//------------------------------// // Pinkie promise // Story: Pinkie promise // by Deadcat //------------------------------// Chapter 9: pinkie promise "Time to wake up, Pinkamena." My matted pink ears fluttered open. Nurse Bluehearts high voice chimed as she opened my bedroom door. My eyes opened slowly as fatigue washed over me and an unbelievable feeling of tiredness grew within me. I hadn't been sleeping well. The past few days I Had been so worried about Dashie that I hadn't slept. I hadn't seen her since that day in class when she was pulled out. I often thought about where she was, what happened, and began to wonder if Dr.Helfing had anything to do with her vanishing. "Anytime now!" The blue-maned nurse called out with a falsified smile. I stretched my hooves (or as much as I could with the restrictors) and wearily got out of bed. She led me into the cafeteria. The line was slow, and I could feel my eyes droop in exhaustion. The low murmur of conversations steadily filled my ears, only to be broken by a defiant patients scream. I watched the screaming patient try to break out of there horn restrictor, but after the orderlies dragged her away, I went back to poking at my artificial food slowly. The day dragged on as I stumbled through the hallways, to groggy to hop. I sat in class, not listening to the teacher trying her hardest to get some piece of irrelevant information into the patients brains. I looked at the desk that Rainbow usually sits. I hoped that she was okay. Nurse Ratchet came to pick me up from the classroom, and she escorted me to the Commons Room. The hallway lights were bright, and the quiet halls made me uneasy. "Where's Rainbow Dash?" I broke the silence as my hooves ached and throbbed in the tight restraints. Nurse Ratchet tilted her head at the slightest degree, "In her room I suppose" she replied calmly as she continued to walk forward. I looked down at the ground as thoughts flooded my mind. "Is she okay?" I asked pleadingly. Worry struck my mine for my rainbow friend. "I don't know, she's not my patient." The brown maned nurse danced around my question; I knew she was avoiding telling me something, but I didn't dig too much into it. I was afraid of what I could find. I decided I would go to the cyan filly's room, but the only problem was I didn't know how. Rainbow was always the one that visited me, she had the bobby pin that allowed her to pick the lock. Hopelessness filled me and my sad gaze drifted to the floor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nurse Ratchet galavanted into my room with a big smile. It wasn't the kind of fake smile that was often worn around here, it was a real kind of 'guess-what' smile. I was too tired and didn't have much interest to think into it and she passed me my pills and water. Her grin grew wider and wider by the second, and when I handed her the empty cup that had but a few drops of water leftover, she said something strange. "Do you want a hug?" She beamed. My confusion grew immensely. Until I saw a rainbow pin caressed in her hair glinting in the artificial light of the room. I grinned. She was doing this on purpose, she was letting me go see Dashie. I went in for the hug and slowly unfastened the pin that resided in her mane. A peaceful strand of hair sailed down to her neck. "Thank you," I said quietly as she stood at the doorway of my cell,"Thank you so much." She winked and said nothing as she walked out the door. The smile on my face grew wide as I waited anxiously for the nurses to leave and the guards to pass. Then finally, it was time. I crawled fearfully through the dark, the pin tight on my teeth were I hid it. My eyes darted from side to side as adrenaline pumped through my veins and a strange sense of alertness filled me. I stealthily darted down the Pegasi Corridor hall, as I tried best I could to make my chains silent. I finally got to dashies door and fiddled with the lock. A guard approached the corner, I saw his flashlight illuminate the corridor and his light crawled around the hall. My fiddling became more frequent as beads of perspiration formed on my light pink forehead. The light became brighter as the hoof steps became audible and echoed in the long hallways. 'Hurry up,Pinkie, hurry up!' I thought to myself as I flustered to open the door. The guard turned the corner, and finally the door opened. I poured myself into the room and closed the door and watched anxiously through the window as the guard walked by. I breathed a sigh of relief and turned around, to see exactly what I hoped. Rainbow Dash. Her once vivid mane was dry and gray, and her cyan coat was worn and embellished with many more deep reddish purple cuts. In her hooves, she held a sliver of sharp plastic caked in blood as the fresh cuts on her fur bled. "Dashie...." I said silently as I calmly trotted up to her. Though I was happy and excited to see her, I controlled myself and slowly took away the plastic and put it down and hugged her tightly, I felt her blood drip onto my coat. "Doctor Helfing didn't make that X did he?" I whispered, hinting to the X cut across her chest. "I was ashamed to tell you I did it myself" she sobbed silently. My sympathy for the cyan filly grew exponentially as I gave her a smile. I wasn't mad that she had lied to me, I was sad that she felt she couldn't tell me. "What happened, Dashie? Where did you go?" I Inquired as I rubbed her back lovingly "Nurse Blueheart told me that something had happened and that Doctor Helfing wanted to see me, I got worried and scared-" she paused as she began to look uneasy. Rage began to replace her anxiety. "He's dead. My dad killed himself in prison." She remarked bluntly. I gasped softly. Silence filled the room. So that was it. The "he" Rainbow referred to when she told me she was hit. It was her father. 'But why would Rainbow be sad about this?' I thought. I thought she hated her father, after all, she told me her father beat her, just like mine. Something was going on here, something Dashie wasn't telling me. "I WANTED HIM TO SUFFER! I WANTED HIM TO ROT IN PRISON LIKE THE SCUM HE IS! BUT HE GOT AN EASY WAY OUT! HE GOT WHAT I ALWAYS WANTED! HE GOT TO DIE!!! WHY DID HE GET TO DIE AND I HAVE TO ROT!!" She screamed. In all her overflowing wrath, she arose of the floor and threw a hoof at the wall in anger. Then she threw it again and again and again until bloodied bruises formed on her hooves, they throbbed with every punch. I watched in fear as she punched the wall in her anger. Finally, I ran up to her and held her down, caressing my body over hers. But she kept punching. Throwing soft yet meaningful hits against my stomach, I payed the toll. I took the pain . Finally, her punches ceased, and she nuzzled her face into my neck. Gulping down the air, I tilted my head up, and over her shoulder. Tears doused my mane, and Dashie sobbed. I didn't know what to say, how could I possibly try to comfort her. "I'd miss you of you died....." I said softly, and looked down with a slight smile,"Besides, I know this place sucks, but at least I'm here right?" I stared at her in silence, waiting for a reply, waiting for some sign of subsided anger. She began to sniffle, and took her head out of my neck. The pearls from her eyes were now dry, and she spoke quietly. "Y-You're the only reason I s-smile now-a-days." She uttered. I grinned as I pulled her into another hug. She broke the hug quickly and walked up to Gummy, her little raggedy friend. She seemed calm for a moment but then I saw the anger that seemed to vanish, come to light. "ITS JUST NOT FAIR!" She screeched as she began to rip up the stuffed alligator. I jolted, but remained calm "Dashie, no.... Please stop that...." I remarked quietly, but my words were lost in the raging river of emotion that the cyan pegasus displayed. She tore at the toys already ripping stitches, and the toy was demolished under the strong pegasus's strength. Silence filled the room as she breathed heavily above whatever was left of her toy. She collapsed on the ground and cried out. "NO! What have I done!?" She sobbed. Her emotions were swirling around her and at that time, I suppose, I just didn't understand why she would break something she loved. I stood beside her and held her sobbing figure once more. The room was silent aside from the cries from the little filly. Her cold tears seemed to freeze in the air and brought a stillness in the serene room, every sob sent a shiver down my spine. "I'm so sorry this happened." I said in a raspy whispery tone. My voice echoed through the cell. Rainbow looked up at me, dark bags under her eyes, and wrinkles on her face. Everything about her seemed tired and worn out. But she was still beautiful and her eyes were still so bright. I stared at her for a long time, seeing her etched out face, it was magnificent. "Don't you worry, w-we will get to Ponyville soon! And we will be happy! I promise!" I smiled the best I could, yet I knew my eyes still pitied the filly. But her anger washed away, and she smiled with me, as if nothing happened. But then she looked sternly into my eyes. "Pinkie......" She cooed. I looked at her with content. "Yeah?" I replied, hoping what she would say wouldn't get her sad and worked up again. "Do you Pinkie Promise?" The cyan Pegasus said softly. Quickly she looked at the ground, and through her bangs, I could see that her face was red. I tilted my head in perplexity. "Pinkie Promise?" I echoed in confusion as the rainbow maned filly arose beside me. Rainbow's head bounced back up "Yhea, Pinkie Promise! I made it up! Ya get it, 'Pinkie' Promise," she giggled at her pun. "I made it out of our little inside jokes, see?" She placed her hoof and drew a X over my her cyan chest, over the bleeding scar she had already carved. "Cross my heart-" she said with a brightness in her eyes as she began to flail her hooves in the air, ",hope to fly-" she exclaimed, hinting to the way we both dreamed of flying. She then closed her eye before sticking a hoof on her eyelid,",Stick a cupcake in my eye!" She finished, hinting to the day we made cupcakes together, and some batter got in my eye, then proceed to splash half the batter all over our selves. Images of that night were still fresh in my mind. All the fun that we had. "It's perfect." I giggled and sat up straight, "I Pinkie Promise, we will get to Ponyville. Together!" I put my hoof on my chest tracing a heart. We both grinned madly, overcome with ecstasy. Suddenly, with a bundle of beautiful emotions raging over me, I couldn't fight it anymore. I leaned in and planted my muzzle firmly against hers. The kiss lasted for only a few seconds, but to me, it seemed to last for hours, century's even. I broke the kiss immediately, my face bright red and I got up and backed away. Rainbow stared at me in shock. "I'm- I- I'm so s-s-sorry!" I stuttered as I slowly backed away. The cyan filly's shock, faded, and was replaced by a smile. Her blush contrasted her blue coat. She slowly walked up to me. "I didn't know you were a filly-fooler, Pinkie. " she grinned, her blush growing bigger by the second. "Uh? F-filly...fooler?" I questioned nervously as my eyes darted around the room. "A mare who likes other mares, ya know, that could get you in a lot of trouble here." She slowly got closer to me until we were mere inches apart. "Lucky for you, I've never minded getting into trouble." She giggled as she leaned in and we shared a deep kiss. All the worries that had once been in me melted away like butter. The world around me vanished, everything seemed just perfect. A feeling of compleat bliss overcame me. I was happy I was free