//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 Awakening // Story: Hawke In Equestria // by Fanskapet //------------------------------// "Uhm hello." Applejack said, after staring into the stallions face for a few seconds. "How're ya feelin'?" She continued awkwardly. "Well eh ahm Applejack and this here's Twilight Sparkle." She nodded her head towards Twilight, feeling her face heat up a bit as he kept staring at her without any emotion at all visible on his face. "So... can you tell us your name?" Twilight asked, noticing her friends unease at just being stared at, leaning forward to meet the stallions eyes, getting no response from him other than blinking, and the feeling of him sizing her up with his gaze. "Can... you speak?" Rubbing her leg a bit as she still got no response or reaction from him, looking back at Applejack who just shrugged in response. "Maybe he can't speak?" Applejack leaned towards Twilight and whispered, not letting the stallion out of her view. "What if he doesn't even speak Equine?" Twilight whispered back, seeing the stallion lay his head back down on the pillow and with a tired sigh holding his hooves infront of his face turning them around and sighing again as he let them fall back down on the bed. "He almost look dissapointed, maybe it was a teleportation mishap as I thought." Twilight suggested, looking at the stallion eyeing them both. "Ya would think he atleast would be happy to be alive." Applejack frowned, looking at the stallion scratching at his hooves and slightly moving his hind legs under the blanket. "Well I'm sure he's glad he is alive but I think he just gave his all in this failed teleportation." Twilight shrugged. "Hmm so what do we do now? continuing taking his pictures as planned?" Applejack continued, pointing at the camera still in Twilights magic grip "Well we uhm uh hey wait!" Twilight shouted, quickly moving forward to put a hoof against the stallions chest, as he begun to drag the blanket of him and trying to sit up, staring at Twilight holding her hoof against his chest with the same stony expression of his. "You shouldn't move you are in quite the bad shape okay?" She slowly said hoping he atleast could figure out what she meant, putting a hoof against his shoulder easing him back down the pillow, only for him to sigh and accept his fate. "You are real?" He suddenly asked, turning his head towards the purple unicorn as he again rested against the pillow, startling her a bit. "Uh I uh yes, yes I am." Twilight blinked surprised at the sudden question. "And you are a ......purple horse?" "Ehm I am a pony and a unicorn." Slowly nodding at the question, a bit confused at such a weird question, a bit concerned he might have a concussion. "I am a unicorn pony too?" He asked, looking up at the protrusion on his head, reaching up with one of his hooves to touch it. "Yes." She slowly nodded again glancing back at Applejack who just shrugged, scratching her neck and looking back at the stallion, also starting to suspect some form of amnesia or other kind of brain injury from the fall. "Are....you feeling okay?" "......was I alone?" He asked, ignoring the question and looking at his hooves again. "Yes only you and the chair, why do you ask? were you travelling with somepony else?" Twilight asked, worried where this other pony could've ended up, knowing full well the horrors of a failed teleportation. "No I wasn't trav-....did you just say somepony?" He asked, lifting his head up to look at her again, unsure if he heard her correctly. "Uh yes, yes I did." Twilight nodded. "...I think I need to rest now." Sighing and laying his head down, turning away from the mares. "Oh uh okay, just shout if there is anything you want okay?" Twilight blinked, taking a few steps back deciding it would be best to let him rest for now. "Yeah ah will try and be inside the house if there is anythin'." Applejack said, frowning at the back of the stallion. "Ah right, could you be so kind as to hand me the bottle of pills from my equipment in the box?" He asked, slightly turning his head back towards them and opening an eye. "Your... oh right well sure uh" Twilight mumbled looking back at the box, finding it weird that he even knew the stuff was there. "Ah got it." Applejack nodded, trotting over and rummaging through the box until she found the little pill bottle. "What is it anyway?" "........Medicine." He sighed after awhile realising they wouldn't hand it over without an answer. "Just medicine?" Twilight repeated, expecting more out of him than that. "Is it common in these lands to ask what kind of medicine someone takes for their ailments?" He asked, turning his head more towards the purple mare. "Oh uh well I uh *hrm* point taken." Twilight blushed, quickly taking the bottle in her magic and placing it on the nightstand. "Wait a minute, how did ya know about yer stuff? how long were you awake?" Applejack asked, quickly walking back over to the stalllion. "....long enough, now please excuse me I need to rest." He said, as he turned away from them again and waving them away with his hoof. "Wait what? ya can't leave it at that" Applejack begun protesting, looking back at Twilight for some support. "A bit rude, but maybe we should let him rest for now." Twilight whispered, giving the stallion a last look before continuing. "I will return later with Redheart and see if I can find out anything about him." "Well ah have to get back to the apples anyway, nurse Redheart should come by in a few hours, ah check back every once in a while okay?" Applejack said, as she and Twilight walked over to the door, waiting for a few seconds until she only got a grunt from him in response. "Guess thats a yes."