"Well it rains and it pours when you're out on your own..."
Twilight lay in her cot, reading a book about Sea Ponies when she heard the hospital window open.
"Psst! Twilight!" Pinkie Pie slipped in through the window.
"Oh. Hey, Pinkie."
"I heard you're doing better! Let's go out and celebrate!"
Twilight smiled and rolled her eyes. "Look, I don't think a part would be the best course of action to take... while they did say I'm improving, I probably want to get a lot of bed rest that will-"
"Oh, come on, Silly-Twilly! One party isn't going to hurt you!"
Twilight Sparkle sighed, and put her book away. "Alright... let's go!"
***
Twilight awoke on the Pinkie Pie's couch, a burning sensation in her stomach, and a pounding pain in her head. Running to the bathroom, she threw up a large amount of bile, and felt herself collapse. Memories of last night flooded through her mind...
"Come on, Twilight, it's just one shot. It's not going to kill you," Berry Punch said, rolling her eyes as she poured Twilight a shotglass of a dark brown lager.
"I dunno... isn't 'daterape' a bit strong?"
Berry Punch laughed at Twilight's skepticism.
"Silly girl. It'll be fine! Loosen you up a bit." Twilight shrugged, and downed the drink. It burned her throat, but at the same time, filled her up with energy. This place that Pinkie was throwing the party... it was different, to say the least. Had a changeling theme, built like a hive, and some ponies were dressed up like the monsters. Leave it to Pinkie to make party fodder out of a horrible experience like that. Of course, the nightclub wasn't hers, but the idea behind it was. And Twilight was pretty impressed with how it had turned out.
Twilight looked heard the music beats electronically assile her eardrums, and saw Vinyl Scratch working her magic. She also saw another being which she cringed at the mere image of.
The human from her nightmare was tuning a guitar and getting ready to go onstage. Twilight ran over to confront the monster.
"What are you doing here? Why hasn't anypony noticed you?"
The human gave Twilight an unconcerned shrug. "Maybe it's because you're imagining me. You are supposed to be sick with a disease that grants dementia."
"Oh ha ha. We both know I'm not imagining this. The delusions went down three days ago," Twilight hissed.
"This pony bothering you, Eli?" Twilight turned to see Vinyl Scratch head over.
"See! I knew somepony else could see you!"
Vinyl smiled, showing off sharp incisors. "Well yes, but that's because I'm... different."
Twilight's jaw dropped. "You're a vampony!"
"Indeed. And me and several of my friends use this place as a convenient blood bank. We take some of the drunks and pop 'em down to the Beast Lair down below and relieve them of some blood. Never to kill, though. We have ourselves a little cult..."
"Does Octavia know?"
Vinyl Scratch shifted uncomfortably. "Well... not yet. Don't go telling her, or else I'll taste your magic-spiked blood. One bleeds the lusty commands, drop the dagger and laugh at the blood on your hands..."
Twilight slowly slid back into the crowd, away from this creepy spectacle. Those last words... she knew it had to be done. Twilight could feel the alcohol messing with her brain... and that stallion over there by himself looked fairly cute...
Pulling her head up from the toilet, Twilight realised what she had done. She had sex with that stallion, and she had done... other things... and she was experiencing the worst hangover of her life.
Pinkie bounced in. "Oh good, Twilight! You're ok! I was scared that you might have died! Partying is fun, but sometimes even I have to draw the limits!"
Twilight wondered how Pinkie Pie could stay so light throughout all the hardships that hit her.
"Anyway, shouldn't you go back to the hospital? I hear that they're pretty worried you're gone..."
At the word "hospital", Twilight remembered that today was Atlas's last day before he finally died. Rushing out of Sugarcube Corner, she ran to the hospital, and made it just in time to see Atlas flatline.
"No!" Twilight hugged the stallion, his lifeless body unmoving. She sobbed, having gotten to know him over the last few weeks, and these sobs were not enough to convey her sorrow.
"Atlas... I'm so sorry..." Then, the burning in her stomach reached a peak, and she fell to the floor. Looking up, her vision blurry, she saw Elijah standing over her.
"W-what..."
"Shh... even the sharpest lives, Twilight..." Elijah put a finger up to her lips. Twilight found it very hard to breath, and suddenly, she couldn't. At all.
Atlas's heart monitor started up again, and the stallion awoke. The Doctor rushed in. "Damn, Atlas, don't- Twilight?"
***
"Well, it's official."
"I'm so proud! I think we should tell Twilight right away!"
Cadenza kissed Shining Armour on his snout. "Yes, you wouldn't want the future aunt to be upset at you like she was about the wedding, now do you?"
Shining laughed. "Definitely don't need that again." He turned around to see a messenger staring at him.
"Yes? Can I help you?"
"Um... it's about your sister."