The Unusual Family
The Empty Nest Syndrome
Previous ChapterSeven Years Later.
Bit Counter and Booker are 31 years old, Base is already gone moved out to Manehattan where he's a baseball player for the Manehattan Solar's team, Blue she's 16 and Purple Artist he's fourteen years old.
It was after school where the door opened where she thought it was her baby boy but just seen it was Blue where she asked her adoptive mom on what's for dinner where Booker told her it's Mac and Cheese with apple pie for desert.
Booker asked on where's Purple Artist?
Blue told her that he and his mare friend where it's Friday and he's taking her on a date where Booker asked on who's the lucky mare to date her lucky Purple where Blue she told her adoptive mom that she don't know.
Booker pressed her for information but Blue only said "Mom! Purple only told me that he got a date but he will tell us more when he gets home.".
Soon her husband came in where he asked her on if she's ok where she told him that she missus Purple where now that he's a teenager he prefers to be out mostly but Bit Counter told her to remember on the freedom they wanted away from there parents.
She told her husband that Purple has a date where he told his wife on that he's lucky but also told her on hope he can tie the knot with her but as he get's older he might have a few other girlfriends.
They both asked on how she is but she's feeling that the kids are leaving and her nest is getting smaller where Base already flew away then Blue is going to fly away even though she's a unicorn then Purple is going to fly away last but Blue told her that he's a momma boy and he won't go anywhere.
She told them that she doesn't want him to waste his life to be with mom for the rest of his life where she wants him to go live his life to the fullest and that even means finding a mare to settle down with and father some healthy foals but she wants to be there when he get's wed and when her grand foals are born.
They had dinner but Booker was sad that one day the remaining two will leave home and start there adventure as an adult's and they won't be there to tell them to go to bed, what to eat and not to eat, not to give advice, be there when they have nightmares, and won't take care of them not adding smothering them in kisses and hugs.
On Monday morning when Booker was about to go to work her adoptive son Purple pulled her to the side to talk to her where he hugged her and said "Don't worry mom you and dad prepared us for the world but if we always need advice you and dad will be right here." but Purple then gave her a tight hug and a kiss on the cheek.
The 2 watched him run off to catch up with his friends but his unicorn and pegasus best friends teased with him on how he still hug and kisses his mother but she went to work but kept her sadness hidden but she can't keep it out of her mind that her adoptive daughter and adoptive son are going to leave one day.
After work she seen Fourteen year old Purple Artist and Sixteen year old Blue sitting at the kitchen table doing there arithmetic homework together but also having fun where that placed a smile on her face where she's happy that the 2 are happy.
She made them dinner but before she could get started she felt a tap on her back where it's Purple holding a hoof drawn photo which it's a picture of all of them even Base where it says under it "WE LOVE YOU MOM & DAD- LOVE PURPLE ARTIST & BLUE".
A tear came to her eye where she hugged him tightly saying she loves it and will cherish it for the rest of her life. She also told him on now she knows his cutie mark is a number 2 pencil where he's a very good drawer where she always been confused on why his cutie mark is a pencil.
She was asked by him on what does her cutie mark mean where it's a book where she told him that she's a bookworm and can read books more quickly then the average pony.
She just told him that she's going to cherish this hug like every other hug the 2 ever shared and did but she sadly told him that when he walks out the front door for the final time she's going to miss these hugs.
He just said to her in his southern United States accent "Don't worry mom! I'm always going to be here for you and dad." then he tugged her tightly in his hooves and wings.
He also told her that no matter what emergency or not he'll always be ready to talk to her even if it's late at night he'll be available to socialize with her where she said "That's my baby boy." then the 2 hugged tighter.
He then told her to go relax on where he got it from here so she sat on the couch.
A half a hour later Bit Counter walked in and held in his laugh due to he wasn't expecting to see Purple Artist in a pink apron but he walked into the living room with a plate of Mac and Cheese in his dark moderate blue magic aurora and a Long Island Ice Tea.
He placed it down next to her onto the end table and then he kissed her on the head.
He told his wife on that there isn't something right with him where Bit Counter went into the kitchen to grab a plate but was shocked to see that Purple already made his, and Blue's then there adoptive son made his own plate but after dinner when Blue, Bit Counter and Booker went outside they watched Purple and his 2 friends race each other to the Canterlot Draw bridge.
Purple told them while they were running that there not going to be using there magic but the last one there is a rotten fish even though they won't eat fish.
Four years later.
The couple are now 35 but Blue she's now twenty, and Purple he's now eighteen but at the front door Purple hugged Bit Counter and Booker very tightly. Booker cried a little bit where she doesn't want her baby to leave home but Purple said "If your going to cry all the time then I will bring you two with me on where the military sends me!".
She told him not to go where he told her that he's not going into the military to serve his country but he's doing it to protect them from there enemies.
She said to Purple "I remember like yesterday when Bit Counter brought you, Blue, and Base home from the Country out of a orphanage and I remember on how cute you were as a foal. You were adorable now and you're still adorable as you were Eighteen Years ago."
He told them that he doesn't care that he's adopted where family isn't on who well he doesn't know on where foals come from but it's on who raises them like family as if their own.
Another Four year's later.
In Ponyville the two thirty-nine year old's watched on Purple get married to a blue unicorn with light blue body and dark blue hair but they were happy but after 8 months (his wife Blue Badge was 2 months pregnant when they got wed) the two were in the Ponyville General Hospital.
In the delivery room the two met there grand foals which melted Booker's heart where she remembers holding Purple for the first time when they first met when he was a few months old but he was a quiet baby but she told them anytime they need any help they'll be available.
She just said "This was a Unusual Family. Unicorns always asked on how i birthed a pegasus or an alicorn. Some stallions in my workplace thought there was a alicorn male that impregnated me deeming me responsible to have such foal. Some even though I'm a child or some great grand foal or something like that of Princess Celestia."
Purple did tell them that he was happy that they were the ones that raised him into the kind gentle stallion he is but they told him that he was that his entire life.
Bit Counter asked on what the two do for a living where Purple told them that he's a Fire stallion and his wife is a Police mare but every now and then he volunteers his time doing community service but they asked on the foal's name where Blue Badge said "Bit Accountant & Bookworm. Don't look at me he wanted foals that would remind him of you two. If your his parents?"
They told her that there his adoptive parents where Bit Counter told them that Purple's birth parents were killed by Timberwolves and reports say that he was only three days old.
Even though Booker suffered from the Empty Nest Syndrome for awhile everywhere she looked at home was nothing but reliving flashbacks of raising the three but was sad when Purple told them when they were at his & Blue Badge's house that they couldn't have done a better job of raising them.
He also told them that out of all foals that Bit Counter looked at but he's lucky that he got him, Blue and Base but when they asked on where's Blue where Purple sadly told them that she went to Appleloosa and was poisoned in the saloon.
His adoptive mom gave him a card that his parents wrote for him to that his actual parents wrote before they left Sire's Hollow and gotten killed by Timberwolves. He heard a Appalachian accent and a Mid Atlantic accent say "Happy 3rd day of being our pride of joy. We hope your the son there is and just be yourself. Don't you ever change the way you are you three day old boy.".
The moderate purple alicorn stallion he fell down to the hardwood floor with tears streaming down his face where he never met his real parents but his adoptive parents went over to him and placed there hooves around him but he just cried on his adoptive mother's shoulder.
She just patted him on the back telling him it's ok but it's okay to cry but well he had the card on him when the Country of Equestria took him and his siblings in and well they kept the card until they were finally adopted out and well gave Bit Counter the card but he didn't open the card due to it's labeled as "TO: PURPLE ARTIST. LOVE: MOM & DAD"
Author's Note
This is an Alt Universe where on who Purple marries isn't like in "The Life of Purple Artist" or any other universes where he's married to his ex marefriend Blue Sapphire a dark blue unicorn (who comes from a family that's rich but name there foals after there coat color and birth month gemstone) or Target (a cream coated unicorn who's Purple's wife in other universes)
