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// Chapter 11- Apologies 
// Story: Dashie and.... Splashie? 
// by Sapphire Harmony 
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The next few days went by slowly. It was mostly the same thing; Rainbow’s friends head over to the hospital, talk for two hours, and leave. Now today, however, was different. Rainbow was going to leave the hospital, and stay at Paint’s house for a few weeks because of her wing injury.

“You ready to go?” asked Paint as she arrived in Rainbow’s room to pick her sister up. Paint was both excited and kind of sad for Rainbow. Paint was happy to take care of Rainbow while she recovered, but Rainbow was allowed to leave the hospital, but couldn’t even go to her own home?

“Yeah.” answered Rainbow. They both walked out of the room, signed out, and went home. They then went inside, and went to the guest bedroom where Rainbow was going to sleep.

“Rainbow, what were you thinking when you jumped off that cloud?!” scolded Paint.

“I don’t know okay? I was stressed out and I didn’t know how to handle it! If the entire town hated you, wouldn’t you have down the same thing?!”

“Ponyville doesn’t hate you! None of them do, they don’t know if they should believe you because of how old Scootaloo is! Speaking of which, have you even talked to her?”

Rainbow looked away from Paint. “Uh…. No. She needs to learn a lesson?”

Paint scoffed and rolled her eyes. She looked out the window to see Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom following a depressed Scootaloo. She pulled Rainbow over to the window and pointed at the three fillies. “I think she learned it by now, it HAS been two months you know. Just look at her, she looks more unhappy than Shock! And I know she tried to talk to you, more than once, basically every day. She tells me everything! Stop acting a like a freaking foal and talk to her! And to make things easier, I’ll bring her to YOU!”

Rainbow sighed in defeat. “Fine.” 

Pant then flew over to Scootaloo and her friends.

“Scootaloo, please stop being sad all the time!” said Sweetie Belle.

“Yeah, I’m sure that Rainbow will forgive you!” reassured Apple Bloom.

Scootaloo rolled her eyes and turned to her country friend. “You said that two months ago, and look what happened!”

Paint walked up next to Scootaloo. “Scoot, I talked to Rainbow, and she said that she’ll let you talk to her.”
“Told ya.”

Scootaloo looked at Paint with a smile. Rainbow will actually talk to her? Forgive her? She happily followed Paint into her house where Rainbow was waiting. As they walked into the room where Rainbow was lying on her bed, Paint turned to Scootaloo. “I’ll be down stairs, you got this?” Scootaloo nodded. “

“Great.”

Scootaloo walked up to her idol and spoke. “Um, Dash? I know you, um, sorta hate me right now, b-but I,” Scootaloo sighed, “I’m sorry, Dash. One of the kids at school said the only way I can be cool like you is if I make up a rumor that you did stuff with a bunch of guys. I didn’t know it would hurt you.” She folded her ears and put her head down.

Rainbow continued to lay there, listening to what her adopted sister had to say. She then sighed. “Listen Scoot, I should’ve been the one to apologize. You tried to since I got mad, and I never listened to you and because of that, I got hurt, literally.” 

“Does this mean you forgive me?” Scootaloo said with hope written all over her face. Rainbow smiled and pulled her into a hug. “Of course it does, squirt.”

After a few weeks, everything regarding to the rumor have died down, and life was turning back to the way it used to. 

Rainbow was having her first good day since things went downhill for her. She was finally able to have the cast removed from her wing, and was able to go home. Not just that-- she was going to hang out with her friends and sister, without any problems on her shoulders.





Until the biggest problem of all was created for the Elements of Harmony…