All Good Things
Chapter 7
AUTHORS NOTE:
Basic German with pronunciations
mein (mine)= my
nein (nine)= no
wunderbar (vun der bar)= wonderful
Kind (Kynd)= child
A couple of words have had their spellings changed to reflect a heavy German accent
/Luna’s Point of View\
I nuzzle a bit more into Busy Body, after the other fillies’ comments, as he tries to comfort me.
“What’s the matter, Miss Luna?”
“All the other fillies think I’m a monster...” I answer, sadly pouting. I just don’t understand what I did wrong. I’ve never even touched another filly, I mean, Tia and I have gotten in tussles before, but nothing serious!
“The ponies these days just need to get used to you, they aren’t especially adjusted to sharing a city with a sweetheart from the past” he says reassuringly.
“I guess so...”. He rustles my mane lovingly as a nurse appears from the corridor leading further into the facility.
“Princess Luna? Dr. Sigmund is ready for you”. But as the words leave her mouth, there is a nervous murmur that traverses the room, and for the second time within ten minutes, everypony turns to stare at me, this time with much more worry in their eyes.
The parents collect their fillies from where I was trying to play earlier and shelter themselves behind their newspapers. I follow Busy Body tentatively as we walk out of the waiting room.
“It is a pleasure, your highness”, the nurse says as we pass by her. “Just head in the last room on the right, my lady”.
I thank her and wonder why so many ponies are acting so formally with me, they really don’t have to. Tia and I have never been very serious when it came to formalities.
I trot warily into a very childish medical room, complete with bright, vivid colors on the walls, several toys strewn about, and a paper bedliner, printed with happy fillies galloping across its surface. Busy Body gently helps me up on to the examination bed when a grim thought pops into my head.
“I’m not going to get shots today, right?”, I ask in a fearful tone.
“I wouldn’t think so, you’ve only just arrived. I believe you are going to wait a little before the doctors get down to the nitty gritty of caring for you”.
“Thank goodness...” I exclaim as I lay back. As a soft *pmf* sound comes from the crinkling of the paper beneath me, a tall pony with a stethoscope around his neck walks in and shuts the door behind him.
“Ah... you must be ze princess! Vhat an honor it is to meet you face to face, your highness.” he says with a deep bow.
I blush out of embarrassment, and say “Please, call me Luna”, with a small giggle.
“Very well, mein little Luna. Your sister has asked me specifically to analyze your mental und physical well-being. She fears how you are faring after many years of confinement”.
“I’m sorry, mister, I don’t I’m following very well...” I say quietly.
“Oh nein, nein! I am ze one who should be sorry, mein Kind. Basically, Celestia wants me to act as your personal pediatrician.”
“Oh! Okay... no shots right?”
He chuckles heartily, and responds “Not today, mein little Luna. Today, I just need some simple numbers. Could you step on ze scale please?”
He lifts me with his magic and places me softly on the floor while he adjusts his instruments. I hop on the surprisingly cold scale, and let a shiver out as my hooves become used to the cold metal.
“Ja, very good. Hold still for a moment...”
He measures my height, horn size, and wingspan. Afterwards, he worked with my hoofprints, shined something really bright in my eyes, and listened to my heartbeat for quite some time.
Was this pony a foreigner? I know that the Zebras came from Zebrica a thousand years ago, but he must be from Germaney or somewhere else up north... Whoever he was and wherever he came from, I liked him. Tia had a way of selecting nice ponies to work with me, and hecertainly have a way of working with fillies.
“Dr. Sigmund?”
“Ja, mein Kind?”
“What kind of doctor are you?”
“Vell, like I said earlier, I am a pediatrician. Now, zat is a big und fancy word that means ‘filly doctor’. I vent to medical school and studied for many years specifically to take care of ze little ponies, like you, mein Kind!”
Busy Body then adds on, and I turn my head to him,
“Dr. Sigmund Von Smarty Pants is among the brightest of doctors that Equestria has to offer, Miss Luna. While his main focus is on fillies, he is also called to work with older patients as well.
“Well, in that case, could you be my doctor, forever?” I ask innocently.
“Forever is a long time, mein Kind. Von’t you be embarrassed when you come see me as a teenager, or a fully grown mare?”
“Never!”
“Vell then, I suppose zat is settled!”
Dr. Sigmund continued crunching his fancy numbers for a while, while I peered over his shoulder to see what sorts of papers he was filling out. After quite a while, and seemingly every square inch of my body had be measured and calculated, he was finally done.
“It was great meeting you, Dr...”
“Oh nein! Ve are only half way done, mein Kind! We still need to examine...”, he suddenly snapped off the lights, and shown a very bright one right in my face.
“YOUR MIND.”
“...o-okay, Dr. Sigmund...”
Busy Body leaned very close to my ear as Dr. Sigmund was rustling his papers, and said,
“As with many intellectuals, Dr. Sigmund is very eccentric, as you can see, Miss Luna”.
“I can tell, Mr. Busy Body, but I really like him” I say with a smile.
Dr. Sigmund flipped the lights back on, and sat down next to me on the examination bed.
“Now...” he said as he hoisted himself up, “Vhat I need to learn about you, mein Kind, is simply your feelings. How did those thousand years affect your psychosis. This is vhat your sister and I are most concerned about.”
“I- I really don’t know... what do you mean?”
“Think of it this vay. Were you very lonely while on ze moon?”
“Very...” I say, suddenly filled with some kind of sadness. I haven’t had the chance yet to recollect such things. He scribbles on his notepad in unintelligible chickenscratch.
“Good, vhat else did you feel?”
I don’t have a very good feeling about this. I can’t see exactly where this is going, but I think I may know where it will end up. I don’t want to start crying again...
“Cold, very cold.”
More scribbles. “Okay, good...”
“I slept a lot of the time, there wasn’t very much to do, so I slept.”
His pencil ceased writing, and after the pause, began making marks again.
“But, but when I would wake up... all I felt was just, anger... Not me, I wasn’t angry. But it was very dark, and I felt... a cloud of frustration around me. And sometimes I could hear somepony shouting. I could never hear them directly, but as is the sound was coming through a stone wall. Very... garbled.”
“Most intriguing, mein Kind... where do you think you were?”
“I don’t know. It was very dark, and I could feel those emotional... aura things, kind of flow through me, like I was a thought interacting with others.”
Dr. Sigmund’s pencil broke against the surface of his legal pad and stood up in a fit of excitement.
“Zen the mages vere right after all!” he exclaimed aloud, startling me. He clears his throat and apologizes quietly as he returns to his seat next to me.
“I apologize, mein Kind. I get very excited vhen we have a breakthrough with mein fillies.”
“No, it’s okay, Dr. Sigmund. But, the mages you referred to... Are those Tia’s scholars that live in that tower?” I ask as I point out the window with my hoof.
“Zat is correct. They think that during your time on ze moon, Nightmare Moon had, in a way, made a copy of you! Und ze real you, lived inside of her mind, vhile she performed ze nasty deeds on Equestria.”
“I think I get it, but does... the other me still live in my thoughts?”
Dr. Sigmund let out a tired sigh as he puts a hoof around my shoulder.
“Zat is something zat ve will have to discover in due time. But what we fear is ze psychological effects, IF the Nightmare does indeed persist.”
He gives me a pat, and helps me down from the table, while I trot back over to Busy Body’s side.
“You did very vell today, mein Kind! I hope to see you again!”
“It has been grand, Doctor”, Busy Body replies. “We shall indeed see you in about a week. Let us make for home, Miss Luna”.
I say my goodbyes and trot happily out of the room, quite proud of myself for making two friends in one day. I could really get used to the shower of love that I’m receiving right now!
THERE SHE WAS
HELLO LULU
please, not again...
She had materialized in the waiting room, casually sitting in one of the chairs, reading the article about me that Busy Body was reading over breakfast, and wearing a smug grin on her face. What she was smiling about was the once filled waiting room, how littered with bloodied ponies, their dead eyes staring into me.
“NO! LEAVE ME ALONE!! I DON’T WANT TO GO BACK”
She charged at me, and all I can remember was falling over, my eyes wide open but my mind dead asleep.
I awoke in that place. The place from my dreams. The dark, angry place...
Not even Tia can save you now... Lulu