Auntie Rarity

Twilight Sparkle's POV

"That's right. Well thank you." I hung up the phone with the police. They arrested Shadow and Sweetie Belle was taken to the hospital this morning. Rarity just wanted to make sure there were no injuries she missed, but that poor filly probably has terrible mental scars from what that stallion did! If Sweetie really is pregnant then Rarity's going to be going insane, the foals will have a hard time with it, and poor Sweetie Belle, I can't even think about what's going to happen to her.

"Twilight I just got back from visiting Sweetie Belle." Spike frowned coming in the door. "I've never seen Rarity so miserable before. I wanted to give her a hug, but she looks like she's about to snap and kill somepony." After what happened with Big Mac, I do not doubt that Rarity could do something like that in a heartbeat.

"What about the foals? How are they doing?" I asked.

"They seem concerned about Sweetie, but Sweetie's more concerned about whether or not they'll be another." Poor Sweetie. If she is pregnant again I'm going to try as hard as I can to convince her to keep het new foal. She's dead set on having an abortion, but she's just so young. I don't want her having regret the rest of her life.

"Rarity wasn't very excited about the idea either, but either way Spike, as a princess I have to help Sweetie through troubling times like this. I also asked Celestia if I could take care of Shadow's punishment, and she was fine with the idea." I smiled knowing the idea I already had.

"Well I'm sure no matter what you pick Rarity won't think it's enough. Sweetie Belle just wants him to come back." I heard Spike and I sigh.

"I don't understand."

"I don't either," He frowned. "I just wish she'd go back in time and never even have those stupid foals."

"Spike!" I reprimanded. "Those are Sweetie's children, and they're not to be talked about that way."

"Well sorry, but Twilight come on. You're a princess and you have complete control over what happens to the worst villain in Equestria!"

"Unfortunately right now that's not Shadow: it's Big Macintosh." I amended. "He's just sitting in a cell right now, no matter what I said or did Celestia didn't agree with me that he should be let out. She said he was too much of a threat to Equestria and all its inhabitants." I cringed remembering Apple Jack's expression the moment her brother emerged from the mud in the pouring rain, his hooves dripping with another stallion's velvet blood.

"Maybe someday soon, he'll be able to prove that he had a good reason, and he'll be able to see his sisters and meet his nephew."

"We can only hope now Spike, sincerely and whole-heartedly hope."

Sweetie's POV

"There's no reason to hate him!"

"No reason?! He's acerbic, bullying, crude, detestable, evil, fatuous, grating, hateful, irresponsible, jerky, knackering, lazy, moronic, not-nice, odorous, pusillanimous, quite rude, snake-like, terrifying, utterly vile, wormy, exasperating, yellow-bellied, and some word that begins with z that means nopony should like him!"

"Exasperating doesn't start with an X!" I deflected. "Besides Rarity if I have another one of his foals I don't have to continue to go out with him, I'll just have to raise another little pony."

"Twilight said she'd throw him on death row if she gets the chance Sweetie Belle, do you want your new foal to live with the guilt it was the rationale?" She might as well been foaming at the mouth.

"Rarity you can't tell me what to do when it comes to a life growing inside me!" I protested. "Even though I already decided to get an abortion." She looked at me with pure abash.

"S-Sweetie Belle are you seriously considering this?" She desired.

"Rarity it's been done. I have an appointment scheduled to see if I'm pregnant or not…and an abortion scheduled for right after." We sat in a shroud of silence.

"Well I want you to be sure you're willing to do this. I don't want you living with any kind of remorse."

"I'll be fine Rarity," I sighed. "And even if I'm not I still already have two foals that come first. Pearl and Minnie are my main concern in life right now, and I do not need another."

"Sweetie Belle, you do know that you can always come to me if you feel over-stressed, right?" My sister assisted. I just nodded and lay back down.

Fluttershy's POV (Nightmare)

As I galloped home from school I heard it again. Poor Shadow crying and screaming. I tried to run home and tried my best to ignore it, like I do every day, but why didn't I tell mommy and daddy? Daddy could have stopped Aunt Sunshine's husband. He would have taken her away and he would have found Shadow a new place to live. He could even live with us! Instead I tried to help all by myself, without any older ponies. Just a fourteen year old filly against a grown stallion who's abusing his wife and three year old colt.

"Let him go you big bully!" I shrieked. Shadow's father looked at me and swung his hoof forward into my stomach. I whimpered in pain, but I saw Shadow lying on the floor next to his mother. Neither of them could move! I got up and with all my strength yelled for my daddy who only lived a few houses over. My uncle covered my mouth and slammed the door.

*End of dream*

Every time I have that nightmare I remember how awful it all ended. My father somehow heard me, and he managed to get there to take his sister to the hospital. Shadow didn't know what to do after his mother's sudden death three hours after admittance. He was lying in her arms while she lied there bleeding and dying. Sometimes I think that if somepony just understood what Shadow went through they'd understand, but I know his deeds are unforgiveable. Just like his father, he didn't want to be separated from his children. Just like his father he didn't want to follow anyone's rules. Just like his father he's trying to end the life of someone he cares so much about.

After his mother's death my father and mother sent him to live in a group home, until he got older and came to live with me sometimes. He's always been such a troubled colt, but it never really started to play out until he went to college, and Sweetie Belle got pregnant.

"Fluttershy open up!" Rainbow Dash shouted from outside. I forgot that I invited Rainbow Dash over for lunch, but I couldn't let her see me this way. I quickly ran to my room and grabbed Angel. He would open the door for me, while I had some time to get ready. I looked in the mirror and I saw a glum little filly, not me. Rainbow Dash burst through my room and grabbed me by the hoof. "Hey! Your boyfriend is on death row!"

"W-what?" I blushed, startled by her entrance and her words.

"Big Mac got put on death row for killing that colt! Shadow's next to be sentenced." I couldn't believe my ears.

"Big Mac's not my-"

"Oh Big Macintosh isn't MY boyfriend. Not perfect wittle me!" She taunted and mocked me. "Come on! He's on death row and you're still denying it?!"

"Is he…really going to die?" I asked timidly. She frowned a bit and nodded.

"N-no." I couldn't take this on top of everything. First my cousin turns into an evil stallion, then my boyfriend disappears, after that he's sentenced to DEATH, and now my cousin might be going with him? I cannot take this anymore. It's killing me inside to have to deal with this. I'm not like Rainbow Dash or Apple Jack; I just don't have the pertinacity.

"Fluttershy where are you going?" She called. "Fluttershy!"

Apple Jack's POV

"Shut up you little brat!" I heard from down the hall. I stepped into Apple Bloom's room and she was sittin' on her bed isolating her own son!

"Apple Bloom!" I fought. "You get up and comfort your newborn when he cries!"

"Don't tell me what to do Apple Jack!" She smarted off to me. "He ain't worth the time." She turned a cold sneer to him.

"What has gotten into you?" I asked her taking her son from the crib. "He's a baby! A tiny little baby who doesn't need ya to be see so darn immature and nasty."

"My brother is getting sent to the grave because you let him go crazy, and you're telling ME how to handle things?"

"You can't blame me for what happened to Big Mac, Apple Bloom! He made his own choices-"

"While his sister did nothing to attempt to stop him."

"While she was UNCONSIUOS!"

"Well either way! If it wasn't for that demon you're holdin' over there he would be alive! Big Mac wouldn't be a murderer and he wouldn't be heading to death!"

"If his FATHER hadn't have-"

"Exactly! His father is in him Apple Jack. He's gonna be just like him,"

"Not if he has a good mother, which ain't happening right now."

"Excuse me? I'm the victim here!"

"Apple Bloom the only victim in this room is this poor little colt. His mother's gone crazy, his father's dead, uncle is-" I stopped and thought for a minute. "Who told yall about your uncle?"

"Celestia came to tell me personally and she didn't want me to defend him. She's set on his punishment."

"Well as much as I hate it, and don't agree with it, she gets to decide in the end. Your son is going to need to know what he was like, and he won't if you don't ever-"

"He don't deserve to know him! He practically killed him!"

"Apple Bloom, Big Mac made his own choices! He wasn't FORCED to-"

"Take that spawn of discord, and get outta my room!" She said slamming the door. That little filly is gonna get it the second I put this colt with someone responsible.

Sweetie Belle's POV

It was pure solitude and silence where I sat. The seconds seemed like years waiting for my doctor to bring back the news. My hooves shook with fear and apprehension. My two daughters were buttoned up and snug with their Auntie Rarity. I'm cramped in a torturous hospital room for hours anticipating the worst.

"Miss Sweetie Belle?" The nurse smiled. "I've got some news for you!" She was so cheerful and smiley I could have hit her.

"What is it?" I asked reluctantly.

"You are not pregnant." She gleamed. Every ounce of anger and frustration I had towards that nurse turned into sheer joy. I squealed I was so excited!

"Thank Celestia!" I couldn't help but yell. "Thank you for telling me! I have to get home to my babies!"

"Now, wait a minute miss." She started. "I'm obligated to tell you that, while you're not pregnant now, you did have a foal in you a few weeks ago, but due to stress and injury it sadly didn't make it." I had no idea how to respond, or how to feel.

"I- I have to go home. My twins are waiting for me." I figured once I got home I'd feel so much better, but right now I just felt regret for being so upset about being pregnant. Did I like wish that foal to death or something? This has to be my fault one way or another. Rarity was waiting for me wearing a black veil over her face. "What's that for?" I asked.

"Well you've murdered my niece or nephew, but I don't want you to feel guilty about it."

"Rarity I,"

"No, no do not blame me for your barbaric sins. I was never serious when I told you to get an abortion. Except the first time."

"Rarity would you-"

"And now look, just look at you! You're lost, confused, upset, regretful, glum, woe-"

"You're making lists again." I interrupted. She glared at me and I sighed. "Rarity I wasn't pregnant."

"Oh thank Celestia!" Déjà vu. "Mother and father will never have to know about my guardianship being...sub-par."

"The foal died." I bluntly stated. We were silent. Neither of us showed emotion, because neither of us really knew what to feel, or what to do. When I was going to get an abortion I wasn't ok with the fact I'd never meet my foal, but it didn't sting as bad as losing it for some reason. Her eyes met mine and instantly grew teary.

"Sweetie Belle come here." Her lip quivered and she squeezed me. "We'll stay up all night if you need to talk that long. Anything."

"Rarity I didn't want this foal…so why does this feel like a knife in my heart?"

"Probably because Shadow stabbed you with it." She sneered. "Now I can just stab him back. Thirty seven times in the throat."

"Umm…let's just put the babies to bed. Then we'll talk."