Disclaimer: I, Tiger, still do not own Horseland or anyone in it, however i do own Bethany & Grace Whitney and Riley "Rocket" Anderson. And Sunset, still my pretty pony! you no have!


Sarah's Pain

Chapter 2

Will walked into the ranch house, picture still in his hand and walked to the room where all the others were eating lunch. He slid down into a seat next to Bailey and Alma, "Hey, have any of you noticed how weird Sarah's been acting?"

"You just noticed!?!" Molly asked from across the table, "She's been doing this on this day every year since before we knew her."

"Oh," He shook his head, "Who here knows anything about figure skating."

"Uh, Will?" Alma asked, "Are you feeling okay, Amigo?"

"Yeah," He said shrugging her question off, "I just wanted to know ask a question about it."

"I know lots about figure skating, Will," Chloe said fluttering her make up coated eye lashes, "What do you need to know?"

He ignored her flirtatious actions, "What can you tell me about Riley "Rocket" Anderson?"

"You want to know about THE Rocket Anderson!" Zoey squealed in excitement.

"He was one of the two youngest people to ever make it to the international finals!" Chloe explained excitedly, "He was the partner of the Silver Skater, no one ever knew her name, she kept it a secret, but there's a rumor going around that she's one of the Whitney's, you know, Sarah's family. But anyways, Silver and The Rocket only went to the internationals twice and only competed once. The first time, when they went and competed, they were both only nine and they won the gold trophy! They were skating history, no one that young had ever made it to the Internationale's before, or has since!"

"What happened to them?" Will asked with the dreadful feeling that he already knew how it ended.

"There was an accident, the second time they went to the international finals, they were warming up when part of the sound system fell from the roof onto the ice. Rocket saved Silver's life, he pushed her out of the way, but he was buried under the rubble. the dug him out and rushed the two to the nearest hospital. Silver escaped with only a shattered ankle, she was treated for shock, but The Rocket died the next day, an hour after regaining consciousness." She rambled off excitedly, "The Silver Skater disappeared that day, she gave up skating, blamed herself for what happened. No ones heard from her since. That was actually six years ago today. So, what brought this on anyways?"

"I found Sarah in the hayloft, crying," Will explained pulling the picture out from his pocket, "She rode of on Scarlet, but she dropped this on her way out," he showed them the picture of Sarah and the boy he asumed was Riley The Rocket, "The note on the back is really what caught my atention ."

"B... But!" Zoey sputtered, "That's Rocket and Silver, but that's also Sarah!"

"Man, I was sure she was a Whitney," Chloe said in shock, "I never guessed that she was Sarah!"

"Well it makes sence," Bailey said, "Sarah's sixteen, Silver was ten and that was six years ago. She gets upset on this day, the anaversery of his death and you said Silver blamed herself for what happened. They were getting ready for a competition, right, so that explains why she's always so strange when competitions come around. You see, the story fits! Sarah's a figure skater and isn't her sister, Beth, also a figure skater?"

"Or she was a figure skater," Will said, everyone looked at him questioningly, "Well think about it, if something like that had happened to you, would you get back on the ice. She did team skating, so she'd need a new partner, but who could replace someone she'd trusted more than herself. Imagin if a horse you'd raised, cared for and loved, died, would you want another horse? No, you'd want the one you lost. I think that's what Sarah must have been going through, except, she never let it go. She refused to get back out there, didn't want to face the ice without the one person she trusted to always be there for her." The group when silent, "I'm gonna go find her. Oh and guys, we sould probubly keep this to ourselves, for Sarah's sake."


Sarah was still sitting under the same tree, on the same hill, crying over the same thing, when Will showed up.

"Hey," he said tying up Jimber and sitting down next to her, "you dropped this in the barn."

She gasped as he handed her back the photograph. She choked back a sob and brushed her hair out of her face to reavel streaks of make up on her cheeks, "I... I take it you know what this is."

"Yeah," He breathed, "I know what that is, I know who you were, I know what happened and I know why you're here. What I dont know is why you can't let it go."

"I can't let it go," She said reget present in her voice, "Because I can't forget him. What happened was my fault and I can't live with that."

"Sarah, there's no way you could have changed what happened. It wasn't your fault," He asured her, "It couldn't have been."

"It was my fault," Sarah sobbed, breaking down again and flinging herself into his arms, "If I hadn't been so excited," she wailed into his chest, "If I wasn't so stupid, so hyper, we wouldn't have been anywhere near that part of the ice when the sound system fell! But I had to be stupid and childish, I had to ad an extra spin into the routine just because it was fun, then I escaped with only a broken ankle and Riley lost everything. How could I get back on the ice without him, knowing I was the reason he was gone? How could I forget him?"

Will wrapped his arms tighter around her and breathed into her hair, "You couldn't have known what would happen, you were ten. No ones asking you to forget him, just to move on."

"I don't think I can!" She protested, "I don't know how!"

Will sighed, not believing what he was about to tell her, "Cowgirl, it's time to get off the horse and back on the ice."

She looked up at him, her eyes wide with fright, "I can't!"

"Don't worry," He laughed, brushing her floopy bangs away from her big blue eyes, "I'll be right their with you, we all will be."


So if anyone's reading this, i'd really like to hear from you. I know this was a bit of an abrupt end to chapter 2, but i just thought this was a good spot to stop. What does everyone think of Sarah ice skating?