Maybes are...

Chapters

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 – Maybe are...

You hold the kiss almost as tightly as you hold your eyes shut, you're still weak from today, but your thoughts keep you focused and your mind off the desire to sleep. You open your eyes as the floor beneath your feet becomes a reality, you stare at Twilight as you break the kiss. Her eyes closed as her right hoof is brought up to her stomach. But your eyes are brought back up to her horn, there is slight purple aura around the tip. Your thoughts on her are cut as you hear a voice.

"I thought I might see you two..."

Twilight and you both look to the stallions voice.

You look over doctor Stable as he pauses to stare between you two. You focus on his face, his solemn expression doesn't help your mood or the situation.

Twilight's voice is sleepy and slow as she talks, "Doctor Stable I..."

The caramel unicorn holds his hoof to her as he talks, "Twilight, everypony is in your debt..." he shifts his gaze between you, "Both of you." He floats a clipboard and paper over to him as he motions to the white mare behind the counter.

Stable holds his hoof down the hall.

Twilight pauses for a moment as she looks down the hallway. She is shaking a little as she stands close to you.

You know she has to be scared but you nudge her as you walk next to her, "It will be fine Twilight."

Her mouth quivered a little as she nods her head and begins her walk down the hall.

Stable nods again to the nurse as he follows beside Twilight.

The nurse puts her hoof to your chest as she talks in a low voice, "I'm sorry but if a unicorn is having magical discharge even with a small amount we ca...-"

You shake your head at her comment before she can finish.

Twilight turns her head back to you as she continues down the hallway next to Stable.

The nurse pushes against you a little hard as you try to follow, "Sir please, it’s for the patient and your safety."

You shift to the white mare roadblock in front and then back to Twilight as she goes inside a room a good ways down the hall. "When can I go back."

She smiles a little as she hoofs to the waiting area, "We will notify you when you may go back."

You nod your head to her as you slowly walk over to the couch like seats. As you sit down you stare at the ground. Your eyes are heavy and your body is weak you continue to stare at the ground as your mind begins to toy with you.

You hold yourself from thinking as you watch the white mare drift behind the counter and take her seat.

But you're slight stalling doesn't last long as your eyes shift to the hallway as your floodgates of emotion begins to open, she will be fine...Twilight knew not to use magic that could harm the foal...you shake your head to break the thought.

The nurse looks up from her papers as she talks, "Are you ok sir?"

You nod your head

You look past her towards the clock on the wall, it's only eleven...you start to think about the time with a faked smile, I'll wake up in a few minutes...Twilight will be next to me and tomorrow I will complain about how I don't want to get out of bed...and then I'll make her believe the only way I can get better is if she stays under the warm blankets with me. The faked smile stays strong as you hold the lie firmly in your mind as you watch the clock slowly tick away.

You stop biting at your hoof as your eyes meet the chiming clock, twelve thirteen... your two front hooves are nothing more than a wet mass of fur, and you don't know if ponies bite at their hooves but if they don't you will be the first to invent it. You give a slight smirk to the thought.

You turn your gaze from the clock as you look back down the hallway with a sigh. You swallow hard as your eyes yet again meet the empty hall. And now like the hundreds of other times you drag your damp hooves over your tired face trying to stay awake and trying to not think.

"...Ok, just take a seat."

Your ear twitches at the voice as you quickly snap your head back to the opening door at the end of the hall.

At the sight of the caramel stallion holding the door open you stand up as your anxiousness almost has you galloping down the hall. But you stand next to your seat as Twilight's hanging head pokes out of the door with a nod and a few words to low to hear from where you stand.

You watch the lavender colored mare with puffed out sides exit the room, you have a smile on your face as you look at her. But her purple eyes fixate on you from down the hall, they are shifty and her pace becomes a little slow as she nears the waiting room.

You sit flop back down to the seat as she nears you, "Twilight?"

Twilight's eyes are shifty but she holds a smile as she sits down beside you. Your heart is pounding as she opens her mouth to you, "They...they can't tell me yet."

You stare at her in silence as you shake a little from her words, how can they not say anything, they use fucking magic?! "W-what?"

She looks away from you as she nods her head, "y-yep, we have to wait a little longer." She sniffles at the end of the sentence.

You don't know what you can say...and you don't know anything you could even think of to say as she lays her shaking and sniffling head on you. She brings her back legs on to the long couch like bench as she buries her head against your coat, she's not crying but just her trying to hold herself back is tearing you up inside.

You nuzzle her hair as you try to calm her, "shhh, its fine...its fine." You continue to bring your muzzle through her tangled purple mane and put your hoof around her as you try and calm her, "Shhh."

End of chapter 1

Chapter 2

Twilight's head still rest up against your side as you both still linger in the waiting room for more news. It took her a few minutes to fully calm down but she now has her eyes closed and is what you guess would be a pony cat nap. You look down at her peaceful little escape from the world around you and silently wish you could just slip into a sleep right now, but you are too busy watching the clock and waiting for the doctor. You have convinced yourself no news is good news, you look to the clock as you reiterate that thought, twelve forty....

You lean your head against the wall as you sigh, moving your body is futile as you know you would have to disturb her rest. So instead you make do with the little bit of comfort the hard wall gives you in the position you sit.

Twilight shifts a little on you as you do this, so you stop your movement.

The silence of the hospital is depressing and mind numbing as the only sound you can hear is the loud click of the clock.

After a few moments you start to feel your eyes droop down, but it doesn't last long as the front doors to the building burst open.

"Nurse Redheart! Nurse Redheart!"

You and Twilight both bring your heads up as you both look to the overly excited voice. You watch as a franticly panting orange Pegasus stallion with green and black mane run to the counter with his wings out wide, "I think Medley is going into labor!" He smiles big as he runs back to the door to hold it open.

Twilight shifts her head more up right as the feminine voice from outside gets closer.

"...I swear, I can't tell him anything." An annoyed teal Pegasus mare with blue green hair is rushed in by the giggle orange stallion. Her bloated sides sway as she walks up to the counter where the nurse pony still stands, "I'm sorry for this, but you know can't be too careful with triplets." She gives a light hearted tired laugh at the end of her statement.

The orange Pegasus puts his hooves on the counter as he talks, "I heard the triplets can come at any time." He smiles as he looks to the teal mare next to himself, "And I don't want to take any chances."

The teal mare rolls her eyes as she talks, "All I said was that I felt one kick."

The orange stallion wiggles his hooves in the air as he talks, "Ya, and that means they want to spread their wings Medley. Don’t you remember all the stories I told you about me!" He looks to Red Heart with a happily bobbing smiling head.

Nurse Redheart gives a friendly laugh as she walks from behind the counter, "Of course Mr. Daze. Right this way."

The energetic stallion walks behind the teal mare as they walk to the room Redheart hoofed to. She yawns as her heavy hooves clop against the floor, "When we get home you're bring me a nice warm cloud shower."

The orange stallion brushes up against her, "We might be going home with more than us."

The mare laughs at his comment, "And if we do you had better not wake me in the morning."They both give a little laugh as they enter into a room down the hall.

As they enter the room and you hear the door close behind them their voices are nothing more than a muffled sound at the end of the hallway, and the hospital goes silent again.

Twilight's head is fixed on the wood door down the hall as the clock ticks away. You stare at her at the back of her purple mane as you move your hoof across her back.

She doesn't turn her head as you continue to run your hoof through her unbrushed coat.

You swallow hard as you try to talk, "um...how did you sleep?"

Her head doesn't shift as she answers in a low voice, "fine."

You nod you head as you continue to try and make the silent hospital come alive, "It's uh...it's only been like five minutes."

She nods her head a little.

You move your eyes from her as you try not to choke up.

After a few moments you hear the crack of the wood door as it opens with a feminine voice, "...Just remember to stay away from turbulent winds ok?"

The teal mare walks out nodding her head as the orange stallion talks for her, "Oh she doesn’t have to worry about that, we moved from Cloudsdale a few weeks ago."

The mare yawns as she walks past you and Twilight, "I just can't wait to get back home."

The orange Pegasus takes a paper from nurse Redheart as he gallops after her, "Coming dear."

Nurse Redheart glances over to where you both sit before she turns to walk down the hallway.

Twilight's eyes follow the mare as they leave the building, her sight is cut as the doors close behind them. You to stop yourself from staring at her as she holds her gaze to the front doors...her soft purple eyes are filled with want and worry and you know if you stare into them for just one second you would lose it.

You feel her head start to rest on you again after a few moments of the hospitals ticking silent’s.

Her eyes are closed as she tries to bury herself into your coat. You rest your head on hers when she finally stops moving.

You hold your mouth shut not knowing what to say as you feel a warm dampness start to seep from where her eyes rest. The sound of her low whimper strikes your ears with a sharp pinch as you hold your emotions back trying to act strong for her. Her silent shacks start back up as you again try to calm her like before. You bite at the inside of your mouth in misery as you can't bring your mind to think of anything else to do.

End of chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 3 – No news is better than...

You didn't realize it but you have started to doze off as you still sit in the uncomfortable seat. But your light slumber is brought to an end at the sound of the hooves coming from your right.

"Ms. Sparkles, the doctor ask me to get you."

You and Twilight bring your exhausted and worried hears up to the soft feminine voice. You look over the pink mare, her hair is a striped purple and white and her face has white freckles on it. Her face brings a sense of calmness over you as she smiles and hoof down the hallway, "...seventh door on the left."

Twilight's voice is low and tired as she stares down the hallway with a worn out expression, "Seventh room?"

The pink pony nods her head, "Yep."

Twilight slowly moves from the seat as she gets up.

You get up next to her.

The nurse walks towards the desk as you and Twilight wall down the hall.

Twilight's head hangs down as you both make the slow walk down the short hallway. You're just as worried as her but you try to not show it, hoping that this will help lift her spirit.

As you both near the door you pause. Twilight looks to you before she pushes against the door.

You both focus on the caramel stallion whose head is hung over some papers on a nearby counter. You look around the room for a second as it looks different than the other one you have been to.

Stable looks up with a straight face, "Twilight could you sit on the bed for me." He gives a smile as he waits for her to do what he asks. You instinctively take one of the seats near the wall as you anxiously and vigorously wait to hear him speak again.

Twilight stares at the stallion with almost no shift in emotion, you have to look away from her tired and worried face to stop your throat from choking up, in case you need to talk.

Stable clears his thought as he straightens up a little, "Twilight, after looking over the test I can only come to one conclusion."

You hold yourself from screaming at him as he takes a pause, come on!

"...Twilight I’m sorry."

Your eyes start to tear up as the words freeze the world around you.

"...But the only way to know for sure is to put you into an early labor."

Your mind stops at the words, "W-what does that mean?"

Twilight has had her hooves up to her face ever since he said sorry, but her eyes are now wide as she stammers on the thought.

You don't know whether to feel happy, sad, nervous or if you should be on the ground crying...you kind of feel every emotion at once but one thought runs through your head and mouth as you look over the lavender mare shaking in fright on the bed, "Why?"

Stable looks over Twilight as he answer, "Well, there seems to be some sort of magical barrier around the foal...and from what we know it can only be one of two things, the foal is in the last few stages of a unicorn birth..."

Twilight cuts him off as she talks in a low voice, "Or the foal is not longer there..." She holds her hooves together as she looks down at her protruding stomach.

Stable nods as he talks in a low but reassuring voice, "Yes, and a magic induced labor maybe the only thing to try."

Twilight looks up as she talks in the weak voice, "I-is it safe for the foal ?"

Your heart's beat increases as you realize that Twilight is actually going to this.

Stable searches the room as he answers, "If the foal's birth rate was increased we have to induce labor because your body might not realize what has happened in a timely manner."

Twilight again ask, "Is it safe for the foal ?" Her voice is shaky as she talks.

Stable pauses for a moment as he talks, "...If the test were wrong this would kill the foal..."

You stare at him with a fueled anger and confusion, "How can you not know?!"

He turns to you with an understanding low tone, "If the foal was spiked waiting for tomorrow may endanger the foal."

You blow off his comment as your thoughts fuel your mind and mouth, " Twilight is only at most eight months in, and that's counting the spike that you say happens! How do we know this is the on...-"

Twilight calls your name in a low voice and you stop talking as you turn back to her, still a little jumpy from your outburst, "We have to just try..." Her eyes are watery and she shakes a little, you stare at her as you swallow back your emotions, "...ok..."

Stable waits a few moments for the tense room to settle before talking, "You will need to leave for this....any disturbance could alter the complicated spell."

Twilight has her head fixed on the ground as he finishes his statement.

You nod your head unable to take your eyes off Twilight as you think, why? Why is nothing just a simple fix?!

You slowly leave the room to the hallway, each step feels like a mile as you walk away from Twilight's bedside. Before you walk out you turn back to her with tears building in your eyes and a beaten and tired voice, "I love you..."

She stares at you as her eyes purple shade start to flutter, she whispers back to you as her voice cracks.

You finally feel yourself push past the threshold of the door as it closes behind you. As the wood clangs shut your breath a heavy hot breath of fear and regret as your trembling hooves carry you back to the waiting area.

You sit in your seat of solitude as you place your head in your hooves and feel yourself about to cry, you hold the tear back as you run your head, you try to steady your breathing as you stare at the ground. Your coat is damp from a worry sweat and your stomach is queasy, you bring your eyes back to the room, you watch as a yellow unicorn mare with a nurse hat walks into the room Twilight is in with what looks like a baby carriage.

Your breathing steadies a little as you watch the chart wheel into the room. When the door closes you bring your head back to the solid floor beneath your feet as you try to think positively...I’m going to be a dad...you feel the biggest smile come across your face as you this thought enters your head, but you feel it painfully leave as the realization of the moment kicks in with warm tear. You shake the thought as you look back to the room with a shaking anticipation. How long is a pony labor? You hold the thought as you bite at your hoof that rest on the edge of your mouth.

End of chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 – Dead or Fred

You look around your the room as you begin to bite at your hoof, you don't know if biting at your hoof is something a pony dose but at this point you want anything to keep your mind off of your thoughts.

Your eyes click to the clock that hangs behind the empty reception desk, it’s only been two minutes but each small second feels like an hour, you know if you had toes they would be culled...you can't even imagine what your hai-mane looks like after you rubbed your damp hooves through it. The bittersweet hospital drenched in worry, stress and happiness is not helping either as the clock slowly chips away at your minds ability to hold your body back from running to the room and bursting through the doors...I should get a medal for thinking, you smile a little as you bite down on your hoof again.

The door to your left opens with a squeak but you don't turn to it.

"Hello."

Your ears twitch at the chiming royal voice behind you...oh god...

You turn your face to the large bright white pony standing in the entrance of the hospital.

"I most certainly did not expect to find you here." Her bright smile pierces your mind as you freeze not knowing what or how tell her to talk.

She looks away from you as she walks around the room stopping almost directly in front of you, "I came as soon as I heard about Discord, could you tell me where Twilight is?"

You swallow hard as you look over her almost flowing long brightly colored mane... you look down as you're too tired and stressed to try a lie, "Twilight is here..."

She is silent for a moment before she talks, "Twilight...Twilight is here?"

You bring you head up to her face at her shocked tone, "T-Twilight is pregnant..." You hold steady as you wait for the god ruler to strike down upon you. But she doesn't...

Celestia holds her smile to you as you bring your face back up to hers.

You blink at her, oh crap I have stunned the Princess into a standing coma!

Celestia gives a very low giggle as she talks, "No you haven't."

Your eyes widen as you stare at her still a little shaky, I could have sworn I thought that?

Cleastia looks down the hallway as she talks in her unchanged royally low voice, "You don't think I sent you both home to study love and tolerance again for no reason do you?"

You feel your face start to lighten as her words hit you, "Y-you knew?"

She nods her head as she talks, "And from the looks of what remains of Discord teaching you that transfer spell was a good idea, wouldn't you say?"

Your mouth hangs open a little as the words stun you. But your new found sense of relief and confusion is quickly exchanged as you get a burning question in your mind, "Cleastia, how could you let her do the spells if you knew!" You feel proud and dumb at yelling at her.

She stares at you with a changed expression, "You two did not know?"

You shake your head as you talk in a building voice, "We did not find out until she was in the hospital because of a spell backfiring!" Your voice shakes a little as you continue, "...A-and now the foal could be hurt because of you not stopping her!" You hold you shaking hoof to her as you feel yourself starting to break down.

Celestia smiles as she looks past you.

This only makes you angrier as you wait for her.

Celestia gives a low response as she talks, "Because, life and love are two things that cannot be told...they have to be felt and learned." She looks back to you with a sweet and calming smile.

"...Sir..."

Your mind is put on hold and your body almost stops all functions as the nurses voice creeps into your ears from behind you.

You turn to the pink pony, who seems more focused on the Princess behind you. But she stammers as she talks, "...Sir, you need to give us a name."

Your body shakes and you feel your eyes building up as these words hit your ears, "W-what?"

The pink pony hold a paper to you as she talks again, "Sir, the spell worked... Ms. Sparkles said to ask you for the name."

Your stance becomes wobbly and you have to sit down as you hold your hooves to your head, your mind can't think your body is wallowing in sweat, joy and a quacking queasy feeling all over your body...you try to calm yourself as the ponies voice to your right becomes nothing more than a blur of sound....A name... You bring you tear filled eyes up to her as you talk in an almost inaudible voice, "W-what is it?"

She holds the paper to you.

You look over the paper as you read its weight and height...your eyes meet the blank space for a name and right next to it the sex. You look back up to her in a shaky voice, "Can I see her?"

The pink mare nods and begins to walk towards a door near the end of the waiting room, "Yes."

You can't bring yourself to stand for a moment as your legs feel more like spaghetti and you feel the cupcakes in your stomach beginning to stir.

Celestia walks ahead of you into the room, after a few moments of paralysation you bring yourself up and follow after her.

The room you enter is a big room with a glass window separating most of the room.

The pink mare stops at the window and looks inside past the glass, Celestia follow her motion and holds a soft smile as she looks on.

You’re shaking too much to go to the window and your voice is low as you stare to the ground, "Is she ok?"

The pink mare turns from the window as she talks, "Well at first she didn't want to stand but after we got her up her steps seemed normal."

You give a tear filling laugh as you talk, "First steps?"

The mare nods her head, "Yes, it's common for a labor induced foal to be a little weaker than other newborns, but she doesn't seem to have that problem. Although she didn't cry as loud as we thought she would, but that could just mean her vocal cords need to be worked a little more. You and Ms. Sparkle should do some exercises with her everyday until she responds."

You nod your head tentatively at her statement, "H-how does she look?"

Cleastia turns to you with a sweet smile, "Why don't you see for yourself?"

You slowly bring yourself to the glass, as you peer through your eyes focus on the only occupied crib in the room. ...You hold your eyes to the small wrapped up filly that has her eyes closed. Your hooves are spread across the glass and your muzzle is pressed up against it, you give a tear filled chuckle as you look over the small pony, I didn't know they could be so small...You try to take her sight in through the hot breath that is accumulating on the glass. You rub the film off as you walk your eyes over her, her coat is a lighter color than Twilight's and her mane has the same purple tone but with streaks of your own mixed throughout it. Your eyes focus on her tiny horn that sits above her tightly closed eyes as she sleeps.

You feel a tap on your side as the low voice hits you again, "We still need a name."

Your eyes are still teared up and your mind is completely blank as you try to think about the list you made so many weeks ago...your mind stops as you stare at the sleeping filly, "She's beautiful..." You back away from the glass as you stagger backwards, "I'm a dad."

Celestia giggles to herself as you sit you back side on the ground with your hoof up to your mouth, "I feel like I’m going to be sick." You hold back the cupcakes that are trying to work their way out of you.

The nurse smiles to you as she hoof you the paper.

You take the paper in your hooves as you stare at the blank name slot. You give another tear filled sniffling laugh as you shake your head, "I-I can't even think right now."

You hover the pen in your purple grasp as you place it to the paper.

The pink mare call out to you as you do this, "It needs to be in hoof writing please."

You stand back up with another laugh as you lean against the glass and think staring at the paper and the small filly, for you...I’ll make sure I spell it correctly.

You carefully stroke out each letter as you concentrate on the paper. You bring your shacking hoof to the pink mare as you finish the paper.

She talks again as she takes the paper, "That’s a wonderful name."

You smile to her as you look back through the glass with your head held up proudly.

The nurse continues to talks as you look through the glass, "Ms. Sparkle has not started producing milk yet, Doctor Stable says she will in the next few weeks. So in the meantime you will need to feed her a special formula."

You nod your head silently as you don't take your eyes off the sleeping filly, “How is Twilight?”

“Ms. Sparkle needs to rest for now, but the foal and her should be ready to go in the morning.”

Celestia giggles a little as she leans her head to you, “I think I will visit you two in a few days, Twilight needs not to worry about me.”

The pink mare pauses as Celestia finish her sentence, when she does the nurse’s sweet voice tightens up a little as she talks now, "Make sure you do not use any magic around her. Baby unicorns should develop their own magic and introduction any new kinds could have a negative impact on later development."

You make mental note of what she said. As you press your face back up to the glass, your voice is low and more for your own ears as you talk, "I promise you...I won't let anything happen..." As the words hit against the glass you watch as the little filly beings to stir, for a brief moment you can see her eyes blink open at you, they are a soft blue and purple color...you smile big as you stare at her, "Hello Violet..." The little filly's eyes are still half shut but her eyes stare right back at you.

End of chapter 4

Maybers are not always...