The Derpy I Know And Love

CHAPTER TWO

Who Should Know.

Twilight was not sure if she really heard a knocking.  Perhaps it was her heart or the heart she could feel beating against her chest.  Or was it a dream?  If so the most realistic and wonderful dream ever, if a dream, she never wanted to wake up.  All she knew was that she was warm and happy.  She felt the embrace of the pony in her bed.  Her own forelegs around her partner.  Their hind legs were intertwined.  She had never felt so content in her life

There was the knock again.

Twilight started to sit up then realized that she had to be careful not to wake the mare sleeping there.

One thing that annoyed Twilight about Rainbow Dash was if she dropped by in the morning, she would fly up to her balcony and knock.  And there she stood at her balcony door, peering in.  Twilight opened the door and before Rainbow Dash could enter, Twi quickly stepped out, closing the door behind her, not inviting her friend in.

“Please keep it down Rainbow, its early”

“Its ten o’clock.” Replied Rainbow,  “I have never heard of you sleeping in.........”

A strange look came over Rainbow, she looked stunned.  Glancing over at Twilight’s tail, then through the glass into Twi’s room, Rainbow could make out the form of a pony on the bed.

“Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!  You’ve been doing it!

“Doing what?” said Twilight annoyed even more.

“You know!  Doing It!”  Rainbow saw the ‘I am not going to answer’ look on Twi’s face.

“Don’t tell me that it is another case of Pinkie Pie being mysteriously in your bed in the morning.  You are holding your tail out more than usual.  Mares only do that if ’down there’ has been overly stimulated!”

Twilight could feel what it was that Rainbow was talking about.

“If I was, so what?  I am old enough and I really don’t think it is any of your business.  Have I ever once asked you about any of your endeavors?”

“Fair enough,” conceded Rainbow.  “I am sorry, and if it means anything, I am glad for you!  I dropped by because that Derpy was asking about talking to you and now the featherbrain did not show for morning weather duty.  I stopped by to see if you might know where she went after she saw you.  That Derpy is one strange pony.”

“Bubbles,” said Twilight slightly annoyed.

“Beg pardon?”

“Her name is Bubbles.”

“Who’s name is Bubbles?”  Rainbow was a great athlete but sometimes she could be a little slow on the uptake.

“Who do you think?  Who were you just asking about, Rainbow Crash?”

“Hey! You know how I feel about that name!” said Rainbow on the edge of being upset.

“Hurts being called uncomplimentary names, doesn’t it.”  Said Twilight in her best lecturing voice.  “That’s how she feels about that name.”

Then it appeared that the light was starting to come on with Rainbow when the door behind Twilight opened.

Twilight was not sure if she was ready for anypony to know, but it was too late.

“Derpy?”

“Bubbles!” said Twilight sternly.

Twilight expected Rainbow to collapse to the floor laughing.  Instead her face went blank.

“I am so sorry that I am late Rainbow Dash, I will be right there.”

“No, it is ok.  Just worried when you did not show up.”  Stammered Rainbow Dash.  “Not like you to be late.  It’s fine. Just a little cleaning up after the storm last night.  Already done.  So I guess I will see you later.”

Rainbow turned to leave.

“Please come inside Rainbow, we need to talk.  And please use the front door.” Twilight’s horn glowed for a moment.  “You will find it unlocked now.  Make sure the closed sign is still in place.”

“Sure thing Twi,” said Rainbow who jumped up and did a flip through the air to the front door.

“Show off!”  said Twi.

Bubbles looked at Twilight. As they entered Twilight’s bedroom.

“Bubbles, about last night.” Said Twilight, “I am going to ask one more time and I promise never to again.  Was there something to last night, or were you overwrought and was I just there?”

Bubbles kissed Twilight deeply, it still took Twilight’s breath away.

“That’s all I wanted to know.”  Said Twilight with a smile.  Then leaning out her bedroom door, she yelled to Rainbow, “be down in a minute!”

“Take your time!” was the reply.

The two mares shared a shower to save time, but it may have slowed them down, they started washing the other’s back.  Then Bubbles gave instructions on how clean and preen her wings but the washing progressed from there. This was another new experience for Twi.  Two of her best friends are pegasi and her teacher and her sister are alicorns but she had never got a chance to feel their wings (much less fondle).

Plus they figured that since they were clean....

The two went down to the main floor.  Rainbow had actually made tea.

“Look, sorry if I acted weird earlier,” said Rainbow Dash.  “Don’t take it wrong, but I never expected to find you with any pony, let alone a mare.”

Twilight caught the real meaning, ‘Let alone Derpy!’

Bubbles was starting to look as forlorn as last night when she came in out of the rain.  Twilight caught the look and with her hoof, she lifted Bubbles’ face to hers.  Then Twi kissed Bubbles passionately and long.  Rainbow almost dropped her tea.  Then Twilight turned to Rainbow and said;

“Look Rainbow Dash, try to understand this.  The mare you call Derpy does not exist.  She is based on stereotype and misinformation.  The mare you see before you is sweet, caring, and intelligent.  Did you know she worked at the Canterlot Institute of Science?  Have you even asked her about herself?”

Rainbow shook her head.

“You never really know about ponies until you get to really know them, do you.  Take me, I know you and the other ponies have certain ideas about me.  Not all are true.” Said Twi.

“Like being a mare-lover?”

“I slept with Bubbles not because she is a mare.  I slept with a wonderful pony who my heart went out to and then melted at the first kiss.  She just happens to be a mare.”

“Sorry Twi,” said Rainbow. “I did not mean anything by it.  Everypony knows that I stray down the “mare-lover” path from time to time, OK perhaps more than that.  But I enjoy it.  Heck, if I knew you leaned that way, I may have hit on you before now!”

“You said my flanks were too scrawny!  Remember?”

“I didn’t say they weren’t cute.” Said Rainbow blushing.

Twilight knew that this was Rainbow’s way of accepting her friend’s explanation.

Bubbles spoke up for the first time.

“I know what most ponies think of me, but I do my best to raise two kids, feed them and keep a roof over their heads.  My condition makes it hard for me to judge distance so I tend to be a little accident prone.  But as you said earlier, I am there on time, everyday.  Luckily it is Sunday and the post office is closed.”

Rainbow did not know what to say.  It was perhaps the first time she actually spoke to the mare and not at her.

“Look,” said Rainbow.  “Twi is my best friend.  I don’t care if she is ‘suckin’ face’  with a manticore.”

Then turning to Twi.

“If you are happy, so am I, that goes for you too Der... Ah, I mean Bubbles.”  Then Rainbow had an oddly intelligent look come over her face.  “What now?”

“Well, we have not had a chance to talk, but we will be letting our friends know as soon as we know.”  Said Twilight.  “please keep it between us three for now.  Pinkie Pie swear.”

“Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!”  Said Rainbow, then smiling at Bubbles confused look. “you will understand later.  Then I will be going and will talk to you later.”

“Rainbow Dash, would you mind going by Carrot Top’s and telling my children that I will be home later.”

“Sure thing.”

Rainbow left and a silence fell over the two left there.

“Rainbow was right about one thing,” said Bubbles with a smile.

“What was that?”

“You do have cute flanks!”  Bubbles said with a giggle. “I don’t mind if they are a little scrawny!”

Then Bubbles gave Twi  ‘that’ look.

“So what are we going to do?” asked Twilight.

“I don’t know, perhaps we can think better if we had a little more sex!”

“Sounds good to me.”

“So we do it here or do we take time to go back upstairs?”

Twilight’s answer to Bubbles was a smile and a flash of purple magic.  A moment later they were in the bedroom.

“I don’t think I will ever get use to that.” Bubbles said throwing herself at Twilight landing on the bed.

“Something tells me that you are going to have to get use it!”

“I really hope so!” Said Bubbles, but she was cut short.  Twi had started kissing Bubbles, determined to pick up where they had left off last night.

It was several weeks later.  Rainbow was true to her word and kept the knowledge to herself.  Twilight did have to let Spike in on the news.  It was hard on him at first.  From the time Twilight hatched him, he had slept in the room with Twilight.  Now that was not a good idea.  Dragons are very intelligent, despite being a baby, Spike understood things.  But the whole mare with a mare thing was a stumper.  That was until Twilight explained that the way he felt for Rarity was a real emotion, the fact that she was a pony and he was a dragon did not seem to matter to him.  Spike took that explanation as sound and did not ask anything else about it.

Bubbles would spend the night whenever she could.  Rainbow actually let them use her cloud house a couple times when she had weather business in Coudsdale.  With her power it did not matter that Twilight was not a pegasus, she could teleport up and cause herself to walk on clouds.

The two were in the afterglow on Twi’s bed.

“Twilight?”

“Yes sweetie.”

“I need to ask you something.”

“What is that?” asked Twilight unsure of where the question might go.

Both were on their backs looking at the ceiling, holding hooves.  Bubbles turned and looked at Twilight.

“Do you love me?”

The question shocked Twilight to the core.  Twilight felt more for this mare than any other pony, ever.  She could not imagine going on without this pony somewhere in her life.  Why had she not told her yet?  Did she love her?  There was no way that she could NOT lover her.  Twilight suddenly felt what Rainbow Dash would call sappy.

“I tell you I love you, but only because I can’t think of any other word that would tell you how deeply I feel for you.”

Bubbles kissed Twilight lightly.

“I love you too!”

Bubbles covered Twi with her wing.

“Darling,” said Twi. “forgive my ignorance, but is there a special meaning with covering me with your wings?”

“I’m sorry, does it bother you?”

“No! It is just you did it the first evening we, well our first evening.”

“I guess you would not know.” Said Bubbles, “our wings, pegasi that is, are very strong and yet very fragile.  It is almost symbolic of opening your heart to somepony.  Love can be strong yet the heart can be fragile.  The act is a sign of trust that is reserved for mostly lovers.” Bubbles blushed.  “I guess I was being kind of forward that night.  Kind of hoping that the night would end the way it did.”

“In other words, you loved me before we even talked?”

“Silly isn’t it?  Remember that I told Rainbow Dash that there might be complications.”

“I think that first night, the first time I really looked into your eyes,” Twi kissed Bubbles on each eye, “your beautiful, funny eyes, I felt something I never felt before.  I saw in those eyes a heart longing to be open.  Calling out to be loved.  Something I think I had felt in myself, but never had the inclination to share that with anypony.”

“Since the accident, no pony has ever referred to my eyes as beautiful.” Her eyes were filling with tears of joy, “You find in me something beautiful that all other ponies have found revolting or a joke.

Had you told me that then, it would have let me know that I did have the right pony.  But the finding out was fun!”

“Then I think it is time we told our friends.” Said Twilight.

“Can we?  It would be so nice to be able to go out together in public.  I have so wanted to tell Sparkler and Muffin.”

“How do you think they would take it?”

“I think Muffin would love to have another pony in her life to love.  And I think Sparkler would be happy knowing I am happy.”

“Then it is settled.  We can go to Sugarcube Corner and reserve it for.....”

“How about Saturday, it is three days off and it would give us time to gather our friends.”  Said Bubbles.

“Come to think of it,” said Twi, “I don’t think I know who your friends are, other than perhaps Rainbow Dash.”

“It is amazing how Rainbow Dash treats me after our first talk.  But as for the rest, maybe I should wait.  I don’t want to scare you off!”

They may have been lovers but they were still youthful mares and they both giggled.  The kisses did not stop the mirth.