Celestia was last to leave that night. On the way out she was stopped by Sunsets doctor.
"Ms. Celestia may I have a word with you for a moment." The doctor called from down the hall causing the women to turn to the brown haired doctor.
"Of course doctor, what's the problem?" Celestia said with a concerned voice.
"Follow me to my office and I will explain." The doctor said, Celestia nodded before following him down the hall and into a small white room with a desk and chairs, the doctor going around to sit in the spinning chair and Celestia sitting in the soft chair on the other side.
The Doctor placed is head in his hands and looking a the women in front of her.
"What was it you wanted to talk to me about?" Celestia said to the man.
"I wanted to talk to you about miss Shimmers injuries." He said looking down through the chart in front of him, then back up at Celestia as she nodded. "So as you know she broke her hip so she has both hips in a cast up to just below her breast to stop any bending, with two rods to make sure that she doesn't lean on one side since her hips and legs are too weak to support any weight. Also she has one full leg cast and one cast to her knee. So the one rod goes from the upper leg of the cast and to the knee connecting to the other leg, and another connection from her ankle. She will need help getting in and out of bed showering and anything that requires trying to stand and will need a lot of physical therapy after." He explained while looking up from his chart to look at Celestia's reaction.
"Okay, when do you think she will be released?" Celestia asked.
"I am thinking two to two and a half weeks." He responded whilst still looking at the board as Celestia nodded slowly.
"For the rest of her injuries, she has a broken leg, which is also the same leg with the long cast that will take about 6 to 8 weeks to heal. Next is her other ankle which was broken as well that will take about 6 weeks to heal, that has a short cast on it. Her wrist is broken and has a short cast on it that will take about 8 weeks to heal, along with a bruised shoulder that will heal in a few weeks, a pulled muscle in her back that could take anywhere from 4 to 6 weeks to heal, and 3 broken ribs those will take about 6 weeks to heal." He informed Celestia.
"How will she be getting around in the time it takes to heal?" She asked
"Well it takes about 10 to 12 weeks to heal from a broken hip, so for about a month to 8 weeks she will get around by wheelchair and then she will come back here and we will see how far she has come in her recovery. That will then followed most likely by walker, and then crutches or a cane normally. She would be out of the wheelchair before that, but her ankle and leg needs to heal before that." He said in response.
"Okay is that all I need to know before I go?" Celestia asked earning a nod from the doctor who stood as she stood shaking the women's hand and holding the door for her saying farewell on the way out and watching as she walked down the hall.
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Twilight couldn't sleep she kept on thinking about what Rainbow had said earlier. So she laid awake staring at her ceiling, while Spike lay asleep at the foot of her bed. She looked over at her clock that read 10:36 in bold red letters, than grabbed her phone and texting Applejack, the friend she trusted the most right now.
Twi: Hey, are you up I need to ask you something?
Applejack: Hey, what's wrong sugercube?
Twi: Can I call you? It would be easier to talk over the phone.
Applejack: Sure, go ahead.
After reading her friends message, she went to the phone app and dialed the number before pressing call and placed the phone up to her ear after 3 rings she heard a "Hey, what's the problem sugercube?"
"Hey I can't stop thinking about what Dash was saying earlier and was wondering if you could explain it to me to get some of the facts straight, and if it was as bad as Rainbow was saying or if it was to scare me."
There was a sigh at the other end and she could almost see Applejack rubbing her eyes "Ah knew this was gonna come up again. Ah will say that some of what Dash said wasn't true but a lot of it was true. Anyway do you want the short or long version?
"The long version please," Twilight said while she laid back knowing this would take a while.
"Well it started around November of 2017 our junior year we had all invited sunset over for sleepovers cause she gets lonely that time of year, it started with Pinkie's house. So the night was great until Applebloom called to check in on me and called me an embarrassing nickname and I had to explain it to Sunset. As I told her the story each of the girls falling asleep next to use then the next morning we go to school and someone calls out my nickname then Applebloom runs up to use with her phone and starts telling use about this social media page who had told my nickname over the week it got worse. Pictures of us at another slumber party from Sunsets phone popped up. After that most of us cut ties at that point not wanting to get hurt by her, everyone except Shy left her alone. Over the next week Sunset got attacked in the halls and became so jumpy you didn't really have to do all that much to make her jump or flinch. She got new cuts and bruises almost everyday. you still there?" Applejack asked after about five minutes of talking silent tears falling as she told the painful story.
"Yes I'm still here, continue." Twilight said in a weak cracking voice.
"Okay, so one night Gilda and a group of people decided they were gonna put Sunset in her spot, and jumped her, most had no intentions of keeping going in the whole thing, but Gilda had other plans. When she finally lost consciousness Gilda tied her up and threw her into Hoops truck, it had been warm for winter and almost all the snow had melted, at this point but it was still mighty cold out. They took her to one of the abandoned building on the outskirts of the town. For a couple days they pipped off and had fun torturing poor Sunset. During the day and leaving her during the nights leaving her to freeze. Principle Celestia spent so much time trying to find her thinking she ran away or something that police got involved. They spent four days looking for her while VP Luna ran the school. Anyway on the fourth night she was found by three Crystal Preppers tied to a pole. She was rushed to hospital and had surgery. Then like Dash said she spent eight days in a coma, but the catch is that the coma was medically induced. When her body was physically ready they woke her up, she then spent the next two months in a wheelchair cause they hurt her back, then she had cane for a while she never fully healed from it." Applejack said waiting for a response.
"Did she press charges? How did you guys handle it?" Twilight asked.
"Well Shy was mad at us for dropping her the way we did, but who can blame her really, we stopped calling ourselves the elements after that and she did end up pressing charges on those who got caught. It was really only the ones who fingerprints had gotten scanned cause Sunset couldn't remember anything about what happened to her. It wasn't until the interrogation that things really came to light. They on the last day had taken a pipe to Sunsets head it had given her a major concussion, but they didn't actually beat her head in like Dash had said, but the worst thing they ever did to her was taking a hot iron to her face it was shaped as her cutie mark. She has it covered up but you'll see it in the morning at the hospital, don't say anything about it, it would really hurt her."
"Okay, thank you, you've really set my mind at ease I'll let you go so you can sleep, bye," Twilight said, before hanging up. She then settled into a fitful and restless sleep. Hoping to see Sunset soon.