bad things happen to good ponies
"You said our polycule was free to expand as long as it did so on a platform of informed consent," Shining Armor said. "And after I looked up what a 'polycule' was I asked Fluttershy if she wanted to bone and she said yes. What's missing?"
"It's not that there's something missing, per se," Cadance said. She and Shining were in the bedroom, and Flurry had been asleep in her own room for a few hours. Evenings tended to drag on like this lately, and not in the sultry, sweaty, sore-for-hours-afterwards type of way. "It's just that... well, I never got that impression that you and Fluttershy were that well acquainted. How well do you know her besides just... being one of your sister's friends?"
"This is a pretty good opportunity to get to know her, I'd say," Shining Armor said. He was sprawled out on the bed, his hind-legs crossed over and bouncing up and down at intervals.
Cadance sighed.
"I suppose so... it's just... well..."
"Are you gonna tell me, or do I have to carefully and laboriously work it out of you over the course of an hour?"
Cadance huffed, crossed her forelegs, and frowned.
"No. I'll tell you."
Shining tapped his hooves.
"Well?"
"Oh. Right. I... well, I suppose it's fine. Just... I'd sort of thought our first outside affair would be... well, I'd sort of thought it'd be something for both of us. Somepony we both knew sort of well and felt comfortable around and could get to know better together..."
"You're saying the bat-pony guard you had your eye on yesterday was a 'mutual friend' of ours?"
"Oh, Shiny, that's not the same thing..."
"You couldn't shut up about how hot it made you to think about your big, sexy, royal husband, down on all fours, taking a lowly guard-pony's cock into his mouth and working it like a private mouth-slave."
"That was just... that was just fantasizing. Dirty talk. Being playful."
"I asked you to stop three times."
"I thought we were doing a dubcon thing."
"Is there anything else? I'm tired, and Fluttershy wanted to go for ice cream before we bang."
"Before you... yes. Well, you did clear it with me, and Fluttershy, I mean, I don't personally know her that well, but, I'm sure any of Twilight's friends, is a, fine choice for—"
Shining kissed Cadance on the forehead and flicked off the light on the bedside table, bathing the bedroom in darkness.
"Thanks, hun. I knew you'd come around. Night night."
Cadance sat for a while in the dark before she got up. She stood at the side of the bed for a minute or two, then got back into bed, tucked herself into the blankets, and went to sleep.
"Night," she said.
Shining was already asleep.
"I've decided I want to go with you," Cadance said. Flurry Heart was across the kitchen table in her high-chair, enjoying creating a modern art masterpiece with her bowl of foal-food. Cadance did her best to contain the pea & carrot explosion.
Shining Armor raised an eyebrow, spoonful of oats paused mid-way to his mouth.
"Pardon?" he said.
Cadance fussed about Flurry, refusing to make eye contact with her partner.
"Well, you know, I was just thinking, late, last night, when I couldn't fall asleep..."
"Mhm."
"And it really was my fault, you know, for suggesting all this, but never really, explaining, I guess, what it was all supposed to be about. I'm the Princess of Love, and I guess it never occurred to me which parts of 'love' would need more careful demonstration..."
"Does this end in a threesome?" Shining asked. He finished off his bowl of oats and took a sip from his half-full cup of coffee. "Because I'm not sure if just having you sit there and watch would make things much more comfortable."
"Oh!" Cadance seemed taken aback by the suggestion, but also eager to work herself around understanding it. "I mean... yes, that does make sense, now that you mention it. I guess I just hadn't, you know, thought about Fluttershy, in that way, though she really is quite a lovely young pegasus..."
"Great," Shining said. He finished his coffee and dumped his bowl and cup in the sink. "I don't think Fluttershy will mind. She's really easy-going. She'll probably be excited to play around with more than one pony."
"Oh," Cadance said. She thought briefly of the yellow pegasus she'd spent only a few minutes around collectively, wondering how it was that her sister cultivated such a diverse and overall attractive friend-base. Fluttershy was gorgeous, certainly... But so was Cadance. So what did she have to be worried about?
"Well," Cadance said, carefully measuring her words. "I suppose, if that's what you'd like—"
Shining kissed Cadance on the nose and smiled at her.
"Thanks, babe. I'm just gonna go shower. Fluttershy said she likes when stallions are a little trimmed around downstairs. Easier for her to get her mouth working if things are tidied up."
Cadance swallowed a mouthful of air, which tasted on its own like a breakfast that had gone bad several days ago.
"Yes," she said. "That sounds like a good idea. Maybe I'll, freshen up a little too... you know, I have that cute little lingerie set I got for your birthday that we never used, maybe I could—"
Shining had already left the kitchen. Cadance heard the bathroom door shut, and the shower turn on, and Shining's tell-tale off-key humming that went with the pouring water.
Flurry-Heart was giggling. She'd tipped her bowl upside down and was wearing it like a hat.
With a sigh, Cadance gathered up a wash-cloth and began wiping off the foal-food from Flurry and her chair. And the table. And the ground around the chair.
When she'd finished cleaning up the kitchen, Shining's shower had just come to an end. She caught the briefest glimpse of him through the hallway as he headed to the bedroom, still humming as he picked out his clothes and applied the finishing touches to his readiness regimen.
Cadance went to the bathroom and started her own shower. She got about five minutes of warmth, then finished up in the freezing spray that was left-over.
Cadance and Shining caught the train from the Crystal Kingdom to Ponyville, on account of booking the royal guard to do a private escort was a bit of a pain, and also because Cadance wasn't sure she wanted anypony else knowing what she and her husband got up to on their time off. Flurry was off with a foalsitter, one of the generic fillies available from the babysitting registration when they called in. She was nice and had a clean criminal record, and that was good enough.
Cadance tried to make conversation on the train ride to Ponyville. Shining Armor seemed more interested in finding somewhere to sit away from Cadance. Eventually she ended up spending most of the trip in the bathroom.
"Is this ice cream place somewhere you've been before?" Cadance asked. She was hanging off Shining Armor as best she could without actually making contact, and was being very careful in her distance, on account of the fact that every time she misstepped slightly and let her hoof touch him by mistake, he'd turn and give her a glare colder than the ice-cream they were on the way to eat.
Shining Armor turned his head at the question and considered it with an eyebrow raised. His nose was wrinkled, as though he'd smelled something sour on the bottom of his hoof.
"Huh? No, it's just an ice cream place. Fluttershy suggested it."
"Oh. That's nice."
Shining Armor sighed.
"Just be cool when we get there, okay? Fluttershy said she's fine meeting you, but she was a little iffy about letting you come with us to like... watch, or whatever."
"You mean you didn't discuss my... joining in?" Cadance let her smile slip, but only for a moment.
Shining turned his head the other way and avoided Cadance's eyes.
"No... I mean, yes, I told her, but like... this was kind of just going to be an 'us-and-her' sort of thing. You're making it a little... awkward by just showing up out of nowhere. You know what I mean?"
Cadance had to stop walking for a moment. She had as much training as a pony could have in mustering royal composure when the situation otherwise warranted for destitute sobbing. That had been an important part of the foundation of her marriage. This was just... a lot to take in, all at once.
But she was the Princess of Love, wasn't she? She could see the love in any situation. Even when the pit of her stomach felt like she'd swallowed five pounds of lead.
"Right," she said, still paused on the road behind Shining. She nodded to herself, then dashed a little to catch up with her husband. "No, I understand completely. If ice cream doesn't go well, I suppose I could always just catch a train home by myself—"
Shining surprised her with a kiss on the cheek. It was the first time in months she remembered feeling his lips on her body without asking directly.
"Thanks, hun," he said. "I knew you'd be understanding about it."
The two of them were quiet the rest of the way to the ice cream parlor. Cadance found herself staring up at the sun often, blinking into the blinding brilliance and daring herself to cry.
"This is a nice ice cream parlor," Cadance said as the three of them took a seat. She was right—it was a nice ice cream parlor. They had over thirty flavours and you could get those fancy waffle cones dipped in chocolate. With sprinkles, even. That's what Cadance got. Shining got his in a cup. Fluttershy opted for a normal cone with a tall swirl of soft-serve vanilla.
"It is," Shining said. Cadance wondered if he was agreeing with her just because they were out in public.
Fluttershy smiled at the both of them. "I've been here a few times. They have the nicest ponies working here, they always ask your name first, and there's that cute old timey piano in the back... sometimes somepony plays it when you come in. It's... nice."
"That sounds nice," Shining said. He took a small bite of his ice cream and smiled at Fluttershy. He seemed fixated on her, and between her licks of her own cone, she seemed eager to return the flirty stares and subdued giggles.
The table went without conversation for a little while. Cadance considered a series of subjects but cut herself off before bringing any of them up in earnest. She reached for Shining's hoof under the table once, but he batted her away so hard it hurt, and so she kept her hooves to herself as much as possible.
Cadance focused on her ice cream instead. It was delicious. She wished she could taste it.
Shining Armor and Fluttershy kept staring at each other. Shining would tilt his head a little and smile extra wide, and wink, and Fluttershy would wink back, and giggle, and blush, and flutter her wings in an adorable way Cadance didn't think she could mimic if she tried. Even though Fluttershy had left her animal friends at home, bird-song seemed to surround her like the bubblegum pink of her mane.
There was also the matter of Fluttershy's ice-cream. She started it slowly at first, almost ignoring it completely except for a few little laps with her tongue here and there to keep it from leaking down the sides of the cone. But after she and Shining had been sharing glances a while, she seemed to take a sudden interest in it. She didn't start eating it at first, not at all once—she sized it up first, taking stock of the length of the swirl and the width of the edge of the cone. Only when she was certain she had Shining's full attention did she extend her tongue, which was long—certainly longer than Cadance's, and Shining was the authority on that—and begin to slurp in a languid and exaggerated fashion at the edge of her vanilla.
Shining stared with his mouth open as Fluttershy winked at him and opened her mouth.
Cadance's mouth fell open too as she watched. She wondered if Fluttershy had learned her technique from a python she was keeping, or if she just had a natural talent. Either way, the ice-cream cone had no chance.
Fluttershy kept her eyes locked on Shining's as she downed the cone, moving each inch slowly until her lips were planted at the part where creamy vanilla met crispy wafer, and she slurped her tongue around the circular outside, kept the cone in place for a few more seconds, then pulled it out of her mouth-slash-throat almost untouched, save a slide depletion of the outside layer. The tip was still swirled. Fluttershy gave it one final lick and winked across the table.
Cadance felt a hoof against hers. She turned to Shining with her mouth still wide in surprise, and nudged back at him under the table.
Shining's brow furrowed, and he looked under the table for a moment. Then he moved his hooves away from Cadance and across to Fluttershy, who smiled at him even wider.
Cadance tried to focus on her ice-cream.
"Are you sure you don't feel awkward coming along so suddenly like this?" Fluttershy asked. She and Shining Armor were walking down the street towards Twilight's castle hoof-in-hoof, while Cadance trailed behind them, holding hooves with herself. "I mean, if it was me, I know I'd feel so terribly awful being expected to be intimate with somepony the first day I met them... well, I mean, I wouldn't actually feel terrible in that situation, if it's anything like the times it's happened in the past... but I imagine somepony else would feel terrible, being expected to come along with their husband and just sit and watch while he was intimate with somepony else, rutting them over and over and over again like a filly in heat..."
"Well," Cadance said, clearing her throat obliquely, "Shining and I have a very loving, open relationship. Anypony he's interested in is somepony I'm, er, interested in as well." Cadance smiled the best she could and flipped a strand of mane out her eyes. "I wouldn't be much of a Princess of Love if I wanted to keep my husband's affection, uh, all to myself, would I?"
"Hasn't kept you from shooting down the last three mares I suggested," Shining muttered under his breath.
"Hmm?"
"Nothing, dear."
Fluttershy continued smiling obliviously.
"Are you sure Twilight doesn't mind us using her castle either? I had no idea she was so open to letting out rooms for... intimate encounters." Fluttershy giggled with her hoof to her mouth.
Shining grinned back at her and put his hoof around her back.
"Twily doesn't have a problem with it as long as we clean up afterwards. And Cadance has a good spell for that. Don't you, hun?"
Cadance nodded glumly.
"I wouldn't be much of a Princess of Love if I didn't have some way to make things less sticky afterwards, would I?"
Cadance tried her own giggle, but it sounded frail and hollow all by itself.
The room they picked out, or that Shining Armor picked out without much objection from the girls, ended up being pretty nice. There was a bed, for one thing, which was an immediate plus in Cadance's mind, since she'd imagined at least a few scenarios involving sprawling out on an uncomfortable stone floor while she watched her husband and his barely-acquaintance bang each other out. At least now she'd have somewhere nice to lay.
There were a few fancy throw pillows, the bed was a four-poster, and a few nice reading desk and chairs and bookcases rounded out the room nicely. There was one solitary window in the upper corner of the right wall, high enough to let in a solid beam of sunlight that could brighten the room but too high for anypony to see in or out of, unless they were an errant pegasus with a peeking fetish.
Shining Armor got into the bed immediately and patted the mattress next to him while staring pointedly at Fluttershy, who giggled and followed him without hesitation. Cadance turned up on the other side, doing her best to keep a distance of at least one hoof between herself and her husband.
Surprisingly, the situation felt tense. Nopony seemed to know what to do or say.
The three of them laid there for a while, breathing at various rates, Cadance finding this the only consistent thing among them she could observe. Her own breath seemed jittery, like it was aware of being listened to, and wanted to try as hard as possible to quiet down out and away from anyplace it could be heard. Cadance wondered if the tightness in her chest was something she could will away, or simply a wave she needed to let wash over her. She hoped Flurry was doing okay with his foalsitter back home.
"Hmm," Shining said, the first voice from the silence in minutes. He'd mostly been nuzzling into Fluttershy's mane, and her resting a hoof over his chest. "Did anypony remember to bring... protection?"
Cadance snapped to attention immediately.
"You forgot to bring condoms?"
That was the one part of their deal she had been quite firm on. If pressed, she might have eventually confessed it was more for the sentimentality of being her husband's only raw pussy than the risk of STMRIs (Sexually Translated Magic Related Illnesses) or pregnancy... but Shining had never pressed her. That rule had gone unquestioned.
Shining Armor shrugged.
"I guess I was in a hurry. Musta left them back home. Or maybe on the train."
Cadance balked, but Shining Armor seemed pointedly unaffected by the glaring omission to their polycule protocol. Fluttershy didn't seem to know how to react, and so settled for a look of genuine and mild confusion.
"Oh my," she said, without bothering to remove her hoof from Shining's chest-fur. "Is that a problem? Shining and I hadn't really discussed that in our messages... we were more focused on the other bits." Fluttershy blushed slightly, but her knowing smile said she had enough hidden experience that it was mostly for show.
Cadance considered her potential rejoinders. She tried desperately to find the path forward that would let her continue with love in her heart.
She took three deep breaths and counted slowly as she let them out.
"It's fine," she said. "I'll go see if I can find some. If Twilight doesn't have a pack stashed somewhere, there's a drug store just down the road that should sell them."
Shining Armor kissed her on the forehead. His lips felt like her husband's.
"Thanks, hun," he said, while at the same time rubbing the back of Fluttershy's neck and dragging a soft, gentle moan from her lips. He blew a kiss at Cadance with his free hoof. "You're the best."
Cadance got up and left without saying anything else. She wondered if the feeling in her chest telling her not to come back was love, or something else entirely.
"I'm back," Cadance said, by way of announcing her return. It felt nice to be informal when context allowed for it. She even put a little musical lift into her voice near the end. The walk had helped clear her head. She was feeling a lot better now. A lot more capable of love.
"So since Twilight wasn't just, you know, stashing a big bag of condoms somewhere, go figure, right... anyway, I went to the store, and they had these cute little cookies on sale at the front counter, they look like hearts, and all the proceeds from the cookies go to Friendship Awareness & Relief, so, I thought, I mean, why not buy one for each of us. So anyway, the condoms are on the desk, and your cookies are..."
Cadance trailed off as she was setting the heart-shaped biscuits down next to an empty inkwell.
Shining Armor and Fluttershy, if they had noticed her at all, gave no indication of the fact. Both of them seemed, for lack of a better expression, 'intensely interested' in one another.
Shining Armor had his dick in her mouth, in other words.
And Fluttershy, she was... she wasn't blowing him, not really, sucking his dick, necessarily, but more so, just... holding her face there, with her hooves on either side keeping her mane out of the way... and her eyes were shut, and her mouth was open so wide, doing that python impression again, while Shining Armor was... he was...
"Mmm, fuck!"
Well, he was fucking her face. He was groaning and swearing inbetween thrusts. He was slamming his cock into Fluttershy's mouth and down her throat over and over again. He seemed not to be capable of doing anything else.
And Fluttershy was moaning around his shaft, making adorable little squeals of pleasure every time he bottomed out and she could reach down with her tongue and lick at his balls resting underneath her nose.
When Fluttershy opened her eyes, briefly, she spotted Cadance standing by the foot of the bed. It was hard to tell, with her mouth full of dick, but it looked like she tried to give Cadance a smile, and mumbled something incoherent around Shining's prick while she waved Cadance over with a hoof.
Shining seemed intensely incapable of noticing the change in ambience, but when Fluttershy tapped on the base of his shaft and pulled her head back just enough so that the head of his cock was no longer brushing up against the back of her throat, he took a moment to open his own eyes, and that was enough to notice Fluttershy, who was still noticing Cadance, and then he did that too.
"Oh," he said.
"Hey, hun," he said.
Fluttershy finally removed herself from Shining's shaft with a hearty slurp, leaving a substantial coating of spit around his prick, and a few strands dangling between her mouth and the head of his cock as well. Fluttershy licked her lips and wiped them off with her hoof, then smiled at Cadance as plainly as though she'd come uninvited for Sunday tea.
"Sorry we got started without you," Fluttershy said with an apologetic head-tilt. "Shiny was just so... ferocious, I couldn't really help myself when he said he wanted to fuck my face until I was choking on his cum..." Fluttershy shivered and fluttered her wings in a quick burst. Then she giggled.
"It's fine," Cadance said flatly. She picked up her cookie and took a large bite of it. "I'm glad you two were having... fun."
"Would you like to join us?" Fluttershy asked. She turned around on the bed until she was lying on her back and spread her hind-legs wide to show of her pretty yellow pussy with insides of glistening pink. Her mane was hanging over her face a little, damp with sweat and probably a little of her own spit as well, and she attempted to brush it out of the way as she pulled her hind-legs up a bit to put her pussy on better display. The strand fell right back into place, and Fluttershy giggled again, that perpetual high-pitched chime that made Cadance's nose wrinkle and her husband's eyes glaze over. After forfeiting to her mane, Fluttershy got into a perfect porn-star position, her hooves reaching almost all the way behind her head.
Shining stared with his mouth open. Cadance wondered if he was drooling.
Fluttershy gestured between her legs with her hoof. "Come on," she said. "Shining Armor said you love eating pussy. And scissoring." Fluttershy looked up at Shining Armor, smiling. "That's right, isn't it?"
Cadance and Shining Armor shared a look that, even through centuries of relationship counselling and self-help analysis, could never be perfectly translated.
"Yes," Cadance said. "I do. Love those things, I mean. Both of them."
Fluttershy giggled and wiggled her hips on the bed. Shining looked ready to pounce at any moment.
"Well, why don't you come give your tongue a workout, and after that, you and I can rub each other while Shining trades between our mouths, hmm?" Fluttershy looked up at Shining and winked, and Shining groaned so blatantly that Cadance felt her heart plummet another story, when she was already certain it had hit the pavement and burst long ago.
"Oh," Cadance said. "That's... well, I mean, that does sound nice, but I'm not sure I'm really—"
"I'll eat you out if she won't," Shining said, already sliding into place between Fluttershy's legs, his eyes lighting up with a fire Cadance wasn't sure she'd ever seen before.
Even Fluttershy, somehow always just the right amount ignorant, could sense Cadance's discomfort with the sudden shift. The tortured expression of somepony who wishes they could go backwards or forwards in time as far as possible, but above all would do anything not to remain in the present. Then again, she could already feel the heat of Shining Armor's breath as he held his face above her cunt, she was getting wet just imagining his tongue licking up and down her slit just like they'd talked about in their letters, it had been the secondary focus, while pinning Fluttershy against a furniture item of her choosing and rutting her into unconsciousness always won out as the main focus. Focus. Fluttershy was finding it hard to do that.
"Are you sure this is okay?" Fluttershy asked Cadance, leaning to the side to make sure she could catch the Princess's expression around Shining Armor's head.
It wasn't one that translated easily. As usual, Fluttershy was quick to doubt her own intuition. Believing what somepony said at face value was always a safer idea.
"Yes," Cadance said. She stared down at her cookie, chewing quietly on a long-since finished mouthful of nothing. She looked up at Fluttershy, and her husband, poised between her legs with his tongue practically hanging out of his mouth. "I mean... yes, I'm fine with it. This is all... we all love each other here, don't we? This is just a... fine, h-healthy expresion of, of free love... right, Shining?"
"Oh, Shining!" Fluttershy yelled.
Shining didn't seem capable of answering. His tongue was busy, for one thing.
"Oh," Cadance said to herself, quietly. She let out a long sigh, scanned the rest of the small room that didn't contain the bed and the pair of ponies on it, and finally took another bite of her cookie. It tasted stale, but she couldn't blame the bakery for that. "Shining," she said, again to herself, a whisper as light as air.
On the bed, Fluttershy had clenched her legs around Shining's head and was practically smothering him with her pussy—which, from the loud, persistent sounds of licking and slurping, must be unfathomably wet, practically gushing, and Fluttershy's moans had long ago drifted from comprehensible Equestrian into sub-and-super-sonic territory. One minute she sounded like the plucky protagonist of a Neighponese cartoon being poked and prodded through various realms of pleasure, and the next she was an animalistic spirit creature, growling and letting out throaty moans and probably biting, if she was close enough and able to get her teeth around Cadance's husband's neck, or any other part of him, for that matter...
Cadance finished off the last of her cookie. She wondered about going back to the store for seconds.
She had visions sometimes. Not like Princess Luna or Princess—okay, fine, yes, like that, but different, all the same. It was an Alicorn thing. You never knew when, on a whim, the universe would make you its plaything for orchestrating possible illustrations of the future. Sometimes nothing to do with you at all. Sometimes not even properly visible.
She imagined herself, on the train ride home, staring out the window at the scenery.
Getting home, waiting for Flurry to return from the sitter's.
An empty house, with nopony but her in it.
She looked over at the bed she was still standing next to, here, in this present moment, and saw her husband's body, stiff, stick-like, unmoving, a mannequin or steel sculpture in the place of Shining Armor. Cadance saw herself reaching out to touch him, putting a hoof on his back and leaning close to whisper something in his ear. She didn't know what she whispered to him.
At the same time, there she was and had always been. There was no moving part of her besides the spark in the very center of her head that made the other parts move.
She wanted to reach out and hug Shining Armor, even as he was, face buried inbetween Fluttershy's legs.
She settled for crawling up onto the bed, leaving the paper container her cookie had been in behind on the desk, and doing her best to watch what it was that could be abstracted about the situation.
There were two ponies, more or less making love. That was something that would make her heart swell, in other circumstance.
Her husband was happy. A friend of her sister's was happy. Both of those things would make her heart swell, in other circumstance.
She was out with her husband, getting to know somepony new. That was nice.
Was she supposed to, just reach over, or, maybe...
Cadance cleared her throat loudly. It did no good to draw anypony's attention away from what they were doing, but it made her feel slightly better.
"Shiny," she said, what she thought was loud enough to pierce the sound-wall of Fluttershy's moaning and Shining's hungry and active tongue.
Apparently not. She tried again, louder this time.
"Shiny."
It was enough to get him to look up, finally. Even his tongue stopped moving for a moment. Cadance had his attention, more or less.
"I want to see you... I mean, I just got those condoms, after all, so I was thinking..."
"Do you mean..." Shining pulled his mouth out from between Fluttershy's legs and wiped the sheen of her girlcum off his lips and chin. Some of it, anyway. "You wanna watch us—"
"Yes," Cadance said. She found it one of the easiest words to say in situations like these. "I want to watch you to... fuck."
"Oh my," Fluttershy said. She wiggled her hips on the bed. "I felt a little tingle when you said that. You're very good at dirty talking, Princess Cadance."
"Just call me Cadance," Cadance said, stifling her sigh. She grabbed one of the condoms from the desk with her magic and lifted it over to the pair on the other side of the bed.
Shining snatched it out of the air and stared at the silver packaging with a mix of insatiable lust and disbelief.
"Are you sure?" he asked, looking towards Cadance, his eyes uncharacteristically soft and yielding.
Cadance took the moment to swallow her pride, objections, and the feeling tugging her heart down into the abyss that screamed at her to object and yank Shining back home immediately.
"Yes," she said again. Yes. Yes. That's all it took, to make him smile like that.
"Wow," Shining said. He turned around and kissed her, right on the mouth. It lasted a few seconds. Felt nice. "Thank you," he said.
"I love you," she said to him.
Shining nodded and kissed her on the forehead.
"Come on," he said to Fluttershy, already unwrapping the condom.
Fluttershy fluttered up off the bed in a fit of giggles, turning herself around once or twice before settling back down, with her head towards the headboard and her squishy yellow butt pointed squarely in Shining Armor's direction. Conversely, Shining got up behind her, putting his hooves on her butt first, then moving them as he slid into place, perfect mounting position, his long-since hard prick dangling obscenely between his legs, only inches away from the tip sliding into Fluttershy's wet, waiting pussy.
There was still no cover on Shining's cock. And he was rubbing it with his hoof, lifting the head, getting ready to stick it—
"Honey," Cadance said, loudly. Nopony seemed to notice.
"Honey," she said again, louder this time.
Shining, at last, paused, his cockhead just an inch from slipping inbetween Fluttershy's lips and sliding into her waiting wetness.
"Huh?" he said, then turned his head, as though remembering Cadance was still next to them in the bed. "What is it?"
"You forgot this," Cadance said, holding up the unwrapped condom with her magic.
Shining's expression looked to be one of genuine surprise, but Cadance didn't feel she could be sure anymore.
"Oh, right," Shining Armor said. He took the condom between his hooves and began slowly rolling it down the head and shaft of his prick, until the whole length was covered up in mostly-translucent purple plastic. He turned to look at Cadance, again with a look that fails to accurately be transformed into digestible vocabulary.
"Thanks, hun," he said. He smiled at her.
Cadance smiled back.
"No... no problem," she said.
She patted him on the back, sudden enough that he didn't react by flinching to her touch.
"Give it to her good," Cadance said. "Make sure she... make sure she has a good time, getting your royal cock."
"Fuck, babe, that's really hot," Shining Armor said.
Cadance smiled. She thought she meant him—but then he saw Fluttershy reaching back with both hooves and grabbing her own butt-cheeks, jiggling them up and down and spreading them so Shining could get a perfect look at the dripping wet pussy he was about to get a piece of—and, maybe if he was lucky, the tight, eager butthole right above that he might get to sample for dessert.
Still... it was a combined effort now. Cadance had a choice between eating the remaining cookies and participating in what she must insist was a mutually consensual sexual encounter.
Tentatively, Cadance reached out a hoof towards Fluttershy's wings. She rubbed at the base, connected to Fluttershy's back, doing her best not to jostle or dislodge any of the delicate feathers... she couldn't tell if the noises Fluttershy was making were any different or not, as Fluttershy hung her head down, she snapped her eyes open for just long enough to give Cadance a wink and mime a little kiss in her direction.
Cadance kept her hooves busy as she watched Shining line up his cock and begin to slide it inside. She felt the long, tender shiver run through Fluttershy's body, up her wings as well, as each inch of Shining's cock slid forward, until he was buried, just like that, all at once, and Cadance was murmuring unidentifiable noises to herself as she stared, the grin on her husband's face as he grabbed one of Fluttershy's butt-cheeks with either hoof and began to draw his hips back.
"Ready for the rutting of your life?" Shining asked.
"Oooh, am I?" Fluttershy waggled her hips and reached down between her legs to play with her clit, as well as stroke the underside of Shining's cock, which elicited a low groan from him and a twitch of his cock, still halfway inside Fluttershy's cunt. "Heck yeah. I want you to fuck me up. Rail me until I can't stand up anymore."
"You want it rough?" Shining asked. He began to move his hips in little one inch bursts, back and forth in Fluttershy's pussy, not giving her the full length of his dick, just teasing her with the tiny movements. Fluttershy groaned and tried her best to shove her ass and pussy backwards onto Shining's dick, but he resisted by moving further away, keeping her the perfect distance to hover on the edge of her impending orgasm.
Fluttershy moaned loudly and bit a chunk of pillow sticking out near her head. "Mmmmm, yesss, I want it rough, I want you to rut me like a little filly in heat. I want you to rut me like you just got out of pony-prison and I'm the only mare you'll get to see before they lock you up again. I want you to rut me like—mhmnm!" Fluttershy was cut off by Shining yanking her head back by her mane and forcing her into a wet, tongue-filled kiss, at the same time he slammed his hips forward and buried his entire cock in the poor pegasus' waiting pussy.
That was more than she could take all at once. Fluttershy came. And when Fluttershy came, everypony in a five mile radius found out about it.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, yes, give me that dick... give me that big, hard, handsome dick..." Fluttershy growled and licked her lips as she stared, head hanging low, between her own legs, watching Shining Armor's shaft glisten as it slid in and out of her pussy. She reached back and began rubbing at her clit again, and her moans got even louder, muffled by the pillow or not. Cadance wondered whether Twilight had bothered to invest in soundproofing.
"Is that how you like it?" Shining Armor asked, apparently now a large fan of rhetorical questions. He yanked Fluttershy's head back by her mane again, to a largely appreciative sounding yelp, and then did it once more, not bothering with another kiss, but biting down on the soft yellow skin of Fluttershy's neck, and with the piercing touch of his teeth, earning another fiercesome clench of Fluttershy's cunt, spasming around his prick in her second orgasm of the night in only five minutes.
"Fffffuck, fuck, oh fuck, that's just how I like it... I've been a bad filly, Daddy, I need you to punish me..."
Fluttershy shot Shining Armor a devilsome look over her shoulder, and Shining growled at her like a possessed timberwolf before he started slamming her against the head-board, fucking her from behind with such force that her entire body began to shake, and her legs, close to giving out as they had been, finally faltered and sent her sprawling to the bed—where Shining followed her, fucking her like that, in a semi-prone position, still finding the perfect way to slam every inch of his dick inside her, until he was sure he could feel the tip poking up against her cervix, and Fluttershy's moaning and swearing became incomprehensible streams of gibberish hottering than anything he'd ever heard come out of his wife's mouth before.
That was it. Cadance needed to investigate those cookies, immediately. Her sanity and marriage depended on it.
Cadance got up from the bed and went to the desk, turning away from the sweaty, entangled pony-pair and occupying herself intently with the pattern of sprinkles atop the remaining heart-shaped cookies. The distribution of the sprinkles between pink and red was uneven, but that gave the cookies a sort of rural charm that you couldn't really get if they were mass-produced identically...
"I'm gonna cum again, Shiny!" Fluttershy said, maybe 'yelled' would have been a better word. Cadance didn't even bat an eyelash at 'Shiny', she was surprised it had taken this long to change mouths. "I'm gonna cum on your dick, Daddy!"
"Daddy's gonna cum in your tight little pussy too, hun," Shining said, managed to say between grunts and slaps of his crotch against Fluttershy's bouncing butt. Cadance and Shining had tried 'Daddy' around the time Flurry was born, but somehow it always seemed to make things more awkward than arousing. Maybe there was just a technique to it Cadance had failed to observe.
Because she was still intensely focused on sprinkle distribution comparision, Cadance didn't see Shining pause for a moment. She didn't see his hoof yank the condom off and fling it across the room to parts unknown, conceivably leaving it either for Cadance's clean-up spell or some wayward temporary janitor to find and fail to be properly compensated for.
If Fluttershy noticed the difference between raw dick and one covered in a thin layer of plastic, she didn't say anything to that effect. But she did turn her head to stare into Shining's eyes, and winked at him. Then she went back to diddling herself while Shining pumped his cock into her from behind.
"Get ready to take Daddy's load," Shining groaned. He slammed home with one final thrust, bit the back of Fluttershy's neck and yanked her mane as his balls twitched and seized and unloaded spurt after spurt of hot sticky cum bare into Fluttershy's soaking-wet pussy.
Again, whether she could tell the difference between taking a raw, sticky load on the walls of her pussy and one just caught up in the end of a prophylactic like a misshapen balloon, wasn't something she vocalized outright. But the way she moaned even louder than she had before, frigged extra hard at her own clit, her hoof turning into a whirlwind as Shining's balls twitched against her ass... maybe that was some indication. Maybe Cadance would have noticed it, if she'd been watching.
Instead, she was trading bites between cookies, trying to see if she could determine a difference in taste between them.
Shining and Fluttershy's groans and moans blurred together into a sweaty-smelling tapestry on the other side of the bed. Cadance waited until the noises had mostly finished, then willed herself to turn around, then actually did turn around.
She was hoping against hope that at least Shining would have pulled out by then. Even in the smallest of things, she felt unlucky.
She hadn't expected to see the goopy, white mess leaking out around Shining's cock and from between the lips of Fluttershy's pussy.
She had hoped against hope she was wrong in identifying the slimy blue thing across the room as a discarded condom.
"Excuse me," she said, and got up from the desk. She went to the door quickly, only pausing to announce the reason for her departure. "I need to go use the bathroom."
Shining Armor and Fluttershy seemed to show no interest in moving to a different position, even as Cadance left and shut the door behind her.
In fact, Shining could feel himself getting hard again. From the grin on Fluttershy's face, so could she.
Shining Armor smiled and winked at her.
"Wanna go for round two?"
Fluttershy wiggled her butt and giggled.
A full year later, Cadance found herself strolling down a vaguely familiar street in Ponyville, wandering with a vague hankering for ice cream.
She wasn't sure whether she expected to see Fluttershy or not, but she was there regardless. Fluttershy and her cute new foal.
The pair didn't notice her as she walked up. They were busy with each other.
"Fluttershy," Cadance said by way of a greeting. "Hey. It's me. Princess Cadance."
Fluttershy looked up from her baby like a mother hawk scanning for predators, but her glare softened a little once she realized she was dealing with a familiar face. She almost smiled, and even gestured over for Cadance to sit with them.
Which she did, sliding into the spare chair across the table. From the looks of things, Fluttershy was having tea, and the baby was still content to deal mostly with its bottle. A white-feathered pegasus with a blue mane... such a precocious, cute little thing, barely old enough even to be out with its mommy.
Cadance went through a number of potential introductions in her head.
'So, how's things?'
'I notice you've got a baby now.'
'That foal looks an awful lot like my husband, you know.'
She needed to pick one, before Fluttershy—
"Hi, Princess Cadance! What brings you to Ponyville?" Fluttershy gave her baby a little pat on the head and cradled it close to her chest. The baby murmured and tossed its head back and forth, toussling its short blue mane.
"You fucked my husband and had a kid with him," Cadance said. "That's why I'm here."
Fluttershy's face scrunched up for a moment.
"Hmm," she said. "That does sound like a good reason for a visit—"
"I want you to know you can keep him," Cadance said. She already looked like she was getting ready to leave. "Shining, not the kid. I mean, of course you can keep the kid... although, if my former husband is any indication, foal-care standards in your house might ended up being low enough to alert the attention of public investigation..."
"What are you implying?" Fluttershy asked. She picked up her tea and took an angry sip, if that was possible while drinking herbal tea. Sip.
"Nothing. Just letting you know you're in for a real fun ride." Cadance got up from the table with her eyes set on the tiny foal against Fluttershy's chest. "Does he have a name?"
"For your information, Shining and I aren't speaking right now, so if we do continue seeing each other, it will be almost entirely in the interest of—"
"Yeah, that's a great name. I wish the best to all three of you. May nothing but love be in your future, and such." Cadance pushed her chair back in and stared down at the tiny pony she was trying hard not to conceive of entirely as the end of her marriage.
As was more typical these days, a vision popped into her head. Flurry Heart's face was sprinkled among the technicolour.
"My kid could kick your kid's ass," Cadance spat at Fluttershy. Then spat at her for real. Then she left.
Back at the table with just herself, or what felt like herself, and the little piece of herself that had somehow come into being over what seemed like such a short period of time... then Fluttershy let herself cry.
The baby didn't seem to mind. He smiled and pulled at his mommy's mane, kicking his hooves and giggling without a care in the world.
