One Life to Love

Chaper 7: Full Speed to the Future.

Rarity tore through her boutique at a breakneck pace. She'd gotten a rather cumbersome order that had come completely out of the blue and she most certainly wasn't ready for it. The sudden workload was crashing over her quickly and she found herself wondering why somepony would  need a set of 50 dresses so suddenly. Needless to say, this meant Fluttershy's entrance was not as welcome as the daisy pegasus had hoped.Therefore, Fluttershy had kept silent as Rarity dashed about the store, gathering materials and registering how many premade dresses she could spare from her stocks. In fact, she was just about to take her leave when Rarity stopped everything and turned to her

"Hello love," Rarity started, her tired voice filled with as much endearment as she could muster,"I'm so sorry for ignoring you. It's just that, well, I have a huge workload so I hope you can make this quick. Maybe we can talk about this over dinner tonight if it's you'd like, I really have to get this done." She gave her pegasus lover a quick kiss and then started to work once again. This time her pace had slowed as she paid more attention to Fluttershy.

Fluttershy steeled herself once again. As much as she wished she could push this back, she knew she wouldn't have the heart to do what she came here for if she waited for the night. She walked behind Rarity, somehow keeping pace with the ivory unicorn as she prepared.

"I, um, have a few proposals," Fluttershy said, watching her lover's expressions carefully as she spoke. She knew full and well how Rarity could act to the little bombshells she was about to drop. "I have two, to be precise. That is, of course. . .if you want to hear them."

"Go ahead dear, tell me what you want to tell me, I'm all ears." Rarity pushed through one of her stock closets as she spoke, pulling one stock dress after the other, examining each carefully.

"Well, um. . .we've been dating for like, five years now, and, um. . ." Fluttershy froze, her tongue caught in her throat. She knew it was now or never, no matter how bad this may end up. "well. . .I wanna get married and have kids."

She spit the words out quick and loud, throwing Rarity and herself off their guard.  Rarity was so astounded by Fluttershy's requests she nearly fell over and died in surprise, and after commanding control of her heart, she could only look at the yellow pegasus in shock.

"Run that by me again dear," Rarity requested, trying desperately to blink away the bewilderment from her mind.

"Um. . .well, I wanna get married and have kids." Fluttershy tried to smile awkwardly at her lover, but couldn't keep her gaze on the white unicorn.

"Let's start with the marriage idea. How would we do that?", Rarity asked, her bewilderment increasing. "What about decree 63?"

Decree 63 was a law passed seven years after Princess Luna had been banished to the moon. The decree stated that no pony could enter into a legal marriage with a pony of the same gender or a creature of a different species. Celestia had said once that she'd made the law to halt a possible conflict that she'd seen in the future, which was thought by the majority to be an acceptable reason for the decree. Now, however, views in Equestria had cycled back to that of acceptance of all relationships, meaning there should be no use for the law; alas, Celestia had been denying any requests to burn the decree (as doing such would nullify the law) for years now.

"We could get married in secret, at least. . .I was hoping we could." Fluttershy turned her gaze to the ground nervously. She was kicking herself hard for this one. She knew this was a bad idea and would sooner be in the pits of Gehenna than here.

"Let's take a step back then," Rarity started, seeing how terrible her shy mate felt,"let's move on to the kids then. I know you, and I know if we were to watch over a little foal then you would hate the idea of adopting, you'd rather it be your own. There's just one problem with that, you and I both know you can't have a child." Fluttershy teared up worse than she ever had before in her life at that.

It was a sad story to be honest. For Fluttershy once had a terrible illness about her. The illness had been so terrible that the doctor's had once believed it to have destroyed her womb, ceasing any hope of her giving birth to a foal. This was just one of the things she held with shame, but she didn't fault her lover for bringing it up.

"Th-that's just the thing, I was wondering if, maybe, you'd be able to bear the child." Fluttershy said those last words almost inaudibly, choking up as she looked up at her unicorn lover pleadingly. An awkward silence passed for a moment, but was soon broken by the sound of Rarity's sister, Sweetie Belle, walking into the boutique and humming to herself. Sweetie had been gone the entire night, but none of that mattered to Rarity at the moment.

"Sweetums, dear," Rarity started, causing Sweetie to halt her progress to her room in the boutique that was also her and her sister's home,"how would you feel about being a mare of honor and an Aunt?"

"Why?", Sweetie asked, a look of sudden confusion on her face as she glanced nervously at the cutie mark she'd obtained-a microphone surrounded by stars-a week ago as if hoping it would give an answer, then turning back to her sister with a continued look of confusion.

"Because, you're going to be both very soon," Rarity answered.

Fluttershy's face shot up to gaze at her unicorn lover, who smiled widely back. Fluttershy suddenly wrapped her hooves around the unicorn.

She hoped this moment would never end. This was better than Heaven.