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W-we Need To Talk...

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NOTE: Yes, I know it's summer and I should be posting more. I'll try my best, but sometimes I can get a bit lazy as you all know. Anyways, enjoy some character development for my NextGen characters. Also, take note that I updated Diamond Jewel's design as of recently.


Diamond Jewel knew she had to discover where this unknown source was coming from. So many ponies already this week had been acting oh so... strangely. She rustled around in her bedroom closet. She was lonely, but she never really cared about loneliness. It didn't scare her, but socialization didn't either despite her hiding a secret identity. 

As she was looking for something, anything from her agency that may help solve this crisis, she rustled through Fancy Pants' old photos while trying to search for the book Bon Bon had mentioned, then a photo suddenly fell atop her hooves. Jewel's light blue eyes scanned it thoroughly.

A mare was carrying her in what looked to be a hospital... as a baby? Though, this mare holding her didn't look familiar at all. She certainly wasn't Fleur. Fancy Pants was smiling innocently off to the side of this mare who had long, ringlety purple curls and had completely white fur. Her eyes were closed, so Diamond couldn't necessarily compromise her entire features, but out of the corner of her eye she saw a part of a diamond which was definitely a part of her cutie mark. 

"Who is this mare...?" Diamond though aloud, scratching her chin. "Why does she seem so familiar? Why is she holding me instead of... Fleur... FLEUR ISN'T MY REAL MOTHER!!!!!!!!!" Diamond gasped. "H-how... h-how could he... I may not be all that fond of mother, but I m-might be a product of CHEATING?!?! How am I supposed to react to this?!?!" Diamond fell to the ground dramatically and stood straight back up as soon as she'd fell. 

"That wr-wretched LIAR!!!!!!!!!" Diamond yelled. "I'm going to give him a piece of my mind for hiding this from me for so long! Rrrgh!" 
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Fancy Pants in the meantime had been socializing with Fleur and some other elites.

"Fancy, punch please." Fleur demanded.

"Yes, dear," Fancy hovered the punch bowl over with his horn and hastily poured the red liquid into Fleur's glass.

"Cheers to a bright New Year, everypony!" Fancy announced.

"Cheers!" Everypony shouted back, clinking their glasses from Fancy, to Fleur, to one another, and so on. 

After a long, silent pause, Jet Set decided to strike up a conversation. "So, Fancy... how'd you get your snoopy, clingy filly to back away from this party?" He laughed.

"Yes dear, that little filly follows you two wherever you go. How come she isn't here?" Upper Crust added.

"O-oh... well Fleur and I managed to get somepony brave enough to babysit her! Isn't that right, Fleur?"

Fleur answered not by talking, but by snuggling into Fancy and making bedroom eyes at him which made him stammer quite a bit.

"U-uh th-that's not necessarily an answer, but I'll take it since my wife is a real cuddler here! Hehe..." 

The other elites around him continued laughing at his embarrassment. Fleur was a very clingy mare quite similar to their youngest daughter, Belle de Reine, but Fleur was still very resourceful despite marrying and loving Fancy for his riches and for where he stood in society. 

It was a very quiet and peaceful evening, that is... until someone had to always interrupt. "YOU!!!!!!!!!!!" A voice shouted from behind.

"Oh, speaking of daughters, your eldest one is here now apparently, Fancy. It's a simple shame she couldn't show up earlier though, but this still works, I guess." Upper Crust said.

"Why hello there, Diamond, darling." Fancy approached. "Welcome to the party. How are you doing? We haven't kept in touch really since you moved out a few years back."

Fancy could see the pain boiling up inside his daughter's eyes. For a moment, Diamond's throat too tightened up too much to even speak. "Is something wrong?" Fancy scratched his head. "P-please... do get yourself a drink and tell me what's wrong, dear. You know your ol' daddy's always here for you, sweetheart."

After Diamond Jewel returned from her drink, she could only manage to squeak out a few more words. "W-we need to talk..."
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Her father... a liar?! Jewel knew she needed to calm down. Maybe she just overreacted a smidge. Maybe she jumped to conclusions too quickly and the mare holding her in that bed was actually her aunt. But... if that was clearly so, why would she be IN the hospital bed holding her? Why would her father look so tense? Why would her stomach look so bloated as if maybe it was holding something before? Only one way to find out.

Once Fancy and Diamond Jewel had left the Canterlot Garden New Year's party, she took a deep breath and pulled the photo out of her shirt pocket with her magic. "Father... who is this?" 

Fancy levitated his spectacle out of his shirt pocket so he could see it more clearly and nearly jumped when he saw what she was holding. Fancy knew that lying got ponies nowhere, so he decided to tell the truth. "Why, that's my good old friend, Rarity. She's saved Equestria from harm oh so many times and she's one of the most generous, sophisticated mares around."

Diamond was not expecting that answer. Sh-she saved Equestria too? This Rarity mare sounded quite like her so far. Going out of your way to save others from danger, but still wanting to look pretty doing so. However, the answer wasn't quite enough for Diamond. She needed to dig deeper. "Yes, I see. But just why is she holding me in this bed instead of Fleur?"

Fancy gulped and started to sweat more rapidly. He knew she needed the truth. She was a young, independent mare afterall. She was no filly anymore and Fancy knew it was time for him to come clean. He sighed. "I-I really didn't want it to come down to this, but I also do not want to lie to you either. Diamond Aquarius Jewel... I don't want you to take this the wrong way... b-but... b-but... you were an accident."

Diamond gasped. "PARDON?!"

"Y-yes... I ... Rarity and I are just good friends... with benefits. W-we were drinking oh so recklessly and carefree. We hadn't known what would be in store for us that night. Rarity and I had gotten so drunk I guess that w-we weren't even thinking."

Diamond Jewel's mouth hung wide open in shock, not sure how to respond, but Fancy continued and ignored her faulty expression.

"And when I realized that I had gotten your real mother pregnant... I was scared, I was devastated. But strangely... happy. I didn't know what would happen to my reputation if ponies found out what I had done due to recklessness. I was simply mortified. So... Rarity decided to put this behind her and to never drink again. I also didn't drink for a long while after we had you. I'm terribly sorry I didn't tell you earlier, Diamond Jewel. I truly am, but... I am... I am very ashamed to this day of what I've done even if it was an accident between two good friends and even if this accident did indeed create something quite special." Tears started trickling one by one down Fancy's face. 

After a few minutes sat in complete, utter silence, Fancy decided to speak up once more. "I understand if you dislike me for this... I really do. But don't just sit there and say nothing!"

Jewel turned around and sighed. "I'm sorry... this is just a lot to take in. But... I do have some questions and I need you to answer them VERY honestly, father." 

"Of course I will, dear! Of course! I love you far too much to deny."

"Alright then... first off, why haven't Rarity and I ever met? Why didn't she want to help raise me? Didn't you say she was generous?"

"Why, yes, she's very generous of course. Like me though, she was very grief stricken and ashamed by this. She loved you dearly, I assure you, but after she'd had you, she realized it would be quite hard to make time for a baby, her friends, her sister, saving Equestria, and managing all three of her magnificent boutiques all at once. She designs and makes all the clothes there, afterall."

"But... couldn't her friends or other coworkers help her? Why couldn't she at least make time to come and visit me if you and Fleur agreed that you'd raise me?" Diamond asked.

Fancy was taken aback by this. "I-I'm really not sure... that is a great question, but I do believe that Rarity was... a bit ashamed because of you. It's not like she doesn't love you... or anything. You were just far too young at the time to know what had happened... a-and-"

Diamond angrily stepped in closer to her father while biting her lip. "You could have at least introduced me to her as your FRIEND!" 

Fancy sighed. "I-I'm terribly sorry I didn't earlier... we could still see her right no-"

"I THINK I'm good!" Diamond interrupted. "I'm sorry for my poor manners, but I feel I at least would have had a right to have met this mare earlier. Another question, however. Were you and Fleur together back then? If so, how did she react to this?"

Fancy didn't know how to react to his daughter's boiling anger. "P-please... calm down! I hadn't meant for this to happen. Rarity not visiting was out of my control, honest."

"You DIDN'T answer my other questions!" 

"I-I'm terribly sorry, Diamond, dear... but you have to understand this was out of my-"

"CONTROL? I know. But you still didn't answer my other two questions."

Fancy sighed and after a few awkward seconds of silence and Diamond angrily glaring towards him, Fancy spoke. "Fl-Fleur and I w-were together back th-then... she was very mad once she'd found out. We got back together a few years later, however, and tried to forget about the whole mishap. We tried raising you as our own and I figured I'd had you convinced that Fleur was your own mother."

Diamond took a deep breath and answered. "I see. But one more question, I promise, and I want you to answer honestly..."

"But of course."

"Why... do you love Fleur?"

"Well... Fleur is a very courageous mare, indeed, but Canterlot Elite ponies don't necessarily marry for love, dear. It is either for wealth, reputation, or more likely, an arranged marriage. Fleur used to be apart of the royal guard, a very special mare indeed, but quite spoiled too. She was the only female sibling in a family of boys and her mother believed that if there's only one girl, she shall be spoiled. I don't necessarily agree with that logic, but I do believe despite Fleur being a bit of a jerk from time to time that she is one special mare... and so are you, my dear." 

Diamond huffed. "Very well... however, I do believe that rule for Canterlot ponies is just plain silly! Love should be free! You don't have to love her."

Fancy's random smirk immediately disappeared beyond the sunrise. "Are you just saying this because you never liked Fleur?"

"S-sort of... but I also do believe love should be free. I'm sorry that this was so sudden for you, father and I'm sorry you had to share this with me all at once, but I do have a right to have known about this sooner! Just one more question, p-please..."

Fancy sighed. "ONE more."

"Do you REALLY love her?"

"Diamond Jewel, I..."

"Do you REALLY, TRULY love her?!"

"I-I... I..."

"Fancy!" Fleur shouted from inside the gardens. "What are you doing? Get back in here! The party is almost over!"

"... I have to go." Fancy held his head down and craned his head slowly back up towards Fleur. "Coming, dear!"

Diamond sat alone in silence with the crickets of the night chirping about. It was indeed a lot for her to take in, but she felt her father should have informed her of this earlier. Though Diamond knew deep inside the pit of her stomach that she needed to figure out what Bon Bon was trying to warn her about, she also knew her real family was just as important, if not more. She knew Fancy would not want to spill anymore...

She knew who she needed to find. 
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JellyJams12's avatar
Woah.

That's a really interesting backstory!

And... what is BonBon warning her about? XD I'm probably an idiot for not knowing