The New Normal

Spike pressed a claw into the silvery metal serving platter and dragged it over to himself, laying claim to the last bit of pasta salad at his end. It was no secret he could really pack it away. Everyone else had finished eating long ago but If they sat there for long enough, Spike's grazing would have every platter and dish sparkling clean before the party broke up for good.

Twilight, Flurry and Shining left the dinner early to lick their wounds. Remedy however, stayed at the table despite her mother's imploring, proving once again that in her world, curiosity trumped all else.

"Were they always very close as father and daughter," she murmured?"

"Always," replied Cadance emphatically. "It's not at all uncommon for a father and daughter to have a special relationship either but not one that goes into the bedroom." She sighed and took a normal sip from her glass. "It's really difficult for me to say this out loud but your mother… is not a fully functional adult and I think much of that has to do with how your father handled her first heat. Having sex with her confused her and he never had the courage to set her straight and he's never been able to say 'no' to her. Not to mention, no one is ready to be a mother at thirteen but that was an accident of course."

"So are you gonna dump his ass or what?" grunted Spike, shaking the pepper shaker.

"Spike," groaned Night Light from behind his glass. "Let's be respectful."

"He's right though," mumbled Cadance. "To wonder about it. But don't you think I would have already if I was going to. I mean, I'm sure from the outside it doesn't make any sense. In terms of marriage, I should divorce him. I could kick him out of the castle; I could kick both of them out."

"I would be sad," interrupted Remedy matter-of-factly.

"I know," she swallowed. Cadance paused to rub her right eye and keep the tears inside. "I can't… I just… What that would do to the empire… the Crystal Heart. I was a princess before I was a wife and I can't let all of everything fall apart because of my failings as a partner."

Velvet shook her head aghast. "You didn't fail him; he failed you."

"I know but I chose him. I took on the burden of rulership. We started a family. It's all knotted together… I wish he'd never laid a hoof on Flurry but I also wouldn't trade Remedy for anything. I can't have both."

Remedy, who had moved into Shining's chair after he left, leaned in to hug her grandma. Cadance squeezed her back.

"I truly believe he never intended things to end up like this when he started but at every given chance, he just couldn't alter course and he's turned a blind eye to his folly." She turned to look down at her granddaughter, gripping her solemnly by the shoulders. "Remedy, I want you to promise me something. Please promise me that whatever you do, make your husband and your dad different ponies. I know you love your mom and dad but don't get sucked into the same trap."

"Okay, grandma."

The company fell silent, ruminating on her dire plight before Night let out a fatigued sigh.

"Well, it's past my bedtime." He spun out of his chair with a grunt and stretched his old bones on the floor. His wife followed suit and took his foreleg.

"Thank you, Cadance. It was… unforgettable. I know it's a shit sandwich I can't quite understand but I respect your decisions regardless."

She watched the two traipse away, jealous of what they still had.

It was a joke before but seriously, if he was even just twenty years younger…

Spike arose from his place and rolled his neck. "Yeah, but most of all, thanks for setting me up with my own room," he quipped, suddenly realizing that going to bed otherwise might mean walking in on his older siblings fucking, or worse, engaging in postcoital pillow talk.

"Goodnight, Uncle Spike."

Cadance patted her granddaughter on the head. "You should go to bed too. You need your sleep. I know you probably still have a lot going through your mind but remember you can talk to me about anything."

"I want to keep having sex," blurted Remedy.

The words struck a surreal pang in Cadance's heart. She was too young for this, to be mingling in the adult world. At least if she explored sex with a peer, the playing field was closer to level. But she had to admit that it made sense from Remedy's perspective. Most everyone desired sex. It was natural. How was a hormonal foal supposed to turn down a free sex buffet without danger or strings attached and all catered by an experienced and trusted adult?

"But I don't want to have sex if it makes you fight," she continued sadly.

"Well… fortunately there's a way you can do both. Remember the promise you made. Whether you call a stallion your lover or your husband, don't call them your father."

Remedy thought she understood. She had to grow up and leave her dad and ultimately find sexual fulfillment somewhere else, unlike what her mother had done.

The filly's lips thinned into a line. "I don't really like the idea of sharing a stallion, anyway." But for now… maybe… it was fine until she could create a better situation.

"Goodnight, grandma."

"Goodnight."

Remedy blinked out of the room, leaving Cadance alone with her thoughts. The princess lazily finished the last of her wine and then wished very much to be unconscious. She surveyed the empty bottles and decimated platters before her and smirked to herself. Everything was still a train wreck but her reckless, drunken ire had scored her, perhaps not a reckoning, but a moral win for sure.

She teleported straight into her room, planning to flop spread eagle on her empty bed and pass out but when she arrived, she was surprised to find that she wasn't alone.

"Shining? What the hell are you doing here?" she mumbled. "Shouldn't you be knocking up your sister? I gave you my snide but sincere blessing."

Maybe he'd already finished, she thought. While she still didn't like the idea of her husband copulating with other mares, a part of her was okay with surrendering him to Twilight once under clear and consensual terms.

Shining sat up on the bed and sighed. "She still hasn't talked to me about that and I don't think either of us are in the mood tonight anyway… and besides, we have a whole week to figure that out."

Cadance snorted disdainfully and rolled onto the mattress beside him. "Well then what are you doing awake?"

"I was just thinking and… I wanted to… apologize to you."

Cadance's eyes widened in confusion. She rolled her head to the side to look at him.

"Having to defend my decisions in front of my parents was embarrassing but it made me realize I have no excuse for how I've treated you. I still believe sex within your family is the most wholesome and safe option. It doesn't corrupt love, it enhances it. It's just another facet of relationships and parenting that can be positive or hurtful depending on how you handle it… just like everything else. I wish I could explain that better."

Cadance blinked. "I guess you must have just handled it really wrong," she muttered.

"The point I was originally trying to make is that I realized I've been ignoring you. I never intended to replace you as a lover and I know I always say you're not in competition but that's just lip service if I'm not really there for you at least as much as I am for Flurry."

Cadance was ready to keep pushing back on incest and age differences but could practically taste the low hanging fruit of love life reparations.

"I shouldn't even be running in the same race as my own daughter," she scoffed. "But I certainly shouldn't have to settle for a tie either. I am your one and only wife; I should be priority number one here but I usually get leftovers. Even when I make it to the top of your list, I get your B game. I know you're getting older but that's not completely it, is it? I hear you with her. I've seen you with her and you know what I think? I think, holy shit, that used to be me. That could be me right now. That's the passion we used to have. It's still inside you but I don't get to have it anymore. That makes me think you're more attracted to your daughter than me and that's why you hold out on me and save your best for her."

"That's not true, Cay. I don't think that at all. I swear, I'm always doing the best I can for whoever I'm with."

Cadance rolled her eyes. "Ugh. I don't know what kind of game you're playing right now. All I want is for you to fuck me the way that you fuck her. Can you do that or not?"

"Well… uh, yeah."

"Then prove it right now," she growled.

He looked at her and saw the flush face of a drunk mare who'd lost her filter but was no less serious in her demands. Her eyes narrowed as she waited for his response.

He needed to react with conviction here. If he failed her this time, there'd be no coming back from it. He swallowed nervously.

Shining turned to face away from her and for a moment Cadance feared he had admitted defeat and would flee in shame.

"Okay," he breathed. It sounded less like a reply and more like he was talking himself up. He bowed his head solemnly and his horn glowed and faded on the wake of an unknown spell. In one motion, he spun around and pounced atop her, trapping her in place between his forehooves.

She wrapped her forelegs around the back of his head and pulled his face to hers, ready for him to make her a believer. From first contact, his tongue was in her mouth. She responded in kind, pleased with his bold opening. They groaned as their muzzles locked together hungrily. She messed up his mane as he began to grind his underside against hers. His hoof wandered down her body to the region between her legs.

It didn't take long for her to notice an energy and eagerness in his nips and strokes that she hadn't gotten from him in a long time. It felt like he really wanted her, wanted her more than anything and it made her wet.

Still working his hoof down below, Shining licked her ear then nibbled on her neck, sending shivers down her spine and putting a smile on her muzzle. His mouth journeyed into the crook of her neck and then to her chest where it continued in a downward direction.

Cadance closed her eyes. Fuck yes. I like where this is going. She opened her legs wider in anticipation.

Her husband gave a long worshipful lick up her thigh and spiraled around her eager marehood. He clamped his forehooves around her thighs and dove right in, launching into a flurry of intense tongue lashes, tugs and sucks through her lovely valley. For all intents and purposes, he'd just relocated the make out session from her mouth to her pussy and it translated quite well.

"Mmm…" Cadance moaned and arched her back.

Her hoof traveled down to the tip of his horn. She rubbed it in circles to manipulate his head movements like a joystick, a fun perk when getting oral from a unicorn.

Shining licked up and down her clit in rapid succession, all but making it vibrate. Cadance bit her lip and grunted. If she held onto that, she could get off right now. She could feel it beginning to snowball inside her, rolling steadily toward critical mass. Suddenly, she pushed his horn away, breaking their sensual contact and pausing her climb.

He looked up at her in puzzled surprise and a hint of worry. "What is it?"

Cadance panted, gazing down at him as he hovered over her pulsing mound, scarcely remembering a time he'd had her so excited and aroused. That being said, Shining could give adequate head while half asleep. The real question she wanted answered was, could he rut her senseless?

"Come on," she breathed, rolling off of the bed. She rushed to rear up against the wall, delirious with lust. Her horn lit up and she felt deep inside herself with her magic.

Shining watched in breathless disbelief as a shimmering metal ring slipped from his wife's folds and rotated slowly in the air. That enchanted ring had been nestled deep inside Cadance for years as the construct that had kept her from conceiving since Flurry Heart. She pushed open the window with her magic and hurled the device out into space.

"I want you to put a foal in me right now," Cadance demanded with a lusty growl.

She stood with her forhooves to the wall and her rump popped out. She flagged her tail to the side but continued to swish it coquettishly as if gesturing to his target. Then she gazed back at him over one shoulder with an expectant smirk.

A primal energy awakened within Shining and he all but blasted steam from his nostrils. He was on her in an instant. She squealed in foalish delight as his eager forehooves gripped her supple flanks. His desperate flare plunged between her damp thighs and squeezed out the other side just below her entrance. Her lower lips parted, caressing the side of his tip and slathering it with her juices. She reached down with one hoof and quickly pulled his end up till it popped snugly into her slot.

Feeling the familiar wet heat venting straight into his head, he rocked his hips and slid all the way inside till he was wearing her like a glove and ass was flattened against him.

Cadance let out a shocked gasp as he stuffed her with his meat. She gritted her teeth in a twisted smile as she scratched a shaking hoof down the wall. Now that he'd found his target, he could go to town. He pulled back and slammed into her with a fleshy slap. Then he did it again and again. As his zeal reached its peak, he found himself ramming her flat to the wall with a communal grunt.

Shining pinned her there with an unending volley of wrecking ball thrusts. The two of them cried out with an overwhelming passion they couldn't contain. She turned her head to look back at him. He pressed a hoof into the side of her head, squishing her cheek to the wall. Wide-eyed and open-mouthed, her breath came in short, ragged bursts as he continued pounding her mercilessly from behind.

Her husband growled with feral dominance This was the potent monster she wanted. She could feel his mighty sperm factory slapping between her flanks secondarily with each impact. She could feel the shape of his hoof imprinting on one cheek and the textured wallpaper on the other. She could feel the air being squeezed from her lungs. She could feel the power and rabid desire surging through their bodies as it drove them to the brink of insanity.

Shining sank his teeth into the back of her neck. Cadance's eyes rolled back in her head as her body became electrified and every missed orgasm from the past decade roared through her like a train hitting a fruit cart.

Cadance's tongue hung from her mouth as Shining slammed home in her twitching body, almost driving her up off her hooves. He gave a guttural grunt as his orgasm hit and he flooded her with his seed.

Shining released her head but she kept it there. They panted, still standing against the wall, unwilling to move from the spot for fear that their bodies would give out. Thick globs of cum pattered on the floor between their hooves as their damp bodies heaved quietly.

When Shining finally pulled out of her it released another audible smattering as they both dripped more of his cream.

They laid on the bed in stunned silence as their reeling spirits returned to the corporeal plane.

"Was that good?" he asked, staring at the ceiling.

"Yeah," she answered in an equally dazed tone. The bite on her neck still stung and that alone was an amazing thrill. "You know… now that I'm only drunk on alcohol, I'm realizing tossing my birth control out the window was a terrible idea."

"That was the single hottest thing I've ever seen in my life," whispered Shining.

"But it was also really stupid."

"It's probably fine. Did you know that Flurry only uses birth control when she's most fertile? The rest of the time it's a total gamble and that's sort of a thrill."

Cadance was silently horrified for several seconds. "It doesn't surprise me at all that you do dumb shit like that," she finally grumbled. "What was that spell you cast at the beginning?"

"Stamina spell," he admitted sadly.

"I've never seen you do that before."

"Because I haven't done it before because it's embarrassing and I don't want to have to use it for my wife."

"Do you use it for Flurry?"

"I have to, otherwise I'm wiped out for anything else. I don't want to use it at all but it's a duty I've taken upon myself and things like romance and natural virility don't matter so much as performance with her. With you, I don't want to admit needing help satisfying my own wife. Remember how we used to make fun of stuff like that?"

Cadance scratched her head. "I- I didn't." She thought back, trying to make sure she wasn't lying. "No. That was you. I honestly don't care and neither should you. I will never understand how your tiny brain works. Wasn't that a lot more fun than what we usually do?"

"Yeah…"

"Then let's keep doing it like that. Why deprive ourselves when we don't have to? Not everypony can be an alicorn sex demon"

There came a timid knock at the door, surprising the both of them. What time was it?

"Yes?" called Cadance, looking down her body toward the disturbance.

The door cracked open and her puzzlement continued to swell as she saw her daughter's head poke inside.

Flurry looked to the bed and blinked. "Oh, dad, I wasn't expecting you to be here." The smell of their previous activities hit her nose and stirred an immediate physiological response in her nethers. She swallowed and tried to regroup her scattered thoughts as she shut the door.

"I don't think I'll be able to sleep again until I know you're not angry with me anymore. I'm sorry."

"What are you sorry for?" asked her mother.

Flurry walked to the foot of the bed. "I'm sorry for hogging dad." Her eyes fell on the oozing creampie between her mother's legs that she was still too inebriated to be self conscious about. Flurry had been with her dad a lot. She knew what he liked, how he felt inside her and every inch of his body but the sex life of her mom was still a mystery. She was a discreet and guarded mare in such matters and seeing her sloppy and exposed like this and with her dad was shocking and… arousing.

Cadance screwed up her face. Again, this was just one of her grievances but it was unexpectedly gratifying to have it acknowledged, especially by her stubborn daughter.

She raised a dubious eyebrow. "So then what are we going to do about it?"

Flurry swiped a bead of drool from the corner of her mouth as she prepared to answer but then her father cut in.

"I know something you can do to help make amends. We had a little… reproductive accident tonight. You wanna help extract my seed from your mother so we don't end up making you another sister?"

Cadance elbowed him in the barrel and scoffed at his crass jest. "Shining, what the fuck?" Her crooked smile dropped open in shock as the mattress bounced under her and she felt her daughter's intrepid lips press into her vulva without hesitation. She gasped, her thighs twitching frantically before Flurry hooked her forehooves around them for better stability.

Cadance continued to squirm from the indescribable sensation of her daughter's tongue slithering inside her slit to scoop out dollops of hot cum. She slurped them down like she was rounding up a deluge of melting frozen yogurt.

As the range of her tongue was tested, Flurry's horn lit up and Cadance could feel her diaphragm being firmly pressed and massaged to help squeeze the salty white jelly into her daughter's waiting mouth like she was a pastry bag.

Somewhere in the back of her mind, Cadance knew that sucking the cum out wasn't a thing but somehow it didn't matter so much. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she knew this was fucked up but it felt as good as anything normal. Shouldn't she push her away and squeeze her thighs shut? Yes. She'd tepidly resolved that that was the appropriate course of action she should take and waited for her body to respond accordingly but the only thing that happened was a flashflood of fresh mare lube in her loins and a jolt of undeniable pleasure. Wasn't this wrong? Flurry was an adult. Flurry clearly didn't care. So why should she?

Her conflicted but impassioned moans had her husband hard as a rock again in just moments. Shining's cock ached desperately for a rare second round. His eyes rested on Flurry as she methodically continued to suck the sperm right out of his wife's quivering snatch. He followed the sway of her back down to her plump ass where her tail swished with a slow, meditative rhythm, the same dance he saw every time she sucked him off.

Shining crawled next to where his daughter lay sprawled out on her belly. He brushed her tail to the side, revealing her well primed marehood as it peeked out from between her healthy flanks. Flurry cracked an eye and a smirk and wiggled her legs apart a bit more for him.

He saw his sexual relationship with Flurry as utilitarian with benefits. He was meant to assist her and Cadance and now Remedy with their needs but traditionally he only sought relief himself, (when he hadn't already achieved it,) from Cadance. At the moment though, his wife was occupied or at least inaccessible and he knew his daughter wouldn't mind if he just helped himself to her bottom half.

Shining carefully mounted her in a prone position, his tip slipping between her flanks. He pushed inside her, slow and heavy. His hot, shaky breath tickled her ear. Her stifled giggle turned into a soft moan as she felt herself filling up with her dad. He kept going till he felt his balls squeezed tightly between the two of them. Then he draped limply over her back and began to rock his hips in slow, lazy thrusts as the mare beneath him continued to service her mother.

Flurry gulped down the last of her father's seed, gave her mother's opening one last lick to get it sparkling clean and then turned her attention to the now very needy clit just north of there. Her clean up was complete but she had to make sure mom finished, otherwise it would just be a tease and what kind of apology would that be?

The moment her clit slipped between her daughter's lips, Cadance knew she'd missed her chance to back out. She arched her back and let out a full throated moan. Her legs shook as pleasure seized her body.

Her head was swimming. She opened her bleary eyes just long enough to see her husband lazily rutting their daughter as she dutifully worked her magic between her folds like she was their plaything. It didn't matter. None of it mattered. She closed her eyes again and committed wholeheartedly to chasing carnal self-indulgence however it came to her.

Cadance's body went wild as her daughter's tongue raced around her nub. Her breath came in short puffs, making her even more lightheaded. Her hips bucked enthusiastically into Flurry's face, forcing her clit to squeeze in and out of her puckered lips. She'd crossed another point of no return; she was now facilitating her sexual pleasure utilizing her own child. She was fucking the mouth of her daughter and enjoying it immensely.

Shining grunted and trembled as he teetered on the cusp. On the last inch of his climb, he pushed as deep inside her as he could go and released his load. His body relaxed into hers and he let out a long sigh down the back of her neck. He rubbed her shoulder softly with one hoof as he waited to recover.

Meanwhile, Cadance quivered powerlessly in the grip of her daughter's adept lips. Her ecstasy leveled off just before cresting over. It hovered there moment after moment, driving her mad with frustration. She gritted her teeth in determination to break through the ceiling. She grabbed her daughter's horn and pulled.

Sensing her mom was in a final desperate push for ascension, Flurry sucked in her meat and squeezed it between her kneading lips. Cadance threw her head back and screamed. How in the hell did she have another orgasm left in her after Shining seemingly flushed out her whole system?

Her body shuddered violently, pummeled in rapture. With one last kick, she went slack and melted into the bed.

Flurry raised her head and licked the remaining smudges of her father's sticky cum from her muzzle. Then she planted one last gentle kiss on her stunned mother's pussy as an emphatic I'm sorry.

Shining pulled his dick from inside Flurry and wriggled back up to his spot with an exhausted sigh.

Cadance kept her eyes shut. The room felt like it was spinning or maybe she was falling through the air.

"Hey mom, wanna do me now?"

She opened her eyes cautiously to see Her daughter presenting her own creampie to her.

"You know… I don't really have any experience with mares," she mumbled.

Flurry shrugged. "Neither do I. My expertise comes entirely from lots of practice in kissing and just being a mare myself... I also just really like cum." She wiggled her ass enticingly. "No? Okay… but it's your fault if I get pregnant," she chided in a singsong voice. She turned around and flopped on the bed in between them just like she used to do as a filly.

She sighed proudly at making both of her parents cum basically at the same time "See, we should do that more often."

"How did you like your first incestuous threesome?" asked Shining.

Cadance's eyes shot open. Shit… it was technically a threesome too, wasn't it? She didn't agree to partake in either aspect beforehoof but neither did she reject them and now there was no going back. Did the incest make it any hotter? What about the addition of a third pony? She decided no but neither did it detract from the experience which, in itself, was a shocking self discovery.

"I'm still drunk. I'm not saying shit," she grumbled.

"Okay but you did have incest sex. That's a fact you can't change. So do you feel like your relationship with your daughter has been sullied because of it?"

Cadance thought about it even though thinking was like trying to hold sand in her hoof. Flurry didn't care. Flurry wasn't going to treat her differently or even look at her differently. This sort of thing was as innocuous to her as going shopping or helping someone with their homework. The ball was squarely in Cadance's court in a game where she was both ref and sole player, a game she had to decide if it was still worth playing. She could feel anguished shame. She could self-flagellate over it but what was the point? Performative shame for some token sense of moral superiority. "No," she finally answered.

"What about your relationship with me?"

Shining didn't care either. He didn't feel jealous if his daughter pleasured his wife; it was his idea. But at the same time, he'd never even flirt with another mare outside the family and expected that same level of fidelity from his wife. He had truly compartmentalized incest from the realm of extramarital affairs and again, she couldn't come up with an answer that wouldn't come off as self-righteous pontification.

"No," she sighed.

"Well, how can you say incest is inherently bad then?" he shrugged.

"Ask me when I'm sober and everything stops spinning. And definitely don't expect this to become a thing."

His face fell in disappointed. "I wish you'd join us sometimes but even if you still won't, I hope this experience has at least been a little eye-opening for you."

She took his meaning to be that he wanted a happy marriage with her while sticking with his outlandish definition of fatherly roles.

Cadance gave a long, exasperated sigh. "This wasn't what I signed up for, Shining. When I married you, the deal was to have an exclusive relationship and that's not what this is. I have felt jealous and betrayed for a long time. However, I think to some degree we've reached the point where we just have to say it is what it is. That doesn't mean I'm willing to just let everything go and be a silent doormat. Therefore, if you can put me back on the pedestal where I belong and on occasion do to me what you did earlier tonight then perhaps I can look the other way on your relationship with our adult daughter as long as it doesn't interfere with provision one or two."

Flurry and Shining exchanged slack jawed glances. They prayed it wasn't the alcohol talking and she wouldn't be back to her old stalwart self in the morning.

"I can live with that," nodded Shining.

"I can't think anymore," mumbled Cadance. "But we're also going to talk about Remedy eventually.

Things would be different for Flurry from now on but the feeling of validation from her mother was an unforeseen burden off her back. "Thanks, mom," she chimed. "And however you decide to swing from now on, I will totally blow you whenever you want. Standing offer."

Cadance simply grumbled and rolled over.

For the first time in over fifteen years, all three of them slept in the same bed.