Fluttershy awoke and looked at the clock. Twelve twenty seven it said. She smiled a bit at realizing she still had about six hours to sleep. She then rolled over to look at Sandal who was laying beside her and smiled. For being raised in the Midwest; Rarity's parents were surprisingly liberal. After she had told them that she wanted to go on birth control and why; they both agreed and took her to the doctor. It didn't hurt that they also really liked Sandal as well.

She gently kissed him on the cheek and he smiled a bit in his sleep. He was so handsome she thought to herself. I'm soooo lucky. Despite everything I've been through, to have all this; the Geisel's, Sandal, I'm really blessed. She then got out of bed and stretched.

In a flash of light her wings and ears appeared. Fluttershy was perplexed. Sure she "ponied up" when she played music. She also ponied up sometimes when she and Sandal were being intimate, and of course when she was expressing her truest part of herself like during the Friendship Games; but this transformation came right out of no where.

Fluttershy thought for a second and decided it was a lovely night to take a fly. She pondered getting dressed first but then decided that it was both late and dark enough for an au natural flight around town. She carefully opened her window, jumped out, and took flight.

Fluttershy soared high into the air, feeling the cold air whip past her body. It gave her chills which she enjoyed. All sensations now, both good and bad, she loved. They all made her feel alive and present in the moment. She dove then pulled up, rolled and turned, she was alive; here in this moment. Alive and at one with the eternal now.

She then began to feel a strange sensation. It was the electric feeling she felt when she entered the Mystic state. She felt she was being drawn somewhere. She flew to where she thought she was supposed to be. It was a nice house. Upper middle class by the looks. Slowly she lowered herself so she could get a better view. One window seemed to call her more than the others. She flew to it nd looked in. Sitting on his bed, reading, was Zephyr Wind Shy, her older brother.

Fluttershy gasped and wanted to fly off, but this is where she had been called and she knew she had to answer that call. Still; she wished she would have put on some clothes. Slowly and gently she tapped at Zephyr's window.

Zephyr looked around confused. He heard a taping but couldn't place where it was coming from. The taping grew slightly louder and he looked to the window. There he saw what looked to be his little sister, naked, with wings and pony ears. He jumped back on his bed in wide eyed horror. Then he squinted and became curious. Was this really what he was seeing? He slowly got up and walked to his window. Fluttershy waved to him from the other side with an awkward grin on her face.

He opened the window and Fluttershy asked, "May I come in?"

Zephyr blinked and then replied, "You're not a vampire are you?"

"No," Fluttershy answered, almost indignant over being called a vampire.

"Ok. Sure, uh, come in."

Fluttershy grabbed a hold of the window sill and pulled herself in. He wings made it a little tight and she ended up falling on the floor. She looked up with an embarrassed grin and said, "Still getting used to these."

"No doubt," replied Zephyr in a straight deadpan. He reached out his hand and helped Flutter up. "By the way; I hope this was an unplanned visit. I mean you're not really formally dressed."

Flutter laughed nervously. "Yeah, kind of a last minute thing. Hope you don't mind."

"Considering the wings and ears; you being naked is almost pedestrian." Zephyr laughed then said, "Have a seat on the bed." They both walked over to Zephyr's bed and sat down. "So what do I owe the honor of this visit?"

"I really don't know," Flutter responded truthfully. "I hadn't planned on ever seeing you and Dad again after the last time . . ." Fluttershy trailed off thinking of the big argument she had had with her father in Rarity's living room. She had completely cut him, cut them, from her life.

Zephyr looked at Fluttershy with a sad look. "Dad told me what happened. Flutter, I know you have every right to be angry. But Dad has always loved you and cared about you. The choice he made, it's haunted him everyday since the divorce. He's never forgiven himself."

Fluttershy then grew angry. "What about you Zephyr? Where were you? I never heard from you or anything."

Zephyr looked down in abject sadness. "I was raped by a teacher shortly after moving out. I lost all control. I became a drug addict and suicidal. So most of the time I was in the mental hospital or rehab. Still my two main hang outs." He left out a rueful laugh full of self disdain.

Flutter just looked at her brother in horror. She had always supposed that everything had gone well for him since the divorce. She never considered anything like this. "My god Zephyr, I'm so sorry." She reached out and hugged him. Any animosity she felt was gone.

"Born under bad signs you and I." Zephyr sighed. Then he turned to Fluttershy. "You are so much stronger than I am. One incident destroyed me. You, you put up with such sustained abuse, I could've never done that."

"And I couldn't imagine, that ," Fluttershy spat the last word out. The horror of being violated in such a matter, penetrated into your very body, and considering how much love and joy it brought being intimate with Sandal, to lose that because of such a vicious attack, her mind couldn't take it.

"Hey, we all have our limits, our pains. I guess we just get used to them and others seem so much more hurtful," he said trying to smile.

"Or you become cold and hateful," Fluttershy said full of shame.

"It doesn't matter. Not what happened in the past. That's over, we can't change it. The present and the future, that's what matters because we can effect that. At least that's what my therapist told. Could all be bull crap." He then laughed again.

Fluttershy now knew why she had been brought here. She looked up at Zephyr and said, "I'm sorry. I let my own hurt cut me off. I, I may not be able to feel close or even forgive Dad, but that doesn't mean I have the right to hurt him in return. To hurt you in return. I just assumed that you had made it out and were safe, and I was angry and bitter."

"Hey, it happens. If I were you, I would have thought the same thing. I knew you were going through hell. But, I was still angry. Not just at the teacher, but of; like you said, thought I had escaped and then that. Like I said, I guess we were just born under bad signs."

"I think I can change that," Fluttershy said, a plan of action forming in her brain. "I'll come back tomorrow with my friend Rarity. I think, I'm sure we can help."

Zephyr looked at her quizzically. "I don't see how, but ok. Just come dressed ok?"

"Will do," she responded. She then got up and left. As she flew home, she looked at the town bellow and thought about what other hidden pain there might be there, hidden.