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// Chapter 4 
// Story: Handle with Care 
// by gcsmith 
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Rainbow knocked on the door of the Library, you were lying on her back fast asleep. She had flown you across town, where even that short space of time you had dozed off due to the gentle heat of her body and the softness of her fur. It seemed even without pampering herself like some ponies, flying at speeds through clouds did wonders for the fur. Something Rainbow was glad Rarity had yet to learn, or she may never avoid endless requests to be flown around by the most fashionable pony in town.

Rainbow checked that you were safe on her back while she waited for Twilight to open her door, after making sure you were still on snugly she just stared for a second, looking at you with a mixture of pity and respect. You had suffered so much, sometimes at her own hoof, and she respected the way that each time you had pulled yourself back up. Not that she told it to your face. Because of this, she had known something terrible must of happened to of made you break down like that.

She is brought to attention by the creaking of a door and and a rush of light on the library's porch. "Rainbow, what are you doing here at this time of night." Twilight stands in the entrance, her eyes bleary from what was clearly a mammoth reading session. "You're not here for the new Daring Do novel are you? That's not in until next week."

Rainbow suddenly became really red, and tore her gaze away from you to glare at Twilight, "I know that."

"Then what can I do for you, Rainbow? I mean it's nice to chat and all, but I was in the middle of studying invisibility spells."

"Wow, you can make things invisible?" asked Rainbow, distracted for a second. She shook her head to get herself to focus, "I mean, I think I have somepony here who might need your help."

As Rainbow begins to take your sleeping body of her back, Twilight begins to speak. "Rainbow who on earth...? Quill! Rainbow, don't tell me you injured him again."

"Hey! it wasn't me this time, I Pinkie promise." She mimes the actions as she speaks. "I was just laying on a cloud for an afternoon nap when I suddenly heard this crying..."

"Wait you're saying it was this afternoon, then how come you waited to now to bring him here?"

"Well, I was trying to sleep, so for a while I tried to tune it out. It could of been anyone crying, besides not as if it's my duty to help everypony around here, not after a full morning of weather duty anyway."

"I guess," Twilight loved helping her friends around Ponyville, after all that was why she was here. But, she had learned it wasn't her duty to help everyone, they did have other friends besides her. "So, do you have any idea why he was crying?"

"Not sure, Twilight, and I did ask but I don't think he wanted to speak to me."

"That's understandable, after all you have put in the hospital a few times."

Rainbow put her hooves up defensively. "Hey, when someone gets in the way of a failed Rainboom attempt I can't be held responsible, and I did say I was sorry."

"Blurting out sorry while he is passed out and when, Applejack, is biting your tail does not count!" 

"Calm down, Twilight, you'll wake him. And I know I've not been the best of friends to him, that's why I brought him here. I thought you would be better suited to help"

Her face softening, Twilight bathed you in a violet glow, picking you up off Rainbows back and holding you in the air beside herself. "I'm sure there is something I can do, but I don't know him much more than you."

"Thanks Twi, your the best, besides me of course. Don't worry about not knowing him, you eggheads always get along well together." With that Rainbow took off into the sky, most likely heading back to her house to sleep.

Twilight breathed a sigh of relief, with her friend gone she could finally get back to reading, but first she had to tend to something. She studied you for a second, and noticing the dirt, cast a second spell. Immediately your face was clean, a lock of mane falling over your face, your brow moved, as if in response to some dream you were having. Smiling, she took you inside and closed the door. "Lets see if we can find you somewhere to sleep."