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The next morning when Octavia woke up, she found something rubber in the corner of her mouth. She reached up with her hoof and pulled the empty bottle away. She smiled as she looked into it before setting it down. It was then that she became aware of a set of hooves that were still around her from last night and she looked over and saw Daisy still sound asleep. She was also becoming increasingly aware of a damp spot between her legs and when looked down and saw a wet patch in her pajamas.

That was… actually a bit alarming. Not enough all where she would panic about it right now and risk waking up Daisy, who had a similar wet spot, as well as an odor that she'd become quite familiar with coming from her. At least she hadn't done that in her sleep, though she did feel a pressure and knew that it would be coming soon. Still, this was two nights in a row that she'd had an accident, and last night it was apparently bad enough that she soaked through a fresh diaper. Definitely going to have to tell Tenderheart about that next week, she thought to herself.

About that time she heard the door open up. "Good morning sleepy heads! Who's ready for another day of fun?" She heard Rose say, drawing out the word fun before taking a sniff and wrinkling her nose. "Phew, it definitely smells like you two had a goodnight sleep," Rose said, approaching the bed and dropping the rail. "Goodness, you're both soaked to! I should call you my little super soakers."

"Rosie…" Daisy said in a stretching yawn before rolling over onto her back with a squish. She blushed immediately when she felt it and giggled.” Okay… maybe it is that bad…”

“Come on, let’s get you two changed. OR at least, let’s get you changed Daisy and Octavia cleaned up so that she can go home to get more supplies and check her mail like she asked last night. Let’s get you both on the floor so that we can get the sheets off the bed. Definitely going to need thicker diapers for you two when you go to bed,” Rose said rubbing Daisy’s nose with hers, making her giggle.

Daisy sat up before sliding off of the bed as Rose started undoing her jammas and Octavia followed suit. As she stood up, the pressure from the milk overnight continued to grow a bit more. She had already saturated this diaper anyway, and was about to be changed, so a little more wouldn’t hurt. AS soon as she heard the rip of Daisy’s tapes getting pulled off she grunted as she pushed the mucky substance into her diaper quite rapidly once it broke loose.

Rose heard the mudslide as it happened and looked up to Octavia. “Goodness… I guess somepony didn’t want to feel left out,” she said waving a hoof in front of her nose as she continued to change Daisy. Before long she had Daisy cleaned up and in a new diaper before repeating the process on Octavia, minus the new diaper. “There we go! Good as.”

“ROSE!!” The three ponies heard Lily shout almost in a panic from the other room. The three ponies instantly made their way into the living room when they saw a creamy yellow unicorn with a bouncy mane and tail that… looked like she had seen better days. She had several cuts and bruises and quite a bit of swelling in her face and she was very clearly crying.

“Lemon Hearts…?” Rose asked Rushing over to her and pulling the crying mare inside before wrapping her in a very tight hug. “What in Equestria happened?”

“It's Eiffel… he was cleaning last night and he discovered where I keep my little stuff. I came home this morning from an overnight shift to find him tearing up one of my diapers and my favorite onesie tattered in pieces. When I asked him what he was doing he got belligerent, demanding to know why I had these things to begin with. I… tearfully explained everything the best I could but he didn't care. He continued to ruin everything I worked so hard to get. He told me that I would never be allowed to participate in anything like that ever again. When he said that, I broke it off with him, saying that if he couldn't understand me, then he didn't deserve to be with me. And… then…. And then…" she said as she started crying again, wincing a bit.

Octavia watched hurt Lemon Hearts was, both physically and emotionally and before she even realized it she was wearing a viscous scowl. Moved up and joined in the hug that the flower trio were giving Lemon before looking towards Rose. "Rose, take care of Lemon here, I'll be back soon. Lily, I'm going to need you to come with me… I'm going to need somepony with me to prevent me from doing something I might regret…"

"If you're planning on what I think you're planning, we might want a guard then cause I'm as likely to go off as you are," Lily said as they both made their way outside. They didn't see a guard, which wasn't all that uncommon in Ponyville. The elements of harmony live here thankfully when they rounded the corner they saw a guard down by the train station. "Lily, go grab him and meet be at Eiffel's with any luck you'll get there before I ring his neck," she instructed.

Sure, Octavia was normally a timid mare. But if there was one thing that the last few days had taught her, it was that it was okay for her to be herself, and she wasn't going to sit by idly and let someone else literally put a hoof on somepony else for doing the same. Sure, she didn't know Lemon Hearts that well. She'd only met her at a few social events that she played at, but that didn't mean she didn't consider her an acquaintance, and she wasn’t going to let anypony else treat her like that.

She made her way up to the front door of the house that the Two of them were staying in and knocked on the door. “Has the Freak come crawling home?” she heard from inside as she watched Eiffle open up the door. “Oh, Octavia it’s you! To what do I HLK!” she heard, cutting him off with a swift buck to the chin. If she had been angry on the way over here, hearing him actually say something like that to Lemon Hearts, or rather aimed at Lemon Hearts made her blood boil.

“Ouch! Hey! What the buck!?” Eiffle said as he stammered back into the room. “I don’t know what I did that made you angry, but I can say that you have one heck of a kick,” he said, trying to act all cool before noticing that he had yet to clean up the ruined foal supplies. Honestly, he wasn’t planning to. He was going to make Lemon Hearts clean it up later when she got home. Let it sink in that she was his, and he wasn’t going to allow this any longer.

“Don’t, play coy with me, Marebeater. I know exactly what you did to Lemon, and I know exactly why, and I’ll be the first to tell you how utterly despicable you are!’ Octavia shouted.

“Wait, you’re actually defending that freak? She deserved everything that she had coming. Freaks like her just need some sense knocked into them from time to time until they learn what they are doing is wrong.”

“Except it isn’t. She has every right to be happy and to do things that make her happy!” Octavia yelled back.

“Oh, I get it now, you’re one of her freaky friends! Well, lets just see how popular you are when I make sure all of equestria knows just how much of a freak that yahoof!!” Eiffel said cut off once again with another buck, this time catching his tongue in the process.

“You shut the buck up and you listen, and you listen good… If it wasn’t for the fact that I already had Lily on her way back her with a guard that should be here any minute, I would be more than willing to make you feel just as hurt and heart broken that you made the one pony that trusted you with her safety more than anypony else. A trust that you betrayed and she’s currently battered, bruised, and probably still bleeding a bit, though I’m sure Rose has her bandaged up by now,” Octavia started as Lily and the guard had already returned, the guard quickly getting in between the two arguing ponies. “And it’s all because you did this to her.”

The Stallion scoffed. “She brought this upon herself for being a diaper wearing freak, and you’ll be the same! Everypony’s going to find out! I’ll make sure of…”

“Dude,” the guard interupted. “Almost everypony in Ponyville knows what she does at this point,” he stated bluntly. “She forgot to pay for the discreet shipping and left the package outside all day a few days ago. It’s also not like houses aren’t made with windows. The difference is, we don’t care. She ain’t hurting no pony, and if it makes her happy in her alone time, or if others want to help her be happy, that’s their own business. If it was something that you didn’t like, then maybe you could have simply said as such instead of destroying things that don't belong to you,” the guard continued, pointing to the pills of destroyed merchandise. “The tattered products on the floor, and the fact that you’ve yet to deny inflicting harm on Lemon Hearts leads me to believe that everything that Miss Melody is saying here is true. I’m going to need you to come with us, and we can let Celestia sort this out,” The guard finished, instructing another that had joined in to take him outside.

“Now, Miss Melody… You know that I am going to have to write a citation for those hits you landed on him. I can’t have you getting off scot free now can I?” He said turning to Octavia and scribbling something down.

“What ever do you mean? I did nothing of the sort! Why he simply tripped and fell face first into my hooves that I just happened to be extending to stretch with considerable force,” Octavia said with a smirk.

“Riiight,” he said, ripping off the citation.

Octavia rolled her eyes a bit before looking down at the fee before blinking her eyes a bit. She had to shake her head once more and look at it again. “Really?” she said to herself, putting it in her saddle bag. Why even write it if there wasn’t a fine! Still, she wasn’t dumb enough to say that outloud. If this guard didn’t want to fine her for giving that pony a swift kick to the teeth then who was she to complain?

She watched the stallion continue to struggle against the guards. At this point, they had called in a locked chariot and we're in the process of loading him into it with many ponies looking over the scene with disgust. When Eiffel tried to use this to her advantage, a lilac colored pegasus with gradient blue mane and tail and a scar on her left wing spoke up. "The only pony here that is acting obnoxiously disgusting is you," she said, watching him get loaded up and the guards hauled him away.

The pegasus walked over towards Octavia and extended a wing to her. "Hey, you okay? We performers gotta look out for each other, you know?" she says with a smile.

"Thanks Wind Dancer, but I'm fine. It's Lemon Hearts that I'm concerned about. She's the one that was on the wrong end of his hooves. I'll probably have to make a trip to Canterlot soon to say my piece though, considering I'm pretty sure that he's missing a couple teeth now," Octavia replied, also with a smile.

Wind Dancer nodded. "I'm any case, make sure you're taking care of yourself as well. I can't have my favorite instrumentalist unable to make an appearance at my festival in a few weeks," Wind added before she took off. "I have a few things that I need to take care of, but we should catch up later! If you're not, ‘busy’. If you are, I totally understand and I'll stop by next time I'm in town," she said, zipping off into the market.

Octavia waved goodbye and started making her way back towards her house. It wasn’t long before Lily had rejoined her as well. Today definitely hadn’t started off how either of them had planned, and Octavia couldn’t help but feel in the back of her mind that there were going to be drastic consequences for her outburst. She should have just gone home and gotten what she was supposed to… but she felt it with every fiber in her being that she needed to stand up for Lemon Hearts. She… probably could have done so without bucking Eiffel in the face. She was honestly surprised that she didn’t get arrested herself.She supposed she was lucky that Eiffel didn’t clean up any of the evidence to what had happened so it collaborated with the story that Lily would have told the guard. “Octavia!” she heard from next to her, making her jump a bit.

“Are you alright? You’ve been very quiet for the walk back… Not to mention jumpy…” Lily noted.

“Yeah, I’m fine. I guess I’m just worried that I overdid things a bit. Honestly that guard should have arrested me as well for bucking him in the face! That was totally uncalled for and made me no better than he was when he was beating up on Lemon!”

“Now you hold on there just a minute. What you did was completely different,” Lily replied.

“Really… How so?” Octavia responded sarcastically.

“Well you were standing up for Lemon Hearts for one. Most ponies are willing to look the other way when you’re standing up for others and defending what is right. Sure, you probably didn’t need to kick him in the face, but honestly… that’s a lot less than what he did to Lemon. Though I do have to say, that’s a pretty good fat lip after two kicks. You’re definitely a pony that I wouldn’t want to make angry. You’re definitely not the kind of pony I would have expected to be able to do something like that,” Lily admitted.

“Yeah well, my cello isn’t exactly light, and then Vinyl’s equipment on top of it, it’s pretty easy to get pretty strong pretty fast being in the life of a musician,” Octavia said.

“Oh I bet! I can’t imagine just how much work you both have to put into doing just even one show. Let alone the multiple shows a month that you two have been doing here recently!”

“It is a lot, and most ponies don’t ever think about the preparation. They just see the show, and they get all excited for the show, and once the show is over they go back to their normal lives and wait for the next one to roll in. It’s a lot of work, and I guess that’s kinda how Vinyl and I started well… Wearing diapers again,” Octavia said, blushing a bit as she said that out loud. The guard did say that it wasn’t really a secret anymore, and honestly that kind of felt like a giant weight had been lifted from her even more.

“Honestly, that was kinda the same conclusion that Rose and I came to as well when we saw the package. In fact, I was the one that told Rose to write the letter. She wasn’t sure at first if it would be too forward of her to do so after what had happened. Though even I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting you to go as far as you did on your first night,” Octavia heard from Lily before raising an eyebrow at her. “Not… like that! And that’s certainly not a bad thing! We just weren't sure if you were going to be up for the full experience so fast. That’s usually something ponies work toward and not just dive in. Last night was the happiest I’ve seen Daisy on a playdate in a while. I was even having fun, and usually I’m only there to help with the menial stuff for Rose.”

“That really makes me happy to hear. I could tell that Daisy was really enjoying herself, and seeing her that happy really made me happy and just made me want to keep going and keep playing. It was the same kind of feeling I get when I’m playing in front of a crowd and they do a standing ovation and start cheering at the climax of the songs. Something like that only really happens when I’m doing a mix with Vinyl though. There are a lot less opportunities for that in the classical music that I usually play.

“Oh Octavia. Don’t sell yourself that short. Jeeze you didn’t become one of the most famous musicians in Equestria because no pony liked you or the music that you play! Most ponies just have more respect than that and know that in a classical setting, there are very structured applause points. It’s done like that specifically so that an applause doesn’t start during intended silence to set up an oboe solo or something of the like,” Lily said, sharing what little bit of knowledge she had on music with Octavia.

Octavia herself went a bit slack jawed when she heard Lily say that. That wasn’t a level of musical intricacy that she was expecting from the flower pony… or any pony that wasn’t in the music industry for that matter. “Wow! I didn’t know you knew about musical etiquette!” Octavia said, unlocking the door to her house. With a quick look in the mailbox she picked up what letters she had and then stepped inside with Lily.

“Huh. This is quite the cozy place you and Vinyl have here. It’s nice and simple. I actually like it a lot!” Lily said.

“Yeah, with both of us rarely being home, we didn’t see much of a point in decorating it with anything fancy. Just the basic necessities! Would you like something to drink while I gather my belongings? I’ve got tea, some juice… and more HayWire! Energy drinks than I could ever imagine! I don’t know how Vinyl can stand those things!”

“HayWire! Energy!? I love those things! The Mango Pinapple one is the best! I’ll take one of those if you have it!” Lily said excitedly.

“I’m sure we do. It’s one of the sickly sweet ones if I remember correctly. The other one she likes is so bitter it makes coffee seem like pure sugar.” Octavia said, rolling her eyes a bit.

“Yeah, the original flavor isn’t the best, but they’ve come a long way!” Lily said as she watched Octavia head into the kitchen before coming out with one of the energy drinks. “Although I do have one question… Pinkie pie doesn’t know you have these right!? Normal Pinkie is okay… but you do not want to see that mare when she’s had an energy drink. Oh who am I kidding, you couldn’t see her. She’d be moving faster than our eyes could see,” Lily said looking over her shoulder.

“You know, if it was anypony else you said that about, I would have laughed at that. But with Pinkie Pie that is entirely possible," Octavia said. "Wait here, I'll be down in a second," she added before moving upstairs. She opened the drawer that had her diapers in. She briefly regretted opening all of the packs now and putting them away. That way she could have just given one of the packs to Lemon. She could do that anyway sure, and she was planning on it, but she didn't know if they would for her or not. Lemon was just a tad bit bigger than she was, so she assumed that they would be fine, but she also didn't know how she liked them to fit. Eventually, she finally settled on bringing fifteen more diapers and that took up literally all of the space in her saddle bags. She had to get out a second set for changing supplies and snacks. The fruity gummy kind.

When she came back down it was Lily's turn to go slack jawed. "Wow, you're really planning on putting us through the ringer aren't you?" she asked giggling at the amount of diapers she was bringing.

"Oh, no this is way more than I'm planning on needing, but I figured after what just happened Lemon would need some of her own to take home afterwards, so whatever isn't used I'm planning on giving her. Between what's here, and what's still at your place, that's nineteen total. So even if we share that would give Lemon ten to twelve to take home with her," Octavia smiled.

Lily returned a warm smile of her own. "That's very thoughtful of you. I'm sure Lemon Hearts will appreciate a gesture like that for a while. Especially since I know those aren't cheap," Lily replied.

"It's worth all of it and more to see a pony smile," Octavia finished. "I think that's everything. We should probably head back," she said before starting to head through the door. "Oh, the mail! I completely forgot! Let's see… show request, show request reminder notice, oh. This one's from Vinyl. Probably saying she's been extended again," she said, opening it up. She became noticeably more excited as she read the note. "Vinyl's going to be coming home tonight! She'll be on the late train though. I'll have to leave her a note for where I'm at," she said before grabbing a quill and some parchment.

"Vinyl,

I will not be in tonight when you get home, but worry not, I will be home in the morning. After a small accident, I discovered something truly amazing! Something that we could do together ourselves or with our new friends, which is where I will be. Little Tavi will be staying at The Flower Sisters' house tonight. Oh! And we're going to have to order more diapers sooner than expected… I'll explain in the morning.

Love,
Tavi."

"Alright, now we should be good. We'll just leave this here and…" Octavia says standing up and heading to the door, Lily following in hoof behind her.

When they got back to Lily's house, they went in to find that Rose was rocking a bandaged and padded Lemon Hearts. She wasn't sobbing anymore, but the look of hurt still plain as day on her face. She didn’t want to fool herself into thinking that something like this would be fixed in one night. Octavia considered herself lucky. IF she was being honest with herself, she was expecting the kind of reaction that Lemon got from Eiffel from everypony else a few days ago, and that began to eat at her a bit as well. Or at least, it started before she realized that Eiffle was actually the only one that treated Lemon any differently. No pony else really gave two thoughts about it, other than making sure Lemon was okay once they heard Eiffel being a jerk.

She also remembered that the guard said that he was pretty sure everypony knew about herself already when Eiffel threatened to tell everypony that she was a freak as well. She shuddered a little bit when she remembered that word. It was the same word that she used to describe herself yesterday, and had she ran into Eiffel yesterday and he had said that, he probably would have shattered what little bit of psyche that she had built back up. She wouldn’t call herself out of the woods… she was still very much worried about how this was going to affect her career and that other ponies actually thought about her. As a performer it was her duty to be a role-model to Equestria. What if she was setting the wrong example?

“Octavia, are you coming? We have to get you ready,” Lily said with a smile and a diaper on her back for the grey music pony.

“Wait, Lily, are you about to change somepony!? Stop the presses!” Rose teased lightly, though the loudness made Lemon Squeeze a bit more. “Sorry…”

“Not at all, This hardly counts! I’m putting Octavia into a diaper so that you can continue to tend to Lemon Hearts. I will take care of Octavia and Daisy. You focus on making Lemon Feel better, and once she’s fully calmed down, and feels comfortable doing so, then she can join the other two in the playroom,” Lily said with a smile. “Now, come on and let’s go!”

Octavia nodded and followed suit, pausing briefly as she passed by Rose and Lemon to give both of the mares a tight hug. Once she was back in the playroom, Lill patted for her to lay down. “Same Rules as yesterday?” Octavia heard Lily ask her.

“Absolutely, that was a lot of fun! I can’t wait to see what we can do today!” she said with a giggle and a wiggle as she felt Lily applying cream to her diaper area.

“Alrighty then. The rules from yesterday will carry over, and once this is on, the potty is for adults only,” Lily instructed, getting a nod in reply as she finished taping up the diaper on the wiggly filly. “Goodness, we should call you Wiggles!” Lily said with a giggle as she patted Octavia’s rump. “Alright. Go play with Daisy for now. I’m sure Rose and Lemon will be here soon.”