail him as syllables fell from his mouth. “Well… I… I dunno, like… like…” He felt stupefied. In that moment, whatever he had planned to say had fallen away, destroyed by her beauty and grace. He still wanted her. Wanted to stay with her. He knew he shouldn’t, he knew it was a mistake, but…
Night Glider stood up, and walked towards Double Diamond, every hoofstep of hers against the floorboards nearly sending his heart into overdrive. She took him by the hand, and placed his cheek in her palm, nearly forcing him to look her in the eye. God, those eyes, too. Golden spheres of love that he didn’t deserve to have. “What’s wrong, Double D?” she asked. “Something happen between you and Favor?”
“N-No,” Double Diamond said. “He’s c-cool. We good.”
“Then what’s up? Why aren’t you coming in?”
“I…”
Double Diamond couldn’t look her in the eyes. “We, like, need to talk. But I ain’t getting undressed, cause, like, this is bad shit. For both of us.”
Night Glider’s eyes widened, and her grip on Double Diamond’s hand tightened. “Whaddya mean?”
“I mean, like… like we found something. In Starlight’s house. Something… Fuck,” Double Diamond said, pushing Night Glider away, storming to the couch and throwing himself into its seat. It took all of his willpower not to sob openly, but tears still fell down his face, tears of anger, sadness, stress.
He didn’t want to do this anymore. He should have just left for Favor’s, slept on the couch, figured this out. Double Diamond hid his face in his hands, his throat tight as a vice, his body quaking with effort to keep himself from falling apart. Damn it all. Damn it! Why couldn’t he commit?!
He felt something warm and soft lay against his side, and his blood froze within his veins. “Babe?”
“S-Sorry,” Double Diamond said. “Just…”
“Babe,” Night Glider said, “Here.” She pressed an ice-cold against Double Diamond’s hand, and he knew, without looking, that it was his favorite. Rock Farmer IPA. You couldn’t get that around here. It was a local brew in Las Pegasus.
Why was she so fucking perfect?
Diamond laid back against the couch, taking the bottle in hand, but he pushed Glider away, not forcefully, but firmly, his hand lingering on her shoulder.
“G-Gimme some… some space, okay?”
“Okay,” Glider said, softly.
Double Diamond sighed, twisting off the cap of the bottle, taking a deep draught of its contents. Hoppy, somewhat herbal, a crisp, light flavor that cleared his senses and cooled his fiery nerves. The best beer from the best girl he had ever met. His sister. That’s all he had to tell her. All he had to say. And the words were struggling to come out of his stupid mouth.
Double Diamond sighed, smacking his lips, gesturing vaguely to the fridge. “You should get one, too, hon. You’re… You’re gonna need it.”
“Not until I get some answers. What the hell did you find that got you so upset?”
Double Diamond closed his eyes, still unable to concentrate. “I… We… Okay, so…”
Night Glider’s hand fell upon his chest. “Deep breaths, babe. Start from the beginning.”
The beginning. Okay. Double Diamond took another sip of his beer. “We… We went over about, like, eight, eight-thirty. Started from the top to the bottom of the place. Found some spellbooks, pretty advanced ones I guess, she was pretty powerful, y’know? Found her diary, that wasn’t much use, just... megalomaniacal shit. Rule the world and make everybody equal, you know…”
Night Glider snorted. “Sounds like her BS. Anything else?”
“Manifestos, novellas, lil’ trinkets, y’know, all that stuff unicorn bitches got. And…”
Double Diamond took a shaking breath. “Favor found… records. Like, y’know, family records and shit. Y’know how we can’t really remember the time before we lost our cutie marks? We figured it’d give us a clue, y’know?”
“Yeah,” Glider said, gripping Double Diamond’s shoulder.
“So… I… I looked into it. I wanted to know. Needed to know. You’re perfect for me. We’ve got, like, so much in common. And…”
Night Glider’s grip got tighter. “I see where this is going.”
“Yeah,” Double Diamond croaked. “I…”
“You’re... my brother, aren’t you?”
“Yeah.”
“My older brother?”
“Y-Yeah.”
Night Glider took a shaky breath of her own. “I’ve been fucking my older brother for the past six months without knowing it.”
“I’m s-sorry,” Double Diamond said. “I… I didn’t know, I… I couldn’t have. I was j-just… I felt so happy, s-so connected and… and m-maybe I had a feeling but I didn’t care, and…”
“Shut it.”
“It’s okay if you hate me,” Double Diamond said, standing up, wiping off his face. “It’s… It’s okay if you want me gone. I want me gone too.”
“I said shut it.”
Night Glider’s tone was hard. Harder than it had ever been before. It wasn’t that Double Diamond had never argued with her, but he had never heard her this… this upset. He couldn’t put a finger on what it was, but… but it hurt to hear. He finally broke down, sobbing sloppily, tears coursing down his cheeks, his entire body in pain as Night Glider walked away from the couch.
“I’ll… I’ll just go,” Double Diamond said softly, turning to the door.
“Sit down.”
He stopped. His ears perked up. “Huh?”
“I said sit down, big brother. Lemme fix up something harder real quick, okay? I don’t want you to go anywhere.”
“But - “
”Please.”
“Okay,” Double Diamond said. He sat, and ran a hand across his face, wiping it against his jacket. Night Glider returned not a moment later, a glass of her favorite gin in her hand, sitting down next to him. She seemed… perturbed. That much was clear. But she didn’t seem… angry. Not at him, at least. She took a sip, smacking her lips, taking a deep breath.
“I knew.”
Double Diamond blinked. “What?”
“I knew. Me and Sugar Belle… We kinda did our own, less official search a while back. Three months ago or so. I found out. I… I didn’t want us to end, though. I still loved you. So… I just let it slide. I mean, like, we always used condoms, so… it wasn’t a huge deal to me. I was hoping you’d never find out, but then you volunteered to search Starlight’s house, and… I knew then that you’d find out. I kinda panicked today. I thought you’d hate me.”
“No,” Double Diamond said. “No, I don’t… I couldn’t. I… I love you. I still love you.”
“I do too,” Night Glider said.
Double Diamond took a sip of his beer, lowering his eyes. “So what do we do?”
Night Glider sighed. She leaned against Double Diamond, her body still warm, quaking just a bit as she sipped at her liquor. There was a warmth in the air now, something laying thick against Double Diamond’s skin, his own body starting to shake against hers as an uneasy arm found itself wrapped around her shoulders. She was as scared as he was. A weight lifted from Double Diamond’s shoulders.
“I still want this,” Night Glider whispered. “I want to spend every night in your arms. I… I want your foals. I want to just… I want to love you like I’ve been doing, and I want to love you like you’re my brother, all at once. Sugar Belle understands. My guess is that Party Favor would, too.”
“He does,” Double Diamond whispered, squeezing Night Glider around her shoulders.
“S-So let’s… let’s be together. As siblings. As lovers. Is that okay with you?”
Double Diamond squeezed her tightly, his stomach doing twists and turns, filled with butterflies. “More than okay.”
“Okay,” Night Glider whispered.
They looked into each other’s eyes. Double Diamond saw a love he didn’t deserve shining in them. But now, that didn’t matter, because he knew, from her expression, that that same love was radiating from his. A love not meant to be shared between two siblings, but a love that was being shared nonetheless. Something deeper than a lust for one another’s bodies, something darker and more intoxicating than the funkiest rum or the most decadent perfume.
Her arms wrapped around him, her head rested against his shoulder, and they squeezed each other tightly, hoping their hearts would become one.
He still loved her. She still loved him. The night was still young. They kissed, and everything fell away after that.
“I think I’m starting to remember,” Night Glider said.
Double Diamond sipped on his third Rock Farmer. His winter clothes laid in a absentminded pile on the floor in front of the fire, drying out before the hearth, and now he was hardly any better dressed than Night Glider was. His T-shirt bore the logo of some band from Canterlot, and his boxers were well-worn from years of snowboarding. They were his lucky boxers, after all. Night Glider had reminded him of that much. “Yeah?”
“Yeah,” Night Glider said. “When I saw that you were my brother, everything started to click. There’s one memory I had when I was really little. When we were really little. We were playing house, you were the husband, I was the wife, and you kissed me.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah,” Night Glider said, clinging to him. Her glass of gin was long empty, laying on the floor. “But like, we were little, so you were really sloppy. It was like kissing a dog. It was really funny! Mom didn’t think so, though.”
“What happened to her?” Double Diamond asked, taking another sip of his beer.
“I don’t know.”
“Think she’d be mad at us for what we’re doing now?”
“I think she’d never talk to us again,” Night Glider said, giggling a bit. “Prolly would remove us from her will or something.”
Double Diamond sighed, leaning his head against hers. “Maybe she thinks we’re dead, y’know?”
“Maybe she’s dead. Who knows?”
“Yeah, like, who knows?” Double Diamond said, sighing sadly. “I don’t hope that she is, though. I don’t want us to be the only family we’ve got.”
“Maybe we’ll remember later,” Night Glider said.
There was a moment of silence. The radio had been turned off a while ago, and all that was left was the sound of the crackling fire. Night Glider’s body felt so warm against Double Diamond that he was sure she was going to leave burns. Her wings fluttered absentmindedly against her back, and she nuzzled into his chest.
“I can’t believe you still love me,” Double Diamond whispered.
“Why wouldn’t I? You’re my big brother. I’m supposed to love you.”
“You make it sound, like, a little messed up when you say it like that,” Double Diamond said.
“It is,” Night Glider whispered. “But love’s messed up. And as long as I have you, I’m okay with it being that way.”
Double Diamond sighed, rolling his free shoulder around. “Mh, me too. Wanna head to bed soon, lil’ sis?”
“Oh Goddess,” Night Glider said, blushing a bit. “I love it when you call me that.”
“Do you?”
“Yeah,” Night Glider says. “It sounds… right. And the way you say it, it’s like… it’s like you could get me to do anything just by calling me that.”
“Oh, yeah?”
“Yeah.”
Double Diamond sighed, patting Night Glider on the shoulder. “I’m still not used to this. I mean, like, it’ll probably get easier, but…”
“Don’t worry,” Night Glider whispered. “It will.”
“Yeah,” Double Diamond said. “You head there first. I’ll finish off this bottle and see you in a sec, ‘kay?”
“‘Kay…”
She kissed him on the cheek, got up, and left him behind. Double Diamond’s mind was reeling. The fire of their relationship burned brighter than ever before. He felt like he was high on so many things at once he couldn’t begin to count them. His breath was short in his chest, and his eyes rose to the ceiling, the light of the fire dancing upon the beams above. The bottle was warm in his hands, but the cool, crisp liquid inside felt less relevant than ever.
This had turned out better than he could have ever hoped. He wondered what the mornings beyond would bring. Would there be anger? Hatred? Jealousy? Would there be love from his neighbors and support from his friends? Equestria was a big place, and Our Town was made up of people from many of its regions.
Then his mind turned back to what she had said earlier. I want your foals. His little sister wanted to breed with him. What sort of foals would they have, as brother and sister? Goddesses, what had he gotten himself into? With a sigh, he took a last draught of his IPA, and left the bottle on the floor. They’d pick up after themselves later. For now, he needed some rest. He needed to be close to her in bed, to maybe get some more much-needed answers, to perhaps awaken new memories.
When he turned around towards the bed, his eyes widened.
Night Glider’s clothes laid in a pile at the foot of the bed. She leaned against it, totally naked, a wry smile on her face and a hand on her hip. What a sight she was, her dark blue coat a shadow in the dim light of the fire, a sparkle in her eyes that he couldn’t place, her silver mane shining bright like a bag of diamonds.
“Wanna play house, big brother?”
Double Diamond’s lips moved, but no words could escape his throat. All he could do was nod, slowly, something stirring below the belt, stepping towards her with just a touch of trepidation, his body almost assuredly on autopilot. His hands found her hips, and squeezed them just a bit, their muzzles mere inches from each other, their bodies shaking from the anticipation.
“Glidey…”
“Mh, yeah?”
“You said earlier you want my foals?”
Night Glider grinned. “How are you supposed to be a good husband if you won’t have foals with your wife?”
“Fuck me,” Double Diamond muttered. “You’ve been, like, waiting for this, haven’t you? F-For me to find out? You’re into this, aren’t you?”
“And if I am?”
Night Glider pecked his lips. Goddess, she was divine. It felt like a dream, but Double Diamond knew better than to doubt his senses, even now.
“Then I guess we’ll nix the condom tonight, then.”
“Mh, Goddess, I’m looking forward to it.”
They kissed again. An electric feeling filled Double Diamond from head to hoof. It sent a shudder through his spine, their lips refusing to seperate, his hands beginning to wander, hers doing the same. He was kissing his sister. He was kissing his sister. He liked kissing his sister. Her lips tasted divine, a touch of juniper from the gin she had earlier assaulting his senses, making him think of the slopes of faraway Caneighda, where the mountains smelled of evergreen trees.
His tongue slid into her mouth, wrapped around hers, and he felt himself pushing into her, pressing against her, trying his best to feel as much of her as possible. They separated for just a moment, his shirt coming off in a flash, his lithe body now pressed against hers, his boxers strained against what she had wrought within him.
When they separated again, he attempted to go in once more, but Night Glider put a hand over his mouth, pushing him away just a touch.
She giggled airily, letting go of his muzzle. “You still kiss like a dog, babe. And your mouth tastes like beer.”
Double Diamond took a shaky breath, giving Glider a small smile. “Well… There’s better ways I could use my tongue.”
“Oh?”
“Oh, yeah,” Double Diamond said. “I’m supposed to be trying to be a good husband, aren’t I?”
Night Glider laughed, giving Double Diamond a tight hug, her head against his chest, listening to his heart beat. “Yeah, I guess you are, huh?”
“Lay down,” Double Diamond said softly. He nipped at her ear, making her squeak, gently guiding her down onto the bed, his hands steady on her hips as he knelt upon the floor. Night Glider wrapped her legs around his shoulders, hold him close to her, her cunt already glistening in the light of the fire, her breathing slow, trying to keep her composure.
Double Diamond leaned in close, panting softly over her skin, and he could see how his heated breath sent shivers through his sister’s spine. He ran his tongue up her thigh, teasing her, tasting the vague hint of sweat, feeling her legs shake with the excitement of the moment, seeing her belly rise and fall with every gasp for air.
“G-Goddess,” she whispered. Double Diamond grinned up at her, and gazed upon her pussy. What a beautiful thing it was. Slightly puffy, a tuft of longer hair above it, open just a touch, her little clitoris quivering between her folds. It was a kissable, suckable sort of thing, and as Double Diamond’s snout approached it, he smelled the vague waft of pineapple, a little bit of sticky sweetness that told of her taste.
Double Diamond wanted so, so desperately to dig in, but he also knew that Night Glider enjoyed it whenever he played with his food. And so, his tongue explored around her folds, around her thighs, against her ass, across her taint. She huffed, taking him by the hair, gently tugging on it.
“C’mon,” she muttered. “S-Stop fucking around…”
Double Diamond chuckled. “Aww, does my little sister want her big brother’s fat tongue?”
“Shut uuup…”
Double Diamond raised a hand, teasing the tip of his middle finger against Night Glider’s folds, making her sigh softly, her legs tightening their grip around him just so. “You so do, don’t you? Maybe, like a couple of fingers? Maybe both? Aren’t you desperate. I bet if I - “
Night Glider’s yanked him against her cunt, her legs holding him in place as his lips still moved against her pussy. His mouth was filled with her almost sickly sweet taste, a touch of barley in there as well, like some sort of weird, tropical cider.
“I said sh-shut up.” Night Glider groaned, pushed her cunny up against Double Diamond’s mouth, her grip on his mane relaxing as the balance of power between the two of them shifted once more, and Double Diamond obeyed his little sister’s demands. His tongue dove from his mouth, exploring within her folds, her eyes fluttering shut and her wings fluttering outwards, her head leaning back against the wall as he rolled his tongue within her silky-soft folds. Goddess, she was delicious. Every lick sent a shiver down his spine, made his shaft twitch within his boxers, made his lips feel numb.
He wasn’t holding himself back. She didn’t seem to want him to, anyhow. His form was sloppy, his tongue exploring as much of her cunt as he possibly could, his eyes closing as she quivered and clenched and gasped and moaned, his upper lip connecting with her clit once or twice and making her jump. She was so beautiful like this. She could push him off whenever she wanted to, but she didn’t, she wanted him to take control, wanted him to take her closer and closer to the edge.
As she writhed and rolled around, as her legs held him in place against her, Double Diamond opened his eyes, and looked up into hers. She was so cute when her mouth hung open like that. She was so tantalizing when her breathing was so fast. She was perfect for him. Their blood didn’t matter. The only thing that did at that moment was how far he could push her, how much she was willing to take.
“Ngh, f-fuck, babe,” Night Glider sighed, gripping Double Diamond’s hair.
Double Diamond pulled his mouth away, a touch reluctantly, kissing at Night Glider’s inner folds. “You wanna cum now? Or around my dick?”
“Y-Your dick,” Night Glider said softly, rolling her head back against the bed, releasing Double Diamond’s silvery locks, leaving them ruffled upon his scalp. “Your r-raw dick. I w-wanna have my big brother’s foals so bad. P-Please…”
Double Diamond chuckled, standing up, pushing down and kicking away his boxers, his turgid length finally springing free. Whatever hesitation he had before was swept away in the excitement of the moment. He was going to breed the mare he loved. He was going to breed his sister.
As his length slid against her mons, as he felt the scratch of her pubic fluff against its heated underside, as his hips made contact with hers and his cock laid against her belly, Double Diamond couldn’t help but feel every nerve in his body go on high alert, and every neuron in his mind shut down, dedicating themselves to a single purpose.
Still, a few managed to speak out. “I’m… I’m gonna breed ya tonight, lil’ sis. If you got any doubts… Better stop me now, before I get started.”
Double Diamond felt a hand on his cheek. His eyes met Night Glider’s, and he saw the love inside them once more, felt it radiate through his entire body as he subtly ground against her, his coat standing on end from the excitement of it all.
“J-Just fuck me already,” Night Glider whispered, her thumb against Double Diamond’s lips. “B-But go slow, okay? Let me feel it…”
Double Diamond could do little else but nod. He had made it to the summit. Now it was time to take the plunge. He pulled back his hips, lined himself up, took a deep breath, and slowly, but surely, he took the plunge inside of her.
He’d never had it raw before. It was such an experience. Feeling her folds right up against his cock was sensational. So velvety smooth, so wonderfully wet, clinging tightly to him, slowly letting him drive deeper and deeper. Her pussy kept a tight grip around him, but it never stopped him outright, only slowing him, keeping him from taking it too fast, too soon, giving him enough room to experiment with.
Double Diamond gathered his sister up in his arms, holding her tightly, his balls hanging low, his breathing labored in his chest. She clung to his back, her own breathing in rhythm with his, their bodies now in the tempo of lovemaking.
“I love you, big brother,” she whispered.
“Love you too, lil’ sis,” he said back.
They kissed as he bottomed out into her, his sack slapping softly against her taint. He stayed there a moment, getting used to the sensation, her muffled moan from between his lips a sure sign of her appreciation. It was the sexual equivalent of a great scotch whiskey. Raw, earthy, and stout, yet smooth, sensual, a work of all five of the senses.
His hands gripped into her soft rear for leverage as he pulled back just enough to thrust back in. He could taste the remnants of that gin on her lips, and there was still a hint of her cunt’s flavor in there, too. Every little thrust, every roll of his hips, every tepid kiss brought a moan, a grunt, a squeak. He broke their kiss, and found himself muzzle-deep in her mane, taking a deep whiff of her lavender shampoo.
And good Goddess, what a sight there was to see beneath him. His sister, his beautiful, glorious sister, the woman that he had dedicated himself to. Dark blue coat shining softly with sweat. Silvery mane with hairs out of place. Eyes half-lidded, sometimes squeezing shut. Legs quivering, arms behind her head, perky tits bouncing subtly with every motion between them.
No words could describe how beautiful she was. No turn of phrase could ever encapsulate how much Double Diamond loved her in that moment.
He wanted to do this with her forever. He wanted to spend the rest of his life fucking his sister. He gripped her tightly, and started truly thrusting in earnest, the air filled with the percussive slapping sounds of hips hitting hips. This wasn’t lovemaking anymore. This was mating. This was breeding. This was a pair of animals bringing each other closer and closer to climax. She was so silky soft, so soaking wet, dribbling all over his shaft, all over the bed, onto the very floor.
He pressed his snout into her neck. She clung to his head, raising her hips in the air into each powerful thrust, moaning loudly into his ear. “G-Goddess, big brother, I… I!”
“Me too,” he growled, his balls starting to twitch, his tail hiked up high, his head feeling lighter than air, his body quaking with the effort of holding himself back from exploding right there.
Not yet. Not until she was done. His thrusts slowed to a crawl as he felt her cunny clench tightly, as he heard her groan, as he felt the jet of her squirt against the base of his length, and it was then that Double Diamond knew that it was time to let loose.
He had never came this hard before. It was like lightning up his spine, a rush through his entire body that left every single muscle frozen stiff in time. Splash after voluminous splash of his fertile seed spewed almost directly into Night Glider’s womb, dribbling out between the tight seal of their union, making an even greater mess of the floor beneath them. He gripped her close, vowing silently to never let go, every single twitch of his dribbling length sending another shiver through his whole body.
He laid upon her, panting, breathless, gasping for air, squeezing her around her middle. The air was filled with the musky scent of sex. They kissed again, and again, and again, their bodies feeling lighter than air, their heads feeling in the clouds. And even as his shaft softened and fell from Glider’s tight sex, Double Diamond still felt the heady glow of post-coitus fill his entire body.
Double Diamond placed a hand on Night Glider’s cheek. Their eyes connected once more. He felt a greater connection to her now, with his seed swimming inside of her and all the promises that entailed. It wasn’t that being brother and sister didn’t matter. If anything, it made it even better. It made them closer, it made their bond stronger, built into their very blood.
“Holy shit,” he whispered. “We… We really did it.”
“Mh, yeah…”
Double Diamond ran his hand down his little sister’s belly. “Like, we really fuckin’ did it. You… You’re gonna have my baby.”
“Heh. Y-Yeah…”
Double Diamond blinked, glancing at Night Glider’s face. She was still smiling, but she seemed… scared, somehow. He thought back to earlier that night, when he had the same fears he not doubted were running through her head that exact moment. He leaned down and kissed her once more, felt her soft lips pressed against his, felt her press back for just a moment before pulling away.
“I love you, Glider,” Double Diamond said. “I love you, and I won’t let anybody that that from me. You’re the best girlfriend I could have ever asked for, and the best sister I could have ever dreamed of. Nobody can take that from us. And if they try, we’ll, yknow, stop them, no matter what we gotta do. Okay?”
Night Glider swallowed, placing her hand over his. “Okay.”
Double Diamond smiled down at her. “Hey, don’t worry. I make a pretty good husband, right?”
Night Glider laughed softly, and gave him a grin. “Yeah, absolutely.”
They embraced, the lull of deep sleep calling to the both of them, their tired, aching bodies shivering a bit in the lukewarm room. The fire had died down a touch, a glowing pile of embers, and though it did its best, it was hardly warm enough to fill the entire abode. The rest was covered by the love between the brother and sister within it. They slipped beneath the covers and held each other tight, falling asleep to the sound of each other’s breathing, the rhythm of each other’s heartbeat.
Our Town was cold. Uniquely cold. But in at least one house that winter’s night, there was an impossible warmth, and a glorious comfort. And for Double Diamond, that was the absolute best thing he could have asked for.