It had been two days since the young colt had woke from a coma that was supposed to last years if not his whole life in just two hours. The doctor (whose name they later found out was Strong Heart) came back to see the young colt awake and talking to the young filly named Scootaloo and the mare Fluttershy still standing in shock at what had just happened mere minutes before. He then proceeded to evaluate the colt and update his file. At the end of this he asked the colt his name and age and the colt replied with "I am 13 and my name is Autumn Song.". He then told Fluttershy that if things progress normally then he will be released at the end of the week and the visiting hours and left them with the colt.
Scootaloo stayed the night at the hospital with her new friend Autumn Song. She was sound asleep when she was suddenly awoken by a sound of her teeth chattering from the cold. She opened her eyes and looked around to find the source of the cold. She soon realized that it wasn't just cold, it was snowing inside the hospital in the middle of July! She looked at Autumn to see if he was okay and was shocked to see that the mini snow storm was swirling around him and radiated out from there. She got up and ran to his bed side to see if he was okay. But when she reached her hoof into the storm's center her hoof almost instantly felt as if a warm and cheery fire was burning next to it. She pulled her hoof out in surprise and her hoof was cold again instantly. She shivered realizing that if she slept out here she would surly freeze. She then thought of the warmth of the center of the storm and crawled into the bed and cuddled up next to the young colt and noticed with great surprise noticed that the closer she got to him the warmer she became.
She crawled as close as she could to the colt and realized that HE was the source of the heat and that when she was closest to him it seemed to feel like she was next to a soft and cozy fur covered fire. As soon as she crawled up next to him he wrapped his hooves around her and sighed contentedly and the storm started to slow down and until all movement stopped and faded away. She stayed sleeping like this the whole night and she seemed to sleep better than she had slept since her parents died.
The next morning Autumn Song woke up to find a sleeping Scootaloo cuddling up next to him with her hooves wrapped around him. He gently attempted to escape her grasp, but as soon as he moved she wrapped herself more snugly around her prey. So he resigned himself to his fate as an impromptu teddy bear and relaxed. He was just about to nod off again when a doctor walked in and seeing a young filly wrapped around his patient he proceeded to wake her up and start to kick her out and telling her that only friends and family can visit. Scootaloo struggle futilely, but was to groggy to fight back. She yelled for Autumn to help her. When suddenly from behind her she heard a voice yell "STOP!" at the top of its lungs. The doctor was halted by the shock of seeing his patient standing up and yelling at him. The surprise loosened his grip and gave Scootaloo the opportunity to wiggle free and run to stand behind Autumn. Then Autumn started yelling at the doctor (with a look of hatred so fierce that the doctor shrank from the glare despite the colt's stature) "HOW DARE YOU TRY AND KICK HER OUT OF MY ROOM!".
The doctor now cowering in fear started to stutter an excuse " B-but sh-she was d-di-disturbing y-your sleep and I just though-"
The doctor hadn't even finished his sentence when Autumn (whose voice was reaching the volume of the royal canterlot voice) screamed at the doctor " Not only is she an invited guest, but SHE wasn't disturbing my sleep, she was actually comforting me as I slept.". Then his voice reaching a crescendo ever Celestia would be hard pressed to match, he yelled "NOW LEAVE!" and to the doctors surprise he realized that he was being slowly pushed in the direction of the door by a fierce snow storm. Not only that but the snow storm was originating from the small colt's open and screaming mouth. Even the young filly seemed surprised at this when the doctor overpowered by the extraordinarily powerful snow storm; lost his grip and was blown full force out the door and into the wall opposite it.
By this time every doctor in the hospital had heard the ruckus and had came running, even Fluttershy who had come to pick up her daughter came running to see what was going on. Every pony in Ponyville knew something was up for (though they did not know it at the time) the snow storm that Autumn had created had not only been inside the building, but outside it too. The was even seen from Canterlot castle by not just one, but both the princesses.
As Autumn's temper calmed so did the storm. That is when the doctors and Fluttershy arrived to find a dazed doctor laying stunned in the hallway, a crater in the wall opposite the door, and a still raging snow storm coming from room 124. With a gasp Fluttershy remembered that room 124 was the room Autumn song was staying in and that Scootaloo had spent the night in that room. Praying that nothing had happened to her daughter she ran at top speed into the room narrowly missing Autumn and Scootaloo, who where standing (one of whom was panting loudly) just a few meters in front of the door. She looked at Scootaloo to see if she was alright and saw to her relief that she was safe save for a slight shiver which Fluttershy could not tell whether if it was from the cold or from excitement.
After she made sure her daughter was alright she looked at Autumn to see if he was alright as well when she realized that the layer of snow started at him and spread out in a cone. He also seemed to radiate a cold aura. Then suddenly, realizing what he had done his head fell and tears started to stream from his eyes. As they fell a warm breeze seemed to blast outward from them, and the snow was obliterated in the sudden onslaught of warmth.
A rather short explanation of the events occurred ending in the decision that the young filly could stay at the hospital with him whenever she liked. After two or three hours (during which the two young ponies sat and ate breakfast), a cleaning crew arrived to clean up the large puddles of water on the ground. This took about one or two hours during which the two attempted to drown out the noise with the TV in the room. A few minutes after everypony left Autumn looked over at Scootaloo to ask her what she wanted to do now that everypony was gone, but stopped short when he noticed the strange expression on her face. "What's wrong?" asked Autumn with a tone of concern.
"Why did you get so angry? I mean I understand and am grateful that you came to my defense and all, but why did you get SO angry? I mean you just seemed to explode with rage." Scootaloo asked Autumn. Autumn sighed and his head sank.
"I never told anypony this and you have to promise not to tell anypony else." said Autumn sadly. Scootaloo promised and Autumn continued on. "I was three years old when my dad left my mom and me to fend for ourselves. Then when I was five my mom was killed. I remember the day like it was yesterday. We lived in the Everfree forest at the time so we thought we were safe from the criminal ponies. I was at home with mom having recently picked a fresh bouquet from my mom's secret grove when the door was suddenly busted inward by a masked pony who yelled for my mom to give her all her money. We didn't have much, but she gave him all we had. He-he started to count the money when he suddenly started yelling at my mom asking where the rest of the money was. My mom tried to convince him that that was all we had, but he just told her to give him the rest. H-he had a gun (by this point Autumn was crying and sobbing while Scootaloo tried her best to comfort him) he-he pointed it at the floor near my front hoof and fired off a shot. Then he told her that the next shot would kill me unless she gave him the rest of the money. He, he started to count down from ten as my mother tried to explain that she had given him all we had. As his count ran down to zero and he started to pull the trigger my mom jumped in front of me. The bullet went straight through her heart and lodged in her spine. She bled out and died in my arms and the killer was frozen stiff from shock. A short moment of silence followed. Then with a scream like he had never heard I shattered the silence and the killer's jaw and the force snapped his neck killing him. I hit him again and again and again, over and over. I didn't even care that he was dead. I just wanted my mom back." said Autumn in between sobs.
" She died trying to protect me. I-I ran out the door and just kept running. I didn't know where I was running to I... I just had to get out of that house. I eventually ran into my mom's grove. I sat in that grove and cried for hours or days I don't know which. I went home and dragged my mom's body to the grove, and taking a shovel we had back at the house I buried her. I carved a small headstone out of a smooth rock from a stream that ran through the grove. I burned the body of the murderer. Then 7 and a half years later I stumbled upon ponyville. I had been living in my mom's house in the Everfree Forest that whole time, learning how to survive. I started going to the school there and that is where I first met you. You were getting bullied by Diamond Tiara and I couldn't stand by and watch a two ponies hurt one another. So I jumped in and tried my best to help stop the fight." Autumn said.
" I soon realized that the only way to stop it was to help you fight back. So I started to help you. After Diamond stopped bullying you and left you ran into the forest and I followed you. I found you in my mothers grove. You were sitting on top of her headstone and you were crying. I didn't know what to do to help you. Then I suddenly remembered something my mom used to do when I was younger and had started crying about something. She used to hold me and she would start singing softly to me. I didn't remember what the words to the song were but I did remember the tune. So I walked up to you and just held you singing that same soft tune. Eventually you seemed to calm down. The next day at school I waved to you and you waved back and for the first time since my mom died I was happy. I had a friend! I had something solid that I could depend on." said Autumn smiling at the happy memories. "The reason I got so angry at the doctor was that when he tried to take you it felt like my mom dieing all over again. He reminded me of the colt who killed her. I just couldn't let that happen again." Said Autumn sadly.
"So you're an orphan just like I was and you're living in the Everfree Forest?" asked Scootaloo breath taken at just how much he must care about her to have done that.
"Yes I am...." Said Autumn sadly. "And Scootaloo please don't tell anypony I really don't want anypony else's pity." Said Autumn with pleading eyes. Scootaloo nodded in agreement and the two spent the rest of their day snuggled up together on the bed watching TV and laughing at the humorous shows on. Little did they know that Fluttershy (who had been coming to check on Scootaloo) heard voices from the room had stopped at the door and had heard the whole story.