Bookends 3 or Family Values

CHAPTER EIGHT

Pinkie Comes Clean

Trixie awoke and first noticed that her marehood was tingling in a very pleasant way, and her nipples were tender from intimate stimulation.

Then she could feel some warm pony pressing up against her from behind with a foreleg draped over her and their hind legs intertwined, they were in the classic ‘spooning’ position.  She also felt that the pony in bed with her was awake and was gently kissing her neck and ear.  It was a very pleasant way to wake up.

But what she most felt was that her heart was lighter that it had ever been.  There was a joy at such a deep level, it was almost unbelievable.  She felt all this all in an instant.  At the same time, the memories of intense love making came pouring back to her.

In the past, Trixie had given herself to stallions and mares from time to time.  It had all been cases that she was using them for a good time and vice a versa.

Now this was so much better than the old waking up alone after a night of gratuitous and meaningless sex.  Or herself sneaking out in the early morning after getting her ‘jollies’ without any real attachment or commitment.  She had never realized just how alone she really felt, even when surrounded by other ponies.

But after last night she discovered that there really was a difference between having sex and making love.  She could tell from Pinkie’s reactions and technique that she’d never done this before.  Trixie marveled at how quick a learner Pinkie was, it must be the Changeling in her.

Trixie’s then considered something that she had never given any credence to in the past.  She remembered talks from her mother about purity as a gift to that special somepony.  Now Trixie regretted that she wasn’t able to have given Pinkie her chastity like Pinkie had just given to Trixie.  But with the absolute difference in what she had done in the past and what she had experienced last night, she was willing to concede that she may not have given Pinkie the virginity of her body, she’d given Pinkie the virginity of her heart.

Trixie turned over and looked tenderly at Pinkie.  They spontaneously kissed the other.

“Good morning, sweet Trixie,” said Pinkie holding Trixie tightly,  “I want you to know that I’ve known love all my life.  It’s been what has nourished and sustained me in a real way.

Then I learned about love between family and friends, which we don’t feel in the Changeling hive.  And that was something that I now never want to loose.

But until last night, I didn’t know what love was truly all about.

Your love nourished me in a way that I’d never known before.  But there was more, so very much more.  I’ve never felt in the act of absorbing love, the presence of the pony’s spirit, their very heart and soul.  I only wish you could feel how I perceive love.  That way you’d know that I was doing something that no member of the hive, from the queen on down, could ever understand.  I was returning the same love back to you.”

“I love you too,” said Trixie with a smile.  “And I don’t have to be a Changeling to feel the love you’re giving me, then and now.  I’m so lucky to have a marefriend that truly understands love.”

“You would want me as your marefriend?” asked Pinkie, thrilled and mystified.

Trixie’s answer was another deep and passionate kiss.  Then she snuggled closer to the pink pony.

“Pinkie sweetie,” said Trixie stroking Pinkie’s mane, “I’ve never felt this way for anypony, ever.  You may be the Changeling, but I’m the pony that has transformed.  You’ve taught me what love really is as well.  Yes, I’d love it if you would allow me be your marefriend.  I want to be with you and whatever becomes of you, it’ll be my fate as well.”

“You don’t know how touched I am,” said Pinkie, a tear in her eye, “I have an adopted family who love me as a daughter and sister, that is beyond anything ever hoped for in the hive.  And I have friends who loved me as a friend, and that’s been so special.  But I was resigned to the idea that I could never have a pony to really love because of who and what I am.”

“Pinkie,” said Trixie, “who and what you are is a very special pony.  I only wish that there were more ponies like you, ones who, unlike how I’ve been in the past, think of others so far above themselves.  A pony that is willing to give all.  I’ve only met maybe one other pony like that.”

“Twilight Sparkle,” said Pinkie smiling.

“Yes, my love,” said Trixie sheepishly.

“What’s wrong?”

“I was so jealous of her and her power,” said Trixie, “I went overboard trying to ‘one up’ her.  So much so that I put my very soul in jeopardy.”

“The Alicorns Amulet,” said Pinkie with a chuckle.

“What’s so funny,” asked Trixie, not sure if she should be hurt.

“I was so surprised that nopony noticed that when you removed my muzzle, I didn’t suffocate.  You didn’t leave me any way to breathe.”

“I never thought of that!” exclaimed Trixie, “how did you?”

“Changeling, remember,” laughed Pinkie, “our bodies work different from yours!”

“Well, after last night,” said Trixie with a sly smile and reaching out to gently rub Pinkie’s marehood, “I’m glad some things are the same.”

“I am too,” said Pinkie trembling at the stimulation, then she gave Trixie another deep kiss, “and as much as I would really like to continue, I’ve something that needs to be done.”

“We’ve something that needs to be done,” said Trixie, “I need to tell the Pies that we’re going to take care of this.”

Trixie stopped, she had an odd look on her face;

“By the way, and I know it probably isn’t important, but if we’re to remain close, I want to know the real you.”

“What do you mean?”

“What’s your name?” asked Trixie, “your real name?”

Pinkie looked at Trixie slightly amused.  Not at the question but that she had been ‘Pinkie’ for so long, she almost forgot her name.

“You might think our names are funny,” said Pinkie blushing, “but my name is Phantasm.”

“I understand,” said Trixie, “like an apparition that somepony is not sure of the shape or form!”

Pinkie smiled, touched her fore hoof to the tip of her muzzle to show that Trixie was correct.  Then Pinkie kissed Trixie, and led her out of the silo to do what they needed to do.

Pinkie knew that her friends liked to meet for breakfast on Thursday mornings before the library opened.  She and Trixie headed straight to Ponyville after letting Clyde and Sue know that Trixie was going to be with her while she talked to her friends.  The Pies were thrilled to find out that Pinkie and Trixie were starting to be romantically involved.

As they got to the library, the closed sign was on the door, but they could hear voices inside.  Pinkie froze; a look of deep concern and even fear was on her otherwise pleasant face.

“I’m afraid,” said Pinkie, almost like the little filly was speaking from out of the past.

“I’m here with you no matter what,” said Trixie, giving Pinkie one more kiss.  “No matter their reaction and feelings, my love will sustain you, it always will!”

Pinkie opened the door, all eyes were on her and everypony smiled as she entered, it had been several months since they had seen their friend.  But then most faces changed to curious then to concern as Trixie followed her in.

“What’s Trixie doing here?” asked Rainbow Apple.

“I was sure that you wouldn’t mind if I brought my marefriend with me,” said Pinkie working up a smile as she thought of how much Trixie now meant to her.

Trixie smiled at the designation.

In the silence that followed, you could have knocked anypony of them over with a Pegasus feather.

But Twilight was the first to smile and approach.  She hugged Pinkie, and then to her shock, she hugged Trixie and congratulated them and told them how happy she was for her friends.  The rest of the ponies followed Twilights example and congratulated the two ponies.

“I am here for more than sharing my good news,” said Pinkie, her looks becoming concerned.  “Can we sit?”

The ponies looked at each other and found places to sit.  Trixie sat close to Pinkie and held her hoof, to the amusement of many.

“Over the last few months before I went away, many of you may have noticed that I’d been acting strangely, well stranger than I normally do.”

Ponies chuckled, Pinkie smiled.

“It started with Applejack and Rarity starting to become a couple over two years ago.  I did know about it as it happened, out of respect, I said nothing, being it was not my place to do so.  And how I knew you’ll understand in a moment.

Then it started to get harder for me when Twilight and Cheerilee became in love, followed by Fluttershy and Loki, finally, Rainbow and Big Mac.”

Pinkie paused, took another deep breath.

“Ponies have always wondered how I could get places faster than the fastest flyer in Ponyville…”

“Equestria,” interrupted Rainbow.

“Equestria,” conceded Pinkie, “how I’m able to show up in odd and unexpected places.  How I can hang upside in the air for several moments for no apparent reason.  Eat an entire cake in one bite.  Or be gone as soon as I walk out a door.”

Many ponies had wondered this but had always attributed it to ‘Pinkie Pie is just being Pinkie Pie’.

“I’m sure you’ve heard or read about the body of a pony found by Trixie on my parent’s rock farm.

Let me tell you a story;

All of us can never forget the attempt by the Changelings to take over Canterlot at Twilight’s Brother’s wedding.  Well, that was not a spur of the moment decision by Queen Chrysalis.

It started about seventeen years ago.  At that time there were scouts sent to find the best place to start an invasion of Equestria.

One such scout, a very young Changeling named Phantasm, was on her first mission away from the hive.   She had been sent to the outskirts of Ponyville because she was still very young and the leaders didn’t want to put her into too much danger.  While looking around, she was discovered by a little filly.  Phantasm was concerned because she was told that if discovered, she’d be captured, tortured and killed.

But the only thing the little filly, Pinkamena Diane Pie, wanted to do was to talk and play.  Play is something unknown to the Changeling hive.  Needless to say, Phantasm was intrigued.

As they were interacting, they wandered by a formation of rocks.  A large boulder at that moment came loose and started to fall.  Phantasm saw it and froze in fear, but Pinkamena, with no concern for her own safety, pushed Phantasm out of the way.  Phantasm was saved; the filly was caught under the rock.”

Pinkie’s tears started to fall, Trixie took Pinkie’s hoof in both her fore hoofs, there were tears in her eyes as well.

“When Pinkamena pushed Phantasm, it startled her.  As a defensive reaction by Changelings, when startled, they take the form of something or somepony in the area.  You may not know this but when a Changeling changes forms and is in contact with the pony, the Changeling absorbs the thought’s memories and even the personality of the pony being copied.

Phantasm heard Pinkamena’s mother approaching and was about to flee the area but she realized that the little filly really did really care about the safety of a total stranger, no, an alien.  Then Phantasm felt the love of the family, the love of friends.  She felt Pinkamena’s joy for life, most strongly, the recent appearance of her cutie mark when she had opened her family to joy.  She knew right then how devastated that her family would be when it would be discovered that the filly perished being someplace that she had been repeatedly warned not to be.

Out of love for life and her fellow pony, Pinkamena gave up everything including her life for the Changeling, so the Changeling decided right there that she needed to do the same.”

All the ponies looked confused and concerned, Fluttershy looked scared.

Pinkie looked at Trixie, Trixie nodded her head.  Pinkie let go of Trixie’s hoofs, stood up and walked into the center of everypony.  There were tears in her eyes which were falling to the floor and it wasn’t un-noticed.

“I’m sorry for deceiving you all these years, please know that everything, everything I’ve always done has been honest and the love for my friends has been real.”

“What are you saying Pinkie?” asked Twilight.

“When in the changing battle I told the Changeling who had taken my form that I’d seen better, it was no joke,” said Pinkie.

There was the now familiar green flash around Pinkie.  It cleared and there stood Phantasm.

“I saw it in the mirror every day.”

All the ponies gasped, they were only use to Changelings being aggressive and having evil motives.  But here stood one who just confessed to being their friend for years.

“I told you Rainbow,” said the Phantasm, “that I wished my wings were as pretty as yours.

Please, please don’t hate me everypony!”

Phantasm lowered her head, sat back on her haunches and started to weep hard.  Trixie got up rushed to Phantasm who buried her face against Trixie’s neck as Trixie held her tight.

“Trixie!” said Rainbow, “can’t you see what she is!”

“Yes Rainbow, I see very clearly!” said Trixie almost annoyed at Rainbow’s narrow-mindedness.  She also knew that it was sadly the same thing she would have thought before love for this pony opened her mind;

“I see a noble pony who gave up everything, everything for other ponies.  Ponies that she didn’t even know.

You can understand that Twilight, can’t you?” asked Trixie, Twilight understood what Trixie was asking.

“She came here knowing that her friends, whom she loves, may turn her away and even hate her.

Hate has the opposite effect as love on Changelings.  Your feelings could kill her!

Yet out of love and respect she came here to tell you why she had been acting the way she had.  Knowing that she could lose the ones she loves, even at the cost of her life.

As each of you became involved with another pony, your love was channeled to that pony and less to your friends.  Pinkie was starting to starve for love, literally.  She could have tricked somepony and stole love.  But she is Pinkie Pie!  She’s your friend and she decided that you deserved the truth with all that has happened.”

Trixie nuzzled Phantasm to comfort her.  Trixie’s tears flowed in sympathy of the pony she now loved.  None of the ponies gathered ever thought that they would see Trixie show true emotion for anypony other than herself;

“And because of her heart, I love her of my own free will.  I love Pinkie and I love Phantasm!”

“What of Pinkie’s parents?” asked Cheerilee.

“They’ve known from almost the very start.  They love her now as if she was their real daughter.  They know that she isn’t their Pinkamena, but she is their Pinkie.  You have to understand that so much of Pinkamena was absorbed, it’s as if the filly lives on in her.”

There was a silence, then;

“I don’t know what to say,” Said Rarity, “has it really been you all these years?”

Phantasm looked at the white Unicorn and tried to smile.

“Since before you put paste in my mane in first grade, thinking it would hold the mane style better,” said Phantasm.

Rarity gasped, there was no way that anypony could have known such a minor detail unless actually there.

“Pinkie Darling,” said Rarity, “it is you!”

Phantasm changed back to Pinkie.

“Yes Rarity,” said Pinkie.  “It’s always been me.”

“Wait!” said Rainbow, “I know that nopony other than the real Pinkie could answer this!  The first pony I ever kissed was in the third grade, what was the colt’s name?”

“Lilly Blossom wasn’t a colt,” said Pinkie with an odd smile, the tears stopping.

“A filly!” exclaimed Twilight, Cheerilee, Applejack and Rarity together looking at Rainbow.

“Oh Sweet Celestia!” exclaimed Rainbow blushing, “you really are Pinkie Pie!  I’ve never told anypony else.”

There was a rush to hug Pinkie and Trixie.  The fact that their hyper friend was a Changeling no longer mattered.  This was the same pony that they had always loved.  They were starting to feel guilty for not showing their ‘unattached’ friend more attention.  Especially now that they realized just how much Pinkie had depended on the love from her friends.

And with the genuine love and caring for Pinkie that Trixie was now showing, it was easy to look past her old actions as well.

Pinkie could feel more love aimed at her, but with the intense romantic love from Trixie, she knew that it would not be necessary, but it still felt good.

Trixie was ecstatic, love had freed her heart and now it had opened the door to acceptance with ponies that she had once been at odds with, it felt so nice.  In one day Trixie now had a pony to love and friends!

“Quite a pony ya’ve caught there Trixie,” said Applejack.

Suddenly Twilight and Cheerilee backed away from the group, looked at each other and cried out.

“OH!”

All the ponies looked at the two; as they sat on the floor, their forelegs across their abdomen.  Then it was noticed that they were sitting in an expanding puddle of fluid.

“Both at the same time?” said Fluttershy.

“Ohmygosh!Ohmygosh!Ohmygosh!Ohmygosh!” exclaimed Rainbow, “the foals are coming!”

“Get spike to send the letter to Canterlot,” said Twilight.

“Somepony needs to get the ambulance,” said Cheerilee.

“I’ll go,” said Pinkie.

“No offence Pinkie,” said Rainbow, “but we need to be fast.”

Pinkie went to the door; changed back to the Phantasm, spread her wings and smiled.

“Just try and keep up Dashie!” taunted Phantasm.

Phantasm took off like a shot.

“Oh yeah!” exclaimed Rainbow, she grinned and flew off after her.

“Trixie, I think ya’ve started something,” laughed Applejack.

Several ponies went to the door in time to see a double sonic rainboom.

“That’s my girl,” Trixie snickered, the ponies with her looked at her and smiled at the level of affection that Trixie was showing.

“Let’s get Twilight and Cheerilee off the floor and make them comfortable,” said Trixie.

Twilight was amazed how gentle Trixie’s magic was in helping her to a sofa, Fluttershy had retrieved some towels to protect the furniture from the two leaking mares.

“I think this is what Tia meant by consequences of the linked minds,” said Cheerilee quietly to Twilight, “our pregnancies became somehow synchronized.”

Twilight just smiled and held Cheerilee’s hoof as the first contraction hit both mares at the same time.