Anna was cleaning the house top to bottom today, floor to floor of her humble Ponyville abode. It wasnt exactly dirty, only having 2 ponies living in it, but being the perfectionist she was, Anna wanted to make sure their wasnt a speck of dust. Downstairs, she cleaned the entire kitchen. Wiping down the appliances, scrubbing the counter, and cleaning kitchen table in which she recently drank the coffee that got her on this kick. As she got upstairs, it moved onto the cleaning out her wardrobe, making her bed very nice, and even cleaning the bathroom (which she dreaded).

Anna wasnt too far from done; the young Pegasus was onto her sons room. It was simple; she just had to clean the crib and changing table. As she worked she thought about her little boy, and if hed appreciate the fact that she was cleaning so well in her. Where in the world was her son, anyway? His name was Zeus, a little toddler she loved more than anything. Afterall, Anna was a single mother after a dramatic departing of the childs father. Zeus was all she had, but how could she forget about him?

She chuckled, little Zeus was sleeping on the rug in her room last time she checked, like a little pup. It had been awhile since she cleaned her room though, and she knew silence was a mothers worst enemy with a toddler! He was a mellow little guy, that she doubted would cause any trouble in the short absence, but Anna stopped what she was doing just in case.

As she headed into her room, Zeus was no longer on the rug.

Zeus? Anna called

At that moment she heard something in her closet. She followed the trail of hangars, shoe boxes, and the dress shoes that were neatly in them, and found Zeus diapered bottom sticking up our of a pile of all sorts of things that were once neatly in her closet! Anna sighed, he was only a baby But when he poked his head out, she gasped.

Zeus looked at her, and Anna looked directly back at him. There he was, wearing a hat she was very well acquainted with. He sat down, bowing his legs out, and giving her a look as if he did something wrong but Anna wasnt mad. This mysterious hat was much bigger then Zeus head; and that was because it belonged to someone that was much bigger than Zeus! It would even look a little goofy on her head, if she was to wear it. This was his fathers hat, one he wore nearly everywhere before it was left behind in the wreckage. That wreckage was the night after all the abuse, sadness, and pain related to Anna and her husbands (Zeus father) final fight. After this fight, the stallion she once loved left the home they once shared, leaving behind nothing but the hat Zeus wore now.

Some ponies would panic, taking the hat and stomping on it after the sadness they had endured as if that would help them fight it. Anna didnt do that, even as she sat there and watched that stallions child wear something that symbolized him as a whole. Zeus looked so much like him too, so handsome, with a coat that matched his almost identically. But as that foal looked back at Anna, he looked back at her with the blue eyes that she knew as a key feature of herself. Those eyes were what stopped Anna from taking the hat.

The mother approached her son, who still sat there clueless. She lifted the hat off his head and placed a hoof on his head. After rustling the little guys mane, she put the hat back down straight with a sad, but accepting smile.

Thats a nice hat, Zeus, I think you should keep it