"Have a nice read then?"

Derpy nearly jumped out of her skin as Ethan sat next to her

"Are you going to take me back then?"

"No, I'm training to be on of the scientist units, not a field unit, so I won't get promoted if I do." He grinned "Besides, Lyra has decieded to lay off you for a while, I guess she figures that you won't be of much use, I believe she said that we don't needthe journal quite yet." He gave the mailmare a coffee.

"So what does this mean?"

"That you can go home. Since I'm not responsible for you and your questions anymore I won't be giving you the answers you want."

"Oh." Derpy tried not to sound dissapointed

"But that's for your safety, according to Lyra. She thinks that this is her responsibility,alone. She doesn't want much of anypony in this. She doesn't want you to get hurt. You have a family, and honestly, I think this case is the only thing she's got left."

"What do you mean?"

He shook his head "It's just, as long as I've known her, Lyra hasn't got any phone calls, any family problems, In fact, she is always at R.I.F.T. headquaters when she isn't doing feild work."

"So she never goes home?"

He shrugged "I guess not."

"So does Lyra know we're having this conversation?"

"I wouldn't be surprised." he stood up "I would be careful before diving any deeper into this if I were you, when she thinks something is dangerous then it's bound to be serious."

"So you won't help me any more?"

"I never said that, just... Think about it." he walked off, leaving Derpy alone on the bench

What is there to think about? I made my desicion when I didn't give Surprise the journal.

The pegasus sipped her coffee and looked around the park,everything was normal, just as it should Derpy could've sworn something was different. Maybe it was a scent on the air, maybe it was the temprature, maybe she was just overthinking it, after all, a lot had changed since she had last visited the park with her family. two months it had been. Just a few weeks before she got the journal. They had been there on a picnic, on a warm sunny day. Carrot top had gone back to their house.

We forgot the remembered, as she began wandering around the just after that, Dinky wandered off. The mailmare began to retrace her steps She went to this tree, It was the first time I had seen it. she placed her hoof on the bark Then Sparkler asked about her real parents, but I didn't have any was the only time she ever showed interest in them, ever.

Derpy turned away, Sparkler had lived with her and Dinky for five years, Dinky was three and Derpy needed somepony to be a rolemodel for her little muffin, somepony to teach her how to use magic, somepoony to be there for her when Derpy was at work. So she adopted Sparkler,who had just shown up in the park, lost, confused, and alone. The ponies at the orphanarium where only to happy to let Derpy take her, apparently she was somewhat a trouble child, a snarky little know it all who got constantly into fights. Now Derpy never had this problem, well, she was a snarky little know it all at times, but she wasn't as condesending as the caretakers said she was.

Anyways, Derpy got fired from her job as a real estate agent a few months later (she had one of her"Episodes" and destroyed the house she was trying to sell, didn't go down to well with her boss.) and she wasn't able to keep a job down. She fell behind on her rent, and was about to be kicked out on the street when Carrot top stepped in. She worked at the local produce stall which Sparkler bought the groceries from when Derpy couldn't. She had made friends with the teen and decieded to help out a little, letting Derpy and her family stay at her house. Derpy got a job at the post office and things started to look up. Dinky was at the top of her class, (Sparkler already was, Snarky litttle know it all) Sparkler started to foalsit for extra bits, and life in general was just better.

Then Derpy got the journal. Now she couldn't see where this was going, she didn't know what was happening, much less what would happen next. Oh well.

After a half an hour of wandering she was at her house, she didn't even realise that was where she was going, but nevertheless,she pushed open the door

"Uh, I'm home..."

Carrot Top was sitting on the couch, Sparklerwas in her usual cair, and sitting next to Carrot Top was an elegant unicorn mare, her curly purple mane flowed over her shoulders in the most ridiclously photogenic way possible to man kind. Pony kind? Probably both actually.

"Mom!" Sparkler launched herself across the room "Where have you been we've been worried sick! Are you alright?"

"I'm fine! I just had to answer some of their questions, once they found out I didn't know anything, they filed some releise forms, took a while for them to get through though!"

"What did they ask you about?"Carrot top asked

"Something called case butter" She could see the mare on the couch cringe

Carrot top frowned" Case Butter? What is that and why is it called case butter?"

"I really wish I knew either of those."

The mare on the couch had composed herself, and extended a hoof to Derpy "Hello Miss Hooves, I'm Rarity,I've been trying ot track you down for weeks, Carrot top just explained what happened, I was about to leave actually when you came!"

"Oh, uh, hi! What exactly did you want?"

"Oh Darling, I have a proporsition for you, I'm sure you'll find it most intriging!"

"What would that be?" Derpy snorted nervously

"I think it's best we discuss this in private."

"Uh... okay..."

Rarity gracefully swept into Derpys room

"So, what do you want?"

Rarity looked Dead serious "Alright, I have a message from Lyra."

"Oh yeah, you work for R.I.F. 't you?"

"LYra wanted me to tell you that she will back off, you won't be bothered by her again, but this is officialy a private case."

"Meaning?"

"That if you are caught interacting in anyway with this case you will be arested by the actual police."

"So the journal..."

"Lyra's letting that go for now. She's seen it, legally there is nothing more she can do."

"So the stuff you guys do is legal

Rarity flicked her mane "Of course Darling, it's top secret, but technically we are a legal authority. Celestia helped found this organization after all. Why do you think we can gain access to almost everywhere by waving these badges?"

"Oh... right..."

"Now I hope you know, this Doctor is wanted."

"What for?"

"Well, of counts that are public,petty theft, Theft, Grand theft, breaking and entering, unlawful entrance of private property, impersonation of fedral agents, damaging of private property, and damging of public property, which includes sugarcube corner now. Counts that are public that is."

"What about non public counts?"

"Part of case Butter, sorry, top secret"

"Oh, right."

"And another thing." Rarity Looked a Derpy "If anything happens to Pinkie, anything at all, then I swear to Celestia..."

"Oh... okay then... uh..."

"Now, I'll be going then, if you have any problems, you know where to find me"

She left Derpy.

Little did she know, Derpy had seen something in the past five minutes.

Something she was not supposed to see.

Authors note:

I am so sorry about that last chapter, I just don't know what went wrong, there were meant to be more Parasprites. And less Changelings. For the longest Chapter I've written yet, It just feels rushed. I'm sorry. I am so, so, sorry