The Day My Life Continued

Chapter Twenty-Seven

The party was coming to a close. The twins said it was nearly midnight, and they wanted everyone not immediate family or a close friend to leave. A lot of the guests left.

Except in one little room, far above the party, where two people waited.

==DMLC==

"Yes Cookie. Bedtime."

"I don't wanna!" Cookie complained. She fidgeted in my arms, rolling around to escape.

Little did she know I fought a dragon and a serial killer into the same way. My arms tightened around her, holding her in place while I carried her to a bed. She and Lilac would be sleeping in my office while we finished up the party.

Thorax was walking beside me in his Equestrian changeling form. Lilac was on his back, eyes blinking slowly. She probably wasn't tired, but all the sugar she'd eaten tonight was coming in for a crash.

Pity it wasn't happening to Cookie yet.

"There is still party!" Cookie whined.

"It's a grown-up party now." I told her. "And past your bedtime."

"I no wanna!"

"You stayed up late enough for the party already. Your bedtime was an hour ago." I explained to her, while Thorax opened the door.

"No!" Cookie snapped.

I flicked my wrist, changning the room. It looked like my usual office, onnly with two small beds instead of a couch. Thorax moved Lilac to one of the beds, while I continued to drag Cookie to the other one.

"Wanna stay at Morgan party!" Cookie screamed.

"Mama is Morgan, and she's saying you need to sleep." I said before dropping Cookie on the bed. Before she could fly away I jumped over her. Lilac rolled her eyes from her bed.

"That's stupid!" Cookie yelled.

"Don't care. Time to sle-"

"You don't have the same name when you go to Equestria!" Cookie argued, slamming her fists on the bed. "Why does Mister Logan get to keep his name?"

Thorax tensed.

"Where did you hear that name?" I asked her, serious.

Cookie whined. "Nana and Miss Tracy were saying it. Mama I don't wanna sleep!"

"Alright. I won't make you sleep." I lifted my hands away from Cookie. She flopped down on the bed, exhausted. "Just tell Mama what Nana and Miss Tracy were saying about Logan."

"That his name was funny." Cookie answered, tiredly. All the arguing had wiped her out. "That it was the same all of the times."

Thorax sat up. Lilac with him. "Babe, didn't you say your name was different everywhere?"

I nodded, vaguely stunned. "It's...it's supposed to be. Sometimes I say my real name anyway."

"You didn't have the same name when you were...her." Lilac added.

I winced. "That's different too. She...she thought Morgan Spencer was everything good. The name she picked, it was everything dark and evil."

"Couldn't Mister Logan do the same thing?" Cookie asked. She rubbed at her eyes, flopping on the pillows again. "Cause...cause that Seth kid is a bully. If I was gonna be a bad guy, I'd say I was him, so then everybody would go to him but really it was me." I blinked at her. "I'm a-" She yawned. "-smart cookie." She started snoring.

Thorax came up behind me. "Babe."

"Yeah?"

"You adopted a genius."