I watched as Scootaloo sat alone crying. This happens a lot after two school yard fillies bullied her; she'd put up an act until she found some alone time where she could just let out all of her emotions, and it'd never fail to bring tears to my eyes. I wanted to fly down and support her so much, but she didn't deserve that, not after what I had done.

You see, I'm that little filly's mother, who gave her up to the orphanage. I wanted to keep her so bad, but my reputation as Rainbow Dash, Cloudsdale's best solo flier would be put at risk. I was so young when it happened; only fifteen years of living and I had become a mother because me and some colt wanted to mess around. Now in my mid-twenties, I've realized that I should have dropped my reputation and raised her myself.

Yeah, now that you know who I am, you're probably wondering how I can be the mother of Scootaloo since she doesn't really have any of my colors. You see, she gets her looks from her father, but I managed to give her a color other than that hideous shade of blue in HIS mane. Come on, guess who the father is, I've given you plenty of hints; orange coat, blue mane, Pegasus, need I say more? You all know him even though he's only ever shown his face once or twice. If you haven't guessed yet, you're an idiot; the colt's name is Flash Sentry.

Anyway, back in this sad reality, Scootaloo has fallen asleep inside the Cutie Mark Crusaider's club house. I sighed and flew down to her before gently picking her up and placing her on my back, opening my wings to make sure she didn't fall off. Walking the entire way, I went to Applejack's house.

"Rainbow..." Applejack stared at me when she opened her front door.

"What?" I sniffed, okay, I may or may not have been crying quietly during my trip to the Apple family's house.

"...you cant do this forever" Applejack sighed as she let me in, "I don't think your body can take it."

"I know" I agreed, "but what do you suppose I do? She doesn't deserve a mom like me."

"I think you'd make a great mom, RD" Applejack assured, she was the only one of my friends that I had told about Scootaloo, "but since you've seemed to make up your mind, I wont bother you about it."

"I know" I repeated, carefully handing my daughter over to Applejack.

Applejack took Scootaloo up to Applebloom's room and put the filly to bed before coming back downstairs, only to see me curled onto the couch, sobbing as quietly as I could manage.

"Oh Rainbow" Applejack mumbled before trotting up to me, "look, I know you don't want Scootaloo to find out about your relationship the hard way, but at least tell Twilight about this. She's the smartest pony we know, she might be able to give you some advice."

"You think so?" I wondered hopefully.

"I know so. And if you're worried about the secret spreading, don't; Twilight can keep a secret" Applejack assured.

I thought about it for a second before nodding, there wasn't really a way this could go badly; Twilight is the princess of friendship, she wouldn't exactly abandon a friend in need.

Applejack smiled slightly before writing a note for Scootaloo and following me out the door to escort me to Twilight's crystal castle, which actually looked a little demonic in this light...I blamed that on my sudden unknown nervousness.

"You alright RD?" Applejack asked after she knocked on the large crystal door, I guess she knew full well that I wouldn't have a breakdown in public.

"Yeah, I'm fine" I smiled, I had no idea what my nervousness was about, but it was nothing compared to what's been happening lately so I decided to ignore it for now.

Twilight opened the door and let us inside, where she lead us to her library; one of her favorite rooms simply because it was so full of books that it made the room three times smaller.

"So, why the sudden visit, girls?" Twilight wondered.

"RD has been feeling a little down, she wants to tell you why" Applejack explained for me, giving me something to start off with.

Twilight looked at me, worried.

"It's about...my daughter" I began, a look of surprise crossed Twilight's face, but she let me continue, "...Scootaloo."

Chapter 1. Yes, I ended the first chapter with a cliff-hanger, what'cha gonna do 'bout it? Because I hope you plan on reviewing. I am very eager to write this story, as I have been in such a good mood lately that I want to write about depression ^.^

Yeah, I have no clue how that works out, but here you go.