Diamond in the Rough

New Life

A Diamond Tiara in theVogonverse Story

“FINE!” Silver Spoon shouted as she slammed the door of the guest room.

Diamond stared down the hall, sighed, and went to pick up Ruby who was now fully awake. Well fully awake and crying. It was stupid, they were fighting almost every single day now, and it was over the silliest things. She knew that part of it was the hormones, Celestia knew she understood about that, but it wasn’t just the hormones. It was other things. Silver thought that maybe she deserved more time with Frederick, more time to cuddle, to be a bride, to be told that she was loved, and that everything would be fine.

Diamond had nearly reached her wits end with sharing her husband. Everytime she had a chance to be with him, to feel him against her fur, to be held like she was the only pony in the world, was wrenched away from her by her best friend. Silver wasn’t being needy, Silver was being down right greedy! She calmed herself down. Gently she held Ruby who was looking up at her with those pale blue eyes of hers.

Diamond understood that she was a poor substitute for her Frederick to Ruby. There was another pony that wanted time with her husband. She couldn’t be mad, not at her own little filly, but Ruby wasn’t bonding with her like she had hoped she would. Oh, she seemed to like her, and she was certainly ready to feed when she was hungry, but if her Daddy walked in the room she instantly wanted to go to him. It wasn’t fair. It was like her entire world was willing to step in and take her husband from her.

Slowly Ruby quieted down, and then she smiled. Diamond looked at the cute little smile. Her daughter stared up at her, studying her, and slowly her mouth opened. She halfway expected that her daughter was ready for her to open her shirt, stick out her breast, and let her suckle. Instead there was a little sweet sound, and then it happened.

“M...Mama.”

The voice was so sweet, so precious, and she nearly cried as she heard it, “Say it again please, say Mama again,” she begged.

“MmmMama,” Ruby said.

Her daughter was talking, actually forming a word, she heard her first word! She had to tell somepony, Silver Spoon… She stopped there. Silver wasn’t in the mood to talk to her. She was still in her room, upset that she called her out on being a greedy little tail lifter. By Luna’s night why did she even call her that. She knew that Silver wasn’t somepony that went around lifting her tail for any stallion.

Her best friend was loyal to her husband, well their husband. She sighed, this needed to be fixed. Their entire relationship needed to be fixed, and there was only a couple of ways that it could be. She was going to have to be the bigger mare here and talk to Silver Spoon. She’d need to apologize, and then after they’d have to lay down some ground rules. Just shagging whenever was one of the problems. She loved Frederick, and it was obvious that Silver Spoon loved him too. It was easy to see why. Frederick was a good stallion.

He was kind, generous, supportive, and driven. To be honest, he was quite a bit like her own father. She could remember one of the servants they had in their employ was trying to get her psychology degree, and she had said that all fillies eventually tried to marry their father. There was very few exceptions to that rule. At first she had been disgusted. Who wanted to marry their Daddy? But slowly, it began to make sense.

That mare hadn’t been talking about fillies directly marrying their fathers, but instead she meant that they would seek out stallions that acted like them. Frederick acted like Filthy. He really did where it mattered. He was kind, sweet, good natured, and good with money. He knew how to put it back, to ensure that they got what they needed, and put more back for the business he was growing. Her mother, Spoiled, had tried very hard to spend everything her father made. Daddy loved her though. He loved her mother so much that he was desperate when she got sick.

He didn’t leave her side, he didn’t care when she confessed about her affairs, he wanted his special somepony to make it. It was the first time she’d ever seen her father cry, and it was the first time she had seen her mother look at him in a loving way. Still, her mother’s own foolish pride wouldn’t let her be treated at Ponyville general hospital. No, she was far too good for that, and far too good to take some backwoods potion made up by Zecora.

“You expect me to drink this?! I’ll either be seen in a Canterlot hospital or not at all Filthy!” her mother had declared.

Even with all of his wealth her daddy couldn’t get her into a hospital in Canterlot. There was only two there, and one of them was just for nobles. The other, well, it was a teaching hospital, and her mother refused to be seen by a student pretending to be a doctor. In the end she finally consented to being seen by Doctor Stable at Ponyville general. Wow, was he mean. He called her mom out on everything. Saying she was a pampered spoiled little brat that needed a good paddling.

He worked hard, really hard, to try and save her, and it looked like her mom was getting better, right up until that last night they were in the hospital. She wasn’t supposed to have heard, she knew it, but she still overheard Dr. Stable talking with her mom and dad.

“I’m not going to lie to either of you. If you would have gotten that flank of yours in gear and gotten here, or if you would have grown a pair of balls and dragged her in, then your chances of this surgery working would be far better. As it sits… You’ve got about a fifteen percent chance that it will work and you can live a normal life. The cancer is contained, thanks to the magic and the potions we’ve made you drink, but it has spread before we were able to contain it. Just cutting you open is a risk, and there’s a very big chance you will die on that table.”

She stayed with her Daddy, waiting, praying, hoping, and wishing for a happy ending. What ended up happening was Dr. Stable came out, walked up to her Daddy, and hugged him. This was the meanest sounding Doctor she’d ever met, and he hugged her Daddy, “Sorry, she didn’t make it. When we opened her up there was complications with her lungs, and shortly after… We couldn’t keep her breathing.”

She decided on that day to take what her mother did to heart. Her mother had been stupid, she had been foolish to refuse help, and she was determined to ensure that it never, ever happened to her. Although right now, right now she was going to do the one thing her mother did show her, did teach her, that was right. She was going to settle this, and she was going to make sure that Silver Spoon understood that while they were sister wives, certain rules had to be followed. She’d be fair, but they needed to do this so that it could work. She wanted it to work.

She smiled down at Ruby, unsure if she should bring her daughter along or not. She certainly didn’t want her daughter to be in the middle of an argument. That wasn’t how she wanted to raise Ruby, but at the same time she knew that providing an example of what a strong mare should, and could do, would be a valuable lesson. She’d be able to witness it first hoof, see how she could….

“No, no Diamond Tiara, no,” she breathed out, “That’s mom talking, that her bringing me along to see her bawl out the help so that she could show me how to act. I’m not her, and I don’t want to expose Ruby to that.”

She took her daughter back toward the bedroom, but Ruby didn’t want to be laid down. This talk had to happen. She needed to express some things to Silver, and just incase it got loud she didn’t want Ruby to be in the middle of it. She looked toward the small room that made up Frederick’s office, knocked, and walked in. Frederick was behind the desk, working with his gloves and goggles, and she could see him deep in his work. She cleared her throat, and he didn’t seem to hear her. She turned toward a monitor, and it slowly came to life. When it did GLaDOS was there.

“Would you let Frederick know that I need to talk to him?”

“Of course,” GLaDOS responded.

Less than two seconds later Frederick slipped his gloves and goggles off.

“Something wrong?” he asked.

Before she could respond Ruby was stretching out toward him. “Mamamama!”

He looked at his daughter, slowly getting up, and smiling at her, “Daddy? Can you say Daddy?”

“Mamamama!” she squealed happily.

He grinned as he took her. She wrapped her chubby little arms around his neck and nuzzled against his face.

“She’s talking, that’s wonderful, and I missed her first word,” he said.

“Actually, all test subjects and administrators are recorded at all times. The tiny administrator's first word was recorded, and can be viewed whenever you wish,” GLaDOS replied.

“Good, I’ll watch afterwhile. Dia, was that it or was there something else?”

“I need you to watch her for a bit. I’ve got to talk to Silver Spoon, and then we’ve got to set some rules up for our marriage. I want this to work, but we can’t just go rutting like we’re all in heat. We need things on a schedule so that it’s fair,” she said.

He nodded, watched as she left, and then held his daughter. He smiled as she cooed at him, and took a seat back behind the desk. Outside walking down the hall Diamond began to think about how she was going to do this. Silver Spoon had suffered, more than she’d really ever know, but if this was going to work then there had to be a leader, there had to be an alpha, and it had to be settled. She didn’t knock, she opened Silver Spoon’s door and saw her friend curled up on the bed.

There was dark trails carved into her fur from the tears she’d be shedding. Oh Diamond certainly didn’t miss the hormones and the way played with your emotions.

“What do you want?” Silver asked.

“Silvy, I’m sorry, I am, and I want this to work,” she said.

“Why? I’m a tail lifter remember? I’ll just go in there, lift my tail, and tell Frederick to rut me right in the tail hole, to do it long and hard, and just use me like… like a doll!”

It hurt, having those words thrown back at her, and she knew it hurt Silver Spoon for her to have said them.

“I didn’t mean that. I know you’re not a tail lifter. I know how bad the horniness can get when you’re pregnant, but I also know that we can’t go on just doing whatever whenever. We need a schedule, time set aside for Frederick to be a husband to both of us, and I want to make sure that it happens. I want you as a sister wife, I want you here, but I want you to understand that this is going to change so that we can all three be together,” Diamond said.

Silver Spoon didn’t face her, not at first, but slowly she turned toward her, “I don’t want to leave. I… Dia, I love you, and I love him. Faust above I love him. I love the way he makes me feel, and I love it when he takes his time to make me happy. I.. I honestly never thought that I’d feel that way about a colt,” she looked down at the bed, “I remember there being a lot of fights between a couple of the mares in my father’s herd. I… I think they would have been happier if they would have scheduled things.”

Diamond neared her, and touched the roundness of the side of her belly. “Okay, so, we do this together. We move forward together, and we build a schedule. I’ll sit down and work it out…” Diamond began when Silver made a face, and then she groaned and pulled her knees up to her very pregnant belly.

“Oh! It hurts… It feels like really bad cramps!”

“How long apart?” Diamond asked.

“Ummm.. Less than a minute… It was every few minutes, but it’s getting worse!”

“GLaDOS!” Diamond shouted.

“Yes?” GLaDOS asked.

“Tell Frederick that Silver Spoon is having the baby! Call a cab, right now, use the Yellow Cab people. Inform them that we need a cab here in the next few minutes, and we need to go directly to the hospital,” she said.

A few seconds later GLaDOS informed her that she had done what was requested. She helped Silver Spoon up, getting her moving, and they headed out. Frederick had the Foals, and she hoped that this Yellow Cab had the built in car seats. They could see it waiting, the cab looked older, but that didn’t matter. What mattered was that Silvy was about to be a mom.

Author's Note

(AN: It's been a while! There's a lot that's happening in this chapter, and that's not going to stop. Diamond and Silver Spoon still have some issues they need to hammer out, but at least things are heading in the right direction.)