Visiting The Parents

"I'm really excited to meet your parents, Mistress!" Sunset cheered excitedly as the two mares walked through Canterlot.

"And I'm excited for them to meet you. I told them about my herd through our letters, but they've been dying to meet you and your sisters. And their new grandson as well." Twilight said, giving Ray a head rub.

Ray giggled and the feeling.

"I'm excited to meet them too Mommies!"

"They're going to love you." Sunset said as she nuzzled her son.

"You two are just too cute." Twilight said as she knocked on her parent door. "Mom? Dad? It's Twilight!" The Alicorn announced.

The door flung open and Twilight Velvet was there with a shocked expression.

"Twilight!? What a lovely surprise!!" She greeted her daughter, who was now taller than her.

"Hi Mom!" Twilight said, giving her mom a hug, "I was in town and I just couldn't leave without visiting you!"

"Awwww! Thanks for thinking of me!" Velvet said with a warm smile.

"Is it just you or did you bring one of your pets?"

"Well, this is Sunset and her-, our son Ray. Come say hi to your other grandmare Ray!" Twilight said with a smile.

"Hi! You're my other grandmare!?" Ray gasped excitedly before clapping.

"Now I have three Grandmares!" He celebrated happily.

"Oh really? Just who are the others little drake?" Velvet said, ushering the group inside.

"I think their names were Celestia and Shinny Dew." Ray said, causing Velvet to freeze.

"Twilight," the mare said, ushering her daughter to her side, "Is he telling the truth dear? Or is he just imagining it?" She whispered.

"He's telling the complete truth Mother. Sunset here is her daughter." Twilight told her smaller than her mother.

"The Princess's daughter is here?! Why didn't you send a letter or something so I could clean up?" Velvet said as she started cleaning up the living room.

As the mare passed the couch, she kicked some rather....risque looking stockings under it, "And dinner certainly won't be up to palace standards!"

"It's been years since I've truly been her daughter, and all I really had that was better than normal pony food was cake."

"Yes, but your still royalty! And my daughter's....uh, pet? Wife? Significant other." Velvet nodded to herself, deciding the living room was up to her standards now, "Night Light! I need you to go on a grocery run!" Twilight's Mother shouted up the stairs.

"What for hun!?" Was his response from upstairs.

"Twilight and one of her pets are here! I need more food for a proper dinner!"

"Oh! Alright I'll be right back!" He said, galloping down stairs and kissing Velvet. "Hi Twilight." He greeted.

He then ran out of the house to the store.

"Well Sunset, that was my father. Don't worry, he'll be back in a bit."

"He seems rather....eccentric." Sunset said.

"So, is the entire second floor made out of books?" Sunset asked Velvet.

"Made out of? No. Plastered with? Absolutely. You have no idea how hard it was to keep up with Twilight's insatiable appetite for books." Velvet said with a nostalgic smile.

"How many of the are Naughty?" Sunset asked with a mischievous grin.

"What are naughty books mommy?" Ray asked Sunset, "Can I read one?"

"Nope. Not yet at least! Hehehaaaa!" Sunset laughed nervously.

"Awww....." Ray pouted, "But I want to read a naughty book Mommy!"

Velvet giggled and patted his head, "Maybe when you hit puberty dear. How about I get you some gems instead?"

His eyes turned into gems.

"Yes please!" He said, drooling all over Sunset's head.

"I hope you like amethyst as much as Spike does dear, because that's all I have." Velvet said as she dug out her stash of gems she kept for Spike.

Ray's eyes went crazy and he giggled happily.

"Amethysts are the best!"

"Here you are dear!" The mare said, sitting him down in a plush armchair and giving him three large amethysts, "Now make these last until dinner Ray."

"I make no promises, Granny!" Ray said as he nibbled on one of them.

Twilight walked of to Velvet and hugged her again.

"I make no promises, Granny!" Ray said as he nibbled on one of them.

Twilight walked of to Velvet and hugged her again.

The unicorn hugs her back, "It's so nice to see you again Twilight!"

Sunset rubs Ray's head, "What do you say to your grandmare Ray?"

"Thank you Grandmare!" Ray said with a mouthful of Amethyst.

Velvet giggles to herself, "You're welcome dear. Sunset? Would you help me start preparing dinner please?"

"Sure thing Velvet." Sunset grinned before following her to the kitchen.

"Call me Mother dear." She said, quickly hiding a few more erotic items lying around the room, "I really wish you two had given us a bit more of a warning Sunset." She said with playful bitterness.

"Sorry...Mother." She tried. She found calling this mare mother felt right. Now she had three mothers. Yay!

"So, what do you want my help with?"

"I'm going to be honest with you Sunset, I just wanted to talk to you privately. Please, take a seat." She said, sitting at the table.

"Oh. Uh, okay. " Sunset said as she took a seat.

"Now don't worry dear, this isn't going to be me telling you all the ways I'll hurt you if you hurt my daughter or anything." Velvet chuckled.

Sunset rolled her eyes jokingly. "I didn't think it was."

"I just wanted to talk to you about Ray." Velvet said, adopting a serious look. "He's...well he seems almost as old as Spike but not as.....how do I say this.... developed. Is he getting proper schooling?"

"He's a few years younger and used to be a gecko." Sunset told her defensively.

".....if you say so dear. But he is getting proper schooling, correct?" Velvet asked with concern.

"If you call home schooling proper. We do a good job though." Sunset told her third Mother.

"Of course, I was actually planning on home schooling Twilight before it became quite clear how much smarter than me she was." Velvet snickered.

Sunset couldn't help but laugh at that. "Of course filly Mistress was smarter than her own mother." Sunset laughed.

"Well I might be an author, but I'm certainly no scholar. I sicked her on Night Light when she got into astronomy though, hehehe." She giggled, "The poor thing didn't last a whole day." Velvet said as she looked up in nostalgia.

Velvet leaned back in her chair with a sigh, "The next day Night applied for a position at Celestia's school as an examiner to try and get out of the house."

"Let me guess. Twilight was really excited?"

"The second he walked in the door from his first day she dragged him into her bookfort to grill him. She was only around three or four at the time."

"Wow. Three?" Sunset gaped.

"Oh yes," Velvet said pulling out a bottle of wine, "Would you like some dear? It's a special occasion!"

"Yes please." Sunset said eagerly before growing a sheepish look. "Never had alcohol before."

"......." Velvet stared at her, "I'm sorry, I thought you just said you'd never had alcohol before." Velvet said skeptically.

"I haven't." Sunset said, still smiling.

"Sunset, you're what? Twenty? Twenty five? How in Celestia's name have never tried alcohol? Even by accident?"

"Well, I got stuck in an alternate dimension for awhile and in there I was below the legal age to drink. Plus I never really wanted to in the first place, but I figured now is as good as time as any to try it." Sunset hastilly explained to her third mother.

"Well let's start with just one glass, okay?" Velvet said, pouring two glasses of wine, "I get the feeling you might be a light weight."

Sunset took the glass in her magic, the two of them clinked their glasses before drinking them down. Sunset drank her whole glass down easily. Too easily.

"I don't think I like wine." Sunset said, in a way that made Velvet more skeptical.

"Why not dear?" She asked her.

"I don't like the taste. Duh." Sunset said as if it was super obvious.

"Neither did I at first, but when your oldest tells you he wants be a royal guard and your youngest used all of your signed copies of Daring Dooo to make a book fort, you just need to unwind a bit."

"I think I'll explore other types of alcohol, thanks." Sunset said, eager to have something stronger.

"Well I do have something a bit....stronger if your interested." Velvet told her.

"Is it Whiskey? Rum? Mom mentioned she really liked this one kind of alcohol. I can't seem to remember what it was called, though. She said it was creamy and apple pie flavored." Sunset asked a little too eagerly.

"Well I can't be sure what you're referring to, but this stuff definitely doesn't taste like apple pie." Velvet pulled a big vodka bottle from the alcohol cupboard, "This is for when your daughter's adopted son turns your freshly typed manuscript into Ash." Velvet chuckled before sighing sadly at the memory. "So much work, gone in so little time."

The mare filled two shot glasses and gave one to Sunset, "This is Griffonstone Vodka. Be careful, it'll burn your throat."

Sunset tried some of it and took the bottle and drank half the bottle. "Now THAT'S the stuff." Sunset said, before beginning to cough. "But -ugkh ugkh ugkh- it burns."

Velvet rolls her eyes and downs her shot, "Mmm...but it's a good burn." She says with a sigh.

"Meh. I want to try some kind of Whiskey. Got any of that?"

"Sunset, you just drank one glass of wine, one shot of the highest grade Vodka you can get, then drank half of the bottle." Velvet says as she puts all the alcohol away, "I'm sorry, but I'm cutting you off."

Sunset was completely sober. "Uh...why?"

"Sunset, that is a lot of alcohol. I don't even know how you managed to chug down half the bottle of vodka." Velvet said in what was quite frankly just awe.

"Meh." Sunset shrugged. "Maybe it's cause of all the Alicorn cum I've absorbed."

"Sunset, I've raised two kids. Three if you want to count Spike. And I've been married for over twenty years. I know a lie when I hear one." Velvet said, finally calling Sunset out on her deception.

".....how in the fuck? I said that as normally as possible!" Sunset demanded in disbelief.

"So did Twilight when she said she didn't stay up reading. Or when Shining swore to Celestia he and Cadence were just studying." Velvet pointed out.

"...but you don't know me at all, so how did you do that?!" Sunset demanded.

"First of all, you just told me. Second, I'm a mother. What do you want from me?" Velvet shrugged.

"What I want is whiskey. The strongest you got." Sunset said, starting to get a little nervous.

"The truth first Sunset. If I believe you, then I'll give you some." Velvet said sternly.

Sunset huffed and sighed. "I'm an alcoholic." Sunset said simply.

Velvet pulled out a bottle of whiskey and a glass, "Does Twilight know?"

"Nope." Sunset huffed. "Well, maybe. She seems to know everything."

"Why did you lie about it?" Velvet asked as she pored a glass of whisky.

"Because I don't want to talk it about, Duh!" Sunset said a little angrily.

"Not good enough. Why haven't you told Twilight? You know she would accept you regardless, so why not tell her?"

"That's not the fucking problem!!" Sunset shouted.

Velvet waited patiently for her to calm down, sipping at her wine, "Are you finished yelling?"

Sunset took this the wrong way and took the bottle of wine and threw it at the wall. It bounces off the wall, having been magically reinforced, it rolled to Velvet's hooves and she calmly set it back down on the table. Sunset looked like she wanted to punch something but eventually just starred crying.

This seemed to be what Velvet was waiting for, as she immediately stood up and hugged her, "It's okay, just let it out." She said soothingly.

"I don't wanna talk about it! Please just let me have the whiskey..." Sunset all but begged desperately.

"I can't do that Sunset. I'm sorry." Velvet refused.

"Don't make me relive it! Please!" Sunset begged with tears starting to form at her eyes.

"You have to Sunset. Repressing it won't help." Velvet said, hugging her tighter, "I don't need to know, but Twilight does."

"Please! It hurts too much! Just let me have my whiskey! Please! Please!" Sunset pleaded despairingly, desperately wanting to drown the memories with alcohol before they overtook her.

"No. You don't have to quit cold turkey, but your not having another drink until you tell Twilight the truth." Velvet said sternly.

"PLEASE JUST GIVE ME THE BOTTLE!" Sunset sobbed.

"Never." Velvet said simply.

"YOU'RE JUST AS BAD AS HIM!" Sunset screamed, forcing the bottle out of Velvets grip and started guzzling.

Velvet slapped Sunset, sending the bottle flying, "GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF SUNSET!" She shouted angrily.

Sunset caught the bottle in her magic and brought it back to her lips. She started drinking and sobbing at the same time.

Velvet tore it from her lips and smashed it on the ground with her bare hooves, glass and whiskey splattering on the floor, "DO YOU THINK YOU'RE THE ONLY PONY WHO'S EVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH ALCOHOL?! LISTEN TO ME! I CAN HELP YOU!"

"YOU HAVEN'T BEEN A CRIPPLING ALCOHOLIC SINCE YOU WERE FUCKING SIX!" Sunset screamed.

"What is going on in here?!" Twilight demanded as she burst into the kitchen, "I had to cast a soundproofing spell so Ray wouldn't hear you two!" She told them.

"N-nothing!" Sunset hastily said, using magic to poof away all the broken glass and spilled alcohol before Twilight could see it.

"What did you clean Sunset?" Twilight asked, advancing on her pet, "I know you just cast a cleaning spell."

Sunset slowly backed away from her. "I-It was nothing! Just a mess!" Sunset said.

"Sunset, you have three options. One, I use our connection to look at your memories. Two, I ask my mother what happened. Or three, you just tell me the truth." Twilight said sternly.

"Just...just use the damn connection." Sunset said reservedly.

"Fine." Twilight said, using her pet's collar to scour her memories of the past few minutes. "My room, now." Twilight told her pet.

Sunset gulped fearfully before nodding and following her Mistress to her room.

"Sunset." Twilight said once they were inside, "You have one minute to explain yourself for nearly assaulting my mother because she wouldn't give you a drink."

"Please...please...please don't make me relive it...please..." Sunset said in a mess of tears.

"I can't pretend that didn't just happen Sunset. And you can't pretend that whatever happened to you didn't either."

"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!" She repeated like a mantra, her eyes glossy and dilated. "Don't hit me. Please! I'm sorry!"

Twilight slowly pulled her into a hug, "I would never hurt you Sunset." She said softly.

"Aaaaaah!" Sunset screamed, shielding her head. "I didn't mean it! Please don't hurt me!" Sunset begged.

Her suppressed memories came back all at once and triggered a flashback that she wasn't able to get out of.

Author's Notes:

I spelled Dooo with three O's on purpose. It's a reference.

This chapter took awhile to get out, because I couldn't decide where to go with it. I plan on steering my life back towards writing and gaming and watching stuff and School. Instead of ONLY one of those things.

Also, evil Cliffhanger is evil. >:3 Mweheehee