The Two Families.

"Just breath babe, just breath!" Today was finally the day, the day when Avian's child would be born. He was excited, but a bit nervous. He was still worried that this child would change everything. He already had to kick out his friend that's he's known for the majority of his childhood and longer.

Blurry was being rushed to the maternity wing of the hospital with Avian at her side with several other doctors. When they finally got to the ward, Avain was offered to watch and be at Blurry's side during the birth. Of course he accepted, but when he saw first glance of the birth process, he nearly lost his lunch all over the doctors and floor. So know, he waited in the waiting room with nopony else to accompany him. Until he saw someone walk through the door who surprised Avian.

"Wacky?"

"Oh thank Celelstia, I found you!" Avian and Wacky quickly embarrassed each other in a friendly hug.

"Dude, I'm sorry bro, I'm sorry I kicked you out Wacky."

"No dude it's fine you do what you gotta do! I'm just here to see the little rug rat."

"Blurry's not done yet, so you kinda got here early."

"Alright, alright. Okay listen brother, I need a favor from you dude!"

"If it's more drug money then get the hell outta-"

"Nah bro! Dude, I'm going clean I'm done! I just need a place to stay for a while Avian!"

"What! What about your house bro?"

"Dude my house is being demolished, it's going to be replaced with some bank." A long silence fell over the two, Avian was stuck. He would let Wacky stay with him no problem, but with the new kid, and Wacky not good at keeping promises, Avian just didn't know.

"I dunno bro, I mean, there's just so much going on and we all know about your... Problem" Avian whispered.

"I know I know, but listen I'm being very legit dude, please just give me a chance! I'll watch the kid, I'll do everything I can to prove that I'm clean dude!" Before Avian could answer a nurse came out and called out for Avian. He left Wacky in the waiting room, the only thing that made Avian even more nervous was that Wacky was acting as if somepony was going to dash through the door and get him. He kept checking outside the door and only paced around the room.

Avian entered the room Blurry was in, he saw her holding a small blue blanket with a little foal inside.

"It's a colt." Blurry said in a quiet voice. Avian grabbed the child and gave him a quick look. His coat was a bright shade of purple, and had sandy blonde mane. Avian could only stare at his new colt. His trance was broken when he heard Blurry's voice again. "Can you tell me what he looks like?"

Avian glanced at Blurry who laid her head to rest, closing her eyes.

"He's, purple. He has blonde mane."

"I don't know what purple is Avian." Blurry said jokingly.

"Right, sorry. Uh, he's small, he has two little wings. He uh, his mane is fluffy and soft." Blurry only smiled at the description, even if it were very vague. "He has a small muzzle. He-" Avian was stopped mid sentence. He saw the little foal open it's eyes but very gracefully. Avian was able to see his child's eyes. They were bright blue, or one of them. The right eye had a light shade of white over the iris and pupil.

Avian quickly learned that his child was going to be blind in one eye.

"Are we still naming him Blind Spot?" Blurry asked. Avian glanced at her, with a sad but hopeful face.

"We sure are babe, his name will be Blind Spot, son of the best flyers in this hospital!"

~*~

Two Weeks Later

Gigglebox could feel something gently shaking him out of his slumber. He sighed, rolled over to face it, and pried open one eye. It was Snowflake, who seemed completely oblivious to his need to sleep.

"Get up, I just need to unpack for this room and then I'm done." She said, ignoring his groans of protest. The meaning of those words suddenly hit him like a train.

"You mean... you unpacked all of the furniture... by yourself?" He said.

"Well, yeah," Snowflake said casually, "now get up, and you can help me with this one."

"Snow!" He whined, grabbing her shoulders, "You should have just woken me up! I said, don't lift stuff! So you go right ahead and lift stuff!" Snowflake merely rolled her eyes. "Look, you go downstairs, and I'll unpack for you. Okay?" He said, a little exasperated.

"I'm not made of glass, you know. I can yank a few crates up some stairs without shattering into a million pieces." She muttered. She couldn't stand being treated like some form of royalty. She was fully capable of doing things herself. Gigglebox looked at her apologetically, and wrapped his forelegs around her waist.

"I know, sweetheart, but I just want what's best for all three of you. If that means basically renovating an entire house, so be it."

"You want to know what I want?" She said, her glimmering, and a smile playing at her lips.

"What?" He whispered, pulling her closer to him.

"My independence back!" She yelled, her eyes suddenly narrowing into a glare as she broke away from his embrace.

"C'mon, Snow, it's not that bad. Just wait a couple of months, and it'll be all back to normal, except that we're going to have a little two-in-one around."

"Or, you could just stop being so overprotective and let me do something every once in a while!" She said, before suddenly clutching her lower abdomen.

"Snow?" Gigglebox said worriedly, "Snow, is everything okay?"

"Yep," she gasped, "Just fine. It's nothing."

"Are you sure? Snow, that really didn't look like nothing." He fussed, getting annoyed sighs from Snowflake.

"Everything is just fine! There's nothing wrong! I'm just-" she stopped herself, suddenly looking at the floor.

"Snow? Snow, what's wrong? What-" Giggle's gaze suddenly fell upon the small puddle underneath Snowflake.

"I'm in labor!" She finished simply.

~*~

Techie couldn't sleep. He'd tried everything, but sleep seemed preoccupied somewhere else. He knew exactly why he couldn't sleep.  It didn't make the situation any more comforting, but he knew why:

His and Ninroot's child was due this week. He had trouble sleeping all week, but today it was particularly bad. He just couldn't shake off the feeling that today was the day it would finally happen, when he would finally become a father.

The day came and went.

Still no foal.

Both Techie and Ninroot were beginning to worry at this point. If the foal didn't come today, then it would be late. And one of the most common symptoms of mutation in

batpony/pony breeding was late arrival.

"What if she get teased for being so different?" Ninroot confided in him one night, when the clutches of insomnia had grabbed her, too.

"She won't, Nin. And besides, there's nothing to say that they're half-and-half yet. Millions of foals are born late every day."

"T-there's something I didn't tell you, Techie." Ninroot said quietly.

"Yes, Nin?" Techie said apprehensively.

"I-I actually knew it was going to be half-and-half for a while... I didn't tell you, because some ponies still have a prejudice against..." she didn't finish that sentence.

"Mutations. " Techie finished for her.

"Don't say that! I hate that word!" She shouted, covering her batpony ears.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Nin, I-"

"Techie?" She interrupted, "I think we're about to find out."

~*~

"What do I need to do?!" Gigglebox panicked, pacing the room, "I could- no, that's a dumb idea... Just stay there, Snow, I think my mom's a midwife!"

"Giggle, calm down. We've got heaps of time yet. Just find a suitcase and start packing it." Gigglebox came back a few minutes later, hauling a suitcase behind him.

"What'd 'ya need in it?" He gasped, tired from the excess weight of the suitcase.

"Just grab some baby clothes, two blankets... just pretend you have common sense and pack accordingly." She joked. Gigglebox enjoyed it while he could. Knowing that his only angel could soon be making her way back to Heaven, he couldn't help but fuss over her. If there was anything he could do, or anything he could sacrifice, to decrease the possibility of her death, he would do it in a heartbeat. But he knew that all he could do was to stop that chance from increasing.

"You might want to hurry up soon..." Said Snowflake, suddenly apprehensive.

"I'm trying, Snow!" He said, on the verge of tears.

"Look, fuck the suitcase, just get to hospital!" She said. She was scared, whether she was going to admit it or not. A gentle, comforting voice started calling from outside the bedroom.

"Is everything okay in there?" The voice asked. Gigglebox tore open the door, and swung it back shut as he stepped out onto the hallway.

"Is everything okay, sweetheart?" Asked Sweet Cotton again, a genuine look of concern in her eyes.

"Mom, Snow's just gone into labor, this could honestly be the last time I see her again, and... and..." He sunk to the floor in tears, "I just don't want her to die!"

Sweet Cotton sat down next to him, letting him openly sob on her for as long as he wanted. He eventually stopped, and looked up at his mother.

"What would you do?" He simply asked, looking up at her with his blue eyes.

"Well, for starters, I'd get her into hospital." She said, wrapping a hoof around him, "And then I'd just let nature take it's course. Everything happens for a reason, Giggle. Nothing ever happens because of luck."

There was a silence for a few seconds, before Gigglebox finally whispered,

"Thank you."

He then went downstairs, and slipped back into the bedroom, to see something that made him almost scream. Snowflake, slumped on the floor, fully unconscious and not aware of anything. Sweet Cotton must have heard his sudden, sharp, suppressed sobs, because she burst into the room, calling him. She rushed next to him, and immediately started comforting him, making sweet, murmuring sounds as she stroked his mane in a way that only a seasoned, loving mother can accomplish.

"She's still breathing, Giggle. She's still going." She whispered to him, letting him sob freely onto her, "The ambulance is coming, and she's still going. She's going to be fine, I promise."

"But I wasn't there." He whispered, "I wasn't there when she needed me."

~*~

Techie simply pulled out the suitcase from the corner they'd been storing it in for the last month. Organisation was always his top priority. The ambulance had been called immediately, but each second seemed to pass like a year. The anticipation was almost unbearable.

"Is anything happening yet, Nin?" Techie fussed once again.

"Nothing since give seconds ago." She said, he foreleg wrapped protectively around her stomach.

"Just breath, Nin, just breath." He said, in what was supposed to come out as soothing, but it ended up sounding more like a controlled panic attack. The ambulance finally arrived, and Techie and Ninroot piled into the back of it, Techie insisting on Ninroot laying down on the space provided. Techie had no idea of what to do at this point, all he could do was comfort his wife.

~*~

It took several minutes for Giggle, Melody, and Sweet Cotton to get Snowflake to the hospital. It would've taken longer if the medical chariot hadn't arrived.

It took about ten minuets for Gigglebox, Snowflake, Melody, and Sweet Cotton to arrive to the hospital. They dashed through the hospital lobby with the doctors who had Snowflake on a gurney, the sight alone made Giggle want to tremble and weep. But he knew he had to be there for his wife. If he couldn't be there when she needed him, he was going to be there for his and her most important moment for their lives.

It seemed like hours, but in reality it was only ten minutes. Gigglebox patiently waited in the waiting room. But as he waited, another stallion sat across from him. His face staring at only the floor, and nothing else. Trying to find some comfort, Gigglebox decided to mingle with this stallion.

~*~

Techie only sat in the wood chair. Waiting, wondering what the child would look like, and what the nurses, and doctors would think of it. He would still love and care for the child all the same, but he was just worried for it. Was it going to be teased because of its looks? Would it be shunned and cast out of every single click in school? Would it be teased? Would it never find a lover like Techie did? Will the child be able to live with its life knowing that it'll never be normal like the others? Many of these questions and more swarmed his already tired and stressed mind.

These thoughts were interrupted by a Manehatten sounding voice.

"Hey, hey mister?"

Techie looked up to see a pale green Pegasus staring at him with eyes that tried to hide nervousness and fear. Techie hid the same when he replied,

"Yeah?"

"You, you uh... Waiting for your first?"

Techie finding some comfort replied in a nervous happy tone,

"Sure am." He added a little grin to reassure the stallion he was fine. "You too?"

"Yeah... Yeah, I-I have." The stallion seemed very worried and distraught. "Twins" He mumbled. Techie was able to get a better look of the stallion. He was pale green, with dirty blonde mane, with a small beard beginning to grow. Techie rubbed his own muzzle noticing that he was do for a shave soon. The stallion was a Pegasus and his cutie mark were joke glasses on top of a clown nose.

Absolute silence fell over them, it felt like centuries until finally the silence was broken by an overweight unicorn mare came in.

"Can I get a... Techie Hoof?" Techie rose from his seat and looked at the nurse and nodded. She gestured him to follow her. After a few seconds, that left the stallion to himself.

~*~

Gigglebox was left alone once the Techie Hoof fella left. Since Sweet Cotton was in the bathroom and Melody was down in the lobby for whatever reason, this left Gigglebox alone to think. Think about the possibility of Snowflake passing on. What would he do? Sure he had his mother to help him, he couldn't count Melody since she's only here on vacation. But Sweet wouldn't be the same as Snowflake.

Finally, another nurse entered the room. She was a bright violet with yellow mane.

"Is there a Gigglebox?" She called out.

"Yes ma'am, I'm Gigglebox." Giggle replied slowly raising a hoof in the air. Giggle could already tell the bad news was going to come, he could read the nurses face and it didn't say any good news. She gestured him to follow her and with that, he did.

She lead him down a large white hallway, passing rooms and other doors. For a brief second, Giggle could have sworn that he saw that Techie guy from earlier in one of the rooms. He was lead to room number 13.

His personal lucky number.

He entered to see Snowflake peaceful but not awake and alive. The monitor still kept beeping, and he could see her breath every so often, but it was just terrible to his the once happy and loving mare he loved hooked up to some machine like an energy generator.

"The birth was a success, we had to do a C-section however because she wasn't awake when we did the procedure." Giggle only stared at Snowflake.

"Is, she going to be okay?"

"Well, she's still alive. But she's in a coma, and it's quite rare for somepony to survive a twin birth and live to tell the story." Giggle stayed silent, not knowing what to say at this point. He only put a hoof on Snowflake's head and whispered.

"Please stay Snow... You promised."