“So, your boy likes his ladies with a little somethin’ extra, does he?” Sapphire chuckled as she set a plate down in front of each of them.

“Kinda… it’s mostly just me,” Rainbow shrugged as she relaxed against the sofa, eating the fajitas that Sapphire’s cook had prepared, “His girlfriend’s all woman.”

Spectrum nodded silently, then took one of the fajitas and ate at it slowly. “Mm-hmm.”

“Aw, is somethin’ the matter, sweetie?” Sapphire giggled, reaching over and patting his leg, “Ya seem on edge.”

Jumping slightly, Spectrum shook his head rapidly.

“He’s a fan of yours,” Rainbow chuckled, “He’s just nervous and pretty shy, gets it from his Mom.”

“Aw, we’ll you’re just a cutie,” Sapphire smiled as she patted his leg a second time.

Rainbow pursed her lips as she watched Sapphire Shores, watching the way she sat and how she moved. Something seemed eerily familiar about all of it…

And then it hit her like a train at light speed.

“Hey, Sapphire… you saw us in a vulnerable position, you mind if I ask you something personal?” Rainbow asked.

“Not at all, go ahead,” Sapphire smiled.

“Are you like me?” she asked.

“What’dya mean?” Sapphire asked, raising an eyebrow.

Rainbow patted her shorts, “Are you. Like. Me?”

Sapphire looked surprised, and then sat back and giggled, “How’d ya tell?”

“I’m pretty perceptive,” Rainbow smirked.

Eyes going wide, Spectrum looked from his mother to Sapphire, then back again a few times. He gulped, managing to muster up the courage to speak, “You… You really are… Miss Shores?”

“Mmhmm,” Sapphire nodded, glancing over to him, “You wanna see?”

Rainbow laughed, “Oh c’mon Sapphire, don’t overwhelm the kid. He might have a heart attack.”

“I-I believe it, Miss Shores!” Spectrum blushed, swallowing his latest bite a bit hard, “Um… but… this is… interesting to know…”

“You are just the cutest thing,” Sapphire giggled, sitting back and losing her concealing posture. Rainbow smirked when she saw the bulge subtly poking out from her long skirt.

“So… this was… why you approached us? Because Mom’s just like you?” Spectrum asked softly.

“Actually I was more interested in you, sweetie,” Sapphire giggled.

Rainbow sputtered and hid a giggle behind her hand.

“Now Rainbow, it’s not like that,” Sapphire chided, “...Well it’s not just like that.”

“W-What did you mean?” Spectrum blinked.

“I saw ya walkin’ with your mother before ya started inhalin’ her,” Sapphire explained, taking a sip of her coffee, “Lookin’ at the little things. Like how ya walked, how ya held yourself. Tell me, anythin’ goin’ on in your life right now?”

Eyes going wide, Spectrum looked down at his lap. It was so surreal, for one of his idols to approach him in such a way and ask about this. What to tell her? He didn’t want to be rude, but also wasn’t sure how to even begin explaining this. Biting his lip, he looked all over the room, then at his mother. She in turn chuckled and patted his shoulder in encouragement.

“W-Well, I…” Spectrum murmured, not quite looking at her, “I kind of… well I… I want to be a girl. I-It’s not that I hate being male, it’s not! I just… I feel… like I should be a girl. Like I should’ve been all along. I can’t explain it, it’s just… I’m a girl at heart.”

Sapphire Shores nodded, “Mmhmm. I could tell.”

“From his walk?” Rainbow asked.

“From the hormone pills stuck to his bag,” Sapphire pointed to Spectrum’s bag, where his hormone replacement pills were tucked into one of the netted pockets usually reserved for water bottles, “Though when he started suckin’ you off, that was a pretty big tell.”

“H-How so? ...Guys can suck penises too…” Spectrum squeaked.

“Sweetie, guys don’t crouch on the balls of their feet like that,” Sapphire snickered, “You got a lady’s squat.”

Spectrum blinked, wide-eyed, “I… oh. I never thought of it that way…”

Sapphire giggled and patted his leg a third time, “You’re just the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen.”

Blushing immensely, Spectrum looked down and rubbed his arm, “Thank you…”

Rainbow leaned in toward his ear as Sapphire got up to fetch more coffee, “Dude, she’s totally been flirting with you the whole time.”

“I… huh?” Spectrum blinked, then blushed more, “Oh… I thought she was just being really nice and happened to just think I was cute.”

Rainbow chuckled, “She offered to show you her dick. I know you’re my son, but you can’t be that oblivious.”

“I-I’m not! I just… Oh, no, Mom… I’m really flattered and I don’t want to be rude, but I-I can’t!”

Rainbow sat back and chuckled, “Aw, why not?”

“I think she’s amazing, but… I-I don’t know… And Sunny has no idea… I can’t just go home and say, ‘Hey Sunny, boy I had a good time with Mom! By the way, I slept with Sapphire Shores, hope that’s okay!’... I just can’t. It’s happening too fast…” Spectrum whispered.

“Uh-huh, hang on a second…” Rainbow remarked as she tapped away at her phone.

“What are you doing?” Spectrum asked as he leaned over to the screen to see she’d sent a text to Sunrise.

‘Hey Sun, Spec might have a chance to blow Sapphire Shores. Do you mind?’

“MOM!”

Rainbow smirked, “Hey, worst she can do is say no.”

“Noooo!” Spectrum squealed, reaching for her phone, “Mom, come on! That’s not fair! Don’t I get a say in this?!”

“Of course, what you do is totally up to you,” Rainbow chuckled.

‘CLINK’

Spectrum looked down at Rainbow’s phone.

‘Holy shit, really?!’

Groaning, he grabbed a couch cushion and buried his face into it, “Urgh… I swear I’m adopted…”

“Nah, your mother was like you for quite a while,” Rainbow snickered, “I guess her mother was right, I was a bad influence on her.”

Spectrum peeked over the cushion, “Do you care?”

“Nah,” Rainbow grinned, “I love Naughty Shy.”

Giving a smile, Spectrum giggled, “Me too,” he looked up to see Sapphire coming back into the room and he blushed heavily, “Uh… bye again! I mean! Hello! Hello again! Again hello! ...Oh god…” He buried his face in the cushion again.

“Somethin’ wrong, honey?” Sapphire asked as she sat back down and set a plate of chips on the coffee table.

“He’s just nervous,” Rainbow chuckled, “Just give him a minute.”

“Mmmph…” Spectrum mumbled.

Sapphire chuckled, “I remember the time I met one of my favorite celebs. I was about twice as red as you are, sweetie.”

“...Really?” Spectrum looked over the cushion and lowered it.

Sapphire nodded, “John Tracolta, twenty years ago. Made a complete fool of myself.”

Blinking, Spectrum then gave a grin, “That’s awesome. He’s pretty cool.”

“Oh yeah,” Sapphire giggled, “I had such a crush on him when I was your age.”

“Wow… I guess… even celebrities can get nervous like that,” Spectrum hugged the cushion a little.

“Oh I wasn’t famous back then, sweetie,” Sapphire chuckled, patting his leg.

“You know what I mean…” He muttered, looking away.

Sapphire smiled and ate a handful of chips and turned to Rainbow, “So how’s Rarity doin’? How’s the wife?”

“Rarity’s Rarity! She’s all mommied out, though,” Rainbow laughed, “But she’s doing pretty good. AJ’s still stubborn as a mule, still farming it up, but still great! She took their little munchkin to a rodeo last week.”

“That girl’s gonna grow up ridin’ side-saddle on a bull,” Sapphire laughed.

“That’s what I said,” Rainbow snickered, “AJ joked that her rite of passage is gonna be riding a mechanical bull!”

Sapphire laughed, “Oh that sounds like her. What about those two basket cases you adopted?”

“Asy is Asy, like always! But she’s doing pretty good,” Rainbow chuckled, “She got real excited when Maxy found this big spider! Twilight’s, well, she gets panic attacks and is all wacky, but she’s doing better. Like, way better than before! She sometimes spends a lot of time in the basement with her punching bag! And by that I mean an actual punching bag.”

“That’s all good to hear. And your wife?” Sapphire asked.

“I’d be here all day if I went on about that,” Rainbow winked, but grinned widely, “But she’s doing pretty great. She gets more and more naughty everyday, and it’s awesome!”

“She could actually get naughtier?” Sapphire asked, cocking an eyebrow.

“You’d be surprised…” Spectrum giggled, “Okay, it’s exaggerating, though.”

Rainbow snickered, “I can dream.”

“Honestly, that girl is more like you every day,” Sapphire laughed, “Have you been havin’ that same effect on your son?”

“May-be,” Rainbow winked.

“Kind of… Sunny and I get very active,” Spectrum nodded, “and with my Moms.”

“Anyone who lives with you ends up swallowin’ your dick, don’t they?” Sapphire smirked.

“Except Twilight,” Rainbow laughed, slapping her knee, “She’s all like, ‘Yeah, no. There are only two dicks I suck and yours isn’t one of them.’!”

“Had to be one,” Sapphire snickered, “Well you got one Sparkle at least.”

Rainbow chuckled and winked, “Eeyup.”

“I swear Rainbow, you’re livin’ a live most guys would kill for,” Sapphire chuckled, patting Rainbow’s knee.

“Well, I’m no Adagio Dazzle, but I try,” Rainbow smiled, “And I sure love my crazy family.”

“Doesn’t that club belong to Sunset Shimmer now?” Sapphire asked.

“Yeah, it does,” Rainbow nodded, “She’s doing a great job running the place!”

“I was down there a little while ago. Everyone was quiet and the dancers weren’t on the stage. Somethin’ about an anniversary or somethin’,” Sapphire shrugged.

“Yeah, the anniversary of Adagio’s death,” Rainbow nodded slowly, “That’s always the quietest day.”

“Oh that’s a shame,” Sapphire shrugged, “That cute one with the blue hair must be a total wreck when that comes around, eh?”

“Yeah, Sunset tells me that she just sits in the den all day, all by herself… talking to herself. Well, not to herself, she just talks to Adagio from beyond the grave. Says it makes her feel better,” Rainbow tapped her chin thoughtfully, “I don’t know, I like that idea.”

“Me too,” Spectrum chimed in, having been quietly observing the two.

“Poor thing,” Sapphire sighed, “I heard about her after Dazzle’s obituary was put out. Can’t imagine what it’d be like to lose someone that special.”

Rainbow squirmed slightly, nodding, “I lost my parents when I was kind of young, and it was pretty tough. But boy I know I’m gonna be a wreck if Fluttershy dies before me…” She sniffled and composed herself.

Spectrum hugged the pillow, shaking his head of the thoughts.

“Can you imagine if Princess Twilight lost that adorable wife of her’s?” Sapphire asked, shuddering at the thought.

“Ohhh yeah… I bet she’ll go into some kind of perpetual catatonic state,” Rainbow shuddered.

Sapphire shuddered again, “Alright, no more of that.”

“Rainbow?” Ascentia asked as Rainbow and Spectrum came back through the door of the house, “You two alright, you look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

“Just some… heavy conversation, Auntie ‘Scentia,” Spectrum sighed as he started to fix himself a cup of coffee.

“No worries, it’ll be fine,” Rainbow waved it off.

“Alright,” Ascentia smiled, picking the bottle of Twilight’s anxiety meds from the medicine cabinet.

Spectrum turned back around to catch sight of Ascentia’s face, before jumping back. Ascentia was sporting a shiny, black eye, “Yikes! What happened to you?”

“Hmm?” Ascentia looked at herself in the mirror, “Oh, I walked into a door.”

Rainbow and Spectrum both frowned.

“...No really,” Ascentia laughed, “Twilight was opening the bathroom as I was walking by, and THWACK, right in the kisser!”

“Oh… that happened to me, once,” Spectrum said with a shudder, “Sunny accidentally opened the door and it hit me on the nose.”

“So what’s with the meds?” Rainbow asked, still frowning.

“What do you think?” Ascentia scoffed, “Twilight hit me with a door, and now she’s curled up in the fetal position like she always does.”

“Well, okay then,” Rainbow conceded with a sigh, “Just be more careful.”

Ascentia nodded, leaning in and kissing Rainbow’s cheek, “Alright, I have a neurotic wife to take care of.” She smiled and waved as she retreated back upstairs.

“See ya, Asy!” Rainbow waved after her.

Spectrum watched his aunt ascend the stairs for a minute, before turning back to his coffee, “Hey Mom… you ever think Auntie Twilight’s ever going to get better?”

“Not completely, that kind of thing isn’t even something you can cure,” Rainbow shook her head, “But hey, she’s coming this far, so there’s definitely something to shoot for.”

Spectrum smiled sadly, “...Sunny’s starting to act like Auntie Twilight does…”

“What do you mean?” Rainbow turned around to face him.

“She was saying the other day… about how she wanted to out me in front of everyone after I snapped at her,” Spectrum frowned, “Saying that she just felt like hurting me. That sounds a lot like Auntie Twilight.”

“Oh, boy…” Rainbow sighed, shaking her head and palming her face, “I can’t say I haven’t had thoughts like that in the past. Still, I also wouldn’t worry too much about it,” she placed a hand on his shoulder, “Part of growing up is realizing the consequences of your actions and that some knee-jerk reactions in anger can happen. Did you talk to her about it?”

“Yeah. A little. She’s still been pretty distant, though,” Spectrum sighed.

Hissing a little, she squeezed his shoulder gently, shaking her head, “Guess she’s taking it a little hard, isn’t she?”

Spectrum nodded, “She’s been constantly worried she’s going to start getting… you know…”

“Like her mother?”

Spectrum nodded, “Yeah… she’s kinda got me worried…”

“Where is she right now?” Rainbow ruffled his hair lightly.

“Probably up in her room,” Spectrum shrugged, “She’s been spending more time in there, lately. Only lets Aunt Asy in.”

“Oh,” Rainbow frowned, then hugged him, “Tough break, kiddo. Guess she needs to cool off a little bit.”

“Yeah,” Spectrum sighed, “I know she’s in good hands, though. Aunt Asy knows this kinda stuff.”

“She does,” Rainbow smiled, patting his back, “If anyone can get through to her, Asy can.”

Spectrum leaned in and wrapped his arms around her, “Yeah… Sunny’s gonna be okay…”