Cheating the Cycle of Life- A Padded Pony Collab

Lex Populi was liking the situation she had been found herself into, after begin lost in the dark and wandering about the park, seemingly for hours on end, crying for her mommy to find her. Now she was laying on the couch inside of stallion's house, after he had offered her shelter for the night, saying that he was going to bring her back home the next day.

"Thank you, nice mister!" She said, as she grabbed the butterfly and flower-decorated sippy cup full of milk given out by her host, a light gray stallion with dark blue mane, before setting it inside her mouth to drink from it.

The stallion nodded slightly, still looking down, as he had been doing for all that time with Lex, muttering "You're welcome Lex Populi, little one."

Lex drank the warm milk from her sippy cup contently, until her stomach was filled up with it and the bottle was emptied, at which point she popped it otu of her mouth and put it aside, letting otu a little, barely-audible burp.

"Pardon." Lex said, before turning around with a slight crinkle brought by the pink-white pull-up she was wearing around her waist, as the soothign effect of the milk made her eyes feel heavy and her body feel less energic.

"Tired..." she whispered, as she then truend her head around towards the stallion "could you please carry me?" He stepped back and frowned, seemingly upset by her request, thus making Lex Populi frown back up and look down at the green cloth of the couch.

"Sorry..." Lex said, not quite understanding why he had reacted liek that, but understanding very well he was upset.

"N-no..." he said, looking down and barely lifting his head "it's fine, but... I'm not fine. I-I should not even have brought you in, for your safety..."

Lex Populi felt even more confused and looked up at the stallion again.

"Saf-ty? What's that?"

"I-it's when you don't have to fear anything because everything that could hurt you is not near or inoffensive..." he sighed "and you're not safe with me here."

Lex Populi was even more confused, and a bit saddened, by the stallion’s words.

“Why?” She asked.

“B-because… because... “ he visibly flinched about, looking around him nervously, as if something was going to strike on him at any moment “I’m n-not a good pony. I’m a bad one. A-a-a v-very, very bad one.”

Lex Populi could see that the stallion had some tears welling up in his eyes. This meant sadness. And, for Lex Populi, nothing was better than an hug for dispel sadness. So she mustered all her forces, and waddled towards the stallion, her pull-up crinkling and hindering her somewhat as she moved, but she marched on, until she was near the stallion’s chest.

There, after begin hit by two tears on her head, Lex buried her head deep in the stallion’s fur, trying to embrace his big chest with her tiny hooves. Lex could hear his host’s heart beating very steadily in his chest, but, before she could hear any further changes in beat, the stallion pushed her away, making her recoil and almost hit the floor on her back.

Ow!”

“Please, don’t!” He said, backpedaling a little more “Celestia only knows what I would do, if you were to hug me longer…”

Lex Populi felt frustrated, confused and a bit in pain, so she released herself by the only way she knewit was common to those three feelings, by tearing up and crying loudly. Immediately the stallion rushed to her, burying Lex’s face in his chest fur.

“Ssshhh, please, don’t cry,” he said “the neighbors already hate me, and I’d hate to think I’ve hurt you in any way. I-I just wanted to help you out. You were alone and scared in the street, calling for your mother… I wanted to try to see if I could do something right with foals, but it seems I can’t...”

Lex Populi slowly stopped crying, until she just quietly sobbed, then, after detaching herself from the stallion’s chest, she tilted her head, still frowning.

“Do something with foals?”

He sighed, turning around andlowerign himself so to allow Lex to jump on him. “Don’t hop on my flank.”

Lex sloppily climbed on the stallion’s shoulders, and then lied down, dozing off.

Waking up, she felt that the surface she was lying on now was harder and colder than the stallion’s fur, making Lex shiver and wet herself a little. Lex slowly put herself back on her fours and, when she did so, she saw her host browsing some pages of a photographic album, his page-turning in the dim light of a candle looking almost solemn in its demeanour, bringing Lex to look at him in curiosity and, why not, awe.

He stopped at a certain point, at which he grabbed the album with his front hooves and put it down on the ground, before sitting down.

“Here it is what I am talking about.” He said sadly,  before setting the candle nearby too “I’m sorry, but I felt it was necessary for you to know.”

Lex cantered, a squishing sound coming from her flank, towards the album, at which point she stopped and looked down at the photos inside. Bette ye, the drawings inside.

Lex Populi saw the sketch of a filly, looking not much older than her, with a big diaper and a weird little box thingy strapped to her rear hooves. Lex saw that the filly looked funny, with a scrunched up face that seemingly told that she was having fun and that she was uncomfortable at the same time.

The second drawing, this one in colour, was of a blushing green colt in girly clothing, like frilly booties and pink diaper, which made Lex giggle at its silliness of it.

The third sketch was of a filly photographed from behind with her tail raised. Lex’s eyebrows arched, as she did not understand the point of that drawing, but she found it nice-looking nonetheless.

The fourth was, once again, in colour, and was representing a more dressed up like Twilight, but without the smock, changing the messy diaper of a little colt.

“That’s why you should not be here, and why I’m begin a foolish monster in letting you in.”

Lex looked up still at the stallion.

“I don’t get it…”

He sighed, almost of relief “Blessed naivety… your parents will sure explain it to you, once they will have thrown me out of your house after bringing you back.” Then he snuffed out the candle with a spit, before saying “now let’s go to bed. You’ll sleep in the nursery, though, I still don’t want to do a mistake.”

Lex shrugged. He was a nice pony, why would her mommy or daddy throw him out of their house, especially if they had brought her back?

“Lexxy! You have no idea in how much danger you were!”

Lex Populi was rubbing her beaten flank, a couple of tears coming out of her eyes, as she still recalled the scene of the nice stallion of the night before begin chsed otu of her house with a broom.

“But why?”

“He was a stranger, and a dangerous one at that and you don’t kno…” Lex’s mother ranted, before jumping down from the stood sh had been sitting on, and hugging her daughter tightly.

“I-I don’t know what could have happened if they did something to you.”

Lex Populi struggled in her mother’s embrace around. “B-but… he didn’t hurt me, he was scared of being hugged! I don’t get it!”

Her mother loosened the grip a little but didn’t answer until several minutes had passed.

“But you know what happened to the fillies he had hosted the other times?” Lex’s mother asked, breaking up the embrace. Lex,panting, shook her head.

“They had naughty things done to them, some didn’t even came back home!”

Lex Populi looked down.

And yet he still didn’t do anything to her, she had just shown her drawings...