//------------------------------// // One wakes up and another goes to sleep // Story: A Pony for a Day // by phillipphoenix //------------------------------// I sat down in the couch. I didn’t know what to think or do. Fluttershy sat next to me and held her hooves around me. I looked down at the floor, not focusing. Fluttershy had just told me about my condition back on Earth. Although it seemed like I was currently in a dream, I were in the same situation now as Fluttershy just was. I was in coma back on Earth. The storm had calmed down a little, making it somewhat safer to go outside, as long as you weren’t flying. Rainbow had gone to the hospital to fetch a doctor for Twilight and to get somepony to fix her own wing. I had asked if I should go too, but she had insisted that she could handle it all by herself. She had noticed that I needed some time for myself. Just before Rainbow left, she had promised to tell the doctor at the hospital that Fluttershy had woken up, so that she could get examined. Fluttershy was still tired and she had a bad headache, but she didn’t want to leave me. She sat beside me on the couch. The doctor had told us that when she woke up, she still needed to rest a lot, not moving around her head to fast and stuff like that. “Please don’t be so sad, Phillip. Aren’t you happy that I’m awake?” Fluttershy asked. “Of course I am. I’m really happy that you are awake, but what if it is all just a dream? Or worse, if I am dying in the real world... What will happen?” I looked Fluttershy in the eyes. “Both endings are just sad.” Flyttershy’s face saddened at the thought. If it was a dream, not only was I going to just wake up at some point, but all my new friends wouldn’t be real and Fluttershy realized that. She decided though to throw away the thought, as it wouldn’t help thinking negative thoughts. She used one of her hooves to dry my face, which had been stained with a few tears. “Now now... We don’t know anything about that yet.” She gave me a smile. She looked so cute, when smiling. It painted a small smile on my face and Fluttershy giggled. “So you can smile?” She hugged me tight and I returned the gesture. In the mean time I had forgotten all about Twilight, and Spike too, who sat all alone at her side. “I think we should see, how Twilight is doing.” I made a gesture towards her bedroom. “Of course.” I got slowly onto my feet and helped Fluttershy standing too. I could see that the movement made her head hurt. Her balance was bad and she closed her eyes to regain it. When ready, we both walked slowly towards the staircase to the first floor leaning towards each other to keep our balance. We slowly made our way up the stairs towards Twilight’s bedroom. Spike sat at Twilight’s bedside. He hadn’t come out of the room yet. We sat down besides him and looked at Twilight. She was still unconscious. I put a hoof on Spike’s shoulder. “It’s going to be alright Spike. Don’t you worry.” I looked at Twilight, while my thoughts also raced on about my own situation. Things had gone horribly wrong in Equestria, since I came here. I hoped that it didn’t had anything to do with me. I dismissed the thought and focused on Twilight’s condition. Spike had put some pillows under and around the broken leg to support it. Luckily Twilight didn’t look like she was in pain right now even though her leg didn’t look too great. As we sat there, Spike suddenly turned around and hugged me, hiding his face in my chest, while crying. Although he normally seemed so grown up, he still was a baby and this was one of the moments that showed. I patted his back and shushed him, removing him from me just enough to look him in the eyes saying: “Twilight is going to be alright, okay? She is a strong mare with a strong will and she is going to be alright.” “B-but what if she isn’t? What happens to me?” he stammered. “Shush now. Don’t think that way. Of course she is going to be alright.” Fluttershy looked at him with a small smile. Spike sniffed and cracked a small smile, while looking from Fluttershy to me. “Thanks,” he said, “that helped a lot.” “It’s nothing. We are here to help you if you need us,” Fluttershy said to Spike, “that’s what friends are for, right?” “Y-yeah... I’ll t-try to remember that.” I looked towards Fluttershy. She looked really tired. “You should really rest, Fluttershy,” I said to her. “I don’t want you to be alone.” “And I don’t want anything to happen to you, so you should rest. And besides I’ll keep Spike company.” Fluttershy seemed to relax a little and smiled. I looked around the room and then at Spike. “Can Fluttershy use the extra bed over there?” “S-sure.” “Then let’s get you to bet, shall we, Fluttershy?” I helped Fluttershy stand up and helped her to the extra bed. She really seemed tired and distant. I tucked her in and lay down beside her. She closed her eyes and fell asleep instantaneously. I looked back at Spike and said: “You should get some sleep too. You also seem tired.” “I’m fine. I want to sit here with Twilight. Also you did say you would keep me company.” “I can keep you company, while you sleep. Please go to bed, Spike. I promise to wake you up as soon as the doctor arrives or Twilight wakes up.” “You really promise?” he asked. “Of course. I wouldn’t joke on a matter like this!” I looked angrily at him for thinking that. He moved towards the door, to find his own little bed. I think I heard a low “thanks” just before the door closed. I had promised to look after Twilight and still wanted to keep an eye out for Fluttershy. I found myself a chair and sat down on it right in between Twilight’s bed and the extra bed that Fluttershy slept in. I had found myself a book about magic, which I sat down with to pass the time. I began to read. Rainbow Dash found herself in view distance from the hospital. The storm had gathered again and the wind blew hard against her. It made her broken wing hurt badly. Once she came closer to the hospital, she saw more ponies going her way. It seemed odd in such a storm. You could see that some of them had injuries. She made it to the hospital entrance and opened the doors. At entering she dropped her jaw to the floor, because the nurses and doctors ran around from one room to another, hurrying like they had never done before. The place was full of ponies with problems and injuries and their relatives and friends. They stood in row just to talk to the pony behind the desk, who also seemed way out of her mind. Rainbow went to the queue to stand in line. To pass the time she looked around. But the more she looked the more ill and injured ponies she saw, which just made her feel more bad, than she already was. So she looked at the ground. When she still after a few minutes only had moved one step forward, she decided that this was to boring for her. “Hey doctor!” she cried out towards a pony in a white coat. “Can’t you see that I’m busy?!” he snorted. “You probably are, but I really need your help!” Rainbow answered. “I see you have a problem with your wing?” The doctor looked asking at Rainbow. “Yeah it’s broken, bu-” Rainbow was interrupted by the doctor: “A broken wing can wait a little longer. Just stand in line like the others.” he said. “DOCTOR!” Rainbow shouted, “it isn’t me! It’s my friend Twilight, who has a much worse injury than mine. I got struck by lightning and crashed into her. She is unconscious with at least a broken leg. We couldn’t get her to the hospital, so she lies at home at the library. I really need you to send someone! PLEASE!” Rainbow panted after all that and looked at the doctor, who just stood looking at her. “I.. i.... I see. You should go to the emergency if you say that lightning hit you. I will go to your friend myself.” “Promise?!” Rainbow dash looked deeply at the doctor with one eye. “Of course, now go!” he said to Rainbow, who hurried down to ER. I sat on my chair, head hanging down and both hooves on my lap - on top of the book. I was really tired and I was on my way to fall asleep. And it almost happened, if it wasn’t for Twilight making a sound. “Arg... My head... Where am I-ARG!” Twilight cried out in pain as she tried to move her broken leg. “Stop moving, Twilight,” I said going to her, “you broke your leg, when Rainbow crashed into you outside. And we are in the library in your bedroom.” I could see a tear roll down her cheek, probably because of the pain she experienced a moment ago, but she seemed to feel a little better after relaxing, not moving her leg. “How are you, Twilight?” I asked, “You passed out and have been sleeping since.” She looked at me. “I’m fine. Or at least I’m as fine as I could be under the circumstances.” She cracked a smile at me and put her head down on her pillow. “But I think I have a mild headache,” she suddenly said, “could you perhaps fetch me some of my herbs for my head?” “I gladly would, but I promised Spike to wake him up, when you opened your eyes and I think that he would be more than glad to assist you. Let me fetch him for you.” “Thanks Phillip.” I walked out of the room and found Spikes little bed just around the corner. I shook him gently to wake him. He seemed awfully tired and his eyes just shouted out that he wanted to go to sleep again. “Hey Spike. Sorry to wake you up, but Twilight is asking for you,” I smiled at him. Upon hearing that he turned from almost asleep to fully awake in only a few seconds. He ran into Twilight’s room to see how she was and I followed right behind. “Twilight! You’re awake! Are you okay?” he shouted. “Yeah Spike, I’m alright. I just have a minor headache, so could you fetch me some of those herbs that Zecora gave me? And will you boil some water with honey for me as well to help me get them down?” “Yes Mam!” Spike said, raising one of his hands for a salute, before he ran out of the room. “Oh Spike. He’s such a nice friend and the best assistant a mare could ask for,” Twilight said. “I can only imagine,” I returned with a smile. “Also I almost forgot to tell. Fluttershy has woken up, but she was dead tired, so she is sleeping in your extra bed over there.” “Oh how great!” “And Rainbow Dash went to the hospital to get you a doctor and to get her broken wing fixed.” After the doctor had told her that he would leave for the library at once, Rainbow went to ER to get herself fixed up. At ER they were as busy as in the rest of the hospital with ponies filling up almost every sickbed Rainbow could see. A nurse came to her. “Are you here to be treated?” she asked with a nervous voice. “Yes,” Rainbow said, “I got struck by lightning and crashed, which broke my wing.” “Oh dear, “ the nurse said, “let’s get you treated right away.” The nurse made Rainbow follow her to a room with an empty bed. In fact, it was the same room she’d been in the last time, she broke her wing. It was a dull room, which could only lead to boredom, if it had not been for the book cart that sometimes passed by with precious Daring Do books and the like. “Just take put on this and lay down in the bed. The doctor will be here shortly,” the nurse said and handed over some of that patient's clothing, before she ran out of the room. Rainbow Dash did as she was told and jumped onto the bed. She was awfully tired and the bed was soft. She was quickly drawn into a gentle slumber. AUTHORS NOTE: Sorry for the long wait between chapters, but I momentarily have a writers block on this story, which means it takes forever for me to come up with something good and I'm still thinking on how to continue this story... But I hope I figure it out somehow . Thanks for waiting!