Once Rainbow and Scootaloo had their little moment, leaving Scootaloo a little confused, we began to head home. Scootaloo had taken a spot on Rainbows back and was quickly falling asleep as we walked through the park. Rainbow and I hadn't spoken at all while we were walking. There is a lot I want to say, but I want to wait till Scootaloo is in bed before I say anything. We make it below her place where she turns to me, twiddling her hooves a bit as she tries to think of what to say.

"Miles, I..."

"Once you get her in bed, come meet me at my place. We need to talk." I say bluntly as I continue down the path towards my place. I walk in and turn on all of the lights to the living room before taking a seat on one of the recliners and wait. After a few minutes of waiting I finally hear her walk in.

"Miles?" She asks as she steps into the living room.

"Take a seat."

"I dunno, I'm actually pretty beat. *fake yawn* I was gonna call it a..."

"NOW." I say firmly, getting her to lower her head and take a seat in the other recliner. I stand up and pace around slowly, trying to think of the most gentle, passive, level headed way to go about this. "Rainbow.... what the fuck?"

"What..."

"Why did I need to lie for you to keep your kid? Why isn't this the first time you've ever been late for picking her up from there? Why was she even there? You have a lot to explain for, and I'm not letting you leave here until I know why you've been fucking up." She takes a few breathes as she tries to hold beck her tears.

"Well... she likes to go there to volunteer her time with the other kids. Help out with TenderSoul and all."

"Alright. What about everything else? Start from the beginning." I say as I take a seat on the couch beside her.

"Miles... I don't like talking about that day... could we.."

"And I don't like being a liar. You better tell me everything right now. Because if you don't convince me right now that you're capable of providing for her right now, I'll take her back there myself." She goes wide eyed as she stares me in the eyes, seeing my resolve.

"*sigh* well... about a year ago, I tried out for the Wonderbolts. They're this group of pegasis that are suppose to be the premiere fliers of Equestria. I was confident that I would get in because of our past. Saving them, doing a Sonic Rain-boom, I thought I had it... that was... until I got there. When I arrived at their training grounds I saw Spitfire do her own version of a Sonic rain-boom. She had contacted me earlier and we hung out for a bit. I thought she wanted to be my friend, but in reality she just wanted to learn how to do that trick. After my routine, she completely shot me down. Saying stuff like how I was unoriginal, too rigid, and... well, you get the idea. After that... I was in a really bad place. Joining the Wonderbolts was my dream, and in a matter of a few words she destroyed it."

"Why didn't you just try out again?"

"I couldn't! It was too humiliating! I still hear crud about how bad the performance was! The worst part is that I actually did really good! but she's the captain, so when she said no, almost everypony joined her." She says as she begins to cry. She tries to hide her face as she wipes the tears away, but I can see the sorrow perfectly.

"What happened next?"

"*sniff* after another drunken exploitation, that I don't even remember, I woke up in the orphanage. Scootaloo had found me in the streets and drug me there by herself. She was really worried about me, she didn't know about my failure and was scared that I gave up. Well from there we started hanging out... and I... well..."

"Then you adopted her."

"Yeah. She still wants to go to the orphanage, help out as much as possible, so it was agreed that I would pick her up from there every day at six.... and... I haven't been the best at that."

"What's been keeping you from getting there on time? Don't tell me you've been over sleeping that much."

"Well... sometimes. I've been... seeing somepony... and we only get to meet at night. So after work I would try to take a nap and... on the really hard days I'd over sleep."

"*inhale/exhale* Rainbow... that's a horrible excuse..."

"I know it is! Don't you think I know that! But... I can't help it. I love him...."

"More then you love Scootaloo?" She sits back and thinks about what I said. I can tell this isn't the first time she's had to think about this. "Look, I'm all for you being with someone and all, but you need to learn to prioritize. If you're going to be the one to take care of Scootaloo, then she needs to be number one in your books. You need to tell this guy that. If he can't handle that, then he needs to go."

"*sniff* OK. Just... don't take Scootaloo from me. She's all I have." She says as she starts to cry a little more. I kneel down beside her and wrap her up in a light hug, getting her to hug me back.

"I won't. But you need to promise me that you'll try harder with Scootaloo."

"I will, I promise." I glance over to see Luna standing at the bottom of the stairs, staring at the two of us. I motion to her to give us a moment, so she motions back that she'll be upstairs. I hold onto Dash a bit longer before I break the hug.

"Alright, go home and think really hard about what I said." I say as I stand up.

"I will. And... thanks Miles, for sticking up for me. I promise that I'll try harder. I'll catch you later Miles, I need to get home."

"See ya." I say as she walks out of my house, wiping her eyes the entire way. I take a deep breath before I turn off the lights and head upstairs, finding Luna laying on my bed. Without saying a word I remove my shirt and lay beside her, getting her to wrap her legs around me.

"Everything OK." She asks quietly as she nuzzles my cheek a bit.

"Yeah. I just had to set Rainbow straight on being a parent." I say as I wrap my arms around her. "She messed up today, but hopefully she'll listen to what I said... I hope so. So... what are you doing here?" I ask as I look over to her.

"It's Nightmare Night. I get the night off to get rested for tomorrow. I wanted to be here for when you had your day of remembrance."

"Right, right. Sorry, just a little scatter brained today." I say as I lay back. She leans over and gives me a kiss on the lips before she gets comfortable against me.

"It's alright. Lets just get some rest, we've got a big day tomorrow." She says as she runs a hoof up and down my chest.

"Yeah, it's your day tomorrow... any warnings you want to throw my way before it happens?"

"Well... technically its my night. But expect ponies dressed up, candy, ponies bowing to me and presenting candy... probably a lot of little pranks here and there."

"Why are they presenting you candy?" I ask as I begin to rub her back.

"It's... just tradition. There's a story to it, but I don't really care for it... Miles, did you go back to Topaz yet?" She asks as she stops rubbing my chest and looks me in the eyes.

"I did."

"And?"

"And... I got what I needed from there."

"So... you're going to the next city then?"

"Yeah... I don't know when, but I'll be going as soon as possible."

"And... if you go... and there's..."

"Don't worry Luna. There's nothing out there that could keep me from my wife." I say as I pull her in for a kiss. She breaks the kiss as she gets on top of me, hovering her lips over mine the entire time.

"One last thing, is Topaz safe yet?" She asks as she starts planting kisses on my lips.

"I think so.... why?" I say between kisses.

"Becuase after we renew our vows... we're going on our honeymoon there." I stop kissing her and stare at her.

"What? No... just... why would we go there for our.... whats a honeymoon?"

"Think of it as a primum somno."

"And why do you want to do that there?"

"Can you think of somewhere Celestia won't be able to find us for three days?" She asks as she starts to undo my pants.

"Uh... the love shack?"

"Miles..." She says as he finally gets my belt off.

"How are you going to get away from Celestia for three days? We barely get away with dates." I ask as she pulls down my pants... oh shit... how did I not notice this happening? She tosses them aside and crawls back up my body, planting kisses along the way.

"Don't worry about that. Regina said that she has a way to help us with that. Now do you want to keep talking about this or not?"

"Oh sweet Barbra...."

Oh... my... god. For the last hour I've been laying in bed... listening to Miles and Luna having sex. At first it was just bed springs and light tapping on the walls with periodic pauses... but then it got louder.... and louder... I need to move back in with Twilight. They finally stopped though, so now I can finally get some sleep...

" AHHH, MILES!" Luna screams out.

"Son of a bitch!" I yell as I get out of bed and walk down stairs, finding Lupus and Hati.... "WHY IS THERE SO MUCH SEX IN THIS HOUSE!" I yell as I storm out of the door and take off, heading towards Twilight's.

With a content sigh I roll over and watch Luna sleep peacefully. Last night was amazing... though I think she mainly did it to convince me to have our... honeymoon, in Topaz Falls. It worked. I begin to brush her hair back with my hand, slowly waking her.

"Morning." I whisper into her ear.

"... five more minutes..." She mumbles as she rolls over. I laugh a bit and get out of bed to take care of business. After a quick shave I walk back into my room and find Luna still sleeping. I get back into bed and wrap my arms around her, getting her to mumble some more.

"Come on, time to get up." I say as I hold tightly onto her.

"Miles... sleep good... sun bad." She says as she pulls the sheets over her face. I think about it for a second before I get an evil idea. I reach over and start to wiggle my finger around her wing joints, making her squirm a bit. After that fails to get her up I decide to move to her flank, rubbing and lightly squeezing it. She wiggles a bit, but keeps under the sheets... hmm.

"I'M AWAKE!" She yells as I begin rubbing her slit, getting her to jump up. "Miles... you're evil." She says as she rolls over.

"Hey, we have time."

"*sigh*... I think I'll just have you go blue for waking me like this." She says as she leans against me, trying to get some more sleep.

"Well, you can stay here if you want, I'm going to take a shower..."

FWOOSH

"... care to join me?" I ask as I stand up. She reaches out to me with her hooves, so I reach over and pick her up.

"As good as that sounds, no. Sorry but I have to head home and wash up over there. I'll be back as quickly as possible."

"Hmm... well, alright. How long do you think it should take?"

"Twenty, thirty minutes. Why?"

"This will give me a chance to run to the store and get some food together. It should only be you, me, Storm and Big Mac... and maybe Twilight and Applejack, but afterwards I want some food for everyone."

CREEEEEEAK

We both look over to see the door slowly open, revealing Celestia standing in the door way. We stare at each other for a second before I drop Luna.

THUD

"OW! Miles!"

"Celestia... uh... this... is exactly what it looks like." I say as I grab a bed sheet and cover myself up.

"MILES! He's just kidding Tia, this is... uh... shoot. Yeah, this is what it...

"BWUAHAHAHAHA!"

Luna and I look to each other as some other voice starts laughing. Celestia then vanishes as a laughing Storm and Twilight walk into the doorway, using each other to hold them up from their laughter.

"That wasn't funny!" Luna says as she takes a few deep breaths. "You two nearly gave me a heart attack."

"I thought it was pretty funny." I say as I nudge Luna.

"No... it wasn't." Luna says flatly.

"No, it wasn't. Storm, that'll be one full set on the run." I say, getting him to stop laughing.

"Really?" He asks.

"No, but that was funny huh?" I say as I pull some clothes out and toss them onto the bed. "It's still a little early for pranks though."

"Well everyone is down stairs, waiting for you two. So we decided to play a little prank on you two for what you did to Storm." Twilight says matter of factly.

"What did I do to Storm?" I ask as I start to pull the underwear on, keeping the sheet over myself.

"Dude.... I heard everything.... these halls echo." Luna and I glance to each as we both go red.

"Well.... damn." I say as I finish putting on some jeans and slip the red shirt on. "Jealous?" I ask as I nudge Luna again, taking her out of her embarrassment trance.

"Right, uh.... who's here then?" Luna asks before Storm could answer.

"Well there's us, the Apple family, Rainbow and Scootaloo, Pinkie and the Cakes, Rarity and Sweetie Bell, and Fluttershy... though I think she counts as part of the Apple family, but whatever."

"That's almost twenty people..." I start to say, but get cut off by Twilight.

"Oh! And Celestia said she wanted to attend it as well..."

"WHAT!" Luna yells as she runs into the closet and goes straight for the Mico platform.

"Smooth Twilight." I say as I walk past her.

"What did I do?"

"I'll tell you, go ahead and greet everypony Miles." Storm says. I nod to him and walk downstairs, finding my home full of activity. The three girls are running around, giggling, as most ponies are walking around, mingling with one another as some eat from large trays on the dinning room table. I'm touched that this many want to experience my culture, I just hope I don't screw up the speech.

"Oh, hello there deary. Thank you for letting us attend." Mrs. Cake says as she and her husband walk up to me.

"Oh its no problem, anyone and everyone is invited to this really. Did you cater?"

"Well we didn't want to show up empty hoofed, and Pinkie insisted that we make enough for everypony." Mr. Cake says.

"It wasn't necessary, but it's appreciated. Thank you." I say as I shake Mr. Cakes hoof. "Where are the little ones?" I ask as I walk over to the table OH SWEET BARBRA PANCAKES! Really really thin pancakes with stuff in the middle.

"Oh they're probably somewhere here, getting into trouble." Mrs. Cake says with a laugh. I take one of the thin pancakes and take a bite...... what the fuck? "Is something wrong Miles? I thought you would like crepes." I force myself to swallow the chunk before I set the plate down.

"I thought I would to... is that hay?"

"No. It's flour. Think of it as a really thin pancake with blueberries in the middle." Mr. Cake explains. "Now, Pound Cake, that's Miles's, leave that alone." I look beneath the seat to see Pound Cake reaching up for my plate. I squat down and hold onto the chair as I get face to face with him.

"Hey! You trying to eat my crepes?" I ask slowly.

"No no naooo." He says as he continues to reach for it. He flaps his wings a bit, getting air born and reaching my plate and running off with it.

"Get back here you!" I say in a silly tone, getting high pitched giggles from him as I chase after him. By the time I finally catch him, he's eaten the entire crepes. I pick him up and begin to tickle his sides, getting even more laughter from him as I carry him back to the Cakes.

"He's a weak one for raspberries." Mrs. Cake says, getting a confused look from me. "Here, I'll show you." I hand him off to her as she lays him on his back and blows on his tummy, getting even more laughs from him as she blows more and more... so that's a raspberry... good to know. I leave them to their antics as I walk over to the living room, finding Granny Smith on the couch.

"You there! Er... millimeter... no... Miles! Come here real quick." Granny says as she waves a hoof at me. I take a seat next to her and wait for what she has to say. "This... day of rememberin, I like it. Kids these days never take the time ta stop an remember those who need rememberin. Its always work this or work that, pbbt. Hog wash. Kids need ta learn about where they've been before they move on ta the future."

"I couldn't agree more Mrs. Smith."

"Call me Granny. Heck, ya may as well be part a the family, with how close you an Big Mac are. The two a yous may as well be brothers." She says as she punches my arm... for an elderly lady, shes got a good punch. "Did I ever tell ya about what happen ta my son, Miles?"

"No... you mean Big Mac's and Applejack's father?"

"Yea. He was a good stallion. Level headed an straight talker. I see 'im every darn day in Big Mac. He an his wife went ta help wit some pioneer ponies heading out ta what would become Plana Del Canon. But on the way there, somethin happened. I was never told the exact details, but I was told where they were buried. Not a darn day doesn't go by that I don't wish I could go back an tell them not ta go, ta stay an watch after their kin. But, we don't git ta go back, now do we?"

"No... we don't. What were their names?"

"Sunny Rind was mah boy an Fuji was his mare... I'm sorry, can ya give me a minute." She says as she starts to wipe her tears away. I nod and get up, leaving her to get situated as i walk towards the kitchen. I never knew their parents were killed... or at least were in an accident. I walk into the kitchen and find all of the little girls and the baby cakes petting the crap out of Lupus and Hati, who both look like they could die from joy. I laugh a bit as I go around them and head into the kitchen, finding Fluttershy working on some carrots in the sink.

"Hey there Fluttershy, who the carrots for?" Before she could answer I felt a light pounding on my leg. I look down to see Angel kicking my leg. He stops and stares at me for a bit before he takes a paw and hits his chest a few times before he points to me. I return the gesture, slowly, before he hops away.

"Well... they were for Angel." Fluttershy says as we watch him bounce away.

"Where did you get that guy anyway? Most of the other rabbits seem... different from him."

"Well... when I moved here from Cloudsdale, my parents wanted to live with me... but then... somethings happened that I'd rather not talk about. Basically they went missing for awhile, but Angels momma helped me find them. When she had her first litter, she let me keep Angel."

"Oh... sorry to hear that... about your parents that is."

"Its alright. I've come to terms with it, I just don't want to dwell to much on it before the remembrance. I know it'll make me cry."

"You know, I usually think of my parents as well." I say as I lean against the counter.

"Really? What about them?" She asks as she sits before me.

"Well, not much, since I never knew them. But I try to think of what they would tell me. Whether I was making the right choices in life. I try to imagine what they were like, what they looked like, usually to no avail, but it helps the hour go by."

"I'm sure they would be proud of you. You did a lot of good things..." She starts to say but stops when horns sound off from out front. I walk to the front and open the door to reveal Celestia, Cadence, Shinning Armor and Luna standing on my front porch.

"Greetings Miles. We are here to honor your tradition. May we come in?" Celestia asks. I step aside and allow them to walk in, the room falling eerily quiet.

"I'm glad you two could make it... though to be honest I wasn't expecting nearly as many people coming." I say as I close the door behind the four guards, two day and two night.

"Twilight said that she would clear it up with you and that it should be fine... we aren't intruding are we?" She asks as she looks around the room, nodding to all of the bowing ponies.

"Of course you aren't. This is for everyone willing to take the time to honor those of the past. Please, make yourself at home. She nods to me and walks in, heading straight for Twilight. Luna pauses by me and motions to the food table, so I follow after her.

"You know what I found out today?" I ask before she could say anything. "I now know what a raspberry is." Her eyes go wide as I pick up a random piece of food and eat it.

"Right.. well, I hope you can keep your mouth shut while you do that, it makes it better." She says as she takes a muffin and takes a bite.

"Yeah yeah yeah, secrets and lies, got it. Follow me, we're going to get started now." I say as I walk towards the living room. "CAN EVERYONE MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE LIVING ROOM, WE'RE ABOUT TO GET STARTED." I yell, getting everyone to make their way towards me. Most bring chairs from the dining room or fill up the couch and recliner.

"Alright, so before I begin they're are some things that I'd like to clear up. This is the Die Memoria. A Terradisian holiday... sort of. Terradisia didn't have any set holidays, but there were those that were celebrated underground, so to speak. Topaz was very open minded in that the entire city celebrated this. Now, we do this to honor the memories of those who passed away, reflect on their lives and see how their lives influenced ours. I ask that you stay silent during the Hour of Reflection. Before that we have the Venerantes Bonum, remember the Good. This is the time where anyone can stand before others and tell a good memory from their past. I'll be the first to go."

"When I was about thirteen, my friend Dolum and I had gotten lost... again. We had a tendency to get lost and it often went the same way. After two hours of wandering around we finally decided to try to earn some money for a bus, so Dolum pulled out some cards and started doing tricks. He was amazing at illusionary magic and could fool almost anyone. Sadly, this day he was caught. This guy chased us through half the city, trying to... I don't even know what he was planning to do, Dolum and I were having too much fun being chased. It became... I don't know, we just never wanted it to end. There was a point where we actually got away, so we went looking for him so he could chase us some more. By the end we ran into Captain Bellum and were escorted home. On the way there Bellum asked what we were up to and I'll never forget what Dolum said. He said 'We were just on the run of our lives, trying to find the reason we run.' he always had those moments of... stupid genius, it was something I loved about him." When I finish up I step aside and let anyone else take a chance to talk. It stays silent for a bit before before Big Mac walks up to the front.

"Well, I remember one season when ah was little me an my pa were shucking corn. Ah was having a little trouble doin it at his speed, so he stopped me an said 'hey, it doesn't matter how quickly ya do em, there's always goin ta be more'. It's somethin I've always tried ta live by." He walks back over to Fluttershy and his family, getting nuzzles from all of them. It goes quiet again before Celestia walks up.

"When I was very young my mother was showing me some magical self defense stances when she suddenly stopped everything. She was going into labor with Luna and needed a doctor. I was scared, not knowing entirely what was going on and ran as fast as I could to get the doctor from the nearby village. She was in labor for two days before I heard the cries of the baby. When I was finally allowed in with her, she said to me to come meet my baby sister. I walked over and asked if I could hold her, which I was allowed, and you know what she did? She threw up in my face. And thus started the greatest sisterhood that I cherish every day." When she finishes up there's a few giggles from all of the children as she walks over to Luna and sits beside her, nudging her a bit as they whisper to one another. I can see one of the day guards wanting to say something so I motion for him to take the floor.

"It's alright." Celestia says, getting him to walk up and take the floor.

"Uh... I'm Day Blazer, and... when I was a foal my grandmother had taught me to make gingersnap cookies. We spent the entire day making cookies, eating them, spitting them back up becuase we set the oven too high... it was kind of our thing. She died last Nightmare Night, so my whole family made gingersnap cookies and purposely burnt them." He steps back behind Celestia and wipes a tear away. Rainbow Dash wastes no time taking the floor, flying up before anyone could blink.

"A few years ago my mother passed away, due to natural causes. Her final wishes were to have her ashes spread over the Lone Mountains, so my dad and I made the trip. The journey there was something I'll never forget. Bandits, deadly sea creatures, Daring Do stuff really. When we got there we had a mountain goat guide us to the top, due to our wings being too tired from flying there. As we stood there, top of the world, he looked down at the urn and said 'Rainbow, your mother always said that you'd do great things, I think this past week we proved her right. You do the honors'. So I took the urn and shook out the ashes, only to get them to blow in the wind and smear all over dad. It was bitter sweet." She walks back over to the recliner she was sharing with Scootaloo and wraps her up in a hug as she sits down. I wait for a bit longer, but no one walks up, so I take the floor.

"Well, if no one wants to take the floor, we'll begin the hour of reflection. This is a straight hour of silence, spent reflecting on those who have passed into the void. I know for the young ones it'll be difficult, but please try to keep silent." I say before I cross my legs and sit on the floor. I pull out my phone and set the timer. One hour... Mom and dad.... Dolum, Auxy, Fidus, Sine, Eximius, Tenera, Inficiunt, so much to remember.

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