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// Chapter 9: All The Small Things 
// Story: Ponies Are Animals Too 
// by Zurvan 
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Takes place during “Pinkie Apple Pie”

Chapter 9: All The Small Things

Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle sit on Scootaloo’s bed. The box of photos between them. Sweetie holds up a picture of a much younger Scootaloo in a bathtub, soap suds in her mane.  "I am so going to show all these to any coltfriend you ever have."

"Hey!  It's Fluttershy’s job to embarrass me."

"You like living with her?"

"Duh!" Scootaloo answers.  "This is so much better than the orphanage."

"I'm sure she's happy to hear that."

Scootaloo nods. "I tell her every day how much better my life is now. You know I've been getting real meals on a regular basis?  At the orphanage I was lucky to get fed at all. Fluttershy seems to think they maybe why I'm having trouble flying."

"Not enough food?"

"More not enough of the right foods. The mare who runs the place is an earth pony and fed me as such, but apparently pegasi diets at our age need to be a bit different."

"So does that mean you'll be able to fly?"

"That's kind of iffy, cause I didn't have the proper nutrients my wings didn't grow when they should've.   There's a chance that if I keep to this diet when I hit my next growth spurt they may catch up."

"We'll just have to wait and see huh?"

"Yeah, but at least there's a chance."

Fluttershy comes in carrying a tray of vegetables. "I brought you girls some snacks."

"Thanks Fluttershy." Sweetie says as she puts down the picture and eats. 

Fluttershy picks up the picture and chuckles.  "Look how small you were."

"Yeah,  yeah." Scootaloo says.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Sweetie says as she gets up and goes to her saddlebags and pulls a package out. "It's a house warming gift from Rarity and I."

"Housewarming?" Fluttershy asks confused. "I thought that was for when you bought a house."

"I moved into one, so close enough?" Scootaloo asks and Fluttershy nods. Scootaloo opens the package to find a empty picture frame clearly made to hold several pictures and one frame meant to hold one picture.  

"Rarity says we're all going to meet up tomorrow and get our picture taken. She hopes you'll use the large frame to remember your family as it is,  and the smaller one to remember it as it was."

Scootaloo hugs Sweetie Belle tears in her eyes.  "Thank you."

Fluttershy looks in the box and pulls out the framed picture from when Scootaloo was born. "You should keep this one close too."

Scootaloo lets go of Sweetie and hugs Fluttershy.  "Thank you for everything."

"It's fine, after all it's my special talent."

"I thought your special talent was caring for animals?" Sweetie asks. 

“It is," Fluttershy answers. "But after all; ponies are animals too."