Showing you the darker, more realistic side of MLP in my writing. Smoking, swearing and being a bastard, but that's nothing new with me. Got a cigarette?
Spike has never really felt as loved by his family as most creatures were his age growing up, but even he knows just how much his mother loves him. And knows she'll do whatever it takes to protect him, even if he's not her flesh and blood.
Princess Celestia slowly bonds with other mothers with some persistence from her friend, Twilight Velvet and lowers her guard enough to actually enjoy herself in time. She really should have just stayed in bed.