Fluttershy woke up with her whole body aching. She tried to open her eyes, but the light was too bright for her to handle. She let out a small squeak as she shut her eyes tight. The small glimpse of the room had revealed that it was white and fairly bare. As she slowly relaxed her eyelids, she heard the rustling of somepony moving near her. As she listened she heard a mare speak.
“Fluttershy? Are you awake?” the voice asked before sighing, “No, I guess not. I hope her dreams get better. It was sad to see her lie there so lifeless, then to the nightmares that drove her to scream out loud, it must have been terrible.” Fluttershy recognized it almost immediately as Twilight's voice. It hurt Fluttershy's heart for her to hear the unicorn so down trodden. When Fluttershy heard this, she slowly opened her eyes again, squinting against the light.
"Twi-tw-twilight?" Fluttershy asked meekly, her voice barely a whisper. It hurt her so much to speak, her chest like it was aflame. As she slowly looked around, she noticed that it was a hospital room. How she got here was beyond her. She had been at Twilight's door, ready to spill forth her heart when the world went dark. Next thing she knew she was waking up here, in this bright stark room.
When Twilight heard the pegasus mare's voice, her heart shot skyward. It made her happy to hear the soft voice that made her heart flutter. As she turned to look at the mare, her very being hurt to see the gentle pony in such a condition. Fluttershy's body was nearly covered from head to hoof in bandages. She had traveled through a storm that nopony in their right mind should have gone through. The storm had been worse than the one that caused her impromptu slumber party with Rarity and Applejack. When Twilight showed up suddenly at the hospital with Fluttershy on her back, she had scared most of the ponies in the hospital, which was luckily not that many. The doctors had approached Twilight to see what was wrong with Fluttershy, she had struggled so hard to not be separated from her injured friend that she had to be sedated. When the unicorn had come to, she found that Fluttershy was in surgery. Also while Twilight was out, her other friends had been contacted, as the storm had cleared up by this time. It became apparent that some serious damage had been done to the pastel pegasus when Twilight had seen how much time the doctors had spent working on Fluttershy. When the doctors came out of the operating room, Twilight had bombarded them with questions. From what she had managed to get out of the doctors, Fluttershy had bruised a few ribs, broken one leg and a wing. This was serious injury for one pony to suffer from, and Twilight could not imagine what had driven Fluttershy so much to seek her out that she would put herself through this. Slowly Twilight came back to the present, looking at the battered mare that lay in the hospital bed beside her.
"Oh Fluttershy! Your awake!" Twilight cried to the pony in front of her. She had tears in her eyes, but that did not matter as she enveloped her in a hug. It felt so good for her to be able to hold the pegasus in her hooves. Fluttershy, although enjoying the hug, was still in no condition to move so much. Slowly she spoke again, trying to avoid as much words as possible to not make her chest hurt as much.
“Um, Twilight? As much as I am enjoying this hug, um, if it wouldn’t be a bother if you could please let me go? Please? Well if that’s ok with you.” Fluttershy said tentatively to the unicorn currently holding her. Twilight blushed as she slowly let go of the injured pegasus, her cheeks a shade of pink when Fluttershy stole a look at her. Finally after having a few moments pass between the two ponies, Twilight decided to speak.
“Fluttershy, what in Equestria drove you to the point that you braved through the rain, lightning and thunder to reach my house when you could have been safe at home with all of your animal friends?” Twilight asked with a perplexed look in her eyes as she watched the pegasus look around nervously. Finally with a sigh, Fluttershy took a deep breathe before she said what had been on her mind since that morning when she woke up cuddled up with Twilight.
“Twilight, I like you.” Fluttershy managed to say as she looked up at the purple mare. Twilight’s eyes widened for a moment before she thought of what all that statement could mean.
“What do you mean I like you? As a pony,? As a friend? As something more?” Twilight asked, tilting her head to the side as she secretly hoped that this meant what she thought this meant.
“As something more.” Fluttershy squeaked out, shrinking back into her bed as she feared for Twilight to crush her hopes where she sat. But as it turned out, she got the opposite response. Twilight began to smile at her with a look of joy singing out on her features. Twilight quickly pulled Fluttershy into another hug.
“Oh Fluttershy, you do not know how happy it makes me to hear you say that. I feel the same way! The only reason I didn’t tell you is because I had been worrying that if I said something like that to you, you would run and hide, and then we wouldn’t be friends and our friends would try and make it work out but eventually there would be a split because of the fact that it would be awkward for them to hang out with one of us while the other isn’t there.” Twilight said rambling again. She heard a small squeak come out of the gentle pony in her arms before she realized that her constantly pulling Fluttershy into hugs was probably not that good for her recovery. But truth be told, Fluttershy did not feel a thing this time around because of the happiness that flooded her body. She was soaring through the sky because of what Twilight had just said. She felt the same. It was a small simple sentence, but it meant so much to both ponies in the room. They slowly pulled back, looking into each other’s eyes, seeing something that they had only dreamed about. Both ponies knew that it was not an easy road ahead of them, but as long as the other was by their side, they were willing to face it, because in the end it all would be worth it.
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A/N: Hey yall BL here. Sorry that took so long. These intros are just holding me up. When I get past them, I'm able to pump out line after line after line after line after line. But anyway I just put this in here to let you know that this is the second to last chapter. Soon this story will be coming to a close. I'd like to thank yall for being great bout this. Sad fact is this is my first story, and I'm liking how its turned out, so I guess it was worth it. Anyway peace to ya'll. BL out