Midwife Crisis

by starshine_dash

Cleavage

Derpy slowly opened her eyes, taking a moment to focus on her surroundings with great difficulty. Without her glasses, which were currently lost, it took her some time to identify what was a single object and what was the ghosts around it. She hadn't lied, the wound was from the door frame she had run into as she fled in tears from her violently drunk coltfriend.

She searched out the source of a commotion and spotted a pink and yellow blur running around the house before noticing a muffin and a glass of juice sitting next to her. Feeling absolutely parched after crying for hours while she wandered around looking for somewhere to stay, she grabbed the juice glass and drank it quickly.

"UmifyouwantmorejuiceitsinthekitchenI'msorryIcan'tchatIwokeuplateandhavesomanyanimalstohelp!" Fluttershy said in a single breath as she rushed through the house in a mad dash to make sure every animal was fed, woken up if needed, and to make sure the Cutie Mark Crusaders hadn't released anything into the wild while she slept. Derpy simply blinked and slowly got to her hooves, looking around blearily for her quickly thrown together bag of necessities.

Finding it, the blonde maned pegasus dragged slowly around the house until she found the bathroom and began to rummage for her toothbrush. She found her manebrush, a toilet brush, and even a crusted over mascara brush, but her toothbrush was missing. She felt a sob leave her throat as she looked again at the pregnancy test. Sparkler and Dinky were the best things that had happened to her, and this was going to be a happy time. Her coltfriend had even mentioned wanting to have a foal someday. Apparently "someday" was not with her and not any time soon.

Her usual morning friend suddenly caught up to her and she clutched the toilet bowl for dear life.

Underneath the bathroom window, Fluttershy heard the unfortunate sounds emerging and sighed. She was almost finished with the animals, then should could try and deal with this situation. She wracked her brain for somepony to call for help and could only locate a few sparse memories of a sister and daughters. Thinking harder as she made for the chicken coop to lay out the morning feed corn, she found the name of the sister in the back of her mind. Ditzy Doo. Finally finishing with her morning chores, the yellow-coated mare smiled and made her way back inside. Shy approached the bathroom softly and knocked lightly on the door, "Um, Do you, uh, need anything? At all?"

"Just a toothbrush... I *hic* left mine..." came the depressed reply through the door.

"Oh, if that's all, I keep spares on the bottom shelf next to the door. There should be a bunch!"

A few thumps and thuds were heard, followed by water running and a mouth-filled "Fhanks, I fou 'em," Derpy said at last.

Fluttershy smiled softly and went to the table to pen a message to Ditzy Doo, hoping that one of her pigeon friends would be able to find the pegasus soon. As she finished tying the message to the birds leg, thanking her profusely, Derpy finally emerged from the bathroom. The poor mare still looked exhausted, as if she hadn't slept well in weeks. She produced another pitcher of juice and some more muffins and set them on the table, "Sit down and eat something, um, if you want."

"Thanks... I'm just... I don't know..."

"It can be hard... but I'm not a psychologist... I can help with the baby, but..."

"It's okay, Fluttershy... I'll be okay... It's not the first time it's happened after all!" Derpy said with a smile that simply made her sad face look even sadder.

"Oh, um, I'm sorry to hear that... I'll be, uh, heading into town soon if you need anything?" Fluttershy asked, in hopes there would be something she could pick up in the market in Ponyville to help cheer up the poor mare.

"No, no, I'll be fine... It's my day off so I'll just... mope around here for a while."

"Oh... Okay. Um, I'll bring you something from Sugar Cube Corner," Shy nodded, standing up and walking past Derpy towards the front door. As she passed, Derpy reached out with her forelegs and pulled the surprised mare into a hug. She squeaked and squirmed, then hugged back, a little nervous.

"Thank you, Fluttershy... for everything..." the other mare said, breaking the hug and wiping one of her eyes before reaching out for a muffin, "Breakfast never hurt anypony, right?" she asked, managing a silly grin as she bit into the muffin.

"Right... I'll be back in a little while, Derpy. Make yourself at home," Fluttershy said, moving to the door and exiting carefully. As soon as she felt she was out of sight, she took off at a full gallop towards town and Twilight's library, "OOoooh, I hope Twilight knows what to do..." she whispered to herself as she ran.