Twilight Sparkle and the Stupid Original Pony

I shampooed Twilight’s mane thoughtfully. Seeing that Isha’s eyes were closed while she did her own hair, I snuck a long kiss from Twilight as I worked the lather into her indigo, purple, and rose mane from her withers to the top of her head. In spite of my aches from the night before I began to yearn for her touch again. From the intensity of her return kisses I think she felt it too.

“I can sense that, kids!” Isha laughed “As the resident expert I’m going to advise you give yourself at least three days to recover after the stretching you got last night, Tanna. One day if your husband doesn’t mind me laying on hands to heal you.”

“Yes, elder,” I joked back, “sorry, Twi, you heard the priestess. Think you can wait a few days?”

“Of course, dear—” she started to reply

“Or you could just turn anthroform and plug me in the ass until my cunt is ready for you to use.”

Twilight choked at my crass humor and Isha laughed again.

“I thought you said ‘no ass’,” Twilight said when she recovered.

“Only while you’re a larger species than me. Once we’re the same size, your dick won’t be safe from ending up anywhere I can fit it.”

“Ha, you two are something else!” Isha chuckled, “I think I would enjoy hitching my wagon with you both, but actually I kinda need to retract my implied offer. Um…”

“It’s okay,” I said “we felt it too.” A disquieting feeling had passed over me when Isha offered herself to me to prepare her for Twilight. The goddess spoke and I knew that it was not for me to claim Isha’s virtue.

Twilight nodded. “Aye. You are forbidden to us.”

“I don’t understand – its certainly not like Aphrodite has any hangups about virginity.”

“It means,” I smiled, “that there is something even better in store for you.”

I put my fist out and Isha bumped it solidly. Twilight raised a fore-hoof and bumped with us.

“Thank you, Isha,” Twilight said, “for taking care of Tanna while I was stuck in Equestria. I can’t tell you how much it means to me to learn that she had a good friend when I couldn’t be with her.”

“My pleasure,” Isha embraced me tight, “even if we never got it on, I truly love your wife, Twilight. To be honest, she’s done a fair bit of taking care of me, too.” She kissed my cheek and released me. “Haven’t you, hon?”

“It’s been a two way street. I don’t think either of us would have made it this far without the other. Everypony rinsed off?”

Nods all around, so I turned off the water. I threw Isha a towel from the warming cabinet and grabbed another to start drying Twilight’s coat for her.

“I hope you two have some jolly yarns to spin me,” Twilight said, “I have so much catching up to do.”

“Yarns, yes,” I said.

“Jolly, maybe not all of them,” Isha completed.

“Uh, oh,” said Twilight, “am I going to regret asking?”

“Well,” I said, “there was one time we started to get close and instead she punched me out for trying to murder a guy who made a pass at me.”

I finished toweling off Twilight and grabbed a fresh towel for myself.

“In Tanna’s defense,” Isha picked up the story, “he was a total jerkass and deserved to be murdered. I just didn’t want her getting busted for it. He thought he could score on Tanna by insulting her until she so desperate for praise that she would put out for him, and it wasn’t working. All I knew is I was coming back from the pisser and saw Tanna with a ball of fire ready to blast his lungs out through his ass. I probably should have let her kill him before I hit her. Then there was the time my appendix ruptured and Tanna found me three days later unconscious on my lab floor covered in barf and diarrhea.”

I took over the narrative. “I had to literally drag her lanky ass down the sidewalk to the clinic in a cardboard box because she’d lost her insurance and I couldn’t get them to send an ambulance! When I got there they wanted to buy her from me for a cadaver ‘cos the credit check only gave 80% odds that I could pay off her treatment. AND THEN they made me wash her down in a coin-op shower before they would touch her.”

“What a pair you girls are!” Twilight was trying not to laugh, “that’s awful!”

“How did you pay that bill, Tanna? I was too out of it from being half dead, and then the meds, to even think about it at the time.”

“Hey, don’t sweat it. We take care of each other.” Oops. I really didn’t want this line of inquiry to go further. “You know Bear handles my finances.”

Isha picked up on my attempt to avoid the truth where I could not lie; she’s too damn perceptive for my own good. “I also know Bear was off somewhere secretive with your brother. Probably fucking around in Bucharest.”

If I hadn’t been worried about evading Isha’s question I would have really wanted to know how she guessed correctly; for her sake I could hope she knew nothing of the containment breach.

“Don’t evade the question.” Her voice was grim now.

“Uh, ladies what am I missing here?” Twilight asked, alarmed by the serious turn.

“Shush, pony. Tanna, as your elder I do insist upon an answer.”

I hung my head. “Thou knowest what coin I had to spend.”

“Shitfuckassdamnit!” She was almost spitting with anger. “How many?”

“Four on the street. The last one was an enforcer and arrested me after he was done. Then another three of his buddies to keep myself out of lockup. They also made me pay for a permit. After that, and the fines, I was broke, so I did one more before morning.”

“Four, then three, then one more what?” Twilight interrupted.

“Strange men. Your wife—” Isha stomped her bare foot ineffectually on the carpet “—was selling her body to pay for my medical care.” Turning to me she continued, “Didn’t you learn anything from me? Sex is meant to be a sacrament of love and the holy worship of Our Lady and not a filthy transaction for credits on a street corner. Did—” her voice threatened to crack “—any of them hurt you?”

“No, Isha, just roughed up a little. I’m tougher than I look.”

“You should have left me die, lying in my own fucking shit. You could have been killed! Or worse!” She sat on the corner of my bed, her back to me.

I put my arms around her, held her tight as sobs wracked her body.

“I should be mad as hell, but all I can do is cry,” she could barely speak, “how could you endure that for my sake?”

I kissed the back of her neck.

“My dear sister in Aphrodite,” I said “I’m so sorry. I didn’t want you to know. But I did what I had to do, to keep you alive. I couldn’t live without you. You were the only one who kept me going so that I could survive until my husband came to save me. Kept me going so I could be strong for my daughter.” Gloam! “Who’s gonna be late for school if we don’t continue this discussion later!”

I sprang up and threw myself into whatever clothes I could grab and ran to get Gloam ready.

As I dressed, Isha pulled herself together enough to call after me, “I haven’t told you why I came here! They condemned my arcology, I'm moving in with you!”