Author's Note

This chapter takes place after:
Life in Fables: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/413930/life-in-fables
This is Ranchtown: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/469924/this-is-ranchtown
Ranchtown Nights: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/511531/ranchtown-nights

If you haven't read those, you may be a tiny bit lost.

Baby Blues

Her water broke. It wasn’t a very smooth trek to the hospital, but it was prepared enough to make it there safe while also maintaining the proper speed limit to the hospital. The neonatal unit was more than prepared for their arrival because Golden Goal was more than two weeks late. If she had made it to three weeks, they would have had to induce her. While Golden was dealing with the contractions with the nurses, Winter made it to the neonatal lobby to make the phone calls. Obviously, Hat Trick and his mother were the first ones to know. Both of them dropped everything and said they would arrive soon.

Then came Fable’s phone call. At first, Winter didn’t even recognize his voice. He sounded like he’d just woke up or fallen into the deep pit of despair. The azure unicorn put on a concerned expression and made sure it was his makeshift husband before giving him the big news. To his relief, it seemed to wake the red pegasus up a bit to a more active state, but there was still that question as to what was happening with him. He didn’t have much time to deal with it, though. He had to make a few more calls to Disterious, Vodka and Spark. From there, the news could spread where it may.

He checked his watch, it was eight on a cold winter night and it was obvious that his wife was not going to be quick with this birth. Winter decided that coffee was the best option. It was best to get a leg up on the situation before he found himself passing out at the finish line. Given his luck, he’d probably pass out two minutes before his daughter was born. Boy, that would be something. Thankfully, the hospital was equipped with a good coffee maker on the counter. Before he could get to it, though, he got cut off by a changeling.

Winter noticed her hair was quite a pretty color of bright blue and white. She was slender, but very shapely and she didn’t even pay him a single acorn of attention as she poured herself a mug of coffee and used up the last of it. He noticed she wasn’t about to brew up another batch as she put her cream and sugar into her cup and leaned against the countertop. She had gauged holes in her ears, and her hair was made up in a short ponytail in the back. To his surprise, he noticed she had a hospital badge on for a Nurse’s Assistant. Her name read “Sting” and all the sudden, that name rang a bell.

She noticed him, but then continued to drink her coffee, grimacing at the awful taste.

“You’d think the hospital would splurge for a single cup coffee maker.” Winter said with a nervous laugh as he started to make another pot.

“Maybe you would. This hospital cheaps out on everything they can.” Sting said as she took another sip. “Golden’s having her baby, eh?” Sting said, drawing his attention. “What?” She said as she saw the look on his face.

“I thought I recognized you. Weren’t you that girl I met at the gym?” Winter asked and she shrugged.

“Probably, I haven’t seen her there for a while, but I guess that’s because she’s getting ready to push a foal out of her vagina.” She said, making him physically recoil at the imagery. “I guess that foal would be yours. Congrats.” The changeling said, and she looked up at him, only coming up to his chest as she was so short. Then she walked off as he filled the coffee maker with water from the pot. He blinked as she walked away. If he didn’t know any better, it looked like she was swaying her hips a bit more than was natural. With her insect like wings and her crooked horn on her head, she put her earbud in. It was hard to believe she actually worked there. She looked like she was squatting more than working as she started up her phone and drank her coffee.

“Goldie’s got some weird friends.” Winter said to himself.

“Winter!” He was startled a bit as he turned around and saw his mother and Hat Trick walk in. Hattie walked up to him quickly and grabbed onto him in a hug. “We came as fast as we could! Finally, I can’t believe she was so late in having her. How is she?” She asked, resisting as best she could the urge to go into the natal unit to see Golden.

“She’s fine. She’s just going through the early contractions and the nurses are keeping an eye on her vitals. The dilation is still a little while off before we’ll be seeing any real action.” He said as he poured himself a cup of coffee. Frozen Pop, his ice blue unicorn mother, was quick to motion for her own cup to fill. The older mare was obviously very hastily put together. She did wear lipstick and she had eyeshadow on, but beyond that, there wasn’t much done with her hair or any other cosmetics. She was probably about to be in bed when she got the call. She had on one of her older sweat shirts with jeans on. Frozen gave her son a kiss on the cheek and nuzzled him before pouring herself a cup.

“I’m so excited! I can’t believe it’s finally time! I’ve been dreaming of a granddaughter. Did Golden have her dream yet? Did you two come up with a name?” Frozen asked, whispering a little bit.

“Yeah, she did have the dream.” Winter said, remembering the night Golden had her dream about their daughter. It was on a mountain with the snowiest peak and going down the mountain with her over and over again. They didn’t even need to take a lift to the top, they just skied up the side of the mountain to go down the other side. Golden Goal loved every moment of that dream and meeting their daughter for the first time, even though she remembered next to nothing about her. “I don’t know if she wants to reveal the name yet, so you’ll need to ask her.”

Hat Trick wasn’t in much better shape. In fact, it looked like she just got out of the shower. Her makeup was gone and her hair was in curlers and judging by the shape of her breasts inside her Ranchtown Nightmares jersey, she neglected to put on a bra along with her tight fitting pajama pants. “Oh, she’ll spill the beans. I’m going to either have a new hockey player or a girl who loves dollies. Either way, that child is getting spoiled and I’m gonna know what she wants beforehand.” She said as she poured herself what remained in the pot and began to shake one of the sugar packets. She opened the sugar and then brought her head back, pouring the sugar into her mouth before opening more to put into her coffee. Golden’s mother had a paunch on her that Winter could see very clearly through the tight fitting jersey. Her flopping tits also caught his eye.

“You coffeed up, Hattie?” Frozen asked as she took two big gulps of hers. Hat Trick nodded and took another generous portion in her mouth. “Good, then let’s go see that girl my boy knocked up.” This drew a bit of a choking from Winter as he was drinking his coffee.

“What is with people and their phrasing tonight?” Winter asked as his mother gave him a big motherly smooch on his cheek, smearing lipstick on him. Hattie did much of the same on his other cheek, only without the smearing lipstick.

“We’ll be back, Winty.” Frozen said as the two of them began to walk toward the nurse’s station. Thankfully, it was pretty obvious that Hat Trick was Golden’s mother. They barely needed to check her ID before letting the two of them into the back room while Winter finished his coffee.

“Winter! I came as soon as I heard!” A voice said, drawing his attention. He smiled as he recognized Disterious walking in with a pack of energy drinks and a grocery store bought cake that read “Happy Zero Birthday!” with characters from the Fluffy Pony Funtime Show. A show that hasn’t been relevant for almost four whole years now. “So, I didn’t know what to bring, but this is technically a birthday, right?”

“I wouldn’t say no to some cake.” He said, looking at Disty’s other hand. “Nor one of those. Thanks for making it.” He smiled, took the cake off of his hand and gave him a kiss.

“Of course! I wouldn’t miss this for the world.” He said as he looked around for a refrigerator in the lobby, but he didn’t see one. The whole place was pretty empty. There were plenty of chairs, but not a lot of people waiting for babies to be born. This was an odd thought that they were the only people in the hospital’s natal unit. Still, it wasn’t unwelcome, especially considering it would have been far worse if the place were crowded as all hell. “I’ll go see if they have a fridge I can use.”

Winter nodded to Disty as he walked away, then he looked out the window into the hallway outside the neonatal. There was a well dressed red pegasus leaned against the wall opposite the main door. His face was a mask of somber despair. He looked like he'd already cried for hours and was on the verge of more tears. Winter immediately threw away his coffee cup and went out into the hall.

"Fable?" Winter asked, seeing Fable in something of a professor's get-up. As professionally as he was dressed, he looked like his favorite pet just died. "Fable? What's wrong?" He walked across the hall and grabbed him as he leaned into the unicorn's arms.

"It's over." Fable said as Winter ran his fingers through his black mane. This drew a puzzled look from the azure furred pony. "Letty asked me to move out."

"What!? Are you serious right now?" Winter was incredulous. This escalated to an extent that he thought unfathomable. "What happened with her?"

"She found someone else." Fable managed to say before giving a small sob and letting two tears trickle down the sides of his muzzle. "She pretty much told me that this wasn't working. After just a few months of being married, she's kicking me to the curb."

His makeshift husband was quick to lead Fable into the natal unit lobby and sit him down onto one of the chairs near the wall, away from anyone else. He held Fable's head against his abdomen and stroked his hair as he allowed him a moment of much needed silence.

"It all started with the unanswered texts and phone calls. It got to the point where she would only call me when it was in regards to Ember." Fable paused as Winter kissed him on the brow three times. "Then she only talked to me when she wanted something, beyond that I was being ignored. I guess married life just wasn't for her."

"Could have said that before the wedding." Winter rolled his eyes. He may have accepted Fable as a husband but she was another story. "Well, now you have me and you can come stay with us; Ember too."

"What?" Fable asked, and before he could speak further, Winter's finger poked him in the center of his snout.

"Before you tell me no, understand that I have magic that could freeze you into an ice cube and I will very readily use it and put your giant frozen carcass into my garage freezer. Don't think I won't, Mr. Prose."

Winter Solstice looked like he was very willing, able and anxious to do such a thing. Fable looked at him for a moment before rising up from his seat to meet him in a kiss. They held onto that kiss for a good long while before Winter nuzzled his nose into the side of Fable's neck.

"Thank you." Fable whispered, prompting Winter to rub his palm over the pegasus' back. "You're a good hubby."

"You're the best hubby. Don't you forget that." Winter said back to him, making sure there was no room for argument. Then Winter looked over at Disterious to see he was standing across the room, watching them with a worried look on his face. "I'm going to go check on the two girls now. Are you gonna be okay?" As the pegasus nodded, Winter motioned for the gray unicorn to come over to him.

Disterious scurried over to Fable as Winter let him go and the two of them met in an amorous embrace. Disty didn't ask questions, the two of them just held together like lovers. Fable sighed.

"There he is!" Frozen said as she got up from the seat beside Golden. She kissed Winter on the cheek and sat back down. He took Golden's hand and the tan unicorn mare smiled at him. The contractions had calmed down a bit but she still had the ones that hit hardest and furthered her dilation.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" He asked Golden as he got a brush from her side table and began to groom her mane. She scoffed a bit, then bit into an ice chip.

"Fantastic, honey buns. Doing just dandy. I have a watermelon headed for my nether region and two mares in here telling me they've had it worse. Just dandy." She told Winter before downing two more ice chips.

"We'll leave you two love birds alone." Hattie said as she motioned for Frozen. The two of them got up and gave their kids kisses, which they returned. "See you in the lobby, sweety. We'll be back with more advice!" Hattie said with a giggle.

"Thanks for the warning, mother." Golden said between gritted teeth, causing both mares to laugh out loud as they exited.

Once they were far enough away, Golden looked at her husband with a worried face.

"Honey?" She gave him a head tilt and a prompt.

"It's Fable. He needs help and a place to stay." He said with a deep sigh. This made her jaw drop a bit. He nodded.

That's when the pale white bat pony with bright turquois wings walked in, grabbing her clipboard with her recorded vitals on it. "Hey, Golden! How's that dilation coming?" She asked as she moved her blanket over to check her privates. "No blood, right?"

"No blood." Golden assured her, looking over at Winter. She whispered, "We'll talk later." He nodded.

"Oh, nice, five centimeters, it's almost time to party." She said with a fist pump. Winter read her name tag on her dark blue scrubs as "Heart Rhythm".

"Only five? I was at four for the past hour! This baby is late and she still doesn't seem like she's in a hurry! Isn't there anything we can do?" Golden asked, lying her head back on her pillow. She was so desperately ready for this foal to be gone already!

"Whoa, slow your roll, little sister. She is going to be out and about in no time flat, just you wait. A few pushes and that kid will be driving you crazy from the outside. Isn't that exciting?" Heart said, making both of them grimace.

"Thrilling." Winter knew she meant well, but with everything happening, this was just another stresser they were going to need to deal with. They'd been waiting for this day to come and they knew that they would be lacking sleep as a result. What else was there to do? One could never fully prepare for a baby to come into their household. Everything happening with Fable merely complicated matters. Still, he wasn't about to let his friend stay alone in that state of mind. He was family in every sense of the word.

"Alright, well, it looks like you're progressing just fine and your vitals are tip top!" Heart said as she wrote on the clipboard paper. "You should probably get some rest."

"Yeah, I'm gonna go entertain our guests. You get as much sleep as you can. You know, while there's still time." Winter said and Golden sighed, slapping his cheek gently.

"Yes, Winty, I am aware of what comes next. We can all stop with the reminders. I'll be fine." Golden said as she slid down the bed and handed the nurse her extra pillow as she hunkered down. Winter leaned in and they shared a kiss.

"I'll be here if you need me." He whispered and she nodded to him before he walked out.

That's when Golden noticed Heart watching him walk out. She raised an eyebrow at this but then pretended not to notice.

"If you don't mind me asking." Heart Rhythm said as she put a blood pressure wrap around Golden's bicep and turned on the machine. "Where do you find a stallion like that?"

"He accidentally touched my ass during a meet and greet at Ranch U." Golden said, piquing Heart's interest. "I slapped him, then I gave him my phone number." She said, causing the nurse to laugh. Golden tried to join in but it hurt too much. "He's pretty icy hot." A grin coiled across the unicorn's face. Heart's interest continued to pique.

"No one believes me, by the way." Disty said making Fable turn his head toward him as he sat behind him. They sat on a couch while Disty had his arms wrapped around Fable's torso. The pegasus' hands held onto the backs of Disty's and he leaned back into him, comfortably. He gave Disterious a puzzled look. "No one believes that you fucked me in front of the princess."

This caused them both to laugh and Fable's hand to rest on his cheek. "They're missing out. If they saw this cling marks you made on me, they would know it's true. You were tighter than a finger trap."

"Can you blame me?" Disty asked and Fable shook his head. That's when he leaned back and they sat in blissful silence for a little while.

"Well aren't you two precious?" Both of them heard a female voice said. Vodka arrived in the natal unit and she waved at Frozen and Hattie, who were on another couch, getting a little shut eye in a position much like Fable and Disty. "Looks like all of you are just having a fun little sleepover. Mind if we join?" The yellow shark pony asked, and both of them shook there heads. Then Citrus came up and waved at them as well. The shorter green shark pony smiled at Fable, who smiled back.

"Where's that boy of yours, Frozen? If a man's going in for a life sentence, I at least want to give my condolences." Vodka said as she sat opposite the two stallions. Frozen came and sat with them all, giving her a hug.

"He's checking on the mother. Like the good boy I raised." Frozen said in a pointed manner, causing the shark woman to chortle.

"What about you, red pony? How's the boy?" She asked and Fable held it in as he nodded.

"Learned how to say some sentences. Now he's walking around." The pegasus said and Disty held his hand a little tighter.

"Great, next he'll be driving and wooing mares. Kids." She scoffed, grinning at her daughter, who rolled her eyes. Then Citrus looked up and her expression brightened.

"Winter!" The green shark pony got up from the seat she was in and ran to him. Her tight purple skirt and yellow top did little to hide her cleavage or her little nipple hoops. She embraced the bright blue unicorn and they kissed each others' cheeks.

"Glad you could make it." He said as he spied Vodka and met her in a hug as well.

"Oh, don't kid yourself. Any kid of yours is obviously part of my family. Meaning, if anyone messes with her, you won't need to call the guard because I'll be knocking their block off." Vodka punched the air and Winter was not about to argue the point. The orange haired, yellow shark pony owned a strip club and constantly acted as her own bouncer when someone was acting up. Citrus co-owned it but she mainly managed the workers.

Fable stood up from the couch and nodded his thanks to the very caring Disterious. He excused himself to the restroom, but he did not go to the one that was readily available in the natal unit. He walked out into the main hallway, obviously having a lot on his mind.

Winter watched him go while Vodka and Citrus went to Frozen and Hattie in their corner. Though the brown unicorn mother got up and walked over to Disterious, who looked like he was contemplating something fierce.

"You have any more of those caffeine drinks?" She asked, and he nodded. He got up and led her toward the fridge in the breakroom near the back of the lobby. "You talked to Fable? Is something troubling him?"

"He's got a few issues at home, but he'll be okay. I'll make sure of that. How is Golden holding up?" He asked and she giggled.

"About as well as I did when I had her, but she'll be fine." She said as he got the fridge open and pulled one of the cans off the plastic loops. Before he could hand her one, she pulled his hand to the side of her cheek and moaned a bit as she felt the chill. "Oh, that's fabulous…" She smiled at him.

Fable sat in the nurses' locker room. It was the first place he found that was quiet, uninhabited and free of through traffic. If anyone told him to vacate, he would do so without complaint, but he didn't want to leave. Winter's new daughter was being born and he was going to be there, come hell or high water. His problems were not going to spoil that and the future stories he could tell. Still, all of the thoughts swirling in his head told every part of him to flee. He wanted to be alone with his thoughts and come up with some kind of plan. There were just too many cobwebs. He couldn't think through the emotions. It was all too hard, too fucking complex and it all happened so suddenly. Where did he go wrong?

That's when he heard the locker door open. It was apparently time to leave. He was sitting on the bench in the middle of the locker room but he was obviously not stealing anything. At first he was just going to leave but then he figured he'd just go unnoticed.

Then he noticed it was a changeling. She had an earbud in one ear, which had a gauged piercing and she was chewing bubble gum. She glanced at him and went to her locker, opening it.

"So, what's your story?" She asked, starting to empty her pockets. He raised an eyebrow at her as she kept putting things in and got on her phone for a moment. "You picking up some hot nurses?"

"Needed a place to think." Fable admitted, then stood up. "I can go."

"No one told you to leave." She said, running a comb through her short blue and white hair. "Sit. Think. I don't give a fuck. They don't pay me enough to give a fuck." She put her comb away and then his eyes widened as she pulled her top off and revealed her decently sized, perky black tits with dark greenish blue nipples. Then she tugged her pants down to reveal she wasn't even wearing panties. Her pussy lips were the same color as her nipples.

Just above her crotch was tattooed "Enter at Own Risk", above her ass was tattooed "Fuck Off" in red hot letters. She couldn't help but notice he was staring.

"You're a little easy to read, Mr…." She said as she looked toward his pants. He was outlined something fierce against his pants fabric. She had no way of knowing it'd been about two week since he was at the Neon Tail party and that was the last time he'd been with another. He'd been somewhat reclusive as of late.

"Oh, uh, Fable… Prose." He said and she got a bag full of toiletries out of her locker.

"Well, Mr. Prose, I'm about to shower. You wanna watch?" She asked and he had no idea if she was serious or not. "This offer doesn't last long." She said as she closed her locker and draped a towel over her shoulder. She headed for the showers and he stopped hesitating.

As she let the shower water run over her, she pretended like she wasn't passing the naked stallion any glances. She wouldn't admit that she was getting wet or that her nipples were hard as tiny rocks.

"So, what do I call you?" He asked, doing his best not to draw attention to his extremely erect cock. She got more than one eyeful of his very thick member and gave him a feind apathetic look.

"It's Sting. Not "baby" or "honey" and if you call me "bae" that big ass cock is going straight up your ass." She said, reaching over to him, gripping his shaft and pulling him closer to her. "Scrub my back." She demanded in her offhanded demeanor, handing him a soapy rag. He did as he was told, rubbing up and down, side to side. She pursed her lips and did everything short of purring. "You got a girlfriend?" She asked and he hummed a "no".

"Soon to be ex-wife, one kid, one on the way." He said and she turned her head toward him with a confused expression. "Yeah, it's a long story, one I'm not 100% on either."

"That's fucked up." She said, and looked down as his soapy hands came around to scrub her front, including her firm tits. "That's not my back." She said in a softer tone as she reached back and pulled him closer to her by his ass cheek. "Scrub harder." Sting demanded and he complied once again.

"Technically, I have two on the way. I may or may not have been a winner at a breeding party." He said and her eyes bugged out a bit as he caressed her tits.

"Are you fucking serious?" She asked and he nodded as she looked back at him. As he pinched her nipples and squeezed her tits, she began to ooze her pussy down the shower drain. Just thinking about the stuff he was saying was causing her to melt into his warmth. His extra hard cock pressed against her ass cheek and she scowled back at him. "That is not where that goes." She said as domineering as she could, lifting her ass up as she bent over and angling him up as she slid him into her vagina. Her pussy walls stretched and slathered his member with juice. His cock reached far into her and she couldn't help letting go of a hard cry of passion.

It was clear that both of them had been starved of sex. With his predicament and her long work hours, it was as if they were given a long drink of water after a journey through the desert. To her surprise, he was not easy on her. With his meek mannerisms and dismal outlook, she was expected some sweet lovemaking. No, this was not soft, and no, this was not making love.

He pressed her against the shower wall and he pulverized her. His hips thrust against her as he clenched his eyes closed and gritted his teeth. Her cervix was taking a pounding as his balls slapped her clitoris. Pleasure outweighed the delicious pain as his hand held her leg upward and the other held her hip. He fucked her like an animal and she made whining animal sounds as her pussy tunnel felt the slick, glorious friction of his rigid dick.

Sting felt the tension from within him as his hands squeezed her wet body and banged her into the wall.

"Oh! God! Yes! Use me! Grind my pussy harder! Fuck my wet cunt!" She screamed with unfathomable lust as the red pony's entire length filled her and his groin pumped against her pelvis. Sting felt like he was going to fuck her inside out. He even made strained noises through his teeth as he pounded her without relent.

The orgasm she had almost made her dizzy as she let out just a little whine. At that moment, she didn't care if she had just finished a sixteen hour shift, nor did she care if anyone in the hospital heard her sex noises. Hell, she didn't even care if Mr. Prolific gave her belly a foal. It all melted away as she gasped through a wondrous climax and felt a heavenly spray of hot jizz assault her insides.

Fable had a similar apiphany in that moment. All of it was put aside. The wife, the house, the incoming kids, the burden of thought. All of the attic space was cleared out as the two of them stayed there in that shower, gasping for breath as he released her leg and she sank to the ground. As his cock slid out, a lot of white spunk followed and began to circle the shower drain. He sat near her as they both leaned against the wall.

Her head finally came back down from the clouds and she was able to think. Sting looked at him to see his eyes were closed and he was deep in a train of thought.

"So," Sting said, making him open his eyes and look at her. "What you gonna do now?"

"I'm gonna go be with my husband while his baby is being born."

"Of course you are." She laughed to herself, unsurprised at his whole scenario at this point.

"Then I'm going to get my life back in order." Fable said as he held his hand out to her and she held it for a moment. "Thanks for the help."

"Are you kidding?" She chuckled a bit. "Anytime you need to blow off that steam, you give me a call."