Fluttershy quietly sat by Twilight's hospital bed waiting for her to wake up. It had been twenty four hours since the accident happened, but Fluttershy couldn't get over it. Tears continuously rolled down her cheeks not stopping and not ending. She could no longer control the sadness, and she didn't want to believe that this was the Twilight she knew.
"I-I'm s-sory Twilight," she sobbed. "T-this wouldn't have happened if I pushed you out of the way."
There was no answer. Twilight was still unconscious it would seem. Fluttershy took note of that. Perhaps silence would be better. There was no need to say anything. Twilight would wake up eventually and Fluttershy knew that. She knew that everything would be alright, but she also wondered if nothing would be alright and that her best friend would remain crippled and unconscious forever.
"Oh, this is all my fault!" she cried. "I should have been able to save you... why didn't I... why didn't I just..." Fluttershy stopped talking. She knew that all the noise would bother the other patient ponies in the hospital and crying wasn't going to fix anything. That, she knew, too.
Eventually, there was a shadow of a hoof coming toward the door. It was a hoof of a black pony. The black pony opened the door and said:
"Visiting hours are over."
Fluttershy shed one more tear and headed for the door. She still couldn't get over what had happened. The rock slide. The rocks that came hurdling towards Twilight. The legs that were bashed by the rocks. If only Fluttershy didn't arrange a meeting for a picnic with Twilight that day and everything would have been fine.
She sighed and left the hospital. There was nothing she could do about it for it must have been fate. It had to be. There was no way to avoid fate even by magic.
Fluttershy began to hesitate, however. She knew that this wasn't true. There was one other thing she could do for Twilight, and that was cure her without having the hospital do it. She knew that the hospital has many sick and injured ponies and it would take days for them to get to healing Twilight. Perhaps there was a way she could do it herself. The hospital doesn't have the cure for everything.
She thought it would be a cinch, but the problem being she used all her bits on Angel the other day...
It didn't take her long to come up with a sick and twisted idea, however. It came to her that if she couldn't afford to get magical medicine for Twilight she would have to take that medicine from someone.
B-but who would have magical potions that can cure anything? Fluttershy asked herself. T-there m-must be s-some pony who has magical potions around here...
Then it came to her. There may not have been any pony who has a magical cure, but there was some zebra who did.
"Zecora," Fluttershy said with confidence. "I-I'll head to Zecora's."
To Everfree forest or bust is what she decided.
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It only took Fluttershy an hour to trudge through Everfree Forest. Usually it would take the little Pegasus more than two hours to trudge through this forest, but her determination to save Twilight wasn't about to die. She was so set up upon the fact that she could save Twilight on her own that it was almost nauseating.
"Z-Zecora's home," Fluttershy stammered. "I-I really don't want to take things that aren't m-mine, b-but this is for Twilight!"
Fluttershy quietly barged into Zecora's home only to discover it was empty. Lucky for her it was Zecora's shopping day. Flutterhsy would be able to take a potion without her even noticing it was missing.
Fluttershy began to rummage through the potions in Zecora's place. Noticeably there were many potions of different liquid types and colors. Fluttershy had no idea which potion would work best because none of them were what she was quite looking for, but she kept on searching.
After about ten minutes of searching she had gotten tired of rummaging through potions.
"Oh, forget it!" she said, quietly stomping her hoof. "I-I'll just take this red one." Fluttershy picked up the red potion with her left wing and placed it in her bag. Quietly, she left Zecora's home and ran out of the forest as swiftly as her little hooves would allow her to.
Oh, Fluttershy... she said to herself. You are such a thief...
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Fluttershy couldn't sleep that night. The images of her stealing a potion kept drowning her head. No matter how hard she tried to get rid of the images in her head she just couldn't get them out. She knew she did something wrong, but she didn't feel bad about it.
She actually felt good about it.
Very good.
Fluttershy didn't know why, but when she thought about it, stealing the potion was probably more fun than anything she had ever done. She already missed the rush and feeling of stealing. She wanted to steal again, and she wanted to feel the rush now.
With that thought running through her head she quietly left her little cottage and wondered where would be good to continue her stealing career.
"T-The Market," she said. "I-I'll g-go to the market. I-I'll get Twilight some nice loafs of bread for tomorrow's hospital visit."
Thus, Fluttershy quietly began to head for the bread market.
The market is closed at this hour, Fluttershy said to herself. If I'm going to do this I'm going to have to break in to the store. With that in mind, Fluttershy snickered and steadfastly flew to the Ponyville local bread market.
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"Here we are," Fluttershy said. "The bread market."
As she openly suspected the lights were off and nopony was inside the shop. Fluttershy could steal as much bread as possible without getting caught.
Fluttershy feverishly rummaged through her backpack for a tool that could break glass. Poking through her bag she found a round object that felt gravely and heavy. She didn't want to have to resort to using a rock, but it was her only choice.
Fluttershy gently threw the rock at the glass. Three seconds later there was a shatter sound. The rock had cleaved far too much potential damage, but she didn't care.
Swiftly, without second thoughts, Fluttershy jumped through the new hole and made a run for it in the store. She went from shelve to shelve and grabbed as much bread as she could. She would have stopped herself, but the rush had gone to her head. By the time she left there was no bread in site. Fluttershy had done a very bad thing.
As she was leaving the store, Fluttershy could hear sirens coming towards her.
Somepony must have called the pony cops! She said to herself, angrily.
Fluttershy decided to make a run for it, she couldn't afford to get caught by the police ponies, and she wasn't about to go to jail.
Fluttershy snickered and quickly ran away to avoid contact with anypony. There was no way she was going to get caught. She was going to get away with her stealing.
"You'll never catch me, pony cops," she said. "For I am Fluttershy! BREAD THIEF!"
She began to cackle and fly away from the horizon line.
To be continued...?