"Come on Eris, let's not bother Twilight anymore than we need to" I said, gently pulling on her tail
"Pffft, it's not my fault she can't take a joke" She whined, pulling her tail out of my grasp
"I don't think flooding her basement with chocolate milk counts as a joke"
"I cleaned it up right after, jeez"
"Yeah, with a hockey puck and a paint roller"
"You know what?" She snapped "I've had it up to here with you and your- no, nevermind"
"Are you alright?" I asked
"Yeah...I'm just perfect...let's go back home"

Eris, Screwball, and I walked back to our house- once Screwball was in her room, I went up to Eris's

"Hey" I said, knocking on the door
"What"
"Are you okay? You sounded pretty ticked out there"
"I don't want to talk about it..."
"I'm sure you'll want to eventually, might as well get it out now"
"No..."
"Do you at least want to-"

"Shut up! I don't want to talk about it! Don't you understand? Go away!"

Her outburst took me by suprise, and figured she'd come to me when she was ready, so I left her room and sat on the couch

"I heard shouting, is everything okay?" Screwball asked, coming down the stairs
"As okay as it'll get in this house...yeah, I was just talking to Eris"
"Did you ask her out?"
I sighed and leaned back on the couch
"Your eyes might fall out of your head if you keep rolling them like that"
"Screwy, this is serious, I think Eris is taking this harder than she's letting on"
"Oh really?"
"Screwball" I warned
"Fine" She moaned "What's up?"
"Do you know anything that might cheer her up?"

She opened her mouth

"-and don't you dare say 'chaos'"

She closed it

"Well...there is one thing..." She said with a grin
"I dare to ask- what is it?"
"Go ask her out"
"Why are you so set on getting us together?"
"Maybe it's because I care for my sister"
"Really? Well that's really swee-"
"-or maybe I want to wreak a little havoc"
I groaned and got off the couch
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Please don't go!" she cried, pulling my pants leg

I stopped as soon as I reached the stairs
Sighing, I turned and knelt down to Screwball's level
"Do you really think I'd leave you two?" I asked softly
She bit her lip
"We've had a few...foster families before..." she said
"That's right, you two were on your own for a while there"
"Yeah...anyway- those ponies didn't really love us, they were just too afraid of what we might do to them..."
"I can only imagine what that feels like-"
"-but we were only havin' fun! Honest! We never hurt anyone! Ask Daddy or Eris!"
"I know...I believe you" I said, picking her up
"Y-you do?"
"You've never given me a reason to doubt either of you, so yes, I believe you"
She wrapped her hooves around my neck and I heard her sniffle
"So...do you know what you want to do now?" I asked
"I think, you could ask her out"
'Not this again'
"Just hear me out- she really does like you, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for you to help her out"
"*Sigh* I'll go ask her, but I doubt this'll be enough to get her through whatever it is she's going through"

I walked up the stairs and hesitantly knocked on Eris's door

"Go away!" She shouted
"Eris, you don't have to talk, I just want to ask you something"
"No!"

Against my better judgement, I pushed the door open.

As soon as I did, I felt something collide with my head

X

"Accord?" I asked "Accord, come on"

No response

"Accord, get up!" I shouted "Quit fooling around!"

He didn't move

"Accord, this isn't funny! I mean it!"

I floated towards him and shook him

"Get up! Get up!"

"What are you shouting for?" Screwball asked, peeking in "*Gasp* You killed Accord!"
"N-no, I didn't, he's still breathing!"
"We need to get him to the hospital!"
"I know! I know!"

I grabbed Accord's limp hand, took Screwball by the hoof teleported out of the house

X

"I need a doctor! He's hurt!" I shouted as we materialized in the waiting room

Two doctors and a nurse burst out of the hospital with a gurney
They lifted him onto the gurney and carried him back to chaos-knows-where

A nurse trotted up to us
"I-I-I need y-you to f-fill out th-these forms p-please"
I grabbed the clipboard in her mouth and wrote on it with my claw

Name- "Accord"
Date of Birth- "Unknown"
'Have to ask him about that later'
Occupation- "None"

I continued filling out the forms and handed them back to the nurse

After hours of waiting, Twilight and her friends trotted into the waiting room, with their elements on of all things (what a big suprise)

"Eris, what did you do?"
"I did something really, really stupid Twilight"
"Really, really, really stupid" Screwball interuppted
"What did you do?" She asked again
"I-I- was mad at- at Accord and- and- I hit him! I hit him wi-with a sn-snowglobe!" I said, burying my face in my hands

None of them said anything, even Screwball was silent

"I'm- I'm such an *hic* idiot, I should have just- just talked to him"
I was in tears by now, I may not have realized it before, but Accord had really grown on me and darn it, I wasn't about to lose him now.

I felt someone wrap their hooves around my arms and held tight
I looked up from my palms and saw that someone was Screwball
"He's going to be okay, sis, he's come out of worse dealing with us"
"Th-thanks" I said, hugging her back

I stood up and little miss magic and her friends were all bewildered
"What? You've never seen siblings have a moment?"

Twilight and the others looked to each other, then back at us
"I guess you really have changed; not a whole lot, but it's there"
"Th-thank you...Twilight"

"I still don't trust either of you!" Rainbow-mane said
"I wouldn't expect anything less, you're the Element of Loyalty"
"You just watch your step!"

I just sighed

"You just think it's easy, don't you? To change, just like that? Don't you think we want to be able to go out and have a little fun without everone running in fear? That we actually like to be ignored and hated? You know, I actually wanted to hang out with you- I thought you all were as nice as everyone says you are. Us? Oh, we're evil just because of who Dad is- and we want to change- we really do- but do you see how much we've tried to change? No! You just keep harping on the fact that we're different! Well live with it! I may be trying to learn all about harmony and everything, but that won't stop me from giving you a good slap upside the head- and if you still think I don't care about anyone but myself, I am proud to say I'm good friends with Accord, who's probably in surgery by now, you can just freeze us right now and save yourselves the trouble of doing it later"

Rainbow-mane's jaw was on the floor
Everyone was silent, until Sparkly spoke up

"Eris...we're so sorry, we had no idea-"
"Stop it- just, save it, I'm going to check on Accord"

I floated towards the nurse's window, Screwball following

X

Screwball and I sat in Accord's hospital room, watching him while he was recovering from the treatment the hospital staff had given him.

'Celestia, if you can hear me, please, please, please, just let Accord pull through this- I know I don't deserve to ask anything of you- but, I just don't know any more...'

I looked to Screwball, sleeping on Accord's chest

'...let him pull through? Please?'

A/N: Hope you enjoyed the chapter, don't forget to R&R, and please check out my other stories if you want to.