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Your name is Amber Light. It's been a month since the Royal Wedding incident, and things seem to finally be calming down in Canterlot. You're a unicorn with a knack for photography and journalism. That with the combination of your adventurous spirit led you to the very top of the industry, alongside your marefriend Derpy and your baby griffon Harmony. Princess Celestia awarded you the title of Royal Canterlot Photographer, which accommodated you with a place to stay within in the castle, and a steady flow of bits.
 
You start to wake up on a beautiful Saturday morning. You can hear the birds chirping and Derpy's snoring while she's all cuddled up to you. you think to yourself, "Just 10 more minutes of sleep.." With your eyes still closed you feel something crawl on top of you. You slowly open your eyes once more as you feel Harmony's tail gently brushing against yours face while wiggling her diapered but in front of you. She's recently gotten into the habit of climbing out of her crib, but you have no clue what you can do to prevent it from happening at this point.
 
You stretch yourself and let out a big yawn, during which Harmony tries to put her tail in your mouth. Which she manages to do, making you spit it out. You try to spit out the fur in your mouth as you sit up in bed. Harmony starts chirping "Mommy!" over and over. You pull back her diaper and take a look to see its clean. Seems she just wanted to play. You turn to Derpy to see her face buried in her pillow and her butt up in the air. Harmony starts bouncing up and down on your lap to get your attention again.
 
Lifting Harmony up off her feet, you get out of bed and carry her to the kitchen. She starts wiggling around and squirming as you do so. You sit her up in her high chair in the kitchen which makes her a bit grumpy, but the grumpy face quickly fades away as you take out a cup of mushed earth worms, laying it in front of her for her to dig into.
 
The pile of unsent mail seems to of thinned out lately since you've been helping her find out where she's supposed to be sending the mail. Now it's just the usual on the kitchen counter. Some fan mail, a few newsletters and an update on available work for Celestia.
 
Opening the monthly letter from Celestia, you skim through it to figure out what needs to be done. Apparently later tonight it's Princess Luna's Birthday, which is supposed to be a small get together that Celestia would like you to photograph. A week from now it seems there's going to be a big fire works display to celebrate the accomplishments of Starswirl the Bearded. Also, Princess Celestia will be attending a Canterlot Family Day picnic tomorrow.
 
You look towards the fan mail and news letter after you finish reading the update when you hear a loud crash. Turning back you see the bowl on the floor and the earthworms spilled, along with a certain Griffon who's trying extremely hard to look innocent.
 
You reach to your side to grab your camera off the counter and snap a picture of Harmony before picking up the bowl off the floor. Wiping the floor clean with a towel you use your magic to float the bowl into the sink. It's going to be sometime until Princess Luna has her party, so you figure you might as well prepare some breakfast for Derpy before she gets up.
 
You're not that good at making muffins though, so you're sure she'd love some pancakes. You get the pancake batter ready when you hear the high chair start to rock back and fourth. You turn to see Harmony desperately trying to wiggle out of the seat.
 
You call out to Harmony "Honey, don't do that or you're going to hurt yourself!" You rush to her while shes rocking back and fourth but before you can get there she's already rocked it too far back causing the high chair to fall. Your heart skips a beat as it feels like everythings slowing down. In this moment Harmony climbs out of the seat and along the top side of the high chair. The high chair hits the ground hard while harmony is sitting safely on top the side of it. Harmony blinks for a few moments, and then quickly runs away into the living room afraid of being scolded scolding.
 
Going back to preparing the pancakes, you slice some apples and slide them inside. While doing so, Derpy trots out of her room smelling the pancakes. Derpy rubs her eyes, "Morning Amber. Watcha making?" You see Harmony sitting on top of back, trying to hide in her mane when Derpy sees the high chair. "also, what's the high chair doin on the floor?"
 
You're a bit annoyed at the moment, but there's not much you can do about that. "I'm just making pancakes, and don't worry about the chair." You use your magic to lift it back up while the pancakes finish. Derpy grabs a seat and Harmony climbs up on top of her head as she does so. You slide her some pancakes and sit down yourself ready to eat, "Don't worry Derpy, I already fed Harmony not too long ago" Derpy smiles up at Harmony who's putting her mane in her mouth while Derpy eats her pancakes. With a full mouth Derpy asks, "Why didn't you open any of your fan mail?"
 
You shrug your shoulders, "I didn't really get around to it." You float the letters up in front of you using your magic. They all seem to be pretty standard, congratulating you on your work on so and so, saying how you inspired in doing whatever they're interested in.Last one seemed a bit odd, and it mentioned something about meeting in person in the everfree forest. While reading further into it you hear Harmony start chirping out "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" accommodated by a familiar smell of a messy diaper.
 
 
"Derpy, you should probably take care of *that*" Derpy sniffs and smells Harmony's mess. She lifts harmony up hold hers in front of her while she walks back to the bedroom to change her while saying "Who made a little stinky? Who made a little stinky? You did!" You giggle and roll your eyes as you read through the letter
 
"I'm aware of your talents within the field of photography Amber. They say you're the best that ever was or will be. For this reason I request your accompiance in recording the results of a ritual that I've been well invested in bringing fourth for decades now. You must come, and you must come alone and tell no one of it's location. I expect you to meet up with me in the Everfree Forest at noon. Your skills will prove a huge asset to us."
Looking through the letter you see the only name on it seems to be "Z"
 
Worried about the letter you figure you should bring it to Derpy to see what she thinks. "DERPY! CAN YOU COME HERE FOR A SECOND?!" You hear a squeal coming from your room as Harmony bursts out the door giggling and quickly runs to the living room wearing a diaper on her head. Derpy comes running after her a couple seconds later, but slows down when she sees you to ask, "What's wrong Ambee?" "Can you just read this letter and tell me what you think of it..?" Handing it over to Derpy, you see her focus on the letter reading it over. She puts it down and you ask "So, what do you think?" She makes a serious face and says, "I think someone should tell me what the words "ritual" and "decade" mean because I'm just confused now."
 
You explain to Derpy, "Rituals are magic that need some ingredients and preparation before doing it and a decade is 10 years meaning that whoever sent this has been doing preparation for something for a very long time."
 
Derpy still looks a bit confused and asks, "Why does the letter want you to go alone then?" You can't find an answer to this question so you just say "Well I can't really answer that one." Derpy then asks, "Well are you going to go..?" and around the same time, you can see Harmony behind her who seems to be jumping up and down on the sofa.
 
"No, I can't. If I was alone I would go check it out, but now I have a family to take care of. I want to be able to raise Harmony with you. I don't care if this person spend forty years to perform a ritual. Right now my only concern is my family. Also, we already have plans to head over to Luna's Birthday Party, so lets spend this day together. Any idea where should we go?" Derpy gets a big smile on her face as she pecks a kiss on your nose. "MMmmm yeah yeah! How about we take Harmony to see the Wonderbolts? They're having a race at the stadium!"
 
You did hear something about the Wonderbolts being in town. So you and Derpy get your saddle packs on and walk off carrying Harmony on your back. Harmony tries to talk as you're leaving the house "Mommy the husgjabe in the za pwace with the poda" you lift her up with your magic and float her in front of you, pecking a kiss on her forehead as you and Derpy make your way down the stairs and out of the castle. "It's okay sweety, just take your nap and we'll be there in no time" you float her back onto your back where she sits down and starts pecking at your saddle pack. Arriving at the Stadium you go and buy three tickets. You tried using your name to get you some better seats, but the underpaid teenage unicorn doesn't seem to care much about your line of work. They're nosebleed seats sure, but the important thing is that you're here with your family. The guards at the door ask for your tickets, so you present them and start walking in before one of them stops you "Woah woah woah, slow down there. No pets allowed in the stadium" Obviously referring to Harmony who's plucking the loose threads of your bag as if they were worms.
 
"Look sir, she's not our pet, she's our daughter, her name is Harmony" The guard doesn't seem to be budge though, "Ma'am, you're a pony, and your pet is not a pony. I was told to not let pets inside. If someone tried to come in with their cow and said it was their daughter, would you expect me to let her in? This is no different."
 
Feeling the anger boil inside of you, you stomp your front hooves as you use your magic to float Harmony off your back and onto Derpy's. Your eyes going red you start to whisper under your breathe as your voice gradually gets louder, "You listen here guard. Harmony is OUR daughter, who we've been raising for 4 months now. She's a griffin, not a PET. She may be of a different species, but she'll be MUCH more intelligent then you will ever be when she's grown. As a proud mother, I will not stand for discrimination, ESPECIALLY against MY DAUGHTER! I paid for the tickets to see the show with MY FAMILY! And if you're going to refuse to let us in to see the show, I'll come down on you with the wrath of a furious mother. Do I make myself CLEAR?!"
 
The guard however, seems completely unaffected, "Sorry Ma'am. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them. If they're not pony, then they're not allowed in."
 
Still completely pissed of you press your hoof against the unicorn guard's chest. "Listen here, you either let us in, or you bring your superior down here for a personal chat, because I am not leaving." The guard seems to remain unfazed, "First things first, you're going to have to take your hoof off me ma'am. Second, Mr. Fancypants is a very busy pony, and I'm afraid he doesn't have time to come down here to talk about the rules he told US to enforce."
 
You keep your hoof pressed up against his chest as you raise your voice, "You listen and you listen good, I am Princess Celestia's personal photographer. I can bring hell down upon you if you dare to refuse my family entry." You start to hear Harmony start to cry from all the yelling as the guard scoffs at you, "yeah and I'm the king of Equestria working a part time job to pay off rent. Now buzz off."
 
You can feel your anger boiling as you're just about ready to cast a telekinesis spell to toss the guard as far as you can.You step back and your horn starts to glow, as you do so however, the guard's horn starts to glow in response to you as a threat. You realize that this can't end well so you end up switching to using a teleportation spell instead. Using a good 90 percent of your magical energy, you teleport you Derpy and Harmony into your seats in the stadium. Your head in a daze, your limbs feeling weak, you collapse in our seat as the crowd stands up and cheers for Soarin who just crossed the finish line while. Harmony is still crying and Derpys head is wobbling around, she seems a bit dizzy as she asks, "Woah what happened?"
 
You lift up Harmony and wrap her in your arms while you rock her back and fourth. She starts to calm down and stop crying but she still looks pretty upset. Looking towards Derpy who's shaking her head to regain composure, you see Fancy Pants up in the box seats above her head.
 
 
You enjoy the rest of the Derby cuddled up with Derpy. Harmony eventually calms down and starts to get into all the excitement around her. However, you did catch a couple mumbles from the people around you, the words "lesbians" and "griffon" coming up more than once. You'd rather not make a scene though seeing how you managed to get yourself inside. The Derby isn't quiet over yet, but you spot Fancypants coming out of his box and starting to walk down the stairs past you.
 
You quickly run from your seat and towards the stairs, "I'll be right back Derpy!". Intercepting Fancypants on the stairs he stops and asks, "Would you mind moving miss? I'm in quiet a hurry at the moment."Please, I just really need to find out what happened to the pet store a month ago and how it was closed down." Fancypants doesn't even seem to try to remember the topic, "I'm sorry, but if I go around answering every random question I get, then I'd never be getting anywhere. Please step aside ma'am".
 
"Well of course I'll see you later tonight at Luna's birthday party then." Fancypants raises an eyebrow, "Aahh, so you'll be attending as well. I'm sorry for mistaking you for someone of less prestige. I'll be happy to answer your questions later tonight if this is the case. I must be on my now." Seems like you can't really stop him from leaving here. You let him walk off as the Derby races have already ended and people are starting to file out of their seats.
 
Heading back to Derpy, you find that Harmony has already fallen asleep in Derpy's lap. "So how'd you two enjoy the race?" Derpy giggles while answering "It was AWESOME! I didn't even know pegasi were able to flap their wings that fast! Harmony seemed to be pretty into it to! Seems like she tired herself out though.." Derpy looks down to Harmony and gently rubs her belly.
 
"Well, I'm sorry we had to go through everything we did to get here. I really didn't mean for things to get out of hand earlier. I just lost my temper because I really can't stand the thought of people treating our family different." Derpy leans in and pecks a kiss on your lips and smiles, "Don't worry Amber, we got in safely and had fun as a family! That's all that matters right?" You let out a small giggle and smile, "Yeah, you're right! It's getting pretty late though Derpy, Luna's birthday party should be starting in an hour or so, so let's hurry on home and get ready!" Derpy thinks for a moment, "Wait what about Harmony. We can't really take her with us if these is going to be a small fancy thing. Shouldn't we get a baby siter to watch over her?"
 
 
"Oh don't worry, that's no problem. I'm sure Twilight's going to go to the party, so all we gotta do is ask Celestia to get Twilight to bring Lyra along. I'm sure she'll be more than happy to lend us a hand!" Derpy seems a bit excited by this plan seeing how she hasn't seen Lyra in a while.
 
You, Derpy and Harmony arrive back home an hour and a half later after telling Celestia about your situation and Derpy's busy trying to brush your hair while Harmony is plucking out the threads of the carpet she's sitting on. You hear a knock on the door, so you open it with your magic. "Come in!" Lyra walks in, still a bit in awe of how big and fancy your place is. You hear her call out "Hey guys!" while she walks towards the 3 of you. She approaches Harmony who's focused on the thread and bends down to her eye level "Well aren't you just the cutest little thing!". Turning her head back up to you she says, "Well I would of never guessed your adorable little kid was gonna hatch from that egg 4 months ago. So you needed me to babysit right? Anything I need to be aware of, or anything special I need to take care of while you guys are out?
 
"Well you do know how to change diapers yeah?" Lyra nods and smiles, "Yeah of course! Me and Bon Bon have~" her voice squeaks off as she stops herself going further with that sentence. "Well anyway, don't worry, I'm great with kids!" Derpy tugs on a knot in your hair causing you to wince in pain a bit and whisper "careful careful.." Derpy brushes it a bit more finally getting rid of all the clumps "There we go!" Now that you two are ready you kiss Harmony good bye and entrust her with Lyra, making sure to take your camera with you.
 
You arrive at the party and see it's just as you thought it'd be. A small get intimate get together. There's buffet in the back, and everything looks pretty fancy. You see Fancypants getting himself some cider, the two Princesses surrounded by a group of people and Twilight who happens to be reading a book, sitting at her table while everyone else is up and about.
 
You see some brownies at the buffet, and you can feel your sweet tooth aching just looking at them. You quickly rush over and pile as many as you can onto one plate, you can already feel your mouth watering just by looking at them. As you're walking back to Derpy with your plateful of brownies, you see Cadence enter with the captain of the royal guards. Cadence walks over next to her aunts and joins the crowd while Shining Armor pulls up a seat next to Twilight and interrupts her reading.
 
Putting down the brownies at the table Derpy's standing by you tell her, "Hey, what are those ponies up to? I had better take some photos from a safe distance, buck this shit." Derpy gives you a strange look, "Amber, you're talking kinda funny." Scratching your neck you pick up your camera, "Really? I didn't notice." Leaving Derpy with a plateful of brownies, she starts to dig in while you walk off to get a few pictures of the famous princesses surrounded by their friends and family.
 
Your eyes dart back and fourth between the buffet of sweets to your camera. Trying to remind yourself you're here as the Royal Canterlot Photographer, you keep off the sweets (for now), and try to get close to the three alicorns. Raising your voice above the chatter to garner the attention of the crowd you shout, "Alright girls, let's get everyone in a nice big birthday picture!" The crowd of 12 unicorns and 3 alicorns are quiet tame, so it doesn't take them long to get prepare for the photo. Several of the unicorns try to strike the pose, while the alicorns stand above them with a sense of pride. Capturing the photo, you take a few more under different settings just to be safe. "Alright, that was perfect! You can all get back to what you were doing now" a dull amount of cheer follows and they return to a game of who can get closest to the princesses.
 
You try to congratulate Luna on her birthday, but it seems she can't hear you that well over all the chatter, and you really can't push your way up close to her.
 
Spotting out Fancypants from the crowd you just took a picture, of you approach him while he's trying to chat up the Princesses. "Hey, can I get a moment to talk about something with you?" He turns around to you, "Of course. I was a bit surprised you actually showed up here. Forgive me for assuming you were lying. So what is it that I could do for you?" You clear your throat as you walk him away from the crowd, "I was just wondering what happened to the pet store that got shut down a month back. Celestia mentioned you would know about it more than she does." He seems to of gotten a bit nervous when he realizes what you're talking about, "Oh, that.. well, you see." He tugs on his collar and thinks for a moment, " Well, that's a bit of a messy situation to talk about here. If you're going to put this in one of your headlining stories or whatever you do, for the record, the store owners weren't able to keep up with rent and that's all I know of the situation."
 
Oh boy is this guy a bad liar. You're not going to let him off the hook that easily though. "Listen, I can tell that there's more to the story than that. This isn't going to go on any newspaper, this is something personal I need to know." Fancypants seems to of recovered his composure, "I'm sorry but I know no more on the subject, no matter how much you insist I do." Alright, now you're a bit pissed off that he's refusing to spill. "You use your magic to float a bag of bits in front of him, "How would 100 bits do in loosening your lips." He scoffs at your money, "I'm sorry but my safety is worth more than 100 bits to me."
 
"Really now, "your safety"? I'll have you know, I bought something incredibly expensive from that store. So, what about me and families safety? I feel I deserve to know the truth." Fancypants seems to be growing a bit impatient, " The situation has nothing to do with you, even if you bought a pet from there. There's some situations where keeping a tight lip is best. This is one of them"
 
You reach into your saddlepack and take out as many bits as you have carried on you, "How does 5000 bits sound? Will that be enough to loosen up your lips?" You can see Fancypants is getting nervous again, but his nature won't let him refuse the money you're offering him, "Alright, alright, listen. The shop was closed down for being involved in the illegal selling of prime species eggs. I'm talking Dragon eggs, Seapony eggs, Phoenix eggs, and even Griffin eggs. Most if not all were stolen, and the trades were done through the pet store, where they'd get some scratch for keeping things on the hush. Things went south though when they ended up selling some of their clients merchandise for their own profit. They were found out and squeezed out of the business." Fancypants uses his magic to grab the bag of bits from you, "If anyone asks, you didn't hear it from me, got that?"
 
"My mouth is shut. Just one more question. Who would I go to if I wanted to track down who was in charge of this whole operation" Fancypants gives you a strange look as he chuckles, "Ohohohoho no, you do NOT want to go dipping your nose there. I think we've talked about enough for tonight . Enjoy the rest of the party." He walks off and resumes trying to mingle with the alicorns.
 
You approach Derpy who's still trying to eat the plateful of brownies you brought her earlier. "Hey Derpy, we need to talk.." She looks up at you with her mouth covered in chocolate. She asks with her mouth full, "Hmm? Whashup Amurr?"
"Well you see, I was doing some investigating and I happened to find out some pretty bad news." Derpy swallows her brownie and listens closely, "Well you see, when we got Harmony as an egg from the pet store, we really weren't supposed to. It turns out that she most likely was stolen from a Griffin family, and was intended to be sold on the black market... if we find out who her real parents are, we may have to give her back.." You can see Derpy start to cry as tears fill her eyes. "B-but, I don't wanna give her back! We're her mommies Amber. We raised her. She calls us mommy!"
 
"I know! I already love her too! But... but her parents might be out there looking for her. Her true parents. If we just keep her for ourselves just like that we will be as bad as the people who kidnapped her." Derpy starts to cry even more while the tears stream down her face. Good thing the party is focused on the other side of the room. "There's gotta be a different way! We can't just let her go and leave her forever! She needs us Amber. We're her real parents."
 
Not knowing what to say at this point, you wrap your arms around Derpy and console her with a warm hug. "There there, don't worry, we'll figure something out. Everything's going to be okay" Derpy sniffles a bit and starts to calm down, "You really mean it?" You nod your head and hug her tighter "Yes, of course Derpy."
Those words left a stinging emptiness inside of you though.. because you know you were lying to her just to make her feel better, when in reality you have no clue what's going to end up happening.
 
The double doors leading to the kitchen swing open as the Chef rolls out a cake of enormous proportions. It was the most beautifully designed cake you've ever laid your eyes, it really just amazed you to witness it. Despite everything on your mind, you can feel your sweet tooth aching again. One pony raises a toast "I'd like to raise a toast for Princess Luna!" the room goes quiet as he speaks, "In honor of the protection you've provided this wonderful land of Equestria night after night, I humbly speak for the rest of Equestria when I say Thank you for all you've done, and we all wish you a happy Birthday and many more to come!" The party attendants clap after the toast, and the waiters begin serving the cake.
 
You give derpy another kiss on the cheek before you take out a napkin and start wiping her face clean.
 
Everyone seems to be seated at their table with their cake at this point so you figure would be a better time than any to talk to Luna. You excuse yourself from the table as you approach the Princess, "Greetings your Highness, I Just wanted to thank you, personally, for inviting me to the party, and that it's greatly appreciated." She clears her throat and you can just tell shes trying to use her 'indoor voice', "Yes of course. It's a pleasure to have you attend, you are the Royal Canterlot Photographer after all! Glad to hear you're having fun!" You pause for a moment, "Just out of curiosity, you wouldn't happen to know anything about the pet store that closed down a while back would you?" She thinks for a moment and shakes her head, "Sorry, but I don't really keep record of things like that. Your best bet is to talk with Fancypants on the issue."
 
It's become plain to see that Canterlot Royalty aren't as informed about what kinda things go down in Equestria as you thought they'd be. "Well I already asked him you see, but it's okay I still wanted to ask you one more thing." "And what might just that be citizen?" "Well I wanted to know your views on a pony raising a Griffon." You notice her start to get a little uneasy from the question, "Well you see.. that's more of a grey area there. We have discussed it before, but its hard to find a definite answer from the various circumstances that something like that may occur. Even more so considering the rarity of cases like these popping up... for now, we're trusting people who are in this situation to use their best judgement until we can come up with a definite answer upon what should be done."
 
"Well, thank you for your time Princess Luna. I think I'm going to go grab some more cake now." "Fare thee well Amber." You walk off from her table and she seems relieved that the conversation has ended. Grabbing yourself another plate of cake, you walk up to Shining Armor and sit down next to him. "Hey there Shining, mind if I asked you a few question?" He gives you a warm smile and replies, "Hey, Amber, right? If I recall correctly you're the one who gave me those muffins after the Ursa Major mission. Yeah sure, ask away." You clear your throat before asking, "It' just a small question. You don't happen to know anything about that pet store that recently closed down by any chance, do you?" He stops for a second to think about it, "Yeah, yeah yeah, that's the... that's the place the royal guards had to raid once before. We got a tip about suspicious activity, but after a thorough search, we couldn't really come up with any evidence affirming the tip we received. That's all about I know though."
 
 
"Oh okay then. Thanks for your time Shining Armor. It's been really great to see you again, but I really must be on my way back to Derpy now." "Hahah, yeah I know how it is. Alright then, see ya later Amber, have a good night" "You too!"
 
Well, looks like going around asking questions isn't going to get you the answer you wanted. Seems like it's about time you took this situation into your hooves, and to do that you're going to have to get them a little dirty. You walk up to Derpy and tell her, "Hey sweety, I'm going to go check up on Harmony for a bit, then I'll be right back." Derpy doesn't suspect anything, "Okey dokey, hurry back and be safe!" She then goes back to digging in on her 3rd slide of cake as you slip out of the party.
 
Making your way down the stairs of the Canterlot castle you start galloping your way down to where the pet store is, trying to remain quiet on your way there. The streets are completely empty. You press your hooves against the glass and look inside to see it's empty too. You try using your right hoof to open the front door, but to no avail, it was locked shut.
 
Remembering that you're a unicorn, you use your magic to teleport you inside the building. It seems like the place has been gutted clean. Except for a few feathers and bits of fur laying around the floor, the place is pretty clean. Walking to the door of the office, you use your right hoof to shake the handle of the door, however this one's looked as well. Teleporting yourself inside you look around the dark room. You use your horn to brighten up the area and see that the office has been cleaned out too. You reach up and search through the empty cabinets and you feel a letter of some sort, but at the same time your magic fizzes out and your illumination spell fades away.
 
You try to teleport out of the office but your magic fizzes out again. You grab the letter you found and head over to the wall. Patting it as you go along trying to find away out. You feel your hoof touch a screen as you pull it down causing it to curl up. The moonlight shines through the window and brightens up the room. Unlocking the window from the inside, you slide it open and crawl out of it. Falling from the window you hit against the fall and get a bit scrapped up but you figure you can just walk it off. Regaining your strength you trot out of the aisle way and back into the streets. Heading back to the party now with the letter in your mouth. You slow down as your curiosity peaks and you decide to open it up while you walk slowly back to the party.
 
"You two bit bastard,
If you think you can steal our merchandise and take off with the profits, you've got another thing coming. This isn't going to be pretty if you keep dodging me like this. You can't run forever."
 
at the bottom of the letter you see the initials "FR" scrawled at the bottom of the letter. Nothing else on the letter. Reentering the party, you see Derpy hyped up on sugar from all the cake and brownies she ate, awkwardly dancing her butt off on the dance floor.
 
Your face blushes red when you see Derpy stick her butt up in the air and start shaking it about. While a few other ponies are dancing, Derpy's dancing is drawing the most attention. You try to dance your way onto the dance floor, and casually dance up next to Derpy. "Hey Derpy, we should really be heading home now to see how Harmony is." Derpy starts giggling like maniac and she jumps on top of you while you're dancing and starts kissing your cheek "I missed you so much Amber!" You smile and giggle, pecking a kiss back on her nose as you walk with her on your back towards Shining Armor.
"Hey, Shining Armor, before I go, I was just wondering if you could answer just a few more questions about what happened back at the pet store." He chuckles a bit, "You're getting awfully nosy arentcha? Don't worry about it though, Celestia told me all about your heroics, so by all means ask ask away. Equestria really owes you one after all." "Well about the raids, do you recall any leads or suspects at the time?" Shining Armor shakes his head, "Sorry, but we didn't get that much intel from the searches. We had strong suspicions of illegal trafficking, and the anonymous tip was all we had to give us the green light to do the search. Everything was clean when we got there though, so all further cases accusing the Pet Store of misconduct were dismissed."
 
With Derpy on your back you say your good byes to everyone and make your leave back home. Luckily the party was only a flight of stairs away from your flat. You make your way to the door and open it up peeping your head inside. You see Lyra lying on the floor with her hair bunched up in knots breathing heaving on her back, while Harmony's running around in circles with a diaper in her beak. Besides that though, there's not much of a mess except for a few fallen chairs, and it seems Harmony ripped up another pillow, but you can't really do anything to stop that from happening.
 
This is just about one of the cutest things you've ever seen so you take out your camera and snap a quick picture of Lyra before picking up harmony and thank Lyra for all her help. She tries to catch her breathe, "Sorry about the mess, I really didn't know what I was signing myself up for" you giggle a bit and hand her a bag of 100 bits "Don't worry, Harmony always makes a mess. Important thing is that she's happy!" Lyra smiles, and gets back up to her hooves "Well, I should probably meet up with Twilight for the trip back home now. It was nice seeing you again!" You give her a friendly hug and return the compliment, "It was nice seeing you to, have a safe trip back home!" She makes her leave as you trudge your way back to your room, but not before placing the letter inside a chest above the first place alongside the elements of discord, placing Harmony in her crib, where she starts chasing her own tail and you fall onto your bed with an overly affectionate Derpy clinging onto you.
 
She starts to bite on your neck playfully while rubbing her legs against yours. "I wanna play with your Harmony~!" While the prospects of "playing" are hard to turn down, you've exhausted yourself today and you're about ready to pass out.
 
"No Derpy, not now, I'm exhausted and Harmony is still awake." Derpy starts grinding her body against yours while she sucks on your neck, "So... I'm sure Harmony wouldn't understand if we did anything in front of her.. and don't worry, I can do all the work" you giggle but you know you really shouldn't despite how much you want to.
 
You try to push her from grinding against you, "Calm your muffin Derpy, I'll make it up to you tomorrow, how about we just cuddle now" Derpy groans a bit disappointed but can tell that you're really not even slightly in the mood. She cuddles up close to your and kisses you on your lips "Finneee~~"
 
Cuddling her back, Derpy starts to calm down a bit and tries to relax. Harmony doesn't sound to be running around as much either. You gently drift to the sleep your body has been yearning for while holding Derpy tightly in your arms. "Nighty night my little muffin." Before passing out you hear her gently whisper "I love you so much sweety"