Chapter 66 - The Truth

"So what?"

"Chara, for goodness sake. She was manipulated. I told you what Observe said."

"Yeah. Her only influence was her mom. Her dad was brainwashed probably from the beginning."

"And she tried to-"

"She knew what she was doing was wrong and stopped. You saw the video!"

"Oh so the fact she realized it after putting Micro in danger makes it all sunshine and rainbows?!"

"Silver, you've been quiet, what do you-"

Diamond opened her eyes slowly and looked around. She was in what appeared to be a living room. Plants towered high and the walls were decorated with masks and spears. Standing in the middle of the room were Spike and a brown haired girl Diamond never saw before arguing. Through a door leading to the kitchen she saw a woman with pink hair working at the counter. On a nearby couch, she saw Silver sitting silently with her shoulder being rubbed by…

"Micro!" She shouted sitting up, the blanket on her sliding off. The gathered group looked at her with varying expressions. The brown haired girl was glaring at her, Spike was blushing a bit, Silver was looking down, and Micro sighed with his eyes closed.

"Diamond was it?" The woman in the kitchen turned to face her. "I'm not one to complain about showing what you got, but…"

Diamond looked down and saw that with the blanket gone, the only thing covering her ample chest was her Lacey black bra. Blushing, she grabbed the blanket and covered herself back up.

"Look at that," the brown haired girl spat. "The Succubus is embarrassed of showing off her-"

"Chara," Micro said. "Please…"

"Why are you defending this bitch after what she tried to do?!" Before Micro could say anything, Spike piped up.

"Because she stood up to her mom and saved him from being controlled by her!"

"After she put him in that situation to begin with!"

"Because she was forced to do it!"

"She made the choice to try and seduce him!"

"She-!"

"SHUT UP!" Micro shouted with a decent application of his Fear skill. He didn't use it too often and he wasn't sure it would affect Chara but it got them to be quiet. A pan flew in from the kitchen and hit him on the head.

"Zecora is trying to sleep right now so how about you keep quiet," Frida growled. Micro flinched at that but nodded.

"Sorry. Anyway, how about we listen to what Diamond has to say for herself before we make judgements? Chara, we can use our ability to determine the truth, ok?"

"What do you mean?" Diamond asked, nervous. "Where am I? What happened?"

"What happened you little skank is-"

"Chara!" Micro said. "For the sake of actually getting through this, please."

Diamond was looking down in shame and Micro sighed.

"After you saved me from your mom…" he shot a look at Chara to not respond. "You passed out. I used an ability I have (he held up a hand to stall questions) to find out you needed...sexual energy."

"So he got you to this house since he knew that my wife and I bang in every room almost everyday so you could feed here," Frida said as she walked in carrying a platter of snack food. She set it on the coffee table before sitting down in a chair.

"You...you mean?" Diamond looked at Micro. "Even after all that you…"

"I wasn't going to leave you there to die," the boy said. "After that though, we had to fight our way out."

"Wha...what do you mean fight?"

Micro, Spike, and a reluctant Chara explained what happened. They left out certain ability details, but made sure she got the point.

"When am I going to get invited to one of these parties?" Frida asked, but was ignored.

"Wha...what happened to my mom?" She asked. Micro sighed.

"We have no clue. She vanished after the fight. We looked for her, but she's nowhere to be seen."

They had found a secret room after re entering an ID to avoid the servants and everything, but even after leaving the dungeon, they didn't find anything. That meant she either escaped, or her master got rid of her.

"So...she's actually gone?" Diamond asked. When she saw the others nod, she started tearing up. "Finally…dad and I…"

The group looked at each other as they saw Diamond crying with happiness.

"She was that abusive huh?" Chara said, looking a little uncomfortable.

"You think?!" Diamond's voice broke. "She made me into this sex demon and told me that if I failed that she would kick me out to be a fucking hooker in order to feed."

Frida looked down right murderous and Micro for half a second didn't know what would be better. Spoiled dying at the hands of the master she serves, or if she were alive and Frida got her hands on her.

"So you were forced into this?" Silver asked. Diamond looked up and Silver saw her eyes. Red with tears and full of guilt.

"Silver...I'm-"

"When you first approached me, was that something you were forced to do? Were you forced to spread rumors about me to stop others from being my friends so I clung to you?"

Diamond looked about ready to throw up.

"My...mother...wanted me to get in good with your family. She knew you were likely to inherit it and wanted an in...but she didn't tell me to spread the rumors…"

Micro felt Silver stiffen. He rubbed her shoulder comfortingly and she seemed to relax a bit.

"Go on."

"Well...despite being rich, I never had a good life really. The few times I did were when it was just me and my father in the house together. Those times were few and far between. When I became friends with you...I wanted our time together to be more frequent, which I felt couldn't happen if…"

"I had other friends…" Silver muttered. Diamond nodded and looked down in guilt.

"What about making fun of Scootaloo and the others?" Micro asked.

Scoots has gone home to rest for the track meet tomorrow and Sugar had no real reason to stay so he left after making sure everyone was ok. They both told him their thoughts on Diamond before they left.

Sugar said he didn't see the worst side of her that Scoots, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie did, so he couldn't make fair judgement. Scootaloo told him while she couldn't see herself or the others being friends with Diamond, she would hear what she told them and judge from there.

"I...I was jealous. They were always close, and while I did consider Silver at least somewhat a friend, I knew it wasn't the same."

"And how you wanted to use me?" Silver asked. Diamond hugged her knees to her chest.

"I...No one every looked at me the way Micro and Scootaloo look at each other. I...I wanted to ruin that. And when you didn't want to do it, I thought you were leaving me behind to so…"

Micro and Chara looked at each other. Micro didn't even need to confirm it with her. Neither detected any lies. Micro was about to speak when Silver stood up. She walked over to Diamond.

"Silver...I-"

Smack!

The entire group stared in shock at Silver as her hand struck Diamond on the cheek.

"That was for ruining any chance I had at making friends for years," Silver said. Diamond looked about ready to burst into tears again when Silver reached down and hugged her. "But you still deserve a friend as well."

Diamond did cry again, but she smiled as well. Micro exchanged a look with the others. Frida didn't really seem to be paying much attention anymore. Spike was smiling at the situation. Finally Chara looked annoyed but didn't want to say anything.

What's wrong now?

I still don't fully trust her, nor do I think Scootaloo and the others would either.

I don't expect them too after all that's happened between them. But hopefully if Diamond truly means it, things will work themselves out in the end.

If she tries anything though-

You will not go looking for an exorcist!

{Written by Twistedphoenix1}

{Edited by SpedaHooves/KenKanekiTheCat/Me}