The soft patter of rain off her roof helped Fluttershy relax on her chair by the fireplace. She loved the rain, provided there was no thunder to go with it. A long night of cowering underneath her bed was not something she looked forward to. Sitting relaxed in front of her fire place with a cup of tea was definitely preferred by the yellow pegasus. It was late in the evening and all of her animal friends were sound asleep from a long day or just waking up to start their nighttime lives. Fluttershy felt so peaceful, she began to nod off right in her chair.
The knock on the door caused her to dump tea all over her blanket and almost let out an interesting curse she had heard Rainbow Dash once use. She stopped with a squeak and gathered her tea-stained blanket around herself as she crept to the door. Though the window, Fluttershy could see that a pegasus was standing out there, soaked in rain, with an overstuffed mailbag on her flank. The pony outside knocked again and hollered something that was drowned out by the rain and the thick wood of the door. The voice did sound vaguely similar though, so the timid pink-haired pony slowly cracked open the door, "U-uhm, hello?"
Standing before her in the rain, soaked to the hoof, was Derpy. Her face bore a small welt above her left eye and it was easy for Fluttershy to tell the difference between tears and rain flowing down the other pegasus' face, "Hi, Miss Shy..." she said between sniffles.
"Oh oh my goodness, Derpy Hooves? What happened to you? Quickly come inside out of the rain! I'll get you a few towels to dry off!" the yellow mare exclaimed, moving with near-Pinkie speed to her linen closet and retrieving several towels which she and Derpy used to dry the grey-coated pegasus off.
"I-I just... didn't know where else to go. You were so friendly when I helped you with the chicken coop..." Derpy said, tears still streaming down her face.
"It's okay, um, miss Hooves, just... Oh dear, let me look at that welt, you're so cold! Here, have another blanket and some tea."
The crying mare accepted the blanket and tea, watering it down slightly with a few tear drops before taking a sip, warming up slowly from the cold rain, "I'll be fine, it's my own fault really, I ran into the door frame again... when I left..."
"Left? Left where?" Fluttershy asked before she caught a glance into the mail bag that had been dropped to the floor during the drying process. It was stuffed to almost bursting with Derpy's mailmare uniform, other clothes she'd never seen the other pegasus wearing, and various toiletries, along with a curious white plastic device that had a blue cross on it, "Oh, you left your house? D-did something happen?"
Her guest's yellow eyes slowly drifted down and away from each other as she started sobbing with renewed vigor, "H-he kicked m-me out! I'm ha-having h-his f-f-f-f-foal and he k-kicked me o-out! S-said it was my own fault... I w-was so clumsy I m-must've done something w-wrong and g-gotten p-p-pregnant..."
"O-oh my, that's terrible! How could a colt do something like that!?" Fluttershy exclaimed and hugged Derpy tight, "Don't worry, Miss H-... Don't worry, Derpy, you can stay here as long as you need. If, um, that's okay with you... I can, um, also help make sure the foal, um, grows right..."
"Y-you would let me stay here?" she asked, receiving a shy nod immediately, "Oh, thank you Miss Fluttershy, you don't know what this means to me..."
"You'll be fine, um, Derpy. I'll take care of everything..."
Fluttershy continued to hug Derpy until she began to hear a light snoring near her ear. The poor, exhausted, frightened mare had finally succumbed and fallen asleep in the blanket. The yellow mare moved the tea away and lay her down on some quickly acquired cushions so her new housemate wouldn't be sleeping on the floor. Pulling up more cushions, she lay down nearby, to keep a close watch through the rest of the night.