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// No Remorse 
// Story: Jail Time 
// by Raichu 
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Diamond Tiara looked at her hooves. She wasn’t sure that this would happen to her. She flipped her ragged white and purple hair and sighed. Her life was a huge mess. She flinched as a droplet of water splashed down on her from the ceiling. Her hooves scraped at the dungeon floor. The Dungeon in Canterlot, Equestria, was the largest maximum security prison that Equestria owned. And she was in it. 
She wasn’t really sure how it even got to this. Ok, she knew, but she didn’t want to believe it. Diamond Tiara was a good pony. Why would anyone ever hate her? But they did. The court believed she need to be in jail for at least thirty five years. Princess Celestia said life. Since they couldn’t decide, she was placed here until they did. Diamond hoped she wouldn’t get life. But Miss high and mighty was so mad at her. She’s gone to jail a few other times for the same thing, was released again with hopes that she would not continue to do what she had been doing. But she did. The one thing they did not know was that she felt no remorse for her actions. None at all. Why was she supposed to feel sorry about what she did? Was it natural?
Another drop of water hit her mane. It didn’t matter to her anymore, her mane was filthy. She hadn’t showered in days. Mostly because she was in this place. They didn’t have regular feeding schedules in here or normal shower times. Why shower at all if she was only going to keep getting filthier than before? Sometimes she wished that she could go back and undo everything. But then she remembered. She did nothing wrong. That’s the way it seemed anyways. Her mind was always at war with herself. Half of her knew something was wrong or that she did something wrong and maybe she felt remorse for it. But the other half could care less and knew she did nothing wrong. That was the side she sided herself with. That she did nothing wrong. Diamond got up. Her coat was dotted with mud and her mane was tangled up into a very messy bun. Her tail swished side to side. Diamond was an adult now. There was no way that they could give her life. She was one of the most popular ponies in Equestria. The most important mare in all of Equestria. There was no way. 
“Hello?” The door opened a crack. A royal guard stood at the entrance awkwardly.  Diamond sighed. Had she not been in chains, she would have pounced on him and escaped. 
“What?” She asked in a rude tone. He frowned as another droplet of water splashed on her back. She shivered at the cold water which always dripped off the ceiling after it rained. He stood there for a few minutes as if he was deciding what to say before he replied.
“You have a visitor.” He said.
She didn’t move as he stepped aside to show Silver Spoon. She was a full grown mare now and Diamond hadn’t seen her since they were fillies. Silver Spoon and she were best friends until they parted ways to move on with their lives. She instantly placed a proud look on her face as Silver Spoon walked inside to show that she didn’t care that she was a complete mess. The door shut behind her though it was obvious that the guard hadn’t moved outside. She could hear the sound of his metal armor against the stone walls.
“Hey.” Silver Spoon said softly. Diamond wished she had brushed her mane or something. She felt ashamed to look like this. The shame was being to wash over her like the water dripping on her back. Silver Spoon’s coat was brushed and her soft white hair sparkled. Her blue glasses fit perfectly over her beautiful face. Diamond probably looked ugly and disgusting. Silver smiled softly at her old friend. Diamond frowned.
“Why are you here?” Diamond asked in a less rude voice than she had used on the guard. “I was sure you’d be at home with your… kids.”
“I was. But I’m on a business trip and I wanted to pay you a visit for old time’s sake. But I heard you got arrested. Again.” She said nicely. How could she be so nice to her? After what she did? Perhaps she didn’t know. But wait. She did nothing wrong. Diamond was not a criminal.
“Yeah. This time they’re thinking about giving me life.” Diamond said. “That or putting me in a mental ward.”
“What’d you do?” Silver Spoon asked. Diamond looked up at her in shock. She didn’t know? Well, Silver didn’t read the newspaper anyways, so all she’d hear was rumors if she heard any at all. Silver Spoon was not one to listen to gossip as she grew older. She ignored it for the most part. Reading was not Silver’s favorite thing to do; she mostly got everything she heard from her friends. 
“You didn’t hear from Celestia?” Diamond asked. “I thought maybe you would have heard something.”
“I did. All I heard were tiny rumors. So I came here to get it from the mouth of an old friend.” Silver Spoon said calmly. “You know I don’t believe what others say.”
“What did you hear?” Diamond asked, longing to know what the ponies were saying about her. 
“Well, you hit your own daughter for being a… flightless freak.” She said after a minute. “Like you used to do to Scootaloo but physically. That you beat her up for not having a cutie mark. There were worse stories, but those were some of the least bad ones. Was it true?” 
Diamond paused. Apparently, that was all Silver Spoon needed for an answer. She gasped and backed up so far that her flank bumped the door. Diamond almost tried to reach out to her, but stopped herself. Was did she care? Diamond only cared about herself and not her good for nothing friend. Yet the look in Silver’s eyes was enough to make Diamond feel slightly like a monster. Slightly.  
“You did didn’t you?” She gasped and put a hoof up to her mouth. 
Diamond slowly nodded. 
“But not without good reason.” Diamond whispered. 
“What good reason could there possibly be?” Silver shrieked instantly causing Diamond to jump in surprise. “You’re just a monster!”
“No!” Diamond couldn’t understand why ponies insisted on calling her that. “I do have good reason!”
“Then what?”
“I was tired. Tired of ponies telling me that I was a lazy parent and it was my fault that she couldn’t fly. That it was my fault that she wasn’t making any friends! So I punished her! For not being able to fly. For not getting her cutie mark on time! I’m an earth pony, Silver! Not a Pegasus! And she had it coming anyways. I was so stressed out at work! She was asking for it, being so nice and getting good grades and hanging out with those blank flanks!” Diamond explained angrily as she slapped her hoof down on the ground. “I’d had it.”
“Well, now you have jail for life. Do you even feel remorse?” Silver Spoon asked a little softer though the question was filled with anger. 
“No. What I did had justice behind it. And I wouldn’t change my mind about that. Besides, they can’t give me life. My contract to my job specifically states somewhere that they’re not allowed to do that. So there.” Diamond said with a smile and was glad to have picked up a job that had specific laws about jail time.
“Ok, so what? They’re not going to let you have Ruby back.” Silver said. Diamond spat at the floor. 
“Who’d take her?” She asked bitterly. “She’s a no good blank flank and that’s all she’ll ever be.” 
“Me.” Silver Spoon said with a disturbing grin. “I’ll treat her better than you ever did.”
“You traitor!  You’re a traitor! First you side with those blank flanks and now you take in my daughter! She deserves to be punished!” Diamond screamed, frothing at the mouth and lunged at her, only to slip and fall on the cold wet floor. Silver had abandoned her when she was younger for those cutie mark crusaders and now she sided with her daughter? “Deserves!”
“She deserves better than you gave her.” Silver Spoon said coldly. “The Princesses have erased her memory so she will not remember anything you’ve done to her. Only the happy times. She’ll think that I’ve been her mother all this time.”  
“WHAT?” Diamond was mad now. She began to tug at her chains then gave up and turned to Silver in pure raw anger. She growled and began to claw at the air. Silver stood and watched her in silence and she clawed at air like a crazy pony. “You don’t want her! She’s my flesh and blood! She had my genes! She’ll turn out like me!” She screamed in a last ditch attempt to keep her daughter out of the hooves of her old friend. 
“No. You said she was nice. She’s probably be as nice as her dad was.” Silver Spoon said and opened the door. “By the way, you’re one sick pony, Diamond Tiara, and I hope we never meet again, after you get out.” And with that, Silver Spoon left. 
Diamond fell back on the floor. She sighed and pawed at the ground. Then she sighed. The door opened again to reveal Princess Celestia. She looked up at the frowning Princess. 
“Diamond, we’ve made up our minds. You will get eighty years.” Princess Celestia said sternly. Diamond’s mouth dropped. She screamed and pulled at her mane. 
“I’ll be dead by then! Or even old!” Diamond screamed not knowing which could be worse. “This is so unfair!” 
“Unfair or not, you did something wrong. And you will pay for it.” Celestia said. “We’ll move you to a bigger cell in one week. In the meantime, good bye, Diamond Tiara.” With that, she shut the door. Diamond sat back down on her flank and groaned loudly. 
“CURSE YOU PRINCESS CELESTIA!”