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// On Music Theory and Emotional Eating or Wub the Siren! 
// Story: Rosario + Vampony 
// by CountDerpy 
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Doctor Whooves enjoyed mornings like this. Mornings where the path between the dorms and the main campus of Everfree Academy were quiet and void of other students. Of course, they happened only on mornings where he awoke at the crack of dawn and got the hell out of there before most of them were awake.

'I can't believe it's already been three weeks.' He sighs as he looked out across the lake, the only area of the forest that truly looked like daylight in the vast ocean of trees. 'At least the after those first couple of days things settled down a bit. I can't tell what was worse, finding out this place is filled to the brim with monsters or nearly dying on the first day. If anyone else besides her had found out I'm normal, Snowflake wouldn't have been the only issue'

SKREEEEE

He screams and nearly jumps into the lake as a small swarm of bats fly out of the trees and out across the lake, some of them disappearing after a huge beast launches from the depths of the crystal clear waters.

'Part of me wonders if I should've died that day, or actually ran.'

He walks on until he gets to the gates of the building. The thick iron bars are a pain to push open due to what Whooves only imagined was hundreds of years of paint and rust caked around the hinges, and it nearly takes all his body weight to move it a few inches.

"Come on you son of a bi-"

He barely registers another hoof pressing against the iron before his body goes weightless, the force of the gate swinging open sending him tumbling around twenty feet away before coming to a stop face down in a planter.

"Oops, S-sorry Doc!" 

He stands up and brushes the dirt and plant particulates off of his uniform before looking back at the voice. Derpy is rubbing the back of her head with a nervous and embarrassed look on her face, one of her eyes slightly drifting off towards her fidgeting wings.

'Derpy. She's probably the only reason I stayed.'

He chuckles a little bit. "Don't worry about it Derpy, my dear. No harm, no foul."

"You sure?"

"Of course I'm sure. I'm not dead and don't have any broken bones....or at least I hope I don't." He gives a nervous chuckle before walking over. "But I do have to say it was not the "Good Morning" I was looking forward to."

"I know I know I'm sorry!" She reaches in her bag and digs out a small box. "Apology muffin?"

He eyed it over and looked up at her briefly while examining the box. "Hmmm...What flavor?"

"Pomegranate chocolate. Just those two."

He smiles and dons a serious face. "Hmmm, I dunno. Should I accept it?"	

Derpy scrunches her face up and grumbles a bit. "You're just doing this to be mean. Take the muffin!"

"Very well, Ms. Hooves. I accept your apoloGYYY!" He has little time to react before her entire weight is threatening to take him down to the ground.

"Oh thank you thank you thank you!"

"Alright alright easy! Don't crush me."

She gives a giggle that would make even the toughest been call out how adorable it was. "I won't, I promise!"

Doc sighs as she hugs him, though in his mind his thoughts are racing back to that day a few weeks ago. He can't, no matter how hard he tries,rationalize that this sweet innocent girl was the monster that saved his life, yet It was impossible to deny. Every time he looked at her he could still see the cross swinging from her neck. Even now his eyes drifted to it, the red jewel on it seemingly staring back at him, all the way into his soul.

'Why is it so hard to wrap my head around the fact that she's a vamp-' His thought was cut short by a sharp, stinging pain radiating through his neck. He was just glad no one else was around the hear his screams, only muffled by the hand forcing his face onto Derpy's shoulder.

The event and the majority of the pain only lasted for a few minutes before Derpy pulled away, a little bit of blood dribbling down her chin. "Hehe, oops."

His hoof quickly goes up to his neck to slow the flow of blood."Derpy! How many times have I told you to ask me before you do that, or at least warn me!"

"Um....12 I think." She blushes. "I-it's not my fault that I was hungry a-and that you taste good."

"But a little bit of a heads up would be nice!" He sighs and sits on a nearby bench, glad that the muffin she gave him was close at hand. He'd need it to get through the weakness he felt.

Derpy sighs and sits down beside him. "I'm sorry, I really really am." She digs into her bag and grabs a thick bandage and quickly places it over the bite wounds.

"It's fine Derpy." 'I can't stay mad at you even if I wanted to.'

"A-are you sure, Doc."

"Yes Derpy." He gives her a smile and a nod. His smile fades a little as he is caught of guard by a tight hug from the grey mare.

"Thanks for being so understanding"

He gulps and his face turns as red as a tomato. "D-don't mention it Derpy, it's what friends do."

She pulls back and they look at each other for a few moments before a ruler snaps through the air between them and lands with a crack on the bench, sending them jumping back a few inches each.

"Am I breaking up something important here?" They both look up to see Pinkie's smiling face right in front of them, both of them swearing that they could see dark, black flames rising up from the air behind her.

"N-nothing at all Ms. Pie! Doctor just fell and got her and I was bandaging him up is all!"

"Yes! That's all that was going on!"

Pinkie's face turns to a glare, her cat ear like tufts of hair flicking back and forth as she looks between them. After what seems like an eternity of nervousness, she breaks out into a big smile. "That is the kind of camaraderie I like to see among my students. Makes my job as a teacher a resounding success! Well carry on you two, but always remember."

Her face goes serious again. "I'm always watchin-" She turns around and sees a mouse scurrying along the ground and takes off after it. "Get back here you! I need breakfast!"

Whooves nearly passes out after that. "That was way too close for comfort." He looks to Derpy and stammers. "I-I mean not to you I-I mean wit-" 

She puts a wing up to his mouth to silence him. "I know, Doc. Don't worry, as long as we're friends, your secret is safe as can all be with me!"

He smiles. "Thanks Derpy, that means a lot."

"Besides, can't have my BFFDSF run off and get hurt!"

"Er, what's a BFFDSF?"

"Best Friend/Favorite Daytime Snack Forever!"

Whooves smiles for a few moments before collapsing off the side of the bench.

"Whooves?"





On the other side of the school a couple of mares are hanging around and skipping stones off into the lake. "And then she totally slipped my dorm room number into the colts locker room."

"Ugh, who would sink that low. That's just downright wrong.....so did anyone cute come over?"

Unbeknownst to them another mare is hiding around the corner with a rolling cart covered in DJ supplies. She peeks her head out and looks them over before slipping her headphones on and flipping the switch on her equipment. The low bass takes off from the heavy dubstep, and by the time the two girls turn around to identify the source of the music, the wave of bass hits them. Their eyes flash green for a moment before looking at each other.

"Like any cute guy would come over to see you!"

"Oh whatever, bitch! You're green with envy that you can't get anyone to look at your sorry ass!"

The small of the two growls and launches herself at the other, neither of them noticing in their tussle the thick green mist pouring out from them and into the headphones of the hidden mare.