Previously: when the group of mares lead by Twilight and Rainbow Dash ran through the storm to find Soul Hook and Winter Breeze, they found something else: a tall, scarlet and glad mare named Dots who claims to be Soul Hook's future wife. They join her to the hospital where she has predicted him to be. In the meantime at the hospital, Winter Breeze tells Applejack and Big Macintosh about the infamous psychopath Stud...
Genocidal needs
It was dark and crammed in the closet. She looked out. Was he around? She couldn't tell. Her tiny pegasus wings shivered over the mere thought off that elder stallion. But she had to take a look and see if he still looked for her. The air was thick, impossible to breathe. It felt like a suffocation. Her innocent foal-hoof pushed open the wooden door so she could peep outside, much to her regret.
"There you are, Winter Breeze".
The tiny foal screamed in fear when the adult foreleg reached out and grabbed her. But no matter how much she raised her pitch or struggled, the warm bath waited together with her father. It was just another day, another bruise, another excuse to the elementary teacher when explaining her black eye and sore hindlegs.
The darkness suffocated her...
"Miss Winter Breeze!" Soul Hook called out when his mentor fell to the floor like she'd died. Applejack and Big Macintosh ran up to the downed pegasus mare, wondering what in Equestria happened to her in the middle of the speech. Suddenly she just widened her eyes and trembled. Only a second later her legs failed to support, sending her to the ground while struggling to breathe.
She was still in the hospital. But her brain told a different story in which she was sent back to the horrible house she never wanted to know off again. She didn't see the friendly ponies from Sweet Apple Acres, she saw her father everywhere. The background swayed and fell into darkness as she felt the mean hoof touch her. They snickered, they stared, they hungered for her.
"No... d-daddy... p-please, no..." she whimpered between the faint gasps. She couldn't live like this. Thoughts like suicide roamed freely in her mind, sending messages in how to escape the bitter reality. But once she felt like twisting her own neck, something appeared from the darkness.
A giant scarlet eye and a monstrous grin. The sharp teeth separated to reveal the pitch-black vortex. The mouth opened wide and devoured her whole...
"NOOOO!".
The two apple-ponies flinched when Winter Breeze suddenly flew up. She perspired violently and panted in desperation, seeking with her eyes to see the shocked ponies looking at her. Everything had disappeared with the darkness. She saw the real ponies now, not the images from her foalhood. She looked up and saw the helping hoof being offered by Big Macintosh himself, which she accepted. In a second, the strong stallion helped her up on her hindlegs so she could touch the back of her head. No damages, but a sip of saliva had escaped her mouth.
"Wha... what... happened?" she asked to the none wiser crowd. Applejack shrugged anxiously and Big Mac shook his head.
But once the shrink was standing on her hooves again, the dark purple colt sitting up in his bed slowly widened his eyes. He had broken the indifferent expression and carefully looked at the door. A presence he hadn't felt for a while had come back, engulfing the room like a quickly growing fire through the narrow springs...
Twilight resisted the instinct to shake herself dry before entering the hospital and even after, but when she saw the others behind her shaking furiously for a just a few seconds, she sighed and thought 'whatever'.
After the repeated sessions, the group of fillies and mares walked inside the hospital where they had seen the tall mare skipping into. So far none of them had any too high thoughts about her, but they all had to follow anyways if they wanted to find the other mare and colt in mind. Rainbow Dash didn't hesitate to go first, almost pushing aside Twilight in the process when she landed in front of her. But the lavender unicorn understood her lover, thus didn't say anything as the doors opened wide.
The group looked around inside the large reception room, soon turning their heads down each hallways. Twilight trotted up to the mare behind the desk. She was told the same like Dots, down the left hall, fifth room to the right. Rainbow Dash was quick as always and turned directly to the mentioned hallway. But she only had time to take one step before she flinched in surprise.
A loud scream echoed out. A deep and utterly horrified one who sounded like it was the end of the world. Several nurses and doctors turned their heads to the same room, number five. After the loud voice, a crash sounding like glass breaking into pieces scared them all.
The group of mares and fillies ran down the hallway to get inside the room. But several other ponies had already gathered around the entrance, thus preventing them all to even get a glimpse inside.
"Hey! Get lost, will ya?" Rainbow called out and pushed aside the outer row of ponies blocking her path.
"Rainbow Dash?" a familiar voice called out, flipping up the mentioned pegasus' ears. "Applejack?" she returned and immediately used more aggressive force to get past the crowd.
When the radical filly finally had pushed herself inside, she was met with the oddest collection of ponies. Applejack, Big Macintosh and Winter Breeze were standing in the middle of the small room, all looking at the place where another mare stood.
Dots stood right in front of the broken window, staring with wet eyes out over the open street of Ponyville. She looked mentally destroyed, enhancing the effect by suddenly falling down on her behind. Everypony's attention was set on the scarlet mare, prepared to witness her reaction to all of this.
"Why... w-why are you... running away from... me...?" she managed to say before the sobbing consumed her voice. Tears fell on the small shards of broken glass that had ended up on the inside. Her head sunk to that of a hanged pony's, proving her total disappointment and sorrow. The long, black mane touched the floor around her easily due to its ridiculous length
"What the... what in the name of Celestia happened here?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed in frustration and confusion. She turned to Winter Breeze who actually looked at her in difference from the others. A feather of hesitation blocked her immediate answer.
"I... I don't know. This mare suddenly came in and... and...".
"And what, Winter Breeze!" Rainbow hurried, still furious over the scene.
"Soul jus' suddenly screamed n' jumped ou'ta window" Applejack ended the sentence a bit more seriously than the shrink, confusing Rainbow Dash.
"Wha...?".
"Ah know, right?".
Twilight finally managed to spread the crowd outside the room so she could come inside. "Applejack? What are you doing here?" she asked the same moment.
"Ah jus... er..." she almost spoiled her reasons, luckily nudged by the red stallion right next to her. "Jus... nothin'. Nothin' a'tall..." she then said without any success using her worthless poker face.
However, Twilight didn't have any time to ask what was up with her before Rainbow Dash suddenly pierced the balloon of tension by jumping at the tall mare in front of the window.
"Hey, you! What did you do to him?!" the rash pegasus asked without any concern towards the tears coming from Dots' eyes. But the scarlet mare glanced at the loud filly before turning back to the open air she faced. The facts were true that she just had entered the room and suddenly sent the colt into a state of fear.
"I... I don't... know..." she kept sobbing between each word, attracting Winter Breeze's attention.
"Hold on here... who are you?" she asked which in que triggered Twilight's ears. "Her name is Dots. We met her on the way and she lead us here. Apparently she knew where Soul Hook was and... well, she wanted us to joi-".
"Yeah and she has really weird powers she can rea-" the suddenly appearing Pinkie Pie tried to cut off in vain when jumping up behind Twilight. "Not now, pinkie..." the purple filly said and shoved a hoof into the party-pony's mouth.
"And she claims to be Soul's 'future wife' too!" Rainbow added.
Winter Breeze's eyes flashed wide-open. "Wh-what?".
A total chaos worthy the name of Discord himself broke out in the room when the rest of the group entered the room together with a bunch of nurses and doctors. Everypony wanted to say something but nopony had anything said. Voices nagged each other to no end and kept repeating themselves until another equine entered the storm of words. Rainbow Dash blamed everything on Dots, Winter Breeze begged for an explanation, Twilight tried to talk with Applejack, Pinkie Pie broke loose and disappeared into the crowd again, a doctor demanded that somepony called the guards, etcetera.
But Dots just sat there in silence... crying like a foal from her visible left eye...
In another part of the hospital, far away from the cacophony in room five, a nurse walked to the door into an office she never liked entering. But she had in fact no choice. This was the only place where she could get what she wanted. And once the door opened, her true thoughts unveiled themselves in silence to the source of her needs. She saw him, that doctor out of everypony.
"Welcome, miss Redheart" the male unicorn doctor dressed in a doctor's coat and reading glasses said from his chair behind the brown desk. His indifferent expression while reading the papers on his desk didn't tell anything. It was only when he glanced at the white mare that he felt like changing the expression. Redheart gulped when the dark cyan eyes of doctor Stable hit her from a short distance. "What might be your reason for visiting me today?".
Nurse Redheart frowned both out of anger and nervousness when she heard that self-confident tone coming from the cream stallion with the caramel brown mane and cutie mark of a heart monitor.
"Don't play stupid. You know why I'm here..." she said with the traces of losing her mask. The male doctor looked up from his work, ignoring its calling when the words of his coworker sounded. After the realization, he understood this mare wanted more than just talking. His state of mind changed from concentrated to slightly annoyed.
"Ugh... is it about another raise, miss Redheart?" he asked ironically. The white earth pony mare nodded reluctantly, ashamed of the fact facing her so hard it nearly hurt physically. Yes, she was her for a raise yet again. Doctor Stable leaned back on the chair with his forelegs crossed behind his head, taking his time to scan the fine mare before him. He was not surprised, thus still looking at her a little nonchalantly.
"Lock the door and pull down the blind" he asked of. Redheart obeyed and made sure the knob was locked and that the small window on the door was blocked from all view. Doctor Stable tried to make himself comfortable in this.
"This is the third time this month, Redheart. I don't know how many more strings I can pull to get the medical chief on my side. What's it about this time? Fifty... sixty bits?" he asked while looking in every corner of his lit up room. It was when he finally looked at the nurse again that he understood she wanted more. Thus, he allowed her to tell.
"More like... two hundred..." Redheart said weakly.
Stable raised an eyebrow, certainly surprised for once over hearing such a sum being mentioned. What she asked for was a total of half his own salary if she'd get the raise. He altered some magic to lift off his glasses and sent another source to the drawer where he had a cloth to dry it with.
"Hm... that's quite the money, miss Redheart. I'm not sure if even I can fix that. The other numbers sounded at least reasonable, but even those...".
"I really need those bits, Doctor Stable!" Redheart exclaimed desperately, showing off her true colors when it came to this subject. The unicorn stallion saw the need in her eyes, this was from her side of view not a discussable thing. And he respected that. There would be no unnecessary questions this time like the previous cases. She wouldn't tell him her reasons, they were secret for some reason.
"Alright then. I hear you, miss..." he started off gently right before the indifferent set of lips changed to a devious smirk. "... but this time I want something in return".
The nurse sighed in defeat. "What do you want?".
Doctor Stable had to struggle for his cover. There were several moment where he practically lost it and wanted to go on with the deal at once. But no, this was way too interesting to cut short. His glasses were clean as they could get, therefore put back on his snout.
"You know, miss Redheart... there's an obvious reason for why we medically educated ponies are healthier than others. If our bodies are sick, we can easily notice any normal symptoms at once. However, there are things not even doctors or surgeons can fix. Like for example cancer or a simple cold...".
"Where you getting at?" the white nurse asked out of annoyance. That question just enhanced the flame inside the male. His grin became visible as he leaned forward over his desk.
"Let's say I had a cold, miss Redheart. There once was a Japoniese doctor who thought the best cure for such an annoying virus was the heat of a beautiful, young filly..." he explained without any hinting winks or nudges through the air. Subtlety was his middle name for the moment.
Nurse Redheart widened her eyes. "What the...?! Are you forcing me to-".
"Nopony is forcing you to anything, miss Redheart. It's your choice if you want me to risk my influence by asking for your raise" the doctor countered before his coworker even had the time to end her sentence. The nurse flinched and grunted in rejection, grimacing and twisting her body in a try to get out of this scene.
"I do believe you'll be on the winning end here no matter what, miss Redheart... all I'm asking for is a measly return of favor, after all" Stable continued to bring arguments for why the nurse should swallow her dignity and become his personal play toy for a moment.
The nurse panted a few times, hardly understanding why this was happening. But facts were still facts: she really needed the bits. They were too important to throw away. They were all that mattered right now and nothing else. She looked down on the floor, radiating the gloominess from her sad expression.
Everything for her daughter's future...
The doctor chuckled in satisfaction. "Well...? What's it gonna be?" he then asked, triggering a cue for the earth pony mare.
Redheart breathed discretely as she reluctantly walked up to the doctor behind his desk. He pushed himself away from the large obstacle to create some space, sending him back just a meter so she could sit down in front of him. The nurse already felt her agony when she saw the area she was supposed to work with. Right between his spread hindlegs, she knew that much. Her first act was to use her right hoof to massage the spot.
"Mmh... yes, that's a good little filly" he said when the first pulses of physical stimulation echoed up to his brain. His inner lusts and needs woke up the perverted creation every male pony was born with. Redheart was forced to see it grow due to her touches, behold as inch after inch grew out and hardened from his inner sack. In a moment of smooth caresses, the doctor's personal pride was displayed in full size before the sitting mare.
He was big...
"What are you waiting for, Redheart? Haven't you been taught to get to work asap?" Doctor Stable asked sarcastically and held his erection steadily to bring it closer to the white lips. The nurse hesitated, begging in silence for this to stop here already. But such naivety didn't belong in this situation. The cream male was more than looking forward to his own little private treatment.
His other hoof reached out to smack off Redheart's nurse cap. She yelped in surprise, but truly gasped in shock when she felt the unicorn magic surround the knot on the back of her head. The knot broke into pieces, letting the long beautiful mane fall down over her shoulders.
"That's more like it..." the doctor grinned. "Now do what you do best around here, I'm sure of".
Redheart felt her first tear working up from her eyes. She gave the unicorn male one last look and then focused on the shaft just half an inch away from her. The white hooves that were hers grabbed the base of Stable's stallionhood, bringing the fat piece to her open mouth.
The doctor threw his head back and sighed in ecstasy when the tip of his rod went inside Redheart's mouth. She applied the tongue direct under it and lowered her head down towards the crotch. She felt the taste, that disgusting salty taste reminding her of when she curiously once sniffed on a sperm sample. She didn't complain, she just followed the bargain's fair deal.
She took more inside in her mouth, rolling her tongue around in the process to soak the member in her mouth. It forced her to open wide and separate the rows of teeth to not hurt the hard stuff. Once she felt it couldn't go any further without hitting the roof of her mouth, she raised her head and nearly dropped the thing out in the fresh air. But she knew what this was all about, thus sinking her head down again.
Doctor Stable moaned lightly, really enjoying this beautiful mare's tender work on his piece of male meat. He placed a fore hoof on the back of her head, providing a little help to get even more inside for each bob. Redheart had gained a pace now, quickly sliding the cock in and out from her mouth, massaging and stroking it with her tongue, using her lips to suck the pre-cum flowing from his small orifice. She repeated over and over, doing her best to think of something else while behaving like an experienced whorse.
"A little... hah... m-more, miss Redheart..." the unicorn said and used strength in his hoof behind the nurse's head. She resisted, even whimpered to show her unwillingness. But that kind of answer was of no pleasure to the male. "I said, a little... more!".
She gagged. The force in the hoof pressed Redheart down so far that she accidentally swallowed the whole cock down her throat. She was down at the base, suffering the torturing substance mauling the roof of her mouth. Soak gathered up in her eyes, the pulsating flesh in her throat ached and twisted, turning her gag reflex on so much it likewise could have been an earthquake in her entire oral cavity.
The doctor finally let go of her, allowing the nurse to fall down on all four and cough loudly. Spittle fell from her mouth for a few seconds. They were seconds because she wasn't given more than that.
"Don't quit now. You did such a brilliant job!" Stable stated happily and grabbed the mare's cheeks to put her back to the job. She couldn't fight back, her stomach was already protesting over the brutal oral penetration. But it wasn't like she had a choice in this case. In the next moment she had the whole cock in her mouth again, shoved all the way down her throat and then up again. She could barely inhale from all the saliva escaping her mouth, nor exhale when the hard rod stuffed her again.
Her pathetic whimpers became arousing grunts for the aggressive doctor. He loved to see her sad eyes and grimacing face whenever she nearly threw up and failed to breathe. His appendage felt so good when it truly forced itself down the innocent mare's throat. She really looked like a whorse now with all that drool around her mouth. For him, that was the cream of this entire scenario.
She just sat there, taking the giant size inside her mouth so deep it hurt, coughed up a disgusting amount of spittle over her chin and chest and repeated the whole process over and over. Long strings of saliva hung from her chin and broke loose every time her head bobbed up and down. She hated this, it was a complete nightmare, the worst she could even imagine. She saw him from down there, staring at the doctor forcing the drenched stallionhood inside her. Her eyes were overflowing with tears. They had come not only from her gagging, but from the extreme agony she lived through.
She had to think of her daughter. If she didn't do this, she'd never get into a proper school. That school in Trottingham. It was expensive, but that was the one she knew she'd like. It was her hope for a bright future and a good life.
And for that she had to pay by seeing this disgusting stallion's perverted moans and panting.
She closed her eyes, forcing herself to take it like this. Be the good little sex-slave so her child could get what she needed. For her sake, anything was possible. As long as she...
Redheart widened her eyes when the hard rod shot down her throat one last time, reaching all the way to her esophagus. In that instance, Stable felt the warm vibrations moving down his spine. His grip tightened, and the load he had been working on burst out. The first wave of male seed shot down directly her throat, instantly gulped for digestion just like the second, third and fourth beam of cum. When he pulled up her head, the remaining cum-shot hit her tongue and inner cheeks.
"Hah... yeah... swallow it..." he said silently and shut Redheart's mouth. His other hoof covered her snout, preventing any form of breathing until she did what he wanted. The earth pony mare swallowed the warm soup of sperm and her own spittle, adding the last filling to her stomach's digestion.
She fell back, hitting her head on the desk and then curling together on the floor. She sobbed, coughed and hurt. All her mentality broke down into nothing, leaving little to nothing left of her happiness. This experience was burned into her memory forever, something she'd always remember when looking at her daughter. The headache came together with the retching. But now it was at least over...
"Hah... well, I must say you got quite the talent there, miss Redheart... but I wonder..." he said and got up from his chair. His doctor's coat, tie and glasses fell off, revealing all of his cream caramel coat.
"... if you perhaps are of any mating material. You are a mother, after all" he continued casually with the smile intact. Redheart only dared a small glance at the male. Sadly, she could see everything she hated again from between her strains of hair.
"That's why you're doing this, right? You're collecting bits to pay for her education. I've always suspected that since you're the pony with lowest salary. Shame, really, if she enters any school at all" he stated a little disappointingly at the end, catching the sobbing mare's attention. She didn't understand at first what he meant by that...
"I'm sure she'd make a good cocksucker, minding her mother. He he he...".
The hatred reached new levels inside the mare's head. She flinched down again to escape the reality. But she wasn't even nearly aware of what kind of monster she had created now. In a sudden turn, Redheart was wrapped in a magic coat and levitated quickly from the floor. She landed on the desk full of papers with a slam. She landed on her stomach with her forelegs crossed behind her back. The hindlegs were gently separated by the doctor himself.
"Since you so easily could handle your pharyngeal reflex... I wonder how well you can control your sphincter..." he hinted and brushed aside her tail. Redheart felt the instinct inside her, it told her to scream. This was too much for her. She couldn't bear the pain or the fear.
But the male unicorn expected that. He had already worked on a magical seal over her lips, shutting her up good so he could work in peace. She hollered, using all her might to cause any noise at all through the sealed mouth. But it was in vain. Redheart could only lay there and squirm while the stallion mounted her from behind and pressed his filthy rod against her warm, tight hole...
But suddenly she heard another noise. The door lock clicked, opening the door in a swing. Doctor Stable flashed in shock, merely finding time to get off nurse Redheart before the door had revealed a lone visitor in the practically empty hallway.
"What the... who are you?!" he called out to the interrupting character. It was a pony, but only a pony he barely knew of. In fact, even nurse Redheart recognized the pony. But no matter what they knew about it, the equine just stared at first.
"Doctor Stable?" the pony asked sternly.
"Er... y-yes, but would you mind and get out of here?!" he demanded angrily, knowing the earth pony mare was still suspended on his table.
The visiting pony didn't obey. Instead it walked inside and closed the door...
"QUIEEEEEET!" Twilight roared out when she couldn't take anymore of the constant blabbering anymore. The ponies had tried to get their wills out through big words and other useless means to get the upper hoof in this so-called conversation. One after another flinched and finally turned to the annoyed unicorn glaring at them all.
"We can't do anything in this mess right now! Let's state the obvious: Soul Hook is gone. And from what I can tell, this has been a long day for all of us. I suggest we try to look for him when...".
"There's no point..." Dots cut off without turning away from her sad stare out the window. Twilight flashed in surprise. "What do you mean?" she then asked when everypony else turned to her.
"I can't feel him anymore... he has probably... * sniff *... already left the town" she stated reluctantly.
"What?!" Winter Breeze and Rainbow Dash exclaimed in shock. But only the elder mare continued. "He left the town? H-how do you know that...?".
Dots left her frozen stare through the window and looked straight into the eyes of the pegasus mare instead. Her own eye-color became clear, just like the scarlet on her coat. "I'm not saying this to be mean, Winter Breeze... but I know more about him than you do. He IS my future husband after all".
"No he's not! He's Wint-" Rainbow tried to jump inside the conversation again, but Winter Breeze held up a hoof before she had time to say too much. What she didn't know was that Dots already knew.
"And it doesn't matter how much you feel for him... he will never feel anything for you. You should know that by now..." Dots continued expressionlessly even though tears still streamed from her eyes. The beige mare leaned her head back.
"Hey, stop talking like that!" Rainbow exclaimed. And this time she wasn't stopped by Breeze, even if it didn't matter to Dots.
"But it's true. I've been chasing his heart for over ten years, miss Winter Breeze. And I've only been able to touch the surface of his hard shell. You're not close enough to even see his mentality. He's a pony scarred by so much awful things that his mind never will find peace again. He trusts nopony, and if there's something I can say, it's that he sticks with you just to get away from everything. But he will never love you.".
Winter Breeze stared in absolute silence at the sitting mare. She felt her pulse raising with each sentence Dots said, elevating to critical levels. Heat grew up inside her. Emotions she never saw coming woke up. And as Dots arched an eyebrow, the pegasus mare twitched an eye.
"You can't save him..." she said at the same time the scarlet circle in her eye created the illusion of flashing.
But it wasn't Winter Breeze who let her anger get the best of her. That job was voluntarily taken by Rainbow Dash who instantly flapped out her wings and charged straight for the tall mare. But her rage could only reach so far when Twilight was in the same room as her. The purple filly concentrated her horn and thus wrapped the reckless pegasus in a purple coat of magic before she even got close to Dots. However, her words broke easily through the coat while she levitated in the air.
"You take that back, you weird mambo-jumbo talker! Soul Hook and Winter Breeze are meant for each other! That's nothing you can come up and just decide! What, you think you can forbid her from loving him?!".
Winter Breeze grit her teeth when she realized everypony in the room knew her secret now thanks to Rainbow. Even if the blue filly slipped down a step on her personal appreciation-list, she still didn't want to run up and silence her at once. As a matter of fact, Breeze could be so lucky that none of them knew about their relationship.
But it was at that moment the scarlet mare stood up on her hooves again and managed to raise an eyebrow on each face in the room after speaking, including the nurses and doctors.
"Yes I do" she began and carefully walked towards the beige mare. "To spare you the pain of trying to find a heart that doesn't exist, I will help you come over your infatuation... by forbidding you to look for him... talk to him... and even see him again".
Rainbow Dash dropped her jaw just like Winter Breeze.
"When I find Soul Hook... I will take him with me and make sure you never have to suffer his presence again. But please... don't take it personally".
"TWILIGHT, LET ME GO! I'M GONNA BEAT THE CRAP OUTTA HER WHERE SHE STANDS!" Rainbow hollered in her struggle to break free as the last piece of her calm died in a fire. But Twilight didn't listen. Yes, she heard the words from her beloved pony, but when they were that angry she didn't care about them. Instead she focused on her curiosity.
"Rainbow, for the love of... ugh..." Applejack said and nudged for Big Macintosh to come with her. They both walked over to the levitating pegasus. The orange earth pony waved for Twilight to let go of her magic, which she did, and then grabbed Rainbow fast as a snake snapping after its prey together with her brother. There were hundred of curses and swearing coming out of the furious mouth. But they soon faded away when the orange earth pony filly mustered all her strength to drag away this victim of extreme anger.
As silence fell over the room again, Twilight turned her head back to the two mares staring at each other. Winter Breeze looked like she was hypnotized by Dots, hollowly looking at her like she didn't sit there.
"I'm sorry, Winter Breeze..." Dots continued in a sad manner. Her aura was still drenched in sorrow. "But I'm telling you this because I don't want to see any other poor girl falling under the same curse as I...".
"Curse?" Twilight interrupted in pure reflex. She didn't mean to be rude, it just slipped out of her. Dots gave the younger equine a short glance.
"Yes... a curse. My curse of ever falling in love with Soul Hook. Nopony can have him... not even I. But I am doomed to forever search for him no matter what and fight with all of my will to win him".
Twilight understood that Dots saw herself as a victim. A martyr...
"But I won't complain... because I truly do love him. And I've accepted my life... without any regret".
A lovestruck martyr...
Winter Breeze swallowed nothing down her dry throat. For being a shrink, she felt downright defeated after that speech from the stranger. It was true, however, and perfectly reasonable. She couldn't, wouldn't and shouldn't try. She was just an old mare who somehow had fallen for a colt without any emotions and a past containing too many secrets. Heck, she found out just recently he was a murderer. And a rapist too just to make it worse. And this scarlet mare had been chasing him for how long?
She didn't say anything. The words didn't pass her quality control, they just repeated the same mistake over and over like a failed student. It hurt, realizing she was too old and inexperienced for him. Was she really that old? Really? That...
"Uhm... m-miss Winter Breeze?" Twilight asked out of concern. The mentioned pegasus mare just stood there in silence. But when another three seconds had passed after the schooled unicorn's words, she suddenly looked away and turned that way too. The crowd followed her with their eyes, beholding a broken spirit walking out the door and down the hallway. None of them felt like following her. What could they say that she didn't already know?
She heard her own clops in each step on the floor, aching inside her ears painfully. Her stare was still empty and aimed to the ground. Nothing was discovered in her eyesight, not even the blue filly flying up from her seat on the bench.
"Winter Breeze!" Rainbow exclaimed in all of her relaxed ways. She was sure the awesome shrink had done it again and showed that tall silly-filly who was the boss.
Her heart practically broke when she saw the tear coming from the middle-age mare's eyes.
"Hey, Winter Breeze. What happened?" she asked carefully, knowing Applejack and Big Macintosh still stood right behind her and ready to take action again. But the mentioned one didn't answer. She stopped walking and tried her best to meet her friend's eyes. It was so hard, so incredibly, frigging, unfairly...
"I'm sorry, Dash... but I need to be alone right now" she managed to say before turning down her destroyed eyes and walking past the ponies. Rainbow didn't believe what she saw when the beige equine disappeared down the hallway towards the reception. What the hay was going on?
She had to find out...
"Really? For real?".
Twilight nodded reassuringly. She had spent the time alone with Dots well ever since Winter Breeze finally left the room too. Fluttershy and Berry Punch had been redirected to another doctor by one of the nurses, so they were gone. Ditzy had been sitting outside the room on a bench while waiting for Pinkie Pie to come back. She knew her marefriend always disappeared every now and then only to return like nothing a little while later.
The door opened, catching Ditzy's attention until she saw Twilight and Dots walk out. She smiled and sat up straight, somehow getting noticed by the purple unicorn.
"Oh. Hi, Ditzy. You still here?" she asked out of curiosity.
"Yeah. I'm waiting for Pinkie..." she said with a shy look while waving her forelegs over the floor. Twilight couldn't help blushing a little over the gullible cuteness from this cross-eyes filly. In her imagination, she loved to imagine how cuddle-time was between her and the party-pony.
"Aha... uh, has she been gone for a long time?" she asked, quickly replied with a shake from the blonde pegasus. "Ooookay! I suppose you'll be fine by yourself, then?".
Ditzy nodded smilingly, giving Twilight her own permission to continue walking. She felt okay now.
But when Dots was about to walk after Twilight, she stopped right in front of Ditzy. Her eye scanned the gray filly for a short while, unnerving her in the process. Ditzy didn't know what to do. She was scared, that was for sure. But running away felt so impossible when seeing the small scarlet circle in the middle of all that white. Her nerves trembled, her worst fears came back, her... her memories came back. The bullies, they surrounded her. Everypony around her, they turned their back on her. Pinkie, she... she...
Ditzy leaned back on the bench, arching down her smile in fear. She felt the stare from the mare, it penetrated her like a knife through warm butter. And when the scarlet pony leaned down with her head, causing her long mane to touch the floor, Ditzy wanted to fly away.
"You're much cuter when you're not faking it..." Dots said gently.
In an instant, the filly felt a little more secure when seeing the kind expression Dots did. Now she dared to look at her with all her heart. There was nothing to be afraid of here. This was just a friendly and kind pony who happened to know something secret and wished to help her...
But suddenly she saw a flash over the scarlet muzzle. The bloodshot eye and the devilish grin, a high-pitched scream and blood coming from the mouth.
"Ditzy?" the mare asked again when the image disappeared. She saw the fear in the poor filly's disoriented eyes. A little smiled was in order to calm her before the last sentence. "Go get her, girl...".
In the blink of an eye, Ditzy nodded and got off the bench to run away up the hallway. She was gone.
"You coming, Dots?" Twilight asked from the other hallway. "Coming!" Dots responded innocently.
Further down, not too far from the reception, Applejack sat with Rainbow leaning over her shoulder. She rubbed her foreleg in an attempt to calm her down. There was an uproar in the pegasus' mind after seeing her shrink walk away like that. And Applejack knew, she just lacked the words to say anything.
Reality was bitter, that was something Rainbow had been forced to see. But when she glanced up from the comfortable shoulder to see Twilight walking next to the scarlet earth pony, she just lost it. In a sweep, she broke loose from the farmer and dashed towards the taller mare, reaching her in a second while still in the air.
"You!" What did you do this time?!" Rainbow demanded to know from the shocked pony she almost headbutted. Twilight sighed when her lover just went on. "What did you do to Winter Breeze, you...".
"Rainbow, knock it off" the lavender filly cut off without mercy, confusing her blue lover as well as the orange one coming towards her too. Twilight didn't feel like listening to another assault of words now.
"But Twilight, I can't le-".
"Yes, you can. And in fact, I hope you won't mind my decision".
Rainbow and Applejack looked at the unicorn, none wiser by her words. And even if they both failed at being the fastest of minds, the secret was soon to be revealed thanks to Dots' eyes looking up at the ceiling. For a moment they could have sworn Twilight was about to say she'd break up with them...
"Dots has nowhere to rest during her stay in Ponyville, and she has decided to keep looking for Soul Hook. So she's staying at the library until then..." Twilight stated matter-of-factually with her most serious set of eyes.
The two other fillies stared with wide eyes at their mutual lover. A twist turned their guts upside down and mauled it into an uncomfortable mass of undigested anxiousness. Applejack was plainly confused but still tolerant to the decision, thus only rubbing the back of her head.
But Rainbow Dash took the facts with a large spoon of rejection. "What?! Are you insane, Twilight? Haven't you seen what she's done to everypony?! She made Soul Hook run away, messed up Winter Breeze's head an-".
"Don't tell me you're going to blame her for what happened on the street?" Twilight interrupted once again. Rainbow flinched in the air, tilting her head back in disapproval. Okay, she couldn't stop her from making this decision, so what could she do?
"Er... f-fine! Then I... won't visit you until she leaves!" the pegasus nearly yelled and pointed at Dots who she had developed a strong hatred for.
"Fine..." Twilight said even colder than her previous statement like she didn't care the slightest. And that was pretty much it for Rainbow. In other cases where her friendship would've been questioned or anything even similar like her loyalty, she'd just reply exactly like Twilight just did.
But not this time...
The eyes of the blue filly stared in shock, momentarily trying to hold back the sadness breaking out. She couldn't understand it anymore. Was this how she treated her lover? Was Twilight actually capable of simply pushing aside her beloved ones just to help a mare nopony liked? Was this her feelings for her?
The reality trembled into pieces inside Rainbow's mind as she turned around. Her wings were still cooperating, thus allowing her to charge towards the entrance. There were several glances over her shoulder before she reached the door and forced it open. And then, she was outside in the damp air. A sweet breeze went through her mane as she landed on the soaked ground. She was about to add more with her tears, but she mustered the feelings.
It was painful, she didn't want to see Twilight. At least not for now. Perhaps that would develop to eternity. Maybe, maybe not. But right now, all she could focus on was that annoying and heartbreaking thought in her head. She hated that stupid tall mare. First she scared away Soul Hook, then ruined her idol, and now... stole her marefriend.
She had only known her for less than an hour and already lost so much. Was this fair? Was it? Her mind got stuck between two different things. None of them made sense. Not even the fact she felt somepony looking at her...
Dash turned around in an instant, noticing the shade disappearing around the corner of the hospital building. Anger flowed through her heart.
"Not you too! I've had enough of your stalking!" she yelled out loud and set to chase the shade. Her wings unfolded and took air beneath them, letting her soar up in the air for the blink of an eye before she raced around the corner. She saw the shade at the other end taking a harsh turn. Not her problem, she could just fly over the building. But that thought was not in her mind, she just felt rage burning like the twice as bright kindle.
Rainbow flew along the wall and rounded the next corner, preparing to catch at least a glimpse of her follower. And when the prestigious sadist inside her grinned, a downfall struck her like the bullet she sometimes imagined herself to be.
There was nothing around the corner. And after that there was an open street with nopony occupying it. She flew out over the road and looked everywhere. No, the pony was gone. No sight, no height, not even the color of the pony. She couldn't even remember hearing hooves hitting the ground.
Had she been chasing a ghost...?
Fluttershy was a little reluctant in difference from her plum marefriend. She looked at her every now and then while they walked to the other end of the hospital, giving small smirks to herself. She tried to convince herself everything was going to be fine. Nothing to worry about, and...
"Calm down, baby. I know what I'm doing" Berry Punch said in a tone resembling confidence. However, she didn't push the doubtful thoughts out of her timid lover's head.
"You... you sure about that?" she asked which put a temporary end to the elder mare's walking. She received a warm gaze from the relaxed eyes, somehow actually calming her down. Fluttershy didn't know Berry's intentions. That she wanted to go through this just so they could be together. She wanted Ruby Pinch to accept her, and she wanted to give this life together with this pegasus the best chance she knew of. And for that... she was willing to face her fears.
"Yes, sweetie... yes I am" Berry reassured and looked to her left. There was another name than the one she looked for. Doctor Stable's office. It was a fact that she had forgotten the name of the doctor she was supposed to look for. But of course, she could just ask this one if he knew. She threw one last glance at Fluttershy who smiled back. Then she almost opened in haste.
"Oh right... heh, maybe I should knock" she reminded herself in a giggle and gently raised her hoof to knock. She hit once...
… and the door opened by that mere touch.
As the wooden door creaked opened to reveal the dimly lit room, Berry Punch widened her eyes. But Fluttershy didn't only do that. She felt the chills freezing her spine, her wings tensing in terror, her heart stopping, and most of all her lungs filling up air.
It would take a long time before anypony in the hospital ever would hear a more high-pitched scream than the one echoing down each hallway...
To be continued...
Author's Note:
Wow, a lot of things at once! But trust me, I could have prolonged this chapter with sooo much more things. However, I know you guys wouldn't be able to take it all in (not even I would..) so here it is for now. I warned earlier that a lot of events were about to start running, but now I feel I might not been able to say it clearly enough.
But hey, everything will solve itself out before or later, right? Even if I happen to leave nasty cliffhangers behind me all the time? Right? Right, guys... r-right? Meh, whatever. I'm just going to start on Deathbeat now and hope more people will find it.
And for the love of Celestia, don't miss the next chapter of Tears of Ecstasy! It's coming to an end soon! Eeeee!
Brohoof on ya all!