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// A Single Tear That Brings Many Others. 
// Story: Portals: No More Cupcakes (Book Three In The Portals Series) 
// by The Derpy Doctor 
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	Based on Derpy’s Rainy Day.

Derpy sat on the floor to her house. The door, having recently been slammed in her face, remained shut. The local authorities escorted 	Derpy’s everything out to their carriages. Derpy looked away from any windows. She couldn’t bear to see her dear muffin be taken away.
Tears were shed, Derpy didn’t know what to do. She wasn’t very good at many things.The only two things she had was being a mail-pony 	and her dear Dinky. One of those was taken away and the other one would be taken away once she got to the station, since that was a government-related job.
Derpy felt the door with her hoof. The last place she saw her dear muffin before she was violently ripped from Derpy’s love and care.
Derpy lifted her heads to the sky: deep in thought.
“Why?” She thought.
“Why can’t they understand?”
She sunk her head down to the floor. and let another tear down from her eye and gazed at the vehicles being pulled away. Pain from inside of Derpy made her cringe and shut her eyes. She had tried so hard to be a good mother. She would never do anything to hurt Dinky. She had done nothing to hurt Dinky, but not matter what she did, the police named her mentally incompetent and did what they did to gain custody of her child. Derpy raised her hooves to her adorable crossed eyes and wiped them from the top to the bottom trying to contain herself.
When after many minutes of moping on the floor, Derpy finally got to her hooves and hoped for her daughter back.
“I just want my muffin back.” She teared before placing her hooves firmly on the ground and tearing up again.
The Doctor heard wishes. He couldn’t stand the cry of the innocent.
A wiring and a rusty scraping noise echoed in Derpy’s yard. The run-down apartment disguised it to seem like a household appliance. 	Derpy didn’t look up from her crying until the voice of her future called for her.
The Doctor stared at the mare as she had her cry.
Finally after about thirty seconds, she looked up and found the brown-colored earth pony frowning at the sight.
“Go away,” She urged in a scratchy voice.
“No,” said the Doctor shaking his head, “I couldn’t help but notice you had a problem.”
“It-I…” Derpy tried to speak to him to resolve his comment.
“I know what happened,” said the Doctor in an easy tone. He had a knack for knowing these things and had demonstrated this in several of his own episodes.
What happened to Derpy was a lot like what happened to him. The doctor had family and friends that were on Gallifrey that day. He lost everything he loved that day and was unwilling to let that happen to another.
“We need to get her back,” described the Doctor, “come with me, I know how.”

The Doctor pushed Derpy into the TARDIS and they both moved to the courthouse several blocks down from where Derpy was staying. 	He moved her into the courthouse avoiding any conversation about how The Doctor’s phone box was bigger on the inside. He put the witness against Derpy’s case: the mayor of Ponyville on the witness stand and argued as Derpy’s lawyer, showing the slightly psychic paper as evidence that he had graduated from law school as a lawyer.
The Doctor had everything lined up. Derpy’s case to get her child back into her custody was in session and he had a good solid argument.
“Look at this mare,” The Doctor pleaded.
The mayor looked at the grey pegasus on the defendant stand.
“Do you see anything odd about this particular mare?” He questioned.
The mayor looked at the mare as if it were difficult to point out that Derpy’s eyes were clearly off center.
“She has crossed eyes?” Said the brown earth pony.
“Exactly. Miss mayor, can you tell me if there are any medical services that can cure this ailment?” the Doctor sneered as the injustice to 	such an act against somepony so innocent ruffled his metaphorical feathers.
“Yes… There um… are advances in medicine that can allow the defendant…”
“She has a name.” interrupted The Doctor.
“...That Derpy can get her eyes fixed.” finished the mayor.”
“Don’t you think that the incidents having occurred for this court to take session might be caused by these eye problems?”
The mayor cleared her throat before continuing. “Yes,” she admitted.
“So before we go to the rash decision of taking away a filly from her loving mother, don’t you think it would be considerate to first get the defendant’s eyes fixed?” The doctor argued. The logic of this argument was completely all too generic. Wasn’t it all too easy to say that this whole thing could be fixed along with a simple operation?
“It would seem so,” The mayor said, marveling at her own stupidity to make up a child possession case due to a simple eye disorder. 	Derpy had just one mistake that became one big fit and resulted in a punishment that was too illogical for The Doctor to refuse.
“Your honor, I think you should take it from here.” responded The Doctor, “I need not ask any more questions.”
He then sat down on the chair beside Derpy.

The judge pulled down his thick glasses and stared at the small earth pony that now had a smile on his face and was winking at the now smiling defendant.
“I guess I have to choice but to give the defendant custody of the offspring until the defendant gets her eyes fixed. The court will issue one month to get her eyes fixed and when that period is over, we will come back into session and determine if the defendant is capable of taking care of the humble offspring,” the judge demanded before slamming his gavel on the stand. “Court dismissed! Please bring up the next case.”

Derpy leapt from her seat and just about tackled the Doctor in a hug.
The Doctor wasn’t awfully fond of hugs, especially when they came from people he helped just now simply because he’s a nice guy. This hug was different. She wrapped her hooves around him for a reason that meant more to her than her own life.
The Doctor hugged back. Soon tears started soaking into his fur as the grey pegasus started crying.
“Thank you,” Said the mare into the doctor’s waiting ear.
The Doctor patted her back and told the mare: “It was nothing.”

The Doctor led the pegasus and her unicorn into his TARDIS, allowing both Derpy and the little filly Dinky into the bedroom behind the console room.
It was at this time that Dinky emphasised her emotions. “It’s…”
“Bigger on the inside?” asked The Doctor.
“I was going to say GIGANTIC on the inside!” said the adorable Dinky.
“Aw,” said The Doctor.
“Now before we go on any great adventures,” continued The Doctor, “It is my policy to ask: Will you run away with me?”
“Don’t we first need to get my eyes fixed so that I can keep custody of Dinky?” asked the grey mare.
“What if I told you that this could travel in time and space and you’ll never have to get your eyes fixed. Every day would be one month 	from now. What would you say to that?” He smirked.
“Yes!” Said the mare.
“Great. Where are we running off to, then?” asked the brown-coated extraterrestrial.
“Somewhere exciting!” Said the pinkish filly below to the side of Derpy.
The Doctor smiled. “Somewhere exciting it is, then.”