//------------------------------// // My Dear Doctor // Story: A Thousand Years // by ArtsyUnicorn //------------------------------// Derpy kissed her oldest daughter Amethyst Star goodnight and trotted downstairs to see her youngest Dinky. She was going to tell the story of how she met The Doctor and how he had been with her since that day. "Why doesn't Sparkler want to hear the story?" Dinky asked as she sat down on the soft couch. "She has an advanced magic class very early in the morning so she wanted to go to bed early" She explained as she got comfortable next to her daughter and began to tell the tale. "The long nine months I was pregnant with you was difficult without Ponet, on my ninth month in November you were due any day now and I was scared. Ponet was there for me when I had your sister, but I was going to be alone when I had you, one night I was feeling pretty sad so I took a walk in the Everfree forest. It was dark and scary but also calming at night. I started hearing movement in the trees and was feeling scared, being nine months pregnant it was hard to walk let alone run, so I was beginning walk back to Ponyville where I moved us after your dad left. I felt a sharp pain in my belly and couldn't walk anymore, I had gone into labor and there was nobody around to help me! Then a manticore heard my screams and shouts of pain and it found me lying helpless on the ground, I was so scared I just closed my eyes hoping this was all a dream but it wasn't. Right as I shouted one last time for help a blue box magically appeared behind the manticore scaring it away, then The Doctor stepped out and found me lying on the ground in pain and quickly rushed me to the hospital. He spent the entire night with me to make sure I was safe, I gave birth to you that night and I couldn't be happier" Derpy finished the story. "And since that day he has helped take care of me!" Dinky exclaimed "That's right, he has to leave sometimes for a while but I know that he will always be there for us when we need him" she said as she brought Dinky upstairs to bed and kissed her goodnight and decided she was going to sit on the porch outside for a little bit. Sitting out on the front porch of her house Derpy had only told that story to Amethyst when she asked when she was. Telling that story reminded her of The Doctor, his chocolate brown mane, his interesting stories and cheerful sense of humor. She blushed a little as she thought more of him, she had developed a small crush on him a while ago, and he had been by her side for eight years now and never left with the exception of his travels. He was a time lord who traveled all of time and space with his TARDIS, he took Derpy on it a couple times so she could see the true beauty of the universe, she loved it as much as she loved him. Snapping out of her thoughts she looked up to the night sky and saw many stars, she missed him so much and wondered if he was okay since she hadn't seen him for almost a year. "Come back to me Doctor..." She said with a slight whisper. She went back inside the house and upstairs, she saw Dinky asleep in her bed holding a small plush close, Derpy opened her bedroom door and opened her dresser draw to find a golden key attacked to string. Picking it up Derpy went back outside and put the key necklace around her neck, The Doctor gave her the key to the TARDIS and told her if she ever needed him to wear it and think of him, they had a telepathic connection and she could activate it through the key. If she heard two beeps everything was okay and The Doctor was available, if it was just one beep then something happened. Beep She waited patiently for the second beep. ... Nothing... Derpy was worried now, why one beep? Something must have happened... Since she couldn't talk to her friend she decided to go for a walk, walking around the town at night was very calming. It was one of her favorite things to do especially after a long day at work. Normally she wouldn't go near the Everfree forest; it brings back memories, good ones and bad ones. She can still remember how she reacted when he first brought her into the TARDIS. ~~~ "Are you sure you want me to leave Dinky and Amethyst with my friend Carrot Top?" Derpy asked The Doctor as she sat the newborn filly in the carrier. "Where we are going the filly can't go" He told her, he was reassuring but she was still nervous, Dinky had only been born a month ago, Ponet still didn't come back. "Okay... Let's go, thanks again Carrot" Derpy said as she hugged her friend and filly before heading out with The Doctor. The Doctor led them to the edge of town to where his blue box was. Derpy was always fascinated by the box, tall and a deep blue. He went inside and held his hoof out towards her. "Do you trust me enough?" He asked her, she was confused a little, but she nodded her head and went inside with him. "It's so big! It's like magic doctor!" She said as her big eyes wandered around the entire room, the control panel, the weird couch with levers, and the giant engine in the middle of the room. The Doctor went and pulled on levers and soon enough a loud noise echoed throughout the TARDIS, it wobbled a little bit but they kept their balance. Soon enough the noise stopped, The Doctor had a big grin on his face and held out his hoof again. "Are you sure you trust me?" Derpy nodded yes and placed her hoof on top of his, "Let’s go then!" He opened the doors of the TARDIS, Derpy's eyes widened at the sight. Outside the doors was the galaxy, space, the entire universe in front of her, she even saw the earth which glowed in beauty. Derpy felt like crying from how beautiful it was to see this, The Doctor had a special type of magic, the magic of a time lord. "It's... Beautiful Doctor..." She said quietly, but he could still hear her. He still held on to her hoof as they floated in space together, watching the universe. The Doctor had seen the universe many times, but this time it was especially amazing tonight. Little did he know that this was when Derpy had grown a crush on him, she looked at him in the starlight, he looked amazing...How did she not notice it? She did now and it made her heart flutter around then into her stomach. They went back inside and back to the earth, Derpy was still in amazement over what she had just witnessed. Beautiful. ~~~ Caught up in the memory she forgot what she was doing, she walked into the Everfree forest and looked up to the sky. "Oh my Doctor, how I wish you were here..." She said with a bit of sadness in her voice. Where was he?