Bumbling through my Education

Bonus Scenes

Remembering Silent

The field was beautiful. Lilacs seemed to grow naturally here, and that was wonderful. They were his favorite kind of flowers. Her golden eyes teared up as she neared the small hill. Amethyst, Bumble, and Dinky knew the grave was here, but they didn’t know that she liked to come and talk to him. To let Silent know how his foals were doing, how much she missed him, how each day felt like a small piece of her life had just simply stopped existing.

She didn’t want her foals to know that their mother could be sad, and she didn’t want them to share in that sadness. She wanted their memories of their father to be happy ones. She took a seat, brought out a small picture. She looked at the stallion in it, and she smiled at the military picture of Silent Victory. Bumble looked so much like his father. It was like someone took her coloring and painted over Silent’s chestnut coat and black mane and tail.

She looked at the marble headstone, something the guard had placed there for him, but it wasn’t really what represented Silent. No, Silent Victory was represented in his foals. How Amethyst was so intelligent, how much Bumble simply acted like him, and how Dinky had his boundless curiosity. She took a seat and looked at the lilacs. Roseluck had told her that the flower was special when it came to lovers. That they bloomed only where true love existed. In truth, she couldn’t agree more.

“Hi Sweetheart,” she smiled although her eyes were starting to fill with tears, “Your son is a stallion now.”

She giggled, “He found a good mare, and then a few others. He’s herding, and I think that you’d like them all. I do. He’s got a few foals now, and Silent, they’re so beautiful. One of them, well, one of them looks just like you.”

She leaned over, lying on the grass next to the barely noticeable mound. She gently put her hand on it, “He’s going to make some mare, or mares, or maybe stallions, very happy.”

She pulled her knees up to her chest, “I’m not mad anymore. I hurt, but I’m not mad. I… I just don’t know why you had to go. I get that it was your job, you were in the guard, but you were a desk pony.”

She sniffled a little, “They… They were supposed to leave you in Canterlot. You weren’t meant to go go over to where there was danger.”

She focused her good eye on the grave, “You were supposed to come home, help raise our foals, tell Bumble what to expect when he got with a mare.”

She closed her eyes, her memory diving back to them together. She could see him now, that lopsided smile of his, the way his blue eyes twinkled when he chased her. She could remember how he smelled like ink and sandalwood. She could remember how his touch felt, how sweet he tasted, the way it felt when he put that monster he carried between his legs up inside of her.

She opened her eyes and for a moment she saw him. Standing there, the same lopsided smile, that gentle loving expression, and then he disappeared. She sighed and sat up.

“I still love you,” she hugged herself, “I love you so much that I know no other stallion will match up.”

She heard something and looked up to see a few other families to fallen guards coming into the field. She started to get up, to leave, when she heard the slight fluttering of wings. She looked to see Princess Mi Amore Cadenza landing near her. She noticed that her belly was swollen, and that she was quite honestly fat with foal. She gave a gentle smile.

“I saw you over here by yourself. I’m surprised that your foals, and their families, aren’t with you.”

Derpy’s smile became a little sad, “I didn’t want them to see their mama getting all sad.”

Cadence smiled at her and touched her shoulder, “That’s part of life, and of love. My Auntie told me about Silent Victory. She said that you helped bring him out of his shell.”

Derpy smiled brightly, “I did.”

Cadence made her way to the ground, and motioned for her to sit across from her, “So, tell me about it. Please?”

Derpy grinned, “Okay…”

~~~~~Derpy’s POV~~~~~

I was heading home from shopping. At the time I wasn’t in flight school anymore. Although I passed I wasn’t the kind of pony that got assigned to weather duty. Instead I had to look for work where I could find it. At the time the only pony hiring was Mr. Rich’s grandpa, Stinking Rich. So, I was working as a delivery pony for him, and he had a few ponies in the Royal Guard that had come from Ponyville.

Stinking Rich wasn’t really running the store anymore. That went to his son, and grandson, but he did still tend to make sure that certain things were done. One of them was those deliveries. So, I made my drop to the guard office, and I was leaving. I just so happened to bump into this unicorn that was coming in.

He was so cute, and our muzzles had bumped into each other, and it… well we kind of kissed by accident. I remember that he tasted like blueberries. He said that he was sorry, helped me up, and asked if I was okay. Most ponies are nice, but for the longest time most ponies just ignored me. Here he was being so nice, and sweet, and then checking on me. I felt all flustered, and I think that it could have been that I was just starting my estrus cycle.

We talked, but I couldn’t help but notice how… There are stallions, and then there are stallions! From what I felt when we bumped into each other I was fairly sure he could have given a minotaur a run for their money. He was nice, he was hung, and he seemed like he liked me. I didn’t know how Unicorns courted, but us Pegasi don’t take long. We find somepony we like, and then we chase them.

And that’s what I did. He didn’t realize what was going on while I was chasing him. He must have thought that I was going to give him flying lessons, because when I caught him he’d get loose and try to run harder. Thankfully one of the Pegasus guards was able to explain to him that I was interested.

We, dated, well it seemed like a long time to me, but that was because I was a Pegasus. What should have been right away was actually three dates. On that last one… I couldn’t help myself, and I jumped him. It was wonderful, he was like me, we didn’t really know what we were doing. Oh, that’s not to say that we didn’t understand that dingdong went into the hooha, we got that, but we weren’t sure what made each other feel good.

So, we took time to figure it out. We took hours to figure it out. And when we were done I didn’t realize it, but we had a muffin in the oven. We got married not too long after, and his parents… They didn’t like that he married a Pegasus, but he didn’t care. He wasn’t a tribalist like they were. If they’d been nicer ponies I would have been fine with them seeing their grandfoals, but they just weren’t good ponies at all.

I never saw anypony so excited, and happy, when a foal was born. And he was like that when Bumble came around.

~~~~~Third Person POV~~~~~

“He sounds like he was quite a stallion.”

Derpy smiled, “He was. He was my special somepony.”

Cadence leaned over to her, “He still is.”

Derpy looked at her slightly confused, “What? What do you mean?”

Cadence smiled, “The flowers here, they only bloom where there’s love. And it can’t be one sided,” she sighed as she touched the flowers on the mound of Silent Victory’s grave, “It has to be love between two ponies. Whatever comes after, whereever he is, Silent Victory still loves you. He’s still your special somepony.”

Derpy’s smiled brightened, and she hugged the Princess of Love tightly.

Author's Note

(AN: I wanted to make an update today, despite what's going on. So, this chapter is especially dedicate to someone who always supported me. In Memoria patris mei)