"Woohoo! We're gonna see Mommy!" Sunrise cheered happily, squeezing her mother's hand as they entered the hospital.

"Yes sweetheart," Ascentia smiled, swinging Sunrise's hand back and forth, "We're gonna see Mommy."

As she turned the the gate to Twilight's ward, she stopped when she saw Twilight Velvet coming out of the ward, and her heart stopped cold. Hurrying forward, she wheeled Velvet around, glaring at her.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" she demanded.

"I could ask you the same thing," Velvet said coldly.

Ascentia glared at her, "Twilight has a right to see her daughter," she hissed, "I'll ask again. What the fuck are you doing here?"

"I'm her mother," Velvet glared right back, "Of course I am coming to see her."

Ascentia opened her mouth to bite back, but heard a wail come from the ward, a very familiar wail.

"...Oh no..." she let go of Velvet and grabbed Sunrise by the waist, speeding down to Twilight's room. The guard let her in and she found Twilight curled up into a ball on her bed, sobbing openly.

"Twilight..." she set Sunrise down and fell to her knees in front of her bed, "Twilight, what did she do?"

Freezing in place, Twilight whimpered and scooched back a bit, "No... No... don't touch me..."

"Twilight, it's me... Kitten," Ascentia said softly, laying her hands down on the bed, a foot away from her, "You can talk to me... what happened?"

Sniffling, Twilight trembled harder, "She... She... She tried to hit me. She accused me of telling you... and my friends what happened... a-a long time ago... I tried to stop her... But all I heard was that I had to stop hiding from Mommy... I had flashbacks... hiding in the closet... while she was drinking..."

"Shhh," Ascentia said softly, getting up onto the bed and wrapping Twilight up into her arms, "Just... start from the beginning, sweetie..."

"Sparkle! Your mother's here!" the guard called.

Twilight froze, and her head snapped up to the door. Her mother never visited her, and for good reason.

"O-okay..." she said tentatively. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

The guard nodded, before exiting. Moments later, the door opened, with Twilight Velvet coming in.

"H-Hi Mom..."  Twilight stammered, "How are you?"

"Enough with the pleasantries," Velvet snapped, approaching her, "You have some explaining to do, young lady."

"W-What? What did I do?" Twilight stammered, looking both confused and apprehensive.

Velvet came closer, grabbing hold of her wrist, "Don't you dare play innocent with me, you wretch! You know what you did! You told your wife what happened, didn't you?!"

"What happened with what?" Twilight tugged at her wrist, backing into the wall.

"Enough! You know what I'm talking about!" Velvet snapped, grabbing hold of her hair with her other hand, "Why did you tell her what we did when you were little?! Why?! That was supposed to be between us!"

"Mom... you... you molested me..." Twilight whispered, her voice shaking and her already stretched to the breaking point mind groaning in protest, "I... I had to t-tell her..."

Velvet squeezed her hair hard, "How dare you! You were every bit of willing at the time! You just played hard to get! I was nothing but a good mother to you and this is how you repay me?! I cannot believe you have the nerve to say such things! And now your wife knows! How could you?!"

"H-hard to get? I was f-five! I'm your daughter!" Twilight gasped, tears brimming in her eyes as she started to get the first inklings of flashbacks she hadn't had since she'd told Ascentia.

"No excuses!" Velvet half-yelled, "You still told her! And thanks to you, now I will never be allowed to see my granddaughter! If this gets out, it will tear our family apart! Which will be your fault! If you had just been the good girl you were supposed to be, none of this would have happened!"

"IF YOU'RE SO WORRIED ABOUT YOUR REPUTATION, WHY DID YOU DO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?!" Twilight screamed, to which Velvet belted her across the cheek.

"Don't you dare talk back to me!" Velvet snarled, squeezing her wrist hard, "All you had to do was be a good girl... to be the prodigy child of our family! But instead you get yourself locked up after being an abusive wife beater! How could you, Twilight?! You have tarnished the Sparkle family name and I will not tolerate it!"

"N-Not tolerate it? What are you going to do?" Twilight shook as her knees quivered and threatened to buckle out from under her, tears streaming down her face.

Slapping her again, Velvet let go of her, "I will see to it that you are to remain in here until your dying day! Don't you dare blame me for all that has happened to you, Twilight Sparkle! This is all your fault! All of it! You're nothing but a worthless monster! And you used to be so full of promise, so prepared for the bright figure. But look at you now. You've become nothing but a worthless parasite."

"YOU MOLESTED ME!" Twilight screamed, curling her knees up to her chest, "I WAS YOUR DAUGHTER AND YOU VIOLATED ME!" she buried her face into her knees and bawled.

"You think I am a child molester?! Hardly! It was to build your character, to expose you to the wonders of sex...!" Velvet yelled, "You dare call it molesting?!"

"YES! I WAS FIVE! YOU WERE MY MOTHER!" Twilight shrieked, "I DIDN'T NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX THAT YOUNG!"

"ENOUGH!!" Velvet screamed, "What did I tell you about talking back to me?!"

"YOU RAPED ME!" Twilight screamed at the top of her voice, "YOU'RE A PEDOPHILE! YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOCKED UP IN HERE! NOT ME AND NOT RAINBOW!"

"You and that prismatic menace should be locked in here for LIFE!" Velvet grabbed her wrists, pinning her against the wall roughly.

Twilight spat in Velvet's face, "GET OUT! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!"

Velvet glared and slapped her again, "Don't you dare talk to your mother that way! All of this was your own fault!"

"YOU AREN'T MY MOTHER ANYMORE!" Twilight sobbed, trying to wriggle out of Velvet's grip.

At this, Velvet threw Twilight onto her bed, and pinned her down on her stomach. She straddled her, holding her down.

"You are a disgrace. A disgrace!" Velvet snarled, "Princess Celestia should be ashamed of you!"

"Mom... Mom, get off me! I'm starting to get flashbacks..." Twilight sobbed, pushing at Velvet's midsection.

"You are in no position to give me orders! You were stripped of your Princess title! I'm still your mother and you are going to pay for disobeying me!" Velvet smacked her backside roughly.

"Ah! No Mom, please don't! Just leave! Stop!" Twilight begged.

"Enough! You have to stop hiding from Mommy!"

Twilight screamed for help, but outside the security guard patted the satchel of bits in his pocket and activated the cell's soundproofing.

By now, Twilight lunged at Ascentia, crying brokenheartedly and with fear. She couldn't go on anymore, but told her enough to know what was going on.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry!" Twilight wailed, shaking, "She was right... even with what she did, I still made the choices I did to hurt you! I deserved all of this, but I'm sorry! This was all my fault...!"

Ascentia was absolutely livid. Velvet had crossed the final line. Stroking Twilight's hair, she beckoned Sunrise over.

"Sunny, sweetheart, I need you to stay here with Mommy," she said softly, but her voice quivered in anger, "I want you to stay here and protect Mommy, okay?"

Sunrise was confused as to why her mother was crying, but otherwise nodded, "Okay, Mama... I'll keep Mommy safe."

She climbed onto the bed, bringing her arms around Twilight. Giving a sniffle, Twilight hugged her back, holding her tight.

Ascentia didn't so much get up as leapt up, tearing out the cell door and down the hall and out into the parking lot in time to see Twilight Velvet's car pull out and into the highway. Wrenching open her car door, she threw herself into the driver's seat and took off after her.

Tearing down the highway, she caught up with Velvet's car after ten kilometers. Gunning the engine, she pulled into the lane beside her and wrenched both the handbrake and the wheel, spinning her car around so the back end slammed into Velvet's hood and drive them both off onto the side of the road. Getting out of her car, she stormed over to Velvet's car, seething as she planted her hands on the window.

"Open this door!" she shouted, "NOW!"

Despite being shaken up, Velvet glared at her, "YOU! You stay away from me!"

"OPEN THIS FUCKING DOOR!" Ascentia screamed, slamming her fist against the window.

"NEVER!!" Velvet screeched, locking the doors.

Ascentia drew her gun and shot the windows out, reaching in and unlatching the door, swinging it open and dragging Velvet out onto the road, driving her foot into her stomach.

"You... bitch..." she growled. "You fucking little bitch! I outta kill you for what you did to her!"

"Go ahead! Kill me! Put yourself in jail, or in the hospital with her!" Velvet growled, "What sweet justice! You have done nothing but ruin her life since the moment she met you! She was such a good girl until you came along!"

Ascentia lowered her gun and stepped back for a minute, leaning against her dented fender, "...You know what? You're right. I did ruin her life. I coddled her for years instead of getting her the help she needed. But before that? She was happy as she could ever be. I heard about the way she gushed about me to the lot of you, and how she always looked forward to seeing me. Frankly, after what you did to her, I'm surprised she ever wanted to have sex with me at all. But she loved me. She loved me so much, and all you did was try and poison that."

Ascentia stood back up.

"You know what? I think I will kill you," she spat.

Velvet let out a nasty snarl, "Oh, do you really have the guts? Killing your own mother-in-law? I took you as many things, Ascentia Kortai. But never a cold-blooded murderer. Well, go right ahead. End my life. Endanger my granddaughter further. Dig yourself into Hell."

Ascentia lifted her gun and shot Velvet in the shoulder, "It's Ascentia Sparkle."

"GAAAHH!!" Velvet screeched, holding her shoulder, cringing hard and groaning, "You wretch!"

Ascentia shot her in the leg, "What's the matter? I thought you wanted me to shoot you?" she taunted.

"ENOUGH!" Velvet yelled out in pain, "ENOUGH! Fine! I surrender! Just stop!"

Ascentia sunk down next to her on one knee, jutting the barrel underneath her chin, "What surrender? I thought you told me to go ahead?"

"Just stop...! Stop!" Velvet pleaded, shaking.

"Oh, and by the way. I was mistaken earlier," Ascentia sneered, "It's Princess Ascentia Sparkle."

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