"Uh, Peter?" Twilight asked as the taller teen walked over to her "What happened to your head?"

"Remember that door I had an altercation with?" he asked with a solemn look on his face.

"Yeah..." she nodded, not sure where he was going with this.

"He had an older brother" Peter answered, his attention being attracted by his phone vibrating in his pocket.

He took the device out of his pocket and looked at the message, it being Felicia taking a nude selfie in the mirror with her back turned to him and her tongue stuck out.

"Wow... she did not wait long at all" Peter said with an impressed look.

"What?" Twilight asked "What is it?"

"Nothing, just that Aunt May text me saying she was going to wait in line at the music store to get that new album she was on about a few days ago and that she didn't care how long it took" Peter lied "That was five minutes ago and she's just texted me back saying she'd gotten bored and decided to buy it on iTunes"

"Well... that didn't take long, did it?" Twilight asked, believing his lie.

"Nope, she didn't get to fifty-two by standing around waiting for it" Peter shrugged, replying to the text with a thumbs up emoji before locking his phone and putting it back in his pocket.

"So, what did I miss?" Peter asked, looking past Twilight to see what was going on.

"Nothing really" Twilight shrugged "They're just now talking about basic signs of mutation that can be recognized at an early age"

"Sounds interesting" Peter said, following Twilight as she began to walk down the corridor "What've they covered so far?"

"Well, so far they've gone over all of the powers of the current X-Men which was an interesting thing to listen to and now Professor Xavier is just talking to a few of the reporters to keep them interested" Twilight said, going through the doors and back into the conference room which had emptied considerably since Peter had left but, strangely, the first thing he noticed was Cadance lying sprawled on a couch near the back of the room against her husband's side with a pained look on her face.

"What's up with Cadance?" Peter asked Twilight, the young girl putting her hands on her hips and chuckling to herself.

"Just go over and ask her about it" she answered, still grinning "I'm gonna be talking to Rogue and Kitty for a while longer"

"Alright, have fun" Peter said, the two of them parting ways and Peter walking over to Cadance.

As he approached the multi-colour-haired Princess she looked up at him with a glossy stare, as if she wasn't registering the world around her.

"What happened to you?" Peter asked.

"The buffet table..." she answered weakly, resting her head on Shining's chest "Too... many... cheese bites"

"She ended up gorging herself on way too much food" Shining answered for her, looking down at his wife with a judgemental expression "Didn't you?"

"...Yes" she said in an ashamed manner.

"And now how do you feel?" Shining asked.

"Pregnant" she responded.

"And for about three weeks now you've been telling me that you're putting on weight, fifteen pounds too heavy and that you're gonna go on a diet and eat healthily" Shining said, rubbing his wife's sore stomach "And now you've just eaten your body weight in sausage rolls, cheetos and chocolate cookies"

"Help me" she whimpered, placing a hand on her husband's face and beginning to stroke it, Shining looking at Peter with an annoyed look in his eyes.

"I can break your neck if you want, end your suffering right now" Shining said.

"Does it hurt?" Cadance asked.

"Not much really, you just places one arm around the throat, firmly grab the under side of the chin and-" Shining said, performing each move as he said before rapidly twisting Cadance's head at an awkward angle, a loud crack echoing from her neck as she froze in place.

"... Never do that again" she said as her husband released her, rubbing her soft neck with her hands and swallowing loudly "That was horrendous"

"I know, I had one of the guys do it to me in training and the fucker actually displaced one of my vertebrae" Shining said "And that was a load of fun to put back into place"

"Was it really that painful?" Cadance asked.

"Have you seen the Dark Knight Rises?" he asked "The scene where Bruce gets his vertebrae in his spine pushed back into place?"

"That bad huh?" Peter asked.

"It was actually the worst pain I've ever felt" Shining said, rubbing his chin with the back of his hand as the memory came back to him.

"But you took it like a champ right?" Cadance asked, hugging her husband closely and nuzzling his chest before speaking in a cutesy-wootsy voice "My big, strong husband isn't gonna let a little agony keep him down right?"

"Actually, I just remember lying on the floor crying for about twenty minutes" Shining said with a chuckle "Then there was the time I got my arm dislocated in riot training, the time my Achilles tendon snapped during an assault course and the time I broke my nose by being a fucking moron and trying to one-hand a shotgun"

"Christ, I remember that" Cadance said "I was really pissed with you for it back then but I think we can look back and laugh at it now, right?"

"Yeah, you can" Shining sighed "I still have one nostril that's larger than the other from where the bone didn't heal properly"

Cadance prodded her husband on the bridge of his nose, making a 'honk' sound before he gently swatted her hand away.

"I thought you were supposed to be sick?" Shining asked.

"I am" Cadance said, snuggling into her husband's sides and closing her eyes.

"Cadance, you cannot go to sleep here" Shining said, shaking her shoulders only to have her groan in protest "This is a public conference that you can't go to sleep in"

"Then carry me into the lobby and book me a room" Cadance said, looking up at her husband with bright puppy dog eyes.

"But... isn't it like fifty grand a night to say here?" Peter asked.

"What's fifty grand again?" Cadance asked, sitting up and yawning with a stretch "I was never taught less than a million because I'd never have to deal with them"

"Wow... Cadance, I didn't think you had it in you to go into 'rich white bitch' mode that fast" Peter said, giving her a round of applause.

"Thanks, it's one of my many talents" Cadance said, sitting up and running her fingers through her hair "Now come on honey, I wanna go to sleep"

"... Fine" Shining said, standing up and straightening out his shirt.

"Shining?"

"Cadance?"

"Carry me"

"Cadance?"

"Shining?"

"I love you..."

"But?"

"Get off your fat ass and walk"

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