Rainbows Are For Fillyfoolers: Chapter 7: Need
A/N Ok, so the last chapter was brutal and terrifying. The results were mortifying; the actions were horrifying. Fying fying fying. But this chapter is just plain suspenseful.
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Thanks.
Rainbow Dash hung by her hooves on the fence, unable to free herself. The plastic ties that held her were burning the skin under her coat, and her front legs felt like fire.
She went over the recent events in her head.
She was beat to a wheezing pulp.
She was hung by her hooves to a fence, in the shape of a crucifix.
She was raped.
She was ensemenated.
Her marefriend was knocked out cold, possibly dead, under the weight of a trash can.
Her life was a mass of failure. She had done everything wrong. She was a fillyfooler. She was lonely. She was different. She was never the right kind of pony, and all the things she tried to do were wrong. She didn't deserve a life at all, if this is the message she gets from it.
Suddenly, a moan escaped from under the trash can.
"Aj... can... you hear me?" Rainbow wheezed.
"Ah... Ah feel like Ah've been run over by a... Son of a fuckin' bitch, it hurts..."
"Are you... ok?"
"No, no Ah'm not, Ah reckon Ah broke all mah legs," whispered Applejack.
No one had heard anything. It might as well never happened.
"...What's that sound?" Rainbow heard somepony say from around the corner.
"What sound?"
"HELP! HELP ME!" Rainbow yelled, with as much power as she could.
"Oh my god..."
Rainbow watched two ponies turn the corner: Big Macintosh, and Nurse Redheart.
Rainbow would never forget the look on the Nurse's face.
"Rainbow Dash! What the hell have you done to yourself?"
"It wasn't me, ma'am..." she coughed, "...it was Raindrops and her... friends..." She burst into a fit of coughing at the end.
"Oh, dear, I'll untie you, hon... Are you in pain?"
"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?" Rainbow was pissed now.
"I'm sorry, I just..."
"I'm tied to a fence, and I'm bleeding everywhere..."
"I know, stupid question, huh..."
"HEY!" Yelled somepony from... under a trashcan.
"Oh, Mac, could you..."
"Eyyup."
He untipped the trash can.
He jumped back, horrified.
Applejack's muzzle was clearly broken, her eyes swollen to the size of kiwis, her hind legs tied up above her head. The bones in all her legs were snapped, her joints were bent backward to the extreme. Blood leaked out of the cuts and gashes that covered her body. He also noticed she was bleeding... from her marehood.
"Aj, are you alright?"
"What did Rainbow say?"
"I get it."
"Ah'm gonna shoot that bitch after this is over..."
"Please, AJ, don't think like that..."
"AH WILL FUCKING KILL HER..."
"AJ!" Dash whispered a scream.
"Ok, ok..."
They were rushed to the hospital.
"Ok, Applejack, we're gonna just bandage you up and put casts on your legs. Ok?"
"...yeah."
"Rainbow Dash, we're gonna bandage your legs too, then we'll check your jaw, and then... you said, you were raped?"
"Yes."
"By who?"
"I don't know, he had a mask on."
"Did he pull out?"
"...no."
"We will check that too, hon."
"Thank you..."
She remembered those days in the hospital when she was twelve years old.
But this was different. She was 15, and her body was bigger, and her body had changed in ways she could have prevented if she hadn't been a fillyfooler.
A week and a half later, Rainbow Dash was tested negative for any STDs, and had an abortion that almost made her guilty.
Her jaw had healed, and her legs too. She was still bruised in the ribs badly, so she was due to leave the hospital in three days.
Applejack had another week to go.
She had not healed her legs yet.
That would take months in a wheelchair.
She was also tested for STDs, just in case, and came back negative.
But she was slowly bleeding, internally, and the doctors couldn't find it.
Every time she moved, it was as if she had aged five years. It was hard to swallow.
It hurt to breathe.
It hurt to talk.
...It even hurt to kiss Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Was in the bed right next to her, not a foot apart.
Rainbow hated the sound of the respirator and the cardiac monitor, beeping and breathing, with a running heater vent in the background. But Rainbow sat and watched her marefriend while she lay there, slowly dying, tears forming in her eyes every time she thought about what could happen.
One morning, she woke up to the absence of breathing. The oxygen had run out overnight. Applejack was suffocating.
"Hey! WE NEED OXYGEN! HELP! ROOM 546!"
A couple of nurses ran in, one changed the tank, the other looked over Applejack. She pulled out a stethescope, and put the cord to AJ's chest.
"She's barely breathing."
"YOU GUYS LEFT HER TO SUFFOCATE! SHE COULD'VE DIED!" Rainbow Dash screamed.
"Calm down, she's fine."
"She... really?"
"Yes, it's all ok. Just go back to sleep."
She couldn't. There was no way, after all that. She sat, on the edge of her bed, and watched the backlit screen of the cardiac monitor, the dial on the respirator, even though she had no idea what they meant.
As long as they're beeping and breathing and humming, she's alive... she thought to herself, before she fell asleep, her hoof under Applejack's head, glued to the machines.
Applejack woke up, with the inside of Dash's soft elbow under her head. She was sitting upright, facing the respirator, looking very stressed.
"Dashie?"
No response.
"Dashie!"
She was... asleep.
Rainbow dreamt that she was beating the shit out of Raindrops. She hit her with a rock, a big, heavy, jagged rock, and she was ripping her apart. She was angry, so angry that you could add all the hairs on her body to that of Applejack's and square the result, and that's how many units of hatred she had for this pony.
Finally, she woke up, and looked down at Applejack's shining eyes.
"Hay, somepony's loyal."
"i was terrified."
"Why?"
"Your respirator ran out of oxygen last night. They filled it after I screamed."
"Thank you, darlin'..."
"I'm just glad you're safe."
"Me too." Her pain worsened when she smiled.
The nurse that took care of Applejack walked in.
"Are you alright, hon?"
"Yesum."
"Your breather ran out of oxygen last night, so I filled it, thanks to Rainbow over here."
She gestured to Rainbow.
"Ok, holler if you need anything."
Applejack fell back asleep.
Rainbow Dash looked at her beautiful face.
"Please, don't ever leave me..."