Fan Mail?
It's been a few days since the inccident at 'Coffee, Cream and Cakes.' I was sitting down in my couch fooling around with my acoustic guitar. I was struming a few chords, making a small silly melody. I've just been lucky Winter Ace doesn't know I moved. I was just happy I haven't been ponified just like that.
"I don't have to tell you how good of a guitar player you are do I?" I heard a voice ask. I looked up from my guitar and saw Cloud Wing standing in front of me with a small smile on her face. She was wearing one of my shirts, even though she knows they're too big for her. She didn't mind though. She jumped onto the couch and sat next to me.
"Good? I'm just fooling around with it," I replied. I had moved together with Cloud for obvious and enjoyable reasons. "I mean it's hard to keep focused on the guitar when there's a cute mare next to you," I teased her. We had a war about teasing each other here and there. It was a lot of fun.
"Cute? You must be joking I'm not cute. I am though making sure my scent is on every piece of your clothing." She winked at me. "You're mine after all," she said as she rubbed her tail under my chin, giving me a low playful growl. I scratched her behind her ear.
"Easy girl, I know I'm yours," I said as I chuckled. "Was there any mail?" Cloudy had just been outside to check the mail. None of us normally don't get anything really except for the usual bill and ads.
"Well, there was some interesting stuff for once," she said and pulled the shirt up to get her left wing free. She likes to carry the mail in her wing, that way she can still talk without trouble. I took the letter from her wing, doing my best not to accidentally touch the wing too much.
"Alright let's see what we have here." I started flipping through the letters. "Bill, bill, ad, bill ,bill, ad, fan mail, bill, bill-" I stopped and went through the letters again. There was a letter for me from a fan? This was new. I opened the letter to see what it said.
Dear Rasmus Hansen.
My name is Honey Grass and I'm a nine year old filly. I love your music I wish there was more aside from your only album, I'd buy it instantly.
I just wanted to say you made me feel happy with your music. When my days were grey you lit them up with your music and I can never thank you enough for that.
I am hospitalized in a hospital in the town of 'Glostrup' and diagnosed with cancer and might not make it. if I don't I wanted to thank you for liting my mood up when everything was grey. my last wish is for this to get to you to tell you that I thank you for everything. You're the best human musician I've ever heard.
Honey Grass.
I just sat there looking at the letter. A nine year old filly diagnosed with cancer sent me this? I felt so horrible knowing she could die any minute. I felt Cloudy put a hoof on my shoulder.
"It's not your fault, you know how cancer is," she said. I nodded taking a deep breath. "Poor girl. Not even 10 and she might not make it." I stood up from the couch and headed for the front door and grabbed my coat.
"Hey Cloudy?" I called her. "I'm gonna go out I'll be back later okay?" She walked over to me and stood up on her hind legs then nuzzled my cheek.
"Don't take too long deal?" She asked and I nodded at that.
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Ah Glostrup, the city I was born in. Not much has changed except for ponies walking or flying and no cars driving around. Glostrup was a big city, not as big as Copenhagen but still pretty big. I was riding my bike to the hospital but I still didn't get it. Fan mail from a filly with cancer? At least I could make her happier by showing up at her room and actually wish her well.
It took about 30 minutes to get there but I was at the hospital's unused parking lot. I found a good spot near the entrance and got off the thing as well as turn it off and headed inside the building. As I entered the lobby, every staff and patient I saw were ponies. Most of them stared at me as I entered, others were in too much pain or comforting the ones in pain. I walked over to the front desk and the stallion just looked at me.
"Excuse me sir?" I asked. He was probably surprised to actually see a human in the flesh. I tried snapping my fingers but it didn't seem to get his attention either. "Hey!" I almost shouted.
"Wha-? S-Sorry sir! W-What can I do for you?" He asked, clearly panicing a bit from zoning out.
"Do you have a patient diagnosed with cancer by the name of 'Honey Grass'?" I asked. He looked at me like I was joking.
"Sir that's for friends and family only, I can't let you see her," he replied. Great one of these guys. No matter what unless you had some sort of proof the patient knows you, you're not getting in. Wait, That's it.
I pulled out the letter that Honey Grass wrote and showed him the letter. "I'm sure you can let me see her after reading this," I said with a bit of confidence. He grabbed the note and read it, mumbling as he went along.
As he finished he looked up at me. He took at deep breath before replying. "Alright third floor room 12." That's all I wanted. He gave me the letter back and I started heading for the elevators. I'm still surprised this place looked like it did 19 years ago. I saw a pair of ponies come out of an elevator. I got in the now empty elevator and headed for the third floor.
It took about a minute or two to get to the third floor but here I was, looking for room number 12. I found it shortly after and knocked on the door. There was a short silence before I heard a voice saying I could enter. I opened the door and got in the room to see a little green earth pony filly with no mane laying in bed. There was a blue mare and yellow stallion next to the bed and they all were looking at me.
"Who are you?" The stallion spoke up. He was clearly confused and so was the mare. Of course who wouldn't be? I mean they're ponies and here I am a human standing about double the size as them.
I grabbed the letter I had with me and handed it to the stallion who began reading it. "I take that the poor filly in bed is Honey Grass?" I asked and the mare nodded.
"Yes her name is Honey Grass how do you...?" The mare was cut off by her husband.
"This is Rasmus. He's the human Honey sent the letter to," he said and looked at me. "Why are you here? Aren't you busy with music or something?" He asked me and I shook my head.
"I have nothing to do as of right now," I said and looked over at the filly. "Besides saying 'hi' to the filly who sent me the first piece of fan mail." I smiled at the filly who smiled back at me.
"But.... But...." The stallion couldn't get a sentence out. I chuckled a bit and looked back at him.
"Everyone has a wish, Honey Grass' wish is probably meeting me," I said "So here I am making the wish come true." The mare was smiling and the stallion did so too with tears in his eyes. He wanted his daughter to be happy and I can understand that.
I grabbed a chair and put it next to the bed and sat down in it. "Some sour thing about getting cancer huh? Real bummer" I said to Honey Grass. She giggled a bit before coughing a bit.
"Y-Yeah... I wish I could go out and play with my friends again," she said. "I don't like being forced to stay in bed all day long." She frowned about her cancer. Who wouldn't? I knew a guy who's grandfather couldn't be treated for cancer because of some sort of allergy. It was horrible.
"Well, you have a chance of surviving the cancer," I said and put a hand on her shoulder. "You'll make it through Honey, I'm positive about it." She smiled weakly at me.
"Y-Yeah... I do. I have a chance of surviving." That's what I want to hear. I want to lighten her mood right now, just like music does when she listens to it.
"Hey wanna know a secret?" I asked her. She nodded and I got close to her ear and whispered. "This is the hospital where I was born." She giggled at that. I couldn't help but smile. She hugged me and I hugged back. We hugged for a minute before she grabbed something from her nightstand.
"Hey," she called. "Could you sign this for me?" She asked as she showed me a pen and a small CD case. The title for the album was, 'Tragedy and Time'. It's cover was of a path with a dark tone with rain pouring down. There was a guitar laying on ground with a note saying 'Nothing Else Matters But Family'.
"If it'll make you happy, I'll do it," I said and grabbed the pen. I signed the CD case and gave it back to her along with the pen. "Enjoy." I pat her head. She started coughing violently all of a sudden. Her father ran out the room to get a nurse or doctor. I held Honey's hoof gently and ran my thumb on it to show my concern. Her father came back with both a nurse and a doctor and they instantly started preparing a shot of what I'd assume was sedative. They gave her the shot and she started calming down and slowly falling asleep.
I looked at the father. "How long has she had cancer for and how bad is it?" I asked. I could only assume bad things, I mean this is cancer after all. Honey's father looked at me before replying.
"She's had cancer for a year." He sighed. He wanted his little girl to live. "I think she's better than when it first began. But we can only hope for the best." I nodded at that. Cancer is no joke no matter who you are. I reached a hand out at her father and mother which they shook one after another. "I hope the best for your daughter. Take care all of you," I said and started to leave the room.
"Hey!" Honey's mother called. I turned around and saw her looking at me with a weak smile on her face. "T-Thank you for seeing Honey. Her biggest wish was to meet you." I knelt down and gave her a hug. She started sobbing in to my shoulder. "It's gonna be alright, she'll make it. She's a strong little filly." I assured her. I let her go after a minute or so and she gave me another 'thank you.' I smiled and waved at her as I left for the elevator.
When I got into the elevator I felt a sudden burst of inspiration. I knew what was gonna happen in the following days. I got to the lobby and headed out only to my fear see Winter Ace. Oh you gotta be fucking kidding me! I tried my best to avoid his gaze as he was talking to the stallion at the front desk. I was sadly clumsy enough. Everyone turned their attention to me, the human who had just knocked over a flower vase made of glass. I was gonna have to deal with Winter Ace. Again.
"Well hello Rasmus, remember last time we met? How you punched me in the side before you left?" He asked. Still remember that? Sure I hit him in the lung by accident, but he was gonna ponify me against my will! "Oh suck it up ass-wipe. I only punched you because you were gonna change me against my will!" I spat at him. Every single pony gasped and started talking to each other about it in faint whispers. He lit his horn up. Great it was gonna look really messy in a second. That was unless somepony threw a book at him.
"No threats of any kind mister Ace!" The stallion at the front desk snapped. "If you wanna throw threats, throw them at me. If what he's saying is true you can go to tartarus!" Ace grunted in frustration before using his magic to throw the poor stallion into a bookshelf behind him at neck breaking speed. Everyone went wide eyed me included. I ran up to Ace and kicked him in the side at which he fell onto his side. Unicorns and pegasi are thankfully not as sturdy as earth ponies. I jumped onto him and grabbed his horn, making sure he was unable to get up.
"Someone call the authorities!" I yelled out. "NOW!" I saw a nurse heading for the nearest phone and dailing '112' for the emergency center. "Get off me!" I heard Ace yell from under me as he tried to get free. It took a lot of will to keep my hand tight around his horn. He kept trying to use magic and it started burning in my hand. I let go and he pushed me off with the help of his magic. "Now that I have you... 'human,'" he said between grunts most likely from my kick. "I'm not letting you get away this time." He started laughing like a maniac. Crap this wasn't looking too good. I felt his magic take a hold of my limps holding me in place.
"So that's it huh!? Capture me then turn me into a pony and make me forget? How can you live your life like that?" I asked him. "Star Trail must be real proud knowing his father, has turned a lot of humans into ponies against their will and wiped their brain from anything human related!" I struggled to get free. "Don't you dare speak of my son you filthy ape!" He growled at me. I could see the anger in his eyes. He stomped on my left leg with enough power to break it. I yelled out in pain. Fuck it hurt like hell.
"You see Rasmus? I win," he stated slowly. "You'll become a pony who doesn't know about anything human related and I can tend to my family in peace knowing you're a pony!" He grined at me. It was creepy. He was about to hit me with a spell. I closed my eyes knowing it was over. I waited to be hit by the spell he was gonna hit me with, but it didn't even fire. I opened my eyes slowly noticing he had a ring on his horn. It seemed to stop his magic which was fine by me. I kicked him away from me with my right leg and slowly crawled backwards away from him.
"Step away from the human!" A female voice said. I looked at saw cops had arrived thankfully. "Do you know what he is?! He's a human and he attacked me out of nowhere!" Ace yelled at the cops. Kinda true but he had attacked the stallion behind the desk first. A nurse told the cops to arrest Ace which they wasted no time doing so. Ace tried resisting a few times as they dragged him out of the building, but was met with a taser spell from what I could tell. Some nurses galloped over to me to make sure I was okay. Others were checking on the stallion. Fuck my leg was in major pain, I couldn't even move it the slightest without pain.
I was helped onto a chair and received some painkillers and water. I took the painkillers and swallowed them with help from the water. The nurses were effecient about wrapping plaster around my leg and I yelped a bit in pain as they did. I took a few deep breaths and calmed down. "Sir? We're gonna help out with our co-worker, we'll be right back though." I nodded at what the nurse just had told me and I understood. I grabbed my phone from my pocket and tried calling Cloudy. It took me a few attempts but she finally picked up. "Hey Cloudy it's me. I'm doing fine aside from the fact that I had a run in with Winter Ace again, this time he even broke my leg. Don't worry I'll be fine, come see me tomorrow and we'll see how things are okay? Love you." After our small chat over the phone I put the phone back and waited for the nurses. This wasn't my luckiest of days.
Looks like I was gonna stay at the hospital for a few days. Do I mind? Of course not! Especially not since Winter Ace is arrested. It seemed too good to be true that he was gone like that. I know I was gonna have a hard time getting around if I was gonna get crutches, but I'd manage.