Author's Notes:

Contains: incest, kissing, vaginal, cream-pie, cum entering womb, impregnation?, lingering results of moderate cum inflation

There we are. Clop with story gets a chance to exercise the Drama tag. And I apparently need to add an extra chapter, due to how things have played out. I didn't want to make this chapter ridiculously long, so I'll do the next part, what was originally the second half of this, as it's own chapter. Depending on how I feel when I get there, I might even add an 8th chapter. Overall, that's the limit though. The story plan just doesn't have any substance past that.

Will they eventually find a way? You'll just have to wait to find out.

The sound of chirping birds somewhere outside combined pleasantly with the warm glow of the morning sun filtering in through the windows. It offered an almost uncomfortably pristine perfection that seemed so at odds with the demands of reality that were soon to be faced by two unexpected lovers.

Slowly, it brought those two unfortunate ponies reluctantly back to the waking world, the day begun anew, and their one chance to indulge now passed. They felt no rush to break the spell of contentment by opening their eyes right away, knowing it was going to bring necessary heartache as they were forced to accept the situation they were in. And the walking away from things that had to happen.

Shining Armor held his sister close with a faint smile on his face, relishing the comforting warmth of her body so close to his, both on the outside from being curled around her, and the snug embrace of her marehood where his shaft still lay buried within her. He could feel occasional faint twitches from her inner muscles and the tempo of her pulse wrapped around him there. It was a soothing counterpoint beside the familiar scent of her mane in his nose, and coupled with the steady rise and fall of her breath as it came and went. If not for the knowledge of why they could never have a moment like this again, it truly would have been a perfect morning, spent with the mare he loved after they had made love for hours uncounted the day before. He still felt sated and relaxed, entirely content to hold her in his half-awake daze, deciding he could wait a bit longer for her to wake.

Twilight Sparkle relished how wonderful it felt to have her brother spooning her as she slowly woke up, a faint smile on her face as she let the feeling of him wrapped around her back fill her with warmth from the outside, while the pleasant feeling of him still inside her as he had been all night made her feel warm from within. There was something so uniquely intimate with the way he held a hoof over her distended belly, which still looked like she was ready to give birth. All of it was coupled with the occasional shift of his length inside, alongside the feel of his heartbeat both inside her and against her back. She let every tiny detail of his presence, around her and within her, sink firmly into her mind, hoping she could hold onto this moment forever. The morning was so pure in her perception, surrounded and filled with the love he gave her over the course of hours upon hours of lovemaking. She still felt entirely sated, taking delight in the realization that her estrus had indeed ended early because of everything he put inside her, putting the various possibilities out of her mind for now. She could wait till he woke up before she moved, savoring the vague, delightful feeling of floating, with only his forelegs keeping her safely snuggled against him.

The rest of the day was going to be hard to get through, they both knew. It would be much harder if the contraceptive spells had failed and he had actually gotten her pregnant, but such things wouldn’t be changed by knowing immediately or not. At least in that moment, it was uncertain enough it could be set aside, and the best parts of their intimate connection could be relished just a little longer.

And when they were honest with themselves, each held the tiny, secret wish that all the love they had shared the day before would leave a permanent memento, regardless of all the problems it would put them through. It was knowing what it would bring with it that kept either from making any move to make it a certainty. Reason and sense won out over that desire, the temptation simply acknowledged and put away, but not denying that it was there.

Eventually, Shining had to stretch and arched his back with a yawn. His spine popped as his shaft pulled halfway out of her, then merely slid right back in as he returned to hold her close as he had been. The feeling of her inner walls rippling from the new stimulation told him she was still incredibly sensitive. After a moment of thought, he found himself hoping they could make love together one last time before they separated for good. Considering what was in her belly, it certainly wasn’t going to make any real difference in that regard. A way to share a fond farewell to what they’d had a chance to share, if nothing else.

Twilight felt her marehood quivering for several seconds after her brother stretched and gave her insides a stroke of his shaft before relaxing against her again. A lazy yawn found it’s way out of her as she decided to have a stretch of her own, though she knew what she was doing as she arched her back until it popped like his had, grinding herself down on his stiff length and making sure he stayed just a little deeper inside her when she went still again. Feeling him shift so he could press in just a little further still as he gave her a tender squeeze made her smile broaden.

Once she had taken one last moment to savor waking up with him in such a way, a resigned sigh finally escaped, a tension growing in her chest as she spoke softly. “Alright, Shiny. H-hold me tight. I’m going to check the contraceptive spells now. Time to find out if you really did put a foal inside me or not…”

She felt his forelegs pull her in more firmly as she folded her own over his and across her swollen belly that suggested what their future might hold, then began to channel her magic. There were multiple spells to check, and she needed to go one by one. Somehow, she managed to keep a detached, clinical approach until she finished, with a specialized detection spell to finish off her efforts. As her emotions took hold at how the spells had performed, she was at a loss of quite how to feel about what she found.

There was a rather pregnant pause, then Twilight felt her eyes begin tear up, her checks complete and emotions running through several contrasts at once. She felt herself run through surprise, relief, joy, disbelief, and more, with each hitting her with such weight she could hardly breathe. Small shudders ran across her form as she managed to say it out loud for her brother. “I-I… It’s both, Shiny…”

Shining wasn’t quite sure what he was expecting, or truly hoping for, but it certainly wasn’t the answer she gave him. “What? How can it be both, Twily? Isn’t you being pregnant or not kinda an either-or thing?”

A hoof rubbed over his foreleg laying across her belly, feeling a strange giddiness as a rather odd, choked giggle escaped. “It’s because three of the contraceptive spells are perfectly fine. Only two in the set failed…”

“Uh, doesn’t that mean you’re not pregnant then?” Shining furrowed his brow as he started to worry about his sister a little, hearing her let out another strange giggle as she started grinding herself down on his cock.

“Mmm…” Twilight was wearing a wide, almost manic smile as she started to move her marehood over his shaft, in and out with slow strokes, breathing a bit faster as she relished the idea of what she discovered and needing to feel him pulsing inside her again. “The spells for, ah~… For protecting my womb are fine. The three of them, oh~, keep egg cells away with a micro-repulsion field, a highly specialized shield, and a method to, nnf, restrict a fertilized egg cell still managing to achieve direct contact from implanting in my uterus. Each of which has around an approximately 0.1 percent chance of failure…”

Unable to resist her motions in his confusion, Shining began thrusting into her with the same deliberate slowness she started, drawing out a pleasured gasp from her as he pressed in deep as he could reach, each time also had his tip pressing against her cervix like it had so many times the night before, when he sent each and every bit of his cum straight into her womb. “S-so why did you say both…?”

“B-because, ah, because the two that failed were to prevent ovulation, and a field by my ovaries to put a micro-shield around any egg cell that did get released. Mmm~! T-then I did a detection spell...” Twilight panted as she used her magic to pull her brother up and over her body, making sure his cock never slipped out on the way, while she remained on her side. She wanted to look him in the eye, giving him an intense look of lust and love as he thrust himself inside her.

Bracing himself above her, Shining made constant deep thrusts, anxiousness growing in his chest even as he worked on getting another orgasm out of her. It was all without conscious thought by this point, his attention hanging on her next words as he hunched over her.

“You did it~!” Twilight exclaimed with a gasp, feeling her tunnel spasming eagerly around his invading shaft, electric tingles shooting up her spine each time he hilted himself and knocked on her inner gates. “My poor, defenseless egg cell was floating around in all the sperm you put inside me. The detection spell revealed it was fertilized successfully! You ended my estrus, Shiny! Oh Celestia~! My own brother proved his virility as a stallion by getting me pregnant! Ah~! My BBBFF really did put his foal inside me! Nyaha~!”

For his part, Shining barely managed to keep thrusting on autopilot at first, trying to process what she had just said. Twilight had just told him major life changing words. His mind went mostly blank as the words ‘I got Twily pregnant…’ kept repeating in his head. It mixed together with everything else as deeper instincts grew.

The mare beneath him, his own sister, had his foal inside her. His thrusts grew stronger as his arousal swiftly spiked, feeling the growing urge to leave his mark in her again so other stallions knew she belonged to him. His mare. To protect. To breed. His flare swelled as he gave her a wild, intense look of raw instinctive lust. His.

“Breed me again, Shiny!” Twilight cried out when she felt him getting close. With a mix of magic and hooves, she pulled his head close and crushed her lips against his, her tongue doing everything it could to taste all of him.

The way she yanked him forward also forced Shining’s cock firmly up against her cervix again, the suddenness setting them both off. He held himself as deep inside her as possible as his climax took hold, his forceful blasts of cum crashing against her inner gates. The width of Shining’s flare, combined with her tightly clenching depths, prevented anything from escaping around him, with the pressure building with each pulse of his shaft.

Between the volume of his release in the small space and her spasms, her brother’s semen began slipping through her cervix even without a spell to open her most intimate path for him. Twilight’s climax seemed to double in intensity, strong shudders making her shake as she felt the heat of it sliding even deeper, making it’s way into her womb with every uterine contraction her orgasming body made. Her body locked up around him as her mind melted under the dual beat of his strong warm pulses, and her own body allowing the heat of his gift further inside.

Twilight’s horn glowed almost without a thought, a small application of telekinesis at her cervix held it open just a little, her eyes rolling back in her head with a loud moan as the bulk of Shining’s release began flowing through the small gap she’d made. Oh stars, how can that feel so good… I think I’ve developed a fetish for feeling ejaculate passing through my cervix, or is it only when it comes from my big brother?

As their shared peak wound down, Shining panted as he broke the kiss and looked at the closed eyes and rather satisfied smile on his sister, her tongue lolling from the side of her mouth as she caught her breath. A painful ball of emotions began to grow in his chest.

Visions passed before his eyes as he saw himself shielding Twilight from misplaced anger walking down a random street, them being labeled as degenerates by ponies that wouldn’t care that it was because of a complete accident, of losing his officer’s commission and being forced out of the Guard. Numerous dark possibilities flashed through his mind. He struggled with himself, desperately trying to find a reason or way to take the blame so his sister and their foal could possibly get out of most of the problems they’d have. He didn’t care if she got mad at him for it, he’d bear it and still give her a smile. Yet try as he might, he just couldn’t see how either of them could be blamed because of how it happened. Not that it would matter if they were found out.

Even if they’d somehow known that the other was going to The Blind Date Company, never in a million years would he have thought they’d end up meeting each other. As far as he could remember of how they ran their service, Blind Date wouldn’t even be capable of telling they were related.

“Twily,” Shining started as he looked her in the eye, voice strained but certain as he continued, “I’ll do whatever I need to for you. I’ll take as much blame as I can and help raise our foal. Depending on how it plays out, I might have to leave the Guard to make it work, but you and our foal come first. I…”

Twilight held her hoof to her brother’s lips to silence him, giving him a confused and somewhat amused look. “Um, Shiny? Why are you talking like I’m fully pregnant?”

Shining blinked, staring at her and struggling to understand what she just said. “But you… You said you’re pregnant? My sperm got to your egg and you detected it was fertilized. How can you say I didn't get you pregnant all of a sudden?”

She gave him a sated grin and bopped him on the side of the head with a hoof. “Simple biology, you dummy. I said you fertilized my egg, and I am technically pregnant right now, but it hasn’t implanted in my uterine wall yet. With the contraceptive spells for preventing exactly that still working as intended, it isn’t going to happen. So yes, you successfully inseminated me like a healthy stallion and did your part of making a foal in me, but I won’t be carrying to term or anything. It’d be a different story if I hadn’t gotten the spells, or if they had all failed, since those only work preemptively. Nature would’ve been left to take it’s course otherwise.”

He just blinked at her, still confused. “So… All that yelling about me getting you pregnant was…?”

Licking her lips, she brazenly squeezed her marehood around his slowly softening length. “It turned me on so hard when I discovered you succeeded. My BBBFF squirting his proven fertile sperm inside me? I suddenly needed more of you inside me at that moment. My estrus might have ended because of the apparently successful fertilization, but knowing just how certain it was, that I was all but guaranteed to get pregnant without protection…” Twilight gave her brother a half-lidded smile. “There’s no way for me to be sure or prove it, but I suspect you managed to impregnate me with the very first, deliciously heavy, oh so large load of clearly very virile semen that you sent into my womb. You aren’t going to have any problems making foals with a mare in the future, when we’re ready for one.”

There was a pause between them as they both felt Shining’s half-hard length give a twitch within her from hearing her talk about him climaxing inside her so eagerly, before what she said clicked for both of them. Emotions flashed across their eyes before Twilight turned her head to the side and broke eye contact.

Twilight’s voice sounded a little distant. “A-actual implantation in the uterine wall takes longer than we’ve been engaging in penetrative vaginal sex. Both of us reached full orgasm multiple times, with all ejaculate successfully passed through my cervix and kept contained in the most optimal location for maximizing the probability of fertilization. The contraceptive spells protecting my uterus mean there is only a statistically miniscule chance of implantation. I… I’m only pregnant until the presently viable zygote flushes out as I evacuate all the accumulated semen currently held in my uterus. My estrus is also likely to return as the pregnancy hormones exit my system. I’ll probably return to a highly aroused and fully receptive state. Even if I start using reducers again. R-rather than pursuing m-my stallion, for a s-second… insemination…”

Shining clenched his jaw as his mouth formed a tight line, immediately figuring out why his sister was attempting to use more technical terms, and her not quite managing it. She’d always done it when she didn’t want to admit that something tough and unpleasant was not going to change. He remembered how she’d done something similar when she killed her pet goldfish many years ago as a filly, a miscast spell to let her clean the fishbowl easier that did something to the water. The memory was a simple accident she’d taken really hard at the time, and with his heart aching, Shining also knew what she would do next.

Seeing her eyes close as they welled up with tears was all it took before he laid gently over her side, both of them still in the same position after their bout of lovemaking. As much as he could, he wrapped her up in his forelegs and just held her.

Some of her resistance finally gave way, and Twilight started shaking from small sobs as she was held by her brother. A moment later, her face was buried against his neck and her available foreleg was squeezing his. He didn’t say a word, just letting her deal with it as she needed while her tears soaked into his fur and quiet cries met his ears.

Minutes passed before she just had the occasional sniffle, nuzzling against his neck a little before she turned his head and met him for a brief but loving kiss, her tone resigned. “A week, Shiny. A-after we part ways for a week, let’s meet here and see where we’re at. I don’t think either of us is going to be capable of completely rational thought right now, and some distance will hopefully give us a chance to sort through things so we can talk.”

Brushing her cheek with a fetlock as he wiped away some of her remaining tears, Shining could only stare into her eyes for a long moment before finding his voice. “If… If that’s what you need, we’ll do it, Twily.”

Twilight caught his lips for another kiss, holding it a little longer than before, then met his eyes again. “I really don’t know what I need right now. There’s a part of me that wants to tell you to move in with me. And I mean today. I know you don’t have the option of having anypony move into the officer’s barracks with you. A-another part…” She paused, swallowing as she trembled at what she was about to admit. “Another part wants to…” A slow, calming breath was needed before she could say it. “Shiny, part of me wants your permission to drop the contraceptive spells and keep what you gave me right where it is. To let the product of our love grow, even as I plan out making sure you keep me with foal. To try to put a new one inside me the very moment estrus or a spell makes me receptive again, and to make you keep sending more of your semen into my womb until we have some kind of test saying I’ve gotten pregnant with the next one. I…” She coughed lightly, a troubled expression on her face. “Like I said, I don’t believe I can think very rationally right now. I love you, and in my current state of mind, I just keep thinking about ways to show it.”

Shining blinked as he stared at her. For several seconds, the idea of putting foal after foal inside his sister was all that ran through his mind. He had to shake his head to clear it and cleared his throat, though he was long past feeling embarrassed about his shaft slowly starting to swell back up inside her again. “Ok, I can see what you mean.” He paused, realizing something. “Uh… I’m still inside in you and only just realized how much I’ve been avoiding pulling away.” Glancing at the clock beside her bed, he grimaced. “And I’ve got about an hour and a half to get back to the castle and return to duty.”

When a particular thought came to mind, Twilight pulled his head in close after a brief pause to look into his eyes, then met his lips in a deeply loving kiss. This time she held it, humming for a moment at the feel of her big brother’s presence in every way he was there with her, inside and out. The kiss was unrushed, no tongue involved as their lips moved together, and every ounce of passion in it was somehow entirely without lust. She poured every little bit of how much she loved him, all the different ways that now included, into just one kiss as her closed eyes filled with bittersweet tears. She kissed her stallion with all she had before they had to let go.

As he felt his sister’s lips meet his, there was a moment he thought she was going to try and encourage him for one last quick round. Then he felt the subtle yet stark difference. Shining pressed forward and moved his lips with hers in equal measure, able to feel how much she was pouring into this, and he simply let it wash him away in the torrent of emotion. All he could do was match it with his own, pouring everything he felt for Twilight into that one intimate touch. A tightness in his chest and a tingle in his own closed eyes were noted as he was swept away by the love he had gained for this mare. Since it could be their last chance for a true kiss, he gave it all he had.

When the moment felt ready, they pulled away and locked eyes again.

“I love you.”

The words came out almost of their own accord as they spoke in unison, knowing that was the ending moment for their time together.

Shining slowly pulled away, his shaft slipping out of her as both shivered. He was on his hooves by the bed soon after when Twilight spoke up.

“You should just use my shower to save time. I’d join you, but…” Twilight gave a resigned sigh. “If I did, I’m pretty sure we’d end up starting something again. I’ll just relax here until you head out.”

Despite the growing ache that he knew wasn’t going away any time soon, Shining gave her a small smile and keeping his words short, denying everything on the tip of his tongue. “Thanks. I won’t take long.”

Twilight watched her brother exit the room, then laid her head back on her pillow as she felt tears pricking at her eyes, but this time refusing to let them fall. It was the way it had to be, and she wasn’t going to even try convincing herself otherwise.

As she lay there in thought, absently listening to the sound of the running shower in a small daze of temptation, Twilight wondered about Blind Date and the circumstances that led her to the situation she and her brother were in. Different points of note began to list themselves in her mind as she turned an eye to where she’d put the information packet she’d assembled when deciding on using Blind Date or not. It levitated over to her swiftly, the various papers already assembling themselves mid-air into a suitable formation for perusal. She was just re-checking it for peace of mind, really.

Taking note of various things, she reminded herself that The Blind Date Company used a fully double-blind anonymity system. They didn’t know who their own clients were, not even a name or anything else. Just a magically-traced identification number so clients could have their needs kept consistent. The identifier didn’t even carry between their other locations in one city to the next, so there was no one place for anypony to track any one client, if it was even possible at all. Medical screenings were only taking note of relevant health, so there was little to identify anypony from that either.

It all came back to the clear and simple fact that her choosing her brother’s profile for his compatability with her, the same with him choosing hers in turn, and the two of them starting to meet for sexual exploration and conversations that led up to today, was just a matter of pure blind chance.

When she was as satisfied as she was going to get in her review, Twilight returned the information packet to its place again, rolling onto her back as her hooves absently stroked her swollen belly. He hadn’t even left yet, and Twilight already missed Shining terribly. All the fantasies she’d had about the mysterious stallion she’d fallen in love with before the blindfolds had come off had since changed to Shining.

Rubbing the belly that looked so much like she was ready to bear a foal was like a direct heartbreak right in her face. She’d most loved the idea of marrying her stallion and having a couple foals with him in a few years. He’d tell her how beautiful she looked while heavily pregnant, especially when she had some random silly moment of feeling fat and ugly like many pregnant mares seemed to have. A few loving words would be said, and he’d make gentle love to her until she felt perfectly content again. She knew without a doubt that her BBBFF would do that for her in a heartbeat, given the chance. And how much she’d love him for it. What society thinks of my being with my brother intimately aside, is it really that unfortunate that fell in love with a stallion I already thought the world of and know so well? Aside from us being related, he really is what I always dreamed of.

Another resigned sigh escaped her lips as she moved back to her side. With the water having stopped a couple minutes ago, she knew her brother would be leaving soon, and she’d have to get in the shower herself for the day’s lesson with Princess Celestia coming up as well.

Shining finished his quick and basic grooming regimen, a standard spell getting his mane and tail dry in under a minute as he brushed them out. Part of him really missed Twilight’s scent on him already. Or the soft warm of her body as he held her close.

His emotions were mostly under lock and key now, set aside for him to deal with when he had the chance to sit and think on his own. His time in the Guard gave him the resilience necessary to endure challenging circumstances, though he never imagined it would come into play like this. Shining didn’t tell his sister just how badly he wanted to damn the consequences to Tartarus and not stop making love to her until a whole second day had passed. It was rather difficult to keep himself from giving into the desire.

He hoped taking a week would help him clear his head. He needed it as much as Twilight did. There were enough difficult questions before we even discovered what happened. It was confusing enough before, but how the heck do I talk to Cadence now? How long can I even avoid doing so when she always manages to get me to talk every single time, once she decides to? And how can loving Twily so much, to have made love to her so much, still feel so right?

For a moment as he left the bathroom and walked towards her bedroom door again, Shining could think of nothing else other than going straight to the bed and apologizing for leaving, to give her another climax in apology and forget everything else.

As he stepped through the doorway to her bedroom again, it was suppressed once more.

Shining stopped a couple paces into the room, seeing his sister reclining on her side as he’d left her. His heart beat a little faster at seeing her disheveled mane and tail, the rumpled sheets pushed to the end of the bed, the spots of her coat that lay in unusual directions. From his position being more in line with the end than the side of the bed, he also saw her exposed haunch, her plot, and her very well-used, still swollen marehood that had a small bit of his semen by the entrance of the very depths he now knew so directly. Coupled with her swollen belly and the curious little smile on her face, it was very hard to hold back his erection from returning.

With well-practiced control, he spoke calmly, even as he worried he would break if she wanted him give her a goodbye hug. “I guess I’ll see you in a week, Twily. I assume you want to talk over dinner or something, so in the evening? On Saturday?”

Twilight let herself relish the delight at looking at him after just a small separation, a content little smile on her lips. The sound of his voice rolled through her, making her shiver just a little. She realized if he crossed the room and so much as touched her, she’d pull him back into the bed and have him filling her with his semen again soon after.

“I’ve got plenty of time that evening, so yes, drop by for dinner on Saturday next week.” The smile faded as she spoke, becoming a sad expression. “We… We already had a very wonderful goodbye kiss, so you should probably just head out. And…”

Twilight paused, a question on the tip of her tongue. For a moment, she thought better of it, but slipped out when the desire grew too much, her voice turning both nervous and sultry at the same time. “Shining, do you still think I’m beautiful, even when I’m all swollen like this?”

Shining had a moment where his breath caught, her comment changing how he was looking at her. A half-vision lay before him just then. His very pregnant mare was seeking reassurance he still desired her, even with her body so laden by their foal within. A hoof lifted from the floor to walk forward before he caught himself again, unable to hide the want in his eyes as he stared at the beauty of his pregnant sister. He’d heard the invitation in her voice as much as he’d caught onto her worry. It took all his willpower not to go right to the bed and make love to her for hours as he showed her how desirable he thought she was.

Keeping himself still took more than he could spare to also keep his eyes and voice in check, giving her an openly hungry look as he spoke in a heated growl. “Twily, if this were any other situation, you would have just committed yourself to at least a few hours of me physically showing you just how beautiful you look like this. As it is, I can barely keep myself in check from doing exactly that right now.”

A warm blush spread to her cheeks as Twilight smiled, suddenly feeling inexplicably bashful. Her eyes closed as she turned her head, needing a moment to gather her self-control again. She nearly let the words ‘then come and show me, stallion’ escape her lips in direct invitation. The way he looked at her, and that tone in his voice, told her he would’ve more than fulfilled that dream. It made her love him just that much more.

Finally, she took a deep breath as her eyes began to mist, her gaze turning back to him as a pained smile took over. “A-alright, Shiny. You better go before one of us breaks. I-I’ll see you on Saturday.”

Shining took a slow breath and nodded, jaw clenching as his mouth pressed into a tight line before he could speak, his tone now a mirror of sad resignation. “I’ll see you on Saturday, Twily. We’ll get through this, once we have some time to accept and deal with it.”

He wanted to say so much more, but worried he wouldn’t be able to stop trying to postpone his departure for just one more thing.

With one last pause to stare into her eyes from across the room that he dare not remain in a moment longer, Shining turned and let his military training march him out the door, collect the bag he’d brought, and head out to the street and away from her with a set jaw and steel in his eyes.

On the surface, he was every bit the picture of a marching guardspony heading towards the castle. Inside, he had to resist a powerful urge to scream in anguish.

Back in the room, Twilight shakily got to her hooves after she heard the front door open and close. She just went through the motions as she got in the shower to get herself ready for the rest of her day.

There was a moment as she got ready to release the spell keeping all of her brother’s gifted essence inside her where she contemplated the crazy idea of letting it pool in the tub. There was easily enough where she could literally bathe in her brother’s semen, to coat herself so completely that every last bit of her mane, tail, and coat would be drenched in it, marking every last part of her body, inside and out, as his alone. She’d wear his scent for several days if she did. And for a moment, she let herself imagine it before she released the spell, knowing she didn’t have the time to indulge that desire and be properly presentable for the Princess, her brother’s scent on her or not.

As the water streamed down over her body, and her brother’s gift began to escape, belly slowly shrinking, Twilight found she couldn’t stop herself as the tears started. She didn’t fight it at all, the water steadily washing away everything but the memories of his presence, slowly getting herself clean while she cried. She’d make herself stop when she was done, but that was in a few minutes.

They were both completely aware that all the love they’d shared was a beautiful experience that could never be replaced.

And now it had to be left as no more than a memory.