Side Effects may Vary (epilogue) (Patreon)

Thanks to the swelling of Amber’s middle going down quickly and there being a full moon that night, the three women were still able to make it home before it got too late. The lights of Mondstadt’s streetlamps had never looked so beautiful to Sucrose as she dragged herself past Mondstadt’s gate alongside Eula and Amber, ignoring the questioning looks on the guard’s faces. Today had been soooo exhausting, both physically and emotionally. She just wanted to go home and pass out for a few days…

A desolate sigh escaped her lips. Soon, Sucrose. First though… the tests…

They made it to Sucrose’s lab with Amber excitedly bounding along in-between Sucrose and Eula. She let herself into the lab and Sucrose was about to follow when she felt a now unfortunately familiar firm grip on her shoulder. “Hold on a minute.”

Sucrose hadn’t thought that she could get overwhelmed again after everything that had happened that day, but Eula always managed to get her pulse racing. She quickly glanced up at the large woman and squeaked, “Y-Yes…?”

The mint-haired woman looked serious, but… not as harsh as she had earlier. “Were you being truthful with Amber before?”

Sucrose blinked. “Truthful? Wh-Why would I lie about that?”

“Why would you-” Eula stopped herself. She cleared her throat and glanced away. “Right. I apologize. You aren’t the type to lie, nor does it seem that you went along with her in the heat of the moment. I just…” Her expression softened. “I don’t want to see Amber hurt.”

There it was. The goodness that Sucrose knew was deep inside that large body of hers. The doe-eared woman smiled softly and assured Eula, “I don’t either. I don’t know if I’ll be able to be what she wants me to be in the end, but… I hope I will be.”

Eula looked at Sucrose for a few seconds. Then she turned and started to walk away. “I’m headed home. Tell Amber good night for me,” She called out over her shoulder.

“...Ok? Oh, uh, right! Good night!” Sucrose called back. She stood still for a moment, confused, then started as she remembered that Amber had gone into her lab alone. Unsupervised. Her tests! Her experiments! Shoot! She rushed inside to find…

Everything was… clean? She looked around, bewildered. The dishes were gone, the trash was gone, the dirty clothes were gone, the crystal Paimon growth was… still there, though it now had a small mustache, monocle, and monster horns drawn onto it in red paint. That’s where Amber was, snickering as she looked at the growth. Her stomach had greatly shrunken down on the trek home with only a small curve remaining of the great belly that had been big enough to pin down her legs earlier. That said, though, it seemed like whatever liquid had generated inside of her belly had had some caloric value since her thighs seemed to be getting cut into by her booty shorts a good deal. N-Not that Sucrose had made a habit of looking at Amber’s thighs before to be able to confidently make that comparison, of course…

“Amber?” Sucrose said confusedly, approaching the Outrider. “Did you…?”

“What?” Amber laughed. She glanced over at Sucrose, then around the room. “Oh, did I clean up? No, though I was planning to do it after your tests. Based on this though, I think the Traveller probably cleaned up. I remember her saying that she was going to drop by sometime soon to check on you.”

A warm, fuzzy feeling filled up Sucrose’s chest. Amber, Albedo, Lumine, even Eula… she was surrounded by so many warm, kind people…

Amber chuckled one last time at the growth, then grinned at Sucrose. “So? What tests do we need to run before we can get you to bed?”

“Oh, right!” Sucrose shook her head. “I want to get some blood samples, as well as body measurements and, if possible, a sample of whatever liquid is inside of your belly if there’s any left. I’m not sure how I might get a sample of that without inducing vomiting, however…”

Amber put a hand on her hip. “I can throw up if you need me to. I’ve gone too far with stuffing my belly a few times before, so I’m, uh, kinda used to it.”

Sucrose's head filled with an uncomfortable mix of excitement imagining Amber stuffing herself so full that she threw up and concern at the image of Amber throwing up. “Uh, n-no thank you. I’ll just make do with the blood samples. Whatever filled you up seemed to have had nutritional value, so it likely should show up in your blood test.”

“I really don’t mind throwing up if it would help you, but… ok!” Amber got closer to Sucrose and gave her a peck on the cheek. The slightly smaller woman felt a tingle run all the way down her spine and she hastily readjusted her glasses. Amber giggled. “You’re so expressive! So, do you want my blood first? Or… my body~?”

The doe-eared alchemist swallowed hard as Amber playfully tugged at the bottom of her shorts, emphasizing how much tighter they were across her butt and thighs. Oooh, Barbatos help her - she was going to have to learn how to interact with Amber all over again. Still… that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing…

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I've taken to doing these epilogues whenever there's weight gain involved it seems, lol. More accurately, I do them whenever it feels like the ending of a fic is taking too long after all the tum action has finished, which happens a lot when there's a post-tum time skip involved, which semi-often has WG or some form of non-tum bloating thanks to time passing, and sooooo... a coincidence is born, lol.

Just a quick little epilogue fic while I get around to finishing the monster girl fic I started during my stream. Enjoy~.