“Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, we’re home. Ah hope ya haven’t had any troubles while we were gone.”

“Nah, Mama, we’re fine. We’re playing carts and carriages, wanna play?” Scootaloo called from the livingroom to the left as Applejack and Rainbow Dash entered the home. “We cooked some, well, warmed some apple cobblers and I know you’re Mom’s Fritter, so Apple Bloom made you one.”

The fillies snickered and giggled as the toys began to squeak again as they played.

“Alright, little mares. Yer Mom and me need ta rest up and relax, scoot over so we can get to the couch.”

“Sis, yer hair’s really messy and why’s yer hat all smushed?”

“We got into a tussle with a tumbleweed,” Applejack said as Rainbow snickered into her hoof and flew past her and lay on the couch with a groan of pleasure that lasted almost too long.

“So, how was the party?”

“Well, A.B., it was somethin’ we’ll never ferget,” Applejack said flatly as she passed the fillies and crawled onto the couch, laying her head on Rainbow’s belly.

“Whew, what’s that smell?” Scootaloo asked waving a hoof in front of her snout, “it’s like sweat and something I can’t ex...plain,” she stammered as she sniffed one last time and recognized the sweet, unique scent of a mare’s tail coated in post orgasm fluids.

“Uh, Apple Bloom, would ya mind if we played in my room? I think mom’s need a shower after they relax.”

The mared shot the filly a confused look as the fillies got up, collected their toys, and left the room.

“We’re alone now, so Ah gotta ask, AJ. Why’d you decide to go at it with Quill? I mean, I can’t explain how awesome it was, and quick, but then we were all over each other and… I don’t know, it was great but,” she hesitated.

“Sugarcube, Ah can hear the baby. It’s movin’.” Applejack whispered.

“I know, Ah can feel it,” Rainbow said as she looked to Applejack’s smiling face.

“Sugar, Ah love ya and ya don’t have ta worry. Ah’m here for ya no matter what, and let’s just be here and now. Don’t be like Twilight and Sun, just in it fer the sex.”

Rainbow lay her head down and sighed contently. “I know I love you… but I wanna do something. Ah dunno what. It’s just been boring the past year. Only one monster’s come outta the Everfree, work’s been lame, and I’m getting fat from not doing stunts,” she raspberried, “ugh, I’m just gonna be a fat blob of feathers and fur before this baby shows up.”

“Hehehe. Rainbow, ya don’t hafta worry. When my, my mama was ready ta have Apple Bloom she didn’t get too big a’tall. She only had ta push a few times and I had a new sister.”

“Ugh, don’t remind me about that stuff. Ah already know that when I have her the unicorn’s gonna have to teleport it outta me. Then there’s teaching it to walk and feeding it, washing it, all that stuff.”

Applejack raised her head and looked at the semi-depressed pegasus. “Sugarplum… you do know how foals are born, right? They aren’t magicked out.”

“Yeah, right. That’s what my mom said,” she sighed.

“Uh, I don’t think you know what happens, do you?”

“UGH! We go into the doctor’s office. He casts a spell and the baby’s there. Then we go home. How complicated is that?”

Applejack’s jaw hung open in dumbfounded silence before she finally blinked and spoke again. “Rainbow,” she said softly, “Ah’ve gotta be the one ta tell you how it really works, don’t I?”

“What are you talking about? We got magicked into me ruining my body and that’s how it ends.”

“Sugarcube, sit up, Ah can’t believe I need to have this talk with you,” Applejack said as she sat tall and waited for Rainbow to force herself over, making over exaggerated motions about her small increase in size. “Good enough. Now, what we do is go to the hospital and…”

“...and that’s when the doctor’ll start tellin’ ya to push, when that happens…”

“and then the baby’s out, cleaned up, given some medicine, and then they start pushin’ on yer belly to…”

“And then before ya know it, three weeks’ll pass and we can start makin’ love again. And that’s how mares have babies.”

Rainbow had paled a while before the story was done. She felt cold and uncertain about the world she knew. How could anything so tiny be so much trouble, and that was just coming out. “Guh, bwuh, puh… The thing comes outta my thing and,” Rainbow began to tremble as Applejack moved to hug her.

“It’s okay, Rainbow. Ah’ll be there the whole time.”

Rainbow’s mind wasn’t on the mare holding her, comforting her. The mare with the freckles she fell in love with and the heart that kept her full of love. It was the entire experience she was going to go through and what was going to happen to her body, her career, her dreams and the mare who she believed was at fault for it all.

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