Foreword: for those that skipped the clop section, I enjoyed a passionate love session with Octavia and Princess Luna. As it won't come up in the story (less I add another clop chapter involving SamxTavixLuna fun times), Luna can control her own heats with her powerful magic, she doesn't become fertile, and her pheromones are weaker, but she still has the need.

After the week of heaven and hell, I wake up with Octavia sleeping in my arms. Normally I would have the insatiable need to sit down and play something, any music, but I know of something better. Lying here is blissful, also moving will hurt with the amount of 'juice' that I shot over the past week. I still don't know if those stamina boosters that Tavi bought on one of her outings were such a good idea. Yes, I was able to go a lot more often, enough to satisfy her for the entire week, but I know how sensitive my man-bits have become.

A small motion to my right grabs my attention. Tavi is waking up. "Morning Tavi." I say; and for a moment Tavi looks a little perplexed, but she quickly settles for a loving smile.

"Morning lover."

"Hey Tavi, I have something I want to ask you; and no, it is not marriage."

"What, am I not wife material or something?" She says while playfully smirking. She knows I want to wait a little longer before making that kind of commitment. I love her, but rushing things could create problems that may drive us apart. We had talked about this in the days prior, worried about what would happen. Sex while in heat causes a mare to usually develop a strong attraction to the stallion that 'services' her. Naturally it causes similar affects to their partners due to the long term exposure to pheromones. We would definitely have a stronger connection and be more prone to make rash decisions for each other now, so we decided to take things slower, definitely not slow, but slower than we want to.

"You are, but there is definitely a step we should take first."

"And what step may that be?"

"Nothing major, just living together and all that." That gets her attention. She looks at me, wide eyed, and moves in for a kiss. The kiss is nice, until her leg touches my balls that is. After having been so intimate they were sensitive.

*ow*

"Oh sorry, are you sensitive?"

"Yeah, having that much wonderful sex will do that to a guy." I say with a smile.

Tavi smiled back and replies, "Thank you for the compliment. I will answer your question though: yes, let's get you moved in here." she says while nuzzling into my neck. "But first, lets get cleaned up and eat some breakfast. I don't think you want to go out smelling like a week of hot passionate sex with two mares now hmm?"

I chuckle a little at the memory. After the first night of fun, she had become worried that I would think her some sort of 'sex crazy fiend' (for clarification, we were having sex while discussing this). It took Luna and I three climaxes to get her to realize that if she was a sex addict, Luna and I were right there with her. As these memories start flowing through me, Tavi pulls my hand and says, "It would be faster if we took a shower together instead of separate ones, correct?"

"Tavi, you are the best." I say with a smile and follow her into the shower. I got her off but I could not get a boner if I wanted to; so while she's showering I get dressed in my clothes (that Tavi had been kind enough to clean for me). In return I prepare breakfast. Cooking for ponies has been challenging, but then again, I enjoy cooking. A simple breakfast of eggs, hash browns, toast; and my favorite surprise to add, pancakes. She came down the stairs just as the pancakes were finishing, hair still damp from her shower. If there is an incarnation of raw sexiness, this is it. I am probably the luckiest man I know. I get to sleep next to this Venus, wake up next to her, hold her in my arms, and feel her warmth. Of course we'll be in separate beds for a while, but it doesn't change the fact that I have her to myself, and vice-versa.

"Did you make such an extravagant breakfast just for me? You had better be joining me as I don't expect I will be finishing all of this."

"But of course Tavi." As she sits down at the table, I walk up to her and embrace her in a hug. "I love you Tavi." She leans back into the hug, enjoying it for just a moment.

"Well if we don't start to eat soon we will be throwing away our food now won't we?

I chuckle for just a moment and sit down to join Tavi in her- I mean OUR meal. That thought brings a smile to my face. After our meal we clean up and head to her little studio to practice our music for the next set. A few hours later we finish our practice, and decide to head to my place to decide what we will be taking over and what we will sell. Besides my bed and my guest bed everything can come or go. As we arrive at my place, Tavi speaks up.

"Before we start doing this, if we are really going ahead to this stage in our relationship, I want to show you off to my parents."

I turn around to Tavi, putting on my own poker face and ask, "Before I say anything either way, how is your relationship with your parents? You never really gave me anything good whenever family was brought up before."

"Well, it's not like I can say we have a good relationship. I can say that they do genuinely care about me. I don't want to completely cut them off from me because of this." As she says that, she fiddles with some of her mane and looks up at me expectantly.

"First Tavi, that is an exceedingly cute posture." She blushes from this and I give her a loving smile. "Second, I'll do it, so long as this is what you want, I will meet with them."

She beams and takes my hand. "Well then, we should hurry up with this; I would like to get this over with as soon as possible. It is not that I hate my parents, but they can be rather...blunt."

"I may not fully understand, but I'll do anything for you. Now let's go."

After labeling everything we had decided to take with me over to Tavi's home, we make our way to stop at Vinyl's so that she could pick up her stuff. Octavia and I had a bet to see if Vinyl would forget that she still had clothes over at Octavia's home. Interestingly enough she did, and I owe Octavia a certain type of favor, she likes some kinky things. Well, at least I was able to find an extra suitcase to bring her extra clothes. Of course, Vinyl loves to play things dirty, so it's only fair for me to return the favor right?

"So, I didn't know the great Vinyl Scratch had lacy black lingerie." The look of absolute horror on her face mixed with that deep red blush is one of the funniest things I have ever seen on her. "Don't worry Vinyl I didn't actually see them, Tavi was the one to do that." That helps to lessen her blush.

After talking with Vinyl for a bit, Tavi and I continue on our way to her parents' home. If I thought Tavi had a nice big home, her parents have a full-blown mansion. We approached the doors, but before either of us reach them they swing open, revealing a rather noble looking man. 'Wow, what a well dressed butler.' I observe. How I guessed correctly is rather easy: the butler is a human. If you're a human in Canterlot, you're either a butler or a VERY wealthy person. He welcomes us and guides us through a hallway down to what appears to be a reading room/study.

"Master Chord, Lady Pitch, Miss Octavia and Sir Broquer are here to see you." The butler announces.

"Thank you Fernando" says Chord. He and Pitch stand up and approaches me. The look in their eyes tells me they're judging every fiber of my being: from my stance to my looks, from head to toe. I prepare myself for a verbal assault. Once again, being a world based on tolerance doesn't mean everypony is tolerant. To my surprise, they smile. "So, you're the young man who captured my daughter's heart; it is good to finally meet you. I am Superior Chord." He says as he extends his arm for a handshake.

I reach out my hand to meet his and he puts mind in a virtual chokehold. After he releases my hand, his wife extends her hand as well. "And this is my wife Leveled Pitch." Her hand is in a simple position with only one refined response possible. I take her hand in mine and give it a kiss. "It seems that you are just as I had hoped, you know how to be refined; yet you even took a knife for her, were ready to fight off a group of stallions for her, and defended her honor in front of your family. I can tell we will get along just fine. Come, let us adjourn to my music room, this calls for a family play. Come, come, lets go."

As we walk to the room, I look to Tavi. She seems just as surprised as you are. She had honestly expected at least her mother to berate her for her choices. Guess this goes to show how much her mother cares for her. On the way here she figured her father would be among the groups that looked down on our kind of love. Yet here he is without a single sign of being upset, merrily making his way to what he called the 'music room'. When we enter I understand why he calls it the music room: instruments of every variety are hung from the wall with great care. It was, for lack of better words, beautiful.

"Now don't keep us waiting, grab an instrument and take a seat my boy!" Chord says. I look and see that my hosts and Tavi have already grabbed an instrument. As usual Tavi chose to grab a cello, Chord had picked up a violin, and Pitch had taken up a flute. There's only one instrument for me to play. I sit down at the full piano, and prepare to play. "Alright then everypony and esteemed guest, let us begin!"

We play a few notes and I stop. I turn around and say "Seriously, why does every piano I touch need to be tuned?" After a short, shared laugh Chord assists me in tuning the piano. It takes me an hour to tune the piano, mostly since a few wires had to be replaced and re-tensioned. After all of that effort, we begin to play again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlU1J4MA6Ws

After a few hours, we finish playing. "That was quite enjoyable, you sir truly have a gift for music. With the ability to play piano and violin so well, what other instruments do you play?"

Flabbergasted and embarrassed from the praise I reply, "I can also play most string instruments very well, and most wind instruments enough to get by, but I have very little experience with percussion or brass. The only brass instrument I consider myself decent in is the trumpet."

"I say, you have a lot of experience playing don't you?" Pitch interjects.

"My mother instilled upon me music from a young age, I took to it as naturally as breathing for a time. Until her death four years ago she would always try to help me learn a new instrument."

"I am sorry to hear you lost such a strong mother so soon. It seems to me she was a strong virtuous woman." Pitch says.

"Indeed, without her my family fell apart; my dad and sister got into drugs, and my older brother moved out to further pursue his career in law enforcement. It is safe to say that without her most of my family went down hill except for my brother."

"What happened to you then, if you don't mind me asking?" Chord asks.

"It was quite a painful time, I--" Tavi tries to say before I interrupt her by holding up my hand.

"It's okay Tavi. It's behind me now thanks to you, it's not like it's a big secret anymore." I say to her with a smile. She seems to get the message that it is because of her I am over it. The awesome sex may have had a part in for the stress though. Hard to tell. We then return to the reading room where I told my story. Tavi's parents try to give me their sympathies, but I am past that now, I don't need them anymore, so long as I have Tavi. We then have dinner and talked about many topics, going from music to general affairs, to people of interest from Earth's past. Tavi and I have a delightful time, more so than we thought this would be by miles. It begins to get late when we finally leave. I'm happy to hear that they fully support our relationship. Turns out when they originally heard she was interested in me they did a lot of background checks on me to be sure I wouldn't harm her.

They had kept up their skepticism until I had done my performance at the hall. They have grown to understand me after that and they began to respect me as a man. They stopped following me after they heard about my connections with Princess Luna.

Tavi and I head back to our home at that time. Then it comes down to to where I would sleep, we decide that I would sleep in a separate bed for now. We don't want to push our relationship too hard or too fast. We crawl into our rooms and go to sleep. I can't sleep peacefully for long though. The nightmares have returned, with a vengeance.

Author's Notes:

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out." — Roy Croft

So much deja-vu in this chapter for me.

Now then, why does Sam hate tuning a piano? Well, a piano nowadays generally uses metal strings that are stretched exceedingly tight, add to that each note is actually three notes played simultaneously and you have a wonderful instrument to tune... should you need to tune it. Most piano's need to be tuned once every... six months. Then again, how hard could it be?