Consequences 2: The choice.

Consequences 2: The choice.

Chapter 3.

Sunset stood naked in her room her left hand covering her heart as she felt it beating wildly within her chest. Sunset was fully breathing in and out heavily as her mother walked up to her gently laying a hand onto her daughter's right shoulder. Sunset while not noticing as her mother came fully into her bedroom said outloud.

“She’s.....alive.”

Rose Cherry while laying a gentle hand on Sunsets right shoulder said to her daughter softly as Sunset stood there naked and completely covered in sweat.

“Sunset your trembling is everything alright?”

Sunset didn't reply to her mother’s words as she stood next to her bed as if she was in a trance unaware of anything and everything that was happening around her. Rose looked from her daughter then to the tipped over nightstand and back at her daughter. As she asked her daughter while Sunset remained standing in front of her as her body trembled with fear.

“Sunset, honey did you have a nightmare? Is that why you are trembling?”

Rose not getting a reply for her daughter and seeing that her daughter was clearly frightened looked around the room. Seeing a sheet that had been draped over a nearby chair that sat against the right wall of her daughter's bedroom. Rose Cherry let go of her daughter's shoulder walked over to the chair picked up the sheet and gently draped it over her daughter's naked body. As Rose finished tieing the sheet around Sunset’s waist so that the sheet looked like a roman toga Sunset said out loud still unaware that her mother was in her bedroom.

“It’s all my fault.”

Looking into her daughter’s eyes Rose saw that Sunset was completely devoid of life and happiness. Gently taking her daughter by her right hand Rose began to lead Sunset out of her daughter’s bedroom and towards the bathroom across the hallway. As Sunset was being lead out of the bedroom she once again said out loud as her mother opened the door to the bathroom.

“It’s all my fault.”

Bringing her daughter over to the sink and turning the water on to cold Rose very gently put Sunsets face down towards the bowl of the sink. Saying to her daughter softly as she cupped her hands and brought some cold water up to her daughter's face.

“It’s going to be OK honey I won’t let anything happen to you. It was only a nightmare honey nothing more.”

Sunset felt the cold water hit her face and trickle down her chin and neck soaking the top of the bedsheet she was wearing to cover herself. Once she was awake enough to do the job herself she began to cup her own hands under the cold running water and splashed herself several times before rising back up to look at her mother standing next to her. Sunset looked down to the bathroom floor as she heard her mother say to her gently while laying her hands onto her daughter's shoulders.

“Come down stairs honey I will make us some tea and we can talk about your nightmare.”

Rose turned to head out of the bathroom just as Pinkie woke up and saw the bathroom light coming from the hallway. Getting up out of bed and completely unaware that Rose was also up Pinkie headed into the hallway completely naked. As Rose opened the door Pinkie could be seen standing in front of it half asleep and naked. Rose shook her head as she said to Pinkie gently.

“Go back to sleep honey, Sunset will be with you in a few moments.”

Pinkie was about to turn to head back to bed when Sunsets voice stopped her in her tracks.

“No mom I would actually like to have both of you for this conversation. Besides I made a full promise to Pinkie in our my last therapy session that I wouldn’t keep anything from her. Not having her down stairs with us as we talk about what is bothering me feels somehow to be….wrong.”

Rose smiled lightly to Sunset saying to her as she looked into her daughter's eyes seeing the life slowly returning to her.

“Alright but, I think you two should at least get yourselves dressed first don’t need that noisey Moon Star starting more rumors about us. It’s only been four days since Pinkie moved in and that woman has already started enough horse hay with us to make me want to break her snout.”

Sunset laughed then placed her hands onto Pinkie's shoulders turning her girlfriend around and leading her back to her bedroom saying to her mother before she shut the door.

“Better be sure to make some coffee I think Pinkie could use a cup or two and I know I could use a pick me up especially after the…..well after what I saw when I was sleeping.”

“Alright I will also make us some breakfast have to make sure my two very beautiful daughters are fat, happy and very well fed.”

Sunset shot her mother a look of amusement as she closed the door to her room. Leading her half sleeping girlfriend back over to the bed Sunset sat her down on the edge of the bed then set about taking out a pair of pink pajama bottoms and a blue T-shirt with a little white rabbit on the front of the T-shirt from her dresser. Lying these down next to Pinkie and taking off the sheet that covered her body Sunset playfully said to Pinkie who looked at her with her eyes half open.

“You're going to look so cute and sexy in these Pinkie.”

Pinkie slowly turned her head towards the clothing that Sunset had laid next to her naked body as she looked at them she heard Sunset say to her.

“Baby if you get dressed I will make it worth your while after you put those on.”

Pinkie got up and with a little more coxing from Sunset got herself dressed. Just as Sunset turned away from Pinkie and pulled out a pair of blue pajama bottoms from the dresser she felt Pinkie wrap her arms around her stomach and nuzzle her check against hers. Sunset laid her right hand onto Pinkie's face saying to softly.

“Not yet honey we have some things that we need to talk about down stairs with mom. Who by the way is making coffee and breakfast for us.”

No sooner had Sunset finished her words to her girlfriend then Pinkie raced out the bedroom door and down stairs. Leaving Sunset to thinking to herself as she saw her girlfriend disappear from her sight.

“Hmmm note to self never ever mention mom’s coffee while standing naked next to Pinkie again.”

Pulling on her shirt and heading down stairs herself Sunset was hit with the warm aroma of fresh coffee, eggs, vegetarian bacon, freshly buttered pan fried toast and lots of fresh baked waffles. Getting into the kitchen Sunset saw Pinkie standing in front of the coffee pot with a cup her hands eagerly awaiting the coffee pot to chime out that the coffee was ready. Rose was at the stove busy bustling away making a full course meal for Sunset and Pinkie to enjoy. Once everything was fully ready and Pinkie had her coffee Rose directed the two of the sit down down at the table. As Sunset sat down at the table and looked at all the good food she was about stuff herself with she said to Rose with Pinkie sitting next to her.

“Wow mom you have really outdone yourself. I don’t know if my stomach can hold all this wonderfully good looking food.”

Rose smiled as she filled up Sunsets plate with as much food as the plate could hold without it breaking in her hands. Handing the very full plate over to her daughter and taking Pinkies plate to repeat the process Rose said to Sunset who started to dig in.

“Alright honey, now that you have a plate of warm food in front of you and a cup of tea on the way care to talk about your nightmare.”

Sunset swallowed a piece of toast she had been munching on as she looked at her mother then at Pinkie who eagerly took her own plate of food once it was offered to her by Rose. Watching Pinkie fully delve into her plate of food Sunset smiled warmly as she said to her mother.

“Yes now that I have something inside me I feel like talking about it.”

“So what happened? Did you see a dragon? Or a really big lizard? Or maybe you saw a big cake and you couldn’t eat all of it? Or perhaps you saw a dragon lizard cake monster in your dream?” Pinkie inquired without taking breath to stop eating.

Looking at Pinkie with a raised eyebrow Sunset took a bite of her food chewed and swallowed then said to her just as Rose sat down at the table.

“No Pinkie it wasn’t anything like that, I saw Applejack in my…..vision she was fully turned into a demon and she was chasing Twilight and Rainbow Dash.”

“Sunset honey are you sure it was a vision and not a nightmare?” Rose chimed in as Sunset looked at her then over to Pinkie who had her mouth fully packed with waffles and greens.

Smirking at the scene in front of her Sunset simply nodded to Rose who set her cup of tea down then let out a soft sigh. As she said to Sunset while Sunset scooped up a fork full of greens and waffles then popped it into her mouth chewing slowly on it to savor the taste of it.

“Ok, Sunset let’s say for the sake of not starting an argument here that it was a vision you had and not a nightmare. Where in that awful place would you place Twilight and Rainbow if they were indeed being chased by a demonic form of Applejack?”

Sunset placed her fork down onto her plate then picked up a nearby napkin as she wiped her mouth clean she said to her mother in a soft voice while looking down at her plate.

“I would have to say they seemed to be in the A’dis desert or at least on the very edge of it. I would say they had to be at least a half mile from the river Styx. Which therefore means that Charon shouldn’t be too far off. Which also means they are headed right for Amora’s castle.”

Picking up her own napkin and wiping her mouth off as well Rose said softly to Sunset who had noticed the look of fear in her mother's eyes.

“Why…..why would you think that this is your fault honey? You didn’t send either of them there I know you chose to remain here which was unto itself was perhaps a very good choice for you to make. Yet that those two going there was not your making or your fault.?

Sunset pushed herself away from the table got up and headed into the living room with Pinkie getting up and following her into the living room as well. Sunset looked out the window next to the sofa as she hugged herself with tears falling freely down her cheeks. Pinkie came up behind her and immediately took a hold of Sunset as she started to cry hard. Rose also came into the living room just as Sunset blurted out while Pinkie held her in her arms.

“It is all my fault that she is there….I killed her.”

Rose looked down at the floor then back up at her daughter who was sobbing hard into Pinkie's shoulder. As Sunset cried Rose said to Sunset who sobbed even harder than before while Pinkie held her in her arms.

“This isn’t about Applejack becoming a demon is it honey?”

Sunset sniffed hard as she cried out in anger and pain.

“I saw her mother! She’s alive, it’s all my fault mother, it's all my fault.....that she is there.”

Not sure as to what her girlfriend was talking about Pinkie gently led Sunset over to the couch then sat her down as she rubbed her back and ran her fingers in her hair. Pinkie said to her Sunset as Sunset cried on her shoulder with her mother standing in front of the two of them.

“Who is alive Sunny? What are you so upset about?”

Sunset while fully crying into Pinkie's shoulder was only able to blurt out three words as she choked on the very notion of what she had seen.

“Sunrise is……….alive.”