Author's Note: Keep in mind that Derpy is acting so cruel because of how she has been raised, you would to if you had such a dark lifestyle.


By day two, Doctor Whooves honestly did not know how to feel about this mare who house he was staying in. Last night after she had her smoke and he his shower she had let down some rather blunt if a bit cruel ground rules.

*Flashback*

"One: Don't go for a snack, or eat anything that the two of us are not eating, I don't need your damn bits and we don't waste food in this house, got that?" Derpy growled while holding a bottle of red wine in her left wing as the Doctor nodded.

"Two: We will be stuck in this bucking house for four days, so don't just think you can do whatever the buck you want. If you're bored, go hang out with my twelve year old sister if you must but don't be entering our rooms or shit, you're sleeping on the couch, got that, Doc?"

She sneered as the stallion thought that was fair, after all this was not his house, he had no say of anything but his brown saddle bag and stood up straighter to pay more attention to her as she took a long drink from the bottle before burping loudly and narrowing her eyes at her guest.

"Three: Don't ever, EVER touch my drink or smokes, do that and I'll kill you, I'm not kidding, Doctor Whooves, you hear ME?" She shouted her last words due to being a bit buzzed from the alcohol as the Doctor nodded his head roughly, hoping he does not have a whiplash later for it.

Derpy snorted before putting down her bottle and getting a cigarette from her packet on the kitchen table while the Doctor sat across from her, lighting a match with her tail she lit her second smoke for the night before inhaling and blowing the gray smoke out her mouth grinning darkly in amusement as the stallion before her coughed.

"Derpy, I would never smoke, being in the farm I was, it would have affected my lungs and body to the point where it would ruin my chance at the cherry farm if had had continued such a habit, and besides, it's addicting, wasting bits and health." He answered glaring at the mare that rolled her eyes but did not comment.

"And besides, why can we not just spend a bit of time getting to know one another, we are adults and-"

"And what, you thought you could watch me get drunk then get me in bed and tap this? You stallions are all the same." She grunted in annoyance as the Doctor hated how she just jumped to conclusions.

"NO! Derpy, I meant that we could maybe play some cards, listen to the radio, talk, you know….get to know one another, I'll even have a glass or two of wine with your permission if you don't wish to drink alone." He stated calmly as the mare narrowed her eyes trying to keep her thoughts from the last time a stallion had drunk with her and ended up on his couch with him, she hated being taken advantage of, but it was her own fault for trusting the bastard.

"No, no drinking with me….look, you want to 'hang out' with me, then I guess we can play some cards or some shit, but don't expect me to just start crying on your bucking shoulder as you demand to hear my damn life story, Doc." She said harshly as he could do nothing more than nod.

*Flash back ends*

Doctor Whooves learned that Derpy Hooves was no sad, feel sorry for herself kind of mare who needed a stallion in her life, something about her past would never allow it and while he admired her independence, her way of speaking was a bit to cruel for a normal pony, he wanted to know her, but how could that happen when she wanted nothing to do with him?

As such, with nothing for the three to do all day but Dinky to play in her room, Derpy to drink while listening to the radio about the Wonderbolts re-run races and smoke every two hours or so, and the Doctor to look at magazines about houses or jobs that he would need to look for after the storm was over Derpy got started on dinner early, it being four p.m.

The Doctor was looking at quite a cheap apartment near Sugarcube Corner for only six hundreds bits that had a kitchen, abate small, living room, one bed room and bath but had utilities included with rent, he thought that was very reasonable with him only having one thousands bits and did not find any other better offer in the newspaper when he smelt the amazing cooking of boiled carrots, cabbage in a pot with corn, mashed potatoes and brown gravy being made by the owner of the house, his stomach growling loudly as he chuckled.

"Dinky, TIME FOR DINNER!" Derpy shouted to the filly upstairs who had muffled a reply in return as she rolled her eyes and turned her head to her guest who was walking into the kitchen while she was cutting the carrots on a cutting board with careful forehooves and a short knife then moving to the cabbage, the corn already cooking in the green pot with the boiling water.

Her long blond tail stirring the brown gravy in the pot with a wooden spoon across from her as it then switched to the potatoes on the stove, her wings being very gentle to set three plates on the table to the left of her while she ignored the stallion who stood awkwardly in the kitchen.

"Um….would you like some help?" he asked with a cough as she gave him a blank look before narrowing her eyes.

"Does it look like I do, Doc? Wash your hooves then sit your ass down, you might buck my hard cooking up with your cherry 'skills' but be sure to get three glasses from the cabinet to your left." She mocked with a harsh chuckle as the Doctor frowned but did as he was ordered as he saw Dinky rush down stairs with a crayon drawing in her mouth.

She set it on the table before going to wash her hooves and then sat on the chair after using her forehooves to push her self-up to it and smiled at the Doctor with a proud grin as he got water for all three of them in the glasses, with Derpy's permission of course.

"Look what I drew, Doctor." She said pushing the child made drawing towards the stallion who looked it over with a small smile, it was a picture of her with her sister and two other, bigger and older looking ponies in it with a sun shining above, clouds and a blue sky with it and green grass with pretty flowers below their hooves with two small trees to the left of them.

"That really good Dinky, who is the other two ponies?" he asked softly as the young filly's smile slowly disappeared into a sad frown.

"Our mom and dad…..they died in a train ride to the Crystal Empire two years ago and –"

Her voice was stopped by a loud bang on the table in front of them making the two jumps to see the crossed but angered eyes of Derpy glaring at her sister as she set the pot of soup then mashed potatoes with gravy before them.

"Enough Dinky, it's time to eat so stop letting our guest know of something that does not concern him." She ordered in a dark tone as Dinky broke eye contact with her sister and did not reply.

"Doctor, would you like to say grace?" the filly asked in a small voice as she ignored her sisters annoyed grimace and looked at the stallion with wide, innocent eyes.

He allowed a small smile to appear on his snout before he turned towards Derpy who rolled her eyes.

"Something wrong, Derpy?" he asked with a hint of annoyance.

"Did I say something was wrong? Say your damn prayers with her and let's eat already, I did not waste all this hard work just for it to turn cold." She snapped causing him to raise an eye brow in confusion and a bit of surprise.

"Don't you want to join us?" he questioned as she was about to open her mouth no doubt to swear or tell him to mind his own business before her sister answered his question for her.

"Ditzy does not believe in the gods, she never wants to pray for our meals or before bed." Dinky said in a sad tone causing the Doctor to look at the mare in shock.

"You don't believe in the gods, Derpy? Celestia, Luna, Cadance, any of them, even Discord? You don't go to church on Sunday either?" he asked with his mouth and eyes opened wide.

"No, I don't believe in your damn gods, Doctor, I would expect that you being a stallion of 'medicine' would understand but I guess not. Why the buck should I waste my time praying to immortals who did not do shit as I struggled all through my school years, or watched my father beat on my mother then come and beat on me when I was merely seven years old?

Why the buck should I care about them, when they don't' give a damn about ME!" Derpy shouted with tears brimming at the corner of her eyes but she wiped them away with a hoof and scowled at the two to dare question her.

"Miss…Derpy. I know it's hard to believe but the gods are there for us. Princess Celestia and Luna are as real as you and me, so is Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, we don't have to bow and pray to them but we can at least-"

"Look, Doctor, if you want to tell all that to my sister as you to pray for your meal which I made all by myself and as you go to bed be my guest, but don't you dare try to tell me what I can and can't believe in, in MY own house, understand?!" Derpy screamed at the stallion that backed his body away farther from the cruel mare as he swallowed then nodded.

Dinky near having tears in her eyes as she put her forehooves together, bowed her head and prayed to which ever god would listen to the little filly, the Doctor doing the same as Derpy rolled her eyes and began eating her hard worked meal.

"Thank you Celestia, for this stay, thank you for this food, bless our friends and our family in the gods name we pray, amen." She ended with a small smile then wiped her tiny tears away with a hoof and along with the Doctor, who had opened his eyes, begins to eat.

After supper in which Dinky was washing the dishes as punishment for questioning her sister, the Doctor walked to the living room and saw Derpy lying on the tan colored couch that was his bed, smoking a cigarette as she let out a deep sigh.

He was very cautious to not anger her as he spoke his words carefully "You know, I understand that you don't like doing certain things your sister does being grown, but don't you think you can humor her, she's still your sister after all and only a filly." He spoke softly to her while sitting on the other side of the couch trying to get as much space as he could because she was laying on it.

Derpy opened one eye while blowing out a cloud of gray smoke from the left side of her mouth then removed the tobacco with her tail to speak calmly.

"You don't understand what life was like for us, Doc….you could never understand. I'm teaching her to stand up on her own four hooves, to not be weak and worthless around a stallion like my mother, you don't get what our lives were like….so don't try, cherry boy." She snapped as she rolled over and put her four hooves on the ground, taking one last drag of her smoke before putting it out on an ashtray to the right of her along with the long brown table on which it rested.

"Then maybe I can understand if you let Me." he argued back to the mare who smiled a small smile and let out a deep breathe.

"Don't count on it, Doc…don't count on it." She answered as she went upstairs to get sleep wishing that she could go to work but for the next four days, no ponies could even work outside like her job required so she could not escape her annoying and religious guest.

The Doctor frowned watching her walk to up the stairs to her room before heaving a deep breath and looked at the small, gray filly that had gotten done with the dishes and stood before the stallion with a small smile.

"Doctor, would you mind praying with me tonight, I don't want my sister's soul to go to Tartarus." She said softly as the stallion chuckled softly then nodded, before resting his front hooves on the table along with Dinky, closed his eyes and prayed to Princess Luna for Derpy Hooves soul, he did not know how….but he would do what he could to heal the mare from her dark past and cold, cruel heart, though it would take some time.

After their prayer, Dinky thanked the Doctor and went to bed as he laid on the couch he had ben assigned and with his long blue blanket wrapped around him along with a small tan pillow, closed his eyes and went to sleep, wondering what it was that could cause such a beautiful mare to act as harsh as a timberwolf.