55 After Harmony Died

Back Jacks grandfillies were waiting in the hospital waiting room, playing with others of their age, oblivious to their mothers conversation with her father.

"No! You are not moving from here to anywhere! Not until you get over your mortification shocks!" the fillies mother screamed in tears, "Not after what happened to mother..."

"I had good reasons, and she agreed! You know that well enough." Black Jack returned looking down on himself

"But you never told me why! Why, why didn't you take mother into a hospital after she fell sick!? Why did you leave just me taking care of her!?"

"It was too late to tell you; too late to tell anypony." Black Jack whimpered out.

It was a secret between him and his wife which he did not want to share. This secret had brought misery and sadness to his life on many occasions: first when his wife fell ill, and many times before now. All which could've been avoided if only he had told it sooner.

"What do you mean by too late?" his daughter spurted through tears of fear and anger

...

"Bring the ki-" Black Jack started before being cut short

"TELL ME!!!"

The old stallion recoiled from the outburst of his daughter but recovered quickly, "I never told you the whole story, and I lied about many things, but today I'll tell it to you and your daughters. No lies."

After a while of silence she finally said with empty eyes, "Fine."

She didn't have a clue of what was going on, her father and mother had both lied to her, so that it eventually caused her mothers death on her very hooves. She wanted to what it was, what her father was hiding that was so important that nopony should know.

"Kids, come here. Grampa wants to continue his story," she called out after wiping a tear from her eye, and before she knew it the two fillies ran to her in excitement rivaled only by foals on Hearths Warming Eve, ready to open their presents.