A click ran out and darkness covered the room.
Twilight Velvet let out a sigh and with a soft smile, she walked through the dim corridor, only lit by the light, escaping the bedroom. While enjoyable, this day had been taxing on her nerves. Learning that a princess was suddenly visiting was tough enough, but then finding out that the same princess was now in a relationship with her daughter was... well... against most odds.
But she had made it through the dinner with only very little loss of dignity (once you turn into a plant, you get mellowed out a bit) and now, she would just roll up in bed and relax.

With a soft push, she opened the door to her bedroom and stopped dead in her tracks.

"NO!" she said loud and firmly.

Her husband, surrounded and partially covered in rose pedals, scented candles, jello shots and a record player with Prairie White running in the background, spit out the rose between his teeth. "Come on, dear, after such a stressful day, we both need a bit of unwinding."

Velvet's eyes narrowed. "Oh, I completely agree, honey." she answered in a deadpan voice "But I have the slightest suspicion that your desires are not matrimonial in the slightest."

"Whatever do you mean?"

"Well, honey, I think you do not so much desire your wife as you desire obtaining a cap-trick!"

"Hat-trick." Nightlight corrected.

"Whatever it is called, I am not going through months of pregnancy again, just because YOU want to write *I sired the lovers of 3 alicorns* onto your tombstone! Celestia, we are too old for stuff like that!"

Nightlight shook his head. "No, we are not! See!" he floated a notebook and a quill up from beside the bed. "I did the math. We may be a bit late, but I still get it up without help and you should be fertile for years to come."

Velvet's eye twitched. "Could you PLEASE be less honest about this?"

"Oh come on! I am sure that Princess Luna feels lonely! This is for the sake of Equestria!"

"IT HAS NEVER BEEN AND WILL NEVER BE MY DUTY TO THE CROWN TO PROVIDE THEM WITH SPECIAL SOMEPONIES!" Velvet screamed loud enough to blow several rosepedals off the bed. "IF YOU WANT TO HAVE ANOTHER ONE, YOU GET PREGNANT!"

Nightlight sighed. "I looked through Twily's old spellbooks, but I just can't find one that can change our genders. And I wasn't sure if you were ok with getting an operation. And I don't think that-"

"HONEY! COUCH!"

"But..."

"COUCH, NOW!"

Author's Note

Insert after the recent Phase (Nine) of Between Day and Night.

Everyone who knows what Abridged Series I am referencing is as sad of a nerd as I am. ;D