A Horse Divided

Twilight slept soundly for the rest of the night. She'd passed out almost immediately after she'd finished, collapsing on top of him. Her head rested on Shining's chest, listening to his heart beat. Shining was likewise exhausted from their activity. It was all he could do to shift himself a bit out from under her, laying her partially beside him on the small bed. There was so much he wanted to tell her, so much that he needed to ask her. But it now was so late that it was early. He surrendered to his own fatigue and slept.

Shining didn't wake up at the usual time he normally did. At some point, his alarm clock had been disconnected, or more likely, broken. Shining didn't stir until hours later when a sliver of sunlight crept across his eyelids. But it was far from dawn's first light. He squinted, trying to wake up. The sun was just peeking over the roof of the neighboring house. That meant that it was already mid-morning. He tried to sit up but felt a pressure keeping him down. He opened his eyes fully. Twilight was still in bed with him, half laying on top of him and still stone asleep.

"Twilight," he said, trying to wake her. Twilight's ear twitched a bit, reflexively, at the mention of her name. "Twilight!" he said louder. She stirred a bit, scrunching her face in the harsh sunlight pouring into the room. She blinked a few times, and opened her eyes.

"...hey..."

"Come on, it's time to get up," he said, just like he had when he was helping her get ready for school as a little filly.

"...'kay..." Twilight yawned, trying to orientate herself and get to her hooves to crawl over him and out of bed. She lifted herself up, getting off of where she was laying across him at the hips. Her now-flaccid penis at last pulled free of his vagina with a wet 'plop'. Unplugged at last, the voluminous white fluid inside spilled free, soaking into the bedding. He remembered what it was he needed to talk to her about.

"You came inside me!? You really did! Twilight! I can't believe you did that!"

"Oops."

"Oops? Oops!? Is that all you have to say!?" Shining fumed. "Do you have any idea how reckless that was?"

"Shining,"

"What's going to happen when you get your lower half back? You've literally knocked yourself up!"

"Shining,"

"And with- my sperm!"

"Shining!"

"What?!"

"You really think I would be that stupid?" she asked.

"Well you weren't exactly thinking clearly."

"I used a contraceptive spell."

"Oh. Really?"

"Yeah. That's like, sex ed 101. It's the first thing they teach you."

"Oh yeah..." he sighed, relieved that he was not about to be a premature uncle of some unnatural spawn. "I forgot that they taught that."

"You were probably too busy looking at the pictures. But yeah, a school would have to be incredibly irresponsible to not teach safe sex on the assumption that fillies and colts would abstain from an activity that costs nothing to do, and feels fantastic." Twilight got out of bed and shook off her drowsiness. Shining sat up, feeling his insides settling back into place as more semen gushed out. "Sorry about the mess."

"Meh. It's not the first time," he said, climbing out of bed, trying to avoid making any more mess.

"But it won't be the last time?" Twilight asked with a smirk.

"Twi,"

"I'm just teasing."

"Twi, listen, about last night..."

"Yeah?"

"What was it? I mean, what are we now? What am I to you?" he asked. Twilight shuffled her hooves a little.

"You're my brother. My B.B.B.F.F." she said. "Last night was just, is was experimenting," she said, "a one-time chance to try something we might not ever be able to again."

"And that's it?"

"Yeah. I mean, isn't it?"

"What about when you kissed me?" he asked, "You've never kissed me like that before." Twilight smiled.

"I don't know. I was caught up in the heat of the moment. It just felt right," she said. She could see he looked worried. "It was just a kiss."

"And that's it?"

"Yeah. Why? Was it more than that for you?" she asked.

"No. I mean... no," he said.

"Okay."

"Okay."

...

"Breakfast?" Twilight suggested.

"Sure!" Shining stood up, feeling more leakage running down his inner thigh. "I, uh, I need to go freshen up first."

Shining came downstairs after cleaning up, and put the bed linen in the wash with the rest of the laundry. Twilight was busy in the kitchen preparing some food.

"What's on the menu?" he asked as he walked into the kitchen.

"Peanut butter and jelly," she said, sliding the sandwich across the table on a plate.

"Works for me." They both sat and ate. "When is Trixie supposed to be back?" he asked. She looked at the train schedule pinned near the calendar on the wall.

"Well, the train arriving from Hoofington will be arriving at the station shortly this morning. I would go down there to greet her but-" she motioned to both of them.

"Right."

Shining and Twilight finished eating. Twilight did the dishes and Shining tended to the laundry. Both did chores, cleaning and trying to make there presence in the house go unnoticed for when their parents returned tomorrow. Twilight was in the middle of tidying up the living room, vacuuming the last few bits of broken wood from the ruined box.

KNOCK KNOCK

Twilight jumped at the noise, parting the blinds and peeking outside. She was back. Twilight opened the door with her magic. "Come in!" she called out. Trixie all but fell into the house, with her cart in tow.

"You would not BELIEVE the weekend that Trixie has had!" she groaned. Shining had finished folding the laundry and walked to the living room at the sound of Trixie's return. Twilight took the new magic box from the cart and brought it into the living room. Trixie made a bee line for the kitchen. "Trixie is positively FAMISHED!" she complained dramatically, throwing open the refrigerator. She grabbed the salad in the bowl inside.

Twilight and Shining looked at eachother, sharing an expression of 'Should we tell her? Nah.' Trixie grabbed a large salad fork and greedily began to shovel it into her mouth, full of salad covered in mare and stallion cum. She was either too oblivious or too hungry to care.

"What kind of salad dressing is this?" Trixie managed to ask between her obnoxious chewing.

"Oh it's, uh-" Shining tried to say.

"It's home-made." Twilight said, smirking. Shining grinned knowingly along with her, watching Trixie eat their cum on the salad, licking the fork clean when she finished it off. Trixie didn't notice it, but the 'secret sauce' was clearly having an effect on her, causing her tail to drift upwards.

"You'll have to make some more for me," Trixie said. Twilight raised an eyebrow at her brother and looked back to Trixie.

"That could be arranged," Twilight said, eyeing her sky-blue ass. Shining made an intentional cough.

"Ahem." Twilight looked at him, he made a subtle motion with his hoof to her underbelly. Twilight looked down and realized that the whole scene was making her visibly excited. Instead of becoming mortified, Twilight actually felt emboldened.

"So, Trixie," she said, as she sauntered over to her, "do you like my new look?" she asked, sidling up along side of her. Trixie looked over at her and Twilight shifted her hind leg to show off her new equipment.

"Twilight!" Trixie gasped. She was not the shy bookworm that she'd known last week. This whole prank of swapping their halves was only meant to try to impress her and show off her magic. But now she was staring face to face with the reality of the situation.

"Do you like what you see? I think you do." Twilight said in a sultry tone, giving Trixie's tail a tug even higher. Trixie suddenly became aware of her flagging tail and tried to consciously lower it to hide her modesty. But it was a losing battle. "Before you switch us back to normal, it would be an awful shame if you didn't get a chance to take this for a test ride," Twilight teased. Trixie was so used to being the arrogant aggressor, and here she was on the defense from the unlikeliest of mares. Or was she a stallion now? Shining could only stand back and watch as a kinky porno-turned-real unfolded in his kitchen.

"Twilight! Trixie did not think you felt this way about her," Trixie said.

"Well, it's been a weekend of self-discovery for me," she said, wrapping her hooves over her back, nibbling on her ear, eliciting a gasp from the show mare.

"Twi- ahh, your brother is right there!" Trixie said. Twilight glanced over. Indeed he was still there, watching them.

"Oh, would you like him to join us?" Twilight asked. Trixie didn't even know how to respond. "Shining, over here!" Twilight directed him before either of the other ponies could object. Shining felt like he was almost lost in a trance. He found himself doing as she asked, even without thinking about it. He walked over in front of them. "Turn around." Twilight grabbed his tail with her magic, lifting it. "You like this?" she asked, showing off her brother's purple plot. "I know you do. Don't think that I haven't seen you checking it out when you thought I wasn't looking." Trixie blushed deeply. It was a testament of truth that she could not deny.

"You know," Twilight continued, "when you first switched us, I was pretty mad at you. I had to break my brother's piggy bank, and give you all of his bits."

"Trixie will pay you back!" she said. Twilight grinned, leaning over her, half-mounting her. She leaned in and whispered in her ear.

"Yes. I know you will."

Twilight lifted Shining with her magic and flipped him onto his back onto the area rug. "But first, you can pay my brother back." Shining grinned and spread his legs. "I know you've been thinking about getting a piece of that purple pussy. Now is your chance. Make him happy." She shifted her weight and leaned on her a bit more, forcing her to bow down toward his yawning marehood. She eased off, letting Trixie be the one to close the final distance.

Trixie looked up at Shining from between his legs. He propped himself up on his elbows, watching, waiting for her. Trixie looked down at his, or rather, Twilight's lavender pussy. The violet tail underneath, with a pink highlight running through it, was like a VIP carpet, leading her to her destination. Trixie licked her lips, and edged closer, taking in the aroma of another mare's musk. Shining could feel her warm breath on his nethers. It was making him practically quiver with anticipation.

Trixie stuck out her tongue and moved her head down into his lap, finally making contact. Shining gasped, feeling her tongue on him at last. He had felt the sensation before, but it was still very intense this time too. Trixie made a few experimental licks, testing the flavor. She gradually increased her motions, licking longer, and harder. Twilight watch her brother throw his head back, panting as the mare licked him. Twilight had been so busy when she was the one doing it, she couldn't appreciate the show he was putting on with all of the funny expressions he was making. She briefly wondered if she made funny faces like that too. Trixie leaned lower, licking into his entrance at the base of his pussy, pushing her nose into his slit as she worked her way up. Twilight took advantage of Trixie's new position. She reared up and mounted her hips. Trixie's head shot up.

"Twilight! Wait!" she cried.

"What's the matter? I thought the Great and Sultry Trixie got all of the stallions she wanted," Twilight said, teasing at Trixie's blue pussy lips with her cock, getting it slick with Trixie's wetness, pressing at her entrance.

"No, Trix- I, I don't!" she confessed. "I never have!"

"Trixie!" Twilight scoffed, "Do you mean to tell me that you're a-" Twilight leaned in close, whispering in her ear, "virgin?" Trixie clenched her eyes and nodded, ashamed. "You are? And you wish you weren't? But you could never get with any stallion? None at all?" She nodded again. "Say it. Say what you are. Say the words," Twilight commanded.

"I am a virgin!" Trixie cried. Twilight pushed her hips forward, penetrating the azure mare. Trixie let out a high-pitched whinny.

"Was," she whispered. She felt Trixie trembling under her. Twilight had only just gotten the tip inside, letting Trixie get used to the sensation. She was breathing heavily, Twilight pushed in another inch.

"Oooh!" Trixie moaned.

"Hey Twilight, I think she likes it!" Shining said. Twilight grinned.

"Is that true Trixie!?" she asked with faux surprise, "Do you like having a big cock inside you?" Trixie let out a vague whimper to the affirmative. Twilight grabbed a hoof-full of her silver mane, giving if a gentle, but firm pull, playfully growling in her ear as she nibbled on it, "I don't hear you giving me any answers! Maybe when I shoved this dick into you I was aiming a little to low!" Twilight pulled her dick out and pointed it at Trixie's tight butthole.

"No! Please!" Trixie cried out.

"Would you rather have this big cock in your pussy?" Twilight asked.

"Yes!"

"Yes, what?"

"Yes, I want your big cock in my pussy!" Trixie cried. Twilight slid her cock back down, lining it up with her vagina, pushing it back inside, deeper this time.

"Ooooh!"

"You're not done yet. Get back to work!" Twilight said, releasing her mane. Trixie went back to licking Shining's pussy. Shining was still in a bit of shock. Not only from the mare going down on him, but from his sister's behavior. Maybe it was all the testosterone flooding her system that was making her so aggressive. Or maybe it was just a side of her that he just never knew about.

It's always the quiet ones.

Twilight pulled out a little and pushed back in, deeper with each repetition, shoving Trixie's face into Shining's pussy with each advance. Before long, Twilight had pushed her entire length into her. Each time her hips slapped against hers, her heavy balls would slap against Trixie's engorged clitoris, pushing her closer and closer to orgasm. Twilight could feel Trixie's pussy involuntarily flexing and gripping her cock with each wave of pleasure pulsing through her. Trixie could do little else but moan into Shining's pussy, vibrating her nose against his clit.

"Mff! MFF! MMMHHHHHH!" Trixie's cry of orgasmic ecstasy was muffled into Shining's folds as Twilight made her cum. Twilight could feel a fresh rush of fluid spilling out from her pussy, forcing its way out around her cock as she continued to relentlessly fuck her through her orgasm, pushing herself to the brink. Trixie's moans against Shining's clit proved too much for him.

"Ah! AH! AHHH!" Shining moaned, clamping his legs onto Trixie's head and wetting her face with his own maregasm. Gasping for breath, she was nearly drowned. His hips bucked uncontrollably, holding her head tightly still. Trixie could only go along for the ride, still in the throes of her own climax. Her pussy gripping and writhing around Twilight's cock was the final straw.

"I'm gonna cum!" Twilight shouted. Her cock flared wide, deep inside of Trixie. Her balls tightened and her cock began to swell.

"Nooo!" Trixie panicked, trying to pulled herself free. But Shining's legs held her fast. Twilight wrapped her hooves around Trixie's waist, pulling her tight against her as she rammed her cock home, pushing as deep as she could. "No! Not inside! Please!

"It's too late!" Twilight cried, "I'm Cumming!" Trixie felt the first bout of hot cum erupting deep inside of her.

"Oh NO!" Trixie cried.

"OH YES!" Twilight smiled wide, keeping her held tight as she pumped load after load into her, filling her with cum. "Oh, I'm cumming so much inside you, Trixie! I'm going to get you SO pregnant!" Twilight gloated, pushing her flared head against the mounting pressure, forcing her seed deeper into the mare. She and her brother struggled to keep a straight face at her attempt at dirty-talk. Trixie was openly sobbing now.

"Noooooooooo!" She finally wrenched herself free of his legs' grip, trying to get away from Twilight. "Please no! I can't believe you came inside me!" Twilight finally released her, pulling free with a very wet 'shlorp'. A river of semen rushed out. "Oh my gosh! You really did!"

"Yup!" Twilight teased. "And now you're pregnant! You're going to get big and fat, and give me lots of foals! All mine, since nopony else is ever going to want a big, fat, pregnant Trixie." Shining struggled to keep from laughing out loud. Twilight could no longer keep herself from giggling.

"What is so funny about this? My life is ruined!" Trixie yelled.

"Twilight, come on! Now you're just being mean," Shining said, "Just tell her."

"Tell me what?" Trixie asked. Twilight tried to compose herself after now laughing so hard. "Tell me what!?"

"Trixie, you're not pregnant!" Twilight said. "I used a contraception spell! I wouldn't just rush into doing something without thinking about the consequences of my actions. That would be reckless and dangerous." Twilight said, lecturing her.

"Yeah, Trixie," Shining added, getting to his hooves, "You should think before you do something that could be dangerous, or 'ruin somepony's life'!" he said, motioning to the magic boxes in the living room, and their swapped halves.

"Trixie... gets your point," she muttered, shuffling her hooves. Cum continued to run down her legs. "So all of this was just to teach me a lesson about responsibility?" she asked.

"No. This is a threesome," Twilight said, "It's not to get back at you... well, it's not just to get back at you. Teaching you a lesson in the process was just a bonus." Twilight headed towards the living room. "Now, shall we?"

The three of them walked back into the living room. Twilight carefully got into the first box. Shining was about to get into the other.

"Wait!" Trixie said. They both looked at her. "Trixie must know what it's like to be a stallion!" She pushed Shining Armor aside, climbing into the other box, closing the lid on herself. "Would you please?" she asked him. He looked at Twilight. She rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, sure, what the hell," she sighed. Shining put the metal slats into each of the boxes, cringing each time. Illusion or not, it was still very unsettling to see. He fished around on the floor for the wand, tapping the boxes, and saying the magic words.

"Presto! Change-o! Rea-"

"You don't actually have to say that." Trixie said.

"... rearrange-o." he finished without enthusiasm. He separated each of the boxes, swapping them each to the other pony, and reconnecting them. He lifted the slats out, and opened the boxes, helping each of them climb out. Twilight looked back at her new, blue flank, wiggling her silver tail.

"So, this is what it feels like to have a big, fat ass," she teased.

"IT IS NOT!" Trixie fumed.

"Twilight," Shining interjected from the couch, trying to keep things diplomatic.

"Okay, okay! I'm kidding!" Twilight smirked. It was fun seeing how easily Trixie got all worked up. Trixie huffed and looked at her own, new, posterior. The strong, toned muscles of a Royal Guard pony rippling beneath the fur.

"Trixie could get used to this!" she said, grinning. She walked over to Twilight, checking out her blue flank from a new angle. "Hmmm, Trixie can see why you would want such a fine behind," she complimented of her own, blue butt. "Have a seat on it, see for yourself." Trixie directed Twilight to the couch, beside her brother. Twilight sat down, feeling for any difference.

"It feels about the saaaaaAAAH! Hey HEY!" Before Twilight could even react, Trixie was between her legs, lifting and separating them, burying her face into her crotch, kissing and licking away with wild abandon. "Whoa! Trixie! What are you doing!?" Twilight asked, though really, the answer was fairly obvious.

"Do not speak." Trixie said in a curt tone. "Let Trixie enjoy this." She really was in love with herself, seizing the first opportunity to sample her own flavor. "Hmm, I do taste good. It's almost like..." A bit more of the 'cream filling' from earlier leaked from her. Trixie tasted it. It tasted like the salad dressing from earlier.

"It's home made."

"You fed me cum on the salad!?"

"Oh, just figured that out, did you?" Twilight teased.

"She made it just for you," Shining added.

"You're lucky that Trixie is such a forgiving pony. And that your cum tastes so good." She went back to licking Twilight. Whatever she'd learned from earlier about cunnilingus she was certainly applying here. Twilight was enjoying the familiar sensations of her maregasm building up. Beside her, Shining was getting a bit anxious. He stood up on the couch, and shifted himself over, straddling his sister's waist. Trixie was lost in her own little world, eyes closed, licking her former pussy. Twilight looked at him, confused.

"What are you doing?" she mouthed silently. He grinned and put a hoof to his lips. With his legs on either side of her, he squatted down, lowering himself onto Trixie's head. More specifically, her horn. Trixie stopped moving for a moment at the contact, making it easier for him to move the rest of the way, her horn fitting snugly inside his vagina. He held himself there, keeping his weight off of her. She looked up, cross-eyed at where her horn was penetrating him, the warmth of it enveloping her sensitive horn.

"Please, don't let me stop what you were doing," he said. Trixie hesitated for a moment, but resumed licking. Twilight gasped and moaned as Trixie brought her closer and closer to climax. The subtle movements of her head caused the ridges of her horn to move about slightly inside of Shining, driving him wild. Trixie ran her tongue deeper into her pussy, making Twilight cry out.

"Yes! Yes, Trixie! Keep going! I'm almost there!" she moaned. Shining was likewise getting close. In their position, he couldn't help but look into his sister's eyes, both knowing what the other was feeling. He leaned down and kissed her. It was just a kiss. She kissed him back, harder. Trixie sped up he movements, translating through her horn inside him. Twilight broke the kiss, "Yes! Yes! I'm- I'm gonna-" Trixie pulled away at the last moment, leaving them both on the brink.

"No!" Trixie said, "This is for Trixie's enjoyment! Not yours!"

"Please!" Twilight cried out, begging for release. Shining sat up.

"No, Twilie! You don't need to beg from her!" he said. He shifted his position, moving one of his legs off of the couch between hers. Even with zero experience as a lesbian, he pressed his marehood against hers, mashing them together as he scissored her. Her hips buck up against his as he ground into her, rubbing together in a desperate fray, their clits bumping against eachother. Their sweet spot found, their movements grew frantic.

"Yes! YES! AHHH!" They cried out in unison, cumming together. Trixie huffed, left standing there with naught but the flavor of her former pussy on her lips. They were getting off without her. This was intolerable. She demanded satisfaction. As it happened, the sight of them going at it had caused 'little Shiny' to come out and play again, making its presence know, bobbing against her belly.

Solution presented itself

Trixie pushed Shining back up onto the couch, laying on top of his sister. She grabbed Twilight's legs, and brought her new cock in her hoof against her blue pussy.

"Ooh hoo hoo!" Trixie giggled. It was certainly a new sensation. Her pussy was plenty wet, easily getting her cock slick. As soon as she was able, she pushed it inside of Twilight without ceremony.

"Ah!" Twilight yelped. Trixie wasted no time, pushing it deeper into her, "OooOOHHH!" Twilight let out a throaty moan. It was the first time she'd even been penetrated as a mare. It was the first time she ever felt a penis inside her. And it was Trixie doing it to her. She hadn't expected this to happen today. Certainly it was something that she had eventually wanted to experience after they had been swapped back to normal. But she just thought that it would have been...

She looked up at her brother, on top of her. He looked into her eyes, and she looked into his as she was getting fucked.

... by somepony else.

"How does it feel Twilight?" Trixie taunted as she fucked her. Twilight just kept looking at him. She could feel his penis moving in and out of her, and there he was, right there in front of her. "How does it feel to be getting fucked by your own brother's cock?"

Wonderful

"Mmmm! My pussy sure feels great!" Trixie said, slapping her balls against her each time she hilted her. "I love fucking it!" She looked at Twilight's marehood, attached to Shining, on top of Twilight. She paused for a second. "I wonder how yours compares!"

Trixie pulled out of Twilight. Shining could see the hurt in her eyes at the void it left. But he had no time to console her. He felt Trixie's hooves grab his hips, shoving her cock against his marehood. Both already very wet, she pushed herself inside easily. Shining lurched forward into Twilight's shoulder. Twilight hugged him, knowing that Trixie would not show the same kindness of starting slowly. Trixie sunk deeply into him with no regard for anything except her own pleasure as she abused his pussy. Shining whimpered into her shoulder as he felt her bottom out hard against his cervix, her balls resting against his clit as their hips met.

"Wow! A perfect fit!" Trixie said. "You two really are made for eachother!" she teased. Shining looked at his sister. They both knew she was right. It was true. She pulled back and filled him with her cock again. "Oh yeah! This feels amazing! Too bad you two can never feel it like this since you're related!" After fucking Twilight she was already getting close.

"Oh, ah! Oh yeah! It's gonna happen!" Trixie felt the tingle running up her spine. It was a completely new and different sensation, but she knew immediately what it was. Her balls flexed and her cock flared. Shining could feel it deep inside of him. He knew what was coming next. Her shaft swelled and twitched. She felt herself burst inside him. "Oh FUCK!" Trixie yelled, throwing her head back. It was the most intense orgasm she'd ever felt. "I'm CUMMING!" Shining felt her cumming inside him, flooding him with more semen. "I'm cumming inside YOUR pussy, Twilight Sparkle! With your BROTHER'S dick!" She tried to keep humping, but she felt her knees go weak at the over-stimulation. Her hooves fell out from under her and the fell backwards, her cock pulling out quickly, a torrent of cum pouring out of Shining along with it.

Shining was likewise exhausted. Trixie had taken a lot out of him. And put a lot in him. He could just barely roll off of Twilight, collapsing onto the couch beside her. Twilight looked down at Trixie, passed out on the floor. She levitated Trixie into one of the boxes, and Shining into the other. She split them and rearranged them, reconnecting Shining. Shining finally had his lower half back. She opened the box and lifted him out, and gently lowered him onto the couch. She climbed into the box, herself, closed it, and bisected herself. She retrieved her other half, rolling the box over to herself and reconnecting it. She pulled the slat out and climbed out of the box. She pushed Trixie's two halves together, and lifted the slat out. She opened the box, and lifted Trixie out, setting her back onto the carpet.

"Trixie." Twilight said to her. Her eyelids fluttered open, but then closed again. "Trixie, wake up." Trixie came to, slowly. "Come on, help me clean up." Trixie let out a complaining moan.

"Five more minutes," she whined. Twilight huffed and gathered up all of the things in the living room, including the two boxes that had cause all of this trouble. She briefly considered destroying them so that no other pony could befall her fate. She thought better of it, hoping that perhaps she could return them to the shop and Shining could get his money back from her. She abandoned that hope. She knew Trixie well enough. He was never going to see that money again. Twilight packed everything up, and loaded it back onto the cart outside, coming back inside at last for just one more thing.

"Trixie, get up!" Twilight said, with an edge of anger to her voice. Trixie finally got to her hooves. "Your stuff is all packed up outside. I think you should head back to the school now," she said. Trixie looked around the room, and then out the window. Indeed, everything of hers was ready to go. She looked back at Twilight.

"Would you... like to come with me?" Trixie asked, "To my dorm for the night?" Twilight understood very well what she was implying.

"I don't think so Trixie," she said, "It's been a really weird weekend, and I just need some time to..." Twilight wasn't sure what to say. She realized that she had been infatuated with her for some time. But deep down, Twilight knew that Trixie could never really love her. Trixie was already in love with herself. Sure, maybe it would be fun, for a while anyway, but that wasn't what Twilight wanted, or needed. "...I just need some time." Trixie heard the words. But the look in Twilight's eyes told her everything. It was rejection. "I'll see you in class tomorrow, okay?"

"Okay," Trixie said weakly, trying to keep the hurt from her face. She walked to the small cart and started to pull it away, back to the school campus. Twilight watched her walk away. Trixie didn't look back. Trixie wouldn't let herself look back. She wouldn't let Twilight see her crying.

Twilight closed the door. That was painful. Trixie could be obnoxious on the best of days, but Twilight didn't like hurting anypony's feelings. She leaned against the door and took a deep breath. She could deal with that later. She walked back into the living room. It, along with the kitchen, reeked of sex.

"Shining?" she asked of the dozing stallion. He was out like a light. As much as she wanted to let him sleep, as much as he surely deserved it after all of this, she needed his help to clean the house before their parents got home. She sat on the couch next to where he was laying. "Shining?" she asked again, gently nudging him with her hoof. He scrunched his face, upset at the disturbance. He'd already missed a lot of sleep last night. He really wanted to catch up on more than just a fifteen minute nap. He opened his eyes at last.

"Hey," he said. She leaned in and gave him a hug, just a regular hug, and helped him up.

"How are you doing?" she asked.

"I'm alright," he answered. "You?"

"A little sore," Twilight admitted, shifting her legs.

"Yeah she was a little rough on my- on your..." He blushed, trailing off. Suddenly it felt very strange again to be talking about his sister's marehood. He looked around, seeing no sign of Trixie. "Hey, where is she anyway?"

"She just left. She-" Twilight thought for a moment, "She said she was sorry about this weekend and how she behaved today. She didn't know what came over her and she'll try to pay you back your money as soon as she can," Twilight lied.

"No she didn't," he said. Shining was barely awake but he was having none of it.

"No..." Twilight frowned, "she didn't."

"I'm sorry, Twilight."

"It's okay. It would never have worked out, me and her. I know that now."

"You'll find somepony," he said. "Somepony better." Twilight looked over at her brother, sitting on the couch next to her. "Somepony who really loves you."

"Thanks," she said.

"No problem." They both sat there for a minute. Each waiting for the other to say something as they sat there and looked at eachother. Twilight spoke first.

"Come on. Let's get this house cleaned up before Mom and Dad come home."

They spent the rest of the day cleaning up every part of the house. After they emptied the dryer, they each made their beds with fresh, clean linen. Back downstairs, they took a break, making some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Afterwards, Shining stayed in the kitchen, washing the dishes that they had made. Wiping down the table and cleaning the kitchen floor. Twilight focused on the living room, digging out the shampooer from the basement to get out the stains on carpet and upholstery before they set in.

It was getting dark out when she noticed a glob of semen that had gotten onto the end-table beside the couch. Twilight reached over to clean it up with a cleaning rag, but stopped at the last moment. She reached out with her hoof, scooping it up and bringing it to her lips, licking it, tasting it one last time. It was causing her tail to raise on its own.

"What are you doing?" Shining asked, poking his head into the living room.

"Nothing!" she answered a bit to quickly and loudly to not seem suspicious, quickly grabbing a rag and smeared the table top. He just stood there for a minute.

"You've got a bit of... uh..." he motioned to her lip. Twilight wiped her mouth with her hoof, mortified. Shining tried to think of something to say, rather than just standing there silently with her. "I'm, uh, gonna go back and finish the kitchen," he said, turning to leave.

"Shining...?" Twilight said. Shining stopped walking and clenched his teeth. He had already started to try to forget about this whole weekend, and try to pretend it was all just a strange dream. But that tone in her voice, he knew she was going to ask him something that he didn't want to have to answer. He sighed and turned back to her.

"What is it, Twilie?" he asked calmly, praying that she only needed some more paper towels or something.

"Could we... could I sleep in your bed tonight?" she asked.

"No, Twilie," he answered calmly, "I need to report back to my squadron tonight. And you need to go back to your school."

"Could we... could we-" Twilight paced frantically in place in frustration, unable to find the words. She blurted it out at last. "Could we do it? Do it one last time, like this?" she asked desperately. Shining frowned, disappointed. He was really hoping she wasn't going to ask him that. But he honestly wasn't surprised that she did.

"No, Twilie," he answered, calmly still, keeping his tone level. He needed to keep emotion out of this.

"Just this once, please!" Twilight begged.

"No, Twilie. That's not going to work this time," he said. "I'm your brother. And you're my sister. Whatever happened this weekend... we need to just put it behind us, and get back to normal."

"Do you regret what we did?" she asked. She was on the verge of tears.

"What's done is done. Nothing is going to change that. What matters now is what we chose to do from here on," he said.

"You didn't answer my question," she said, calling out his attempt at dodging the issue. She was the smartest mare he knew. "Do you regret what we did?"

"I should," he said. "And you should too, both of us." He waited for a moment. Twilight wasn't fooled, and she wasn't backing down either. She waited. She wanted his answer and she damn well knew that wasn't it. "... but I don't," he said at last. "I don't regret it." Twilight stepped toward him, putting her hoof out to touch him. "Don't. You're not changing my mind. Not about this."

"But, but why not?" she asked. "Nopony has to know. Nopony is getting hurt."

"Maybe not this time," he said. Twilight looked puzzled. "Twilight, what do you think will come of this? Do you really think that if we let ourselves do it this time that we'll be able to have the willpower to not want to again? Maybe. But what if it isn't the last time? What if someone found out?"

"They won't!" she cried.

"Even still- Even if it was 'just sex', Twilight, what if one of us starts having feelings for the other some day?" he asked. "What then? What if one of us starts dating somepony else? What if one of us gets jealous?"

"I- I don't know!" Twilight cried. Shining walked over and hugged her.

"Shhh, shhh. It's okay," he said, holding her. "I love you Twi. And I always will. But I need you to be my sister, and I need to be your brother, not lovers. I need you to get past this. We both do. Do you understand?" Twilight nodded against his shoulder. "Alright, come on." He dried her eyes with his hoof. Afterwards, Shining put away all of the cleaning equipment and met with Twilight back in the living room.

"All set?" he asked. She nodded. "Alright, let's get going." He walked with her outside, closing the door behind them and dropping the garbage bag into the trash can. Inside the house was spotlessly clean. It was like a black hole had materialized, erasing absolutely all evidence that anypony was ever there. The Canterlot Crime Scene Investigators would be impressed. Standing on the sidewalk under the streetlight, they said their goodbyes. Shining threw his bag over his back and turned to walk away.

"Shining!" Twilight said. He turned back and she ran up and gave him a hug and a kiss. Just a chaste peck on the cheek. "It was good to see you."

"You too." He turned to walk away again.

"Shining!" He stopped and turned around again.

"Yeah?"

"Could you... walk me to school?" she asked. He was already running short on sleep and he needed to get up very early in the morning for squadron role call, and vigorous PT to follow. The Royal Guard barracks were to the north, adjacent to the palace. Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns was to the south, in Lower Canterlot. In the complete opposite direction of the way he needed to go. It would nearly double the distance he would have to walk and his bags were not light. He just smiled.

"Of course, Twilie.