Rarity woke up the next day with a pounding headache and an unbearable pain in her leg. So reasonably she reached for her bottle of pain medication, she took another couple and realized those were her last pills. This was going to be a problem.
She spent her morning as she spent every morning, she got out of bed and made her way to the bathroom to freshen up as best as she could. She wasn’t certain why but she still spent an hour brushing her mane to get it to its usual state of perfection.
It had hardly been an hour and Rarity had already begun grinding her teeth, she was beginning to feel the pain in her leg once again. She reached for the bottle despite knowing it was empty, but she was still disappointed to be left empty hoofed. She became rather desperate quickly and turned to her sister.
“Sweetie Belle, are you still here?” She called out. Sweetie Belle quickly made her way to her sister’s room.
“Yea Rarity, school’s not for another half hour, do you need something?”
“Yes,” She winced from slight pain. “could you be a dear and look in the medicine cabinet for some pain medication.”
“Uhm…okay. What kind do you want?”
“Oh well, if you see any blue and white pills those would be great, but anything you find really.” She stretched out and tried to massage her leg.
Sweetie Belle left and came back a couple minutes later. “This is the only thing I could find.” She handed the bottle over to her sister. “Are you okay Rarity?”
“I’m fine Sweetie Belle, don’t you worry about me.” She looked at the bottle and saw it was just simple aspirin, she wanted something stronger, but this would have to do for now. She opened it up and took several of the pills. “Thanks, hopefully these will help.”
Sweetie Belle left for school and Rarity tried to handle the pain. The aspirin didn’t do much to help and Rarity decided to ask Applejack to pick up some more of her medication.
Afternoon came and Applejack made her way over to Carousel Boutique, but before she reached it she noticed the stallion that Rarity found suspicious leaving his home and decided to stop by and chat to see how his wife was doing.
She entered the shop and made her way over to the kitchen to make Rarity her lunch when she was interrupted.
“Applejack, Is that you?!” She heard Rarity call out. “Come upstairs, I need you!”
Applejack rushed upstairs and made her way through the door, she found Rarity lying in bed hunched over in pain.
“What happened, are you alright?”
“No Applejack, I’m actually in a lot of pain right now.”
“Did you fall outta yer chair?”
“No, my leg has been in unbearable pain all day, and I just ran out of medication. Could you please go down to the pharmacy and pick me up a refill?”
“Well a’ coarse I can.” She grabbed the empty bottle and hurried out the door to refill the prescription.
After about twenty minutes Applejack returned and made her way up to give Rarity her medication.
“Oh Applejack, thank Celestia you’re back, were you able to get a refill?”
“Yeah I was able to get these pills, I think they are the same ones. These ones are called oxi-something and I guess they’re supposed to give your muscles tons of oxygen to help stop the pain.”
“Oh yes, thank you Applejack those are the ones.” Rarity took the box and began taking out the bottle.
“Oh hey, I ran into that stallion earlier, the one who you thought was suspicious. I asked him how his wife was doing.”
“Yep.” Rarity continued fumbling with the bottle trying to get it open.
“He told me she was sick the other day and just last night he had to take her to the hospital, because she has had terrible arthritis for months and she couldn’t stand any longer.
“Uh-huh.” She kept trying to open the bottle, but was having difficulty.
“He said she might be even there for a while, and then he told me they’ve been arguing about her going to the hospital, because she didn’t want to go, but he knew it was for the best.”
“Okay.” What was she doing wrong, push cap, then turn, or wait maybe it said pull cap then turn.
“He said she hasn’t been herself lately. Poor guy I hope she gets better, and you thought he wanted to hurt her.” Applejack chuckled.
“Listen AJ, that’s great and all, really awesome job, but I can’t get this freaking thing…”
*pop*
“Oh never mind, it was push, then turn left and pull. Stupid bottle.” She popped a few pills in her mouth and immediately started to feel relief. She took a deep breath and relaxed in her chair, the pain quickly washing away. She then clapped her hooves together. “So, what’s for lunch?”