Adagio and Twilight continued down the street towards Adagio's house. After the call from Sunset basically confirming that she was at the sirens house, Twilight had decided to go back with Adagio, to see her friend, and offer a much needed apology.
"You know this is a bad idea, right?" Adagio asked. She wasn't happy with the princess coming with her, Sunset said herself that she didn't want to speak to, or even see her friends.
"I don't care!" Twilight snapped back, "I should have been here one week ago to sort this mess out, But I wasn't!"
"A... week ago???" Adagio asked, "You mean to tell me that you knew about this mess since last week, and you've done nothing?"
"Not quite," Twilight replied, "Sunset sent me a letter about this, back when it all started, last week," she sighed, "I should have been here then to take care of this before it turned into, well... this."
Adagio chuckled lightly, "Well, you sound like quite crappy princess if you let this happen."
"Yeah..." Twilight replied weakly.
"Still, you're here now, even if it is too late," Adagio continued, "And I guess you might just be in luck."
"Why's that?" Twilight asked.
"Because from what she's told us, you may be the only one she'll talk to out of your group of idiots," Adagio replied, "I mean you're the one she wanted to help her sort this out in the first place, so she might be a bit more open with you rather than them."
"I just hope she's alright," Twilight said to herself.
"Well she's not," Adagio said bluntly, "She's hurt, scared, and... Well if I had to describe it one word, I'd call her Broken. If you ask me, that's not alright."
"Broken?" Twilight repeated.
"Well, her whole life came crashing down around her. When that happened to the three of us, even we were on edge, to say the least." Adagio continued.
"You mean at the battle of the bands, don't you?" Twilight asked.
"But even we weren't this bad..." Adagio sighed, ignoring Twilight's question. "Whoever this Anon-A-Miss person is, I'll admit, she sure knows how to destroy someones life."
Twilight swallowed nervously. "H-how can you be so sure of that?" She really didn't want the siren to be right about this, and that she was just messing with her.
"When you're as old as I am, and you've seen every kind of person and pony there is to see, you can understand a lot about someone, just by looking at them." Adagio looked over at Twilight, her gaze sending a small shiver down the princess's spine. "And Sunset is currently..."
"What..?" Twilight asked, "What about her?"
"You don't want to know, Twilight," Adagio replied.
"Tell me!" Twilight demanded, "Just how bad is she right now?"
Adagio seemed to ignore Twilight's question, but eventually answered it. "Earlier today, just after she told us what had happened to her, she said that we should never have found her. That we should never have saved her last night," Adagio said rather dimly, "And I can tell you right now... She meant every word of it."
Twilight stopped, dead in her tracks. "You... Mean..."
Adagio also stopped, as to not get too far away from the princess. "She wanted to die last night," she continued, "She thinks it would have been best if she had died in that snowstorm."
"Why didn't you say this at the park, when Rainbow, Rarity and Trixie were there!" Twilight asked, a sudden aggressive and assertive tone in her voice. "Well?" Twilight demanded.
The siren wasn't fazed by Twilight's order at all. "Because they would have just done what you're about to do right now..."
"You're lying!" Twilight Yelled.
"Yeah, that..."
"Sunset wouldn't say something like that, she's stronger than that!" Twilight said.
"Well maybe you don't know your friend as well as you think you do," Adagio replied, "Because right now she just wants to give up..."
Twilight picked up the pace, and ran past Adagio. "I've got to see her!!" Twilight said to herself.
"Hold on princess!" Adagio said, her voice, rather demanding, "While you could in deed, end up helping her by going to see her right now, You might not like what she has to say to you!"
Twilight halted at a turn in the pavement, not knowing which way to go next. "Which way?" Twilight asked, ignoring Adagio's previous statement.
"Fine." Adagio caught up with Twilight, and turned the corner. "This way. It's not to far now," she said walking on ahead, as the princess followed behind.
"Sunset!" Sonata said as she continued banging on the bathroom door, "How long are you gonna be in there?!"
Moments after the phone call with Adagio, Sunset had gone into the bathroom, and had locked herself in. Sonata had been trying to get her to open the door and let her in, but she wasn't getting anywhere.
"I don't know, alright!" Sunset yelled.
"Come on! You've been in there now for over ten minutes, and I'm starting to get worried about you, alright!" Sonata said with another set of bangs on the door.
"I'm fine Sonata! I'll be out in a bit..." Sunset replied weakly with a few sobs.
"I can hear you crying in there Sunny! I wouldn't call that fine!" Sonata replied.
"Then you're hearing things..." Sunset said weakly.
"Well, ok... Do you wanna talk about something then?" Sonata asked, "Yknow, to pass the time, since you've been in there for so long?"
"No," a weak voice replied.
Sonata heard the front door to her apartment open. "Sonata, I'm home!" she heard Adagio shout.
"Oh good!" Sonata ran down the hall to see Adagio hanging her coat up. "Dagi, thank goodness you're here! You see after Sunny got off the phone with you she started crying and then she went over and locked herself in the bathroom and I've been trying to get her to open the door but she won't open it and I just don't know what to d-"
"SONATA!" Adagio interrupted. Sonata immediately stopped taking. "Calm down, and start again."
Sonata took a deep breath. "Sunny's locked herself in the bathroom, is crying, and won't come out." Sonata then noticed that someone was accompanying Adagio. "Who's that?"
"I'm... Princess Twilight," Twilight answered, "I'm here to see Sunset an-"
"Oh, so you're the princess who never wrote back, right?" Sonata asked.
"Y...Yeah. That's me," Twilight sighed.
"Look Dagi, I'm not saying I know better than you, but I think bringing her here was a bad idea..." Sonata said.
"So do I." Adagio walked through the apartment, to the bathroom door. She could hear the girl crying on the other side, as she calmly knocked on the bathroom door. "Sunset," she began, "Can you open the door?" she asked nicely.
"I'll be out... in a bit," Sunset sobbed.
"Well, there's someone here who wants to see you," Adagio continued in a soothing voice.
"Did Rainbow Dash follow you from the park?" Sunset asked, "Tell her to fuck off!"
"Actually, it's..." Adagio was about to say it was Twilight, but instead decided to move away from the door. Adagio gave Twilight a small nod, who then approached the door instead.
"Sunset?" Twilight began.
"That's... T... Twilight?" Sunset asked.
"Yes, it's me, I'm here," Twilight began, "I know I'm a bit late but... I'm here now." Sunset didn't reply. "Can you, maybe open the door?" she asked nicely.
"Go home Twilight!" Sunset replied.
"What?"
"I said go home!" Sunset repeated, "You're just wasting your time here!"
"Sunset, please open the door," Twilight repeated, "Can we just talk about this?"
The door slowly opened. On the other side of the bathroon door, Sunset's eyes were full of fresh tears that she was failing to hold back, and both of her jacket sleeves were wet as well, where she had been repeatedly rubbing away her tears. "What do you want, Twilight?" she asked harshly.
Twilight ignored the question, and instead rushed towards Sunset and hugged her as hard as she could. She expected Sunset to bring her arms up and hug her back, but that didn't happen. Sunset's arms didn't even move an inch. "Why are you here, Twilight?" Sunset asked again harshly.
Surprised by Sunset's rather harsh question, Twilight moved back from Sunset. When she had stepped back, she saw it. Twilight thought that Sunset would be glad she was here to help sort this whole mess out, glad that she had finally came, but that wasn't at all true.
Sunset's eyes, while still full of tears, were also full of anger. Instead of seeing the eyes of someone who was happy to see someone who could help, happy that the princess had arrived, Twilight instead saw the eyes of someone who was full of rage, and hatred. "Sunset?" Twilight asked nervously.
"Why are you here?" Sunset asked harshly, "Why now? Now that it's all over, you finally turn up..."
A nervous shock shot through Twilight entire body. "I'm here to help," Twilight replied.
"Help?" Sunset repeated. "I been asking for your help for over a week, and now I don't need it anymore!" Sunset replied.
"I know," Twilight sighed, "I'm sorry, I should have been here a week ago, but instead I wa-"
"Save it for someone who cares!" Sunset interrupted.
"Wha? Sunset, I-" Twilight replied.
"I said save it!!!" Sunset yelled. "I don't need any more of your lies, anyway princess!"
"What lies?" Twilight asked.
"The lies that you, and all the others kept telling me!" Sunset replied, "None of you cared about me! If you did, you would have been here when this all started!"
"Sunset, it's not like that, I'd never lie to you!" Twilight replied.
Adagio put a hand on Twilight's shoulder and gently pulled her away from Sunset. "Sunset, calm down," Adagio said.
"But no!" Sunset continued, "Just like all the others, you only turn up when it turns out you were wrong!" Sunset clenched her fist, as it started to tremble.
"Sunset..." Adagio said, taking a step closer to Sunset.
"You only come looking for me when it turns out that I was telling the truth! You don't care about me at all, if you did you wouldn't have left me crying in the school bathroom for a week!!!!!"
There was a small moment of silence. "Sunset That's not it! I-" Twilight began, but was interrupted again, this time by Sunset raising her arm. Sunset brought her arm up, and swung her trembling fist as the princess.
But before Twilight could even realize what was about to happen, there was a sudden crash, and Adagio had Sunset pinned up against the wall. "Calm down Sunset!"
Twilight quickly moved away from the two girls, as she realized Sunset had almost hit her. "When I needed you the most, you weren't there! None of you were!" Sunset continued.
"Sunse-"
"Just go away Twilight!!" Sunset yelled.
Sonata grabbed Twilight and pulled her towards her. "You. Go. Now!"
"She's right," Adagio continued. Sunset let go of her anger, and as Adagio let her off the wall, she hugged the siren, who hugged her back, and started crying into her shoulder. "You should go."
Sonata pointed down the hall. "Alright... I'll go," Twilight sighed. "But, Sunset, is there anything you want me to tell the others?" she asked nervously.
"Tell them they can all burn in hell for all I care," Sunset cried, "And that I'm not coming back!!!!"
"Alright..." Sonata guided Twilight to the door, and opened it for her. "One more thing."
"Yeah, What is it now?" Sonata asked.
"Well..." Twilight removed a small bag from her back, opened it, and pulled out Sunset's magic diary.
"A book?" Sonata asked.
"I know she probably won't want this right now but..." she handed the book to Sonata, "If she ever wants to write to me about something, she can always use this..."
"Will do. Now GO!"
Twilight walked outside, as the door immediately slammed shut behind her. When she heard the loud slam, she leaned her back against the door and slid until she was sitting in the snow leaned up against the cold door behind her. She lowered her head, and covered her face with both of her hands.
"I'll be there next time... I promise..."
YES!!! What a great chapter! I'm so glad the story is nowhere near done!!!
hmmmmmm....interesting...I always thought that Twi would be the voice of reason, the one to calm Sunset down.
BTW, First comment!
Damn, looking forward to the next chapter
7011290 Nope, nope and nope.
As this was Sunset with Twilight, that's probably about the best it could have gone, though part of me is wondering how it would go with Fluttershy.
If this turns into each of them giving it a try on their own, my guess is Trixie being the one to bring her out of it.
Also; while I'm not necessarily enjoying Sunset's emotional anguish, it's as refreshing as ever to see what feel like pretty realistic reactions to the Magic of Friendshipâ„¢ being left out in the rain for a while.
So glad it won't be a simple 'I'm sorry' to resolve things. Tensions are rising. Bonds are breaking. This is going to be fun. For us anyways.
i felt that knife pierce the chest.
7011304 I actually have something planned for Flutters, and I've already hinted at it in a previous chapter.
7011295
Awww Oh wellllllllllllllllll
One can dream
7011285 why delete the comment?
7011318 Sorry buddy.
7011329 Wrote the wrong thing. Sorry about that.
I smell explosions, recriminations...destructions...
Oh my...the CMC have a lot to look out for...
I can't see the end...
No, we didn't expect a happy ending...but now...
Pancakes...
We can only hope.
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You know you CAN edit comments, right?
7011355 Too late now.
7011357
Oh well
For future reference, it's the little pencil button when you hover over your comment
7011353 Remember, the CMC not only have to own up to Sunset, but the sirens are gonna get involved as well. So yes, they have a lot to look forward to.
7011362 I know, don't worry about it.
7011369
potassium
7011306
Agreed, I've seen those takes on Anon-a-Miss far too often, either Sunset is too forgiving, or the mane five don't learn their lesson. Next to 'Anon-a-Miss' by Dainn and perhaps 'Silent Night' by cerealkiller78, this may be my favorite interpretation.
The other two give better reason for Sunset to be mad by taking what happens to her to a slightly believable extreme, Dainn having a bit of the old Sunset creep back into her personality in response.
Here, we have Sunset reasonably upset by having her life she worked so hard to fix fall apart like it was nothing. Not only that, but the sirens are involved, so plenty of brownie points for incorporating them so well. Not often I see that.
This was going to be the deciding chapter for me on whether or not I really liked this story, and you did fantastic. Sunset reacted in a real, believable way. As the old saying goes, "You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention."
Overall point: This is really well done and I'm glad it won't be ending anytime soon.
It's always so refreshing when they actually have to EARN the forgiveness
7011436 That's actually one of the things that made me like Sunset so much. In Rainbow Rocks she actually had to earn her forgiveness instread of just a simple I'm sorry end of story.
Wow! Emotional chapter! I really was sad for Sunset, not only that, but when she was in the bathroom, I thought she might've been cutting herself in depression!
Overall, good chapter. I really hope things will eventually turn out ok. Regardless if it's far down the road.
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Actually...? I'm not sure she did earn forgiveness, or at least, she didn't get it.
Everyone was just as inclined to hate her right up until she helped stop the Dazzlings, only changing their minds when they understood that she'd helped save their skins. When the Anon-A-Miss incident rolls around, however, everyone seems to buy that it was all her doing pretty easily. They (CHS as a whole) were willing to abandon their new member just like that, as though nothing had changed at all.
As such, I wonder; did they ever forgive her for the previous few years, or did they just decide that they liked that flashy thing she did with the magic crystal rainbow horse, then decide she wasn't cool anymore when they had the faintest reason to distrust her?
Earning forgiveness through spectacular light-shows is not how it works, and I think the whole incident of the Winter Special kind of backs that up. Am I making any sense here, or are the others planning to win Sunset back by performing a killer rock concert in her honor, maybe blasting something with rainbows while they're at it?
7011648 Well it's to my understanding that the comics (and thereby AnonAMiss) are not actually canon, which makes me happy, and everyone seemed perfectly fine with her in freindship games, so, yeah. Though I do admit you do bring up a good point there.
Either way, Sunny is, and most likely always will be my fav, along with Pinkie and Twilight.
7011734
Of course they seemed fine, since when does canon address unfortunate implications? Like that something similar happened to Twilight in Canterlot Wedding (part 1)?
Anon-a-Miss incident or no, doing something amazing and heroic does not equate to atonement, nor should it. Sunset has more than made an effort at showing she's changed, we got to see that, but people outside her five friends only accepted it for poor reasons, which is usually accepted without question. That was my point there.
I'm glad for that, the last one I read of this type ended up being a disappointment.
Twilight. As of right now, there won't be a next time. Just remember how you felt after being abandoned by your brother, your friends, and your mentor. Now, multiply that by seven days. Sunset is no where near as forgiving as you are. Stay away and hope you comes back, elsewise, this is another hard lesson you learned.
7011861 I've only read two other Anon-a-Miss stories. One where the others were able to prevent her from slicing both their wrists, and in the other they were too late.
7011353 Only pancakes can solve this problem...
You had one job, Twilight! ONE JOB!!!
Great chapter by the way. It's going to be interesting how the rest of the crew is going to deal with the fact they all failed Sunset. Not to mention what they are willing to do to earn her forgiveness. Pfft, like they deserve it. I also wonder what will the CMC feel like when they find out they almost killed her.
But if the band doesn't get back together by the time another world-ending disaster comes, I'm sure Sunset will be more than happy to watch the world burn.
7011907
what were the stories called? now i'm curious.
Also Awesome Chapter! Huzzuh! The Awesomeness As Been Doubled!.. (Yes bad Joke is Bad X3)
7012026
The Former
The Latter
Finally, a Anon--Miss story that's going to deliver a satisfying message, as well as doesn't pull the rushed forgiveness crap. The others are going to have to work, and HARD, to earn Sunset's favor again, if they'll even be able to.
I've seen people who've been completely broken before, and I know there's no chance this is going to be easy, let alone even happen (which is one reason that all the fanworks portraying 'broken' characters and forgiveness of betrayals usually upset me; I SEEN what it means to be broken, even if I haven't experienced it myself, and seeing these usually cheap and shallow crybabies of characters is greatly insulting. So kudos to actually successfully writing the breaking of one's soul in a way that's both believable and sympathetic).
7011907 That one is where she forgave them despite them viciously turning on her and other students beating her bloody.
Ouch. Poor, sweet Twilight just got told off.
Despite the tone of this chapter I find myself enjoying it very much as now Twilight must tell the idiots of CHS, mainly the CMC and Human 5, just how much they f*cked up. Over what? An embarrassing baby tale? Wearing shitty outfits/costumes? Bad grades? Whatever the hell got Fluttershy and Pinkie mad? Because they were jealous and rather then go and talk about it with their sisters they decided to spread their secrets online and keep going just for shits and giggles even though anything with half a brain could see what it was doing to the school?
And really Twilight? You couldn't spare the rest of the day you got Sunset's plea for help and hop over to settle the entire mess? Pfft some princess of friendship you are........... Wow I didn't even realize I started ranting.
Anyway I'm looking forward to how things turn out in the coming chapters.
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Thanks for the links.. i'm gonna check these out when i get the chance too..
also i have these last two things to say.
1st.Awesome Avatar Picture..
2nd. "To Extend Our Reach To The Stars Above!" sorry i couldn't help my self...
Twilight and the students CHS now have to begin on the long road to regaining Sunset's trust again. Unfortunately, their road is filled with a crap-load of potholes.
7012277 What one was this?
7012404 I'd keep looking around for it cause I don't remember the title, I choose not to really.
This chapter was perfect. Loved Sunset's anger in this, as this is what she should have felt during the incident.
Oooo this was a really intense chapter. I honestly have no idea what you have planned for how this situation could be resolved but this story is fantastic. Can't wait to see the next chapter!
Am I the only one who remembers that Twilight believed Sunset from the very beginning? Sure Sunset can be mad at her for being so late to show up, but that part about only showing up when she's proven wrong is just not true. Twilight didn't deserve Sunset being quite so harsh with her. Sunset should still be on relatively friendly terms with Twilight if no one else. I imagine it'd be better to maybe forgive Twilight but make it clear she wasn't ready to be anywhere near anyone else yet. Then Twilight could give her patented Twilight Sparkle Speechâ„¢ and make everyone see exactly how shitty of friends they were. I know I've seen something like that in another fic somewhere but I can't remember which one it was
This reminds me of a meltdown i had a year and a half ago. Great chapter. Glad to read this wont be another "and then she forgave them and lived happily ever after " stories.
I love this story, it's great and I so happy it not the usual she forgives everyone and they run thru a field of flowers singing LALALALALALALA......Because seriously with what Rainbow Dash text her....She so lucky Sunset wasn't there at that meeting Sure it would ended with Dash having a few missing teeth or more!
I hope the next chapter has Twilight delivering Sunset message, and hope Twilight finds out about the messages Dash had sent. Sure Twilight will leave two hand prints on Dash.
Also hope the CMC hear all this and know how badly they screwed up. "Whoever this Anon-A-Miss person is, I'll admit, she sure knows how to destroy someones life."
I really hope they all hear that, should reduce the CMC to blubbering blobs and they get punished big time for it.
7011907 Can you provide me links to those?
7013192 Links provided above. Number 35.
I pray things work out in the end.