Depths of Flurry

One breath in, one breath out. Two breaths, two out. And again, and again, and again. Whatever she ate last night was kicking her stomach with all its strength, a groan escaping the scowl plastered to her face. For over a month she’d been having trouble with her meals, either them making her nauseous or giving indigestion. At the very least the nausea went away last week, but the stomach troubles never seemed to end.

Flurry got down from the toilet as it subsided, flushing the throne to swirl away into the castle plumbing. She went for the mirror, tilting her head at the bags under her eyes and the disaster that was her mane, with strands of hair sticking up at random or clumping together. Her hoof rubbed her chest, moving down to the extra pudginess she put on. Diet needs to be readjusted, and maybe drink more water too.

Her mouth drew out a sigh. Yet another thing to add to the list...

She dropped her hooves from the counter to head back into the main room and for the door, exiting into the castle hallways rubbing her forehead. Was she sick? Was it cancer? Did alicorns even get cancer? A tumor would explain it, a parasite would too. Maybe she got a tapeworm taking all the good nutrients and leaving her with the junk?

As she turned the corner, she spotted her lean-ish mother giggling with one of the mare guards, eyes flicking to Flurry before grin and attention focusing on her. “Flurry!”

“Hey, mom.” She continued down the hall until she got to the two. “Something happening?”

“Well, kinda.” Cadance motioned her to follow. “We’ll chat later, Leap!”

Flurry followed her down the hall and around the corner, where she finally stopped and turned back with a crooked smile that seemed to get less certain by the moment. “So, um...”

“What? Is something wrong?”

“I wanted to tell you before breakfast, and...” She cringed, her shy twitching smile returning. “Y-You have a little sibling on the way.”

In four seconds, Flurry blinked five times as her head lightened up. “W-What?” She said with a voice low and shocked.

“You have a sibling on the way. I’m pregnant again.” Cadance turned to the side to show off the weight she had put on. “Took the test this morning after your dad tickled me into submission and made me pee the bed.”

“I-I’m going...” Her daughter hyperventilated, holding a hoof to her mouth before lunging forward to bring her mom into a bone-crushing hug. “THIS IS AWESOME! Woooo! Big sis Flurry, here I come!”

Cadance gave her a giggle as she rubbed her back, pushing her filly back after a minute to continue. “W-Well...” She cleared her throat. “I, um, need to tell you something else. Y-Your father and I haven’t had sex in half a year.”

The young mare took another few seconds to blink, her smile slowly falling. “What? T-Then did you...? Does he know?”

“Oh, he knows! Don’t worry, we’re fine with it! I-It’s just, um...” She took a deep breath in through her nostrils. “A-Apparently, magic ejaculate acts like sperm, just less effective, and... w-when deposited straight into the womb, there’s a teeny-tiny chance for fertilization to occur, a-and another slight chance it implants.”

Her borderline trembling grin met her daughter’s utter confusion. “I don’t get it.” Flurry said after a minute.

“Flurs. Y-You’re the father.”

Within the chest of the young mare, an icy wave passed through every muscle, spreading into her bones as she shook. “O-Oh, s-sweet Celestia...” She covered her mouth as she tried suppressing her vomit. She... knocked up her own mother. WHAT. THE. BUCK?! But before she could act, another cramp started up, getting a groan from her as it radiated from her stomach.

“I-I know this is hard to understand, but I’ll take all precautions necessary for our little filly, okay? N-Nopony will know the truth.” Cadance rubbed her hoof along her daughter’s cheek, the bewildered and fearful eyes of her daughter turning on her, trying to search for reassurance. “It’ll be okay.”

As the pain receded, Flurry sighed a breath of relief. “B-But I can’t b-be a mother so early! Or father! Or whatever! W-What will others say when they find out?! W-We’re- You’re my mom! I-I'm not ready to be a mom!”

Cadance bit her lip, igniting her horn and scattering light over her daughter before an even more uncertain grin formed up on her face. “Well... Now you will. And, um...

H-How do you feel about having two foals on the way?”

The world blurred and spun, Flurry's breathing stopping before her body collapsed to the floor. Her mom cleared her throat as Leap came around the corner.

"Do I even want to know?"

Cadance put on a shy smile. "Well, at least the three of us can talk about having a play-date for our babies."

"Heh. Yeah. Guess so." She returned around the corner, leaving Cadance to stare at her comatose daughter. With a deep breath in and a smile slowly forming on her face, she said what she had been hoping to hear all morning:

"Happy Mother's Day."