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// Buttons and Ragdolls 
// Story: Suri's Suicide 
// by Octavia_Melody 
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"Coco? Coco?" she asked, "Are you okay?"

Suri trotted over to Coco who was completely limp and eyes shut. Suri placed a hoof on Coco's ribcage and felt no breath or movement.

No. No. No. Suri thought, She was alive. I only knocked her out. She just beat me up. My eye is still puffy.

Suri looked at the cracked drywall that Coco had "punched" and saw where she herself had smacked into the wall in frustration, bruising her eye.

"Coco. Wake up." Suri begged, shaking the mare, "Coco, please wake up. Please."

Coco lay perfectly still, the draft rustling her mane and fur.

"Coco!! Please!!" Suri pleaded, "You're not dead!! It's just a cut!!"

Suri took another look at the gash and saw a large shard embedded in Coco's skull.

Suri gave another maddened cackle, louder than before, as her mind finally snapped.

"You don't have to be alive to still be friends, m'kay." Suri said with psychotic glee, "I'll put you back together and we'll be best friends again, m'kay!"

Suri galloped to her room and returned to the kitchen with the sewing kit she hadn't used in a very long time. She took a kitchen knife and and cut Coco's chest open, slowly extracting all the organs and intestines that would rot away and make Coco smell bad. Blood and guts soon littered the floor, soaking Suri's fur red. The last thing to go were Coco's eyes, those could be replaced, with buttons! Suri was fulfilling her cutie mark at last!

Coco's corpse was now a hull of fur, flesh, and bone. Suri grabbed a paintbrush from her kit and began to paint the inside of Coco's skin with an industrial strength sink cleaner that could also double as a plastinization agent.

Coco's insides soon became like brick while her outside was still snuggly soft. Suri stuffed Coco full of a spare stock of wool Suri kept for a sweater she never finished. Suri then extracted the shard, stiched Coco's skull back together, and finally sewed large plastic mismatched buttons over Coco's sockets. The ragdoll "Coco" smiled, or at least that's what Coco saw as she warmly embraced her. As Suri hugged her "reborn" friend, she could hear whispers behind her.