Chapter 18

“WHAT?” Sunset shouted, her face contorted with confusion and disbelief of the revelation she'd just received. “YOU GUYS DID WHAT?...IN THE HOT TUB?...WITH RARITY?...LIKE, ARE YOU SERIOUSLY FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?”

My girlfriend and I nodded quietly, sitting at the table, looking like a couple of kids in the Principal’s office.

After a short pause, Sunset managed to calm herself a bit and she rubbed her eyes with the heels of her hands. “I don’t even know you guys anymore,” she muttered before locking her eyes on me, staring with pure intensity.

“Whoa,” I said, raising my index finger. “You actually don’t really know me. Besides, the whole thing was her idea.” I pointed toward Fluttershy with my thumb.

Sunset shifted her eyes to the pink-haired girl with a look of shock on her face, making Fluttershy look down and blush.

I felt bad right away for throwing her under the bus. “Sorry,” I said to her.

Fluttershy brought her face up to look at me. “No, it’s OK. It was my idea. I set it all up.”

Sunset tipped her head back and looked at the ceiling, folding her arms. “Wow, Flutters. Of all people, you’re the last one I expected to get into something like that,” she said, looking at Fluttershy again with her brows furrowed. “How in Tartarus did you talk Rarity into it, anyway? She’s always been so prim and proper; and yet, you talked her into a threesome with you two?”

I cut in. “Flutters was amazing; she knew exactly what she was doing, and we all had a great time, thanks to her." I smiled at my girlfriend, who had a shimmer of pride sparkling in her eyes.

Sunset’s eyebrows rose, clearly surprised by the seemingly demure girl’s tenacity, but then she shook the thought from her head, bringing herself back to the situation we now found ourselves in. “Wait wait; let’s get back on track,” Sunset ordered, and with a shake of her head and a wave of her hand, she took a seat at the chair two spots down from Fluttershy. “OK; so...you guys fucked Rarity, and now you think she might have gotten Golds' immortality too?”

I chuckled at the absurdity of the sentence. ”There’s something you don’t hear everyday.”

“Is this funny?” Sunset looked at me, annoyed.

“No,” I answered quickly. “Well, actually…yeah, kind of. It's just…the way you said it was funny.”

Sunset glared at me for a moment, then shook her head and drew in a deep breath for the next question; making it apparent that she was quite comfortable having to bring it up. “So I take it that means you…you know," -- she waved her hand in a circle as her eyes went to the ceiling, trying to find an easy way of phrasing it -- "in Rarity?” she finally asked, biting her lip awkwardly.

"Blew my load in her? Yes," I said plainly, with a nod. “Flutters made me do it. She wanted to watch.”

Sunset looked at Fluttershy again, eyes wide; evidently she was learning a lot about her shy friend that day...although she had serious doubts that there was much arm-twisting involved in getting me to go along with it.

Fluttershy shrugged timidly. “T-technically, Rarity did it, not Goldie. She was on top, and she rode him until he...um-”

Sunset grimaced, looking away with her hand raised, signalling Fluttershy to stop. “Alright, I get it...I don’t need the details, guys,” she said, sighing as she slowly turned back to look at me first, then Fluttershy. “So, what? Like, you guys haven't heard of using protection?”

I shook my head, shrugging. “Why would we? Nothing like this has ever happened before. How was I supposed to know this magic that you guys have would cause this to happen? As far as I was concerned, I’ve basically just been sterile all this time since my shit never worked on anyone.”

Sunset rubbed her chin for a moment, considering my response. “OK, fine. I guess you have a point there.”

“Shouldn’t we tell her?” Fluttershy finally spoke up. “I mean, um...what’s done is done, but she deserves to know.”

Sunset and I both looked at Fluttershy for a brief moment, then Sunset nodded in agreement. “Yeah, you’re right, Flutters. We’ve gotta tell her.”

I put my hands up, stopping them before they got ahead of themselves. “Now wait a minute, we don’t even know if anything happened to her yet; we’re just assuming that little theory of yours is correct. We should probably find out if she's actually turned first, before we go and say to her: 'Hey! Guess what? You're not gonna believe this, but: blah blah blah, you're fucking immortal; crazy, eh?'”

“Shit. You’re right,” Sunset replied, tilting her head back and rubbing the kinks out of her neck. “This is SO fucked up,” she muttered to herself. "Last week, we find out that you're indestructible, over two-millennia old and super-strong; and now: this week, you've had sex with not one, but two of us, and spread your power to Fluttershy for sure, possibly Rarity, too."

“You should call her,” I suggested, pointing a finger at Sunset.

She looked at me, surprised, her eyes wide. “What? Why me?”

“I don’t think it should be either of us,” I explained, pointing to myself and my girlfriend. “She might think it’s weird after what happened, and may be reluctant to talk. Just call her like you’re having a chat: ask her about her week; she was falling behind when we saw her that day. See if she says anything that might indicate…you know…”

Sunset sighed, taking out her phone. ”OK fine,” she replied, sounding reluctant to go through with it.

“But don’t ask too much, she might get suspicious,” I instructed. “She’s obviously going to avoid talking about the threesome, so don’t talk like you know too much.”

Sunset nodded again. “OK, got it,” she said. “I’m going to put it on speaker so you guys can hear her too, but you guys need to be quiet, K?”

Fluttershy and I nodded, ready to proceed.

Sunset put her phone on the table top. Using her finger, she scrolled through her contacts until she found Rarity's profile. I could see her finger shaking as she tapped Rarity’s name and the phone icon appeared on the screen with the caption: ‘calling: Rarity.’

Sunset let out a nervous sigh as the sound of the phone ringing filled the room.

It rang quite a few times. We were starting to think she might not answer, and Sunset had begun to look relieved when we heard a clicking sound, followed by Rarity’s voice over the speaker.

“Sunset Shimmer, darling! How are you?” Rarity greeted.

It caught Sunset off-guard a bit after expecting no answer, and she had to force herself to reply quickly. “Uh…hey, Rare! I’m good, how are you?” she answered.

“I am simply wonderful! What can I do for you?” Rarity asked.

“For me?” Sunset asked, losing her train of thought.

“Well yes, darling; you called me,” Rarity answered.

“Uh, oh right…I did,” Sunset said, shaking her head after the bumbling response. “Well…uh, I just got into town this morning and…uh, I was wondering what everyone was up to.”

I gave Sunset a thumbs-up for her recovery.

“Oh, yes,” Rarity replied. “I was thinking about the Saturday dinner this morning; nothing was ever decided for today after all the excitement last week at Fluttershy’s.”

“Oh, yeah I hadn’t heard anything either,” Sunset said.

“Well, I was thinking of having it at my place this week…you know, to let Fluttershy have a break," Rarity offered. "The poor thing’s been through so much lately.”

“Uh-huh…” Sunset said, unable to ignore the irony in the fashionista's statement as she locked eyes with the shy girl, who had just realised less than a day ago that she might live forever.

“I thought we would order in some food, sit and relax and enjoy each other’s company; perhaps we could listen to some stories from our new” -- she cleared her throat -- "friend?" Rarity's expression was laced with a slight coyness, followed by what sounded like a quiet, flirtatious giggle, making Sunset give an unimpressed glance in my direction. “Is Twilight with you?” Rarity continued, sounding like she'd realised her tone was simpering and had quickly composed herself, changing the subject.

“No,” Sunset answered. “Twi’s still in the city; she’ll be down later. I can let her know about the dinner for you, if you want.”

“If you could, darling; that would be splendid,” Rarity replied. “I still have to send messages to the others to let them know as well, so you looking after Twilight would be one less thing for me to worry about.”

“Yeah, no problem,” Sunset said.

“Thank you, darling,” Rarity replied.

There was a short, awkward silence; the kind that occasionally happens on the phone when speaking to someone you don't normally call, especially when the individual in question has done something rather unexpected: like having a threesome with the shyest girl ever, then inadvertently and unknowingly becoming a possible demi-god in the process.

This is why Sunset preferred texting!

I waved my hand in a circle at the red-head, signifying her to keep steering the conversation to get more information from Rarity.

“Uh,” Sunset broke the silence. “So, how was your week?”

“Oh my goodness, darling, what a week!” Rarity cried. “The first half was dreadful: it was SO busy; some of the pieces I was working on weren’t coming out the way I wanted and I was falling WAY behind.”

“Uh-huh…” Sunset mumbled, just to acknowledge that she was listening.

My heart had begun to race, wondering what Rarity was going to say next. I can only imagine how Fluttershy felt. I glanced over at her; she was sitting in her chair, chewing her thumbnail nervously as she stared at the tabletop, listening intently to the conversation.

“I was at my wit’s end by mid-week, so Wednesday evening I decided to relax a bit and…hehe…take a ‘load’ off; sort of a mid-week recharge,” Rarity said, giggling playfully.

Sunset groaned silently and closed her eyes, shaking her head. Quite obviously, Rarity was unaware that Sunset knew about the threesome, nor did she know that Fluttershy and I were listening when she dropped that horrendously-timed sex pun. It made for an uncomfortable moment, to say the least.

I covered my face with my hand, sighing with embarrassment. “Oh Jesus, Rare...wow. Just, wow.”

Fluttershy had her hands over her face as well, mortified for her friend.

“Mmmmm, anyway,” Rarity continued as Sunset cringed, “the last half of the week, everything came together and I actually managed to get caught up. I don’t know how I did it, I must have caught my second wind; I worked into the wee hours of the morning Thursday night, then I got home and couldn’t fall asleep -- it must have been the adrenaline, darling -- so I went back early yesterday morning and kept working. I worked all day yesterday and right on through the night; I just finished the last order and left the boutique about an hour ago, and am on my way to personally deliver them to my clients. I feel like I could take on the world, I have so much energy! I simply do not know where it all came from!”

By the time she was finished her spiel, my skin was crawling with goosebumps and my stomach felt like it was going to leap out of my mouth. “Holy shit, she’s not sleeping either,” I thought to myself as I closed my eyes and rubbed my temples with my fingertips.

I looked at Fluttershy next, who had her hands pressed to the sides of her head, with her eyes open wide. She opened her mouth, silently mouthing the word: ‘FUUUUUUUCK!’

Sunset had momentarily forgotten about the no-sleeping aspect of my existence, and was looking at Fluttershy and me with one eyebrow cocked.

I silently put my hands together, put them to the side of my face and closed my eyes, tilting my head to the side, pretending to be asleep. Then I looked back at her and shook my head, indicating: ‘no sleep’.

Sunset stared vacantly at me for a few seconds, confused by the gesture.

Then she understood.

Her eyes got wide, her pupils shrinking to pinpoints as she slapped her hand over her mouth in shock.

The three of us sat there, holding our breath and staring at each other in silence after hearing her confirmation: Rarity had most likely become an immortal, like me and Fluttershy.

“Darling, are you there?” Rarity’s voice sounded from the speaker again.

Sunset blinked and gave her head a shake. “Uh, yeah…sorry Rare, I was just looking at some weird guy across the street,” Sunset lied.

“Ah yes darling, there is certainly no shortage of those around, ah-haha!” Rarity quipped.

Sunset struggled to think of something to say. She desperately wanted to get off the phone now. “So you haven’t slept in two days, Rare? Are you sure you want to host the dinner tonight? Aren’t you tired?”

“Nonsense, darling! I feel wonderful!” Rarity replied. “Although, I might try to have a nap in a bit, but I doubt I will. I feel like I never need to sleep again; I simply do not know where all this energy came from!”

“From my dick...” I thought, shaking my head.

“OK,” Sunset said, trying wrap up the call, “I’d better let you go so you can try to get some rest. What time is everyone showing up?”

“Oh whenever, darling. Anytime after one or so,” Rarity answered. “Remember to bring a bathing suit in case you want to a have a dip in the hot tub!”

Sunset glanced at me and Fluttershy before answering. “Uh…yeah, probably not.”

“Ok, well suit yourself, darling. I have some swim suits here if you change your mind,” Rarity replied.

“OK, I’ll see you around one or two then, Rare,” Sunset concluded.

“OK darling. Ta-ta!”

“Bye,” Sunset replied, then pressed the 'end call' button.

For an unknown amount of time -- hours, for all we knew -- the three of us sat there at the table; Sunset was staring at the counter, idly chewing her bottom lip, Fluttershy was sitting with her hands loosely covering her mouth, staring down at the tabletop, and I looked around the room for a few moments, before I finally decided to speak.

“Shit…” I said, cocking my head. "That is one satisfied girl."

Sunset and Futtershy looked at me, unable to decide if they should laugh of throw something at me.

I looked at the shy girl. “You’re right. We have to tell her,” I said. “Tonight.”

Sunset paused, then nodded in agreement.

“She’s going to figure it out eventually anyway,” Fluttershy said. “It might scare her if things start happening and she doesn’t know what’s going on.”

“OK: we’ll stay later and tell her after everyone else is gone,” Sunset decided. “And at some point we’re going to have to tell the others, too.”

“We have to be a hundred percent sure though,” I said.

They looked at me, confused.

“But…she’s not sleeping,” Fluttershy replied, confused. "Doesn't that pretty much mean that...um..."

“I know,” I interjected, ”we just need to make sure it’s not just a fluke, or that she’s not on coke or something.”

Fluttershy frowned. “Rarity’s not a coke-head!”

I raised my hands to calm her. “I’m just saying; sometime tonight, one of us should do something to her…to test her.”

“Like what?” Sunset asked.

“Something small,” I replied, “like, seeing if we can cut a little bit of her hair or something. If it won’t cut, then we’ll know.”

“Yeah, that’s a good idea,” Sunset nodded, “as long as we don’t get caught. If Rare catches you fucking with her hair, she'll shit in your mouth and make you swallow it.”

“I’ll do it,” Fluttershy blurted out suddenly.

What, shit in my mouth?" I asked, scowling at the suggestion.

"No!" she replied, frustrated, while Sunset rubbed her temples and closed her eyes. "I mean, I'll try to cut Rarity's hair. I can get close to her a lot easier than you guys."

“Oh OK,” I said, relieved. "Yeah, that makes a bit more sense."

Once we had all agreed on the plan, Sunset decided to head back to town. She had a few more things to do, and I wanted to go to my place to get my truck.

Sunset put her boots and jacket on, then opened the door to leave. She paused to looked at us, raising her eyebrows with a slow exhale; giving us a ‘here goes nothing’ kind of look.

“Thanks,” I said as she turned to leave.

She stopped and looked at me, caught off-guard by my gratitude.

“For helping us figure this out. We couldn’t have done it without you, and we wouldn’t have known about Rarity,” I explained.

“Oh…well, it’s no problem,” she replied, with a shrug.

Fluttershy joined me at my side and rested her head on my shoulder as Sunset looked at us with a smile.

“At least you guys aren’t a weird couple anymore,” Sunset smirked. “You’re both the same now; it’s actually kind of sweet.”

Fluttershy and I looked at each other, smiling. I gave her a little kiss on the forehead then rested my cheek on her temple, looking back at Sunset who was now stepping outside.

“Bye,” the red-head said as she reached back to close the door behind her.

I was really starting to like Sunset. I had thought my initial impression of her being someone you didn’t want to piss off was correct, but now I see that her confrontation with me the week before was a decision made in haste, not because she was a bitch, but to protect her friends; a perfectly understandable mistake on her part, and one that was easier to overlook that more I got to know her.

Now that I could see how intelligent and strong she really was, it was easy to see why the others looked to her as a leader.

And she was a caring friend.

Her magical ability was also a great asset. She didn’t even use it today and she still figured out how Fluttershy had changed. If she was to combine the mind-reading with her excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills, she would be a very powerful ally in war.

Hell, I’d kept my secret hidden for over a decade and she figured it out the same day she met me, without even trying. Now that is something to take notice of.