A story of revelations

"H-How?" Fluttershy whispered, wide-eyed. She was BEYOND shocked, as was every other pony in the room.

Twilight was the first to snap out of her reverie to ask "How the hay did you know?

Looking back at Twilight with a mischievous grin, she simply shrugged her shoulders said "Meh, I can just tell." and bounced back to the bed, tackling Twilight as she reached it and pinning her down. "Just like I could tell with YOU."

Again, another lewd gaze. However, Rarity was not about to sit back and let what she knew was going to happen if she didn't speak up, happen.

"AHEM!! Really girls, do you mind? We're still here after all." Rarity barked at the two love birds.

Pushing Pinkie off of her, Twilight sat up on the bed and looked from Rarity to Fluttershy.

"Sooo, you DO love Rainbow Dash?"

"Eep!" Fluttershy hadn't expected a question. Hiding behind her mane and cowering before her friend, she merely nodded. She couldn't speak. The shock of what was going on still sending her head reeling.

They had originally come to tell Twilight about Fluttershy being a fillyfooler. Instead, they find out that Twilight and Pinkie Pie where fillyfoolers too? And TOGETHER?! Shaking her head and forcing herself to snap out of it, she looked at her two friends in a different light. One that instantly made her much more comfortable.

"Yes, now... seeing as you're... shall we say, experienced... in this area... Would you happen to have any advice for Fluttershy?" Rarity said, choosing her words carefully so as to not be overly blunt. While she was quite tactful and able to fully articulate what she was after in most any subject... this was definitely new territory for her.

Twilight cocked an eyebrow at Rarity

"Like what?"

"Like how she can ask Rainbow Dash if she is of the same... inclination. You two did talk before starting your... intimacy's... didn't you?"

Twilight and Pinkie looked at each other then back to Rarity.

"Uh... Kinda?" Twilight said, shrugging sheepishly.

Rarity's formerly near-calm look disintegrated back into a look of wide-eyed shock.

"YOU DIDN'T!!"

"Well, we did... after the first time." Twilight said, weakly defending herself.

"Yea! Things got a bit crazy after my "Lets have an uber-mega-ultra-awesome Friday!!" party back in August! Hehe, I think Twilight had a bit too much of my super-special punch!"

Rarity shuddered. They all had too much of the ridiculously sweet concoction that night. Somehow, Pinkie had managed to put a ridiculous amount of alcohol into it without it burning too much or not tasting good. The result left even Berry Punch and Rainbow Dash thoroughly buzzed after only two glasses. Considering that Berry Punch was the only pony capable of out-drinking Dash... If barely just, she was FAR from a lightweight. However, after a mere five glasses of the punch... even Berry wasn't even able to stay on her hooves. It hadn't stopped her from plopping down and drinking another four though. How she handled that much alcohol, nopony would ever know!

She didn't think Twilight had drank that much... but then again, she herself had felt the unwelcome after-effects of a hangover after only three glasses.

"Just how many glasses did she have?" Rarity inquired, rather curious about just how much it had taken for Twilight to go from a quiet, prudish librarian to a wild, provocative fillyfooler. And with Pinkie Pie no less!

"Uh.... two glasses?" Twilight said, again rubbing the back of her neck. She was clearly embarrassed.

It was Fluttershy's turn to surprise the group.

"Is that all?"

All eyes turned to her, causing her to shrink back a bit.

"How many did you have Flutters?" Pinkie asked energetically.

"Um... five..."

Twilight's and Rarity's jaws dropped. Pinkie did a hoof-pump and said "Way to go Fluttershy! I never knew you where such a party pony!"

Nopony had been the wiser. She hadn't swayed at all that night.

"B-but... how... you where perfectly fine that night!!" Rarity said, shocked beyond belief.

"I don't know." Fluttershy shrugged.

"Aaaanyways" Rarity continued, still looking at Fluttershy from the corner of her eyes "You're telling me you two... after that party? You... did it?"

"Well... yea, pretty much." Twilight said, absent-mindedly pawing at the covers of her bed with a hoof.

"So SCANDALOUS!! So what did you do the next morning?"

Pinkie snickered at the question, opening her mouth to answer Rarity. No doubt about to give away some rather explicit details. However, Twilight shoved her hoof into the pink mares mouth, effectively silencing her.

"Well, we talked about it after..." she hesitated "After that night" Clearly trying not to elaborate too much. Removing her hoof from Pinkie's mouth, she said "Why are you so interested?"

"And? What brought you to want to stay together?" Rarity asked, clearly ignoring Twilight's question.

"I... we just... it just felt right! It wasn't just the... uh..."

"Intimacy?" Rarity offered helpfully.

"Yea... that. It wasn't just that... we both felt something after that night. Something that kept us coming back to each other. Oh we've fought a few times, mostly over trivial things... even tried splitting up for a while, but somewhere along the way, I've come to love this pink goofball." Twilight said, wrapping her forehoof around Pinkie's neck and pulling her into a headlock, roughly tousling her mane with the other hoof. "And I don't want to lose her."

"Well, that's all well and good... but how do you recommend Fluttershy talk to Dash? We've only heard one speculation that Dash is even a fillyfooler so she's understandably nervous about that." motioning towards Fluttershy with a hoof.

"Oh, Dashie's a fillyfooler alright!" Pinkie said, her head still caught by Twilight.

Fluttershy's head snapped up, Rarity's jaw dropped and Twilight looked at Pinkie as she released her neck.

A unified chorus of "She IS?!" echoed through the small room.

"Yup! Do you all remember that big meanie-head griffin Gilda?"

"Oh... yes." Fluttershy shrunk at the memory "She wasn't very nice."

"Quite simply, she was a bitch dear." Rarity piped up, conveying her own distaste for the unsavory griffin whom Rainbow Dash used to associate with.

"I'd have to agree with Rarity." Twilight said "She was rude to all of us for no reason and overly possessive of Dash."

"Well, Dashie talked to me about her after Gilda took off. She told me some pretty sad things." Pinkie said, her expression turning depressed.

All eyes where on Pinkie as she continued.

"Well, like a lot of fillyfoolers, she started out straight. Came to realize that she liked mares shortly after a stallion tried to get between her flanks and dumped her when she wouldn't put out. She had seen the care that a lot of her friends who were fillyfoolers had for their mates... and for her for that matter. Anyways, she and Gilda had been friends back in Cloudsdale and she KNEW that Gilda was into mares so she hooked up with Gilda. She wasn't perfect but she wasn't just using her. She did show that she cared for Dash, even though she was possessive back when they first started messin' around too. Dash said she broke a pegasus stallion's wing one time for making a smart remark about Dash's flanks!!"

Everybody wore a shocked expression.

"Yea, she never turned on Dash though. She was physical yea, but she never hit Dash or anything like that. Dash was scared to leave her though because of how mean she could be. So she played it off as getting transferred to Ponyville's weather team when Gilda had to move back to the Griffin Kingdom for a while on a job.The distance kinda separated them for her."

"Hmm, that's actually pretty clever of Dash." Twilight quipped. "I can see why she did that though... Griffin's have been known to get physically aggressive with their mates. And with Dash being a pony instead of a griffin... that wouldn't have ended up well."

"Yea. Anyways, Dash was actually pretty excited to see her when she first got here. Then when she found out how Gilda had been treating us, she'd had enough and snapped... thus the display of telling her to leave. Thing is, she came back after the party to ask Dash to forgive her. In so many words, Dash told Gilda to buck off... and she did. I wound up hearing about it later that day from Dash. We had a just-the-two-of-us slumber party that night."

"Oh? Did anything... happen between you two?" Rarity asked suggestively.

Pinkie blushed lightly

"Something did happen between you two?" She asked again, this time seriously.

Pinkie giggled "Yea, how do you think I came to be a fillyfooler myself? I'll admit I've been in good relationships with stallions before but..." Pinkie shrugged "everything just felt more right with her." She looked over to Twilight with a loving smile, putting her hoof on top of her lovers. "Just like it feels right... right now."

Twilight blushed as Rarity and Fluttershy both said "Aww" at the tender moment.

"So, you're wanting advice on how to talk to Dash right?" Twilight asked, looking at Fluttershy.

"I... um... yes I do... want advice."

"The best thing I can tell you is just to talk to her. Now that you know she's a fillyfooler, there shouldn't be anything to stop you."

"But... how will I do that?"

"You know how Rainbow is, better than any of us for that matter! Just be honest with her. Things will work out." Twilight said with a smile.

Suddenly Rarity stifled a yawn. They had barely noticed that Celestia's sun was dipping below the horizon.

"Oh heavens, look at the time! I am sorry Fluttershy but I have to go and make sure that Sweetie Bell gets to bed on time. If you want we can talk over this more tomorrow during our spa date?"

"That sounds good. See you tomorrow Rarity." Fluttershy said as her friend bid adieu.

"Oh, before I go Twilight, I have a question... weren't you worried that Rainbow Dash would crash through the windows while you and Pinkie where... busy?" She said, gesturing towards the windows above Twilight's bed.

"Nope, earlier today I put a sleeping spell on Dash, 15 hours of sleep. She said she's been having trouble sleeping.

"Yea, something's on her mind." Pinkie said, leaning forward to nibble on Twilight's ear. Sending shudders down the purple unicorn's spine.

"A-also, Spike is in Canterlot getting a few of my things. So I didn't have to worry about him either"

"Ah, well that certainly works." Rarity said "Ta-ta girls!" and with that, she walked out the door of Twilight's room. Shutting the door behind her.

Fluttershy turned to leave but was stopped when Pinkie said "You know, Dash may be a lot of confidence and strength on the outside... but she needs love. All you have to do is show her that Fluttershy." She looked back to see both of her friends smiling warmly at her. Silently showing that they would always be there for her.

She smiled back at them.

"Thank you both... for listening."

"No problem Flutters, now go out there and get her tomorrow." Pinkie said, still smiling at her.

"I- I will."

And with that, she walked out the door.

After hearing the main door of the library close, Twilight looked to Pinkie and said "Was that the big thing you're Pinkie Senses were telling you about earlier?"

"I don't think so... there's a lot left to go in their story." Her voice portraying a serious... almost sage tone to her words.

"How do you know?" Twilight asked, slightly mystified at her lovers ability to "just know" things.

"I don't know." Pinkie said, returning to her usual hyper demeanor.

"Noooow... where were we?" Pinkie asked her

Without waiting for her to answer, she said "Oh yea! You where nibbling my- Aaaah!!"

Twilight had remembered exactly where they were at...